The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-25

ICCCk1U4y III C14C 0A 2cboos 4A Japan never has met first class navy, that annihilation of her fleet would be matter of two or three months.
 They cite especially the Japan csc effort to reduce the WooSung 1892, when the aim of Japan's big naval guns was so poor that for while American photogra- phers stood on top of the forti- fications taking pictures of the bombardment.
 The other school of thought is composed of oloer officers who are specialists in naval tactics. They have figured out the time necessary to move the fleet from Hawaii, to establish large enough garrison to protect the Philippines, and to prepare for meeting the Japanese fleet in it's own waters. To do all this they want at least 8 year.
 Both groups agree that the United States would come out on top, but they disagree widely on the time required for victory. DEFEND ON BRITISH
 It is extremely important to note that both groups are as- suming the British fleet would remain on guard in the Atlantic and the United States would not face the job of protecting Latin America from Hitler-simultan- eously with the Japanese attack.
 This is one reason why many young naval officers definitely favor an aggressive policy toward
 Japan, now. They argue that
 this would be the surest means
 not only of helping the British,
 but also of polishing off an all
 most certain enemy at a time
 when the Atlantic still is pro- tected.
 NOTE - Naval reports indicate that the Japanese are Shying away from the idea of invading the Dutch East Indies, despite Nazi urging. One deterrent has been the strong defenses of the Dutch. Another has been significant U. s. naval moves, particularly storing large supply of torpedo tubes in Hongkong, keeping large flo- tilla of submarines at Manila, and concentrating the fleet at Hawaii instead of California.
 YOUNG SQUIRT
 There was a lot of gay rem iniscing at the gathering of the Roosevelt clan for the inaugural ceremonies, and one of the best stories was told by handsome Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who did his first solo campaigning last year and is very proud of it.
 During the 1886 contest, he re- lated, while accompanying his father on his western electioneer- ing tour, it was young Franklin's particular job to appear on the back platform to greet the crowds that assembled at small town stops late at night in the hope of seeing the President. One night Franklin was routed out of bed to say a few words to a gathering of farmers and rancherS at an isolated Montana way stop.
 Bundled in his bathrobe, he was in the midst of polite ex- precision of regret that his father was unable to appear when an elderly woman, sitting ill a horse-drawn buggy. piped up in a laud vtaoinshrdlcmfwyp cmfwyp loud voice:
 Say, who is that young squirt up there? I rode 38 miles to see the President of the
 United States and I want to see him. Where is MT. Coolidge?" COUNCIL FOR AMERICA
 A new organization to be known as the Council for America will be launched to rally public senti- ment behind the Presidents foreign and defense policies.
 Leaders of the movement are prominent liberals whose aim is to bring together labor, farmer, literary and similar groups into a militant organization to oppose the activities of the America First Committee and other isolationist units. The Council for America will not be rival for the Com mittee for the Defense of America by Aiding the Allies, but will work along similar lines through clements not reached by it.
 The plan is to launch the new
 organization publicly on Lin-