1941-03-01 — Page 13

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 1, 1941.

WE

Would you Union with

TE in the United States are now attempting to prepare for any eventuality by arming ourselves as heavily and as rapidly as possible. But huge mechanical defensive systems are no more than tempor- ary illusions 'unless there is behind. them a people with a purpose.

At the moment we have no purpose, except mere maintenance of the status quo. That isn't good enough. We must try to think not in terms of the coming months and years but of the future centuries. We must form a new con- ception of the new world in which we, our children, and their children will have to live.

It is my conviction that the strongest, sanest, and most dur- able guarantee for this new world is a union of the United States of America and six in- dependent units of the Common- British

of

wealth: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Union South Africa, Austra lin, New Zealand..

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This may appear, to the suspicious, other start on anothér blue-print for Utopia, another Wilsonian vi- sion. It isn't. It is the practical realian- tion of the destiny for new world leadership. which, whether we ad- mit it or not, or whether we like it or not, is

STATES

favour America?

An idea for your consideration-NOW

by

ROBERT

SHERWOOD

distinguished American dramatist, author— among other successes-of "Idiot's Delight"

est American contribution to human progress,

By a union with the British Commonwealth we cannot hope to reform the world, either with moral prenchments or at the point of a gun. We cannot ex- pect to redraw the map of Europe at another. Versailles. But we can promote our own future security for 100 years, 200 years and how much per manent progress of civilisation may not have been made in that time?

We can, morcover, achieve these immedinte gains:-

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We can end Hitler's dream of tical extreme of Woodrow Wil son's plan for world co-operation world domination throngh world All of the alliances to the equally visionary and im revolution. practical plan of the isolation- he may make with the other ista to keep us out of every totalitarian States of Europe thing.

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and Asia-alliances based on nothing but mutual greed--will That one failure was a bitter be ultimately profitless while experience for us. One hope control of the seas and of world was shot from under us. We trade remains with us. found a substitute hope, but that one has been shol away too. Hitler has destroyed our isoin- tionism as, decisively as he cir- oppressed people of the captive cumvented the Maginot Line: nations the proof that at last To-day, because Britain is en- there is dynamism in the demo- gaged in a war to the death, we cratic faith, there is alive on tre in it too. I don't think earth a mighty unified force many Americans are kidding ready to negotiate a just peace themselves about that. Even not on the suicidul terms of the though they believed that the appeasement and not on sending of fifty of our destroyers suicidal terms of the provedly was an act of war against Ger- rotten status quo. many, they were for it. Ameri- And let us not forget that an cans know that if Hitler con- all-important

that factor in quers Britain, he has conquered status quo was our own policy edge of destruction. This has a part of ourselves and is, direct- of escapist isolationism. We been recognised by that far-see- ly threatening the rest of our- have cast that off now; we must ing statesman Winston Chur- selves.

also cast out any thought that chill.

On August 20 last he con-

The British may, by a miracle we can go back to hopeful iso- cluded

a long speech in the of heroism and endurance, hold lationism whenever the present

terror is ended. ready to admit this Union would cover flouse of Commons with two out long enough to give us a And let us not imagine that

paragraphs of extraordinary chance to prepare adequate de-

can postpone our plans It is English-speaking ment in human progress. Tworld is big enough for based, to begin with, on sound significance. Speaking of the fences for this, one continent the future until the future has all conceivable purposes. It is a economic fact: the British Com- between Washington, Ottawn good-bye. We're no longer con- arrived. It is not alarmism, it is not hysteria, to say that to- world bounded on the north-east monwealth is our best customer and London for the leasing of cerned with your fate."

morrow may be forever too late. bases in the Western Hemis-But we shall have large pro- The world may soon achieve by the British Isles, on the and we are its best customer.

blems to face, even then. If co-ordination which is founded south-east by the Union of

UT there are considera- phere, he said: Buons much more im- South Africa, on the north-west

"Undoubtedly this process the British sen power is gone, not on the Bill of Rights but on means that these two great we shall be compelled to build "Mein Kampf." There โร by Alaska, on the south-west by

organisations of the English- our own Empire, establishing nothing now that can stop this Australia and New Zealand.

speaking democracles, the our outposts further and further but the collective force and British Empire and the from our own shores.

spirit of the British and Ameri- United States, will have to be Our sense of insecurity will can peoples. somewhat mixed up together-grow-as-the-range-of-bombing-

now being White areas show

thrust upon us,

we

It is my belief that the territory the

Americans are

and accept it.

portant than that. I don't pro- Its centre is in the U.S., and pose to insult the reader by that would be the centre of its handing him or her any of the foreign and military policy. It old, pompous bunk which is al- would have no Involvements-ways repented by white-tied whatever in the continent of orators at 'Pilgrim dinners-the Europe. It would constitute a routine patter about how "the power of unassailable magni- futures of our two great nations tude, dominating all the oceans; ure indissolubly linked because and this power would be in the we both talk the language of hands of 200,000,000 people who Shakespeare and Shelley and speak the same language and Shelley and Keats." Americans believe in the same three funda- are inclined to remark on that,

and truthfully, "Nuts!" things-liberty mental justice. and peace,

Recently I read a letter from Each State would of course, un English girl in which she continue independently to fly its said that America's greatest own flag, choose its own rulers, contribution to Britain's defence apply its own taxes, enact and was the expression, "So what!" enforce its own laws, chew is

own gum.

