Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1940, Page 9

Laws Clog Industrial Capacity Business Would Temper Reforms To Meet Challenge By DAVID LAWRENCE. On the surface there is apparent unanimity behind President Roose- velt’s recommendations for an ex- panded air force. Beneath there is deep-seated anx- fety among conservative groups based wholly on fear that the New Deal is more § than eager to use a national § emergency to its own political ad- vantage. The Democrats who stand to benefit by a third term for Mr. Roosevelt are openly re- Joicing. dened because they feel domestic issues will be sidetracked at a time David Lawrence. The Republicans are sad- THE EVENING The Capital Parade . Events Leading Up to Defense Message Recall England’s Change After Munich - By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER. In these tragic and terrible days, 1t clears the mind to recall an old story. Late last fall William C. Bullitt returned from France to report to the President, and found this country in the happy-go-lucky mood in which responsible men could compla}:l of “this phoney war.” Bullitt was not one of the small group who, #ke Charles A. Lindbergh, accurately foresaw the future. But he was at least vaguely aware of what might come, and he was deeply angered by the mood he found. “The United States,” he said blttqu, “Is still in the state of mind of England before Munich.” ' The story had its appropriate sequel when the President read his message to the joint session of the two houses of Congress. The details of the scene—the President's tired voice, the suddenly solemn Senators and Representatives, the tense crowds in the galleries, the women here and there in the crowd who un- ashamedly wept—are by now famil- iar to the country. Coming away from the House Chamber, a Sena- tor who is not often moved to high- flown talk sadly remarked, “Well, we have had our Munich and our Prague in the same week. And now I think it's time we buckled down to preparing for the future.” Deadly Parallels The Senator expressed precisely the change that has come over Washington, and it is to be hoped over the country, in this short time of cruel stress. There is a certain dynamism in a democracy’s reactions to events, which makes the behavior of one democratic nation strangely parallel that of another. England and France. did not finally awake to their true situatior when the Nation was beginning to wake up to the dangers of Staie socialism. Reports from all parts of the coun- try are that many businessmen are@ dejected and worried because they | fear the President will wage a war under “left wing” influence, that he | will not listen to the men who must | operate the economic machinery of} the country, that he will remain in- | different to the tactics of the brighti young New Deal lawyers and judges | who may be finding additional powers in existing statutes so as to get com- plete control of private business into Government hands. Suspicions Cling. Psychologically, the war emer-| gency has gotten off to a very poor | start. The promptness with which | Democratic spokesmen announced | that the new turn of affairs#abroad | means acceptance by the President | of a third-term nomination did not serve to remove already existent suspicions that the administration | has been waiting only for a dramatic | turn in European affairs to embark | on a third-term adventure 0 earnest. | If the President had some time ago stated publicly that he would not be a candidate, his position to- day would have been impregnable. His silence has created the belief that he has wanted a third term and | believed that Europe might furnish | the justification for breaking the | precedent. It will be recalled that he urged that the Democratic Na- | tional Convention be held in Sep- tember and many observers here be- lieve this was because he expected the outbreak of intensive war in| Europe this summer. The President unfortunately has given businessmen the jitters before The moment he assembled last year the War Industries Board, composed of businessmen, the left wing started in its attack and before long the ad- ministration sent the board home. The left wing attack may be ex- pected to begin again. Some of the | business-baiting spokesmen of the left wing are perhaps innocent of | what their tactics mean, but the| surest way to prevent America from | becoming efficient in wartime is to | keep the businessmen out of control of the very productive process which they understand so well, | The biggest question today among businessmen is not whether Mr. Roosevelt should be nominated and elected for a third term, but what persuasive assurance the business world can receive that the free en- terprise system will be maintained and that when war is over it will come back without a collectivist im- print. ‘Worry Over Handicaps. Business thinks in terms of pro- | duction. Even with the best patri- | otic instincts and desires, business cannot see how the productive ma- chinery of the country can function if the President continues to permit a legalistic and class partisan in- stitution like the National Labor Relations Board to tinker with the economic system. The need of the hour is to keep the Labor Board con- fined to collective bargaining as such and not to allow it any longer to administer the law in collusion with certain labor groups. At the very time when business and labor should be working to- gether, presidential and congres- sional politics have prevented at this session of Congress the taking of the