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"Vo Fattfr Strays Ut; No Fear Shall Awe" $ ,
- ' rrom First Statesman, March .IS. 1861 ... ;.
Sheldon. F. Sackett - - ' Editor and Manager.
t THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. f
- Charles A. 8pragae, Preev ' - . Sheldon T. Saeiett. Secy.
Member of lb AaaorUlrd Presa
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. . - The Nest War
" At about this time last year, plus a couple of weeks, the
Paris papers were running headlines on the order of Silence
and Preparedness," "When Will It Come . . .T "We Must
Be Ready" and similar indications of tension. Meanwhile
Britons were boosting their air raid precautions at a pitch
even more ferverish than' during the early part of the sum
mer, and people in border towns, like Metz, Strasburg, Lux
emburg, and Nice were treading softly and "awaiting deyel
opments.,, Life, for those French and English who had the
nerve to read newspapers, was inconceivably tense and
clouded. , .
; Indications are at the moment that,: with the crops; in
and the army at full strength (though we have seen no
indication of actual mobilization of those classes of conscripts
which normally are permitted to remain in civilian life until
war actually is declared) the Germans are fishing for another
Munich, while France and Great Britain bide their time until
ihi- nlav of events forces them either to give in, or to make
aome sort of a stand, though
be as clear as that at any one time. .
ft It is clear of course that the internation situation abroad
has changed considerably since last September, owing to the
rapid, and effective, rearmament of the western democracies.
Yet in that time, too, Spain has become a potential threat on
the French flank and on the British lifeline at Gibraltar;
Hitler's trade treaty with Rumania and his easy relations
with Hungary have permitted certain supplies of war mate
rial to enter the Reich; and, finally, the Japanese have been
doing convenient things in the Orient: Hitler's air fleet gets
less publicity, but its strength is still a matter of guesswork.
From what 'one can observe of the tenor of life on the
Continent, most of the peoples of the .states which are likely
to be involved in war are not exactly wishing for war, but
they are pretty sure that it will come, and they would like
very well to get there first. At a time like this, "deals'" which
actually do provide effective guarantees of peace would have
to be almost as far-reaching as a military victory of the firsi
order itself, and for that reason may be regarded as doubtful.
The "white war" of which one hears is in full swing, and
without any effective safeguards being put up that one day
the chips may not be thrown away and hard money sub
stituted.: . . '
i Our own impression of the current Danzig imbroglio
is that the time is not exactly ripe for things to come to a
head. The British are pretty
strength (though they probably over-estimate the importance
of their : conscription measures passed recently) , and the
French, despite certain cries of "Pas pour Danzig" ("No
war for Danzig") in the rightist press, have shown an un
inviting willingness to call other peoples' bluffs. Germany
at the moment is economically as bad off as she has ever
been, and in Italy the "Viva Hitler" signs have all been
washed off the barns, showing that the Italian people are a
little tired of Goering's gold braid and Hitler's circus-day
pageantry. The axis boys will probably do a lot of talking and
a certain amount of backing down in the next few days;
though there is no guarantee that they will not take up the
current Lebensraum problem at the next opportunity, prob
ably after the next party day at Nuremburg. Naturally, if
today or tomorrow or over the weekend they do find that
they can get away with something, they will be nothing loath
to hack off. another scalp for
cine dance at Nuremburg.
doubtful. ...
i Whatever does happen in the next few weeks, the French
"Pas pour Danzig" slogan is pretty good advice for Ameri-
cans, The influence of this country had best remain neutral,
even while the talking is going on ; and any bright messages
from Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Hitler at the last minute will
probably be about as unsatisfactory in their result as the
one ot last spring which proved to be such a perfect fiasco.
We can do best by keeping an eye on the Japanese, and let
ting Europe pretty largely alone.
I J The Next Thanksgiving
The president's plan to put the Thanksgiving holiday
date a week ahead is a sudden and quite unexpected lesson
m the mutability of apparently rock-founded institutions.
