THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
TO MEET A GERMAN THREAT
President Roosevelt made it clear on Friday that Germany's attempt at intimidation by what appears to have been the deliberately ordered sink- ing of the "Robin Moor" will not cause the U.S. Government to reverse its present position and for- bid American merchant | ships to enter "hostile" waters. The question is of enormous immediate im- portance now that the war has moved to the Near East and the vital factor in the defence of that area has become the provision of equipment for a British army formidable' enough in numbers but lacking adequate supplies of 'planes, guns and am- munition. American mer- chant ships are now at liberty, under domestic legislation, to enter the Red Sea and to deliver war materials at Egyp-| tian ports; for on April 11, following the British capture of the port of -Massawa and the over- powering of all but scat- tered Italian resistance in East Africa, the President revoked his own earlier proclamation
"The best sort of revenge
not to be like him who did
the injury.
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MARCUS' AURĖLIUS
PURELY PLATONIC
Estes
Bertrand Russell
The War
On
defining Mr. Bertrand Russell (Lord of conciliation,
In this I was in On the other hand, the fate of majority of subject populations, more parti- has been a
this region as a "combat Russeli) has written a letter to the agreement with the
"New York Times" in which he my countrymen. I went further cularly in Poland, area" within the meaning states his reasons for supporting, than the majority in believing that good deal worse than had seem- of the Neutrality Act. It the war.
is his exclusive power and tracts from the letter:-
In the years that preceded the
This alteration is not as to any
the
were three.
Versailles and afterwards;
ernment would
and unbear-
would
democracy. when
an-