necessary corrective steps to enable America’s economic system to function efficiently. Knowing that the record shows conclusively the need for amendment, business- men cannot understand the refusal of the administration to abandon its one-sided course. If war is not to come immediately and the eco- nomic machine is to be properly prepared for a challenge to its pro- ductive capacity, not only must there be revisions of several exist- ing statutes, like the wages and hour and public contracts laws, but an altogether different attitude must be adopted by the zealous young men who hold enormous adminis- trative powers of life or death over Industry and finance. Mr. Roosevelt knows better than any one in Washington what has to be done to get labor and manage- ment working together. Until he does something convincing and con- fidence-giving, the roots of dissen- sion and class warfare will grow deeper and deeper, with the result that America’s economic machine will become weaker and weaker— precisely as certain dictators over- seas would have it in the country of strongest economic capacity in the world. Dr. Hart Will Preach On ‘Christian Belief’ Dr. Oliver J. Hart, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and H streets N-W., will preach to- morrow at 9:30 am on “Christian Belief.” At 11 am. the Rev. Na- thaniel C. Acton, curate, will preach. ‘The full choir of mer and boys will sing “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place,” by Brahms. Holy communion is at 8 and 9:30 am At the early celebration the St. John's Chapter of the Brotherhood ot St. Andrew will hold its monthly corporate com- munion. Evening prayer will be said at 8 p.m,, with sermon by the Rev. Rich- ard Rossman. * Services next week are as follows: Wednesday, 7:30 am. holy com- munion; Thursday, noon, holy com- munion; Friday, 7:30 am, holy communion. A | rape of what remained of Czecho-Slovakia. until the harsh facts were flung squarely in their faces, by the German It will be remembered how, only a few days after that event, the present British Ambassador in Washington, Lord Lothian, rose in the House of Lords to regret that his eyes had not been previously opened by reading the full text of Hitler’'s “Mein Kampf.” Until this week there have been plenty of men in high office in Washington, as well as in important positions throughout the country, who preferred hoping for the best to making a realistic assessment of the facts. The late Senator William E. Borah, telling Secretary of State Cordell Hull last summer that e had better information than the State Department, exactly reproduced the gesture of the English leaders who tossed into their wastebaskets the intelligence service reports on German alr rearmament Men like Thomas E. Dewey, who continued to say until catastrophe was treading on our heels that we ought to worry only about domestic problems resembled the English and French politicians who were still hoping for the best when the war burst upon them. But all that is changing now, and if the European picture worsens as rapidly as seems likely, the change will accelerate proportiohally. Radicals and reactionaries, Republicans and Democrats, men wise and foolish, are now beginning to realize that the position of the United States is precarious The old world, in which we once lived so comparatively comfortably, seems to be disintegrating by the hour. It is necessary to make ready for the possible advent of a new world, in which comfort will be forgotten. and the preservation of the most ordinary decencies of our society must become the sole aim. The Way the World Ends This is the central fact among the many harsh facts one is forced to face after talking. in these days, to the men who have the necessary information to form a judgment. Considering that we now have exactly one anti-aircraft gun of the best design, only a few hundred planes of first class type, only a few divisions of the Army fully equipped to take the field, and a Navy only adequate for the Pacific service, the President's .. defense requests in his messages to '"0”&‘?&5‘5‘;‘{2{3‘,&:&‘5 Congress seem a minimum gegin- * ning in the business of making ready for the possible new world. Much more remains to be done, and will have to be done if the possible new world becomes a present reality. The President, the Congress and the country look to be ready for the task ahead. If they are not ready, or if they cannot surmount the many difficulties the task in- volves, there will be nothing left to do but quote the lines from T. S. Eliot once before printed in this space, when the Munich crisis showed the specter of war to the world. They are: are the hollow men “We are the stuffed men “This is the way the world ends “This is the way the world ends “Not with a bang but a whimper.” At least it is to be hoped that we shall not run the risk of seeing our world end with a whimper. (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Sermon Announced 0. K. Armsirong fo Speak 4 = At Brightwood Church In the church school session at Brightwood Park Methodis* Church tomorrow morning the men’s groups will have special programs. O. K. Armstrong, writer and newspaper- man, will be the guest speaker for the Men's Wesley Class, while the Rev. S. Carroll Coale will lead a group discussion on “Social Re- sponsibility” for the Young Men's Class. At 11 am. D. Stewart Patterspn, who has recently returned from the General Conference of the Meth- odist Church at Atlantic City, will speak on “The Work of th> General Conference.” The minister will