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May 8, 1940.

AN AMERICAN TALKS TO CANADIANS

ABOUT THE

Mr. LAWRENCE HUNT:

a

SHALL talk to you io-day simply as a plain American citizen, neighbour, and a friend,

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"Common-sense as well as Moral sense will demand the end of our Neutrality””

Under the file "An American Looks at the War," the "Hongkong Telegraph" recently reprinted a letter which had been contributed to the "New York Times" by an American reader, Mr. Lawrence Hunt, It was an outspoken challenge to the Isolationists, a searching criticism of America's role as bystander in this war; and it created wide interest hoth in the United States and fu this country.

One consequence was that Mr. Hunt, who is a lawyer in New York, wds invited by the Canadian Chub of Toronto to elaborate his views in person as their guest. His speech, delivered, on April 22, was broadcast throughout Canada, and the "Hongkong Telegraph" is glad to be able to reproduce it in full for its readers.

A few months ago 33 of the ablest

of the world, the subversive furces. within America will be vastly streng- thened and our present economle sys- tem thereby destroyed.

Furthermore, there is a simple arithmeilent fact favouring our entry into the war. The democracies are our best customers; the British Com-- monwealth of Nations is by far the largest. Moreover, you and we do business in the same way, and run our economic systems in pretty much the same manner. There is keen competition among

the democracies, But there are also understanding,

or ат convinced that the American

American neutrality in this war is Hitler's and Stalin's greatest hope- their very best chance to win. They know it, and they are employing the same, technique with us as they have done with others--to bore from with- in, and, with the frantic ald of stu- dred spirits, of milksop intellectuals and demagogle politicians, to weaken

not think or talk or worship or work Communism osks Jesus of Nazareth, our will to thinic and to act. If the Nazis and Communists can soften the as we please with a decent respect for "What have I to do will theep good faith and mutual confidence. mind and soul of América, If they can our fellow man's right to do the same. Nothing-nothing at all. But most of business mon cherishes those values

us have something to do with Him

senses the growing danger to them, sumehow keep us nervously impotent Even so, they say, life is worth while Many of our religious leaders have and will not remain neutral as he nwakened to the Nazi And the decent, intelligent labouring --somehow keep u neutral--they if there is any kind of peace. As a already

result, there are many people in Ame- Communist peril to Christianity and men, who have not succumbed to the might win.

to our need to "gird up our loing for poison of Communism, already realise rica to-day who are rushing down righteousness' sake,"

that thanks to the Communists who So we Americans are, in a certain that Galarene hillside.

knifed, the German Republle, Iller sense, already In this war. And in

These propagandists also appeal and most honoured leaders of the came to power, and thunks again to the Communists, Hitler is now mak- the United States, as on the European continent, the Nazl-Communists have day after day to the geographical Protestant Church bade us forswear ing his supreme bid to enslave the

unholy neutrality. From the world. wan a temporary advantage in their tradition of security in our physical an

Vatican have come words of flaming distance from Europe. Millions of

scorn for the godless deeds of Hitler's Yes, gentlemen, the common-sense, Stubbs Road Tel. 27778/9 desperate struggle to destroy the way honest Americans sincerely believe in and Stalin's legions. Make no mis- as well as the moral sense, of America of life which you and we enjoy and that tradition. They fail to realise take about it. As this war goes on, will finally demand the end of our cherish. They are trying with all their might and main to confuse our that an ocean frontier is no barrier and it must if you and we are to live neutrality. minds, to deaden our hearts, and to against the flood of polsonous ideas, as free men, one of the great causes of

Christian conscience of America. paralyse our moral driving force. To especially when there are people who our entry into the war will be the their aid have sprung the enemies would gladly open the floodgates,

