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In response to numerous requests The South China Morning Post, Limited, invites sub- scription to

ASSIST A FUND TO BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT

MR.

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1941 -

BULLITT'S

STATEMENT ON

WAR SITUATION

The prepared text of the statement made to go to war. We set two limits to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by William C. Bullitt, former Ambassador to second, France, was as follows:-

1. We are determined to maintain the in- dependence of the United States and our gov ernment of the people, by the people, and for the people.

on our support of Great Britain: First, we will not declare war; we will not ourselves initiate military or naval hostili- ties,

23. We can diminish the danger to ourselves only by supplying other States that are now holding the totalitarian

promptly to the British and the

war machines away from our shores every ma- terial, munition, and arms thut they need.

2. We hate war. Therefore we desire to pro- tect our country and our liberties without going to vantage of the totalitarian States

war.

3. Germany

has drawIT Italy and Japan into a league dhected against us and other nations by a treaty signed in Berlin on Sept. 27, 1940.

4. We cannot appease Germany. It is impossible to appease the un- Western And the appeaseable. Hemisphere is the juiciest morsel before the dictators.

wir

5. The earth has been so cun- tracted by the aeroplane that for the first time in our history the machines of Europe can reach the Western Hemisphere in a few hours.

and 6. The Atlantic

Pacific Oceans remain formidable obsta- cles to invasion of the Americas

as both are so long

controlled either by the American Navy or by the navy of a power friendly to us.

7. We have a one-ocean navy and shall not have a two-ocean navy before 1946.

8. So long as the British navy continues to hold the Germans and Italians on the other side of the Atlantic, while our

Heat watches in the Pacific, we have

shall and

have the

practical equivalent of a two-ocean nuvy.

9. If the British Navy should be eliminated.

would still have a one-ocean navy but w2 should have two oceans to defend,

10. A one-ocean navy cannot cover two oceans,

we

"Could Not Block Both Doors"

11. Without the British Navy. the we could not protect both Pacific Coast and the Atlantic Coast of the Western Hemisphere. We could not block both the front door and the back door of our national home,

12. An ocean without a fleet is

not a defence but a broad high- way for invasion,

13. There are strong totalitarian elements in many States of South

America.

14. The elimination of the Bri- tish Navy and control of either the Atlantic or the Pacific by a totalitarian navy would be the signal for totalitarian government to be installed in one or more States of Latin America. The movement of totalitarian control. toward the Panama Canal would be rapid.

15. The experience of cities in England has shown that it is im- possible to prevent bombardment of the Panama Canal by 'planes based on the northern portion of South

Central America, or on America, or on aircraft carriers.

16. If the Panama Canal should be closed by bombardment from air or sabotage, our one- ocean navy would be fixed. in one ocean and the other ocean would become a pathway for invasion.

The whole of the money subscribed will be the handed to The Government of Hong Kong for transmission to

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. For the Purchase of Aeroplanes or such other Armaments as the British Government may decide.

Donations will be received by The South China Morning Post Cheques should be made payable to "War Fund-South China

Morning Post, Limited."

All donations will be acknowledged in the columns of The S. C. M. Post.

24. It is so greatly to the ad-

to have us stay out of war while they are attempting to conquer of the totali-Great Britain, Greece and China that no matter how much aid we furnish and no matter what form that aid may take, the dictators will hesitate to declare war on us. unless they have first conquered Great Britain. If they were to de- clare war, they could not now get at us,

ties in the hands tarian dictuters would be at least four times as great as our ship- building facilities, and what we had planned to be a two-ocean navy would turn out to be only a one-ocean navy after all., More of the human than 90 per cent

ace would be controlled by the dictators and be organised both militarily and economically against us. A Japanese iron ring around Asia and Australasia and a German Iron ring around Afri- ca and Europe, including Great Britain and Ireland, would cut as so great a off from trade with portion of the earth, that we in a mutilated stump of the Wes- be tern Hemisphere - would thrown into economic disorder. living of even The standard of the poorest American would be And we should gravely reduced.

For Arming As If at War

25. We must produce elements of defence as fast as if we were in war, and we must employ the elements of defence that we now possess and shall produce in the wisest manner for our defence.

