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It Is Up To
Officers To Vi in
Mens Respect
By MORGAN M. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer
WASHINGTON —The Army’s
dashing into the task of train
ing a citizen army with all the
reckless abandon of a man walk
ing on eggs.
There’s a reason!
Regular Army officers know
that success or failure will rest
squarely on their shoulders.
In formal black and whit)?,
hard-boiled Chief off Staff Geo
rge Marshall has told his com
manding officers they’re on the
spot to provide the kind of lead
ership the new men will under
stand and follow.
“The establishment and main
tenance of high morale and the
creation of conditions fostering
good morale” says an order from
the chief "are among the first
and most vital functions of com
mand. Every commander is in
structed to give this matter his
personal attention.”
And to be certain that's that
the Army has created several
ne units to prevent the buck
from being passed. Among these
are the 500-, 1,000- and 2,000
ir.an reception centers curtained
oe from the rest of the training
camp areas.
There’ll be no sending of green
horns after the key to the pow
d r smoke chest for a laugh.
Men unfamiliar with military!
commands, customs and laws are
going to get them in a kindly
way for a solid month. To be ab
solutely sure th y understand,
their failures at first wil 'ome
tin :S be overlooked, of ter dis
cussed with them in a fatherly
way.
But after that month, hard
bo ?d Army sergeants will get
th- recruits, xpcct them to ex
ec. .• command-, comply with
cu :ms and obey strict Army
law and no questions asked.
General Marsha 1 says the
A ny s ready for the task of
t: g the naw army. World
W r mistakes are known.
b .here‘11 be no excuses for
x . -s roughshod handling of
so. ,..ve troops.
And P. S.. Dad, Army tradi
tion I as a counterpart of the wis
dom of the Declaration cf Inde
pendence where is says “Govern
ment d-rives its just powers
from tire consent of the govern
ed. ’ Army officers unde.stand
The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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By Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON—The diplomat
ic reports which President Roose
velt now has on his desk all in
dicate that the war has reached
the most crucial point in its var
iegated history and that adroit,
even strong arm diplomacy by
th,: United States might tip the
balance to a British victory.
How this may be done is now
the most vital question before
the White House and State De
partment.
To understand the role which
the United States may or may
not play in tipping the balance
one must look back on the his
tory of this war.
The attempt to invade Eng
land last September stands out
like the Battle of the Marne
when in 1914 the Germans came
within a few miles of taking
Paris. Had th y penetrated 15
miles further the outcome of the
World War would have been dif
ferent.
But from that moment on, the
World War settled down to a
long drawn-out siege in which
the sticking powers of the Ger
man people were pitted against
the immense resources of the A1
lies and during which the Ger
man war machine lost its immed
iate advantage of advance pre
paration.
Twenty-six years later — in
Septemb.r, 1940 —the Battle of
Britain seems to have been al
most identical. At one time the
Germans actually had barges
loaded with men headed for Brit
ish ports. But the alertness of
th: Royal Air Force plus bad
weather drove them back.
The entire force of Hitler’s
mighty military machine after
years of painstaking preparation
was poised for this attack. Now
that the attack has failed Hitler
has had to settle down to a har
assing, waiting policy.
Such a policy easily can b: dis
astrous. For the key to Hitler’s
po it leal success has been his con
stant uncorking of victories for
che German people. Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Norway, Den
mark, Holland, Belgium anc’
Fiance all have been held up as
they’ll be like government to
hundreds of thousands of young
Americans for a fu,l year. Gener
al Marshall expects these officers
to earn the consent of the govern
ad through leadership and co
operation.
th. glorious reward for terrific
sacrifice and suffering.
HITLER'S WORRY
For five months now there
have been no new conquests, no
new triumphs to celebrate. In
stead British airp’anes have
i dumped almost nightly death
I over B' rlin, Hamburg and the
' Ruhr. These, plus their own
straitened circumstances are the
chief things the German people
have had to think, about. On top
of them have come two other im
portant dev-lopments.
One was the reelection of Roo
sevelt whom Nazi propagandists
have played up as the great en
j emy of the dictators. This pro
paganda has now had reverse ef
fects and th.? German people,
remembering how the United
States turned the tide in the last
war cannot help but speculate
ruefully regarding the prospect
of the USA coming into this
war.
Two has be n the unexpected
Italian setback in Greece. Pro
bably not much of this has per-!
colnted through the censor to the
German people, but it has to It
aly. Unrest is spreading under
ground among the Italian people
plus growing resentment against
both Hitler and Mussolini.
AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC AIM
A 1 of these factors have been!
put under the State Department
microscope to see what the Unit
ed S'.ates could do—short of war I
—to bring greater p ssimism to
the German and Italian people,1
give greater strength to Great
Britain.
One possibility was to woo Rus
sia, keep her out of the Axis.
This was the chief reason for the
Oumarv ky-Sumne r We les con-1
versatiens. They have partially;
failed due to the fact that all.
the United States can offer Russia
is machine tools and gasoline,
while Hitler can offer India, Per
sia, Afghanistan.
Another possibility was to stif
fen U S policp against Japan,
perhaps by sending ships to Sing
apor: thus taking over the Brit
ish burden of policing the South i
Pacific. This would have devastat
ing repercussions upon the Axis,
but Roosevelt considers it risky
so it is being held in abeyance.
Third possibility and the one.
actively under discussion inside ■
the Stat.: Department now is to i
bolster the French forces in
North Africa, help bring them in
on the side of the British.
