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DISTRUST VERSUS
DEFENCE
By Roscoe Drummond
is wied by the "itungkang Teligraphi to The loan-lease bill pre-
Indicate news which is strictly copyright
under the provisions of the Telecommunt-sents no new issue. It is
Hongkong on the date of publication is pretty breath-taking only
cations Ordinance, 1936. Such news a bears the indicatión "UP“ iz received in
the United Press Associations, who fo serve all rights and forbid republications,
because it presents an old either wholly or in part without previous issue so boldly and so blunt
"BOTTLED" AURORAE
ly. It startles because it comes right to the point where we are called upon to translate words into deeds.
WOMEN CARRY ON
By Phyllis M. Lovell
London.
Life for the London house- wife is made up at the present time of strenuous happenings. Upon her fall the responsibilities of keep- ing the home going, of shopping in haste between the shrick of warning sirens, of making skilled use of those foods which happen to be available when she sallies forth with her basket, of contriving to climinate all- kinds of waste and of saving all paper, bones and metals. She must see to the safety. of her family by day, and she must make sure so far as she is able-that her family sleeps as well as may be by night.
Going about during the day, one comes constantly in touch with women who, un- aided by the excitement of [direct action, are carry- ing the responsibilities of British home life. They are calmly courageous.
any policy is a risk of war, this tis à risk of war. It means that I overtook a group of three the United States is resolved to working girls as they entered They were vigorously and fully rather than hatless, but meticulously neat. accept the risk of aiding Britain one of the parks. run the risk of aiding Britain One of them was recounting the weakly and partially.".
The aid to Britain legislation, and the lag in defence production, analysed by a noted Washington colum- nist whose views, as regularly published in the "Christian Science Monitor," are widely
and respected cussed.
dis-
now.
affairs of the previous night to
But there will be no vigorous the other two. I could catch only aid to Britain until supplies a part of the recital. begin to roll from the produc- "So there's no furniture now. WITH increased emphasis
tion lines faster than they are At least, not much. A bed and now being placed on the possi- The loan-lease bill is an
two chairs, and them's rather
But up.
one can't Why does production still messed bility of airlane travel in the enabling act. In every pos- upper atmosphere, and with sible way the American peo-
grievously lag at vital points, as grumble. Other folks The the President plainly said in his three passed out of earshot und much research work being ple have shown that they
message to Congress recently? I missed the rest. pointed in this direction, the are united in their intention
A grandmother of my leaped to the task which the exact reproduction of the aurora to aid Britain and her Allies
Why has not industry veritably borcalis in the laboratory of to win the war. The pur recently, recognised the con- "terrible urgency" of the crisis acquaintance, sleeping in
demands? Why is the manu- underground shelter the other Professor Joseph Kaplan and Pose of this pending legisla- cern which many feel at con- facture of aircraft 30 per centnight heard the sound of an tion is to enable the United centrating such authority in below schedule and the manu incendiary bomb upon the roof States to aid Britain and the hands of a Chief Execu- facture of actual combat planes of her building. Barefooted, and her Allies fully and speedily, tive already invested with even below that?
In all candour, this is not greater powers than any
Dr S. M. Ruben of the Univer sity of California assumes much
more than mere academic im- portance.
un
quite alone, she ran up the six stories to her front door, dis- covered the lighted bomb upon
When.
an act of charity or altruism, predecessor. Mr Roosevelt
The frank answer is that both the floor of her sitting room, col- Almost the only clues to con- It is an act of self-defence. made it as clear that he is organised industry and organis lected it in her coal shovel, threw ditions between 20 and 100 miles It rests upon the proposition not eager for the powers ed labour are putting suspicion it out into the garden and then above the earth's surface are that Britain's-defeat-of-the-which-flow to the White above co-operation and this sus-successfully put out the fire il given in these displays of home-Axis now with American aid House under the loan-lease picion affects their relations be had started, made. "northern lights." The is the best possible guar- bill. He said that to meet tween each other and with the
☆ Administration. upper atmosphere acts like ajantee that the United States effectively the threat of war
Notwithstanding the presence By the same evening all was will not have to fight the they must be exercised by giant neon tube whose gases
She had of respected industrialists high ship-shape once more. Axis in the future with no someone and inevitably they in the defence councils, industry even gone to the lengths of (helium, nitrogen and oxygen,
aid whatsoever,
go to the President.
as a whole remains deeply dis-repairing her ceiling.. according to Dr Kaplan and Dr.
