AMERICAN FREEDOM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 7

AMERICAN FREEDOM

. ANSWER TO ISOLATIONISTS. “If Hitler wins this war in Europe we Americans shall then have full enjoyment* of that which the foes of the League of Nations wished us to have. We shall be unfettered and free to fight a Europe organised against us by a man who hates all that we hold dear,” said Mr Edwin L. James, in an address to American students. “If Hitler defeats Britain, we Americans shall have conscription for many years to come; we shall be an armed camp for how long none of us can tell. Our national prerogatives will remain unlettered. We shall have avoided all commitments, we shall remain free — free to face Hitler alone. What a victory! But, one asks: If we had played the game of Woodrow Wilson the last time would we be today facing the danger of having to fight again? Today we work and pray for the Waterloo of Adolph Hiller. It may come soon or it may come late—this year, next year, or a bloody decade from now. But when it does come one thing is certain: The happiest result for the United States will be the opportunity to go back twenty years and pick up where Woodrow "Wilson left off. We shall have learned a lesson. Let us hope that the price we shall have to pay for selfishness will not be too great.”