Show weekly news new world crawls into hito shell As revitalized reich expands uy boseth we un di hine Interim international lional the U S has long maintained splendid trade relations with western hemisphere nations has moreover done this without resorting to heavy armaments until five years ago the U S was similarly strong in china reason european and asiatic nations have always been busy at home not daring to risk invasion of the western hemisphere but since japan became supreme in the far east the U S has been forced to expand her pacific fleet if this was cause for worry a much greater cause is the munich pact which sheared friendly france and britain of their power dominant in europe anxious to increase their foreign trade italy and germany X 4 BRAZILS PRESIDENT VARGAS his door is closed to germany can now be regarded as a serious threat to U S commerce of the two germany will be a greater threat because she has adopted an aggressive foreign expansion program moreover because her new territorial acquisitions bring glassware leather and textiles into the reich for export sale focal point of german expansion will be latin america which last year gave the reich 14 per cent of its trade compared with per cent to the U S in this trade war it has become apparent the U S will attempt to sell south americans on democracy while Ger germany manyi sells viem them today as the war gets under way the U S appears to hold an upper hand long favored in south america through her monroe doctrine the U S has just helped preserve western hemisphere peace by joining in I 1 settlement of the year old chaco i dispute between paraguay and bolivia indirectly the U S could place another feather in her cap when brazil called home its ambassador to berlin apparently breaking off diplomatic relations with the reich this is president getulio vargas answer to chancellor hit lers efforts for brazilian tion aiding the U S will be increased domestic desire to woo south america already a campaign is under way to boost our consumption of f south american goods A natural result of this activity has been growing american disinclination cli nation to complete the long pend ing U S british trade pact a sentiment resulting from the rebirth of isolationism which followed mu aichs peace treaty the greatest stumbling block is that isolationism calls for strengthened trade relations with canada a plan blocked by great britaina Brit ains renewed efforts to tighten her dominion bonds A U S canadian trade treaty is bound to hurt american agriculture a U S british treaty will hurt american manufacture therefore economists are betting the most favored nation agreements now pending with canada and britain will never be consummated meanwhile germany is cocksure of her position busily flitting from one european capital to another economics minister walter funk has completed bilateral accords based on barter of goods with several balkan states in this way the reich hopes to increase its economic orbit but when minister fu funk optimistically announced ile he would next attempt a barter treaty with the U S state department officials made it clear that optimism is unfounded war A large part of chinas cainas war supplies for defending bankow have come up the railroad from rich southerly canton moreover cantonese troops have shown remarkable bravery reportedly wiping out japs near early this mah month although canton has therefore been a thorn in japans side tokyo feared to move into south so uth china lest great britain might object but since britain capitulated in the czech crisis japan has become bolder result is the landing of troops near canton for any or all of three purposes 1 to force frightened cantonese to withdraw troops from bankow ma making ki ng that cites capture easier 2 to cut the bankow canton railroad and stop war supplies 3 to force canton into an independent peace with japan but it if japan hopes the thereby reby to force surrender of chinas cainas generalissimo chiang kai shek she will be disappointed though 70 per cent of chinas cainas war materials have come through canton general chiang has foreseen that cites fall and developed four alternative lines of entry two railroads enter from indochina indo china and highways can carry supplies from both burma and russia moreover chinese are resigned to a 10 year struggle if necessary far more likely than chinese capitulation pitula tion is a breach between great britain and japan not since the siege of japan has the british lion been so imperiled canton lies a scant 75 miles from the crown colony of hong kong whose prosperity depends largely on trade with canton the maddening air of righteousness surrounding japans invasion of south china coupled with warnings to britain france and the united states shows clearly that japan now considers herself the far no I 1 power races during the world war great britain helped liberate Pale stines arabs from the turks thereby winning arabic support against turkey although arabs expected they would be rewarded with complete domination over palestine En glands lord balfour led a successful campaign to establish part of the holy land as a haven for the wandering jew since then world jewry has sent persecuted hebrews to palestine investing to build a national home but disgruntled arabs have protested with warfare keeping harried britain busy policing the land over which she was given a mandate in 1923 while blood ran freely through the streets of jerusalem bethlehem and jaffa colonial secretary of state malcolm macdonald has led a commission in search of amicable settlement meanwhile jew hating germany and italy have given restrained cheers for the arabic cause cheers that need no longer be restrained since the munich peace treaty has placed great britain on the defensive faced with threats of italo german intervention unless arabs were given a square deal prime minister neville chamberlain has been reported ready to sell out the holy lands jews thoroughly miserable prime minister chamberlain and secretary macdonald son of the late prime minister ramsay macdonald were bombarded with protests the minute their weakened position was ru A w A MALCOLM MAC DONALD palestine Pu lestine s jews are his problem mored to make matters worse dr chaim of london president of the zionist federation has aroused U S jewry to such an extent that president roosevelt has been deluged with pleas to intervene thus great britain risks losing a measure of badly needed U S sentiment if she capitulates to arabic demands As prime minister chamberlain prepared to act the least harmful settlement hebrews could expect was a heavy restriction on jewish immigration to the holy land even this commented jews would almost make great britain an accessory to the italo german race persecution program |