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AN AMERICAN TALKS TO CANADIANS
WAR THE
ABOUT
Mr. LAWRENCE HUNT:
SHALL talk to you to-day simply a plain American citizen, neighbour, and a friend.
AN
"Common-sense as well as Moral sense will demand the end of our Neutrality"
Under the title "An Americun Looks at the Wor," the "Hongkong Telegraph" recently reprinted a letter which had been contributed to the "New York Times" by an American reader, Mr. Lawrence Hunt, It was an outspoken challenge to the isolationists, a searching critic ́nn of America's role as bystander in this war; and it created wide interest both in the United States and lu this country,
One consequence was that Mr. Hunt, who is a lawyer in New York, was invited by the Canadian Club of Toronto to elaborate his views in person as their quest. His speech, delivered on April 22, was broadcast throughout Canada, and the "Hongkong Telegraph" is glad to be able to reproduce it in full for its readers.
of the world, the subversive forces: within America will be vastly streng- thened and our present economie syɛ- tem thereby destroyed.
do
Furthermore, there is a simple- arithmetical fact favouring our entry into the war, The democracies are our best customers; the British Com- monwealth of Nations is by far the largest. Moreover, you and we business in the same way and run our economic systems in pretty much the same manner. There is keen competition among the democracies. but there are also understanding,
our will to think and to act. If the not think or talk or worship or work Communism nsks Jesus of Nazareth, good faith and mutual confidence.
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Amertean neutrality in this war is Hitler's and Stalin's greatest hope...... their very best chance to win. They know it, and they are employing the same technique with us as they have done with others to bare from with-' In, and, with the frantic ald of kin- dred spirits, of railksop Intellectuals und demagogle politielans, to weaken
am convinced that the American as we please with a decent respect for "What have I to do with thee?"
Nothing-nothing at all. But most of business man cherishes those values Nazis and Communists can soften the our fellow man's right to do the same us have something to do with Him, and will not remain neutral as mind and soul of America, if they can Even so, they say, Hfe is worth while Many of our religious leaders have senses the growing danger to them. somehow keep us nervously impotent
the Nazi And the decent, Intelligent labouring If there is any kind of peace. As a already awakened -somehow keep us neutral--they
result, there are many people in Ame- Communist peril to Christianity and men, who have not succumbed to the
to our need to "gled up our loins for polson of Communism, already
realise- might win.
rien to-day who are rushing down righteousness sake."
that thanks to the Communists who knited the German Republle, Hitler So we Americans are, in a certain that Godarene hillside.
A few months ago 33 of the ablest came to power, and thanks again to sense, already in this war. And in
These propagandists also appeal and most honoured leaders of the the Communists, Hitler is now mak- the United States, an on the European
day after day to the geographical Protestant Church bade us forsweat ing his supreme bid to enslave the continent, the Nazi-Communists have
unholy neutrality. From the world. won a temporary advantage in their tradition of security in our physical un
distance from Europe. Millions of Vatican have come words of flaming scorn for the godless deeds of Hiller's Tel. 27778/9 desperate struggle to destroy the way
of life which you and we enjoy and honest Amerleans sincerely belleve in and Stalin's legions Make no mis- ns well as the moral sense, of America
are trying with a that traditlon. They fail to realise take about it. As this war goes on, will finally demond the end cherish. They their might and main to confuse our that an ocean frontier la no barrier and it must if you and we are to minds, to deaden our hearts, and to against the food of poisonous ideas, as free men, one of the great causes of
Christian conscience of America. paralyse our matal driving force. To especially when there are people who our entry into the war will be the
Twenty-five years ago to-day, at Our moral traditions, like yours, their aid have sprung the enemies would gladly open the floodgates.
But many of my fellow-citizens include not only religious faith, but the second battle of Ypres, Canada keep on smugly repeating. "It can't also a basic bellet in the freedom and gave renewed and glorious proof of
the Indiviluni
the fighting qualities of a democracy citizen. happen here," just as some decent dignity of people did in Germany 10 years ago. That belief is so genuine and so deep at war. It is fitting and proper that that we permit Use Catilines in our you should take a just and solemn Let us frankly admit our casualties. They forget that "nothing succeeds midst to abuse our patience and even pride in what you did then. At the moment the Nazi-Communist-like success," and that if Nazi-Com- to advocate the destruction of that Canadians should also be proud' TUE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" propagandists in America are success munism is not crushed in this war our beller. But what the
that it was a Canadian, a graduate of is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to
an America may well be destroyed by propagandiste forget is that Toronto Univeralty, who wrote the Indicate news which is strictly copyrightful. They are now conducting
against the the under the provisions of the Telecommunis
we have fought for that bellef in the barbarians within our borders, past, we'll fight for it again, and we'll it was more than a poem-it was a greatest poem of that war. Indeed,. Dear the indication Up: received in nerve centres of the American people. There are large groups In my country always fight for it so long as we re- message to each and every one of us, cations Ordinance, 1936. Buch Bewas appalling" "blizkriz!"
