The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-28

BOake Carter
Why Stay in China?
Perhaps Britain Can Answer.
Anglophiles' Propaganda.

QUIETLY, with magnificent
" efficiency, the AnglophileS
are working that great propa-
ganda machine Of 19l7-now
remodeled on 1897 lines-to en-
mesh the United States once
again into protection Of the
British Empire-this time in
the Far East.
Consider these facts of his
tory-that from 1918 to 1888,
each Administration followed a
foreign policy which suited to
a ct" the desires and wishes
of the British Foreign Office:
The naval equality accep-
lance of 1921, which prevented
the United States fleet from be-
coming larger than that of the
British;
The Washington naval con-
ference and the United States
signing of the Nine-Power pact,
supposed to guarantee China's
integrity, but which in reality
froze the status quo in the
Pacific;
The Preparations Conference
in Paris in 1929, directed by J.
P. Morgan, Tom Lamont and
Owen D. Young, which suited
the British down to the ground;
The Hoover debt moratorium
and the help of American
bankers to British bankers un-
successfully to maintain Great
Britain on the gold standard in
1881;
Internal credit initiation in
the United States, and con-
tinued exchange of gold for
paper-which gave the British
a 80 per cent advantage over
the United States exporters;
The Stimson policy toward
Japan of dishing up the Nine
Power Treaty in Japan'S face,
to the delight of the British,
who have always wanted Amer
lea to expand in the Pacific.
LONG came Roosevelt in
"A 1888. He dumped over
board the Hoover gold standard
policy which had been liquidat-
ing the British at the expense
of the United States. He
jumped on the Wall Street
banking crowd.
For the first time it looked as
though America was about to
cut loose from its long and in
glorious position of "bouncer-
in-chief" for the British Empire.
But this hope Soon faded
when Roosevelt, as a big navy
man, began expanding the Navy
beyond the requirements of a
navy primarily for defense to-
ward one of a size compatible
only with policies of imperialism
and foreign invasion.
He then engineered the ia
nous trade treaty with Russia,
with formal recognition for the
first time since the Russian
revolution. Silently the British
offered UP thankful prayers of
relief, that this man Roosevelt,
after all, was not going to cut
loose from the British foreign
office.
BY this recognition of Russia,
Japan learned that America
limited she would go to war on
Russia'S side if Japan attacked
the SovietS. The British sighed
again with even greater relief.
In 1885 the United States
Navy held its summer ma
neuvers more than 1000 miles
the other side of the Hawaiian
Islands, and scared the Japa-
nese jingoists into panicky out
bursts that the United States
was planning war upon them.
So the British chuckled again
and the propagandiStS began
heckling for bigger navy and
rearmament program for Great
Britain.
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NOV then-A m b q SIS q dor
~ Bingham arrives in a rush
and furry.
Why?
The United States insists
that she controls the destinies
and general order of the Ameri-
can continent. We brag about
our Monroe Doctrine. If Japan
can establish an Oriental Mon
roe Doctrine for the Far East
and bring internal order within