This has tremendous possibil
ities. For at present General
Graziani is bogged down in Eg
ypt where Mussolini has been
sending him peremtory orders to
advance on Suez, to which Gra
ziani has replied that he will not
idvanee until he has sufficient
supplies. So should Graziani be
ttacked by the French from the
Tunis sic! and by the British
'rom the Egyptian side it would
nean certain defeat and probub
v the end of Mussolini.
Furthermore it wou d probab
ly take Italy out of the war.
This is the main effort to which
American diplomacy is now dir-!
ected. First step was a plan tc t
end Ger. rol Pershing old friend
of Marshal Petain as Speciali
Ambassador to France. To this*
nd the 80-year-old General un
drrwent a thorough physical ex
animation. But although anxious
to undertake the mission his doc
tors forbade it.
More recently tits State De
partment has been working on a
plan to have a • prominent
Frenchman who is close to Mar
shal Petain come to the United
States on a goodwill mission.
This may happen soon.
However the chief probl m is
to influence not merely Petain
who already has veered away
from the Axis but a so Marshal
Weygand. The latter is now in
North Africa and the French
troops in that area would rise to
his leadership overnight in any
attack upon Italian Libya.
However, Weygand bitter over
his treatment during the last
days of the war is sulking. He is
not pro-British though not as
violent abainst them as the of
ficers of the French navy. R -
cently certain British emissaries
have had confidential talks with
General Weygand but with .no
definite results.
U. S. SHIPS TO DAKAR
Another plan which has been
considered in Army and Navy
circl.s is for the United States
to take cognizance of the part
which Dakar might play in any
attack upon South America.
The Germans are now develop
ing Dakar as a giant air base un
der the protection of the French
fleet. This is of vital concern to
the United Stat s, Brazil, A"gen
tina and the rest of South Am
erica. Therefore it has been sug
gested that the United States in
stigate joint Pan-American rep
resentations followed perhaps by
a naval disp’ay off Dakrr in or
der to persuade the French fleet
to divorce itself from Germany
and neutralize Dakar.
This plan does not get much
encouragement from the Whit:
House and State Department,
where it is considered risky. How
ever it is one of the many ideas
which are being mulled over as
a means of bolstering the French
singing the North African army
behind the British and providing
the punch which may tip the bal
anee of victory in the war.
Japan Got
Half of E.S.
Scrap Export
More than 21,500.000 net tons
of iron and steel scrap have b en
exoorted from the United States
since January 133 over half of
which went to Japan. Scrap is an
'ssential raw material in steel
making and its use permits the
eons rvation of approximately
double the tonnage in iron ore
resources.
The total tonnage of scrap ex
ported since 1933 is more than
five times as much as total scrap
exports in the first 32 years of
this century. Prior to 1900 ex
ports of scrap W’.re negligible.
Both tonnage of scrap exports
and their destinations are likely
to be affected by the embargo
recently placed on scrap exports
from this country to all parts of
the wor d except to Great Britain
and to countries in tl%: Western
Hemisphere.
Japan until the middle of t In is
year by far the largest purchas
er . f American scrap is the mar
ket chiefly affected by the terms
of the embargo.
In 1939 wh> n about four mil
l os net tons of steel scrap were
shipped from this country Japan
took 57 per cent of the total.
About 14 percent went to Great
Britain, 12 per cent to Italy and
5 per cent to Canada. With minor
variations those nations took ap
proximately the same share of to
tal scrap exports in each of the
preceding six years.
In tile first five months of 1940
before the war in Europe inten
sifi- d Japan still remained the
leading consumer of American
scrap although by a smaller mar
gin.
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I N C R E A S E—Production of
army tanks on a large volume
basis, to supply the needs of a
stepped-up defense program, is
the objective of this veteran
machinery expert, E. J. Hunt,
master mechanic who directs
Chrysler's tank project.
NOTICE
Pursuant to an order of court
entered on this 22nd of Novem
ber. A. D. 1940, notice is hereby
given that a general term of the
District Court, Second Judicial
Division, Territory of Alaska,
will be hj- Id in the Court House •
at Nome, in said division and
territory, commencing at the
hour of nine fifteen o’clock (9:15)
a.m. on Thursday, January 2,
1941, and to continue according
to further orders of the court.
Given under my hand and
with the Court’s seal affixed this
22nd day of November, 1940.
A m r Rydeen,
Clerk of the District Court
for the Territory of Alaska,
Second Division.
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Fifty generals, cream of the commanding officers of the United States national guard packed the
grandstands at the huge infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga., to listen to lectures and view demon
strations—all part of an extensive “refresher” course aimed to keep the commanders abreast of mili
tary developments. Their first tenhour workday conentrated on use of troops in chemical warfare.
This picture shows the chieftains being instructed in the use of smoke screens. Maneuver details
were pointed out by instructors on the large map in front of the grandstand.
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Coffins of Co:ne iu Zelea Codreanu and his 13 slain rcn Guard lieutenants were carried through the
streets «f Bucharest on the shoulders of Guardsmen during elaborate funeral ceremonies. This is a
view of part of the procession. This picture was r laioed to New York from Berlin. It was during
exhumation of the bodies of these men for this tuneral that Iron Guard grave diggers broke into
Jilava prison cells and assassinated former high o >a’s of King Carol’s regime.
While anti-aircraft guns barked at a lone German raider over Coventry 172 of the some 300
killed in the German's terrific air assault against the ancient English midlands town were buried
in a common grave. Here along line of mourners file- pastthe flag-draped u
mwnich coffins.
were laid three deep.