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SHARP. To Winifred, wife of W. Sharp, at Victoria, B.C., a non un 20th September, 1940. Both
well
The
At last
September 23, 1940.
even U.S. Middle West says
HIM NOW
STOP
by C. V. R. Thompson|
Special New York Reporter
hot mid-Western Kansas, the bread- basket of Amerien, they used to regard a New Yorker as a foreigner, England as a coun- try that welshed ita war debts, Adolf Hitler as a nebulous bogey man.
They suspected Roosevelt of thinking up plans to save his New Deal, Kansas, plumb in the middle of the American Continent, untouched by internationalism, unthreatened from cast or west, used to be rabidly isolationists.
At the beginning of the war Kansas news. papers refused to concede to America even enough interest in Great War Number Two to read about it, and resisted giving it more than one column of news.
MORE sensational than the content of that advertisement was the fact that the chairman of the committee was none other than William Allen White, first citizen of isolationist Kansas. From his editor's chair in small Emporia in Kansas, White had pounded out "America for Americans" editorials for as long as most people could re- member. Now he, and presumably most of the State from which he sprang, was virtually inter- ventionists.
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of William Allen White, endor- sod his committeo's work.
MORE than two million names were collected for a petition urging the fullest possible aid to the Aliler. All kinds of names-bankers and
actresses, writers and commercial. travellers, housewives and farmers.
In the hectic days before the fall. of Franco those signatories showered. American Congressmen with de- mands to stop Hiller now. They helped to bring America's public temperature
to such a height that one untoward incident would have brought the United States to war. But that is not primarily the alm of William Allen White's committer.' His plans are openly selfish. If it is possible, he would like the Allies tu pull America's chestnuts out of the fire, with America supplying all the tongs that are necessary. Only if the Allies were in danger of de- feat would he approve of Amerien going directly into the war.
After
the defeat of Fronce the Committee for Defending America by Aiding the Allies went into momentary declino. Isolationists, sering a new danger of America being dragged into the war to res cue England from what they thought Was Immediate defeat, began to hint at the possible appeasement of Adolf Hitler.
There was talk, a lot of it fortered
nnmds Colonel Julius Ocha by German agents and out-and-out Adler, of, the New York Times, German sympathisers, like Senator ("I'd better help them and actress Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Reynolds, that England was as good as beaten, and what was Colonel Henry Breckinridge, the
ЦБС of sending her any more adviser of Isolationist Colonel help?
William Allen White Christian Lindbergh, and author LouİR
his
campaign; Now Bromfield, educator Dr. Nicho- tinued
committee considers it more impor- las Murray Butler and socialite tont than ever to help Britain. So Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich.
To Americans elsewhere this ************* brought home the change that had come over American senti- ments since the old days of last autumn, when they were talk- war." ing about n "phoney White became convinced that America's first line of defence was on the Rhine after his son,
the
-cartoon from
Science Monitor, Boston,
Thongkong Telegraph energetic William C. White, re- and
Monday, September 23, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE prefix "pectal to the Telegraph la mied by this "Hongkong Telegraph" t Indicata new, which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936. Buch DEWI DI brats the indicatión "Up" te received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the Untied Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and torkid repubication, either wholly or in part without previens strangement
Aircraft Production
Speculation as to whether Hitler will or will not attempt to invade Britain this nutumn is still world" wide, but each day that fails to pro- duce what he unce entled his "Blz- constant krieg". indicates that the Lombing by the R.A.F. of Germany's productive and supply ventres is de- Anitely hampering the execution of his plane
22
But
does the rest of America.
con-
his
and British determination
Lo wrote telegrama
In three hundred and nine- THE British seizure of the French Lurned from Europe, White hundred prominent Americans teen cities, suburbs, towns and Fleet, the British defeat of Gennon junior watched Finland fall, asking that aid be sent im- villages throughout America bombing squadrons, Belilah aggres toured Germany, Italy. France, mediately to the Allies. Colonel local chapters were formed; siveness and England. He came home Frank Knox printed the appeal cheques, gifts and offers of help have suddenly taken hold of Ameri-
cun Imagination. Robert Sherwood convinced that Adolf Hitler was prominently in his Chicago news. poured in.