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mocracy on earth, after eight weeks fury by some of our scribes and of hysterical indecision, finally ap- phurisees, the mob would choose
We Americans know, despite the proved a bill whereby Finland was Barabbas to-day as it did long ago.
frantle falsehoods of our Anglo- loaned a little money to buy, if she
Those are some of the casualties phobes, that this freedom of the in- wished, coffins to bury her dead but
and work and worship by and of our Anglo-Saxon not arms with which to defend her which the Nazi-Communists, their dividual-freedom to think and spenk liberty. So great was the hysteria sceret sympathisers and their in- large, part of Congress that Finland's name did nocent dupes, have Inflicted on us in civilisation-part of the inheritance
from Old England. not even appear in that magnificent, their struggle to destroy our moral which you and
gesture of the American Repubile.
Nazi-Communists, Since then the aked and abetted consciously or un
Abre and our mental integrity. We shall suffer inore casualties because our enemies outside and inside
of
we
have received
Yes, gentlemen, the common-sense,
of our
neutrality.
the fathers, brothers, sons and friends of those who did not fear to die for God and country, and for us, the Bving:
"Take up our quarrel with the foot To you from falling bands we
throw
The torch: be yours to hold it hight" If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies.
Krow In Flanders fields," Well-Canada's conselence'ls clean, You are keeping faith."""
The Nazi-Communist propagandists In America have taken their que, of My final word to you to-day-and course, from. Adolf Hitler and are no matter what happens, don't forget consciously by our isolationists, have, Amckca are powerful, cunning, and concentrating some of their heaviest it my haal word is simply this: In mocked at England and France be- utterly unscrupulous in taking ad- fire on Great Britain. It is an attack our own time and in our own way.
their source.
If Great Britain is America-your neighbours and your destroyed, the other democracies in friends-we also will keep the faith.. cause they did not send a large army vantake of our Anglo-Saxon tradi- on the Engilsh-speaking peoples at the people of the United States of to Finland's sid, which, na the Finnish tons of tolerance and fair play.
the British Commonwealth of Nations lenders have said, Norway
can be conquered, and America will then be isointed and ruined within Sweden would not permit.
her own borders.
and
Well, I'll bet on Britain.
20,000,000
"All our past proclaims our future: IN BRITAIN.
"Shakespeare's voice and Nelson's
hand,
Milton's faith and Wordsworth's trust in this our chosen and chainless land,
Bear us witness: come the world)
against her,
England yet shall stand." But, for our own sake, we Ameri-
ARE BOOK
READERS
--Gallup Survey
☆ These are grim days in my coun. The result of these portentous There have been other casualties.
that the deliberations is that all mar- When the Nazis shot schoolboys in try. And yet, I believe
I am placing my bets-and garine for the table will contain Prague as an example to other child- United States will eventually enter
ren, when they murdered Catholic this war. vitamins A and D in the same priests and tortured and enslaved the advise you to do the same on the quantity as its rationed rival, inhabitants of Poland, when they moral traditions and the common-
threatened the same treatment to the sense of the American people. Margarine will thus enter upon;
and of Norway helpless people.
We live, like you, under a demo- the "super" stage of its career: Sweden if they permitted an Allied
price of democracy is high and in Cinderella will go to the ball. army to aid Finland, there were, here Tatic system of government. The and there, nervous whispers of re- be no gret. But when the British navy de- cludes for us to-day all those casual cans cannot risk our future on the
their THE reading habits of looking backward. In time, no layed our ships several hours, as it ties I have mentioned. Doubt, de- belling chances of others. The Nazl- isolationist dupes are counting doubt, butter will come to be had a right to do under international liberation and delay are part of the Communist propagandists and
law, some of our colurenists and Con- democratic process. That has meant, heavily on these little family spats the public-a subject on and will mean again, terrible, waste and irritations which have enlivened which there is singularly looked upon nx a margarine.
and inefficiency. Good citizens are the 125 years of pence in a little data-have been inves- substitute, and a pour one ut
willing to pay that price, steep as it American relations. It is
most of us Americans
of Beltin that.
is, because they have faith in the S
ancestry do not loudly boast of our tigated by interviewers of Judgments
Institute moral
heritage. We have gindly shared our the British ultimate
Anglo-Saxon traditions of equal Public Opinion. justice and ordered liberty with many decisions of a free people.
ne peoples who came from other lands enger to enjoy our spiritual inheritance and our economic op. portunilles.
This is a blow to the cows of
gressmen shrieked with rage.
war,
true that
of
First, the interviewers asked the question, "Do you find time to read books?"
