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THE ill Nazi wind which now sweeps over the Balkans blows some good by stirring the hair of Uncle Sam.

It serves as a neces- sary reminder that Hit- ler's "world domination" is a programme as well as a boast,

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ROOSEVELT'S PLAN

TO BEAT U-BOATS

By Alistair Cooke

noted, American trans-Atlantic

It is not a question of radio commentator and doubting the British cause.

journalist,

"Continentalist."

July 12, 1941.

The present shipbuilding pro gramme calls for an expansion of merchant marine by "Afteen times." But the administration has decided not to throw all its weight into that programme,

I hasten to any that this de- elsion is no rebuff to Mr. Chur- chill. On the contrary, the President is already farther ahend with his own plan than all but his intimate advisers know.

Continentalists base their

He has decided, evidently af- theory of American self- ter listening to the earnest Every time Hitler has it is simply that the last. The word is no longer sufficiency on the happy co- pleadings of the Maritime Com-

thing America wants to do. struck in Europe, in fact, is to go on a war footing if "Isolationist." It is now operation of the South mission, that it would be fatal to concentrate wholly on build- the American mind has Hitler can be beaten without

Americans as minor partners ing more enrgo ships for Ger- jumped farther along the it.

It allows several new and in a gigantic Western Hemis- mans to sink. gangplank that leads from

There is a small and pas

persuasive arguments which phere Corporation.

Prevention! Isolation to the seas of In- sionate band of all-out Inter- may cause doubters to pause

ventionists who have called a little longer before resign- Latin America confirms an to throw American Labour into But every good observer in The President's ambition is ternationalism.

ing themselves to the risk of understandable fear, namely a frenzy of building-but into Then, for as long as there for a declaration of war ever

since the fall of France.

that most countries there the building of waval vessels, was a lull, it has questioned

The other attitude is a cannot afford the luxury of not of merchant marine. foud and its hurry, collected its They make a

At the present rate of ton- doubts, and generally gone noble noise, because many of late, and probably final, an ideology.

revival of the opposition to They will stay on the fence German, Italian and Danish nage losses, the recently-seized them are novelists, publicists sceptical in a

United States convoys. till this war is over, and if ships would replace only three and playwrights, whose pro- way.

fession is to make public Senator Tobey of New Germany wins they will fall week's sinkings. their private thoughts. Hampshire recently intro- over each other in their The President's conviction is duced an anti-convoy resolu- anxiety to climb on the Nazi that it is too late to build ships tion which bears his name band-wagon.

traditional

Until a nation fights for its life, it will resist the urge to throw all its energy into a single task, however wide its compassion for the suffering millions who made the same mistake...

1917. No Error

But their tenacity and eloquence is out of all pro- portion to their size.

open war.

, and for which he is already

actively campaigning.

Nazi-Proof Plan

His line-and that of the The love of South America It is well worth remember- Continentalists-is that the for North America is much ing that though America Lease-and-Lend Bill was a like that of the blonde tied to now believes, by a slight sort of palming trick to hide

railroad tracks for any man majority, that its 1917 entry the joker of convoys and the into war was not a mistake, ace of spades of actual war. who will rescue her.

more than eight Americans President's Pledge

faster than the Nazis can sink them.

His aim and hope is to stop goes afloat in British ships. the sinkings and keep good car-

in which the American Atlantic

The plan, is to widen the area

Fleet patrols. From New- foundland to Greenland to Ice- land.

This gives 2,500 miles for the

carious miles for the British watch.

American vigilance will be

plementing the work of her At- Iantic Fleet.

In The Interval... And so America's frame of mind is still "business as

Or, as Mr Willkič pungent- usual," backed by a prayer, in ten still don't want to get

into this war.

ly puts it, democracy will win American patrol and 900 pre- They maintain that Presi- if you can make it work. Each succeeding Blitz de- molishes this framework.. They will support the Pre- dent Roosevelt does not

This administration has When the Blitz pauses, the sident because they believe intend to honour his cam- nation goes back to the that if the war can be kept paign-pledge that American every intention to show that Keener for a wide air patrol sup- theory of America as a free from the Americas he will men would not again go off it can work.

to foreign wars. agent in a wide world; it find the way.

For some time past the What's In A Name? asks guilily if there is not This is the nation's mood, They quote Wendell President's whole attention some painless way to assure and it has been stated far Willkie's recent dismissal of a British victory without and wide during he recent this promise, which he called

has been given to

Did anybody say anything the about convoys? That's what changing the face of civili- period of stock-taking-that "just campaign oratory.”

problem of convoys for the Senator Tobey and the Con- an life,

North Atlantic.

tinentalists may call it.. is to say, during the lull be-.

I think, however, you can These lulls endanger the tween the passage of the, American effort because Lease-and-Lend Bill and the fairly be consoled that the

Continentalists are playing a were determined to

minder, he and his advisers of a label.

resolution will languish for lack they prolong a natural in- Balkan Blitzkrieg.

One can imagine the losing game.

father a President leaning back in Nazi-proof plan to show that de- terval of doubt.

Out of this lull emerged Vice President Wallace mocracy can hit as hard, and chair in his executive office, and two affirmative attitudes too, has his ideas of Con- plan as ingeniously, as any Ger- swivelling in genial surprise on which British policy would tinentalism, and in a speech man.

some inquiring reporter: be wise to take into account. recently he cited some pretty 1918 prodigy of output," when word!"

Mr Churchill mentioned the "Convoys? Never heard the One has been the coining practical reasons why this the American merchant marine of a new word to fortify the administration had chosen to tripled its tonnage in a single American Atlantic "Neutrality Mr Roosevelt will call it the arguments of Isolationists. back democracy to a finish.

The Corps Feminin

By Volontaire Moulun

I like my uniform. I like everyone to see that I am a free Frenchwoman serving her country and fighting for liberty.

When I walk about streets people smile in friendly manner. Others come and shake hands.

the

The Corps Feminin is two months old. There are about 100 of us. The first two weeks of our army life were spent in a training centre together with hundreds of British A.T.S. We

have happy memories of that fortnight.

:

Since our return to town we have settled down to a busy life. We live in the heart of London. Some of us work as secretaries. Others ure drivers and nurses. A number of girls look after the house, and last, but not least, are the cooks.

The idea of forming a French A.T.S. unit was born several months ago. Its object was to free as many men as possible to enable them to continue the struggle with their Allies.

of

Wo. loyal daughters France, hailed the idea with enthusiasm. We had blushed with shame at the betrayal of our beloved country.

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Our leader needs no introduc- tion. Mme. Simone Mathieu is famous.

nir

Our volunteers come from all stations of life, We pride our- selves on counting two pllots among our ranks, several teachers, a young actress who has already toured North and South America, not to speak of many women of means who voluntarily left a life of leisure and ease to join the ranks.

Some of us were old Lon- doners, others refugees.

The English are said to be reserved. Yet, there has been little reserve in the warm hos- pltality shown to the French Volontaire. So much so, that one of them exclaimed one day, "Je voudrais sourire a touto l'Angleterro" (I should like my smile to be able to onvelop the whole of Britain).

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