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The Washington
Daybook
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By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON—Note to Juan
Trippe: Here's an inside story
you ought to know.
Commercial aviation people in
Washington are saying that the
one big reason England is mak
ing so much fuss about the Unit
ed States’ continuance of weath
er broadcasts in the southern At
iantic is not fear Germany will
profit by the new—but their grim
determination to hold your Pan
American Airways back while
their competitive hands are tied
by the war.
They even say that all that
mail trouble at Bermuda was just
one more effort to make your
eastward hop an obstacle race.
They point to the British Lions
.squawk at our putting coast
guard weather observation ships
directly under your routes to Hor
ta after you had been driven off
the landing rights they had grant
ed you in Bermuda.
And they point to the Allies
distress at continuance of wea
ther broadcasts from Horta. It
aly, Spain and Portugal—inform
ation that couldn't possibly be a
military secret.
Once Upon A Time—
England certainly has some his
torie precedents to worry about.
In the 40 years that followed
1820, American clippers stole a
march on world shipping that
made the seagoing English sea
sick.
Those old clippers, for which
your modern ships are named.
Mr. Trippe, used to make five
trips over thousands of miles of
ocean while the British were
making four.
,The “Sea Witch,’’ 97 days out
of New York, around the Horn,
docked at San Francisco, a trip
that never had been made in less
than 150 days. The Lightning"
logged 436 miles in one day and
knocked all other speed records
into a cocked hat.
It took a Civil war and the ad
vent of steam to break the back
or American supremacy of the
seas. You can bet any Britisher
who knows his martime history
hasn’t forgotten now.
Is it any wonder then, that the
British are looking on the ach
ievements of these modern clip
pers and feeling pretty green
Britannia may rule the waves
but it looks now as if, before the
war is over, America’s rule of
the transoceanic airways will be
so firmly esablished that no com
petitor ever will be able to catch
up.
Subsidy Shows Profit
Look at the ground that’s al
ready covered. The Pacific clip
I
pers making flights continually,
pushing out to the Philippines,
Australia and Hong Kong. And
the Civil Aeronautics Authority
here tells me that, before long,
the clippers will be dropping
down on the coast of New Zea
land.
Just the other day, at LaGuard
la field in New York, the clippers
celebrated their 135 trans-atlan
j tic crossing—without a single ac
cident. They've carried thousands
I of passengers and tons of mail—
so much mail, in fact, that what
started out as a government sub
sidy has turned in a beauty of a
little profit for Mr. James A. Far
ley’s deparment.
All the United States’ transoc
eanic airlines need now is more
ships. The South American serv
ice and the short-hop lines are
pretty well supplied but the trans
oceanic service is accomplishing
| its amazing feats, I hear, with
! only six big clippers. Two giant
; strato-clippers are on the way
but- they'll be a year or so in the
i building. That’s just a hint of
' how long it will take foreign com
I petitors to get started after the
i war.
Of course, you know all that,
Mr. Trippe. and knowing all that
i it isn't surprising, is it, that the
commercial aviation folks here in
Washington are finding good rea
Ison for Britain's kicking up such
' a fuss about those weather broad
casts?
American-Bound Mail On
| U. S. Liner Seized by British
LONDON, April 13 — British
I official sources disclosed a system
! atic search of American-bound
' mails on neutral ships has be
gun with removal of mails of
German origin from the steamer
Manhattan.
The search was imposed to
I catch German exports by parcel
post.
U. S. MINISTER TO NORWAY
IS REPORTED SAFE
WASHINGTON, April 13—Mrs
J. Borden Harrimon, 70, U. S.
Minister to Norway, reported she
j is safe and in excellent health
: at the Swedish border town of
Helges.
After a series of unsuccessful
efforts to reach headquarters of
the Norwegian government she
talked over the telephone with
Frederick Sterling, Amrican Min
ister at Stockholm.
That unique and humorous
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beei
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offl
:e.
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[ the WELLES ODYSSEY
FIRST STOP: ITAL Y_\Vlien Sumner Welles. U. S. un
dersecretary of state, reached N. Y. March 28 after his trip to
Europe, he was uncommunicative, reserving his facts for F.D.R.,
who dispatched him on the mission. Welles left Feb. 17. going
first to Italy; there he was greeted by Count Ciano (left), foreign
minister, and talked with II Duce.
NEXT, TO B E R L I N—Italy’s axis partner, Germany, was
second stop for Sumner Welles, sent to the warring capitals to
collect facts and views. In Berlin he was welcomed by Foreign
Minister Von Ribbentrop (right) and Goering. He talked with
Hitler about an hour and a half, giving no hint later of what
transpired. The Allies awaited their turn.
WELLES REPORTS TO PRESIDENT
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| Less than hour after returning from his fact-finding trip to Europe
| Sumner Weiles (right), Undersecretary of State, called a the White j
House to report to President Roosevelt on what he learned in Rome,!
r\iris, Berlin and London. Welles was accompanied to the executive!
mansion by his chief, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, with whom
he is shown at the front door.
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A CHAT IN FRANCE—Fall of the French cabinet al
tered the political face of France not long after Sumner Welles
visited there, chatting with Pres. Albert Lebrun (right) March 1,
and with Premier Daladier, who was to resign March 20. On this
visit Welles met Paul Reynaud, finance minister, who was to
succeed Daladier as premier.
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BRITON’S VIEW—Seen with Winston Churchill (right)
March 12, Sumner Welles was in London while Russia and Fin*
land were concluding the treaty that gave Russia Karelia and
Viipuri. Welles returned to Rome, was there when Hitler and
Mussolini met unexpectedly at Brenner Pass. He talked with the
pope and again with Ciano. sailed from Genoa March 20.
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