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To Winifred. wife of W Sharp at Victoria, BC., on 20th September, 1940

well

The

September 23, 1940.

At last even U.S. Middle West says

STOP HIM

by C. V. R. Thompson

Special New York Reporter

TN hot mid-Western

Kansas, the

bread.

basitet of America, they used to regard. a. New Yorker as a foreigner, England as a coun- try that welshed its war debts, Adolf Hitler as a nebulous bogey man.

They suspected Roosevelt of thinking up plans to save his New Deal. Kansas, plumb in the middle of the American Continent, untouched by internationalism, unthreatened from cast or west, used to be rabidly isolationists.

At the beginning of the war Kansas news- papers refused to concede to America even enough interest in Great War Number Two to read about it, and resisted giving it more than one column of news.

MORE sensational than the content of that advertisement was the fact that the chairman of the committee was none other than William Allen White, first citizen of isolationist Kansas. From his editor's chair in small Emporia in Kansas, White had pounded out "America for Americans" editorials for as long as most people could re- member. Now he, and presumably most of the State from which he aprang, was virtually inter- ventionists.

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Hongkong Telegraph. energetic William C. White, re- and

MGAT'S WILL NEED WE ALLIES ROSE

@ WAREMES

AIRPLANES

* TANKS

BOUNS

Selence Monitor, Boston.

NOW

NEED IN THE

ALUES WIFE

Comh

of William Allen White, endor- sed his committed's work.

MORE than two million names were collected. for a petition urging the fullest possible old to the Allies. All kinds of names-bankers and

actresses, writers and commercial. travellers, housewives and farmers..

In the hectic days before the fall of France those signatories showered. American Congresamen with de- mands to stop Hitler now. They helped to bring America's public temperature to such a height that one untoward incident would have. brought the United States to war.

But that is not primarily the alm of William

lam Allen While's committee.. His plans are openly selllah. If it is possible, he would like the Allies to pull America's chesthuts out of the fre, with America supplying ail the tongs that are necessary. Only if the Allies were in danger of de- feat would he approve of America going directly into the war.

After the defeat of France the Committee for Defending America

by Aiding the Allies went into a momentary decline. Isolationists, seeing R new danger of America. being dragged into the war to Tes- cue England from what they thought WDA Immediate defeat, began to hint at the possible appeasement of Adolf Hitler.

There was talk, a lot of it fostered namos-Colonel Juljus Ochs by German agents and out-and-out

his

con-

So

To Americans elsewhere this

Adler, of the New York Times, German sympathisers, like Senator brought home the change that had come over American senti: "I'd better help them; and actress Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Reynolds, that England was A good as beaten, and what was Colonel

Breckinridge, the usc Henry

of sending her any more ments since the old days of last

adviser of isolationist Colonel help? Both autumn, when they were talk-

But Wiliam Allen White Louin from the Christian Lindbergh, and author "phoney war." ing about

campaign. Now his Bromfield, educator Dr. Nicho- tinued White became convinced that

tas Murray Butler and socialite committee considers it more impor- America's first line of defence

tant than ever to help Britain. Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich.

does the rest of America, was on the Rhine after his son,

wrote telegrams 10 1 In three hundred and nine- THE British seizure of the French from Europe. White hundred prominent Americans teen cities, suburbs, towns and Fleet, the British defeat of German junior watched Finland fall, asking that ald be sent im- villages throughout America bombing squadrons, British eggren- toured Germany, Italy, France, mediately to the Allica. Colonel local chapters were formed; and England. I came home Frank Knox printed the appeal cheques, gifts and offere of help bave suddenly taken hold of Amori-

Imagination. can Robert Sherwood convinced that Adolf Hitler was prominently in his Chicago news poured in.

