The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1940-05-09
Let England Fry In Her Own Grease

The New York Daily News says that it has grown
weary of that school of American thought which sees
the United States as doomed to enter the European war
now getting underway.
The Daily News says:
You know how these fataists reason-that our fortunes
ae eternaly tied up with those of Britain and France; that
we cannot let our felowdemocractes go UNDER because life
would not be worth living in a word overshadowed by Ger
many and Russia. The Allies can't win soon in any event,
8 we're being told that it will become our duty sooner "
later to help them liquidate Eitlerism. If W don't send men
rel there to do 1t, we at least W a sacred duty to humanity
to send materials financed by our w money.
Thus reason the interventionsts both those who hope we
will 20 in and those who hope we won't but believe we'll have
TO- Even Wendell L. willkie. reputed a home-spun Middle
westerner Of the hardheaded school, Gems to be falling for
this fatahsm. Anyway, Mr.. wikie in his speech at the pub
fishers convention dinner remarked;
Likewise, despite recent pronouncennents to the contrary
by some opposed to the present administration. We do have
a vital interest In continuance Of the English and French
way Of life"
It makes our blood boil to hear old men sit back
and say it is inevitable for America to join with Eng
land to fight for and save Democracy. They can take
their out in talking being too old to fight.
Save Democracy! That's funny.
The present Europeon war is being fought to save
English Imperialism and nothing else, to help her pre-
serve the empire on which the sun never sets, as she
proudly boasts. There is more class distinction in Eng
land than in any other country on the Europeon con-
tinent.
And we wonder if the American people are fools
enough to think it their duty to go to the aid OF Eng
land to preserve her noble heritage of so-called dem
ocracy. 1t is not democracy at all as American people
think of democracy. We think of a democracy as a
land of free citizens without class distinction where
every person occupies the station in life he's entitled to
by virtue of what he is.
1t may be true that we will profit more if England
controls the trade lanes of the world than If Germany
Io-cir ntos foreicr trnae. Ru+ we "art geo who're emo
land has ever traded with the United States in the past
when she could trade with anyone else. England is for
England and she has no love for the United States. She
would cut our Threats just as quickly and with no more
conscience than Grandma Chamberlain would make a
speec h defending Englands cowardice in forsaking
Czechoslovokia, Austria, Poland and Norway.
AS Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the foreign
affairs committee, said, it is no duty of the United States
to make pro ectorates of England and France. If they
can't arrange their affairs where they can live in the
same world as Germany it is strictly none of our bus-
ness and we can not take on ourselves the responsibility
Of repeatedly raarranging this world to suit them, as we
helped do in the World War.
This world is a place in which the fittest survive.
England seems decendent.
We fought one war to get away from her imperia-
iism. We fought one war with her to help her establish
her place in the sun more firmly and did not even get
thanked much less paid for it.
Why in the name of common sense should we help
her again?
Would she help us?