Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1940 — Page 13

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FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 1940

"HOOVER'S DRIVE T0 FEED EUROPE ‘FACES BIG FIGHT

Administration Expected to Point to ‘Starving Americans.’ -

By BRUCE CATTON Times Special Writer WASHIN TON, Oct. 4—If and x when the campaign to sell the U. S. on feeding starving Europe gets started—and it’s looked for some time this fall, probably under Her-

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Oct. said a British vice admiral in Australia, “would fit nicely into Singa-

is wrapped neatly the whole story of Singapore naval base, braltar of the Far East on the most important small island in the world, excepting only Manhattan.

Office knows exactly how many millions of pounds have been poured into the defense of Singapore, an island some 30 miles in circumference, the adjacent waters and the small islands which dot the harbor.

there is a:great deal of official hush-

By PETER EDSON Times Special Writer

SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, 4, — “Your American fleet,”

In that brief, facetious statement!

British Gi-

No one outside the British War

Concerning all these defenses

hush, and only the British know how to put this on with maximum effectiveness. Commercial airliners coming into the new Singapore airport, built on made land at the waterfront, are forced to fly in and out of the city on a narrow channel. Fly a nonmilitary plane over any part of the western end of the island, an area seven miles long and three miles wide, and you get shot down. Go cruising aimlessly about the harbor in your yacht and patrol boats will be after you, if you don’t run into a mine before the patrols can warn you off. ] The hills, and islands are supposedly ho nbycombed with anti-air-craft guns of all sizes, and big caliber coast defense guns which can outshoot and outrange anything

that might be brought against them. There are airfields that would take hundreds of planes. There are barracks and camps and forts that will house thousands of soldiers. There are miles of barbed wire and first and second line defense positions all around the island, as anyone can see by going out East Drive.

There are supposedly well-defined

lines of defense up across the Malay.

Peninsula, to thwart anyone who might have the idea of landing in, say, Indo-China or Thailand, and marching south on Singapore. There |is a navy yard with a dry dock and floating graving docks big enough to take the largest ships afloat or on paper. There are naval shops to make every repair a war vessel might need. There are supposed to be sup-

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Singapore Called Impregnable, But There's a Catch

plies on hand to withstand a siege

of three years or more, and a tactical plan worked out to fight

it" out that long, if necessary, to.

maintain Britain's hold on *nis 100-year-old free port, fortress and outpost. And so, by reputation, Singzanore is synonymous with impregnability. But to even the untrained eye. there is a catch in the whole setup. The number of troops small, in comparison to the job that may be ahead. Reginicns of native Malay troops are in training, and there are wunirs of Indians, Sikhs and Burmese being whipped into shape to handle machine guns and anti-aircraft of all calibers. But they don't make an army and they haven't been seasoned under fire.

seems

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- WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (U. P.).— Navy Secretary Frank Knox said today that American youth faces the danger of “becoming soft” and

must adopt some of the “unquestioned virtues which have helped to make the totalitarian powers 50 formidable.” “These virtues,” he said,

The number of aircraft in Singapore is not impressive. The air fields are not as well defended as the Dutch in the Indies. - There are few war vessels at

the base. There is little work in the naval shops. The U. S. naval base in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor is 10 times as impressive. The whole setup has the appearance of being an unused hive. On short notice, it could probanly| be filled with business-like bees. 5 But it is when you consider Singapore as an empty. shell that the remark of the British naval officer becomes significant: “Your American fleet would fit nicely into

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bert Hoover's dir ection—you can expect the Roosevelt Administration to oppose it bitterly. Its opposition will take two forms; a balancing of “starving Americans” off against the blockaded Europeans, and a| plea that “it's a matter of building our country up until it’s strong enough to defend itself before we build | up a Europe] strong enough to attack us.”

Stress Underfed at Home

All of this is clearly foreshadowed | In official utterances of various Ad-| ministration officials—most notably | in a speech made more than a « month ago at Minneapolis by Milo Perkins, head of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. Mr. Perkins asserted that more than 15.000.000 Americans are badly underfed right now; that if they all got enough to eat practically all of our surplus foodstuffs would be consumed: that an adequate diet for all - Americans would mean an ex- | pansion in farm production, in place of the steady contraction of recent vears—and that, in short, to call for the sending of food to Europe before American hunger is satisfied is a disguised form of appeasement.

Will Appeal to Generosity

As a matter of fact it was this target that Henry Wallace was re 1ly supposed to be aiming at in hig famous acceptance speech, in which he wound up by accusing Willkie of seeking appeasement. : The = Agriculture Department | braintrusters who gathered mate-| rial for him had expected he was | going. to hit the feed-the-starving- | Europeans proposal. It's Mr. Perk- | ? ins speech, not Mr. Wallace's, that really lays down the Administration “line” on the matter. Understanding here is that the] Hoover campaign will get rolling’ within a few weeks, probably in the form of a series of direct appeals to the public. | The Administration

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easily reached by an appeal to their | generosity, the best way to meet such appeals is by stressing the’ amount of under-feeding that goes | on at home.

WAR BANS LIGHTING OF MOSLEM TOWERS

CAIRO. Oct. 4 (U. P.).—The solemn great annual moslem festival of the Ramadan began with cannon salutes yesterday but for the first time in history mosque minarets of Alexandria, Port Said, Suez and Ismailia will not be illuminated because of the blackout regulations. Cairo minarets, however, will be illuminated nightly until ‘10 p. m. | » For the next 28 days, during Rama- | dan, Moslems throughout the world "will touch neither food nor drink, hetween dawn and sunset, but they | will be allowed to eat at night. | ® radmin

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