give the children’s story on “Getting ‘What You Wish For.” George Stone- braker will be the soloist. Infant baptism will be administered. At 8 p.m. the minister will begin a series of Sunday evening messages on “Other Three Sixteens,” the first of which is “A Promise to the Righteous.” A trio of women’s voices will sing “God’s Treasures,” from “Finlandia,” by Sibelius. The Missionary Societies will hold a joint meeting at the home of Mrs. Harry S. Warner, 5403 Sev- enth street N.W., Monday evening. The Men’s Wesley Bible Class will be entertained at the home of the president, P. M. Barrows, 738 Mari- etta place N.W.. Tuesday evening. The young people’s forum will serve a pot-luck supper on Wednesday, after which Mr. Armstrong will speak. Detroit Pastor to Talk At St. Matthew's The Rev. R. D. Linhart, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church, Detroit, will be guest preacher at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church tomor- row morning. He will speak on “The Power of Prayer.” The Rev. Theodore P. Fricke, the pastor, will conduct the liturgical service in ob- servance of the festival of the Holy Trinity. The Sunday School Board will meet Monday evening, with Supt. Emil Wenzel presiding. Members of the Missionary Society will at- tend the annual convention of the Concordia District Women's Mis- sionary Federation of the Amer- fcan Lutheran Church, which will be held at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Perry Hall, Md., May 22. The Junior Mission Band will present a missionary play, under di- rection of Mrs. E. Behrens, at the Lutheran Home for the Aged, on May 23. Rev. E. G. Goetz to Talk On ‘Christian Ministry’ “The Christian Ministry” will be the subject of the sermon tomorrow at Zion Lutheran Church by the Rev. Edward G. Goetz. The day will mark the eighth anniversary of his ordination. The pastor and G. L. Hightman, as lay delegate, will attend the 121st annual convention of the Evangeli- cal Lutheran Synod of Maryland at Zion Lutheran Church, Middletown, <B"{d., Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- ay. The Ladies’ Aid Society will serve a luncheon in the chapel at noon Thursday. By Dr. Clifton K. Ray Dr. Clifton K. Ray. pastor of Ep- worth Methodist Church, will preach at 11 am. tomorrow on “Christ and the Common Things of Life” and at |8 pm. on “How God Weighs Men.” The junior choir will sing at both | services. | The Wesley Fellowship and the | young people’s department will com- bine for the fifth of the lectures to |be given by Ishmael Burton on | “What Every Methodist Should | Know.” | *W. C. Furr and Ishmael Burton were elected lay and reserve dele- }gates. respectively, to the annual | session of the Baltimore Conference, | to be held at Westmunster, Md., in June. The Hummer Memorial Class will | 80 to Gaithersburg, Md., for an en- tertainment for the guests at the Home for Aged on Fri evening. They will meet at the chirch and g0 | by motor. Hugh Harstin ano Miss Anne Smith are making plans for the an- nual picnic of the young people at Camp Letts, Md., on May 30. | British Bible Teacher To Conduct Services Dr. Herbert Lockyar. British Bible teacher and preacher, will conduct a Bible and evangelistic conference next week gt the Non-Sectarian Tabernacle, 6440 Piney Branch road NW. The services will be held nightly, except Saturday, at 8 o’clock, and each afternoon, Tuesday through Friday, at 2:30. The afternoon services will be in the nature of a short Bible course, with blackboard outlines, the sub- Jects of which will be: “The Ro- mance of the Bible,” Tuesday; “How to Read the Bible,” Wednesday; “The Emblems of the Bible,” Thurs- day, and “Methods of Bible Study,” Friday. The night subjects will be: “World Events and Prophecy,” Mon- day; “The Academy of Love,” Tues- day; “Selling Christ for a Suit of Clothes,” Wednesday: “The Vision Splendid,” Thursday, and “The Life and Labors of D. L. Moody,” Friday. The services will conclude May 26, with Dr. Lockyer speaking at 11 a.m. on “The Abiding Companion” and at 8 pm. on “The Dying Man's Charge.” There will be a prophet- ical mass meeting at 3 p.m. when the topic will be “Wi!l the European Crisis Result in the End of the Age?” The public is invited. —— Hotel proprietors in the Azores are suffering because the War is keeping tourists away. for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and . suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940, T Star’s eflort readers, a By G. GOULD LINCOLN. Already New Dealers are suggest- ing there should be an adjourn- ment of politics because of the war situation abroad. Their contention is that the Na- tion should get solidly behind President Roose~ velt, in order to impress the world. Hysterical persons have proposed that ¢ the ‘Republican National Con- vention, set for June 24, be post- poned, presum- ably with the idea that the G. O. P. may desire in the end not to put forward a candidate for President against the nominee of the Democratic party—on the theory that the Democratic nominee will be President Roosevelt, for a third term. Chairman Hamilton of the Re- publican National Committee has even given respectability to these reports, issuing a formal statement to the effect that no suggestion for postponement of the national con- vention has been made to him. He added there is no reason for a postponément of the G. O. P. con- vention. It seems incredible that the Re- publican party should consider either postponing its convention or throwing support to the re-election of the President—if he