Mr. Winston Churchill's reference to the fate of the small neutral Powers should the Allies be defeated by the Germans has created quite a sensation, and, it has to be admitted, some show of indignation in those countries where it is felt highly desirable to do everything possible to keep the Reich in a sweet temper. The First Lord of the Admiralty asked what would happen if all ihe small neutral nations concerned were spontaneously to do their duty in accordance with the covenant of the League of Nations, and stand together with the British and French against aggression and wrong. This has been eagerly seized upon by the Reich propaganda machine as an attempt by the British Government to persuade the small neutral countries to take up arms against Germany. It is only by the most tortuous mental processes that the warning, that the defeat of the Allies must mean suitoring and disástér for the small countries unfortunate enough to be neighbours of the Reich, can be: twisted into a definite exhortation to them to take up arms against the Hitler ré- gime. The plain fact of the matter is that in the unlikely event of Great Britain and France being defeated, the last bulwarks of safety and independence for the. smaller countries would disappear and the Reich
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