THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
́-WINDSOR HOUSE
THE ANSWERS
The American news- papers have presented a demand by Senators Nye and Wheeler for a state- ment of peace aims as a tactical move against the Lease and Lend Bill.
It is assumed that the Senators do not expect] that all nations now at war will provide either a full statement of their reasons for going to war, or a blueprint of the kind of peace they hope to see. There is value in a sincere. effort to define as clearly as possible future peace purposes-if it be first re- cognised that peace must| be won.
Most Americans we be-1 lieve would agree
with this statement of the situation:
The only reason why peace cannot be made to-morrow is that the German Government have as yet given no evidence whatever of their readiness to repair the dam- age they have wrought upon their weaker neighbours, or of their capacity to convince the world that any pledge they may sub- scribe to is worth as much as the paper on which it may be writ- ten.
If the isolationist Sena- tors really want a state- ment of British war aims in fairly definite terms they could find it in the same speech, by the mem- ber of the British War Cabinet who has just ar- rived as Ambassador to the United States:
We
SMITH YATES LOOKS AT POVERTY
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MALNUTRITION
DEATHS IN 1940
TABESTENLOSIS - BERT-BERI PILLAGRA
5751
9219
442
VESTED
INTERES
Keep off THE GRASS
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WHO MENTIONED VULTURES ?
Rash Conclusion
There is a tendency in England) great-great-grandson of the wo-
Committee
that
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Victuals In Our Time
It is perhaps naturel that peo- ple with nothing to do but walt for the next meal should accept the aesthetic philosophy of the stout gentleman in the lounge who was heard to describe the sound of the dinner-beli as the sweetest music in the whole world. Idle- ness is a greut begetter of glut- tony, as one notices on sea voy-
By Ivor Brown
ages, where in good weather pondering the shape of edible things to come is a common form of preoccupation, naughtily stimulated in happier time by the lavishness of shipping companies.
The menus of luxury liners are really a Communist pamphlet.
The whole thing is fantastic. People who would be perfectly happy with the simplest supper at home must apparently have an eight-course dinner served with fanfares, flunkeys, and carnival procedure when they are in mid- ocean.
One business of civilisation is surely to put food in its place. Our earliest ancestors,
the food- gathering men, had to think a great deal about wayɛ and means of getting nourishment. Their problem was acquisition, They had to live for focd in order 10 live by it, just as many animals and birds have to work all day for their food supply.
Once food-growing had been... invented as the supplement to food-gathering the problem was eased; the leisure thus gained might be misused in the arts of war, but it could be turned also to the arts of peace.
The Nile Valley started build- ing, sculpture, and many decora- tive splendours when it solved the food problem. Because there was corn in Egypt there could also be civilisation.
Nowadays, in peace-time, sup- ply of victuals is no trouble. Fair distribution is the problem that has so far baffled the meagre in- genuity and organising talent of ceonomic man. We should be able, in decent conditions, to think just sufficiently about food and suffer no, further worry. How much is that sufficiency?' On this there will never be agreement. both mortifies the flesh, the duality of generally
indulges
our
Man and
Mr. Clark, of Missouri, full of to feel that the sympathy of the man who made the first Aineri- sweet accord, replied that he had whole of the United Stales is with, can flag. has done work for the no information as to that, but that We must insist upon the res.
us in our struggle, that with the White
that should he was entirely prepared to be teration of liberty to small nations exception of a negligible minority make his name, with
of lieve the statement of the senator that Germany has cruelly depriv, that great country is with us up Sherwoud, ever remembered by from
West Virginia that Mr. ed of it, and, profiting I hope by
to the edge of war. This is as us.
Balderston was a British -agent!
nature running as often to experience of the past, we shall do anyone listening in to Mr. Alistair
the extremes of Stoic doctrine as The fifty destroyers van be Senator Clark does all he can var utmost to secure Europe from Cooke's recent
to the gentler Epicurean crved. broadcast would largely attributed to their efforts. to help Germany by attempting | For my part, I believe that Ches- a repetition of this disaster. We realise-a very rash assumption. Their work has not by any means
to withhold essential seek nothing for ourselves.
supplies terton usefully summed up the It is difficult enough for us been without difficulties and even have said publicly
from Britain. He cannot and does matter when he said that the logic that if We here, living in the mumediacy dangers. Mr. Balderston at one not pretend to believe that could once again
the of the fist is the feast, and vico) Us nowa- time had to have a bodyguard, United States is in danger of at-versa. It is reasonable to slake that a German Government would which life holds for
of whom tack by Great Britain. Не respect its undertakings and hon-days, to keep at the same level and the Isolationists,
is within reason all normal desire, of keenness. How much more there are many still in the Senate, just one of those neutrals, of and the ascetic's glory in a total cooperate TA trying to build, instead of destroy, Europ- must this be the case with people
whom France, Holland, Belgium, refusal is no more in sature than and Norway have provided
Is the unceasing and calculating ran peace on terms of live-and-who are only with us emotionally who sympathetically, and Jet-live for all nations, we would and
many, to whom neutrality, in-sensuality of the glutton, have around them the daily proof
stead of being sometimes admir- vindictive peace or seek
that life is good and sweet and
able but always, by its nature, one that would deny to Germany
is her rightful place
the casy, that nature's abundance among
negative, becomes an active vir- yet theirs, that their country is nations.
inviolate?
estly
not
feel
security
When Senator Wheeler recently outlined some what similar terms, the Berlin press rejected them.
