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...Vicious Circle" Sirs: . . . There are certain facts at considerable variance with declarations which were presented in TIME, July 17 article on "How to be Neutral. . . ." May I call attention first to the following contention...
...Herr Hitler and Mr. Moscicki he suggested three ways of settling their difficulty: direct negotiation, arbitration by an impartial umpire, conciliation (compromise) through the good offices of a neutral in Europe or the Americas. He reminded Herr Hitler that his last message had gone unanswered, and warned: "The people of the United States are as one in their opposition to policies of military conquest and domination. They are as one in rejecting the thesis that any ruler, or any people, possess the right to achieve their ends . . . through . . . action which will plunge countless millions of people into war . . . bring distress...
...Britain-France could not be sure of being masters of the Mediterranean because Italy would always be a potential threat. All this added up to the most curious proposition of last week: that Britain-France would be better off if Italy fought with Germany than if Italy stayed neutral...
...dikes, the Flanders Plain offers the least difficult road to Paris and the French channel ports. It is a road that should be captured in summer. Flanders mud is a potent delayer during the sloppy months of the West European winter. The Belgians hope they can remain neutral in the next war, and King Leopold is a strong neutralite. But practically Belgium must ally itself with the enemy of its first invader...
...Every major economic change produced by war, even the creation of new industries, is a dislocation which upsets the world for a long time afterward. Every neutral which had a war boom in 1914-18 had a post-War depression when its wartime markets were lost. In the case of the last war, after the first depression of 1921, the neutrals settled down to a decade of struggle with the recovering belligerents for the markets of the world...