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Loan Marks Milestone * In Policy Precedent Set In Course of Alleged Isolation By DAVID LAWRENCE. Many years from now the con gressional action just completed in making available a loan of $20, 000,000 to Finland will look far more significant than _ It does today. For, in the midst of a war for its very existence, Finland has re ceived an out right govern mental loan which ostensibly is to be used for purchase of food, but which actually will be a net addition to F i n 1 a n d’s financial re sources in its David Lawrence. ngnung wun nu»m. The obligations of neutrality—a very doubtful term these days— caused Congress to refrain from naming Finland as the borrower, and the artificial device of increasing the funds of the Export-Import Bank was used to achieve the same purpose. This may appear to be legalized Bubterfuge. but in a world wherein nations fight each other with all the weapons of war and yet obtain the advantages of peaceful commerce by refusing to sanction a formal declaration of belligerency, neutral governments are similarly compelled to adopt diplomatically conceived Instrumentalities. Deceives No One. No one is deceived by the process. The Russian government knows what the American Congress has done. So do the people of Finland. The President of the United States has even gone so far as to express publicly his belief that 98 per cent of the American people sympathize with Finland in its struggle to retain ' Independence. » Finland, of course, will have to comply with the formalities. She will buy foodstuffs with the money ! made available by the Export- j Import Bank, but she will rearrange her domestic purchases so that money ordinarily used to buy food will go into the coffers of the Finn ish treasury to buy munitions. Just how the Finns will rearrange their j credits is their own business. The ' American Government will ask no questions and will, of course, have no authority over what the treasury of Finland does with all its financial resources. The salient fact remains that America has helped Finland at a critical time. Finland won her way Into the good graces of the Ameri can people not only by her demo cratic processes, but by honoring her debt obligations to the United States. Is Precedent Established? So far as Nazi and Communist observers may see, the United States Government has backed up its ex pressions of moral support with ma terial aid to Finland. Does it mark a precedent for the future? The political generals here on both sides insist that America will never enter the war, but can it be as certainly asserted that the United States will not some day extend financial aid to other nations similarly hard pressed? Already there is talk of a relief appropriation for Poland, but this is plainly a humanitarian measure. Congress is being importuned by Republicans and Democrats to come to the relief of the millions of human beings who are starving in the conquered areas of Poland. Germany refuses to extend aid, in sisting that the British blockade cuts off supplies needed for her own people. Former President Hoover has told a congressional committee that America in his opinion should ap propriate money for the aid of the starving Poles. His view will help to keep the question from becom ing tangled in partisan politics, which happened in some respects With reference to the Finnish loan. Sweden May Benefit. Congress is in a mood to hand cut a few millions here 'and there for humanitarian reasons, and some day it may be in a mood to lend large sums to Norway and Sweden If they should find themselves at tacked. The probabilities are that even some of the increased au thorizations just voted through the Export-Import Bank will be used in substantial way's to help Norway and Sweden to buy munitions and prepare for potential developments In Scandinavia if the Finns are con quered. So whether America likes it or not. she has become involved in the world-wide struggle for the preser vation of democracy, and while no body is even remotely suggesting that the United States will ever send an army overseas again, Amer ican credits are bound to flow abroad in support of the cailse of democracy. The Finnish load makes a precedent that cannot pos sibly be erased and marks a mile stone in America’s course of al leged isolation. (Reproduction Rights Reserved.) Hungary Replaces Reich In Trade With Turkey By the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, March 1.