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DANGERS PABADED PARADID PARADED : PABADEDWashington PARADEDWashington Washington Wasbmgton De D C CA CA ' A digest of those thousands of oftelegrams oftelegrams otelegrams ( telegrams drawn by the Presi President President President dent s Pan American speech on Hit Hitler Hitter Hitler ler ter s latest blitzkrieg blItzkneg would be valuable valeable valu vale able Ninety Nmety per cent ot of them were re reported reported reported ported by Secretary Early to ap approve approve approve prove and the other 10 per cent to tobe tobe tobe be from peace at any pncers pricers An AnanalysIs Ananalysis Ananalysis analysIs would be valuable becauslt because becauseI becausltI I car t see how you can approve a aspeech aspeech aspeech speech when you don t know what It Itmeans itmeans itmeans means I have d scussed this speech speechWlth speechwith speechwith Wlth with several Informed people They Theydon Theydon Theydon don t know what it means-and means and means - and I Idon Idon Idont IdontFrom don t tFrom tFrom From its condemnation of treach treacherous treacherous treacherous erous brutality of Hitler the approv approval approval approval al should have been 100 per cent centand centand centand and also for its plea tor for pan Amen Ameni Amencan Amenican Amencan can unity uruty in defense This uruty unity urutythe unitythe unitythe the President called our solutIon solutIonBut solutionBut solutionBut But then he said Is this solutIon- solutIon solutIonour solutionour solution solutionour - our solut soluton on-permanent on permanent - permanent or safe If Ifit ifIt itIt it is solved for us alone7 alone ' . . IthInk Ithink I Ithink think not ' ' . * . * . What does that mean mean9 ' It may mayseem mayseem mayseem seem a sl si ght phrase to be qu b bblmg bbling bbling blmg bling about but no utterance by a aPresIdent aPresident aPresident PresIdent of the United Umted States on onour onour onour our future course in m a world at war warIS waris waris IS a slight phrase This one onewasn onewasn onewasn wasn t intended mtended to be slight It was wascoupled wascoupled wascoupled coupled with an assertion that too toomany toomany toomany many of us have been deceived by bythe bythe bythe the false teaching teachmg ' of geography geographymto geographyinto geographyinto mto into feel ng safe physically physlcay ] ) eco economlcay economically economically nomlcay nomically ] ) and socially from the theImpacts theimpacts theimpacts Impacts of attacks on CIvIlIzatIOn civihzation CIvIlIzatIOnelsewhere civihzationelsewhere civilizationelsewhere elsewhere Then followed state statements statements statements ments that from the point pomt of vIew vIewof viewof viewof of conquest Santiago Chile is clos cios closer cioser closer er to Europe than Alexander found foundMacedonIa foundMacedonia foundMacedonia MacedonIa to be from Persia or orthan orthan orthan than the distance Caesar traveled traveledfrom traveledfrom traveledfrom from Rome to Spam-that Spam that Spam - that is four fouror fouror fouror or five hours from Africa Afnca to South SouthAmenca SouthAmerica SouthAmerica Amenca America as compared with four or orfive orfive orfive five weeks it took the arm es of ofNapoleon ofNapoleon ofNapoleon Napoleon to go from Pans Paris to Rome Romeor Romeor or Poland PolandI I don t know what that means but butIt butit butit It sounds like our frontier is JS In InFrance inFrance inFrance France The statement Ident identifying identifyingairplane identifyingairplane ymg ymgaIrplane aIrplane timetables bmetables with the pace of ofconquerIng ofconquering ofconquering conquerIng arm es or from the po nt ntof ntof ntof of viev/ viev vIew vievof / of conquest is utterly mls mis mlsleadmgalmost misleadingalmost misleading leadmg-almost leadmg almost leading-almost leading - almost as misleading as It Itwould itwould itwould would be to say that the speed of a arace arace arace race horse compares with that of a atelegram atelegram atelegram telegram An airplane auplane can go from fromAfnca fromAfrica fromAfrica Afnca Africa to South America Amenca in m a few fewhours fewhours fewhours hours But an army can t It can t tgo tgo tgo go at all if our navy and air aII ' force forceare forceare forceare are efficient and afloat and not chas chasmg Chasing chasing mg ing boogey men in the east P3c Pacific PacificThis PacificThis ic icThIs ThIs aspect of the speech was cryp crypbc cryptic cryptic bc tic obscuration coupled with senS3 sensa senS3bonal sensational sensational bonal tional and misleading mlsleadmg terrorism terronsm terrorismIt terronsmIt It creates an occasion to repeat repeatthe repeatthe repeatthe the quotation from Lloyd George s sspeech sspeech sspeech speech that upset