The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-22

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 In Washington there are half a dozen questions the answers to which no one knows, and you and can only guess, but since we've started 1t does not harm to state the questions, if only to help see where we're going, If only to show how little we know.
 CONvOYs QUESTIONED '"
 1. Whats all the hullabaloo about conveys?
 Some congressman would put a legal ban on the placing of U. s. ships in conveys to Europe. That would apply not only to naval vessels doing the actual convoy ing, but also to vessels assigned to protection of merchantmen.
 This dispute comes at the time there is serious doubt as to value of conveys in this war. Tn the last war, when the submarine was the only enemy of shipping, the guarded convoy was effective. This war, with planes directing submarines and planes bombing conveys, the convoy system may be tactically wrong. Losses in some recent conveys may have been as high as fourth or a third of the vessels.
 Maybe the solution is to send the ships out one by one, letting them sneak through on varying courses. One ship makes @ smaller target than 20.
 2. Is Greenland going to be much use as an air base2
 Early transatlantic air surveys looked on Greenland as a natural halfway point between America and Europe. Then the weather men set up station. Their records showed figuratively Greenland was fit to fly into or out of with safety for about IS minutes every third Sunday afternoon. The rest of the time, fogs or rain-when 1t wasn't showing.
 As for shipping there is an open season of only a few weeks in mid- summer. The rest of the time, solid ice, or even worse, icebergs.
 3. will Congress get around to doing anything more about the la Dor situation, particularly as 1t re- lates to strikes in defense industries, jurisdictional strikes, 6 compulsory cooling off periodp
 If congress does act, it may have to force through its program over the body of of the executive end of government. Five congress sional committees have delved or are delving into this labor ques- ton. With typical congressional resentment, these committeeman have bent their ears into tunnels to catch the faintest whisper that might be uttered to urge Con- gress to "pass @ law" that would put a crinp in labor's rights for duration of the emergency.
 Administrative witness after witt ness from cabinet member on down has bounced serenely back with the assertion that there should be no curb on labor's right to organize or strike, that the only worthwhile labor peace comes through mutual agreement between employer and employe, that compulsory labor is slave labor and will not work.
 Sanest proposal thus far would seem to be the idea to put all labor on the same status that rail- road employees enjoy under the Railway Labor Act which sets up machinery for settlement of all disputes without interruption of work and guarantees the right to organize.
 ANY HOPE
 FOR GREECE?
 {. Does the opening of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean to U. s. shipping sand a chance of being any help to Jugoslavia or Greece?
 There are few U. s. ships in this area now. It will take three weeks to get them there If they go by the Atlantic, six weeks if they go by the Pacific. Time will give you the best answer to this one, maybe soon.
 5. Does the new Soviet-Japanese treaty of non-aggression mean that Japan will loan battleships to Ger many to prey on U. s. shipping or move on Singapore and the Dutch East Indies?
 Take that one easy. Japan will not readily split her fleet as long as the U. s. fleet is in the Pacific.
 6. Do all these moves mean that we are heading into war, and If so, how? If the British are driven from Greece, where could this country send an expeditionary force?
 Landing in England or even Ire- land would do no good. Landing in north Europe is of course impossible. Landing in south Europe is out of the question, even If Italy were knocked out of the war. Africa? Nonsense. Obviously there being no place to send an expeditionary force, it's impossible for the United States to get into the war.
 Oh yeah? Look at that one again. This might be 8 naval war with the fleet and air services getting into action long, long before the army could move man.
 
 
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