Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-12
Norris Expects
Dictators Will
Fight Selves
CONSUMPTION Foe
Admits They Will
Come to U. S., However
BY ROBERT BRUSKIN.

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war against each other as the num-
Der of countries open to conquest
diminishes, Senator Norris, indie
pendent. of Nebraska, said today in
opposing the Burke Wadsworth
CONSUMPTION bill as unnecessary to
the defense of the United States.
He also said the measure would lead
inevitably" to dictatorship in the
United States.
The Senate began its second day
of debate on the CONSUMPTION issue
shortly after the House Military At
fairs Committee postponed until the
afternoon a vote on the measure to
authorize the President to order out
the National Guard and Officers
Reserve Corp. The committee con-
sidered the bill this morning but
postponed action to study debt
moratorium provisions submitted
by the War Department.
Senator Norris. who opposed
American entry into the World War
and r. no is a leader of the Senate
bipartisan bloc opposing conscrip-
ton, acknowledged that eventually"
the dictators must come to us, !
concede that"
Sees Navy as Bulwark.
Every one wants to conquer the
United States" Senator Norris con-
tinued, but first they must conquer
our air force and Navy, They can't
land a single soldier until they sink
our Navy
Whats Hitler doing now? With
% miles of water, he can't get over
to England. I predict that many
hundreds of thousands of Hitler's
soldiers will be at the bottom of the
sea before he succeeds, if ever"
He declared it 'preposterous"
that any fears should be engen-
dered of invasion of the United
States.
Hitler, Stain and Mussolini, he
said, dream of the time when
they shall rule the world"
How can any one of them at
tain that dream of world conquest
unless he eliminates the other two?'
he asked.
Sees JealOuSies Now.
He declared the dictators already
are suspicious and jealous of each
other now and were getting ready
Ito fight each other"
Eventually, he added. each dicta-
tor must cross the path of another
dictator and when that happens
there will be brighter day for
democracy"
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, OF
Montana, leader of the opposition
bloc, pointed to q dispatch from
London appearing in The Sunday
Star declaring We're not afraid
Hitler will try the invasion; we're
afraid he won't"
This, Senator Wheeler declared.
showed how difficult the invasion
of the British Isles would be and
how much more difficult invasion of
the United States is.
Senator Barley, leader of the
consumption advocates, declared.
however, that the comparison is
misleading since the United States
fleet is scattered in two oceans
while, he added, the British forces
are concentrated in a small area to
prevent invasion.
Drawn up by Brig. Gen. William
E. Shedd, assistant Army chief of
staff in charge of personnel, the
debt moratorium proposal in con-
nection with the guard bill would
have the effect of leaving to courts
to decide whether debts of soldiers
should continue to be unpaid while
they are in service
The Senate, in approving the
Guard bill by a vote of II to 7 last
Thursday. added an amendment
offered by Senator Overton, Demo-
crat, of Louisiana, which made the
Civil Relief Act of 1918 an integral
part of the measure.
The amendment, however. struck
out paragraphs relating to the pay
ment of insurance premiums and
payments on the purchase of public
lands.
Provisions of Plan.
The substitute drawn by Gen.
Shedd provided that the Govern
ment may pay the premiums for
the period of active duty and the
soldier must repay them within a
year after his discharge. 1t also
restored the section relating to
public lands payments, as well as
bringing a 1918 act up to date.
Representatives pointed out that
the amendment would be the basic
law for all future calls upon men
for duty, including CONSUMPTION. AS
an example of its effect they said
that if a civilian purchased an
automobile on time payments and
was unable to continue payments
because he had been ordered to
duty as soldier, the finance COM
pany could not repossess the car,
but would be forced into court for
(See CONSUMPTION, Page A-6)