Washington, Feb. 15. ? Ever
since the beginnings of the Am
erican Government, Congress has
been suspicious of every act of the
Executive having to^do with for
eign affairs.
George Washington's warning
against "entangling alliances" in
his Farewell Address took root In
the spirit of the people and has
become, in the course of a cen
tury and a half, almost as sacred
an American principle as the Con-j
stitution itself.
It was that principle which kept
the American nation, when we en-'
tered the World War, frof becom
ing in any official sense an "ally"
o:' the powers which were fighting !
against Germany and Austrja. We
'were associates but not allies.
President Wilson and the Con
gress of that time took great pains
to make it clear to all Mie world ,
that America was fighting for its I
own hand and was not bound by !
any acts or agreements of the -Al- j
lie'd Powers.
And it was the , ingrained Am-j
ei ican fear of foreign alliances, as J
much as anything else, which pre
vented the United States from be-,
coming a member of t'he League
of Nations fater the gr-eat war. <
With that histoHcal background'
clearly in mind, it is easy to un
derstand the furor which has been
stirred up by the disclosure that
President Roosevelt had authoriz
ed a secret' French mission fo. in
spect American aircraft factories j
with a view to ordering a large,
number of fighting planes.
Result Of Accident
? The disclosure was the result of
an accideut. A new type of mili
tary plane was being tested in l.os
Angeles. It crashed and Mip pilot
was killed. His companion, how
ever, was rescued from wreck
with two broken legs, before the
plane caught fire.
Officials of the aircraft com-,
pany said he was a mechaiue- nam
ed Smithln. It leaked out. how-,
ever, that the ityured man was'
Paul Chemidliu. a representative'
of the French War Office, over
here with a group selecting planes
for French purchase.
The disclosure startled Con
gress. An inquiry was begun which
revealed that M. Chemldlin and
the resl> of the French mission had
received specific authority by or
der of the President himself to in
spect American airplane factories
and lake part in tests of new mill- 1
tary planes. ? J
Probably nobody had the sligh-'
test objection to the purchase ofj
: American aircraft) by non-combat
|iint European powers. It had btfen |
: reported that not only the French |
but thft British were buying or ;
; about to buy planes in this coun
i try. '
Indeed, the British orders for
| 400 fightinfr-planes were increas
ed to 650 after t-he incident of the
injured Frenchman was disclosed,
i And France had wpenly announ
ce^ that it intended to buy at
i least 500 planes in America.
Feared Special Favors
What stirred up Congress, in
cluding those friendly and un
friendly to the President, was the
feeling that some sort of interna
tional negotiations were going on.|
clouded in secrecy. It looked as if
special favors were being shown
to France.
Mr Roosevelt sent for the mem-;
hers of the Senate Committee on i
Military Affairs, seventeen Sena-"!
tprs of both- parties, and -in a clos
ed-door session lasting nearly two
hours he talked with a great deal
of frankness about the interna
tional situation as lif saw it. He J
pledged the committee to secrecy,
but nobody in Washington lias
ever found a way to keep any
thing secret which seventeen poli-j
ticiaus k now.
The Senatorstftalked. They did
not all agree oil the exact _Jan
guage the President had used, but !
they were in substantial agree
ment that' he had insisted that ?
there was no alliance, secret or1
otherwise, between the United
States and France; that he had
welcomed the French desire to buy)
enough American planes to keep
our aircraft factories busy until |
the United States is ready to order
the anticipated severjal thousand J
war planes; that no credit had
been extended or guaranteed by
Lour government but the planes
bought by both France and En
gland were being paid for as de
livered, """cash on the barrelhead."
If any other nation wanted to buy
America^ planes on the same
terms they could do so.
But the President, according to *
some of the Senators, stressed his
belief that American interests!,
were being threatened by Hie rise
of the dictatorships, and that if,
the democracies of Western Eu
rope should be .forced to succumb
to superior,?(orce America would
be in grave danger.
Interpreted By Senators
According to some of the Sena- J
tors who heatd him. he gave the
impression that' he believed the
United States would have to join
in the defense of England and \
France, in a crisis. One phase
which some of the Senators at
tributed to him was that "Our- first
line of defense is in France."
?
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The President took notice of the
urmoil which his actions had
:au8ed by declaring, at the most
argely attended press conference
lince the early days of his first j
\dmliiiHtratlon, that some 8ena-i
ors had deliberately distorted the
;enor of his talk to tfhem, and de
louncing as a deliberate lie the:
statement that he had said that
he American frontier was here
ifter in France. Pressed for a
lear statement of his Administra
tion's foreign policy, he dictated
he following: >
X. ' We are against any entang
ing alliances, obviously.
2. We are iu favor of the
naintenance of world trade for
?very body ? all nations? includ
ng ourselves.
3. We are in complete sympa
hy with any and every effort
nade to reduce and limit arma
nents.
4. As a nation ? as Americat)
>eopie ? we are sympathetic with j
he peaceful maintenance of polit
cal. economic and social indep&n-l
lence of all nations in the world.
JOHN \V. KI>WAItl)S
Youngsville ? .John W. Edwards
lied at his home in YoungsvHle
>n Feb. 8. 1939. Funeral services
were ? conducted Thursday aft?r
loon at New Hope Christiauj
Jhurch by Rev. H.O. Bakor.;\s
sisted by Rev. W. M. Walters,
Douglas Branch. Lucius Kvans and
Dr. Forrest C. Feezor.
David, Vernon and Joe Lam-.
)ert. Wesley Medlin. William
Hicks and Charles Raymond Ed
wards, grandsons of Mr. Edwards
icted as pallbearers.
His death was not jinexpected
is he had been sick for more than
:wo weeks. He leaves to mourn
ODD SALVE
Opt). COLDS
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their loss besides a host of friends,
his wife, Mrs. Lela King Edwards,
three sons, W. F. and J. It. Ed
wards, of L.oui?burg, and JoUnnii
T. Edwards, of Youngsvtlle. and
three daughters, Mrs. B. A. Lam
bert), of Raleigh. Mrs. Eft'ie Med
lin, of Louisburg. and Mrs. Earn
est Young, of Youngsville. all of
whom were wjjli him at the time
of his death.
TOO MANY ISA KBITS
Out of 4,000 peach trees two
years old in one of Hawley Poole's
orchards in Moore County, not
over 500 have escaped damage
from rabbits which have eaten t-he
bark off entirely around the
trunks of (he trees. Only about
200 trees were left without any
damage whatever.
1SKNKW YOl'R sriisrmrTiox
TO THE KISAXKMN TIMES
AND HEM' SOME BABY.
Beware Coughs '
from common colds
That Hang On
No matter how many medicines
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less potent than Creomulsion, which
goes right to the seat of the trouble
and aids nature to soothe and heal
the inflamed mucous membranes
and to loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm.
Even if other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomul
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refund your money if you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene
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word, ask for it plainly, see that the
name on the bottle is Creomulsion,
and you'll get the genuine product
and the relief you want. (Adv.)
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