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THE END OF THE WORLD

WILL JAPAN STRIKE?

question of that 'as of submis- people, There would be no backing sion to the Axis. At need the down by Washington. This certainty gallant outpost of Hongkong, offers the only real hope that Tokyo may be restrained from the mad far from all other British bases

plunge into unlimited jingolim, though it lies, would be defended to the inst.

The Fanatical School

.

The arrival of the Australians at Singapore was a thrilling event in itself. More than that. It was received with the same enthusiasm in the United States as throughout the British empire. and elsewhere. It was a wón- derful symbol of the greatest thing in the world. That is, the steady emergence before our astonished eyes of unmatchable forces in the cause of freedom. We are thinking not only of the general movement of the English-speaking world in its entirety. We mean something still wider the colossal

Mr Garvin says: "At nece operation of the United States

the gallant outpost of Hong with the whole British Com-kong would be defended to the monwealth. Together they re-

last." present hundreds of millions of populations; a machine-power when they made their plots and still larger in proportion; and pacts, never conceived the possi.

bility of this sequel. resources which are both unap- proachable in extent and inex- haustible in supply. With us in

Turn to the immediate facts heurt, and partly in action-as more and more they will come in the Far East. The critical into action--are other hundreds situation was revealed in a flash china. In the next territory to the long run the whole of Hitler's by the arrival of the Australians that they try to manipulate Europe and Japan as well. It is

of millions of mankind.

The Ironic Miracle

their

It is strange that this belief The Rising Cause

has not been weakened or upset

But there is a shining and

co-

Australia Is There'

* ༔;

Why mad? Not only because it would widen the war. Worse. It And to a would lengthen the war. degree that would exhaust utterly all Among the Japanese, as is Japan's resources, strained as they are well known, there are wise already by the expense and loss of hends and moderate influences, the interminable attempt to subjugate”

all China. The southward gamble on Unfortunately there is no eyi- the Nazl model would mean at long dence yet that they are likely lost the national suicide of modern to count. The control seems to Japan and could mean nothing else. Needless to say, there is no question have passed into the hands of yet of combined action between the the extreme nationalist school. United States and Britain. America's parallel action is none the less signi- Its ambitions are limitless. Its cant. Her fleet in the Pacific is to once with dive fanatical vehemence is ignorant be equipped at

bombers and fighters up to war-time and blind. These unbridled strength. It does not mean challenge jingos imitate the Nazi techni- any more than our own measures in que. Though their devastating concert with Australia.

sume resolve to meet a mean the adventure in China has dragged challenge. attaining its object they still on into its fourth year without seck the subjection of 400

We cannal realise too vividly the millions of people. Eternity meaning of the American factor in would not be enough for that the whole war and the scale of its

promise. A gigantic effort of indus irin output for war is now fully job.

They have enforced a virtual planned. Its execution is about to over French Indo- giher a momentum that will stagger suzerainty

America Aggression.

and

in

But it does

America's Momentum

can outproduce

for the defence of Singapore and Thailand, whose frontier for what she intends to do before she Malays. Our air-forces have been many hundreds of miles marches mishes her own part of the job

with that of Burma,

with the might of her own tools. for stretches down to Malaya. Al. Add to that the fighting and econornic ssets of the whole British empire. As to the ready Tokyo has moved consi- The long-range comparison with the

resources The

..

now

We need bombers for counter-at-

de.

a world-wide command of the seas.

Meanwhile Britain and the Do- It is

the battle in the

Our

Americi, true to type like hoped.

