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POSSIBILITIES

IN EUROPE IT WAS TOTAL WAR IN THE U.S. IT WAS A SHOCK-THE GRIM EVENT HAD FINALLY ARRIVED For Franklin Roosevelt, who had the benefit of forewarning from the U.S. diplomatic corps-he returned to Washington three days before the Nas; thrust-the shock was measurably cushioned. He had an opportunity before most other men to consider in the cold light of reason an even momentous event; a change in the visible shape of things to come......

Mr. Neville Chamberlain

SELF-SUFFICIENT OBSTINACY.

Although Prime Minister Chur- châî included Els předecessor - in his War Cabinet, the public career of Mr. Neville Chamberlaid was all but ended when he surrendered

What Franklin Roosevelt saw, dictatorships in control of Europe, or thought he saw—as he faced Asia and Africa, the US would his seals of office, the most apes- perhaps the gravest responsibility have to decide whether it could tacular failure in English political which any U.S. President can face then acord to be cut off from its history 'since Palmerston,

EARLY YEARS

he did not choose to sax in supply of these strategic materials, public. But as the psychological However the US, decision goes, it

When Kipling was singing the shock receded, all men had grow will be serious, and may well be glories of Empire in India, Mr. ing opportunity to see for them- made on short notice. Selvès one nèw \probability' and ' OTHER POSSIBILITIES many new possibilities-things The other possibilities, still un- which seemed fantastic a fort considered, which confronted the the thin soll of Andros Island in the Bahamas, to recoup his night ago.

family's fortunes.

Néville Chamberlain wis path- stakingly trying to rise sisal ön

US. because of last week's events. FIRST PROBABILITY were the prospective consequences

When his father, Old Jos Cham- The arst of these-a probability of a quick and overwhelming Der- -was that, contrary to original man victory. Fortnight ago these beriain, as Colonial Secretary, was U.S. assumption, the war was not were largely fantastic specula-working to bring the Boers to likely to turn into a three-or-four- tions. In a short time they may terms, Neville was learning the hardware business in Birmingham year endurance contest. So far at become immediate, practical `pro-

and interesting himself in health least as present operations in bleins, Europe are concerned, the,, war K Britain, France and Holland work. The age of Victoria molded. had become more likely than not should be conquered, what will him into a typical Englishman of to end within a year. Hitler had become of their empires? Should is time-not a Kipling English- made his cholce-whether out of the US seize Greenland? Berman, but a Galsworthy Soames shrewd calculation, melodramatic muda? Jamaica? Barbados? Trini Forsyte. Mr. Neville Chamberlain's teriperament. or the pressure of dad? Curacao? Dutch, French and mind was once described as "the necessity within

Guana? Germany to British

British Hon-type which was considered advanc- stake all on an immediate decision düras? other colonies in the Wesed and enlightened at the close, of

the last century." tern Hemisphere?

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of arms.

The war which he waged in The Netherlands and Belgium was not a kind of war which either side can long endure. It resembled the fateful drives which the Germans staged in 1918.

Its almost certain end: (1) overwhelming victory for the ét, tachers or (2) their inevitable collapse, from exhaustion of má- terial as well as of morále. Even Germany's great tactories cannot. for example, turn out aircraft as fast as they were destroyed: Only

OBSTINACY

What relationship should the U.S. try to establish with an in- He was a competent Lord Mayor dependent Canada? If the British of Birmingham (1915-16), but of Fleet should be surrendered to his efforts as wartime Director of Germany, how could the U.S. solve National Service Lloyd George its naval problem with such a wrote in his memoirs: "A vein of threatening force in the Atlantic self-sufficient obstinacy in the new and the Japanese Fleet In the Minister, contributed to the dim- Paciner.

culties that baffled all our endea-

If the British Fleet should re-vours...Mr. Chamberlain is a man of tire to Canada, would the US. [of rigid competency, Such men undertake to share in the cost of have their uses in conventional its support ca far greater experise times or in conventional positions. than Canada could bear)? With ...but they are lost in an emergency

or in creative tasks at any time."

a prophet could foresee the out-U.S. trade siready shrinking be- come. But an examination of pre- cause of Germany's Invasions. sent facts made plain that an what will be the economic future outcome had become imminent. of the U.S.?

The times Mr. Neville Chamber- lain came upon as Prime Minister were not conventional ones: They saw superannuation and compla- cency go down before threadbare desperation, Christian morality

PROVED WRONG.

NEW POSSIBILITIES

GRIM QUESTIONS This probability raised for the These things might still be only U.S. new and on the whole un-questions, but they are no longer familiar possibilities. Hitherto, fantastic -questions. Franklin and capitalist. economy succumb when the US has considered (and Roosevelt in the White House had to the hungry rule of tooth and almost unanimously refected) the to be ready with sound practical claw. possibility of itself going to war, answers to them if they arose, It has thought in terms of fight Ing beside the Allies in Europe. But if an outcome of the war in Europe is imminent; the US. will not be called on to consider that possibility-the war there will be over before armed Intervention is possibli

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It would not be too fantastic for

There was a grim possiblity that They saw Anschluss, Munich, U.S. citizens may also have. to Prague, Poland, Norway. Neville consider them. 14

Chamberlain's vein of self-su.X-- Within thefetime ot men clent obstinacy made him believe already old, such things may come he could cope with them and made to pass,

[the desperate, träumatic old Em-. Wrote Walter Lippmann omin pire believe in him, while Adolf ously: "T the offensive which

Hitler repeatedly proved him The first and agilest of the pos- Hitler has now launched succeeds.

wrong. sibilities created last week is that we shall know no peace in our the U.S. may, within a few months lifetime......our duty is to begin Hitler to bave hastened his inva- if not a few weeks, have, to de acting at once on the basic as- cide whether or not it will go to sumption that the Allies may losesion of the Low Countries in an War in another theatre. If Ger- the war this summer, and that effort to take advantage of the man victory begins to look pro- before the snow tiles again we Cabinet crisis, to keep Chamber- bable, it is highly possible that may stand alone and isolated, the lain in power. If that was his in- Japan will move to seize The last great Democracy on earth. tention, Britain for once had fool- Netherlands East Indies. If Ger-

"There is no more time left for ed him. many goes on to destroy the Bri-conducting our affairs од the Hoare. Simon and other appeasers, tish Empire, Japan may seize Bri- básis of Gallup polls and on the she turned at last to face her tish Malaya.

hunches of office-seekers as to destiny.

Without Chamberlain,'

Those far-off lands mean little what voters of Nebraska or West to the US-except that thence Virginia are going to think next come major portion of the rubber November......The first thing that this country are just about fed up all this calculated insin- and the tin on which the U.. de- must be done only the President with pends. There is no other present can do. He must tell the people cerity. They are aware of the ex- source from which the US. can the truth as he sees it, and trust treme peril of this hour and they get an adequate supply of these to their patriotism and their good will respond to the leadership of the President of the United necessities, particularly rubber.

With the prospect of victorious

sense.

The

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