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Secret Report Tells
Ability of British to
Pay for U. S. Goods
Similar Report, From
Bullitt, to Reveal
Resources of French
By LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press Staff Writer.
A secret document which might
guide a mathematician toward pre
dicting the victor in Europe’s war is
locked in an old-fashioned safe at
the State Department.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador
to Great Britain, recently brought
from London this comprehensive
confidential report analyzing the
monetary and economic resources
possessed by the British Empire in
the United States.
The information in the document
Is known only to the President,
some members of the cabinet and a
select group of close-mouthed State,
Treasury and Commerce Depart
ment -experts.
Analysis of the data will enable
American authorities to determine
Great Britain’s maximum capacity
to pay for planes, munitions and
other war supplies in the United
States. It may provide a forecast
of the influence which those pur
chases—already under way on a
large scale in planes, tools and a
narrow list of manufactured goods—
may have on industry, agriculture,
labor and trade.
President Roosevelt has received—
or will receive when Ambassador
William C. BuHitt arrives from
Paris—a similar confidential report
on French resources in this country.
May Help Avoid Pitfalls.
Precautionary policies based on
that information, plus daily cabled
reports from London and Paris, may
assist the United States to avoid
many economic pitfalls like those
which through their ramifications
affected every American after the
Wnrlrf War
War goods already bought here by
the allies and orders placed and in
prospect show that Great Britain
and France plan to make purchases
running into millions of dollars, de
pending on how long the war lasts.
Some estimates place potential al
lied war orders in this country at
$1,000,000,000. ,
Government experts, forecasting
such huge sales, are, interested in
how Britain and France are going
to pay the bill. Under the neutrality
law it's cash-and-carry business,
and the British and French must
produce the cash.
What the allies’ resources are
provides one of the major questions
American authorities are tackling
by adding gold shipments, earmarked
gold bars and allied-owned stocks,
bonds, investments and dollar bal
ances.
Clues Are Available.*
While Ambassador Kennedy’s re
port remains a secret, clues are
available from other sources.
Winthrop W. Case, associate
editor of the Annalist, estimated
last April that Anglo-French gold
and other reserves here amounted
to between $9,500,000,000 and $12,
000.000.000, which he figured would
provide them with war supplies for
two years.
Large shipments of gold, accele
rated after the Czecho-Slovakian
crisis, have boosted earmarked gold
in the Federal Reserve banks to
well over $1,000,000,000.
The Commerce Department on
August 29 estimated total British
and French investments in the
United States, not including ear
marked gold, at between $2,800,
000,000 and $3,000,000,000, somewhat
less than two-thirds as large as in
the years just preceding the 1914-18
World War.
The British estimate the war is
costing them $28,000,000 a day.
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How much of that dally expendi
ture will the British and French
send to the United States for war
supplies?
If the allies continue to ship gold
to pay for purchases here, what
affect will it have on American
fiscal policies?
If allies’ holdings of American
stocks and bonds are sold to obtain
cash, what effect will such liquida
tion ha\e on Wall Street?
If Great Britain is able to expand
Its exports to the rest of the world
by more than one-third, to pay war
bills, how will this affect American
foreign trade?
Will any of the belligerents or
neutrals, at the end of their cash
and liquid assets, seek loans in
this country as they did during and
after the World War, again raising
the explosive war debts question?
Studies Ordered.
To insure an informed approach
to problems posed by the war (and
perhaps to be aggravated by peace)
President Roosevelt has ordered
comprehensive studies of the entire
question by Government agencies.
In the State Department, a special
war studies division, under Hugh
Wilson, former Ambassador to Ger
many, is digging into "a series of
measures and policies on the part
of both belligerents and neutrals
which Immediately affect the United
States.”
Those ‘‘measures and policies”
likewise affect other Government
departments because of their reper
cussions on domestic and foreign
trade, employment, tariffs, indus;
trial expansion, prices, the stock
market, land and sea transportation,
agricultural production and exports
—bringing the war into the daily
life of the average American.
Mass Tank Maneuvers
Are Delayed by Rain
By the Associated Press.
FORT BENNING, Ga„ Feb. 6.—
Bports impresarios and Army officers
conducting war games have a com
mon problem in the weather.
