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Evening star., 1939-11-19
Eleventh Week Of European War Finds B|tzrieg Still Missing

Of crew were captured and interned. Be-
fore raiders left they dropped several
bombs BY radio, Germans later
claimed that two British flying boats
had been sunk, naval vessel damaged.
British claimed only casualty was single
long -eared rabbit, Looping across field
when bomb struck
Next day another German air squad
ron appeared over remote islands, but
left without dropping any bombs.
Shore batteries and allied pursuit
planes were credited with driving of
Nazi bomber which
Germon FLYER attacked French pas
Over ChonneI senger ship in mar
row English Channel.
One bomb fell within 100 yards of vessel,
carrying 80 passengers.
An r. A. F. patrol plane also reported
bombing German submarine with pilot
claiming reasonable belief" he had de-
stroyed underseas raider.
Twice in "a hours AFRAID sirens and
crack of anti-aircraft guns drove Pa
risians to shelter. On one occasion, shell
fragments wounded three civilians
Out of New York Dutch ship headed
east with load of American built planes,
destined for British; out of San Pedro
slipped another similarly loaded vessel.
In each case British conveys were ex-
pected to pick up carriers.
Mindful of what Nazi bombs might
do, British government authorized Lord
Lothian, Ambassador to United States,
to arrange for display of historic copy
of Magma Charta at Congressional Lii
brary. Document, birth certificate of
human liberties, has been at New York
World Fair.
Bombs likewise worried Churchill,
fish fancier. On his Kent estate are
seven lakes stocked with fancy fish. To
finny friends of other fanciers, Church.
i'll has offered sanctuary in his lakes.
OF Churchilrs fish, acquaintance said:
He calls some of them by name, feeds
and tends them himself"
Evening star., 1939-11-19
Domestic Front

To transfer or not to transfer; to build
top-heavy or not to build top-heavy.
These were the twin maritime headaches
of Government in Washington in past
week.
First was continuance of row over pro-
posed transfer of eight United States
Lines merchant ships to operating cor
poration with Panama registry, BY this
device vessels could continue service into
Europes danger zone, now closed to
American flag shipping.
Before war American corporations were
operating more ships under foreign flags
than under our own. During discussion
of neutrality legislation on Capitol Hill
1t was quietly agreed that nothing should
be done to disturb this practice, nor
should it even be declared illegal to ex-
Evening star., 1939-11-19
on Lund

