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May 8, 1940.

AN AMERICAN TALKS TO

TO CANADIANS

ABOUT

Mr. LAWRENCE HUNT:

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

Amerlenn neutrailty in this war Hitler's and Stolin'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, und, with the frantic nid of kin- dred spirits, of milksop Intellectuals and demagogic politicians, to weaken

THE

WAR

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

Under the title "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 acarching criticismi of America's role as bystander in this wear; and it created wide interest both in the United States and in this country.

One consequence was that Mr. Hunt, who is a lawyer in New York, was invited by the Canadian Club of Toronto to elaborate his views in person s their guest. Fils 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.

of the world, the subversive forces within Amerlen will be vastly streng-. thened and our present economie sys- tem thereby destroyed.,

Furthermore, there is a simple arithmetical fact favouring our entry into the war. The democracies ure 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 systema in pretty much the same manner. There is keen competition among the democracies. but there are

also understanding, our will to think and to act. If the not think or talk or worship or work Communism nɛks Jesus of Nazareth, good faith and mutual confidency,

to do with thee?" am convinced that the American Nothing-nothing at all. But most of business man cherishes those values Nazis and Communists can soften the us we please with a decent respect for "What have ! mind and soul of America, if they can our fellow man's right to do the same, us have something to do with Him. and will not remain neutral as he Even so, they say, life is worth' while Many of our religious leaders have senses the growing danger to them.

awakened As a already

to the Nazi And the decent, intelligent labouring if there is any kind of peace, result, there are many people in Ame-Communist peril to Christianity and men, who have, not succumbed to the to our need to "gird up our lains for polson of Communism, already reallac rica to-day who are rushing down righteousness' sake."

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

knifed the German Republic, Hitler A few months ago 33 of the ablest came to power, and thanks again to And in sense, already in this war.

These propagandists also appeal and most honoured lenders of the the Communists, filler is now mak- the United States, as on the European day after day to the geographical Protestant Church bade us forswearing his supreme bid to

an unholy neutrality. From the

the world.

somehow keep us nervously impotent --somehow keep us neutral-they

might win.

continent, the Nazi-Communists have

enslave the

Yes, gentlemen, the common-sense,

won a temporary advantage in their tradition of security in our physical Vatican have come words of flaming Tel. 27778/9 desperate struggle to destroy the way distance from Europe. Millions of scorn for the godless deeds of Hitler's

of life which you and we enjoy and honest Americans sincerely believe in and Stalin's leglons, Make no mis- as well as the moral sense, of America As this war goes on, will finally demand the end of our cherish. They are trying with all that tradition. They fall to realise take about it. 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 poisonous ideas, as free men, one of the great causes of paralyse our moral driving force. To especially when there are people who our entry into the war will be the their ald have sprung the enemies would gladly open the floodgates. within our gates.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wednesday, May 8, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20615

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Christian conscience of America.

Our moral traditions, like yours,

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Twenty-five years ago to-day, at But many of my fellow-citizens Include not only religious faith, but the second battle of Ypres, Canada keep on snugly repeating, "It can't also a basic belief in the freedom and gave renewed and glorious proof of M M

happen here." just as some decent dignity of the individual citizen. the fighting qualities of a demoerney people did in Germany 10 years ago. That beller is so genuine and so deep at war. It is nting and proper that we permit the Catilines in our you should take a just and solemn. Let us franidy admit our casualties. They forget that "nothing succeeds midst to abuse our patience and even pride in what you did then. At the moment the Nazi-Communist like success," and that if Nazi-Com- to advocate the destruction of that Canadians should also be proud THE preix "Special to the Telegraph" propagandists in America are success munism is not crushed in this war our belief. But what the Nazi-Com- that it was n Canadian, a graduate of is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to

propagandists forget is that Toronto University, who wrote the Indicate news which is strictly copyrightful. They

America may well be destroyed by we have fought for that belief in the greatest poem of that war. Indeed, are now conducting under the provisions of the Telecomm tal- appalling "blitzkrieg" against the the barbarians within our borders, past, we'll fight for it again, and we'll it was more than a poem-it was a sations Ordinance, 1935, Such news as Bears the indication “VI** is received in

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

de- Influences; and, whipped up into a gress of the mightiest single mocracy on earth, after eight weeks fury by some of our scribes and

would finally ap- pharisees, the mob of hysterical indecision,

choose

proved a bill whereby Finland was Barabbas to-day as it did fong ago. frantic falsehoods of our Anglo-

the fathers, 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 falling hands ίναι

: throw

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

grow In Flanders flelds." Well-Cannda's conscience is clean, You are keeping falth, ..