Every child . is .taught the sacred ness of the rite which the
Pilgrims performed underneath the leafy branches of forest
trees on the November day more than 300 years ago; and
done of them, in recent decades, at least, have ever imagined
that the continuing observance of that ceremony was subject
to casual change, even on the part of a president.
But, from a Canadian island, on Tuesday last, Mr.
Roosevelt explained that "a great many . people have been
complaining that there is too. long an interval between the
Labor-day holiday -early in September, and Thanksgiving
day1 toward the end of November, and that the time is too
ahor9 between Thanksgiving and Christmas." Thus, arid
"because business people want the change," we shall give
thanks to God for all good things on November 23 instead
of November SOU'.' ; -
i The proposal, of course, is practically enough to cause
New -England, which already thinks the New Deal is ,a
bouquet of prickly pears, to secede from the Union, something
: that was last' considered in those parts when another Demo
cratic president called an embargo on exports after a fashion
which has certain-contemporary parallels. Over the rest of
the country the football industry- is running high blood pres
sure to an extent which should be hard-on an athletic heart;
patriotic societies are condemning the despoiling of tradi
tions; and everywhere in Polk County turkeys are shivering in
their feathers at a week's advance in the date of execution.
This Is a pretty turkey.hash, and, we must say, a swell way
to appease business. ' -
' Personally, we think the idea is stupid, rather ill-timed,
and on the: whole unimportant. If the president persists in
making coaches - weep ' and the stands moan ; if he roils
patriotic societies even more than the First Lady did over
the Marian Anderson episode; ir he makes every hunting
scene calendar irithe country a liar; and if he continues in
his own role as x the dispenser of good and of evil, the
Ughtening-dartmg Zeus of America, we suppose that life
will still-struggle on! even in spite of such unnecessarv
fumbling with matters which
eighty years or so. This is really nothing to make an issue of.
Buu we wm uuc uui lucuikiuc u. vc wive iu, we wm not,
- however,, forego thcpleasure of expressing1 our disapproval
Ml a a a J A. 1 r T
OTr tne most recem presidential granas landing. -
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Detaining
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Susp
MARSH FIELD. Aug. 17. (JP)
Police detained Ellis Lee Mad
dox here today for Lake Charles,
..Lai. authorities who said they
were sending -an officer to ques
tion hint' about, a: robbery -and
rrtaying'C-'v;-::'-
Louisiana, officers said Maddox
fcal eluded officers of. four states,
dp-aping capturei.rin i Blackatope.
W.-Z!xrca:-21; in Nebraska, July
C and- ar Grande Bond, Ore,
July 22.- .
i!2ilox. who was here ta Sep
the issue will probably never
proud of their new military.
exhibit during the annual medi
But that, at the momenta is
really have gone ouite well for
tember! was held resterdav h-r an
officer who recognized him on
- mju me umM
nc Information on the killing of
Charles E. Jones. Vnrt nmvmt
Texas, soldier, and had not oues
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'TOPEKA,' K JLvLZiifrifffc
uere - no neea, no excuse, no
Place in the United " Rtt
"those who stlU hold, allegiance
to foreign governments or foreign
groups and refuse to become nat
sralized citizens, Senator Capper
(R-Kas) said tonight In a nation
Bits for
Breakfast
By R, J. HENDRICKS
There Is a monument 8-18-39
to Lieutenant Slaughter ; t
and two of hit corporals,
near town that was Slaughter:
"Is
Regular readers will recall that
in this column for the issue of
June 11, this year, there was ref
erence ' to Lieutenant Slaughter,
and in the issues of June 17 to 23,
more about his career.
General Grant wrote in his
Memoirs that Slaughter was pe
culiarly liable to seasickness; that
to see the ware of a tablecloth 'al
most made him sick. The then
lieutenant, the future great gen
eral, saw quite a little of Slaugh
ter on this coast, in the early
'50s. He wrote: "Poor Slaugh
ter! . . . He was killed by Indians
in Oregon.
He was slain by Klickitat Chief
Kaniskut and his gang in what
had been a part of Oregon but
was then Washington Territory.
It will be recalled that, a few
weeks before his death, Lieuten
ant Slaughter had been ordered,
with his regulars, to aid in fight
ing the Yakimas, where were Col.
