Evening star., 1940-01-19
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

BY ]. A. OLEARY.
A new compromise plan for ex-
tending aid to Finland is expected
to be ready for introduction in the
Senate before the Banking and
Currency Committee resumes con-
sideration of the question next week
it was learned today.
Senator Brown, Democrat, of
Michigan, author of the original
, resolution for a 100000, 900 loan to
the struggling Scandinavian repub-
lie, conferred today with Jesse H
Jones, Federal loan administrator
and later made the following pre-
diction:
II think we will be able to work
out something that will be salts
factory"
The Michigan Senator did not
discuss the nature of the changes
that may be made in the proposal,
pending further conferences Mon
dav to draft substitute.
There were some indications, how
ever, that it is likely to include a
compromise figure for the amount
of the loan.
Hopes Are Renewed.
After a preliminary discussion of
the subject Wednesday, the Senate
committee recessed until next We'd
nesday and invited Secretary of
State Hull to present his views at
that time
News that a revised Senate reso-
luton is being prepared gave re-
neWed hope today to members of
Congress who are anxious to work
out diverse viewpoints to clear the
way for some measure of real help
to Finland in its struggle to survive
as a democracy.
There are no indications thus far
that proposed aid to Finland has
provoked any concerted wave of op-
position, judging from the mail of
Senators in charge of the subject.
Senator Browns Office has re-
ceived to date not more than 100
letters, about evenly divided for and
against. On the theory that oppo-
nents of any proposed legislation
usually are more likely to sit down
and write to their Congressman,
supporters of Finnish aid regard this
small volume of correspondence as
q favorable sign.
Most Letters From individuals.
Nearly all the letters in opposi-
ton sent to Senator Brown have
been from individuals rather than
organizations There was one letter
from local branch of a labor union
in Detroit, voicing general objection.
Another was from an official of a
local unit of the Workers Alliance
IN Pontiac, in opposition.
The Office of Senator Wagner
Democrat, of New York, chairman
of the Banking Committee, estimated
that only about 200 letters have
come in, and that there are more
for than against. In this case, also,
1t was estimated most of the letters
are from individuals. In contrast to
this number of letters on the Finnish
question, Senator Wagner's office
received 250,OO0 communications last
october when the neutrality bill was
being considered.
Possibilities of severing diplomatic
relations with Soviet Russia also
was being discussed today
Agitation along this line was
initiated yesterday in a resolution by
Senator Vandenburg, Republican,
of Michigan, calling upon the State
Department or the President to dis
close whether the Soviet govern
ment has been living up to its con-
ditions of recognition agreed upon
in 1888. The resolution was referred
to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, which is expected to ap-
proach the State Department on the
matter in the near future.
Senator Vandenberg told reporters
he was confident that if the Senate
approved his resolution, the infor-
nation furnished in response to it
would be such that action would be
forced on the question of severing
relations.
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee said ne
agreed with Senator Vandenberg
that Russia had violated its 1893
pledges not to support political Or
ganiZations in this country and not
to interfere with the religious wor-
ship of Americans in Russia, as we'll
as it promise to pay for confiscated
American property.
He was understood to be opposed
to withdrawing American represen-
tatives from Miscow, however, on
the ground that such step would
cut this country off from direct
sources of information within Rus
sia, while having little practical ef-
feet on the prosecution of the So
VETS war on Finland.