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Show Kl Xft DREW PEARSON Washington, D. C. OPPOSITION COOLS OFF JAPANESE When Cordell Hull wants to turn on his Tennessee mountain wrath he can do a magnificent job, and the word which leaked out of his inner sanctum is that this was the kind of a job he did when Japanese Ambassador Am-bassador Horinouchi called on him just after the United States had decided de-cided to recall its citizens from China. The Hull dressing down, together with internal reactions in Japan, seems to have cooled off the Japanese Jap-anese somewhat. Intelligence reports re-ports reaching Washington indicate that danger of a Japanese declaration declara-tion of war against Britain, over the : opening of the Burma road, is ebbing. ebb-ing. What the Japanese are expected expect-ed to do is to subject the Burma road, with its incoming supplies of munitions for the Chinese army, to as intensive a bombing as is possible pos-sible from air bases in south China and adjacent French Indo-China. As far as any attack upon the United States is concerned, all the reports received In army and navy circles and they have been studying study-ing the situation as carefully as they ' know how are that Japan cannot and will not risk war with the United States. ; In the first place, her navy has fuel oil for only 24 months. Her I army has gasoline for only three months. And perhaps even more , important, there Is reported to be considerable division of opinion inside in-side the Japanese government One group, headed by Prince Konoye, feels that Japan is merely being used by Hitler and the Axis ! to scare the United States away from more aid to the British. In fact, Konoye vigorously opposed signing the alliance, but finally had to yield to more aggressive Foreign Minister Matsuoka and the war minister min-ister j In addition, American observers observ-ers detect an uneasy feeling among the Japanese ipeople and increasing rumblings of unrest. , , . GERMAN OCCUPATION Intelligence reports from Europe indicate; that it is not1 the German army ' but : German civilians in France who are' causing trouble. These reports state that the Nazis already have begun to create their vaunted unification of Europe and their reduction of France to a mere agricultural state. Following the conquering Nazi armies, there came .German civilians civil-ians in numbers almost as. 'great. They. ' settled "down "in evacuated French hotnes and fiegan 'to operate . abanddned' French 'shops: arid 'factories1 'fac-tories1 and to ' take over others which had not been abandoned. All this in the vital Industrial area of ' north France. ' ' r . - Reports about the ;conduct of Germans Ger-mans iii France make a sharp distinction, dis-tinction, between the, German mili- .. tary and, civilian elements. Little .complaint w-as heard of the conduct of the German military,, but, when the Gestapo and the Brown1 Shirts , foUowed, together with civilian groups for'-'the'mariagement 'of in-'dustry, in-'dustry, real friction developed. i- British victory over Germany would require not only success in staving off invasionl but also driving the Germans iout of the tow Cow tries and France and this means not only the German soldiers,.-but the hordes of civilians who have taken over management of French industry as if it,.were their own , "ABSENTEE ,, SENATE ' ' : If the Congressional Record '. told the whole story, it would reveal that congress, during the past month, has Tnef. ?hUP th' its-own sessions. Interest has been' low, attendance slack, and members"- whd haven't gone home show lack of interest " When the; senate 'convenes, the clerk has to run through the" roll call several times before he can ee a quorum. This does m appear in a quorum. This does not appear in Congressional Record, where th" roll pal Is are consolidated into one . - Sometimes, in. desperation, the clerk counts as present some mem! bers who have called up by tete-Phone tete-Phone from their offices; and announces an-nounces that '49 members have an swered to their names, o But Sena tor Vandenberg objects. "We don't egislate by telephone," he " VWhere do yon get 49?, I only see' 25. - So roll ,g caIied, again Tv. CAPITAL CHAFF - ' 1VA is proud of the fact th. .u state of Tennessee Ih .k St the taSsUPsrrmayEdagadr-' Probl , . e Plants. Several ofT ' Catus ornce:6 rate aid: "Stcttinius gct,.Sen make the 'pieces." ' : Stu(I; 1 To IParn what'effeci U ?' 1 ' wave broadcasting Bn"v h Latin America, NBC h. ln Guy C. Hickok to mnke r XPer' BArgentm p-yi lJl3' and machine tools. |