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Show f; Pl RUBERTA,LN Washington, D. C. HOME-GROWN FASCISTS After three months of temporizing with native Fascist champions, Attorney At-torney General Francis Biddle is finally going to get tough on direct personal orders of the President, Roosevelt directed Biddle to take vigorous legal action against certain cer-tain factional leaders who have been publicly denouncing the war against the Axis and in some instances actually ac-tually expressing pleasure over Jap victories. Complaints have poured into Washington from parents of boys in the armed services demanding that these domestic foes be jailed. But Biddle demurred on the ground of "preserving civil liberties." Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FBI agents arrested Robert Noble, rabid Los Angeles Fascist leader, on serious seri-ous charges involving statements concerning the war. Despite the FBI's evidence, Biddle ordered Noble released. This brought down a storm of protests on Biddle's head that steadily stead-ily increased as the hostile operations opera-tions of these elements became bolder bold-er and more outspoken. Still Biddle refused to allow either the FBI or federal district attorneys, who were champing at the bit, to crack down. Finally White House advisers, alarmed over the situation, took the matter direct to the President. They laid before him a mass of evidence dealing with Noble, Father Cough-lin, Cough-lin, Francis P. Moran of Boston, Gerald L. K. Smith of Michigan and Charles B. Hudson of Omaha. One document shown Roosevelt was the March 16 issue of Coughlin's weekly publication which declared that a "world-wide sacred war" was declared against Germany nine years ago. The publication also attacked at-tacked aid to Russia, denounced the British bombing of French plants making Nazi supplies, and contained such statements as: "Unless the German forces can overcome Russia and successfully invade England by the end of September, Sep-tember, there is every evidence that the entire world will have elected to experince a blood bath the like of which was never imagined by the most poetic minds." "It has been the practiced policy of the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration to favor the Chinese Chi-nese in their war against Japan. This policy has rankled in the hearts of the Nipponese war lords who are devoted to the policy of Asia for the Asiatic, a policy which, after all, is nothing more than an expression of our own Monroe Doctrine." After carefully examining the evidence, the President summoned Biddle, ordered him to get tough and do so immediately. GOOD WAR NEWS Here is some all-important GOOD war news for a change. The United State's and the British Brit-ish Empire have won a victory of supreme importance in the crucial war production race. For the first time in the 2 years of the war the United States and Britain now are out-producing the Axis and its vassal states in vital arms and munitions. Although the two allies still are on the defensive, henceforth Anglo-American Anglo-American war output should pile up an ever-increasing margin of armament arma-ment superiority. U. S. producing capacity in particular par-ticular is just beginning to swing into an all-out war scale. The mighty auto industry, for example, is now being furiously converted. Other major industries are undergoing the same transformation. Also hundreds of new war plants are in various stages of completion, with hundreds of others being projected. Sage old "Bernie" Baruch comments: com-ments: "We can't yet crack our heels together in celebration, even if things are better." What he means is that there are still plenty of sour spots. Some of these are: labor supply, certain obstacles in the flow of materials, ma-terials, shortage of materials, inadequate in-adequate use of equipment, insufficient insuf-ficient subcontracting, red tape and bureaucratic obstruction, the incompetence, incom-petence, greed and lack of initiative 3f many employers, the profit-mindedness profit-mindedness of dollar-a-year men. But despite ail these, U. S. industry indus-try every week is pouring out a steadily soaring floodtide of war cup-plies. cup-plies. On the basis of a private survey made by the authors of this :olumn, it can be stated definitely at with the British Empire's jreatly accelerated production the two Allies now are ahead of the Axis. Note: The survey was limited on Jhe Allied side to the U. S. and British Empire because it is impossible impos-sible to get detailed information about Russian production. Buy Defense Bonds MERRY-GO-ROUND Congressional critics of President Roosevelt are caustically denounced jy A. F. Whitney, white-crested president of the Railroad Trainmen, n the latest issue of the union's -nagazine. In a lead editorial Whitley Whit-ley declares, "No congressman or :ongressional committee, no sena-xr sena-xr or group in the senate, no Axis igent or anyone else seeking to use he war to discredit the President A'ill throw any sand in our eyes in my way useful in their desire to advance a selfish, ignoble purpose." |