Our moral traditions, like

to-day, at Twenty-five years ago yours, But many of my fellow-citizens include not only religious faith, but the second battle of Ypres, Canada keep on smugly repeating, "It can't also a basic belief in the freedom and gave renewed and glorious proof of happen here," just us some decent lignity of the individual citizen, the fighting qualities of a democracy people did in Germany 10 years ago. That hellef is so genuine and so deep it war. It is fitting and proper that

that

we permit the Let us frankly admit our casunflies They forget that "nothing succeeds midst to abuse our in our you should take a just and solemn

and even pride in what you did then. like success," and that if Nazl-Com- to advocate the destruction of that Canadians should also be proud THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" | propagandists in America are success munism is not crushed in this war ourist propagandists forget is

belief. But what the Nazi-Com- that it was a Canadian, a graduate of la used by the "Itongkong Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyrightful. They are now conducting

America may well be destroyed by

Toronto University, who wrote the under the provisions of the Telecommand appalling "olitzkrieg" against

have fought for that bellet in the greatest poem of that war. Indeed, the barbarians within our borders, past, we'll fight for it again, and we'll it was more than a poem-lt was a nerve centres of the American people. There are large groups in my country always fight for it so long as we re- message to each and every one of us,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, May 8, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20015

entions Ordinance, 1910. Buch new A bears the indication "U" I received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangemen

Super "Marge"

within our gates.

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At the moment the Nazi-Communist

An

the

we

About two months ago the Con- which are susceptible to subversive main free men.

#ress

that

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the futhers, brothers, sons and friends of those who did not fear to die for God and country, and for us, the living:

"Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we

throw

The torch: be yours to hold it high! If ye break faith with us who'die, We shall not sleep, though popples

grow In Flanders flelds." Well,Canada's conscience is clean. You are keeping faith,

of the mightiest single de- influences; and, whipped up into a mocracy on earth, after eight weeks fury by some of our scribes and of hysterical indecision, finally ap- pharisees, the mob would choose

We Americans know, despite the proved a bill whereby Finland was Barabbas to-day as it did long ago.

frantle falschoods of our Anglo- loaned a little money to buy, if she

Those are some of the casualties phobes, that this freedom of Uie la- their dividual-freedom to think and speak THE once humble margarine wished, coffins to bury her dead but

and work and worship-is, by and ngt arms with which to defend her which the Nazi-Comunista will soon be giving itself airs.berty. So great was the hysteria secrel sympathisers and their in- large,

Part

of our Anglo-Saxon While pedants have argued of Congress that Finland's name did nocent dupes, have inflicted on us in civilisation-part of the Inheritance which you and we have received about how the word should be not even appear in that rugnificent their struggle to destroy our mural

from Old England. fure and our mental integrity. We pronounced, dietetic

gesture of the American Repubile.

shall suffer more casualties because The Nazi-Communist propagandists experts

in America have taken their cuc, of Nazi-Communists, Since then the aided and abetted consciously or un- ur enemies outside and inside of course, from Adolf Hitler and ore no matter what happens, don't forget consciously by our isolationists, have America are powerful, cunning, raised in the scale of edibility mocked and Englund und France be utterly unscrupulous in taking and concentrating some of their heaviest fi-my final word is ne, don't forget their source. If Great Britain is America-your neighbours and your that even in the best circles cause they did not send a large any vantage of our Anglo-Saxon tradi- on the English-speaking peoples at the people of the United State butter would never or scarcely leaders have

to Finland's aid, which, as the Finnish tions of tolerance and fair play.

said, Norway ever-be mentioned,

Sweden would not permit.

There have been other ensualties.

have been considering how the substance might be

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and there, nervous whispers of re-"

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the

My final word to you to-day--and

Britain. It is an attack our own time and in our own

way.

destroyed, the other democracies in friends-we also will keep the faith.. the British Commonwealth of Nations can be conquered, and America will then be isolated and ruined within her own borders.

Well, I'll bel on Britain.

