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The Evacuation

"We in the Western Hemi- sphere cannot permit-a-German- victory."Mr. J. W.. Gerard, American Ambassador to. Ger- many during the last war, in ́a recent article.

AMERICA THE WAR?

By

G. Ward Price

the THE people of

German might. We should have to United States die meet and make good the declara- like intensely the idea of taking tions of the Monroe Doctrine." part in this war.

The British nation would be the

closely resembles that of our

own

How Soon?

neither did we, By that wishful— America's best course," said the

an

of American war supplying the Allies.

industries for

rancan.

in the Pacifle, there would still be squadrons to spare for the purpose: of preserving peace in the Mediter

We do not yet know how much Mr. Roosevelt's unpublished message to Mussolini may have dono already to delay. Italy's threatened entry into the war.

It was in Italy that, on a recent tour of neutral States, I heard the opinion expressed with the greatest emphasis and confidence that America would ullmately join "in

Ono

of the most authoritative whose Imown " throughout the of world, told me that he maintained this point of view even against the of his American visitors.

be decisiva. The parallel with last ceptlets will yet fight beside

But though the United States like ourselves, long neglected military the war. preparations, it would have an im- mediate and far-reaching effect upon last to blame them. Their attitude AMERICA is now very nearly the fortunes of this war if America pubile men in the country,

name take up the challenge European democracles. Her clilzens Hitlerism. Government and publie during those ready to come to the aid of the tid disastrous years of 1935-1938 when

in Europe have been officially advised

The blow to German morale might this country remained idle while

to leave. German rearrned before our eyes. "Immediate declaration of wat time would be of deadly emen to the Britain in this war" he said, "first

The Amort

do not want war against Germany is quite probably enemy. Then, ns now, the war be for sentimental reasons, secondly gan with swift and sweeping German because Britain buys normal thinking which seems Angle New York Herald-Tribune. Signs of victories. Now, as then Germany times £120,000,000 of American Saxon characteristic, they now-

Two vital questions are: Will it be the vast resources of the United America now has three-quarters of States were arrayed against her, the world's gold, which is useless If effective, and will it come in time?

Successful resistance by the Nor would it be long before direct she does not lend it, and Britain is Allies is vital to the interess of the American help might become avail- the only country she will trust with

commercial loans," - United States," said Mr. Walter able. Lippmann, the well-known publicist, "but," he goes on, "we cannot inter- Slace the European

War began, vene by force of arms in the war the attitude of the United States has that is now being fought. been a complicated and self-con- "If we wished to Intervene we tradictory one. The American people

We have nothing to are strictly neutral in. law, violently could not.

intervene with.** anti-German

In sentiment, and

He recommends # vast expansion strongly isolationist in policy.

During the past month there have this de- been signs change

of mennu

We then convinced themselves that approaching intervention accumulate: would be doomed from the moment goods per year, and thirdly because

the worst would not happen, da that the danger would somehow dla appear before reaching its catas- trophile climax.

Yet Fate may be as inexorable for them as it was for us.

ur of detachment.

Since April 107 The Nazi hardes have overrun four neutral countries which asked nothing better than to be jeft out of the war. Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Belgium have been ruthlessly invaded without provocation or excuse. To these, countries many of the most respreted and influential citizens of the United

Slates trace their racial pathics

New and powerful

have been aroused in America for the Allied nation that have staked their existence in opposing the Nazi attempt to dominate by conquest, first Europe, and ultimately the whole world.

"None of us can tell when we may on became involved in the struggle now Pershing, raging," said General broadcasting to the American people

Leading American newspapers now describe a continuance of neutrality as unthinkable Frominent-poll- teal writers have declared that the situation of the United States would be critical if Germany won.

IT IS too early yet to comment the success or otherwise of the exceedingly ticklish work of extrica- ting the British and French forces from Flanders, although reports yesterday seemed to indicate that the carly part of this operation has been attended-by greater-success-than-wo dared hope for 48 hours ago. The [feat of withdrawing 750,000 men from n wide battlefield along a corridor only twenty to thirty miles

it is not Allied propaganda that has brought about this change of view in the United-States. America's new attitude is due to the processes of her own national inner conscious-

ricsy.

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

wide would be a brilliant one' even were it only half-achieved and would rank even greater than the Gallipoll Evacuation In the last war. No artillery work at Gallipoll or, for Not that the United States hesitated i that matter, anywhere in the last war, for a moment as to which side was can be compared with the devasta-in the right. From the first day of tion wrought by aeroplanes in the the war the leading American news- popers unanimously denounced Hil- present war, and the expenditure of ler as the sole creator of the Euro- high explosives by the Germans inpean conflict. "He has written the In his own their attempt to block the Allies' exit history of his infamy

words," said the New York Herald- at Dunkirk has probably been of a Tribune on September 3. prodigious-nature-When-the-with-

"Hitlerism, declared the New drawal is completed, as completed it York Sun, has brought about this must be before the end of this week, war; its diting cad must see Miller-

it will be found that the westernism irreparably crushed."

front line will most likely be from Abbeville on the coast to Amiens, Peronne. St. Quentin, Rethel and

This

1

Pro-Ally Vote

IN the first menth of the fighting,

Trans-

CARTOON

President Roosevelt has declared Britain and France are fighting himself against the despatch of an desperately to defend the vital in- American army overseas, but that terests even the existence of every would not debar him from sending democratic nation in the world, in- the Fleet and Air Force, which could cluding the United States. In that come much more rapidly into action, struggle we may be aure

Even though the greater purt of America will not aland idly by the Amorlenn. Navy might be needed see us defented and destroyed.

TELEGY Will

for

GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS

that

By Strube STawne

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to.

