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Sirs: The melancholy happenings of the last week give point to the old saying, "self-preservation is the first law of nature." Since our statesmen may be as confused as those of other democratic powers may I appeal to you to bring the following seven-point defense program to their attention...
...same ill-chosen evening, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, addressing the Michigan League of Women Voters, clanged an equally unheard tocsin. His theme: glorification of "Yes, but" statesmen, as preservers of democracy's traditions...
...hrer continued: "Our aims are not unlimited. . . . The Sudetenland is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe, but it is one on which I shall not yield. . . . This Herr Benes was at Versailles and assured European statesmen that there was such a thing as a 'Czechoslovak nation.' Those geographically ignorant statesmen omitted to check up on his statements- instead of realizing that there is no such thing as a Czechoslovak nation...
...Horace has hitherto declined invitations to visit Continental statesmen with the dry comment: "Thank you, but I am not one of those Englishmen who travel abroad," never dreaming he would have to fly to Berchtesgaden fortnight ago, to Godesberg last week...
With other powers showing a strong disposition to climb aboard this bandwagon before the League Assembly adjourned, typical Geneva statesmen foresaw two important developments: 1) the League will not by "automatic" or other means impose the sanctions against Japan which China demanded fortnight ago; 2) Germany may possibly return, in case war is averted now, to ultimate League membership...