| Show Views of the Press We are told lold that the acquisition I tion lion of West Indian islands would I be a stroke of good business an act o of cold hard realism I Would it il These islands are not empty specks on the map they are not real estate as the Louisiana Territory was or as Alaska was Tas in the days of our expansion across the continent People now live on this British real some estate some of them most of them living in conditions o of overcrowding and abject poverty The islands are romantic and beautiful but many of them are also plagued by malaria typhoid and parasitic parasitic parasitic para para- diseases They are in fact the slums of the British empire Our realists would do well to study the climatic economic and social facts before carrying their present agitation any farther New York Times Senator Hiram Johnson o of California says there is no longer any doubt in his mind that thai the United States is going to get into the war and that we are edging nearer to lo it every day Those in command of us he declares are perfectly mad to be a part of the game When it is propitious propitious propitious pro pro- from their point of view they will take us in There is much evidence to support Mr Jphnson's pessimistic view However perhaps Senator Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son is too pessimistic Let us hope at al least that he is Has not President Roosevelt said repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly re re- re- re and emphatically that we are riot not going to get into war Surely Mr Roosevelt meant what he said otherwise the American people have been sadly deceived San San Francisco Examiner So Herr Hitler wants ants permissIon permission permission sion of the Vichy government to send his armies into Italy by way of unoccupied France The reason reason rea rca son given for the request is that approach from this quarter would not offend the people of Italy If you want the real reason study this famous pas pas- sage from Mein Kampf on the technique of conquest A wise victor will if possible always impose his claim on the defeated people stage by stage Dealing with a people which has grown defeatist defeatist and and this is every people which has voluntarily submitted to force the force the victor can rely on this fact that thai in not one of his further acts o of oppression will the vanquished find sufficient reason to take up arms again Portland Oregonian It II becomes clearer every day that the draft law was politically inspired with a view to heightening heighten heighten- ing the sense of fear in the country country country coun coun- try on the eve of the national election The voters had to be scared into indorsing the third term The delays in summoning men to the colors under the draft prove that the cries of emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency were insincere if it the danger danger danger dan dan- ger had been anything like as grave as it was said to be no strikes among the men building cantonments would be tolerated today and the mere lack of finished finished finished fin fin- buildings could not be allowed allowed al- al lowed loved to interfere with mobilization tion and training Chicago Chi Chicago c ago Tribune President Roosevelt at Warm Springs on Sunday promised he would return to his second home In Georgia next March March f If the world survives No one need think that the president wa was speaking facetiously or that there is not very real danger that the world as we desire it may not survive For the world of which President Roosevelt spoke is the world of fr freedom edom the world of decent opportunity the world of independent nations which was created for us by the blood and the sacrifice of generations generations generations genera genera- gone That world is crumbling crumbling crumbling crum crum- bling fast in Europe today and we have the words of Hitler himself him him- him self elf as evid evidence nce that thai once the thelast thelast thelast last European bulwark of freedom freedom freedom free free- dom Great Britain goes America America Amer Amer- ica lea is the next objective of the nazi machine Atlanta Con titu- titu tion 4 |
