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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Prott . Might and Mind Nanking has been destroyed before, but the ones who drop havoc on it now cannot be proud In citing ths precedent In the middle of the lat century cen-tury ths Psiping rebels all but leveled th plac. They wer not possessed of th dynamite which moderns use. Even ten yeara ago, Nanking waa taken over by th Chinese nationalist army. Th foreign population then sought places of safety and waa rescued and assured by American Amer-ican and British gunboats. This battered Nanking baa been aeat of culture. With a population of three-quarters of a million, its largest claims wer those attached at-tached to education and progress. Bombs drop on schools and homes and tha bombs ar thos mad In another land. Japan would "hasten the end of a war" by bleating out of reality that "best" which China has achieved In Its desires to stand on Ita own in a modern world. Conquering China. Japan may move mlllitsrism and fascism Into a land which has been rich in philosophy and invention. It would put a smart-aleck civilisation civilisa-tion upon a land which has possessed pos-sessed wisdom and experience of ages. In might there may, be a Japanese victory, but In men- tality China may rent secure. New York Herald Tribune. Ritking War, for WW? If Italy la actually responsible as Russia haa charged and Britain Brit-ain has Implied for the submarine sub-marine banditry in th Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, then she suspicion rsturns that Mussolini Is as mad as some of his worst enemies hav accused him of being. Such banditry can accomplish nothing against British and French convoys. Deliveries will still b mads to loyalist Spain or to other points for which ths merchant mer-chant ships steer. So what la th purpose of th banditry, if It can serve no useful purpose for th nationalist cause and can only present the danger of an "Incident" "Inci-dent" which would lead Europe into war? Yet Mussolini Is defiant refusing refus-ing to discuss tha matter with Russia and acorning th overture of Britain and France. And Hitler's Hit-ler's Germsny makea common front with Italy. It looks unreasonable unrea-sonable aa that aeema at th moment mo-ment that Italy and Germany are manufacturing an incident Certainly they ar risking on for ne apparent purpose. The Ore-gonlsn. Ore-gonlsn. I. Imbecilic Logic Ths logic or lsck of logic which dictates Europe's efforts to keep out of war has an unreal, Imbecilic tinge to it which makes Americans wonder whether the whols continent isn't ready for the psychopathic ward. Raymond Clapper, writing from Geneva, citea aom Instances of provocation which hav made mors precarious and uncertain the prospects of ever attaining either pesce or ths peaceful atat of mind in Europe. Mussolini warns the world that Italy needs more room for Its Increasing In-creasing population, and at th same tlm begs Italian mothers to produc more babies. Hitler and Mussolini stag a mammoth military show In Berlin at a tlm when shells snd bombs ar wreaking wreak-ing death and destruction on two war fronts. Europe must learn that you can't give men fancy guns and death-dealing paraphernalia with-ut with-ut developing a desire to uss them. The great danger is that ths lesson won't sink in until after ths guns hsve been used, and then only for tha durstion of one generation. Minneapolis Star. , |