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America and Europe
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NYONE who has read the revels- 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
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President Roosevelt's peace plea to Germany and Italy BrC parallel with a similar plea by President Wilson in 1910. Colonel House hos revealed in his Memoirs that this appeal 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 awkward positions a similar genesis; especially when President Roosevelt's appeal is coupled with the sudden ordering of the entire U.S. Fleet to the Pacifle, 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 Pacile it war should come to Europe.
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The United States has a solid Isolationist group which, though placed somewhat at a dlaudvantage by tho knowledge that the Totalitarian threat is not only to Europe, is nevertheless by no means
Apart quiescent.
from Isolationists there are the pacifist and neutrality groups, who are in the some position as the Isolationists in the present erisis. Then again there are the Germanophiles and Italophlies --a not considerable group when it is considered that of the 13,360,000 foreign-born residents of the United States, 1,000,014 are Germans, 1,790,- 420 Italians and. 370,914 Austrians.
What none of these groups realise Is that, as was frankly admitted in the Memoirs of three of America's ablest men of the Great War perlod- President Wilson, Colonel House and Mr. Walter Page (the latter, a violent Anglophile, was war-time Ambus- sador 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 paci fists and the Anglophobes, there is not the slightest doubt but that a war between Democracy, as repre- sented by Britain and France, und Totalitarianism, as represented by Germany, Italy or Japan, will force America on to the side of the former as an active partner. It is interesting to know that the decision to assure an Allied victory in the Great War was made by the United States as early as 1015 and, although America did not enter the war until 1017, iL is a fact, revealed by both President Wilson and Colonel House, that Great Britain was informed as early as 1910 that America would enter on the Allied aide It Britain requested her assistance. The request was never made by Britain; by 1917 public opinion in the United States had be- come so bitter against the Central Powers that American participation became a foregone conclusion.
To what extont public opinion has been revolted by recent aggression in Europe it is hard to estimate, but we
sitting opposite to them, even though he had "boro" written all over him.
"...an occasion for staring at the outside of Buckingham Palace."
-Picture taken during a previous crisis.
How long did he think the public disaster men are more ordinary man feel rather help you have only to go on a Satur- war would last? Were the conscious of their community less and also rather restless: day to any of the great football Germans walking into a trap? than at normal times. They are and he can partly get rid both grounds in any part of England. 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- does not mean that the ordinary their way through England to havoc wrought by a great gale pany of other people. Belgium?
Not, indeed, that even
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mon is indifferent to the crisis, at 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 especially 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 men into the streets. At such I imagine there were thou- 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 The little
man became an sides.
crisis when they read the head- echo-a convincingly mega- I am sure even the public line in their papers: "England's phoned echo-of 'one'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.
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April 18, 1880, "SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS FOR KOBE & YOKOHAMA.—The Steamship "BRECONSHIRE," Captain
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18th April, serious-looking young man ap IBED. HEIGHTENED excite- occasion for going and staring proaching from the opposite The successor to the Breconshire of ment usually seeks at the outside of Buckingham direction with a very serious afty years ago la now under construe- relief in words. Heightened Palace. or No. 10 Downing looking girl on his arm,
tion at the Talkno Dockyards,--Ed.). excitement turna a few men and Street. This gave them a sense
25 YEARS AGO women into-poets. It turns the of being at the very capital of. You would have judged from
"April 18,"1914. rest of the community into the crisis. Here for the mo- his appearance that the war
When the pigs begin to “By" will no talkers.
ment was the centre of the was the one subject of his longer convey quite such a notion of world.
thoughts, but what he was say-pols of thun enjoyed a crowded five Impossibility, for at Hendon recently a
You will always notice that
cold bacon."
Blerlot
the more exciting the occasion I have never myself been able ing to the girl as I passed them minutes of more or less glorious life the easier it is to get into con- to take any satisfaction in stur- was: "I tell you what I like-ilutage of dustmenoplanet, under the versation with strangers. You ing for a long stretch of time are much more likely, for at a familiar building merely I doubt whether human be example, to find yourself talk- because it was sensationally in ings could get through their ing to the stranger who is the news. Thousands of people crises so well if even in critical sitting beside you at the boxing do so, however. match than to find yourself talking to the stranger who is sitting beside you in a bus.
That is because the atmos- phere of a boxing match is as a rule-so much more exciting than the atmosphere of a bus.
The same thing happens ont occasions of accident or disaster. I am sure that thousands of found themselves Londoners talking to strangers as they watched the Crystal Palace blazing.
This may be partly explained by the fact that in presence of
believe that those Americans who have their angers on its diplomatic and political pulse can see the welt- 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 1914-1910: taw Americans admit that It exists to-day.
It is probable that secrecy auc- ceeded in prolonging the Great War, since it is burdly possible that Ger- muny would have ignored the carly efforts at a termination of hostilities had she known that the United States was irrevocably committed to the Allied cause. Similarly, secrecy to- day may lend the prototypes of the militarisis of a quarter of a century ago to acts of daring which may plunge the world into catastrophe, and which might well be averted if they are quite frankly told that aggression will be met with the com- bined, force of all the world's de- mocracies.
Davis was one of hundreds at the naro- dromo recently to see famous skymen perform for the benefit of Marcel De- Bontor, the young Frenchman, who re- cuntly broke ble leg in pursuit of the science of aviation." She had a couple carrying one under each arm, she In of small binek pet ples with her, and.
toduced Intel, who has had doga and cats on his aerial companions before,
times they did not occasionally lot their minds wander Possibly most of them go be thoughts of cold bacon. I am cause they know so many other people will be there. There is ure Dr. Johnson would have nothing like a crowd for draw approved of that young man. ing a crowd.
If you wish to see how the The fact is, a crisis that is ordinary man refuses to allow beyond his control makes the himself to become crisis-ridden,
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to give them a thrilling sensation. They
queaked a little, were photographed
great deal, and amidst laughter from the group surrounding the yellow Bleriot, of they started. and five minutes later down they came quite safely.
The last stage of a great telograpble accomplishment is nearing completion n the cable ship Coloniä makes hor way from Singapore to Hongkong. The vessel is at present well on the way to these shores, laying the cable as she goen, and it is expected that the last plece of cable will be laid down on Wednesday next. Then Hongkong, willi he in direct communication with Europe by submarine cable.
10 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1920. The State Department bas prepared an exhaustivo review of the Monroe Doctrine and its applications, with vlow to working out a new definition! of the famous declaration of Amarican' policy with regard to the American continente.
5 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1934, Germany's explanation of the heavy Increases in her provisions for military purposen is that no rearmament is in volved, the extra' expenditure being for | long-needed replacements. I
The Note addressed by the German Foreign Minister, to the British. Am- bassador in Berlin In the reply to the enquiry regarding the Incronnos in the German naval, milltary and atr estimates, wha presented to the House of Commons by the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, In reply to a question, The Nota etaton that, in regard to the estimates for the aring,, 654.6 million Relchsmarke, which represents an in croase of 172 millions, the "increased expenditure is necessary for the pre- parations due to take place in course of the budget year, for the yonversion of the Relchewehr into a short norvice Army.
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The Budget of the Ale Miniatyy enn- not be regarded, as an armament budget, It consists of a budget for ale traṇa- port and is budget for nie' protection. It is estimated that the expenses for air transport will amount to 100 mil Jon Reichsmarka - ngainst the „previous yenz'a 37 millions. -
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