The Willamina times., March 13, 1941, Image 4

THURSDAY. MAR. 13. 1941
TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Bulgarians Are Rebuked by Russia
For ‘Allowing* Nazi Troops to Enter;
Turkey Closes Strategic Dardanelles
As Crisis Looms in Mediterranean
( E D I T O R ’S N O T E — W hen opinions a re exp ressed In these colum ns, they
a r e those of the new s a n a ly s t and not n e c e s s a rily of th is n e w s p a p e r.)
W estern NewsDaDer Union -
they disapproved of the B ulgarian
action because it "does not lead to
consolidation of p eace.”
At Crossroads
W hether this m ean t R ussia would
The sending of Anthony Eden into
T urkey was no em pty gesture on the tak e any action to prevent Nazi
p a rt of E ngland, but a vital move troops from p en etratin g too close to
in the w ar as the nation approached soviet borders w as not im m ediately
w hat appeared to be its m ost dan ­ learned. London at first did not be­
lieve th a t R ussia had any action in
gerous parting of the ways.
The Nazi move in the Balkans, m ind but looked upon the sta te m en t
plus the infiltration into Italy, plus m erely as “ a m ere v erb al p ro test.”
the move into Spain, plus the ap ­ One thing w as sure; The signing
p earance of G erm an troops in Af­ of the Axis-Bulgar pact w as to have
rica, plus the rem oval of F rench citi­ far-reaching effect in the progress of
zens from the invasion coast, all w ar in the Balkans.
The signing had been prefaced by
pointed in different directions and
tended to place English w ar d irec­ the infiltration of uncounted thou­
sands of Nazi troops in civilian
tors on the horns of a dilem m a.
It appeared th a t the British m ust clothing, and two days before it all
decide (1) w hether to extend and happened, Nazi g enerals, also in
continue their successful drive in plain-clothes, p ractically took over
A frica; (2) w hether to concentrate the leading hotel in Sofia as their
on defense of the channel and fight­ h ead q u arters.
The day before the signatures
ing the subm arine m enace; (3)
w hether to lighten the African force w ere placed on the historic docu­
by sending troops to strengthen the m ent B ritain issued a w arning th at
defense of G reece and to the aid of she would w ithdraw her em bassy if
the tre a ty w ere signed.
Turkey.
The next step was the cutting off
Most B ritish lead ers did not be­
lieve th a t all of these varied objec­ of all telephonic com m unication be­
tives could be accom plished at the tween B ulgaria and the outside
sam e tim e. They viewed with d read world. In all this, the blotting out
the possibility that one or another of another autonom ous country was
of these G erm an sp earheads m ight ca rrie d out in the tru e Nazi m ethod,
the blueprint being followed in ev­
ery detail with m ath em atical preci­
sion.
The following day the city of Sofia
w as in G erm an hands, com pletely
under G erm an control, the British
am b assad o r had asked for and de­
m anded his p assports, and Bul­
g a ria ’s hom e rule w as ended.
ENGLAND:
MARTIN DIES:
Steps Out Again
ANTHONY ED EN
The "prime fixer" went to Turkey.
C L A SS IF IE D
DEPARTMENT
By Edward C. Wayne
The Dies com m ittee, quiescent for
sev eral w eeks, stepped back onto
P age One when R epresentative Dies
charged th a t A m erican P eace Mo­
bilization, Inc., which in W ashington
is largely m ad e up of governm ent
em ployees active in opposition to
the lease-lend bill, receives its chief
support from Com m unistic “ front”
organizations.
Public m eetings ag ain st the lease-
lend bill w ere being run by the
“ K eep A m erica Out of W ar Com­
m ittee ,” but the sponsors of the
m eetings, w hen asked w hat other
groups w ere involved, would only
answ er "a n d other peace and labor
groups.”
Mr. Dies said chief am ong these
w as the Mobilization body, and he
cited th a t one of its vice presidents
is Vito M arcantonio of New York,
the only A m erican L abor p arty
m em ber in congress who has been
voting ag ain st national defense and
Just be a feinting m ove with the
very purpose of causing the British
to put their chief attraction at the
wrong spot.
T here w as little chance th a t the
British would do anything th at
would jeopardize their defense of
the Island Kingdom itself. Robert
G. Nixon, returning correspondent,
described in detail the defense of the
entire English coastal territo ry ,
north, south, cast and west, giving
a picture of a nation ra th e r anxious­
ly hoping for invasion than fearing
it.
But B ritain's M editerranean and
Middle E ast situation w as censing
trem endous concern, with the two
vulnerable points at each end of the
inland sea, G ib raltar and Suez, and
with G reece to be aided, Turkey to
he strengthened, and African gains
to be held and consolidated.
The crucial move in this whole
dilem m a was the sending of Eden,
the prim e ''fix er” to Turkey. The
conference with T urkish leaders
lasted only 2 ^ hours, and ended in
a com plete accord, it w as reported. 1
F irs t definite action resulting
from T urkey's concern over the i
situation becam e known when it was
announced th a t the D ardanelles had
been closed. Those strateg ic straits,
MARTIN DIES
which se p a ra te the M editerranean
He Hepped bark Io Cage One.
from the Black sea, a re of vital
concern to the axis powers for they appropriations m easu res ev er since
form the outlet of G erm an occupied the congress convened.
territo ry to the M editerranean.
