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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

German high command did not
think the time had come for the
Axis to strike. The last three
weeks in May were used by the
Germans to prepare their next
offensive-this time on the Ash
attic mainland.
The French have been even
more disappointing to their for
mer friends than was anticipated.
Admiral Darlan has managed to
convince his chief-in name, at
least - Marshal Petain, that
Frances interests are hence
forth so closely bound to those
of the Reich that complete COL
liberation has become essential.
Under the pressure of the Vichy
political crowds the marshal
has now subscribed to everything
Darlan has proposed and full
German French collaboration is
now an established fact.
Some of the generals in Africa
such as Weygand and Nogue-are
not particularly approving. but
are powerless and will be COM
PEELED to follow Vichy's orders
no matter how distasteful they
may be.
Attack Not Provocative.
The recent British air raids
against the naval base at Sfsx.
in Tunisia. were not provocative
act of the British government.
They ordered after definite in
formation had reached the Brit
ish high command that important
reinforcements of troops and war
materiel were reaching the Axis
forces in North Africa through
that base. which heretofore has
been immune from British at
tacks.
1t is only natural that the
Vichy government should protest
and used the raid to denounce
the British to the French people.
The British. who for while
had been entertaining the false
hope that the people Of France
might prevent their rulers from
throwing their country's lot in
with the Axis, have not COM
pletely given up the hope that the
pople may influence Vichy's de-
cisions.
Hence, orders have been given.
according to reports received
here, that British forces shall at
tack the enemy wherever feasible,
disregarding what used to be
French neutral territory.
This is particularly true of
Syria. It's railroads and high
ways have been closed to private
traffic for several weeks. French
ships managed, despite British
sea control, to take important
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

The contest between businessmen
and the politicians is a simple one
Businessmen want priorities adopted
and civilian supply rationed so that
production will be adequate for de-
Tense and yet no unnecessary or
superfluous plants built.
Defense requirements for 1912 to-
day are estimated at about 80 ,0O0, 900
IONS at the outside. This does not
include such grandiose schemes as
the st. Lawrence waterway, but only
legitimate needs for defense. Out of
100000 tons, there is thus ample
quantity for defense. Civilian supply
must be rationed.
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DR.. Marshall TO Speak
At Mount Vernon Seminary

DR.. Peter Marshall of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church
was to address the graduating class
OF the preparatory school of Mount
Vernon Seminary today at $3.50 pm.
Graduates are: Barbara Baker,
Elizabeth Bliss, Elizabeth Bryant,
Theodore Chandler, Agnes Father,
Marjorie Garbisch, Patricia Gull
bert, Nedenia Hutton, Catharine
Leavey, Rosalie Morse, Patricia
Moses, Eleanor Neill, June Ramser,
Mary Sabine. Virginia Straus, Louise
Strawn, Anne Waring and Leicester
Warren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Operations against Iraq and
Palestine are scheduled, accord
ing to the best available reports,
to start before the middle of
June.
While the British fleet was en-
gagged in desperate attempt
to save Crete and to prevent
Italian German reinforcements
from reaching Libya, German
forces from Greece were being
quietly transported to Syrian
shores. Planes had preceded
them. They were not sent to Iraq
at once to strengthen the native
forces because, it appears, the
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declaration of
democratic war
aims, but has
launched a pow
erful propagan-
da bid for world
support of the
fight a gal n S t
Hitlerism.
Secretary of
S ia tie H !
S t ar t e d this
campaign with
his call for a CO.
operative world
economy, based
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Boy Slew Stepfother
To Save Self, Jury Finds
BY the Associated Presx.

