The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-01

nal, at Whlch time COrdeu SationS with the British. Japan's conquest of China world, give her vast raw materials, wipe out the textile industry of Lancashire and the cotton belt of the United States.
 Secretary Hull, agreeing with this, put forward the additional argument that Hitler and Mus solini were beginning to get obstreperous and needed an ob- ject lesson. He felt that the United States could not cooperate with England to the extent of giving such lesson in Europe, but that it had a far greater interest in the Far East, and might CO., operate in giving an object lesson to a dictator country in that area.
 If the military clique in Japan were put in its place, MT. Hull argued, it would have a most salutary effect upon Hitler and Mussolini.
 BLOCKADE JAPAN
 Accordingly the British and American admirals discussed g long distance blockade of Japan blockade which probably could be imposed on no other major country in the world, for the req son that Japan, a series of islands, imports almost all her raw ma terials from the outside world.
 Thus ships stationed at Singa- pore and Panama, together with the cooperation of Russia, could have starved out Japan in about three months.
 The British at that time hemmed and hawed about send ing any ships through Suez to Singapore, said they were afraid things might break suddenly in Europe. Finally they agreed to send four battelships, 12 cruis- CTS, and 20 destroyers. But suddenly Mussolini, getting wind of the nglo-American deal, and already working as closely with Berlin and TOkiO as he is today-started his sub marine piracy" campaign in the Mediterranean.
 And the British, worried over their merchant shipping, stopped the fleet which was about to sail for Singapore. This was in Aug ust and early September, 1887. CHICAGO SPEECH
 Prime mover in all these nego- tiations was MT. Hull. He was more anxious than Roosevelt to make an object lesson of the Jap anese. The President was little wary of American public opinion, but finally decided to test that opinion with the famous Chicago speech, in which he envisaged the possibility of the United States joining in a quarantine against an aggressor nation.
 MT. Hull pulled in his horns somewhat at this point. His in- ternational strategy was expressed to an adviser at that time who kept careful notes.
 "The President and l." said MT. Hull, "have believed that the dictators of the world were following 8 policy which even- tually was going to get us into trouble. In Europe, Germany has adopted the policy of fore ing little countries to buy peace by joining her-the same thng which brigands did in days of old.
 q have been trying very slow ly to make our people realize that we face in Europe and Asia. I've been making what the news papers call 'pious pronounce ments'. I've been doing it de- liberately and slowly. We can't scare the people of the United States; we have to educate them. So I've been talking about the sanctity of treaties, although I've known that there was no such thing on the part of some coun- tries. But I wanted to make our people realize that these coun- tries had torn up their obliga- tions.
 "I've been trying to make our people see that compete fso- lation' was something they could not attain.
 "The President has said the same thing, except that he has gone a little too far sometimes. People weren't ready for his Chicago speech. He scared the milky night air was filled witt q, aSxs S,oIxy xx,y,aY,{a0 orasNt I,.Yr.