The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-01-23
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Hazel Brannon

The first thing the British gov
eminent wanted from America was
a few old ~destroyers. When they OBJ
tanned them so easily from President
Roosevelt it was just a little while
before they said they might be COM
PEELED to ask for money saying theirs
was likely to run out any time.
Finding Mr.. Roosevelt receptive 20
this idea also Mr.. Churchill now
says to his Parliament and America
eve will not need any men in l941."
Churchill and the English govern
ment are going to get everything on.
of America they can in money, ma
terials and finally men. Unless this
country has learned a lesson from
the first world war, and it doesn't
look like We have, we will do the
same thing we did then. Our gov
eminent will build countless ships,
guns. planes and other supplies cost
ing billions of dollars and pay for
them. Our government will never be
paid back for these supplies. SO
the American people will have to be
taxed to pay for them.
Mr.. Roosevelt is pursuing a course
in which the American people lose
either way.
This war has to stop sometime,
somewhere, and one side has TO be
the victor. Before either side is deter
mine the victor an invasion Of some
kind must take place. Either England
must invade Germany or Germany
must invade England.
It is almost an accepted fact that
if England is able to hold out in
aerial warfare for another year
she will be ready to invade the
continent. That is the only way she
will ever be able to win the war.
Her present efforts certainly are not
enough to subdue Hitler.
When England gets ready to in
wade the continent she will call on
America for men to do it. Check on
this three, six or twelve months from
now.
And English soldiers will stay at
home in their own back yard where
they stand less chance Of getting
shot at.
England is in her present predica-
ment because she did not want 10
make the sacrifices necessary tC
build up a military machine. She
failed to keep up with what her sec.
ond door neighbor was doing because
. she depended on her next door neigh
Dor, France, to keep the enemy of
her until she co,,ld fight.
America is not to be blamed that
we. TOO, have neglected our military
defenses. We've had our hands full
with trying to do something, how
ever fruitlessly, about our millions
Of unemployed. our low-cotton prices,
our problems of huge farm SURPRISES
in the country and bread lines in the
city.
But Americas next door neighbor
England, even though she is twa
thousand miles away, has been a
friendly neighbor. We have anticipat'
ed no trouble or treachery from her.
England did not expect treachery
from France. She did not know tina;
her leaders would sell France out
and that the French people wouli
permit it being exhausted with then
country being used as a battle-ground
America has no assurance that the
ships and guns and planes she il
sending to England now will not bC
used against her W men at som'
time in the neal future.
The Saturday Evening Post says
Before releasing the fifty destroy
ers to go and fight with the British
navy against Hitler, whereby oul
own defense was weakened, thu
American government received from
the British government the solemn
pledge that if the waters arount
bTtdl Dfitdil Dttdiiit GiIlCiidOlC, pit
British navy would never be des
troyed or sunk. It would be sent a
way to continue the fight elsewhere
That was last September.
"The truth was" continues the
Post, land the truth still is, that sucl
a pledge is worth exactly nothing
The Churchill government would
keep it if it could, but the Churchill
government is not Great Britain
There is no possible surety, ever
from day 10 day, that a nation al
war will not make peace.
"If Great Britain could save her
self by making peace at our expense
she would. We can think of NJ
reason in law or morals why sh,
shouldn't.