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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01

Rev. A. Roger Williams accompanied
the young people to Chelsea. A buffet
supper will be given under the auspi-
ces Of the church school the second
Thursday in June for the benefit of
the school treasure. The Mutual Aid
Society held their annual exercises last
Sunday afternoon in the Newhope
Baptist Church in Winchester with
very appropriate exercises. Deacon
James c. Fields delivered the annual
sermon. A large number of members
were present and friends. Next year
the annual exercise will be held in the
st. Johns Baptist Church in NAV.
Rev. Lloyd Abercrombie of Boston
delivered fine sermon at the mid
week prayer meeting last Wednesday
evening. One of the largest attendance
that was ever present attended the
meeting. The Mothers Club will
sponsor Rummage Sale June s from
10 am. to pm. in Mr.. Gorins store
on Mountvale Ave The Pastors Aid
Club presented a successful drama last
Thursday night in the church vestry,
May %.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01
From Pres. ROOseUeH's
Fireside Chat On Defense

against those who would cast a smoke
screen across our vision.
ARMS TO DEFEND AMERICAS
WAY OF LIFE
The development of our defense pro-
gram makes it essential that each and
every one Of US meel that we have
some contribution TO make toward the
security of our country.
At this time, when the world-and
the world includes our own American
hemisphere-is threatened BY forces
of destruction, it is my resolve and
yours to build up our armed defenses.
We shall build them to whatever
heights the future may require.
We shall rebuild them swiftly. as
the methods of warfare swiftly
change.
For more than three centuries we
have been building on this continent
free society, a society in which the
promise Of the human spirit may find
fulfillment. Commingled here are the
blood and genius of all the peoples of
the world who have sought this pro-
mise.
We have built well. We are continu-
ing our efforts to bring the blessings
OF a free society, of a free and produc-
tive economic system, to every family
in the land. This is the promise of
America.
1t is this that We must continue to
build-this that we must continue to
defend.
1t is the task of our generation. But
we build and defend not for our gen.
GRAFTON alone. We defend the founda-
tons laid by our fathers. We build a
life for generations yet unborn. We
defend and we build way of life. not
for America alone, but for all man
kind. Ours is high duty, noble task.
Day and night I pray for the resto-
ration of peace in this mad world of
ours. It is not necessary that |. the
President, ask the American people to
pray in behalf of such a cause-I know
you are praying with me.
l am certain that out of the hearts
OF every man, woman and child in this
land, IN every waking minute a suppli-
cation goes up to Almighty God: that
all Of US beg that suffering and starv-
ing, that death and destruction NAV
end-and that peace may return to the
world. In common affection for all
mankind, your prayers join with mine
that God will heal the wounds and the
hearts of humanity.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01
To Correct Error
To the Editor of The Guardian.

To the Editor of The Guardian:
This letter is to contradict publica-
ton in your paper of May IS, stating
that Mr.. Shackleford of West Africa
was our "house guest" We saw the
distinguished visitors at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Thompson in Cam
bridge, and merely took them from
there to our home on their way to
South Station.
We gave no news whatsoever to any
reporter as such statement is false and
we are not the "notoriety" type. If
any publicity-seeker who might have
been at our home during their brief
visit gave you this information, they
might have been courteous enough to
include Mr. Shackleford's most charm
ing wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas w. Headley
79 Dale Street, Roxbury.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01
DRAMA GROUP HAS
= CLOSING JUNE 9

CONTINUED from Page y
pecially for Children's Theatres and
other dramatic activities in which
young folk take an active part. Her
talk will be illustrated by dramatiza-
ton Of "The Tar Baby, Joel Chan
dler Harris story, presented by men,
bers of the group.
As this promises to be a meeting of
more than usual significance to people
interested in real community theatre,
a large gathering is anticipated.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01
TROJAN HORSE, SPIES, SLOGANS
NEW THREATS

