Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-07-05
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BRITISH WEST INDIES

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the Panama canal lies the British
island of Jamaica, witch is SO per
cent black and 100 per cent FESTIVE.
Intelligence reports from Jamaica
warn of the danger of Negro up
rising.
Jamaican Negroes have never
been prosperous, but this year has
been unusually bad. The cane crop
was failure, the banana crop was
ruined by a hurricane, and on top
of this, word is being passed around
among the Negroes that their mis-
cry would disappear under German
rule.
As a result, British authorities,
practically deserted by the home
government, are keeping watchful
eye on their arsenal.
Unrest in Jamaica would create
double problem for the United States
and the other American republics.
Roosevelt has already warned Euro
pean dictators that he will tolerate
no change of sovereignty in this
hemisphere. But the situation
would be embarrassing If the ma
tives of Jamaica were to revolt
against England and invite in Hitler.
Note-Jamaica's harbor, Kings
ton, is one of the finest in the West
Indies and just 600 miles from the
Panama canal. At the beginning
of the war, Britain held in this har-
Dor convoy feet Of 70 ships.
Changing Attitude.
Confidential reports cabled back
to the state department show that
the French people have become Bit
ter not only toward Great Britain
but against the United States.
Sentiment has been so vitriolic
that it was the subject of CONVEX
sation held by Ambassador Tony
Biddle, who substituted for Bullitt
in Bordeaux. Sumner Welles also
mentioned it a little sadly to the
French ambassador in Washington.
The French simply cannot under
stand why the British and Ameri-
cans did not come to their aid. Only
their men were killed, their coun-
try destroyed, and their prisoners
are now seen marching behind Ger
man guards. This has so Infatuated
them that now many Frenchmen al
most relish the possibility that their
fleet may be used against the Brit
iSh.
Another effect has been a change
of feeling in France toward the Ger
mans. Frenchmen, especially in
Paris, are beginning to say:
well, after all we are Euro
peans, so let's be Europeans. To
with the Anglo-Saxons. They
can't be depended upon. Maybe
the Germans are not so bad, after
ALL"
This attitude has been helped by
the excellent behavior of the Nazis
in Paris. There are almost no
troops on the street. Nazis have
kept out of sight, and the arrests
made by Herr Himmler's Gestapo
have been done very quietly.
Meanwhile, some of the French
newspapers, obviously cooked up by
rife attack upon the British, togeth-
er with campaign to educate the
French people regarding the better
qualities of the Germans.
The French are still inclined to
look upon their conquerors as Ger
mans, not as members of the Ma
tional Socialist party. Few French
men seem to realize that this is
revolution, not a war, and that Hit
Ter is conquering Europe for Nation
al Socialism, which has made more
far-reaching changes in the capital
iStic system than Russian Commu-
nism.
Hitler's Tactics.
1t has become increasingly obvi-
GUS that the smartest thing Hitler
did was to knock off the countries
of Europe one at time instead of
permitting them to gang up on him.
When Hitler took Czecho-Slovakia,
for instance, the Poles were en-
couraged to take small piece of
Czech territory. Then after they
had taken it, Hitler took back the
little piece of Czecho-Slovakia plus
one-half of Poland.
One reason Hitler was able to take
Poland was that he promised Russia
the other half. And now Stain, re-
alizing his own peril, is frantically
defending his Polish-Baltic border.
One year ago, talking to Ameri-
can diplomats in Berlin, Nazi lead
ers made no secret of their inten-
ton to employ the same strategy
in the Western hemisphere; in other
words, to isolate the United States
from Britain and France. then pro-
woke revolutions in South America
and take those countries away two
and three at q time. The United
States itself, Nazi leaders said,
would be relatively easy. Social