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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 cither 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- lieve would agree with this statement of the situation:

why pence

The only reason cannot be made to-n urrow 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

world the

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:

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Rash Conclusion

There is a tendency in England; great-great-grandson of the wo-

Mr. Clark, of Missouri. full of to feel that the sympathy of the man who made the first Ameri- sweet accord, replied that he had whole of the United States 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 Committee that should he was entirely prepared to be foration of liberty to small nations; exception of a negligtule minority; hake his name. with that of lieve the statement of the senator that Germany has cruelly depriy- that great country is with us up Sherwood, ever remembered by rom West Virginia that Mr. ed of it, and, profiting 1 hope by

to the edge of war. This is as US, experience of the past, we shall de our utmost to secure karrope from:yone listening in to Mr. Alistair

a repetition of this disaster. Wel seek nothing for ourselves, We have said publicly that 11 We could once again Teel security i that a German Government would respect its undertakings and hon- estly cooperate in trying to build, instead of destroy. Europ- ean peace on terms of live-and- let-live for all nations, we would nut seck

vindictive peace or one that would deny to Germany

rightful her nations.

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When Senator Wheeler recently outlined some what similar terms, the Berlin press rejected them.

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Victuals In Our Time

It is perhaps naturel that peʊ- ple with nothing to do but wall 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-bell as the sweetest music in the whole world. Idle- ness is a great begsiter 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 peniphlet.

The whole thing is fantastic. People who would be perfectly happy with the simplest supper at home must apparently have on eight-course dinner served with fanfares, flunkeys. and carnival procedure when they are in mid- cream.

One business of civilisation is surely to put food in its place. Our earliest anetstors, the food- gathering inen, had to think # great deal about ways and means of getting nourishment. Their problem was acquisition, They had to live for foed in order to live by it, just as muny 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 cased;

the leisure thus gained might be misused in the arts of war, but it could be turned also to the arts of ponce.

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 cronomie man. We should be able, in decent conditions, to think just sufficiently about rood and suffer further worry. How much

On this there that sufficiency?

never be agreement. will

both indulges und generally mortifies the flesh, the duality of Pur nature running as often to the extremes of Stole doctrine as

Man

The fifty destroyers can be Senator Clark does all he can to the gentler Epicurean, creed. Cooke's recent broadcast would targely attributed to their efforts. to help Germany by attempting For my part, I believe that Ches- realise--a very rash assumption, Their work has not by any means

to withhold essential supplies, terton usefully summed up the It is difficult enough for

been without difficulties and even from Britain. He cannot and does į matter when he said that the logic here, living

one the immediacy¦ dangers. Mr. Balderston at

not pretend to believe

the of the fast is the feast, and vice time had to

versa. have a bodyguard, United States is in danger of at-

It is reasonable to sfake which life holds for

Isolationists, of whom tack by Great Britain. He is, within reason all normal desire, days, to keep at the same level and the

How much more there are many still in the Senate, just one of those neutrals, of and the ascetic's glory in a total of keenness. must this be the case with people

whom France, Holland, Belgium. refusal is no more in nature than

provided and Norway have

SO is the unceasing who are only with us emotionally

and calculating

who

many, to whom neutrality, in- sensuality of the glutton, and sympathetically, and have around them the dally proof

stead of being sometimes admir- that life is good and sweet and

able but always, by its nature; is

negative, becomes an active vir- easy, that nature's abundance

tue. yet theirs, that their country is inviolate!

We are fortunate that so many

of the intellectual leaders of the United States either work for the

William Allen White Committee

the

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By F. Tennyson Jesse

the

A large part of the art of liv ing is the avoidance of obsessions, and it is a dreadful thing to be obsessed about lood To go beyond a sensible interest in the niceties Thus the "smear campaign" of the palate to a continual fuss- went on in the Senate. Mr. Johning 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 tore to others. ator after senator arose not to What tedium equals that created or are moved by it. William Al-

attack William Allen White per- by the constant chattering of the and of the prattler 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 The fundamental dif- of the most important pro-British members of the committee, not to attack, but members of his inflicted on us by the person who in war-time is always thinking ficulty is that the Nazi re- Americans. He organised what is ably that of John Balderston. group.

discussing now known as the White Com- What is known as a "smear cam-

about rationing and As a matter of fact the famous gime can offer no real

mittee to Defend America by Aid-paign" has been extremely active. "Seven-point Programme" sub-the state of the larder. The war

hus given

us, along with Allen basis of security for the ing Allies. William

Mr. Clark, of Missouri, on mitted to Mr. Allen White by his bomb-bores, the 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 nations of Europe--or for

firm belief that the United States' "a man by the name of Balders-six of its seven points through good thing in its

place, but its those further afield.

first line of defence is Britain, and ton, long a resident of Great Brit- American and not British sources. place is certainly not "on the The reason

the brain." hence that Britain is fighting for, ain, putting out a William Allen The "seven points" urged that na-

the United States.

White news service release

delivery to Britain of a score of tions chiefly interested in In New York Robert Sherwood,

was trying to arouse public scnti- 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 some 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

in the Nazi he fought, though a Yankee, in a of the General Staff of the Navy use of airfields stand

United be used by the British against the against

and the General Canadian regiment in the last war.

the Stoff of the States for training of pilots; 250,- Americans? It is true that 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 taken it count Halifax:

of Missouri, was then joined by a which agitated the senators most) Hitler is to be fought at all.

England must not underrate There are things to-day within

Mr. Holt, of West Virginia, who the famous secret bomb sight. our body politic which we need

I remarked that Mr. Balderston was All these requests, which were the power of the "Cpperheads." to fight not less intensely, if with

"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 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 Committes contestable. It is the fact that and for that reason to be some- was directly under 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,” innuendoes, 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- Balderaton of a crime against the part. The belief was American lay is no fault of thoirs. 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

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-

in the United States, all of them worse than that in their old age instrument of peace.

ine circumstances for a nation or

American patriots.

they may be forced to read 'with for human civilisation in which

Is it possible, pne asks oneself, shame what has been recorded for immunity from war could be too

that even these "Copperheads" ever upon the records of the Sen- dearly purchased.

"B06h" is" Senator "Cink" "and" "his"]ate.

Cutting even more in- cisively into the thinking

behind peace talk is an- other statement by Lord Halifax:

John Balderston has never in his life been directly or indirect ly under or connected with the British Ministry of Information or any other foreign Government agency.

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