Evening star., 1940-12-20
Proposes q Foreign
Policy for U. S.
Moximum Aid to England
Urged With View to
Negotiated Peace

Urged With View to
Negotiated Peace
70 the Editor Of The Star:
wonder how readers would regard the
following as = foreign policy for the
United States:
/. Keep out Of war;
2. Prepare a strong defense.
g. If war be forced upon us. send no
expeditionary force outside this hemi-
sphere under any circumstances.
4. Give all possible aid to Britain short
of wsr-but not beyond the point where
she can negotiate peace on reasonable
terms, else we prolong unnecessarily the
destruction in Europe and the waste OF
our own resources.
S. Watch, listen and study as never
before to determine what in our judg-
ment would constitute reasonable terms
of peace. "In our judgment" because
we are best situated to judge: no man
German or Englishman-should be Judge
Of his own cause.
If we now plan to exert every effort
short of war to assist Britain, we should
also plan for the time-even though
possibly it may never come-when we
would need to exert pressure on the
English to make a reasonable offer Of
peace, having regard to:
(a) The security Of Britain and her
dominions
tb) Liberation of conquered peoples;
Co Creation Of a federation of ma
tions with Germany and Italy participate
ing on equal terms with the others, all
represented by delegates chosen freely
by their respective peoples, to make and
enforce international law, keep the peace
and promote the general welfare;
Cd the advantage of making a fresh
start toward better international rela-
tions by refraining from the creation Of
Nazi or Fascist martyrs" and by wip-
ing the slate clean Of all claims for
indemnities, reparations and war debts
due to past or present wars, thus insur-
ing that no new Hitler will arise to
plague posterity with charges of debt
slavery" chains of Versailles" etc.
6. Seize every opportunity to impress
the peoples of both sides with the suicid-
al cost of continuing the struggle and
the wisdom of seeking peace through
negotiation rather than victory.
7. If Germany and Italy win the war,
but fail to acquire the British fleet, i'm
mediately ascertain their intentions by
requesting that they cease all naval con-
struction. Their shipbuilding capacity
would ha Iya
could regard further construction as hav-
ing only one aim-an attack upon us.
We're they to refuse we should embargo
all commerce between this hemisphere
and Europe, except for restricted trade
with subject populations not employed
in arms industries. Rather than see
American products feed those building
warships for our conquest, we ought to
buy up the entire export surplus of
both Americas-and Australia as we'll
and If need be store it. give it to the
Chinese or even dump 1t into the sea-
So long as they abstained from naval
construction and from preparation for
attack upon the Soviet Union we should
be ready to do business with them on
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hemisphere export and import cartels
to insure that the terms would indeed
be fair
8. Aid China with supplies. Should
Japan illegally interfere with this aid
or with our commerce in the East Indies,
total embargo would be preferable to
war. We could secure tin from Bolivia,
rQtinn r11hhor cfn
production of artificial rubber. This
would be costly but immeasurably
cheaper than war.
Were Japan to cut British Australian
lines of communication, in the unlikely
event this threatened to be a decisive
factor in the invasion of Britain, we
should take steps to remedy it.
8. Save Europe's subject peoples from
semi-starvation and disease due to a 80
per cent food shortage. Feed them
where possible at their own expense by
the method recommended by Mr.. Hoover,
which would ensure that no significant
quantities of food reached the Germans.
These plans should be repeatedly laid
before the world-and especially before
the German people, both by radio and
by British dropped leaflets. Only as such
an alternative to Hitler's master-race
theory comes to grip the minds of the
German people when the "blitz" begins
to fade from their blitzkrieg, will they
renounce Hitlerism and return to inter-
national cooperation. And this time
the United States must not walk out on
world organization.
ROBERT S. FIELD.
Vineland, N. j.