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MAY 22. 1941 _ The Week In Washington A Besuroe of Governmental Happenings in lhe National Capital Washington. May 21.?The mad whirl of conflicting opinion on the war issue has reached such an intensity here that a break is bound to come soon?a break which will determine whether we will enter the war or will re-define "short of war" to permit us to give greater aid to Biituin without actually becoming a belligerent. No one can predict what developments will take place from day to day which will force a decision and even the congressmen eiosest to the President do not feel certain that they know his plans. The President's spokesmen, such as Secretary o: the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson arc practically urging war, but are doing so in words which allow for back-watering. They ask for convoys without using the word "convoys." They stress the war as being our war, but avoid asking us to send men. In congress the majority are believed to be for convoys, even though it may mean war. but manv of the representatives refuse to talk on the subject for fear of the reactions back home. The strong isolationist group, on the other hand, is speaking at every opportunity realizing that they are fighting with their backs to the wall. Both isolationists and those who believe that our future depends on a victory for Britain are grasping at every straw of public opinion in the hope of finding out how far their constituents are willing to go, nut they all have found that public opinion is confused, uncertain and diversified. Polls such as the Gallup poll, continue to show strong sentiment for giving all-out aid to Britain but equally strong sentiment against using our armed forces. The problem of how to continue to satisfy both of these aims is becoming increasingly difficult of solution. Organized groups, which have taken a definite <inml ee?u bring pressure on congress and tire President. The strong committee to defend America by aiding the allies is urging the adoption of a six-point program, including the use of naval convoys, which they admit "may lead to armed conflict." A large group of women, with Kathleen Norris, popular authoress, as their spokesman, are demanding that the President hold to his campaign promise of not using our armed forces to fight in foreign wars; the America first committee and the Lindbergh-Wheeler isolationists are charging that we are being forced into war unncccssaritl.v and against the will of the people, Winston Churchill is calling across tne sea for immediate help; thousands of people who attended a "Freedom Rally" in New York wired tile President urging the use of convoys. In congress Senator Pepper was applauded for urging that we "get lough" even if it means losing a few lives, and Senator Nye was applauded for saying that men like Senator Pepper are "blitzkrieging the American people into this war." Whether the President has a clear plan of what he wants done and is waiting for public opinion to catch up with him, or whether he, like + nitltlip ic tllert anoottmrt " ? Mic dark for some way of getting our goods to Britain without actually becoming involved in the war, is a subject of much debate. The argument of Herbert Hoover that we would have to keep more materials for our own use, and consequently j could not give as much aid to Britain, if we were actually in the war, may also be the President's viewpoint, it is believed by some. All other issues in Washington, many of which would be headline I news in normal times, are now in- j consequential compared with this one momentous question of war. The seizure of German, Italian and French ships, the seizure of German seamen and Italian aliens charged with violation of our immi gration laws; the seizure of funds of the German dye trust; all have contributed to the intensity of the war situation, but are of comparatively Kiiiiui jiiipuiutuce. The only other leading interest, and of course a closely related one, is the progress of our defense program. Each week, new moves are made to speed that program. Sidney Hiilman, associate director genareal of the office of production management, has worked out, with labor leaders, a plan for putting defense industries on a 160-hour week of four shifts; President Roosevelt has ordered that production of heavy bombers be pushed up to 500 a month to create the world's most powerful fleet of long-range bombers: government figures are released to show that plane production now is ahead of schedule and may reach 20.000 planes for the year. The war department released plans for maneuvers next fell which will probably be of greater scope than ever before attempted by any country in peacetime; army headquarters announced that our army Another Battleshi This week, one year and six tnu i Washington. 35.000 ton battlesliip is IdtcTphia Navy Yards. This picture si completion. Inset shows the irownini ui uit? alter turret. Jerusalem l I The exiled government of youthjful King Peter of Yugoslavia has found its firs' haven, according to I news dispatches, in a spot not always so appropriately as on this occasion named the "City of Peace." "Jerusalem, where the Yugoslav officials are reported temporarily taking refuge, was known in preIsraelite times as Urusalim, Uru for city, salim for peace," says a bulletin from the National Geographic Society. "Despite its name, however, this ancient site which is sacred ground to three world-powerful religions. Judaism. Christianity and Mohammedanism, has seen much of war and bloodshed. "As early as 1400 B. C? it is recorded that a fortified town (then paying tribute to the Egyptians) stood on one of the Urusalim hills. In the centuries that followed, the city was conquered again and ;i0nin?hv thn Tcranliliic 4-h.i HiTn.?n donians, the Romans, the Persians and others of Mohammed's faith of tiic Koran and the sword. In 1099, the Crusades again brought devastation. after which Jerusalem became the Latin capital until it was retaken by Saladin in the 12th century. "At the time of the World War, Jerusalem was still a Moslem city, in possession of the Ottoman Empire. It was won by the British campaign of November. 