Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-06


eral JackSon's opinion Nor can the
bargain be undone, even though it in
wolves commitments which many believe
are tantamount to an unofhcial alliance,
binding the British Commonwealth and
the United States and requiring both
parties to take all measures which may
prove necessary for their common de-
Tense"
Through all the acts and words OF
Secretary Hull in reference to the Jap
anese problem runs the thought that
vastly more is at issue than the COM
mercial interests of the United States
in the Orient. True, our commercial
stake in the British and Dutch possess
sions in the Pacific area is great; it
figures in all our calculations with re-
spect to Japan. 1t is from these posses
slons that We get IS per cent of our
rubber and 80 per cent of our tin. But
Secretary Hull sees the issue in larger
terms. An examination of his speeches
and notes will show that he regards the
aggression Of Japan and the aggression
of Germany as part of single pattern.
He sees the problem of the Pacific not
as an isolated problem, but as one
intimately bound up with the whole
totalitarian movement.
Totalitarian Pressure.
Germany would establish new
order" in Europe. Japan new order"
in Asia. The success OF the dictators-
modern Genghis Khans-would set I'D in
a great part Of the world the rule Of
force-force unmitigated by any con-
Germ for weaker states, or by any regard
for international law or treaties. Unless
the march of the dictators is halted the
United States will be caught between
the fires Of two totalitarian systems
or two parts of one pervading system.
With that system making the rules. the
United States could be reduced to eco
nomic. if not political, vassalage.
am not here quoting the Secretary,
but giving the considerations which
clearly underlie our policy of aid to
Great Britain-expressed in the de-
stroyer deal and now in the prospect Of
cooperative measures in the Pacific
and our attitude toward Japan.
AS in his statement of April II. touch
ing on the Dutch East Indies, the Sec
rotary of State has consistently sought
to give universal, not merely regional,
application to the fundamental prin-
ciples' he has urged, among which, as
set out in that statement, are respect by
every nation for the rights of other
nations and non-intervention in their
domestic affairs, the according of equal
ity OF fair and just treatment, and the
faithful observance of treaty pledges,
with modification thereof when needful,
by orderly processes
The signing of the Berlin Rome Toxic
pact is seen by the State Department as
merely formulating "a relationship which
has long existed and to which this Gov
eminent has repeatedly called attention"
In this view. the treaty dramatizes, for
all to see, the fact that what happens
in the Pacific is closely related to what
happens in the Atlantic; that what we
are facing is a world movement, move
ment of many and diverse manifesto
tons, but all part of an integrated
pattern.
Resistance Program.
The destroyer deal, the new loan to
China, the scrap metal embargo (behind
which turks the threat of additional eco
nomic measures against Japan, the
diplomatic maneuvers which look to
parallel action with the British in the
Pacific-all these developments, too, Diff
ferent though they are in their imme-
diate incidence and scattered though
they are in space, are yet parts of
single pattern of resistance.
The integrated character of our prob
lens in foreign relations, whether prob.
lens of the Pacific or the Atlantic, was
expressed in the recent significant speech
by Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles at Cleveland:
1T is becoming trite to say that what
we are witnessing in the world today is
not world war but world revolution.
1t is indeed an attempt at world revolu-
ton, a revolution in the sense that we
are seeing a new manifestation Of the
age-old struggle of the lowest that is in
human nature against the highest, of
barbarism against civilization, of dark
ness against light"
This is the philosophy which has set
the face of Secretary Hull against ZAP
peasement," the philosophy which &C.
counts for the stiffening-as many OBJ
servers believe-of our policy in the
Pacific. He is convinced, his attitude
shows, that "appeasement" could only
result in another Munich, with the
United States, this time, as the victim.