Evening star., 1941-04-29


predicted on the strength of the
sessed in the terms of the opposition
it is most likely to encounter in the
performance of its tasks
Reporting to the business leaders
on progress for building up the
United States Navy, the speaker
said:
we are working for a balanced
fleet with a proper proportion of
capital ships, cruisers, aircraft car
riers. submarines, light craft, fast
auXiliaries and underwater defend
ers. Our aircraft carrier program
alone will give us the most mobile
and powerful fleet air arm in exist
ence
Il do not know where our ordeal
will come or when, said Admiral
Stark But one has only to look
around to see that no generation
of Americans has ever faced future
80 dubious and so threatening. That
is a thought, not only for men in
uniform, but for all of you
The chamber will give its full in
dOrSement to the national defense
program. with provisions that high
taxes, instead OF by borrowing, it was
indicated today in reliable quarters.
More drastic savings in the non
defense activities of the Government
probably will be recommended. in
order to help save for the cost of
defense.
The chamber is likely to deplore
industrial strikes hampering produc-
tion of war materials, but will come
out with strong opposition to any
legislation banning strikes. The
chamber also is expected to propose
that management and labor ap-
proach every dispute in the spirit OF
compromise and good will, adopting
voluntary mediation. Study of the
postwar era will be recommended
Review of Problems Elated.
A review of some of the general
problems under consideration for
annual meeting declarations was to
be given to the delegates today by
Fred H. Clausen of Wisconsin. chair
man of the Resolutions Committee
of the chamber.
The businessmen heard a review
yesterday of business and defense
activities and a statement that the
public should demand the resigna-
tion of Secretary of Labor Perkins
and listened to survey of The
World Today at banquet last
night.
Tonight there will be two dinners,
one at the Willard Hotel, to be ad-
dressed by Donald M. Nelson. di-
rector of purchases of the Office of
Production Management, and an
other at the Mayf1ower Hotel where
the principal speaker will be Justin
r. Weddel, vice president and di-
rector of the American Chamber
of Commerce of London, who re-
Gently returned to this country.
Freedom Held Shrinking.
Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark,
N. j., member of the Attorney Cen
erals Committee on Administrative
Procedure, told the delegates today
that American freedom is shrink
ing"
Il appreciate the efforts that our
leaders are making in the interest
of national defense" he said, but l
submit that those efforts will be
fruitless unless we at the same time
prepare for national defense by edu-
eating our leaders and our people
as to the nature of freedom and as
to the problems of the great founda-
ton walls on which our freedom
rests-sound international relations,
internal peace and order, honest
elections and sound popular educa-
ton. On these foundations we may
hope to build. with the aid of science
and good will, the greatest civiliza-
ton that the world has ever known. !"
British Minister Speaks.
A somewhat gloomy picture OF
THE World Today" was presented
at the Mayhower Hotel banquet
last night of the American sec
ton OF the International Cham
Der of Commerce.
Sir Gerald Campbell, British Min
lister, defended the participation by
Great Britain in campaigns on the
European Continent He predicted
that in the postwar period after
victory has been won" Great Brit
ain would return its economy to "s
regime in which public interes
again plays most prominent part.
What great rebuilding there
will be after the war as our two
commonwealths and the men anC
women of those other nations, whit
are revealing so fine a spirit undel
suffering, set themselves to the tasl
of repairing wanton destruction
done by this vandal group, of which
the well-fed Goering declared tina
even if Germany did not win tn
war Europe would be left in ruins
Our particular branch of Democ.
racy Incorporated has its own branc
of totalitarianism for the winning
of the war" he said.
Battle of Atlantic Crucial"
H. R. Macmillan of Vancouver
president of the Canadian Chambe
Of Commerce, praised the recentl.
consummated agreement between
the United States and Canada, bu
sounded this warming:
TT is our Canadian conviction
that we in North America are no
defended by geography; that tn
| Atlantic from a defense standpoin
is not dependable barrier. but tina
it is merely delay factor. There
fore, the battle of the Atlantic j
the crucial battle-if 1t is lost ou
cause is lost, and you are besiege'
and isolated, your markets gone
The first and last step in winninl
this battle for the democracies is tn