The fundamental dif- ficulty is that the Nazi re- no real gime can offer basis of security for the nations of Europe--or for those further afield.
The reason
that na- tions chiefly interested in
some
We are fortunate that so many
By F. Tennyson Jesse
tue,
SU
A large part of the art of liv- ing is the avoidance of obsessions, and it is a dreadful thing to be obsessed about food To go beyond a sensible interest in the niccties Thus the "smear campaign' of the palate to a continual fuss- went on in the Senate. Mr. John ing about the next meal is usual- Balderston having been accused of ly to become a misery to oneself being a propaganda agent, sen- and a dreadful bore to others. ator after senator urose not lo | What tedium equals that created attack William Allen White per- by the constant chattering of the and of the prattler
of the intellectual leaders of the United States either work for the William Allen White Committee or are moved by it. William Al- len White is, as most Englishmen have not hesitated to try to bes-sonally, for he is too revered and gourmet know and as all should know, one mirch the reputation of certain elderly a figure in national politics about vintages? Possibly only that of the most important pro-British members of the committee, not to attack, but members of his indicted on us by the person who Americans. He organised what is ably that of John Bålderston, group.
fh war-time is always thinking now known as the White Com- What is known as a "smear cam As a matter of fact the famous the state of the larder. The war about rationing and discussing mittee to Defend America by Aid-paign" has been extremely active. "Seven-point Programme" sub- has given ing the Allies. William Allen Mr. Clark,
the of Missouri, on mitted to Mr. Allen White by his bomb-bores, the
us, along with
bacon-and-but- White has stressed throughout his September 26, 1940, declared that committee had obtained data for ter bores too. The stomach is a firm belief that the United States' " man by the name of Balders- six of its seven points through good thing in its Arst line of defence is Britain, and ton, long a resident of Great Brit- American and not British sources. place is
place, but its certainly not “on the hence that Britain is fighting for ain, putting out a William Allen The "seven points" urged the brain." the United States.
White news service release
delivery to Britain of a score of In New York Robert Sherwood, was trying to arouse public senti-motor torpedo-boats, flying-boats
a firm peace support, in the famous playwright, that tall ment to bombard the President, (the Navy's heavy bombers).
flame of a man, has been fighting bombard public officials, so as to "flying fortresses"the great confreres imagine that anything: degree, Britain's for us with his pen as ardently as override any technical objections long-range bombers; tanks, the given to the British now will ever stand against Nazi he fought, though a Yankee, in a of the General Staff of the Navy use of airfields in the United be used by the British against the Canadian regiment in the last war. and the General Stoff of the States for training of pilots; 250,- Americans? It is true that the anarchy is presented in
John Balderston, the writer, Army" to send to Great Britain 000 more Lee-Enfield rifles until Germans might capture some of another speech by Vis-
weapons that "might be needed something better could be got hold these secret weapons, but that is by the United States." Mr. Clark, of, and seventh (and the one a risk that has to be count Halifax:
taken if behind peace talk is an- of Missouri, was then joined by a which agitated the senators, most) Hitler is to be fought at all. There are things to-day within other statement by Lord Mr. Holt, of West Virginia, who the famous secret bomb sight, England must not underrate our body politic which we need.
remarked that Mr. Balderston was All these requests, which were the power of the "Copperhtads.” to fight not less intensely, if with Halifax:
"brought back" to the States to not put forth, by the way, by Mr. They can at least hold up the en- other weapons, than we fight the When we think and speak of create war propaganda, and that White, were not even put forward gine just when its smooth
and enemy without.
But the broad peace, what do we really mean? it was a known fact that John to him without the certain know- quick working is essential. But record of the British race stands We naturally tend to think of it Balderston was not interested in ledge that each one of them had we must remember also that our to be judged on facts that are in- as something negative-not war-preserving the United States but already been the subject of friends of the White Committee contestable. It is the fact that and for that reason to be some- was directly hider the British negotiation and in the belief that are still fighting for us through. during the nineteenth century, thing worthy of all we can do for Ministry of Information.
all or most of the requests would "smear campaigns," innuendocs, when the power of this country Its preservation. But just as I Mr. Holt, in short, accused Mr. be granted either in whole or in and lies and realise that the de- was unchallenged,, there was no can imagine Individuals confront- Balderston of a crime against the part. The belief was American lay is no fault of theirs. nation in Europe that felt for that ed by a situation which Christian Federal Statutes.
and not British belief, and was As to the "Copperheads" them- reason insecure, or that did not men and women would feel was. John Balderston has never in held by a great group of people selves, we can wish them recognise our power to be an worse than death, so I can imag- his life been directly or indirect- in the United States, all of them worse than that in their old age: instrument of peace.
ine circumstances for a nation orly under or connected with the American patriots,
they may be forced to read withi Cutting even more in-for human civilisation in which British Ministry of Information Is it possible, ohe asks oneself, shame what has been recorded for
immunity from war could be too or any other foreign Government that even cisively into the thinking dearly purchased.
these "Copperheads" ever upon the records of the Sen- agency,
such as Senator Clark and His.jätë.
no
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