Little news of fighting came from
western front as Paris and Berlin issued
laconic communicates
On Monday, Berlin reported that
strong enemy scouting troops" had
been repulsed in fresh assaults on stra-
tegic hilltops southwest of Pirmasens,
east of Saarbruecken. During engage
ments, Germans claimed capture of one
officer, "a poilus. !
In connection with skirmishes, Ger
mans now claim that since retirement of
French from advance positions occupied
in German territory in early weeks of
war latter have established their lines
firmly along frontier, driving French
from several elevated positions valuable
for reconnaissance purposes.
For their part, French confined their
claims of week to repulse of several
German thrusts along 25-mile sector
between Wissembourg and Bitche.
Both French and British announced
withdrawal of most of their garrison
troops from Tientsin, North China storm
center. Claim was made that decision
was reached before European war broke
out but action delayed to prevent false
Interpretation of approval of Japanese
policy toward China.
Meanwhile, japanese reported drive in
Kwantung Province toward Chinas
back door" Ifelines into Burma and
French Indo-China. And in wake of
fear that Holland may be drawn into
Europe's war came rumors that Japan
is prepared to make swift grab at mag
nificent East Indies empire of Dutch if
Netherlands and British attention
should be too much occupied elsewhere.
From war capitals have come recur-
ring reports of new mysterious, deadly
weapons being de-
New Weapons veloped; most revolve
Rumored around chemical war
fare with mobility to
be provided by travelling laboratories
modelled on tanks.
But as In all wars manpoWer is funda-
mental need. On Friday, British called
for 10000 added recruits between ages
of IS and so for service in home defense
battalions. Increase in women's auxili-
ary from 10000 to 10000 was sought,
recruits to serve as clerks, cooks, chauf-
feurs. *x **
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last week asked House Appropriations
Committee for deficiency appropriation
of s271 100000 for emergency purposes to
end of present fiscal year.
Naval establishment, involving COM
missioning and operation of destroyer
fleet on patrol duty, would get $146,-
100000 of this sum; military establish
ment, $4,000, 900; Coast Guard, $4,5oo,-
900; Federal Bureau of Investigation,
spy-hunters, $1,50O,0OO.
Army and Navy programs totaling we'll
beyond 100000 900 already have been
indicated for next fiscal year.
Italy, also preparing for peace, is
spending s873,SOO,OOo for military and
aviation ordnance.
From last war, world owed America
$14 ,497, ,161 ,34022 on November II, Armi-
stice Day.
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tend practice. Accordingly, Standard
Oil Co. asked and received permission
after passage of Neutrality Act to shift
IS tankers to Panama flag. U. S. Lines
asked same privilege for eight liners,
likewise received permission of commits
sion.
Hardly had action been taken, how
ever, when tempest of criticism broke,
causing President to ask
Ship Tronsfer commission to withhold
DroDDed final decision. Secre-
tary Hull previously in
dicating no objection, then denounced
proposed transfer as violation of spirit
of act. Last Tuesday at press confer
ence President said final verdict still is
pending. but spoke gravely of not want
ing to embarrass neutrality policies Of
sister Latin American republics, indi-
Gated clearly that no further transfers in
that direction will be permitted.
Maritime Commission fumed-silently,
but eloquently
Next day Belgian Ambassador in
quired about outright sale of American
freighters to Belgian interests. Approx
ing this form of transfer in case Of
five trawlers to be sold French Line,
Maritime Commission has indicated no
objection to sales to Belgians.
Despite protests from Ireland and
other neutral nations encompassed with
in prescribed danger zone President in
dicated no intention to modify restric-
tions on American shipping or to revise
limits of zone
Second ship row was that centering
on discovery and Navy Department ad-
mission that new crop OF destroyers Just
entering service show poor weight dis
tribution, tending to top-heaviness under
certain conditions
AT high speeds, when sudden turns
are made under certain possible condi.
tions Of the sea, there
U. ). Worships may not be enough
Topheoy" margin of safety in
these new destroyers
to satisfy the Navy" Acting Secretary
Edison acknowledged.
Nevertheless, he added, corrections car
be made at reasonable cost to make
ships 'eminently satisfactory"
Senator Wheeler Montana Democrat
suggested congressional inquiry in Nav.
building methods.
Calmly, President Roosevelt explainec
Evening star., 1939-11-19
War at Sea-

Casualties continued at sea with Brit
ish destroyer and trawler among naval
losses. At least four British merchant
men, two German, one Norwegian one
Greek and two Lithuanian cargo car
riers also went to bottom.
British destroyer was not identified in
admiralty announcement, although seven
crew members were reported missing
after ship hit mine and exploded; trawl-
er Cresswell was sunk by shell fire from
submarine.
Two German vessels were scuttled by
own crews after being picked up by Brit
ish warships searching seas for Nazi
pocket battleships.
One of British losses, steamer Sird-
hama, went down near Singapore after
hitting mine, probably part of defense
field. But another, tanker African Shell,
was sunk by German battleship Admiral
Scheer off East African coast.
Late recapitulation of maritime losses
for all nations reads about 100 ships,
more than 100000
Shipping Losses tons. British, OF
Increase course, are heavy
losers of some 10
ships, Germans about IS; neutrals
about 40.
Georges Pernot, French minister of
blockade, told Chamber of Deputies last
week that British have seized 400, 900
tons OF German bound cargo since war
began, French, 225,00O tons. Included
have been iron ore, copper, oil, arma-
ments.
Several weeks earlier than yearly GUS
tom, James Fighting Ships, authoritative
British naval manual, made its appear
ance.
Up to date to point of recording loss
of aircraft carrier Courageous, battle
ship Royal Oak and submarine Oxley,
James graphically tabulated wide .su-
premacy Of Britain's maritime fighting
forces as compared with those Of Ger
Evening star., 1939-11-19
War in the Air