Nesmith with his Oregon volun
teers and Captain Ord and 2nd
Lieut. P. H. Sheridan with their
U. S. Army dragoons. But a heavy
snow prevented Slaughter' and his
command from getting over the
Cascades from Fort Steilacoom,
and they turned back, and found
plenty of trouble in the Steila
coom district.
S t .
Toward the end of the June
17-23 series in this column, this
writer said: "B. K Short, mer
chant, 695 North 14th street, son
of a pioneer Oregon Indian fight
er, knows some additional facts
concerning Lieutenant Slaughter.
A pioneer town in Washington was
named for him. It grew. A ho
tel was built. It was naturally
named the Slaughter House. In
Oregon and Washington pioneer
times all hotels were 'houses.'
But, when the stages stopped and
the hotel runners yelled 'AU
aboard for the Slaughter House!'
the incongruity of the necessity
for that call of the bonlface's
barker got on the nerves of the
people o the name of the town,
as well as of the hotel, was
changed to Auburn. So, Auburn,
Wash. ' So ends this series. But
the lead given by Mr. Short win
necessitate something more about
the career and fate of Lieutenant
Slaughter, at some date in the
near future, after replies are had
to letters being mailed.
Follows, under date of July 6,
from Dr. F. D. Merritt, an answer
to one of the letters:
. . "i
"Tour letter of June 22nd and
the copies of The Statesman'
reached me several days ago.
"I regret that the information
that I am able -to furnish to you
is rather meager. The town of
Slaughter, named in honor of
Lieut. Slaughter, was "platted in
1886 by . L. W. Ballard and his
wife Mary. The name of the city
was changed sometime during the
nineties to Auburn. I took up my
residence here in July, 1903. A
son of the original platters of the
townsite. Arthur Ballard, resides
at Auburn. I have endeavored to
reach him by phone and by calling
at his home but have failed to
find him. He has written several
historical articles and is probably
the best informed person, locally,
upon the events occurring in the
White River valley in times past.
"There is a monument or mark
er erected upon the east side of
the East Valley highway, upon the
right of way, one and a quarter
miles due north from the Auburn
pos toff ice. It is of granite and
about six feet tall. The inscription
upon it reads: 'In Memory ot
Lieutenant Wm. A. Slaughter and
Corporals Barry and Clarendon,
who were killed by Indians, 125
feet east of this. December 4.
1855. This Monument erected In
1919 by Washington State Histo
rical society.'
"When I moved here in 1903
the Seattle-Tacoma intemrban
electric line bad been in operation
less than a year, and the next sta
tion south of Auburn was Stuck
(long since changed to Algona),
probably named because of prox
imity to Stock river, and two or
three miles further south noon
the Northern Pacific railway was
Derringer; Slaughter, Stuck, Der-
Call Board
- STATE
Today R e t u r n of the
" Cisco Kid" starring War-
ner Baxter. Lynn Bail and
" Caesar Romero and "Off the
- Record with Joan Blondell
and Pat O'Brien.
Saturday Midnight show.
TT In nt that TT n f r .
World" starring Humphrey
Bogart and Kay Francis. -
ELSIXORE
Today Doable bill.
Irene Dunne and Charles
Boyer In "When Tomorrow
Comes" and "They Asked
For It" with Michael Wha-
Imn and Jot Hodres.
Saturday Mickey M o n s e
matinee. Double bill stage
show, chapter 9 "The Ore-
gon Trail." v
Midnight pre me Ginger Ro-
gers and David Niven in
. .. in "Rar.nelor Mothf."
CAPITOL
Today Ann Sheridan In
"Winter Carnival and John
Wayne In "New Frontiers"
with Ray Corrlgan and Ray-
mond Hatton.
. HotxrncooD Si;
Today Doable bill, The,
Three Mesquiteers In "Over-
land Stage Raiders with
John. Wayne and Tranciska
Gaal and Franchot Tone in
."The Girl Downstairs.
Today Will Rogers la "Day
id Harum.
