dtitch gui / na Soldiers of Uncle Sam on their way to Dutch Guianal Wnen they ^et there it »viil be the second time since the war started that we have sent troops to foreign soil, Iceland being of course the first. The reason is a solid one: Dutch Guiana has large deposits of bauxite vital to the defense and lend-lease program. estimate# that In fact X' the Surinam bauxite mines provide more than sixty per cent of what the entire aluminum industry of the United States needs. ir Until today, there was nothing to indicate tha^Gfius«=! were threatened pcnfror. Perhaps the questionable attitude of the t^etain Government of France is at the bottom of Dutch Guiana is next door to French Guiana, colony still adheres to the Government. Thus, if the recent moves in Frs^ce mean that Petaln is going all out for collaboration with Hitler, those bauxite mines close to French guiana might be in danger. There 3ye_been numerous rumors that French Guiana as well as JJartinique^^a hot-bed for Na^ Fascist agents. dutch GUIANA - 2 n Surprisingly enough, this^news'was broken first at Rio de Janeiro, announced by the Brazilian Foreign Office. That«» (2'vv\.e-r-tA_oet because the Government of the United States^ is acting iTconoert )'t£^ 1/CAvtfcj^ Uilg-g tjyj with the Governiient of^ferazil. it was quickly confirmed at Washington; and^a few minutes later by the Government of the Netherlands in exile at London* The Netherlands Government 'cc announced that was being done by an agreement with the United States to assure protection of the bauxite mines at Surinam and that Brazil had been invited to take a hand. No Brazilian troops will enter Dutch Guiana, but they will, as the aniiOuncement goes, ^contribute to the common aim by exercising special military vigilance in the frontier zone next to Surinam*” Brazil will also send a mission to Paramaribo,--'t]iAt-i« the capital ------ - 'ifce.-T-i? of Dutch Guiana, on the cost - to exchange information* / A Reporters asked the White House whether American troops were not already in Dutch Guiana? The question remained unanswered. There are already American soldiers in British G > next door, in accordance with agreement made last y jc A which we gave Great Britain fifty destroyers and obtoined DUTCH GUXAKA 3 teses on British territory in this hemisphere. Neither the White House nor the war Depart ent would reveal how large a force of our soldiers will be sent to Surinam, but it is believed the expedition ^ill be sizeable in order to protect all the TT <51 bauxite mines. It seems a«^f we've‘had eye on/^tch Guiana ever since the Nazis captured Holland. The White House was at '2^fCct pains to emphasize we are not in Dutch Guiana for keeps, only so long as the present crisis lasts, or until the Netherlands Government cn send a sufficiently strong force to take charge. This action by (t^roved by jd 1HMgfe 72 ^ one important member of Congress, Senator^Connally of Texas, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. that before it^s all over we^ll probably have "t-o ^ Martinique and French Guiana ' ^ A ^ Vichy yields to Nazi pressure. It's interesting to recall that the Netherlands acquired I Dutch Guiana in Sixteen Sixty-Seven by trading JIew_J^r^for It's divided from British Guiana and French Guyana by rivers ~ ^ -r-i*-c-hxr-four thousand square miles. The total area of Surinam is some fif y A n^TTQH GUIAl^^A - 4 and there are only a hundred and forty-three thousand people there. that is, not including the forest tribes. Those ba’oxite mines are the most important things in the whole colony, though it also Droduces sugar, coffee, cacao, bananas, gold and rum. There»s lumber there to burn, and the coastal lands are extremely rich. •II n 1 fl ^ 1 ) VtCHIMIgTS A strike at St.Louis threatens to hold up defense orders worth sonething like one billion dollars. Some four hundred factories are Involved. It's a strike of machinists who have no coiDplaint wiiatsoevGr against thair amployers,— anothar cm of those jurisdictional squabbles, ffihis fight between the American Federation of Labor and the C.I.O., Two different A.F. of L. unions^are at loggerheads. The men who are out belong to the International Association of Machinists, who are disputing with the hoisting engineers. tt±s^^(^eT a matter of some twenty-two workers at a T.N.f. factory in V/eldonSprings, liLssouri. The machinists* union says it should have jurisdiction over those twenty-tv;o, and the hoisting engineers declare, **No, No, they belong to us.' There*s the cause of your strike, which even went so far as to call out twenty-seven machinists in the City water department of St. Louis- The importance of the strike is not because of the number of men who are out but because many of them have key Jobs nnd their absence v/ill throw others out of wort. fflTDGBS Tne case of C.I.O. leader Harry Bridges came up today before the Boatd of Immigration Appeals. Ymi nry rgy?