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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Foreign Policy Holds Spotlight In Both Houses of Congress; Reciprocal Trade Act Studied (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ,,;Rltd by Western Newspaper Union I NEWS QUIZ Know your newt? Answer all these questions and your score is 100. Deduct 20 for each question you miss. Score of 60 or above is average to excellent. Atlantic H I.CAICOS A " DOMINICAN ff -r f--J'U'UC JAMAICA ,2. 1 ' - HAITI V 1. Map shows East Caicos Island Is-land In the Bahamas. Who lives there? 2. Choice: The newly selected Democratic gubernatorial nominee nomi-nee In Louisiana Is (a) Earl K. Long: (b) Sam Houston Jones: AT HOME: Eyes Overseas Foreign a flairs superseded domestic do-mestic problems on the congressional congression-al calendar. The senate foreign relations re-lations committee postponed again its consideration of a proposed arms embargo against Japan, while a subcommittee sub-committee discussed the resolution of Iowa's Sen. Guy Gillette to invoke in-voke the neutrality act in Asia's ABROAD: Spreading Warfare Hard-pressed Finnish troops continued con-tinued retreating on the Karelian isthmus, where the Russian invaders invad-ers were pouring men and machines extravagantly into a mighty campaign cam-paign against the Matinerheim line. Moscow claimed capture of Koivis-to, Koivis-to, western anchor citadel of the Finnish defense system and guard- to (c) James A. Noe; (d) Oliver Twist. 3. What happened to Cole Brothers Broth-ers circus wintering at Rochester, Ind.T 4. Choice: The king of Sweden, who made news war. Main reason for delayed action ac-tion was the rumor that Britain and Japan were about to sign a treaty which would give Tokyo a free hand in China, provided Japan keep hands off British possessions in the Orient Foreign policy discussions in the house centered around Secretary of State Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade program. Up for passage was a resolution continuing the state department's de-partment's trade treaty power, but there was a strong G. O. P. fight to restore the senate's ratification right over such treaties. Both politics and the war entered Into this question. Should the house adopt the resolution (a virtual certainty), cer-tainty), Secretary Hull's presidential presiden-tial aspirations would be furthered. Moreover, G. O. P. Hopeful Robert Taft senator from Ohio, was expected ex-pected to defend his opponent's program pro-gram from the senate floor. Reason: Rea-son: Tafts have always opposed congressional participation in trade treaties. How the state department feels about its program with regard to Europe's war was Indicated at Chicago, Chi-cago, where Assistant Secretary Henry F. Grady addressed a for- Ian of the Reds' immediate objective, objec-tive, VlipurL As a blizzard swept down to immobilize opposing armies for the time being, the desperate Finns called up men of 45 and 46 their last reserves. If aid was coming from France and Britain, it took a long time to get there. Foreign Minister Viscount Vis-count Halifax told the house of commons com-mons that munitions were being sent to supplement the British volunteers vol-unteers passing in a steady stream through Norway and Sweden. In Scandinavia Denmark remained aloof from complications, apparently through a peculiar arrangement between Britain Brit-ain and Germany. But Norway and Sweden had no such luck. Norway continued protesting Britain's Brit-ain's action in raiding a German supply and prison ship, the A It mark, within Norwegian territorial waters. About 300, British prisoners of war were freed in the raid, Germany complaining that Norway should have protected the Alt mark. Britain, Brit-ain, on the other hand, wondered why Norway had allowed the ship inside her territorial waters. German Ger-man wrath cooled when Norway in- oy refusing military Intervention in Finland, is pictured above. His name Is (a) King Christian; (b) King Gustav; (c) King Haakon; (d) Emperor Jones. 5. True or False: U. S. trade with Japan has dropped sharply since the U. S. abrogated Its trade treaty with the Tokyo government. gov-ernment. News Quiz Answers 1. Nineteen Callfornlans have just started life anew on the deserted Island. 2. (B) is correct. Jones wrecked the Long machine. 3. It burned up, trapping and burning burn-ing ISO jungle beasts. 4. (B) Is correct. King Gustav feared intervention would mean war with other powers in addition to Russia. 5. False: The decrease was small, Japan buying $231,405,000 in goods. Only two better customers were Canada Can-ada and Britain. RELIGION: Top-of-the-World At Lhasa, in far-away Tibet, a six-year-old boy arrived from the tiny village of Taerhssu. While Buddhist priests nodded in approval, he was dressed in red silk robes and given a gold crown. Then he was placed on a throne, to reign over the "land at the top of the world," Tibet. As such, young Ling-Erh Ling-Erh became dalai lama, so-called reincarnated civil and religious ruler who was reputedly born the moment his predecessor, the thirteenth dalai da-lai lama, died on December 17, 1933. For six days Lhasa celebrat- r ' ' JT A - '."V h i Lf i'xl ed with abandon, then settled down for three months of milder celebration. celebra-tion. Most evident among those who came.to pay tribute was the Chinese delegation serrt from Chungking, hoping to establish better economio relations with its Tibetan provinces. Purpose: To open up new trade routes and tap Tibet's vast mineral resources. . COMMERCE: Kim Crisis SECRETARY GRADY The benefits of cooperation . . , eign' trade convention. Said he: "The results of the trade agreements agree-ments programs have demonstrated demonstrat-ed . , . the benefits . . , of such cooperation . . . Shall we, as a great neutral power, continue to uphold up-hold the principles cf economic cooperation co-operation ... or shall we renounce the cause under pressure from special spe-cial interest groups?" Other news from Washington: t Emil Sham, chairman of RFC, told the house inquiry into the National