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By HUGO S. SIMS
(Washington Correspondent)
STRONG FOREIGN POLICY
AGREEMENT WITH CANADA
BASES FROM THE BRITISH
PREPARING FOR ATTACK
CAMPAIGN BEGINNING
WILKIE*S ACCEPTANCE
BULLITT WARNS U: S.
SAYS HITLER WILL ATTACK
The foreign policy of the United
States is in process of startling de
velopment, with arrangements being
made with Canada for the joint de
fense of the lands to the north of
this country and with possession of
necessary air and naval bases in
the southern area assured as a result
of negotiations initiated by Great
Britain.
Apparently the Government of the
United States is moving to implement
its pledge to defend Canat^ from
invasion as 3 part of the hemisphere
plan of defense. It is essential for
Americans to understand that the
basic idea behind this plan is the com
plete defense of the United States.
It is realized by naval and military
experts that the requirements of our
own safety make it necessary that we
guard the adjacent land areas.
The vital importance of Great
Britain to the safety of the United
States is now generally recognized
as a result of the necessity of facing
the possible contingencies in event
the island empire is conquered by
Hitler. The British fleet in the At
lantic Ocean has been a bulwark of
American defense. Its absence leaves
a dangerous gap in our sea-wall that
cannot be repaired for five or six
years and nobody knows this better
that the American experts.
There is some opinion available to
the effect that if Hitler wins his cam
paign against England the Germans
will immediately attempt to develop i
this hemisphere. The idea is that I
our corrent defense program, just ]
getting underway, is enough to make 1
Hitler realize that he cannot wait to i
straighten out the Western Hemis- ]
phere. If he gives the United States 1
a year, or two, there will be little ??
chance of success for Hitler. Conse- t
quentlv, any questions at issue must a
be settled before the United States is r
strengthened to any great extent. t
Of coarse, we would not have read
ers believe that everybody in th?
United States thinks that Hitler will
immediately attack this country ii
he wins his war with Great Britain.
There are citizens, isolationists and
others, who sincely believe that there
is no danger to the United States
regardless of whether Hitler wins in
Europe or not.
The task of defending North Amer
ica, vital to the safety of the United
States, is complicated by the fact
that Canada is now at war. This
seems to make it inevitable for the
United States, if we want to assure
protective devices to the north, to
make some kind of a deal with the
Canadians, regardless of its relation
ship to strict neutrality in the present
struggle. In fact, there is a strong
sentiment in this country supporting
the idea that our defense requires
immediate assistance to Great Britain
in order to prevent a German victory,
yhich would imperil our safety.
The suggestion that the British
lease this rountry naval and air bases
in the north was advanced by the
British Government, which hqs offer
ed to make available to this nation a
line of bases running from New
foundLand, through Bermuda, the Ba
hamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad to
British Guiana on the northeast
coast of South America. These bases
are essential to a complete defense of
the Panama Canal and their acquisi
tion,^ through some form of agree
ment with the British, has been urged
'by officials and Congressmen, who
differ widely in their attitude toward
the war in Europe.
.. The presidential campaign will
hardly get underway in full force
until some time in September, but it
has started with the delivery of Wen
dell Wilkie's acceptance address. Re
action to this speech has been varied,
with Republicans hailing the address
as a masterpiece, representing the
courage of a strong leader, and the
Democrats pouncing upon it as a
complete acceptance of the basic ideas
of the New Deal, thus almost wiping
out all differences between the two
parties.
There con be no denial that Mr.
Wilkie has bravely placed himself on
the record in favor of many of the ,
New Deal undertakings. He seems
to have in mind the idea that the ?
people can be persuaded to favor his <
management of these undertakings ;
ind his attitude toward business and <
people, rather that the President'^ 1
eadership. Mr. Wilkie, apparently,
vill attempt later to draw a wide line
>etween his and the President's views- i
is to the proper methods of govern- i
nent, with emphasis upon the impor- s
ance of sustaining the anti-third- 1:
[term custom as a safeguard agaiiisl
> I dictatorship.