20,000,000

"All our past proclaims our future: IN BRITAIN

Shakespeare's voice and Nelson's

hand,

Milton's faith and Wordsworth's)

trust in this our chosen und ARE BOOK

chainless land, ·

Beor us witness: come the world!

against her,

the 125

of pence In Anglo-

READERS

on

The result of these portentous |

These are crim days in my coun- deliberations is that all mar- When the Nazis shot schoolboys in try. And yet, I believe that gurine for the table will contain Prague as an example to other child- United States will eventually enter I am placing my bets-and ren, when they murdered Catholic this war. _vitamins_A_and_D_in_the same priests and tortured and enslaved the advise you to do the same in the quantity as its rationed rival inhabitants of Poland, when they" merül "traditions and the common Margarine will thus enter upon helpless people

threatened the same treatment to the sense of the American peopic.

and of Norway

We live, like you, under a demo- the "super" stage of its carcer: Sweden if they permitted an Allied cratic system of government. The

England yet shall stand." Cinderella will go to the ball. army to sid Finland, there were, bere price of democracy is high and In-

But, for our own sake, we Ameri-

--Gallup Survey ilenceforth there can be no

grel. But when the British navy de. cludes for us to-day all those casual- cans cannot risk our future on the Lies I have mentioned. Doubt, de- betting chances of others. The Naz!- looking backward. In time, no layed our ships several hours, as it

THE reading habits of isolationist dupes are counting doubt, butter will come to be and a right to do under international beration and delay are part of the Communist propagandists and lucir

the public-a subject faw, some of our columnists and Con- democratie process. That has incant, ticavily on those little family spals|

and will mean again, terrible waste and irritations which have enlivened which there is singularly looked upon as a margarine gressmen shrieked with rage.

and inefficiency. Good citizens are American relations. It is true that little data-have been inves substitute, and a poor one at

willing to pay that price, steep as it t

most of us Americans of British tigated by interviewers of in, beenuse they have faith in the that.

ancestry do not loudly boast of our moral judgments and heritage. We have gladly shared our the British Institute of This is a blow to the cows of

Yes, the Nazl-Communist "ulitzk- ultimate

Anglo-Saxon traditions of equal Public Opinion. justice and ordered überly with many the British Commonwealth, who rieg" on American nerves has been decisions of a free people.

During these dark days, we in fine peoples who came from other) so successful that, in fear of Hiller

First, the interviewers asked have been conscientiously doing and of having to do anything to check America are slowly--very slowly but lands eager to enjoy nur spiritual the question, "Do you find time their duty. The scientific gen-his barbarians, the Congress of the very surely-forming our judgments inheritance and our economie op-

portunities,

to read books?"

Of the representative cross- tleman called Ersatz has given United States hauled down the Ames and reaching our decisions about our

rican flag over a great part of the part in the war. There will be many Those traditions are puri of the section of the adult pablle (over them all crumpled horns. Their waters of the world. To his lusting reasons why we shall eventually Carta, the common law, the Bill of 21 years of age) questioned, 62 well-known placid dignity on honour, the greatest statesman in the enter this war, as there were many Rights, the King James Bible, per cent., representative of some which not even the Great Hee-American Senate, Carter Glass, reasons for our entry into the last Shakespeare and Dickens they are fe. When America's hour of deels-

books. Haw of Hamburch (as he calls in the United States to the verge war. Let us calmly take stock of the the staples of our mental and spiritual 19.840,000 people. said they read Ion is at hand, Magna Cariu, not Mein | The remaining 38 per cent, repre- it) has hitherto had effect, can of poitroonism" and as dishonouring

To begin with, the moral instincts Kampf, the King Jameas Bible. notsenting some 12,100,000 people, suid

they never read books. of the American people are in sound Karl Marx, will triumph. scarcely be expected to stand our World War dead.

