1941-05-07 — Page 41

'THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

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MR. STIMSON URGES USE OF AMERICAN NAVY

Strategic Moment

For Guaranteeing

Security Of Seas

NOW

PERMIT

ΤΟ BE

FLINCH.. AND THESE MUNITIONS SUNK IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN?

No Precedent

"Our entire history shows ΠΟ precedent to make such a supposi- tion creditable. Neither the Gov- ernment nor people of the United States have ever given occasion to make anyone believe such an act of irresponsibility and Indecision would be possible.

"The unrestricted submarine warfare Germany is carrying on in the north Atlantic, ainking chips without warning and with- out 2 possibility of saving the lives of their crews, is not a legal blockade under the rules of marine warfare.

IMMEDIATE USE OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, “TO MAKE THE SEAS SECURE FOR THE DELIVERY OF MUNITIONS TO BRITAIN,” WAS URGED BY MR. HENRY L. STIMSON, U.S. SECRETARY OF WAR, IN A BROADCAST SPEECH TO THE NATION LAST NIGHT.

"The world is facing so great a crisis

post-war period to impose

"IT HAS NEVER BEEN RE- that all our efforts must be turned towards rule upon a docile-minded nation COGNISED AS LAWFUL BY

which has more than once THE UNITED our nation's safety," he temporarily yielded its love the defence of

ot AMERICA'S SPOKESMEN AT declared.

liberty to the efficiency of the INTERNATIONAL CONFER- ENCES HAVE AGAIN AND

At the outset, Mr. Stimson answered some critics who to-day were calling him war- monger and who opposed America's present efforts at national defence.

"The fact is that for many years dence without their territory. after the Great War, both as al both domestic and international private citizen and as Secretary law have gone down under their of State, I laboured with my full blows. strength for the establishment of the reign of law among nations, under which their controversies should be settled by judicial methods instead of by force.

"There was a time when such 箍 movement seemed full of hope. To-day that time has passed temporarily, we trust - and our hopes of peace have been dashed by international aggression.

"The world is facing so great a crisis that all our efforts inust be turned towards defence of our nation's safety.

"For that reason to-night I am speaking of that crisis and of our defence in meeting it.

Hitler's Ambition

"In 1933 a group of men under the leadership

Hitler of Adolf obtained possession of the Gov- ernment in Germany and over- threw the German Republic,

"Both within and without Ger- many they have set back the clock time more than five centuries. They have embarked on a scheine of conquest

which is avowedly intended to be worldwide.

"For that purpose they have built up in secret an immense mi Itary machine based on the forced labour of Germany.

Destroying Civilisation

"They have already atacked, conquered or occupied Austro, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France. Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, and have reduced the people of these 13 countries to serfdom, semi-slavery and Nazi despotism. "They have attached to their Axle as vassals two other na-

tions dominated by the same

purpose of military conquest — Italy, guilty of unprovoked at tacks upon Ethiopia. Albania

and Greece, and Japan, guilty of a similar attack upon her! neighbour.

Freedom Dashed Aside

"We are so close to these

Rule Of Gestapo

"For the rule of law they have substituted the rule of the gestapo secrel police under whose malign terrorism no vestige of personal freedom is safe.

THE SO-CALLED "THIS IS NEW ORDER WE FACE TO- DAY.

"It has openly announced its hostility to Us and our order. It has been steadily encircling our western world.

autocrat.

his

been

STATES

FORM OF PIRACY.

"His rise has been facilitated AGAIN CONDEMNED IT AS A by many an accident which might casily have prevented. Many an sentinel of liberty has caught moments.

napping at

"It was expressly the violation unwary of law and humanity involved in unrestricted submarine warfare which in 1917 caused the Presi- dent and Congress to take up arms

been vital

Berlin Fiat

"To-day, Germany, by these same illegal means, is not

PLOT TO POISON BRITISH WOUNDED

At least two at- tempts have been made to poison blood donated in New York for British wounded, Captain Charles Skully, of the American Red Cross, revealed to a New York correspondent.

KOWLOON

BARRACKS EXPLOSION

Three Chinese workers only were killed 'outright

"But, as has always happened in defence of the freedom of the before, the progress of man along seas, the path to freedom will be taken

curried up again and

forward with a new spirit and with fresh knowledge acquired by unhappy experiences, of the past.

TO BE FRIGHTENED INTO seeking to frighten our commerce THE BELIEF THAT HITLER and our vessels from the Atlantic, yesterday when a dyna- HAS CREATED A NEW AND she has extended even into the mite container suddenly PERMANENT WORLD ORDER Western hemisphere a zone

has forbidden WOULD

us to exploded BE AS NAIVE AS IT which she WOULD BE COWARDLY.

"Hitler has not only torn up the rules of international

law!

Naval Assistance

į enter.

into

Barracks.

in

Whitfield

32, The men, Wong Cheung, but he is expending his lawless Lau Fong, 28, and Chung Yung, West activities into our hemisphero. 18, were working in the his Mr. Stimson, describing

"Our Government is acting

Fort in Whitfield Barracks, filling suggestion of full American naval

with care and prudence. "For

But our Containers with dynamite when "Its advance agents are already assistance to Britain, sa.d

that

the accident occurred. busy in the Republics to the south many years we have been build-own self-defence requires

limits should be put to lawless of us, building strategic air lines ing and maintaining our Navy. through vital positions on that "On the day that Navy should aggression on the ocean.

