Neither the shippers nor the steamship lines in the United States have yet protested to the British Government's decision to blanket the navicert system over all trade to the European continent now under Nazi domination, the shipping editor of the "New York Journal of Commerce" observed recently.
"So far," he added, "it seems that the navicert system which implies 100 per cent. control of the trade with Europe still open to American busi ness, will prove far less provocative than continual seizures on the high seas by the British Navy, while under wartime conditions, the British action leaves some chance for normal if greatly encumbered trade with those portions of Europe remaining open to world commerce." tempt to do so and to substitute for them "Labour-Family-Nation." One can only remark dryly that as long as France could practice and defend Liberty, Equality and Fraternity there was work for all in France—work for all Frenchmen. and work for a million and more aliens in France, a country that through the worst depression never had unemployment.
"Better Hitler Than Blum"
France needs no motto from the boot lickers of her conquerors to elevate in France the prestige of the family. No country in Europe has so cherished the family, and nowhere has the family been so clearly the Desie social unit of the state as in the France of Liberty. And as for the nation—who are these defenders of the nation?
They are the men who not so long ago were saying, "Better Hitler than Leon Blum," as some people in this country are able to whisper "Better Hitler than F. D. R." They are the people who were more afraid of French labour than of German soldiers.
Of course, behind their actions is a shrewd politicians' and financiers' type of calculation. They think: England, too, will be defeated. Let us get on the bandwagon. Let us tie close to Mussolini. Thus we shall
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