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SOVIET RUSSIA'S
CONTINUED AGGRESSION
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'Hie Soviet urge to expand her j
territorial possessions control the
Baltic, secure an outlet through
the Dardanelles to the Mediter-:
X'anean and become a naval as!
well as a super-land power took
firmeT root as she clinched her
hold on adjacent Baltic states
and border Balkan provinces.
Russia's grasp of contiguous
territory rivals that of the swift
invading Nazis. Controlling the j
mouth of the Danube holding the
Rumanian oil supply within easy
reach, she keeps eyes on the Dar
danelles and the Mesopotamia oil
fields—which may readily be con
strued as anything but favorable
to Allied or Axis interests. What
will be her next aggressive move
and how will she throw her
weight in the ultimate drive for
dominance.
Since the war began, Russia
has made the following moves
which must be regarded as ini
mical to the Axis Powers:
1. Seized half of Poland and
thus put a buffer between itself;
and Hitler, who still dreams of a
Ukranian expansion.
2. Atacked Finland and stren
gthened Russia's naval bases in
the Baltic, which must be regard
ed as a move aganist the only
other Baltic Power, Germany.
3. Seized Lithuania, Latvia, Es
tonia, which further builds up
Russia’s threat to Germany and
defense against Germany.
4. Taken Bessarabia and Buko
vina under circumstances that
show a lack of consideration for
Germany and Italy.
5. Demanded the Dardanelles.
Russian ambition may well
give concern to other nations. It
will be a long time before she
will be satisfied, if ever.
DALADIER NOW HELD
IN FRENCH PRISON s
VTCHY, France. July 25— The
F-tain Government has ordered
farmer Premier Daladier and
several others confined in the
RCarsaille prison while launching
a-j investigation of Frenchmen al
legedly responsible for France’s
entry into the war.
Daladier has just returned
from Morocco where he fled at
the time of the armistice.
Revival Monroe
Doctrine; hat
Means Explained
By MORGAN M. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer
t
—
WASHINGTON — Behind the
Monroe Doctrine headlines you
've been reading is a deliberate
battle of wits between Washing
ton and Berlin with Washing
ton on the offensive.
The primary aim in Washing
ton is to bring strikingly to the I
attention of the American public!
both above and below the Rio
Grande — the original Monroe
Doctrine and its championship of I
independence for the nations of
the Western Hemisphere as well
as its warning to European pow
ers to keep off.
In effect it is a curtain raiser
for the meeting in Havana of the
21 American republics. It might
even portend a mutual Monroe
Doctrine to supplement the pure
ly United States doctrine pro-1
nounced by Monroe in 1823.
American State Department of
ficials have been itching for some
time to get the Monroe doctrine
on Page One. so to speak, in the
Isame breath with the strange
talk of Monroe Doctrines in Eu
rope and Asia, and to show them
in contrast with each other.
These officials have been ready
to leap at a chance to prove Un
,cle Sam is on the level and de
I oid of all desire to set up any
puppet regimes in this hemi
! sphere.
Almost, But Not Quite
The conquest of Holland al
most gave them the opening
] they were waiting for, but not
| quite. For the sovereignity of
Holland is obscure, her posses
sions in this hemisphere small.
The conquest of France was a
; different story, a perfect exam
' pie. For. officially at any rate,
France retains her independence,
even though a conquered power,
and therefore has the right to j
keep or dispose of her posses
sions as she sees fit
So the State Department got
busy. A round-robin note went
to France, England, Germany
and Italy. Those nations were flat
ly advised that the United States
would not recognize any trans
J fers of possessions in this hemi
j sphere, nor acquiesce in them.
I The Monroe Doctrine was not
I mentioned.
It was implied, however,t that
the incident at Martinique where
|French and British warships are
playing hide and seek, is just
i as much in focas as, say, French
Guiana.
That note was delivered in Ber
lin on June 18. On July 1, Berlin
struck at the bait. It was Berlin
that brought up the Monroe Doc
trine.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the
German Foreign Minister, said
the Monroe Doctrine interpreta
tion “implicit” in the American
note would amount to conferring
on some European statecs the
right to possess territories on
this side of the Atlantic, but not
others.
