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The Evacuation

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"We in the Western Hemi- sphere cannot pormit a German victory:”—Mir:_J.__W. Gerard, American Ambassador to Ger. many during the last war, in a recent article."

AMERICA THE

-By-

G. Ward Price

THE people of the

German might. We should have to United States. dis- meet and maite good the declara like intensely the idea of taking tons of the Monroe Doctrine," part in this war.

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***** America's best

course," said the

of

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up

the

WAR?

In the Pacific, there would still be aquadrons to spare for the purpose

preserving-peace-in-the-Mediter

of

ronean, We do not yet know how much Mr. Roosevelt's unpublished message to Mussolint may have done nirendy to delay Italy's threatened entry into the warz".

name

was in Italy that, on a recent

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American war supplying the Allles.

Industries for tour of neutral States, I heard the opinion expressed with the greatest But though the United States, like America would ultimately jola in emphasis and confidence that How Soon?

ourselves, long neglected military the war. The British nation would be the

preparations, would have an im- last to blame them. Their attitude

One of mediate and far-reaching effect upon AMERICA 'Is

the most authoritative closely resembles that of our own

now very nearly the fortunes of this war if America Publie men in the country, whose Government and public during those ready to come to the aid of the d

challenge

known throughout the European democracies. Her citizens Hitlerism.

of world, told me that he maintained disastrous of 1935-1930 when

years this country remained idle while in Europe have been oficially advised

to leave.

The blow to German morale might this point of view even against the German rearmed before our eyes. "Immediate declaration of

be decisive. The parallel with inst scepticism of his American visitors. The Americans do not want war;

war time would be of deadly omen to the Britain in this war," he said, "first "America will yot fight beside neither did wt. By that wishful against Germany is quite probably enemy. Then, as now, the war DC for sentimental reasons, atcondly. thinking which seems an Anglo New York Herald-Tribune. Signs of an with swift and sweeping German because Britain buys in normal Saxon characteristic, they now-B

victories. Now, as then Germany times we then-convinced themselves. that "pproaching intervention accumulate. would be doomed from the moment goods per year, and thirdly becaitse £120,000,000 of American Two vital questions are: Will it be the vast resources of the United America now has three-quarters of effective, and will it come in time?

States were arrayed against her the world's gold, which is useless ir resistance by the Nor would it be long before direct Alles is vital to the interests of the American help might become art she does not lend it, and Britain is Yet Fate may be as inexorable for Lippmann, the well-known publicist,

the only country she will trust with United States," said Mr. Waiter able.

commercial loans." them AB It was for us.

"bul," he goes on. The

President Roosevelt has declared Britain and France cannot inter-

are fighting Since the European War began, vene by force of arms in the war himself against the despatch of an desperately to defend the vital in the attitude of the United States has that is now being fought.

American army overseas, but that terests oven the existence of every and been a complicated

would not debar him from sending democratic nation in the world, In- self-con-

"If we wished to intervene we the Fleet and Air Force, which could cluding the United States. In that tradictory one. The American people

We have nothing to come much more rapidly into action, struggle we may are strictly neutral in law, violently could not.

intervene with." anti-German

sure that. In sentiment,

Even though the greater part of America will not stand idly byto and

He recommends-a-vast-expansion the American Navy might be needed sceus defeated and destroyed, strongly isolationist in policy.

During the past month there have been signs of change in this de

meanour of detachment,

the worst would not happen, and

that the danger would somehow als appear before reaching its catas- trophic ellmax.

י

Since April 10 the Nazi hordes have overrun four neutral countries which asked nothing better than to be left out of the war. Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Belgium have been ruthlessly Invaded without provocation or excuse. To these, countries many of the most respected and influential citizens of the United States trace their racial origin.

New and powerful sympathies have been aroused in America for the Allied nation that have staked

attempt to dominate by their existence in opposing the Nazi conquest, first Europe, and ultimately the whole world.

