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TO-DAY

RIDDLES OF 1941

the "Hongkong Telegraph" begins a momentous series of articles, 'written by outstanding experts, on subjects which vitally affect every man, woman and child in the world. Written by war commentators with world-wide reputations, these articles will examine the chief problems that confront us in this Year of Destiny,

FIRST

in the series discusses the issúcs raised by President Roosevelt's latest speeches

Will Enter

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already in the war.

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America the

War?

By Alistair Cooke

Famous transatlantic broadcaster whose voice is known to

· millions of listeners.

ALISTAIR COOKE

If she had an army which she has not- two-ocean navy, thou- sunds of idle pilots, and fifty thou- sund Immobile planes, she would be irresistibly templed to extend her war effort to Europe,

For the United States is a nallon. at all es susceptible to moral crusades and proud of her, technical Akill.

After the War Amerlea has now been energised,

standard, rather than a world dom- by

The only tests of neu- trality we law-worshipping [nations know are those of

The Hague Convention and foot. It belongs to the pre-war But her vital Interest has a dif-

By the middle of 1912, she will a respect for international world, which includes also de- ferent emphasis, and the. pust-war

finitions of "war entry."

peace might well be lost in pretend- have the means to indulge this mooil, jlaw.

ing that British and American points if Britain is by then still holding out It does not help us to appreci- of view would merge as one.

in an indecisive war. Ever since the United ate the part America is play States decided last June to ing.

to see the true position, for President give Britain from her own, The Germans were also the

Roosevelt's recent speeches have Primarily. America vastly prefers sounded the most stirring clarion Hongkong Telegraph. Stock half-a-million rifles, first to realise that civilians to see # post-war Europe dominated since his first reside talk in the dark

80,000 machine-guns, and that is, the families of the fight

British Empire and a gold days of 1933. 750 field artillery pieces, ing men, and the mechanics, and inated by `n German Empire and On the diplomatic front the United is he could no longer be the diplomats-are all equally the barler standard its slave labour premiar that it does not exist. But States proceeds on the uudacious

freckoned as a neutral.

effective cogs in the machine of could enforcé.

make no mistake, America is at way total war, and must be so or

This is the pressing American with the Nazis and Fascists. Since Dunkirk, then, she gnised.

fear, not the fear of invasion-for nobody has successfully demons- Indicate news which is strictly copyright has been a "non-combatant It is true that to-day no

landed in the Western Hemisphere charges after German submar- the United Press Associations, who re- gnawing headaches have ines, but it is a mistake, too, to come from trying to legalise, think of him as lolling in Haw- through her Neutrality Act, aii. with attractive bruneties. the very powerful and un- neutral contribution she has made and is making.

Monday, March 3, 1941.

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trated how a mighty army could be. They'll Be Used

It is not down on the books yet,

bears the indication "Up" is received tabelligerent" and her most American sailor is tossing depth il successfully operate three thou simply because the Germans, for their

is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph"" to

under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1936. Such newa na

on the date of by

serve all rights and

arrangement.

either wholly or in part without previous

•

Does It Matter?

Pacific "Longstop"

He's in the war-moreover, in Britain's war-for he is in the Pacifte playing longstep to the British Navy. which is busy elsewhere.

su

and miles away from its bases of own good reasons, have not cared to

cry: "Int! Who goes there?" Or, supposin Daltar became Nazi, and Brazil was hospitable to the In They may decide to wage undeclared Sometime this year they may. vaders, how it could function even aubmarine warfare on American ship- 1,000 miles away......

ping. That would put an end The United States is consequently diplomatic relations between Ger- backing the British effort in the only many and the United States which becoming the arsenal of the enemies way that would now be effective; by are maintained to-day only because

they, are ignored. of Nazism and Fascism.

Time Lags

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You would then marvel at how deep America was in, and wonder when she first entered the war. The answer would be: Immediately after

She cannot accomplish this feat Dunkirk.

