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ROOSEVELT
AMERICA'S FOREIGN POLICY
By A Diplomatic Correspondent
CORDELL HULL
States by two young Washing, holder or tapping the cable telling larly in the post-war settlement. the approach of world catas- (Sumner Welles.) They therefore
ton newspapermen, Joseph Al- of
trophe."
have the right to Intervene, at on But for all its light touch "Amerd-
appropriate time, in behalf of 红 Whille Paper" is serious world return to common sense.
searching document. Nor is its title
so misleading after all, for careful "3. While no political commit- We are accustomed to thinking of study of it reveals that its authors' ments
a stable
AT no time perhaps in the
whole history of this sop and Robert Kintner. It has
ly-"American White Paper." Country has there been been titled-a little misleading can graver need for its leaders
may be made outsida the and its people to understand "white papers" as State documents, must have had access to much Inside Western Hemisphere, economic com- clearly the principles and ary, precise, more than a little dull. knowledge, so much that one won- mitments, looking towards policies which are guiding "American White Paper" is, by con- ders if its publication did not have, world economy, are both permissible. bright and if not official inspiration, at least and necessary. These ccquemic the
commitments, Government of the trust, Journalistically
which muy breezy. It describes, for instance, offcial blessing.
considerable short-term sacrifices by United States in its relations the breakfast-time conferences on
At any rate they give a clear and the United States and other neutrals. with other countries, par- foreign affairs between Roosevelt,
Hull and Welles in the President's demonstrably authentic picture of will be the belligerents' reward for ticularly with those Europe bedroom. which Roosevell in bed, American policy towards the Second accepting the neutrals intervention. an countries now at war,
galast his pillows, World War were evolved against "1. Since victorious dictatorships
"comfortable
on the
remains of tray across
his
his
"
these sessions
how the principles underlying
entail
with the morning papers in a tangle the opposing pressures of events would not conceivably join in dis-. Upon what the United States beside him, would start by read- and those who guide its foreign ing a few sentences from the cable abroad and internal polities by the armament and an opening of trade, policy's formulaters, the President the democracies are to be aided by policy can, may or will do dur- lying, among the
chiefly, ussisted by his Secretary of 'methods short of wor.' ing the coming weeks and breakfast
State, "good grey Cordell Hull," and the two Under-Secretaries, Summer.
"3. "Whatever happens, we won't send
broad." troops Welles and Adolph Berle, jun.
(President Roosevell.). But this appears to be the only definite limitation on the kinds nt ald for the democracles like an expensive with red braid,
'Only by disarmament and un which methods short of war can be the United States and all the summer horse-blanket. When the opening of trade can the world re- stretched to include." Americas whose protection is
months of this desperate sum knees. mer may depend the eventual victory or defeat of the Allies. wear a peculiar amall cope of blue
"For
tu he used
These principles the authors sum
(On that, again, may, of course, flannel trimmed and monogrammed marise as follows! depend the future security of
1.
discussion grew serious the cape turn to common sense. (President
the responsibility of the United would slip off his Pyjamaed Roosevelt,) States. But that is another shoulder, story.)
The Good Work Continues
American public opinion-thej Now that the attention of the final limiting check on both world is being directed towards the American foreign and domestic daily und almost continuous air policy-is moving rapidly. How raids by German planes on Britain, it moves depends on events in the nightly raids by the R.A.F. over | Europe, on what is done und Germany and German occupied ter-said by the leaders and peoples ritories are perhaps in danger of of the countries at war. In the being overlooked.
The immense value of these raids carried out persistently and regularly lavery vital factor in the ultimate victory of Great Britain, ned Ger- many knowing this, is desperately endeavouring by false figures and exaggerated statements to hide from her people and from the world gen- erally what is happening.
What
present highly sensitised state of American opinion, a clumsy word or act, perhaps spoken or done in all good faith but in ignorance of American aims and ideals, night do irreparable harm.