Says Mr. Hull:
That was what the State De
partment was waiting for. Sec
retary Hull did not even reply to
the German note. In stead thru
his regular press conference he
addressed himself to the Ameri
can public in the United States
and Latin America. Others
could listen of course. Said Sec
retary Hull:
“The Monroe Doctrine is solely
a po icy of self-defense which is
intended tp preserve the inde
pendence and integrity of the
Americas. It was, and is, design
ed to prevent aggression in this
hemisphere on the part of any
non-American power . .
“It never has resembled and it
does not today resemble policies
which appear to be arising in
other geographical areas of the
world, which are alleged to be
similar to the Monroe Doctrine,
but which would in reality seem
to be only the pretext for the
carrying out of conquest by the
sword.”
That gave the President an
opening to carry the whole
theme a step further two days
later. Through Secretary Steve
Early he suggested to Japan and
'Germany, in effect, that they ap
i ply the principles of a true Mon
roe Doctrine to the problems of
their continents, that each na
tion be allowed its own voice in
continental settlements.
There might be the germ of
the mutual Monroe Doctrine.
The net results of all this from
the American government point
of view is, first, to get the orig
inal Monroe Doctrine before all
the republics of the hemisphere,
not as a dead document, but as a
live instrument of the United
States, as vital today as it was in
1823. It is OUR policy, not the
collective policy of the American
nations. It recognizes the free
dom of the American nations to
handle their own affairs, and
warns off foreign systems, EX
CEPT for those areas where Eu
ropean states already held sway,
SOME 0F THE YANKS WHE ARE OVER THERE’
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Gritish caption describes this group as “some Ya nils already ‘over here.’ ” At a south British station
before they embarked for France, they are, left to right: back row, L. I. Richards of Losbon, N. H.,
M. W. Caste’ of Los Angeles; front row, B. O. Pet ers of Los Angeles; W. M. Bryant, of San Fran
cisco, and Thomas Swart, New York’s Long Island.
such as Canada, and the Guianas.
That, and nothing more.
^ Something New
I
Next, it gets over the idea that
the United States does not want
the possessions of France in the
Western Hemisphere, that it is
willing to let the 21 American
nations and their 240.000.00- peo
pie decide what should be done
about them if France should try
to yield them to Germany.
That is something new. It illus
1 trates the Good Neighbor policy,
even though the policy is actual
!y no part of the original Monroe
Doctrine.
It has set some insiders in
Washington to talking about a
mutual Monroe Doctrine, a pol
icy adopted by all the American
nations, as expressed in the re
cent declarations of Montivideo,
Buenos Aires, Lima and Panama
— all expressions of hemisphere
unity and providing a common
defense.
These insiders can cite you
evidence that a mutual Monroe
Doctrine may already be in the
making. They can show you how
the declarations provide that any
: one nation can call the rest of
! the nations together for consult
1 ation in case of trouble.
They show you the economic
and financial advisory committee
already set up to plan economic'
resistance against foreign sys
tems.
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I
Willkie is shown above as he flew
to Washington to meet for the
first time his running mate. Sen.
Charles McNary of Oregon, j
WILLKIE’S HOME
TOWN STAGGERED I
" (
ELWOOD, Ind. July 24—Wen
dell Willkie’s home town was
I staggered by the magnitude of its
new role as host of 300,000 ex-|
j pected visitors. The crowds will
jam a 60 acre park to hear Will
| kie’s speech accepting the GOP
presidential nomination. Final
plans for the ceremony, tentative
ly set for August 10, were com
pleted at a conference of state
party leaders. Congressman Hal
leck of South Bend will meet
with other leaders today to re
view the program with Willkie.
Manufacturer Homer Capesart
of Washington, Ind., laid out a
blue print for the gigantic pic
nic reception. Four farms in ad
dition to the 60 acre park will
be leveled off to provide parking
space for 50,000 automobiles.
Capesart said one committee had
planned for 25,000 box lunches to
feed the Willkie followers.
WILLKIE TO NAME
LIST OF PROMINENT
DEMO SUPPORTERS
—
■COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
July 22 — Reports were that Re
publican Presidential Nominee
Wendell Willkie will name a list
of prominent Democrats who
will support him in the coming
1 campaign.
The announcement is expected
to lead to the launching of an
organization within the Demo
cratil party for Willkie’s support.
It was said that the organization
would be independent of other
Republican party campaign
j groups.
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