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Committee Versus Committee
America's war camp seems to be dividing itself
into committees.
There’s the America First Committee, headed
notably bv Charles A. Lindbergh and Senator Burton
K. Wheeler. These are the ringmasters of the isolation
ist movement.
On the side of the interventionist, an organization
calling itself the Fight for Freedom Committee is bat
tling the propaganda of the peace front.
One of the mainstays of this Fight for Freedom
Committee is Editor Herbert Agar of the Louisville
Courier-Journal. About a week ago, he talked to the
University Rotary Club, in Seattle and said a lot of
things that made good news copy, and told some things
which military censorship has hushed in the current
news dispatches from Europe.
Editor Agar made his Seattle address in reply to
<a recent Seattle speech of Senator Wheeler s. In direct
contrast to the Montana Senator’s declaration that this
is no war of ours, the Louisville newspaper editor pro
claimed with fire that if the American people follow
the advice of the America First Committee and “let
other people die for them,’’ this nation will not have
“the moral influence of a flock of goats’’ after the strug
gle is over.
The America First Committee is deliberately at
tempting to hide the true picture of what is happening
in continental Europe, Agar charged. He said further:
‘They are trying to tell us this is just another
of the old wars for conquest of more territory.
“The facts are, this is utterly unlike the im
perialistic wars of the past. It is a neck-or-nothing
counterrevolution against civilization itself.
“If this is just a war to decide who owns Al
sace-Lorraine or the Cameroons or who shall con
sands of Poles, free French, Norwegians, Dutch
and Belgians who have fled to England to take up
arms against the common enemy?”
“A systematic and terrible move has been
made to wipe out the spirit and hopes of the Pol
ish people. Nazi leaders arc doing something to
Poland that has never been attempted before in
human history.
"They are attempting to deprive this unhap
py people of the memory of their past by destroy
ing all Polish books in Poland, occupied France
and other subjugated countries.
“This is the last terrible step to make them
a helpless, doomed spiritless mass of abject slaves.
It is a deliberate plan to impose aphasia on a cou
rageou nation by brute force.”
The fact that Nazi aims likely flow deeper than
mere territorial gains and political victories was hit by
Editor Agar when he called attention to the fact that
a statement from Catholic primates recently leaked out
of Germany in which they declared the very existence
of Christiantv is at stake. Commented the editor:
“The church doesn’t exaggerate. Can you im
agine the church making such a statement in the
Franco-Prussian War, the Mexican War, the Boer
War or the Spanish-American War?
“The America First Committee says this
world crisis is no affair of ours. If so, for God’s .
sake let’s not hire others to die for us! Why send
lend-lease aid to Britain to prolong the war so
that more men can die for us? Wo must make up
our mind to fight for the preservation of civiliz
ation before it is too late.
“Germany hasn’t yet dared to treat France
as she did Poland, simply because it is easier for
the world to know what is going on in Western
Europe.
‘The Nazis know if they subjected the French
to such brutality America would stand aghast
and would demand instant action,” he explained.
“But the same terrible fate has been planned for
France and the other conquered nations, make
no mistake about that.” —Juneau Empire
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Turkey, Key To Russia
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(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
With Syria, Iraq and Iran eliminated as bases of
Nazi operation, thanks to Allied occupation, Ger
■ many is employing new tactics to put the squeeze
play on Turkey, the strategic key to the Black Sea,
southern Russia, where Hitler’s armies are advanc
ing, and the rich oil resources of the Caucasus region.
It is this object which Germany is furthering in bring
ing pressure on Bulgarian to become an active mili
tary partner of the Axis.
Bulgaria is important in the Nazi scheme only
because of its geographical position. It has been under
complete German domination for months. Its people,
like all Balkan Slavs, are strongly aware of their ra
cial affinity iwth the Russians. Communism is a name
that has no meaning to them. They have given many
indications of their displeasure with the Nazi attack
on Russia and as a consequence the German overlords
have imprisoned thousands of Bulgarians.
It is the king, the cabinet and the general staff,
not the people, that the Germans seek to tie more se- j
curely to their chariot in this endeavor to make Bul
garia a belligerent. As a means they hold out glitter
ing promises to Tsar Boris. He can have absolute
naval command of the Black Sea. He has no navy
j now, but Italy may furnish it. He can have undisputed
trading rights in that area and also a protectorate
over the Crimea. The mild-appearing Tsar Boris is a
great schemer. He is ambitious. He has survived many
uprisings against his rule, both popular and military.
The lure is one he cannot resist. He will bow to Ger
1 many’s bidding in this as meekly as he allowed the
Wehrmacht to come into his country last spring.
Bulgaria, therefore, will be asked to join Ger
many in a drive toward the Dardanelles. An effort
will be made to resurrect Bulgar-Turkish enmitiet; j
from the last century when the Sultan ruled Bulgaria.
At the appropriate time the Thracian border of Eu
ropean Turkey will blaze. The Germans seem im
pervious to the fact that Bulgaria may blaze internal
ly, too, as have other occupied countries. Their indiff
ere nee to this possibility is a confession that they are
hard pressed in Russia.
This move will be coupled with pressure at An
kara. Dr. Karl Clodius, German trade missionary,
whose name spells disaster for every country he visits,
is now in the Turkish capital trying to emplement the
German-Turkish trade treaty. At the same time Franz
von Papen, Hitler’s envoy to Ankara, and Hans Rhode,
military attache, are in Berlin, detailing what progress
they have made in boring from within.
Turkey’s time has come. In the one-by-one method
of the Germans the frontiers of the non-belligerent
neutral Turkey have been reached. Turkey most like
ly will remain free of German troops. Hitler’s armies
'could not advance across Anatolia toward the Cau
casus while Allied armies are stationed along the
Syrian, Iraqian and Iranian frontiers of Turkey ready
to strike. What is sought is the diplomatic imprison
ment of Turkey. There would be no fear that Turkey
would observe the terms of the Montreaux Treaty
governing the Dardanelles or honor her treaty of
friendship with Britain. A drive by sea as well as land
could be made for the Baku oil fields. German armies
in the southern Ukraine could be supported with sup
plies and reinforcements by sea much more easily
than is now possible by land.
The real decision in this development lies in An
kara, not Sofia. Allied diplomacy of the most skillful
sort is called for. If Turkey deserts—and her loyalty7
has been none too sure in the past—the Allied supply
route to southern Russia is endangered; the position
in the Near East and North Africa is made precarious
and a greater burden in defeating Hitler is laid upon
the Allies and the United States.
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