The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-05

Of the European war.
 ] Gen. John J. Pershing and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh were the head liners in this radio debate, but Sec ,Fetary of the Navy Frank Knox, As sistant Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Senators Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., and Pat McCarran, D., .Ney, Rep. James E. Van Zandt, R., Pa, and Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., sN. Y, also took part.
 ~ Pershing, Knox; and Patterson ad- vocated conscription in some form, and Pershing suggested that the United States sell over-age destroy- CTS to Great Britain. Lindbergh, sMcCarran and Van Zandt, address ing a Chicago mass meeting, ad- vanced isolatiorist views. Nye and Fish opposed conscription.
 Efforts were under way to work out a compromise on conscription, which leaders on both sides said is essential if the senate is to agree soon on program. Many favor a suggestion by former Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring that the basic pay for army enlisted men be increased from $21 to $30 a month and that one-year voluntary en- listment plan be put into operation.
 Sen. Francis T. Maloney, D., Conn.,, asserting that i've are now up against stone wall" and national unity is paramount" told reporters he would sponsor compromise bill. embodying these points.
 It will specify that if these short enlistments do not fill army quotas by certain date-to be determined 1ater-conscription would be put into effect.
 l, T, of course, would prefer not to have it but 1t would be better than what we've got confronting us now, " Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont, said of the Maloney plan, adding that isolationists pr1bably would meet early this week to determine how best to fight the Burke -Wads- worth bill.
 Sen. Josh Lee. D., Okla, support CT of conscription, conceded that some compromise was essential.
 Sen. Edward R. Burke, D., Neb., co-author of the conscription bill, which originally applied to men be- twe,m the ages of 18 and GA, said he felt greatly encouraged by MT. Rocsevelt's indorsement of the plan and predicted that no more than 20 senators would vote against it.
 Gen. Pershing Opens Door
 Washington, Aug. 5-(UP)-The proposition that the defense of America may depend on the United States selling over-age destroyers to Great Britain had been brought in- to the open today by General John J. Pershing. Commander in Chief of the AEF.
 Pershing advocated this means of defense in speech broadcast on all radio networks last night, a few hours after another of Americas heroes, Col. Charles A. Lndbergh, had advocated defense of an almost opp site nature to an audience as large. Lindbergh addressed mass meeting in Chicago.
 They head-lined an intensive weekend radio debate of national defense methods.
 There had been much private talk of the United States selling destroy CTS to Great Britain to aid her de- fense against a Blitzkrieg attack, but Pershing was the first to pre- sent it direct to the public. Last spring there were reports that Great Britain was seeking to buy destroy CTS. Then 1t was discovered that the navy was planning to permit the British to buy 20 torpedo boats that were being manufactured for 1t. At- torney General Robert H. Jackson ended this plan by declaring 1t H. legal.
 Advertising Campaign
 The committee for defending America by aiding the Allies, three of whose members visited President Roosevelt last week, began a cam paign of newspaper advertising ad- yocating the sale of over-age de- stroyers to Britain. William Allen White. Kansas Editor, is chairman of the committee.
 First official reaction to Persh- ing's suggestion was sparse. Chair man David I. Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and Sen Rush D. Holt, D., w. Va, said the sale of destroyers would be an act