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Show ?. j. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS WEYGAND: Finally Unmasks By Edward C. Wayne Whn iplailu ut IlirHHi la Um, am aaaljit aad m uinurllr . Otetea- -d by WMtani Iwam. Water, water, all around I Herrfs lesson No, in CRISIS: LABOR: for Raises Jts Head Lease-Len- d The real crlcia In the lease-len- d well-defin- ed publegislation found a lic reaponae to the antagonistic effects at the Isolation late and file H 1 on how to "get ttWay from it all J" Visitors are ranting ground under water at a?r.e j11 MismCs Biscayne bay, 11 miles off shore, and building J1 tumbledown shacks with all the comforts of home except a tele- fl phone. These pictures show some of those with a Robinson Crusoe complex who can reach their ",summer homes only via boat. (EOITOKI NOTE Um ;--7 Rent Land Under Water? Its Quite the Thing Here! Threat of German Invasion of Britain And Congressional Lease-Len- d Debate Present Grim Picture of War Situation; Italians Continue to Fall Back in Africa UM SJI.J, l WKTJ Service, GEN. MAXIME WEYGAND Ha'U a Provided. Left: AU water is either carried to the houses via boat or caught off the roof tops. Here Miss Ruth Fay collects some fresh rainwater for the household Oddest picture of file lease-len- d bill fight in America was the sudden unket of Wendell L. Willkie, late to EngG. O. F. standard-beare- r, land to take his personal look at the state of Britain. Willkie s departure was speeded by a paternal pat on the head from his erstwhile opponent President Roosevelt and a note written by hand to Winston Churchill. Willkie flew to Europe. He was greeted practically with presidential hona in the Azores, where the natives could not be convinced they were not greeting the President himself. He landed at Lisbon, was ferried Above: Host Leo Edhastily to England, dined with Churwards, hobprominent Miami and with royalty, chill, lunched nobbed with the plain and fancy in auto dealer, right, gives a fish fry for his friends. London. He underwent habitually roamed about the streets without (on three occahelmet sions he had to be handed both witty a gentle reprimand from some higher-and generally inspected the up), state of Britain as he, Willkie, had Intended to. America was treated to the strange spectacle of the Democratic administration needing the testistandard-bearmony of the to help it ova the hill on bill. the lease-len- d The whole situation was somelead-.ething of a shock to Republican of the fight against the measure, especially when Hull let it be known that Willkles' sudden return had been demanded by Senator George, head of foreign relations in A room in one of the luxurious houseboats near the swanky, the senate, who wanted the Indian-te- n dub which has just been opened in the area, to testify before the committee 1250,000 Quarterdeck word in life aboard ship.. This room, which has the last featuring h farings on the bill. is tastefully designed and furnished. In fact fiie shock was so drastic been redecorated, in some quarters that Republican View from the deck of the groupa in various centers held meetnew in status Quarterdeck dub durWillkle's ings to decide ing a "Miami Flyer boat the party, with fiie evident intimarace. When the owners want tion that if he should prove too good a change in marine tempo a friend to the administration, he might be read out of the party. they whits over to the dub air-raid- s, a only one thing abandonment of the diFord plants of their complete vorcement from national defense contracts. gas-mas- k, er ITALY: In Africa ra The African campaign of the British forces against file troops of Mussolini continued to be a victorious one, despite the fact that tt was rehad ported that the Nazi air force given considerable aid to the Fascist legions. In succession one port on the Mediterranean after another had fallen to General Wavell's men Salum, Bardie, Tobruk and Dema. In Libya, but Bengasi remained to be no., conquered. All the cities previously captured, some iff them cities only by courthey were only a few huts tesy, huddled together and a small group of embryo wharfs, had been on flat inif In passing Derna the British were moving on the capital of Cyre-n.iand were a tapping into a mountainous territory, the more Green Mountains of Libya, where a force iff 50.000 Italians were determined to hold out to the last. The same combination of land stand uck, backed up by air force at craft naval from shelling navy sea. was being used by General Wavell in the final phase of the was every Libyan campaign. There Benbelief that with the capture of the campaign would end. fa n, Ritas their speedboats. JAPAN: The Peacemaker With dramatic suddenness, peace a war with the Siamese. inJapan, it developed, had been vited by the belligerents, when a strong Nipponese fleet bad in the offing, to sit down and ettls the hostilities. This settlement, as might have been expected, was that Thailand should keep what it had taken from together with some additional cessions of territory. gasi Keenest observers of the scene foresaw in the Japanese intervention only one outcome. . . in the news would They believed that Japan become so dominant In southeastand London The