The Archive · 1940

Planes Flown to Canada

"This ig clearly shown by the fact that the American Government, just prior to ishing this order, departed {from het so-called neutrality laws by allowing American citizens to fy planes over to Canada, This is a clear infringement of all decent International relations; and the desire to assist England and France to destroy Germany is thereby clearly manifest, If Americans can fly planes over to Canada, why should they not fy them straight over to England? Who can, therefore, believe them, when they say that the embargo on export of war material applies to all equally "As a result of America altering her Neutrality Act, the British and French have been able to buy from her not only large numbers of planes, but also huge quantities of every kind of war material. In fact, the American Government does everything it can to help Britain and France, and works in the closest cooperation with them. As this open assistance of Britain and France by America is as clear as daylight, is it not obvious that that all this talk about there being no discrimination in the embargo is merely an attempt to throw dust in he eyes of the world? can anybody be foolish enough to be-Neve it? "Actually, it is clearly nothing but the usual kind of Ame rican double-dealing, when, after put ting this embargo on exports, she informs Japan of it and tries to calm her suspicions by assuring her that she need not fear that itis a move to help China, For it is perfectly obvious that this move to. put an embargo on the export of war material in really covers a secret pur-ase, Treacherous Plans "In Europe anyhow, Hitler's people very clearly have seen through the treactierous' plans of the plutocratic democracies. "To them all this is nothing more fearsome than the empty roaring of a lion, For the leading democracies, Britain and France, have been so. thoroughly beaten' that they are now in wild flight and do not know how to save themselves. Thus have all the diaboical schemes of the two leading Western democracies been upset. To. say that the three democratic countries, England, France and the 'USS.A. together control the world is. no longer correct, for today the two former have already been smashed to atoms by Germany.

"For this reason America which has been working in close agreement with the other plutocratic democracles is very worried and at her wits fend, realizing very well that before very long England ands France will bbe wiped out, thus leaving her in a bad hole. Therefore, she continually plots to oppose Germany by every! means and to. assist England and France. And that is the reason why Stirs America Washington, June 14.

If Japan desires belter relations with the United States she is travel-Hing a wrong road by the ruthless bombings of Chungking, it was made lain at the Department of State "At a press conference, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, spoke with emphasis and feeling when relating the previous stand of strong condemnation and opposition to the bombing of civilians from the alr, ahd this was followed by descriptions of the raids fon Chungking, in which strong emphasis was laid on their indiserimihate and ruthless nature.

Mr. Hull said he preferred to say more at present when asked if an embargo on machine tools and serap metals. was likely to be be imposed fo underline American abhorrence, He contented himself with the state ment that the embargo provision in tthe May Bill did not conflict with policy. of, reciprocal trade treaties: Decause the embargo provision wa for the protection of strategic defence supplies. He thus leaves the path. clear for possible action when the "Bill becomes a law.

"A writer on foreign affairs of the Scripps-Howard newspapers _yester~ day strongly argued against any United States' "dear" with Japan, declaring that if it sulted her she would pay no more heed to a new treaty pledge than she paid to treaty' obligations when she entered Mfanchoukuo and fortified the mandated Islands." Such a deal, he said, would be as fatal to the United States as was' Munich to the Allies, for it would be a tip-off that a third great democracy was "on the run."—Reuter,

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