We Antericans know, despite the loaned a litle, money to buy, if she

Those are some of the casualties phobes, that this freedom of the in- THE once humble margarine wished, coffins to bury her dead but

and work and worship-is, by and not arms with which to defend her which the Nazi-Communists, their dividual freedom to think and speak

our part of

Anglo-Saxon will soon be giving itself airs.berty. So great was the hysteria secret sympathisers and their in- large, 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 murat

from Old England. about how the word should be not even appear in that magnificent their struggle to destroy our

fibre and our mental Integrity. We gesture of the American Republic.

The Nazi-Communist propagandists shalf suffer more casualties because

in America fave taken their que, of My final word to you to-day--and our enemies outside and Inside of course, from Adolf Hitler and are no matter what happens, don't forget consciously by our isolationists, have America are powerful, cunning, and concentrating sonie of their heaviest it-my final word is simply this: in mocked at England and France be- utterly unscrupulous in taking ad- Are on Great Britain. It is an attack our own time and in our own way, their source. If Great Britain is America-your neighbours and your cause they did not send a large army vantage of our Anglo-Saxon tradi- on the English-speaking, peoples at the people of the United States

destroyed, the other democracies in friends we also will keep the faith. to Finland's aid, which, as the Finnish tions of tolerance and fair play.

the British Commonwealth of Nations leaders have said, Norway Sweden would not permit.

dietetic

experts have been considering how the substance might be 90 raised in the scale of edibility that even in the best circles butter would never-or scarcely ever be mentioned,

Since then the Nazl-Communists, nicer and abetted consciously or un-

and

There have been other casualties.

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common-

can be conquered, and America will

then be isolated and ruined within 20,000,000

her own borders.

Well, I'll bet on Britain.

"All our past proclaims our future: IN BRITAIN

Shakespeare's volce and Nelson's

hand,

Milton's faith and Wordsworth's trust in this our chosen and chainless land,

Bear us witness; come the world

against her,

ARE BOOK

READERS

The result of these portentous

These are grim days in my coun- And yet, I believe that the deliberations is that all mar- When the Nazis shot schoolboys in try garine for the table will contain Prague as an example to other child- United States will eventually enter ren, when they murdered Catholic this war. I am placing my bets-and vitamins A and D in the same priests and tortured and enslaved the advise-you-to-do-the-same-on-the- quantity as its rationed rival. inhabitants of Poland, when they moral traditions and the

threatened the sume treatment to the sense of the American people. Margarine will thus enter upon

and of Norway helpless people

We live, like you, under a demo-. the "super" stage of its career; Sweden if they permitted an Allied cratic system of government. The Cinderella will go to the ball, army to aid Finland, there were, here

and there, nervous whispers of re- pile of democracy is high and in- Henceforth there can

be no gret. But when the British navy de- cludes for us lo-day all those casual- cans cannot risk our future on the

THE reading habits of looking backward. In time, no layed our ships several hours, as it lies I have mentioned, Doubt, de- betting chances of others. The Nazi- isolutionist dupt's arc counting doubt, butter will come to be had a right to do under international liberation and delay are part of the Communist propagandists and their

faw, some of our columnists and Con-encratic process. That has meant, heavily on those little family spats the public-a subject on and will mean again, terrible waste and irritations which have enlivened which there is singularly' looked upon ng a margarine gressmen, shelcked with rage.

the 125 years of peace in Anglo- substitute. and a poor one at that.

This is a blow to the cows of

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England yet shall stand." But, for our own sake, we Ameri-

-Gallup Survey

and inceleney, Cood citizens are American relations. It is true thet/little data-have been inves-

willing to pay that price, steep as it most of us Americans of British tigated by interviewers of is, because they have folth in the ancestry do not loudly boast of our the British Institute of

moral Judgments and heritage. We have gladly shared our ultimate

Anglo-Saxon traditions of equal Public Opinion. justice and ordered liberty with many

decisions of a free people.

Yes, the Nazl-Communist "blitzk- the British Commonwealth, who rler on American nerver has been so successful that, in fear of Hitler

During these dark days, we in line peoples who came from other First, the interviewers asked have been conscientiously doing and of having to do anything to check America are slowly-very slowly hut lands gager to enjoy our spiritual the question, "Do you find time-

inheritance and our economic op-i their duty. The scientific gen-his barbarians, the Congress of the very surely-forming our judgments

to read books?" portunities.

