| Show Views of the Press Japan has got few advantages out of the alliance that she would not have enjoyed without it The implied threat that Germany would make war on us if we tried to stop Japan was an empty one Germany is already exerting its utmost efforts in the war var and would consider it foolhardy to take on America as an added enemy merely to help the Japa Japa- nese If the Japanese on the theother theother theother other hand merely to help Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many by deflecting our attention to the Pacific make threatening moves they run the risk of be becoming becoming becoming be- be coming involved in war with us For Japan already entangled in China this would be a fatal step New New York Times It is difficult to believe that our administration is deliberately seeking to bankrupt the United Stat States is in order to assure British prosperity though the evidence may point in that direction Itis It Itis Itis is more probable that the men in our government who for eight years have been striving to gain control of our econom economy and de deprive deprive de- de us of our traditional liberties mi- mi lib jib see in the war an opportunity opportunity opportunity to gain their end in a moment They have made progress progress progress ress since March 4 1933 but it has been slow slower r than impatient zealots can tolerate The 1776 bill will mark a long step toward war and with war their Utopia will come into being ChiCago Chicago Tribune Ac According to to the Associated Press the South American countries countries countries coun coun- tries around the River Plate are not keen on building mil military tary bases for hemisphere defense The AP quotes the statement of an Argentine go government official official official cial last November We are arc not disposed to cooperate in any common hemisphere defense plan until we consider the danger danger danger dan dan- ger of attack is actually here Holland and Belgium also took that view They refused to co cooperate cooperate cooperate co- co operate in any common defense plan until they considered the danger of attack actually pres pres- ent So did Norway CzechoSlovakia Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- slovakia and Poland made the same mistake Rumania Hungary Hungary Hungary Hun Hun- gary Bulgaria and Yugoslavia reasoned in like manner They refused to make common cause of defense against the aggressor The nazi method of picking the apples one by one is now well known Which of the South American countries wants to be bethe bethe bethe the first in this hemisphere hemisphere- San Francisco Chronicle Representative Robert Rich Pennsylvania Republican thinks that thet Pennsylvania's problem em child former Governor George H. H Earle now minister to Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria Bul Bul- garia should be recalled for misconduct misconduct misconduct mis mis- conduct at his post of duty White House comment Is 13 that there is no thought of asking Mr Earle to come home Mr Rich as es a Pennsylvanian should know that Mr Earle was shipped away to the Balkans because he re w was s too hot for the new deal and was about to burn bum a hole in the vestments vestments vestments vest vest- ments of virtue It was thou thought ht that that- in the Balkans he would be just another localized dis dIs- dis- dis Mr Earle apparently finds his post of duty in the most popular taverns and his his' dIplomatic diplomatic diplo dIplo- matic duties in the night life lle Single-handed Single he met the nazi advance edvance into Bulgaria by bouncing bouncing bunc- bunc ing a bottle off the skull of a aGerman aGerman aGerman German Identified at the time as asa asa asa a major In civilian attire If It Berlin cannot handle Mr Earle it need expect no help from Washington Washington doesn't know how to handle Mr Earle That's why he is in the Balkans Chicago Tribune d. d |