by Tie hSsOCidleu fIcSk
GAINESVILLE, Ga, June IA
Hall County coroner's jury found
that 13-year-old T. j. Bennett shot
in self-defense when he killed his
stepfather, Rex Roberts, As, with a
shotgun blast near here yesterday.
Sheriff A. w. Bell of Hall County
said Roberts was shot while pur-
suing the boy during family quar-
rel at the Roberts home one mile
south of Flowery Branch.
Il didn't think" Sheriff Bell
quoted the boy as telling the jury.
Il just turned around and pulled
the trigger. 1 hoped it would hit
him because If I didn't get him
he would have got me"
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of the strug-
gle. 1t will be
because they
failed to dis
Germ and di-
rect the main
cure ts of
the times; it
will be be-
Cd uSt \ IL ( / /
leaders insist
on thinking
that we live
in 1918 in
stead of 194l,
and that with
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omcialdom here
is giving out al
legged facts and
alleged figures
a b out defense
requir e ments
which are not
borne out by eX-
pert inquiry.
Back of this
campaign of mis-
representation is
a political battle
Or rat h er a
class battle.
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War Aims and Propaganda
Recent British and American Declarations
Seen as Powerful Bid for World Support

Hull chimed in with the assertion
that the United States. as soon as
peace is restored in China, will re-
linquish all of it's remaining extra
territorial rights in that country.
A Momentous Message.
The latter declaration particularly
is sensational, because it could
scarcely have been made under the
existing circumstances without ap-
proval of the British government
Linked with the British pledges of
freedom for Arabia and India it
carries the momentous message that,
once this war is ended, the Anglo
Saxon nations no longer will use
their armed forces to maintain eco
nomic advantages. The United
States previously had started this
movement by granting freedom to
the Philippine Islands and renounc-
ing armed force as an instrument in
its dealing with South and Central
American countries.
But the United States has chung to
its eXtraterritorial rights in China,
even though the commercial advan-
tages we have derived from them
never have been very consequential
In 1926 an international confer
ence, instituted by the United States
and presided over by Silas Strawn
of Chicago, brought about relin-
quishment of all foreign controls of
Chinese customs duties. There was
talk that this step would be fol-
lowed by gradual withdrawal sef
other foreign interferences in Chi
nese affairs.
That this movement failed was
due to violent efforts of the Chi
nese to drive out first the British
and then the Japanese traders,
eliminating in the Sino-J japanese
war. At no time since 1926 has it
been possible for the United States
to withdraw its armed forces from
China without inviting the impli-
cation that it was both surrender
ing to Japanese pressure and leav-
ing the British in the lurch.
Answer to Communists.
Mr.. Hull's announcement now
is an answer to the Chinese Com
munist element, backed by Russia,
which has been asking what assur-
ance there is that, if the Japanese
invaders are expelled they will not
be replaced by a British American
domination of China.
The French government at Vichy
has been endeavoring to sell this
same idea to the Belgians, Poles,
Czechs and other conquered peo-
piles of Europe. Britain, say these
Eench propagandists. always has
tried to keep Europe divided against
itself. Hitler may be wrong in his
methods. they aver, but he is right
in his position that Europe, if it
is to have q chance to regain its
former economic and political emf
nence, must unite
1t was this talk that Mr.. Eden
probably had in mind when he
declared that Britain did not intend
Ito return TO the chaos of the old
world" and that Mr.. Hull has
sought to allay with his pledge of
American support for a free world
economy in which raw materials
and commercial opportunities will
be opened to all peoples alike.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

ting can you re-
lax with the
knowledge that
you have wor-
ried wisely and
well and over
the p r o p e r
things?
Lucky you II
you can.
I can't. One
of my biggest
worries is the
fact that nv
worrying worries
me With Tia
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Eden's Speech Cited os Warning to Leaders
Of the English Speaking Peoples


