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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
Girl Scout Campaign
 oOpenHereM Monday
Personnel of Teams Announced By Mrs. COwpertEl-
 wait, General Chairman Goal Set at $500

The makeup of the teams which will participate in the annual H. nancial appeal of the Waterbury Council of Girl Scouts was an- nounced today by Mrs. George Cow perthwait, general chairman. Eigh- teen teams recruited from four sec tions will conduct the drive. Names of the captains who will lead the forces were also announced by Mrs. Cowperthwait.
 The drive will get under way Mondy night with a dinner meet ing at the YMCA at 6:30 o'clock. After the meeting, the teams will begin their drive for $8,500, needed to continue the many activities and good work of the Waterbury Girl Scouts.
 One of the features of the drive will be Girl Scout display in the window of Grieve, Bissit & Holland, North Main street, Mrs. Cowperth- wait said. Other features will be announced as the campaign pro- gresses.
 The names of the sectional leaders, captains and teams were announc- ed as follows:
 Section 1
 Sectional Chairman-Mrs. Parker Powell.
 Captain-Mrs. Bertram Bailey - Team Mrs. William Gaegr, Mrs.
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3 = Mrs. Avon Boyd Mrs. Clifford Prescott, Mrs. Clifford Herbst, Mrs. Hazen Mckee, Mrs. P. R. Godburn, Mrs. Frank J. Nora.
 Captain, Mrs. James Yavecchia- Team 3 - Miss Helen Armstrong, Mrs. William Briggs, Mrs. Alfred Hensel. Mrs. Fred Thorell.
 Captain, Miss Doris Cashman - Team 4 = Miss Ethel Cashman, Mrs. Clifford McPhee.
 Business Section Sectional Chairman, Parker Powell, Milton Sugenheimer, David F. Babson, Har- old Manning, Brandon Shaw.
 Outlying Districts Sectional Chairman, Mrs. Francis Phillips: Beacon Falls, Mrs. John McGeever; Middlebury, Mrs. John Freeman: Naugatuck, Mrs. Glenn Kirby; Oakville, Mrs. Frank Withey; Pros- pect, Mrs. Glenn Noble; Thomaston, Miss Edyth Dallam, Mrs. Winfield Wight; Cheshire, Mrs. Donald Ho- warth; Woodbury, to be announced at a later date.
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Lone Nazi Pierces
 Defenses Of London
Continued From Page 1)

