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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1941.
NAZI PRESSTER ADMITS HOSTILITY HIS "SAFE"
U.S.A.
THERE IS NO DEARTH of German comment SHELTER HIT
on United States affairs in the press or in other mediums of expression these days. The ban that kept virtually all such comment from the news- papers for the last twelve months or more has now apparently been lifted and the plain language of American statesmen and other personalities finds its answer in plain language employed on the German side.
"You and baby can -
I have come home now. found a safe shelter," wrote a London husband to his young wife evacuat- ed to the country.
She returned, and one Saturday night for the first time, he took them to his chosen refuge-the basement of a block of offices.
The result is that the man in the street is now
That night the building was learning much about the deterioration of relations bombed, and searchers abandoned between his country and the United States during hope for the people trapped, who the period when the German legions marched to vic-included the mother and baby. tory over Western Europe, isolated Britain, battered her cities and brought the successful conclusion of the war within apparent reaching distance.
day.
counter-at-
The shelter was described as
one of the best equipped in the borough." Nine people were res- cued on the Sunday, but the majority, including sales montgers of the firm and poor people from an ud- jacent block of tenements, were trapped under great chunks of concrete.
Saved By His Thirst
The German citizen now is hope" and that for Britain Amer- the difference learning that there is yet another lean aid represents power overseas that during the between collapse and a chance for It indicates the possi. late Summer months passed from victory.
ald might a state of neutrality to a state of bility that American non-belligerency without his be not be limited to placing arms at ing aware of it, and now stands Britain's disposal, but might in- openly on the side of Britain. The clude the transportation of these
One man employed by the flim "Frankfurter Zeitung" writes to-arms to Britain on United States had spent every night at the shel- ships and under United States
ter since the heavy London ralds "We adınit that Mr. Roosevelt, convoy.
began. On that Saturday night he Germany's attitude toward such' went to visit his mother in the his government and his adherents, even the by no means smali por- a situation is made clear by the East End. tion of his opponents, are not "Frankfurter Zeitung." It indicates | only trying morally to stiffen Bri- no plan for German
that tack against such extensive aid. tish resistance; we admit America is not only thinking of beyond
or statement that "any ships that the inheritance that sooner later will fail to her. but that the come before our torpedo tubes England from will be torpedoed." However, it the German catastrophe through as extensive expresses once more aid as possible must be designal-conviction that United States aid ed plainly as an American desire." will come too late to save Britain und that "no power on earth can preserve Britain from her fate."
"It is the aim of warfare to de- stroy the fighting power of the opponent, to destroy his incans of defence and his physical only power." the editorial continues, We are not in a situation where
will to
preserve
Hitler's Warning
Repeated
The paper adds that the United States is now "England's
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Another employee, who was on fre duty, said: "If my thirst had held out for half a minute longer, I would not be here now. I went down the road for a glass of beer, and as I entered the public house. heard the crash of the bombs
were brought out from the ruins of the London subway hit in Satur- day night's raid. Search is con- tinuing amid the tons of masonry.
on our building." Some bodies
Nothing recognisable remains of the subway, apart from the gener al outline. Within the crater was a tangle of boulders, slabs of roadway weighing up to half a we have to depend only on *1 ton, and wrecked steelwork. single means and a single method, From above a hundred Royal but we have several trons in the Engiheers, Pioneers and demoli- fire that cupplement and evention workers in the crater looked
as if they were pigmies,
Surpass each other.
"The situation of the enemy is entirely different; all his methods
and means have dwindled to a
single one, which is: hold out late and that, furthermore, tran- until America comes to save, Eng-sportation of material to England land. Only the hope of America will not be very easy.”
is left to the English, They say
that themselves."
On the prospect of United States ald to Britain, the "Frank-
"The world must
U.S. Convoys Expected
The "Frankfurter Zeitung" goes furter Zeitung" writes further: on to say that "Roosevelt's op- confirm thatponents believe that quite differ- we Germans are watching the ent things may also be concealed American attitude with a com-behind that veil namely that posure that could be surpassed | Roosevelt, in order to 'save the only with difficulty. In contrast, | democracies,' may not only re- the urgency of the English cries peal the laws that hitherto meant · for help permits of certain de- the protection of. American neu- Ain'te conclusions as to the Eng-trality, that he does not wish to lish situation. On one side stands I'mit himself to opening American England, saying 'Without you harbours and ship yards to Brit- Americans we are lost; on the other stands Germany, saying that no power on earth can preserve England from her fate."
Skepticism Seen In U.S.
ish vessels, but that he will do what he hitherto promised he did not want to do, namely, relieve the British of the worries about the security of the transports to England."
"Adolf Hitler gives them the answer: the Germans, will fire at them."
"Roosevelt's opponents fear his United States judgment of the policy will draw Americó auto- situation is regarded by thematically into the war and think. "Frankfurter Zeitung," on the basis among other things, specifically of of the various declarations made this possibility and its unavoidable before the Senate Foreign Rela-results," the editorial says. “They tions Committee, as negative for ask therefore, what will happen Britain, These declarations, the if Roosevelt sends ́American ships paper says "while
certainly not into an ocean zone that he hitherto uniform, express only the nega-himself has avoided as being tive opinion that if the United highly dangerous? States does not help energetically and immediately England is lost." "The average American Is by no means of the opinion that with American aid England will win the war-that is to Bay, will conquer Germany," it continues. "That is, in any case, a difference and, one may say, a big difference. "The English are concerned less but as vessels with war materials with the aid bill than with quick that are to be used against Ger- and actual aid. Here again nį many. To sink them is no insult difference can be detected that is to American idealsm," but measure Ilkewise not small-namely, the of practical reason: for the pro.. fact that the aid, bill and very tection of women and children in quick and extensive American German cities on whose heads production (and then assured the American deliveries are to be shipping of material to Britain) thrown down, once they reach are by no means one and the their destination.¦ same thing.
"The Fuehrer's speech showed.
interpret "This aid bill has the quality Americans that we
To this the "Deutsche Allge- meine. Zeitung" adds:
"Germany", "does. not regard steamers with war materials for. vessels Englund as
of idealism,
of acting as a veil drawn, before America's readiness to ald Britain tangible reality, before the fact just as unsentimentally as it is that American aid will come too meant.”