Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne King Carol II of Rumania Abdicates As Fascist Iron Guard Effects House Votes Volunteer Plan Before Launching of Peacetime Draft NOTE When opinions are expressed la these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this by Western Newspaper i I Coup Shots fired at the palace of King Carol of Rumania followed anxious days in the during which Rumania accepted a Berlin-Rome dictated agreement transferring part of Transylvania to Included in the agreement was a guarantee to Rumania by Germany that its shrunken borders would be guaranteed against further demands by With a Soviet Russia looked over the fence from and Northern which it earlier had seized from Even did not satisfy the king's Two days later King Carol II announced the appointment of Ion Antonescu as the new military dictator of the Carol retained only a few unimportant governmental But still crowds of angry rioters shouted in the public square around the Rumanian palace and the political clamored for more Finally it was announced that King Carol had Stepping down from the throne he was succeeded by his son 18 years of who once before his nation as boy when his father renounced the right to the throne in The coup against Carol was by Fascists who sought to take over Rumania at once and liquidate the entire Men Effects of the war will be brought to hundreds of thousands of American homes this For the first time in U. S. peace time history young men will be called from their jobs and schools to serve at least one year in the nation's military First is the National officers and men from 26 states being the initial cadre going on active service beginning September Later more will be called until are in the Meanwhile will have registered under the conscription Once set the draft machinery will turn fast First call will be for a gradual enlistment of An additional will follow before A few days after the senate had approved the Burke-Wadsworth bill which would call up these first U. S. peacetime the house of representatives tacked an amend- I Hero is a scene typical of armories throughout the nation as the national guard prepares for This picture was taken in the rifle room of the 24 Uh coast artillery A etc York national guard as soldiers checked over weapons as one of the first steps in arrangements to answer their to ment to the bill which provided that voluntary enlistments be given a trial before the draft was Under the terms of this if the army's quota was not filled within 60 days the draft would automatically go Into effect to make up the difference between enlistments and the required number of Thus the bill was shuttled back to the senate for consideration of this Barracks To get these men into the cantonments the President also acted without waiting for Some months ago he was given to be used at his own He set of this aside for construction of water bath drainage gas and electrical Erection of wooden barracks must wait congressional Sixteen camps were built during the World Most of these have been dismantled but the government still owns the If the same sites are new barracks will be built at Camp at Camp L. Camp N. Camp Annapolis 1 Camp Peters- Camp S. Camp Camp Camp Camp Battle Camp Camp Little Camp Des Camp Fort Camp Fort Sam and Camp American Munitions In some lines of where sufficient material cannot be by existing the government will build its own factories or lend money to private firms to With an eye to none of these new facilities will be erected within miles of an ocean or foreign This may develop a shift in the nation's industrial War Swap In an agreement declared to be the most momentous in American history since the Louisiana the United States traded war- ATTORNEY GENERAL JACKSON His opinion it ships to Great Britain for Western hemisphere air and naval To the U. S. leases in the St. and British Promise that if Britain loses the war it will not turn its fleet over to nor scuttle To Britain Fifty old-age of which we have From a strategic and financial standpoint it was an excellent deal for the United The smallest at one of the Leeward islands in the is considered worth more than the entire cost of the Total worth of the bases is estimated at about half the cost of the entire United States From the naval the trade gives America a line of fortifications unparalleled in protecting the Panama the Gulf and the Atlantic Dependence of the British navy means America's one-ocean navy can be kept in the More important than the material aspects are those of The trade served notice on the world that America will not see Great Britain go down under the blows of a the wavering French even Russia will be So will Latin America will feel the Act of Havana Reaction at Home Congress was given no part in the President Roosevelt notified them merely of the accomplished and cited legal opinions from Attorney General Jackson upholding his power to make the deaL While there was general acceptance that the United States defense position had been greatly the President's methods are due to be given a raking |