ΑΝ
N informal and un- official survey of the growth and trends of American)
is exactly taking place? foreign policy since Munich Every night for the past two months switched its current from nega-i when weather conditions permitted, tive to positive has recently: R.A.F. bombers and fighters have been published in the United been attacking Germany's vital in- dustries as well as military objec- tives in German occupied territory. Norway, was to all intents and pur- poses destroyed, so that the German The success of these attacks was Fuchter to-day has to depend almost raude possible by the reconnaissance entirely upon the aid of his air force flights carried out during the past i conquering Britain. Every t eight months which famillarised the deation of inferiority-Indications which have been greatly in evidence pilots with the terrain. While it is Wa
during the past week helps to Impossible to give details of the
strengthen the spirits of the dumage done, the R.A.F. pilots who quered peoples and must at the same) are, Incidentally, told not to unload time tend to dampen the ardo of their bombs it visibility is unfavour- his friends.
able, have dropped 32,000 bombs as against the German 1,000 over Britain.
Each R.A.F. bomb has been direct- ed ́against · milltary or Industrial points, whereas the German raiders anlond their bombs apparently, with- out any particular objective, bombs falling in open felds or on civilian houses or villages.
That the damage done by the R.A.F. is extremely, serlous is shown by the fact that, according to neutrali observers, the bigger Industrial works in the Ruhr ure to be moved piece- meal to safer places in or near Czecho-Slovakin. This step, which must inevitably dislocate the output for many weeks, would naturally not be undertaken ut. aime like this II necessity did not call, for it. The part of Hamburg has been described by neutral observers as "devasted"; oll plants at Hanover have been set on fire as well as numerous military and industrial centres in other parts destroyed or badly damaged.
As the "New York Times" recently stated: "There has been no persis- tent German attack comparable to the relentless British hummering of great rallway yards in the Ruhr and Rhineland and no sign of serious in- terruption of British aircraft produc- Lion."
Germany's efforts to disguise the truth from her people by minimising her losses and exaggerating those of Great Britain are undertaken, not only to stiffen the morale of their own population, but to restrain any attempt on the part of the 'occupied torritaries to free themselves, from an unbearable yoke. The Germant navy with: Hitler's mad invasion of
con-
FUNNY SIDE UP
DEAN
THE authors show how the
for he would Besture 2. Neutrals are parties at in- energetically, waving his cigarette terest in a modern war, and particu- have applied those principles to the
'La Libre Belgique
"A GERMAN enleer now edita ilie Brussels paper Soir." And no we learn that another eight million people, after the swift" horror of Goering's bombs. are to be blad
coned and drugged by Goebbels. Or has a new La Libre Belgique ulready appeared? We may not know for a long time.
Last time the technique was less eelent: for a while Belgian pa- pers maintained some Indepen ilence, but the grip lightened and there was no news but rumaur and propaganda. And La Libre Belgi
was born on February 1.
que
1015,
A may tile paper, tally an- nouncing that
appearance would be "regularly irregular," ile telephone number that of Die Ger- man Kommandantur, 1. gave news of the world outside the German pale, of the Belgian Army Oghting the invaders, of the might that was ranging self against the enemy, made fun of the German adintais- tration and brought comfort and news of their country into thou- and of telgian homes isolated by the blackout of occupation.
let, uuted and proscribed continued publication throughout the war; the hundred and seventy- fest number appeared on Novem- ber 12, 1018. The men who pro- duced it were not professional con- spirators, but doctors, teachers, prtenis, clerks, printers and so on. They improviseil out of the quiet
By Abner Dean
* Der 1999 by Canted Fankpro Bylitésta, Ka
The
"What type doos your husband like, Madam?
sníckor or, the belly-laugh?”.
their
unadventurous
of routine lives stratagem and Ingenuity greater than any criminal achieves. Copy was smuggled out of gaol, printing presses
transferred from one building to another under the
German eyes of
troops. After months of patient work the kerret pollen arrested the whole staff, the paper was finally suppressed.
