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DEMAND FOR DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY'S MINOR ALLIES. LONDON “TIMES” URGES ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November’s. Commenting on the warning by the American Secretary of State, Mr Hull, that Finland must discontinue her offensive military operations against Russia if she desires to maintain her friendship with the United States, “The Times,” in a leading article, says that Press messages from Helsinki and a spate of semi-official abuse from the Axis capitals make it clear that a favourable reply connot be expected. “American and. Axis newspapers are making the well-founded assumption that Finnish failure to reply must re-| suit in an immediate British declaration of war against Finland, Hungary and Rumania,” says “The Times.” It recalls Mr Eden’s warnings to Finland and Mr Hull’s appeals over a three-months period. It adds: “Recital of these facts it itself sufficient to convict Britain of weakness and indecision if declaration of war is further delayed. M. Stalin’s request for a declaration, though divulged only a few days ago, was three weeks old, which suggests a disquieting lack of initiative and imagination. “This sense of disquiet is not removed by information that the interval was occupied with consulting the Dominions and the United States. The doctrine of consultation with the Dominions is clearly defined, but it would be deplorable if British diplomacy fell into the error of seeking American approval for every important official decision. British strategy and production must learn that the slow-moving traditions of peace cannot be reconciled with the drastic revolutionary demands of total . war. The same lesson is equally binding on Butish diplomacy.” _____
This atrocious and murderous war in which for the first time in history the whole civilian population is in the filing line and the battle zone, has revealed a common heroism in millions cf little homes which, to my mind and others, is supernatural, says Sir Philip Gibbs, writing in “World Review. That is to say, there is something added to the ordinary natural courage of the men, women and young girls which we knew they had. It burns in them like a little white flame. There is something mystical in it,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1941, Page 5
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