There is considerable trustful of the Administration neighbours recognised the fact Ruben) are excited and give off
and is apprehensive that the that she had probably saved It is evident that the loan- room for modifications in President will be eager to use more than a dozen homes, she light whenever a prolonged flash of "current" from a discharge lease bill has majority sup- the terms of the loan-lease the emergency as a means of made light of it. "Any sensible of high voltage energy is sent port in the country and in law without limiting its acquiring vast peace-time con- person," she said, "would have
done the same.” earthward from the sun. Such Congress. Its central object objectives. A time limit can trols over private enterprise.
Notwithstanding the presence London's ordinary home wo- -that of rendering power- be placed upon the powers energy is attracted earthward
are doing great things. ful and if possible decisive it bestows. The strategic of respected labour leaders high men to the magnetic poles, but there aid to the democracies is experts of the. Army and in the defence councils, labour They are handling matters in the is sufficient voltage spread not under strong attack. Navy could be required to as a whole remains fearful that present emergency in a way the pressure of the emergency which goes near to surprising through the nonpolar atmos- Its central method-that of certify that the material will be used as a means of per- themselves and certainly. almost phere to cause, excitation of producing the armaments in could be spared, although manently breaking down the bewilders those who are privi-
factories ionized atoms for a considerable American
at this is as much a matter of social legislation it has worked foged to look on.
so hard to win. It is suspicious American expense and loan- high policy as it is military of management. It is uncertain distance toward the equator.
mostly to policy. The bill doesn't need about the Administration itself. Strangely, the investigators leasing them,
* ✩ found they had to go to high Britain, is widely accepted. to empower the President to
What, then, is the real otherwise dispose of" the ting this is to say that the pressures in the laboratory to
issue that has to be resolved reproduce the low pressure auroral phenomena, and that the if America is to become the armaments. Some restric- United States cannot disunite tion could also be placed itself behind a class struggle and arsenal capable of arming President to take sides in hind defence. Until this ques the men and the morale of
Lion is resolved, the all-out effort any and every war which to produce, produce and produce the free nations fighting to might appear to grow out of will not be made.
great deal of waste paper, and turn back the Axis assault.
the British Records Association, the present conflict.
To put defence first does not which wants to have waste paper on all freedom?
mean that there are not grounds from lawyers' offices sorted by The truth of the matter is The question is not whe- for suspicion and need for alert-experts before it is pulped.
ness. There are. But the
Cannot Be Persuaded Not only will these studies aid and in large part it ex- ther this grant of power is urgent lasue is this: Defence |
plains the grave lags in de- ideal. The question is whe production will not rise at the The lawyers themselves are alive physicists and meteorologists fence production itself ther there is any practical rate the crisis requires unless in- to the danger that in any clear-out working on upper air problems, there is a genuine hesitancy alternative. Democracy must dustry and labour wholehearted- of their offices historical documents which can now be investigated in to trust the President with know when it must delegate ly join in, irrespective of imme-of Law Notes says that an autograph dints doubts and distrusts. Sus-letter of Warwick, the King-maker the laboratory, but the experi- the vast industrial, financial its power as well as when to picions need not be erased, but has been found recently. ments will also aid the study of and international powers harbour it.
they will have to be suspended A woman member of the Records until the main goal is reached.
Association complains that colicilors light from stars and the identi- necessary to make American
"cannot be persuaded" that it needs fication of characteristics which aid to Britain soon enough, means, in a word, all aid to There will be no futuro freo- an expert to decide whether their old heretoforo have been cut out or fast enough and strong Britain short of manpower. dom for either private enterprise | papers are of historical value or not. Ono seen her point of view. But That is the most significant or for Inbour within the United decision which Congress and the States unless they both unite of Supply waiting on the mat, does where, in war-time, with the Ministry distorted by the earth's atmos enough. phere-Christian Science Moni- President Roosevelt him- American people can make with now to preserve the greater free-she expect to find the vast army of
Because dom of the United States itself. experts that would be necessary? 'self, at a press conference respect to the war.
give away or as the term is, A perhaps simpler was of put-
Lawyers? Waste Paper
Records Problem
An interesting situation has:
higher the pressure the better arsenal for democracy-an upon the authority of the at the sanie time unite itself bearisen between the Ministry of
or
the reproduction. In fact, every so-called "forbidden" line band in the spectrum of the auroru has now been produced in the laboratory; all' were found in the auroral afterglow.
tor.
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The loan-lense programme
Supply, which wants waste. paper, the lawyers, who have a