| Show GENERAL JOHNSON VW washington D C LESSON FOR U S most alost of the lessons of the war are too obscure to learn the fall of france cant be explained gossip filtering back indicates a sa s1 stench to heaven we are already officially blamed for not doing something that we were somehow supposed to be obliged to do who obligated us mr bullitt did say openly that we be in it at the beginning but would be in the end the end came too soon for france if she relied on mr bullitt she missed the tha bus the lesson from france is not clear enough to learn but there N i aone j one lesson from the whole bloody mess that simply shrieks no nation can rely on any other and certainly not we on the british navy or latin america or on anything but our own strength france created the cordon sani tairel taire the ring of little nations like poland czechoslovakia and rumania to keep germany captive she relied on them and they on her she relied on the british navy britain relied on the french army when hitler began to show strength france wanted to stop him britain play when mussolini hijacked ethiopia britain wanted to stop him france play both let hitler and mussolini build up the strength to ravage the french and british reliance on little nations in the cordon sani taire and their S reliance on britain B and france one by one they t fell fe 11 britain and france were helpless or unwilling to stop it they are responsible for the threat to us today because finally came the case of poland britain and france at last were drowsily preparing but neither was remotely ready nevertheless they shoved poland into the guns the case was weak danzig was a german city the polish corridor was a monstrosity furthermore worst of all hitler wanted no war in the west he was headed east and southeast france under british pressure joined in declaring war when hitler marched it was one of the greatest and most stupid blunders in history if not the very greatest it forced hitler to turn to the west the result already has been the destruction of six small neutral na nations eions and the french empire it terribly threatens the british empire it threatens us 10 recriminations have already begun we hear that france want to go to war and britain forced her that the french government want to abandon the defensive and plunge into the disastrous belgian pocket that britain forced it and support it the facts r larent barent clear but the blunders are they shout their lessons to us dont f start anything you cant finish get fully ready before you start slapping clappin 9 down ears dont rely on anybody but yourself dont push other na eions into warlike positions to defend yourself i 0 in this blundering diversion of hitler to our direction direction when he might have gone eastward to wear himself out in battle with the bear of russia we are not blameless we i supported and encouraged it moral T ly IY part of the argument to bring prance in was that only it she j were in war could she be sufficiently unified and mobilized for war and t that if she did get in she would have time to get ready afterward t exactly that is being said to us in this country today oday t there is adoth a er way to sa say y it it is get a dici step by muddled step we have foli I 1 lowed owed blunde blundering ring european w war ar pol j iches we are still following them our two new war cabinet members I 1 believe in d doing that th that at is why they hey were chosen our greatest need S is new and competent leadership t before it is too late I 1 g WANTED A production MAN V industrial mobilization just H madly appropriate aate billions JB billions are necessary but suc w cess is threatened if they are thrown away contracts with suppliers are necessary but they are no good if they dont result in swift and ac fr septable cep table brodu production action so regulated f that all the separate parts come to the assembly line properly timed to III all other deliveries and with no spoiled work or parts that do not fit I 1 doubt if we are giving enough a I 1 attention to either one of these prins caples there is too much ballyhoo ballyhoo 7 wa billions it tends to pacify th the e bernand of the people for drive and y |