RAF claims that 370 ern Asia that Thailand would soon be mere puppet German and Italian planes were Manchukuo. downed In January, aa compared states similar to The state department In Washingwith only 33 British warcrafL The total fa the war shows 8.0 Ger- ton viewed these events with a seriman planes downed ova Britain. ous eye, seeing in them assured forLansing, Mich. Wild deer, that sooner or later there the Au proof merly forced to swim acrossa rustic would have to be a showdown ol Sable rlva, this winter have Pacific between the them by power in the footbridge- - It wae built United States and Japan. the conservation department. d mm in the Indo-Chin- Indo-Chin- S Rome' The practice r Indo-Chin- a of killing Bones for meat waa. attacked by tbe newspaper La Tribuna, which aid: The hase is more useful bob alive than when put in the both of beefsteaka and sausagea. Baltimore A "sample" blitzkrieg in a movie fjortod a near-panBouse. Tanka and motortrucks vU Bnted the pavement, setting off the automatic fire alarm. ' ic ' fa National Press a cut you off when you were praising the Germans? Meanwhile I had been notified of what had happened and I explained, truthfully that X had been cut off because I had reached the end of e period end that had I continued, it would have Interfered with a regu--' lar commercial program. But did my Nazi accuser believe? Did my American friend believe when I returned? Definitely not! That is the censorship Which la growing aa the nation is stirred e ova the debate on the bill. And not only do pros and antis defend their cause with patriotic fire but each ia ready to declare that the other who disagrees must ha silenced for the good of the Republic. That is the kind of individual censorship against which no protest, however powerful, can prevail. lend-leas- Seek to Improve Latin American Market Good fences make good neigh-bor- a. I ones quoted that line from a New England poet to a Dakota form son end he flew into a rage. He aid It waa typical of tha unneigb-borlines-s of the Yankees. Well, being prairie-bor- n myself with a long line of New England ancestors I am Inclined to sit on that fence and look both ways. Perhaps we ought to say that there Is nothing unneigb-borl- y in a good fence so long aa it Latin-Amerlc- a. - a 1 a cap-tor- semi-tropic- al semi-tropic- al t over a typical "tumbledown n aerial view taken while flying in the Quarterdeck dub area of Biscayne bay. . has a gate. And Unde Sam feels tha sama ' way about the Good Neighbor business as it applies to South America. The farmers on both aides of tha international fence, the La farmers and the Noth American farmers, while they arc all fa unity, economically, poUttcal-T- y and culturally, an a little wary about competition. That la why the department of agriculture talks so much about complementary or products in its program fa developing trade with We want to sell goods to South America.- We have lots of things they want But In order to buy air goods they have to have American dollars. They can get the dollars if rn they can sell their goods to us. Many of tha things they would like to sell us we already have especially agricultural products. Therefore certain questions addressed to the department of agriculture are pertinent Here they are along with the official answers: Principal Imports. What are tha principal agricultural products wa now import from bitter. Latin America? I did repot the factual things they Our agricultural imports from told mo I interviewed them with no Latin America are of two general Germans present and we all spoke types," says the office of foreign freely. agricultural relations. But did the British public believe (1) Complementary It? agricultural products, con1 should say not An Internationsisting for tha most part of coffee, al News Service dispatch from Lon- cocoa, bananas, sisal, henequen, don to American papers the next special types of wool, apices, essenday quoted "diplomatic circles as tial (volatile) oils, and tagua nuts. and stating that Such products arc normally importbeing concerned one spokesman labeled the broaded to meet the whole of our recast an obvious fake. quirements since they are not proBut no Englishman at that point duced at home. wanted to believe what those boys (3) Supplementary or competitheir tive agricultural products. These said about their treatment s. include cane sugar, vegetable oilpaional feelings toward their seeds, cattle hides, unmanufactured Broadcast Cut Off. tobacco, meat products, vegetables The third experience was the most and vegetable preparations, dutiable amusing. wool, goat and kid skins, and linI was broadcasting from Berlin seed, to mention the more impoand I wanted to get ova the idea tent" to my American listeners that while How doe the department of agriI wea well treated I was unda cen- culture propose to Increase trade besorship .and that if I departed from tween the united States and Latin my censored text I would probably America? be cut off. So I said this: By developing in Latin America 'Tt la vary much as if I were in for United States consumption tha tha office of a man whose whole fu- tropical and products ture is suddenly at stake, still he Is which art not competitive with