Show wesily We Bily fear of foreign entanglement brings return to Isolation isolationism isolationist isi n abby hoseph W bline aline EDITORS NOTE MOT EWAa opinions or r prad pr Md ed in a these colu co fumo t try hey jiff then 0 of sl iff he news BW abaly yit st an na not ol of the napp Dont domestic estic since president Roosevel ts qu quarantine arant lne speech at chicago in october 1037 1937 U S public opinion hns has veered sharply and outspokenly against dictators meanwhile making now new friends for france britain and china tradition nl ni policy of isolation and neutrality has well nigh gone by the boards thanks to nazi jew batting baiting japans threat to U S interests in china and dictator inroads throughout sou south th america most heated U S speechmaker against adolf hitler has been secretary of the interior harold ickes w hose tirades presumably surn ably reflect white house sentiment long awaited reaction against foreign entanglement took root only a month ago when congress discovered the administration was spon military plane piano sales to france and britain today the Is sue of isolation Is growing by leap and bound not only as a question of foreign polley policy but as 8 political football headed for the 1940 presidential election in less than one late february week enough shots were fired to constitute a definite nite trend wicked dictatorships to pitts pitta neld field mass went william R cas tle tie assistant chairman of the re he 11 1 1 1 of I 1 V 41 t r republican CASTLE more concentration less chatter publican national comal committee atee once U S envoy to japan later a hoover undersecretary of state said mr castle before a 40 and 8 american legion so society clety there la Is still so much work to keep this the best possible country that our officials would do well to confine themselves to this task instead of spending so much time talking about wicked dictatorships and the dangers of war we certainly want none of their philosophy but it if that philosophy is what other nations want it is not for us to attempt to prevent p it nye again an irreconcilable p pad let fist north dakotas sen gerald P nye saw red when he learned of the french british plane sales rushed to his office and drafted a bill its gist military and naval officers leers off could bar export of any planes developed in the U S until they determined ter mined that the craft are not need ed exclusively tor for american defense one reason tor for the bill wa was a testimony that mr roosevelt had ignored thigh high military naval officials in making the foreign deal another reason is senator nyes ayes fear of an ultimate U S desire to sell planes to germany italy japan or any other nation thus producing a vicious circle next day it became apparent the vicious circle had already been created in internationally terna tio nally A member of the civil aeronautics authority reportedly told the senate military affairs committee that germany was willing to sell fighting planes to of all nations nation s france franc reasoning france would thereby become dependent on foreign plane factories committing national suicide in case of war with germany foreign trade among important import ant loans of the federal sponsored E ex x port import bank was one to china for or 2500 oooo financing sale of 1000 trucks for obvious mill military tary use fearful lest this constituted a dan clan P PEACE E A C E RIOT resigning because france failed to ratify a 1936 treaty granting the land independence pen dence syrian premier jamil cardam bey touched off of street clashes REVOLT while president oscar C ar benavides was away peruvian interior minister gen antonio rodriguez attempted to seize the government was slain REBELLION held responsible for deaths in eight months of race rioting ba maws cabinet was ousted in burma replaced by a coalition government repercussion fighting figi biting bombings by the outlawed irish republican republic lan army la 11 eire and great britain eires parliament ment authorized the death penalty for the perpetrators berous commitment congress thought twice when the export im port bank due to expire june 30 came up tor for two years extension argued michigan s rep jesse P wolcott this bank can get us into a situation which may involve us in any european or asiatic conflict it Is a dangerous thing to have this power lying around argued chios sen robert A taft the government b be a in the export business passed by the house after vigorous debate the extension bill could expect a chary reception by the senate meanwhile the U S chamber ot of commerce lifted its eyebrows over a report that 25 american Indus industrialists trl would join a british german cartel to regulate competition in world markets and offset a threatened trade w war ir the state department know knew nothing about it and was far from enthusiastic but while one branch ol of U S opinion obviously swung to isolation another branch stuck out its neck by virtue of a longstanding long standing thoroughly accepted american creed the monroe doctrine illustrating how any U S interest in south america leads to international complications in the world of 1039 were two developments 1 the civil aeronautics authority p prepared to fight german italian french and dutch air services for supremacy in south america 2 dr raul haul Rib ribello elro brazilian economist offered U S capitalists a chance to invest in a mining development project for his country with possible exchange of brazilian ore for amer ican made munitions europe all european crisis since 1930 have been started by scheming italy and germany with europe well on its way to another nervous breakdown scheduled tor for mid march signs now indicate that britain and brance lovers of peace and the status quo may at least be blamed if not responsible for the spring crisis underlying every potential european deve development loument Is the spanish war whose early termination will leave italy free to pursue mediterranean territorial demands against france this because a franco victory in spain is an italian victory giving 11 II duce more mediterranean r power it would jeopardize not only frances colonies but brit