The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-07

his address In advance with Mr..
Roosevelt.
6timson was. the nth cabinet
officer to speak out strongly In
recent weeks tor more dynamic
action to guarantee the success
Of the aid-to- Britain program.
but he was the hrst to advocate .
specific couree-alse Of the navy.
In advocating this prompt
naval assistance, Stimson told
the nation In his radio address
last night that Germany had ex-
tended her zone OF unrestricted
sea warfare Into the western
hemisphere.
He also assailed the character
Of German Submarine warfare in
the North Atlantic, calling Il all
legar and . violation Of law
and humanity"
SAME AS 1917.
Tho U-boat tactics, he said,
were identical with those of
1917 when they caused the
President and congress TO take
up arms in defense Of the tree
dom Of the seas"
The charge that Germany had
extended the unrestricted zone
to hemisphere waters and ".or-
hidden as to enter" was the first
such assertion to come from q
high administration officials. II
BERLIN, May Z @ -
Secretary Stimson's suggestion
that the United State feet be
employed to protect shipments
Of material 70 England prompt.
ed In Berlin today the COM
ment: .The. consequence Of
such . policy would b clear"
Authorized spokeEmen refer
red again 70 the oft-Stated Ger,
man warning that any ship
sailing through the blockade
to England (which comes
within the range Of our tor
pedo tubes will be sunk"
was thought that Stimson re-
ferred to the fact that the Nazi
danger zone now extends to
within q few miles Of the coast of
Greenland, where U. 8. defense
bases are being established. e.
Stimson's mention Of the doc
trine Of freedom OF the seas
coupled with the parallel he
drew between U-boat warfare In
1917 and 1941 was interpreted in
some quarters as yelled notice
from the administration to Ger
many that there were limits to
what the United States would
tolerate.
In this connection. Il was said,
the war secretary's enphasis on
freedom of the seas I11ir1ik pre-
sage q formal administration re-
assertion Of the historic Aimeri-
can policy on that points move
that would necessitate repeal of
the neutrality act-and then in
sistence, ~ in 1917, that Ger
many respect this country's right
to such freedom on the high seas.
Senate opponents Of admins
trstion foreign policy said they
regarded Stinnon's address and
Senator Peppers speech in the
Senate yesterday ~ trial bal
looms to ascertain the country's
sentiment toward active involve
ment In the war. Pepper urged
joint action by the u. s. and
/. British fleets.
FLOOD CAPITAL
"After speeches by the Presi-
dent and Willkie," Senator Nye
(R-ND) told reporters, NOW
come Pepper and Stimson. To-
day the organized intervention
lists will flood Washington with
with messages supporting them.
"They are Just some more trial
balloons for involvement, but
they can be quickly punctured II
the unorsanized majority who
are against conveys can make
their position known"
Stimson, who made no men,
ton Of conveys, spoke with
gravity last night Of Britain's Inn
periled lifehnes and declared
that Germany was making her
peak efforts to sever those sup
ply routes.
In the face Of this threat, he
said, the leass-lend program
with al ~ enormous appropria-
tions ''is not sufficient" The
question, % he saw II, was the
delivery TO Great Britain of the
supplies the United States was
shipping.
az today" he continued, "the
navy should make secure the
seas for the delivery Of our mu-
nitions TO Great Britain, u will
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