Show NA NATIONAL TIO AL AFFAIRS Re Reviewed byCA ty by CA CARTER FIELD Shall U. U S. S Do the lC Fi righting Wiring right right- ll ing jug or Shall I It lie lle Supply Sup SliP ply 11 Depot luta r 11 Fear in ill Hawaii After Alter Pearl Harbor Attack nell Bell Syndicate Feature WASHINGTON There 1 Ther There is raging r In Wa Washington tn today the snore controversy ron con pred precisely thAt raged raced finch lItH In 1917 1917 whether whether wo wr should hould be th i arsenal of Democrat or do Ihl I fighting ourselves r The pro pros and Inns cons inS ar lire are so M different a b to bo bl I amazing 1 tULl lIy the situations situa lions ate are ns liS diff II as es day and night The problem th than thon n. n as os now was whether l wo we would b be he content to raise e only n II comparatively ti V l small army and devote the major part of our ener energy y to ID equipping and feeding the soldiers of the Allies or whether we should devote B II larger percentage e of our energy to raising our own army and equipping It Rut But it is not to this 1918 1018 crisis that the present condition is similar It is to the earlier period when all allBrItain allBritain allBritain Britain and France thou thought ht they wanted was plenty of or guns planes And ammunition Actually this country never did equip Its own 11 armies or Of supply the Allies with planes or artillery though we did eventually send plenty of men Our own troops were equipped with artillery artillery artil lery ery already manufactured by the theAmes Mlles Ames and the war ended without substantial delivery dell of or American American- made planes U. U S. S Now No Doing Both Boll This time we are arc doing both both both- sending men and sending equipment for our Allies Ames The argument arguments is as asto asto asto to the proportion Obviously as ns has been pointed out on Capitol Hill lIlli we cannot raise an army of the size which the army chiefs and Secretary of War Stimson have hove been talking about if U we arc are also to continue supplying supplying sup sup- plying the Allies with equipment That becomes just too large a task The question is also asked where we could possibly use an army of W L P irom from 7 t w to 10 15 JD Ja million million men to 10 to give the two extremes s cited by high army officials Would It Jt not be better beller critics ask to content ourselves with witha a much smaller army say about the size we trained in the last war war war- four tour million men men and and devote the remainder of our military production tion Uon to keeping our Allies Ames equipped That is such a sound Bound question that the writer has not heard a satisfactory satisfactory tor tory answer to It from the advocates of a much larger army Sneak Sneah Landing Party Or an Armada Onslaught Now that the thc whole stor story of Pearl Harbor has been told by the government government govern Jovern ment several interesting features may be discussed which up until that were taboo There was very real fear lear of or invasion invasion inva inva- sion sIan of ot the Hawaiian Islands by the Japanese for months after Pearl Harbor One of the clearest signs of this was that nil all U. U S. S currency In the islands was plainly stamped with the word Hawaii RowaU The Idea ides behind this was that thai if it the Japanese succeeded in capturing the islands they would not be able to use the American currency so confiscated In any neutral country There were two schools of thought about this much feared Invasion of the islands One was that it would be accomplished by a huge naval and md expeditionary force the way having been heen opened by the wiping out of 01 so much U. U S S. S naval and air strength The second was that a avery avery very cry small sneak landing party could accomplish the tile trick with the operation co-operation of the Japanese living on the Islands This last was probably much the themore themore themore more dangerous because cause considerably considerably consider consider- ably more than a majority of ot nil all the people on the islands are Japanese In tact the Japanese born on the islands have for tor some years ears had a adear clear dear majority over all other ele elements ments meats of or the electorate But it 11 was the armada t type pe of Invasion invasion In in- Slon which our military experts feared This fear caused the rigid censorship to conceal the extent of our losses osse s. s Actually in the opinion of nonoffIcial nonofficial nonofficial non- non official observers the Japanese DID knew almost precisely the extent of the th th- damage they had inflicted on the theU U U. S. S fleet and air all power Looking Lookingback Lookingback Lookingback back lit at t the Japanese claims one glaring flOP error stands out They clammed to have sunk nn on airplane Carrier In n n fact they named her Everybody interested in Washington Washing Washing- ton or lr in na navy circles everywhere for 1 that matter has known since wi within hin a week after Pearl Harbor lust lutt why the Japanese made this mis mis- take sake But Bu the information could not te printed good story as it was be be- cause most of ot us then believed belle the Japs did not know how much harm t trey had done and further because If the Japs had been SURE this carrier car car- I tier rier had escaped they might have ave pursued and destroyed her The fact tact is that the carrier carder In question question ques tion HAD been moored to a buoy in Pearl Harbor up to within 48 hours of the raid The ship that was moored to that same buoy at the time Ume of the raid was the old battleship battle battle- ship hip Utah long used as a target tarlet The Ibe Japs DID sink the Utah |