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Show Wanted: A Private War When American naval forces landed in Iceland they found thousands of British soldiers, standing guard in order to prevent pre-vent Hitler fro,m taking the island for .his own purposes. Almost immediately, there arises a demand, in certain quarters quar-ters in Washington, that the British Bri-tish get out. The argument is that if Hitler attacked the British, Bri-tish, our forces would be involved involv-ed in the joint defense of the island. We suppose these same citizens, citi-zens, in the national capital, will demand, if we get into a naval war with the Germans in the Atlantic, At-lantic, that all British warships get out of the ocean, in order that the United States may fight the foe without assistance! If we get into a squabble with Japan in the Far East, these pseudo-statesmen will, no doubt, object to our warships using the British base at Singapore and demand that the British in the Far East keep their soldiers and sailors out of the battle in order that it may be an exclusively American undertaking. |