Na-tional Labor Relations board that MINISTER CROSS . . , were not appreciated by Italy. dicated the incident might be turned over to the League of Nations. Sweden's position was even more delicate. Fearful lest a Soviet victory vic-tory in Finland would place Sweden next in line for a Russ invasion, the Stockholm government nevertheless hesitated to send aid for fear of angering an-gering Russia's partner in crime, Germany. But it was hard for the Swedes to close their eyes when Russian planes crossed the northern frontier and showered 40 bombs on Pajala, a town of 3,000 population. Several weeks ago the Russian freighter Kim caused a mild U. S. sensation. Docking at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Kim dumped a cargo of Soviet So-viet gold bullion, much to the consternation con-sternation of congressmen who feared Russia was trading the gold for munitions. A couple of weeks later Kim returned to the news, probably prob-ably verifying congressional fears. At Mexico's Pacific port of Manzan-illo Manzan-illo she took aboard 12,000 tons of copper which had been mined in the U. S. and ' sent to Mexico for transshipment to Vladivostok. From there, observers learned, it will be carted across the Trans-Siberian railroad to Germany. Informed of this, the commerce department expressed official doubts that such Russian imports would get to Germany. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, the department had to admit that 90 per cent of Russia's purchases pur-chases here since last September have been essentials for war. In the Mediterranean Britain's disregard for Scandinavian Scandina-vian neutrality was also being felt by Italy, heretofore the recipient of many an allied favor. But Italy has consistently refused British-French British-French trade offers; hence the allies al-lies decided to apply blockade restrictions re-strictions against Italian purchases of German coal. Said Ronald Cross, British minister of economic warfare: war-fare: "A period has been arranged to enable Italy to negotiate to obtain ob-tain its coal from other sources (meaning England), and this period will come to an end shortly." Another Mediterranean state, Turkey, Tur-key, prepared to insure Balkan neutrality neu-trality with force. Said Istanbul's Yeni Stibah, authoritative newspaper: newspa-per: "Turkey will enter the war the day a foreign power marches into the Balkans." What happened the next day looked bad for Balkan peace. As if acting on the Turkish threat several sev-eral hundred Russian technical experts ex-perts employed in Istanbul industry, got orders from Moscow to hurry home. Meanwhile, Rumania rushed mobilization of 1,000,000 men, presumably pre-sumably to safeguard her Bessa-rabian Bessa-rabian province from a Russian attack. at-tack. But equally important was Germany's challenge of a Rumanian ban on export of aviation gasoline. NLRB had tried in nine separate cases to make RFC refuse loans to companies accused of not conforming conform-ing with the Wagner labor act. C The advisory council of the federal fed-eral reserve system okayed a bill by Delaware's Sen. John Townsend Jr., calling for repeal of the administration's adminis-tration's oreign silver purchase program. Reasoning: It is a direct subsidy to foreign governments which must be borne by U. S. taxpayers. tax-payers. Next day Nevada's Sen. Key Pittman suggested that silver bullion should be coined to delay approach of the national debt limit His reasoning: Since the monetary price of silver is fixed by law at $1.29 an ounce, and since the treasury treas-ury now pays about 35 cents an ounce on the world market the reserves re-serves could be turned to a good advantage. C, The house banking committee deferred de-ferred its vote on senate-approved legislation to boost the Export-Import Export-Import bank's working capital by $100,000,000, thus making 20,000,000 available for non-military purchases by Finland. C. At Madison, Wis., it was indicated both Senators Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and Robert Taft of Ohio would enter the April 2 presidential primaries to stop another G. O. P. hopeful. New York's Tom Dewey. C. Fearful that congress is "drifting with the international situation," 24 MISCELLANY: More Power C At London, the government an-riounced an-riounced a 20-year program costing $80,000,000 to check industrial strife and economic deterioration in the British West Indies. C. At New York surgeons "fished" with wires in the arteries of Smith Reavis, noted Associated Press writer, to remove a blood clot in the abdomen. ft At Washington it was announced the Sierra Iron company of Nevada had entered a $10,000,000 contract to use the government's Columbia river hydro-electric energy produced pro-duced at Bonneville dam, Oregon Previously negotiated was a $10,000,000 contract with the Aluminum Alumi-num Company of America, ft At Detroit a state referee ruled that nearly $3,000,000 in unemployment unemploy-ment compensation benefits should be paid to 27,000 of the more than 50.000 Chrysler workers thrown oui of work by a prolonged labor dis pute last October. In Asia Japan's diet passed a $2,420,500,-000 $2,420,500,-000 budget, representing the largest spending program in the nation's history. What made it most outstanding out-standing was the breakdown nearly near-ly 70 per cent . will be devoted to military purposes. Strongly hinted, moreover, was a plan to spend much of this 70 per cent for an arms replenishing re-plenishing program aimed at preparing pre-paring the country for a world war. Finance Minister Yukio Sakurauchi told the diet that Nippon's budget must grow bigger instead of smaller, j bi-partisan congressmen decided to wrestle with "the first and most fundamental fun-damental problem before congress-unemployment." congress-unemployment." ft Chairman Arthur Altmeyer of the Social Security board urged that states liberalize their unemployment unemploy-ment insurance systems, ft A senate sub-committee was named to probe charges by New Hampshire's Sen. 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