—Hungary entered the Turkish market as part heir to Germany’s former trade with the signature yesterday of a trade agreement between the Hungarian and Turkish governments. Under the agreement, Hungary will supply Turkey with industrial products previously imported from the Reich and In return will receive Turkish raw materials. Dutch Open Airline To Portugal Next Week By the Associgted Press. LISBON. March 1.—Plans of the Netherlands K. L. M. Air Lines to establish regular service between Portugal and the Netherlands next week were disclosed yesterday. The Dutch line hopes to estab lish its connections in time to carry passengers and mail from the Pan American Airways 100th Clipper crossing, probably the second week In March. Always expect the unexpected. Be prepared. The Capital Parade Dewey Wins Crowds, but Politicians Are Wary of Him; Their Attitude Considered Taft's Best Asset By JOSEPH ALSOP AND ROBERT KINTNER. The outstanding fact about the Ohio elections for the House is that both contests showed a slightly better than 7 per cent shift in sentiment toward Republicanism. Too much can be made of these Republican victories, to be sure. Money is reported to have been lavishly spent in both contests. One victor, Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, was an extremely popular woman running in a strongly Republican district, where the organization made a special effort to get out the vote. The other victor, J. Harry McGregor, was running in a district Democratic since 1930, but he was a well-known veteran while his opponent was a comparative novice. Yet the percentage of change was similar in both districts. In both, the shift in sentiment had occurred since 1938, when the Republicans did very well in Ohio. It also occurred despite the Ohio relief crisis on which the Democrats had built great hopes, and despite the war, which is supposed to have reversed the 1938 trend away from the New Deal. In fact, the Ohio elections suggest that the recent loss of hope among Republicans was foolish and premature. Undoubtedly, they will make the already hot fight for the Republican nomination even hotter still. Gang-Buster In the fight for the Republican nomination, Thomas E. Dewey has been getting the crowds, the publicity and the votes in the polls. The Dewey campaign is well financed and admirably organized. Dewey travels the country with a large en tourage, has an elaborate headquar ters in New York, and is surrounded by smart political organizers, in cluding his lady trainer, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Sims, who has inherited some of Mark Hanna’s genius. Dewey has also greatly improved his technique with the politicians. a xypicai mciaem 01 me soil mai maae eariy irourne lor Dewey was a private meeting arranged last fall by the Connecticut national com mitteeman, Sam Pryor, and attended by former President Herbert Hoover, Connecticut's Gov. Raymond Baldwin. Gov. Ralph L. Carr of Colorado and one or two other leading Republicans. The idea was for Dewey to tell the men present what he really thought on national issues, but he spoke so delphically that Hoover took over and did most of the talk ing. Now he is franker and, though still somewhat mystifying, makes a better impression. On his campaign trips Dewey has made two bad boggles, one in Nebraska, where he annoyed the local big-wigs by seeming arrogance, and the other in Washington, where he offended the local pride of Seattle by visiting only the eastern section of the State. But Dewey's real dif ficulty, for all his improvement in handling politicians, is that the politicians, who will name the delegates, still don’t trust him. Soil'd Man The fact that the politicians don't trust Dewey is probably the best asset of his nearest rival, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Taft is running just the opposite type of campaign. Where Dewey’s appearances are rare but dramatic, his speeches high-sounding but somewhat equivocal, Taft is talking to any one anywhere, at any time, saying precisely what he thinks in a rather pedestrian way. Although nothing to compare with Dewey’s, the Taft organization is also fairly well financed and elaborate. Taft's difficulty lies in his inability to stir crowds as Dewey does, but he depends on his obvious soundness and reliability to charm the politicians whom Dewey puts off. Taft's cam paign has been managed professionally. The Southern delegations are reported rounded up (except for Florida, where Republican Boss Leonard Replogle is pro-Dewey). And altogether the Taft claim of 300 delegates is tar more credible than the Dewey claim of 500. which appears to be chiefly founded on the number of persons who greet Dewey at railroad stations. Station greeters rarely control conventions. Pedestal Sitter Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, who