*?!vt— 5^BCC±2dr xxxmlKlKsxfilxtkK examiner of the Department of Justice A recommended that Bridges should be sent back to Australia, where he came from. One of Unde Sam^s attorneys told the Board today that Bridges had served the Comnrunist Party, cooperated and associated with it from Nineteen Thirty-Two until the closing hours of the hearings at which it was decided that he should be deported. The Government lawyers said further that the MarineVforkers Industrial Union, with which Bridges was associated, was chartered ^to disseminate Communist propaganda and organize revolutionary overthrow of the united StatesGovernment. ” y^TRIKES There is going to be a big po;v-wow at the White House tonignt over a new law to control strikes. President Roosevelt has called Speaker Rayburn and other leaders of both Houses of Congress to meet and discuss new labor legislation. Speaker Rayburn announced that the House will start debating the new law next week. ^f^=ccuaca«''The meeting at the White House tonight will decide v/hat form it shall take, how strict it should be. A There are several bills in the hopper offered by Senators and Representatives, but the Administration is going to walk a wary path. One of these is offered by genator T9m Connally of Texas, and that one has the okay of the Wgr Department and the Navy. Senator Thomas of Utah, Chairman ofthe Senate Labor Committee, has another, which would permit the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to i stop strikes by injunction in defuse industri •1 ( Former Senator Jla. Byrnes of South Carolina has written his first opinion as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it will raise quite a hubbub in California and twenty-seven other states. It*s a decision that knocks out the so-called Okie Law, the law passed by California to prevent poor people from the Dust Bowl areas ^ like those in Steinbeck’s ’’Grapes of Wrath” to cross the state line. Most of the so-called Okies trekked to California because they thought it the best place to get a Job. But twenty- seven other states also passed laws against poor migrants, including all of New England, New York, Wew Jersey, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. The law was attacked on the ground that it was a violation of civil liberties and of the constitutional right of every citizen to move freely throughout the Union. If it had oeen upheld. it would have enabled all the legislatures to pass laws that would change the United States into forty -eight economic concentration camps. That was one argument against the Okie law. California, on the other ^ud, declared it was a proper use of police power. To that the Supreme Court said "No.” sTlPRi-MF, COirRT - 2 JUitice Byrnes's opinion aecriax^ that this lam nig not a valid exercise of the police power of California, and rnsqaiia Imposes an unconstitutional burden upon interstate cominerce.” So it's out. a I ft i If 111 K TrAKTri:r.!-:TTES Farmerettes in the U.S.A., lady field hands to reap our harvests and bring in our crops. ,That»s the prospect for next year, says LIrs. Franklin D. Boocevelt. She made the announcement from her office as Assistant Director of Civilian Defense. The C.C.D. is about to organise a woman*s land army, J III irumi iiiiMliUTl Dill in a country of a hundred and f thirty million people acnd some millions of jobless men, iiii,ii:=±ia.:j^ to train women for farm work. Llrs. Roosevelt explains that young men are streaming awAy from the farms to work in the factories. And by next year, she estimates, we*11 be in the same plight as the British and the Germans, who have had to organize lady farm workers long since. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: the big story of the hour is^that battle in the Libyan desert^ As usual in this Twentieth Century war, it is impossible to know Exactly what is going on. Berlin says the Nazi and Fascist troops have now taken the initiative and are inflicting heavy losses on the British. The British spokesman the outcome at Cairo talks about a gigantic non-stop tank^^^^atta^ of which may decide who shall control Libya. Both sides admit taat: the fight is raging with extreme fury^ The British spokesman says,^^The ijerries have everything at stake and are fighting like hell!" Another British account describe^ the battle as one tank dogfight after anotner, herds i oftanks and swarms of fighting men mixing it up all over the map. Because the battle has become so fluid, there arises the Of telling exactly what has happened. The British spokesman says each side is becoming the poorer in the number of tanks availabxe^ 'y almost an entire German panzer division must have been wiped out. '9 T.KAD - 2 I infantry lias come into the picture more and drr.