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EDITORIAL
Five More “Walls of England"
(Philadelphia Record)
Reports from London become
more and more definite that the
five new battleships of the King
George class are now in commis
sion with the British Navy.
Should this be true, the British
Navy is once again in a position
of clear superiority over any com
bination of European Powers in
clding Russian and what is left
of the French Fleet.
The new British ships are of j
35.000 tons each much bigger and 1
reputedly fasttr than the Admir- i
al Scheer and Leutzow one of
which is apparent'y on the loose;
again in the North Atlantic.
The new battleships arrive just1
in time. The glorious victory of
the British fleet air arm over the |
Italian squadson at anchor in the,
Gulf of Taranto recently was one|
of the major British achieve
ments of the war.
But it contained a note of
warning for Britain. The disabl-1
""mg of at least two Italian battle,
ships marked the first time a cap
ital ship had been put out of
action by air power.
The old argument about wheth
or planes were able to seriously j
damaged battleships has recently
been expressed in terms of Brit!
ish sea power vs. German air]
power.
Ironically it remained for the
B- itish to prove the German case
namely, that battleships are not
invulnerable to air attack.
With five new battleships and
with the splendid British air ser
vice to protect them Britain has
much less to fear than formerly.
The new freedom given to this
addition by this addition to
the strength of the British fleet
may take the form of dramatic
action in the Meliterranean.
For the United States there is!
a special lesson in these five new!
Bruish battleships. None of them
was begun until 1937 and pro
duction schedules did not call for)
them to take the water until j
1941.
Actually some of these five
shins had their trial runs months
ago and all are reported in com
mission now.
The British speeded up comple
tion of these ships by working on
three shifts.
So far as we can learn no Am
erican shipyard is now working
.•n a full three-shift basis. We are
producing rapidly, but not as
rapidly as wre might. Few Ameri
can plants are operating at cap
acity.
Britain might have been spar
ed some of its gravest danger if
these five ships had been ready
sooner.
If the United States naal pro
gram can be spe-ded up a year,
it might make the difference be
tween dang ir from attack and na
tional security.
Registration Aliens Ends Dec. 26
Registration of aliens which is
being handled by the postmasters
of Alaska ends on December 26
and aliens who have not yet reg
istered should do so immediate
ly
Any alien wilfully failing to
register and be fingerprinted is
subject to a fine of $100 or im
prisonment for six months or
both.
Up to November 13, only 300
registered forms had been sent
th the Director of Registration in
Washington although it is assum
ed Alaska has approximately
1,000 aliens. For complete inform
ation concering the alien registra
tion act any person who has a
question should communicate
with the Postmaster nearest his
home.
375 ALIENS REGISTERED
AT FAIRBANKS TO DATE
Three hundred and seventy
five aliens have registered at the
Fairbanks postoffice Maude Boy
le assistant postmaster who has
charge of the registrations, an
nounced.
“Aliens are still coming strong
the assistant postmaster said.
“The time for registration will
end with the close of business
Thursday, December 26. Aliens
who have not reported for regis
tration by that time will be sub
ject to heavy penalties, under
the law recently pased by Con
gress.’’
SOl’RDOUGH STATIONERY
Write to your friends and rela
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They 11 get a big
tek out of it
The Army’s employing a beauty contest winner to help attract
youth to the army and it’s working. Marilyn Meseke, who won the
“Miss America” title in 1938 poses with a recruiting poster. The
Marion. Ohio miss originally helped the Fifth Corps area recruiting
staff, now she’s getting la chance to help nationally.
The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — It has been
carefully hushed up inside the
State Department but recently a
distinguished group of citizens
on the President's Advisory Com
mittee for Political Refuges al
most resigned and blew the bd
off the appeasement group among
career diplomats. The incident is
important because it indicates
that the old State Department
appeasement clique still is fun
tioning right under the nose of
Cordell Hull.
The President’s refugee com
mittee is headed by James G. Me
Donald whi handled the refugee
prob'em for the League of Na
tions and includes Archbishop
Joseph F. Rummel of New Or
leans; editor Hamilton Fish Arm
strong; George Warren, Basil
Harris, formerly of United States
Lines; Prof. Joseph P. Chamber
lain of Columbia; and Rev. Sam
u. 1 Cavert of the World affiance
for International Friendship. It
was appointed shortly after the
fall of France at the suggestion
of far-sighted Sumner Welles
who felt that the plight of Ger
man, Czech, Jewish and Catho
lic refugees in Franc; should be
handled through a central agen
cy.