A week ago you would have.heard bent not on the conquest of paper.

went around theatres, and in a hardly one American in a hundred even money Europe but the conquest of the

The response was immediate few days collected enough to who would give you win the war. world.

and enthusiastic. A committee finance that sensational adver, that England could

Now it is quito n different story. Early in June William Allen was formed. It was a strange tisement. President Roosevelt, Confidence iz returning, says White sat down to his worn desk assortment of famous American traditionally the politicni enemy Sage of Konsus,

Monday, September 23, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone 28815

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Aircraft Production

Speculation a la whether Hitler will or will not attempt to invade Britain Bus autumn A still world- wide, but such day that fails to pro- dure what he once called his "Blitz- krieg", uliroles that the constant bombing by the RAF of Germany's productive and supply centres is de- Buitely humpering the execution E his plane

Caption

tas his next move, la divided Mr Churchill expressed

turned

OUR TURN WILL COME

THOSE who know something of our leading military personnel find reassurance in the fact that two practical and comparatively young sol- himsel? us convinced that Germany diers now hold the vital Army commands.

must make

to invade PR attempt Some of the more optimistic THW feel that he has already made on attempt but failed, while others de- clare that the German Fuehrer is only waiting the fulfilment of cer- Eain plans which promise more hope »f a successful invasion than the high tides and the full moon of a few days ago. On the other hund Hitler's attacks on the civilian popu- lution of Britain are a somewhat

of costly method

approach. They cannot lead to a victory for the Ger- man Air Force but are, on the cu trary. reducing Hitler's striking power very considerably. Germany's air fleet a few weeks ago was con- aldered to be numerically stronger than that of Britain's but the daily high percentage of losses must have very considerably lessened whatever gap existed. Experience has also shown that the quality of the British machine, especially the fighters, is superior. The Imitations imposed

Higher General Sir John Dill is Chief ing as a responsible

Cum- This distinguished British of the Imperial General Staff, mund. and General Sir Alan Brooke is her dubbed the Maginot from the start the lumb-stone of France," Commander-in-Chief of our and pointed vul that wha! ANS home forces,

nowadays essential for any realistic milkary purpose was not static bul Curiously enough both these off-mabille fortification. veľa, on whom such a supreme re- sponsibility now resta, are Ulster- The mentality that literally pul men. No special significance ats military shirt on the Maginot Line Laches to the colneldence, except is

with that comparable

which perhaps that Northern Ireland has a agitated, after the aeroplane became

nehievement, practical Cromwellion fighting tradition and a

Its rather grim environment tends to Channel tunnel. produce realists.

for

Д

Major-General Fuller puts his sen- And it is realists we certainly want sitive finger on another anachronism. in the present emergency. People We have motorised our artillery in- In other who not only look but think back- stead of mechanising it. wards, whether they are statesmen words, tank artlilery is what modern ur soldiers, are fatal encumbrances in conditions of warfare, as exploited by a highly mechanised epoch of rapidly the Germans. now demand. We changing circumstance. A strange may assume that, after witnessing fact is the way in which the warn what happened France, our mill- ing voices of up-to-date authorities tary experts are getting into line ar have been persistently ignored in the quickly as may be with up-to-date Immediate post.

facts.

by the supply of aviation spirit, ↑ "Tombstone of France” fubricating oil and trained pilots also work in Britain's favour, but

the most important factor of all in oerial warfare is the rate of produc- tion of new aircraft

No secret is more closely guarded

The Army has always been, how- ever, in almost every country, the

If the French General Stuff had most conservative, even reactionary, given a moment's serious attention of all services. Napoleon, as GBS.

FUNNY SIDE UP

TATTOOS

n

DONE ON

PREMISES

PROF. GULCH

siveness and British determination

By Abner Dean

"I want you to add a convoy!"

the

to Major-General J. F. C. Fuller's has pointed out quite truthfully, won Island, I shall be distinctly dis- even Uie Danes are liking this state- criticisms on the Maginot Line, writ- his historic victories largely because, appointed if he does not come up to of Nordic subjection?... ten when those expensive and purely whilst the military pedants opposed scratch. It will be a picnic that will

We have only to launch a reason- ornamental fortifications were. first to him held up hands of horror, he help tremendously to relieve Ilitler's

anxiety about "Leben ably hopeful and determined offen- begun, they might still be function- did not scruple to put his infantry constant

sive against Germany, almost any. into carts in order to move them sraum."

where, and the strain on all those quickly and secure the invaluable

Actually one finds very few intelli. German armies of occupation will cance than the actual Agures would strategic asset of surprise.

gent people, whether in or out of become intolerable. suggest.

