FOREIGN OPINION

The Hindu, Madras.

Mr. Gandhi has expressed the mind of the nation with instinctive rightness when he says, "I am net thinking just now of India's deliverance. It will come, but what will it be worth if England and France fall or if they come out victorious over a Germany ruined and humbled ? "

Asahi, Tokyo.

General Abe said that Japan was prepared to resume th. Anglo-Japanese negotiations if Great Britain were willing break the deadlock by showing sincerity. He deprecated the suggestion that Japan would take the present opportunity to drive out foreign influences from China. Japan must act independently on a moral basis. "If foreign countries will co-operate we should not reject them."

Havas' Berne correspondent.

If German propaganda hopes to instil these false hopes in foreign countries as well as in Germany, and thus to weaken the confidence of the neutral Powers in the Anglo-French will to punish the Hitlerian Reich, Switzerland, at any rate, will not be deceived by this stratagem.

Admiral Nakamura, a former member of the Japanese WAr Council.

"In general, conditions are less favourable to Germany no% than they were at the start of the last War. It is hardly likely that German submarines will repeat their successes of the last War in view of the great increase in air patrols." Time was the main factor, and he thought Hitler had miscalculated this also.

Basler Nachrichten, Berlin Correspondent, September 8th.

. . . the German public is still uninformed of the start of operations on the Western Front.

New York. The Friends of German Democracy.

Our sympathies were always, are, and forever will be with the real Germany, the Germany of Goethe and Kant, Carl Schurz and Franz Sigel, of Friedrich von Schiller and Ferdi- nand Freiligrath . . . not with the present Germany of Hitler and his murderous hordes.

Voelkischer Beobachter.

German forces are waging this war with a scrupulous atten- tion to international rules and rights of neutrals that cannot be surpassed.

Times of India, Bombay.

Nowhere else in the world has the Nazi menace to free peoples and free institutions been more acutely realised in the last few years than in India. The battle is now joined to establish the principle that the Indian people have demanded with a unanimity rarely seen.

New York Herald Tribune.

We believe there is a powerful national sentiment for the abolition of the " neutrality " measure which tends to un- neutrality, provides Hitler with a substitute for the naval power which he lacks and certainly operates to give him a special advantage to which he is not entitled under any recog- nised international law of neutrality.

Resto del Carlino, Bologna.

The present period of apparent British and French inactivity is justified and comprehensible, since preparation is needed to attack the Siegfried Line. It is inadmissible to criticise ironically the British and French armed forces, commands and combatants.

New York Times.

Canada, which needs aeroplanes in the first instance, no: for expedition overseas but for rounding out her home defence, cannot buy them in the United States even for the lane

purpose. But Italy, being still a neutral, though an open all of Germany, is at liberty to buy all the American planes she wants, and take advantage of this opportunity to put her own manufacturing facilities at the service of her ally. This may be many things but it is not neutrality.