“NO RESCUE PARTY”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 10

“NO RESCUE PARTY”

L'.S. ATTITUDE TO EUROPEAN" SITUATION COMMENT ON BRITISH POLICY LONDON, 18th March. ”America will not he asked to join rescue pai ties because, obviously there won't be any. ' This is a characteristic Ainerican comment on Mr Chamberlain’s policy as exemplified in Austria's rase and his vi i v guarded references to Czechoslovakia. An American observer said to the “.Sydney Sun” representative that the isolationist line-up is stronger even than he expected. The instill *t of the better educate.! people is to stick with Britain, but they do not want to fight for Britain. To most Americans, fighting with Britain is the same thing as fighting for Britain. A largo section lias not yet finished fighting the revolutionary war. With remarkable inconsistency, ihe isolationist Press whoops triumphantly that Mr Chamberlain's policy rules out any possibility of United Slates co-operating in Europe, and in the next breath slings "fi against Britain for having let democracy down. isolationists, obviously, are a war' against. Germany, Italy and Japan. They have been comfortably relying on Britain as a buffer, and are annoyed by the idea that she does not propose to act the part. Many thoughtful commentators have been confirmed in their belief that Mr Eden’s line of sitting pat till the dictators* played themselves out has been speedily proved to be the sounder one.