Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-29
Conodion Questions
The United Stutes
Asks Americans If They Would
Gerry Torch Of Freedom
Should Brituin Foil
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
1t was with a feeling of deep apprecia-
ton that I read an article, recently re-
printed from your paper, in the Van
couver Daily Province, under the head
ing Unfinished Story"
believe it may be safely said that
the substance of the article opens up
an avenue of thought that has been in
the minds of hundreds of thousands of
Britishers the world over, ever since the
commencement of the present war in
Europe.
What is the United States of America
going to do in this bloody struggle,
which will assuredly spread to this con-
tinent should Britain by any unforeseen
chance be defeated. What Is the re-
action Of the American people going to
be to Hitler, and all he and his associates
stand for?
Well might you wonder if the con-
tribution of your great Nation in this
mighty struggle for the preservation of
democracy, that cornerstone on which
your whole national life was SO proudly
built, is to be measured in terms of
Mr.. WILKES ito the limits of prudence"
or as your President has expressed it Ito
resist the aggressors by methods short
of war"
Well may you remind your readers
that they have an intellectually vital
stake" in the outcome of this war And
that stake, am sure, you do not mean
to be calculated in terms of profits &C
cruing to few industrial corporations
or handful of war prof1teers from the
fabulous expenditures for the sinews of
war being poured into your treasures by
the British Commonwealth of Nations
In the full realization that this war is
above all else a struggle between con-
fiicting ideologies, on the one hand those
who seek to destroy the very founda-
lions Of these Christian principles which
make men free and on the other an
indomitable will to preserve these
tenetS, even unto death, in the sure
knowledge that they are good and that
only to the extent that a people is free
can nation be termed truly great, God
grant that your Nation may soon
demand and receive yet holder leader
ship that will transcend all party lines
or personal chickering's.
And steeled by a firm conviction that
your cause is good, may your Nation
and ours soon be found standing
shoulder to shoulder, each giving freely
of its wealth and resources; yes, and its
lifeblood, too, if necessary, in this our
common cause against a common foe
1t may be that the sending of troops
from your shores is neither practical nor
advisable at the moment, but would it
not seem good business to be prepared
for any eventuality?
Facing the mightiest war machine
ever assembled, Britain stands in the
path of those whose trail is strewn with
broken promises and marred by desola-
ton and death, and says they shall not
pass But if the hour should come
when by the sheer weight of the
forces arrayed against her, she should
falter and in her anguish the cry should
60 out to you across the seas in the
words of a great Canadian poet-soldier
of the last war, ITO you from failing
hands We throw the torch, be yours to
hold it high" what will the answer be?
What will be history's record of the
people of your great republic in this
fateful hour? FRANK G. CAMPBELL.
Vancouver, B. C.