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i By HUGO & SIMS, Washington Correspondent
Chinese Complaints Linked
With Wallace's Journey
c-PWsident Henry Wallace, it is
!, hat gone to China to silence the
leea complaint that no prominent
(da! of the American Government
paid a visit to that country.
; is also reported that the Chinese
inne'to be somewhat dissatisfied
-vhe amount of assistance re
ed from the United States and
t there are suggestions, both from
na and India, that more American
bps should be dispatched to help
J in those areas.
te items bring to mind the fact
t there are about seven hundred
.ion people in the areas included
India and China and that it seems
ionable to expect them to build an
tiy to adequately deal with the
liers of Japan. It is readily un
stood that extensive assistance in
a form of weapons and supplies
II be necessary but it js more diffi
It to understand why there exists
v neat necessity to contemplate
a , dispatch of a large American
TOy into China or India.
Will Pacifists Junk New
Navy After WarT
The Congress of the United States
8 passed a bill appropriating $32,-
'0,000,000 to the Navy and there is
tiafaction that this country will
jtve a combatant strength equal to
1 the rest of the world by 1945.
The people of this country should
re overlook the fact that, after the
was buiktinf the greatest - navy m
the world. It ran afoul of the Harding-Hughes
disarmament conference,
with the result that warships which
cost hundreds of millions of dollars
were scrapped.
Unless the nation has learned its
lesson, there is danger that the same
process will be repeated when the
present war ends. "Hardheaded"
business men will demand economy
in order to lower taxes, pacifists will
proclaim again that armaments pro
duce war and muddle-headed idealists
will announce the arrival of perma
nent peace.
Unless somebody resists the pres
sure of these propagandists, the Navy
will be junked again.
Congress Has The Power
To Curb Any President
Senator Robert M. La Follette, of
Wisconsin, admits "grave doubt of
the ability of the legislative arm of
the Government to maintain its pro
per position in the struggle for power
with the executive branch" unless
"constructive action is taken to better
prepare the Congress to meet the
complex problems of the war and
post-war period."
This observation, properly inter
preted, means that the Congress di
vided into two houses with 533 mem
bers, is not organized, equipped or
able to handle certain problems that
inevitably arise in the life of this
eountrv.
Verv wisely. the Constitution
tart World War, the United States places the conduct of foreign affairs
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and tiie direction of warfare in thej
hands of the Chief Executive who, at'
least, is able to make decisions and
make them effective. Imagine 633
politicians, debating and jockeying
for political benefits, trying to direct,
in minute detail, the foreign policy
of the nation or directing the over-all
strategy of the present war.
The Congress of the United States
has considerable power to check the
Chief Executive. It must make all
appropriations, which power effec
tively controls domestic policies and
could, if necessary, exercise influence
upon foreign affairs. In addition, no
ohief executive could lone persist in a
foreign policy which was opposed by
the majority of both Housesi and no
treaty can be made without the con
sent of two-thirds of the Senate.
Hines Advises Congress
To Delay Veteran AdMon
Frank T. Hines, Veterans' Admin
istrator, recently opposed legislation
increasing the pensions of veterans of
World War I and II from ?40.0U to
$50.00 monthly.
Mr. Hines told the Senate Finance
Committee that more than 100,000
veterans have been added to the pen
sion rolls during the present war. He
suggests that Congress defer action
until it knows more about the num
ber of veterans to be paid pensions
as a result of the present war.
The United States, as a Govern
ment, has always paid liberal pen
sions to the veterans of its wars.
This is a political certainty as long
as candidates for public office expect
to receive the votes of veterans.
What the nation will be able to do
for veterans at the end of this war
will naturally depend upon the num
ber of veterans to be pensioned.
No American citizen objects to
generous treatment of wounded
American servicemen. We naturally
believe that the Government should
also compensate dependents of those
who lose their lives in the service of
the nation.
The responsibility to the wounded
and the dependents of deceased ser
vice men represent a prior obligation
of the nation. These groups should
be cared for first and, afterward,
the nation should do what it desires
in regard to other service men.
King Says Complete Fleet Could
Not Have Saved Manilla
Araone the interesting statements
made bv Admiral E. J. King, Com
mander-in-Chief of the United States
Fleet and Chief of Operations, in his
Twont renort. is the assertion that
our fleet could not ahve saved Ma
nilla, even if the Pearl Harbor dis
aster had not occurred.
The Admiral also makes it plain
that, even without the losses bus
tained at Pearl Harbor, the Navy
could not have carried the war to the
enemy, because neither the Army nor
the Navy was sufficiently expanded
for such an offensive task.
Admiral King emphasizes that a
Navy cannot be built overnight nor
men to run it trained in a few weeks.
He counted the years of peace and
disarmament, when the United
States did not even build up to the
Treaty limits and pointed out that it
was not until 1933 that we really em
barked on a building program.
Results of War Effort
Makes Criticism Absurd
One of the most amazing develop
ments of the present war is the
undercurrent of criticism directed
against the magnificent effort of the
United States.
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tank-destroyers, trucks, jeeps and
other critical military vehicles.
Truly. American production has
been miraculous and the growth of
our fighting power on land, sea and
in the air has been ajnazing. Beside
tne record, the carping criticism of
the critics sounds absurd.
Full Truth About War
Would Coat Many Uvea
Some critics of the War Depart
ment advance the simple suggestion
that truth-telling should be the guide
in regard t all war news.
Upon the surface, the principle
seems sound but any analysis re
veals that it is poppy-cock. No army
in the world has ever told the com
plete truth about any war and it
would be stupid for any chief-of-staff
to permit the promiscuous
peddling of pessimistic rumors and
inevitable errors.
Much has been made of the failure
of the Army to reveal the loss of
our transport planes, shot down by
our forces in the Mediterranean. We
are unable to understand how earlier
revelation of the accident would
have imnroved the conduct of the
war or prevented similar unfortunate
occurences.
Certainly, there is no room for
argument against the dictum of
Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
who, referring to censorship to pre
vent pessimistic journalists from pro
claiming their misgivings, insists that
if the pessimism is warranted, the
enemy should certainly not be advis
ed and, if the pessimism is unwar
ranted, the lamentations should not
be printed.
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