Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1940 — Page 6
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MANY SNAGSNOTED IN BRITISH SHIP AID) ;
England Can’t Wait for U. S. Right Now There Are Political, Military, Economic And Diplomatic Brakes.
(This is the last of a series of articles on the role of the U. 8. in connection with Britain’s need for ships.)
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec.
widely advertised “lend-lease” proposal, which cannot be effective until next fall, the British are pressing for imme-
diate shipping help.
Immediate aid would involve letting Britain have freighters, bombers and destroyers, out of our existing supply. Time is the crux because England expects Hitler’s fiercest drive by spring or before.
No matter how large the
year hence, or even next summer, they can’t help in the
decisive battle just ahead.
Probably the President will yield part-way to the terrific British pressure, but at the moment it seems unlikely that they will get as much quick aid as they are demanding. This White House hesitation is due to several causes . —political, military, economic and diplomatic. On the political side, it is less expedient now than several weeks Fi to repeal he Mr. Denny “carry”’ provisjon of the neutrality law and put American vessels directly into the war zone. Even William Allen White is opposed.
Peace Group Seeks Issue
The increasingly vocal Congressional *peace group would welcome a “clear and simple” issue on which to pitch the coming debate on foreign policy. Because hitherto the President has been too wily to give them a concrete “war” issue, he has retained public faith in his “short-of-war” policy. The President’s success in transferring existing American armaments to Britain has depended on finding new methods, which avoided not only Congressional debate but also public fear. That was the advantage of the early destroyer deal, which may be repeated soon but without the initial advantage of surprise. In the case of merchant ships, the public tends to remember the last war. The ®ision of American ships in the war zone, beset by German submarines, is apt to frighten American public opinion almost more than anything else. Memory stamps that as the road to war, rather than as a plausible method short of war.
Hitch on Military Side
* There is also a hitch on the military side. The U. S. Navy thinks it needs the destroyers, submarines and bombers which Britain is trying to “borrow” or buy. With vastly multiplied patrol responsibilities in the Caribbean and Atlantic, with danger of war in the Pacific, with the frantic efforts to create a twoocean fleet because of the vulnerability of the Panama Canal and the possibility of enemies in both oceans af the same time, the Navy is intent on ‘obtaining more rather than less armament quickly. Moreover, the Navy has watched with mounting misgiving the depletion of our merchant marine through British purchases. For several months our Navy and ‘the British Purchasing Mission have been competing for such ships. Now the Navy, says it will require a merchant-marine reserve of 1000 good ships the day it -goes to war, if ever; and that reserve does not exist. The Navy is especially opposed to “lending” the British any of the fast modern tankers or new Maritime Commission cargo ships.
Trade Also Factor
On the economic side, there is the issue of American-British competition for neutral trade. At the moment when Administration defense and commercial policies require building up our Latin American trade, the British want many of our vessels on those southern lines for the New York-to-England war run. This proposal infuriates certain American shipping men and Washington officials, who say Britain is trying to grab more competitive markets and has boosted her ship-
ping to South America to about}
1,000,000 tons. According te this view, Britain would be in less desperate need for shipping help if she cut her own Latin American shipping instead of asking us to cut ours. A similar dispute arises over the unofficial American proposal that our merchant ships take over several British shipping routes far from the war zones, thus liberating British bottoms for the direct food and armament shipments essential
Lease Proposal Year Hence;
27.—Despite the ‘President's
BRITISH CHURCH LISTS DAMAGE
1000 Buildings Destroyed or Harmed; ‘Great Spiritual Revival’ Reported.
LONDON, Dec. 27 (U. P.).—The press bureau of the Church of England said yesterday that German bombers during the last year had destroyed or damaged more than 1000 churches, schools, halls and vicarages of the church throughout the British Isles. Some of England's oldest and most famous cathedrals were listed in the report. Included as destroyed was St. Michale’s Cathedral at Coventry, and listed as damaged were Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s, the Canterbury and Liverpool Cathedralls, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Margarets, Westminster, St. James Piccadilly and St. Mary Le Bow. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have appointed a special commission to study possibilities of repair, restoration and rebuilding. “To set against the losses’ there have ‘been great spiritual gains,” said the press bureau which said that the war had been responsible for a great spiritual revival in which the Church of England had played a leading role.
INDUSTRY IS URGED TO TURN TO DEFENSE
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 27 (U. P.).— Governor Herbert H. Lehman called on industry today to‘turn from nonessential work to producing defense material. Mr. Lehman, in a letter to De-| fense Commissioner William SS. Knudsen, said he and members of the State Defense Council felt the “urgency of the situation” ‘is not appreciated by some manufacturers.
diplomatic considerations, which slow down the immediate largescale transfer to Britain of American naval vessels and bombers, marooned “enemy” ships in our ports, and more of our own merchant marine. The sharp warning to the United States by Hitler's spokesmai, in reply to the British proposal for American seizure of . foreign . ships in our ports, is more disquieting than . the official ‘Washington attitude indicates. Rightly or wrongly, there is little fear here that the Nazis are about to declare war on us. But there is an uncomfortable feeling that Hitler may carry out’ his threat indirectly—that he may force his Japanese Axis partner into some overt act. There is small satisfaction here in the knowledge that such a war probably would be suicide for Japan, already weakened by her Chinese war and vulnerable on her Russian flank. Of more immediate concern here and in London is the fact that a Hitler second-hand war in the Pacific would force the United States in self-defense to cut off most if not all supplies to Britain. Of the President’s keen desire to supplement his promised long-range “lend-lease” or other supplies to Britain, with more immediate shipping gid, there is no doubt. But the difficulties are great and the risks are grave.
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