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Article 42 & Article 43. Adolf Hitler, with his intuitive flair for what is and is not vital, anticipated last week's outbreak of war when he said at the recent Nazi Party Congress, "We will remain neutral with respect to developments which do not concern Germany directly, and our wish is not to become involved in such developments." (TIME, Sept...
This excited no more comment than the selling of rosaries opposite St. Peter's. Tired feet are part of the Nazi saga of sacrifice. In Nürnberg all neutral observers noted last week the air of respect and reverence for the Realmleader. At this third Congress since he came to power he seemed to take on a dignity bordering on the religious, enhanced by solemn German chanting in his honor...
...fire-eating "Ginger Group," of its more moderate Director of Military Affairs (TIME, Aug. 26). Last week's solution: un-Gingery old war Minister General Senjuro Hayashi "accepted responsibility," the Son of Heaven accepted his resignation, and new War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was hopefully called entirely neutral but more sympathetic to the Ginger Group by Japanese newsorgans...
When the War began in 1914, the U. S. had no statute to help it avoid entanglement in other nations' armed conflicts. After proclaiming U. S. neutrality exactly as President Washington had done in 1793. President Wilson could only plead with the nation to be neutral "in fact as well as in name ... in thought as well as in action." Any such neutrality, it soon appeared, was clearly impossible. Because the flag followed them wherever they went, U. S. citizens were free to risk not only their own but their nation's safety by traveling through war zones...
...once proclaim its existence, forbid shipment of "arms, ammunition & implements of war" (also undefined) to each & every belligerent. To enforce that embargo U. S. munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order to the President. That night, gravely dismayed, President Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Hull, Assistant Secretary of State...