The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-10

ments, Of curse
Oosei olaln are none of oui
business. Recently, however, ouI
tendency has been to be rather
more liberal than previously. For
instance, a short time ago we re-
leased TO the Soviet outfit a sizable
order Of airplanes that Moscow
had been clamoring for. And
other stuff is moving quite freely.
II isn't that we like the Com
munist regime any better than we
did, but Comrade Stains game is
to help China against the Japs, the
Muscovites and Nippon being
ch~ronically unfriendly toward one
another.
Wen, all aid to the Chinese suits
US admirably. because the more OF
1t they get, the more they'll pre-
occupy the Mikado, preventing him
from ~bothering us, as undoubtedly
he has an inclination to do If he
can get the Asiatic mainlanders
under subsection. We ourselves are
doing our best, short of war, nat
urally, to assist Chang Kai-shek's
cause, and it stands TO reason that
it's right down u alley to help
Russia to help him also.
Parenthetically, there's a deal OF
talk to the effect that Com
rade Stain, besides helping China
against Japan, because he hates
the latter, figures on communizing
the Chinese presently. However, II
isn't a certainty that he can do it.
Chang isn't a Communist. He
wants to lick Japan and, of course
is glad of all the aid he can get,
from whatever source. but he
doesn't want his country to be
communized afterward and prob
ably will resist it when the time
comes Anyway, that's a future
consideration.
Sailing japan
No, we don't want China to be
communized, but at this minutes
juncture the main things to help
Chang, either directly or via Rus
STA or both, not for China's self
alone, but to stall off the Mikado
from becoming a more active nui
spec to T--o'0 c~~'''ol
In itself this is alright with
John Bull. Lie US, 1t suits him to
have a crimp thrown into Nippon,
as an Axis nation. His diplomats
have even made some tentative
overtures to Moscow in the hope Of
splitting the Soviets of from their
loose compact with Herr Hitler
and collapsing Signor Mussolini.
These overtures, though. haven't
yet led to anything in particular.
Meanwhile, Britain's of the opinion
that the supplies we and the Latin
Americas send to Russia simply
are passed along by Comrade
Stain to Fuehrer Hitler and Duce
Mussolini. Maybe Joe Stain does
not wish Adolf and Benito a bit
well in the long run. Maybe his
basic idea is just to enable EN- to
prolong the wal until the entire
aggregation Of %belligerents are fat
on their backs, when, so it's sus-
pected, he believes he can COM
munize EN- all while they're pros
trate.
To head of this program, Brit
ain holds that it's essential to ter
inmate transpacihc shipments
from the Americas through Russia
into Germany. John Bulls conf
dent that he can attend to the
Atlantic himself.
Lord Halifax, London's new am
bassador in Washington, already
has discussed the matter with
State Secretary Hpll. Secretary
Hulls ~cogitating e It. 1t goes
without saying that We want to
bottle up any ooze Of supplies to
the Nazis by way Of Russia Yet
we certainly don't want TO hamper
Russian aid to China. It's a mean
problem.
And as for the Latin republics
shipments?
Through Our Canal
We can't stop EN-, across the
Pacific. from the Mexican and
Central American west coast, but
most Of EN- come up the east
coast and go through the Panama
canal; thence TO Japan. thence to
Vadivostok; thence on into Rus
sia; thence, it's surmised, into
Germany.
The questions raised, why can't
we, as bosses Of the Panama Canal
one, stop en- at the east end Of
the big ditch?
We could. doubtless. but 1t would