Saturday "Bolndle Takes-a
- t Vacation' with - Penny
'X Singleton and Arthur Lake
" ' and - Western Caravan."
with Charles starrett.
The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, :
'Like to Get Wrecker,' Says Engineer
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Veteran engineer Edward F. Hecox of the sabotaged City of San Fran
cisco whkh tumbled Into the dry Humboldt river near Elko, Sev
- expressed hope following the disaster that he might meet the per
son responsible for causing the murderous wreck. Said b.e: "I'd
like to get my band on him!" Hecox, 05, has driven locomotives
for decades, before that drove a stagecoach In Nevada. Only once
before was he to a railroad accident. (DT3I )
XSXJS TBXDAT 1S60 Ks.
:SO Milkmaa's Keren da.
7:00 Woaderi Vslley Boy.
7:15 Hits an4 tncore.
7:80 New,, i
7:45 HUo Serenadere.
8:00 Mornina Meditation,.
8:15 Haren of Rett.
SSNewa. I
0:00 tfaator's Call.
9:15 Jane Aadersom.
9:30 Sarpriatf Your Hasbtnd.
9:88 Bhemba KSTtkm.
10:00 Natel Orchestra.
10:15 News.
10:30 atorains Itaeaaine.
10:45 Womem is tae News,
10:50 Hollywood Kibitier.
11:00 Msrrisse License Romance.
11:15 Elias Breeskia Orchestra.
11:30 Piaa Quia.
11:45 Valne Parade.
12:15 News.
13:80 Hillbilly Serenade.
12 :1S AoTeltones.
12:45 Musical Salute.
1:00 Riehara Lot Orchestra.
1:15 Interesting facts.
1:80 Lea Salve, Organist.
1:45 Vocal Varieties.
3:00 Our Nary.
2:15 Johnson Family.
2 :80 News.
2:45 Manhattan Mather.
8 :CO Feminine Fancies.
8 :30 Interview with Mrs. Grace Mer
rill by Murine Bores et States
man. 3:45 Fulton Lewis. Jr.
4:00 Welcome Neighbor.
4:30 WOR Symphony.
5:00 Johnny Davis Orchestra.
6:15 Shatter Parker.
S :30 Ernie Fiorito Orchestra.
5:45 Hits ot Yesterday.
:00 Reichman Orchestra.
6:15 Rhapsody in Wax.
6 :45 Hesdlines.
7 :00 Varieties.
7:15 New, Behind the News.
7:30 Lone Rsnfer.
8 :00 News.
8:15 Vocsl Vnrieties.
8:20 Nsgel Orchestra.
9:00 Newspaper ot the Air.
9:15 Softball.
11:00 Tomorrow's News Tonight.
11 :15 Marcelino Orchestra.
11:80 Van Orchestra.
11:45 Midnight Serenade.
XOW FRIDAY 620 Kc
7 :00 Viennese Ensemble.
7:15 Trail Blaiers.
7:45 News.
8 :00 Orchestra
8:15 The O'Neills.
8:30 Start of Today.
8:59.40 Arlington Time Signal.
9:15 Let's Talk It Over.
9:80 Meet Miss Julia.
9:45 Dr. Kite.
10:00 Betty and Boh.
10:15 Grimm's Daughter.
10:30 Vs.Ks.nt Lady."
10:45 Betty Crocker.
11:00 Story of Mary Marlia.
11:15 Ma Perkins.
11:30 Pepper Young's Family.
11:45 The burning Light.
12:00 Backstsge Wife.
12:15 Stella Dallas.
12:30 Vie and Sade.
12:45 Midstream.
1:00 Organ Concert.
1:15 Trio.
1 :30 Hollywood News.
1 :45 Singer.
2 :0O Institute ef Democracy.
2:151 Love Mystery.
2:30 Woman's Ms(zine et the Air.
3 :00 Orchestra.
8 : 15 Kovachord.
S :0 News
8.45 Angler and Banter.
4:00 Jack Joy Orchestra.
4:30 Start of Today.
5:00 Walt Time
5:30 Cocktail Hear.