y -
NEW THREATS
Today's threat to our national SEEM
rity is not matetr of military waa.
pons alone. We know of new methods
of attack.
The Trojan Horse. The fifth column
that betrays nation unprepared for
treachery.
Spies, saboteurs and traitors are the
actors IN this new strategy. With an
OF these we must deal vigorously.
But there is an added technique for
weakening a nation at its yery roots
Tor dlsruDting the entire pattern Of
life Of a people. It is important that
we understand it.
The method is simple. First, discord.
A group-not too large-a group that
may be sectional or racial or political
are encouraged to exploit their nre-
JUDGES through false slogans and emo
tional appeals. The aim of those who
deliberately egg on these groups is to
create confusion of counsel, public in
decision, political paralysis and even
tually, state Of panic.
Sound national policies come to be
divided with a new and unreasonino
skepticism, not through the wholesome
political debates of honest and free
men, but through the clever schemes
Of foreign agents.
As result of these new technin1as
armament programs may be dancer
ously delayed. Singleness of national
purpose may be undermined. Men can
lose confidence in each other, and
IN the efficacy of their own united
action. Faith and courage Weld to
doubt and fear. The unity of the state
IS so Slapped that its strength is de-
stroyed.
All this is no idle dream. 1t has
happened time after time, in nation
after nation, during the last two years.
Fortunately, American men and wo-
men are not easy dupes. Campaigns
Of group hatred or class struggle have
never made much Roadway among us.
ana are not making much headway
now. But new forces are being IN
leashed, deliberately planned propa-
gandas to divide and weaken us in the
face Of danger as other nations have
been weakened before.
These dividing forces are undiluted
poison. They must not be allowed to
spread in the New World as they have
in the Old. Our moral and mental de-
lenses must be raised as never before
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01

Blanche Perry, Grace Shelburne, Very
Hodge, Esther Greene, Edna Smith
Long, Ruth Morris, Besesie Forster,
Vera Carney, Elizabeth Wheatley,
Mary Mann, Una McCatty Bell, Sarah
Nelson, Ella Thompson, George $3.50,
Oswald Gilbert, Cecil Wade, and David
Owens.
Geraldine Robert, was the accompan-
ist, assisted by Harold Evans. John
Powell, was business supervisor, and
james Henderson, stage director, and
dramatic coach. The cast was artist
cally costumed by Nellie N. Crichlow,
assisted by Nora Simson, William A.
Rhodes conducted the performance.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01

:, Everything that systematically
and consistently tends to better condi-
tons OF our people is now challenged
along the "Red scare" line. We all
know that now."-Chicago Defender.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01

ment policies of the present and past
decades. A combined Dictator de-
claration of severance from the Mon
roe Doctrine influence and protection
by any or several South American
States will be backed by positive mill
tary aggression without any compro-
mise only total submission. If this
attitude is not accepted by America
then war, which is obviously on the
threshold can solve the problem OF
whether or not the Monroe Doctrine
can be enforced.
(COntinupd next week.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01
Recent Deaths
Bagby

Bagby
Funeral services for Sterling Bagbyy'
8 Hammond St., were held at People !
Baptist Church, Wednesday, May ~
at 100 pm. Interment at Mt. Hope
J. B. Johnson, undertaken.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-06-01
RACIAL HATRED, MONROE
DOCTRINE FICTION
BY MONROE MASON
y y y4NHNNyA n 4FIIttJOAN
x Y Y \ Z .: Y Y < Z < Z K < 4 z Z

Believe it or not, the world is almost
enveloped in war conflagration. Amer
lea, the greatest Democracy in the
universe, stands pre-emminently as a
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Alfalfa Club BANQUET
To Be Held January IS

The annual banquet OF the Al
falfa Club will be held January Is
at the Willard Hotel, with the
change in the date being due to pro-
inaugural ceremonies and the usual
excessive demand for hotel accom-
modations.
The clubs 194l officers include
Senator Connaly of Texas, presi-
dent; Senator Byrnes Of South
Carolina, vice president; Henry B.
Spencer, second vice president;
Charles P. Light, secretary-treas-
urer: William P. Meredith, SER
geant at arms; Thomas w. Brahany,
chairman of entertainment, and
George H. O'Connor, waterboy.
Members of the Board of Mana
gers are Clarence A. Aspinwall, j.
Harry Covington, j. Harry Cum
ningham, Carroll Glover, Senator
Harrison of Mississippi, Joseph H.
Hines, Mr.. Light, Thomas P. Little
page, Mr.. Spencer, Corcoran Thorn,
Edward J. Walsh and Lloyd B. Will
son.
To fill vacancies the club has
elected the following to membership:
Carter T. Barron, Maj. Gen. Fred
erick w. Coleman, H. Rozier Dulany,
George L. Harrison, Representative
Martin, Fleming Newbold, Maj Gen.
Edwin M. Watson, Lewis Wood and
Comdr. William Brent Young.
Evening star., 1940-12-04

