In ashington today~ tho~e two comrades, loosevelt and Churchill, sat in front of a jaa~packed crowd of news men - the familiar scene of a White Bouse news conference. The President had little to aay - )e turned the occasion over to his gue~t. So it was the Prtae Minister of Great Britain who ■ade the statement• and answered the questions. The statements and question• concerned the deepest matters of war strategy, and Churchill spoke with guarded langua g e - telling aa auch as he could, and not revealing too auch. The statesman whose face reminds you of the 'British bulldog, declared that be and President in their lona,. talks, bad"arrived at conclusions which .. Churchill believef to be sound and g~od. What . . . the conclusion about Japan? That touched upon -11/J. , controversial i s su e -=::aa of hether we sho u ld concentr~t• on Bit 1 er o =' th~ . J a -p s • QJDCJIILL - 2 The Prime inister stated that the war in the Pacific must be waged with the greatest vigor; ta hit the Japs with increasing weight of armament. But, at the same time, the fight against Hitler. will be carried on with equal power. Thia was decidedly down the middle of the road, with c:11.e, reiteration of what Churchill said I before - that Japan would not be neglected. What about the Soviets getting into the war w-.c ,.... .-.tcJ -~~ against the Japs. Churchil1x responded ' that he did not feel it was his place to suggest any strategy for Moscow, .-.-- ihe Soviets aust know that Japan's attitude toward Buaaia is strictly one of opportunism - by which he meant, I suppose, that the Jape are •aiting for the right opportunity. ••• ~Y&PJ'GOdf kaews that the Allie a •(!Pl ct__ base Siber Japa and take this Jhat about Italy? On this point Churchill was guarded too, and wouldn't make any guess about whether the Italians might get out of the war. Be said they would be wise if they were to realize that the7 ~ ~ have sinned and err•'!,\ allowing Mussolini to lead thea by the nose. aao ~• eaid that the Italia• 'lll)AP t,be J 111:ti•• of \be &nit.ei •••i••• Thia, however, was a aatter for the Italians to settle among • theaselves, with the Allies meanwhile applying "hat • ~~ word Churchill called •physical stiault.• ~· new - for bombs -•stimult.• Alt gether, today\ s Wh . ite Bouse confl,rence reveals no startling disclosure - the statements bele all so guarded. About as well guarded as the White lio~s itself. President Roosevelt toda7 gave soae new figures about lend-lease. Bo• ■uch for April? Elevea billion and one hundred and two ■ illion dollars. Great Britain 1till holds the first place, with Soviet Russia 1econd. Buasia, however, has been given ■ore ■unition• -- aore in the ••1 of straight out ar■ aaent, like pl•~••• 1un1 and tank,. ------------------ ..;:... .J it e. Aho/• to Chi(.. The president'• statements toda7 were ■ade in . .... ~ ~-e..e -~-•.ft:(..f • report to Congress,/\w-itsh the Pxee4:iaat -eariag ttiat, •• are, in his words -- •outbtilding the aggressors in every category of arms.• A dispatch fro ■ South America today tells of reYerberations down there following Moscow's abolition of the Communist International, that ■ uch denounced aal ■J-ega1si Coamintern. l•■z••• Bueno• Aires tells ua that the official end of the worldwide organization tor Co ■■ uniat revol~tion is producing a great change in South Aaerican attitudes toward SoTiet Ru■ aia. 1f'Latin-A■erica has Catholic tradition■\ •na,eCono■ic conditions have brought about a sharp distinction of classes. So, although nineteen of aide in the the twenty republic• war,~~P.J the down there are on our ~ belief that Stalin wasAlumber Two enemy, right after Bitler. Today, only three Latin-American countries, Mexico, Cuba and Colo ■bia, have diploaatic relations with theSoviets. Now, however, there ia likely to be a general move to establish normal connections w i th Moscow. Uruguay is s e. id to be urgin& %BIRD INTERlilJOHAL - 2 Latin-Aaerican atates to come out with a joint recognition of the Stalin regime. Brazil is one of ~ countries in South - the Party and all aention o newspapers. preaa i~~ break silence - a new1pape _ ra in of the of tile hailed the R action•• evidence of newspaper •a keep-Coamunia ■ -at- war the ~ Meanwhile, all over the world, people are trying to figure out the full meaning of the dramatic announcement made by Moscow over the weekend. The most 4 apparent thing is that Stalin has · made a Number one ■ ove !IIBD lUlllATIONAL - 3 for better relations with the democratic allies - the Coaaunist International having been a consi1tent sore spot with the ■• Another inference is thatSoviet Russia has taken another long step toward nationalia ■ - as a1ainat the - international