THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 13, 1940.
CHINA MAIL Enough--And Now
-WINDSOR HOUSE
FAR EAST EVENTS
the incident in the Ameri-that large burdens must be shoul- By J. Roscoe
Drummond
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It is crystal-clear that the opinion in its readiness to meet necessary weapons available to mined that the United States American people are alert to the the Nazi war menace boldly and those now in the field against should profit from the costly mis- meaning of the war, to the ur- decisively. When fear, does not Hitler,"
take of the European democracies gency of making material aid › to paralyse democracy, democracy ́
the mistake of "too little and |the Allies a vital line of defence, can act rapidly and resolutely. Now the leading newspapers of too late," that is, too late to avoid Washington's analysis to the need of carrying through a There are enough people in the the United States and there are a heavy price in men and agony. of the background behind it cannot be said that it is too too, who understand that fear can experienced correspondents in not shock American opinion. Un- preparedness programme of which United States, and Great Britain, many excellent dailies-maintain Unstinting aid to the Allies will the excitement created late and too little.”
have no more, power than we give Washington and devate many co-stinting expenditure for defence Public opinion is not waiting to among the Japanese over be told that risks must be taken,
lumns in every edition to report will not shock' American 'opinion. ing the capital to the country. The Unstinting taxation for deferice need to-day is to report the coun- will not shock American opinion. dered, that sacrifices .must be can defence sector last made. Public opinion is already
try to the capital,
Thinking fast and clearly, cut- week-end dovetails into formed. It is asking for large
Traveling from Washington to ting, through fear and indecision, diverse parts of the Nation in re- the. American people are over- plans. It is asking for large the known facts about. re- leadership. It is clear that there
cent weeks, once to the coast, whelmingly ready to support the again throughout the Mid-West Government in taking the largest cent developments in the need be no delay no holding back, it, that being without a real cause and now into the South, one gains possible measures to meet the
no wondering if this Democracy it cannot project its mesmeric-a definite impression that Far East. Japanese policy can respond quickly, powerfully, effect.
the gravest possible emergency. American people are now com-`demand is that these... measures over the past several years unitedly to whatever is requisite There is every evidence that the pletely prepared for complete pre-shall not be "little and late" but
American people are to-day ready paredness. justifies the
that they shall be enough and expectation Two weeks ago, after travelling to act rapidly and resolutely. that, given the right con- in the Mid-West and after conver- "The hesitancy of Congress in ditions, she will do her ut-every state there, I believed it ac- furnishing planes and supplies to sing with people from virtually responding to the sentiment for most to take advantage of curate to report that such a trans the Allies is irksome to the coun-
formation in sentiment had taken try," said the "Chattanooga Tri-.j "the historic golden op- place that whenever the President bune" on the day the President portunity" now being off- found the occasion provide released the first fifty planes to of Gibraltar through a deep down Main Street, in his native
found influence on
to the hour.
to
material assistance to Great Bri- Britain,
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Mirror Of Opinions
¡tral.
Non-Belligerency
pretense of neutrality.
Congress
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Public opinion is deeply deter- now.
The
Main Street, Gibraltar
in
Fashioned
Village
As soon As you enter the town house. "Main Street." Walking
ered.
and solid archway with iron doors costume, a Maor from Tangiers, tain and France he would find "Speed them the planes." ac-. "It was obvious from the public opinion ready to support claimed the "Atlanta Journal" the you feel that you are in a fort- who, perhaps, got out of bed in And ress. Though the town is so de- Africa that very morning. next morning and added: "Politi-lightful and gives you so outbreak that the Europ- Last week President Roosevelt cians who seek to obstruct so ob- a welcome, it is stern, bristling surprised.-From
warm you seem the only person who is "Blue Water," ean war must have a pro-Allies several hundred warplanes step in our national defence sadly grave and serious view of life. (New York: Harcourt, Brace.)
acted to make, available to the viously and so critically needed with authority, and insists on a by Arthur Sturges Hildebrand. de-and huge stocks of guns and am- misunderstand the minds of the
Wherever you want to go, there velopments in Asia. As munition. Technically this equip- American people."
is asentry to pass, and though he ment is being turned back to pri- The clarity of public thinking allows you to proceed, you pro- one influential American vate manufacturers to be prompt- in this matter is well illustrated ceed on your good behavior. Even!, An Old- newspaper puts it, "Up to ly released to the Allied Nations. by the fact that American aid to if you duck out of sight around The prospect of such forthright the Allies is being increasingly the corner, there is the Rock, All- the very eve of the Europ-action three weeks ago would recognised as a means, not of risk-ing half the sky, and you know ean war it might have have caused timid politicians to ing war but of decreasing the risk that unseen-and critical- wat-
scurry to the top of every fence of war for the United States. chers are looking down at you. been reasonably antici-on which they could find a place "What strengthens the Allies The officer on guard at the gate pated that the two wars to sit. And how has public opin- reduces the need of our participa- gives you a dated ticket as you
lion reacted to the actuality of tion," is the way the "Cincinnati enter; you may remain in town! You never saw a more old- would quickly fuse into what is in fact American military Enquirer" greeted the news that until "first evening gunfire." You fashioned village than Repton. It one. An influential faction aid to the Allies? The reaction planes, artillery, and ammunition feel specially privileged, at once, looks like a little town built in a
has been one of approval. in the Japanese Army and approval has not been excited; it Britain. This from the centre o nocent in everything you do..
