Evening star., 1937-03-21

only the biggest shells and bombs can
penetrate by making a bullS-eye hit.
When it appeared that the insurgent
encirclement would soon occupy Ma
drid last Summer, the Loyalists dug in.
Bombing by planes will extend the
front in European war to the homes
and factories, where women and chill
dren labor to make war supplies Civil
populations will be melted to a more
bitter resistance by foretaste of their
fate if they yield to the enemy
For the next European war will be
more savage than the latest Con-
quered populations will not be sold
into slavery as of old, but they will
be reduced to practical slavery. Death
Will appear still more preferable to
surrender.
So We shall have plenty of time in
which to be drawn into the next
European war. Shouting Keep out!"
failed to keep us out before. How,
then, shall We keep out?
Again the blasts out of clear sky
will rupture international economic
and financial relations, binding the
producers, merchants and traders
around the world table as they Won
der what cards they will draw out of
the man-made chaos. Again mora
toriums will be declared abroad and
stock exchanges closed The gamble
of gold will be merged with the gamble
of arms.
In 1914 the British blockade cut us
off from the great German market.
But soon the war market of the Allies
more than took its place. The normal
laws of competition did not apply as
We met the drafts of our herds, grain
and cotton fields, mines and factories.
War babies doomed in the stock ex-
changes. Wages scared, owing to the
shortage of labor. Our fortunes were
tied to those of the Allies.
TO prevent this in the future we
have the present embargo legislation.
That is, we would sell no supplies
useful for the making of war to any
belligerent. What 90 these include in
a modern war of populations? Not
oi1iy PioAlSS, paAirAos DAS SuIIo dliu uld-
chine guns, rifles, trench mortars, gas,
shells, bombs, bayonets and bullets.
They include, for complete embargo,
everything that man produces or digs
out of the earth
Food may be of more vital import
than weapons to nations which cannot
grow enough food to feed their own
people, yet have material and plants
for making their own weapons. Do
we forget our own meatlesS days to
replenLsh the larders Of the Allies?
Aided Starving of Germany.
Starving Germany out was a policy
in which We vigorously joined. Ger
many suffered from lack of fats. In
l86l-65 the persistent breeding by
razor backed hogs, war or no war,
helped the South to hold out for four
years. II every German family had
had pound Of lard a day and every
German soldier half-pound of greasy
bacon, the Germans might have held
out for another year.
One warning nation will lack what
another has. In the World War, for
example, the Germans had nitrates
and no rubber, while Britain had ac-
cess to both. France has no oil, Russia
much OIL
These are conspicuous items, but
only few OF long list of vital and
useful ones. Hair-line decisions will
have to be made every day in any
selective contraband list. Home par
tlsanship will be inf1amed because one
warning nation is receiving an article
which 1t needs, while another is not.
But We are told that the warning
nations will not have the money for
heavy buying unless we loan it to
them, and this is against the law.
However, Britain and France can
easily muster $4,000 ,O0e 900 in credits
which they would spend rather than
lose war.
Representatives of every form of
production, steel and textile, field and
urban, would bring pressure on WASH
lngton as dividends were passed and
they looked back to the melon-cutting
r PhSoESihbJ Va tilC " AZ w al. icy
would make common cause with the
labor organizations as they pictured
the smokeless chimneys of our fac
tories at present and looked back to
the double shifts and overtime in
1856.
The money which we have paid
warning nations for their exports
might be spent elsewhere. Chile might
be selling her nitrates and copper,
Mexico her oil, Brazil her cotton and
Argentine her grain. meat and wool
while we complained that we were be-
ing impoverished and bankrupted.
Only complete embargo would be
practicable-an embargo which would
cut ,b OF from all commercial rela-
lions With the belligerents. But that