_r SUNOCO. DAY. l , , GOOD EViNIMG EVERYBODY: All day wefve been waiting, wondering whether President Roosevelt v.ould make any reply to the criticisms and sneers of the Communist Soviet Premier Molotov. Earlier in the day, a caustic statement was issued from the White House, but it did not expressly come from the President himself. It was uttered by Ms secretary, Steve Early, who made a point of saying that he didnft know whether his chjef had read the text of the Molotov speech. However, observers remembered that presidential secretaries are not encouraged to make public utterances of which the boss doesnft approve. The gist of Early1s remarks was the hint that Molotov had chosen that particular moment for his criticisms of American foreign policy> when he knew: the House was about to vote on the Neutrality Bill. There the matter seemed to rest. But Just a few minutes ago, there came another dispatch from the White House. This was a ji n reply from President BooseveIt .himself, an implicit slap at the Soviet Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, Tae President made public the text of messages that had passed between himself and Kalinin, President of theSoviet Union. As long ago as last April, Kalinin cabled Mr* Roosevelt profound sympathy with his appeal to Chancellor Hitler to preserve the peace of the world. On April Sixteenth, Kalinin cabled the President|- "Cordial congratulations and profound sympathy with the noble appeal which you have addressed to the governments of Germany and Italy.” And the Soviet President adds: nIou may rest assured that your initiative finds most ardent response in the hearts of the people of the Soviet Socialist Union*” Mr. Roosevelt replied to Kalinin that his views were similar to those expressed by the heads of numerous other states. "T/l 4 ‘"''-At m ? NEUTRALITY BagbQ3>SaSfig If Molotov did time his speech so as to influence Congress, it was a boomerang, for the first reaction to be heard in the House was a proposal that we should retaliate against the Soviet, Democratic Representative McCormack of Massachusetts, pronounced Molotov*s criticism on the repeal of the Arms Embargo to be a flagrant violation of international law. So he voiced a demand that our Ambassador to Moscow should be recalled. McCormack*s remarks were greeted with loud cheers in the House. Sam Rayburn of Texas, Majority Leader, started a move to shorten up thte debate on neutrality. He asked X ± unanimous consent that Congressmen stop talking tomorrow and start voting on amendments. He didn^-t -gct-^o firsfr base^. Republican Schaefer of Wisconsin promptly objected. However, < Sam Rayburn is going to move for a cloture of debate at two /\ o*clock tomorrow. Minority Leader, Jo© Martin of Massachusetts, announced himself officially opposed to any motion to send the lawmakers home after they’ve settled the neutrality business. The Republican leader declared it was his judgment that the people of the United NEUTRALITY - 2 States want Congress to remain in session, to work for peace in keeping the country out of war and improving our domestic situation. Aside from the war matter, he said there t&Fa. O l number of serious problems that need to be met, unemployment, distress among farmers, the railroads in trouble, and national defense. SOVIET Having digested the speech of Premier Molotov, the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union got down to business today. Their first action was to admit western Ukrania into their Union. That’s the territory that used to be Polish, now occupied by Stalin’s Red army. The vote was taken on the motion of the Vice-Premier of the Union, who said:- ’’Never again, will Polish landlords enslave the western Ukranians,” One can’t help speculate how that slogan and the vote will ring in the ears of the landlords of East Prussia. ^They are oxexactly the same type as the big Polish land-owners. A And now the conquest of Poland has placed upon their borders a system so avowedly and ostensibly inimical to them. wsm FINLAND \ Here’s the answer of the Finns to the Soviet demands, the Finnish retort to the speech made by Soviet Premier Molotov before the Supreme Soviet Council. Finland will firmly resist any attempt by Red Russia to penetrate Finnish territory^ The military and territorial concessions that Molotov asked are \ \ described as completely unacceptible. Th»sfrom the mouth of Eljas Erkko, the Foreign Minister at Helsingfors. That makes it official. The Finnish Foreign