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125,000 Airpfane DoubUnf On
Defense. Pluming For 1944
A momm drafted in terms OX
."what It takes to beat Hitler" en
vJsIonS a tremendous new program,
to provide the United States and the
rest of the anti-Axis wojrld. with
about 125,000 planes, including from
2 to 80 thousand four-engined, long
range bombers and tens of thousands
of tanks by the end of 1943, or early
in 1944.
-According to preliminary reports
the iroal is to provide this country
and Axis opponents, including Great
Britain, Russia and China, with twice
as much military material as they
had been expecting in 1942 and a
similar amount in 1943. The inten
tion is to be ready for a final show
jdpwn in 1944.
L According to some observers, the
present defense and Lease-Lend pro-
eftm will be doubled. Production
will be speeded to secure twice as
many of nearly every item of mili
tary equipment, with special empha
sis on airplanes, especially four-en-gined,
long'-range bombers, capable
of blasting the Nazi lines of supplies
on the conquered continent of Europe.
Tanks in unbelievable numbers are
contemplated.
The program, as this article is
written, has not been officially ap
proved but it is generally assumed,
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that there is every intention of put
luting the plan into action although no
J Retails are available because of the
element of military secrecy involved.
It should be noted that the Supply,
Priorities and Allocations Board,
Waded by Vice-President Wallace, is
acting vigorously to conserve needed
defense supplies. The order affect
ing non-defense construction indi
cates the extent to which the Board
is ready to go to keep the supplies of
military material up to schedule.
Donald M. Nelson, executive direc
tor of the iSPAC, is likewise known
to be an official, ready to assume re
sponsibility and take the consequen
ces, but like the Vice-President, de
termined to secure results. He has
said that the national defense sche
dule should be doubled since the na
tion faces the choice of enduring
"terrific shortages for the next two
ars and getting the job done
quickly" or of living for the next
fifteen or twenty years in an armed
camp, ine way to avoid this, he
says, is "to go all-out now and finish
ilKjuickly."
Neutrality Issues. Republicans
Divide. Landon Attacks.
The fight over neutrality legisla
tion in the Senate took a nov;! turn
last week when three Republican
Senators Bridges of New Hamp
shire, Austin cf Vermont, and Gur
ney of South Dakota introduced an
amendment providing for the out
right repeal of the entire Neutrality!
Act of 1939, which amended the law
of 1937.
y As readers will recall, the Presi
dents message to congress, urging
changes in the Act, asked only for
the immediate repeal of Section Six,
which barred the arming of Ameri
can merchantmen. While the Presi
dint suggested that Congress give
-consideration to revisions of other
sections, which, he said, were "crip
pling" the Government's effort to fur
nish aid to the nations fighting the
Axis aggressors, the Chief Executive
did not demand immediate considera
tion. p The general impression is that the
President attempted to avoid an all
out battle on the Neutrality Act,
'. which, he had been advised, would
beprecipitated by an effort to repeal
the prohibitions against American
r ships calling at belligerent ports and
entering combat areas.' Congressional
. leaders, somewhat impressed by the
; isolationist sentiment in some sec
tions of the country, said that out
right repeal might not win in the
House and that a long fight would
islative aim might be secured by
' such a close vote as to weaken the
, prestige of this Government abroad.
"The three Republican Senators,
. however, took the initiative after the
House, by a vote of 259 to 138, had
-passed the ship-arming resolution.
Their action was followed almost im
mediately by. a similar amendment,
.introduced by three administration
stalwarts Senators Lee of Okla
homa, Greene of Rhode Island, and
Jfepper of Floridaasking the repeal
of Sections Two and Three of ihe ex
isting act, which forbids American
vessels to call at belligerent ports or
traverse combat zones.
e maneuver, of the Republican
tors emphasizes the split within
the Republican Party over questions
of international policy and follows
closely along the line of action advo
cated by Wendell L. WillWe, who has
consistently and aggressively given
' enthusiastic and unlimited support to
the present foreign policy of the Gov
ernment but wiA the criticism t that
the Administration Is not moving fast
and efficiently in the defense of this
country. ( ,
Alfred M. Landon, Republican
presidential nombies in 1938, con
tinues hfe vigorous attack spon the
President policies, insisting that the
"politics and disorganization ' within
th White House" it obstructing
maximum production of 'war equip
r-mt ; Mr. Landon says that a small
group "are using the national de
fense emergency as a smoke-screen
for their attempt to build a collective
state," with the email business man
being the first victim in order to
concentrate economic power in a few
hands in order to make it easier to
proceed with the establishment of a
collective state.