This would be put at the disposal of and become self-consciously in-wood, such as you
might have fancied the ancient Britons lived in the Japanese Navy was has been matter-of-course. what is no longer the isolationist The gateway through which in after they had been taught to in favour of transforming The reason it has been matter- farm belt.
you come in is characteristic, in erect houses by the Romans; for. "There is good ground for be-its solidity, of the entire establish- if you stood upon the hill and the "anti-Comintern of-course is that public opinion in lief," said this editorial, "that our ment.
You come upon forti- glanced down upon it, you could Pact" between Germany, has
three short but fast-moving weeks best insurance against having to fications, unexpectedly, the scarcely see some of the cottages
outdistanced governmentai go to war lies in making the most ordinary streets; there are for trees..... Italy, and Japan into an
barracks wherever there is room The names of the roads and for them to stand; batteries bor- lanes also seem to belong to an outright military alliance.
der the park; there are impassive old period of time, when our sim- It was anyone's guess as to
and substantial buildings every ple forefathers' distinguished whether the more moder-
where, tightly closed, with letters places by either the most promi- and numbers of military conno-nent objects, or for what they ate Japanese statesmen
ment would be to encourage the tation painted on their doors. ¡bore. Thus we have around Allies. W would succeed in staving America has never been neu-
The streets are noisy with the Repton Hawthorn Lane, Rushy That effect can be obtained, and languages of a dozen nations, and Rampart,Wild Swan Mere, off this tendency.
tangible assistance be given, by confused with heterogeneous Blackthorn Bend, Honey-brook The amazing reversal situation could not be impartial. of Congress that the United States elsewhere get together. The carri- Ackland Wood.
Americans in the present world, declaring promptly through an act costumes and traffic that never Bourne, the Milking Hills, and You can still of German policy, sym-longer afford the shackles of the belligerent.
The United States cannot any is not a neutral but rather a non-ages are light, bouncing, canopy-trace the old
features of the bolized in the agreement legal forms of neutrality. Italy's
topped things, with white curtains scene, for the lane is overhung It would be a step which would looped back at the corners of with hoary hawthorns, rushes with the Soviet Union, entrat Roosevelt's ringing speech mediately the kinds of physical as if they were made up to please sloes and bullisses hang along the into the war and Pre-free the channels for giving im- their roofs, quaint and fantastic, still grow beside the rampart, knocked the underpinning at Charlottesville should bring aid which America is most ready a child; they go rattling through bend; in winter the wild swans from beneath the anti-united national action to end the and able to give.
the crowds. There are Greeks alight with folded wings upon Comintern ideological Sympathy in the Western Hemi- should move at once. to. end the vantine Jews, Arabs
and the President and Spaniards and Hindus, Le-the mere; and all summer the from Mo-bees still continue to buzz by the Tangiers, brook; the cows feed upon the none-belligerent.dering mariners from everywhere, in Ackland. Wood, that would db And mingled with these, shoulder for the timbers of a hundred-gun to shoulder with them in the ship.. narrow streets, are the British The very street of itself is a ean conflict. There was no blind indeed if they did not. re-
be Gayda On “Pan-
residents and the native Gibral-picture. The tall sign-post spread of the war in the cognise that as Mr. Roosevelt said,
Americanism tarians, soldiers from the garri- comes almost out into the middle son and sailors from the of the road, as if to welcome you, West to the Orient. There "a lone island in a world dominat-
[Speaking about] Briand's Pan- Dockyard. The turmoil and and on it swings the painting of ed by the philosphy of force" was not even an intensi-would be a
recalls the clatter of all this makes the town the "Old Red Lion," a name the Europe immediately dangerous place to
beginning of Pan-Americanism as hum with a sound like that of a public house has borne time out fication of Japanese pres- live in.
it has been shaped by the Monroe metropolis.
of mind.. Rumor says. "Oliver Free peoples, however peaceful Doctrine. Judging from the results sure against foreign resid-or seemingly remote; cannot tent achieved by this movement creat- cited as if it were the very cen-no one seems to doubt
Indeed, it is as busy and ex-Cromwell once slept there, and
it. ents in the Orient.
parise with a system which, if ex- ed at Washington, in the last fortyre of the world. It is a perpetu- Then how comfortable those tended to the world, would lodge years the biggest share in the pro-al World's Fair. This does not mean that them "in prison, handcuffed, hun- Ats has gone to the United States. Everywhere" that exists: in the all round; you can see what a nice It is like that old bay windows look, with seats the European war has gry, and fed through the bars."