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in some of their affairs for planes increases. We shall have

'BELIEVE that the spirit mutual and general advan- to plant the American flag peril-

of the British and tage.

ously close to Europe, Africa, American peoples is now "For my own part, looking Asia. Conscription of our never before right for the bold, out upon the future, I do not youth and billions annually for constructive step toward union. view the process with any defence will be our permanent We are in a mood for grent, misgivings. No one can stop policy.

historic accomplishment. We have statesmen on both sides just keeps rolling along. Let CUCH a future for us is with the necessary intelligence it roll. Let it roll on in full

unthinkable. Imperial- and imagination and courage. flood, inexorable, irresistible, ism is simply not our game. We We know that the old world to broader lands and better have no relish for it and no na- has run down, like a clock that days."

tural aptitude for it. Our has been shaken by too many We Americans should con- genius is for union. The suc- alarms. We can and must build

it. Like the Mississippi, it

In the Victorian era, when sider this remarkable statement cessful experiment of the union a new world, to ring out a fu-

It would even be England was proud and mighty, with the utmost care. It was of thirteen sovereign States ture which will be fit for decent free to dislike all the other the suggestion of a union such the head of the British Govern- thirteen of which have since be- people to live in, together, at States to its heart's content. as this would have failed to dis ment, speaking to the elected come forty-eight is the great, peace. (This clause is inserted out of turb a single cobweb in the halls representatives of the British respect for the Irish.)

of Westminster, but in the past people. But all uniting States would quarter of a century the sun of

have in common the same im- Empire has resumed its progress THE progress of the cause

movable constitutional corner- westward. stone: the Bill of Rights.

of freedom may have The okl British policy of been slow, but, like Of Man This is a practical, workable, maintaining control over the River, it has been inexorable. It easily attainable plan for a new balance of power in Europe has has broadened with the spread world. It is logical, it is inevi- brought the entire Common of education. It has deepened table, as an evolutionary develop- wealth too close to the ragged with experience.

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Philippines Mayor

Wants To Take Oath With Clenched Fist

The Nazis, Fascists, and Com- munists may say that all the prating about liberty in the MANILA, Feb. 28 (UP).- signifles a challenge to the existing English-speaking democracies is For taking his oath of office in form of government."

Alejandrino, however, maintained hypocritical as long as India and the Soviet style--with clenched that he could take his oath only with the Philippines remain under right fist-Mayor Casto Alejan- the clenched Bst, asserting that "it British and American sovereign-drino of Arayat, Pampanga, has is against my conscience to take the ty. But how long would such been charged with disloyalty to oath in a form other than what I be lenders as Gandhi and Quezon the Philippines Government.

lleve is binding to my conscience."

Ozaeta advised the mayor to take be permitted to live if India and The Supreme Court may be asked. the Philippines came

under to issue a ruling on the legality or the matter to the Supreme Court n a test case, and suspended the fa- Nazi, Fascist, or Communist illegality of such form of oath-taking, vestigation. rule?

the case being unprecedented in

"Rubbing It In" Philippine history.

The Solicitor-General asked the Would any component parts ofj

Appearing before Solicitor-General

0 red-shirt, Hitler's proposed empire have Roman Ozueta as a witness on his yr why he wore complete autonomy, including own behalf, Alejandrino, one of the which was said to be the same shirt even the right to accede, as the several Communist town heals alect he wore when he took oath of omee Arayat, Alejandrino replied that

it for " double pur British Dominions have now? ed in Pampanga in the inst elections, he was wearing

refused to take the oath in the pose: "as a gesture of respect to the Certainly not! That autonomy, customary Philippine form.

Biatly

honourable Solicitor-General and to the Nazis would say, is just an- The mayor, who wore a flaming rub it in on those fellows who gọ other evidence of domocratic red shirt, said he did not want to be hysterical at seeing me in this red weakness. In tho "Master "taken for a fascist." The approved shirt," State" there will be no "rights" Philippine form of onthein in palm couration Division of the Phillip-

oath-taking is to

Jose P. Guido, chlef of the of any kind whatsoever.

pina Constabulary, testified Alejandrino's investigation that the

open.

A Challenge

In

ONLY in one great world Ozneta refused to permit Alejan- Socialists in Pampanga were being

crisis have wo Ameri- drino to take his oath in any form watched "because they constitute n cans failed utterly to convert other than the officially accepted the throughout the Philippines."

not only to Pampanga' but immediate emergency into his ant is part of the rite of coremony

alleging that "the clenching of

Major Guido charged that Com- toric opportunity. That was in of the Communtata in the Philippines, munists in the Philippines were 1919, when our policy hurtled derived from Soviet Russia, which receiving money from Soviet Russia.

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