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Yet, despite President Roo. sevelt's warn ings, the Senate watched these terriblo acts with complac- ency. It denied

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should undertake every peaceful

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at least were not complacent. My office was flooded with letters urging me to press forward in my action. I consequently rein troduced my resolution in the Senate in a broader form.

This resolution authorises the President to sell to countries

attacked by Germany such war

SPEAKS

Interests of our own national; de- fence. They ignore the estimate of the War Department that 1500 of our planes are out of date and useless in future warfare. They point out that the President said that Omaha, St. Louis and New Orleans were within a few hours' tying time of potential German air bases.

They then ask if my resolu tion, once passed, would not

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at peace, but the sky was rapidly darkening when President Roosevelt call- ed to the Senate to amend the Neutrality Act so that war might be averted.

He was told that he was sim- ply an alarmist and that the Neutrality Act could stay as it

WAS.

Within a few weeks war was declared. The armies of Poland were annihilated and her cities razed to the ground before we had time to gather our senses.

The President recenvened Con- gress and pleaded with them again to amend the Neutrality Act. Once more he was de clared to be an alarmist when he warned this country of the im- minent danger of Hitler's ruth- less military machine:

He was told that amendment

I

During these months I re peatedly declared that America's security was endangered by Hit- ler's barbaric assaults, and maintained that interests of na tional defence demanded of us that we give all possible aid to the Allies. I was convinced that our ald might be decisivo in turning the tide against Hitler and barbarism and back to peace and international law.

I therefore introduced in the Senate on May 21 the resolution authorising the President to sell to the Allies army aircraft that we could spare and take In return the equivalent number. of aircraft now under construc- tion on the Allied account.

I discovered to my sorrow that of our senators had

some

evidently learned nothing from the appalling events of the last six months. They informed me, as they had informed President Roosevelt, that I

WAS an alarmist.

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Moscow Moves

step towards war.

After weeks of costly delay the Act was finally amended, too late to save pence, too late to save the destruction of Norway; Holland and Belgium,

What

way through Flanders to the English Channel. It moved with a speed and ruthlessness which astounded our military experts and must have shaken even the most complacent of senators.

Our people showed that they

are

we

supplies as can be spared without

United States,.

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It provides that our Govern- ment may take delivery of equi- valent supplies out of contracts being executed for the Allies.

My reply is that I do not want to see Omaha, St. Louts and New Orleana attacked by German planes, I have introduced my resolution pre- cisely because I want to undertake any peaceful action which may avoid or postpone the horrible threat of bombers devastating American soll, American has

American homes, and children. Britain

the

Hiller's pitiless advance over bodies of helpless refugees, bombed and machine-gunned to death. gone one. If the needs of

Senator Claude Pep- por of America wrote this in the New York Post.

were desperately urgent. No amount of talk can obscure this.

To-day only the Royal Air Force stands between safely and utter destruction between continued resis- tance and Inevitable capitulation be- fore an inhumon aggressor,

I am not being pro-Ally when 1 the say that the destruction of British Air Force would be a disas- ier to the United States.

I am simply being pro-American when I say that if England is de- deated America will be the next. I am simply being pro-American when Bay that If we can maintain the alr strength of Britain until they can achieve mastery of the air, and make unrestricted air bombardment of London impossible, then the United Statea moy survive this holocaust in peace.

Those who oppose, my argue that I am

to

appalling

resolution the jeopardising

Kiddies about the

I am a father with two small daughters. When this war broke out one of the problems that worried my wife and me was how we were going to explain what war meant to the two happy and healthy youngsters tumbling about on the grass in the most September sunshine.

And when one of them is a seven-year-old, with a

headlines-In £ home awkward skill at reading newspaper plentifully supplied with news papers-the problem becomes rather urgent.

Should we try to gloss it all over? Or, if we attempted to tell anything near the truth should we be implanting the seeds-- of fear in the child mind?

We reckon to be as they say in The children have solved the problem We've for us. Yorkshire-modern parents. read our Bl of "neuroses" and "fear complexes," and all that psychological stuff, and now here was the problem and the theory coming right bang home to rosse in our own home.

Had Britain and Russia been able to agree on a formula for the Baltic region, war in Europe might have been prevented, Almost certainly it would have] → been postponed. But the fears of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia had to be considered, in London's view. These States feared Russia as much as they did Germany. --Now-a-tragically ironic.circle. is completed as Russia absorbs the three tiny Baltic States, to push Russia's frontiers still farther outward from Moscow, as they have already done in Poland. The Soviet lenders are obviously engaged in that realistic kind of defence which

Just before war broke out there begins beyond. national borders. was a great deal of air nettvity over For the Germany that they setur coiture in the country, and I remember a low-flying aeroplane that loose upon the world when they just skimmed the trees on a high signed Herr von. Ribbentrop's Chiltern hilltop where my seven year-old Leonore and I were walking, pact is a more dangerous power

She was scared. 1 tried! than the Russians supposed. her, very casually and gently, that the aeroplane couldn't possibly hurt Had the war reached a stale-her. I was visualising the amount of mate or continued as a war of war flying that might be done in our attrition, Stalin could have con- district and tried to prepare her mind sidered himself the winner with. out making a move. But events have not followed the Kremlin's design for them. Russia's world position is not being enhanced but jeopardised by the sucCOSB

for it.

reassure

I received my first slight start of surprise at the way' in which the child mind works when Leonore, on the edge of tears, said that she was

afraid because she thought the man in the aeroplane might fall and hurt

himse!!!