theories ot world revolution. The Soviets more and more have ben picturing the tight againat Bitler as a war ot national liberation, with the countries ot the United lationa battling for . national freedoa or national security. ttlle liqdiati• .t ,-., 9naint111s w1 Jt! ht J .. Ji a: 11 1e 11 Je The demise of the ~omaintern ia acclaimed aa a blow to Axis propaganda. The Razi,Fascist and Japanese ~ . alliance r founded on the anti-Co ■mintern pact, and pretended to be a union against Coaaunisa. The most effective l ine of Goebbels's ~ropaganda of late has been to represent Nazi Germany afurope's only hope a g ainst the Red menace. Thathine of N . , - z1 argument, nowt e Co■■ intern baa gone, would see ■ to be up in the air - and Goebbels has nothing left ~o'aay beyond ■ hreikin1 that the whole thin• is a fra~d. " Some suspicion will, bf course, peraiat - . the general aietrust of Soviet'Ruaaia being so deeplJ ingrained. One contention is tnat attn as long as the individual Communist Parties in the variou1 couniries continue to function, they'll be there and ready any ti■e the Soviets 1hould want to line Q thea up and ree1tablish a coamintern. • However one person or another aay argue, the tact reaains that the abolition ot the Coa■ intern ie a aajor event of world politics - though auch of its meaning may yet be left to be unfolded. . I And now what about the battle on Attu? Today'• 1av7 coa■unique tel11 ua that the Japs have been pr••••d back more tightly into the. narrow peninsula have of the Bav7 in th••• word•: •Still continuing, where ~e enea7 coralled on the peninsula.• t a ■all bit of land i1 at Chicagof Barbor, ~~ a tin7 pe insulaJ,trut 1n iat • t.h• Nae ' " Japa ' cat sac facin& annihilatioa a1 our tor ar down upon theaJl'The weather? ltrocioua. i1land of Attu ia living up to the ••teorological infa■J of the Aleutian•. A■erican 1oldier1 are dri*& throuah aleet, 1now and rain. It ■ay be having auaaer-like w~ather down here, but it't. still the season of blizzards in the Aleutians -- /\ where auamer begin• late and ends earl7. The latest in the Allied air war against Fascist Italy was a huge and devastating affair, with great formations of boabers striking at military 1, in Sardinia. A whole string of places were attacked and Yast daaage Shipe and ports, ware house · • and aaaunition du ielda and hangars were hit, aet afire Tie island of Sardinia is high on the Allied boabing list, because of its stra~egic situation off the east, coast of the Italian peninsula. It abounds in Axis ailitary bases, that ia to say - targets for boabera. On the opposite side of the European continent, • the northern side, Britain stfll tells of the huge devastation wrought by the raid ~gainst Dortmund, which industrial center was assailed by the most powerful eir fl et ev r sent against Germany. The planes were All JAR· 2 fewer than the thousand that hit Cologne last year, but they included ■ any more four-engined bombers - with their auch larger loads of high explosive. ln the aidat of the carni¥al !J death that 1 8 A war, th• n••• today t akea tl■• out to tell of the , life and death draaa ot one single little girl tn ln1land. Pa■ela Bannell . is tour years old, and tta i• juat another of Lon4on•• innumerable children -- no dau1hter of an illustrioua fa■ il7, whose parents aight coaaana ho•••• and attention. Ber father i• a butcher'• a11i1tant ia London. Paaela autfera fro■ a rare ■ alady, and the doctor• pre1cribed a difficult treh■ent - -- al■o1t i■po11ible, in tact, in lngland. A diet of banana•-· ~ ~- and these are al■oat unobtainable in/~•r beleaguere4A. Yet banana• were obtained for Paaela. Perry. pilots flew thea in -- banana• fro■ the tropics. She ate the■ and tbriv.~d -- and gained six pounds in three weeks. But difficulties developed. The banana ~iet was excessively monotonous, and after a while the nurses found it harder and harder to persuade Pamela to swallow her daily portiona.~~n ... Once again Britain at war was concerned about a life and death criaia for the four year old daughter of the aasiatant butcher. Today brings a new turn -- the wife of the Bra1ilian Aabaasador to the rescue. Senora Dona laabel loni1 de Aragao bad an idea. In Brazil, on• of the oo■■ on tropical fruits is the guava, and one of Brasil'~ ~ taTorite delicaci•• i• guaTa jelly. Senora Dona Iaabel Moniz de Aragao thought -- would not 1•ava Jelly do as well aa banana•? She inquired, and waa told -- 7.es. Guava Jelly, like banana•, haa a high augar content, and ia free of tat. The A■baasador'a AL~__/_ ' n ' '.,.,.J--~-".,.,L.J ~~ ~•::S----..., IC,s Ill.,.,_ r • wife had a supply/\•' Ootfl ;-1 tJ;: ,..received through diplomatic courtesy. So she sent jars of it to Pamela, and today's word is that Pamela is eating guava jelly -' hungrily, and the doctors expect her to put on six ■ ore pounds in three more weeks. Tb• Joint Coqre11ional co■aittee cue t o ~ aar••••nt today on the aubject of a tax bill. It'• a ooaproai•• on aklp-a-7ear and pa7-aa-7ou-10. Th• bill the joint couiitt..hiaa oka~•d would for1i•• ~ for the a 1•~1.r.