tals, killing one nurse and wound ing many persons in one hospital. Bombs continued dropping as doc- tors and nurses worked to remove patients from debris. In the other hospital, one for mental cases, two patients were wounded.
 After 36 hours, rescue workers still dug for bodies in the ruins of Lon- don school, used as a shelter, in which an unknown number of peo- pie had been buried. About 40 per- sons were rescued alive yesterday, but it was feared that all still in the ruins were dead.
 Thick. low-hanging clouds, mist and at times driving rain gave Lon- doners their first real sleep in a week during the night. German planes were heard frequently over the city but few bombs were drop ped. and most of these were dropped in the outskirts.
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Nathan Pierpont, Mrs. Charles Hayward. Mrs. G. w. Swenter, Mrs. Harold Powles.
 Captair--Mrs. I. O. Spiers-Team 2-Mrs. Arthur Rogers, Mrs. Don L. Beardsley, Mrs. Charles Steward, Mrs. Harold Quinn, Mrs. G. D.. Lyon.
 Captain-Mrs. Bernard Laddin- Team S-Mrs. Leo J. Marshall, Mrs. John L. Risdon, Mrs. Carl Larson, Mrs. L. Castonquay, Mrs. Ed. Cava- naugh.
 Captain-Mrs. Howard Phillips Team Mrs. John Pratt, Mrs. Fred Lux, Mrs. Randall Hale, Mrs. Donald Post, Mrs. R. c. Steward.
 Captain--Mrs. Theobald Conway Team 5-Mrs. Calvin Martin, Mrs. Sidney Jennes, Mrs. Edward Keena, Miss Jean VanValkenburg, Miss Edith Phelan. Section 2
 Sectional Chairman-Mrs. Robert Johnson.
 Captain - Mrs. William Faeth - Team Mrs. George Brennan, Mrs. Harold Manning, Mrs. Joseph Flynn.
 Captain-Mrs. Ellery Kilbourn- Team 2-Mrs. Conrad Carlsrud, Mrs. w. B. Pape, Mrs. Earl McGanri, Mrs. David Babson, Mrs. J. o. P. Manherz, Mrs. Howard Smith, Mrs. Harry Liebeskind.
 Captain - Mrs. John Byrnes - Team 3-Mrs R. c. Atherton.
 Captain - Mrs. Frank Smith - Team 4-Mrs. A. H. Hunt, Mrs. Raymond Pidge, Mrs. Ralph Bates, Mrs. Edwin Craw.
 Captain-Mrs. Edward Jones - Team 5-Mrs. Ed Sanderson, Mrs. Theodore BevanS, Mrs. Joseph Het- gel.
 Section ,
 Sectional Chairman, Mrs. J. C.. Little.
 Captain, Mrs. J. M. Palen Team 1 - Mrs. Leonard Welton, Mrs. 0. R. Sage, Miss Pattie Sage, Miss Helen Stoddard, Mrs. J. Win- fred Beecher, Mrs. Dudley Burton.
 NdpLd4A4S &M1o' 4NO4 WOVA VShoeSA Team 2-Mrs. Stettbacker, Mrs. Walter Lowell, Mrs. Willard Stowell, Mrs. Harold Braman, Mrs. Carl Heebner.
 Captain, Mrs. Robert Harvey Team 3 - Mrs. Loren Durner, Mrs. Ernest Knutson, Mrs. William Tal- colt, Mrs. Paul Monroe, Miss Pegi Gene Smith, Mrs. Harold McNish.
 Captain, Mrs. Harold Ford-Team - Mrs. Norman Neale, Mrs. Ed- ward Bengston, Mrs. L. E. Isele, Mrs Brooks Rogers, Mrs. Clarence Allen Mrs. James Millar.
 Captain, Mrs. J. c. Little - Miss Gertrude Yates, Mrs. Howard Hol- comb, Miss Doris Jacaruso.
 Section
 Sectional Chairman, Mrs. David Whitney.
 Captain, Mrs. David Gibson - Team = Mrs. Elmer Robinson, Mrs. Arthur Tracy, Mrs. James Cameron, Mrs. Frank McCue, Mrs. Albert Gagner, Mrs. George Doderer. Captain, Mrs. Earl Pierson-Team
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
WALTER SUES FOR S5;OOO
Cheshire Youth, Through Father, Names Herman
 R. Schmidt Defendant

Edward Walter of Cheshire, q minor, suing through his father asks damages of $5,OO0 from Her man R. Schmidt according to 8 Sllit filed in common pleas court this morning by ais attorney, William K. Lawlor.
 Walter claims that on January 27 he suffered injuries when Schmidt 's car collided with one in which he was.a passenger The accident took place on the Meriden road.
 The suit for foreclosure of a me- chanic's lien and possession of the mortgaged premises in the case of the Tiffany and Pickett Company against Yale Matzkin and Ernest Dupre was withdrawn from the docket of common pleas court this morning. Terms of the settlement were not revealed.
 The Waterbury Savings Bank has filed motion to set aside the $2,250 verdict returned by jury against them Tuesday in favor of Dr. John -Wertheimer, North Main street phy- stefan. The medical man sued for injuries alleged to have been Sus- tained in a fall on defective stair way at 21 North Leonard stret, own- ed by the bank.
 The $7,50O personal damage suit Of Rossi D'AgoStino against Henry ". Clarke was resumed before Judge John F. McDonough this morning. The trial got underway Tuesday. D'AgoStino asks to recover for in- juries alleged to have been sustained December 28, 1889, in an auto col- nsion at Oak and Wall streets.
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MILK SHORTAGE IN
 BELGIUM FEARED
Devastated French Areas Also Seriously Affected
 By Lack