Minister ^rs~^takin^ his courage in both hands, for he minced no words. He said the Soviet demands are incompatible with respect for the neutrality of Finland, the respect that Stalin and Molotov had previously guaranteed. In other words, Stalin and Molotov went flagrantly back on their own words. FLXftiT Then there's the CITY OF FLINT, still an international problem, still a question-mark on both sides of the Atlantic. A cable from Oslo, capital of Norway, brings a report that she*s steaming south, keeping inside the territorial waters of Norway, Thai id som^ime ton^ht wi$^ be the wohld pla^e her betfween latitude oA^ergen! Norway and the She She t lai mds. e coast of Norwa, Howf do we know thali the CIlTY OF FLINT is thereabouts? The\cable froii| Oslo savs that %dvice^J:ndicj^|te% but lit doesnft\say whose advid^s. In London it is^»a^^that the British Navy might even let the CITY OF FLINT get by, not try to intercept her. The idea is not to give the Nazis an excuse to scuttle the ship that has been such a source of international argument. &wfc^hg_says that this has been contemplated by the British Navy? "Well informed sources," whoever they may be. And in Berlin it is announced by an authorized source that the American crew of the captured freighter is.no danger from the ' „ > Nazis. It is not to be feared that the; anything from the German side. the Nazis add that they have no information about the CITY OF FLINT. POST-CAKDS Dr. Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, has made a ruling. It sounds as though it might be a reaction to Mussolini’s giove in firing the most pro-German members of his Cabinet. Goebhels has forbidden the sale of picture post-cards which showed Fuehrer Hitler and Duce Mussolini together. Underneath the picture was the legend, "Fuehrer and Duce have decided - Peace." ‘ dSm&tsaest Goebbels has also forbidden the sale of the literature that carried the inscription, "Adolf Hitler, our Peace Leader." FOOD The Germans are not the only belligerents who are going to feel the pinch of war at their breakfast and dinner tables. x ( Six weeks from now, the civilian population of Great Britain will go on rations. J Not as severe German^r*fetem^ nevertheless a decided limitation of the Englishman1s diet, particularly his breakfast, at v/hich he vxsm usually eats a menu that makes the average American almost faint even to contemplate.There is A to be HBratiga no rationing of meat. But bacon - only four ounces a week for each person. Most Britishers that X have known eat four ounces for breakfast, and tha^s just to top off his oatmeal, kippered herring, and t?/o or three eggs, #ith maybe a couple of sausages thrown in. Therefs to be no rationing of bread, so he can have all the toast and marmalade he wrants. But he’ll have to go easy on the butter, four ounces a week, J ust : the same as the German allowance. Outside of butter he can have all the fats he wants. In Germany they’re restricted to eight ounces a week, with six pounds of bread. In Britain there’s no mention of any rationing of beer. During the last war, the Lloyd George government tried to FOOD - 2 cut do'wn on the Britisherfs s^re©. with unhappy results. Working /A 4 men threw down their tools and raised the shout, nllo beer, no work.11 P.S. They got their beer. The Food Minister intimated to the House of Commons today, that this rationing, which will start in mid-December, might be temporary. What he said exactly was, "Supplies in sight are ample to meet all reasonable requirements for both the armed forces and the civilian population.n In fact, he expected that imported supplies of food would become larger, rather than smaller, in the future. © OBJECTOR There wag aw-§ffi3E3±±% s~*ene in a British courtroom at ^ X London today. The case being tried was that of a conscientious objector, a young man who applied to be excused from going to war* The man who made the scene was the conscientious objectorfs father, a veteran of the last war. And the amazing part about it was not so much the passion and feeling of that veteran but the enthusiastic applause he got from the crowd in the courtroom. That World War veteran told the judge that, having suffered in a hospital for five years, two of them on his back, and having been fed by other people, he determined that if he ever got out he would discourage his son from ever taking part in what he called ”such dirty and filthy work." And he said further that he had volunteered the last time because he had a farm