The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-29

quently blows up with alarming
violence in some At OF rage, after
which he often cools off and mod
ifes himself considerably. Never
theless, shooting the devil out Of
the Germans" was what he recon-
mended, and he hasn't taken It
back yet. And, as previously re-
marked, nobody else has gone quite
that far to date.
However, one overhears not a
few Capitol Hill Spokesman who
suggest informally that. If we dc
dispatch American war craft &c
Europes belligerent waters. well
do we'll to do it with American
fighters on board. TO navigate
them, man their guns and fire
them off. instead of turning them
over to the British to operate.
The latter policy Is the one urged
BY our "all aid short OF war" ad'
vocates. Their theory Is that the
British don't need man power, but
there's no question that they ur'
gently need ships, planes and Other
supplies.
British Inferior?
Critics Of the plan TO loan them
10 John Bull argue, in opposition to
this scheme, that the Britons aren't
as capable scrappers as we are.
They don't question the islanders
bravery. but insist that they
haven't our skill. II they get our
boats, to handle by themselves. ac-
cording TO such reasoning. the
Germans will sink them shortly.
due to British bungling, we'll have
lost the vessels forever, and they
won't have done much good.
It's a thesis which doesn't arrive
al a conclusion materially different
from that Of Senator Glass.
All hands except the strict iso-
lationists are 100 per cent in favor
Of providing Britain with the boats,
but If Britain can't manage them
effectively without our crews,
what's the use?
Conditions at the beginning Of
our participation in the last World
war are recalled.
When our A. E. F. landed In Eu-
rope the Allies wanted TO incorpo-
rate 1t into their own military out
1T General Pershing promptly re-
fused TO merge ours into theirs. He
insisted on maintaining it inde-
pendently. Our experts Of today
contend that that was why 1t was
so effective.
We're reminded that the Allies
had been by no means able to
squelch the Germans at sea. The
Jutland battle is mentioned as hav-
ing been far from the British VIC
tory it was advertised as being. 1t
was. it's related now. Admiral
Simms who Americanly mined the
North sea. It was the Kaiser's fin
ish afoat.
Isoiationists Like 1t
Our isolationists semi-like the
sort or talk thus outlined. IL tends to
bear out their argument that the
lease-loan program inevitably will
lead US physically into war-or else
1t will prove a fzzle; the supposed
ly incompetent British will be
licked anyway minus our bluejack-
cts. and whatever we loan to 'em
will be permanently gone up the
spout to the subsequent grave dis
advantage OF our own defensive
equipment. Oh yes, the isolation
lists are solidly for defensive prepa-
ration, but for heavens sake, they
warn, don't give any Of il away.
It's talk that the "all out aid to
Britain (short OF war;" bunch en-
phatically doesn't like. 1t implies
that laid short Of war" isn't worth
shucks-in fact, that It's a dead
loss to all concerned.
The isolationists are more or less
split. So are the short OF warriors.
Then there's the middle group,
which doesn't want American war