Washington, Jan. 4.
URPRISING aspects of the more vigorous foreign policy which has been emerging here since the Czech crisis are discussed by three usually well-informed publicists here.
Mr. Jay Franklin, newspaper columnist and radio commentator, who is generally regarded as the spokesman of the President's New Deal advisers, declares in his syndicated column that the forthcoming visit of the King and Queen is the first development in a duel between the United States and Germany for influence over the British Empire, "American success in this duel will re-align British policy with that of the democratic nations of the western world," writes Mr Franl "Failure may well result in the disguised partition of the Empi ire into two spheres of influence—with the self-governing Domini following the lead of Washington and relying on America for defence, and the Asiatic and African possessions of Britain drift ing under a joint Anglo-Germany hegemony."
Mr, Franklin adds that it was the growth of Foselst forms in French Cunada and the growing nationalism fof the French Canadians that made the Royal" visit necessary, as 9 Unifying gesture, At the same tine, Knnowing that the King and Queen Could hardly avoid some gesture of friendship towards the United States during their presence in. the western hemisphere, the White House "went into action" on all fronts—and the American effort was to transform on Imperial side show into the main attraction of world politics and wheedle the King and Queen into paying ws 2 full-dress State vist Britain as "Buffer State"
"In this the object of Roosevelt diplomacy. fs to use the common sentiments and free institutions of England, the Dominions and the United States to re-solidify the Empire as a major political institu ion on the globe and so to re establish the United Kingdom os our buffer' state' against European "The Royal visit is interesting as the Mist fort to revive the diplomacy of 1918, when it was arranged that if Germany conquered England the Royal Navy was to cross) the Allantie and "continue the war from this side of the Ocean." is on the value to In "as a frst line of defence" made by Messrs. Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner in their column which appears in. the 'Washington Star," the "New York 'Times' and other papers. These Ustally non-alarmist " commentators declare that in honest realism the 'American people should realize Where their present line of policy tay load them, and they quote in~ formants in the State Department as fearing. itin to" wai war now, oF even five year how, but' at the moment when the Hewer of Hitler's Germany grows 5 treat that the world cannot hold two Sich. vital nations as Germany and the United States.'
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