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While Mr. Willtie gives support fc
New Deal measures he advises thi
people that heavy taxes must h
' borne, that he promises work for all
the sacrifices for the common good
; He assails the idea of limited pro
duction and proclaims the advantages
of production and attacks the failure
of the New Deal to solve the prob
1 lems of the nations after spending
1 immense sums of money. His chal
lenge to the President, asking foi
1 joint debates, was novel and arrest
ing, but nobody expects any sue!
platform-discussions.to materialize.
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William C. Bullitt, American am
bassador to France, delivered a
speech in Philadelphia, - which 1 has
caused widespread discussion. He has
been denounced by some Americans
because of the startling statements
that he made; He says that it is his
conviction, drawn from his own ex
perience and the information in the
hands of the American government,
"that the United States is in as great
peril today as was Francp a year
ago" and that "unless we act now,'
decisively, to meet the threat, we
shall be too late."
Mr. Bullitt regards the German
military machine as "without ques
tion the most powerful that has ever
been created" and .that "if Great
Britain is defeated" an attack will be
launched against this country and
"all the strength of this nation will
be needed ? mobilized, organized,
equipped and ready?if we are to
parry it and save the independence
of' our country." He says that he
saw hundreds of thousands of German
soldiers, with all their motorized
equipment and adds "I have never
seen one piece of that equipment
broken down." <
Mr. Bullitt says that the "destruc
tion of the British navy would be the
turning of our Maginot line" and that
without the British navy the "At
lantic would give us no more protec
tion than the Maginot line gave'
France after the German troops had
marched through Belgium." He says
the dictators are convinced that the
democracies will "always be too late"
and quotes Hitler's words that "each
country will imagine that it alone
will escape. I shall not even need to
destroy them one by one. ? Selfishness
and lack of foresight will prevent
sach one from fighting until it is
:oo late."
One trouble with the United States
s that every Federal legislator rep- i
?esents a restricted area and is re
;ponsive only to the will of voters in 1
lis district. j
- Gardening Becomes
Year-Romd Project
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s No longer is gardening considered
, exclusively a summer enterprise. H,
1 R. Niswonger, horticulturist of the
. N. C. State College Extension Ser
- vice, points out teat it is possible to
1 have fresh vegetables from tee home
' garden on a year-round basis in this
; state.*
"During Septebmer and October,
. there are many vegetables which may
. be planted," Niswonger says. "These
( include winter Bpinach of the Long
standing and Bloomsdale varieties,
Siberian kale, Soutsem Giant Curled
mustard, Purple Top Globe turnips,
and Seven Top turnip greens.
' - "Beets and carrots planted the first
r of September in Eastern Carolina
should mature before freezing weath
er. Cabbage plants of the Charleston
Wakefield variety usually will pro
duce heads about Christmas time in
the East if planted around September
1st. This variety of cabbage will
stand a lot of cold weather." v -
The horticulturist also recommends
green onions as a winter delicacy
from the home garden. "Put out sets
of the Silver Skin variety, and for
green onions for next winter and
spring set out the multiplying varie
ty. After thinning out plants to be
used for green onions, the remaining
plants \yill develop into mature
onions," he says.
Niswonger recommends that straw
berry plants be fertilized in Eastern
North Carolina in early September
and in the mountain and northern
Piedmont area during late September
or early October. "For all regions,
apply eight to ten pounds of a 5-8-6
fertilizer per 100 feet of row. Put
one-third of the fertilizer on each
side of the row and the other third
on top. Develop a thin matted row
of plants with the plant bed 18 inches
wide, and runner plants spaced a
hoe-width apart. After the 18-inch
row is filled with xhe spaced plants,
remove all surplus plants around Oc
tober 1 to 15,"'the Extension special
ist said.
Large Rattler Killed
By Negro in Pitt
Lonnie Anderson, Negro truck
driver, ran over "and killed a large
rattlesnake in the Beargrass section
of the county recently.
The snake was 47 inches long,
eight and a quarter inches in cir
cumfence and had seven rattles.
Roderick Phillips, Negro, said the
snake was coiled when his life was
snuffed out by the motor vehicle.
This is the. first report in some
time relative to killing a rattlesnake
in Pitt County.
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