5:40 Mnsical Interlude.
5 :45 Whimsical Swing.
8:00 Guy Lombardo Orchestra.
8:30 Hotel Lincoln Orchestra.
7:00 Fred Waring' Pennsylvaniana.
7:15 Meadowbrook Country Club Orch.
7:30 Paradise Rest. Orchestra.
8:00 Good Moraine Tonight.
8:30 Death Valley Days.
9:00 I Want a Job.
9 : 30 Orchestra.
19:00 News.
10:15 Organist.
10 :S0 Orchestra.
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8:30 Musical Clack.
7:00 Family Attar Haw.
7:80 Financial Service.
7:45 Ranch Boys.
7:55 Market Quotation. -
7 :57 Lost and Found Items.
8:00 Dr. Brack.
8:30 Farm and Hoasa.
9:80 Patty Jean.
9 :45 Singer.
10 .09 Listen, Ladies.
10:30 News.
ringer giving this vicinity a rather
bloodthirsty reputation.
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"If yon desire, complete infor
matlon concerning Lieutenant
Slaughter I suggest that yon write
to the secretary of the Washing
ton State Historical society at
Seattle."
Thanks to Dr. Merritt for his
letter, which: closes this series for
the present, I
Mr. Short; says Dr. llerritt Is
one of the leading physicians of
that section! of Washington, and
that he Is a public spirited and
cseful citizen. .
At some future date, this col
umnist will! probably - undertake
to explore into the pioneer Short
family of Oregon, and perhaps try
to find something more about that
of Lieutenant Slaughter.
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Oregon, Friday Morning, August 18, 1939
10:45 Alice Joy.
11:00 Fashion Musiesie.
11:15 Current Events.
11:30 Nary Band.
11:45 Between the Bookends.
12 :00 Sazophobia.
12 :30 News.
12:45 Dept. Agriculture,
1:00 Market Reports.
1:05 The Qniet Hour.
1:45 Orchestra.
2:00 Curbstone Quis.
2:15 Financial and Graia Reports.
2:25 Sews.
2:30 Orehestrs.
2:45 Studio Party.
3:00 Orchestra.
3:30 Three Cheers.
8:45 ABO ot NBC.
4:00 NBC Jamboree.
4:30 Don't Forget.
5:00 Plantation Party
5:30 Marian Miller.
5:45 The Cowboy Rambler.
6:45 Freshest Thine in Town.
7:00 Fire ia the Mountains.
7:05 Musical Interview .
7:30 Orchestra.
8:00 Sports Reporter.
8 -.15 'ewi,
8:30 Baseball.
10:15 Earle Keller Programme.
10:30 Dog Race Returns.
10:35 Orchestra.
11:00 News.
11:15 Portland Police Reports.
11 J 8 Organist.
11.45 Sports Fiaal.
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KOAO FRIDAY 650 Kc.
9:00 Today 'a Programs.
9 :03 Homemakers' Hour.
10:00 Weather Forecast.
10:30 Monitor Views the News.
11:00 Variety.
11:30 Music of the Masters.
12 :00 News.
12:15 Farm Hour.
6:00 Dinner Concert. '
6:15 News.
6:30 Fsrm Hour.
8:15 Business Hour.
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KOIN FRIDAY 910 Kc
:15 Market Report.
6:20 KOIN Klock.
7:00 It Happened in Hollywood.
7:13 KOIN Klock.
7:45 News.
8:15 When a Girl Marries.
8:30 Romance ot Helen Trent.
8:45 Our Gal Sunday.
9:00 The Goldbergs.
9:15 Life Can Be Beautiful.
9:30 Consumer News.
9:45 Yours Sincerely.
10-00 Big Sister.
10:15 Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories.
10:30 Singing Organist,
10:45 Rhythmairea.
11:00 This and That.
11:45 News.
12:00 Pretty Kitty Kelly.
12:15 Mjrt and Marge. ,
12:30 Hilltop House.
12 : 45 Stepmother.
1 :C0 Scattergood Balnea.
1:15 Dr. Susan.
1:30 Singin' Sam.