Washington, Oct. 17.-(UP)- French and Belgian babies face death this winter because of a milk shortage, Wayne Chatfield- Taylor Red Cross representative to Flu. rope, said today.
 "The infant mortality rate will in. crease heavily when the full ef- fects of undersupply of milk are fell through disease and I1alnutrition, he said.
 Lack of milk, Chatfield- Taylor told the United Press upon his re- turn from Europe, will strike with particular severity in the devastated towns of occupied France, far from the region of direct supplies.
 France and Lccgium have long been dependent upon condensed and powdered milk for the.r children Now milk can be obtained only on a doctors prescription.
 During the last year, he said "the people who should have been milking the COWS and working in the milk factories have been some where behind the Maginot Line. Both countries face the coming win- ter with milk reserves almost ex- hausted. The French Red Gross has brought 100 tons from Switzer- land but this can only be used in Paris and is not sufficient for the winter.
 He said the Germans have been entirely cooperative.
 The devastation wrought by the invasion of northern France, he said. is probably the most complete" of any in history. He said that in Beauvais, city of about 100000 people, a huge circular area in its center was utterly destroyed. with the exception of the cathedral.
 "In other places, whole towns were wiped off the map," he said, "and people returning find their homes nothing but a mass of rubble. To let others know they are inside, they hang up a sign 'Maison Habite' (house inhabitedD or else a white cloth" .
 Despite the British blockage; he said. Europe does not face famine. Stores of food are available to keep adults on an existence if not lux ury level" although certain articles Of diet will be curtailed.
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hereafter will be opened at 10:30 8. a. and close at g p. m. on weekdays. On Sundays, the movies will run from 1:30 p. m. to p. m.
 Fleets Cross Coast
 Coastal watchers reported that strong fleets of German planes were crossing the coast above low clouds and heading inland to attack Lon don.
 First anti-aircraft guns, then British fighter planes met them Mahcine gun and cannon fire was heard for miles along the coast Many of the German planes were turned back, fleeing for the French coast with British planes in pursuit but some of them penetrated the barrage and got through.
 Many Londoners who were forced to seek shelter had been standing in the streets. awaiting police per mission to pass through zones ir which time-bombs lay, in order te get to their offices.
 Two Hospitals Hit
 During the night German bombs struck two southeast England hospi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
VINCENT JURENAS
 HOME FROM NAVY

Vincent Stanley Jurenas. appren. tice seaman, U. s. Navy. son of Mir. and Mrs. John Jnrenas, of 13 Edward street, has arrived home for two weeks visit from the Naval Train ing Station, Newport. R. I. after completing a two months recruit training period. Upon his return he will be assigned to one of the new- reconstructed vessels of the U. S. Fleet, based at Honolulu, Hawaii. Jurenas who was accepted for en- listment last August, applied at the Waterbury Navy Recruiting Station, where he was accepted.
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By TOM WOLF
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Princeton, N. J., Oct. 17-"Hello America. This is Berlin calling in the North America transmission" For 8 year of war these words, spoken in a curiously Germanicized Oxford accent, have annuonced that Berlin was about to lombard the United States with perhaps the most powerful weapon in its peacetime arsenal-shortwave radio propagan- da.
 Princeton University's Rockefel- ler-financed Listening Center" has just completed study of the near ly 30 hours 8 week of news, talks, and commentaries that have been hurled across the Atlantic from Germany to America during the wars first year.
 Outstanding aspect of this study, soon to be made public, is the sud- den change in attitude toward Am- erica which the German broadcasters took immediately following the invasion of the Low Countries. Prior to the end of May, with the ex- ception of a short period preced- ing the Norwegian campaign, the Nazis' cornmendatory references to the United States overshadowed critical remarks.
 Suddenly this Honeymoon" pe- riod ended. Criticism and vilifi- cation rose sharply, starting May 25, and lasting through the first of September. In September they fell of, again without apparent reason, unless, as some of the Gen. ter's students are inclined to think, the invasion of Britain had already been called of.
 In that case, these students req son, Berlin would have had no need to try to arouse internal dis satisfaction in America which would in itself be an obstacle to united American action for aid to Britain. CRITICISM
 TRAGEDIES ATTACKS Perhaps it is coincidence, but criticisms of the United States have been sharpest just before Herr Hit Ter has loosed his armed might. This was true directly before the invasion of Norway, again directly prior to the start of intensive bomb- ing of Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
FUNERALS