The Dies com m ittee, during pre­
vious investigations, pronounced to
BALKANS:
be a C om m unist F ront organization
Lose a Piece
the A m erican League lor P eace and
Mr. Dies said th at
B ulgaria lost its autonomy to all D em ocracy.
p ractical purposes when Bogdan from w hat he had lea-ned so far,
PhilotT und Von Ribbentrop signed the Mobilization ch ap ter in Wash­
a d ram a tic trea ty through which the ington ap p eared to be the successor
B ulgars officially joined the Rome- of the League for P eace, which be­
cam e defunct after getting the Red
Berlin Axis "for the duration."
This w as widely viewed as an un­ label from the Dies body.
E xecutive se creta ry of the Wash­
willing su rren d er, but a move which
could hardly be criticized by fair- ington ch a p te r of Mobilization, Inc.,
m inded persons, as it w as a su r­ w as Mrs. S arah A. M ontgom ery,
render to a pistol held firmly to a wife of the consum ers' counsel for
the AAA. Dies served a subpoena
nation’s h eart
R ussia, however, felt otherw ise. on M rs. M ontgom ery to bring her
Shortly after the pact w as signed records before the com m ittee.
Subpoenas w ere served for sev­
and the Nazi troops had entered Bul­
g aria, that nation was handed a m es­ era l weeks on the ch ap ter, Dies
sage from the soviet foreign com ­ said, w ithout av ail in getting the
m issaria t which in effect expressed records before him. He continued
displeasure with the B ulgar'a a tti­ to dem and them , and would con­
tude.
According to the Russians. tinue to do so. he said
England May Get Food
Under Lease-Lend Bill
CO IN S
W ANTED—1909—S. V. D. B. Cents: a lso
Increasing Shortages Now Appear Likely;
Roosevelt Opposed to Censorship
Of •Defense’ Information.
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By BAUKHAGE
National Farm and Home Hour Commentator.
WNU Service, 1395 N ational P ress
Bldg., W ashington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—In the p a st few
weeks the tall figure of a Hoosier
fa rm e r has been seen frequently en­
tering and leaving the White House.
This w as not so stran g e to us who
w atch the busy p ortals because the
m an w as S ecretary of A griculture
W ickard. Like other m em b ers of
the cabinet, he is called in for fre­
quent conferences with th e P re si­
d en t these days. Cabinet officers and
other governm ent officials have been
helping the P resid en t plan the con­
cre te step s to be taken to aid B rit­
ain under the lend-lease bill.
But w hat a lot of us did not guess
w as ju st w hat S ecretary W ickard
w as up to. The purpose of those
visits has not been officially an­
nounced, as I w rite th ese lines. But
it can be safely predicted th a t he
w as w orking out plans with the P re s­
ident to include fa rm products
am ong the first supplies to be loaned
or leased to E ngland.
S ecretary W ickard w as able to
achieve his purpose p artly as a re ­
su lt of his own persuasiveness, and
p artly for other reaso n s th a t I will
explain later.
H ere is the tip-off on the plan the
se creta ry discussed with the P re si­
dent, in M r. W ickard’s own words.
I t is p retty cagily expressed but if
you know how, you can rea d be­
tw een the lin ts. This is w hat Secre­
ta ry W ickarti said in a public speech
during the congressional b attle on
the lend-lease bill:
O verproduction Held Unlikely.
“ F ran k ly speaking, th ere is little
likelihood th a t we will produce too
m uch m eat, b u tter, cheese, m ilk and
other dairy products in the m onths
to com e. I have an idea th a t all
we produce in the South and else­
w here will be needed.
“ The rep o rts about the B ritish food
situation are not too encouraging.
The British have lost their sources
of food supply on the continent.
They are handicapped still further
by th eir shipping losses. The E ng­
lish m ay w ant som e of our food and
w ant it p retty soon. If they call on
us, I think we will answ er the call.”
A lm ost all of the products to be
sent to B ritain under the lend-lease
plan will be proteins (m eat, m ilk
and m ilk products and eggs). There
will be, how ever, som e cotton, w heat
and tobacco, but th ese com m odities
will constitute a m inor p a rt of the
shipm ents. The p rac tica l arg u m en ts
for sending proteins are obvious:
1. The ex tra physical d em an d s on
fighting m en req u ire a g re a te r pro­
tein diet.
2. These products up to now have
been shipped to E ngland all the way
from A ustralia, New Z ealand and
th e Argentine. Two trip s can be
m ad e from New York to B ritain
while one is being m ade from these
d istan t points.
U nfortunately the protein com m od­
ities which are needed by England
a re not the ones we m ost w ant to
sell. They do not constitute our
g rea t surpluses, disposition of which
has caused the biggest headaches
in the d ep a rtm en t of ag ricu ltu re
since the farm problem w as tossed
in the governm ent’s lap.
