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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1940,
MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
COLONEL LINDBERGH'S
OCEAN
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh seems to think the Atlantic Ocean is wider than when he flew across it in 1927.
He believes, according to his broad- cast Sunday night, that "If we (in America) desire peace, we need only stop asking for war."
Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium did not ask for war.
He says:
and
We are in danger of war. to-day not because European people have at tempted to interfere with the in- ternal affairs of America but because American people have attempted
to interfere with the internal affairs of Europe.
Government. Only private loans were made by individual American inves- tors. Such loans amounted in round numbers to $2,250,000,000, Concerning these loans, there are two relevant factors to be noted: First, the greater part of them was secured by first-class collateral, consisting of American and other neutral securities, so that the investors did not need an Allied vic- tory in order to be paid. Second, the national wealth of the United States in 1917 amounted to more than $200,- 000,000,000. If "our heart is where our money is," then our heart was in this country on the side of the twą hundred billions-and not in Europe, on the side of the two and a half bil- lions.
Any "economic" interpretation of history which suggests that we had a profit motive in risking two hundred dollars at home for the sake of pro- tecting two and a half dollars abroad is on its face sheer nonsense.
It would require more documenta- tion than Colonel Lindbergh offers to show wherein the American people have tried to interfere with internal
The American people went to war in affairs of Europe since the World 1917 for publicly declared reasons of War.
In fact, it could be said with national safety and because they be- more reason that the conflagration in lieved it to be to their best interests Europe which threatens America to- to do so. They must be tired of day got its start partly because the theories which picture them as either United States failed to do its part knaves or fools.-New York Times. toward consolidating the peace it
helped to win.
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"CONGRESS MUST NOT ADJOURN"
Colonel Lindbergh does not object to the $1,000,000,000 defence program- me advanced by President Roosevelt; rather, he approves "reasonable de- fence forces," including aircraft. Pos- Clearly, it would be a grave mistake sibly he would recognize that this and for Congress to adjourn this summer. most of the $6,000,000,000 spent on We must have as quick access to con- defence in the last seven years by gressional action as do the British the United States are direct costs of and French Parliaments. Overnight the developments in Europe which he thinks offer no threat of invasion to America.
to
may come a change in the world situa- tion requiring the exercise of legisla- tive power. We may not be able His recipe for security is that the wait for the call of an extra session. United States take the other nations The world moves too fast nowadays of the Western Hemisphere under the for that. And we cannot simply de- wings of its air force, presumably legate all legislative power to one man whether they like it or not, and while Congress disperses to the four make sure that they do not get into corners of the land. wars with European Powers. Does We need a better not this sound like meddling with the fence, more military and internal affairs and foreign policies planes and pilots. of Latin-American nations?
We should, moreover,
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"So the condemned man are a hearty breakfast ?"
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Oddly enough he did in spite of last night's stag party. All set now for· the orange blossoms."
"And the little head ?"
Ticking over beautifully old boy. Cool as a frame full of cucumbers. Am 'I becoming a saturated solution — or is it just the influence of a good
"Your ignorance of the facts of life, Edmond, is little short of monumental. Remember the long... draught of Rose's Lime Juice I made you drink before retiring P. Pause and consider, Edmond”: ----
knowing me as you do - was that pure altruism ? "
“I've never known you do an unselfish act in your life old boy."
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look! Quarter to eleven i Where's the ring!? Where's my-hat ↑ Is the car ready 7. Le my tia allright P Hürry up, hurry up. Where's my ---- ohy hare it is van, QUICK!”
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A FOOTNOTE ON SACRIFICE
The essence of Colonel Lindbergh's more our "neutrality" laws.
in this: "Let turn again to America's tradi- tional role--that of building and
Adolf Hitler, in "Mein Kampf": guarding our own "What a mistake to believe that destiny." What is England was perhaps too 'cow- that destiny? Is ardly' to shed her own blood. it to attempt a
We had not the slightest concep- selfish-and- -in-tlon-of the nature of the forces
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secure aloofness in the shambles of world engulfed by hate and rapine? Is .it America's traditional role to remain, blind to the implications of foreign wars and aggressions until it
that could lead, men to their death of their own free will and reso- lution."
Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons: "I say to the House as I said to ministers who have joined this Government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toll, tears, and sweat."
in
anti-aircraft de- naval air-
study once Shall we continue to put the obstacles path of the British and French? Shall we, too, be deluded by the conceptions of "neutrality" which have lately been evolved by isolationists in our -midst, or shall_we_ return to the in- ternational law of 1933 when it was lawful and to proper for us export our goods for credit to any part of the world? Shall we allow the fact that the British
costs more to protect herself from and French became bankrupt between chaos on her borders and sea-lanes 1920 and 1930, and hence could not than it would have cost to help pre- pay us their debts, to interfere with serve a semblance of world order and private loans to the Allies that might decency?
have to be made now in our own self- "We cannot aid others," the Co- interest? What would happen inside lonel concludes, "until we have first the United States if no bank or flanci- placed our own country in a position al institution: would ever lend money of spiritual and material leadership again to any individual busniess man and strength." Can spiritual who had been president of a company leadership result from self-interest that went into receivership or bank- that thinks only of its own safety and ruptcy?. advantage in the face of an attack on the moral and ethical standards hu- manity has spent centuries in build- ing?. "Christian Science Monitor".
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THE "WAR LOANS” AGAIN
To-day Great Britain and France are fighting with their backs to the wall. They cannot be aided by an expeditionary force from our 'Ameri- We could be of no military ald to them, but we can help them by re- moving the restrictions on credit which we have placed upon them.- United States. News.
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"OUR SACRED WILL"
The old theme of the United States dragged into the last European conflict because of its "war loans" has been revived by several members of the Senate. Mr. Johnson of California recalls the oft-quoted comment, "our heart is where our money is."
The facts are all readily available Before the United States entered the war no public loans of any kind Who said it? Adolf Hitler; in Sep- were made abroad by the American tember, 1988. Philadelphia Record.
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"We have assured all our immediate neighbours of the integrity of their territory as far as Germany is con- cerned. This is no hollow phrase; it is our sacred: will,”