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AS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, of course, I do have access to intimate details of information, from all parts of the world, that are not available to all, but this larger and more intimate knowledge in nowise changes the general aspect of the world situation as it is set forth daily in your publication
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These same powers have also openly and re-
these openly avowed enemies have joined themselves together in a pact which they do not hesitate to say is aimed at us, and at us alone!
as she has just done in Yugo-
| Axa vætints in our psychology. We think we can escape whule all the rest of the world suffers. We keep alive. wretched pur- tisanship when a united patriot- should characterise Ottr thinking. We refuse to believe that the Axis powers even intend to attack us, or could be success- ful if they did. We refuse to face the realities of the situation in South America, the protection of which from successful invasion is a primary condition of our de-
'Fatuous Complacency'
fence.
The only reason that this hostile has her hands full, and more than pact, admittedly aimed at us, has full, in her attempt to subjugate not resulted in open warfare upon | Southern China by force of arms, us has been because it does not but her aspirations are not north. suit the present purpose of these ward. They are southward, Japan powers to engage in war with us. imperatively needed assurance In that great region to the south Wherever, in the Judgment of that she would not be attacked in of us, readily available as a base the Axis powers, it better suits the north while she was pressing for an attack upon us, there is their purpose to begin hostilities, her designs in the south. Just neither the military nor naval hostilities will begin, and nothing how much assurance Japan feels power to resist against invasion. that we can do, suve prostrating | that her Manchukuo border is in our fatuous complacency we ourselves in abject surrender, will safe, I do not know, but whatever ignore that in the present eco- change this.
that assurance may be it enhances nomic set-up the tug of self-inter- been the likelihood of an expansion of est comes from Europe and not of all hostilities by Japan into a region from North America. We fail to United | which is one of the sources of give due consideration to the size
save, crition) war materials for both Great Britain and ourselves. The conclusion of this pact is certain to strengthen the hand of the war party in Japan.
For months there has almost complete suspension direct contact between the States and all of Europe, Britain alone.
Across the course of the ships that ply this single route have been flung an enlarged fleet, по one knows how numerous, of submarines submarines which. due to scientific discoveries. are vastly more effective than they were in the last war.
The sea-going range of these submarines has been immensely mereased, and the field of their activity steadily expands west- ward, far over the line which divides the Atlantic between Europe and America.
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Empty Promise
Japan's promise, on the other hand, not to help Hitler if Hitler Should attack Russia, 10 an empty promise. Japan could not help Russia in Europe if she wanted to, and Hitler does not need the help of Japan for such а ригрова.
and significance of the subversive, pro-Nazi elements in many of the countries in that region--subver- sive elements that would speedily promote revolutionary chaos to the advantage of the Axis itself.
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Many of us fail to face what it will mean to our security if the Axis powers once gained a foot- hold close to our borders. We ig- nore what that might mean to the safety of the Panama Canal, the most vital line of communication under the American flag. few of us realise, and still fewer The end, therefore, of this deal acknowledge, the size of the dis- between Russia and Japan which aster to American hemispheric tightens the circle around us, safety if Germany, already the French Bases
leaves Russia quite as likely an conqueror of France,
should es- object of attack by Hitler as shetablish herself in Dakar, a French Possession of convenient bases was before the deal was made, colonial possession. From there, on the French coast hus added a
and leaves Japan free from any with her surface ships, submar whole fleet of surface raiders Russian interference in the Farines and long-range bombers, a ships of high speed, and some of East. Summed up in military victorious Germany could sub- them of great gun power, which terms, the Russo-Japanese agree-stantially cut us off from all com- prey disastrously upon the com- ment makes Japun more secure merce with South America and merce between Britain and as she pursues her dream of dom- make of the Monroe Doctrine America. Finally, from bases in ination of all Eastern Asia and scrap of paper. Northern Norway and Western leaves Russia no stronger in the If England Fell France, huge fleets of heavy bom-event of an attempted Nazl seizure bers circle back and forth to of the Ukraine,
add terror from the skies to the Nazi Domination Aim
dangers that lurk along the sea lanes leading to a beleaguered England. Steadily the toll of
lost ships mounts far faster than replacements can be made.
To the southward of conquered Europe lies the Mediterranean, an accustomed highway for our ocean commerce In times of peace. To-day the Mediterranean İs forbidden waters. On its bosom ply only the craft that carry supplies to fighting armies, and the British and Italian men of war who fight for its control.
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Finally, some of the very blind among us refuse to see what will be the inevitable result if the Thus, everywhere as we esti- final link in the chain-of-our-an- mate the situation the world circlement is forged and the bat- around, the pressure on us grows tle of the Atlantic is lost and Eng- with her feet and the Suez; through Yugoslavia sunk or captured -through Libya; through Egypt land succumbs,
and across
This is but a partial, withal a to the sea; from the western coast of Africa to South-
brutally blunt, summary of the America; through the Pacific to strategy the Dutch Netherlands, and, most.
of encirclement which we are the victims, vítal of all. across the broad Before we attempt an inventory in France and
we could take to North Atlantic from German bases of the measures
Norway now to meet this growing menace, this Greenland. German strategy
obvious encirclement, let us thor- world strategy,
Suppose Gone is all of our contact with ned and efficiently executed is this should happen that our en-
carefully plan-oughly digest this fact: the nations that border that sea. becoming clearer each day. Ger-circlement and isolation was.com- The great continent of Africa, man aspirations for world domin-plete and England had fallen. We itself 1 field for contending ion can no longer armies, offers no ports for
be mistaken, then will be given but two choices our The Jaws of the merchantmen's trade. Its western closing.
Nazi trap are the choice of surrender or the choice of fighting. We won't sur- coast, which thrusts itself half How long will we remain be- render and we will fight: No one America and mused and stupefled while the who knows about for Axis powers
that: *Conse-
way across the South Atlantic, affording an excellent base operations against the
their plans Americans doubts press southern for our isolation and ultimate de- quently, we must fight ultimately
half of the Western Hemisphere, feat? Wherein lies the difference unless we find and put into effect is denied our commerce. Whether between what Germany has done measures that will enable Britain we swing eastward” around: the Cape of Good Hope, or to
to her earlier victims and what to win without our fighting. westward through the Straits of bland and hypocritical assurante
the she is doing to us? First, the Course Already Outlined Magellan, we find enemy raider that, she has no hostile plans. We have already gone far in infested seas. At the end of our That is what she told Poland this direction. We have declared journey, go we westward or east-when she signed the Polish non- that the fight that England is ward, we encounter an Axis part- aggression pact. Then, the or- making is our fight. We have ner who openly proclaims he ganisation of a skillfully integ likewise affirmed that the entered that partnership in an rated information service that enemies she is fighting are bur effort to prevent us from interfer- would lay bare our weaknesses, enemies. We have denounced ing with their policies of ruthless our internal divisions and our without reserve Axis aggression, military, aggression.
|| vulnerable spots Just as she did | Axis -- faithlessness to treaties. Russo-Japanese Link in France, and then, the organi Axis brutal and murderous, diste- sation of her fith columns not gard of International good faith; The latest link in this chain yet loosed to the maximum but and we have said, with an over of enoiralement, that is being sufficiently active to warn us un-whelming publlo approval of this forged by the Axis powers is mistalcably or their presence, just statement, that we are in the the recently announced agreeing she did in Norway. Next, asght to stay until Victory – for ment between Russia and Japan. steady, encirclement and selz-human liberty, for justice and her Russia was not in any peril of ure of vantage points from which good faith is won attacle" by Japan Japan not only to launch her attack, just exactly ... (Continued on Page 10), SA