runs. In- deed, there seems not the slightest prospect . that such a course will be pursued, even if the country should be drawn into the war abroad. As a matter of fact, the country is still at peace. The Re- publicans have not yet subscribed to the doctrine that only one man in all this Republic is capable of | serving, in the present circum- stances or any that may arise, as President. Certainly it is a matter which the people should decide | for themselves at the polls next | November—again in the event the | President decides to run. Pretext for New Dealers. The New Dealers—and the Demo- crats generally—wish to remain in power. This would be equally true if the whole world was at peace. | The war situation abroad is used | as a pretext, a reason why that party must be retained in control of | the Government. An adjournment | of politics at this time and during the national folitical campaign which culminates next November in | G. Gould Lincoln, HE opintons of the writers on this page are thetr own, not necessarily The Star's. Such opinions are presented in The 0 give all sides of questions of interest to fits Ithough such opinions ma,y themselves and directly opposed to Th The Political Mill Republicans Reject Theory That National Unity Demands Third Term for Roosevelt be_contradictory amon, e Star’s, o b, Austin of Vermont, assistant Re- publican leader of the Senate, and Wendell Willkie, head of the Com- monwealth & Southern Power Co., have been put forward as Repub- lican running mates with Mr. Roosevelt. The idea is to have a coalition government as far as pos- sible. If the Democrats believe that they can win again this fall, it is not likely they will offer second place on the national ticket to & Republican. Nor is it likely that a Republican would accept. The coalition government idea has been in the minds of some of the admin- istrationists, even the President himself. A few months ago he offered to place Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher and Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936, in his cabinet either as Secretary of War or Secretary of the Navy. Col. Knox turned the offer down. An indication that the New Deal- ers are inclined to soft pedal poli- tics—in the interests of the re- election of President Roosevelt—is found in the reported abandonment of his projected Western trip in June by the President himself. The President planned a trip across the continent, with several speeches, after June 10. The trip would have taken place during the meeting of the Republican National Conven- tion. It was timed, in the opinion of Democrats as well as Republi- cans, to offset or blanket the news of the Republican convention, Landon Chides President. Former Governor of Kansas Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee in 1936, speaking to the Johnson County (Missouri) Repub- licans, last night, chided the Presi- dent for his partisan attacks on Republicans, even while he is asking national unity in the face of the foreign situation. “It is not conducive to good feel- ing at home or respect abroad when our President repeatedly attempts to make bitter partisan capital out of every grave issue,” said Mr. Lan- don. “One day our President speaks of the spreading horror confronting us in foreign affairs. The next day he starts a political attack aimed to drive people into antagonistic camps and plans a political swing around the circle.” Mr. Landon said that if the Presi- dent wishes national unity he should call off his political trip across the continent in June. New Dealers retort that if the President and his administration | are to be subject to political attack by the Republican enemy, there is good reason why the President and a presidential election would, in | = supporters anould make/political ¥ ' | war on the G. O. P. There seems to b i | althou e President is Presiden Republicans are not inclined to fall ! of m!g whole Nation, :, :::u ,,: into line. | President of the Democratic party. The Republican leaders have | Back National Defense. sald the Republicans will back to| o d all of bl the utmost plans for improving the | al? S t o u;)e Republican national defenses, in the air, on;s?“ ers up to date have declared sea and on land. That is a hon- | 5 rongly for increased national de- partisan matter, and properly so. fense. And so has the President, But they see no reason why Mr. | Who has made concrete proposals Roosevelt should be continued as|f0r additional defense appropria- President after next January. They insist that in his opinion he has not proved an efficient Chief Execu- tive in time of peace. They ask why should he be an efficient Presi- | dent in time of war? If he has not been able to bring about recovery in time of peace, why should he be able to bring victory if this country becomes involved in war? And why should he be the one man who is able to keep this country out of war, if that is what is desired? G. O. P. Vice President Suggested. However, in some quarters it is suggested now that the G. O. P. agree to the re-election of Presi- dent Roosevelt, and that, if neces- sary to silence protests from Re- publican sources, a Republican be named to run with him as Vice President. The names of Senator Repairing e Renovizing ® Modernizing Homes When It DOES Pay to Spend Nothing depreciates faster than a house left victim to the decay of time. 