Show washington D 0 AN INSIDE STORY hero here is the inside story on what happened in all the fass and furore over the F free ree french seizure of th the e two tiny north atlantic islands of st pierro miquelon the story illustrates a very important point that U S british lor for eign policy has got to io 1 pull ull clo closer ser t together 0 in the future and that state department might have thought twice about slapping brit ish policy in the fa face cc espee especially folly at a time when winston churchill was sitting in the white house working on plans tor for closer anglo american ordination coordination co the crux ot of the situation was that the radio stations on these two french islands long have bec been BUS ported pv of giving information to to vichy and then to berlin on british convoys crossing the north atlantic also on britain bound bombers hopping off from newfoundland french fishing vessels from st pierro miquelon cruise all over the newfoundland banks and a are re in A nn n excellent position to observe 0 all allied d activity in this vital part of the atlantic more recently nazi submarines have been prowling closer to U S shores and it was suspected they might be getting information or even supplies from the fishing vessels so the british gave the nod to general DeGa ullo to move into the islands in fact they even to let t hl his associate so clate te vice admiral take three french corvettes cor to 0 do the job there was no great secret about it it for admiral cr stopped in canada to talk to canadian naval minister angus macdonald and also picked up tip some american newspaper men to witness the taking over of the two islands CALLED SO ISO VREE IREE FRENCH however on tho the morning admiral mueller placed the free french flag on st alerre miquelon secretary hull getting the news at his breakfast table hurried to the state department and okd a scathing statement castigating casti gating tho the so called free french this upset the british considerably because they had been encouraging the french people to think of tho the free french not as a so called government but as a government more briore truly free and representative of the french people than vichy also it upset the jugoslava Jugo Jugos slavs lovs the dutch the greeks and a lot of other so called governments which have been maintaining head headquarters quart ers in london and have been calling themselves the real governments of their countries even though in exile however secretary hull seemed to be even more upset than the british ile he had made a deal with admiral robert in martinique a few days before by which admiral robert was to keep an eye on st pierre miquelon and he felt this adre agreement ement should be kept so his tennessee dander up mr hull cabled U S ambassador winant in london to take up the matter with the british government ambassador winant in fit turn went to malcolm macdonald minister of colonies who was upset that the united states and britain should be working at cross purposes and telephoned his friend lord beaver brook back in washington to have churchill straighten the matter out with roosevelt by that time sam reber in the state department had telephoned R E barclay of the british embassy wanting to know what the british were up to and every anglo amerl ameri can coordinator co seemed to be in every other anglo american co ardi gators shair calr what the president said to his secretary of cf state is their secret but aut in the end mr hull adopted a milder allder tone toward the free french and Is working out a compromise agreement with the canadians the crux of the controversy of course is that mr hull still believes in appeasing vichy and the british gave that up tip long ago the british say any that general de did most of the fighting for the allied alilea cause in syria while vichy in resisting killed many british troops so they are going to stick with De but whichever side is right the british or secretary hull it might pay to work out some teamwork in advance MERRY G GO 0 ROUND lend lease officials were puzzled by a british request for horn and hoof mi meal manufactured from dead cattle until they learned it was excellent for extinguishing incendiary bombs most staggering lend lense request was tor for one railroad complete with locomotives and freight cars tho the order has been filled and shipped oft off to iran before buying cloth for army raincoats the quartermaster depot in philadelphia tests it with a machine that creates an artificial rain storm for military reasons details cant be revealed but the U S is producing an antiaircraft anti aircraft gun that is more powerful and deadly than any now in use in the army the new weapon is designed to combat strat bombers |