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
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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.
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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.)
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345. after sectional differences
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