Show r GENERAL GEr ERAL Q HUGH S. S T JOH JOHNSON N SON Jour t tea f hS Washington I D. D CWill C. C wily Will WE si MUST STAY STAV OUT Apart from emotion there are three compelling reasons thy we should now stay out of ot war 1 We not only have nothing to put In but due to criminal neglects we arc afe defenseless de on our own shores 2 Our great need Is time to prepare our defense and on all the facts and the opinion of all competent experts we could have from 18 months to three years U If we do not Invite every danger danger dan dan- ger er we fear lear and rush headlong into B S situation we are now totally unable unable un able to handle 3 If U we stay out of ot this thing and become Lecome strong we shall have a voice In the outcome If It we go in by our present weakness weak ness foredoomed to defeat we shall shan just be another Hitler littler trophy trophy voe voe woe woe to the vanquished In the post World war cordon France Incited the little countries to threaten Germany on her promise of help help and and then neg to remain able to help On the same formula Britain encouraged encouraged aged Poland to resist on England's guaranty of assistance and was wholly unable to help Similarly for domestic politics we are holding hold ing out false hopes to England and France and have Incited them to war All AU those small nations nation are gone- gone nine of them France and England are responsible France also Is gone England is going We are arc repeating the same a me ghastly International immorality im morality and suicide For Gods Cods sake lets let's keep out out out-at at least long enough to get ready to get In S a I a ISAIAH 1935 1910 For long this writer has insisted that Mussolini is a mess and recently re reo re- re predicted hi his June 10 ratting and called It a stab in the back of ot France We have all finally awak awake ened to our own miserably Inadequate Inadequate made made- quate defense and the pitiful defenselessness de de- I of the allies But all that is no excuse for flopping around like a beheaded hen The administration administration admin admin- should have made it clear much earlier and more calmly It knew but for political reasons was not frank trank The very first issue of ot this col March 15 15 1935 now reads like the Prophet Isaiah It discussed the dumb inactivity of the allies discussed discussed dis dis- dis cussed cUlled what Hitler littler was preparing in rearmament with his excellent Industries and said in part Today the French army with its allies ames could march from one end of Europe to the other other but but not after the Germans rearm with modern equipment Fully equipped they would be a military nation far superior superior su perlor to and on no provocation at all could bring down d wn on the world a new 1014 lOa or worse This mad move of Hitler's starts catastrophe on the way he stops at nothing nothing ethics ethics mercy or humanity humanity and and h certainly would not be topped stopped by a political boundary boundary bound bound- ary or so slight a consideration as the pea peace e of the world With the vim vigor and vivacity of a aman aman aman man whose house Is threatened by bya a vast con conflagration we should Immediately Im mediately provide for tor the mobilization mo mo- of our wealth property and Industry as us well as our man man- power That was written live years ago Although the disastrous future was then that clear and that avoidable avoid avoid- able we and the tho allies did little Since 1933 1033 when this writer helped to persuade congress to authorize authorize au ample funds to mechanize and motorize the army he be has been clamoring many clamoring many times every year about our complete military Impotency impotency Im- Im potency in modem modern land and and air weapons and trying to dramatize the now bloodily proved helplessness of troops who do not have bave them against those who have With this In hi view more than four tour years later while the allies bluffing on the tailed bob-tailed flush of their similar aim sim liar ilar defaults in defense sought to prevent Hitler from front retaking the German City of Danzig and the Polish Polish Po Po- Po- Po lish Corridor from the dictatorship of Poland this writer predicted the effect of the Russian development and accurately within 36 30 hours that Hitler would march On this reasoning It sIJ among several other times on August 23 23 1939 1039 if our peace and perhaps per per- hops haps our fate are to be decided on this statesmanship of ot Britain and France we certainly are In a hell Lets Let's run our own policy and not turn it over to Mr Chamberlain We are not remotely remotely re re- prepared for war and neither is England or France Hitler is It If we assent to or engage In a tight lIght lets let choose an occasion which concerns concerns con con- I cerns us and a time at which we wet t have at least a Chinaman's chance |