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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1941.

U.S.A. "SHOULD FIGHT AXIS NOW"

PRESIDENT JAMES B. CONANT of Harvard, speaking over a nation-wide radio hook-up on the subject "When Shall America Fight?” declared that “considering only the best interests of a free United States, the hour for action is at hand,” and bluntly answering the question put by the title of his address, said "I believe we should fight now.'

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Discounting the likelihood "that the English island will be immediately overrun," the Harvard president said the blockade by the German U-boats, raiders and air force has been "all too effective; more damaging perhaps that we have yet been told."

"This is the threat whose numerical inferiority because of

superiority. This understood by technical magnitude is not

made full been

plain by those who still oppose the employment of our Navy," he de-writers. clared. This is the threat which "The advantage in speed, gun- calls for rurly and drastic action. fire, pilo's and control which en- "Our best hope of avoiding a abled the Royal Air Force to de- later battle against desperate odds feat the Naz! air armadas still lles is to become a naval belligerent with the British fliers. There is this be'ieve now. It is not too late. But the every hour for action has clearly struck. technical advantage can be main- I believe the nation is ready to tained; and when the factories of join the Bght for freedom.”

the United States reach full pro- This statement by President | duction, this qualitative superi- Conant was his first call for actual ority will be combined with an belligerency. although. as he overwhelming weight of numbers. pointed out in his address. he has

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reason

to

"There will then rest with the British control of the air, which brings with it the power of large scale daylight bombing from low altitudes. Without control of the seas, and helpless in the air, Ger- many will face defeat.

been "one of those who have Pictures German Defeat persistently advocated this nation's

steps

to taking all

necessary secure the defeat of the Axis powers-all- steps. not excluding belligerency As recently as late last week he said that the hour for action was "nearly" at hand.

He again expressed himself as "ainazed" by the point of view that the war may be ended in a negotiated peace, and declared' take. we face biller days ahead. that "no British Government that, Terrible and devastating as war

"I am arguing for immediate action. Whatever course

we

could possibly come to power will is, s'avery and national degrada-

The make peace with Hitler." people of Britain, he continued.

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The contention that. even without a negotiated peace, the war will soon be over and "we have only to stand aside and let England be overrun." he de- nounced as "a black counsel of despair."

he

!

tion are worse evils. If we fight

which we as a

trials through cally shorten the

nation shall have to pass. But whe- ther we fight now or later. I am confident that the American pro- pie

and can endure hardships suffering and still stay free.

**To assume that under the

2 CAPTAINS, 18 MEN RESCUED, SAY NAZIS

Two captains, one of them from Blyth, Northumberland, and eighteen men were rescued and taken prisoner after on attack on а said a German mili-

spokesman

tary Berlin.

convoy,

in

The two comman- ders, he stated, were Captain Scutes, from Blyth, commander of the steamer Cool Dove, and Captain Horn, from Reading, of the steamer Nor- man Queen.

HOW FAR

WILL

U.S. GO?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The White House in- dicated yesterday that

s tess of war we shall destroy President Roosevelt's fire- our form of government, or side chat on Tuesday will

plunge

tand our

into social

more

"Leaving aside the question of

chaos, is to deny the virility of contain decisions on the whether or not such an attitude

our birthright.

future course of America does credit to the spirit of a free

"During the course of than 150 years we have evolved a¦ of vital import to every and self-respecting nation,“ continued. "I believe the basis of

form of society on this unique

citizen. the argument to be wrong. It is continent. It is worth preserving. founded on the assumption that As never before in human his- we would let England fall, the tory, a whole nation has declared TARY, British fleet surrender, and make as its ideal a democratic republic SAID: "THE ADDRESS WILL which knows no c'ass distinction. NOT BE PLEASING TO OPPON- As never before in the history of ENTS OF mankind,

furnished EITHER have we education to all the people, irres- pective of hereditary privilege.

no move,

"Let us imagine that, after a sudden display of technical as well as numerical superiority in the air, the Germans do succeed in finally invading England. To be sure, this seems to me an extreme- ly remote possibility.

Would Quench "Evil

Fire"

of the

THE PRESIDENT'S SECRE- STEPHEN EARLY,

DEMOCRACY

OR

AT HOME ABROAD."

He said that was all he could reveal officially "without betray- ing the nature of the text."

There is little doubt, however, that the President will deal with "harsh facts" and will deliver a

"Or alternatively. let us im- agine that the blockade, after an- other six months, has reduced "We long for an opportunity forthright declaration on a course Great Britain's military effective-peacefully to develop still further of action which will not permit ness to the point where invasion the implications

funda-British defeat. becomes possible. This contin- mental philosophy of our nation. gency is not remote. In either case wou'd the United States then take the view that the subsequent history of the war was no affair of ours?"

Sentiment Of People

Polla, he continued,

have shown that the country is over-

the country become a

British lost.

But can peace for a free country Freedom Of Seas be maintained in the present world without a struggle? Already we The capital is buzzing with can feel the withering heat of the speculation on how far the Presi- Nazi tyranny across the seas, Un-dent will go.

of the western hemisphere. International News Service.

til the source of this evil fire is Few expect the die will be cast quenched, no free people can pros- for participation in the war but per or endure.

it is virtually certain the Presi- "Shall we take up arms and de-dent will deal with the Axis not fend

this our independence in whelmingly in favour of having hemisphere, the basis of our free too gently and will probably ex- press firm determination to main- naval institutions, of our way of life?

tain the freedom of the seas, even belligerent rather than let the Or shall we bow timidly before

with the use of the Navy, and the on-rush of a foreign power "The conclusion seems to me in- which spurns and ridicules every will warn aggressors to keep out evitable," he said. "Unless we are moral principle we hold dear? willing to yield control of this have no question of the final an- hemisphere to the Axis powers, swer nor the final outcome of the this country must sooner or later battle. Once the American people fight. Unless the United States is come to grips with the issue which prepared to shape its philosophy confronts them, I have no question to that of the totalitarian States as to the unity of this land. through a pact of mutual under- standing, we shall eventually be forced to defend, our, freedom by acts of war. The Isolationists are living in a world of wishful think- ing when they imagine the strug- gle may soon be over

Giving some hints of what he had learned in England, the Har vard head said "a successful. in-

vasion of Great Britain in my opinion would not terminate the struggle,

but rather, remove the action to our shores." Then he went on to outline the chances for ultimate victory.

"In my opinion, strategy de- manda wo fight to-morrow, honour and self-interest that we fight before the British Isles are lost. But whether we fight to: morrow or on a later day, we ehall before long close our ranks and fight to win.”

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CYCLISTS INJURED

Whilst cycling In Island Road, Shaukiwan, yesterday afternoon, a young Chinese couple lost their balance and fell over the embank-

ment.

Both were injured, the young woman seriously, and were ad- mitted to the Queen Mary Hospt-

A police report this morning disclosed that the girl was 17- year-old Miss Pan: Ngal-kwah,-of No. 447 King's Road, and that slie was still in a serious condition this morning suffering:from sévere head injuries.NAMESPOT

The young man escaped with a few abrasions.

John Hoyle, of Brown Street, Berwick, Manchester, a process "To discuss this question Intelli. worker on defence work, left the

The couple were travelling at a gently," he said, "one must realise job for an hour and a half and the significance of the great air returned under the influence of high speed down Island Road and battles of last autumn. Great Brit-drink, He was fined £10 at spilled when turning a corner, air won those battles in spite of Manchester:

falling into a nullah.