Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-24
The Home Front

AS part of its plans for increased aid
to Britain, the administration last week
took steps to release to Great Britain
As four-engine bombers equipped with
the Sperry bomb sight, rated by experts
as only slightly less efficient than tie
bomb sight DOW used by Army and Navy
bombers. All the oombers are long
range craft, capable of reaching any
part of Germany from the British Isles.
In making the announcement, Gen.
George c. Marshall, chief of staff, re-
vealed that United States observers have
taken part in flights in British planes
over British territory and the English
Channel No American observers have
flown over German territory, he said.
On Monday. the Navy Department an
nounced that "all the British authorities
concerned" had agreed upon sites to be
leased by this Government for air and
naval bases in Bermuda, the Bahamas,
Jamaica, Antigua, st. Lucia, British
Guiana and Newfoundland. Only at
Trinidad, the southern anchor" of the
chain to give the Western Hemisphere
a virtually impregnable defense against
attack from Europe, are the final ar
rangements still to be completed. The
Navy will lose no time in starting work
on the construction of new bases on the
sites provided by the British government
in exchange for so old American de-
stroyers. President Roosevelt is expected
to make funds for construction available
from the 5000 900 900 emergency defense
fund which Congress recently placed in
his hands.
Activities of the German government
in this country have not been restricted
to propaganda and
Dies Issues so-called military es-
white Paper" pionage, but have
penetrated our eco
nomic structure, the House Committee
on Un-American Activities charged in
a report released Thursday. Covering
500 printed pages, with several hundred
pages of exhibits, the report was de-
scribed as preliminary digest" of the
subversive operations of various organi-
cations and individuals in this country.
The committee charged that the Nazi
government has also been carrying on
campaign of penetration into the eco
nomic structures of South and Central
American countries The Dies commit
tee report is worth exactly three short
laughs" NaZi officials declared on Friday
Secretary of Commerce Jones revealed
last week that plans are under considera-
ton to increase the purchase of Ar
gentine products and to buy from that
country defense materials such as wool,
hides leather and strategic metals. An
Argentine financial mission recently ar
rived in this country. and the confer
ences with administration officials are
expected to lay the foundations for a
broad policy of economic cooperation
/ between the two countries.
Newspapermen covering the war in
Europe are under the greatest strain in
the history of reporting, Kent Cooper,
/ general manager of the Associated Press,
told A. p managing editors at their
meeting in Louisville last week. On
Tuesday, an official British air force
communique announced that Ralph w.
Barnes, one of the best known foreign
correspondents of the New York Herald
Tribune had been killed in action while
carrying out his duties as a war cor
death when a British bomber in which
he was a passenger crashed near the
Greek-Albanian frontier.