Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne wo no quarrel with america says hitler but aid to britain ships will be sunk new japanese envoy en route to Us say S congress continues lease lend debate in these columns they EDITORS NOTE when opinions are yet and not necessarily of this newspaper are those a f the news 1 released by western newspaper unions ai 4 1 z L FORT DK DIX N J taking advantage of a snowfall along the eastern seaboard members of the 44 th divisions ski patrol glide down a hill in their first maneuvers in this huge army encampment warfare knows no seasons so uncle sam must prepare to fight under any condition the patrol pictured here was organized by eric formerly of lapland sweden but now of new yorks infantry EIGHT YEARS of hitler on the eighth anniversary of his assumption of power adolt adolf hitler told his people and the world that U S aid for great britain will be torpedoed and that europe will defend itself in case those people meaning americans enter the war A cheering crowd of gathered at the berlin sports palace for the speech heard the german dictator teu 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 germanys germanas Germ anys preparation of military surprises that will be used in the coming battles he said that enemy hopes for revolts in italy because of italian setbacks were in in vain the british were challenged to invade the continent hitler declared that 1941 will be the historical year of a great yiem new order in europe he said also tso that germany has never been against Anie american rican interests NEED congress considers there was a growing feeling in congress that unless the presidents 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 ces to opponents of the bill in in order to obtain greater speed they agreed to set a time limit on the presidents powers they were willing that a clause should be contained 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 every three months to congress further they would not go and efforts to make the proposal ineffectual by further amendment met firm resistance meanwhile supply and military experts held conferences with the new british ambassador viscount halifax whose arrival in america was unprecedented he came on the king george V a new battleship just recently launched and which was not yet known to be in commission he was met at annapolis by president roosevelt MISSION failure expected Kich isaburo admiral of japan is a graduate of the united states naval academy dur during ing the world war he was japanese naval in washington and a close friend of the then assistant secretary of the navy franklin D roosevelt now admiral 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 e r men offered the job turned it down they said it would be sure to end their political careers but admiral is a man of courage he lost an eye when a bomb was thrown and killed several other politicians he received a glass eye from the empress herself before he left tokyo he had a duplicate made in case anything highlights of the news envoy john G winant former Ke publican governor of new if hampshire amp is acceptable in britain as the american ambassador succeeding succeed ine joseph P kennedy guests the grand duchess charlotte of luxembourg now a refugee in m canada will visit president R roosevelt oo sevelt in the second week of february she will be a guest at the white house 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 matsuoka also educated in an american college through the kindness of american charity did not wait for the admirals arrival in washington matsuoka declared to the diet that he considered U S policy outrageous in that it objected to japanese control of the western pacific he said that the fate of world civilization depends wholly upon americas attitude and refused to accept the theory of U S secretary of state cordell hull that the invasion 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 th is village where ended one of the most courageous exploits of the american army the year was 1805 and the united states state 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 charles C pinckney a few years before and the slogan was repeated now william eaton baton a captain in the american army who had been to near eastern countries found himself in alexandria egypt there he recruited a motley crowd of about 40 americans several hundred greeks and as many arabs on march 8 he started across the burning desert toward derna a city of the campaign experienced untold hardships was almost without food or water several times faced revolt in its own ranks but by cool bravery eaton dragged his army miles across the sands and attacked derna on april 27 the city fell to the american army the war ended soon afterward and eaton returned home to be forgotten As march approached this year another army which started in alexandria stood before derna now a city of british troops with modern mechanized columns lines of communications and trains of water had put to rout an italian force several times larger engaged them in battle at sidi bahrani Bar rani at bardia at bobruk and appeared to be masters of the desert more than prisoners had fallen before them shock in italy in rome there was no confirmation of the rumor that marshal rodolfo graziani had been relieved of his libyan command but the graziani rumor was not the most star aling there were stories of uprisings 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 picture all this was denied but more persisted they said germans had taken over the italian censorship of p postal telephone and telegraph services that three italian gen brals had been shot that thousands had been arrested by secret gehret 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 stiller stiffer resist resistance ance in albania german planes and pilots engaged greeks and the british air force tanks and mechanized units of the italians ans counter attacked around valona in force athens said their lines were able to hold out and would soon resume the adv advance ance i 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 zed the present debt limit set by congress is chairman doughton of the house ways and means committee introduced legislation to raise this limit to at the same time a plan was submitted for selling 25 cent defense stamps to the general public the plan parallels the war savings stamps of 1917 meanwhile the committee of federal finances of the united states chamber of commerce sounded a warning it recommended a federal agency to ordinate coordinate co 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 borrowing immediately in sight financially the report said the government is in a wilderness 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 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 operation cooperation co 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 per 1000 board feet but would have to C come me down to 25 or the government would take over ive had all the arguments excuses and explanations I 1 want and a whole lot more than I 1 need he said and stalked from the meeting in the army winthrop rockefeller grandson of the late john D rockefeller got up on one e morning at 5 a m and reported at the new york recruiting office at 6 for transportation to fort dix N J hell never get rich hes 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 for evasion a gun fight resulted two officers were stabbed and young eisle fatally shot with the approach of spring the draft will be speeded the objective is men in camp under the selective service law before june 1 between now and then the monthly drafts will reach about men miscellany althe sword which george washington gave to the marquis de lafayette will be returned to america marshal petain of france handed hand e it to admiral leahy american ambassador bas for delivery de livery to president roosevelt ithe anai brith voted its ninety seventh anniversary award for honor duty and achievement to norman davis chairman of the american red cross croas athe L the north star ship of th the e bureau of indian affairs has reached the antarctic ice barrier and is loading the equipment of the byrd expedition for its return home C L the chase national Nation gl bank of new york retains its place at the head of U S commercial banks tor for 1941 according to the publication P ab 11 cation american banker chase has deposits of |