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l nii(‘d Front Desired
There will be considerable disappointment if Argen
tine and Chile should refuse to join with the other
nations of the Americas for presenting a united front
of Western Hemisphere countries against the Axis.
It is not expected that all the Central and South Am
erican republic, will declare war against the European
and Asiatic aggressors, although many have done so,
but it is hoped every one of the western nations will
break off diplomatic relations with the Berlin, Rome
and Tokyo governments.
Even if Argentine and Chile should decline to unite
with the hemisphere front they could give no material
assistance to the enemies across the Atlantic or the
foe across the Pacific.
Shipments not only of war supplies but also of other
commodities to the Axis nations cannot pass in any
considerable amount through the intervening waters
patrolled by Allied sea and air forces.
Of course, it is not likely that Argentine and Chilean
shipping, whatever the outcome of present parleys,1
would attempt to run the ocean blockades.
If the two hesitant South American countries should
unite with their American neighbors in opposition to
the Axis the moral effect of the hemispheric attitude
would be uore impressive than it otherwise would be.
That is all.
Disagreement on the part of the two republics could
not influence in any material way the outcome of the
war.
ARGENTINA KEEPING
HER LINK WITH AXIS
By Arnaldo Cortesi
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina,
The A'gentino Ambassador to
Italy Dr. Manuel Malbran. who
came here a month ago to re
port to his government on the
European situation, will leave for
Rio de Janiero, Brazil enroute to
Rome to resume his post, it was
stated. Incidentally, he is sehed
uled to fly to Rio de Janiero in a
Pan American Airways plane.
Dr. Malbran’s return to Rome
is taken as an indication the Ar
gentine Government foresees no
rupture of relations with the
Axis countries, and this in turn
suggests that it does not believe
any genera! agreement will be
reached at the Rio de Janiero ecn
ferences of the American repub
lics for the breaking off of re
lations between all the Latin
American countries and he pow
crs at war against the United
States.
This matter along with others
of the same nature will be tak
en at a Cabinet Council cal’ed
for next Tuesday by Acting
President Ramon S. Castillo to
consider what instructions shall
be given to the delegation that
will represent Argentina in R:o
de Janeiro.
The Cabinet’s decisions are un
likely to be made public except,
possibly in their broad lines, but
everything leads to be belief
that Argentina will hold to the
view that South American coun
tries should remain neutral so
far as it is compatable with a
strict interpretation of the Pan
ama and Havana compacts.
Taking of Sides Forbidden
The latest indication pointing
in this direction is in the in
structions just given to local
newspapers telling them what
they may and may not print dur
ing the present state of siege.
The most significant points of
these instructions are that the
newspapers may print nothing
that “affect the neutrality of the
Argentine nation,” or that depre
; ciate.i ‘‘the government, political
m.-wspaper may now exalt dcmoc
racy as compared to totalitarian-j
ism any more than it may exalt
toltalitarianism as compared to
*lrm-ocracy. Nor may any Argen
r g me, head of state or officials"
; of any be'ligerent nation, or that
would ‘disturb the friendly re
lations of the Argentine nation
with other countries.”
In other words no Argentine
t ile newspaper draw comparison
between say, President Roosevelt
and Ado'f Hitler to the detri
ment of either.
Since the whole Argentine,
press with a very few excep
tion strongly favors the demo
cratic cause, this is all to the ad- j
vantage of the Axis powers.
Dependence on U. S. Noted
BUENOS AIRES —Argentina's
pressing economic needs may in
fluence polit cal decisions of the.
nation's to the conference of For
eign Ministers.
The war has crippled Argen
tine economy, causing the lossi
of important foreign markets, j
mostly European, and a severe,
shipping shortage that has made
the moving of Argentine pro
ducts to remaining market a ser- j
ious problem.
Entry into the war of the Unit
ed States—Argentine’s best cus
tomer and foremost supplier of
manufactured and raw industrial
products, as well as ships to'
carry her commerce—has dealt a
new blow to the national econ
omy.
Guatemala Denies Execeutions
GUATEMALA — Guatemalan
officials said today that the po
lice and army were controlling
all activities of Axis nationals'
and declared false a dispatch in 1
the Mexico City newspaper Ex
celsior to the effect that leaders
of a totalitarian conspiracy to ov
erthrow Guatemala’s govern
ment had been caught, court
martialed and executed.
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YVILLKIE GETS XEYV .TOP
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After talking with President Roosevelt about his new
job as umoire to help the new war labor board. Wen
dell Wellkie was interviewed almost on the run as
White House reporters escorted him down the front
drive from the executive mansion, shown in the back
ground.
SPARTAN DAYS FACE
US. WILLKIE WARNS
Holding that the nation must dedicate itself to “Spar
tan simplicity and hard work” for the duration of the
war, Wendell L. Willkie declared that ultimate victory
lor the United States and its Allies over the Axis pow
ers would come only when this country put its vast
production facilities into complete operation and out
produce its totalitarian enemies. As the first essential
step in achieving an all-out oroduction of war material
in the United States. Mr. Willkie urged the National
Administration and Congress to cut non-defense ex
penditures "to the bone" and appealed for an immed
iate end to the “bickering” between labor and industry.
He assorted that industrialists must make every fac
ility immediately available “to the people of the Unit
ed States" and that labor must be prepared to work a
fifty-five, “even a sixty-hour week,” under the nation’s
war program.
