The Archive · 1939

Significant What War Will Decide

To the Editor of the "Nortn-Cnina Dany News'

Siw—The report Sir Nevile of Henderson on the rise of the War of 1939 is most significant. In view of what the War may usher in, readers must bear in mind his last remark And here it is The streets of Berlin were practically deserted and there was nothing to indicate the beginning of a war which is to be the sole arbiter in international affairs; whether international instruments solemnly and freely entered into are to be modified not by negotiation, but by mere unilateral repudiation: whether there is to be any faith in future in written contracts: whether the fate of a great nation and the peace of the world is to rest in the future in the hands of one man; whether small nations are to have any rights against the pretensions of States more powerful than themselves; im a word, whether government of the people, by the people. and for the people is to continue in this world, or whether it to be replaced by the arbitrary will and ambition of single individuals regardless of the peoples' will Shanghai, Dee. 7.

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