Under the guise of this doctrine, imagination. Yet the British re- parlour that would be to have Does this mean the United
the United States, through the sidents consider themselves col- tea in with its white, sanded floor been without important States must go to war?
war of 1898, chased Spain from
dark tables. You onists. living in an outpost, and bright, repercussions in Asia.cided now.
That does not have to be de-its last colonies nearest for New and not infrequently they spend could tell from the little cow in
World. And in different ways and Britain, absorbed in the The question may have to be by differing means,
the United great deal of their time in won-the paddock that they make their faced ultimately, whatever course
dering when they shall get own butter, that the milk would struggle nearer home, has America takes.
States have imposed their
be, new and the eggs fresh; for reduced influence, for the We hope that sending supplies authority or control on the Pana-away.
må and Nicaraguan Canals, on The shops are filled with won-there are at least a dozen hens pecking about the long water time being, as a major necessary.
will make the sending of men un- Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, the derful things from every corner trough beneath the sign-post.
Gulf of Mexica and Caribbean of the earth. The windows glitter. You would like to live in that Power: in the Far East. What is needed now is Congres- Sea. And they have expanded with glass and inlaid work and little cottage on the left, where Apart from the Chinese sional action giving official-effect their financial and trade domina-jewels, while the flaming scarves the windows are all open, and to the President's declaration that tipn over numerous South Ameri- and mantillas and embroideries filled with flower-pots; and the resistance, Japan must America is ready to give unstint- can regions. Virginio Gayda in that hang beside the doors give curtains look as if they had the street the colour of a true hung to dry on the white blos- reckon mainly with the ed material aid against aggression "Giornale d'Italia."
and dictatorship.
Oriental bazaar. It is, in fact, soms of the hawthorn; and the United States and with The most an American declara-
a cosmopolitan bazaar. There door and shutters have a spring- the Soviet Union.
tion of war could do at this mo-
is nothing, almost, that you can green hue, while the brass door- imagine, that cannot be found knocker shines like a great sun- The recent flare-up over European Powers are dis-
here-Quaker Oats or bronze flower in the porch, and makes the disposition
Can it be possible that in the Buddhas. Baghdad is represented, "sunshine in a shady place." of the lodged from their moor-
and Lancashire face of successive aggressions and Timbuctoo
We could say a good deal more Dutch East Indies is a ings by the European cy-against the
independence and and Samarkand
and Baltimore. of Repton.up the sunny fronts of Europe's small And in the background of all the red-brick houses; the smithy significant reminder that clone, Japan may emulate integrity of
States, the American demo this are the sedate. Government where lads in shockfrocks lounge as the war in Europe be- the Third Reich in taking cracies can go on maintaining an buildings, with the sentries at about while their horses are shod; comes flercer and more lightning spectacular de-absurd and insupportable neutral their doors, and the Bobbies, in and many other things. Our pic- position which, in the long, could the familiar London uniforms, ture would not be complete with- desperate, the pace of cisions, which may cause really be interpreted as compli-keeping order.
out describing the familiar terins events in the Orient will those responsible for shap-
"A Moor from. Tangiers « passes, on which the "neighbours are It is impossible to believe that in his flowing robes of white, his with one another. If a letter also almost automatically ing American policy in behind a rugged indifference and red fez, his yellow slippers and comes by the carrier or the old irreducible insensibility there bare brown lega; as you are try- postman, they think nothing of be speeded up. If the col-the Orient to face graver hides an approval of criminal acts ing to recover from the sur-walking into the cottage and ask- onial empires of Holland decisions than they have which are repugnant even to the prise of it, you look up and dising from whom It has come. and perhaps of other yet been obliged to make, most different of human con cover that you are staring at. a From "A Tale of Old England,"
sciences.-"El Dia," Monteviden.) sign on the corner of the nearest by Thomas Miller. (1849),
front. It temporarily sphere has been with the Allies farce of neutrality, and give ut- gador, Moors from
from the day German tanks rolled most American aid to the demo- Egyptians and Italians and wan-hills, and many an old oak grows
as a
strengthened in Japan a into Czechoslovakia, and it grows cracies policy of caution and of more strongly pro-Ally with every "Christian Science Monitor." isolation from the Europ-chines.
attack of the totalitarian war ma-
American -citizens would
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