took the attitude until recently that the nomination must come to him. is now fighting nara to win in the wisconsm pri mary. He is half off his pedestal, and if he wins in Wisconsin, he will probably climb right down and struggle in the pre-conven tion dust. But until some way is found to get around the East's distaste for his opinions on for eign policy, he would seem to be facing a difficulty far more insuperable than Dewey's or Taft's. 4^ of today, therefore, pairing cars norses, aeaaiocas ana omer mamiestauons oi tne unforeseen, the Republican future would seem to boil down to a choice by the politicians between a man whom they trust but may not be able to put over, and a man whom they can put over but can’t trust. Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Msgr. Corrigan to Become Bishop on April 2 The Most Rev. Joseph M. Corri gan, rector of Catholic University, will be consecrated titular bishop of Bilta at special services April 2. at the Shrine of the Immaculate Con ception. Named to the rectorship in 1936, Msgr. Corrigan is in the fourth year of his five-year term of office. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch bishop of Philadelphia, will conse crate Msgr. Corrigan, and the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley. Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington and chancellor of the university, and the Most Rev. Edward Mooney. Arch bishop of Detroit, will be the co consecrators. The Most Rev. John T. McNich olas. Archbishop of Cincinnati, will preach the sermon at the consecra tion. A native of Philadelphia, Msgr. Corrigan attended parochial school. La Salle College and St. Charles Seminary in that city before enter ing the North American College in Rome, where he completed his phil osophical and theological studies. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Church of St. John Lateran in Rome by Cardinal Respighi on June 6, 1903. Returning to the United States, he engaged in parochial duties until named diocesan director of Catholic charities. On October 15, 1918, he was appointed professor in St. Charles Seminary and seven years later became its rector. He was named rector of the university March 27, 1936. Injuries to pedestrians last year in the District from March, when pedestrian control regulations were placed into effect, to December, showed a decrease of 118 from the total pedestrian injuries during a similar period in 1938. if FREE FULLUSTRE Rubless Floor Polish with emeh Dry Mop Refill, 99c Comvlete with handle, St.19 Call DI. 3108 or writ* 0*7 Natl. Press Bide, $ Jilt Look at Tkaaa Faataras! • Genuine De Luxe Model • New Meat Keeper • Makes 84 Ice Cubes • 12 Pt. 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State faces a barrage of Nazi bluster about Germany’s "invincibility” and determination to battle to the bitter end. But Mr. Welles, like every body else, knows that six months have gone by, and, instead of facing a Britain and Prance which Von Ribbentrop said would never fight, the Nazis are besieged by land and water, their ships swept from the seas, their mighty army pinioned on the Siegfried Line, their civilian population and industry at wits’ end to maintain themselves against slow but sure strangulation. It is thus in the name of a com pletely baffled Germany that Hitler will thunder to Welles about the Reich’s wili to struggle until Ger man lebensraum (living space) is "guaranteed against interference by the western powers” and until German colonies are restored. By lebensraum the Nazis mean their land grabs in Austria, Czecho Slovakia and Poland. * * * * Reich's Strong Resistance. According to the best information available in Washington—and no intelligence services excell those of the United States Army and Navy— the war has resolved itself into a stalemate, outcome of which is to day utterly unpredictable. Hitler may thunder at his American vis itor that Germany can never be defeated, but Der Fuehrer knows this is mainly wishful Nazi think ing. Germany undeniably is offer ing firm resistance to overwhelming allied preponderance. In man power, naval force and economic resources the Reich is no match for the almost unlimited potential strength of the British and French Empires. As against vastly greater allied resources, Germany pits the incom parably more advanced state of readiness in which she took the field. As Hitler boasted to his marionette Reichstag last October, the Nazis in six and one-half years lavished 90.000.000,000 marks (round ly $40,000,000,000) on their war ma chine. * * * * The Campaign at Sea. Considering her relative naval in significance, Germany's campaign EISEMAN'S Bring •YOU the NEWEST in JweecL SUITS and TOPCOATS §25 §30 §35 Charge It, Nothing Down 4 Months to Pay TWEEDS rank first for Spring. And Eisoman's Hava thorn in wida variety of patterns end colors. Our Spring collection also includes distinctive stripes, checks, diagonals—in tans, grays, blues, greens and fancy mix tures. Suits and topcoats hand-tai lored of finest oll-wool fabrics. For men who want TOP QUALITY, PEAK STYLE, MODERATE PRICES. Coma to Eiseman's. EISEMAN’S F STREET AT 7th against the British fleet is incon testably brilliant, even though sub stantially ineffective. It has been marked by a daring aggressiveness which extorts even allied admira tion. It has compelled abandonment of Scapa Flow as a base and driven the ironclads which guard British coasts to cruise hither and yon upon the narrow waters, blocking contra band and at the same time remain ing within striking distance of home shores to meet any menace. Alto gether the royal navy has lost 25 or 30 ships, mostly auxiliary craft, but including the battleship Royal Oak and the airplane carrier Cour ageous, and 2,000 or 3,000 trained seamen. Other important vessels, like the battleships Nelson and Bar ham, have been damaged, but will shortly return to the fighting line. Shipping losses have been heavy, but, compared to Britain's immense reserves of tonnage, are not fatal. On balance of loss and gain, Britain is short fewer than 200,000 tons of merchant craft out of a total of 21,000,000 tons at outbreak of war. Yet John Bull will shortly go on meat rations, as he has for some time been for bacon, butter, sugar and ham. Mr. Chamberlain re peatedly warns the country that “grimmer days’’ are ahead. Mr. Churchill contends that the royal navy has the submarine and the mine menace under control. It is too early to accept this statement at full face value, though there is a reduction in losses by U-boats and magnetic mines. The rounding up of the Graf Spee revealed not only the tactical audacity of British light cruisers, but also the bold, world wide, strategic deployment of the British fleet in readiness to protect vital trade. | These clashes have been frequent i enough to indicate that aviation’s I claims of the battleship's doom by bombing attack will have to be re ,1 vised. * * * * _ The Military Deadlock. Experts, belligerent and neutral i alike, are fairly agreed that oppos | lng forces on the western front are I so evenly matched and strongly in trenched that the Maginot and ! Siegfried Lines are mutually in vulnerable. German military lead | ers like Commander in Chief Brau ; chitsch and Chief of Staff Keitel are said to believe victory lies only in j the Frederickian policy of attack. ' which may explain revived talk of | a German offensive in mid-March i through Belgium and Holland, in : pursuance of the 1914 “Schlieffen ' plan." But the overwhelming bulk of German military opinion opposes any suicidal campaign along the West Wall. A much likelier develop ment is a far-flung allied tlankitog diversion against the Germans, either in Northern Europe or the Balkans, which would require trans fer of scores of Nazi divisions from the western theater. All and sun dry of these considerations rest upon We, the People Strategy of Third-Term Advocates Is to Take Issue to Selected Primaries By JAY FRANKLIN. New Dealers are little Impressed by reports in the Gallup poll that Roosevelt Is the choice of 78 per cent of the Democratic voters for election In 1940. They know how tricky even the best-managed straw-vote can become In practice, and they question the accuracy of any “sampling” method which is based on a total of 5,000 straw-voters. They prefer to measure the popularity of their candidate by the voters themselves and are greatly encouraged by the recent voting in Georgia’s famous Seminole County. Out of 868 votes cast, F. D. R. re ceived 841—or 97 per cent of the total—for nomination as the Demo cratic party’s presidential candi date this year. In spite of vigorous activity on the part of the Mends of Vice President Gamer, the best that "Cactus Jack" could muster was 18 votes, while Cordell Hull got 1, “Big Jim" Parley, 2; Senator Wheeler of Montana, 2, and Senator waiter (unpurged) George, 1 vote, incidentally, these returns mark a strong Increase in Roosevelt’s strength since 1936, when the Seminole County poll gave Gov. Gene Talmadge nearly 15 per cent of all ballots cast in this county-wide poll of registered Democratic voters. Figures Reveal Strategy These figures reveal the strategy of both the third-term advocates and the anti-Roosevelt Democrats. President Roosevelt’s strength has always been with the mass of the people of the North, the