Show aa 0 W R washington D 0 ALEUTIANS IMPORTANT behind the army navy attempts to bi blast ast the japs out of the aleutian islands is more than natural naturi tl antipathy to having an enemy on amerlean american soil or the fear of an invasion of alaska these are important but in addition events in egypt may mean that more th than anever ever we shall have to use these adese vital stepping stones of the aleutian islands to carry the war to the heart of japan to get the full significance of the picture it Is necessary to recall that ever since pearl harbor there has been an honest difference of opinion among V U S war strategists as to whether we should concentrate cen on fighting japan in the pacific or hitler in europe at one time shortly after pearl harbor high up U S naval advisers worked out an elaborate war plan which Is no longer a secret for concentrating cent rating almost all our naval strength in the pacific and making a direct attack on the japanese islands at a time when the japs had bad their lines dispersed to manila and the south seas but the plan meant leaving the atlantic coast relatively unguarded also virtually abandoning convoys to britain and russia in the end it was decided that the russian front was all important and must be supplied at all costs the wisdom of this decision seems to have been borne out by subsequent events japs worried however those who urge the all out war in asia have persisted and their argument has been strengthened by recent developments ong one is the fact that the japs obviously scared at the prospect of a second front in asin asia are fighting feverishly to clean out the chinese before china gets important help from us fear of ofa a second front in asia also was why the japs nipped part of the aleutian Is islands linds main development however was the defeat at bobruk and the serious nazi threat to the entire near east tor for if the near east falls with Us its vital supply route opened by amerlean american railroad engineers from the gulf of persia to the caucasus then it may be absolutely imperative to open new supply lines to russia via alaska and siberia and even more important the entire focus of the war so far as the united states is concerned may turn to the far east tor for if hitler secures the oil of iran iraq and it may be the wisest strategy to knock japan out of the war first because the nazis will have the resources to continue for a long time WHAT IS AN EXPERT when federal feder al chairman lawrence fly appeared before the house interstate commerce commission recently he was asked by representative clarence brown of ohio what Is your definition of an expert well replied fly 1 I once heard an expert described as any damned tool fool away from home do you pick your experts at the FCC on that basis inquired congressman brown no said fly we generally take them from rom the industry where they have proven their worth 11 1 I am asking these questions because of a peculiar experience I 1 had recently explained the ohio congressman and went on to tell how a congressional committee had referred him to an expert on accounting coun ling a young man who graduated from college in and was r still till a trifle wet behind the ears A short time later brown continued he called at the war production board on another matter and was referred to an agricultural expert lo 10 and behold the expert proved to be the same young man following this I 1 again called at the on a matter pertaining to metal said brown this time I 1 was referred to an expert on copper and believe it or not mr fly it was the same agent and brown warned the chairman of the federal communications commission if I 1 ever come down to your commission and find this chap you and I 1 are going to tangle MERRY MEBRY GO ROUND favorite rejoinder of senator harry S truman when a member of his war contracts investigating committee objects to his strenuous pace if you dont like the heat get out of the kitchen silver thatched representative cliff woodrum of virginia faces a primary fight from moss A plunkett tt a mill militant tant virginia liberal mrs Roosevel ts close friend con gress woman caroline oday of new york will have democratic competition this year miss martha palmer active worker among the young democrats buffalo N Y has joined the select list of big cities in which all the large storer have hava turned over their sales forces to the sale of war stamps and bonds it costs taxpayers a year to operate the senates subway train that shuttles lazy senators one block from the senate office building to me lne capitol |