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

Thuse traditions are part of the section of the adult publle (over rican fing over a great part of the part in the war. There will be many

very fabric of our nation. Magna them all crumpled horns. Their waters of the world. To his lasting reasons why we shall eventually Corte, 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 reasons for our entry into the last Shakespeare and Dickens-they are 19,840,000 people, said they read' American Senate, Carter Glass, of which not even the Great Hee-Virginia, denounced this action as take war. Let us calmly take stock of the the staples of our mental and spiritual books.

e. When America's hour of decis- j Haw of Hamburch (as he callsing the United States "to the verge present situation,

The remaining 39 -per cent, repre- ton is at hand, Magna Carta, not Meln of poltrooniam" nid as dishonouring it) has hitherto had effect, can

To begin with, the moral instincts Kampf, the King Jameas Bible, not senting some 12,160,000 people, sald

Karl Marx, will triumph.

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

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

that although religion,

The interviewers discovered that: But surely, if a thing is worth tionlat politicians and pseudo-intel- want you to win. We despise Hitler however,

1radition and sentiment will greatly

Men outnumber women as readers 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. doing, it is worth doing--even frantically fighting the battles of They have outraged both our morals "hard-boiled, business-like reasons Young people outnumber middle- in wartime. Why stop at the Hitler and Stalin inside America, tell and our economies. We regard them for America's entry into the war aged people by a margin of 12 per

democracies: "We

and middle-aged people out- same quantity of vitamins as is the embattled

as "big time" gangsters. Naturally, All right. Let's see what they are. cent

number elderly people (50 and over) to be found in butter? Why really do hope and pray that you win wo hope you can put them down in

by 10 per cent. ✰

Seventy-five per cent. of people in not twice the quantity? And so that we won't have to fight alone short order. But if you can't then, be a horrible for our own peace and safety, we

the higher income group read books why not also add the vitaming some day. It would

world for us If the Nazis and Com- must lend a hand!

If Hitler and Stalin win this war, ne compared with 58 per cent. in the American which butter has not thus far munists win. God bless you, No, we

business and American lower income group. The sober-minded people of labour will go down in common ruin. In reply to a question as to how been able to bonst?

won't lend you a nickel. But-God

It took the Russo-German alliance, they came by the last book they

War.

35 per cent, said from a public library.

20 per cent. said from a 24. shop library.

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

21 per cent, borrowed lagi, boole they read.

15 per cent. bought it.

Men Buy Most

A great opportunity has been bless you, and to show how we feel America are gradually coming to the partition of Poland and the inva-[read: missed. Britain's super-"marge" about fi, we'll give you lots and lots realise that one of the chief objectives sion of Finland and Scandinavia to of moral support now and loads of of the Nazi-Communist alliance is the drive home to many of our hard- might have been made super-

destruction of the Christian religion, headed business men and to our advice If you win." plus, which surely would have

Hitler and Stalin have shown by their idealistic liberals that the objectives,

and the methods of Nazl Germany A large number of very nice, well words and even more by their deeds and Bolshevik Russia are practically gone far towards winning the

For while the enemy was meaning people indulge in that that they have determined on a Identical, Those objectives include are re- second crucifixion which, with Prus- destruction of what Hilter calls the hysterical nonsense. They stupidly stuffing his guns with miniscent of the man who set out slan thoroughness, will be so completo pluto-democracies." The Nazi lea- the very all the butter he could com- to make a fortune by manufacturing that there will be no danger to them ders have recently used

words of their Soviet ally, and are of another resurrection. mandeer, we should have been pills to curo earthquakes,

trying to delude and ensnare our Nearly twice as many men ..., as- galvanising ourselves

Despite the scribblings of our liter- labour groups with the old cry, women buy books, but nearly twice- One of the most insidious and ary scoffers, we Americans are a re- "Workers of the world, unite!” as many women as men patronise super-margarine enough to make effective tricks of our Nazl-Com- glous people and, by and large, a

2d, shop libraries, We know their methods. And we The comparatively high percentage us supermen and superwomen. munist and peace-at-any-price pro- Christian nallon. Creeds and dogmas It is not too late. As the warpagandiste 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 faith by which we live. The think that, as this war goes on, both conclusion that some of those ques-

if we almply submit we can

Included have prayers and hymns and precepts of American business men and Ameri-tioned commends the idea to those in peace. That is, we can eat and sleep Christianity are part of our daily can inbour lenders will realise that if periodicals in their definition of authority.

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

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