Yet 12 days later a new issue lay
on the desk of Brussels' German Governor and no one knew whence I came, only that La Libre Belgi- que conilnued. But all the ingenul-
·ly and courage which went to pro- duce the paper would have served for nothing if it had not been for the hundreds of distributers who filtered every lane throughout the country. Thny worked alone and in constani dangeri esught another look his рідес. They were ordinary people, the common people, who kept alive hope and bellef in a freedom and Iberty of which perhaps, they
an ona WAR
President and his aldes
day-to-day relations of the United States to the warring Powers, and the efforts they have made, within the framework of those principles, to work for peace and the preven tion of the spread of war.
for
They also show-and this is vital Information
those unfamiliar with the workings of the U.S. governmental machinery-how the President is limited in the forms those efforts can take by the Con- stitutional and political checks on the Presidential power.
A French diplomat who spent many years in Washington was fond of saying that at least once a month in his reports to his Foreign Minis- ter he had to use the phrase: "Le President proposed, is Senat dis- pose."
THE
THE President and his State Department may make the
had-never-been-conscious-till-it-foreign-polley-of-the-United States.
was taken from them.
In many countries to-day there are thousands who fight the same appression grown ever more ruth- less; unknown, soillary and with but one certainly-förture and death when they are caught. The story of La Libre Belgique showk the immense reserves which free- dom and berly build and against which an tyranny can prevail.
.D.S.M.
Strengths
But the Senate, representing the people of the Unlied States, decides whether or not he may carry it out. Public opinion, as expressed through the Senators, is the Anal arbiter, How and why that is so Is. for us, perhaps, the mosi Important and valuable instruction the authors of American White Paper" have given.
Of The
Belligerent Navies
Gt. Britain Germany
& Italy
21
10
80
30
11
2
100
· 160 (7)
03
104 (2)
35
121 ·(7)
Battleships
Cruisers (Heavy and Light)
Aircraft carriers
Destroyers
Submarines
Various smaller
craft, including
highspeed motor torpedo boatş.........
AT the present time Germany can probably munter the following ship: Four 35,000 tons, two 20,000 tona, armed respectively with 16in. and in. guns, and the notorious pocket battleships Deutschland and Admiral Scheer,
Shortly after the war began ahe was completing two large aircraft carriers of nearly
20,000 tons of high speed and strongly protected, and also supposed to carry 40 alr craft, I was assumed that these veisala wore designed mainly for commerce raiding, though nothing has been heard of them up to now omotally.
She
10,000-tom also has four heavy cruisers mounting sin, gone and two or four, so-called light erulser claas are the Nuremberg and Leipzig and four approximate- ly sister ships averaging 0,000 tomu, all of which aro armed with fin 處烈烈挥。
Germany began the war with 20 heavy destroyers, but at least right of these were smashed up at, Nar vik or elsewhere. Of her, originat 10 destroyers so many have been fost that it would be idle to com- pute her present total, she had in ^, Che beginning about 40 to 60 high- spard motor-boats but how many of these survive, is still a puzzle,
On the · autbreak of war. Ger. “ many had about. To submarines of various sizes and types, but... so
heavy were casualties in the Brai three mantha that it is estimated that the last 40 to 50 per cent, of hey bonte, with the result that in spite of intensive construction sho t stili probably weaker in sub- marine sirengil' than she was len months ago.
Italy's main strength at sea re- sides, or shortly will reside, in eight battleships, of which four are now and of. 35,000 tona with a speed of 30 knols, a main armament of nine 15. gus and very heavy, prolec tion.
It is claimed thint thene ships will be the latest and most emelont battleships in the world, and, ax- cept Homa thele names commemor- ate the alleged great victories in Italy of the last war,
Her other four battleships were laid down before the last war and although thoroughly, modernised cannot be compared in fighting power with their: four later aiziers, Besides these heavyweight. Laly has four Well-KSTRAUrad - oruiseTS mounting Bin.guns, whlol I have visited, and found excellent · ships, This, Indeed, might be said el erül- ser construction la generat,:: for which flaly: does seem to: likvaa rening - Taken in all, the Halian: cratser feet, boavy and tight, num. berete and undoubtedly repra senta a force to be reckoned with, well butit and well equipped.
HECTOR BYWATER