The funeral of Maurice L. Horau of IT Elizabeth street, will be held tomorrow morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Mulville funeral home, 27C West Main street to St. Thomas church where a solemn mass of re- quiem will be celebrated at 0lo'clock Burial will be in the family ploi in new St Joseph's cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening.
 Members of the Chase Forenan's Association will meet at the fun eral home this evening at 7:l5 o'clock.
 The funeral of Mrs. Crestina Maria DeVito will be held tomor- row morning at 8 o'clock from the Maiorano funeral home, 95 Willow street with 8 solemn high mass at g o'clock at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Burial will be in the family plot, Calvary ceme- tery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from to II p. m.
 The funeral of J. Arthur Boisvert was held this morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Belleville Funeral Home. 68 East Clay street to St. Ann's Church where a solemn mass of requiem was celebrated at 8 o'clock by Rev. Ubald Laurion assisted by Rev. Alfred Matthieu and Rev. Henry Laurion. Burial was in Call vary cemetery with committal ser- vices by Father Laurion. A musical program was rendered by the choir and Adolph Tourangeau rendered Pie JeSu" and "AuCiel AuRevoir. " The pallbearers were: Edward Dus- seault. Eugene and Henry Despins, Howard Rochon, Romeo Manseau and Lomer Manseau.
 The funeral of Mrs. John J. Riley was held this morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Mulyille Funeral Home, 270 West Main street to the Blessed Sacrament Church where 8 solemn mass of requiem was celebrated at g o'clock by Rev. Francis Barrett as- sisted by Rev. Edward L. Morrison ant. Rev. Doyle. Burial was in old St. Joseph's cemetery with com initial services by Father Doyle. The pallbearers were Owen Barrie An- thony Duhalme, LeRoy Barry and William Yuska.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
MOTHERS CLUB TN
 SPECIAL MEETING

An important meeting of the Mothers of American Sons will be held at The Elton tomorrow eve- ming at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Katherine Johnson, president Of the Water bury Chapter. announced today that some plan of action would be for- mulated on future activities of the organization in arousing public in- terest 50 that American boys will not be obliged to shoulder guns to fight for foreign countries on for eign lands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
SCHOOL OFFICIALS ELECT

Detroit, oct. 17.-(UP)- Election of John T. Cate of Glendale, Calif., as president of the National Asso- citation of Public School Business OficialS was scheduled today at the organizations convention. He was nominated without opposition. along with H. s. Mitchell. Dearborn
 Mich, as vice-president, and Edwin E. Nelson, Hartford. Conn, director.
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It did not hold true. on the other hand before the invasion of the Low Countries, perhaps because at this time the military situation in Norway was occupying most of the German commentators attention. The Listening Center" declines to guess whether one could predict Hitler'S moves on the theory that when ever Berlin,s radio most born- bastically attacks America, then Der Fuerler is ready to strike. Most of the Nazi criticism of America has been aimed at press, radio. American policy makers, and, as always in Maxi propaganda, the Jews. The press is particularly berated.
 LETTERS FROM
 PITTSBURGH JOE
 On the "EIot on the Wire" pro- gram, one Gertrude Hahn mono logues on U. s. press bias. She pretends to be the switchboard operator of the Pittsburgh Tribune (the Nazis either don't know or don't CdIG tLldt bllc 1IIuuAlC ID NcSIU paper) and often reads letters from her boy friend, @Joe." ."Joe is the Berlin Correspondent" of the Tri- bune and his letters bemoan the fact that the Tribune censors his dispatches when favorable to the Reich.
 Fred Kaltenbach's widely known Letter to Iowa." which begins Dear Harry" also carries out this theme win some frequency.
 Since September |, however, the Germans have apparently taken a slight shift in emphasis. At present Berlins commentators devote much of their short-wave time calling at- tention to U. s. domestic problems unemployment. maldistribution of wealth, etc.
 With this tack, the Listening Center believes, the Germans hope to turn American eyes of Erope's war. To do this would be to &C., complish the aim of all Berlin's hours of short-wave broadcasting keeping America out of the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
OBITUARY