^iUl. flUr, hher._Qafl. oj.dQ Q£_tihp- nthm —y-nht I til laJiiiMj* Boaeat sryi-sup 0 rioT4 f yCo tttrip'^gRP^ in the sect The principal ^^wtttrHo in the sector around a place ll I! ■ called Sidi Rezegh. miles to the southwest of /I Tobruk, the British Imperial garrison of Tobruk src. trying to break through and join the main invading column, a i i "^is afternoon^, the British admitted that so far neither side had the advantage. But a late report from British advanced battle headquarters in the western desert carries the account of a British pilot who flew over th^ scene of battle. According to tnat version, j I The pilot says he flew over the wi*eckage of innumerable enemy vehicles. Then he adds these words’:- "I saw burned out German tanks everjrvnhere. Others," he adds, "were bogged down or damaged. A few stragglers may have escaped, but those t saw were fi so far as the tank battle is concerned. Almost an entire division nust have been eliminated.’’ Incidentally, that pilot was flying Tomahawk planes built in the united State^ the leader of a squadron T.KAD ■ 3 He reports further: "Our Blenheims a number of two hundred and fifty pounders dead center on top of small tank /N If! groups which apparently were grounded because of a lack of petrel and other supplies.” And then he adds: ”That division is smashed .11 and full of holes. Yesterday,” he declares, ”we smashed a long line of Axis transports on the road due west, undoubtedly carrying it ill ^'!i supplies intended for this division.” According toLondon, the purpose I V III I I!' ' of that campaign in the desert is not only to sweep the Axis armies out of Libya, but to drive them out of all northern A-^ rica, from the Atlantic to Suez. Flying fortresses based on Libya, I, I Europe . ‘r‘ H-rm A will be able to gad nr>r^ja^pa=ferHH-C3a ! Tfl V-ii H! ! N An entire Canadian armored division has been landed safely I I I in Great Britain. the Fifth division of Canada»s army C^cu ‘ including mecnanized infantry, tanks, troops, ordinance, artillery,^ and everything. Ferrying tLj4 division across the Atlanti^;as a formidable convoy job. ?t::3*S^the blockade of th* Nazi submarines |jj and long range bombers. According to the announcement, ^ sailed l! lii part-'^o£ziiis-^iiB^through waters patrolled by warships of the ii| united States Navy. ■?' i" ill i {\ mcsiA Today's reports from the Russian front make it cleaV* beyond question that Moscow is in extreme peril. I —--------- edinitted by the^iovxet spokesmmi at Ku5.by&tie^^| He a erenow ledges ! 1 1 ’ that a supreme assault by six hundred thou34nd fresh Nazi fighting men and spearheads of as many a4 two hundred tanks apiece are grinding slowly towards th/ Kremlin. The Gormans have smashed four main wedges into the ^nes of the Rgd Army and the northern flank of the arc defenc^ng the capital is gravely threatened. The heaviest pre^ssure comes from the north. There / the Nazis have crashed the^r v;ay east to the railway line between / Kalinin and lloscow, and /4re battling against the Klin sector. / That»s halfway between Moscow and Kalinin, barely fifty-one miles Ji north of the Kremlin. The situation may be even worse, for the Geriiians claii^ Oxily thirty-one miles away in that region. "r V However, there*s a heavy snow falling, which may save t Soviet capital. Radio Moscow broadcast that the streets of City «ire heavily covered and that the weather is getting colder aivl colder with many German soldiers b — tt seemed to prevent Hitler Hov/ever, even the cold of Russia hasn . T.>nv of six hundred thousand, from organizing a fresh attacking a V i JAPAN Uncle Sam’s Consulate at Saigon in French Indo-China, A has been wrecked by a bomb. Nobody lost his life. but t.iiiiii wsat a bombshell in more sense than one. For it happened in a seaport occupied and controlled by the Japanese and just at a time when the two high envoys of the Mikado are in Washington at a crucial stage in their negotiations with the United States. The Consulate was pretty muchwalls and doors blo’/m down and much furniture damaged. Consul Sidney Brown wired the State Department that the explosion was caused by a high explosive bomb placed on the floor just outside the entrance, and he added that so far there is no concrete evidence of the perpetrators. Of course the big question was, how would this affect those delicate negotiations in Washington. Appare y all; Secretary of State Hull told they haven’t been affected at Ambassador Nomura and the newspapers today that he would see i Special Envoy Kurusu iny time they desired. So far, he add definite proposals or the negotiations have been juso talk. j II \ JIPAN - arguments Tnere was an Important nieating at tli© S^ate Department late this afternoon^ not with the Japanese diplomats but with delegates from the four other important Pacific powers - the A B C D powers, Australia, Britain, China and the H fi I ...... .. iiiT / Australian Minister Casey, British Ambassador Halifax, Chinese Amba-^sador Hoo-Shi and^^atc^ Minister Louddn went to the State Department to discuss with Secretary Hull the negotiations with Japan. }\y^ :lij| £ * I - 11 f '^1 > ill i I i!