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angwer ready to hand. But we think they deserve to be discuss- ed in the open and expressed in terms more clarifying than Ninety-Third Year of Publication bare identification of our fron- tiers with any European nation. We heartily agree with Mr. of Roosevelt's general outlook sympathy with the democracies and we incline to the view that the continuing threat held over the world by the dictators has reached a stage that. requires united action by the democracies for the period of the emergency, once agreement is reached among them as to aims and means.

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MIRROR OF OPINION

The Rome-Berlin axis keeps us all so busy that we forget that it's also a triangle, and that it has an outsticking bit to it call- ed Japan.

We spoke recently of "stumbl- ing into war.". Let us add one word, in view of the secret con- ference "stumbling blindfold into war." We urge Mr. Roose- velt to share the fundamentals of his policy with the American people and implement his admir- able personal sympathies with a' definition of natural interest that the whole nation will be glad to support with open eyes and un- limited resources."New York Herald Tribune."

Recent events have shaken our faith in isolation. We hoped that by pulling away from the trou- bles of a distant world, we could "keep out of it." ..

But we have found Fascist aggression crowding us in Cen- tral and South America; we have found the totalitarians devising subtle new instruments of a pow- derless war, fought with trade penetration and propaganda; we that tore a see the pressure.

from Great Munich settlement Britain and France tearing con- cessions of another sort from the governments of this hemisphere; we see each Fascist victory in Europe followed by increasing Fascist brazenness on this side. In the name of safeguarding Well, you may say that it's an island that "few people have our country, let us here and now ever heard of." And what can give up the crazy-quilt policy we do about it anyway? We are pursuing of a little bit of and the French have asked for an isolation, a little bit of collective security, a little bit of lip-service explanation. If an honest one were given it would be briefly to a neutrality act on the statute books, and a little bit of evasion and bluntly this:

of that act.

But Japan, too, keeps busy. Her occupation of the island of Hainan is a sort of parallel to the threat to our trade routes in the Mediterranean.

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"We wanted the island. So we took it. And, if you don't like it, you can honourably lump it. So what?"

But, instead, the reply is like the one concerning questions about Spain.". "We have no ter- ritorial ambitions.”.

Quite so.. Only strategical aims. "Daily Mirror."

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Let's either enter the door of world affairs, or get off the door- step. New York Post."

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The extent to which American feeling and policy

is affect- ed by events in Europe ought to help Americans to understand that it may be to their advant- The policy recommended here age to influence the world balance -permission for all nations to of power in advance of war. If,- purchase American weapons in as Herbert Hoover says, the time of war, except in the case United States, cannot stay out. of nations clearly identified by of war, if London and Paris are the President and Congress as bombed (and the bombing would aggressors does not go so far come into American living rooms in the direction of collective on the radio) then there may be security as this newspaper be-wisdom in moving so as to pre- lieves it is desirable and in the vent a situation where bombing long run essental for the United would be attempted. States to go. But we recognise That apparently is President particularly when so good a Roosevelt's thought. How the former friend of collective sec United States can move, whether urity as Herbert Hoover now it can, at a safer distance, pro- speaks out against it—that there vide the firmer side of an arm- are necessary limitations to ed appeasement policy while what can be done at this time. London continues the appease- The policy recommended here ment side, is still very much in. would at least substitute open doubt, How the American public for secret diplomacy, carry, a responds to events in the next message to the aggressor nations few weeks or days may be de which they could not possibly termining. But it should be re- misconstrue and throw the in-cognised that if America is, willy fluence of the United States nilly, tied somewhat to democra against the outbreak of a war tic policy, there may be merit în something about that which, once begun," might soon saying involve us.

"New York Times." policy. It is more than a ques- tion of pulling chestnuts out of the fire; it is rather a matter of trying to damp down a fire which already makes Americans warm. "Christian Science Monitor.”

The definition of our vital in terests in the present world, em ergency is not easy. We make no pretence to possessing an