1:45 Singing Organist.
2:00 Fletcher Wiley.
2:15 Hello Again.
2:45 National Tennis.
3 :C0 Newspaper of the Air.
4:00 Under Western Skies.
4:30 Shadows.
4:45 Dance Time.
5:00 Orchestra.
6:00 Grand Central Station.
6:80 Believe It or Not.
7:00 Amoa ' Andy.
7:15 Parker Family.
7:30 Johnny Presents.
8:00 I Wnnt a Divorce.
8:15 Little Show.
8:30 News and Beviewt.
8:45 Memory Street.
9:15 Orchestra.
:45 Tuning Bulletin.
10:0V Five Star Final.
10:15 Orchestra.
Longshoremen Are
Confident in Body
PORTLAND, Aug, 17-(rP)-Frank
Brost, secretary ot the
local longshoremen's union, said
today Portland waterfront work
ers had voted "full confidence"
in the committee negotiating a
new contract with employers at
San Francisco. .
Tne action, Brost said, was a
result of Harry Bridges' visit her
yesterday.
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The Sammer and the Iresldent
American Foreign" Policy
The American foreign policy,
reiterated often in words, adds
up verbally to about the follow-
ing: Non-interference
'in the
political affairs
of Europe; the
maintenance of
the Monroe Doc
trine; the " Open
Door In the Far
East; the main
tenance of the
sanctity of trea
ties and a, readi
ness at all times
peacef ullr to ar- Taemp...
nitrate differ- j
ences and to col-laborate In
reduction of armaments.'
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As a matter of fact
, we can
a foreign
hardly be said to have
policy at all, and the congressional
action in rejecting the ! adminis
tration's recommendations' regard
ing neutrality makes it difficult
for ns to have one. Without im
plementation, policy Is merely
platitude. The Kellogg-Briand
pact denounced aggressors, and
the president has suggested quar
antining aggressors, or attempting
to halt them by every method
short of war." But we have no
definition of what constitutes ag
gression, and it is hardly possible
for any one nation unilaterally to
find one.
Indeed, the strategy of the for
eign policy of "dynamic" powers
IS to create a situation In which
they can claim to be the victims
of aggression. Danzig Is an illus
tration. The national: socialist
plan is to engineer a coup In Dan-
sigt by peaceful means peaceful
means nowadays meaning propa
ganda, house-by-house organlza
tion, and steady terror in other
words, revolutionary means. Dan
tig will then declare its Intention
to join the Reich, and the dec la
ration will immediately be ac
cepted and Danzig declared part of
German Boil. Resistance to this
unilateral decision on the part of
the Poles will mean aggression
against Germany, and the question
of who was aggressor will be set
tied by history, according to who
writes the history.
We still assert the Open Door
in the Far East, but meanwhile
the door is being steadily closed
Dy japan, until now wltb the as
sistance of our scrap iron and our
oil. The theory that we alone can
stop this process by means short of
war is highly questionable. An
embargo of the United States
alone against Japan would cer
tainly cripple and Inconvenience
her, but it would also furnish her
with the best possible argument
for her own very clear foreign
policy, which is to create self-suf
ficiency for herself in the Far East
by establishing a monopolistic
area in China for her sole ezplol
tatlon.
sanctions undertaken . by one
nation alone partial sanctions
demonstrably will not work. We
saw the example in Ethiopia
American oil is oil In the hands
of American companies and it is
scattered throughout the world
Trade is for profit, and highly in
genious. It does not need to clear
for its eventual goal, and unless
the whole world agrees on a policy
of economic strangulation, the
loopholes will be so numerous that
the trade will slip through.
Economic sanctions against Ja
pan imposed by the United States
alone will not stop Japan in China.
They may, serve to. rivet Japan
inexorably to the Axis powers, to
destroy our own trade with Japan,
and eventually we will still be
faced both by the loss of our mar
kets in China and by the perma
nent loss of our market in Japan.
For Japan's object in taking China
is to make herself economically
independent of us and ot every one
else.
Then, there Is the Monroe-Doctrine.
