LEND-LEASE PXX* y Today was the Second Anniversary of Lend-^ease and Congress commemorated it by passing the bill to extend it for another year.^The House had already okayed it by an almost unanimous vote of four hundred and seven to six.This afternoon the Senate followed suit. So now it awaits only the signature of the President^ e-£—eeurse -th-ert ft f-or eg-o-f^e—conclus i o-ft-. The Senate vote v/as unanimous. The British and Russian Ambassadors both took occasion to say kind words for Lend-Lease. And President Roosevelt improves the shining hour with o_ ^ & promise of nmigh"ty blows on bet-llefields of our A own choosing. " He also promised them inevitcble defeat. Soviet Ambassador Litvinov said: "Supplies received through Lend-Lease have been an enormous help and as such are deeply appreciated by the people of the Soviet Union, who are fully Kx aware of LEND-LEASF - 2 of its extent. " ^that Is a sentence worth underlining.1 the hubbub over what Admiral TP Standley said in Moscow the other day. While the Senators were passing the measure, Acting Secretary of State Welles told the newspapermen that Standley had /v assumed entire responsibility for his remarks and said A they te&rd' b-ee^- misinterpreted. Russian newspapers gave a great deal of space, that is, comparatively, to the standley story. They cannot give much, as they are allowed only four pages. They gave particular prominence to the statement from Welles that Standley had spoken without consulting his government. The only note of objection in the Lend-i^ease today came from Congressman philbin of A Massachusetts. He complained that he had not been able to get satisfactory information out of Lend-Lease officials. They have refused to make answer to reports that shocked the Congressman^ ears. ”1 have heard," he said, n that we have been sending shoes to North Africa, where the tribesmen wear them around their neck and use them for bottles, and rayon panties to uncivilized regions where there is no earthly use for them." Lend-Lease Administrator Stettinius revealed that we have transferred nine billion, six hundred and thirtytwo million dollars' worth of goods to the United Nations, and ninety per cent actually has been shipped. More planes, tanks and trucks have been sent to Russia than to any other area. In the past twelve months, the United States has given its Allies thirty out of every hundred bombers produced and thirty-eight ^TL—z-'SL_v.iu:.'HI y ~. m /444.?. 60 OB ;'VEjHilG y-Vi:'FY??TlTT A new battle in Tunisia, or /i 4 rather a new phase of that long drawn out fight. OsttuAej Rommel hns tt nyr • t»VbT' at the southeast end of the Allied line. That is the end touching on the desert. £=gt--frer has 4rairen::liiH?^FTow^"To^THTs The Nazi Marshal’s attacking divisions were up against the formidable, t9~M seasoned warriors of British General Bernard Montgomery. took heavy casualties at the hands of the Britishers. This move of was made ObrriutjL *-/ necessary by th^ driven northward around the salt lakes, ^ reach^ei^- • + on^v twenty miles below Gafsa. There they were point only eiluJ beg inn inr to sVirt Rommel' s right v/ing. /PyJ Rommel was obliged to strike^ •aass/^e made his attack y forty miles to the southwest of the southern end of the Mareth Line, and seventy miles from the coast. Heavy fighting still is going on. The Allied communique reports that in addition to the heavy casualties, many vehicles were left burning. ------------ - <2 ----- The Royal Air Force gave effective support during the day3 t sS'uThe battle has been R h j l ./\ nel fought around a place called KsarUiilnrwr. Ksar is an Arabic word which means "fortified village." ThUt one on high ground, which slopes away to the desert /l on tin? one side and to a plain on the other. Thus the Afrika Korps and the Eighth’ Army were at hand grips once more on the sort of ground familiar to them. Familiar to them and different from the scene of last week's battle where they were fighting in "cods and valleys. LEAD - ? V-e have no details tef the battle^ of KS/\K fcHiLANts ^ ^.s-a.rrh i 1 ?:.±n.^^ 'a=* d^--'TP?^ even kno?