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...vital interests," [Jan. 8] that history has blamed for the outbreak of World War II. If we had stepped in when Japan took over Manchuria, if we had said something when Hitler marched into the Rhineland, if we had done something when Hitler was allowed to take the Sudetenland, if, if, if-and now, if we let the Communists take Viet Nam, what will history say about us then...
...Indians were thus echoing countless ''irredentist" leaders of the past, demanding the return "home" of neighboring territories (Trieste, the Sudetenland). In fact, India was even echoing the conquerors of India. Said Richard Colley, Marquis Wellesley and India's governor general at the end of the 18th century: "No greater blessing can be conferred on the native inhabitants of India than the extension of British authority...
...refused to shoulder arms in World War I, for example, not on religious but on personal grounds (he later served with an ambulance unit in France). His pacifism sometimes sounded like appeasement at nearly any price. The Statesman was the first publication in Great Britain to advocate ceding the Sudetenland to Hitler. Early in World War II, the New Statesman hinted at a negotiated peace. It questioned the legality of U.S. intervention in Korea, editorialized: "The Communist offensive in Korea has given American imperialism just the opportunity it deserved." Recently, one of its top editors could write of the "remarkably...
...concerned with the "spirit of Camp David" and too reluctant to tip the boat, the U.N. has in turn been reluctant even to use strong language against palpable Chinese repression of the Tibetan revolt. Admittedly, there is a legal question of jurisdiction, just as there was, significantly, with the Sudetenland and Manchuria and Ethiopia...
...record runs from the simple words of a Sudetenland farm boy condemned to death because he refused to join the SS to the Latin prayers of a Jesuit like Alfred Delp, who called his prison a "kindergarten of death." Delp's greatest gratitude was that once he was able to slip out of his fetters so that he could say Mass with his hands completely free. The book ranges in spirit from the last message of the member of a Communist resistance group who said: "Mankind, I have loved you. Be vigilant," to the gentle prayers of a seaman...