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FINANCE AND WAR

THE task of national finance

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 présidents, 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 They want to keep American standards of living and win the crucial debating point by asking one question. arguing. And they want to square posterity at the same

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 in wartime, declared Dr Brinley the British correspondents present. But many Americans Thomas, Canadian economic ex-are unconvinced.

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nothing is decided on financial circumstances which could lose the war for Britain. grounds only. Such a statement will come as a shock to Rome folk to whom finance is the

be-all and end-all of existence. But the truth of it should be

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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 Willkie.

And in Willkie'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 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- 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.'

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

It is a difficult and embarrassing dilemma for British positive. Both are of secondary diplomacy. But worse ailments can afflict a nation than importance to the real physical the indigestion that comes from swallowed pride. problems of mobilizing men and materials, which are the truc substance of war economics.

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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

But he made impotent the millions who backed Willkie and who also backed Lindbergh.

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- ated the halo which Lindbergh has been getting ready to wear. In that moment he gave to the President a priceless and selfless guarantee of national unity if on it.

the President now cares to act

It is doubtful if, when the war is over, Britain will owe any single American a deeper debt than it now owes to that

shambling and passionate man who has quite firmly sacrificed his own ambitions with the Re-

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

When other political leaders beg for American con- publican Party to stand simply financial grounds. In the voys, the President must keep his silence. For he is the as an American behind the Pre- waging of war, then, finance head, not only of a nation, but of a political party. plays A non-combatant role,

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clearing the path for the soldier and keeping out of the way.

"Its second and more positive

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with waging the war but with

Why So Few Babies?

DOWN

OWN the ages it has always happened that 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

THE WAR OF 1914 RIGHTED THE INJUS- TICE AMONG BABIES BORN THEN,

By producing a higher pro-

in loss. The physical losses and in the first three months portion of boys this war follows death and mutilation-must more babies were born in Bri- all previous wars, though not as violently as it did in Paris, necessarily be felt to lie where tain. they Tall; the economic losses, But the latest figures show where (while France was still however, are transferable, and that later the number of births in the war) two boys were be. every state makes some attempt began to go down, even below ing born for every girl, against three girls to every boy before to distribute them fairly.

the average for the last five the war.

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

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

births. There were slightly more Professor Macaulay, In the ing men are cared for; and requisitioned property is paid boys, the young ladies of twenty United States, came to the con- more boys were for.

. In the more complex years from now will be glad to clusion that

born because of the "malo social organism of Great Britain, know.

'thoughts and martial feelings of

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un attempt is made to go far For every thousand girls born, the mothers-to-be."

beyond these minima in the

direction of the ideal of 'equality there were 1,056 boys. Over of sacrifice'."

the last ten years there were

war

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Other scientists put it down to differences in food.

Women usually prefor their

This means, of course, that 1,051 boys to each thousand own explanation: "It's Mother

finance is not an end in itself giris.

but merely a means toward an end. Hitler would say the real Tel. 28352 end is the state. The demo cracies Inglet the real end is the Tel: 58545

highest good of the people of the mon

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Naturo, making up for the men lost."

ABOUT fifteen years ago A curious thing, though, la

there wore many more that in the war there were more marriageable girls than young baby boys in neutral countries,

to go round, which had too, nothing to do with the war.

WILLIAM J. BRITTAIN

BY

ALISTAIR COOKE

famous transatlantic news. castur. He reported the Battle of Britain, and is now back in the United States, where he broadcasts regularly on Anglo-Ameri- can affairs,

sident.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

5-29

"I'll bet he springs that old gag about, 'this 'is the bad, Washington slept,'in,' on us!!