ains Illel lifeline lne to the far east by now the paris london axis has at least three reasons to decide on an aggressive course which may decide Eu ropes future 1 I 1 unconfirmed but persistent reports of french italian clashes on the libya tunisia border see map jibe with announcements that italis libyan garrisons are being increased tunisia is one french territory specifically demanded by italy unofficially reports say fascist troops penetrated tunisia at a spot 25 miles southeast of the first french fortified zone just as it italis marshal pietro visited libya to inspect front frontier ler francc he V I 1 na az wa irr C I 1 P to L 1 8 Y A N franc ff equatorial EQuA loRiAl FR LIBYA AND TUNISIA Is this the next battleground forts meanwhile rome reports indicate men will be under arms this spring 2 germany has started mobilization for annual war games accompanied compa compan companies companied nied led by renewed grumbling against war scares by western democracies 3 chancellor littler hitler premier mussolini and generalissimo franco are arc scheduled to meet soon for a decision on future and presumably surn su mably ably the future course of an enlarged european fascism viewing these three developments the british parliament has approved an extra oDo armament appropriation starting a new international munitions race which prime minister chamberlain admits might lead to the bankruptcy of every country in europe at the same time london has agreed on plans tor for an expeditionary force to help france in case of war mean while both london and paris have been making desperate last minute efforts to win franco german italian reply to these warlike threats will probably be to hold their troops in spain until F france brince grants african concessions thus perplexed london and parts paris must either use a whip lash thereby provoking a now new crisis or per mit tile the most serious blow to democratic prestige thus far inflicted indicted if they planned the latter course there would he be little justification for frenzied rearmament asia japans I 1 thinly hinly veiled am Is to drive westerners out of china until this year the white man mail was oppressed 0 only insofar as he stood in the way of marching armies but japan looks covetous ly and angrily on such prosperous developments as shanghais Shan ghais international settlement britaina Brit ains hong kong crown colony and frances indochina indo china already hong kong his has been isolated by jap conquest of canton her gateway to china more recently british territory along the hong kong canton railroad r 0 a d was bombed farther south i japan n p an seized independent hainan rne PREMIER hirut III Is international settlement next island despite an agreement with france this accomplished muni eions shipments into china through french indo chinn china might bo be blocked latest and craftiest craft iest japanese plan la Is seizure of the shanghai international ter national settlement only non jap area left in the city and an unwilling haven for chinese chines e guerri guerrilla fla warriors in the past 18 months 88 political murders have been committed there most victims being puppet chinese governmental officers in japanese pay latest victims were chen lo 10 foreign minister for the central china government in and marquis lt LI kuo cheleh grandson of chinas cainas great statesman li hung chang life Is cheap in the orient and loss of a few puppets would be small for control of the shanghai international settlement though backed only by rumor there is growing belief that chinese murders may have been planted by tokyo as an excuse to march in and keep pence peace conveniently setting nn an important precedent whether true or not the belief jibes with retaliatory action taken in tokyo up before a turbulent meeting of the diet rose lt gen seishiro Sc ishiro itagaki minister of war to declare he was convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense in the international settlement later in extraordinary session the cabinet placed approval on such action when premier baron hiranuma lanuma a declared the terrorism compels japan to take fundamental measures to maintain peace and order meanwhile premier hiranuma could see that his newest drive to close cainas chinas open door would meet stubborn resistance from london came bitter protest against the hong kong bombing in Shan shanghai grat the international police redoubled their efforts and prepared to resist a threat on the settlement to uie the south atlary at lay Hai phong indochina indo china r ranie france was angry enough to junk her japanese agreement lust just as japan japa had junked bunked it opening her garew gateway AY to supplies for sorely pressed chinese troops business U S efforts to reconcile heavily taxed business have proceeded since uncle dan roper was replaced as commerce secretary by harry hopkins after initial promises mr hopkins settled back in silence for two months of study to learn leam what made his heretofore ineffectual department tick some hint of more reconciliation was contained in president roose belts pre vacation remark that business need fear no more taxes more hint was found in the speech of secretary of war harry woodring who stepped from his military shoes to tell the democratic national council that he hoped soon to see an 1 end of spending and taxing it if private business will take the initiative even before secretary hopkins left for des moines to make his policy speech washington knew pretty well what an obviously revitalized vitali zed commerce department intended to do main points in the hopkins program 1 I 1 develop the heretofore unimportant business advisory council 2 promote re em to rolls 3 study taxes and their effect on business 4 attempt to succeed where 0 the labor department had tailed failed in settling the feud between the american federation of labor and the congress of industrial organizations people tom Blo kooncy oncy recently pardoned labor leader has been admitted to a san francisco hospital 0 capt aritz adolf hillers Hit lers personal adjutant and now new german consul to san francisco has as his announced purpose the promotion of good will |