Evening star., 1938-02-10

foreign governments. A measure
designed to take the profit out OF
ipar makes the President a virtual
dictator oDer ,rages, profit and pro-
duction, and carries drastic tar
proposals.
BY the Associated Press.
A peace advocate told Congress to-
day that President Roosevelt en-
barked, in his Chicago speech last
fall, on "a policy of threat and bluff
which can end only in humiliation or
war"
Frederick j. Libby, executive secre-
tary of the National Council for Pre-
Vention of War, made this assertion
before the House Naval Committee
while opposing the proposed $500, ,000.-
coo naval expansion program as "a
definite step on the road to war"
Explaining he was a Quaker, but
favored reasonable" defense pro-
gram, Mr.. Libby declared it was the
Presidents reference to concerted ef-
fort in the Chicago speech, and the
degree of significance to be attached
to it, that worries the country"
Must Bow to Germany.
He said the answer was embodied
in part in the proposed 20 per cent
increase in the fleet and pending
legislation to take profits out of war.
He called the latter the enabling
legislation for the War Departments
mobilization plan"
In vigorous terms, Mr. Libby de-
clared no nation in Europe or Asia
was free at this time to attack the
United States and warned this coun-
try would have to fight Japan un-
aided If our bluff is called" He said
this was borne out by conditions in
Europe. where, he said. every major
power was fully occupied by troubles
in their own backyards."
In that connection Mr.. Libby ex-
pressed the conviction" that Ger
many's Just grievances must be met
If war is to be avoided.
THE British have never published
the terms offered by Hitler to Lord
Halifax and the suspicion is inevitable
that they were reasonable" he said.
Chairman Vinson, questioning Mr.
Libby closely as to the form Of his
organization, caused him to disclose
the name of Mrs. Bancroft C. Davis of
this city as the anonymous donor Of
$4,000 to initiate a drive to sell So
called peace bonds" for the council
in 1885.
Are you permitted to speak in the
public schools of the District of Co.
lumbia?" asked Representative Vinson.
Denied Blanket Permission.
After some explanatory remarks, Mr.
Libby said he had been denied a
"blanket permission" to speak in the
schools as SUCH
While the Naval Committee pro-
ceeded, congressional opposition de-
veloped to the war profits legislation.
Although the House Military Com
mittee had expected to bring the
bill before the House this week. men,
bers split so sharply over a revised
version that further discussion was
postponed until next Tuesday. Some
criticized the pending measure as lin
nocuous' and unnecessary"
Contending the measure would not
prevent wartime profiteering because
its tax provisions are nothing but
a speech" Representative Maverick,
Democrat, of Texas said the rest of
the bill was unnecessary because most
of its objectives could be attained by
the existing National Defense Act.
The bill would empower the Presi-
dent to fix ceiling for prices in
event of hostilities. The tax section,
Of which Mr. Maverick complained,
would direct the Treasury to make
a continuing study on which to base
a wartime tax structure which would
ban profits in excess of a fair, nor
NAL return"
Hull Warns People.
Meanwhile the American people
we're again warned against being
frightened by the reckless public utter
ances of incessant and 'uninformed
takers, here and abroad, on foreign
affairs.
With the bluntness of a mouutaineer
of his home State of Tennessee, Sec
retary Hull replied in this wise to q
request for comment on the alleged re-
mark of Prof. Gilbert Murray, English
author, that Great Britain has given
the United States assurance of sup
port in the event of war:
That this was the first time he had
heard Prof. M,lrray's name mentioned
in connection with any public question
lately, much less anything said on this
subject by him or any one representing
him.
That, of course, there is not q
vestige of an agreement or under
standing of any kind between the
of the United States and
Great Britain.
That, naturally, there is no way
anybody can keep everybody else from
and that the fact that 50
many persons seem to be trying to
talk at once. and most of them do
not know what they are talking about,
Is one trouble with the world today.
That it is this kind of uninformed
talk in public by so many uninformed
persons which is giving the people Of
this and other countries the jitters.
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