Evening star., 1938-12-26
Writer Scores Advice
From Maj. Gen. MoseIy
Says This Country Should
Use Economic Resources
Against Enemies

Use Economic Resources
Against Enemies
To the Editor Of The Star:
A few weeks ago Maj Gen. George
Mosely retired, and, as a valedictory,
delivered a philippe against the ad-
ministration. A promise he then made
to shortly come to the aid of his coun-
try he now discharges by giving three
pieces of advice. They are very helpful
in this time of national doubt and un-
certainty because they are so clearly
wrong that they make the truth stand
out like great mountain in a plain.
The general advises:
Cd "A settlement with Japan to in
sure lasting peace in the Pacific with
increasing trade for the United States"
No settlement with Japan can insure
a lasting peace in the Pacific" Within
the past five years Japan has denounced
and violated number of treaties en-
tered into for just that purpose, and has
embarked upon course of national
bandltry involving the Indignantly
planned moral and physical ruin of in
Vaded peoples by promoting drug addic-
ton. Her occupation of Manchukuo
and parts of China has been marked by
the murder of children, the rape of
women, kidnapping for ransom, wholesale
slaughter of non combatants and by a
total disregard Of the property rights
of nationals of countries with which
Japan is at peace.
90 "A mindour- own business policy
in Europe"
This suggests the question of PLATE
What is truth?" What is our own busi-
ness? Are we attending to it if we
calmly look on while the only countries
on earth which, under present and ap-
parently continuing conditions, might
be reckoned upon to help protect our
seaboards if attacked by the combined
navies of Germany, Italy and Japan are
brought to destruction? Should we not
cooperate in the preservation of our
natural allies and their resources with
out waiting for their navies to be de-
stroyed, their armies decimated, their in
dustries wrecked or, worse, taken over
by our enemies?
90 Conduct campaign at home to
drive out domestic enemies"
This proposal though obviously foolish
without some qualifying explanation, is
pregnant with suggestion.
We have with us half million aliens
many of whom are actually enemies,
acting in obedience to powers who are
actively working for our destruction in
common with the destruction of all
other democracies. 1t is possible for us
to expel foreign" enemies and we should
Immediately boot out of this country
every unnaturalized japanese, Italian
and German. except he be a political
refugee.
The Mosely program provokes another
conclusion: We are faced with inevitable
war. Only the time is uncertain To-
day we can pick the arena and choose
the weapons We are not ready to fight
on land and if we act now we will not
have to do so. Our naval forces may
play an important-but it will be sub
ordinate-part. The weapons ready at
our hand are the worlds largest supply
of gold and illimitable natural resources.
On the other hand our enemies are
bankrupt in money and on the border
line of famine. They have large we'll
trained and finely equipped armies
which, for the moment only, cannot be
used against us.
We should, this very day, declare a
quarantine against Germany and Japan.
Other nations will align themselves with
u.s. but we must not wait for that We
must act at once.
A few months ago, in a sudden and
unexpected burst of sanity, this admins
tration refused to supply Germany with
helium for her dirigibles. If we now
tread the same path of wisdom and pa
triotism, not one drop of stolen Mexican
oil will leave this continent for a Ger
man port. But no punitive measure
against Mexico must be involved. That
we cannot afford. We can afford to pay
good American dollars in exchange for
the oil now under contract to Mexico,
dollars which will be the unrestricted
property of Mexico, the price to be the
same which Germany contemplates pay
ing Mexico in tin whistles, radio sets and
Nuremberg doll babies. Every dollar
will be we'll spent if it is to prevent
Germany from reaping the benefit which
she now sees in sight from her policy by
which she induced Cardenas to repudiate
the promise he voluntarily made in Octo-
ber, 1885: "* foreign interests holding
oil fields will not be molested. I" ="
We owe much to the folly of our
enemies. With their warnings ringing
in our ears, if we allow one drop of oil
to leave Tampico for Germany or one
ton of scrap iron to leave San Francisco
for Japan, to be made into munitions
to be used against ourselves, we shall be
fools and merit the punishment we in
vite. HOWARD PITCHER OKIE.