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America and Europe
AN
\-NYONE who has read the revela-
tions in the war-time memoirs and letters of the late Colonel House, President Wilson's right-hand man who was instrumental in bringing the United States Into the Great War, will see a great similarity in United States policy to-day with that of the period just before America clectared war on Germany,
President Roosevelt's peace plea to Germany and Italy are parnilot with o almilar plea by President
Wilson in 1918. Colonel House has revealed in his Memoirs that this appen) was made at the suggestion of the British Government. It needs no intelligence to see in the week-end move to place Hitler and Mussolini In awleward positions a slallar genesis; especially when President Roosevelt's appeal is coupled with the sudden ordering of the entire U.S. Fleel to the Pacific, a move that can only be interpreted as a U.S. warning to |__-Japan-that_it_will not only be Ameri- can interests that will be protected in the Pacife if war should come to Europe.
sitting opposite to them, even though he had "bore" written all over him.
war
Way People
Crisis
in a
'...an occasion for staring at the outside of Buckingham Palace."
-Picture taken during a previous crisia.
How long did he think the public disaster men aro more ordinary man feel rather help would fast? Were the conscious of their community less and also rather restless: Germans walking into a trap? than at normal times. They are and he can partly get rid both Did he believe it was true that no longer divided into sects and of his sense of helplessness and the Russians had been seen on parties as they witness the of his restlessness in the com- their way through England to havoc wrought by a great gale pany of other people. Belgium?
A
or the devastation of a flooded
you have only to go on a Satur- day to any of the great football grounds in any part of England.
What is to be seen there does not mean that the ordinary man is indifferent to the crisis. Not, indeed, that even ut It merely means that man- Longing for reassurance, the city. For the moment, in their ordinary man felt more certain awe and, no doubt, in their times of crisis the ordinary capecially the ordinary man-..
man's thoughts are preoccupied cannot live by crises alone. in his optimism if it was con- curiosity-they are brothers.
with the crisis during all his firmed by a watery-eyed little
It is this sense of community waking hours. man with a weak chin whose that, at time of crisis, takes opinions in time of peace would
The little man became
one's
R. L.
'Dodie, Let's
Get Married'
I imagine there were thou- men into the streets. At auch not have been thought worth times they feel more at home in sands of Englishmen who for- listening to.
a crowd than at their own fire. got for a few moments that there was such a thing as a an sides.
crisis when they read the head- echo-a convincingly mega- I am sure even the public- line in their phoned echo-of
papers: "England's own houses are
more crowded as Collapse," the reference being, hopes. That was very cheer: the result of the news from of course, to cricket. The or- ing.
Europe. People feel somehow dinary man, even during a Men did not talk more freely that in the loquacious company crisis, has a way of remaining than usual, however, merely in of other people it would be as normal in his interests as the order to confirm their hopes easier to make up their minds crisis will let him. and prove the emptiness of as to what the Government their fears. They talked be- ought to do, or are going to do. cause beneath their surface calm they were more excited than usual,
I REMEMBER during
So they did and here's the story told in Dodie's own way.
New York. THE secret marriage of Miss Dodic Smith, playwright, who wrote "Autumn Crocus," "Ser- vice," and "Call It a Day," and her business manager, Mr. Alce Beesley, was revealed by her friends in New York recently. It is best to tell the story of their war taking a walk on Hamp | romance in the way Miss Smith MANY people even de-
cided that this was an serious-looking young man ap
stead Heath and seeing a very might write it:- excite occasion for going and staring proaching from the opposite ment usually sécks at the outside of Buckingham direction with a very serious- Miss Dodle Smith Is going about her relief in words. Heightened Palace. or No. 10 Downing looking girl on his arm.
talkers.
HE
EIGHTENED
the first month of the
ACT I.
in a toy store in London attractive
the store. business as buyer for Enter Alee Beesley, efficient crisp- excitement turns a few men and Street. This gave them a sense
voiced advertising manager for the women into poets. It turns the of being at the very capital of You would have judged from store. rest_of_the_community........into the crisis. Here for the mo- his appearance that the war They look at each other; they are ment was the centre of the was the one subject of his instantly both interested. They go world.
thoughts, but what he was say-
out together, They become friends. You will always notice that
ing to the girl as I passed them
ACT II. the more exciting the occasion I have never myself been able'
There is the sound of applause It is an- the easier it is to get into con- to take any satisfaction in star was: "I tell you what I like-
from a theatre audience. cold bacon." versation with strangers. You ing for a long stretch of time
other successful first night for play- wright Miss Dodie Smith, the girl are much
I doubt whether human be- who used to buy toys for a store. more likely, for at a familiar building merely example, to find yourself talk- because it was sensationally in ings could get through their Now she has enough money to buy ing to the stranger who is the news. Thousands of people criscs so well if even in critical anything she wants for herself,
"I need a business manager," she sitting beside you at the boxing do so, however.
times they did not occasionally says to Alec Beesley. He who used: match than to find yourself
their minds wander to to be her superior become talking to the stranger who is
let
sitting beside you in a bus. cause they know so many other thoughts of cold bacon. I am employee. ACT III.