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At the same time | Mr. Landon and other Republican | speakers continue to insist that the country needs to get rid of the New Deal President and his administra- tion. ‘ There is more than a whif of | politics in the attitude of the ad- ministration leaders toward the financing of the new billion dollar | expenditures for national defense, | just laid before Congress by the President. With an election just around the corner, they do not wish to levy new taxes. Nor do they | wish tq have Congress increase the | statutory public debt limit—now fixed at $45,000,000,000. So, it is now proposed that the Treasury Depart- ment, if it can, tide the whole matter of increased expenditures over until Congress meets next January—two months after the election. And there is no That is another In Qur DI. 6557 We, the People World Should Be Flatly Told That U. S. Has Interests for Which We Would Fight ; By JAY FRANKLIN. With one exception, I am completely unable to define in advance the “vital interests” of the American people—interests which if threatened or injured would bring us into the war as an active belligerent against Germany instead of a passive economic accomplice of the western allies. For the moment, I shall postpone the discussion of the exception already noted in the preceding paragraph. Generally speaking, it is hard to say what our people would consider worth fighting for. The Monroe Doctrine? We assume so but if a totalitarian coup gave the Nazis control of Patagonia or Iceland, would we burn to send an A. E. F. to the pampas or to contest the lava- scarred slopes of Snaefels with the European invaders? ‘The Panama Canal? Our naval strategists assume that our com- munications through the isthmus are so essential that we would fight any conceivable threat to their safety, Perhaps we would, but would we do so if the threat took ——_ 0% €¢e4B the form of a Nati-inspired revolu- tion or the model of the Sandino rising in Nicaragua or a Mexican up- heaval? Would we listen to the cries of “Dollar Diplomacy” and hesitate? As a footnote to our isolationism it should be noted that political opinion applauded Mr. Hull's warning to Japan about the Dutch East Indies, which are half-way around the world. But would not a torrent of criticism and yells of “meddling” have arisen if Mr. Hull had shown a similar interest in the Azores or Cape Verde Islands, though these are at least equally important to our political interests? The Campaign Factor There remains the question of foreign interference with domestic politics. We sent Lord Sackville packing when the luckless British Min- ister carelessly expressed an opinion in a private letter concerning an American Presidential election. We have always resented the notion that the Communist Party took orders from Moscow in its approach to national politics and have noted grimly that the party line which was so strongly in favor of intervening to save the Spanish Loyalists a couple of years ago is now for peace-at-any-price since Stalin tied up with Hitler. 1If, as is possible, Stalin goes over to the allies again, no doubt the party line will make the necessary detours to support an interven- tionist policy Suppose the Nazis should direetly take a hand in the 1940 campaign and bribe or threaten any important part of the electorate. Would we consider this a threat to our vital interests? Or would we? Provided Hitler, Ribbentrop, Goebbels and Himmler picked the right stooges, it might be hard to stir our people to anger over this threat to the integrity of our political decisions. What remains? During the first World War the fundamental object of American naval strategy was to preserve and protect the British navy. Would we :till consider the possible destruction of that mighty force or the political defeat of the British Empire itself a vital danger to our- selves? We might and againwe might decide to play hot-hounds with the victors for title to the loose real estate which would be floating around if London was knocked out as a world power. The only thing which can truthfully be said about our “vital inter- ests” (with one exception) is that while nobody can name them in advance. everyone knows when they have been touched. The classic illustration is the famous Trent case in our Civil War, when a Federal warship removed the Confederate agents, Mason and Slidell, from that in seizing the rebel envoys. When it happened, the British people regarded it as a threat to England’s vital control of the sea and were ready to go to war against Lincoln’s Government at Washington until we returned the Southern gentlemen to their British hosts. Exception Proves Rule The exception, which proves the rule, is the fact that it is a threat to our vital interests to assume that we have no interests so overwhelm- ingly important to us that we would not fight to protect them. In the first World War, the German Government accepted Wilson's definition of our vital interest in opposing unrestricted submarine warfare | (a rather extreme definition in fact) but assumed that we lacked the power to defend that interest. The German Government learned better. This time they assume that we have the power, but appear to be in danger of assuming that we lack the will and wisdom to use that power at all to defend our interests, vital or otherwise. By avoiding overt acts, it is | assumed we can be completely neutralized during the decisive period of this particular war Since our best assurance of avoiding war is to let it become clear to all and sundry, ourselves included. that there are circumstances short of hopeless catastrope or foreign invasion under which we would become a belligerent, we