A week ago you would have heard bent not
went around theatres, and in a hardly ane American in a hundred on the conquest of paper.
who Europe but the conquest of the The response was immediate few days collected enough to would give you even money
and enthusiastic. A committee finance that sensational adver- that England could win world.
different story. Now it is quite a Early in June William Allen was formed. It was a strange tisement, President Roosevelt, Confidence la returning. Bays the White sat down to his worn desk assortment of famous American traditionally the political enemy Sage of Kansas,
OUR WILL
TURN
COME
THOSE who know something of our leading military personnel find reassurance in the fact that two practical and comparatively young sol- himself as convinced that Germany diers now hold the vital Army commands.
Opinion a to his next move, in divided Mr Churchilli expressed
must make an attempt lo invade
now
Some of the more optimistic
feel that he has already made an attempt but failed, while others de- clure that the German Fuehrer is only awolting the fullment of cer- lain plans which promise more hope of a successful javusion than the high tides and the full moon of o few days agʊ. On the other hand Hiller's attacks on the civilian popu- lation of Britain are a somewhat costly method of approach. They cannot lead to a victory for the Get- man Air Force but are, on the con- irory, reducing itler's striking power very considerably. Germany's air fleet a few weeks ago was con- sidered to be numerically stronger than that of Britain's but the daily high percentage of losses must have very considerably lessened whatever Snp existed. Experience has
Higher
General Sir John Dill is Chief ing as a responsible
Com- distinguished British of the Imperial General Staff, mand. This and General Sir Alan Brooke is officer dubbed the Maginat from the start "the tomb-stone of France," Commander-in-Chief of our and polsted out that what was home forces.
nowadays essential for any realistic military purpose was no static but Curiously enough both these uffl- mobile fortification. cers, on whom such a supreme re- sponsibility now rests, are Ulster- The mentality that literally put men. No Бреста significance 1- its military shirt on the Maginot Line Laches to this coincidence. except is comparable with that which perhaps that Northern Ireland has a agitated, after the aeroplane became
achievemeal, Cromwellian Aghting tradition and practical
for its rather grin environment tends to Channel tunnel produce realists.
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Major-General Fuller puts his sen-
And it is realists we certainly want sitive finger an another anachronismI. in the present emergency. People We have motorised our artillery in- who not only look but think back- stead of mechanising it. In other wards, whether they are statesmen words, tank artillery is what modem or soldiers, are fatal encumbrances in conditions of warfare, as exploited by a highly mechanised epoch of rapidly the Germons. ΠΟΥ demand. We changing circumstance. strange may assume that, after witnessing
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fact is the way in which the warn what happened in France, our mill- aling voices of up-to-date authorities tary experts are getting into line as shown. that the quality of the British have been persistently ignored in the quickly as may be with up-to-date machine, especially the fighters, is immediate past.
superior. The limitations imposed
by the supply of aviation spirit. | “Tombstone of France”
lubricating oll and trained plots
also work in Britain's favour, but the most important factor of all in nertal warfare is the rate of produc- tion of new aircraft.
No secret is more closely guarded than this, but it has been calculated trom facts known that the current production of the German and Ita- İlan aircraft factories cannot be in excess of 2,000 acroplanes a month. Some expansion could undoubtedly be achieved but Germany and Italy will experience great difcuity, hom- pered by British bombing, to, in crease their output above 3,000 a
future.
Tacta.
The Army has always been, how-
ever, in almost every country, the
If the French General Staff had most conservative, even reactionary,
ziven a moment's serious attention of all services. Napoleon, as GBS.
FUNNY SIDE UP
TATTOOS
POND ON
PREMISES PROF. GULCH
the war.
By Abner Dean
"I want you to add a convoy!"
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ABNER DEAN
6.10
distinctly dis- even the Danes are liking this state
about Leben
to Major-General J. F. C. Fuller's has pointed out quite truthfully, won Island, I shall be criticisms on the Maginot Line, writ- his historic victories largely because, appointed if he does not come up to of Nordic subjection?
