Milford News | 1941-02-06 | Page 2 | 'No Quarrel with U.S.', Declares Hitler, but 'Aid to Britain' Ships will be Sunk; Debate Continues on Lease-Lend Bill; New Japanese Envoy En Route to U.S.

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne 'No Quarrel With U. S.', Declares Hitler, But 'Aid to Britain' Ships Will Be Sunk; Debate Continues on Lease-Lend Bill; New Japanese Envoy En Route to U. S. (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed fn these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 - c rv ; t . FOKT DIX, N. J. Taking advantage of a snowfall along the eastern seaboard, members of the 44th Division's ski patrol glide down a hill in their first maneuvers in this huge army encampment. Warfare knows no seasons, so Uncle Sam mast prepare to fight under any condition. The patrol pictured here was organized by Lieut. Eric Wilkner, formerly of Lapland, Sweden, but now of New York's 113th infantry. EIGHT YEARS: Of Hitler On the eighth anniversary of his assumption of power, Adolf Hitler told his people and the world that TJ. S. aid for Great Britain "will be torpedoed" and that "Europe will defend itself" in case "those people" peo-ple" (meaning Americans) enter the war. A cheering crowd of 20,000 gathered gath-ered at the Berlin Sports palace for the speech heard the German dictator dic-tator tell of Nazi plans to defeat England in the coming months. He said that Germany had "armed and armed and armed" and that anyone seeking to destroy that nation would get a rude awakening. He told also of Germany's preparation of military mili-tary surprises that will be used in the coming battles. He said that enemy hopes for revolts in Italy because be-cause of Italian setbacks were in vain. The British were challenged to invade the continent Hitler declared that 1941 "will be the historical year of a great new order in Europe." He said also that Germany has never been against American interests. BRITAIN'S KEED: Congress Considers There was a growing feeling in congress that unless the President's measure to permit him to lend or lease material supplies to Britain was passed soon, the Germans would arrive before American arms. Administration leaders made concessions con-cessions to opponents of the bill in order to obtain greater speed. They agreed to set a time limit on the President's powers, they were willing will-ing that a clause should be contained con-tained in the bill to prohibit convoy by U. S. naval ships, and they were agreeable to an amendment which would require the President to report re-port every three months to congress. Further they would not go and efforts to make the proposal ineffectual inef-fectual by further amendment met firm resistance. Meanwhile supply and military experts held conferences confer-ences with the new British ambassador. ambas-sador. Viscount Halifax, whose arrival ar-rival in America was unprecedented. unprecedent-ed. He came on the H.M.S. King George V, a new battleship just recently re-cently launched and which was not yet known to be in commission. He was met at Annapolis by President Roosevelt. MISSION: Failure Expected Kichisaburo Nomura, admiral of Japan, is a graduate of the United States naval acgdemy. During the World war he was Japanese naval attache in Washington and a close friend of the then assistant secretary secre-tary of the navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Now Admiral Nomura, admittedly a pro-American among Japanese, is en route to Washington as the new ambassador from Tokyo. He sailed, he said, on what promised to be "a mission of failure." Younger. Young-er. men, offered the job, turned it down. They said it would be sure to end their political careers. But Admiral Nomura is a man of courage. He lost an eye when a bomb was thrown and killed several sev-eral other politicians. He received a glass eye from the empress herself. her-self. Before he left Tokyo he had a duplicate made, in case anything HIGHLIGHTS I . . . of the news Envoy John G. Winant, former Republican governor of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, is acceptable in Britain as the American ambassador, succeeding Joseph P. Kennedy. fiurst The Grand Duchess Charlotte Char-lotte of Luxembourg, now a refugee In Canada, will visit President Roosevelt in the second week of February. She will be a Ku'-'st at the White Hu-:e for two days. should happen to his artificial eye. It is not his eye, however, which is most likely to fail him. . Back home Foreign Minister Yoskue Mat-suoka, Mat-suoka, also educated in an American Ameri-can college through the kindness of American charity, did not wait for the admiral's arrival in Washington. Matsuoka declared to the diet that he considered U. S. policy "outrageous," "out-rageous," in that it objected to Japanese control of the western Pacific. Pa-cific. He said that the fate of world civilization depends wholly upon America's attitude and refused to accept the theory of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the invasion inva-sion of Manchuria by Japan was the first step in destruction of world peace. HISTORIC CITY: History Repeats The town of Derna. now in Italian Libya, has an historic place in American history, for it was at this village where ended one of the most courageous exploits of the American army. The year was 1805 and the United States was at war with Tripoli, after refusing to pay tribute to that nation in order that American ships would not be molested by pirates on the open sea. "Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute," had thundered thun-dered Charles C. Pinckney a few years before and the slogan was repeated re-peated now. William Eaton, a captain in the American army who had been attache at-tache to Near Eastern countries, found himself in Alexandria, Egypt. There he recruited a motley crowd