THE CHINA" MAIL, JULY 11, 1941:
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
IMPLICATIONS
Two interesting state- ments have followed the action of President Roose. velt in accepting respon- sibility for the guardian- ship of Iceland. Mr. Churchill, in the House of Commons, has pointed to the logical outcome of that step: close Anglo- American cooperation in the defence of the island! and the mutual advan- tages to be derived from! Anglo-American naval co- operation in keeping the dangerous waters of the North Atlantic open to supplies from the United States to her forces in Iceland and from the United States to Britain. Mr. Willkie, in Washing-| ton, following an inter- view with President Roosevelt, indicated that his influence had been brought to bear to break down resistances to the full implications of the lend-lease policy. Effec- tive aid or none at all, is, Mr. Willkie's doctrine, and it involves measures to ensure the mainten- ance of free sea-lanes. The positions of Mr. Will- kie and President Roose- velt are,
of course, from
all practical considera- tions, vitally different. Mr. Willkie is a free-lance. The heavy responsibility
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JAPANESE ARMY APPROPRIATIONS
NOTICE.
Owing to the growing tense international situa- tion, the budget for the next financial year 1942/3' will be compiled with the greatest stress laid on the tightening of Japan's war footing.
New demands are tó be limited to items indis- pensable to the expecta- tion of national policy.
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Far from believing that 43 Hitler cannot be beaten, Britain is now convinced to a mun that
beaten and beaten
he can be completely.
A year ago Britain was less confident. The British with their backs to the wall, almost
even
the achieve that.
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But we do not think it will take so very long, We believe' that although Hitler, by careful massing of his forces at selected places, can still pull off a dram- the two, we have atic coup or
We be- measure of him nov'.
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of decisions from which hints and rumours in circulation Britain. there can be no retreat is that peace is possible within the President's. There is, old, is just about to tell us that however, a good deal to so far as he is concerned he has be said for the insistence won all he wants and that for in influential sections of him the war is at an end. the American Press that even prepared, so the story goes, to give up some of his gains in Mr. Willkie's forthright
the interests of peace, and Bri- stand is more typically in, it is hinted, may agree to armed, except for a magnificent lieve he has shot his bolt.
an believe that the tide is on the representative
though small Air Force, and unbeatable Navy, with character-turn. istic stubbornness refused to be- lieve that defeat was possible.
With grim determination they
of the
some such deal, realising that the average American atti- complete defeat of Hitler is now tude to the problems of impossible. the hour.
that
un-
Don't believe it. Hitler may In a recent issue of ardently desire a peace of
kind. It is the one thing that set out to rearm themselves. They "Collier's Weekly" he succeeded in one and the same paragraph in de- molishing the defeatism
could save him. But he has no more chance of getting away with
that
only
of the isolationists and in splendid phrase in the charting a bolder course campaign for the administration, the productive can be when he wrote:
I give to America a practi- cal, specific plan. Furnish to Britain to-day and to-morrow and the next day, for her des- perate need, ships the ships in our docks, the ships in our ! coastwise. trade
By John Gordon
Why are we so confident? I will tell you frankly. The Battle. of the Atlantic has been a rough But the losses are affair for us. going down. We are getting the upper hand slowly but surely. The destruction or the immobil- isation of those three great ships! on which Hitler gambled so much as ocean raiders, Bismarck, Gnei- senau, and Scharnhorst have sav- ed the day for us. The smaller; raiders, the U. Boats and the sea bombers, are lesser menaces · and] in due course, they will be mop-
strong and only the strong can be free-comes
made many blunders. They went ped up. with even greater pertin- about the job slowly. They took ence now because of the many hard knocks on sea and on fact that the failure of land in the process. They had hurts, the impounded ships of the. Administration to to watch their cities being laid other nations, the ships, we are crush the forces hamper-in ruins, and the populations be ers, and, if necessary, see that ing and delaying producing scarred and torn. those ships, loaded with the tion has made the impor- over-increasing production of
until
building. Give to her destroy-
will survive.
But they set their jaws grimly Their determina- American factories and farms, tance of production great-and held on. deliver their cargoes safely to
faltered... Sentimen- the ports of western and north-er than ever. It is his tion never ern England. Thus England judgment that if America tality went out of their nature as will purge itself of fear-the months. of horror piled up, Here is the reply to Col. fear of defeat, fear that and they became like steel. Lindbergh's assumption Great Britain cannot win, Now we have reached the stage that Britain cannot pos- fear of war, fear of peace, when if any Government propos sibly win and that aid for fear of change it willed a peace with Germany--if Britain is therefore futile. help carry the war
such a Government were possible Here also is the call to against Hitlerism to vic-which it isn't-it would be hurl courageous leadership in
tory, place of hesitation. Mr. Willkie coupled his plea
The Mediterranean situation, complicated a little by the loss of Crete, is not so bad as it was in the week France fell, in spite of all that has happened. Hitler will never reach the Suez Canal. He will never succeed in closing the Mediterranean.jalan
the
Hitler's greatest danger, real reason why he is filling the world with phoney peace stories is a very simple one. Thanks to American aid, and to the fact that
his bombers have not succeeded. } in slowing up production in Bri- tain, in spite of all their efforts, the Air Force of Britain is now almost equal in strength to Ger many's. And production has not yet begun to low either in Britain or America That time is approaching.
ed from power in an hour, Every mun, woman and child in Bri-
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it needs. We are ready to give Not Britain..
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