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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Both Sides Are Heard on 'Lease-Lend' As Congress Continues Open Hearings; Reports Reach U. S. of Italian Revolts; , FDR Meets British Envoy on Arrival j KD ITQK'S NOTE When oplnlooi are expressed Id these columns, tber are tbuee ef tae news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! I.EASE-LE.ND: Line-Up To the administration's lineup which included the chief cabinet members and Bullitt, Dorothy Thompson and General O'Ryan Iwho urged that we get in the war introduced a letter he had written to Acting Secretary of State Moore in 1936 in which he gave Moore the inside "dope" on the French attitude atti-tude toward a struggle that everyone every-one believed inevitable. In this letter Bullitt had expressed the belief that the French were strongly depending on promises of American aid in the form of a navy and army, and pointed out that he was just as surely promising the French that they could count on nothing of the kind. The closing paragraphs of his letter, let-ter, however, expressed the convic- right away), the rebuttal forces J brought several notable figures, but ! none who produced the sensation , that did Colonel Lindbergh. In fact, the much-heralded statement state-ment by Ambassador Kennedy fell far short of being critical enough of the administration to suit the lease-. lend hill nnnnnntc , o Via nanarolli, favored the plan, only thought the President's powers should be limited. limit-ed. But Lindbergh minced no words, though the administration adherents fired questions at him, hoping to trap the flying colonel into some admission ad-mission that he was "pro-Nazi" T- ? Ir.tsM.iiii ri-.T. . i m 1 1 " S and "anti-British." The closest they came was when Bloom asked him point-blank: "Who do you hope wins the war?" And to this Lindbergh said: "I hope neither side wins. I am hoping for a negotiated peace." They went back to "Lindy's" previous pre-vious address, in which he had showed more marked anti-British sentiments, and all they could get was: "I admit that if I had it to do over I I would not have made that speech." Lindbergh's plan was simple that we drop all aid to Britain, disassociate disasso-ciate ourselves entirely from the war, let it muddle itself out as best it could. At the same time, he urged, let us manufacture a fleet of 20,000 planes, 10,000 on the first line and the same in reserve, and a two- RUMANIA: Folloivs Suit The Rumanian situation, similar to that in Italy, was quite as dramatic, dramat-ic, and had the most unusual feature fea-ture of showing the Germans as apparently ap-parently sitting on the fence, prepared pre-pared instantly to throw in their hand with either of the rebel factions fac-tions which might get the upper hand. Where in Italy the army leaders in .aravfl WITNESS BULLITT were apparently turning anti-Musso-lini and anti-Hitler, in Rumania both factions, that led by Antonescu and that led by Sima, claimed that they bore the offical ukase of Hitler. Sima, with his Iron Guard legionnaires, legion-naires, attacked Jews and looted Jewish homes in the approved Nazi fashion, but just as soon as the Antonescu An-tonescu forces gained the upper hand, the government leader assert- Candid camera photos of the former v. S. ambassador to France as he testified tes-tified on the Lease-Lend bill. tion that Britain, also, was counting on American help and that this would not be forthcoming. Yet Bullitt was standing before the committee advocating a course of all-out aid to Britain, a course to which President Roosevelt was committed. ITALY: Germans Take Hold Most sensational of the ever-recurring reports of serious unrest and disaffection inside Italy culminated in a dual report (emanating from a I radio source in Belgrade, and con-armed con-armed by N. Y. Times) that three Italian generals had been shot by Nazi soldiers in rioting in northern Italy. Guardedly, from the capital of Jugoslavia, came the report which tended to shnw tv-t t,. . ., ( I j eo in ms address to the people that he had "the favoring shadow of Der Fuehrer" hovering over him. The Rumanian situation still bore