Instead of worrying what we should tell the kiddies about war, we are try- ing to cope with what the kiddies are telling us about warl

There is no doubt about it: the, child mind. adapts itself to war in the most astonishing, and slightly horri fying, way..

It is a little difculi to know exactly how and where they pick up their knowledge, but knowledge they cer- fainly have. Obviously most of it is a reflection and a distorted echo of the point of view of the grown-ups

By H. W. SHIRLEY LONG

So for the first few weeks we they meet. Some of it is culled from of German armies. In an un-handled the war and the kiddies newspaper headlines and voices on Russia problem in the best modern "how-to- the rádlo, situation predictable must look to its fences.

bring-up-children-book" manner. We The other morning Leonore reading were so smart in answering and the other side of my paper from her parrying their ruthlessly logical ques- sent across the breakfast table read

out part of a headline: tions.

That is the explanation of the

We explained black-out and ration- Baltic move, an explanation

ing, and the fact of daddies having to which the present administra-xo off to be soldiers, and who and what within reason-the Germans tors of Bessarabia and the Dar- were. Canelles must read with growing| concern now that, the role of sinlster bystander no longer serves Russian interest.

Wo were Everything was fine. highly pleased with ourselves when Leonore, on being informed that she could not have any more butter on that particular piece of bread, replied with a slightly bored shrug of the shoulder: I know. It's the war

When during the last few weeks.

Prussian Prince the war moved nearer and nearer to

Is Prince Frederick of Prussia still our village the old problem began to in England; are his movements being come to the surface in our minds

ngain, strictly observed; and in view of what hoa happened will immediate steps be taken to intern: all enemy

How should we tell them? What should we tell them?

aliens? pen

worry well, I want to state here and now

She Capiat dette

this question to the Home Secretary

"Two ships sunk," she announced, "FE, yes," replied non- committally.

"Well, I hope they are German,” maki Leonore, reaching for another plece of bread and butler.

The next day we were discussing a crashed aeroplane.

"Was It German?" inquired a child voice from beliirid a chair.

"Yes, it was."

"That's good," was the crisp, satis- Bed answer.

FUNNY SIDE UP

ሌ thousand Army and Navy planes, delivered now, even though they may be outworn. might turn. the tide. Fifty thousand airplanes in a year's Ume would be worse than ureless if by that time England has been overrun and the Fascist puppets orders throughout Europe taking from Hitter, are clubbing liberty to death.

Only the prospect of the imme- diote destruction of Britain by Hitler could lead this country to war with Germany, True peace lovers will never allow that situation to arise so long as we may prevent it.

The Issue is simple-elther

which affect make decisions destiny as a nation or our enemies make them for us.

WC

our

We still have power to decide for ourselves, but we may not have t for long.

Every day the German Army forces its way over bloodstained battlefields our task becomes harder. We must not delay. We must make our stand for peace now, when the front is still 3,000 miles away, or never.

We must learn from the mistakes of the British, for which they are now paying so dearly.

Never can we let it be sald of us that we did too little too late.

our

tell

War?

By Abner Dean

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"I forgot to ask-should I put on the cream and thon relax, or relax and then put on the cream?"

haired girl with the engel face, play-

ing in the garden with my solemn- faced brunette daughter.

Leonore has lost all her fear of aeroplanes. She looks up and asks whether they are Spitfires or bombers in the most casual fashion.

And I'm prepared to swear that I have never mentioned Spliares or bombers in the hearing of any of the kiddies who infest our garden!

The war to children, especially schoolchildren of. tender age, is a queer kind of game being played. somewhere by daddies and uncles and brothers, It is cowboys and scale and most satisfyingly blood- thiraly.

There is nothing more tough, ruth- and realistic than the mind. of a less, healthy child between five and ten years old. Of both sexes.

Other parents tell me of similar ex- periences, and relate macabre stories of their offspring with a gice that is only slightly shamefaced.

Any news of death and disaster now in greeted with the plous hope that it happened to the enemy. Nor is this, affectation. The children derive a grim satisfaction from any reports of

I've also been reading one of the Mass-Observation the

thing bad that happens to the enemy. organisation that collects facts about The most blood-thirsty utterances what the pubile are thinking and that we need not have worried-ever.`come" from the blue-eyed, golden- feeling on current toples

Here is a comment from a six-year- old boy on the war:

"I would ring up Hitler and I'd say: " 'Bomb that school. Hitler, would you be dear to me and bomb my school, please.'

Then

I'd give him six shillings for bombing IL"

I like the argument between a boy and a girl aged eleven recorded by Mass Observation.

The bay said: "I think we might follow Hitler about and bomb him,

Wasn't

he is ready and King Haakori

To which the girl replied: "It seems a good idea to bomb Germany, but you never could get actually at Hitler, and It isn't the people doing us any, harm, but Hitler, and he's got so

many doubles."

There does not seem to ba`much fear of air raids among children. In fact, some of them would welcome ralds at once, especially the boys. Bors were getting bored with the war unill recent ever

events on the - Western Front

Here is another typical" plece of e

child realizm and bloodthirstiness,

from a boy aged nine;

"I think that all the prisoners we

get we should shoot dead. Otherwise Turn to Page. 2, Third Column

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