Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-30
Mr.. Wi|Ikie' S Misleading Statement

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loans and were used to eliminate European slums and
to modernize European municipalities and to revitaze
p Naesieulture and to rehablitate European
industries
Precious little of these vast advances was ever
repaid.
For AGAIN endeavoring TO rescue Europe from her
own home-bred woes government voluntarily declared
A MORATORIUM ON ALL FOREIGN DEBTS when the
great depression began-IN EUROPE.
Who does not know the consequences of the mora
torum?
Private loans, made by citizens and by our
investment institutions, DEFAULTED.
On the war loans, there insignificant token
payments by the big debtors-then NO PAYMENTS AT
ALL except from honest little Finland
And Mr. Willke accuses Amerca-his own country
of GENEROUSLY striving to keep alive unpayable debts
IN THE humanitarian phase American organizations
| and American donations fed the people of Belgium
while the World War was still going on.
For months after the war America kept alive NOT
"unpayabe debts" but THE HUNGRY POPULATIONS
OF HALF OF EUROPE.
When famine beset Soviet Russia, relief missions
went there with supplies of foods and medica
ments
MILLIONS of men and women and children were
SAVED FROM STARVATION in the old world by funds
and foodstuffs contributed from here.
And in the postwar period AMERICAN money and
AMERICAN architects and AMERICAN materials
rected the library of Louvan restored cathedras and
schools and hospitals the zones rebuilt whole
towns and villages in the ruined areas.
How then can Wendell Willkie or any other man
imply that America has been heartess to mankind any
where upon the earth 2
World
"A what COULD WE have done in them. EXCEPT TO
IMPLICATE OURSELVES IN FOREIGN ENTANGLE-
NFAN4FS- AND DIMINISH OUR OWN SoNEREIGNTY2-
The League COULD NOT or DID NOT restrain
France from invading the Ruhr invasion which was
itself violation of the Treaty of Versailles and was ONE
of the of the downfall of democracy IN Germany
and the rise of Hitlersm.
The League Court, by the majority votes of France
and of satellite countries which France controlled pre-
vented peaceful union between the German and
the Austrian republics
This was ANOTHER of the causes of Hitlerism.
The entire record of European history since the
World War proves not only that America DID NOT
contribute" to the present chaos in Europe but also
that America COULD NOT have altered Europes
lamentabe of events.
MR. HERBERT HOOVER, in his Chicago address,
wi truthfuy told his countrymen WHY Europe has
failed to find the enduring peace for which Woodrow
Wilson vanfy iab0red with ms 1dedllsCC-dHu IeJeCIeu
III points at the peace table in Versailles
"The causes of that failure" Mr.. Hoover said 'ie
deep i'm the invisible forces which dominate and vbrate
through the races which comprise the millions of people
of Europe
'The whole concepts which the world brought to
the old were conflict with the grim forces that faced
European craftsmanship
"A thousand years of history fear and hate demanded
and obtained seats at that peace table.
"They will sit at the next peace table OF Europe
"And America will be JUST AS FOREIGN at that
table again."
WHAT hope is there, then that America could SAVE
w EUROPE or SERVE EUROPE, by gong
to war in Europe again?
There is NO such hope.
America cannot pacify Europe.
America can only lose her peace and security m
the attempt
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