in the Balkans run their course and
to put up with the new European
order" as defined in Berlin and
Rome.
Now it can be said with some
confidence that the spirit of sur
render does not blow any more
over Belgrade and that military &C
ton is likely to be resorted to were
the Italian Army to recoup itself in
Albania, to push back the victorious
Greeks and to advance toward Sa-
lonica, the emporium where Yugo-
slavia enjoys special privileges be-
cause Of a treaty with Greece and
which must be regarded as her main
sea outlet.
The Yugoslav rulers have realized
at last that by passively falling in
with the plans of the totalitarian
empires and making the best they
could Of a condition Of vassalage
they would have no chance to safe
guard the territorial and moral
unity of their country and even to be
spared the most ruthless mode Of
partition.
Italy's Balkan Plans.
What Italy intends to do in the
Balkan Peninsula has never been
kept a closely guarded secret Anton
Pavelitch, the leader of the "Ousta-
chis," who, in 1884, murdered in
Marseille, under Fascist guidance,
King Alexander of Yugoslavia and
French Foreign Minister Louis Bar
thou would be placed at the head OF
a greater Croatia; the Albanian pro-
tectorate of Italy would also be ex-
panded so as to include the region
of Salonika.
On the best assumption, Yugo-
slavia, therefore would be reduced
to the small nucleus she was at the
beginning of the last century, when
the Turks still held the Fortress Of
Belgrade and the ancestor of the
karageorgevitch set himself to the
hard task of redeeming his country
men from the foreign yoke. Indeed,
Yugoslavia would sink still deeper,
since unlimited surrender is apt to
destroy for decades the nerve of
nation. There are lost battles which
harden and steel the collective soul;
capitulation impairs 1t.
But how can the delay OF Yugo-
slaviaS decision and the hesitation
which probably still linger in Bel
Evening star., 1940-12-04
YuqosIov Attitude Changes
Views Toword Axis Altered by Greek Successes;
Military Action Seen If Foscists Reeoup

grade be accounted for? After all,
on the day the Greek army began
to check and rout the italian in
vaders, Prince Paul and his minis
tiers had within their grasp chance
to throw the Italians into the sea.
Why did they not make use Of the
opportunity? The answer Is that
they we're overwhelmingly i'm
pressed by the inevitability, the
fatality of the German triumph. In
their judgment, it was a futile
achievement to get rid OF the 1alian
menace in the face of German
army of which the advanced posts
had been pushed in the Banat of
Temesvar to within so miles of Bel
grade.
Vainly some Yugoslav military
leaders propounded the argument
that an italian disaster might cas-
lily shake the Fascist regime to its
foundations and that the efficiency
of Nazi power itself could not but
be seriously affected by such de-
velopment. They were not needed
and a 75-year-old general was
dragged out of retirement and ap-
pointed to the supreme command
of the army.
Outlook Changes.
Three weeks filled with Greek mil
itary successes, with the strengthen
ing of Great Britain'S naval and air
power in the Mediterranean, with
the hard blows struck by the Royal
Air Force from its new bases in
Crete at the line of supplies Of
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's troops
in Libya have caused the wheel to
turn. The outlook Of the prince
regent and of his advisers is not
what it was before.
Moreover, the Iron Guards rev.
olution in Rumania. whatever its
origin may have been (some diplo-
matte sources are inclined to detect
in it the hand of Josef Stain rather
than the hand of Adolf Hitler, has
reminded all concerned of what be-
comes of governments which at
tempt to find relative salvation in
the Nazi's new European order
And last but not least, King Boris
of Bulgaria has resisted hitherto
Hitler's proposal to join the three
power pact in the wake Of Hungary
and Rumania.
That point is of particular i'm
portance and deserves to be stressed.
Lately a deputy in the Bulgarian
chamber deemed it opportune to
revive, in violent grafton. his
country's claims on the Macedonian
districts wrested from it in 1918
and in 1918. At first that outburst
was generally interpreted to mean
that the Bulgarian government was
about to play its part by the side of
Germany, Italy and Rumania, in the
encircling of Yugoslavia. which was
bound to suppress for that country
all possibility of resistance. even to
rule over any last-ditch fight in the
districts of the Upper Moravia VAL
ley, the cradle of the nation.
But last week the Bulgarian min
lister in Belgrade was instructed Of
flcially to tell the Yugoslav foreign
minister that his government in
tended to remain true to the treaty
OF January. 1887, whereby the two
Evening star., 1940-12-04

Representative John C. Floyd of
Arkansas.
Mrs. Floyd is survived by her hus-
band, r. H. Floyd, member OF the
staff at the Library Of Congress;
two children, Catherine, 20 and
John, II; three sisters, Mrs. Daw-
son, Miss Ionic Whitlock, and Mrs.
P. T. Talley; and three brothers,
Lynn, Emmitt and Walter Whitlock.
She was born in Staunton, Va,
and spent much of her life in Ar
kansas.
Funeral services will be at the
Chambers funeral home at 1:30 pm
tomorrow Interment will be at
the Arlington National Cemetery
at 3 pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Jorga 5 Death Followed
Trial as He Walked
By the Associated Press.

