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AMERICA'S "NEUTRALITY"

market altogether by legislation has now vanished. The only ques- tion is over the degree of freedom the Executive will have to assist those nations. Public opinion has moyed a long way since 1935, but it has had in the process power- ful propulsion from overseas.

In cool logic, authority to the President to prevent American arms and supplies from aiding in: aggression is in line with all the past commitments of American policy-the Nine-Power Treaty, the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and: so forth. But to give the Pre- sident unrestrained power to ap- ply embargoes is getting very close to granting him the power. to declare war.

In practice, it is sometimes difficult to determine technically the aggressor. Considering this and also the hesitancy of the American people to assume a role of arbiter or interferer, the cash- and-carry plan may be the most satisfactory compromise.

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Decision of the American Con-

It would express in its effect gress on the Neutrality Act is on the various contending nations- likely to be reached in the next the clear feelings of the Ameri- week or so and in harmony, it can people, while preserving the would seem, with the views of the convenient myth of neutrality. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Entire repeal of the Neutrality Act might be legalistically more correct. But with the Ameri- The situation is now fairly can people halfway across the plain to most Americans. With bridge from isolationism to col- a flash of that realism which he lective security, possibly a half- sometimes brings to a discussion, way measure is progress. Senator William E. Borah cut straight through the whole "neu- trality" argument the other day "Overthrow of Gout” when he said: 'Haven't the

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people already made up their Gout is a disease with a lot to minds who is right and who is answer for over a great history. wrong? The thing that is upper-There are Egyptian mummies. most in my mind is that there that still bear its traces; those is no neutrality at this time be- doctors of antiquity Hippocrates, cause of conditions that exist in Celsus, and Galen had their cures. the world.

for it, and the sober Seneca had

the.

In other words, the widespread hard words for those self-indul- existence of emotional and intel-gent ladies of old Rome who fell lectual un-neutrality in the victims to so masculine an afflic- United States means that ation. The British Museum has- genuine neutrality policy, whe-just been given, through the: ther by law or by administration, Society of the Friends of is impossible. Hence the whole National Libraries, the

only discussion now going on before known copy of the translation. Senate and House concerns the made in 1577 of Dr. Christopher extent to which Congress shall Balista's "Overthrow of Gout," legislate foreign policy in an which forced a man, he said, "to effort either to curb the Presi-keep his house as doth a snaill.” dent, or to extend his power. It is a melancholy reminder that The collective actionists, would after four centuries gout has enlarge the President's power, still to be overthrown. We know giving him authority to impose how even now it strikes down embargoes against aggressor na- those in surprisingly high places tions. The isolationist, wing, and let it not be put down at which believes basically in "peace once to their discredit, for, what- at any price" short of actual in-ever the whispering old wives" vasion, would restrict the Pres-tales, it can spring from hard ident by re-enactment of the pre-work as well as from its well- sent law or its strengthening, known eighteenth-century cau- plus legislation to curb war pro-ses. Then, indeed, it was the fits. And in between is a third painful reward for winning whe- group, really very close to the ther the sick man had drunk too collective actionists, which fav-much port with the Whigs or too ours the proposal to repeal the much claret with the Tories. Per- mandatory embargo on arms, haps it is this not entirely res- extend cash-and-carry to all war-pectable part of its recent history time exports to belligerents, but that has put it into the sad cate- in the Pacific prohibit shipments gory of ailments that can

be to powers violating the Nine-joked about. These choleric old Rower Pact.

gentlemen who turn up from. Perhaps the likeliest of all re-time to time in farces and films. sults is passage of the cash-and--how little do those who do not carry resolution, without at pre- find the medical encyclopaedia sent, unless Kalangsu develops, the best light reading know of the addition of an embargo on the pains they are meant to be Japan. This result would suit bearing. It was a narrow life the Administration as far as their originals should be living “ Europe is concerned, since it at Carlsbad or elsewhere, docked. would permit the United States of lobster, duck, asparagus, to assist the powers controlling mushrooms, truffles, and much the seas, but it would allow Japan more that even old Dr. Balista all its present access to the could put c on his black list. For American market. Hence every the ordinary man there may be effort is being made by the a touch of distinction about gout, collective-action group to support that disease of kings and elder the embargo against Japan which statesmen, but ask the eminent Senator Pittman added.

sufferers themselves and few of Where does this leave Ameri- them will deny that an honour can policy? The possibility that that can be affixed to the chest Great Britain or France would is better than once felt in the be shut off from the American toe..

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