TOPICS OF THE TIMES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4959, 23 February 1937, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Germany, France and Russia. "It does not look as if France was willing to submit national suicide by listening to Hitler and dropping her Russian allies. We shall therefore witness many more anti-Russian outbursts by the 'Herald in the Battle Against Bolshevism.' -But the Treaties of Rapollo and Berlin remain in force. Among those who listened at Nuremberg to Hitler's diatribe against, and vulgar personal abuse of, Russia's principal Ministers, was the Soviet-military attache, who had a place of honour among! the foreign dilomats. The Soviet officials in Germany are still much sought after by bankers and industrialists. One does not lend large sums of money to those whom one professes to have the intention of destroying, or whose attack one claims to anticipate. And 300,000,000 marks are even now being offered by 'the man who saved the world from Bolshevism' to his alleged enemies—the '9B per cent. Jewish' Bolshevik Government in Moscow. It is high time that Hiter's anti-Soviet bluff was called, for a more gigantic piece of political fraud it would be hard to find."—George Soloveytchik, in the "Contemporary Review." Family and Nation. "My mother taught me how to make the-principle of filial piety applicable to the nation; She told me to call to mind how we had overcome our domestic difficulties in the earlier days, and wished me to apply the principle in a broader sense—in a national sense —so that injustice and oppression might for ever disappear. She also impressed upon my mind that to be merely a dutiful son did not fulfil all the exacting conditions of the principle of filial piety, which demanded also an unflinching devotion to "the cause of the nation. There is an old proverb which says: 'From the family is built a nation.' The cause by which a family rises or falls can be equally applied to a nation. Just like the family, a nation may be powerful at one time and weak at another. Whether a nation perishes or flourishes all depends upon the determination of its people. The past hundred years have witnessed a number of nations estabhard struggle, and these nations have lishing themselves after years of set before us a noble example to follow. No crops can be harvested without a due share of labour, and no labour is ever denied of its due reward. If we can keep on struggling with singleness of purpose, we are sure to triumph over our difficulties ultimately."—Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek, Prime Minister of China.