our kind and courteous to me. He of- agriculture. Does Latin American fers me his hospitality. He let's ma use his typewriter end now be mean Increased Imports into the pushes his busy telephone across United States at supplementary or tha desk to me to let ma talk to you, competitive agricultural products? "No, that la not the aim of the right before him." And right there I waa cut off tha departments program. What are tha complementary or air. The American listeners knew what I Was driving at and immeproducts of Latin diately surmised that tha Germans America, tha imports of which can had cut ma off because I was criti- be increased? But a few cising tha censorship. They consist of crude ruMpr, days after tha event I was sum- rinrhais bark from which quinine moned to the German foreign of- Is made, abaca or manila fib a, valufice and questioned at length by a able fa the making of ropes tor the plants exhighly suspicious undaling. navy, rotenone-bearin- g Why," he asked haughtily, did tremely valuable for insecticidal the National Broadeaiting Company purposes. Otha products are kapok, necessary for insulation and otha purWHEAT PRICES HIGHER poses; cocoa, camphor and tea. Domestic wheat prices tor JanImports of these eight amounted to approximately $230,000,000 In uary are slightly higher than 1939, of which only $13,000,000; or those of a month ago, and close to the season's peak to date. It Just about T per cent, represented Is not expected that the market Imports from tha Latin American will be overaupplied when loans republic!. Thera are, of course, a number of otha tropical and mature, beginning In February, products that may be added becausa if prices an not above to this list When our total needs loan values plus cate, growers for these can be supplied by Latin will not sell their grain and pay America our total imports from their loans and fiie government there should exceed $730,000,000 pa will taka delivery. year, he explained. . )n Two Sides take in order to reach their main objective of the passage of a fa all. as personified by the C.LO, bill which would in effect repeal the Labor, Johnson act forbidding loans to belhad set aa its maja objective fa ligerents who had not paid their 1M1 the aganization of the Ford World war debts. plants. This objective seemed to mean Wie-gan- d, mile. c.o.p.r The only government answer to fiiia was to refuse Ford a contract on which his organization had been low bidder. Baals of the dispute had been Ford's refusal to sit down with Sidney Hillman, labor chief of the national defense, and to find some plan by which the Ford Interests could operate in file defense scheme settling the labor difficulty once and . The picture above shows Miss Barbara Wells calmly pulling in a fish through her bedroom window, caught while she was napping in the afternoon at one of MU If amis tumbledowns. this isn't the last word in piscatorial comfort then were missing our guess by a So the stand, announced by Weygand, that he would continue to support fiie Vichy regime, could could not be taken to mean that Weygand had fallen in with the Nazi party line. Yet Great Britain had hoped that Weygand, in going to Africa, was escaping'' from Vichy, and would turn in the direction of DeGaulle. That hope, at least, was completely dispelled by Weygands statement; which unhesitatingly lined him up with the Vichy government What that government would turn out to be, remained undecided. non-pro- fit 13M Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. As emotions rise hers over the debate at American foreign policy and Amaicae rote in connection with the European war a strange sort of cenaorahip la fettling down upon the nation. I can feel It in the mail which I receive from listeners to my broadcasts. It Is not a government censorship. It has nothing to do with company rules and regulations, it Isnt even voluntary deletion on the part of It is a writers or commentators. cenaorahip which the public itself invokes and it Is quite si effective as the kind Imposed by Herr Goeb-belI have encountered it before. It Is simply a flat refuial on the part of the individual to believs anything he doesn't want to. He puts it into operation with a twist of the dial when he bears something be doesnt agree with on the radio by tossing the newspepa into the toner when his eys catches a sentiment of which ha doesnt approve. But let me give you some striking examples iff this audience" censorship of how the public will believe only what it wants to. The Athenla was sunk while I was in Berlin. Shortly thereafter, comment of e high American official was cabled to German paper. This official in Washington had referred to fiie "torpedoing" of the ship with the implication that the Nazis did it The Germans with whom I spoke (people who couldn't have known any more about what really happened than I did) wars astounded. "Even if we wanted to torpedo e ship full of Americans," one of them said, we wouldnt be quite dumb enough to do that when the teat thing werwant la to get the United States into war. If tt waa torpedoed at an the British did it to get you in on their side. ' When I got back to the United States I found that It was accepted without argument that