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FINANCE AND WAR

THE task of national finance in wartime, declared Dr Brinley Thomas, Canadian economic ex-

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WILLKIE

WENDELL

WILLKIE,

FRIEND OF

BRITAIN

And if he now, told the nation he was leading them into the risk of imminent war, his opponents could claim he had taken that immense risk, on an interpretation of. Britain's plight which even Britain herself did not share.

This, it seems to me, is the reason everyone is seeking why the President holds back when University. presidents, his former presidential rival, his own Party leaders and the Secretaries of the Army and Navy virtually appeal for American convoys.

Lindbergh-

It should be understood by Britons that there are

FOR many Americans who, for one reason and another,

are determined not to run the risk of war, this is the several million Americans who will listen to anybody who will promise them peace and independence at the same rallying time.

time.

When any distinguished man tries to persuade them that America faces only disagreeable alternatives, they win the crucial debating point by asking one question.

It is this: "If Britain says she cannot lose without us, why should we put our necks in a noose?"

I don't know what the British answer is to this chal- lenge, but it has now become the test question of British policy in the United States.

Premier Menzies, of Australia, roundly pronounced, "Britain cannot lose."

"We Will Win"

When Lord Halifax was asked in New York not long ago what Britain would do if American help did not come fast enough, he promptly replied:

"The war will take longer, but you need not think that in any circumstances we are going to lose, because we are not.

"If we have to fight for twenty years, we will win the war."

This brave retort drew a warm sigh of relief from the British correspondents present. But many Americans are unconvinced.

Americans may be forgiven for thinking there are nothing is decided on financial circumstances which could lose the war for Britain. www grounds only. Such a statement will come as a shock to folk to whom finance is

gome the

be-all and end-all' of existence. But the truth of it should be obvious. If it is not, this war is making it obvious.

The Economist of London, Britain's sober but progressive economic journal, stated the proposition in somewhat similar language in a recent issue:

"In war economics, money can be said to have two main func- tions, one negative, the other positive. Both are of secondary importance to the real physical problems of mobilizing men and materials, which are the true substance of war economics.

"The negative function of money is to avoid impeding the solution of these physical prob- lems; the task of finance in war

Facts, Please!

They want to keep American standards of living and arguing. And they want to square posterity at the same time.

In the last few months, a powerful voice has been lifted to cheer them. The name is Lindbergh.

To belittle him does mischievous harm. Nobody seems to know who is at the back of him, but even on his own account he might be a formidable leader.

He is young, handsome, not a politician and has been within the last decade the most romantic American hero of his generation.

And Willkie

In the last few years there has been only one man who has had an equally magnetised following-Wendell Wilkie.

And in Wilkie's hands has lately rested the balance of Ameri. can opinion.

If he had thrown his weight with Lindbergh, this country have gone turbulently down the road to an unproclaimed civil war. such as led, in the end, to the betrayal of France. Willkie threw his weight the other way.

His visit to Britain was the luckiest break that Britain has had from America.

Since he returned, he has shaken his tousled locks at many a stubborn audience and campaigned more fervently than Lind- bergh for the opposite cause. -

When he wrote to the Presi- dent and asked for convoys it is

Say, for instance, the total destruction of British ship- over-optimistic to think he car- yards, since this war has produced a new and special threat ried with him the 22 million But he made impotent the to Britain's sea power, namely, a threat to ships in dock. people who voted for him.

But Americans don't enjoy thinking up these circum- millions who backed Willkie and

who also backed Lindbergh. stances any more than you do.

tion.

They simply want to know the facts of Britain's posi-

They want to know if Britain is desperate or merely uncomfortable.

"

Their own pro-British leaders say, "Britain will fall without us." Whereupon their doubting audience replies, "Is that so? That's not what the British say."

It is a difficult and embarrassing dilemma for British diplomacy. But worse ailments can afflict a nation than the indigestion that comes from swallowed pride.

And right now the conversion of many active and doubting millions to the British side depends on somebody in Britain having courage to say the word.

Silent Head

High Light

When he leaned recently over an ocean of sweating faces, and

thundered, "We want those car-

goes protected," with an echoing pause between each word, 22,- 000 people rose and made the building shudder.

In that moment, he appropri

has been getting ready to wear. ated the halo which Lindbergh

In' that moment he gave to the President a priceless and selfless guarantee of national unity if the President now cares to act on it.

It is doubtful if, when the war is over, Britain will owe any single American a deeper debt than it now owes to that must shambling and passionate man who has quite firmly ancrificed his own ambitions with the Re- For he is the as an American behind the Pre-

Bident.

Certainly if there is one man in America who hunger for that word it is President Roosevelt.

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on financial grounds. In the voys, the President must keep his silence. waging of war, then, finance head, not only of a nation, but of a political party.

plays a non-combatant role, clearing the path for the soldier

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So Few

Few Babies?

Why DOWN

always happened that

OWN the ages it has..

distributing its effects. Any-In wartime more babies have thing as wasteful and destruc-been born than in peaco time.

This war started true to form, tive as war necessarily results

in loss. The physical losses and in the first three months death and mutilation-must more babies were born in Bri-

necessarily be felt to lo where tain.

1914

THE WAR OF RIGHTED THE INJUS- TICE AMONG BABIES -BORN THEN.

By producing, a higher pro portion of boys this war follows all previous wars, though not as violently as it did in Paris, they fall; the economic losses, But the latest figures show where (while Franco was still howovor; are transferable, and that later the number of births in the war) two boys were be- three girls to every boy before every state makes some attempt began to go down, even below ing born for every girl, against

inst five the war. to distribute thera fairly;

the average for the "The disabled are not left to years, though the number of Scientists have studied the re-

cognised effects of war births. starve; the dependents of fight-marriages has gone up.

There were slightly more

Professor Macaulay, in ing men are cared for; and. requisitioned property is paid boys, the young ladies of twenty United States, came to the con- born because of the male for. In the more complex years from now will be glad to clusion that more boys were thoughts and martial feelings of social organism of Great Britain, know. an attempt is made to go fur For every thousand girls born the mothers-to-be." beyond theso minima in the

direction of the ideal of 'equality there were 1,050 boys. Over there were the last ten years | of-sacrifice","

1

This means, of course, that 1,051 boys to each thousand finance is not an end in itself girls. but morely, a means toward an ond.. Hitler would say the roal

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the

Other scientists put it down to differences in food,

Women usually prefer their own explanation: "It's Mother Nature, making up for the men lost." ABOUT Afteen years ago

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By Lichty

5:24

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