This is what we call the great powerfully strengthened est thing in the world. Only the same purpose. our enemies and their confeder- great sen-basis we must not at- derable naval forces into the resources of the Axis and Japan is Gulf of Siam. Movements of in an overwhelming degree favour- The are able to the freedom of nations. ates could have created it. The tempt to dwell in detail to-day troops towards Thailand

now law. From great Arms BIH his friend Mr Harry Hopkins, whose recent visit to Britain was historic CONSCIENTIOUS objectors ap- Axis and Japan have brought it on other circumstances of na- rumoured.

pearing before the tribunals about. By

Tripartite tural position, modern fortifien Dreams And Fatality though quiet, the President

knows all there is to be known about Treaty they have done more for tion with sweeping fire, or naval in Britain have revealed some

British clecumstances, methods, needs, us and our cause than we could

even at the outset. All this comes skin-close to and plans. strange religious beliefs and

have done for ourselves. This

combined factors make the frontiers and shores of Bur- practices. One of the strangest contrast between intention and Singapore one of the redoubtable ma and Malaya. In Malaya and tack--and this is where the rapid in is that of the body known as effect is the Nazi Nemesis. It

fortresses of the world just as the East Indies are oil, rubber, crease of our offensive strength is the phemy. L'e "Jehovah's Witnesses," and the may be remembered as the ironic in far-reaching significance it is tin, and a wealth of other na- most alarming to

tural resources. Small wonder need tanks and guns. Above all, we

need

more destroyers against sub- Church of Scotland Home Board miracle of all political history second to none among the world's that the forward school of Ja-marines, and more merchant tannage has thought it worth while to

One moral speak for itself, strategical keys,

panese militarists are intoxic to replace the sinkings. Though the issue a pamphlet on the eread Whatever may be the perils of It concerns not only the ated by the dream of southward co-operation of the British Common- and practice of the seet,

the deadlier struggle now open- Further East proper, but other conquest and expansion. They wealth and the United States is the One of their strong points is ing for Britain and perhaps for vast spaces and populations. If imagine that it would give them greatest thing in the world, it

the potencies and treasures of pends upon maintaining at all costs prophecy, and, like many other the empire, they are surpassed it fell into hostile control the half the globe. When the con- in six months American production, by the rising inspirations. The present security of India as well flict in Europe and the Atlantic though stili far from its peak, will peculiar people, they are keen

dangers to the island and the as Australia would disappear. is coming to its height they think reach proportions that Hitterism and students and expounders of the rean-wide Commonwealth dur- With that would vanish the that their opportunity is now or its confederates never can overtake. Book of Daniel and of Revelation.ing the coming months-and in- security of the Dutch part of the never. For aught we know they. Britain Holds The Gap And, again like their prophesy directly to the foundations of East Indies and of all the rest my intend to synchronise their own open blow in the Further Ing brethren, they stress the the United States will be the of that marvellous island-system, East with that of Hitler in the minions have to hold the gap. early coming of the millennium, gravest, the most urgent, and Between the Indian Ocean and Balkans and with his intensified a grim gap. We have to face the to be ushered in by the destruc-perhaps the most far-ranging the Pacific it ranges away for submarine campaign. That is battle for Britain, the battle for the tion of the world, and apparently that they ever faced.

some thousands of miles. It in- why the British empire is now Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the

battle of Atrien, cludes the Philippines. Ameri- ready for anything in the region Batkans; and perhaps, with these, the by fire..

ca's political and economic in- of which Singapore and the Mu- battle in the Far East. That mani- terests in all this sphere are in- lay peninsula are the keys. fold ordeal unparalleled. We have

the heart and sinew to face it. comparably more important than the Philippine group itself, To That Way Madness Lies by the frequency of the failure kindling side to it. On every keep in the present friendly

will slake all at need upon our vic- of such forecasts. For many

The same principle of immediate tory, and her own. From now until centuries there may not have side the strength of freedom is hands Singapore and all the im

emergency. Our mense region it guards, is al-preparation against the gravest possi- autumn we are the fighting trusteca been a single generation in which rising with

and most as vital to the United bilitles apples with the same force for every hope of the present world We shall be but we shall the belief that the end of the encouragements increase

day brings States as the possession of the to the United States. Mr Roosevelt's and of time to come.

unbending determination would be scarred and scathed, world was at hand was not firmly multiply. Every

fresh revelation that the new Panama Canal, We need hard-, supported in actual emergency by the save the eternal issue and enhance held. The Early Christians cer-

ly add, what everyone knows, overwhelming mass of the American for ever the spirit of man. tainly believed it. Time and aids are more than equal to the that the fate of all China hangs again through the ages a great new hazards by sea, air and on the same considerations. So catastrophe would turn people's land. We fight for sane civili- does the whole question of sation; for deepening humanity; America's future in the Pacific. thoughts in that direction.