"The President has said continent and creeping up towards make secure the seas for delivery our Panama Canal.

of our munitions to Great Britain, must not allow steps which

have already taken "its armed forces

are it will render as great a service

ineffective. threatening West Africa, looking to our own country and to the towards a jumping off

place preservation of American freedom within easy

all the as it has rendered in Brazilian coast.

glorious history. "ITS PROPAGANDISTS ARE

reach

of

ALREADY VIGOROUSLY ACTIVE IN OUR OWN POPULA- TION.

Uncommon Skill

its

to

We

They were the only persons in the West Fort, and no witnesses are available to supply a clue to the cause of the accident. We become

Canton The entire district, Road, Halphong Road and Austin Road felt the' blast of the explosion.

Grave Seriousness

The men are understood to be

"I don't minimise the danger fitters of the British section of the "Supplementing the efforts of which confronts us. This is Kowloon-Canton Rallway. the British Navy, it can renderian occasion for grave seriousness secure all oceans, north, south,, but not for gloom or despondence.

west and east, which surround)

our continent. "In that way it can help check the rush of the tide

to

of

"Hitler and his military asso- Nazism until the other defence ciates have seized their oppor- forces of all the Democracles are tunities with uncommon skill, completed.

virus

has

They have used their power to "This would eventually and inculcate into the plastle minds of permanently confine the force a generation of youth the abhor- despotism until the rent reactionary doctrines of run its course and the tide of other men.

freedom has begun to rise again.

Strategic Moment

"I have studied the military policy of the Axis powers and

I do not underestimate the courage of their men in battle, "BUT I ALSO KNOW WELL

THE INITIATIVE, APTITUDE

AND COURAGE OF THE MEN OF THIS COUNTRY. I HAVE

TAKUNGPAO

HONOURED

of BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE IT IS ANNOUNCED IN WASH-”

PLANS WHICH ARE BEING INGTON THAT THE CHINESE MADE BY OUR MILITARY NEWSPAPER "TA KUNG PAO"

AWARDED BEEN

THE FOR HAS

EACH GOLD MEDAL GIVEN YEAR BY THE UNIVERSITY OF THE MISSOURI SCHOOL OF

AND NAVAL LEADERS OUR DEFENCE.

with

"They have taken advantage of modern science to develop in Decret, while other nationa

Full Faith t'ept,

mechanised a

striking "On the other hand, if our Navy's] force of unprecedented power. assistance should be withheld un-

"Provided all act "They have used every method til the power of the British Fleet promptness and united spirit, 1 of duplicity and propaganda to and nation is broken, its own have full faith in the outcome.

would surprise their victim nations with

of power sudden attack.

at once shrink to but an impotent] fraction of what it could do at the present moment.

"They nov arrogantly confront the world, including ourselves, with the alternative of abject sur- render or uncompromising force- ful resistar ze.

America's Policy

"I cannot recall that the United

execution

cannot,

JOURNALISM.

The Award will be made during Journalism Week later this month

and the Medal will be received "But I am not one of those on behalf of the paper by Mr. who think that the priceless David Lu. Central News Service freedom of our country can correspondent in the United States. be saved without sacrifice. It "The Award was made in recognition of the manner in which the paper carried on during peregrinations from Tientsin to Chungking, for the high standard of journalism maintained and for humane civilisation." its independence in constructive

editorials. - Reuter.

"If we should allow the pre- pass moment to sent strategic

"That has not been the way until the power of the British by which, during a million years, Navy is gone, our Navy would humanity has slowly and painfully become merely a secondary toiled upwards to a better and power instead of a deofsive win- more ning power in the world con Reuter. test.

"By this conquest they have States throughout its history destroyed western civilisation, even when it was small and IS IT CONCEIVABLE THAT which had been slow'y building weak-has yielded to such à THE AMERICAN PEOPLE up in Europe ever since the Dark demand--Let us see whether WOULD ALLOW THIS TO HAP- Ages.

there is any need to change our PEN AFTER THE CAREFULLY policy now.

DETERMINED COURSE WHICH "In the first place, this so-called WE HAVE PURSUED. UNTIL new order of Hitler's is not new; THIS MOMENT, AFTER THE and it has not and never will CLEAR STATEMENTS AND AP- create order in this world,

PEALS MADE BY OUR PRESI- "Hitler's rogime

brutal DENT IN RESPECT OF THE lawlessness is merely one of | DANGER THAT CONFRONTS those temporary reactions which US, AFTER THE OVERWHELM- have occurred.. at.. intervals ING RESPONSE TO HIS AP- during all man's long,history PEALS WHICH HAS BEEN | of progress upward..

MADE BY CONGRESS, -AFTER

sudden happenings that we can hardly yet realise the havoc which has thus been wrought both within and without the national bound- arles of that unhappy continent.

"The growth of freedom has been so long and so steady that we had come to bellave it would Boon be the recognised system of the "whole world,

of

"Since his origin, millions of WE HAVE TAKEN OUR PLACE years ago, ambitious men many DEFINITELY BEHIND THE times have attempted a worldwide WARRING DEMOCRACIES AND All at once it has been dashed conquest over, the liberties of AGAINST THE AGGRESSOR aside and trampled on by these their fellow-men.

Nazi rulers who are proposing to

establish at world order În which Caught Napping

they shall be masters, the people

of all other nations their, slaves. “But they have

never

NATIONS IN DEFENCE OF OUR FREEDOM, AFTER PRO- VIDING FOR BILLIONS WORTH OF MUNITIONS TO CARRY ON THAT, DEFENCE. AND WHILE

INSTRUMENT READY. WAND

They have left no such thing permanently succeeded and they WE HOLD IN OUR HANDS AN as the individual rights of never wille

fiberty: within their territory, orHitler has taken advantage of ABLE TO MAKE ALL THESE International rights of indepen- the discontent of

troubled iSTEPS EFFECTIVE SHALL WE

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