The attempt to cut of Samson's
hair again will have the same
effect that it did before-it will
lead him to pull down the pillars
of the temple.
Cooperation True Issue.
The true issue, comprehended
by the last man in the street in
Europe but never adequately
faced by democratic govern
ments, is between cooperation
and domination, between fedora
ton and monopoly. 1t is the goth
century's struggle for a new real
ization of the great European
and American concepts of free
dom and equality-these, to-
gether with order.
No halfway solution will work.
1t must be radical.
Mr.. Eden's suggestion of "a
peaceful brotherhood of nations
with due liberty to each to de-
velop its own balanced economic
life and its characteristic cul-
ture" is too vague, and so is the
concept of a "tranSitionary Pc
Rod Nations cannot each de-
velop a balanced economic life
on their own. Hitler knows that.
The problem is the development
of an integrated economic life,
a more perfect and equal union,
which will promote the general
welfare and secure liberty and
justice for all.
The attempt of the postwar
states of Europe, each to develop
a balanced economic life led to
prosperity for some and misery
for others, Balkanized Europe,
and played directly into the
hands of Hitler.
Arab Policy Failure.
Similarly the attempt to call
the Arab tribes to revolt on the
side of Britain will fail. In the
Arabian world Great Britain has
pursued a completely unclear
policy. Her worst mistakes have
been her consistent appeasement
of Arab terrorists, particularly
in respect to the Jewish home
land in Palestine. Britain should
either have supported the Jewish
homeland, and armed it, and
made it perfectly clear that she
intended what she said, or she
should never have started it. The
very people who are now con-
spring with the Germans and
Italians against her in Iraq and
elsewhere in Arabia are terror
lists chieftains whom she herself
encouraged.
She has refused to arm the
Jewish settlers, although they
would have raised an army of
every Palestinian youth to fight
for Britain.
These Palestinian Jews are men
who left professions, remade their
own bodies, broke stones on roads.
irrigated deserts, paid and paid
heavily for every scrap of land,
and have soil made with their
own hands to defend. The Brit
ish attitude has been that they
would be with her anyhow and
therefore it was necessary to pla-
cate the Arabs, none of whom,
incidentally, has lost anything
from the Palestinian experiment.
But not a word is said about
Palestine, and again the issue
is confused, for it was the brutal
persecution of the Jews that first
aWoke the conscience of the
world against Hitler.
In Britain's situation today it
is very difficult, probably impos-
sible, to lay down anything like
a blueprint for peace, but certain
principles ought to be kept clear.
Unless they are, the European
revolution will be lost. And If it
is lost, the war is lost.
lRalea cod hu thu Pell Syndicate Incl
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Out of a plant David Lawrence.
capacity of 100000 tons in 1912,
about 100000 tons of steel will be
needed for defense. Thus there's
enough steel for defense but not
enough for civilian demands, too.
The same thing can be said of
aluminium and other vital metals.
Instead of foreSeeing the whole
problem when war broke out in
September. 1899. the New Dealers
who are running the defense pro-
gram were asleep at the switch and
allowed inventories to pile up and
boarding of metals to begin.
Industry, on the other hand, fear
ing over expansion of plants and idle
plants after the war emergency is
over, insisted that rationing of total
supply be begun. But the same old
conflict between guns and butter"
which abroad has been resolved in
favor of guns led to indeciSion and
postponements. The New Dealers,
having little regard for the risks in
Tolved in the use of private or public
capital, started talking about the
need of new plants, thus implying
that priorities would be unneces-
sa1y and total supplies would be
adequate for both civilian and mill
tary needs if the industrialists would
only cease to be old-fashioned and
stop worrying about paying back
money they borrow.
U. S. Steel Capacity.
Now the steel situation comes to
the fore. America has a capacity
for steel production which not only
exceeds Germany but actually ex-
ceeds all the productive capacity of
Germany plus all the subjugated
countries.
Americas production for 1910 was
about 100000 tons out of a ca
pacity of 84,OOO,O0O. Many things
could have been accomplished in
that year of potential surplus if the