26. The question of whether it is wiser to fend our country by turning over a particular element of defence at a particular moment to the British, or other forces, to use immediately, or wiser to keep that instrument within our coun-

have to try to support with our crippled economic system arma- ments colossal enough to resist, is an intricate technical ques- the whole world. We should have to organise our American life on a military basis from top to bot- tom and maintain it on a milltary basis throughout years of misery and years of totalitarian

pro- paganda directed against our de-

form of mocratic

government. How long, under those conditions, the liberties we could maintain that have been the birth-right of every American since the birth of our nation, no man knows,

War Policy

tion that can be decided with the highest wisdom-and in time-- only by the Commander in Chief of our Army and Navy, who acts on the advice of his chief military, naval, air and diplomatic advisers, We should not even be an inde- perdent nation if a committee had sat at Valley Forge where Wash- ington stood. The framers of our Constitution were wise when they made the Chief-Executive Com- mander in Chief of our Army and Navy.

27. Our country is in such dan- ger to-day that decisions on the Effective use of our instruments of defence are as vital as if we had already been attacked.

21. These would be to us the of British defeat. consequences We must, therefore, for our own

28. Bill 1776 is designed to ern- self-preservation, try to see to it

the President to make that Great Britain is not defeated, power

22. We are determined not to be those decisions. By passing it, the drawn into this war. We leave Congress would show, I believe, out of the discussion, therefore, that the wisdom of the framers of the policy of going to war, al- our Constitution is still alive in though we know that the most our land, and that we, like our certain way to insure against risk forefathers, will submit to no mas- of British defeat would be for us ter but God.

£8,000 A TRIP--FOR FISHERMEN

for

THERE'S MONEY în the sea →→ and fish seamen cashing in on Britain's fish shortage. The boom in prices, with single fish fetching 25s. to 30s., means that Iceland trawlers have been picking up £8,000 a trip £60-£75 for each hand — and taking home their wages in pianos, radiograms, top hats, silk stockings, and cars.

On nearly every tide the Icelanders put into port here with cargoes almost worth their weight in gold, 17. We are not prepared to-day to meet an attack by the totali bringing a boom time to the local shopkeepers. torian States that are leagued. Their earnings are far in ex- But although the Icelanders agvinst us. We must buy time in cess of those of the British. fieber-earn such good wages they can- which to prepare.

men, whose ships are now on naval not take out of the country more 18. We can buy that time only service.

than £10 in cash.

by making certain that the Bri- Fish prices began to drop a bit tish Fleet will continue, to hold the other day, but the Icelanders the totalitarian forces in Europe did pretty well. while our fiert watches in the Pacific.

Big hake realised £10 a 10st 19. If we should permit a con-box, or about 29s, a fieht, plaice quest of the British Isles, the off-brought £12 a box, heddock made cers and men of the British Navy £7 16s., best cod 27 10s.

Mr. John W. Robirisor, chair starvation of the entire population man of Fleetwood Fish Merch- of Great Britain if they thould ants Association, told me:

would be threatened with the

us. It is improbable that they trawlers, we could hardly

Sodally, you see them with dainty lingerie. In the shops they buy for their wives.

Jewellers, too, find them good buyers.......... One man bought a case of top hats to take back to Iceland.

Fleetwood this: spendin

continue to hold the Atlantic for it were not for the Iceland help could or would do so for long.

Invasion "Almost

tes. Certain d

our trade going. True, they

| getting: good, prices for

thes, but if they were. we should have very lit ***Because of these big- it is suggested Int some that a tax should-be every box. of Ash-landed.. "This might work all ri almost certair fels entirely cer-is up to the Government to

buliding facill-Icide what is the beat policy.

20. Should the British.Navy be eliminated and should the Pan ama Canal be blocked before we

dinvaile of

isphere:

are prepa Western Hei

tain that the

Du

reders welcome oom.

They are itch trawlermer

regularly from

hmen's, fishing ground

estricted, thans

Ice but nevertheless E15 ta "not uncommon for

trawlers are, of fewer owing to naval he ships,” but good, being earned, by their