The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-11
Efforts Intensified Along Many Fronts Following
 New Developments
LONDON HALLS F. D. K.
 PLAN AS "VICTORY"
President Called WOnId=Be Messiah By Berlin; Bal=
 kan Situation Unknown
BY HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

bL hAhhlSON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
 World capitals today bal anced President Roosevelt's "all-out" aid to Britain against Germany's new eco- homie treaty with Russia and drew conclusions generally following the line of their war sympathies. These diplo- matic, long-term develop ments were assessed against this background:
 The first joint German-Italian air attack on British sea power in the Mediterranean in which Axis reports claimed two aircraft car riers, cruiser and destroyer were hit.
 A big German air attack on Ports mouth in which British night fight CTS went into action and broke uE German bombing formations.
 Reconsideration of British siege operations against Tobruk while flying arlnored cofu1nns' struck deeper into Iibya along the Tobruk Decna Road.
 Proposals Hailed
 Tn London the Roosevelt proposals to Congress for almost unlimited aid from Americas new arsenal of de- mocracy" were hailed as the "key to victory over Germany. The British press devoted almost its entire att tention to the American aid question and gave scant attention to the new German-Russian trade agreement. The British view was that Russian assistance to Germany had never amounted to more than a 'trickle" and they doubted that paper agree ments would apprecjably change the situation.
 Berlin took 6 directly contrary line ,devoting it's major attention to the Russian agreement which, it was claimed, would bring unprece- dented shipments of foodstuffs and vital raw materials to Germany. The American plans were dismissed as "too late" to avert British defeat.
 "Would-Be Messiah"
 Adolf Hitler's paper, the Voel- fischer Beobachter, referred to Mir. Roosevelt as a would Messiah" The German press published summaries of the administrations proposals but the official line for comment had not yet been laid down.
 The important Italian newspaper Popolo Di Roma advanced the thesis that the American people opposed Mir Roosevelt's all-out aid to Bri- tain. The Italian press concentrated on joint German-Ita1ian action in the Mediterranean.
 The official Moscow press present. ed the agreement as strengthening peace and friendship" between Ger. many and Russia which were de. scribed as 'the two mightiest powers in Europe"
 Izvestia replied for the first time to President Rooesvelt's f1reside chat which had characterized American afA to Britain as mo more unneu- tral'' than the sale Of war materials by Sweden and Russia to Germany.
 Izvestia said some leading states men" of the United States and Great Britain were juggling" internation- al law by trying to place U. $. war aid to Britain in the same category with Soviet cereal sales to Germany
 Ruled By Friendship
 The Russian press declared that Russo?German relations had been ruled by friendship and mutual understanding" since the signing of the Berlin Moscow pact on the eve of the wars outbreak.
 There was no indication, as yet, that the new Russo German agree ments covering trade, the new Lith- uanian- German boundary and re-