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C Washington V Feb 21 The The discussions of the lend lease-lend bill which v went on i in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee co Committee n hearingS hearings hear hear- ings would have been regarded as t tempestuous n s a aso b bul s 1 so much has already been s said id for and against the bill and vituperations as t to personalities s have haye become so place common-place that the sessions session 1 seemed relatively mild The target for t the he opposition ha has been of course the tho bill Itself and ana ana indirectly the tho President Senator Wheeler of Montana 1 started the fireworks three weeks ago when he lie called It the Presidents President's new triple triple- A foreign policy Plow policy plow every fourth American boy under President Roosevelt responded heatedly at fit a press conference and anel the lie feud went wenton wenton wenton on from there hero These heated healed exchanges were moro more or less expected in ht view of ot h H time me uc IJU position position which Sena- Sena senator senator sena sena- tor or Wheeler has taken since the tho outbreak of the war but some surprise sur stir prise was evidenced e at the tho stand taken by former Governor Go Alfred M. M Landon Republican for the Presidency In 1936 Mr Landon had previously Indorsed the administrations administration's foreign policy and it was expected that he would take tako about the tho same position on the bill bin billas billas as nR that of Wendell L L. Willkie However Mr Landon opposed the bill at its inception and when he appeared before the tho Senate Committee Committee Committee Com Com- as an opposition witness ho attacked what ho lie called a i attempt t to sile silence Senator Wheeler and described the time lend lease-lend bill as asI asa asa I a guess and be bo damned policy No Radical Changes I Despite the time volubility of or tho the opposition op oD I position however howe the Senate Committee Committee Com Coin has mo made e no radical changes chango and the tho bill must now withstand tho the attacks from the m main aili body of or the Senate There is s not the shadow of ofa a doubt here that it will do so although al although although al- al though it Il may Inns have a fow few modifications modifications lions tacked on But Dut although the themore themore more optimistic sUl supporters porters of the tho bill are predicting its passage by bythe he the end cud of February the lie best SUCH guests among neutral observers still remains re 10 ro- ro mains tho the middle of March l Immediately Immediate after the bill Is passed ways of or financing its operation operation operation opera opera- tion must be found Official Official quarters are aro predicting an 3 In Income Income income In- In come for the United States in lH 1911 I and lud much of this will be lie taxed to t pay for fOl both our to Britain 1 program pro pro- 10 gram grain and our own defense projects No serious tax proposals will bo be made mado until tho time March larch Income Income- taxes are avo In but by that timo limo the budget will be able to lo estimate about how much will wUl b 1 b needed for fol the year and make matO r ie r- commendations for taxes Cheerful News s Sonic Some news ID IDt 1940 t 0 Continued on last page pasc This Week In Washington D. 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C o Continued from rom page one emanated from the Department of ot Commerce last week weel when It Issued its rePort t on the he retail census Americans Americana bought worth of goods at retail last year the report said 83 per pel cent moro more than lu In 1939 and only 6 C per cent less loss than the tha 1929 peak I Three Thice oilier ocher agencies had cheering cheering cheer cheer- ing news also The Social Security Board said that hat state statu employment offices placed workers in private jobs In 1940 and in I public Jobs an increase of oC nearly 9 per cent over oyer 1939 jobs filled filletI The Federal Deposit insurance reported that 1940 had fewer hank bank 1 L UI t GA Ul UI- LU LUlU t lU U LM uan ILL III any year yeal since 1935 and the Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Reserve Board said the defense defence program boosted factory and factory equipment expenditures to the he highest level since 1929 These effects of the nations nation's defense defense de de- Cense program are aie really only beginning beginnIng- to to-be to be felt Next week tho War Department for example In In- In I tends to ask Con Congress gross for tor more ore than to add airplanes to the Army air force The Arm Army now has planes on order most of or which were not expected to be delivered until 1942 but with British orders ciders running out and many private manufacturers facing the prospect of idle assembly lines some of the planes may bo be delivered sooner The defense program is being felt in other ways too There is s an almost war-like war hush about all Washington activities that have to do with the nations nation's defenses It was exemplified in the appeal of ot Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox to the press radio and screen to operate co-operate with the Navy Department Department Depart Depart- Department ment in keeping secret such naval activities as might be of ot use to a aI potential enemy I I The he appeal was brought closer home to newsmen when it became necessary to be finger printed and n J pu u 5 eu euto to the White House and a fe few other Government Departments and to be required to wear a n. badge with witha a photograph on it Even members of the Defense Commission are not exempt from this ruling andall and all save Dir Mr Knudsen Knud- Knud sen the Director comply with the ruling rn Employees have hac ees been given Mr Knudsens Knudsen's picture so there is little chance of the Defense Director being being- thrown ou out t. t The war has a also so brought many peace time proposals to the fore fore Core ones that were formerly rejected but are now being being- considered In Inthe Inthe inthe the light of how they may help our defenses Foremost among these is ts the proposed St. St Lawrence waterway waterway waterway water water- way project which would open the St St. Lawrence River Rivel for navigation all the way to the Great L Lakes kes The Department of ot Commerce released the first of seven reports on the proposal this week said that the project would Id open new shipbuilding shipbuilding shipbuilding ship ship- building facilities in the time Great Lakes states that wohld would be needed for a long period to come |