"Postponed on account of rain,”
was the word military executives
passed by telephone and courier
for mass tank maneuvers scheduled
to be started on the Infantry School
reservation yesterday.
All except two companies of the
Nation’s Tank Unit are concentrated
here in an unprecedented training
program started last fall.
A steady drizzle softened newly
cut clay roads and poured down on
tents, tarpaulins and temporary
buildings set up over the pine-dotted
hills. Work was confined to routine
camp duties.
Brig. Gen. Bruce MacRuder, tank
commander, andhis aides hoped for
clearing skies tdgjy.
NEW YORK.—FINLAND AGAIN REPRESENTED—In the United
States for a tour in the interests of Finnish relief, Paavo Nurmi
and Taisto Maki, famed Finnish athletes, paid a visit to their
country’s pavilion at the World’s Fair, which will be reopened
this year. They are shown taking part in a brief flag-raising
ceremony. Nurmi is at left, Maki at right.
Passage By House
Sends U. S. Worker
Tax Bill to Senate
Vote Is 88 to 2;
Arlington School Board
Measure Is Approved
By ALEXANDER R. PRESTON,
Star Staff Correspondent.
RICHMOND, Va.. Feb. 6.—The
Senate today received the Rodgers
bill to tax salaries of Federal em
ployes, after quick passage by the
House yesterday.
The legislation—a part of Gov.
Price’s revenue program whereby an
estimated additional $125,000 will be
raised annually—passed the House
yesterday by a vote of 88 to 2, with
Delegates Maurice D. Rosenberg of
Alexandria and Charles R. Fenwick
of Arlington opposing the bill. Both
represent areas where the highest
concentration of Federal workers
live.
The measure would make the State
income tax law applicable to Fed
eral workers.
The House also passed, 84 to 0, Mr.
Fenwick's bill designed to enlarge
the size of the Arlington County
School Board from three to five
members and to establish a legal
basis for naming the members at
large. The legislation is part of a
program approved by the Arlington
County Civic Federation.
ine senate receiveva a new diu,
which will be of interest to fair
fax County, designed to provide a
third optional form of county gov
ernment. Agitation for another
form has been in progress in Fair
fax County. The bill incorporates
recommendations approved by the
Commission of County, City and
Town Government, which created
wide interest in the Northern Vir
ginia County recently.
Patrons of the measure are Sen
ators Charles N. Loving of Bath
County B. B. Moseley of Brunswick
County and W. C. Daudill of Bland
County. The new form would be
designated the county supervisors
pian and would allow the naming
of an executive secretary to act as
the administrative head of gov
ernment and clerk of the Board of
Supervisors. The supervisors would
be named at large or one from
each magisterial district.
District Court Gets
$20,000 for Repairs
District Court receives $20,000 for
repairs and improvement under the
supervision of the architect of the
Capitol in the State-Justice-Com
merce appropriation bill reported
to the House today. This is a re
duction of $7,497 under the budget
estimate.
For the United States Court of
Appeals an appropriation of $6,000
is recommended for general main
tenance work. This is $1,950 less
than the budget estimate. For the
Court of Customs and Patent Ap
peals the appropriation is reduced
$280. The work of this court is
current.
The items for construction work
at the National Training School for
Boys, which was $208,700 for the
current fiscal year, is omitted in
the appropriation for 1941,
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11 Arrested by F. 6.1.
As Recruiters for
Spanish Loyalists
Ten Men and Woman,
Indicted Secretly, Are
Held in Detroit
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Feb. 6.—The Federal
Bareau of Investigation today ar
rested II persons in Detroit and 1
in Milwaukee on a charge of re
cruiting soldiers in 1937 and 1938
for the Spanish Republican Army.
Ten men and one woman were j
taken Into custody.
They were indicted secretly last
Saturday by a Federal grand Jury
before Judge Edward J. Moinet in
United States District Court here.
Announcement of the arrests was ,
made by John C. Lehr, district at
torney at Detroit. Mr. Lehr said the
defendants are accused of violating
section 22, title 18 of the United
States Code, which forbids citizens
of the United States to recruit for
foreign countries.
Fine, Jail Term Provided.
All the recruiting, Mr. Lehr said,
was in Detroit. Penalty for con
viction is two years in prison and
$10,000 fine.