of about 40 Americans, several hundred hun-dred Greeks and as many Arabs. On March 8, he started across the burning burn-ing desert toward Derna, a city of 10,000. The campaign experienced untold hardships, was almost without food or water, several times faced revolt in its own ranks. But by cool bravery brav-ery Eaton dragged his army 600 miles across the sands and attacked Derna. On April 27 the city fell to the American army. The war ended end-ed soon afterward and Eaton returned re-turned home to be forgotten. As March approached this year another army which started in Alexandria Alex-andria stood before Derna, now a city of 65,000. British troops with modern mechanized columns, lines of communications and trains of water, wa-ter, had put to rout an Italian force several times larger, engaged them in battle at Sidi Barrani, at Bardia. at Tobruk, and appeared to be masters mas-ters of the desert. More than 100,000 prisoners had fallen before them. Shock in Italy In Rome there was no confirmation confirma-tion of the rumor that Marshal Ro-dolfo Ro-dolfo Grazianl had been relieved of his Libyan command. But the Grazianl Gra-zianl rumor was not the most startling. star-tling. There were stories of uprisings upris-ings in Turin and Milan, of troops joining In the demonstration against Mussolini, of anti-Fascist speeches In the market place and of obscene words written on posters containing Mussolini's picture. All this was denied, but more persisted. per-sisted. They said Germans had taken tak-en over the Italian censorship of postal, telephone and telegraph services. That three Italian generals gen-erals had been shot, that thousands had been arrested by secret police, that revolt was halted only when German troops took over. MORE: Resistance Presence of the Germans In Italy and the Italian army was having one effect, however. The Greeks were meeting stifTer resistance In Albania. Alba-nia. German planes and pilots engaged en-gaged Greek." and the British air force. Tanks and mechanized units of the Italians counter-attacked around Valona In force. Athens said their lines were able to hold out and would soon resume the advance. DEBTS: U. S. Needs Money Congress is ready to consider plans to increase the national debt limit and raise additional funds to finance defense efforts already authorized. au-thorized. The present debt limit, set by congress, is $45,000,000,000. Chairman Doughton, of the house ways and means committee, introduced intro-duced legislation to raise this limit to $65,000,000,000. At the same time a plan was submitted sub-mitted for selling 25-cent defense stamps to the general public. The plan parallels the War Savings stamps of 1917. Meanwhile the committee of federal fed-eral finances of the United States Chamber of Commerce sounded a warning. It recommended a federal feder-al agency to "co-ordinate the debt program with the general fiscal plan." They also suggested congress establish the debt limit at a sum only necessary to cover the necessary neces-sary borrowing immediately in sight. "Financially." the report said, "the government is in a wilderness." wilder-ness." DRAFT: Harsh Words In England the government has had the power since the early days of the war to draft manpower and capital for defense. Virtually the same powers were voted to President Presi-dent Roosevelt under the selective service act In neither country has there been much of a crackdown on industry, the force of the law being sufficient to compel co-operation of recalcitrant plants. But now England is talking of drafting labor to man its factories and in Washington there has been threat to use the power on one or two industries. Most vocal of these instances was at a meeting of the lumber and timber products defense committee when Leon Henderson, defense commissioner in charge of price control, warned that prices must be cut sharply and production speeded. Henderson said there had been some improvement. He said prices in December dropped to $35.01 per 1,000 board feet but would have to come down to $25, or the government govern-ment would take over. "I've had all the arguments, excuses and explanations explana-tions I want and a whole lot more than I need," he said and stalked from the meeting. In the Army Winthrop Rockefeller, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller, got up one morning at 5 a. m. and reported re-ported at the New York recruiting office at 6 for transportation to Fort Dix, N. J. He'll never get rich, he's In the army now as a private. On the other hand, Ernest Eisle, 22, of Pontiac, Mich., who fought to evade the draft, Is dead. When federal officers called with a warrant war-rant for evasion, a gun fight resulted. result-ed. Two officers were stabbed and young Eisle fatally shot. With the approach of spring the draft will be speeded. The objective objec-tive Is 800,000 men In camp under the selective service law before June 1. Between nw and then the monthly drafts will reach about 100,-000 100,-000 men. MISCELLANY: C, The sword which George Washington Wash-ington gave to th marquis De Lafayette La-fayette will be returned to America. Marshal Petain of France handed It to Admiral Leahy, American ambassador, am-bassador, for delivery to President Roosevelt. fl. The B'nal Brith voted Its ninety-seventh ninety-seventh anniversary award for "honor, duty and achievement" to Norman Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, fl. The North Star, ship of the bureau bu-reau of ftulian affairs, has reached the Antarctic Ice barrier and Is loading load-ing the equipment of the Byrd expedition expe-dition for its return home. I. The Chase National Hank of New York retains IU place at the. head nt U. S. commercial banks for 1041, according to Uie publication "American "Amer-ican Hanker." Chase has deposits of $3.r.in..i:i7..r;4r).