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more readily admit the validity of these reasons for postponing application of the neutrality laws than they will that offered by the Secretary of Commerce, that the United States has a healthy and growing trade" with both parties to the dispute. In time of strife such trade will grow even faster than in peace time, it is true, but it will grow

the Editor, and be accompanied by less healthy faster still

Another argument offered the Writer's Name and Address, against applying the neutrality not necessarily for insertion but laws now is that such action as a guarantee of good faith.

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tend to favour Japan over Ching, it being possible for Japan.

operate on the "cash-and- basis, where China could his would hardly fit the American sentiment

of Far Eastern affairs, in which Japan has long appeared as the aggressor, and a record of American a aid to China has been

feature

For an isolatiomst United States this interest in Far East ern affairs is remarkable, but it |Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 18, 1937- has rezisted nevertheless

much because of sentiment as cause of real American interests

U. S. NEUTRALITY that part of the world. If as treal an interest in the peace of President Roosevelt still Europe had been recognised by shirks application of the Neu- Americans, it is possible the pre- trality Act, though prepared to sent neutrality laws, would have take special measures, apparent been written in such a way as ly, for the specific purpose of to make a policy for American stopping the transport of cer peace contribute to world peace.

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China. The attitude appears to merely to the embarrassment of be explained by a natural relae officials who must determine tance to offend China, opposed how and when they can consis- by a very definite fear that Jap tently be applied. anese knowledge of the presence

of Bellanca bombers aboard the

Wichita might very well furnish

the occasion for a serious incid-Britain and the

ent.

At the moment, the United States appears to be quite un- jable to make up her mind as to

Invader

her course of action. Strongest In pointing out that Great inclination is towards a cut and Britain has been in the past al- run policy, as far as can be judg-most continuously exposed to the ed At the same time, marines threat of armed invasion, Lord are still on the way and there is Horder has performed a public even talk of a claim to American service, for he has thereby priority as far as the "supreme brought into proper perspective command of the International a condition of the present day Defence Force in Shanghai is that has made the subject of concerned.

much alarmist comment.

A well-known American news Few English people accept the papers puts the Washington proposition that the inhabitants quandary neatly when it says of the British Isles are jumpy at hat the half slave and half the possibility of air raids in phrase of Lincoln's has a case of war. Nevertheless, some though 1937 counterpart in American commentators write as foreign policy: half isolationist the entire English population and half internationalist. Though were in state bordering on panic ja country which could not exist at the alleged vulnerability of- on the earlier inconsistency may London and other large cities; muddle through on the later one and many journalists and auth- it can do so only with periods ors follow, in incessant reitera- of political or diplomatic discom-tion, the quarter-century old fort

Judgment of Mr. H. G. Wells Not all the perspiration among that the invention of the aero- members of the State Départ-plane has robbed Britain of the ment in these days of Sine Jap security that formerly belonged janese strife is due to the Wash-to her as an island.

ington heat. Some of it is in- The danger of sensational talk duced by the task of explaining is obvious, for it breeds fear, the complexities of the United and States Government'

to fear is a cause of war. What-

strategic differences have ats.resulted from the development of aviation, it should be re- ered that

territory,

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by the Ro

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the cataclysm

Ivent of Napo alarm

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