Evening star., 1940-07-28
Britain and Germany Turn to Air Raids Cripple Industries

Senate Military Affairs Committee ap.
proved the Burke -Wadsworth bill for a
universal selective, peace-time draft, and
hearings opened on the same measure
before the House Military Affairs Com
mittee. The Army sent word to the
House Committee that no man with
dependents would be drafted. But all
between 18 and 64 will have to register.
The conscription bill has long legis-
lative trip to go before it becomes law
and before it requires complete discus
sion in this weekly review of beligerence
At the present it is sufficient to observe
that this bill indicates the German effect
on the world. Lord Lothian. the British
Ambassador, said during the week that
Great Britain is this countrys Maginot
Line.
surely. the Government Of the United
States does not regard Germany as our
friend. That Germany
Sermons does not regard us as
BeIittIe u. s friend, Walther Funk,
the German Minister
OF Economics made clear during the
week. In conference with the non.
German press representatives in Berlin,
DR.. Funk attacked the United States for
what he termed discriminatory tactics
against Germany, ridiculed the United
States vast stores of gold as useless in
a world which DR.. Funk is sure will be
managed by an almost goddess Germany,
and disparaged efforts to evolve a Pan
American plan for Western Hemisphere
economic unity.
Even while he spoke in Berlin, Cordelf
Hull, the American Secretary of State. at
Havana was making progress toward an
astonishing diplomatic achievement dis
pleasing to DR.. Funk: The union of d
nations, the American republics behind
an economic and political program for
insulating the New World against the
shock of events in Europe Mr.. Hull is
the Leading figure at the Emergency
Conference of American Foreign Min.
listers. On Monday, in almost 5000
words, he outlined his plan: The Amer
lcas together will market their goods;
the Americas together will hold in man.
date the European possessions in the
Western Hemisphere if they are threat
ened with change in European owner
ship; the Americas together will fight
off the fifth columns in the various
Americas Argentina showed at first an
lndlSposltlon to go along with Mr.. Hull,
but the American Secretary hoped for
meeting of minds with Leopoldo Melo,
the Havana plenipotentiary of the great
South American republic.
The success of the Havana conference
is the foremost American diplomatic in
terest. Twice during the week WASH
lngton gave powerful public support to
its discussions The
U. 5. Seeks President himself and
To Give Aid. Acting Secretary of
State Sumner Welles
took steps calculated to put the Latin
Americans in a cooperative spirit with
the United States. Mr. Roosevelt sent
a message to Congress asking for $780,
100000 for the Export Import Bank, to
be lent without restrictions to Latin
American countries. Mr.. Welles issued
a statement indicating this countrys
complete concern for the protection of
the sovereignty of every Latin American
country, whose people can hear over the
radio from Berlin almost every night the
propaganda that the United States de-
sires to interfere with the liberty of each
OF our sister states in this hemisphere.
The people of the United States" Mr..
Welles said g. are opposed to any
form of intervention on the part of one
state, however powerful. in the demo-
cratic concerns of any other sovereign
state, however weak Those principles
constitute the very foundation upon
which the existing relationship between
the 81 sovereign republics of the New
World rest"
Strangely enough, Mr.. Weles had no
direct reference to any inter American
matter in that statement Its purpose
was to announce to the world the United
States refusal to admit the change in
Status of the three Baltic republics.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. whose
parllaments voted for union with Russia.
Behind this vote Mr. Welles saw coercion
leading to deliberate annihilation."
To Washington last week came the
prince consort of the Grand Duchess of
another nation under duress-the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg, the patch Of
hllly land that touches, German, France
and Belgium-or, in contemporary lam
euage. Germany. The Prince Consort
Felix and his six children we're luncheon
guests of the President Thursday.