The Archive · 1937

DEFEAT OR VICTORY?

President Franklin Roosevelt, if by any chance he feels a little depressed over the apparent certainty that his however, fit in with a milita: ry Bill for expanding and superannuatphilosophy which imagines that ing the is a legislative economic ce-operation can be casualty, should send the document to enforced by bombers and tanks tie Bodleian Library which is now regardless of political anomalies. being specially enlarged to receive five Let it be granted that the im-"oon volumes and which belongs to mediate result of the present a University entrus.ca with the care crisis may be to give Japan t) ne 91 lost causes. He might seek cther Trans-Atlantic consolation and, per-custody of the five Northern prov-haps, encouragement by importing inces with the reservation of Winston Churchill who could reasonable access to the Central repeat to àn American audience the Government of China, to use t he witty eulogy of political error which language of the divorce cou rt. he recen! in, approval of the What commitments thereby acer ne British withdrawal of its io Japan? Will they not soi on|original National Defence Contribu-create others?

China may grieve now and have to grieve for some years to come, She may laugh last of on scheme. Mr. Churchill, ent of the United States America must know, proved by nevertheless, "Naturam expelles furca," said Horace "taken usq ne recurrer." And, despite the pres ut shionable contempt for international merah y, the same principle applies to that inconvenient verity. chapter and verse that political defeat had its triumphs more renowned than victory. Though Mr, Churchill is partly American in origin, Mr. Roosevelt is unlike io require such a desperate There is sufficient bu y

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