Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-04-01
Neutrality Waning
AS Hitler Moves
Continued From rage One)

otherwise. Nye, who's very effec-
tive investigator, had prepared the
ground for it by an exceedingly tell
ing quiz into activities of profiteers
in past struggles, and also strong
never again" sentiment generally
had prevailed as heritage from I'm
Gle Sans participation in the last
world conflagration.
The administration didn't overly
like the thing, on the ground that it
was calculated to prevent the White
House from exercising its best judg-
ment in situations of emergency
However, this attitude was widely
attributed to executive jealousy of
its authority; there wasn't much leg
islative sympathy with it.
Don't Work Well.
Finally voted into the federal
statute book, the law didn't work at
all well, either. Italy never admitted
that it was at war in Ethiopia. The
Spanish nluss nOminally (though not
actually has been a civil affair
not international, as contemplated in
the Nye act And Japan continues to
insist that war isn't what it's en-
gagged in against China. Therefore
It's been recognized that the regula-
ton needed amendment-but with a
view to making it stick; not for the
purpose of nullifying it.
Indeed, only few weeks ago.
when it was revealed that the ad-
: mlnistration was sanctioning the sale
OF Yankee fighting planes to France,
there was howl to the purport that
we were devolping Immortality.
AS matter of fact, there was no
violation of the Nye law, but the out
cry wouldn't have been raised but
for the predominance of our neu-
trality wiShfulness.
In mere matter of davs lot If
this feeling has evaporated
A little of it is left Senator Nye
stands pat. Senator Henrik Ship
stead is on record to the effect that
the Versailles Treaty is responsible
for the European jam. He reminds
us that we didn't indorse that COM
pact and warns us that now is an
other occasion for us to stay on the
sldeline. Representative Louis Lud-
low is as urgent as ever 4or a con-
stitutional amendment to keep us out
of wars without a popular vote in
favor of going into one.
All the same, within the space of
week or ten days Capitol Hill has
undergone a remarkable TRANSFORMED
ton. The Nye law at least is in con-
siderable danger The Ludlow scheme
is almost completely Debated.
l assume that this represents what
our lawmakers hear from their vari-
Gus home folks.
Don't Like Hitler.
Not that I think the country wants
to go into another war, if there is
one, but l do take it for granted that
we're violently sore (fanatical bund
supporters excepted) on the subject
of Herr Hitler.
Nor are congressman from largely
Italian districts a bit Hilteristic.
And from legislative spokesmen of
some German-American bailiwicks
one hears scandalized expressions
concerning Hitlerian doings-for a
deal of the old time German philo-
sophy in the United States is OUT
standingly liberal.
In the l91O'S quite a proportion of
excellent Americans inclined a bit
toward Germany as against the Brit
ish, They were Squelched, but it was
done more or less by propaganda
they simply were outnumbered.
Now it's different barring the
comparatively few bund-ites.
We don't like Hitler. We don't like
his ways. We don't like his mustache
and that counts little, and no
fooling. We don't like his treatment
OF the Jews. Or his treatment of the
Catholics.
We certainly didn't like his grab
of little democratic Czecho-Slovakia.
We don't like him in Latin America.
And then, when he gobbled Prague.
he scooped in $8O,OOO,OOO in gold
there. Nobody wonders that Holland
and Switzerland are shipping their
gold over here, to be buried in Ken
lucky. 1t isn't doubted that he'd dig
it up from there too, if he could get
away with it.
The kaiser had a modicum of for
mality in his highwaymanship. Hit
Ter is an unqualified yegg, as Wash
ington's State Department estimates