The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-12-09
Observing ...
POLITICS and
POLITICIANS
NEW SPIRIT
ORNAMENTS AND WPA
THE CONVENTIONS
THE REAL WAR
By VIM. L. Sheriff.
Associate Editor

| Tx hCHL WAN
I'VE are out to destroy Hitlerism,
not the German people" is the
claim OF the Allies in this so-oslIed
war. After this has been accom-
plished. says England's Chamber
lain, Its our desire TO establish
a new Europe, not new in the sense
OF tearing up the old frontiers and
redrawing it, maybe. according 10
the idea of the victors, but Europe
with a new spirit in which the ma
tons which inhabit ii will approach
their difficulties with good will and
mutual tolerance"
| Here we see again, the tragic
idealism OF Woodrow Wilson's four
teen points, the difference being
however that Mr.. Chamberlain is
to establish this new Europe by
giving it a New Spirit in which
the nations that inhabit it will ap-
proach their difficulties with good
will and mutual tolerance.
| Mr.. Chamberlain has not forgot
ten that though we had a new
Europe after the other war, 1t was
inoculated through and through
with the germs OF hate, fear, sus-
picion and future wars. Hence Mr..
Chamberlain emphasizes The need
OF New Spirit. The big question,
however, is who will give Mr..
Chamberlain's New Europe a new
spirit? Who will endow the nations
with good will-and- mutual toler=
ance?
Can we be sure that the England
OF 1889 is different England from
that OF 1919, possessing New
Spirit? | doubt it very much. When
time comes for the vanquished to
sit with the victors at the peace
table" there may not be Lloyd
George -GlemeHeesu- at-the
table, but there will be other dema-
gogues, haters and revenge seekers
there 10 plant the seed for bigger
and better wars.
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President Roosevelt has suggested
an additional half-billion dollars in
Federal taxes TO pay for armament
expenditures, and the Navy depart
ment and the air force are planning
to seek from Congress an increase
in their appropriations for the COM
ing year even larger than one-half
billion. While these appropriations
are being sought very many OF the
so-called single units" who are
knocked off the WPA have not been
rehired despite their genuine and
undenied need. This is especially
true in the so-called white collar
projects, where it is extremely Diff
ficult for a single person without
pull to get rehired, no matter what
his need. Many OF these people had
been important in the making of
needed contributions from their
WPA wages to other members Of
their family such as brothers, sis
tiers, nieces, etc. We, in the United
States cannot provide both cannon
and butter any more than can Hitler
in Germany. And the more we make
our national economy dependant
upon cannon profits, the more likely
we are to find ourselves being cam
non fodder.
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There was a move on foot to have
both the Republican and Democratic
conventions meet the month Of
August but information that the
Republicans were planning to hold
their convention later, that they
might know who the Democrats
nominated. has changed all this. The
Democrats are now thinking Of
holding their convention in Sept,
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Listen 70 this;
How many realize that the pres
ent Asiatic war dwarfs the European
war in significance? If Japan wins
this war, she will become the strong
est power on earth, and the foolish
nations of white men will need
all the power they can muster to
avoid being dominated by the rising
japanese sun. II Japan wins this
war, she can, with modern methods
and machinery, mobilize an army
such as has never been seen in the
world before. What folly for
European nations and possibly the
Americas, to PROSTATE themselves
in a futile and disastrous war when
they should be united in friendly
understanding"