German planes made customary ap-
pearances during week off Northeast
Scottish coast, over Shetlands and Ork-
neys.
In one incident, British reported three
fighting planes successful in bringing
down German bomber over North Sea.
Four of Nazi raiders were reported
over Shetlands on Monday, but were
driven away by anti-aircraft fire and
pursuit planes. Later, one of ships be-
lieved in German squadron crashed near
Dutch North Sea coast; three members
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instance was being accorded in past
week to prompt and courageous action
of Belgium's young King Leopold, who
was reported refusing to accept German
guarantees of security in return for re-
framing from joint defense policy with
Dutch.
BY suddenly formulated peace plea,
two lowland nations indicated selves
acting in full concert, brought Hitler ad-
vice from his military staff that con-
templated westward drive through these
determined and well defended neutrals
would be costly, perhaps unsuccessful.
Slow to comprehend that Germany was
making effective war for past three years,
French and British have been catching
UP fast.
Today, they are knee-deep in same
tactics; displaying military strength to
susceptible observers along Maginot
front, keeping ships and planes on con-
slant prowl over worlds oceans, in
triguing furiously with neutrals in all
corners of Europe. Most effective
strategy perhaps is that on economic
front; patient blockade of Germany,
pooling of military, financial and diplo-
matte resources of allied pair. True ap-
plication of such tactics should enable
Britain and France to continue their war
Of position indefinitely.
Manifestations of efficacy in past few
days was issuance of ration cards in Ger
many for wearing apparel; previously
only food had been doled out. Hence
forth, one suit will con-
Nozis Rotion stitute go per cent OF
Clothing uerman males clotn-
two dresses will be 10 per cent OF
woman's.
Disturbing to Nazi supply chiefs wa!
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that only trouble was that metacentric
height was too high, that it could be
lowered without congressional investiga-
ton
Meanwhile, Navy Department disclosed
work had been postponed on new cruisers
Columbia and Cleveland while naval en-
gineers debated alterations to adapt
ships to match 10000-ton pocket bat
tleship type.
At same time Secretary Edison re-
minded press that Nazi ships were born
Of rigid limitations rather than convic-
tion they were perfect type of naval YES
sci. No ship, he said, should be crowded
to become Jack of all trades" adding
that no changes are contemplated in
45000-ton battleships now building.
Relations between Soviet government
and Catholic Church, between Rev. DR..
Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown Uni
versity and Earl Browder, Communist
party head in America, became more
bitter.
AS spokesman for party and Moscow
government, Browder in Monday night
address accused Catholic hierarchy of
attempting ito undermine and destroy
the great American tradition"
On Tuesday DR.. Walsh asserted RUS
sian craft" was responsible for sinking
of Athena.
On Wednesday, he added
Dictatorship, autocratic tyranny,
ruthless confscation, class warfare, OBJ
scene atheism and the despiritualizing
of the human soul are carried on the
tip of every Soviet bayonet."
In New York Fritz Kuhn, little fueh-
rer, blushed as prosecutor read his tele-
grams of love and kisses" during trial
on charges of stealing bund funds.
Evening star., 1939-11-19
On All the Fronts
By John C.. Henry.