AT THE CROSSROADS

ALTHOUGH a number of leading Japanese statesmen and the Japancse press have for some tine past allowed themselves to adopt a menacing tone If, however, you are anxious If he were not there, li is very towards Britain and the United To know whether America is go- likely that the men in the factorles States, these two countries have per- ing to declare war, probably of Ohio and New Jersey would be sistently refrained from adopting a only God and President Ro08 orders for planes and tanks and guns, simply by taking thought or making

powerless to go to work um British similar and all too easy method of velt can tell you. Only God because nearly all the rubber and

Besieged-Britain has one other con- would want to.

tin that is vital to the armaments achieves li there are various mad-phical sort, and hence less acceptable n public proclamation. Before she salation, though it is of a philoso Industry comes from the Dutch East dening and irreducible Anyway, it is a matter of sur- Indies.

time lags, in wartime than anti-aircraft guns which Hitler will do his damnedest or fresh vegetables. prising unimportance. But it The Japanese Navy is keeping a

to exploit. will cause a lot of mischief as sharp eye on the Dutch East Indies.

America proposes to train 150,000 in history of a

It is simply this: There is no record people go on thinking an Ameri- And the American sailors are keep pilots

nation can declaration of war would nga sharp eye on the Japanese ground crews, but they will not be them into the dustbin. Once you Depassing a year and the supporting weapons of war and then throwing mark a change from idleness to

on and this yene, or probably next. commit yourself to them, somehow prodigious activity.

They will siny 011 watch until America proposes to, make 30,000 they tend to get used. synthetic rubber production in the aeroplanes a year, but she cannot be It would not make any such United States is really humming sure of that number until somebody change, and everybody who and the Indies need no longer be has found a

mass-producing tantalises himself with this day prized as the gem of the Pacific, aeroplane engines.

Even it that

secret were

mude America has a big Navy, but it is known to-night, designers would dream has failed to understand

ble enough to spilt. It is not have to be called la, then produc- enough, for instance, to ease tlon engineers. Then machine tools rica's great anxiety over the would have to be procured to make the machines that are to build the new models.

All this takes, according to the

ien months.

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retaliation, which, they wisely recog- nise, could only lead to further re- crimination and bod feeling. Japan has, perhaps misunderstood and regarded this restraint definite Indication of weakness, but whatever excuse there may have been for such an interpretation in the past, it is hardly conceivable that so inistaken an idea could be entertain- ed now.

have

It is true that neither Britain nor the United States seek war with Japan-they have not sought war with anyone. Both countries are even anxious to avert it, but not to the extent that they are not pared to take their stand should Japan threaten those territories whose must remain inviolate. threat

indeed had the effect of jerking

the American people out of their dreams of isolation in the realisation that preparations for defence must be thoroughly undertaken. The United States formerly was reluctant to take any action that could be construed as hostile, but Japan has, more than any other nation, changed this point of View

the

Navy.

bl

Panama Canal,

the ways of modern war, the not reality of the effort America is making, and the sort of stake she has in the post-war world.

Let us examine the question,

Peace to War

Almost the most unconven- tional act of the present war was the declaration of war made by Britain and France.

part of the Pacific fleet would have

Through that narrow lane of water

to dash to stop Germany taking over Martinique or French Guiana if the Petala regime should go down in complete surrender.

Busy Preparing

way of

experience of the ablest industrial-

ists.

to make up for previous time tost. So, to-day, America is sweating And until she has made up that lost time-which Hitler hos gained-she will have no surplus armaments.

And until she has a large surplus America painfully needs a second it is dangerous to talk about declara- her nine years of looting, bomb- an unnvaldable fact that a battle-

Japan still prefers to regard Navy, but though she is hammering tons of war.

away at overtime to build one, it is Japan stands to-day at the parting ing, and systematic campaigning ship takes four years to make. of the ways. She is faced with a as the "China Incident." grave decision and from either direc

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To defend her own shores alone

II Germany were now to declare

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-morrow:

WILL HITLER INVADE BRITAIN?

by Major E. W. Sheppard, famous writer on Army affairs; formerly a staff officer and a tank officer,

now the new MILITARY CORRESPON- DENT OF THE "DAILY HERALD"

PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE

It's a funny thing

SAW Old Silence looking at "You must not laugh at what they the stara. The sky was very call love at first sight. Two people beautiful. A great white moon that each is what the other has been Incel and instantly recognise the fact hung over a pale, solemn earth. looking for.

"You look sad," I said. "Just thinking," he replied. "Of home?"

