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EDITORIAL
ANOTHER LETTER
FROM ENGLAND
England, glad for assistance
from the only nation in the
world which has lifted a hand to
help her in the struggle against
Hitler is nevertheless changing
her attitude toward the United
States.
A letter receiv-d recently by
Burruss Smith, Juneau aviation
. mechanic from his father in Eng
land points up this growing feel
Ing that the people of the people
of the United States are not be
ing quite so big about this thing j
as they might be.
“It’s good news continually
coming from the U. S.,” writes
the elder Smith, “but I wish it
came for a better reason. They;
agree, and thank the British
Navy for keeping the sea open 1
and the Germans in check and
sendus no end of material help ^
and then they spoil it by putting
it down as being given to help
the British keep the Germans out
of America and so that America
won’t have to actually fight. This
is not a very praiseworthy rea
son and I don’t believe it repre- j
sents the real feeling. USA
should help us for the simple rea
son that we are endeavoring to
do a deceit thing and they as
decent folk have the same reac
tion to bullies and brutes who lie
and chea tand beat and rape and
6teal and kill and seek to enslave
whole peoples.
“That, I should think, is their
real reason for wishing to help
us and I don’t believe their men
don't want to fight with the guns
they make. Those who came over
in the last war had grit and guts1
then, so why not now?
The feeling of Mr. Smith and
other Englishmen is a natural
on . They are in the midst of the
most ruthless attack in history,
end dislike seeing other people
who believe in the same prin
e:pl:s having so much easier a
tin- of it.
But the decision; this nation
has made to safeguard itself ag
ainst involv ment which would
mean war for the United States
ate a iso safeguards and are fav
ortd almost unanimously by the
Am rlcan people. What we are j
doing for England at the pres
ent time is all we would be able
to do for her if we were actual
ly at war with Germany . If Eng
land is not satisfied with that and
if England doesn't f.eel we are
doing it largely because we have
the same reaction to bullies and
brutes as she has, we’re sorry.
Mr. Smith and other English
men sholld remember that the
United States, much more than
England is a political democracy.
The argument that what we are
doing for England is done for
self-p, ot ction is one which has
to be made in order to bring our
isolationists and our opposition
ists around to a state of mind
where they are willing to go
along with the “decent folk” of
(the Umited States. IncHdenltally
the argument happens to be a
good one and tru?.
Buy tnem by the bundle, Use
them for -tarting fires For Sale
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The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — Toughest
prob em facing the next Con
gress will be whether to open up
?h gates of American dollar
(edits to the beleaguered Brit
ish, as suggested by the Presi
dent.
And whether the solons on Cap
itol Hill want to admit it or not,
real fact is that the situation ex
isting in the country today is air
most identical with that on the
ev; of American entrance into
the first World War as far as
loans to Great Britain are con
cerned.
At that time—1916—J. P. Mor
gan and the big bankers were ac
cused'of getting us into war to
protect the loans they already
had made to England. Probably
much more important however,
was th; fact that American in
dustry was geared to a tremen
dous pitch as a result of British
orders and the defeat of Britain
ould have brought chaos to in-'
dustry.
Today likewies U. S. industry
is so tied up with British busi
ness that depression would hit
like a ton of bricks after either
British defeat or the exhaustion
of British funds. This of course
is looking at the question pure
ly from the hard-boiled material
viewpoint and without taking in
to consideration the wide-spread ;
sympathy of the American public
for the British. This in itself
probably is sufficient to induce
the lifting of the Johnson Act.
BRITISH GOLD
Actually th? British will be
able to order war supplies in the
United States for at least six
months without feeling a bit i
pinched. For when the war broke
out Britain's total resources
which could be used in the Unit
L>d States (gold stocks, dollar bal
ances, negotiable investments) to
taled about five billion dollars.
British purchases during the
first year of the war were $1,
B00.000.000 which leaves a size
able balance on hand. However
war purchases for the current;
year have stpped up to such a(
rate that the British will have
spent three billion dollars in the
second twelve months of war.
This will drain British funds
in the United States pretty low
but even so will by no means!
entirely exhaust them. For most
of the huge gold flood arriving,
almost daily at Fort Knox, Ky.. 1
comes from the British Empire.
Our gold imports from British
countries alone during the first
year of the war totaled more
than three and a half billions.
This gold hord incidentally is
one reason why the British can
be sure of our financial support
— even including the repeal of
the Johnson Act. For should Hit
ler win this war, Fort Knox’s
?o!den treasure would be useful
chiefly for dentists’ fil ings. Gold
as a basis for trade would virtual
ly disappear.
Meanwhile the British are tak
ing 65 p rcent ofour entire ex
oorts or four times what we ship
.o the entire continent of Latin
America. All of which indicates
raw completely intertwined the
American economic system now
s with Britain’s fate and how
entire’y likely it is that the next
congress will permit loans to
jreat Britain.
(NOTE—Certain high Admin
stration members suggest that
nasmuch as Britain is our first
ine of defense we should send
rer airplanes and other war sup- !
)lies without any payment. j
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air attack. Among thcdamaged structures was Coventry’s centuries rid cathedra ct' which only the walls were left standing. This is
one cf the first original pictures of the Coventry damage to reaeh the United States.
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The above map of England shows the industrial, midland section
so much the target of Nazi bombs. Manchester was bombed today.
ENGLISH TONI C—Plans of that war-time producer. Hit
ler, haven't interfered with Miss Joan Barnard, who has what
she says is England's smallest tea shop, at Shakespeare's Strat
ford-on-Avon. She’s still producing tea, for patrons.
The above picture shows the effect of German bombs on an exclus ive London Residential District