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board of Europe her trade is bound to suffer extensively and to present an-

*

AUSTRALIA'S PLEDGE

the

warn-

While the Neutrality Bill constitutes other thorny problem in connection with her neutrality, especially since the major legislative problem in the her most important trade partners are United States at the present time, and her four neighbours, France, the isolationist bloc is doing its utmost United Kingdom, Holland and Ger- to defeat President Roosevelt's inten- many which account for 45 per cent. of the imports and 55 per cent, of the tion, an event of extreme importance

exports. is taking place related to American defence plans. That is the transfer- ence of the bulk of the American fleet to Hawaii on a series of manoeuvres

"If Britain's great efforts fall, we shrouded in secrecy. It has long been

will stand with her. It would be a contended that the American naval

cardinal error for any other country defence line lay somewhere in the "to assume that there is any disunity Pacific, and, although, after the Sep- among the British peoples in these matters. Austrália stands where it tember crisis of 1938 when Europe stood. 25 years ago." These words of was on the brink of war and a special the Prime Minister of Australia con- Atlantic fleet comprised mainly of new vey no more than the simple truth of cruisers was created for the Atlantic. the sentiments of the entire Common- after the transference of the American wealth, despite Mr. Curtin's ungener- elaboration. for their fleet through the Panama Canal, there ous demand has been no deviation from the car- They have been received in Britain of dinal principles of this policy. It is with additional gratitude because now stated that as long as the British their promptness; they brought the fleet comprises no menace to the safety first assurance from the Dominions of of the United States-and naturally recognition of a common cause, and of could not be considering that its major unreserved support for it. It does not purposes are now directed against detract from the value of this pledge Germany in the North Sea and the that in this great emergency Austra- Atlantic the Pacific problem on lia could take up no other stand; and which American naval experts have it should serve to reinforce in Berlin been labouring so long does not dim- though, no doubt, the Nazi propa- inish in importance but increases in gandist machine will see that it is not view of the uncertain and bewildering disseminated in Germany-the British changes in strategical plans, especially Prime Minister's own solemn affecting Soviet Russia, which now ings that the British peoples are re- emerges as a naval power although solute and unanimous. In the present: not on the same scale as Japan. Little crisis. No greater mistake was made- information has been published re- by the Germans in 1914 than their garding the purport of the American underestimation of the moral force of naval manoeuvres and the exercises to the British Empire, which; as gradual- be held off Hawaii. Formerly, Ameri- ly it became translated into practical can naval movements have been à purpose, produced by 1918 the might- common topic of newspaper Informa- test war machine of that age.-"Syd-· tion and comment, but the latest ar- ney Morning Herald." rangements. reveal nothing beyond the concentration of a large number of warships in the Pacific at a time when the naval activities of other powers

out all, over are centred elsewhere. It

1 "Lamps are going foregone conclusion that in the event Europe; we shall not see them lighted of the excision of the arms embargo again in our time." With strangely these words. clause from the Neutrality Act, which compelling wistfulness will prevent American vessels carry- have returned and returned again. ing munitions to belligerent powers; throughout the last quarter of a çen-- there will be a wholesale transference tury. When, looking out of a window of American mer- chant ships to the Pacific Ocean. This, in itself, will pro- vide an impetus to American" mercan- tile marine deye- lopment as other mercantile powers will be preoccupied using their vessels for nätlojial ser- vices. Therefore, to the United States, politically, strate- gically and econo- mically, the Pacific Ocean assumes pre- ponderating impor- tance of which these latest developments are a sign,

seems

CARRY ON

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* LIGHTS

on the gray half-light over London.

Britain's Foreign Secretary in 1914 spoke them, they were figurative. They meant that. all that was best. and brightest in human achieve- ment was going. into an eclipse from which "In our time" It would wholly

One of the great dangers of to- day is the temptation to suspend normal activity. Certainly it is not easy to behave as though we were living in settled times; there la averywhere; naturally enough a qanka, of,strain; but it in

precisely, the tendency to

Walt

days

ba.

any

en-

for more settled fore, undertaking terprise, or before making any important purchases that helps to create the abnormal conditions.— Sleley Huddleston.

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was.

never emerge.

Once again lights have been going out over Europe. But this time the statement is literal.. And one may note with more than ordinary inter- Once more Belgium finds the guns est that they have not yet begun to London barking ominously near her borders go out all over Europe. 'In

but not in Berlin- and bombers roaring overhead with and Paris, yes,

That city, as described just after Sir the danger of another invasion. Young Nevile Henderson presented Britain's King Leopold III, who was only 13 years of age when the last World War reply to Reichsfuhrer Hiller,

bright. broke out, is now a man of mature

In London, newspaper offices hid judgment. Since his succession in 1934 their windows under heavy curtains. to the Throne of the Belgians he has in Paris the boulevardiers sat in the spared no effort to secure his country's sidewalk cafes, their faces blue and. neutrality should the demons of war blotchy in the eerie rays of lighting. once more stalk in all their naked that is not to be seen from the sky. horror over Europe. With a standing Berlin, itke London and Paris, was. army of about 80,000 men, consider prepared against air raids. Büt able well-trained reserves, an air- evidently Berlin did not feel it neces force of more than 300 modern planes sary to anticipate a sudden, unan- and a "Maginot line" of her own, Bel-nounced attack. It is clear that. gium would make an invader pay German officialdony if not the German dearly for the privilege of crossing her people, mow with whom the initia territory.

tive for mass sinughter must lle; and Apart from her strategically danger- this reats with Germany. Christian. ous position on the military chess- Science Monitor."

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