many traces of anarchy and chaos despite the fact that Antonescu seemed in the saddle, and one thing seemed certain, that before long Rumania, like so many other nations, na-tions, would lose its identity and simply become another base for Germany to loot for supplies, another an-other base for German troops and I munitions, another link in the German Ger-man chain of conquered peoples Sitting right in the center of the strategically important Balkans, and the only really productive territory ter-ritory m the whole 280,000 square could not be overexaggerated in the Nazi scheme of things. It was another important well of supplies of oil and wheat, Uvo tre mendous essentials needed by Ger many in prosecution of the war INVASION: - ndiji, on tne verge of internal collapse following follow-ing the reverses in Greece and Albania, Al-bania, also on the African fronts is now virtually under Nazi occupation and control. That this long has been so was often previously hinted at, but that it was now a completed fact appeared ap-peared reasonable and certain after the just-concluded conference be-ween be-ween Mussolini and Hitler, so close- followed by the reports from Bel- , CHARLES A. LINDBERGH For a "Negotiated Peace." ocean navy, with plenty of bases in North and South America. Let us take our stand on the Monroe Mon-roe Doctrine, and make ourselves too strong to attack, entering a war immediately, however, if the Monroe Mon-roe Doctrine is abused When the anti-bill smoke blew away, Lindbergh stood as the chief witness. BULLITT: Then and Noiv Former French Ambassador Bul- lend 'hi,, fying before fte lea-forfiJn lea-forfiJn Ttion of the house I foreign affairs committee, told Chairman Bloom ihf , , ' Three Dates Three sources, all of them for va shfPpinag saMSSitBriti,S,hminister to 9 .days and thTt,COme to 60 ish would' be i abta ll Brit' eat it off it Jr thouSht- to about 250 n'nn'j!?"5 .cost England These showed that the civilians andso diersofthe army in northern n-ljr. in such centers a, Milan and Turin, were practically in open revolt re-volt against continuance of the war They were being subdued and foughi to bloody street battles by Naz Ropers with the aid of FascLs So ueHed Germany some years ag0 gS A long-range view of the situation also compelled the belief ever f I MB- that the flon nf t !!r grow" tire accord with President Roose-" short5 of warr a"u' to Britain He used the strongest phrases gency, and stressed the need of toXir',fortoeuniteds of the fleet. maybe ha" ai?lSSnshtsdtfAmeriCa" Mortage that LVs alo urged fui u s '";aders' Albanian 'and ' Afc ' Paigns, and certainlv it am-?ot am-?ot less successTW nXhT' 'ans had been doing under th 'aI-training 'aI-training and leadership 0Wn must h a' England felL we must be prepared to defend these shores by 1946 at least. He a. verted he was of the view held by many that if EngIand feU, ish navy also must fall, a not acta t would be rendered usele s because the Naa, would threaten the offic and crews of surviving v"!"f,S w.. a. Nazi a Prisoners' Sta S IeaPed from -owbankhead-fi"sttrdedCannadian across the raginB q t h,mself jds on a stole'n boa t "7 raP" '"red in Ogdensburg n Y C3p- a"empt would c0me !,einVaSion wo"ld last two weeiS ani" March' successful. He saw WouId be r KECEDENTS : Shatter Again President Roosevelt ,Pnc-dramatic ,Pnc-dramatic situation in ft e "u S unheralded arrival of r T en and Halifax on the Kin, re d a"d Lady ain's newest bat,Th erge V- Brit- Precedents by autlr dL aU b'm, and boarding the Pota greet make it a "wat.t otomac to reprisals against meUves ocean navy, needing "Ve Z averted that during 1941 wfwo n..d the Japanese navy raise , ! eo'ual force with ours d t0 io escape back tn r as try'ng Vantedtonrrt The battlewaon Meeting. Annapolis by 3 n anchoreroff 7;10 P- m. before th.'i .U' " was ambassador, Teltd Briti Lady H3lfePr ?J 'raCtive mac's gangplank and t e Pot-men Pot-men th a prepared tref'ed news" tteir attention d Statement for m,rwndeafood-l of this to voice said The PresidTf'. ta a m- Lord Halifav I ent 15 cm-notes cm-notes back info L y S'Uffed told the repo ts caP,Cketagai. -ould be avaiiab eS te COpie d-k. and Joined the PrXr |
