The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
Observations
Draft, Lend Lease
Acts up TO Present
Congress
By HELEN ESsARY

Thus for Congress has devoted
the present session to two things
manpower legislation and the
nomination OF former Vice Presi
dent Harry A. Wallace 10 be Score
tary Of Commerce But a lot OF
other business will be coming
along
The Senate and the House vii
have TO consider in the next few
months bills extending the main
features OF the Selectiye Service
Act. the Lend Lease Act and Price
and wage Control laws. Major
provisions OF the Selectiye Service
act expire May IS, and the Lend
Lease and Price and Wage. Con.
trol acts expire June 30.
Bills appropriating additiona.
billions 10 carry on the war and
10 maintain the different govern
ment agencies will he coming up
for action
President Roosevelt has not yet
submitted his expanded social Sc
Curity program. or recommends
tious for compulsory postwar mill
tary training, or for reducing the
gold reserve requirements Of the
Federal Reserve banks These
things were promised in his State
of the Union and budget messages
10 Congress
Pending Is a bill sponsored by
several Democratic senators TO car
" out the projected Wallace pro
gram for full postwar employment.
II the proposed world security
organization is worked out in full
dress United Nations conference
following the Big Three meet
ing, the Senate and perhaps the
House will have 10 pass on treaties
or legislation putting II into effect
The only possibility, however. OF
House action would be II legisla-
ton itself becomes necessary as
the Senate IS guarding jealously its
! constitutional monopoly on treaty
ratification
THE PROJECTED DEFENSE OF
/ BERLIN against the surging Red
tide Of the Soviet armies is gen
orally felt 10 be the decision OF
Adolf Hitler himself and not Of
the German high command.
Although the Junker military
caste was reputed to be in the
saddle on the eastern front after
tHitler's intuition got the Nazis into
trouble, Washington military
sources feel that the Fuhrer is
once again making the final deci-
sions which will crash Germany
down TO ultimate and utter defeat.
One main reason is that the Ger
man high command-all disciples
lof the famed military strategist Won
lausewitE-would never have
edged the Nazis toward their pres
lthent unsurmountable difficulties II
There were any way out.
Masters OF retreat, military i'm
lprovisation and delay, the thinkers
could conceivably have STAYED on
the Russians for many months.
but Hitler's plan produced rout
In the second place, Hitler. Pro
paganda Minister Josef Goebbels.
Hermann Goering and their bench
men are determined TO go down in
n blaze OF Wagnerian drama
bloody twilight Of the gods snatch
ed from the pages Of Teutonic
mythology.
The shades Of Siegfried, the Val
kyries and Wotan are descending
over Berlin. and Hitler apparently
is satisfied that II the end must
come, il must come in this way,
His o,t-repeated utterance that
Germany either would win or van
iish as a nation appears no longer
TO have been the mere wagging
OF a psycopath's tongue.
Parenthetically. some observers
are wondering whether the Ger
man people and their intoxicating
heritage OF legendary warriors and
crusading knights will feel con
strained. after Hitler's last lethal
fling and his death. to take much
interest in the "Niebelungenlied'
and its literary orshoots.
COMMERCIAL LARGE SCREEN
TELEVISION may be introduced
in Great Britain within the next
six years. according 10 figures fur
nished the L. s. Commerce De-
partment. The department adds
that this British development per
haps will be improved with tech
nicolor in the following two years.
THREE RETURNING