The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-24
United We Stand
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Westport, Connecticut. When l toll
her that Russia would defeat German,
lin one year, that l had studied tn,
forces and morale and preparation o
the two nations for 20 years, and tina
my firm conviction was most prob
ably correct, she arched her eyebrow!
as if to say Dear old provincial
dreamer!" Many imprudent ideas Oh
foreign policy that we read in the
Montana Standard seem to have beer
| borrowed from the Chicago Tribune
The malicious and idiotic editorial Of
the Standard entitled Butcher Stain
does not help the President in his
with our, up to the present, most
potent allyy, the Soviet Union. We
need air bases near Vladivostok Such
editorial calumny in the Chicago Tri-
bune or any of it's shadows (such as
the Standard) does not do much to
promote our acquisition of them.
Ignorance, stupidity, lack of fore
sight, are disastrous in war, regardless
of how good the intentions may be of
those so blinded. When a year ago
the administration asked congress for
five million dollars to fortify Guam,
and Wheeler and other isolationists
successfully opposed it because sit
would offend the Japanese Imperial
government" the intentions of the
publicity-hunting opposition may have
been good. But it arose after Japan
had designedly sunk our vessel, the
Panay. The oppositionto certifying
Guam did not have the brains of the
burnt dog who dreams before the fire.
is just as truly the cause of the death
or capture of our brave boys in Guam
as if Lindbergh, Wood, Wheeler and
others had wished their destruction.
All except the chronic Roosevelt
haters COULD see after the Panay
incident that Japan intended to as
sault us. A rustic did see it. l my
self published in friendly newspapers
that shipments of scrap and oil to
Japan and sale of Japanese bonds in
New York should cease; that the Gus
toners of the bankers trafficking in
these bonds were dupes; that Amer
leans were financing Japan's war
against China which would finally
turn against us.
Mr. Roosevelt has been a far
sighted international diplomat. Short
ly after his first election he recog-
nized Russia. Senator Borah was al
most alone of our prominent politicos
that openly counseled this move. AS
late as two months ago the Montana
Standard prayed about a debt unpaid
of $50 million from the old Tsarist
gangsters to us. The present Rus
sian rulers, with fair argument, said
we owed them much more than that
for our armed invasion at Archangel
and our famous Vladivostok cam
paign, for which our own Albert Galen
was knighted by the Harding admins
tration. Under the new rulers, the
credit of the Russian government has
been as high as our own There has
been no default in Soviet bonds In
fact, the only money now being lent
to foreign nations for the prosecution
Of the war that will ever be repaid
is 25 million to China and a billion
to Russia.
Consistently Mr. Roosevelt has
acted on the belief that some day we
would probably need the Soviet Alli-
ance. And just as consistently our
nazi and fascist bankers and indus
men who held stock in Ger
nan corporations and Spanish mines,
nave INSTRUCTED his every effort to
consolidate the democratically-in |
nations into united front with
complex to the threats of |
Rome, Toykio and Berlin.
His opponents have lent aid and
comfort to our theological enemies
who, Mr. Roosevelt could see, would
finally attack us. The speeches of |
and Lindberg have been
translated into Spanish and then /
broadcast in South and Central Amer
can countries as propaganda to con-
vince that this was a divided nation
When the FBI lately raided, and a
Grand jury indicted, Fifth Column
lest in Philadelphia, twenty bags of
nail were caught going out under the
franks of Hamilton
fish, Gerald Nye and Burton K
Is this why that when the
-ote for war against Germany was
oming up, Wheeler had to visit
lex brother" (who had been in a re-
reat in New England for about year
nattended by the senator)? Did Ger
nan agents here know so much about
Vheeler's activities for the Fifth Col
mn as to prevent him from voting
or war against Germany? Wheeler
yould never have voted for a prose s
ution of Gordon Campbell. !
Burton has persuasive tongue. He |
alked many Of his followers into a
ceiling that the Atlantic ocean was |
salvation for us from attack. Our {
rorthless officers at Pearl Harbor {
lust have been listening in to a radio {
Xix along these lines between dances s
| the hotel in Hawaii as the Japs {
ere approaching to administer the '
addest setback to our navy since
lie Merrimac, the first iron-clad, at |