The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-12
A REVIEW BY 'UNCENSORED''

only way aid to Britain could be II
creased now would be by allocatin
ornaments as they came out of tn
: factories at the expense of our own de
lenses. Knudsen also admitted tina
the President could do this withou
the bill
Hull, Stimson & Knox
The administration trump card il
the possible transfer of the British
fleet. If the British fleet should pas
to Hitler it certainly would compli
cate Hemisphere defense, but it woult
not make Hemisphere defense impos
sible (UNCENSORED, January 18)
That the administration is making
fear of invasion after such transfer
the core of it's propaganda was evi
Idenced by the gloomy-though vague
pictures presented to both commit
tees by Secretaries Hull, Stimson ant
Knox. Secretary Stimson was the
gloomiest; should Britain lose hei
fleet, he was not absolutely sure al
first that the North American contin-
ent itself could not be invaded. Sec
rotary Knox was little more guard
ed; he finally admitted to Senator Nye
that the Caribbean Sea was an Ameri-
can lake. Secretary Hull was simply
gloomy and vague in his testimony
before both committees.
To support this line the administra-
ton has gone out Of its way to pooh
pooh Colonel's Lindbergh's military
testimony Before the house commit
tee, William G.. Bullitt thought that
Lindbergh's opinion of an airplane's
blueprints might be sound, but that in
any other field his opinions were not
very valuable. Secretary Knox thought
that Lindbergh might know great
deal about commercial aviation, but
did not believe that he knew much
about military aviation. Yet, what
ever one may have thought of the bal
ance of Lindbergh's testimony his
conception of the defense of the U. S.
and of the Western Hemisphere is
COulu NY d 6lOWlA6 iOCl VI Oh-
perts inside and outside the services
(UNCENSORED, January 49, Little
is known of what Chief of Naval OPP
erations Admiral Stark, Chief Of Staff
General Marshall and General Brett of
the Air Corps told the house commit
tee last Monday in secret session. Ac-
cording to one report, General Mar
shall did say that we could be de-
Tended by 10000 combat planes. Lind
bergh said 10,0O0-if we controlled the
right bases. The representatives of
the armed services might well have
given blanket confirmation of Lind
bergh's military testimony without
their professional in
tegrity.
Dodgers
A major disappointment to many
non-interventionists has
been the failure of the bills oppon-
ents on both the house and senate
committee to take full advantage of
the weaknesses in the administrators
case. But such adroit dodgers as
Hull, Morgenthau, Stimson
and Knox are admittedly difficult to
corner. On the other hand, newspa-
pers, in general, have been at fault in
playing up the alarmism and playing
down the evasiveness of the admins
ration spokesman.
INVASION
Talk of a nazi attempt to invade |
England is being heard more and |
more. In point is the fact that the
lazis have carried out successful day
light air raids which the Raj was
supposed to have stopped once and
or all last fall. And at Calais, Hitler
las numbered a gun that is reported
o have shelled areas 10 miles behind
)over-a range of 80 miles. Impos-
ible may be too big word, but an
.ctual invasion of England still looks
ike big gamble for the safe-playing
2eichswehr. Yet it Is conceivable
hat England could be invaded by land
orces if such bombing as are now
icing predicted should be successful
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lave to be knocked out Of the Chan
el Invasion via Ireland, sometimes
umored as a possibility, seems even
ess likely. Troops could be landed
My in small units perhaps only by :
planes. And the nazis would
e faced and outnumbered by Erie's
wn soldiery and by the formidable
British forces in Northern Ireland.
ALL TO ARMS
Colonel Raymond w. Combs was
ismissed as superintendent Of the i
colorado Industrial School last week i
y the State Civil Service Commits
ion Combs had ordered several boys 9
etwen eleven and fifteen years old
hained together, flogged, and held in
olitary confinement.
Colonel Combs will now resume ac- g
We duty with the army.
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