1939-04-08 — Page 11

U. S. FINANCIER'S WARNING TO NAZIS

America Will Fight If Interests Are Involevd

Pungent Remarks By Bernard Baruch

Washington, To đây.

"You cannot put economic pressure upon nations and hope to remain indefinitely at peace with them," declared the well-known financier, Mr. Bernard Baruch, before the Senate's neutral- ity committee yesterday.

"Economic sanctions," added Mr. Baruch, "are in- nately dangerous. If they fail, they are bound to lead to war.

"I doubt whether economic pressure on our part could prevent war if an aggressor was deter- mined on it.”

Mr. Baruch endorsed the princi- Western Hemisphere, then the ar-

NAZIS EXPELLED FROM BRITAIN

London, To-day.

The residence in Britain · of three persons connected with the

Gestapo, the dreaded German se cret police, and other Nazi organ- isations, was terminated recently,

This was revealed in the House of Commons yesterday by the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.

Sir Samuel added that the acti- vities of other persons similarly connected were being watched.— Reuter,

ANGLO--U.S.

ple of placing arms and ammuni- gument for waging economic war- AGREEMENT ON

tion on a cash and carry basis fare falls to the ground," he de- when other countries are at war, clared. ·

and the United States is neutral. Mr. Baruch declared that the He believed this could-be-done-commerce of the world, on which without affecting the neutrality rested both its peace and prosper- status of the United States.

ity, was dying-killed by the in-

tainment."

PACIFIC ISLES

H.K. TO BE STOP IN BERLIN-TOKYO AIR ROUTE

BERLIN, TO-DAY.

HERR GLABENZ, DIRECTOR. OF LUFTHANSA, IS TO FLY TO TOKYO IN THE SECOND HALF OF APRIL. IT WILL NOT BE A RECORD FLIGHT BUT IS BEING UNDERTAKEN. IN ORDER TO PREPARE THE GROUND FÖR THE BERLIN-TOKYO AIR SER VICE PLANNED BY LUFTHAN- SA.

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Herr Glabenz will use three- engined Junkers plane and will stop off at all places where land. ings may be made in the scheduled air service, in order to study air- ports and conditions and confer with the authorities,

HONG KONG

Stops between these places may be

Athens, Rhodes, Damascus, Baghdad, Calcutta, Hong Kong and

Washington, To-day. creasing restrictions of barter, A 50-year Anglo-American Shanghai. GERMAN MISTAKE

tariffs and quotas and "self-con-agreement for joint occupation Herr Glabenz's flight may take "Anyone who thinks the United States would not fight when the in- He said Mr. Cordell Hull (the and administration of the Pacific ten days terests of this hemisphere and the American Secretary of State) was islands of Canton and Enderbury Reuter. United States are involved, is bad-trying to restore it, but the present for use as trans-oceanic air stations, ly mistaken," he declared, and add-neutrality legislation threatened to has been signed. ed grimly: "Germany made that restrict it further-Reuter.

mistake once before.”

Mr. Baruch said he believed the United States or the Western Hem isphere could escape involvement in a European conflict without burying its head in the sand, and

MUDDLE IN

yet still raise its voice against FARM PROBLEMS

faithlessness and brutality.

Mr. Baruch, who was President Wilson's chairman of the 1918 War

Washington, To-day.

Industries Board and is now a fre- Farm legislation problems, in- quent consultant of President cluding cotton, are becoming even Roosevelt, expressed the opinion more muddled as renewed faction- that since true neutrality "is an al-alism among the farm State Sena- most unobtainable Ideal,” the best tora appears increasingly to defeat course the United States could pur any broadening of the agricultural sue is that which protects it as far programme in the present Bession as possible from involvement in of Congress. war, preserves-fairness-in dealings with belligerents, aids in the de- velopment of defence and guards against economic collapse. t

DYING COMMERCE : "If we believe we can defend the

There are now at least three dis- tinct. proposals urged by farm Senators, and none seem sufficient- ly acceptable to any other group to form the basis of a compromise.

Reuter.

over a route which at present is not definitely fixed.

ton Island which will provide faci- The agreement provides that an lities for both British and Amer- |American company or companies ican aircraft in return for agreed ¡may construct an airport on Can-fees. Reuter,

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