Asks Peak Efficiency
“We must insist on the maximum efficiency in our
defense program.” he said. “Every facility, great and
small, must be put to twenty-our-hour use. And to ac
complish this the ablest industrial and labor executives
in the nation should be employed and should be given
authority without regard to past, present, or future
political consideration. And the sooner we commence
this total program, the fewer will be the American
boys who must die for victory’s sake. We are in this
war together, great and small, rich and poor, employer
and employee—there is no difference. We must do our
duty together. Any man. or group, who fails to do so
betrays his country.”
The 1940 Republican Presidential candidate’s appeal
for all-out production egorts was made in a coast-to
coast radio speech, broadcast by the Columbia Broad
casting Company. At the outset of his address, Mr.
Willkie declared that the American public must accept
two facts in regard to the war. The first is that because
of modern weapons of warfare — swift warships and
aircraft carriers and speedier long-range bombers —
America’s immunity to attacks from Asia and Europe
because of its geographical location is far less than it
used to be.
Realization of Evil Forces
The second was that Americans must now fully re
alize “how evil these men are who are now engaged in
destroying civilizatio neverywhere.” Mr. Willkie held
that before the outbreak of war between the United
States and Japan many Americans refused to believe
that the totalitarian doctrine of world power and con
quest was aimed at the United States as well as the
other democracies. It was inconceivable to us that the
Japanese emporer, a man held in his counry to be de
vine, should talk peace, not merely just before his air
force attacked, but hours after he had butchered Am
erican men and women,” Mr. Willkie said. “And yet
this emperor is but the shadow of a greater evil —- a
man of no conscience whatsoever—Adolf Hitler. We
no linger possess any special immunity from mechan
ized and deliberate evil. We shall not be safe from it
until the bloody gang that practices it has been exter
minated.”
Turning to the nation’s war program, Mr. Willkie
declared that the war would be won or lost “as we do
or do not out-produce the Axis powers.” “The life and
death of millions of American boys in the armed forc
es will depend on whether our production lines outdo
those of our enemies,” he asserted. Mr. Willkie de
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dared that it was estimated that
Nazi Germany was at present
spending between $25,000,000,000
to $30,000,000,000 a year for ac
tual weapons of war. This figure
he added was not the actual fig
ure but “the comparable figure
translated into American costs.”
And on the same basis Great
Britain and her dominions are
expending about $2G,000,l>00.000
annually.
Production Still Low
Despite the fact that this coun
try undertook a year ago to be
come the “arsenal of democracy”
Mr. Willkie said that the United
States had as yet scarcely begun
to supply the production for the
war and that during 1941 the
total American expenditures for
military and naval purposes
would total only about $12,500,
000.000 with a large proportion of
this amount being expended for
new facilities food and quarter
master supples.
Stripped to actual fighting ma
terials the American effort is
still very slight — only a mere
fifth of the German effort,’ he1
said. “And this figure includes'
lease-lend aid which has not yet
reached $1,000,000,000 including
even such items as food and blan I
kets. And we do not know the
extent of Japanese and Italian
expenditures."
To match Hitler on his own
terms, to produce at the rate of
even $30,000,000,000 a year this
country must face “the most pro
found dislocation in our lives”
and all talk about sacrivces is j
“altogether inadequate to des
cribe what we must do," Mr. |
Willkie said.
He added that he was convinc
ed all Americans would learn to
get along “on the least we need,
not on the most,”
“In "no direction that we turni
do we find ease or comfort,” hej
added. “If we are honest and if j
we have the will to win we find
only danger, hard work and iron1
resolution. That my fellow-Am-j
ericans, is the spirit of 1942: thei
will to win, the will to become'
strong and hard of muscle.
“In no other way can we, a
free people, hope to overhelm ’
these desperate and bloody con-!
querors who have enslaved their
own peoples and have now de
stroyed most of the free peoples
of the earth.
“And let me say also, withon*
fear, that we shall exact of our
government this same deep wil‘
to victory, this same earnestness
and honesty to which we nou
! dedicate ourselves. This is a freo
1 country and even in wartime w"
I can criticize our government and
should do so the the occasion
arises.
j "We insist that our govern
ment conduct itself in this war
on the same basis as that on
' which it has conducts itself
I since the Hawaiian incident — a
! bais of honesty and the facing
| of facts''1
Calls on “Free Americans”
After appealing to the Admir
istration and Congress to cut non
i defense expenditures to the limit
! and urging labor and industry to
stop their fighting and work fo
i the common cause in an all-ou'
production effort. Mr. Willke
! called upon the “united free Ain
; ericans” to carry on the fight to
the death and final victory over
, the Axis.
i "The fight is world-wide," he
i concluded, “and we shall have to
j he prepared to fight it all over
the world. We must fight it with
increased lease-lend aid. We
must fight it with our Navy. We
must fight it with our troops. Wf
must gird ourselves for that task
We must see it clearly and we
must see it whole.
“Never—and I say it to you in
measured words — never has
) there existed on the surface of
this planet so many human be
ings who know what freedom is
and who are determined that,
though it cost them their lives, it
shall endure.
“Never has there existed such
a wealth of experience, not stor
ed in textbooks on dusty shelves
but in the memory of living men;
experience in democracy, exper
ience in its weaknesses and fail
ures and experience in how to
meet those failures and weak
nesses.
“Out of this great knowledge
we can say, with realistic confid
ence, that we shall be able to
build a new and more fruitful
society of nations, in which the
principles of Lberty shall not only
be spread more widely but deep
ly strengthened by the common
purpose of free people every
where to make freedom live.”