"I haven't home.

tion the prospect is none too rosy. Russia did not make war on she is in equally painful need of Lured by the hope of an easy con- Poland or Finland in the old planes, tanks, A.A equipment, rifles.. quest in unorganised China, her

uniforms, and most of the other people and themselves to-day after sense, and Germany has yet to weapons of defence. 4 years of fighting reduced to an declare war on Austria. Memel, almost unbearable state of poverty. Czechoslovakia, Poland, Den- war on her, and she was compelled Bluffed, cajoled, and fiattered by Ger- mark, Norway, Holland, Belgi- to defend her merchant ships against many, the country has been turned

um, Luxembourg. a condition which borders on Into

U-boats, her harbours against raiders, despair. The WB of nerves, which

the Panama Canal against fatal sabo- Her part in the carving up of tage, there is no denying that Ameri- the Germans fully in various

have played to spe

countries in

Rumania was that of "adviser." e would go on a complete and used in another form, in

This' indifference to the gen-

frenzied war footing. being Japan, whose statesmen are being tlemanly rules of war has been armaments production, but not as She would thereby increase her Jured by promises which, at

at the

best, one of the great successes of much as she would need to satisfy can only be regarded as doubtful. It totalitarian strategy. is one of the strange menn of

the new calls on her supplies. the present war that

She would, indeed, have much less has not been one single instance in nothing and to keep everybody, might be bluntly compelled to say chooses to declare to spare for Britain and China, and which co-operation with

Germany has proved successful-except for in a state of tension and terror so. Germany Itself yet each victim in

America The United States, however; dangers and is preparing as fever turn, enticed by false promises, hos believe that two can play at that ishly for total defence as if actual Is fully alive to these imagined that it will prove the excep tion. Even Italy, still quoted as the game, and President Roosevelt battle were to be done next month partner of Germany, has become the especially is an adept.

on the plains of Texas or in the slavo rather than the equal. It is

waters plain

ters of Chesapeake Bay. to all that

So while we deplore the fact at the moment it

Her armament workers are in this suits litler's purpose

carry delusion that the European Axis still play cricket, it is worth remind this for her own safety. So she is on the that Germany never learned to war es grimly as they will ever be. You may say that America is doing holds good, whereas it is equally clearing ourselves that America is at but the point is that if she were that once he has allained his objective the moment taking full advan- doing it pranarily for Britain she been wiped off the face of the earth, it does what I tell it to do my duty. Italy will become as Rumania or any

other conquered country,

there Hitler

tage of the very same failing.

In the last European war Japan

"I met her by chance. Lifo be- enme beautiful, full of new things; it was like being born into daylight.

about and live here and there." which people exaggerated for the I never thought it possible to fall in love as much as that. In fact, I used move to think that love was something

"of" "Family?"

purpose making stories and Alms.

I

"I have no family."

I could only say: "Ah."

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But I can tell you, now, that writers and actors cannot convey one thousandth part of the real meaning

love. True love is

too deep for. expression. Do you understand?'

"I understand," I said. again, half to himself,

After a while, Old Silence spoke, "Then," he went on, "after I had-

"Three months ago, if I had suddenly there she is. My body is here, and known her only three days, I was "Nor have I any friends," he said, called up. And here I am. And

would be doing the same things at there would have been nobody to

"But my soul is there; and I feel an, the same speed: America, too, is not bothering Since America is anning with all

emptiness, a kind of pain which will Her prosperity and progress date herself with declarations. In- her

might against the very enemy volunteered for the Army: not go away. We write to cach other

We'll from that time. Since then, inspired stead, she goes ahead, giving to that Britnin is now resisting, and wanted to get away into a new life, but

again. by dreams of

of greater grandeur, she

since President Roosevelt makes no Then, all of a sudden, I fell in love But.... bus thrown in her lot with Germany Britain all sorts of help which bones about naming and despising with a woman, and she fell in love He laughed forlornly. There was So far this alliance has not brought in the world before 1917 would that enemy, you might be tempted with me.

quiet for a while; the great, deep the expected happiness nor prosperity have constituted positive.ncts of to nesume that Amerien's interest in. It was one of those things two people war is a strange, sad kind of begin- "It happened in forty-eight hours, quiet of a calm winter night. "This to the Japanese people, and they would do well to remember that the

wander through life on separate ning to many beautiful things yet to threatened advance southwards, Consequently, international In many ways it is the believes paths, without purpose as it seems, come, by God's grace,” though gilded by German propa-low in these times has all the type of government, the same free-meaning of their lives becomes per-

in the same institutions, the same Then they meet, and the whole Silence, grinde, would expose them to still greater dangers.

force and authority of a rabbit's doms.

fectly clear.

was an ally of Britain and Russia.

war.

this war is on all counts the same on Britain's,

care.

"I

meet

sald Old

An air raid warning sounded, and

we renched for our rifles,

.