Those arrested included:
Philip Raymond of Detroit, can
didate for Governor of Michigan on
the Communist ticket in 1936.
Dr. Eugene Shafarman, who as a
member of the staff of the Detroit
Board of Health was charged with
giving physical examinations to
recruits and charging the expense to
the city.
Dr. Frederick C. Lendrum. former
ly of Detroit, arrested in Milwaukee.
Robert Taylor, said to be executive
secretary of the Abraham Lincoln
Brigade, who was wounded in the
November, 1937, fighting in Spain.
Woman in Group.
Dr. John L. Rosefleld, also
charged with examining recruits
and charging the examinations to
the board of health.
Mary Paige, formerly of Port
Huron, named by Mr. Lehr as a
Communist sympathizer.
Rudolph Schweir, secretary of the
Workers’ Alliance of Wayne Coun
ty (Detroit) and Joe Clark, named
> by Mr. Lehr as executive secretary
of the Young Communist League.
Others are John North, Harold
Hartley, Peter Kowal and Frank
Feldt.
Dr. Shafarman was discharged by
the Detroit Board of Health, later
reinstated, and a hearing on
whether his reinstatement should
be upheld is pending.
Entente's Policy
Irks Hungary
And Bulgaria
Explanations Demanded
Of 'Safeguards' for
National Territory
By th« Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Peb. 6.—Hungary and
Bulgaria today Indicated vigorous
opposition to the Balkan Entente's
newly-proclaimed policy of "safe
guarding national territory” by de
manding explanations as to whether
this phrase means upholding the
present boundaries of Southeastern
Europe.
The two nations, which have been
campaigning for peaceful settlement
of their claims on Rumania for ter
ritories they lost to her in the World
War settlement, undertook to learn
from the foreign offices of the
entente whether it had undertaken
to resist all possibility of territorial
concessions.
The entente—Rumania, Yugo
slavia, Greece and Turkey—con
cluded a three-day conference at
Belgrade Sunday.
Unity of Four States Shown.
The Rumanian press declared the
entente showed "the four states
truly were in unity in case of war”
and “this will have a good influence
on Bulgaria and Hungary, perhaps
persuading them to join the Balkan
bloc since their pretensions are post
poned till after the great powers’
war.”
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press almost unanimously hailed the
entente’s united strength.
However, a four-column editorial
in the semi-official Hungarian news
paper Pester Lloyd, which often re
flects Hungarian foreign policy,
bitterly attacked the entente's ter
ritorial stand. At Belgrade the en
tente members agreed to “watch”
over the territorial rights of an
other.
Little Entente Recalled.
The Belgrade conference, Pester
Lloyd said, “recalls dangerously the
spirit of the Little Entente”—Czecho
slovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania
—ended by Germany’s conquests.
The newspaper demanded to know
whether Rumania’s “national ter
ritory” included Transylvania with
a “Hungarian minority of nearly
2,000,000.”
If the entente guaranteed Ru
mania's Transylvania border. Pester
Lloyd declared, “it is useless to
waste one word over starting dis
cussions” with the power over Hun
gary's claims.
Hungarian governmental sources
confirmed that resentment was felt
at the “ambiguously phrased” terri
torial policy adopted by the en
tente. They said the individual
countries had been asked for an
exact definition of question.
Hungary’s disappoinment was
echoed by Bulgaria. Sofia newspa
pers were permitted by government
censorship to declare that the con
ference failed “because the question
of revision was postponed although,
it must be discussed in order to
bring about true peace in South
eastern Europe.”
Accords V/ith Italy
Seen Parley Result
BE,IAjK.AU1L, fro. D —OUUU1
eastemEuropean diplomats said last
night they expected individual Bal
kan nations would open negotiations
shortly in an effort to conclude bi
lateral pacts with Italy in an effort
to preserve peace in this area.
Despite statements that the mem
bers of the Balkan entente—Ru
mania. Greece, Yugoslavia and
Turkey—had agreed on a “common
front’’ at the conference concluded
yesterday, diplomats said they ap
parently had failed to decide upon
any mode of joint action.