"None of us can tell when we may become involved in the struggle now raging," sald General Pershing, broadcasting to the American people.

Leading American newspapers now describe a continuance of neutrality as "unthinkable." Prominent polí- tical writers hava declared that the situation-of-the-United-States-would- be critical if Germany won.

Wireless has done it. The enormn- ous development of broadcasting has brought the fundamental facts of German aggression home to every member of that nation of 130,000,000.-

IT IS too early yet to comment on

It is not Allied propaganda that Che-success-or-otherwise of the has brought about

about this change of exceedingly telelish work of extrica-view in the United States. America's ting the Brilish and French forces new attitude is due to the processes of her own national inner conscious- from Flanders, although reports ness. yesterday seemed to indicate that the carly part of this operation has been attended by greater success than we dared hope for 48 hours ago. The feat of withdrawing 750,000 men Not that the United States hesitated from a wide battlefield along a for a moment as to which side was corridor only twenty to thirty miles in the right. From the first day of wide would be a brilliant one even

the war the leading American news- were it only half-achieved and ler as the sole creator of the Euro- papers unanimously denounced Hit- would rank even greater than the pear conflict. "He has written the Gallipoli Evacuation in the last war. history of his infamy

in his own No artillery work at Gallipoll or, for Tribune on September 3.

words," said the New York, Herald- that matter, anywhere in the last war, can be compared with the devasta-York Sun, has brought about this "Hitlerism," declared the Now tion wrought by aeroplanes in the war; its fitting end-must-see-Hitler- present war, and the expenditure of iam irreparably crushed."

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By Strube STRATRE

ARTICLE FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES

Only the grim trophies of "war, captured cannon and rows of white crosses, remain to remind Belgians of the Great War.

Jan 000-pound shell over thirty miles. To-day it is a museum, one of the "sights" of the town,

At Middelkerke, between and the

"Funk hole trouller, is the

Flant

high explosives by the Germans In their attempt to black the Allies' exit at Dunkirk has probably been of a

IN the first month of the fighting, prodigious nature. When the with a poll taken by the magazine Fortune drawal is completed, as completed it showed 83 per cent. of the votes must be before the end of this week, wanting the Allies to win, while only It will be found that the western

per

cent. favoured a German vic- front line will most likely be from

tory.

The long spell of inactivity imposed Abbeville on the coast to Amiens, by winter damped this American Peronne, St. Quentin, Rethel and ardour for the Allled cause. Trans around to Montemedy, on the Franco- | atlantic critics began to call it o Luxembourg | frontier. This front "phoney war." line is strikingly similar to the line especially the last week, bave proved The events of the last month, and of the Somme in 1918, Just before the that it is anything but a "phoney German collapse came, the exception [war." It is a desperate attempt, de- being that the Germans to-day will liberately planned by experts in the have control of the English coast art af oppression, to crush all liberty channel north of Abbeville. It will in Europe, to etulave Independent

This article first publish- and to set up a German be interesting to see whether the donation of the Old World.

ed in the "Telegraph" four years ago, is of interest to- Germans can break the Somme line.

Comprehension of this has shaken

Ostend by further use of their mechanisa- and stirred America.

Other sorrows have come to dim

day. tion, or whether, despite the colossal longer appears a remote struggle years when the German hordes storm-cities to suffer; these are now new There

The war no the memory of those four terrible rubble; Louvain, one of the first-fair Admiral vor.

built for the German use of bombs and mechanimation, the tween European States. Public

Schroder in 1915. infantry arm will continue, as of old, opinion has realised that a Nazi vlc-

ced across Belgium

used to be electricity, and towns with pretty pink houses. Their steam-heat To-day, the younger generation town halls and public buildings have underground to be the queen of the battlefield. tory, by putting the entire resources

throughout the vast It seems certain that the tremen-

of Europe at Hitler's disposal, would feels that war will not come again to risen ogül' in all the glory of cen- bedroom was protected by concrete building. Schroder's dous infantry engagements in Flan- enable him to follow up international tiny Belgium.