►
Yes, the Nazi-Communist "blik- the British Commonwealth, who reg" on American nerves has been so successful that, in fear of itler
During these dark days, we in have been conscientiously doing and of having to do anything to check America are slowly-very slowly but their duty. The scientific gen-his barbarians, the Congress of the very surely-forming our judgments tleman called Ersatz has given United States hauled down the Ames and reaching our decisions about our
Of the representative .cross- Those traditions are part of the rican flag over a great part of the
very fabric of our nation Magna section of the adult public (over them all crumpled horns. Their waters of the world. To his lasting Part in the war. There will be many
reasons why We shall eventually Carta, the common law, the Bill or 21 years of age) questioned, 62 well-known placid dignity on honour, the greatest statesman in the enter this war, as there were many Rights, the King James Bible, per cent., representative of some which not even the Great Hee. American Senute, Carter Glass, of reasons for our entry into the last Shakespeare and Dickens they are 19,840,000 people, said they read
Virginia, denounced this action as tak-
Let us calmly take stock of the the staples of our mental and spiritual books.
life. When Amerlea's hour of decia- Haw of Hamburch (as he callsing the United States "to the verge present situation.
lon is at hand, Magna Carta, not Mein
The remaining 38 per cent., repre- it) has hitherto had effect, can of poltroonism" and as dishonouring
To begin with, the moral Instincts Kampf, the King Jameas Bible,, notsenting some 12,160,000 people, said
they never read books. our World War dead.
Karl Marx, will triumph. scarcely be expected to stand
of the American people are in sound
The Young Read Most Many of our muddy-thinking Isola- condition. The vast majority of us Our worldly-wise friends tell us, the strain.
religion,
The Interviewera discovered that: But surely, if a thing is worth tionist politicians and pseudo-intel- want you to win. We despise Hitler however, that although
tradition and sentiment will greatly. Men outnumber women as readers doing it is worth doing-even leetunts who, quite unconsciously, are and Stalin and all they stand for. influence us, yet there must also be by a margin of 4 per cent,
frantically fighting the battles of They have outraged both our morals "hard-bolled," business-like reasons Young people outnumber middle- in wartime. Why stop at the Hitler and Stalin inside America, tell and our economics. We regard them for America's entry into the war. aked people by a margin of 12 per same quantity of vitamins as is the embattled democracles: "We
as "big time" gangsters. Naturally. All right. Let's see what they are. cent., to be found in butter? Why really do hope and pray that you win we hope you can put them down fo not twice the quantity? And so that we won't have to fight alone short order. But if you can't then, why not also add the vitamins same day. It would be a horrible for our own peace and safety, we which butter has not thus far world for us if the Nazlo and Com- must lend a hand!
munists win. God bless you, No, we won't lend you a nickel. But God
destruction of the Christian religion. headed business men and to Our
35 per cent. sald from a public library.
20 per cent. sold from a 2d, shop- library:
0 per cent, sald from a subscrip- tion library.
and middle-aged people out- number elderly people (50 and over) by 10 per cent.
Seventy-nve per cent, of people in the higher income group read books If Hiller and Stalin win this war, as compared with 58 per cent, in the American business and American lower income group. The saber-minded people of labour will go down in common ruin. In reply to a question as to how been able to boast?
came by the Just book they A great opportunity has been bless you, and to show how we feel America are gradually coming to It took the Russo-German alliance, they
tho
partition of Poland and the inva- rend: missed. Britain's super-"marge" about it, we'll give you lots and lots realise that one of the chief objectives sion of Finland and Scandinavia to might have been made super- of moral support now and loads of of the Nazi-Communist alliance is the drive home to many of our hard-
advice if you win." plus, which surely would have
Hitler and Stalin have shown by their idealistic libernis that the object gone far towards winning the A large number of very nice, well words and even more by their deeds and the methods of Nazi
and Bolshevik Russia are practically that that they have delermined on a identical. Those objectives include war. For while the enemy was
meaning people Indulge in
are ro second crucifixion which, with Prus destruction of what Hitler calls the hysterical nonsense. They stupidly stufling his guns with miniscent of the man who set
out slan thoroughness, will be so complete "pluto-democracies." The Nazi lea- all the butter he could com- to make a fortune by manufacturing that there will be no danger to them ders have recently used the very
of another resurrection.
words of their Soviot ally and are mandeer, we should have been pills to cure earthquakes.
Nenrly twice as many men trying to delude and ensmore. our galvanising ourselves
Despite the scribblings of our liter- inbour groups with the old cry, women buy books, but nearly twice ... One of the most insidious and ary scoffers, we Americans are a re-workers of the world, unite!"" super-margaring enough to make effective tricks of bur Nazi-Com- ligious people and, by and large, a
as many women; as men patronlyo 24. shop libraries, 118 supermen and superwomen. munist and peace-at-any-prico pro- Christian nation, Creeds and dogming We know their methods. And we'
The comparatively high percentage- It is not too late. As the war pagandists is to portray vividly the mean less than they once did, but know, too, Hiller's betrayal of bus of people who said they bought books. is still young, one confidently horrors of war and then tell us that the faith by which we ilvo. The I think that, as this war goes on, both conclusion that some of those ques
Christian principles are the basis of ness and Stalin's betrayal of labour: (15 per cent.) led Interviewers to the commends the idea to those in peace. That is, we can eat and steep Christianity are part of our daily can labour leaders will realise that if periodicals in their definition of a if we simply submit we can have prayers and hymns and precepts of American business men and Ameri- tioned included magazines and: authority.
and do na we are told. True, we con- living. The unclean spirit of Nazl- Nazi-Communism dominates the rest book, 25;
with
21 per cent. borrowed last book: they rend.
15 per cont. bought it.
Men Buy Mast
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