In view of this belief, observers
asserted there was “reason" to as
sume that Premier Mussolini’s gov
ernment would be ready to negotiate
separate accords with each of the
entente powers, as well as Hungary
and Bulgaria, in order to achieve
directly or indirectly the union
which the southeastern nations ap
pear to bring about themselves.
The possibility of such negotia
tions was conceded by the confer
ence when it gave a free hand to its
members to negotiate their own
problems.
Such bi-lateral pacts, it was
pointed out, would conform with
Premier Mussolini’s constant policy
of individual settlement of affairs
in preference to a loose system of
collective security among nations
having widely divergent interests,
such as the members of the entente.
Premier Dragisa Cvetkovic of
Yugolsalvia announced today that
Commerce Minister Ivan Andress
would go to Sofia in an attempt to
stimulate Yugoslav-Bulgarian trade.
This was understood to be the first
step in the Balkan Entente’s plan
to create “economic neutrality” in
Southeastern Europe.
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Armies Are Locked
In One of China's
Greatest Baffles
Japanese Claim Westward
Flight of 50,000 Is
Cut Off Near Wingshun
P» the Associated Pres*.
HONG KONG, Fpb. 6.—The Jap
anese invasion of China rounded
out its list month today with the
rival arpties in the Southern Prov
ince of Kwangsi locked in a bitter
battle which both sides indicated
was one of the greatest of the war.
The Japanese said that in the now
nine-day-old battle they had cut
off the westward flight of 50,000
Chinese and killed 8,000 and cap
tured 1,000 Chinese regulars in the
vicinity of Wingshun. This town,
50 miles east of the provincial cap
ital, Nanning, is one which the
Chinese said yesterday they had re
taken from the Japanese.
In Shanghai Japanese military
spokesmen announced their north
ern forces had penetrated Ningsia
Province, in far Northwest China,
for the first time since the war
started. The Japaflese also said
10.000 Chinese had been killed in
fighting in Suiyuan Province, just
east of Ningsia, since December 25.
17 Tanks Part of Booty.
Booty seized from the Chinese in
the Wingshun neighborhood, the
Japanese said, included 17 tanks,
150 heavy machine guns, 1,018 light
machine guns, 12 trench mortars
and 700 rifles. The Japanese report
ed using the captured tanks to
chase disordered Chinese forces.
The westward flight of 50,000 Chi
nese was cut off, the Japanese re
ported, by a flanking movement in
which the Japanese right wing
reached the key town of Shanglin,
55 miles north of Nanning and 20
miles northwest of Pinyang.
Chinese dispatches, however, said
the defenders still held Pinyang and
controlled the road for 25 miles
southwest. They said they had
hurled back with substantial losses
successive waves of Japanese who
tried to recapture Wingshun.
Guerrillas Taking Toll.
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lines are accounting for great num
bers of Japanese dead and wounded,
said the Chinese Central News
Agency.
Chinese reports said 70,000 Jap
anese troops were engaged in
Kwangsi, including two brigades of
imperial guards.
Japan to Continue
Bombing of Railway
TOKIO, Feb. 6 The Japa
nese Army will continue attacks on
the French-operated Hanoi-Kun
ming railway in Southwestern
China as long as there is a “mili
tary necessity,” a foreign office
spokesman declared yesterday.
The spokesman, Yakichiro Suma,
spoke as France was lodging a pro
test over bombing of the line Thurs
day and after the United States had
made representations about previous
bombings.
Although Thursday's bombing, in
which the French said five French
men were killed and several “non
Chinese” wounded, provoked a stiff
ened French attitude which bul
warked the American representa
tions, Suma said the Tokio govern
ment “fully indorses” the operations
against the railway.
Suma denied that undisciplined
military authorities were responsible
for the raids. Japan was believed
to be insisting that the railway is
a legitimate military objective be
cause it is a main munitions supply
line for Chungking. The French
deny this.
Suma at his press conference said
Eugene H. Dooman, Charge d'Af
faires at the United States Embassy,
had delivered a note last Thursday
charging that previous air attacks
on the railway had endangered
American shipments and "inconven
ienced” Americans living at Chung
king.
“The American representations,”
said Suma, “contain many points
which the government is studying
from a legalistic viewpoint.”
