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Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space...
...cannot hope to defeat Fascism with bulldog negations," warned the New Statesman and Nation, "we cannot hope either to maintain the will to do so among the ordinary people of this country by a vague social policy that does not disguise an inability to see beyond the status quo. . . . Labor in office has strengthened the war effort and pledged itself with Mr. Churchill to let no vested interest hamper efficiency. But there, in general, it has stopped. What is meant by 'equality of sacrifice?' If the people of England are to believe in a new social order after...
...Japan will be compelled to fight the United States if our sister nation on the shores of the Pacific enters the war in Europe. I fling this challenge to America: If she in her contentment is going to blindly and stubbornly stick to the status quo in the Pacific, then we will fight America. For it would be better to perish than to maintain the status quo...
...Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
Sore points with the Japanese are Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warning to Japan to preserve the status quo in French Indo-China and the U. S. embargo on export of oil and scrap iron to Japan. Behind these moves is U. S. opposition to Japanese expansion southward, where lie vital rubber...