1917. under the leadership of Field Marshal Allenby. "Only about a year before the outbreak of the present war, Palestine riots resulted in the marching of British troops into the walled inner city of Jerusalem, where Arab rebels had sought refuge. The British authorities were especially careful at that time not to fire on and sacred Moslem buildings (of which the famous Mosque of Omar is the 'holy of holies'), lest repercussions of such action be felt around the entire Islamic world. "Modern Jerusalem is a Hwo-inone' city." the bulletin continues. "Behind crumbling walls lies an early core of settlement, the ancient town of narrow, crooked streets, tiny bazaars and heavily barred windows. Its uneven skyline, with sharp spires and broad, curving domes, lofty minarets and crosses. I hints at the variety of its life and | ritual. There Christians, Moslems and Jews find three of their most i sacred shrines in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Mosque of Omar, and the famous Wailing Wall, where the Jewish faithful bow their heads in prayer and lamentations. "To curious explorers, a mysteriously romantic aspect of the Old City is its fabled labyrinth of caverns, running under the Moslem quarter and believed to have outlet in a nearby open valley. "Outside the walled section, the modern city of Jerusalem spreads itself in ever widening circles. With a population of little more than 90,000 in 1931, the entire city now has nearly 130,000. "Like Tel Aviv and Haifa, although perhaps not so obviously as the two newer coastal points, the Palestine capital has boomed surprisingly within the last decade. Whole new districts of homes, apartments, and restaurants have risen, with up-to-date movies, banks ho tels. parks and shopping centers. In May, 1939, a million and a half-dollar medical center, with university, hospital and medical school was dedicated. "This spectacular expansion has followed in the wake of a rising tide of Jewish immigration w h i c h. starting in 1917 when the British set aside Palestine as a national home for the Jews, has received considerable acceleration in recent years through anti-Semitic legislation in European countries " now includes 1.302.500 men; and it was revealed that plans are now being made to call up a million more men for listing under the selective service act next July. Those men will be the ones who have reached the age of 21 since registration day last fall. WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVE! | p for Uncle Sam 1 - V, nths ahead of schedule, the U. S. Sbeing commissioned at the Philaiows the huge ship being rushed to ; muzzles of three sixteen inch guns ; PRF.STbF.NT ACVC roswrr NOT TO GIVE UP TO NAZIS Washington, May 15.?President appealed to France tonight not to deliver herself tip to a German bent on "the utter destruction of liberty" and at the same time the United States coast guard took a dozen or more French merchant vessels in American waters into protective custody. These steps were Washington's swift reaction to dispatches from abroad indicating that Vichy was throwing in its lot with the Nazis. The British were virtually accusing the French government of acting as a German ally by permitting Nazi planes to cross Syria to Iraq. In a surprise statement from the White House, President Roosevelt implied that France was about to enter an alliance with Germany which involved "the peace and safety of the Western Hemisphere.'' After a long conference with Secretary of State Hull and Under-secretary Welles, the President declared that the American people could = hardly believe that the French gov- c eminent would lend itself "to a plan I of voluntary alliance implied or oth- I erwise which would apparently de- I liver up France and its colonial I empire." The. surrender of this empire, the President added, would include "French African colonies and their Atlantic coasts with the menace which that involves to the peace and safety of the Western Hemisphere." Shortly before the statement was issued, it was announced that the coast guard had placed armed guards aboard all French ships in American ports, including the great luxury liner Normandie at New York harbor. French vessels had not been taken into custody at the time those of Germany, Italy and Denmark were seized several weeks ago. (A bill permitting the President to put such foreign ships to work in the national defense or British programs was passed today by the senate.) PERFORMANCE p/uA7nobemifa ALBERT H. WILSON East Boone on Highway 421 DR. F. K. GARDNER OPVOMETRIST 6?'/2 Patton Ave. Ashevtlle, N. C. WTLL BE AT > Carolina Hotel, Boone FPinAV MAV i .* avi & * 9 ITli-! A OU For the purpose of looking after All Eye Troubles EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FIITED Write me when in need of Optical Service ARTIFICIAL EYES | IY TI iURSDAY?BOONE. N. ( >R. HAMILTON AGAIN HEADS SOUTHERN BAPTISTS Birmingham. Ala., May 15.? outhern Baptists today voted to old the denomination's centennial 'invention in 1945 at Augusta. Ga., 'here the southern church was irmed a century ago. Dr. W. \V. Hamilton ol New Or ans, who was re-elected president f the Southern Baptist convention. ,as authorized to launch preparaior?c for tbe tflOth session. Baptists of the South broke away rom the Northern denomination in a istoric meeting at Augusta. May 8, 345. after sectional differences rose over slavery. The convention re-elected Dr. lamilton by acclamation to another tree-year term and chose two new ice presidents?Dr. E. D. Solomon f Jacksonville. Fa., and Dr. Chas. A. ones of Columbia. S. C. Dr. Hight C. Moore of Nashville. More miles per gallon, st Million-dollar ride ar lowest repair cost in ow More money wh W. R. Wl 3IIIIIMI llllllll II 1 STORAGE ji; (sloraLI I S 9-ft Box $127. 4 6-ft. Box $90. 3 TO REA MEMBEF 5-YEAR GU. Customers of North wt portunity by paying r operative Membership BLUE MEI and Joseph H Burnett of Bender- { sonville, N. C.. were re-elected sec-'^ mtai ies. : . The 10,000 delegates and visitors " here for the 83rd session joined in to celebrating the Sunday school w board's 50th year since the agency aj was created at the 1801 convention ' g? in Birmingham. , 1 ] iy happy owners! mj ^\j I\ id handling ease! ners' experience! I m D?ir?e<e<5 si Intory. 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