Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, suggested that there were any number of Trojan horses within the United States, organizations whose high sounding titles' concealed the fact that they were affiliated in spirit, if not legally, with either the Russian or the German dictate ships. "These newly allied destructionists,' he said of Germany and Russia, "stand for the complete overthrow of all American institutions." These organizations which were out to destroy the American Bill of Rights loudly invoked its protection when any effort was made to investigate their activities, Mr. Hoover complained.
The Scandinavian invasion influenced United States' opinion in yet another way. The strength of the Isolationists had hitherto been in the Middle West. The Middle West is also the home of most Scandinavian-
'Americans. There are 3% millions first and second generation Scandinavians in the' United States and only a scattering of them dinavian-Americans are people of influence in national polities. Combined with the Poles and. Czechoslovakians, there are now. nearly 10,000,000 Americans who have a direct emotional interest in the defeat of the Nazis. First and second generation Ameri cans of English origin number another 36 millions. "America's 4,000,000 Jews have also a direct interest in seeing the, Nazi Government overthrown, owing to the persecution, if not of their relatives, at least of their race. Added together, "Americans having blood tes with the Allied cause now number approximately 12 per cent. of the American Population.
The Scandinavian invasion has led to, a better understanding of what the war about. It has not changed in any way American determination to stay out from the military point of view, but it has destroyed the conception of the war as a remote spectacle, the outcome of which does not concern the United States.
These observations of the Washington correspondent of the, "North-China Daily News" regarding America's European policy are 7 infareed by the recent declarations of President Roosevelt since the invasion of Holland jand Belgium by the German army.—E.
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