Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-07-26
GENERAL
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MUST WIN MARKETS

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It is all right by Pan-American
conferences and unions, to create as
much goodwill as possible, but let's
not kid ourselves into any reliance
on them or into heavy commitments
on our side.
The plainest lesson of this war is
that dependence on any kind of col
ective security among nations is
madness. Each nation will follow
the path of its individual interest
and its former friends must take
care of themselves-regardless of
treaties or alliances.
There is nothing new about this.
George Washington said it almost a
century and a half ago.
II had been proved many times
then.
Never has it been so clearly
proved as in the past seven years.
The fall of the little central Euro
pean nations of the Gordon sanitaire,
which va;nly relied on France, as
she vainly relied on them, proved
il no less clearly than the fall of
France and the deadly peril of Brit
ain-among the strongest nations on
earth.
In military, economic and racial
sense, the strength and the ties that
bound England, Norway, Denmark,
Holland and Belgium we're many
times greater than any Pan-Ameri-
can union could possibly be.
The recorded stability and respon-
sibility of those nations were far
better than those of any Latin-Amer-
lean country. Yet that community
Of interest proved a rope of sand.
OF course, the principle of our
policy is to allay actual jealousy
and ill-feeling to the south of us, to
procure naval and air bases absolute
ly necessary to our defense and to
make it harder for any sudden
Nazi-engineered eruption in South
American country to surprise US
with an axis-country in this hemi-
sphere. o. X, but let's not deceive
ourselves on its value or give away
our body, soul and breeches in the
process.
When this war is over, the bust
ness of this world has got to pro-
coed. If we are not going back to
the Glacial age, international COM
merce must continue. While Eng
land has a sporting chance to de-
tend herself and her empire, there
is going to be a new industrial situa-
ton in Europe. It may not be the
dream of Napoleon (by force) or
BRAND (by agreement)-a United
States of Europe on our model. But
it will be a great industrial group
ing no longer frozen into honey
comb of water-tight trade compart-
ments by tariff barriers.
1t needs markets and it needs
raw materials-especially such food
stuffs as South America and this
country produces in vast surplus. Is
it our policy to prevent this exchange
Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by some vast
cartel through which we buy the
mountainous surplus of South Amer
lean meat and grain and add to our
own unmanageable abundance, or
by diplomatic or naval quarantine?
Something that points in that direc-
ton has been suggested for the Ha-
vana conference. We must not rely
on any military promises of that
conference. We must not there en-
gage to underwrite the exports OF
this hemisphere.
Our JOB on the military and naval
side is to get too strong for any
body to dare to intimidate us on
the economic side. The economic
side is not to intimidate or subsl-
die others. 1t is to win and hold
markets in the only way it can be
done permanently and soundly-by
Producing better goods and services
at lower prices.
The outlines of this proposed
$1,000, 1000, 1000 cartel system are not
yet clear but they seem to be
new boondoggling futility so vast as
to make all the other magnificent
squandering put together look like
poor piker's penny ante.
TWO-WAY DOCTRINE
An editorial in the Washington
Post emphasized that the Monroe
Doctrine is a two-way street.
The forgotten part is: I'm wars
of European powers relating to
themselves we have never taken any
part nor does it comport with our
policy to do SO our policy IN
! ,gard to Europe g.. remains the
!safne, which is not to interfere in the
internal concerns Of any of its pow
ers; to consider the government de
facto as the legitimate government
to u.s."
This is much too often forgotten.
The military expert" Major Eliot
has now joined our military ex-
pert" secretary Of war in insisting
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