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...H.S.U. charges that unless we nod our heads to legislation for protection of "civil liberties, labor and social security standards," the War Crisis will be used to undermine American democracy. Again in Number Six, the "democratic extension of the Good Neighbor Policy" is illegitimately linked to the quick settlement of the oil dispute with Mexico--one of the favorite planks in the American Student Union's platform. On almost every point the Student Union has failed to keep the objective fairness that a poll demands. Except for the first two questions and parts of the fourth--which are clear enough...
...keep U. S. eyes westward to the East. When a Chinese policeman was killed and a Sikh colleague wounded in a Shanghai fracas, polo-playing, hard-working Chairman Cornell S. Franklin of the Shanghai Municipal Council announced that he might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe on China's sovereignty or territorial...
...veteran but an outstanding post-War civic leader (as member of the Overseas Settlement Board, Imperial Relations Trust, Broadcasting Commission), Lady Reading was last year picked by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to amalgamate 70 women's groups into one workable body, now numbering half-a-million members. The evacuation force was just one of the services to be whipped together (it now carries on the job of clothing, feeding, schooling the evacuees for the duration of the war). She had 46,000 women trained for ambulance driving (requirements: change wheels, spark plugs, back 100 yds. in total darkness...
...Germany and Russia is "to restore in this region [Poland] law and order and to insure nationals living there an existence corresponding to their national character." The Protocol defied Great Britain & France by binding Germany and Russia to "decline interference of any kind by a third power with this settlement'' and described itself as laying "a foundation for progressing development of friendly relations between [the German & Russian] peoples." In outward token of chumminess, Herr von Ribbentrop, whose German aides on the occasion of his first visit said they were sure his Russian hosts were too tactful...
...Roosevelt's first steps would have to be taken along secret diplomatic channels. He would have to ascertain in advance that there is some common ground for a settlement. Should either side by any chance or for any reason refuse his offer, hatreds in Europe and America would flame only the more hotly...