/ how snash large are the forces engaged nor what r of divis4«fs^ All we know is that the fighting has been heavy and German casualties large. Th?e& French column ___ _ __ to within ^ 4, Off twenty -five miles of Gafsa, Jhje—-tnl-t-w an-,:a rtn^. . T&f— advanced thirty miles in two d<ys across dusty desert terrain. Badio Algiers reported that Wtook the place with a sharp attack. The Axis counter-attacked in a snowstorm irghtr-i n g—F r e —fr-Q m k. r —b h"M / Secretary of War Stimson announced today that from February Fourteenth to February Twentieth, our • otal casualties were two thousand, two hundred and forty-two. That was a period t when some of the hardest fightinr was going on. The retreat of the Allied forces LEAD - L and the beginning of the counter-attack. Of those casualties, fifty-nine were killed, a hundred and seventy-six wounded, and two thousand seventy-six missing. We probably have fared better than the enemy, ssid S+imsonf More than a thousand Germans and Italians were taken prisoner, more than a hundred enemy tanks captured and destroyed. The Allied forces in Tunisia, he added, have had much the better of the fighting during the past week. Their highly mechanized forces have been extremely active, but the net result has been decidedly unfavorable tothe Axis. BuSS IA The huss an picture continues to look good in on^ rerion, ani not so ^ood in the other. The danger point is still, Kharkov. This is emphasized in a dispatch from Moscow^ The Soviet high command admits the battle on the Kharkov, and Donets River front, is critical^l The Fed Army again repeats that near Kharkov they are fighting against heavy odds both in tanks and manpower. The twenty-five divisions Hitler1s generals have thrown in have the Soviets heavily outnumbered. The Russians thought they nab the ?lazis checked at the new Donets River line to which they retreated earlier in the week. But, they are still being hammered by tank concentrations far more numerous than their own. P nd - Moscow ' announces that the Germans are p counter-attacking savagely west of Rostov, on the coast 1 of the Sea of Azov. Also, southwest of V orosn i lovgrad All o'! which amounts to a grave threat to the Russian tenure of Kharkov. The Berlin communique says the Nazi divisions have thrown theRussians back to the city itself - which the Reds do not deny. The Germans say tonight f that they are now in the northern and western outskirts of Kharkov. But, from the center of that long Russian line of battle, the story is as it was. There the Red Army continues to drive deeper into the heart of the Nazi defense line around Vyazma, with a new advance of some ten miles - taking Isakovo, a strongly lortilied place. And now they are advancing on the suburbs of Vyazma itself. Having recaptured Bely from the invaders, thev are marching ahead toward the ./Iosco '-Vyazma- Smolensk rai1ro'd line and they now threaten to outflank Vyazma. The roads there are narrow with the RUSSIA - 3 slush and mirp knee-deep -- whici isnft stopping the Russians. A question was raised in the British House of Commons today about relations between Britain and the Soviets. The member who raised it explained that he was impelled to it by the suspicions going around - all the talk about some one double-crossing someone, roreign Secretary Anthony Eden replied: "Our Soviet Allies are fully informed of our military position and our military plans.” IRELAND A conspiracy in northern Ireland was revealed today. I L plot'^’- t-hxi -Irirh We p ulil ii j n~Ai'my ''feo- Ct-f disorganize the government^ in facvTthe entire life of the northern counties. The plot was fomented by tne Irish Republican Army; so it was charged. ^he man who brought the charge wasi nuns- otiu; r than thcp- • - "z 0 Attorney General of Northern Irelands the accusation openly before the House of Commons of the Northed Ireland Parliament. The object, said the Attorney General, was to disorganize the war industrj tire civil defense services, transportation, and^jsaten t_o assassinate policeman-* A FRAjCE But here1 s a different story:-* Guerrilla warfare in France seems to be growing.The underground movement appears to be well organized; and doing increasing damage to the Germans. The latest - the wrecking of a Nazi troop train, killing two hundred and fifty of Hitler’s soldiers and injuring several hundred more. To illustrate how well organized the movement is, we are told that from December Twentieth to January Twentieth, some three hundred separate guerrilla operations were carried on in rranee. From its hidden headquarters the French guerrilla command is beginning to issue regular communiques. One tells of fourteen troop and munition trains wrecked in thirty days, ninety-four rt. iiuay