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WHAT THE STARS FORETELL
Awakening At Last
morning.
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of an
By Joseph Alsop And Robert Kintner
fot
Hopes Pinned
to
In Egypt, the British Mediter- the base,
ranean
are
in the N.Y. "Herald Tribune."
Army and Navy auxiliary The beginnings
atmos- › morale, but argues that Britain's ↑ important as brute strength will soon be ex- vessels,
British commissioning phere change as
fighting campaign against a what remains of the laid- that which led to the lease end hausted if no greater help comes. law are HOW clearly perceptible | President Conatit's mission of ex-
scientific
German- information numerically superior up fleets of United States in Washington. In the period be-changing
North tween the lease-lent law's enact with the British gave him wide Italian force. In French merchant ships and, pos- ment and
He Africa. the Balka tragedy, and easy access in London.
Weygand's position has sibly, diverting some even the boldest members of the is understood to have told mem-
already been seriously under- Administration tended to regard hers of the Administration here Great Lakes carriers to
German agents are in American aid for Britain with that this country had only a few med.
full control of the
Casa probably until the end | virtually coastal and inter-considerable complacency. Enough nonths
was being done, was the attitude; of summer at the outside coastal trade.
Blanca. In Spain, Gen. Franco is and when
whether to "put up or requiell, deride Was
resisting German demands against
ever,
complacency has
odds. And in France there are vanished like mist 011
signs that the Vicby regime may for
final sur- A second school, centred in the be preparing War Department, affirins the render, I has been dispelled by a magnificence of the British peo- deeply signifleant new note in re-ple's courage, but points out that
from Britain in recent the ports
well-spring of courage werks a note of doubt of Bri-
hope, and that Britain's hopes tain's power to resist indefinitely been pinned on the United perts give the British better than without far more substantial help States for many months.
If these even chance to meet the dan- the Mediterranean, But hopes are disappointed, the second rin
the point is that the Mediter- school says, the worst can easily
ranean may go. American policy The highest efficiency The note has been struck by a happen, The British leaders may
must be calculated on that pos- half duzen returning observers, refuse to sustain a suicidal war. in the use of available both oficial
and unofficial, but The British war effort may falter sibility. The possibility means, in shipping requires that the all extremely competent. One from internal weakness. However turn, that Germans may obtain flow of war materials by brilliant
represented by the it happens, the end will school, best
be a supplies, including oil, for a very And the effect of such president of Harvard, negotiated peace, leaving Ger- long war.
a prospect on British strength and land from their points of James Bryant Conant, does not many the strongest nation in the
morale can easity be Britain exhausted British origin to the docks must question the resilience of British world, with
and subservient, and the United understood. States standing alone,
Plainly the programme more would be done. Now, how shut up."
this is not merely intended to provide more tonnage but to obtain the maximum of effective use of the ton- nage that is available. To achieve this it must go beyond strictly maritime limits.
be co-ordinated with the
than is now being given,
among
CO-
This is painting the picture as it can be is purposely as dark
made. Actually, our military ex-
Tipping The Scale
movement of ships. Sup-been insufficient
This is not defeatism of the
Pitifully little active assistance plies must move quickly ordination
the Lindbergh sort. Not one of the
from this country would have re- and smoothly to the har- various elements.
men whose reports have caused stored the balance in the Medi- Ship: such disquiet here questions for terranean, preventing all but the bours so as to avoid delays ping is the most critical an instant that the war can be comparatively meaningless Bal- in the loading and con- phase of the effort to win states will stand together as fight- from effects on the will to resist won if Britain and the United kan tragedy, which would be far gestion at shipping this war. It is the one ing partners. Nor is it a call for in other countries. Pitifully lit points. They should be field, above
expeditionary tle active assistance routed to those harbours where desperate shortage ed assessment
would re-
of the pressing same most of the major war.
all others, a large American
force. It is simply a hard-head-store the balance now. It is the which make possible the and urgent need permit need for bold and decisive Amer-
ican action to meet such problems margin is slight between success-
East.
Situation Critical
-
situations. In each case the
this country will not cover the margin, defeat comes in the end.
affairs is critical. After the Bal- John Simon, Sir Horace Wilson
of
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shortest ocean passage, no inefficiency or lack of as that of the
Atlantic, that of -ful resistance and defeat. But in even if this means longer co-ordination to be toler-North Africa, and that of the Far each case, because and more expensive ated.
The President has movement by rail. No taken an excellent step in
In Britain, the men responsible ship should be allowed to providing for the mobi-
The Mediterranean North for their country's present plight sail without a full cargo; lisation of a 2,000,000-ton African situation is the best case have merely been put into a sort no ship should be kept pool of ships. It is in point. At present, the state of of Coventry. The worst that Sir waiting for its cargo to be earnestly to be hoped that kan disaster, Turkey has turned and their sort have had to face is assembled; no ship should he will follow this by for the right of transit to at- they appear in public. But those soggy, and may give German a few veiled or open insults when be permitted to waste establishing a unifled tack the oil fields of Iraq. The American leaders who are now time in going to distant authority, in close liaison Russians, whose pressure Turkey doing all in their power to pre- can hardly resist, have just vent the crucial margin from ports if its cargo can be with the British Govern-signed a pact with Japan at Ger- being covered had best remem
A chunk of ber that the temper of our people brought alongside in ports ment, to co-ordinate the many's direction. be of is not so
and for- *closer to the ultimate entire movement on both Persia was always to he once to giving us that of the British HONG KONG destination.
land and sea of the freight the Axis, and the Russo-Persinn "They had best ask themselves, border is now reported closed. When we stand, isolated and at The principal weakness traffic essential to defence Iraq itself, although Britishbay, in a world whose masters of America's entire and to the winning of the troops have landed, is still in the are our enemies, shall I be held
hands of a pro-German govern- to blame? And defence effort to date has battle of the Atlantic. ment,
shall I save my skin?"
if I am,
how
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