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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 10, 1939
Ralph Richardson, one
of the screen's most talented actors, has one of the finest roles in his career in the Alexander Korda technico- colour production, "The Four Feathers," at the King's Theatre.
700 AMERICAN PLANES UNDELIVERED TO ALLIES
ABOUT 700 AEROPLANES, destined for delivery to Britain and France, are held up by application of the American arms embargo,
That is the approximate measure of the tangible effect of the embargo on the Allies.
But the intangible effect, the effect on governmental and public opinion, may be much greater, Both British and French sources in Washington, far from buoyantly expecting the bargo to be lifted soon, are gloomily only hoping for the best.
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The French seem in the greatest state of dejection, taking the view that the United States-great defender of democracy-has failed them in their hour of need.
GERMAN-AMERICANS GUARDED IN OPINIONS ABOUT
CONFLICT
The half-million German-born, Fred Obermuller, their head, said American citizens living in New the group regarded itself "as leaders York, headquarters of the German- and guarantors for the honour of all American Bund, are watching the post-war naturalized American citi- foreign war with mingled emotions, à zens of German birth." survey showed.
In Yorkville, Manhattan neigh- bourhood centering the German- language colony, only guarded opin- ions were to be had from the popu- lation, attitudes both for and against Reichsfuhrer Hitler's invasion of Po- land.
These ranged all the way from the point of view reiterated by Fritz Kuhn, Bund leader, over the Labour Day week end that "Hitler and Ger- many can lick the whole world," to renunciation by the Ger- man Labour Delegation in the United States of the Nazi German leader and his Party as unrepresentative of ma- jority thought in the Reich.
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Reports that both British and French Governments are placing orders for more aircraft, expectant of the liftlg of the embargo, which were printed in various papers, seem far from the actual facts.
Both embassies denied the reports. Spokesmen for the aircraft industry
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FIGHTING NEAR
HANKOW
A shipload of seriously wound- od Japanese troops, numbering About 600, *arrived" În : Shänghal aboard the Japaneso tausport Jeaul Maru from Hahkow, the China Press learned.
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The arrival of the wounded Boldiera dovatalled with author. Itative reports that sanguinary fighting had been raging around the Central China city, with the Japanese sustaining heavy casual - tlas.
U.S. CAN
denied them, They suggested AVOID
that
the reports may have been based on
certain queries that have been made WAR
as to possible productive capacity when, as, and if the embargo is lifted."
Including a large aviation order Senator Robert A. Taft of placed by the British with the Cur-Ohio, seeking to follow his tiss-Wright Company about a year
ago, on which deliveries have been fathar's footsteps to the Pre- completed, it is roughly true that sidency, met with Yale about half the aircraft orders placed Alumni and addressed the within this period by the British and French already have been completed,.
Anoka Taft for President thus escaping the embargo.
Club, first in the United Here is the situation in the big States to boom him for Pre-
sident.
order's
four companies with which were placed:
Douglas Aircraft Company: 100 planes for the French, undelivered.
Glenn L. Martin on
Company: 215 planes for the French, one delivered.
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation: 400 planes for the British, upward of 75 per cent delivered. Eighty planes for the Australians, none delivered.
POLISH DEFEAT SEEN Talk in Yorkville was much the war and in the less
cautious atmosphere of private conversations confidence was voiced that the highly mechanized new German Army would swiftly accomplish its Polish objective.
North American Aviation, Inc.: about 80 planes for the British, about 130 for the French, none delivered.
"We can stay out of the European war if we want to," he declared.
"It should be the business of every one of us to want to-stay out. War is a destroyer of forms of govern- ment. The World War destroyed de- mocracies and resulted in more dicta- torships than ever before,"
"Our participation in the present war would be of greatest danger to democracy in the United States. It There were also some other scat- we got into the war, I doubt if we tering orders understood to have been would return to democracy as we delivered. The Vought-Sikorsky have known it. It was hard enough Division of United Aircraft had on to do so after the World War." order 20 amphibians or seaplanes for the French, and a repeat of about the same number, of which total about half are understood to have been, de-
German nationals seemed less con- cerned with their own possible call to arms for the Reich than with the whereabouts on the high seas of the $20,000,000 steamship Bremen, of the North German Lloyd Line, while na- turalized Germans insisted would fight only
they for the United States, but held that it should not enter the conflict. Radios in public places found few listeners in this livered.
FRANCE TO FEED SOLDIER FAMILIES
Representing itself as the Ameri-section. ican organization of Germany's one- time Social Democratic Party which has headquarters in Paris, the Ger- man Labour Delegation took its stand In a statement issued by its President, Albert Grzesinks!. This declared that "nobody who knows Germany and the German people can have any possible doubt that Hitler and his Nazi Party are not representing the whole, or even the majority of the German Nation to-day."
Paris wives who were left without means of support when their hus- bands were called to the front will receive approximately 28 cents a day maintenance from the French Govern- ment, plus 13 cents additional for each child under 10.
An official announcement said wives and dependents would be paid 12 francs a day, if they lived in Paris, with an added allowance of 5% francs for each child:
"Nazi totalitarianism has con- quered Germany by brutal force and maintains its political power above and against the majority of the German people by every means of terror." the statement continues.
Coincidentally, German and Aus- trian veterans of Union County, N. J., reaffirmed their allegiance oath to the United States, "whatever may cents) daily. Elsewhere, the allot- happen." Announcing the pledge,ment is seven franes (15 cents).
Wives residing in other communi- ties with a population of more than
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