wat Smash-and-Grab

uniform, who believe a German In-

than this, but it has been calculated from facts known that the current production of the German and Ita- lian aircraft factories cannot be in excess of 2,000 acroplanes a month. Some expansion could undoubtedly be achieved but Germany and Italy

the At the beginning of

vasion to be practicable. Even if Against the Grain will experience great difficulty, bum- Britain ordered 11,000 aeroplanes

from the United States. Some 3,000 We still have military experts who Germany had absolute command of crease their output above 3,000 a have been delivered. A large pro-write portentously apropos Hitler's the sea and the air, which is very month at any time in the foreseeable wortion of these were trainers, but retarded, invasion of this island; of far from being the case, it would be being well held, and eventually per

pered by Brilish bombing, to in-

future.

are increasing. The fatest telegram from Washington states that Britain is now receiving acroplanes of the

50 a month.

coast, and

Once there are signs of Germany

haps beaten, it will be strange indeed

if there is not some exemplary Ger- In aviation circles, British produc-

military aircraft is now being de-"bridgeheads." They envisage the a torrifically hazardous enterprise, tion is now placed at roughly 1,800

livered in appreciable quantities and Germans, by some novel device or

What one does encounter is a con- man throat-cutting in many seething

dublety regarding the centres of hatred for Nazism. at any rate in more than sufficient trick, securing a foothold at one or

and siderable a month. Production is however,

numbers to cover any gap between more positions on our

reinforce chances of our carrying the aght to Some if not all of the peoples now.. expanding fast and Lord Beaver-

British and the Axis production. thereafter proceeding to brook, Minister for Aircraft Produc-

Britain's first order for 11,000 those devoted storm-troop divisions Germany. That attitude strikes under the German jackbook, will be tion, has been able to 'clear away

classla manner, as being quite unintelligent.

emulating the "grim record of the bottlenecks which were impeding aeroplanes was however a mild one in the traditional

Every one of Germany's Blitzkrieg Sicilian Vespers before long. Not so stand Whereas 1014 B.C. Pardon-A.D. tive effort. But this is compared to those sent later which, Just as we did with our BEF, in the productive

can successes so far, and not least the long as Germany seems to. be Mr. Morgenthau, the US. Seere thing can be more certain than over-running of France, owed mora: triumphant perhaps, but the moment, not the whole of the facts. Supplies

tary to the Treasury, announced, from the United States and Canada

total 72,000 aeroplanes to be dell-that, if and when the Germans at to Fifth-Columnism than to actual the brutal Frankenstein monster bo

gins to show signs of clay fest and vered at 3,000 a month. This figure tempt an invasion of this impregna military puissance.

to totter a bit on his pedestal. Such: cannot of course, be reached im-ble. island, it will be on the smash-

Has it becurred to anyone how, a domination as filler has man mediately, but even at this stage and grab lines which sa utterly de-

peculiarly open to Fifth-Columb de ceuvred, chiefly by following the old supplies are coming in well. The moralised France.

Hitler's Higher Command, if it moralisation Hitler's present position Roman maxim of Divide to rule," those ent of production industrial implications of this vast

of history of double impor programme are: tremendous, but the seriously contemplates invading us, obviously is? An inviting opportun is dead against the grain tance, for they are invulnerable to United States is standing squarely will budget for a lightning drive ity is there, if we have the nous to and human nature, attack from the air. In the light of behind the plan, regarding it as an right through to our vital centres, grasp it effectually. Germany at the Hitler's latest oration to the present day experiences it is perfect- ly possible to imagine a state of at- esential part of America's national There will be no worrying over moment is holding down more than Reichstag, with its significant: omis

Roosevelt's rousing comments on fairy in which British bombing could to the assistance live or ten-bridgeheads," otherwise than as an half Europe by military occupation. sken of any reference to President

tion the given by the immediate jumping-off place.

backed by Gestapo 'methodson despotism, sremu to me to betray:{} reduce German and Italian output by pire. generally, combined

.. Does anyone cherish any

01 half in the same way German bomb Hiller's Initial failure to defeat the The Gestapo's Grip

regarding the feelings

the somo falat, paranölac glimmerings of overawed allen peoples concerned?, this moutable, truth, ing could reduce British output. RAF.. must be a source of great Supplies from North America are comfort to Londoners in their fiery Having seen something of prepara- Do you imagine the Foles, the Dutch, may yet perish of a surfeit of inter therefore, of evan greater signifi- ordeal.

itions for welcoming "Jerry" to this the Belgians, the Norwegians, or national Brigandage!

rate of 500 a

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with

·Hitlerism,