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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 feared Russia as much as they did Germany..
Now a tragically ironic circle is completed as Russia absorbs the three tiny Baltic States, to frontiers still push Russia's
| farther outward from Moscow, ns they have already done in Poland. The Soviet leaders are cbviously engaged in that realistic kind of defence which begins beyond national borders. For the Germany that they set loose upon the world when they signed Herr von Ribbentrop's paet is a more dangerous power than the Russians supposed.
"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 armies of Poland were annihilated and her cities razed to the ground before we had time to gather our senses.
The President reconvened 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 of the Neutrality Act would be n 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 Belglum.
AN
AMERICAN
Yet,
despite at least were not complacent, President Roo My office was flooded with letters sevelt's warn- urging me to press forward in I consequently rein- ings, the Senate my action. watched these troduced my resolution in the terrible
Senate in a broader form. with complac- ency. It denied
acts
that America, in self-defence, should undertake every peaceful action to give aid to the Allied
armies.
This resolution authorises the President to sell to countries
attacked by Germany such war supplies as can be spared without imperiiling the safety of the United States.
During these months. I re- peatedly declared that America's
It provides that our Govern- security was endangered by Hit-ment may take delivery of equi- ler's barbaric assaults, and I 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 decisive in turning the tide against Hitler and barbarism and back to pence 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 eix months. They informed me, as they had informed President Roosevelt, that I Was an alarmist.
A few days after my resolu- German tion was defeated the 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
What are
Kiddies
we
valent supplies out of contracts being executea for the Allies.
Hitler's pitiless advance over the bodies of helpless retugees, bombed and machine-gunned to death.. has gone one. If the needs of Britain
Senator Claude Pop-
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 safety and utter stands between destruction between continued resis- tance and inevitable capitulation be- fore an inhuman aggressor,
I
I am not being pro-Ally when
of the
the say that
destruction Brush Air Force would be a disus- ter to the United States.
I
I am alraply being pro-American when I say that if England is de- deated America will be the next. I am simply being pro-American when 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 may survive this appalling holocaust in peace.
SPEAKS
national de- fence. They ignore the estimate of the War Department that 1,500 of our . pinnes are out of date and useless in future warfare. They point out that St. the President sald that Omalta, Louis and New Orleans were within a few hours' flying time of potential German air bases.
Interests of our own
*
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They then ask if my resolu- tion, once passed, would not leave these great cities unde- fended against future attack.
My reply is that I do not want to Omaha, St. Louis and New see Orleans 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. soil, American
children.
homes, and American
A thousand Army and Navy planes, delivered now, even though they may be outworn, might turn the tide. Fifty thousand airplanes in
д
usele me would be worse than
if by that time England hos been overrun and the Fascist puppels throughout Europe taking orders from Hitler, are clubbing liberty to death,
the imme- Only the prospect of destruction dipte
ot Britain by Hitler could lead this country to war with Germany. True pence lovers will never allow that situation to arise so long as we may prevent it. The Issue is simple-either we
which make decisions
RiTeet our destiny as a nation or our enemies make them for us.
We still have power to decide for ourselves, but we may not have it for long.
Every day the German Army forces fis way over bloodstained battlefields our task becomes harder. We must not delay. We must make our stand for prace now, when the front is sull 3,000 miles away, or never,
We must learn from the mistakes of the British, for which they are now paying so dearly,
Those who oppose my resolution Never can we let it be said of us argue that I am jeopardising the that we did too little too late.
about
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 乳 most September sunshine.
headlines-in 1 home plentifully supplied with news papers-the problem becomes rather urgent.
And when one of them is a seven-year-old, with awkward skill at reading newspaper
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?
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We reckon to be as they say in The children have solved the problem. Yorkshire-modern parents. We've for us. read our fl of "neuroses" and "feur complexes," and all that psychological stuff, and now here was the problem and the theory coming right bang home to roose in our own home.
Just before war broke out there was a great deal of air activity over our cottage in the country, and 1 remember a low-flying aeroplane that a high just skimmed the trees, on
seven- Chiltern hilltop where my year-old Leonore and I were walking. She was scared. I tried to reassure her, very casually and gently, that the neroplane 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 district and tried to prepare her mind attrition, Stalin could have con-
for it. sidered himself the winner with.
;
I received my first slight start of out making a move. But event's surprise at the way in which the have not followed the Kremlin's child mind works when Leonore, on the edge of tears, salil that she was design for them. Russia's world afraid because she thought the man position is not being enhanced in the seroplane might fall and hurt
himself! but jeopardised by the success
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 war!
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 dimcult 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
they meet. Some of it is culled from newspaper headlines and voices on -the radio.
So for the first few weeks we of German armies. In an un-handled the war and the kiddies problem in the best modern "how-to- predictable situation Russia bring-up-children-book manner. We
The other morning Leonore reading were so smart in antwering and the other side of my paper from her must look to its fences.
parrying their ruthlessly logical ques- scat across the breakfast table read
out part of a headline: That is the explanation of the tions.
We explained black-out and ration Baltic move,
an explanation
ing, and the fact of daddies having to which the present administra- go off in be toldiers, and who and what-within son--the Germans were.
fora of Bessarabia and the Dar danelles must read with growing concern now that the role of sinister bystander no longer serves Russian interest.
Prussian Prince
We 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, the war moved nearer and nearer to our village the old problem began to
Two ships sunk," she announced. "Er. yes,"" I repiled non- committally.
"Well, I hope they are German," said Leonore, reaching for another pleet of bread and butter.
The next day we were discussing a crashed aeroplane.
"Was it German?" inquired a child voice from behind a chair.
"Yes, it was."
"That's good," was the crisp, satis-
fed answer.
to
our
tell the War?
FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Doan
BEAUT
BEAUTE
| THE WONDEN
CREAM
"I forgot to ask-should I put on the croam and then rolax, or relax and then put on the cream?”
ing in the garden with my solemn- haired girl with the angel face, play- 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 Spitures or bombers in the hearing of any of the Iddies 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 unclen and brothers.. It is cowboys and scale and most satisfyingly blood- : thirsty.
There is nothing more tough, ruth- .2 less, and realistic than the mind of. healthy child between five and ten years old. Of both sexes,
Other parents tell me of similar.exe: periences, and relate macabre glorios of their offspring with a glee that is only alightly shamefaced.
Any news of death and disaster now is greeted with the plous hope that it happened to the enemy. Nor
The children I've also been reading one of the 18 this affectation, What
derive a grim satisfaction from any reports Mass-Observation thing bad that happens to the enemy, organisation that collects facts about The most blood-thirsty utterances what the public are thinking and come from the blue-eyed, golden- feeling on current topics.
Is Princh Frederick of Prussia still in England; are hir movements being come to the surface in our minds
again. strictly observed; and In view of what has happened will immediate How should we tell them? steps be taken to Intern all enemy should we tell them?. attent?
Captain Show (Forfar)
"Well, I want to state here and now will put this question to the Home Secretary, that we need not have worried-ever.
the
Here is a comment from a six-yeur- 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 it!"
I 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 is ready and King Haakon
wasn't."
To which the girl replied: “It seems 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,"
much
There does not, stem
seem to be fear of air raids among children. In fact, some of them would welcome raids at once, especially the boys. Boys were getting bored with the war until recent events on the Western Front.
Here is another typical piece of child realism, and blood piirstincas,
from a boy aged nino:
think that all the prisoners we get wo should shoot dead Otherwise Turn to Page 2, Third Columns
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