We have only to launch a reason- ten when those expensive and purely whilst the military pedents opposed scratch. It will be a picnic that will ornamental fortifications were first to him held up hands of horror, he help tremendously to relieve Hitler's
ably hopeful and determined offen- begun, they might still be function- did not scruple to put his infantry constant anxiety
sive against Germany, almost any into carts in order to move them sraum.".
where, and the strain on all those quickly and secure the invaluable
Actually one finds very few intelli- Cerman armies of occupation wit cance than the actual figures would strategle naset of surprise.
gent people, whether in or out of become intolerable. suggest.
uniform, who believe, a German in-
At the beginning of the wal Britain ordered 11,000 acroplane. from the United States. Some 3,000
Smash-and-Grab
envisage
coast.
and
Once there are signs of Germany
haps beaten, it will be strange Indeed
if there is not some exemplary Ger-
vasion to be practicable. Even if Against the Grain We still have military experts who Germany had absolute command of have been delivered. A large pro-write portentously apropos Hitler's the sea and the air, which is very month at any time in the foreseeable nortion of these were trainers, but retarded invasion of this island, of far from being the case, it would be being well held, and eventually per-
the a terrifically hazardous enterprise. milltary aircraft is now being "bridgeheads." They
de- In aviation circles, British produc-vered in appreciable quantities and Germans, by some hovel device or What one does encounter is a con- man throat-cutting in many seething. tion
is now placed at roughly 1,800
at any rate in more than sufficient trick, securing a foothold at one or siderable dublety regarding the centres of hatred for Nazism... however, is a month. Production expanding fast and Lord Beaver- numbers to cover any gap between more positions on our
Some If not all of the peoples now. British and the Axis production. thereafter proceeding to reinforce chances of our carrying the fight to brook, Minister for Aircraft Produc-
Britain's first arder for 11,000 those devoted storm-troop divisions Germany. That attitude. strikes me under the German jackboot will be
is being quite unintelligent. tion, has been able to clear away
emulating the grim record of the bottlenecks which were impeding aeroplanes was however a mild one in the traditional classic
Every one of Germany's Blitzkrieg Sicilian Vespers before long. Not so compared to those sent later which, Just as we did with our BEF. in
Whereas successes so far, and not least the long as Germany seems to stand as Mr. Morgenthau, the U.S. Beere 1914 B.C. Pardon-A.D. tary to the Treasury, announced, nothing can be more certain than over-running of France, owed more triumphant perhaps, but the moment total 72,000 aeroplanes to be dell that, if and when the Germans at to Fifth-Columnism than to actual the brutal Frankenstein monster be- gins to show signs of clay foot und vered at 3,000 a month. This figure tempt an invasion of this impregna military puissance."
to totter a bit on his pedestal. Such cannot of course, be reached im- ble Island, it will be on the smash
Has it occurred to anyone how a domination, as" Hitler (hús, man-
the productive effort. But this le not the whole of the facts. Supplies from the United States and Canada are increasing. The latest telegram from Washington states that Britain is now receiving aeroplanes at the rate of 500 a month.
Tho
those of production 10
manner.
mediately, but even at this stage and-grab lines which so utterly de peculiarly open to Fifth-Column de- ocurred, chiefly by following the old
lightning drive ily is there, if we have the nous to and human naturetion to
rupplies are coming in well. The moralised France. industrial implications of this vast Hitler's Higher Command, if it moralisation Hitler's present position Roman maxir of "Divide to rule," is of double impor programme are tremendous, but the seriously contemplates invading us, obviously is. An inviting opportun is dead against the grain of history tance for they are invulnerable to
United States is standing squarely will, budget for a
Hitler's Intest
the attack from the air. In the light of behind the plan, regarding it as an right, through to our vital centres, grasp it effectually Germany at the present day experiences it is perfect essential part of America's national There will be no worrying over moment in holding down more than Reichstag, with its significant omis
gion Pof ̧ any reference to President ly possible to imagine a state of af defence. This support, not to men- "bridgeheads, otherwise thaus as an half Europe by military occupation
backed by Gestapo methods.
Roosevelt's rousing; ¡, comments on fairs in which British bombing could tion the assistance given by the Em-immediate jumping-off place. reduce German and Itallan output by pire generally, combined with
Does anyone cherish any delusion despotism, seems to me to betray the some faint paranolac glimmerings of regarding the feelings of overawed allen peoples concerned? the Immutable truth, Hillerism
left in the same way German bomb- Hitler's initial failure to defeat the The Gestapo's Grip ing could reduce British output. R.A.F. must be a source of great Supplies from North America are comfort to Londoners in their dery Having seen something of prepara-Do you imagine the Poles, the Dutch, may yet perish of a surfeit of inter- therefore, of even greater signif" ordeni.
tors for welcoming Jerry" to this the Belgians, the Norwegians, or national brigandage.