New Deal had been alive to what
the war in Europe meant when it
broke out in September, 1889. His
tory will record 1910 as a year of
lack of foresight, indecision and po-
litical Wrangling here, for which the
administration in power must &C
cept responsibility.
In the year 1941 the steel capacity
of this country is about 100000
tons and the production will be
about 100000. Next year, begin
ming January, 1912, the plant capac-
ity of American steel mills will be
in the neighborhood of 100000
tons.
Coal Strike Cited.
It is bit ironical that New Deal
erS in 1889 were upbraiding the
steel industry for not dismantling
old plants. Labor leaders were say
ing the same thing. 1t is fortunate
that these plants were not dis
mantled. For to build 10000 900 tons
of new capacity takes from Is
months to two years and requires
about 100000 tons of steel for con-
struction.
But when the blame is being as
sessed the New Dealers pay no at
tention to the fact that they allowed
100000 net tons of steel to be plowed
under in 1941, or rather to be lost
so that it is irretrievable from the
point Of view of time. This loss of
100000 tons of steel is what the
recent soft coal strike cost the coun-
try. Not word is being said in
official Washington about this kind
OF shortage. II would have built GOO
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minor notifications the world of
1918 can again be restored.
Mr.. Eden'S speech recognizes
that revolutionary currents exist,
but gives no evidence that he
really understands them. Echoing
the Presidents words, I'VE do not
accept the Nazi shape of things
to come" he projected things to
come that are distinguished
chiefly by their shapelessness.
This is peculiarly disheartening
at this moment of history, for
Hitler's projected world is any
thing but shapeless; it is form
of prodigious power, filled with
terror.
But it is the current against
that anarchy and shapelesSneSS,
that has falsely claimed to be
freedom, that constitutes Hitler's
greatest asset, for it leads people
to be willing to accept almost
any shape and almost any form
if only it promises to end chaos.
Mr.. Eden seems completely to
have forgotten that the peoples
of Europe-as contrasted with
their governments-and especial
ly the people of England, took up
the sword, not against Germany,
but against Nazi-ism. In doing
so they went to war against the
concept of domination imposed
by force and terror. But they
did not 60 to war for the preSer-
walton of that divided Europe, in
which nations are played off
against nations and powers
against powers for the benefit of
the wire-puller.
Mutual Protection Essential.
That idea was dead in the
minds of the people after the
last war, and the failure of their
leaders to realize it led directly
to this war.
Hence, the avoWed intention
again to protect Europe against
Germany after this war-the re-
vival of the old doctrine of Ger
many's original SHIT utterly
without resonance.
All Europe and all western civ
ilization must find a system of
mutual protection against these
recurrent civil wars that occur
in the heart of our world, from
whatever source.
If the suspicion arises, how
ever, that the shape of things to
come is to include another at
tempt to forge guarantees
against the industrial strength
and work capacity of the Ger
man nation and to attempt to
keep her weak on all points be-
cause she is a formidable COM
petitor, then no moral" order
can be claimed.
The problem of Europe is not
so primitive as that. The prob
lem is how to integrate the ma
tons in such a manner that the
strength and virtue of each be-
comes the strength and virtue
of all, and in particular so that
Germany's formidable energies
are put into the service of the
whole of western civilization, in
ships of 1000 tons, or a total of
100000 tons for Britain.
What is suspected is that the
New Deal planners want to see
Government funds used to build
Jovernment-owned steel plants for
The socialistic future so as to start a
in the steel industry just
Is T. V. A. was introduced in the
power industry. There is no other
plausible explanation for the recur-
'ent cry of the New Dealers that
hey alone guessed right on steel
needs and that the judgment of the
businessmen in the defense program
iced no longer be taken.
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HE opinions OF the urtters this their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to all sides OF questions interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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On the. Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON

If the English-speaking people
lose this war, it will be because
their leaders have failed to I'M
derstand the revolutionary nature
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
BY JAY G. HAYDEN.

A succession of American and
British official statements during
the last few days not only has
provided the first comprehensive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Defense
BIunders
Charged
Misrepresentation
Laid to New Deal in
Matter of Shortages
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The public is about to have the
wool pulled over its eyes on the mat
ter Of priorities and shortages. To
cover up blunders and mistakes,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
McLemore-
Are You Happy With
Your Worrying?
BY HENRY McLEMORF.

NEW YORK.-Are you happy with
the way you are worrying these
days?
AT the end Of day of solid fret
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-26
EARLY RAp5
 STATEMENTS
 FROM BERLIN
Declares Germany Trying 10 BeCIoud RooseveIt's
 Broadcast Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, May 26. Stephen Early, the Presidents personal sec retary, said today he has an idea that Berlin "is trying to do every thing it can to becloud" President Roosevelt's fireside chat tomorrow night.
 Early made the statement when reporters told him of the German Foreign Offices comment on the interview of Grand Admiral Raeder with the Japanese News Agency Domei. declaring a new significance in world developments has arisen. The comment was not only on Ger many's decision to attack the United States naval patrol of contraband to England, but also a declaration that Japan's seizure of French do-China and $10000,000 worth of American products belonging to American firms is justified.
 Early said the President is devot- ing more time to the preparation of his address, to be broadcast in ternally, than any speech he could recall. Early said the President is consulting many persons who have helped him in the preparation Of other Roosevelt announcements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-26
H JILL HITS
 OUT, THREAT
 OF GERMANY
Declares Statement Made by. Raeder Is Scheme
 Played by Hitler

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull this af- ternoon accused Germany of seek ing threats to induce the United states to refrain from any real eff forts at self defense.
 The State Secretary made the comment following Grand Admiral Raeder's statement that the Amer ican convoy system will be a war act.
 Hull said that is favorite sys- tenn that Hitler has used in the case of many countries in Europe. either threats or persuasion to Induce oth- CT countries to refrain from any real defense until Germany is ready tc strike.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-26
Air Borne Tanks Reported Landed with Sea-
 Transported Troops
GERMANS CLAIM BIG
 L0SS, BRITISH SHIPS
London Admits Inroads Under Cover of Violent
 German Luffwdffe
(By Associated Press)

Hitler's aerial invaders of Crete, reinforced by air borne tanks and transported troops, have pene- trated the British defense lines west of Canea, Crete Capital City.
 According to other Axis reports, the British fleet has been driven off after suffering enormous losses,
 The British Middle East head quarters, acknowledging Nazi if,s roads under cover of a violent as- sault of German luftwaffe, said the New Zealand troops are counter attacking and severe fighting con- tinues in the Canea sector.
 It is said British Marines have joined the defenders of the island and informed sources said this is a suggestion the British are landing strong endorsements. This is not confirmed officially, however.
 Big Naval Loss
 The German command declares that Nazi warplanes and Italian naval and air forces have sunk total of II cruisers, 8 destroyers, one submarine and five speedboats in the eastern Mediterranean since the conflict began last Tuesday.
 Despite these repeated setbacks, Maj. Gen. Haywood, Chief of the British Military Mission to Greece, predicted T think it possible to hold Crete"
 Britons Cautioned
 In London, the British spokesman said fighting on the island was quieter Sunday but he cautioned Britons against thinking the Ger mans have shot their bolt.
 Dispatches from Rome said Ger man troops have landed on Crete, protected by the Italian Navy acting as a convoy.
 Last week it was reported that an Italian convoy was attacked by the British and 40 troop boats laden with Germans were sent down.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-26
Protection 10 Supplies to Britain Will Be Met by
 Guns, German Navy GRAND ADMIRAL OF
 NAzIS MAKES THREAT
Declares Patrol Plan Is Aggressive" "-WilI Be
 Met with Resistance

BERLIN, May 26.-Grand Ad- miral Raeder's warning that American Navy conveys of con- traband to England will be an open war act and will be met by guns of the Germany Navy, if necessary, has removed "all possibility of a misunderstand- ing over the significance of con- voys or what Germany holds as a war act"
 Authoritative sources said the statement of the Commanders of the German Navy, made in an interview with the Japanese news agency Donsei, "puts in precise technical language what has been generally known for some time, especially through the Fuehrer's words"
 In the opinion of Wilhelm strasse, Grand Admiral Raeder has described that the American patrol system is Aggressive" and further declares that Ger man warships are justified in engaging any American naval units trying to protect contra band cargOes for England.