Show Many Problems Besides Aid to Britain Confront Congress Among Them Are U. S. Financial Aid to South America The president's extraordinary of the speech to the new congress was received with mixed The majority of large which arc pro-British in approved it with some So did most of the leading in congress there was criticism to the effect that the president did not give particulars and that it looked as if he intended to put this country deeper into European affairs than it had ever been At the same surveys indicate that the president's proposal to lend Britain arms and other implements of which she is supposed to repay in kind or ite equivalent at the end of will eventually go The non-interventionist of which Senator Wheeler is now says that it intends to fight the president's program to the last U. S. Foreign Policy The president firmly fixed this country's foreign According to that policy has three we are committed to an all-inclusive national we are committed to support all nations which are resisting aggression in the president's keeping war from our we will never acquiesce in a peace by aggressors and sponsored by The stressed his opinion that this policy is completely non and represents the will of the majority of the whatever their political It is obviously the administration belief that it would be impossible for this country to live in the same world with and at the same lime maintain democratic processes and As he has said on several there would be no peace there would be only an armed which would inevitably result in a ruinous armament race and the establishment of a permanent economy for no less than for the There are many who disagree with this so far as legislative influence is they seem to be a minority Declaration of War It is probable that the president's coupled with his of a week was the strongest talk ever given by the head of a great nation to the heads of other great It could be easily construed as an ipso facto declaration of even though said that he did not intend for it to be so But Italy and Germany were relatively calm in their It looks as it they are willing to take a great deal before formally going to wai with us in view of Italy's stunning reverses in is easily The Axis has not lost the but its plans are not going as by any The possibility remains of congress declaring war on Germany and or but rolls of con gi-ess indicate that only a small majority would vote for war at this The bulk of the lawmakers apparently feel that we can get away with helping England with every resource at our yet not Magnitude of projected aid to England will not be fully known for some As the budget message it will run far into the It will involve the construction and delivery of many merchant ships to embattled And it may very likely involve the transfer of more of our naval Jobs of Congress The congress will be responsible for our national which includes domestic problems to do with wages and labor and and government loaning both at home and It has the countries of South America to just loaning them money is but a small part of the job of improving our relations with as one of its greatest it will have to consider adopting a fiscal policy that is in the opposite direction to the present easy money policies of the i Financial experts are going to make a determined stand to return the financing of our government into sounder |