have a vital national interest in letting our position be known in advance. It is no service to American peace to spread the im- pression that we will never under any circumstances take part in this World War. theory that we can be stalled off by legal niceties now and left to an “inside job” later. We don't need to wear a chip on our shoulder to in- duce the belligerent nations to study our real national interests—not our widely advertised moral attitudes but our rock-bottom political, social and economic interests—and to act in accordance with those interests rather than to attempt to outflank them by intrigues, with the isola- tionist and subversive elements in our public life. For America is pledged to a policy of “no more crusades” but that does not imply that we shall remain indefinitely pledged not to save our own hides. Otherwise we may as well sit back and await the fate of an- other China or a Norway after what may become our battle has been fought and lost by others. British liner Before the incident the British law authorities had advised | the British Government that the North would be quite within its rights | A9 This Changing World Allied Possessions Near U. S. Grave Concern in War By CONSTANTINE BROWN. Nobody likes to talk openly about certain matters, but it is understood that the fate of the British, French and Dutch possessions in the West- ern Hemisphere, close to the shores of the United States, form- a matter of concern in the event the war should defl- nitely turn against the al- lies. It is admitted everywhere that this is a total war; that is to : say, the party “ defeated will be Constantine Brown. smashed and re- duced to impotence for many years to come. If this is to be the lot of the Reich, it will be divided into a number of small republics definitely separated from each other. Ger- many will revert to what it used to be before the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, minus East Prussia, which would become a part of Poland. The unity of the German Empire which has created the present tur- moil in Europe because of the ex- pansionist ideas of the German peo- ple must be destroyed. German Neighbors. But if the war turns against the allies, the French and the British Empires will be destroyed—and mercilessly. Under these circumstances the Germans would become our im- mediate neighbors by the conquest of the British, French and Dutch possessions in the Western Hemis~ phere. Not only would they take the West Indies and the Caribbean Islands, but also the three Guianas and Curacao, which belong to Brit- ain, France and the Netherlands. In many diplomatic quarters | President Roosevelt's statement on Thursday that the Germans might come close to the shores of the United States in, say, Venezuela, was interpreted to mean that they | will establish themselves not in that independent. Latin American Re=- public, but in these allied territories in South America. Might Deed Possessions. Hence, it is said, the allies might consider ceding their American possessions. to the United States—in Such an impression encourages the totalitarians in their | lieu of payment of their old war debts. There have been no conversa- | tions about this at present because | for the time being there is no ;reason to contemplate a total de- | feat of the allies. But should this | happen it is considered more than | likely that the allies would make | this gesture toward the United ! States. In any event, it is believed in | many responsible quarters here that | even if such a deeding of posses- | sions did nqu take place, in the case of a British-French defeat, this country, acting in full agreement | with the Latin American republics, would find it necessary to occupy the allied possessions in the Western Hemisphere rather than let them fall into the hands of the totali- | tarfans. The Monroe Doctrine | would amply justify such a step. 1f Germany - Should Win! w HAT kind of a peace may be expected? What will the effect be on the United States? Are we open to attack, and if so, can we defend ourselves? How will our economic situation be affected by German victory? These are no longer questions for casual debate. They are vital questions, questions which are causing gloomy predictions, questions which are fast killing off thoughtless optimism. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, World War Prime Minister of Great Britain, gives his views in a serious article in tomorrow’s Sunday Star editorial section. The indomitable little Welshman is not discouraged, but he faces realities. CONSTANTINE BROWN, predicating his views on possible German success, outlines the probable effect on the economy of the United States and on the mode of life of the people if America is to keep abreast of the power which has been unleashed abroad. RICHARD L. STOKES, analyzing American defenses, pre- sents facts which will startle you even more than President Roose- velt’s statement to Congress. The United States is vulnerable and Mr. Stokes tells you just how great is the vulnerability. JOHN C. HENRY will present in brief review the amazing and terrible facts of this week of warfare, warfare probably un- matched in history in its intensity and destructiveness. COMPLETE NEWS COVERAGE will be given in the reports of the Associated Press, the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, the North American Newspaper Alliance and other sources which have kept readers of The Star constantly informed of the rapid developments. T keep completely informed, read he Sundwy Star