The committee immediately
sung into action and after care
fully investigating a long list of
refugees finally recommended
that 651 pro ssors, churchmen
and former government officials
ge admitted to the United Stat
es. This was three and one half
months ago.
These names also were check
ed by the Justice Department,
which approved them and sent
the list to the State Department.
After that nothing happened.
Three and one half months pass
ed and only 15 refuge.s recom
mended by the President’s com
mittee were admitted to the Unit
ed States.
—
ROOSEVELT ISSUES VISAS
Three and a half months was
a long time to delay wh':n many
j of the refugees were in imminent
j danger of being removed from
i France to Germany. So the com
mittee began to ask questions as
to what had happ ned at the
State Department. Specifically,
they asked questions of Breckin
j ridge Long, Assistant Secretary
j °f State, in charge of passport
j visas. In fact they made life so
i miserable for the placid Mr.
Long that Long ev.n complained
to the President that he had ap
' pointed a committee of trouble
makers.
At this point Mr. McDonald
and other members of his com
mittee stormed down to Washing
ton with fre in their eyes and
demanded that matters be strai
ghtened out. Accordingly Roose
velt asked Under Secretary of
State Welles and Solicitor Gen
eral Biddle to investigate. They
he'd a meeting with irate com
mittee members and Brecken
■idge Long, at which Welles was
durnfounded at the State Depart-,
nent's sabotage of the Refuge
Committee.
-But Breck," he said address-!
ng the Assistant Secretary of
State "only 15 refugees admitted
in three and a half months, out
f 651? How do you explain
| that?”
Mr. Br ckenrdge Long figeted
nd sputtered. He had no explan
! ation.
In the end, Roosevelt assured
his committee that from now on
their recommendtions would be
acted upon three and a half
months’ delay.
British Children
Wli ther this happens or not,
remains to be seen. For last sum
mer when Mrs. Roosevelt was
helping to raise money for the
care of British refugee children,
Avra Warren Chief of the State
Department Visa Diviison, insist
ed that temporary visitors’ visas
could not be given the children
but only immigration quota visas
which sometime take months to
precure. Meanwhile he permitted
temporary visas to Nazi business1
men, such as Dr. Gerhard Wet
rick.
Mrs. Roosevelt however strong
ly urged a change in this ruling
in favor of the children who she
argu d were temporary visitors
and her husband promised that
this would be done But as in the
recent case of the political re
fugees, nothing happened.
Finally Mrs. Roosevelt phoned
her husband to report the State
Department’s inertia. He assured
her that the State Department
was sure to act later in the day.
But it did not act and Mrs. Roose
velt phoned her husband again
in the afternon and again later
that day. Finally on the fourth
call with still no action taken,
the President picked up the
phone and called a minor State
Department official.
Later Mrs. Roosevelt told this
story to a group of close friends
one of whom commented:
"The State Department has
come to a sad state of affairs
when the President of the United
States can’t call up his Secretary
of State and say “I would like
to have thus and thus done,’ but
instead has to call up a minor
official in the State Department.”
NOTE— Visa Chief Avra War
ren who denied visitor’s visas to
British refugee children did not
deny them to 70 Czech shoe work
ers for the Bata shoe factory in
Maryland whom the Justice De
partment later deported, charg
ing that the company had been
linked up economically with Hit
ler.
I I
HAS HOUSEWAR M INC —To some 1,000 guests, invited
by his “Come one, come all,” newspaper advertisement, Harry K.
Thaw (above) played host In Philadelphia house. Thaw, now
69, was defendant In the Stanford White murder case of 1906.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY ,
Fair and continuedcold tonight; Tuesday morning increasing cloud
iness and slightly warmer but with temperatures still slightly be
. low zero.
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Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:60 pm Today
Highest temp-7 Lowest te mp — -15 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this mo. 0.33 Total since Jan, 1, 1940, 12.06
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather J
12 Midnight_____- -12 21 . NW 5 Clear
3am.... . ._ -13 24 N 8 Clear
12:30 p m ...—__ -12 47 E 5 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:55 a. m. Sunset 1:55 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 1 Lowest temp — -13 Precipitation — T
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
Weather over the entire Seward Peninsula will remain generally
fair and cold tonight and Tuesday with temperatures ranging from
tdn below z *ro at coastal points to thirty five below in inland
towns. Temperatures over this entire region will begin a slow mod
eration Tuesday, accompanied by falling barometric, pressure and
increasingly cloudy skies, with probable snow flurries in the vic
inity of Kotzebue and Deering early Wednesday morning..
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