Detroit evening times., 1945-08-24
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GEORGE SPELVIN. Ameri>
VI can, has odd moments of
absolute honesty when he goes
into executive session with him.
self just for the pleasure OF
twisting his own arm.
Mr.. Spelvin yields to no man
in detesting the aggressors and
treaty breakers but in this!
mood he locks the doors and
draws the blinds of his soul and
goes over his secrets like a fugi-
. tive from a chain-gang who has
changed his name and lives in
fear of denunciation.
At such times he bats himself
over the head with reminders
that the only Indian treaties
which his own country did not
violate, i'm a manner that could
have been the very pattern for
Adolf Hitlers penetration and
the ensuing rescues of his op-
pressed minorities OF Germans,
. were the last ones.
OF course. most Of this hap
pened long time ago but he is
vague as to the statute of limi-
tations on such betrayals and
does not know at precisely what
time they become virtuous ex-
tensions Of frontiers.
LIE THINKS of the Japs
H crowded back into their
home islands and agrees that
even though they are an aw-
fully tight fit, nevertheless they
had no right TO go out for con-
quest just because they needed
room and resources that other
people were not using efficient.
~ and couldn't defend.
But then he turns 10 the
British and French and Dutch
empires and wonders by what
right these European peoples,
his gallant allies in war and
strictly peace-loving. nonaggres-
sive members of the new family
Of good nations. ever acquired
these properties and for what
purpose beyond that Of improv-
ing the condition of the natives.
/, couldn't have been profit,
could II, and the exploitation OF
the labor and the products Of
little brown people and yellow
people and blue people and. by
the way, did those peoples defiI~
nitely ask these Europeans TO
come in and set them right or
was il a case Of spontaneous
and altruistic sacrifice for the
good OF the backward breeds?
LIE CERTAINLY is against
IL racial discrimination yet
remembers that the American
Indian occupies a status that is
officially and legally Class 3
and that the United States
fatty Grientals for the
Aery reason that they are ORR
entails some OF whom have
shown that they can work
harder and longer and live on
less than Americans. while, as
10 others. the objection is Just
that they disgust US.
Fifty years ago, the Chinese
for whom such warm affection
now exists in the United States.
were so feared that serious pre-
dictions were made that unless
their immigration was stopped.
within a century they would be
the ma jority and would own the
country and reduce the white
man 10 some terribly inferior
status
They we're abused and pushed
around and one old-time vest
ern Judge expressed the spirit
Of the community when he SAID
he knew Of no law which for
hade the killing Of A Chlnaman.
That has stopped, thank Cod,
hat is II a mere coincidence that
the Chinese population fell off
10 negligible numbers in pro-
portion 10 the white, or did this
rough treatment stop because
we had nothing 10 fear from
them any more
CPELNIN sort Of twitches
- when he comes 10 the per- 4
fidious sneak attack Of the Japs
on Pearl Harbor because he~
does regard II as a dirty trick
and hates Japs for their feroci-
ties 10 prisoners and their
arrogance in momentary VIC
tory.
But. in the privacy of his own
mind. he harks back 10 that
little, insignificant dispatch out
of Boston Ia days before Pearl
Harbor which attributed 10
Senator Claude Pepper of Flor
ida. a flat statement that our
side would start shooting with
out warning the instant the Japs
should cross an underlined line.
apparently in the Pacific.
+" HE actual declaration Of
war IL a legal technicality
and such technicalities are being
held In abeysnce as long as
those br rigan ds continue In
force" were some of the words
attributed 10 Pepper, who has
not denied them and who was
and remains a member of the
Foreign Relations Committee,
and so should know about our
relations with other govern
ments, and was an cxtraordl-
narily close chum of President
Roosevelt. too
Was this Just a case Of a
flannel mouthed irresponsible