! By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Dec. 1.-THE trial"
Of Nicholas Jorga, 72-year- -old pre-
mier executed last week by the Iron
Guardists, took place as he was
walked through the streets Of Bu-
charest, Rumanian sources said
yesterday.
Jorga, an old friend of ex-King
Carol, was seized by seven green
shirted Iron Guardists at Sinaia
House and was hurried along by his
captors as they talked. He was
silent as they argued the question
of death or life.
For three hours they walked, de-
batting fiercely in undertones. At
last they came to a woods. There
they voted. Four were for death.
II expected this" the aged man
said YEARLY.
He was one of the first men, high
in Rumanian affairs under Carol, to
be executed in revenge for the death
of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, founder
Of the Iron Guard. who was killed
two years ago.
Evening star., 1940-12-04
The Romports We Watch

President Roosevels inspection tour OF the Caribbean
sites of others which
concerned that Uncle
he has to watch
particularly earnest
chief of the
armed forces.
Mr. Roosevels appointment of Admiral Leahy Ambassador to
affecting
things which this country must heneorh
The Presidents last conference before ne left
Admiral Leahy. America
spokesman equipped spot
yielding African bases which could
Ambassador
would
splendid an observation which suggests that one OF
diplomatic the the island
Evening star., 1940-12-04

directly United branch
of he axis remains that the further japanese
for
the sight Chinese armies absorb
their energies the remote the possibility of Japns imposing thai
new order in Asia which is her avowed purpose.
Specifically peril Philippines Dutch East Indies Thaand
New
the breaking
plies Their foreign trade worldwide conditions has dimn-
vanishing Chnas military
resistance the main Nppon To proong them papa
rapacy Incidentally assistance to the
weimed the recognition OF
Nankng by Japanese and
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Mrs. R. H. Floyd Dies
OF Injuries From Fall

Mrs. R. H. Floyd, so, of 1888 Ala
bama avenue Sc, died Monday at
the home of her sister, Mrs. H. H.
Dawson, from complications result
ing from fall she suffered Octo-
ber 2.
A foreman on the District w. P. A.
sewing project, and a resident here
for more than 25 years, Mrs. Floyd
was the daughter-in-law of former
Evening star., 1940-12-04

1Cd llldS NC LA
reaching.
Thus the Sc
curitieS a n d
Exchange Com
mission, W i t h
commend a b ! e
understanding of
the problems Of
S m a ii business,
has now ruled
that issues of Sc
curitieS up to
100000 W h e n
offered for public
sale do not re-
Ouire the filing
Of the lengthy
Evening star., 1940-12-04
BergdoII Would Be Glad
To Serve, Wife Says
BY the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. AIRS.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll says her
husband, now serving a seven-year
sentence for evading the 1917 draft,
wishes he could be drafted under
the present Selective Service Act.
HE certainly would be glad to
serve if they called him." she said
yesterday upon her return from a
visit to Fort Leavenworth, Kans,
where Bergdoll is confined.
Evening star., 1940-12-04

u II u e l B " II e q
drastic change.
A short while
ago the best dip
lonatic and mill
tary observers on
the spot freely
predicted tn a t
Prince = Regent
P ii a n d h / S
ministers h a d
made up their
minds once and
for all to refrain
from interfering
in the war, to let
G erm a n a n d
Italian cnnnIIeStS
Evening star., 1940-12-04

misled in our
estimates, it's
wise to record
that Britain's
position on the
sea is by no
means desperate.
The torpedo
ing business,
like most other
enterprises, has
its good days
and its bad ones
as witness the
proud claim by
Berlin that on
Monday U-boats
sank 18 ShiDS
Evening star., 1940-12-04

whatever the future may have in
store, the prospects of Nazi domina-
ton are not today what they were
at the beginning or even the middle
of November.
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1940-12-04
FutuI Leup Held Suicide

A certificate of suicide was issued
last night by Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald in the death of James
A. George, SIS, No. l Second street
NV, who died in a seven-story
leap from Emergency Hospital early
yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-12-04

post will again be assigned 70 WHAT
the State Department calls a ''polit-
ical appointee"-that is, somebody
outside of the career-or 10 some sea-
soned officer of the foreign service
deserving of promotion. If it's decided
to reward q minister OF ambassador
en- duty elsewhere, six or seven
meritorious names would come into
consideration. They include our ace
Ambassador, Joseph C. Grew, COM
pleting his 10th year at Toxic; Nelson
Evening star., 1940-12-04