The essence of the Monroe
Doctrine is that the United States
will not tolerate that any Sooth
American state should become the
vassal of a non-American power.
This Is a condition devoutly to be
wished, but just how are weoing
to prevent it?
We still seem to think that tils
possible vassalage can only arise
if some non-American power lands
troops in South America and pro
ceeds to take over state after state
by force. This Is old-fashioned
stuff. Conquest In the present day
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and Chapter 7 of "Red Barry,
with Larry (Boater) Crabbe.
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la undertaken by totalitarian po
litical and economic penetration.
The foreign power arrives not In
cruisers but on regular ships, and
its envoys are not soldiers dui
commercial and political agents
who get possession of strategical
economic points and engineer
revolutions, -setting np puppet
states which then enter a political
and economic bloc, and from then
on take orders.
If we seriously wanted to pre
vent the possibility of soutn
America, a . continent with the
most Intimate cultural ties to
Spain, from becoming eventually
an outpost of the Axis powers then
the opportunity lay in the last
three years in Spain, where an ac
tive and positive policy pursued
with others could have determined
the outcome of the Spanish civil
war to the obliteration in Spain
ot both Fascism and Communism.
But, Instead, we chose to regard
the Spanish civil war as a purely
European affair- and to keep
clear of Interference.
Which leads ns to the funda
mental fallacy of the congression
al thinking about Europe as rep
resented in their Ideas abont neu
trality. What is coming to a head in
Europe is not a decision abont
Europe. It is a decision , about
this planet. It has nothing to do
with the rectification ot the Trea
ty of Versailles. The issue in
volves the total redistribution of
world power and the complete re
organization of the whole world.
along revolutionary lines that. If
successful, will end the very con
ception of Europe. The plan of
the "dynamic" powers is to divide
the eartS into monopolistic areas,
or "spheres of influence," to be
administered by a new form ot
imperialism consisting of state so
cialism under absolute govern
ment, each area ruled by a master
race over subject "aliens" of second-class
citizenship. These will
work in return for economic and
political security in a permanent
condition of benevolent slavery.
We are asked not to become
entangled in this. The answer is
that we are already entangled. If
it succeeds, with or without war,
either by "appeasement" in ca
hoots with Britain and France
which is still not outside the 11m
its of possibility or by a show
down in war. It will involve every
point of our foreign policy. There
will be no Open Door In the Far
East, no Monroe Doctrine, and no
Europe. All the small states will
disappear or be federated into
"followers" of Germany, Italy or
Great Britain if the British Em
pire survives and Japan.
We shall then have isolation
confined to North America. And
this isolation will involve a social
revolution. For the system, how
ever modified, under which we
lire will be unable to exist in a
world of monopolized and con
trolled trade administered by au
tocratically controlled systems of
state socialism. We shall have to
come into the new world-wide new
deal on the terms dictated to as
or fight alone or perish.
It is toward this issue that con
gress asks us to maintain a neu
trality that is the equivalent of
complete disinterestedness. The
failure of congress to act on the
neutrality bill has brought the' is
sue much nearer to fateful deci
sion, for it has strengthened the
courage of the Axis powers and
discouraged those elements in Ger
many who have been exercising a
somewhat restraining hand.
And the danger that our foreign
policy will become an Issue in the
forthcoming presidential election
ia the greatest possible danger to
our domestic peace. Both political
parties are under a fearful respon-
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siblllty. For unless they agree,
and agree to put our foreign pol
icy on a national basis above par
tisan politics we shall have world
issues fought out on our soil in a
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ties and divide the country end to
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postponement ot a world crisis
until 1940, such a nation-wide
controversy in America will, with
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set the moment for Armageddon.
The nearest approach to party
unity came in the Allen amend
ment to the Bloom bill (the ad
ministration's bill), which would
have simply repealed the existing
legislation and returned neutrality
to the domain of international law.
It looked as though sufficient re
publican votes could have been
marshalled for this solution. It
is to be hoped' that they may be
marshalled again at the earliest
opportunity before a world crisis
of an acute nature makes the
problem more hotly controversial
and more dangerous.
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