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methods of life, the threat of the
axis powers is gone" Mr.. Stimson
testified.
Attempts ito create Order
The bill, he said, attempts Ito
create order out of the disorder
which has existed for nearly two
years in the manufacture of NUM-
tons in this country
Heretofore, he pointed out, there
have been a dozen purchasing mis-
SlonS for various countries trying to
buy arms in the United States. COM
peting with the United States and
with each other. The theory of the
bill is that all orders for the de-
Tense needs of this country and of
the other nations fighting agrees
sion will be placed through and con-
trolled by this Government.
Mr.. StimSon, in his testimony,
predicted that Britain would face
a crisis this spring and summer. If
she survives, he said, the prob
ability of an ultimate solution in
favor of the democracies would be
overwhelming
The passage of this BILL he in
terjected. will go far to stiffen the
morale necessary for her to sur
vive that crisis"
Declares Axis Under Strain.
Speaking of axis "vulnera bility,"
Mr.. Stimson said Italy is already in
serious straits and that the Ger
man army lis spread out very thin
and already in Italy and in Rumania
and in Norway we begin to hear the
creaks of the strain under which
German power is laboring."
The japanese army, he continued,
was spread out even thinner than
the German, and the country was
economically strained.
II Britain survives the next several
months, he said, the axis powers
cannot Indefinitely hold even the
European world in slavery" for they
would be without seapower and the
control of the air would be against
them.
Emergency Must Be Met"
In further defense of the power
the bill delegates to the President.
Mr. Stimson said:
This bill, it is said. confers ex-
powers upon the Presi-
dent of the United States. In some
respects it does. But will any re-
sponsible person deny that the
Nation is confronted by an emer-
gency of extraordinary proportions
calling for extraordinary powers?
my whole political philosophy op-
poses the grant of dictatorial powers
by the Congress to the Executive as
we'll as any abdication of the liberties
insured us by the Bill of Rights. But
by dictatorial powers I have always
had in mind powers which belong
to the Congress and which by their
nature the Congress could and
should itself directly exercise
The extraordinary emergency
which aggresSor nations have created
for this country must be met. If 1t
is to be met at all, from day to day
and with the flexibility and effec-
tiveness which ample authority ex-
ercisable from day to day alone can
afford. The Congress can give the
necessary power to deal with our
extraordinary situation. But obvi-
ously it cannot itself deal with that
situation.
Executive Action Held Necessary.
Expressing the clear national
will the Congress by appropriate
legislation can recognize, as it has
already done, that it regards Brit
aims successful resistance to world
domination as an effort in our own
national defense. The Congress can
take steps to keep war from America
by authorizing the necessary help
to Britain to continue her resist
ance to real dictatorial agrees
sion. These are national policies
that the Congress can and should
decide. But the Congress can nei-
ther consider nor decide each and
every transaction that may be nee
essary successfully to execute these
policies. To translate such policies
into successful results requires ex-
ecutive action"
When Mr.. Stimson finished his
formal statement, Senator Connally,
Democrat, of Texas, said he was
glad, for the moment, the Secretary
of War is not a Democrat because
this is not political question, but
an emergency requiring national
unity"
Senator La Toilette, Wisconsin
Progressive, inquired how much aid
could be given England in time if
a crisis is coming in the spring.
The Secretary said that, first of
all, passage of the bill would give
very great stimulus" to British
morale
Secondly, he said, it is probable
there could be transferred at once
a comparatively small amount OF
arms, but they may be very vital
Crisis Of Indefinite Length.
The secretary added that when
he first spoke at the House hearings
of a crisis soon in England's situa-
ton he did not mean that would
be the only crisis, or that it would
mean the end of the war.
It appears to him, he explained
that the impending crisis will be in
definite in extent, and that the
great material aid to Great Britain
will begin to flow late this year anc
early in 1912.
That aid, he said. would helr
England to get out of the danger
GUS situation of being entirely or
the defensive.
Queried on Word Transfer"
Senator La Toilette wanted Il
know if the word transfer" in tn.