GORAEAN-Mrs. Bridget German, widow Of James German, one of the cityS oldest Irish residents. died this morning at her home, 426 North Main street, after Q long illness. A native Of County Limerick, Ireland, she was the daughter Of the late Patrick Riedy ard Margaret Hayes Rledy. Mrs. German had made her home ia this city for sixty years, spending the greater part Of the time ia the Brooklyn section where she was well end favorably known. She also he'd niisneFOus friends in the North End district where she had resided in recent years.
 Mrs. German is survived by one son, James !. German, prominent loeal soloist; one daughter, Mrs. John steveps, spd sven eFandchil-
 The funeral will bs held Saturday morning at . time to be announced later from the Lunpy Funeral Home. % Central avenue. Friends flaey call at the funeral hes1e this evening and tomorrow afternoon and evening
 c0NT0TS-Joseph contols, JF., [, son ef Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Con- tels cf panbuFy, died Tuesday morning in tho DanbuFy hospital Mrs coptois lD the daughter q MgsD Elizabeth ByFne of 9e Negth Fin street and Was formerly Q resident here, Joseph C0Dfolg, JF., is survived " 2 bEolbeE William, [.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-17
LOST HEALTH
 LOST INCOME

T h r e e W e e k s ago MT. R. W a 8 advised that in order to r e g ain his h e alth 1t " o uld b e n e c e s s a ry that he give up his posi- tio n.y. T h e tn c Il 6 h t of 10 si 6 his much needed innAnAA drnYe
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|. Forty-eight thousand United States communities, with a total population of 7,844,509 people. de- pend solely on motor trucks for freight service.
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DIED

GORMAN--En this city. Oct. 17th, io4O, Mrs. Bridget German, of 426 North Main St. Funeral Saturday morning, time to be announced later, from Lunny Funeral Home, 2b Central Ave
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MASS

LEHMAN-First anniversary mass of requiem will be celebrated Sat- urday morning, Oct. 18th, at $500 o'clock, at the St. Margaret's Church, for the repose of the soul of the late John c. Lehman.
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him to deepest of despair.
 A friend of his directed him to this office and we immediate iy arranged to give him treat. ments after his working hours.
 He has had but q few treat. ments to date, and from the i'm. now know that 1t will not be necessary for him to give up his hard earned position, and that 1t will be but a matter of time when he will have regained his former robust health.
 So again this office iS happy in the knowledge that It has aided in restoring Health and Happiness where but few weeks ago gloom and discourage ment prevailed.
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London Seen Using U. S. Army
|nfru-Red Roy Plane Detector

