Evening star., 1939-12-24
Domestic Front

Most OF Americas diplomatic thoughts
of the week were devoted to helping
frame joint pronouncement about care.
less use of our coastal waters for bellig-
erent naval activities, but several other
developments grew directly out of wars
abroad.
For instance, State Department drew
its moral embargo lines tighter to
include equipment for manufacture of
high-test aviation gasoline. Japan and
Russia, fond of bombing civilian CEN
tiers. have been affected most by moral
embargo as American manufacturers
and exporters have complied in broad
degree with Government wishes that
our materials not be furnished those
who war on civilians.
And Public Health Service responded
to urgent plea of Finnish medical au.
thorities for assistance in combating
typhus epidemic by detailing two top.
flight doctors from Paris and Berlin
assignments to Finland at once. Blamed
for appearance OF disease in cold Baltic
regions are Red troops from South
Russia.
For Europe's war refugees in Spain
and Poland State Department an
nounced that various authorized aeen-
cies had collected s615,507 in months
of September and October; for Finnish
aid Hoover committee dispatched initial
100000 early last week.
Indicted as result of nationwide drive
by Department of Justice against illegal
activities OF foreign representatives here.
MOTIFS Liskin, Russian-bern president
of Bookniga Corp.
Russian Agent pleaded guilty to failure
PIeods Guilty to register company as
foreign agency but not
guilty to charge of criminal conspiracy.
Norman Weinberg, secretary treasurer,
pleaded not guilty to both counts;
Raphael Rush, vice president, fought
extradition from California.
In New York, Earl Browder, national
leader of Communist party in America,
discovered that powerful circumstances
are openly exerting themselves" to bring
President sRoosevelt into leadership Of
"a holy war of the whole capitalist
world against Soviet Russia
Like Mr.. Browder, Nicholas Dozen
berg, Communist party official, was
picked up last week on passport fraud
charges, placed under s35 900 bail.
Also in New York, sharp-tongued Un-
dersecretary of State Sumner Welles
raped at recent utterances of Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotoff that United
States is imposing on freedom of Cuba.
I'VE can only assume" Welles
cracked, that the peoples commissar
must have been so engrossed with the
efforts which his government then was
undertaking in order to insure-in the
present Soviet manner-the freedom and
political independence of Finland, as to
have been prevented from learning .
that the government and people OF
Cuba are as free and independent as
any :" = - on the face of the globe
In the War Department, being stream.
lined, was created new air defense di.
vision in charge of Col. James E. CLANCY,
to become brigadier general. Several
general officers were selected for existing
and prospective vacancies elsewhere in
department.
For the Navy House committee de-
bated merits of 65,000-ton battleship.
Trying to find work for its ships,
United States Lines announced transfer
of two top liners, Manhattan and WASH
ington, to New York Mediterranean
service.
And in interests of peace, not war,
Leopold Stokowski made plans to take
100 young musicians on Latin-American
concert tour.