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EDITORIAL
NEUTRALITY WITH CASH
AND CARRY HERE
Smashing down the last barri
cade of opposition in a hectic ses
sion of debate, fraught with the
many appeals and efforts of var
ltd interests and busy lobbyists
congress at last goes over the top
to a definite attitude for Ameri
ca respecting the European war.
The arms embargo is repealed,
and in its place is subsituted a
provision whereby America will
sell arms, implements and mun
itions of war as well as sup
plies of all kinds to all comeTS.
Known as the “Neutrality Act,”
the measure also provides that
No U. S. ship shall carry any
materials watsoever into the war
zone. Foreign purchasers shall
pay cash and take title to Ameri
can goods in this country and car
iy them away in foreign ships.
Under the provisions of the
now defunct arms and embargo
the United States was prohibited
from selling arms and munitions
of war to Britain, France and
Germany, the only nations in Eu
rope technically at war—but U.
S. munitions were reputedly mov
ing freely into allegedly neutral
countries whence they were for
warded to the belligerents.
Supplies and materials not
classed as arms or munitions but
held by the belligerents to be
donti'aband of wad carried in
American bottoms lead to such
embarrassments as followed the
seizure of the City of Flint by
Germany. Danger of further
such incidents persisted.
Now the picture is changed.
Uncle Sam will sell anything to
anyone at war or in the war
zone, but the customer must
pay the cash and take the haz
ard of carrying it to destination
in anything but an American
ship.
Powerful American shipping
interests are accused of having
lobbied strenuously to retain the
privilege of delivering the goods
to belligerents in American ships
hoping thereby to put to work
hundreds of American vessels
lying idle in numerous ports
While thwarted in this matter,
the chances are the ships Amer
ica does not need in trade with
South America and other neutral
areas outside the war zone will
be sold to foreign nations to be
sailed under foreign flags.
America is now free to pro
duce and manufacture to the lim
it —to supply countries at war
and at peace. The prospects are
that business will boom. As long
as the cash lasts, belligerents
will come for the goods. South
American and other nations not
at war, deprived of huge quantit
ies of supplies formerly obtain
ed in the warring nations of Eu
rope, are diverting their orders
to America. Hundreds of millions
of dollars worth of such orders
aided by the pact of the 21 Am
erican nations, already are roll
ing in.
Call it gorging on the spoils of
war or conditions arising out of
war or what you will, production
manufacturing and trade should
boom in America. Will it last. Or
will some obstacle or entangle
ment involve America in the con
ftict. Time will answer
But. in the meantime, the up
ward surge in American industry
even to building new ships for
new trade and perhaps foreign
nations —may be expected to
make the country a beehive.
Added to all this is the Ameri
can program of defense with an
nouncements of a vastly expand
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SLAP-HAPPY MAXIE —nio«v ns down if ft int the
former world’s IigM-h«*avywci;, l thami'iou 'SUp't«* Maxie
llosenbloem, lone since Jrmcvl up wi;u the lute mcc", ft' ffolly
wood. Maxie, a veteran »'f more than 500 tm.; 'votth:». donned
. i ord Fauntlrt oj outfit to d>(-r.c a movie cameraman. Mavir’i
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eel plan of increased armaments
and fortifications for America.
The decision is doubtless in ac
cordance with the judgement of
the majority of the American
people as expressed through
their congressional represent
atives. Buit many an issue in the
world of diplomacy involving the
fate of nations is yet in the bal
ance—and changes conne fast in
these piping days.
A far different picture may be
pr-"ented another year. What
will it be?
—Fairbanks Newrs-Miner
nat:i ideas of
CASH AND CARRY
Developments in Washington
are being closely watched in Ber
lin, says an Associated Press dis
patch. One result has been the
adoption of “cash and carry” in
to the German language. “Long
newpaper articles have appeared
exp’aining that ‘cash and carry’
means that supplies bought in
the United States would have to
be paid for with cash and trans
ported in non-American ships.”
After this explanation, it is ob
viously unnecessary for the Ger
man newspapers to warn their
readers not to confuse the Am
erican “cash and carry” plan
with the Nazi idea on the sub
ject of cash and carry. As dem
onstrated in the seizure of Czech
oslovakia and Austria the Nazi
formula calls for the confisca
tion of dl Austrian and Czech
cash and its removal to Berlin,
along with other forms of port
able property. Transportation
may be in Austrian and Czech
trucks and river craft.
German newspapers have been
very bitter over the loss of part
of the Polish state funds. The fu
gitive government should have
left the money at Warsaw for
Hitler to make the best use of it
instead of taking it abroad to use
for the restoration of Poland.
—New York Times
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