the Germans had dime it To the beat of my knowledge it has neva yet been determined Just whet happened to the Athen! a. British Filers Interviewed, give you anotha example. While I was in Germany I had a chance to interview the first three British airmen shot down in raids ova German territory. To be perfectly frank I found them, even the two who were laid up with injuries, extremely satisfied with their treatment Naturally they had e good deal of attention being firsts. And in those days the feeling wasnt so a. rica. no part He therefore offered to give up his industries, and let the government aroperate them under a rangement, producing whatever vital materials were wished fa. lease-len- d As the argument reached Its zenith, predictions that England was nearing file critical period in the Battle For Britain were legion. Lindbergh had set the most gloomy picture, figuring that Britain could never withstand file onslaught One could figure which side of the lease-len- d battle the predictor was on by the darkness at the picture he painted. Knox and Stlmson predicted a crisis, but gave few details and little soothsaying as to what would be the outcome. But those opposed to the lease-lan- d proposal varied widely in what they saw in the futures crystal balL Host gloomy of all was Von who in a dispatch date-line-d Shanghai, purported to report .what German and Japanese authorities believed was about to occur. Six weeks would tell the tale, said Von Wlegand. He envisioned 147 of trained men, 13,000 parachutists, a score of tank divisions, descending on England, and Hearst Papers printed an "artist's concep-tio- n of the Blitz on Britain, which Would tear London into shreds long before American aid could swing the balance. Every authority who discussed Blitzkrieg on London talked of poison las new forms, lethal gas for which no gaa mask has yet been trmck-elon- g. Gen. Maxima Weygand went to Africa an enigma. Much of this enigmatic quality was dispelled when he issued a statement in which he definitely refused to throw in his hand with DeGaulle, but said he would track along with file Feta in regime in Vichy. Yet it was not quite so dear as all that, although it was extremely important that Weygand should have finally unmasked himself. Fa file Vichy situation was still, in its way, considerable of a mystery. The Nazis were reportedly much disgusted with Vichys failure to back up the Laval Ideology, particularly in regard to the use iff Tunisia for Nazi bases of operations in Af- ut INVASION: Threat Near Trade With Latin America. By BAUKHAGE nt give and as False; National Form end Homs Hour Commentator. -- REP. SOL BLOOM Opposing Viewpoints Dismissed Government Aims to Increase . The domestic labor situation became steadily worse during the weeks that the lease-len- d bill was on the tapis in Washington. Perhaps the strike The administration was the most The result? serious, affecting as csDed big guns to the support of it did not only that industry, and predicted Its but as Allis Chalmerssingle the measure, was making week the beginning parts, it meant a serious hold-u- p all passage during March 3. The schedule called for along the line, particularly in planes yniimlted debate in house and senand tanks. ate, but there were many indicatBut the moat striking labor develions that this limitation would bring opment of the week was the atate-meRein tremendous forth opposition issued by Henry Ford through publican floor circles and in senate one of his industrial lieutenants. committees as welL Ford authorized fills man to say in Generally speaking, the public attof disclosed in as numbers itude, conducted by polls of sentiment newspapers throughout the country, aid seemed to be that the all-oto Britain principle was favorably received. The public, oft the other hand, seemed to fed that there was at least a reasonable doubt whether the President should be given as much and as drastic power as the draft indicated. original lease-len- d This was reflected even in the sponsorship of the measure, because Bepresentatlve Bloom (N. Y.) who was chairman of the house foreign relations committee, scarcely put up any opposition against three or four major amendments, limiting the time for which the presidential powers would be granted, declaring in principle against convoys and other items in which the opposition found fault with the bffl. SIDNEY HILLMAN Ibis showed the administration M r. Ford rofiuoi to 'ail doom with him. forces to be in the unusual position of fostering legislation of which they his name that the Fad enterprises do not approve themselves, at least would never yield to the government demand that defense products in part Either that, or they were shoot- be manufactured under union labor ing for the moon, and willing to conditions. Ford's rejoinder was that he Would never knuckle down to labor's demands, that instead he would lease his industries to the government at one dollar a year, and let the government run them. Ford agreed in principle with the necessity of America arming in its own defense, and with the principle that in defense work patriotism was the primary urge, and profits had Scarcely any opposition. Public Places 'Censorship' Upon Undesirable News |