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HTADS
A TIT 7 FOd COOL
The relentless smashing of Hitler’s
hellishly, nr.ynif iciont mechanized
Blitzkrieg units across the Lov;
Countries has thrown American pub
lic opinion into r. state of n ar
panic. As evidence of this irrat
ional and hysterical attitude one
needs only to consider a fev; recent
develop: mts. The press attempts
to terrorize the public into think
ing th.t wo lie at the mercy of any
invader.Congressmen grab quick pub
licity to excoriate their fellow
legislators who arc so unpatorltic
as to withhold lavish expenditures
for national dofens-* haps appear
showing-hew many air hours mid bos t
ern cities are from certain hy
pothetical bases in hqxico*
In the- face of such hysterical man
ifestations, what v;c need more than
immediate expenditure- is cool think
ing before v;o take the fateful
plunge into' 'additional billions for
chf -nsiv • A few facts and questions
need to be freed, hilitary exports
have been telling us that only 58
out of our 5000 planes • re up to
date,that wo have no anti-tank gtms,
no modern tanks war th mentioning,
and but very few anti a.ir crafts
guns of modern .make. This is the
result of the expenditure of eight
billions for defense in the lest
seven years. Those sr. e military
groups then, after, according to
their orn words, giving us practicall
nothing for our eight billion want
us to turn around rnd entrust then
with c;:poi:'ituro of many tines
that mount.
Second, no policy of national de
fense has been worked out, and as
Colonel Lindbergh says ’’without a
policy of national defense wo will
not even know what types of planes
to build,” And yet the country
wont wild with cheers when the Tres
idont called for 50,000" pla nes . But
t1"1 re’s a hitch in that, too. He
called not only for ills 50,000
planes, but f r mechanized divi
sions, tanks, anti-aircraft cquip
■ .nt and various other types of
_'.oferse. ;.t present prices the
‘50,000 planes without their ground
crews and equipment will cost eight
billions,. The three and r half
billion under coreidcratien would
not ray for any other mechanized
equipment, and orly for loss than
half of the pianos, and then not for
ground crows or equipment.
Only in a mo >d of panic would the
American people, throught its Congros
give its executive such a ku/p blank
chock without having the slightest
idea of how it is to to spent, ex
cept in vague to nr s of national de
fense.
The noed of the nation denands none
military defense and v/ill got it, but
if v.ro onhark upon a program of defen
se in a need of panic, whrt wo shall
got v;ill not be adequate nor effic
ient but v/ill invite’ waste, extrava
gance, confusion, and graft. Such
heedless hysteria as America has
exhibited, indicates, as hr. K, V.
faltonborn said recently, that the
American per pie have sv/allowod
Flitter Vs propaganda , hook l ine
and sinker. The American people.
arc capable of more Intel]igent and
reasoned auction than they have ex
hibited the last ton days-.(Adapted
Largely from infcmntion contained
In the Christian Century for hay 29.)
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