The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-30

aiiici dted tfit NIX ny pioDitiiaE
stood off in this country:
ter. The vote was two 20 one
against the plan.
About the Japanese situation
the congressman pointed out that
despite the scrap iron and oil en-
barge. japan was still getting iror
and oil. but OF a lower grade.
Japan is still waging war will
the materials we supply her" n
stated. II we placed a complet'
embargo on the shipment of wal
materials TO Japan. the Japanes.
army and navy could be stopped
within 90 days"
With worried attitude, Coffee
took up the matter of supplying
aid to Britain.
England IL undergoing un-
speal<able punishment. Her
people are facing starvation
because supply ships are being
sunk at an astounding rate.
Frankly, am worried
about England. I am worried
for fear that n we ship I'M
limited supplies of war ma
terials Ia the British Isles.
they may be- used against us n
Hitler defeats Britain"
Coffee said nv favored sending
supplies that can be spared with
out weakening y. S. defenses. In
this regard, he frowne1 upon Civ
ing England the Sperry bomb
sight and the selling of SO many
bombers and flying fortresses.
I'VE may need them ourselves. .
He said the Sperry bomb sight is
so accurate that a bomb dropped
at a height of 10000 feet would
hit a target within a radius of $50
feet.
I'D hate TO think of the terrible
destruction that would be wrought
IL the Nazis got hold OF this
weapon"
He said he doubted that the u
s. had. az claimed by the navy, q
bomb sight even more accurate
than the one donated to England
ut may he so, but you'Il
have To show nse before I'll be-
lieve IT,"
Coffee said that the lords of in
dustry" weren't cooperating "A,
they should under the defeIrs,
program.
They are demanding tlseil
pound of flesh In advance, h.
said. They are holding out foi
great sums of money and refu ~ Il
cooperate unless they get VIVA
they're after"
Immense profits result iron
this. according to Coffee. and pro
duction is slowed up. As a remedy
he favors legislation to cohscrip
industry.
As for unemployment. the con
gresham said that American.
were more interested in foreign
affairs than they were in domesti,
ills.
Unemployment con stitutcs
our greatest menace. t0r n II
the breeding ground for. radical
elements, particularly Fasc-s
ism. People who have moth
ing are more susce ptible 10
foreign ideologies when
democratic country refuses To
see 10 their needs
Coffee listed the events which
attended Hitler's Isse to tn,
leadership of Germany-the Ger
man fuehrer's early. struggles a!
an impoverished artist in Vienna
his Munich beer cellar putscl
which failed hut which inspire,
his prophetic 'Mein ksmpf," hi,
ascent to supreme, power in 1888
and finally the realization, ste,
by step, of his program to restor,
Germany's prestige and power.
Hitler told the world OF hi.
plans. but the world ignored him.
Coffee said in reviewing the event.
leading up to the war. Step b,
step. just as he had promised. h,
has carried Qua his program-th,
the Saar basin. Alsace.
Lorraine. Austria. Czechoslovakia
Poland. France. etc"
During his talk Coffee
roundly assailed the work of
the Dies uHnmittce. asserting
that IL Is spreading hysteria
and intervening with the work
Of the federal bureau of in
vcstigattsn.
Dies is a good fellow person