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Show America Cannot Be Neutral lo hasten the arrival of that accursed ac-cursed day. We know that democracy de-mocracy and democratic mstitu-liotis mstitu-liotis st Ml " flourish in Britain in a flhou-and forms. If Britain is destroyed, des-troyed, democracy is finished in ihe ol.V world, which will enter m-to m-to a now dark age of oppression and repression. Necessity will fori e us into I lie orbit of the victor. Tn-.-.t result will ho made certain if v e do not aid Britain to the limit of our resources. For Britain camvt win alone. Let r.s malic no m'slake. We ran nr.! be neutral. We -:annot refrain re-frain im aiding one. t,:,':o or the othr- : we aid Britain we may yet succeed in destroying the monster mon-ster of Nazi-Fascism before it op pleips the conquest of the j 1 world. If we do not help Britain BY PHILIP BEVANS An,erica cannot be neutral in var To paraphrase Patrick '!! ' "Gentlemen may cry neu-" neu-" Jy, neutrality, but there is no .'u.ralily." Circumstances will ol permit us to be neutral. lv,- vdiinff that we do or refuse-to do f, bomul to aid or injure one sule 'r ,,e other. U! we aid Britain v. e m bound to injure the Axis Cov.-s Cov.-s If we refuse to help Britain, ,-e'aid the Axis Powers to the full Mteiit of the aid denied to Britain. If we aid Britain we may save whi t js left of: democracy in Europe, but m will make violent and permanent perman-ent enemies of all of the Axis Powers Pow-ers If we refuse help to Briia n we will have gone a long way toward to-ward making an Axis Victory in-,.;ioMp in-,.;ioMp niirl Insuring that "Go . - we are insuring a Hitler victory as surely as if we joined our armed forces to his for that purpose. If and when Britain is defeated the only thing left for us to do will be to strike as good a bargain with the 'conqueror as we may and to accept the position in the scheme of things that he may be pleased to allot to us, as quietly and gratefully grate-fully as possible. For the day of resistance will have passed. If we let Britain be destroyed it. will take a generation or more for us to build up our nrPtary strength to a point where i;, would replace the j British land, sea and air forces, and economic and induslrial power pow-er that, we would present to Hitler by such action. And then we would only: be where we are now, wdiile the Axis Powers would have consolidated con-solidated and digested their gains, and become invincible. If we per- erniiient of the People, by the Feo-ple, Feo-ple, and for the People," shall perish' per-ish' from the earth. In which case make no mistake, if democracy-is democracy-is wiped out now, it will not return re-turn for a thousand years, if ever. This is no time to nurse old animosities. ani-mosities. To act intelligently we must look the facts squarely in the face. It makes no difference whether we like Britain or not. IVe must ask ourselves what effect ef-fect will an Axis victory have on our country. If we can look with equanimity upon an Axis-dominated world in which all democratic institutions in-stitutions are destroyed, and all democratic aspirations are crushed immediately whenever and where-ever where-ever they show their heads, then in "heaven's name and Hell's" let us cast aside hyprocrisy and leap on the Axis' band-wagon, and help i lit Hitler to pick the British bones clean, we would only be repeating on a much larger scale the tragic mistake that Britain and France made at Munich when they presented pre-sented him with the great Skoda j Munitions industry, the Czech army of two million men, and permanently perman-ently alienated Russia. The only choice left to us then, is to decide whether we will help Britain or tha Axis Powers. The outcome of this war will profoundly profound-ly affect the forms and institutions of our government. We -cannot evade the issue much longer. We must decide which side we are gcing to help, and having decided we should move all of our forces into the fray, "bag; and baggage." What then shall it be, fellow Americans? Christ or Barabbas? America, Britain and democracy, or the Axis Powers and autocracy? Aid to Britain to the limit, or isolation iso-lation and suicide Consider carefully care-fully that answer, for upon it the future o our country and of democracy de-mocracy depends. |