locomotives destroyed, four hundred and thirty-six railway cars put out of commission, four bridges blown up, twelve major fires, and so forth. FRANCE - ? And, these ruerrillas, we learn, are just part time fighters. By day they work at their jobs. But, there are also partisans who live in hiding and give all their time and energy to planning and carrying out attacks on the Germans. at SOLOMONS xHrom the Solomons, todays news is that the Japanese for the first time in six weeks attempted an air raid in orce. They have recently reinforced their air strength; and they sent ten dive bombers with an escort of twelve <_'eros on an xx air mission to Guadalcanal. However, Ame^iCpin flyers were there to intercept them, long before they approached Henderson Field and our installations there. One Jap bomber and three Zeros 7/ere shot dov/n. American casualties - none! Meanwhile, U.S. airmen have been attacking Jap bases in the Solomons, and other islands. And - they took another crack at Kiska in the Aleutians - all American planes returning saiely. r, AVIATION The British Government today picked up the gauntlet on the issue of civil aviation after the war. This was in a statement by the noble Viscount Cranborn, gBiBssi Colonial Secretary in the House of Lords. The British government, said he, would prefer to cooperate with other countries in civil aviation. But, he added, if the others want cut-throat KasiBBfcxfcxBi competition, the British are quite ready to jump in. Lord Cranborne then revealed the fact that a j committee has been at work planning post-war civil aviation. It includes designs for new types of planes ^ and a program for converting military aircraft into civil work. Then he said: "We have hxBaxhixkhaxxx- tiesduced the best .arpl.nes Sb<l .. are convinced . . +ho best for civil flying." that we can product the besi MANPOWER TrK- xrini senators won a parliamentary victory toc^v ove^ the forces of the Roosevelt administration. It was over a measure proposed by Senator O'Mahoney Ox Wyoming. This would have enacted the draft deferment of only a limited number of farmers, only thos who raised production quotas in essential crops. The Farm Bloc kicked over 'HWafltai*1? party lines. Twenty-two Democrats and ten Republicans voted in favor of the measure. Twenty-one Republicans and one Progressive joined with twenty-seven Democrats to vote it down. r - £ ” € £ * ?.Morgan, who Bocagrando in n a s been ^ nr* i or Ida, On the contrary, his lie* York d that nis condition was rrave. 3 • r i : ; s 1 v ill at ms is getting no better, rice announced tonight COSMETICS ^ leminine world agog! Vrhich it often is! : xi.s lijo over the attempt of an Episcopalian Bishop to abolish cosmetics for the duration. The Fight Reverend gentleman went so far as to say that if the ladies wil cut out rouge, lipstick and fingernail dyes, list he himself will cut out shaving. The author of « that suggestion is Bishop Oldham of Albany , New York, who seems startled when someone told him that the things women put on their faces are necessary to feminine morale. Said the Bishop:- God help this country if we have to depend on cosmetics for morale. All of which provoked acid retorts from ladies. Tnich ladies? Oh, those on the west coast, and not all actresses either. For instance, a woman inspector in an aircraft plant - a defense worker - sprang to the defense of face lotions. Her husband is a prisoner of the Japanese and said she:- "T ^he self -respect and morel- ot a ■ oman are built on keeping herself up as best she can, especially when she has to depend on herself alone more than ever before." A woman employee in another aircraft plant remarked:- "Why take the war paint away from a woman just because she*s working in a warplant?" And, the actresses did have their say - or maybe their press agents* Cinema Star Irene Dunn remarked: "The shock of seeing a million women without make-up would be a worst blow to morale than the explosion of a blockbuster.1" And irrepressible Grade Allen asked: "Isn*t there enough damage being done to the maps of the world without moving in on the feminine man? " j . But an expert in the governments career clinic in Washington has another idea. She believes that the COS j FTICS_- 2 rationing of food will do more to make beauties out of COSMETICS - 3 all our women than cosmetics or even exercise Hugh, how about it? 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