~ ::,1.11 •ho~fl¥ fif1.J dollaH.-,r:1 "',, • .,,,,,,, w~ould 7ear or •• /\ ror all whoApay,aor• than fitt7 - 4ollara for the year, ••••nt7-fi•• percent ia cancelle4. A good impression of the poll tax debate in Congress·~ given tonight in a atory about a sailor. Thia particular seafaring man raised a disturbance in the Bouse of Represent tivea today, while the Congre1aa wrangled oTer the question of the law to abolish the iaposition of poll taxes as a requirement tor Toting. ~ Poll•tax-place is the South ■oatly, andAdiTision in 7 the oratorical uproar was northern and southern. The 1ailor listened for a while in the visitor•' gallery, and then got up and yelled: •thy should a ■ an pay a tax to vote when he can fight•• without paying a tax?• Be was promptly seized and taken out, giving the following explanation of his unAee~ly behavior. •I found the ■ fighting the Civil lar all over again,lt •g•i••xr he said. To which t he echo responds, •world wars may come and world w rs may go, but the Civil W forever.• goes on The War Labor Board today delivered its decision in the coal mine dispute. The Board denies the miners• demand of a wage increase of two dollars a day. The ' rejection, however, ...... accompanied by concession•. 7',he W.L.B. indicated that it would approve of a six-day- •••kin the coal mines - that m~aning an increase of earnings because of overtiae. The Board said it would likewise approve of portal-to-portal pay, which the union deaands.-fPortal-to-portal applies to the ti■• i\ takes ■ iners to get fro ■ a aine entrance to the face where coal is being dug. They often have to travel a considerable distance through igafts, and ikaJx•••* at prese~t are not paid for the ti ■e it takes. fhei• p.eJ ~egiaa waea ~he1 get to Lbe actual coal •issiag.. '9tla ende wken ~hey leace i•~ The miners want their working time to start when they enter the door of the mine, and end when they leave it - portal-to-portal. - - - 2 Thi• would increase their earnines, and the W.L.B. toda~ says okay. The Board leaves the decision to collecti•e bar1aining, and calla upon the c·oal oper'atora and the r . union to get together and co ■• to a aettleaent within fifteen days. 6(\ aettleaent baaed on the aix-day-week and portal-to-portal pay would aeet eoae of the liner•' ~ for more money, ave~ thou1h their de■and for• ~ flat two-dollar-a-day increase is rejected. It now remains to be seen what John L.Lewia and his union - will do about it - Lewis who is so bitterly opposed to the lar Labor Board and denies its jurisdiction in the ft&1?:::a1 ■• labor dispute. It's an old newspaper trick to say that 80 ••DJ of one thing or another, laid side by aide, would reach fro ■ here to the moon. And now the Department of 1ariculture in Washington is using the aaae technique to enable ua to viaualize the tood~proapecta - the production goala, the amount of various food• that we plan to produce • . '2\u"\ ~ ~ t , . . . . . n ~ total ■eat production/\ia scheduled at twenty-seven billion, seven hundred aillioa pounds. lilrt a1ll. 71:c 9.Dough ■eat to pave seven highways •* ot four lanes each, fro ■ lew York to San Francisco, ~ _,it .... e._ As••.( ~ ,P-f highwaya~n inch thick • . A hundred aillion hogs - and if these were ""-1,--feed lined up, aide by side, UAK•i~ troughs, they would reach one and a half ti ■ea around the earth at the Equator.1\'Thirty million, f~ur hundred thousand head of cattle, which, if stood head to tail, would reach one and IR~ - 2 a aixth tiaea around the world.fTwenty-fiYe billion, one hundred thousand sheep and laa~ and it would take you six thousand, six hundred and ninet7-four hours to count thea, if you counted one a second. Four billion pounds of dressed chicken, which would weigh as auch as one-fburth of the entire populatio of the United States. four hundred and twenty-two billion pounds of ■ilk - which, in quart bottle•, would build a wall r aa high•• the Washington aonu■ ent along the entire ••••li coastline oft~ United Stites. Th• figure of speech for corn ia particularly iapressive. The schedule calls for two billion, eight hundred million bushels, and if 1 - a.fZ.~~Q - J ,vv> __p_~ I MISFrrf'AJ -V--0 f-i,_.... /'""' ear of corn A it would reach all tha~ were made into all the way froa Cleveland to Denver. 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