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WFRIDAY, JUNE 2%, 1941 5

IS AMERICA NEA A ‘SHOOTING WAR?

The Best Guess Is ‘No’ but

Churchill’s Ambiguous State-

ment May Have Contained an Indirect Hint Of U. S. Intervention.

(This is the fifth of a series of articles in which

Ludwell Denny

interprets the Russo-German war and its relationship to America’s

future course.)

By LUDWELL DENNY imes Special Writer

T WASHINGTON, June 27.—Has the Nazi-Red conflict brought the United States nearer a shooting war? Yes— if official British intimations are accurate, No—if increased

defense hazards and public opinion decide.

As between the two, the best guess of the moment

Seems to be no.

Indications that we may be getting closer to a shooting war in the Atlantic include a fairly specific hint by Prime

Minister Churchill, an ambiguous statement by Foreign Minister Eden, and President Roosevelt's apparent extension of the Western Hemisphere to include Iceland—a

shooting area. But against those intimations of further American involvement are at least five major factors, which normally would keep us out of Atlantic and European shooting now. These include: 1. The Russian war, by drawing to it most of the Nazi strength, has provided temporarily the desperately needed relief to Britain, which the proposed American naval and air action in the Atlantic might have given less effectively. 2. The Nazi-Red war, while momentarily suspending Japan in midair, multiplies our danger of Pacific war if Russia weakens and Japan, - as expected, tries to grab Siberia— our Alaskan neighbor. Already the Nazi invasion of Russia, which has been supplying China, and the British concentration against Germany, have increased the protective task of the United States in China and the Pacific. i Isolationists Spurred 3. Pan-American co-operation in hemisphere defense, the vital point in any United States offensive action in the Atlantic, has been weakened at least temporarily by the

American intervention. Said Churchill: “He (Hitler) hopes, no doubt, that all this (invasion of Russia) may be accomplished before the winter comes and that he can overwhelm Great Britain before the fleets and air power of the United States will intervene. The Russian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the United States.”. ..”

What Has U. S. Pledged?

That - Churchill intimation of possible American shooting may, or may not, explain the otherwise explicable announcement by Foreign Minister Eden to the House of Commons which followed on Tuesday—again obscured by exciting] facts regarding British co-operation with Russia. Said Eden: “The past few hours have brought fresh indications and fresh assurances of the continued, increasing support of our American friends.” Does “increasing support’ mean that “the fleets and air power of the United States will intervene,” or does it merely mean increased supplies? Another unanswered question is the significance of the also unheralded action of President Roosevelt

in teversing or, rather, extending

the Western Hemisphere line policy. Though previously the line had not gone beyond Greenland—now under protective occupation by U. S. forces —Ilast Friday the President indirectly pushed it far eastward to include Iceland, off which the Bismarck and other sea battles have raged. In the President's ban on Atlantic oil shipments to all nations outside the British Empire, Egypt and the

Nazi attack on the Soviet Union. The propaganda picture of Hitler as the “crusader for civilization

against the godless Reds” which Churchill quickly destroyed in England and which is not fooling this

Western Hemisphere, the list for the first time included Iceland as a Western Hemisphere nation. What About Iceland? Iceland declared its complete independence after the fall of Denmark. Because its bases dominate

country, is more effective in Naziinfested South America. 4. The immediate effect of the Nazi-Red flipflop on American public opinion, while not diminishing demands for short-of-war aid to Britain, seems to have increased popular fear of involvement in shifting European alliances and to have strengthened nonintervention sentiment. 5. Now that we are pledged to supply all possible material aid to ussia, in addition to increased British requirements and more supplies to China, there will be relatively less production to equip our pwn Navy, Army and Air Forces. An American shooting war would

@ivert supplies from the fronts on which Britain, China and Russia are fighting the Axis powers.

Churchill Quoted |

Presumably these military, diplo-| Matic, economic and domestic political factors will tend to reverse =—or at least postpone—the trend toward offensive use of our Navy in the Atlantic, ‘which some informed observers here reported before Hitler's invasion of Russia stood the war on its head. But, however plain these barriers #0 intervention in the Atlantic may appear today, it would be foolish to forget the startling though genprally ignored Churchill statement. Churchill hitherto seems to have had more accurate information on American policy than any person except President Roosevelt and Szcretary Hull. Because it was only an incidental {iné in his stirring Sunday oration, accepting the hated Red as wartime ally against the common enemy,

the North Atlantic ship lane, the British occupied it and Germany declared it in the counter-blockade combat zone, Use of American forces in the critical Iceland area has been urged by interventionists. But whether the President intends to put fighting forces in this newly included “Western Hemisphere” area despite the shooting, as in the neighboring Greenland outside the shooting zone, is not known. Nor is it known whether the Icelandic shooting zone has any connection with Churchill’s statement that Hitler hopes to clean up “before the fleets and air power of the United States will intervene.”

NEXT: Nazi-Red War Weakens Hemisphere Defense,

LETTER BOX BLAZ PROBLEM TO FIREMEN

WICHITA, Kas. (U. P.).—Someone “mailed” a lighted cigaret in a mail box here, firemen believed after putting out a fire that damaged 35 letters. When smoke began pouring out of the box, the fire department was called. Not knowing the proper procedure for fighting fires in mailboxes, the firemen called the postoffice. Officials there said it would be all right just to pour water in it,

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