pattern today Whether
wholesale violent DEATH time
Little talk
shipping mark British
spasmodic raidng took place; casualties few
Roosevelt discovered neutrality
sister
Navy desoyers could balanced
permit further study
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with what he terms prima facie evil
dence of collision.
That a government which five
years ago fostered collision now
fights it may seem inconsistent, yet
a return to orthodox business philos-
ophy has again made men believe
that competition is the life of trade.
Up. before the house appropriations
subcommittee Trust Buster Arnold
explained the justice department
will need $500, 900 more next fiscal
year simply to carry on an anti
trust campaign which-after 40
years-"is just getting started"
No violent campaign is planned,
Mr.. Arnold explained, but five re-
gional offices will be opened New
York, Atlanta, Chicago, Oklahoma
City, San Francisco) and such ma
tion-wide investigations as that of
the oil industry will be co-ordinated.
With Individual actions at Madison,
Wis, New York and on the Pacific
coast, Mr.. Arnold's oil inquiry will
center on whether producers must
not divest themselves of control
of the retail filling stations, prac-
tice he charges is collusive in that
it holds up prices, sitting competi-
ton. Mr.. Arnold on oil: 'My point
is that either we are going to have
competition in the oil industry or
if that is impossible it has got to
go to congress for regulation-one
of the two"
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providing the Reich with an outlet
to the Adriatic sea and thence to
the Mediterranean. Much though
Germany's friendship might be val
ued, Italy cannot afford to let Hitler
become Mediterranean power.
(2) Italians dislike Russians, but
both in heritage and ambition Adolf
Hitler's nation is like Soviet Russia.
An allied Berlin and Moscow would
control Europe, a possibility which
grows less remote as German-hating
Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov
retires from Office and both Hitler
and Stain cease shouting at one an
other. Such pact would leave It
ally in the cold.
90 Strong though her Mediter-
ranean position may be, Italy is
still weaker than the combined fleets
of France and Britain. Mussolini
is also alarmed at recent Anglo
French gains in the Mediterranean,
especially their pacts with Greece
and Turkey. And though he counted
on Spain as an ally against democ-
racies, Mussolini finds Generals
simo Francisco Franco hobnobbing
too affectionately with Germany to
his own exclusion. Franco hobnobs
also with French, Swiss and Dutch
bankers, seeking a reconstruction
loan neither Italy nor Germany
can give. So far as Mussolini is con-
cerned, the Iberian peninsula is
bigger question mark today than one
year ago.
"a Several times the past year
Italy has risked war to help Hitler,
first in Austria, next in Sudetenland,
next in Czecho-Slovakia, then in Me-
mel. Each time the home folks
wondered what Italy would get in
return, and after one solid year of
such risks they have received moth
ing but barren Albania. If Hitler
marches into Danzig and drags It
ally into a futile war, II Duce will
risk internal blowup.
Such are possible reasons why
French Ambassador Andre Fran
cois-Poncet met Italian Foreign Min
lister Galeazzo Ciano in Rome re-
Gently for amicable discussion on
French-Italian trouble points. Since
modern treaties apparently mean
nothing, there is good chance Italy
might junk her new German pact
for a settlement with France and
Britain. Britain's reluctance to
sign treaty with Russia might be
founded on the hope that Germany
and the Soviet would get together,
thereby alternating Italy.
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ITALY:
A1is Breakup?

In 1914 the homeland of julius
Caesar broke its triple alliance with
Germany and Austria-Hungary be-
cause Trentino and Trieste were not
forthcoming. Next year Italy went
to war on the side of the Allies.
European history has a way of re-
peating itself; Benito Mussolini, who
last year saw everything to gain in
an alliance with Adolf Hitler, and
who has just signed 10-year sin
vincible" military pact with Ger
many, may well be floating helpless
against current he cannot buck.
Plainly top-heavy, the Rome-Berlin
axis nowadays gets most of its ora
torical support from Nazidom;
though Mussolini chimes in, almost
every speech indicates he would
like peace with democracies. Left
unspoken are the reasons he fears
the man he calls friend. Reasons:
Cd If Balkan Yugoslavia breaks
up, the area inhabited by Slovenes
is almost certain to be grabbed by
Germany from its Austrian outpost,
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RACES:
SenlitiSnr