T. johnson Ambassador China;
Argentina jefferson Caery Brazil John " Mac
Murray Messersmh TO
and w. Weddel, Ambassador to SPAIN
detachng service veterans from current DUTY Is
indispensable at their present posts
charge
good neighbor America would make an ideal London
Ambassador Hu second command ranks hgh among
irreplaceables
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Spain and PORTUGAL

the southwestern Of that continent there
still statesSpan Portugal
full soldiers
Of
m 10
commodities is
als still overcrowdd; the
etist far from dead.
disappointed He brought sembance
neither
people Spain starved Hunger and cold the
revolutionare Morocco These
called
o Spain n
Evening star., 1940-12-04
Washington Observations
sl00,000,000 Short Of War Assistance to Chino
Further BecIouds Jopon's Vision Of Victory
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Extension Of another $O0O0OOO of aid to China in the form of
credits and currency sabzaon support Of those measures short
which the United States pursuing checking
with protective
Banking
Coinage Committees approved the proposal They Secretary Hull
Secretary Moeenthau uhetatng respecting
the allotment China purchase American supplies
stabion
against Japanese sabotage"
the Chang Kai-sheks
report China deliveries
Evening star., 1940-12-04

neighbors are pledged not to wage
war on each other That stone,
thrown in the scales at a decisive
moment, may well turn them finally.
OF course, We must not overlook
that, more than ever, Balkan poll
tics rests on shifty sands. But
Evening star., 1940-12-04

and Greece VIII have TO Suffer the
fate of the totalitarians' other vic
tins.
From the strategic point of view
Greece is more important than Fin
land. If the totalitarians succeed in
doing away with the independence
of that country the position of the
British in the Eastern Mediterranean
would be considerably weakened.
From Salonika and the Dodecanese
Islands as we'll as from Crete, totali-
Evening star., 1940-12-04
By PERTINAX.

Indications are at hand that, dur
ing the last fortnight, the general
attitude of the Yugoslav government
toward Italy and Germany has
Evening star., 1940-12-04
New Hope
Given Small
Business
Change in S. E. c.
Regulations Eases
Capital Flow
Nv DAVID LAWRENCE.

A simple regulation has been
changed, seemingly a technical re-
striction, but the effect on the opera
tions of small businesses in Amer
Evening star., 1940-12-04

tartan could make the position the British
would submission the the
control Dadaneles
and become Turkeys immediate neighbors
Furthermore totaitaran domination Greece would definitely
force the Yugoavs political and economic terms the axis
Evening star., 1940-12-04
British Act
oCut Loss
In Shipping
Position Is Described
As Serious, but
Not Desperate

BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.
The heavy sinkings of British and
Allied shipping by Nazi U-boats
and bombers is in all conscience
serious matter, but lest we be
Evening star., 1940-12-04

keep important cOnllngenLS OF Ger
man troops in Spain. They live
on what might be called the fat Of
the land-and that is so lean that
the German commisSariat must
keep a continuous feet of trucks
moving between France and Spain
to feed the soldiers sent for the
preservation of order"
Portugal continues to be we'll
off and everybody is making large
o,,I1,
Evening star., 1940-12-04

YHE opinions OF the Driters this their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars eDot to gue all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1940-12-04
This Changing World
- America Seen Only Possible BuIwork Between
Greece and Tototuriun Triumph
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The American being all home
and abroad all possible aid before 1t is late
soldiers consider their
always considered formidable Fighting conditions the Greek
Albanian mountains du Italian equipment aviation
considered that Of the Russians general staff
composed OF professional officers trained in modern warfare
the Italians will back all likelihood they will
Germans with them Italy hes humiadand that
might change into rebellion.
The Greeks have captured important material from the Italians
but is particularly useful for They lack shells
transform the
lack of planes
number
Evening star., 1940-12-04

metals Indispensable to our defense
industry, which were pledged as re-
payment for the 1888 loan of $50OOO,-
000 The same commodities-Wolfra-
mite, antimony, tin and tungsten
will be sent here to liquidate the
latest advances. Most of them pre-
sumably will come over the Burma
road.
Our interest in keeping China 60
ing as a belligerent is frankly based
on the theory that we are helping
nl1rSelueS by helnirp her That is to