in Canada. T^ey told him he was in the army to protect his farm from the Germans. But after he came back he found that it wasn't the Germans but the people he had gone to fight for, against whom he needed protection. That drew such a storm of applause in the court that the presiding judge said, nI really think I must adjourn court. I will OBJECTOR 2 give the people in the gallery opportunity to leave quietly.r o T he r e u p on t he a p pi au s e bee a me mor e t hum er ou s t ban ever. The judge, annoyed, had the court cleared by the bailiffs*. Thereupon there were shouts of "DictatorIn "We want a fair deal," cried the spectators, and others shouted, "This should not be done behind closed doors." Some of the women refused to leave and had to be ejected by force CQUygOKB There has been a good deal of excitement all day because It appeared that the war had come close to our shores. The distress call from the British freighter COULMORE, sent a flotilla of rescue ships and planes to a spot where she was supposed to be. Later calculations made it evident that she wasn’t as close as siat was first supposed. Uncle Saai’s Coast Guard officials reckoned her comc » four hinuli LiUana g^fUy Uillg^off the coast of New England^ That ’-a- plenty clo-ae- enot within the three hundred mile limit laid down in the declaration at Panama. Tonight, the affair of the COULMOKE is a bit of a mystery. After that one call for help was received in the United States, the COULMORE’S radio apparently went dead. Our naval and Coast Guard sending stations tried their utmost to get in communication with the distressed vessel, but no answer. A couple of Coast Guard planes went out, one from Cape May, New Jersey, and another from New York#^flew close to the place where the British freighter had been reported. Bad weather forced them back without sight of any sign or trace of tne COULMOKE. The Coast Guard Cutter BIBB — why do they give COULMQRE - 2 our Coast Guard craft such comic names? - Anyway, the Coast Grard Cutter BIBB reached the spot on the map where the COULMQRE should have been but saw nothing. Not even any wTeekage. A&oording tou sti] NLoulation6f ...the positioa reported CQUIL-tQRE radio- opei^ttor v.h«ir~tiP~5at^.ed^for«-j3ei-p* wao five-htmdgod aiad thrrty miles east by oouth*ef Boston; due oaot of New York, Officers of the Coast Guard and the Navy are now visualizing the possibility that the call for help may have been a hoax. If so, a surely mischievous and even criminal joke. o- TRADE AGRE-hi&EWTS An important Republican and a leading Democratic Senator, are of one mind on one point. Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Key Pitman of Nevada, Ex-Chairmaj he A ForeignRelations Committee, say the same thing about Secretary HullTs reciprocal program for reciprocal trade agreements with other countries. Senator Borah declared that in the west it would be one of the major issues in next year*s presidential campaign. Pitman, also a westerner, agrees with him. Says Borah:- wQur farmers are beginning to wake up to the situation.^ Re wants the law repealed; return to Congress the right to fix tariffs and make agreements with either countries. Pitman concurs in this, but adds that he^ be satisfied if the act were amended to provide that all those reciprocal trade tariff agreements should be subject to okay by the Senate, GLOUCESTER American correspondents on the Western Front were having tea - or something - in a littie roadside French » _A— today, A /| Into that tiny room, sixteen foot square, reeking with smoke. marched a British general and his aide. It was Major-General, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George the Sixth, fie tossed aside his steaming wet trench coat, sat down to a cup of tea or something, and started chatting freely with the American reporters. He told them that since he had come to France to join the British Expeditionary Force, he had talked twice with his brother, Major-General H.R.fi., the Duke of Window. He told the newspaper men that he had found the British troops in good spirits, making the best of boredom and bad weather, which are at present the chief affliction of the soldiers on the West Front. Tvje Duke said that the British Tommies have invented a new race* They take wheel-barrows and put live frogs in them. Then they race with the wheelbarrows. If your frog* jumps out, you have to catch him and put him back before you sm go on with the race. foia have to arrive at the finish line with your A