the use Of fewer searchlights than
heretofore indicated that some new
method of plane detection was be-
ing used.
Others doubted this. expressing
the opinion that the British merely
had changed tactics and were using
true barrage'-a curtain Of anti
aircraft fire.
This theory was questioned by q
member of the House Military Com
mittee with artillery training He
said that it would be virtually i'm
possible to throw up such curtain
of fire" around London because of
the tremendous amount of ammuni-
ton necessary and the almost pro-
hibitive wear on gun barrels.
Although the Army has not had
much to say about its new plane de-
tector, some congressional sources
expressed belief there would not be
the same reluctance about making
it available to the British as there
would be about the air corps highly
priced bombsight.
A difference in policy, it was ex-
planned, could be justified on the
ground that there was not the same
danger of the plane detector falling
into unfriendly hands.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Reports of Londons intensified
and increasingly effective anti-air-
craft barrage caused conjecture in
congressional circles today as to
whether the British had developed
an infra-red ray plane detector like
that perfected by the United States
Army.
Experiments with the apparatus
in this country were SO successful
that Army officials said it would
lead to ultimate abandonment of
the sound detection method for 10
eating enemy aircraft.
The new device, synchronized
with anti-aircraft batteries, was de-
scribed as designed to locate ap-
preaching aircraft by the infra-red
rays in their engine exhaust, and
thus is effective at night or in foggy
weather.
One members of Congress said
tests at Fort Bragg, N. c., demon
strated that the equipment could
spot" approaching planes accu-
rately at distance of IA miles.
House members conversant with
military matters said the reports
that Britain's new barrage involved
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japanese, Fearing
u. s., Are Reported
Seeking Soviet Pact
American Arms Program
Is Aimed at Nippon,
Army Paper Charges
~ the Associated Press.

oy VIC hSoOSidlcu fIcoS.
TOXIC, Sept. 13.-The newspaper
Kckumin, often spokesman for
the army, asserted today that the
japanese government was making
special efforts to reach an under
standing with Soviet Russia on the
ground that the United States pre-
parednesS program is directed at
Japan.
A rapprochement is being sought
IN order to safeguard Japan's rear
because, the newspaper said, re-
lations between the United States
and Japan are "fraught with the
danger of war"
America, the article continued, is
offering severe strategic, economic
and political opposition to Japan. in
dicating deadly preparedness and
definite plans"
TWc-Ocean Navy Cited.
AS evidence, the newspaper cited
appropriations for two-ocean Navy
and contended that the leasing of
British territories in the Atlantic
ioI 1ldN bdSCS NOulo U6 1OllOWGQ
by similar moves in the Pacific.
1t ridiculed American declarations
that the proposed bans of scrap iron
and gasoline are for purposes of
national defense. The real reason,
the article claimed. is to deny these
commodities to Japan. Weighty
political pressure was seen in Sec
rotary of State Cordell Hulls re-
marks relative to the maintenance
Of the status quo in Indo-China.
In discussing the American pre-
parednesS program. the paper said:
The potential enemy they have
In mind is not so much Germany
as Japan.
L. S. Termed Provocative.
Relations between the two ma
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tons are so acute that it may be
said without exaggeration that there
is almost no issue not charged with
the danger of war.
This dangerous, gloomy situation
is all of American making. AS far
as Japan is concerned nothing the
United States has done or contem-
plated doing is friendly or reason
able. Everything has been provo
cative and overbearing.
IF Japan were not engaged In
the China affair and were not pre-
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Red Cross Asks Blood
To Aid War Wounded

American Red Cross national
headquarters today had asked 81
chapters in the Greater New York
area to enroll prospective volunteer
blood donors to supply volumes of
blood plasma for the treatment of
wounded soldiers and civilians
in Great Britain.
simultaneously with the program
to aid the British by making avail
able volumes of liquid blood for
transfusions, the Red Cross is d.
recting a project which is furnish
ing volunteer blood to the Medical
Corps of the United States Army
and Navy as part Of national de-
Tense preparedness.
Red Cross chapters in Washing
ton, Philadelphia, Nashville, Ann
Arbor, Mich, and Iowa City already
are engaged in the latter program.
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occupied with domestic external af-
fairs connected thereto, the Amer
ican-Japanese problem would long
ago have been debated and some
action already would have been
taken"
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Russia now has streamlined autos.