Last October top film executives
met Movie Car Will Hays to dis
cuss how anti-Semitism might be
checked insofar as it affects movie
revenues. Last November Father
Charles Coughlin made radio
speech tempering criticism Of Ger
many's Jewish pogroms by COM
menting that Communist persecu-
ton of Christians was worse. Nazi
sources, he said, had told him 56
of the SO top men in Russia's Com
munist party were Jews.
This spring came Equality" a
magazine boasting prominent "Ary-
ans" on its editorial board and dedi-
Gated to combating anti-Semitism.
At the same time Golfers maya
zine found there was at least enough
talk about the subject to justify a
popularized treatise by Harvard An
thropologist Earnest Hooton on the
Jews ''highly evolved and special
lied characteristics of mind, tenn
permanent and personality"
Readers of the Hooton article
found themselves realizing that Ger
many's horrible pogroms have at
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with alarm another chapter of Ger
man-Spanish relations now being
written. In Madrid, while Franco
forces announced all German and
Italian arms used during the war
(bombers, pursuit planes, heavy ar
tillery, tanks, trucks, technical
equipment) would be retained, a
committee of IL German tradesmen
was en- route from Berlin to nego-
tiate an economic and financial
treaty with Spain.
Heading the group was DR.. Hell
muth Wohltat who negotiated the
treaty with Rumania last March.
Observers thought Wohltat treaty
making had reached the pattern
stage, for Spain will be treated just
about the way Rumania was. Reich
contractors will build roads, rail-
ways, Notifications and other mill
tary establishments for the new
Spain. More vital, however, is the
general provision for exchange of
Spanish raw materials Especially
ores and foodstuffs) for German fin
ished products. Thus will Spain be
drawn positively into the Rome
Berlin orbit.
While this was going on, Dictator
Franco reviewed his much-post-
poned victory" parade, then spoke
as if his nation were free from Ger
many and Italy: eve want great
Spain, but we place our dignity
above all. We shall not tolerate
any attempt against our sovereign.
ty because it would be useless"
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Explanation Never Caught
Up With Original Statement

Subsequently, Mr.. Roosevelt
sought to explain what he meant
by the statement that Argentine
beef is superior in quality. He
pointed out that the Argentine prac-
tice is to can better cuts of beef
because of the slack sale for fresh
meat in that part of the world. But
the explanation never has caught
up with the original statement, and
it never will.
When this attempted explanation
came from the White House, heard
an old time political battler at the
capitol observe:
''That is mistake No. 2. One of
the first rules in politics is never
make a statement that you have to
explain If you do, your explana-
ton will get you into trouble. 1t
is better never to explain anything"
Yet, in fairness, it must be OBJ
served that the price in the United
States and the price the government
must pay, therefore, results from
a combination of circumstances.
Our national policy for years has
been to encourage what we adver-
tise as the American standard of
living. To that end, congress has
passed laws, many of them. The
Walsh-Healy act, for example, says
that the government may not buy
from any manufacturer who does
not comply with stated require
ments as to hours and wages for
work. There is the so-called fair
labor standards act-the wage and
hour law-for another. Fifty more
could be named. Nor do I wish my
self to be placed in the position of
condemning all of them. I point to
them merely as causes for the stu
alton in which Argentina underbid
our own folks because most of our
people on relief live better than the
employed workers in South Amer
lea. It serves, moreover, as an IL
lustration and proof that most
so-called statesmen advocate ma
tional policy and national laws with
out knowing where or when or how
they may have to eat their own
words.
released by Western Newspaper Union)
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least made America conscious that
there is such problem. This real
ization became the more acute
when Texas Rep. Martin Dies
brought his un-Americanism investi-
cation committee back into session
with the following unsavory allega-
tons:
Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Nose
ley, who retired from the army last
autumn after throwing sharp shafts
at the New Deal, is active in a
nationwide anti-Jewish organiza-
ton. Moseley joined drive
financed by New York's Dudley Gil
bert, who sent confidential reports"
he received from night club wait
er" to James Erwin Campbell, re-
serve army captain of Owensboro,
KY. Campbell, in turn, issued re-
ports to "key people" throughout
the U. S. Dies said Gilbert had no
intention of stirring up race hatred
but thought he was doing 'patri-
otto service in anticipation of a rev.
olution."
Sample Moseley statements re-
ported by the Dies committee:
ID "The fact is that the most
serious problem confronting Amer
lea today is just this problem of
the Jew and how to get rid of his in
fuence definitely-locally, national
ly and internationally"
(2) eff the Jews bump me off be
sure to see they get the credit for it
from coast to coast. It will help
our cause"
Notified of the charges, General
Moseley abruptly closed his own
private "un-Americanism" investi-
cation in CALIFORNIA; Imperial val
ley and flew to Washington in an
swer to a Dies subpoena. His COM
ment: 'tHow strange that
a patriot can discuss openly and
frankly the problems involving Irish
men, Italians and Germans :.
but let him mention any information
al 'isms' or Zionism and their in
creasing control of America, then
he is attacked on all sides even
his life may be threatened.