ARTICLE FROM THE "TELEGRAPH FILES

This article first publish- ed in the "Tolograph" four years ago, is of interest to-

an 800-pound shelf over thirty miles.. To-day it is a museum, ono of the " "sights" of the town.

and

the

around to Montemeds, on the Franco- a poll taken by the magazine Fortune Luxembourg frontier.

front showed 83 per cent. of the votes line s strikingly similar to the line wanting the Allies to win, while only 1 per cent. favoured a German vic- of the Somme in 1918, just before the tory, German collapse same, the exception The long spell of inactivity imposed being that the Germans to-day will by winter damped this American have control of the English coast ardour for the Allied cause. channel north of Abbeville. It will atlantic critics began to call it a

"phoney war." be interesting to see whether the

The events of the last month, and Germans can break the Somme line

especially the last week, have proved by further use of their mechanisa-that it is anything but a "phoney tlon, or whether, despite the colossal war." It is a desperate attempt, de use of bombs and mechanisation, the liberately planned by experts in the art of oppression, to crush all ilborty infantry arm will continue, as of old, in Europe, to enslave independent captured cannon and rows of white Only the grim trophies of war, to be "the queen of the battlefield." peoples, and to set up a German crosses, remain to remind Belgians of

At Middelkerke, between Ostend. It seems certain that the tremen domination of the Old World. The Great War.

French frontier, is the glant. dous Infantry ellgagements in Flan- Comprehension of this has shaken Other sorrows have come to dimday.......

"funk hole" built for the German

1918. dere,, in which British and French and stirred America. The war no] the memory of those four terrible rubble; Louvain, one of the first fair Admiral von Schroder, in-

cities to suffer; these are, now new There used to be electricity, and troope have fought their brillant longer appears a remote struggle be years when the German hordes storm- tween European States. Public

led across Belgium.

lowns with pretty pink houses. Their steam-hent throughout the vast rear-gunta netion to the coast, re- opinion has realised that a Nazi vic-

have town halls and public buildings To-day, the younger generation

underground',- building. Schroder's- main the most dramatic feature of tory, by putting the entire resort feels that war will not come again to risen again in all the glory of con- bedroom was protected by concrete

In the of Europe at Biller's disposal, would

turies-old architecture. The felda walls nearly two yards thick tiny Belgium.

and the struggle in the north.

enable him to follow up International German attacks through the broach

In a Europe, torn by war fears, around are once more waving with reinforced by steel plates, aggression by inter-continental og Sedan in the French lines at

with war actually progressing in dis- com, barley and wheat, covering the the gression. enemy's tanks and planes created a Even before the attack on the Low tant Ethlopla, Belgium believes that scars of war. Even the trees have

grown again.

Nieuport was the scene of some of Colonel Frank the powers wili como to her ald, if began, new problem, but valour and fort-Countries

town Not for away, however, is the other the bloodiest fighting. The tude have counted more in the eik, Knox, proprietor of the Chicago need be, more quickly than they did

Dally

News, newspaper which had 21 years ago,

side of the picture. At Liege, for was almost completely destroyed, but The Nazis are disposed to magnity consistently opposed American inter- But the wise old men are taking

General Leman, and his forces took Gcations the so-called "Grand Re- the success of their initici blow and vention, wrote, "No more dangerous no chances. Like most other Euro- instance is the Lonoin Fort, where has now been rebulit. The old forti- the danger it brings to England. The enemy of American peace and secu-pean nations Belgium is seeing to her refuge in August, 1014, on the Ger- donare still there. They were mman steamroller rumbled steadily built by the Frenchman Vauban in rily may be found than the champion defences "just in case." Germans have certainly won 2

resisted of blind isolation... It is against our Forts along the frontiers have been forward: A giant shell exploded lu 1815. The old powder house

The tremendous amount of ground and vital Interests to have Germany strengthened; the Aghung forces the powder house, killing the general all modern shells and bomba.

been increased. Nobody 141 nud hundreds of men. are within artillery range of Eng-emerge from the war with complete have

troops christened it the "rubber lond's south-eastern coast for the domination both of land and see in more educated in the lorrors of war

the Eastern Hemisphere,"

from the air than the Beiglan and To-day the fort is a heap of con-house."

There, too, is crete, Seme of its corridors have

is the famous "Beyou first time in history, but their losses

This leading Republican, who stood his air-raid precautions are among been cleared for sightseers. Nearly de la Mort" or "Trench of Dent." in men, tanks and planes have both, for the Vice-Presidency in 1930, the best on the continent.

or all the kings of Europe have visited It was held by the Belgians from 1916 to pil accounts, staggering.

onwards until the Germans duga. We will went on to enumerate the dangers to Alongside iew-built tomb-shelter 1 be content to know that the British the United States of a German vle-stand the, relies of that war of 21

In Flanders, where the war raged trench from which they poured a Expeditionary Force in Belgium, and ·· German penetration in the Westyears ago, Soma of the relics are for three years and ter months the withering

lory over France and Britain.

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At Couckelnery, not far The Wilhelm II. battery is me removed to safety. That they are Canal. After the disintegration of lags of what war can do. Others resolute, prepared and eager to the British Empire, America would are ille new bull that have Knoche-sur-Mer. It was butit mall, Leugenboom par ICC." Prisoners. Fired by electricity, it was used respond to any now call which may be forced to defend Canada against risen from the ruins of shell-plastered 1016 by 700 Russian

old: attack. "Individually.....or derman

Protected by concrete shelters hearly chiefly to bombard Dunkirk, France, ones. be made in the future is a foregone collectively, Central and South Ypres, will is cemetry of tanks three yards thick, it consisted of four fifty miles away: The shells look conclusion.

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