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KADOORIE-On July 30, 1840, to Murici, wife of Lawrence Kadoorie, at the War Memorial Hospital, a daughter,
The
"WE MUST HELP
NOW OR WE ARE NEXT!
It was only last August that the world was still 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 armles of Poland were annihilated and her cities razed to the ground before we | had time to gather our senses.
The President reconvened Con- gross 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 of the Neutrality Act would be a step towards war.
After weeks of costly delay, the Act was finally amended, too late to save peace, too late to save the destruction of Norway,
Hongkong Telegraph. Holland and Belgium.
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Moscow Moves
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 feured Russia as much as they! did Germany.
What
AN
AMERICAN SPEAKS
de-
Yot, despite at least were not complacent. interests of our own national President Roo My office was flooded with letters fence. They ignore the estimate of the War Department that 1,500 of our govelt's warn- urging me to press forward in planes are out of date and useless in ings, the Senate my action. I consequently rein- future warfare. They point out that watched these troduced my resolution in the the President sald that Omaha, St. Louis and New Orleans were within. terrible. acts Senate in a broader form.
a few hours' flying time of potential with complic- This resolution authorises the German air bases. ency. It denied President to sell to countries that America, in self-defence, attacked by Germany such war should undertake every peaceful supplies as can be spared without action to give aid to the Allied imperilling the safety of the armless.
United States. '
**
During these months I re- peatedly declared that America's
It provides that our Govern- security was endangered by Hitment may take delivery of equl. ler's barbaric assaults, and I
valent supplies out of contracts maintained that interests of na-
being executed for the Allies. tional defence demanded of us
that we give all possible aid to the Allies. I was convinced
that our aid might be decisive 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 equivalent number return the of aircraft now under construc- tion on the Allied account.
I discovered to my sorrow that some of our senators had 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.
A few days after my resolu- tion was defeated the German Army slashed and bombed its 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
Kiddies
I am a father with two small daughters.
we
Hitler's pitiless advance over the bodies of helpless refugees, bombed and machine-gunned to death, has gone one, If the nerds of Britain
Senator Claudo Pep- per 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 between Eufety and utter stands destruction between continued resis- tance and inevitable capitulation be- fore an inhuman aggressor,
I
I am not being pro-Aily when say that the destruction of the British Air Force would be a disas- ter to the United States.
I am shaply being pro-American when I say that if England is de- deated America will be the next. I um simply being pro-American when I say that if we can maintain the air strength of Britain until they can achieve
mastery of the air, and make unrestricted air bombardment of London Impossible, then the United States muy survive this appalling
They then ask if my resolu- tion, once passed, would not leave these great cities unde- fended against futuro attack,
My reply is that I do not want to ste Omaha, St. Louis and New Orleans attacked by German planes. I have introduced my resolution pre- cisely because I want to undertake any peaceful action which may avold or postpone the horrible threat of bombers devastating American soil, homes. and American American children.
A
Army thousand
and Navy plancs, delivered now, even though they may be outworn, might furn the tide. Fifty thousand airplanes in a year's lime would be worse than useless if by that time England has “beću overrun and the Fascist puppels throughout Europe taking orders from Hitler, are clubbing liberty to death.
the imme- Only the prospect of dinte destruction of Britain by Hitler could lead this country to war with Germany. True peace
allow that situation 10 will never arte so long as we may prevent it. The issue is simple-either we
which afect make decisions destiny us a nation or, our
holocaust in pence.
Those who oppose my resolution the jeopardising
argue that I am
make them for us.
lovers
our enemies
We still have power to decide for ourselves, but we may not have It
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 said of us that we did too little too late.
to
tell
our
about the War?
war
When this 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 September sunshine.
And when one of them is a seven-year-old, with a most headlines in a 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 problems We've for us. Yorkshire-modern parents.
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There is no doubt about it: the child mind adapts itself to war in the most astonishing, and slightly horrl- fying, way.
Now a tragically ironic circle read our fl of "neurores" and "fear Instead of worrying what we should is completed as Russia absorbs complexes," and all that psychological tell the kiddies about war, we are try- the three tiny Bultie States, to stuff, and now here was the problem ing to cope with what the kiddies are
and the theory toming right bang telling us about war! push Russin's frontiers still home to roose in our own home. farther outward from Moscow, Just before war broke out there as they have already done in was a great deal of air activity over Poland. The Soviet leaders are our coltage in the country, and I Gbviously engaged in that remember a low-flying aeroplane that realistic kind of defence which just skimmed the trees on a high
seven Chiltern hilltop where my begins beyond national borders. year-old Leonore and I were walking. For the Gerniany that they set.