Many of our muddy-thinking isola condition. The vast majority of us Our worldly-wise friends tell w the strain.

that although religion, But surely, if a thing is worth tionist politicians and pseudo-intel- want you to win. We despise Hitler however,

tradition and sentiment will greatly doing, it is worth doing-even lectuals who, quite unconsciously, are and Stalin and all they stand for influence us, yet there must also be by a margin of 4 per cent.

frantically fighting the battles of They have outraged both our morals hard-boiled. business-like reasons in wartime. Why stop at the Hitler and Stalin inside America, teil und our economics. We regard them for America's entry into the war, same quantity of vitamins as is the

as "big time" gangsters. embattled democrucica: "We

Naturally, All right. Let's see what they are. to be found in butter? Why really do hope and pray that you win we hope you can put them down in not twice the quantity? And so that we won't have to fight alone short order. But if you can't then, why not also add the vitamins some day. It would be a horrible for our own peace and safely, we which butter has not thus far world for us if the Nazis and Com" must lend a handi

been able to boast?

Virginia, denounced uris action ng tak-

present situation.

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very fabric of our nation. Mogna

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The Young Road Most The interviewers discovered that: Men outnumber women as readers

Young people outnumber middle- aged people by a margin of 12 per and middle-aged people out- cent., number elderly people (50 and over) by 10 per cent.

Seventy-five per cent. of people in the higher income group read books.

If Hitler and Stalin win this was, as compared with 68 per cent, in the Americon business und American lower income group.

men

hard-

and to our

35 per cent. sald from a public Ilbrary.

20 per cent, sald from a 2d. shop library.

9 per cent, suld from a subscrip- tion library.

munists win. God bless you, No, we

The sober-minded' people of labour will go down in common ruin, In reply to a question as to how won't lend you a nickel. But-God

came by the last book they A great opportunity has been bless you, and to show how we feel America are gradually coming to It took the Russo-German alliance, they

sion of Finland and Scandinavia to missed. Britain's super-"marge" about it, we'll give you lots hind lots realise that one of the chief objectives the partition of Poland end the inva-read: might have been made super- of moral support now and loads of of the Nazl-Communist alliance is the drive home to many of our

destruction of the Christian religion. headed business plus, which surely would have advice if you win

Hitler and Stalin have shown by their Idealistic liberals that the objectives gone for towards winning the A large number of very nice, well- words and even more by their deeds and the methods of Nazi Germany

and no

Bolshevik Russia are practically war. For while the enemy was meaning people indulge in that that they have determined on a identical. Those objectives include

21 per cent, borrowed last booke hysterical nonscrise. They are re- second crucifixion which, with Prus- destruction of what Hitler calls the

they read. stupidly stuffing his guns with miniscent of the man who set out sim thoroughness, will be so complete pluto-democracles." The Nazi Ica- 15 per cent bought it all the butter he could com- to make a fortune by manufacturing that there will be no danger to them ders have recently used the very

of another resurrection.

words of their Soviet ally and are

Mon Buy Most mandeer, we should have been pills to cure earthquakes.

and trying to delude

ensnare our Nearly twice as many men galvanising ourselves with

Despite the scribblings of our Ifter abour groups with the old cry, women buy books, but nearly twico One of the most...Insidious and ary scoffers, we Americans are a re-workers of the world, unite!" 133 super-margarine enough to make effective tricks of our

many women as men putraniza Nazi-Com- ligious people und, by and large, a

2d. shop libraries. us supermen and superwomen, munist and peace-at-any-price pro- Christian nation. Creeds and dogmans We know their methods. And we The comparatively high percentage It is not too Inte. As the war pogandists. is to portray vividly the mean less than they once did, but know, too, Hitler's betrayal of busi-of people who said they bought books Christian principles are the basis of ness and Stalin's betrayal of labour. (15 per cent.) led interviewers to the is still young, one confidently horrors of war and then tell us that the folth by which we live. The i think that, as this war goes on, both: conclusion that some of thear ques- commends the idea to those in peace. That is, we can eat and sloep Christianity are part of our dally can labour leaders will realise that periodicals in their definition of a

if we simply submit we can have prayers and hymns and precepts of American business men and Ameri- tioned

magazines and authority.

and do as we are told. True, we can- living. The unclean spirit of Nazi- Nazl-Communism dominates the rest book.

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