Possibly most of them go be. people will be there. There is sure Dr. Johnson would have That is because the atmos- nothing like a crowd for draw. approved of that young man. phere of a boxing match is-as ing a crowd.
If you wish to see how the a rule-so much more exciting The fact is, a crisis that is ordinary man refuses to allow than the atmosphere of a bus. beyond his control makes the himself to become crisis-ridden, pus."
The same thing happens on occasions of accident or disaster.
The United States has a solid Isolationist group which, though placed somewhat at a disadvantage
that by the knowledge
the Totalitarian threat is not only to Europe, is nevertheless by no means quiescent. Apart from the Isolationists there are the pacifist and neutrality groups, who are in the same position as the Isolationists in the present crisis. Then again there ore the Germanophiles and Italophiles -- not inconsiderable group when it Is considered that of the 13,300,000 foreign-born residents of the United States, 1,609,814 are Germans, 1,700,- 420 Italiana and 370,014 Austrians.
What none of these groups realise is that, as was frankly admitted in the Memoirs of three of Amerien's ablest men of the Great War period-watched President Wilson, Colonel House and Mr. Walter Page (the latter, a violent Anglophile, was war-time Ambas-. sndor to the Court of St. James'), a threat to Great Britain or France is a threat to the United States. What- ever may be the Inclinations of that part of the American people repre- sented by the Isolationists, the pack- ists and the Anglophobes, there is doubt but that a not the slightest
war between Democracy, as repre- sented by Britain and France, and Totalitarianism, as represented by Germany, Italy or Japan, will force America an to the side of the former as an active partner. It la interesting to know that the decision to assure an Allied victory in the Great War wns made by the United States ns early as 1915 and, although America did not enter the war until 1917, it is a fact, revealed by both President Wilson and Colonel House, that Great Britain was informed as early as 1916- that America would enter on the Allied side if Britain requested her assistance. The request was never made by Britain; by 1917 public opinion in the United States had be- come so bliter against the Central Powers that American porticipation became a foregone conclusion,
To what extent public opinion has been revolted by recent aggression in" Europe it is hard to estimate, but wo
I am sure that thousands of Londoners found themselves talking to strangers as they the Crystal Palace
blazing.
This may be partly explained by the fact that in presence of
believe that those Americans who have their fingers on its diplomatic and political pulse can see the writ- ing on the wall. Recent events sug- gest that collaboration between Pre- sident Roosevelt and the Democracies In Europe is as close to-day as it was between President Wilson and the Allies, in the early stages of the Great War. Few Americans would admit that such collaboration existed in 1914-1010: few Americans admit that It exists to-day.
It is probable that secrecy suc- ceeded in prolonging the Great War, since it is hardly possible that Ger- many would have ignored the early efforts at a termination of boaßililles had she known that the United States was Irrevocably committed to' 'the Allied cause. Similarly, secrecy to- day may lead the prototypes of the militarista of 'quarter of a century ugo to acta ot' daring which may plunge the world into catastrophie, and which might well be averted it they are quite frankly told that nggression will be met with the com bined force of all the world's do- mocracies,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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"Butch Jones is a holdout this year-Since he moned but the neighbourhood soon't sign a contract to play ball
unicas we pay his catfare over!" !
her
In New York, in cold, crisp March. Miss Dodie Smith, with her Rolls Royce, her, dog, and her business manager, has come for the produc tion of her latest play, "Dear Octo-
The play has a short run; It closes, "Let's get married," says Alec Beesley,
They decide not to tell a soul that married somewhere in they are America."
They leave New York with their dog in the Rolls Royce, and set out on a world-wide honeymoon.
Woman's Cartwheel Hat Holds Up Court
WOATAN'S black, cartwheel brinvited hat, which hid her
f she gave evidence, was commented on, by Mr. Registrar Friend at Clerkenwell County Court, B.C., recently,
"This won't do, you know. I have not only got to hear your evidence, I have also got to see your face and study, your demeanour as you give it.
The registrar said:
"But your hat
your face from me all, view, of
The woman, Miss Majories Mose-- ley, manageress of a public house in Liverpool-rond, London, N., smiled apologetically.
Then the solicitor examining her suggested
Listen to my questions, but keep your eyes on the, registrar.".
That solved the problem, and the case went on.
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