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Show tended. They have bolstered the effort to revise re-vise our neutrality law rather than hindered It. A for the threat of retaliation, we will not have to worry about that If we adopt the "cash and carry" plan which would place all the responsibility for transporting our good across the ocean on the shoulders of foreign nations. Germany Blunders Again GERMAN officials, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin, have declared that revision of the U. S. neutrality act which would make It possible for Britain and Franco to obtain arms "could only mean the first slip toward the United States' entrance Into the war." Also a news service closely connected with official quarters was quoted as Issuing the bare-faced warning that such action "would force Germany to take proper defense measures." mea-sures." We dont know exactly what was the purpose pur-pose of these German pronouncements. Apparently Ap-parently It was an attempt to frighten the American nation Into following a course of-action of-action in the current war situation which the German nation would approve. We're afraid that with their usual Inept ness at understanding the American psychology and temperament, the Germans have blundered again. In the first place, the United States will not be Intimidated by any power; nor will we take orders or advice from foreign nations as to the sort of neutrality wo shall adopt as wisest and bast for America. In the second place, the German statements clearly tell us that our present embargo system is favorable to the Hitler regime. God knows, the last thing the American people want to do in the war crisis U to HELP Hitler, even though we may not want as a nation to oppose him. , The net result of the German warnings, wo think, is just the opposite of what was in- - . ' |