South and the West. The party bosses were against him in 1932 and only accepted him because the mass of the people wanted him. The party bosses went along with him in 1936 because they were helpless to do otherwise. With these facts in mind, the advocates of re-electing Roosevelt this year have avoided the smoke-filled hotel rooms and the liquor-cum-cigars conferences by which the party bosses had hoped to prevail. Instead, they have sought the expression of the will of the people in the spots where it will be most effective. In Illinois, they have met the Garner candidacy with Roosevelt: in Oregon they have confronted Burt Wheeler with Roose velt; in New Hampshire they put Roosevelt against Parley. The one thing a prudent political leader wishes to avoid is to stack himself up against the most popular President and ablest vote-getter in recent American history. All reports from Illinois, for example, indicate that Mr. Garner is due to be snowed under in the Democratic primary on April 9, under the slogan coined by Gael Sullivan: “The man is Roosevelt; the issue is humanity.” • Urge Premature Commitment On their part, the anti-Roosevelt clique has endeavored to persuade the President to commit himself prematurely. With the exception of Senator Bankhead of Alabama—whose brother Speaker Bankhead is a candidate for the presidency—all efforts to "smoke out" the White y/mJ***- *wMrr, — House have come from bltter-end anti-New Deal Democrats. When George of Georgia, Van Nuys of Indiana, Johnson of Colorado and ! McCarran of Nevada call on F. D. R. i to declare his intentions, it is only I evidence to the New Dealers that their strategy is successful and that their opponents within the party are on the run. And with every expression of popular sentiment on the issue, it becomes clear that if the anti-Roosevelt group attempts to take a walk in the election, they will walk alone—like A1 Smith, Bainbridge Colby and other strollers of the 1936 affair. After all—according to the New Deal thesis—the American people have never been given a chance to express their opinion of the third-term "tradition.” It has been a convenience to party bosses to invoke this "tradition'’ at the very private little conferences which used to settle the fate of national conventions, but the voters themselves have never spoken. If ours is a democratic form of Government, the New Dealers believe that the important decision of 1940 should be taken by our masters, the people themselves, voting in primaries and at the November elections, and not be settled in advance to promote the interests and ambitions of any man or group who approaches the presidency in the spirit of a gambler drawing to fill an inside straight or dealing hands from a marked deck. (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) the Reich's reserves of men, ma terial, munitions and morale. Be cause of the "sit-down” war to date, the Reich has probably not used up more than 25 per cent of its war sinews. There is at present detectable no genuine indication of any organized opposition to Hitler within Ger many, either In or outside the army, or anything describable as real suf fering or destitution on the civilian front. Such manifestations, Amer ican authorities believe, are not to be expected until German casualty lists hpgin to tell their sanguinary story and food supplies are much shorter than now. SHETLAND SUITS by FASHION PARK at *50 “ROUGH," in a soft, firm manner are these master pieces of the Fashion Park designing rooms. Blended “moorland colorings" in beautiful Heathertones created for “Country Squire" luxurious ease. A distinctive 3-button Lounge Model—a “most’' in your current wardrobe. Convenient 90-Day Divided Payment Plan -ffle IMPORTANT^*/ F STBEET>*£ELEV£NTH COURTESY PARKING: N.W. Comer 12th 9 E Sts. Third-Term Band Wagon Is Rolling 'Logic'Would Indicate Hull as Choice if President Retires By CHARLES G. ROSS. A measure of the strength of the third-term movement within the Democratic party can be found In a remark made the other day by Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mass achusetts. Senator Walsh is no New Dealer. He is a Demo crat of the same general type as Senator Clark of Missouri. But in the matter of the third term he is burning no bridges behind him. He would not be a party, he said, to any opposition to a tmra term ior Mr. Kooseveit. n ne should have the opportunity, he would support Postmaster General Farley, but he did not intend to oppose the renomination of the President if the latter, “by silence or otherwise,” indicated his willing ness to accept it. “By silence or otherwise.” The important word here is "silence.” So