Surplus P roduce U naffected.
F urtherm oee, they a re the prod­
ucts which. Inter on, when the de­
fense industries expand, we will
need at hom e because if all our un­
em ployed w ere working full tim e and
eating three m eals a day, we would
not have enough proteins at the p res­
ent ra te of production to satisfy
them . The things we do w ant to
get rid of—the things of which we
have enough and to sp are—a re not
as greatly affected by increased em ­
ployment. D ep artm en t of agricul­
tu re experts h ere will tell you any
day that in prosperous tim es there
is not an im p o rtan t increase in the
use of cotton, tobacco and w heat.
But as fa r as the British go, they
have to consider first things first,
and they have all the cotton, w heat
and tobacco they need, or they can
get these products as conveniently
from their own dominions as from
the United S tates.
So this new “ lend-lease" m a rk e t
w on't solve the problem of farm su r­
pluses. N evertheless, it will absorb
som e of them , for the governm ent
is insisting that along with the pro­
teins. some of the surplus products
will be included in the com m odities
we dispose of under the lend-lease
plan.
How long this new m a rk e t over-
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is impossible to p redict how long
the em ergency will last or w hat the
fortunes of w ar will be. But the ef­
fort of the New Deal planners is to
build up an increasing dem and at
hom e for the things the fa rm e r
raises. As S ecretary W ickard say s
on every occasion when he gets the
chance:
“ W hether they lose or keep the
foreign m ark ets, farm ers m u st try
to increase consum ption in their best
m a rk e t—the dom estic m a rk e t.”
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FILM SERVICE
P re s id e n t Discusses N ew s
C o n tro l W ith R e p o rte rs
Im agine the head of a E uropean
sta te sitting for half an hour while
he w as questioned by a group of
new sm en on any subject they chose,
including the governm ent’s confi­
dential transactions!
And, yet, th a t happens tw ice a
week in W ashington at the White
House p ress conferences. T here the
P resid en t sits a t his desk covered
with p ap ers; m em b ers of the White
House staff sitting about him , two
se cret service m en standing incon­
spicuously behind him , between the
sta rs and strip es and the presiden­
tial flag.
To us in W ashington, the White
House press conference is routine.
But a recen t m eeting w as so dem o­
cra tic, so unlike anything th a t could
possibly happen abroad, th a t it
stands out clearly in my m em ory.
Mr. Roosevelt sta rte d it. The ques­
tion which the A m erican public
ought to think about, as he p ut it,
had to do with the ethics, m orals
and p atrio tism of m aking public,
m a tte rs which m ight be injurious to
national defense. F irst, should a
m em b er of congress divulge te sti­
mony before a secret com m ittee ses­
sion; second, should a new spaper
publish or a radio station b ro ad cast
such inform ation.
The issue w as raised by the publi­
cation of testim ony given by the
chief of staff. G eneral M arshall, be­
fore an executive session of the sen­
ate m ilitary affairs com m ittee in
connection with a shipm ent of arm y
bom bers to H aw aii.
Censorship Not D esired.
The P resid en t said he had neither
the desire nor the power to censor
the news, but he wished us to con­
sider w hether it w as ethical, m oral
or p atrio tic to publish any in fo rm a­
tion which the heads of the a rm y
and navy believed should, in the in­
te re sts of national defense, be kept
confidential.
The new sm en did not question the
advisability of withholding from the
public im portant m ilitary secrets,
but they showed plainly th a t they re­
sented any suggestion th at the free­
dom of the p ress be interfered with.
One correspondent said frankly
th a t the chief of staff ought not to
tell things to congressm en which he
did not w ant to get out because such
inform ation alw ays leaked.
The
P resid en t replied, quietly, th a t nat-
urally. one did not like to withhold
any inform ation asked for by con­
gress.
Another rep o rter asked how the
press w as to know w hat inform ation,
once they had received it, ought to
be w ithheld, and w hat could be
printed. The P resid en t answ ered
this could be determ ined by w hat the
heads of the arm y and navy felt
would be injurious to national de­
fense. The P resid en t ad m itted he
had no specific proposal to suggest.
No definite conclusion to the dis­
cussion w as reached at the interview .
The incident had one effect. S hort­
ly after the m eeting, a w riter who
is usually excellently inform ed, s ta t­
ed th a t the P resid en t had tu rn ed
down flatly a plan to place all in­
form ation concerning defense under
w hat am ounted to a censorship
board. It had been long known
th a t such a plan w as placed on the
P re sid en t's desk at the tim e war
broke out abroad. The P resid en t
turned it down then. When it cam e
up the second tim e, he again tu rn ed
it down. L ater, Lowell M ellett, ad ­
m in istrativ e advisor to the P re si­
dent, said no plan of censorship was
being considered.
If w ar com es, som e m ethod bf
regulating the publication of m ilita­
ry inform ation will probably be put
into effect. But until th at m om ent,
the p ress and radio will fight for
freedom of speech, the spoken word,
or the w ritten.
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The Three Fates are Clotho, who
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