Thus Far ... Hallam tells us that in the for a sovereign reign of peace based on clement justice and in- tenth century an opinion pre- vailed everywhere that the end violable law. This fight we of the world was approaching, wage is unconquerable in its na- smooth words with ominous ac- Many charters began with the ture-the soul of civilisation de- tions. For a long time the in- 'pends on it-it is the rising creasing ambiguity has been un- words, "As the world is

situation continues or deterior- NATHANIEL GUBBINS drawing to its close." The belief cause of the world-it calls comfortable, While this actuni forth powers, both moral and ates, Britain has abstained persisted more or legs widely to the present age, rising and fall-concrete, which nothing can strictly from any act or word **V pot voa a bompf." ing for no apparent reason, In withstand. the middle part of the last The new tyrannies, in a word, tical business now is to provide "Der news in Der Pumpernic- century there was a strong are evoking the new democracies in earnest against the chance of kel Stinkenblatt say dot anodder recrudescence of the conviction, whose fighting federation will the worst, and even against ita British bottleship she haf been] | and the last war and this seem to overpower the aggressors. We possible inminence. That is sok." have given it a renewed impetus. are nearing the crucial conflict what Mr Churchill's administra.Dot vould make forty-two "Der Sloshissher Kossisher

One incident towards the close of the whole war.

Between now tion is now doing in a manner Britisch bottleships haf sonk Zeilung say dere no Englandt of last century gave a serious

and autumn the ultimate issue which repeats its historic stamp been, must haf."

of courage and resolution. yhock to the faithful and caused the Philistines to scoff.

will be plainly determined. We

For Indin, as for Australia, prominent prophet made bold to hore ure closely confronted by

"Dot vos anodder bompf." forecast the very year in which the sterncat trials, the grimmest this policy is one of front-line

defence. It demands their ac- "A lot of bompfs der Britisch the end of all things would come. tests, and by multiplied tasks tive participation in a special must." That roused considerable excite near and far. But look well at degree. At the same time it is "Der Reich Marshal Goering ment, but it died down when it the other side. Britain and the a policy backed by the entire say dot on hor Sherman soil-no} was discovered that the prophet bud taken a lenso of a house for empire and the United States British empire. It has the solid bompfa will drap

distinctive and approval of the Government and "Der Fuchrer say dot lust several years further on than in its own

a pinch it would have the whole "Der bompfs drop and der var that he had foretold as the end tremendous way are shap- people of the United States. At August der var will over be." of time. The story may haveing to break the climax of attack support of their power. From not over iss. been an invention, but it seems by a world-wide epic of freedom now forward we shall not yield "Der Herr Doktor Goebbels to have had its effect in damping such as was never sech nor sup- one single inch to Japanese pres- vill not now say von der var vill said dero no Britisch Air Force down the ardour of the seers. posed till now. The aggressors, sure. There will be as little over be."

now

The policy of Tokyo combines]

that might cut the thread of Our prac- hope. Such as it is.

Shelter Dialogue In Germany

By

6470T vos dot?"

"All der time der iss bompfs."

"A lot of bottleships der). Britisch haf must." "Vot vos dot?"

hat

"Vot vos dot?"

"Dot vos anodder bompf." "Soon dere vill American bompfs be."

"Ooncle

Heinkelhunkel no longer at Hamm_resides."

"Vu vos dot?"

"Because dere no Hamm iss."

"Der Vossischer Sossicher Zeitung say der no London iss.”

iss.".

"Der

Frankenfurtenstein Schweinhundenblatt say dere no Englandt iss, no Britisch Navy, no Britisch Army tas,"

"If dera no Britisch Army Iss. dor Italians must from dem- selves run.'

"Himmet, vot vos dot?" "Dot vos two, tree, aix bompfs."

"And dot?"

"Dot vos der ammunition works,"

"Der notespapors haf not yet