long as Mr. Roose velt does not take himself out of the race, he is in it. The attitude of Senator Walsh is typical of that of an increasing number of politicians. Whether, on principle, they like the third-term idea or not, they are “going along” with it. If they felt that Roosevelt was slipping, they would leave him —most of them—like a shot. They would find, as did the great majority of the Democrats of the Senate in 1928, when the shoe was on the other foot, that any depar ture from the ancient tradition would De “unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free in stitutions.” That they are not so finding today is significant evi dence of their belief that the Presi dent's coattails are the best on which to ride in the election. This belief, of which there are fresh signs every day. is both a re j flection of the third-term sentiment in the party and a stimulus to it. Band Wagon Is Rolling. The band wagon started by the New Dealers from a mixture of motives, altruistic and selfish, is rolling along today with the calliope going full blast. There is hardly any doubt that it will get new im petus, and new recruits, from the results of the Wisconsin and Illinois primaries early next month. Roose velt is pitted in both of these against Gamer. Gamer is the spearhead and the symbol of the movement to stop Roosevelt. Unless every political sign is at fault, the Vice President will be snowed under. All this is by way of reinforcing the proposition that Roosevelt can have the nomination if he wants it. This is the outstanding fact in the political landscape. Certain other propositions appear to the writer to be true. From them, it is possible to draw up a tentative prospectus of the nomination convention. Tentative and with reservations, for this is no time for assured prophecy. The first of these propositions is that if Mr. Roosevelt is not the nominee and is unable to name his i own man (say Attorney General Jackson), he will at least hold a veto power over any one #else who may be brought forward. Two Important “Ifs." There are two important “ifs" here. As to the first, the writer continues to believe that it's better than an even chance that Mr. Roosevelt will not consent to being | "drafted.” As to the second—the ability of the President to choose whomever he will—the weight of ' political opinion is that he will have i to act in concert with the more con servative elements in the party. A stampede to the President s choice might be engineered, but It looks improbable. He does, for a certainty, hold a veto power over any other. Now. if the President is counted out, there are five principal con tenders (bar the New Deal favor ites Jackson and Douglas), avowed or unavowed. In alphabetical order they are as follows: Farley, Gamer, Hull (unavowed), McNutt, Wheeler. Under the President’s veto power the elimination of Mr. Gamer, un der the circumstances described, is certain. Less so, but probable, is the elimination of Mr. Farley so far as first place on the ticket is con cerned. Three Are Left. This leaves, at the maximum, Mr. Hull, Mr. McNutt and Mr. Wheeler. Let us assume that these three have survived the veto, that there is a free choice among them on the part of the convention. Which is likely to be chosen? A second proposition comes into the picture, namely, that if the Democratic candidate is to have a chance of success, he must receive the support of the President—not merely nominal support, but active, stump-speaking, radio-broadcasting support. The convention can hardly fail to take this fact into account, which of our three candidates, then, is the likeliest to be chosen? It is questionable whether the President has ever forgiven Mr. Wheeler for his part in the court fight. It does not appear that Mr. McNutt has been able, or will be able, to gain the strength among the New Dealers he had hoped to gain. There is, finally, Mr. Hull. All things considered, it’s a fair assumption that the convention, if left in doubt as to Mr. Roosevelt’s preference, will turn to Mi. Hull rather than either of the others. It might, of course, get a positive go sign in his favor, and this would settle the question beyond a doubt. The “logic" of the situation, as of today, gives the Secretary of State a prime chance to be the nominee. Adas Israel Forum Dr. Arnold D. Margolin, member of the Russian Parliament during the Czarist regime, will speak on “The German and Russian Alli ance” at the forum at the Adas Israel Congregation tonight. At the religious service, to be con ducted by Cantor Louis Novlck, Rabbi Solomon H. Metz will speak on “Rashl, the Prince at Biblical Commentators.” Cbarlea G. Rosa.