While polls of public opinion indi
cate that many Republicans, if not a
majority, are behind the foreign po
licies of the nation, the record of the
Party in Congress indicates that
congressmen are either playing poli
tics, as they see the situation, or that
a majority of them are in accord with
Mr. Landon and the Isolationists
rather than Mr. Willkie.
Upon repeated occasions, including
the vote in the House on the repeal
of the prohibition against arming
merchant ships, the majority of the
Republicans voting went on record
against proposals to implement the
national defense policy of, bringing
about the defeat of Hitler and his
Axis satelites.
New "Incidents." Our Ships At
tacked. Public Reactions.
The incidents that occur in the At
lantic ,Ocean, where German torpe
does have attacked American mer
chant ships, and also U. S. warships,
can be avoided only if the United
States asquiesces in the order of
Hitler to keep our ships out of the
way of his U-boats and airplanes.
iSecretary of State Cordell Hull
says that the incidents come about
through the known and confessed ef
fort of Hitler to get control of the
seas as well as the continent through
which he is passing.
All nations have been notified to
keep all ships out of an area 1600 by
1500 miles, covering a large part of
the North Atlantic. Any ship found
in the area will be sunk without
warning and without trace, according
to the German blockade warning.
Mr. Hull points out that Hitler
seeks to drive other countries off the
high seas by intimidating or fright
ening them and that this is a part of
his plan of conquest by force.
It may be said in passing that the
German blockade is entirely illegal,
according to accepted international
law. The tactics of German subma
rines are also in violation of an in
ternational agreement, accepted by
Germany some years ago, regulating
submarine warfare.
Of course ships carrying contra
band are subject to seizure but the
definition of contraband has been
widely extended during the First
World War and the present struggle.
So far as we know, the United States
has never officially accepted either
the British or the German definition
of contraband.
While American merchants hhips
are not permitted, under our neutral
ity legislation, to carry supplies to
belligerent ports, there os nothing in
internation law to prohibit such trade.
The proclamation of Germany, setting
up a blockade o fGreat Britain, does
not conform to international law, but
the U-boats and airplanes seek to
discover and destroy all ships carry
ing supplies to the British. This is
the avowed purpose of Hitler, in his
effort to starve out the British Isles.
The conflict between Germany and
the United States in the Atlantic
arises from the German determina
tion to cut off all supplies to Great
Britain and. the equally determined
decision of this country to provide
the supplies. Neither nation is ex
pected to recede from its present po
sition. The result will be numerous
incidents, such as those which have
already occurred and, possibly, the
sinking of German raiders and the
destruction of German warplanes by
the American forces operating on the
Atlantic.
Some speculation results from the
present situation, with many persons
wondering when Germany or the
United States will declare war as a
result of the incidents. Apparently,
neither country intends to make such
a declaration, both apparently pre
paring to shoot it out on the present
basis rather than to become involved
in a full-fledged war.
The Germans insist that they are
fighting the British and that the
ships of other nations should stay
away from the prohibited area.
Americans insist that they are de
fending the rights of this country on
the high seass against the piratical
acts of a gang of international high
waymen. Public reaction in the United States
due to the loss of life that occurred
as a result of the submarine attack
upon the Destroyer Kearny has been
amazingly calm. It was much the
same when the Japanese bombed the
Panay in Chinese waters.
There are quite a few Americans
who take the view that ships of this
country, including warships, assume
certain risks when they go into bel
ligerent areas and that if they are
attacked, they are, to some extent,
to blame for the incident.
Others apparently in the minority,
believe that the assault upon an
American warship, involving loss of
American lives, should be met by
prompt retaliatory action and that
the nation should assert its sover
eign rights upon the high seas.
"Jane can't hold her head up since
she got back from that nudist
colony."
"Is she a marked woman?"
"Yes, the insects were terrible."
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