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Britain's closing of the Burma Road last summer, and Japan's threat to it with her penetration of French Indo-China last autumn, made the Chinese fearful of being cut off from every source of military supplies except Russia. Consequently steps were taken to increase the flow by other routes. Smuggling was increased all along the South China coast-until fortnight ago the Japanese Navy announced it had had to tighten its blockade...
...Wherever men today fight and die to resist tyranny and aggression they man outposts of our freedom, making more difficult, more distant the threat to our shores," stated the telegram. "To permit them to fail for the want of weapons that we can supply or for the lack of resources that we can furnish, would be not only to disregard our own national interests but also to turn our backs on the support and encouragement of those freedoms that have been . . .the foundation of our republic...
...great is the danger? Mr. Roosevelt said: "Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now." Who is the enemy? The President pointed to the tripartite agreement of the Axis powers-Germany, Italy & Japan-in "the threat that if the United States interfered with or blocked ... a program aimed at world control-they would unite in ultimate action against the United States." What is the Nazi program? He said: ". . . To dominate all life and thought in their own country ... to enslave the whole of Europe ... to use the resources of Europe...
...shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer-were thoroughly shot up. British naval circles identified the marauder...
...soon made plain. For months, hoping to avoid stirring up additional U. S. sympathy for Britain, German officialdom has spoken to and of the U. S. only in a low voice and in polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with tremendous earnestness...