Thein Pe - Who is wrong, Hitler or Chamberlain?

“Today is a sad day for all of us. It could not be sadder for anyone than for me. Everything I have worked for, everything I have hoped for, every belief I have in serving the common good has come crashing down.”

"You can't imagine how heartbreaking this must be for me, who have been striving for peace for so long."

“Now there is only one consolation for me. I hope that we will fight with all our might and with all our strength, and that we will win the peace for which we have labored. I cannot say what part I will play in this war. I am confident that the day will come when Hitlerism will be overthrown and freedom restored in Europe.”

On September 3, British Prime Minister Chamberlain declared war on Germany.

Yes. Chamberlain (or) the British government really did not want war. They tried many times to avoid it. Even as war was on the verge of breaking out, Chamberlain repeatedly sent the British ambassador to Germany, Sir Henderson, to Hitler to negotiate. (From August 24 to September 2)

Why didn't the Chamberlains want war? Was it because they were afraid of Hitler? Was it because the British were exhausted? Was it because they feared that their subjects would "burn like wildfire and drive wild cats into the forest?"

The events of the Great War of 1914-18 are still fresh in the minds of British governments such as Chamberlain and the people of the world. They will not forget those events until they die.

The total number of soldiers and civilians killed in the First World War was 41,435,000. Roughly one-fortieth of the world's population. (International Parliamentary Union of Inquiry 1931.)

There are so many dead. There are still millions of people who are not dead but are broken, blind, and disabled.

Imagine a house that has been bombed. In one corner, a ten-foot-high brick wall has remained intact. On top of that, large doors have been placed. The rubble, the iron posts, the brickwork are all pressed against it. Inside, it is a small building. There is no opening, no air, and a mother and son are trapped inside. They are trying to get out and collapse. They scream for help, but no one hears them, and there is no one nearby to help them. People are running away in fear of the bomb. A mother and son are trapped in the air.

Not getting along well, they hugged each other and forgot about each other. The brick wall turned into a cave that buried the attacker alive.

You will see two arms moving wildly through the rubble. You will see two legs bent and twisted. Dead people, corpses.

Since the bodies could not be buried, they were fed to vultures and pigs. There were so many dead bodies on the road that it was impossible to remove them, and military trucks drove over the bodies, making a path.

Have you ever seen a piece of paper covered with flies? The dead flies are black on the paper. Similarly, the severed heads are black on the battlefield. This is my imagination.

I'm not just thinking about it. I wrote it because I remembered a telegram that a Reuters reporter had personally reported.

There were many people whose skin was torn off all over their bodies, making them look like giant goats. If they were dead, they would be in trouble. But now they are alive and bleeding profusely. Although they were cured by medical treatment, their entire bodies were covered in scars.

There were many people with missing limbs. The worst were those who had lost their noses and ears. Some were even blind.

When there is a war, there are many problems because the existing hospitals are not enough. Usually, when there is a war, schools are closed and hospitals are built. Even then, it is not enough. Sometimes, due to lack of space, patients who are already dead and thought to be dead have to be sent to the cemetery. The ones who decide to give up are usually not professional doctors. They are just novice doctors, assistants like compounders.

The soldiers on the battlefield also starved for days due to the scarcity of food. Some even died of starvation. Sometimes they went without sleep for four or five nights, only getting one night's sleep.

There are many 18- and 19-year-old children on the battlefield. In our country, young children who have not yet been sent by their parents to a village are forced to join the battlefield.

The number of deaths at sea as submarines battle each other is also incalculable. I have heard of submarines drowning when their air vents were blocked, and of sailors struggling to escape the sinking ship, all dying at once.

During war, they dare not even breathe life, because the deadly gas is in the air.

You often talk about the underground hell that is under the earth. Have you seen hell now? The Great War has brought hell to the human world.

In today's world, one country is connected to another. We depend on each other day and night. For the bread we eat every day in Belarus, wheat is brought by ship from Canada. In Germany, wheat is eaten

The meat and goat meat that was sold in the market was brought from Australia, ten thousand miles away. When the war broke out, the ships stopped operating. The countries were short of food supplies. The people were starving. At the food distribution places, people could be seen waiting in lines, like monks receiving alms at a large alms bowl. Some later

The guards waited anxiously for three days. When it was their turn, the food ran out. (See Civil War in USSR) Food riots broke out in the country, similar to the Kara-Burma riots, in Russia before World War I.

If we think about how the war is now "touching" us, over 7,000 miles away in Germany, we can feel the filth of war well.

Needless to say, magnificent buildings, museums, universities, movie theaters, and parliament buildings have been destroyed and collapsed.

The government also spent heavily on weapons, soldiers, food, and ammunition. In the First World War of 1914, the British government alone spent all its money and was in debt to the tune of 8,110,000,000 gold coins.

Chamberlain knew the evils of war. He was not a monster, but a real man. He was a good man, a compassionate old man. If he had been a mere chamberlain, not a royal official, he would not have fought for these evils, shamelessly and to the death.

Not only they, but also Baldwin (former royal minister) and Clement (former French minister) did not want war.

"If there is another world war, the prosperity and civilization that people have accumulated over the ages will crumble like the Roman Empire."

Baldwin. 8.1.26. (A German general named Ludendorff predicted how terrible the Second World War that has just begun would be.)

"The next war will be a war that will wipe out all races, and every man, woman, and child's waking hours must be a preparation for it."

It is no wonder then that they do not want war. But they cannot fight war.

When the flood was recent, the hill people of Burma could not protect themselves from the water, so they could not protect themselves from war. There are some horses. When they get on their backs, they like to jump. If you hold the reins without changing the reins, they will throw the rider off. Similarly, the leaders of the wealthy world, like the Chamberlains, must ride their war horses with a jump. If you hold the reins, they will fall off because they are not brave.