The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-24
WILLKIE STRIKES
ATICOLATIONTSM
Blindness Of TsOIatiOnists
Blamed for Failure to See
Japan's Policy

Rochester, N. Y, April "a - u.
P1-The United states must aban-
don permanently 1t long, comfort
able era" Of isolatioflisin and begin
now to educate itself "in the affairs
Of peoples and nations thousands OF
miles from our Shores" Wendell l..
Willkie said last night.
In an address at Rochester Uni
versity, the former Republican pres
idential candidate blamed the blind
ness Of iSolationism for failure to
perceive Japanese ambitions years
ago and development OF O policy
under which, after Japan attacked
China in 1897, I'VE rendered more
aid to Japan than TO China, and
thus furthered the ambitions Of the
Japanese"
u. 3. Made Mistake
When the Baron Tanka memoir
andufn was written In 1927, outlln-
ing Nippon's plan Of eastern empire,
Willkie said, 1--WE Americans were
making the fatal mistake. of trying
TO solve Our troubles with purely
domestic reforms"
"Our administration had policy
In those days that was baslcally
iSolationist," he asserted, despite
the efforts Of Cordell Hull.
1T was trying TO teach us to pull
ourselves UP by Our own bootstraps,
with the NRA, spending theories,
and strictly domestic economics. It
refused TO stabilize international
currencies, or 10 improve interna-
tional credit, or to approach Our
economic problem from an interna-
tional angle.
"By 1887, when Japan attacked
China, to begin q new stage In her
struggle for Empire, the United
States was tied up In isolAtio1ist
legislation which few persons dared
to combat. The result OF this was
that we rendered more aid TO Japan
than to China, and thus furthered
the ambitions Of the Japanese"
Protective Distances
Hitherto Americans have lived
surrounded by protective distances,
which automatically kept aggressors
from Our Shores" he said.
"And we had 80 much work 10 do
at home" he continued, that we
did not worry much about the rest
OF the world. But that long COM
Portable era has come to On end, as
the bombing of Tokyo proves. II we
can do " to others, they can do II
TO Us"
1t Is imperative 10 correct now the
error Of failure 10 aid China, Willkle
said, since II India should fall.
China might be cut of from oil old
and conquered, relieving Japan OF
its present neeseSsity OF extending
It's lines ''all the way around to
Burma In order TO cut of aid TO the
Chinese interior"
Biggest Empire In History
He warned that II the Japanese
dream succeeds, there would be cree
ated "the biggest empire In history
An empire composed OF about O bill.
lion people occupying one-thlrd OF
the earth and including one.half OF
It's total population"
Willkie declared that III Amer
leans were forced to live hereafter
face 10 face with an empire OF such
dimensions and with such aims, Our
way OF life would be little better
than an armed camp, and Our vauTi.
ted freedom would be little more
than o fond hope"
I'VE should 1--we In continual
alarm" he said, lin endless war
under crushing ornaments Which II
would be oiir constant endeavor IL
increase. Neither peace nor pros
perity, neither freedom nor justice
could flourish In such struggle FOL
existence. And II wouid not matter
In the least how wide the Pacific
NaAod iaU