WAR'S INCONSISTENCIES

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 19, 11 March 1941, Page 3

WAR'S INCONSISTENCIES

"Germany, an ally of Italy, has normal relations with Greece, with whom Italy is at war. The Germans with a sizable diplomatic staff and a few thousand business men and 'tourists' in Greece, are able to gather information of importance to Italy, whose interest in winning the larger war against Great Britain is identical with Germany's. Japan, an ally of Germany and Italy, is at peace with Great Britain. Russia, a non-belligerent ally of Germany and Italy, is helping China, which is at war with Japan. (According to cables, Russia is also helping Greece, which is at war with Italy.) The French Vichy Government has an uneasy peace with Britain and is represented by a Minister in the British Dominion of Canada, but Britain is sponsor of the. French De Gaulle forces, who are in conflict with the Vichy Government. Egypt, on some of whose soil - Italian forces camped and whose cities have been bombed by Italian flyers, is at peace with Italy. It does not take a master mind to figure out that such a situation cannot go on indefinitely, for beneath it all lies the one salient, easily understandable fact—the world is, indeed, becoming unified. Two forces are at work here: totalitarianism and democracy. One or the other must rule. The anomalies become more understandable in the. light of this dictum—over-simplified, to be sure, but a better yardstick in the light of experience since Nazism came to power than any other that presents itself.—New

York Journal