The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-04-10
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HOMEGROWN FASCISTS
Washington, ID. C.

personal OroerS OF the FreSlueut.
Roosevelt directed Biddle to take
vigorous legal action against GER
tain factional leaders who have been
publicly denouncing the war against
the Axis and in some instances ac-
tually expressing pleasure over Jap
victories.
Complaints have poured into
Washington from parents Of boys in
the armed services demanding that
these domestic foes be jailed. But
Biddle demurred on the ground Of
preserving civil liberties"
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FBI
agents arrested Robert Noble, rabid
Los Angeles Fascist leader, on seri-
Gus charges involving statements
concerning the war. Despite the
FBI's evidence, Biddle ordered
Noble released.
This brought down storm Of
protests on Biddle's head that stead
lily increased as the hostile opera
tons of these elements became bold
er and more outspoken. Still Biddle
refused to allow either the FBI or
federal district attorneys, who were
champing at the bit, to crack down.
Finally White House advisers,
alarmed over the situation, took the
matter direct to the President. They
laid before him a mass of evidence
dealing with Noble, Father Cough
lin, Francis P. Moran Of Boston,
Gerald L. K. Smith Of Michigan and
Charles B. Hudson of Omaha.
One document shown Roosevelt
was the March 16 issue of Coughlin's
weekly publication which declared
that worldwide sacred war" was
declared against Germany nine
years ago. The publication also at
tackled aid to Russia, denounced the
British bombing of French plants
making Nazi supplies, and contained
such statements as:
"Unless the German forces can
overcome Russia and successfully
invade England by the end Of Sep
TENDER, there is every evidence that
the entire world will have elected to
experience a blood bath the like Of
which was never imagined by the
most poetic minds. "-"It has been
the practiced policy of the Roose-
welt administration to favor the Chi
nese in their war against Japan.
This policy has ranked in the hearts
of the Nipponese war lords who are
devoted to the policy of Asia for the
Asiatic, policy which, after all, is
nothing more than an expression Of
our own Monroe Doctrine"
After carefully examining the
evidence, the President summoned
Biddle, ordered him to get tough
and do so Immediately.
GOOD WAR NEWS
Here is some all-important GOOD
war news for change.
The United States and the Brit
ish Empire have won a victory of
supreme Importance in the crucial
war production race.
For the first time in the ~ years
of the war the United States and
Britain now are outproducing the
Axis and its vassal states in vital
arms and munitions. /
Although the two Allies still are
on the defensive, henceforth Anglo
American war output should pile up
an ever-increasing margin of arma-
ment superiority.
U. S. producing capacity in par
ticular is just beginning to swing
into an about war scale. The mighty
auto industry, for example, is now
being furiously converted. Other
major industries are undergoing the
same Transformation. Also hundreds
Of new war plants are in various
stages Of completion, with hundreds
Of others being projected.
Sage old Bernie" Baruch COM
ments: 1--WE can't yet crack our
heels together in celebration, even
il things are better"
What he means is that there are
still plenty of sour spots.
Some of these are: labor supply,
certain obstacles in the flow of ma
terials, shortage of materials, in
adequate use Of equipment, insuf-
ficient subcontracting, red tape and
bureaucratic obstruction, the incom-
petence, greed and lack Of initiative
Of many employers, the profit
mindedness of dollar-a-year men.
But despite all these, U. S. indus
try every week is pouring out a
steadily soaring fioodtide Of war sup
plies. On the basis Of private
survey made by the authors of this
column, it can. be stated definitely
that with the British Empires
greatly accelerated production the
two Allies now are ahead Of the
Axis.
Note: The survey was limited on
the Allied side to the U. S. and
British Empire because 1t Is impos-
sible to get detailed information
about Russian production.
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressional critics Of President
Roosevelt are caustically denounced
by A. F. Whitney, white-crested
president of the Railroad Trainmen,
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