◆ SpookStack

anatase, ea . “itz anti-Comintern act is intended for the destruc. An of the Comintern, and not for anything else. Under the pressure cf this agreeme.tt, however, Soviet Russia has become inactive, if temporarily, and the antagonism between the totalitarian States and the democracies has come to the fore, But that does not alter the fact that Soviet Russia rcmains Japan's potential enemy, We must thercfore direct the anti- Comintern pact against her, as hitherto, At the game time, ve must sce that the Soviet does not make pulitical capital out of the friction we are likely to have with Britain, America and France over the China question, Since the Munich Pact, the Soviet has been endeavoring to check Britain and France by flirting with Germany and Italy and scheming to influence the major democracies to make things unpleasant for Japan, In the light of the prevailince world situation, Japan must adopt judicious measures to kcep Soviet Russias out of mischief," While United Stutes Aubasaidor William Bullitt was declaring at Neuilly the first of the week that 4 ncw worid war is not inevitable, and saying that Americans Filled in the last war had not died in vain because they “prevented the formation of a world which contd heave horname mare wits than that tn mhianh ae Ties aaw " @4hn Amarinan bid wht WW 1S WO OM ¥iAaLw See 1 Dike wh 214 Philiwii FO £470 LIV wiiS MMS 2 2 otek Amtassador to the Court of St. James was curiously spot-lighted by the privately cir- culated and well-informed Week of London: Londor. (and perhaps Nashington) was becoming increasingly puzzled this week by the ‘Mystery of Ur, Kennedy'--and still more by the mystery of why Mr, Roosevelt main- tains Mr, Kennedy in the post of Ambassador toe Great Britain, His role has been, and still is, of very much greater importance in its effects on both sides of the Atiantic than the general public supposes, Before his recent trip to Washington, Mr, Kennedy wac already well Lnaen tn tath earnitale na an “a-pnonenn™ af tha fFire+ metan Us wae we a Te eh BR mas ew WE Wp a AD Lf Lat if yPpeeovs wa wii 241i 0% %O8wW vw 6 ae we tne principal apolcgist for tr. Chamterlsin in Washington, and at the same time was known to be informing Wir. Chamberlain that in reality American opinion--serious Amer- ican opinion--so far from being hostile to Munichism, was really supporting it and that therefore Mr, Chamberlain did not really need to worry about the apparent out- bursts of indignation from the other side, regardless of the quarter from which they came, ir. Kennedy, whose relations with certain represcntatives of General Franco were com- mon knowledge, played a particularly important part in the politics of "Non-Interven- tion” and was actively engaged in supporting, from his strategically strong position, the policy which resulted in the great Lreak through of the Axis in Spain. His trip to Washington was, as everyone expected, the occasion of a very severe dressing down ty the President, But the mystery Legan when Mr, Kennedy, instead of being sent on a te Be tee a eo ahem 1? natiiesen ff Sos eden ne betauectAac | an’ a win 2g ,p4c, GHOLlsadeg, BPP aia PEPIN VO BUN GS ADI ISSGuur, Fur, SLNCe His FEetrn, nls 42Ctlve= ities have become more remarkable than ever, He has, for instance, gone to the length of informing members of the British Government that they ‘need not worry’ about any- thing that Mr. Roosevelt my say, for the reason that (1) "It will be my friends that are in the White House in 1945," (2) “Rooseyelt is run by the Jews and all the anti- ~ * - ee —< Fascist sentiment in the United States is really created by the Jews, who run thé press? n . a ee le The bland assurance with which Mr, Kennedy circulates these staggering opinions about the Government which he is, after all, supposed to represent, have occasioned some sonsiderable eyebrow-lifting even among those--in the “appeasement” camp--who find them useful, There have, in fact, been several occasions during the past three or four weeks on which the opinions of the United States Ambassador have been not merely quoted but decisively used at British Cabinet meetings, when the suggestion has been meade that continued signs of “appeasement” and, above all, the Federation of British Industries Agreencnt with the German Government, are producing & disastrous effect on the other side of the atlantic, To those who try to suggest that the American Ambass- acor--& we iy Catholic speculator--is probably not representative at all of American opinion, and is piaying 4 gaae OY tfis own, the retort is made: if that is so, why does he remain Ambassador? /3i