Second French Protest
Is Made on Bombings
PARIS, Feb. 6 (A>).—France has
made a second protest to Japan
against repeated bombings of the
French-operated Yunnan railway in
Southwestern China by the Japa- 1
r
nese air force, informed sources said
today.
Nevertheless, French observers
expressde belief that this French
Japanese issue would be settled
without further complications, since
it was understood that Japan had
accepted suggestion that the mat
ter be submitted to a mixed inves
tigating committee.
The second French protest was
delivered in Tokio by Ambassador
Charles Arsene Henry, it was said,
and followed closely the first one
made Sunday.
Miss Lulu T. Rogers,
Virginia Native, Dies
Miss Lulu Thomas Rogers, 62, of
1400 M street N.W., died yesterday
in Casualty Hospital. She was the
sister of Elizabeth M. Rogers, super
intendent of the hospital.
Bom in Hamilton, Va., Miss Rogers
was the daughter of the late Samuel
E. and Elizabeth Megeath Rogers.
She was educated at Gunston Hall
School here and had made her
home in Washington some 20 years.
Surviving, besides her sister, are
two brothers, Samuel H. Rogers of
Washington and Howard C. Rogers
of Hamilton.
Funeral services will be held at
2 p m. Thursday in Hamilton. Burial
will be in Leesburg, Va.
Compromise on Independence
Doubted by Gandhi's Aide
Nehru Says Issue Is
Transfer of Power
To Indian People
This exclusive interview with
Jawawarlal Nehru, President of
India’s Congress (Nationalist)
party, outlines the stand of the
party in the fight for India’s in
dependence. It is particularly
timely in view of the breakdown
of negotiations yesterday between
Mohandas K. Gandhi and Vic
eroy Lord Linlithgow.
By CHARLES H. KLINE,
Associated Press Foreiin Correspondent.
ALLAHABAD. India, Feb. 3 (De
layed).—In the quiet of his study,
Jawaharlal Nehru, president of the
dominant Congress party, today de
manded that Britain include India's
independence as one of her “war
aims.”
“We want no compromise with
(Indian) fundamentals,” declared
Nehru, who is second only to Mohan
das K. Gandhi in the leadership of
millions of Hindus:
(Two days after this dispatch
was written a conference between
Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Lin
lithgow at New Delhi failed to
formulate any sort of agreement,
apparently leaving the Indian
position as outlined by Nehru
unchanged.)
The 50-year-old Nehru, who has
fought side by side with Gandhi
for almost a quarter of a century,
outlined his position thus:
“The problem of Indian independ
ence is not due to the European
war, although the rush of new
events has accentuated the old prob
lem.
“Imperialism Must Be Abandoned.”
“India could co-operate in defend
ing freedom and democracy pro
vided war aims were clearly stated.
Imperialism must be abandoned if
world freedom is sought. Therefore,
India has requested a declaration of
(British) war aims involving Indian
independence with a constituent as
sembly to frame a constitution.
“The old conception of a grant of
dominion status is inapplicable to
India and in any event must give
way to a wider ideal of world co
operation wnicn xnaia giacny sup
ports.
"The real question is one of
transfer of power to the Indian
people with the subordination of
vested interests to the popular will.
"British policy continues to pre
serve these interests. Hence, present
ly a compromise is unlikely.”
Insists on Positive Stand.
By asking that India’s independ
ence be included as a British war
aim, the Congress party has insisted
Britain take an immediate and
positive stand in the matter. Thus
far Britain has refused to do this,
although indicating a willingness to
discuss the independence question
after the war.
Nehru, who quit the playing
fields of Harrow and Cambridge for
the dust and heat of Indian political
life, declared he was convinced “that
broad social progress was impossible
within the straight-jacket of the
present constitutional structure.”
“The whole process (present
British plan) might be likened,” he
continued, “to the futile grafting of
foreign fruit onto a dead tree which
would end in failure despite the
hardihood or resilience of the grated
limbs.”
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.
—A. P. Photo.
Armentieres Ballad Composer
To Seek Out His Mademoiselle
By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Feb. 6.—The
man who composed “Mademoiselle
From Armentieres” hopes to return
to France to renew his acquaintance
with the French girl who inspired
his famous song 20 years ago.
