The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-29
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Washington. d. c. (NWNS)-
Ending a short seventh inning
stretch" after having gone through
the most momentous 12-month ses-
sion in the history of the United
States congress, senators and rep
resentatiYes here have again roll
ed up their sleeves to put through
new Notwithstanding legislation in
cluding the biggest tax bill Amer
lea has ever seen and a new lend
lease measure to provide new bill
ions to anti-Nazi forces.
Following the Presidents return
to this city from his dramatic
conference with Winston Church
III and his announcement or a
three-cornered meeting with the
Russians. there is little doubt that
the majority in both houses OF
congress feel more strongly than
ever that Mr.. Roosevelt holds the
keys to our future activities and
hey stand ready to carry out his
legislative requests.
Since the Presidents return to
the White House little specific in
'ormation has been revealed about
the conclusions which he reached
with Mr.. Churchill, but signifi-
canoe is being attached to his
statement that we are no nearer
war as a result of the meeting and
to the fact that the now famous
eight aims of Great Britain and
the United States, as released by
Mr.. Churchill and Mr.. Roosevelt.
were peace aims rather than war
aims.
For the past year men close 10
The President have argued over
mis- views on whether we should
send an expeditionary force TO aid
Britain some believing that he Is
eager 10 become an active ally or
Britain and others feeling that he
is still bending every effort to-
ward helping Britain win the war
without sending men. Each state
ment he makes seems to add new
lire to the argument, both sides
finding phrases which they can
interpret to bolster their own
views. But the wise-acres who a
year ago predicted an expedition
airy force before Christmas" have
mad to admit the President is not
rushing Us into war and il is the
general feeling here that without
some unexpected incident, we Will
continue for some time our policy
OF "all aid short of war;
The short of war" tag on our
pledges of aid have been less ap-
parent recently, but all polls show
the people still are thinking in
terms of short of war" and no
shooting is expected while the ma
jCrity of Americans oppose it. All
polls of public opinion continue to
show strong sentiment against an
A. E. F. The most recent Gallup
poll, which is watched carefully
by government leaders here,
shows SO per cent of the people
still opposed to an expeditionary
force. although the great majority
favor all possible aid to Britain
except men.
Reports on our defense produc-
ton indicate that output has been
accelerated at tremendous rate
during the past six months, but
there are still many obstacles in
the way of attaining the produc-
ton rate of which we are capable.
Shortage of raw materials is an
increasingly difficult problem. In
controlling the distribution of ma
terial, the Office of Production
Management has tried to feed
both the defense factories and the
non-defense industries as long as
possible, but in one line after an
other it has now become a ques-
ton of slowing up defense pro-
duction or putting non-defense in
dustries out of business.
One noSSihla SO1utiOn which the