ChamberlainThe ChamberlainThe Chamberlain ChamberlainThe The nat on is ready as long as ItS ItSleadershIp itsleadership itsleadership leadershIp is right nght , , , as long as you yousay yousay yousay say clearly what you are aiming at atas atas atas as long as you give confidence to tothem tothem tothem them that their leaders are dOIng dOIngtheu doingtheir doingtheir theu their best for them . . . The President does the delIberate delIberatereverse deliberatereverse deliberatereverse reverse of saying clearly what he heIS heis heis IS aiming almmg at His carefully guarded guardedextenor guardedexterior guardedexterior extenor exterior seems to be full to the theburstmg thebursting thebursting burstmg bursting point pomt with some kind of In Intenor interror intenor tenor terror content he doesn t often re reveal reveal reveal . veal but every time bme a new pressure pressurecomes pressurecomes pressurecomes comes a little of it squirts out-lIke out lIke outlIkefrontIers outlikefrontiers out - like likefrontiers frontiers in m France and quaran quarantIne quarantine quarantine tIne the aggressors The whole wholecountry wholecountry wholecountry country is behind him at any cost or oreffort oreffort oreffort effort to prepare this country tor for de defense defense datense fense of this continent contment It is 90 per percent percent percent cent against agamst any attempt at de defendmg defending detending fendmg fending America by attacking In InEurope inEurope mEurope Europe or ASIa-wIth ASIa wIth Asia - with either men menmoney menmoney menmoney money or materials It would be a apol apoi apol pol poi tIcal-as tIcal as trcal-as trcal heal - as well as naval and mllI mih mllItarycatastrophe mihtartcatastrophe milltary tary-catastrophe tary catastrophe tart-catastrophe tart ' - catastrophe catastropheFor tarycatastropheFor tartcatastropheFor For even lor for the relative strategl strategy strateglcal strategycal strategical cal ease of o1 continental contmental defense Mr MrRoosevelt MrRoosevelt MrRoosevelt Roosevelt has not prepared prep3red the mIll mih mIlltary mihtary milltary tary and naval weapons to make makegood makegood makegood good his position and the whole of ofrecent ofrecent otrecent recent history proves that bluffing bluffingon on a bobtail bobtaiI is suicide . * . . FAT S IN N THE TOE FIREThe FIREThe FIRE FIREThe The fat s in the fire tire and our navy navyjs navyis navyIs js is in Hawa i J Our miniature mInJature army armyis IS relatively equipped with Wlth bows and andarrows andarrows andarrows arrows It is a plt pitiful ul Falstaffian FalstaffianmsufficJency Falstaffianinsufficiency Falstaffianinsufficiency andI I msufficJency insufficiency We are quibbi qUJbbl quibbl ng ngabout ngabout ngabout about the design of a rifle already alreadyadopted alreadyadopted alreadyadopted adopted and in m production after afteryears afteryears afteryears years of ot experiment . . It appears appearsnow appearsnow appearsnow now that th3t the navy has known the thefacts thefacts thefacts facts of its weakness we3kness against agamst bombs bombsfrom bombsfrom bombsfrom from above mines mmes from below and andsecret andsecret andsecret secret foreign buldIng bu Iding lding programs for forsome forsome forsome some t me-without me without me - without admission be before before before fore the ens CrlS cns sSurely sSurely s sSurely Surely there was no ignorance in inthIS inthis inthis thIS government about the absolute absolutely absolutely absolutely ly inefficient equipment of our army armym armyin armyin m in almost everything needful for formodern formodern formodern modern war and its own grotesque grotesquemadequacy grotesqueinadequacy grotesqueinadequacy madequacy inadequacy inadequacyo o . . . . Everybody is now squawkIng squawkIngabout squawkingabout squawkingabout about our lack of tin tm and rubber and andour andour andour motorizingI our failure of action in motorIzing motorIzingand motorizingand and mechanizing mechamzmg our army ThIs ThIscolumn Thiscolumn Thiscolumn column has been squawking about it itfor itfor Itfor for five years Seven years ago agotl1JS agothus agotins tl1JS thus writer had written wrJtten into mto the Re Recovery Recovery Becovery covery act ample authority and ap appropr appropr appropr propr a atlons ations tIons to do all aII these th ngs ngsas ngsas ngsas as a comb nation measure of re- re reemployment reemployment re-employment re employment - - - employment recovery and defense defenseTh defenseTh defenseTint Th It was the year Hitler started startedIt It was the year that the admmls adminis admmlstratIon administration adnnnisration tratIon ( gave most of that $3 3 $ 300 000 000000 000 to U'r Ur H"rkins Hrkins a"pkins apkins " ' + kins tor for rak ng leavess leaves s . |