Explained By Speaker At Rotary Meeting At yesterday's meeting of the Rotary Club, held at the Metropole Hotel, the speaker of the day Mr. J. M. Alkow of San Bernardino, California, gave an interesting talk on "Relief Work."
In the course of his speech, Mr. Alkow drew attention to America's attitude in the present crisis and said: "By focussing our minds on the allevietion of the mass suffering in the present tragedy, we do not do that with the intent of distracting any attention from the possible greater al-deviation of national suffering, that can come from the actions of other nations. There are. times however when individuals can act more readily than i respective governments, and such a time unfortunately seems to be the present.
"If America for example does not intervene in the crisis, it does not go to say that America as a nation is detached, and is unconcerned by the untold suffering that has come and has yet to ensue. America as one writer has said, has 'No Foreign Policy' and 'No Policy in the Far East' But America has never been lacking and is not lacking now in emotional response for this. large peaceful and industrious Chinese nation. America that was ever mindful of the woes of innocent people, has heard the cry that has gone up from these shores."
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