The Washington times., 1938-02-21
Fish VS.. Fact


Adolf Hitler's pushing around of the unfortunate
Schuschnigg cmaxing in Her's demand yesterday for
return of German colonies has held the recent spoght
but Japan recently has not been idle.
The japanese egions are plunging ahead, looting
they 60, meeting Chinese resistance and then in
Anhwei shantung, Honan, Shansi. Their big floating
canneres when last heard from still netting salmon
out of what we've always considered fishing waters
off Alaska; will probably stop only if sort of
vigorous pressure is brought into play.
That the japanese brave, aggressive and smart
f not wise) people is demonstrated fact That they
are dreaming emprebulder dreams such the British
dreamt in the days of Queen Elizabeth is good bet.
(The British dreams came true.)
Another fact is that Japan is lined up in anti-Com-
munist treaties with the two most aggressive nations Of
Europe, Germany and Italy, An ant-Communist treaty
can be stretched to embrace any imaginable kind of
Joint military or naval action the treaty nations may
want to take. Just call the enemy Communistc ma
ton and the treaty applies
With these facts staring the world in the face it is
all but nconceivable to how any American can ques-
tion the necessity of early passage
Keep japanese of the Vinson $SOO,OOO,OoO addi-
Wost of Hn,rni; tional naval construction BILL Yet
there are such Americans Most
vocal among them is Representative Hamilton Fish
,(R.), New York
Of all Mr.. Fshs utterances against the naval BILL and
there have been plenty, the most grotesque seemed to
us to be the about how Japanese army of $4,000
might land shores but couldn't last month.
We all have blind spots. Apparently Mr. Fish
can't what the rest of can-that don't want
any Japanese soldiers to get to Shores whether
could annihate them after they got here not What
want is to keep the Japanese west of Hawaii where
they can't harm with soldiers long-ra battleshp
guns air raids West Coast cities. We do
that only with navy big enough to stop any Japanese
attempt at hostile crossing of the Pacific this side of
Hawaii.
And we can best protect Atlantic Coast by
bined policy of N adequate navy, and (2) friendship
with Great Britain. Britain may hesitate to send
ships past Mussoinis Mediterranean defenses. But by
the token Italy and Germany if they should join
Japan against u.s. would think long before sending
ships out into the Atlantic knowing that heavy
tratons of British and American power wait
ing to meet them
We got some amusement and exhlaraton out of the
GOOD WILL FLIGHT
of six four-motored 2O-ton United States Army BIZ
bombing planes from Miami south over Panama, down
South Americas Pacific Coast and to Buenos
Aires.
That's the way good will is shown
BFUnOs Ante nowadays, it seems Bruno Mussoni
T. pu:.ox lovingly shows Brazil that Italian
army planes make it from Rome
to Rio in two days. Bruno takes three planes We raise
Brunos ante, and using yesterdays Inauguration of
Argentnas president alibi, with six bigger
and better planes demonstrate that under favorable
conditions Miami is twentyeight hours actual flying
time (thrtyfour hours elapsed tme from Buenos Aires
by roundabout route. One of the six bombers showed
that could strike faster than that direct
route
The significant fact though, is that several South
American nations reported asking the United States
to arrange Western Hemisphere alliance against pos
sble European or Asatic aggression in either North
South America. Time was when Latin America feared
and distrusted the COLOSSUS of the North meaning U.s.
For this reversal most of the credit go President
Roosevets good-neghbor policy And the reversal is all
to the good both for ourselves and Latin America If
we don't stand together may fall separate victims to
fascsm, communism Imperialism or some ism that
hasn't yet been invented
More urgently than ever before, the United States
needs navy twice strong the imperial Japanese
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