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FINANCE AND WAR
THE task of national finance in wartime, declared. Dr Brinley Thomas, Canadian economic ex-
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nothing is decided on financial grounds unly. Such a statement will come as a shock to folk to whom finance is the
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be-all and end-all of existence. But the truth of it should be
obvious. If it is not, this war is making it obvious.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WILLKIE
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BRITAIN
And if he now told the nation he was leading them into the risk of imminent war, his opponents could claim he had taken that immense risk, on an interpretation of Britain's plight which even Britain herself did not share. This, it seems to me, is the reason everyone is seeking
when why the President holds back
University presidents, his former presidential rival, his own Party leaders and the Secretaries of the Army and Navy virtually appeal for American convoys.
Lindbergh-..
It should be understood by Britons that there are
FOR many Americans who, for one reason and another,
are determined not to run the risk of war, this is the several million Americans who will listen to anybody who will promise them peace and independence at the same rallying time.
time.
When any distinguished man tries to persuade them that America faces only disagreeable alternatives, they win the crucial debating point by asking one question.
It is this: "If Britain says she cannot lose without us, why should we put our necks in a noise?”
I don't know what the British answer is to this chal- lenge, but it has now become the test question of British policy in the United States.
Premier Menzies, of Australia, roundly pronounced, "Britain cannot lose.
"We Will Win"
When Lord Halifax was asked in New York not long ago what Britain would do if American help did not come fast enough, he promptly replied:—
"The war will take longer, but you need not think that in any circumstances we are going to lose, because we are not.
"If we have to fight for twenty years, we will win the war."
This brave retort drew a warm sigh of relief from the British correspondents present. But many Americans are unconvinced.
Americans may be forgiven for thinking there are circumstances which could lose the war for Britain.
Facts, Please!
Say, for instance, the total destruction of British ship- yards, since this war has produced a new and special threat to Britain's sea power, namely, a threat to ships in dock.
But Americans don't enjoy thinking up these circum- stances any more than you do.
The Economist of Londori, Britain's sober but progressive | tion. economic journal, stated the proposition in somewhat similar language in a recent issue:
They simply want to know the facts of Britain's posi-
They want to know if Britain is desperate or merely uncomfortable.
Their own pro-British leaders say, "Britain will fall without us." Whereupon their doubting audience replies, "Is that so? That's not what the British say.'
"
- "In ̄war" economics, money can be said to have two main fune- tions, one negative, the other
It is a difficult and embarrassing dilemma for British positive. Roth are of secondary diplomacy. But worse ailments can afflict a nation than importance to the real physical the indigestion that comes from swallowed pride. problems of mobilizing men and materials, which are the true substance of war economics.
"The negative function of money is to avoid impeding the solution of these physical prob- lems; the task of finance in war
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And right now the conversion of many active and doubting millions to the British side depends on somebody in Britain having courage to say the word.
Silent Head
Certainly if there is one man in America who must hunger for that word it is President Roosevelt.
They want to keep American standards of living and arguing. And they want to square posterity at the same time.
In the last few months, a powerful voice has been lifted to cheer them. The name is Lindbergh.
To belittle him does mischievous harm. Nobody seems to know who is at the back of him, but even on his own account he might be a formidable leader.
He is young, handsome, not a politician and has been within the last decade the most romantic American hero of his generation.
And Willkie
In the last few years there has been only one man who has had an equally magnetised following-Wendell Willkie.
And in Willkie's hands has lately rested the balance of Ameri- can opinion.
If he had thrown his weight with Lindbergh, this country have gone turbulently down the road to an unproclaimed civil war such as led, in the end, to the betrayal of France.
Willkie threw his weight the other way.
His visit to Britain was the luckiest break that Britain has had from America.
Since he returned, he has shaken his tousled locks at many a stubborn audience and campaigned more fervently than Lind- bergh for the opposite cause.
When he wrote to the Presi- dent and asked for convoys it is over-optimistic to think he car- ried with him the 22 million But he made impotent the people who voted for him. millions who backed Willkie and who also backed Lindbergh.
High Light
When he leaned recently over an ocean of sweating faces, and thundered, "We want those car-
goes protected," with an echoing pause between each word, 22,- 000 people rose and made the building shudder.
In that moment, he appropri
ated the halo which Lindbergh
has been getting ready to wear. In that moment he gave to the President a priceless and selfless guarantee of national unity if on it.
the President now cares to act.
It is doubtful if, when the war is over, Britain will owo any single American a deeper debt than it now owes to that
shambling and passionate man who has quite firmly sacrificed his own ambitions with the Rc-. When other political leaders beg for American con- publican Party to stand simply on financial grounds. In the the President must keep his silence. For he is the as an American behind the Pre- waging of war, then, finance head, not only of a nation, but of a political party.
plays a non-combatant role,
clearing the path for the soldier
voys,
Why So Few Babies?
DOWN
OWN the ages it has always happened that
| and keeping out of the way.
"Its accond and more positive contribution is concerned not with waging the war but with distributing its effects. Any-in wartime more babies have thing as wasteful and destruc been born than in peace time. tive as war necessarily results in loss. The physical losses death and mutilation-must more babies were born in Bri- inccessarily be felt to lie where tain..
This war started true to form, and in the first three months
THE WAR OF 1914 RIGHTED THE INJUS- TICE AMONG BABIES BORN THEN..
By producing a higher pro- portion of boys this war follows all previous wara, though not ng violently ns it did in Paris,
on
they fall; the economic losses, But the latest figures show where (while, France was still however, are transferable, and that later the number of births in the war) two boys were be every state makes some attempt began to go down, even below ing born for every girl, against three girls to every boy before to distribute them fairly.
the average for the last five the war.
Scientists have studied the re- "The disabled are not left to years, though the number of
cognised effects of war starve; the dependents of fight-marriages has gone up.
births. There were cared for; and
slightly more ing men are
Professor Macaulay, in the. requisitioned property is paid boys, the young ladies of twenty United States, came to the con-
more boya for... In the more complex years from now will be glad to clusion that
born because of the "male social organism of Great Britain, I know.
thoughts and martial feelings of an attempt is made to go far
born the mothers-to-be." beyond these minima in the
Other scientists put it down direction of the ideal of 'equality there were 1,056 boys. Over
to differences in food. of sacrifice"."
the last ten years there were
Women usually prefer their This means, of course, that 1,051 boys to each thousand own explanation: "It's Mother Nature, making up for the men CO.nance la not an end in itself girls.
lost."
For every thousand girls
were
but merely a means toward an ABOUT fifteen years ago A curious thing, though, is end. Hitler would say the real 1 there were many more that in the war there were more Tel: 20352 ond is the state. The demo
cracica insist the real end is the marriageable girls than young baby boys in neutral countries, Tel. 00315
highest good of the people of the men to go round, which had too.
WILLIAM J. BRITTAIN state.
nothing to do with the war.
sident.
BY ALISTAIR
COOKE
famous transatlantic newB- castor. He reported the Battle of Britain, and is now back in the United States, where he broadcasts regularly on Anglo-Ameri- can affairs,
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
5-24
MOUNT
WASHINGTONS
"I'll bat he springs that old gog about, this is the bed. Washington slept. In," "on" us!''