Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-08
Hitler Reply
Due From
Far East
Retott Expected 10 Take
Form in Jap Move
BY PAUL MALLON

= M AsSi1liN1 O4Ni Jan. c.-ftll-
W Ter is scheming 10 answer
Mr.. Roosevelt's declaration of
undying antagonism with a
growing echo from the Far
East. Little Herr Echo's gum
shoe diplomats were gliding
through the foreign office corri-
doris in Moscow and Toxic before
+. d. RS promise of ultimate
victory" over the relationships
had died from the worlds ear.
They were at work in pre-
sumed secrecy to arrange a nom
aggression pact between Russia
and Japan. which would clear
the way for the Japs to move
threateningly farther south
toward Singapore.
The same sort of diplomatic
coup was promoted in the Will
helmstrasse quietly some months
ago. but it did not jell then.
Russia wanted too much terri
tory as her price. Nippon re-
fused to meet it.
1t is established German pol
icy to use the thin and bent end
of the Axis in the Far East
threateningly against us, in
order that we maybe -lesS-in-
clined to part with our defen-
sive weapons for Britain. The
officially directed Nazi press
openly commented that Japan
will take care of the United
States" after Mr.. Roosevelt's
fireside chat.
The next break is, therefore,
likely to develop there-if Hit
Ter can arrange it.
GONE Democratic congress
~ men seemed to stumble a bit
in their comment on the Presi-
dents message. Several Repub-
licans begged off entirely. When
you find Democrats hesitating to
point with pride and Republicans
disinclined TO view with alarm,
you may know an unusual situa-
ton has arisen.
The answer seemed to be that
few understood from Mr.. Roose-
velt's generaliZed terms, the full
specific scope of what he had in
mind. To the ear, the message
sounded like a rewrite of the
fireside cha a collection of
truths that have become estab-
lished convictions in the minds
of all ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
are odious. Britain should be
a d d, slackers must be put
down.
But il is one thing for people
to say what they think of Hitler,
and something far more signifi-
cant for a President to proclaim
these things as an official ma
tional aim. And when this aim
is declared formally in connec-
ton with a program to estab-
liSh democracy throughout the
world, and coupled with COM
ment about undeclared wars of
past United States history. you
cannot b a m G legislators for
wanting to stop to think for a
day or two.
T SOME il seemed Mr.. Roose-
L welt proposed to enter upon
a new world era, smashing old
horizons of foreign policy, rails
ing new conceptions of American
responsibility for world man.
agement in the interest of de-
mocracy and place-something
like a world New Deal.
This supposition may have
been strengthened by what the
legislators have heard in con-
verSation among those Ameri-
can diplomats who are looking
ahead toward the end of the
war.
For some time. the notion has
been kicking around in the ex-
ecutive branch that British man.
agement of world affairs has
been broken down by the war
tchlefly through the new power
of the submarine and airplanel
and that a new world control,
like the moral order" of which
Mr. Roosevelt spoke. must be
undertaken under new direction
ours.
This idea opens up impene-
trable vistas. embodying possibly
A large permaheHt-st standing
army 100000 to 100000
mem. a fleet such as the two
ocean program would mark
merely a beginning, wholly
different domestic economy. for
eigp trade concept, foreign
policy.
The first effect of the Presi-
dents speech probably will be TO
drag this talk into the open.
To those who noted a slight
restraint in the applause of
/ Congress in comparison with
previous similar occasions, let it
be said that this, too. obviously
/ represented lack of understand