He is Gitz Rice, too old for active
service, but who is helping entertain
2.000 officers and men of the Royal
Canadian Signal Corps at Barrie
fleld Camp near Kingston, Ontario.
He’s in the Canadian Legion War
Service Corps.
“I’m going back to England,” Rice
said in an interview, "to find my pal
Red Rowland. Together, we'll help
the Legion give the lads the bucking
up they’ll need and if we can make
it, we’ll beat it back for Armen
tieres and find our mademoiselle,
no matter what the shock may be.
"They tell me she's fat and she’s
fair and she’s 40 now and dandles
her ninth on her knee.”
Paris
(Continued From First Page.)
accord” on measures “assuring the
greatest efficacy of French-British
collaboration.”
The French and British general
staffs held a conference between the
morning and afternoon meetings of
the Supreme War Council.
Representing Britain at the war
council meeting were Prime Min
ister Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary
Lord Halifax, First Lord of the Ad
miralty Winston Churchill. War \
Secretary Oliver Stanley, Foreign
Undersecretary Sir Alexander Cado
gan, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral
Sir Dudley Pound. Gen. Edmund
Ironside, chief of the imperial de
fense staff, and Maj. Gen. Hastings
L. Ismay, secretary of the Imperial
Defense Committee.
France was represented by M.
Daladier, Naval Minister Cesar
Campinchi, Air Minister Guy La
Chambre, Gen. Joseph Vulllemin,
air force chief of staff; Admiral
Jean Rarlan, supreme command
er of all naval forces; Auguste
Champtier de Ribes, foreign under
secretary; Alexis Leger, secretary
general of the foreign office; Gen.
Maurice Gustave Gamelin, com
mander in chief of the French
British Armies ,and Gen. J. P. O. de
Camp, chief of M. Daladier's mili
tary cabinet.
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Gandhi Pessimistic
On Peaceful End of
Dispute With British
Settlement Possible Only
By Accepting Indian
Demands, He Says
Br the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI. India, Feb.
Swathed In a white cotton blanket,
Mohandas K. Gandhi declared to
day he saw “no propect whatsoever
of a peaceful and honorable settle
ment” with Britain unless the Brit
ish accept Indian self-government
demands.
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“A wide gulf,” however, separates
India and Britain over Indian in
dependence, Gandhi said, calling his
talks with the viceroy a failure.
Viceroy Sees Moslem Leader.
Lord Linlithgow conferred today
with India’s Moslem leader. Mo-1
hammed All Jinnah, in a further
effort to find a workable solution of
India's problems.
A communique issued said Jinnah
emphasized the importance at
tached by the Moslems and other
minorities to safeguarding their po
sition in any settlement, and was
assured the British government
would watch over their legitimate
Interests.
jucauwmie w rraae associations,
the Bombay Stock Exchange and’
the city’s markets shut down in
protest against an excess profits tax
bill which .was introduced in the
Central Legislative Assembly. It
would impose a 50 per cent tax on'
all profits above the normal peace*'
time level.
Gandhi received newspapermen'
in the chill dawn to plead the cause
of ‘‘the dumb, unrepresented mil-1
lions’’ of India. Seated on a sheet
covered mat, he kept his hands
folded under a blanket and spoke
in a detached manner as though he*
had no listeners. ■
India wants a statement of British'
war aims paving the way for self
determination in India, he said, but
the viceroy offered only “the final
determination of India's destiny by
the British government.
Moral Bankruptcy Seen.
“If Britain cannot recognize India’s'
legitimate claims, what will it be
but Britain's moral bankruptcy?” he
asked.
“I am going to use the failure of-,
negotiations as a stepping stone.
toward success as I am sure the
viceroy is going to use it.”
A modern shorthand expert sat
close to Gandhi recording his words
while two women disciples, Madeline.
Slade and Raj Jukari Amrit Kaur,
sat at his right. ’ ,
A communique issued after yes
terday's meeting indicated that the
only point agreed upon was “to defer
for the present further discussions’’
of Indian independence.”
Parent-Teacher Meeting
Dr. W. L. Beachley, Arlington
County (Va.) health officer, will
address a meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association of Walter Reed
School tomorrow at 1644 McKinley
road, Arlington.
Chessie says...
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