She was scared. 1. tried to reassure loose upon the world when they her, very casually and gently, that signed Herr von Ribbentrop's the seroplane couldn't possibly hurt pact is a more dangerous power her. I was visualising the amount of war flying that might be done in our than the Russians supposed.
district and tried to prepare her mind
It is a little difficult to know exactly how and where they pick up their
knowledge, but knowledge they cer- tainly 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
Had the war reached a stale- for it. mate or continued as a war of I received my first slight start of attrition, Stalin could have con-surprise at the way, in which the sidered himself the winner with child mind works when Leonore, on the edge of tears, said that she was out making a move. But events afraid because she thought the man have not followed the Kremlin's in the aeroplane might fall and hurt design for them, Russia's world himself!
Some of it is culled from position is not being enhanced | So for the first few weeks we they meet. but jeopardised by the success problem in the best modern "how-to-
handled the war and the kiddies newspaper headlines and voices on
the radio.. of German armies. In an un- bring-up-children-book" manner. We The other morning Leonore reading predictable situati:m Russia 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 tions. must look to its fences.
out part of a headlino;
"Two ships sunk," she announced. "'"Er, yes,"
replied non- committally.
were.
That is the explanation of the We explained black-out and ration--
Ing, and the fact of daddies having to Baltic move, an explanation go off tp be soldiers, and who and which the present administra-what-within reason the Germans tors of Bessarabia and the Dar-
Everything was Ane.. We were danelles must read with growing highly pleased with ourselves when concern now that the role of Leonore, on being informed that she could not have any more butter on sinister bystander no longer that particular piece of brand, replied serves Russian interest.
with a slightly bored shrug of the shoulder: "I know. It's the war
Prussian Prince
When during the last few weeks, the war moved nearer and nearer to
La 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
again. strictly, observed; and in view of
L
"Well, I hope they are German," sald Leonore, reaching for another piece of bread and butter,
The next day we were discussing a crasheri aeroplane.
"Was it German?? inquired a child voice from behind a chair,
"Yes, it was.”
"That's good," was the crisp, salle- filed answor.
Any news of death and disaster now is greeted with the plous hope that it happened to the enemy Nor derive a grim satisfaction from any thing bad that happens to the enemy. The most blood-thirsty utterances
what has happened will immediate How should we tell them? What is this affectation. The children 1 steps be taken to intern all, enemy, should we tell them?-
Captain Shaw (Forfar) will put Well, I want to stato Ziere and now this question to the Home Secretary, that we need not have worried, ever, come from the blue-eyed, golden
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean BEAUTS
[RELAXO THE WONG
CREAM
"I forgot to ask-should I put on the cream and then relax, or relax and then put on the cream?"/
haired girl with the angel face, play ing in the garden with my solema. faced bruncite daughter.
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Leonore has fost all her fear of acroplanes She looks up and nake whether they are Spitfires or bombers in the most casual fashion.
And I'm prepared to swear that I have never mentioned Spitfires 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- thirsty.
There is nothing more tough, rùth- less, and realistic than the mind of a 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 glee that is only slightly shamefaced.
I've also been reading one of the of Mass-Observation the reports organisation that collects facts about what the public are thinking and 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 doar to me and bomb my school, please. Then I'd give him six Bblilings for bombing it.”
like the argument between a boy and a girl aged eleven recorded by Mass Observation,
The boy said: "I think we might follow Hitler about and bomb him, though he ready and King Haakon
wasn't."
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To which the girl replied: "It secins a good idea to bomb Germany, but you never could get actually at Hitler, and it lan't the people doing us any harm, but Hiller, and he's got so many doubles."
There does not seem to be much fear of air raids among children. In fact, some of them would welcome raida at, once, especially," the boys. Boys were getting bored with the war uniil recent events on
on the Western Front
F
of
Here is another typical child realism and bloodthirstiness, from a boy aged, nine: es logr wat we should shoot dead. Otherwise "I think that all the prisoners we
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