turies-old architecture. The ders, in which British and French aggression by inter-continental ag-

In a Europe, torn by war fears, around are once more waving with reinforced by steel plates..

fields walis nearly two yards thick and troops have fought their brilliant gression.

with war actually progressing in discorn, barley and wheat, covering the rear-guard action to the coast, re Even before the attack on the Low tant Ethiopia, Belgium belleves that scars of war. Even the trees have main the most dramatic feature of Countries begun, Colonel Franks the powers will come to her aid, If grown again, the struggle in the north. In the Knox, proprietor of the Chicago need be, more quickly than they did

Nieuport was the scene of some of German attacks through the breach Daily News, a newspaper which had 21 years ugo.

Not far away, however, is the other the bloodiest ghting. The town: in the French lines at Sedan the

But the wise old men are taking instance is the Lonoin Fort, where has now been rebuilt. The old forti- side of the picture. At Llogo, for was almost completely destroyed, but | enemy's_tanks and planes created a

enemy of American peace and secu-pean nations Belgium is seeing to her refuge in August, 1914, as the Ger- danare still there. They were tuda have counted more in the end, rity may be found than the champion defences "Just in case."

The Nazis are disposed to magnify of blind. isolation. It is against our

mari stanmroller, rumbled steadily built by the Frenchman Vauban in the success of their initial blow and vital

Forts along the frontiers have been forward: A giant shell exploded in 1815. The old powder house resisted interests to have Germany strengthened; the the danger it brings to England. The emergo from this war with complete have been increased, Nobody

fighting forces the powder house, killing the general all modern shells and bombe, The Germans have certainly

12 and hundreds of men.. domination both of land and sea in more educated in the horrors of war

· Troop: tremendous amount of ground and the Eastern Hemisphere.

christened it the "rubber. To-day the fort Ja'n heap of con- are within artillery, range of Eng-

from the air than the Belgian and This leading Republican, who stood his air-raid precautions are among been cleared for sightseers. Nearly de la Mort" or "Trench of Death." crete.. Some of its corridors have There 100, is the famous #Beyau land's south-eastem coust for the for the Vice-Presidency in 1830, the best on the continent. first time in history, but their losses went on to enumerate the dangers to in men, tanks and planes have been, the United States of a German vid stand the relies of that war of 21 Alongside new-built bomb shelters

all the kings of Europe have visited It was held by the Belgians from 1015.,

onwards until the Germans, dug a to all accounts, staggering. We will tory over France and Britain.

In Flanders, where the war raged trench, from which they poured a be content to know that the British German penetration Expeditionary Force in Belgium, and Indies would threaten the Panama ings of what war

in the West War Implements, ever-lasting warn for three years and ten months, the withering engrading fire

relics are more frequent, our French allles in the north, too, Canal. After the disintegration of

At Couckelsero,

from can do. Others

The Wilhelm 11 battery is at Bruges, is the most famous gun of: are removed to safety. That they are the British Empire, America would are the new buildings that have Knocke-sur-Mer. It was built in all, Leugenboom resolute, prepared and elgerli ta libe "forced to defend Canada-against old Hones.EN - ROMAN Protected by concrete shelters nearly chiefly to bombard. Dunkirk. respond to any new call walch, may Clerman attack. "Individually

risen from the ruins of shellenistered istey700 Rallarsprisoners, Fired by electriellyt—wak-1961) be made in the future is a foregone collectively, Central and South Ypres, with its cemetary of tanks: three yards thick, it consisted of four fifty miles away, conclusion.

América would be, bainless before Dixmude, once a heap of bricks and 305 mm, neval guns capable of aring PLEASE Turn To P

The shells took

consistently opposed American inter-

[now problem, but valour and fort! Vention, wrote, "No more dangerous no chances. Like most other Euro-General Leman and his forces took fications-the so-called "GrandRe..

won

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