Russia Refuses to Consider Restricting War Shipments to Nazis
Willing to Negotiate
With Britain on
Other Trade Topics
Molotoff Replies
To Recent Note
From Lord Halifax
lj tb* Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 22.—Soviet Rus
sia made it clear today that while
she was amenable to undertaking
♦trade negotiations with Britain, she
would not enter into any sort of
agreement which might interfere
with her commitments to Germany.
This stand, according to Tass,
official Soviet news agency, has
been conveyed to Britain by Premier
Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff
* Molotoff in a note asserting that
(Russian trade policy “cannot be
subordinated to the aims of any
foreign state.”
; Tass said the statement replied to
ia May 8 note in which British For
eign Secretary Lord Halifax, feeling
"the way for trade talks with Russia,
broached the possibility of “restrict
ing” the delivery of Soviet war ma
terials to Germany.
Insists on Full Trading.
“Such questions,” Molotoff said,
"concerning trade between the U. S.
jS. R. and Germany come wholly
!and completely under the com
•petence of the Soviet government
»nd cannot form the subject of
discussion during trade negotiations
between the U. S. S. R. and Britain.
: “The Soviet government notes
•that the very fact that the British
government has raised for discus
* sion questions coming solely under
•the competence of the Soviet gov
ernment does not testify to the de
sire of the British government to
- .conduct trade negotiations with the
IT. S. S. R.”
• Further outlining Russian trade
policy, Molotoff said:
| “Being a sovereign state, the So
viet Union will carry on its foreign
trade both with belligerents and
neutrals on the basis of princi
ples of complete equality of parties
»nd reciprocity of obligations.”
Will Not Re-Export to Reich.
While declaring that Russia could
not discuss her relations with Ger
many with a third party, Molotoff
gave new assurances that any goods
imported from Britain would not
be re-exported to the Reich.
In connection with the trade talks
with Britain, Soviet sources said
London has not given a very “con
vinving" explanation concerning
the detention of two Soveit freight
ers, the Selenga and Mayakovsky,
Which were seized several weeks ago
In the Far East.
The British had sidestepped the
question, it was said, by merely not
ring that the vessels had been
turned over to French jurisdiction.
■ It was indicated that Russia still
4ield Britain responsible, despite
this action.
Defense
(Continued From First Page.)
Committee the Navy’s need now was
for training planes in ‘‘great num
ber.” He predicted the Navy, with
3,000 flyers now compared with a
goal of 16,000, would be training
men at the rate of 560 per month
a year hence. The present rate is
100. Admiral Towers forecast a rate
of 350 by January 1.
The Senate Appropriations Sub
committee voted, Chairman Byrnes
said, to add $26,538,000 to the Navy
bill to bring the service's enlisted
strength up to 170,000 men. It also
put in $22,238,000 to increase Marine
Corps enlisted personnel to 34,000
irom the present 25,000.
• A $6,000,000 fund went in marked
for modernization of three of the
•oldest battleships.
Usual Procedure Discarded.
Simultaneously, the House agreed
to a request of Democratic leaders
to dispense with usual parliamentary
procedure and take up tomorrow de
fense measures from its Military and
Naval Affairs Committees. These
~ include bills to authorize unlimited
expansion of the Army Air Corps—
which is aiming for a 10,000-plane
fleet—and a minimum of 10,000
planes and 16,000 pilots for the
Navy.
Appearing before the Naval Com
mittee in support of the latter ob
jectives, Admiral Harold R. Stark
declared that "nations desiring
peace must be stronger than those
desiring war.”
A proposal that the United States
sell Army and Navy planes to the
allies because, its author argued,
‘‘the success of the allies was of
vital importance to us” was pigeon
holed by a vote of 12 to 1 by the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
Chairman Pittman said members
felt the proposal would violate in
ternational law and mean inter
vention by this country in Europe’s
war.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
ROME.—RIOT AGAINST BRITISH—This is typical of many groups of Italian students who took
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Florida, the author who cast the
lone favorable vote, supported the
proposal with the argument, Sena
tor Pittman reported, that “Hitler
had violated all the rules of inter
national law and that the success
of the allies was of vital importance
to us.”
Later Senator Pepper expressed
regret the committee took such “un
realistic action.” He said his resolu
tion merely authorized the President
to deliver to the allies "certain of
our airplanes which aie the older
type and are now simply sitting on
the ground, daily growing obsolete
against some eventual day of use.”
"They would have been sold, of
course, for a fair price and for cash,”
said the Florida Senator. “In lieu
thereof, the President could have
taken delivery from manufacturing
plants of this country, planes that
are being built under contract now
for the allies, which would have
been the latest and newest in type.”
Senator Pepper, commenting on
the technicalities of international
law involved, observed, “I say the
very existence of international law
depends upon the allies getting
planes from us on time.”
Other development in the fast
moving defense drive included:
A new chain of naval air bases
was proposed in both houses, along
with an increase from 3,000 to 10,
000 in naval planes, and from 2,600
to 16,000 in naval pilots. Some of
the money to start this program is
in the big Navy supply bill.
Vinson to Seek Action.
Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Committee made plans to
seek House action tomorrow on the
bill approved by the committee yes
terday to speed up Navy shipbuild
ing by modifying profit restrictions
on contracts and permitting longer
hours in shipbuilding yards, with
time and one half for all over 40
hours a week.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis
souri, was prepared to take the floor
to challnege the need for leaving part
of the Army defense fund to be allo
cated from a lump sum by the Presi
dent. The Missourian said he is not
.questioning the amount, but believes
that if Congress can specify the use
to be made of the bulk of the fund
it should know what the entire fund
is for.
Although several others may join
in the debate, approval of the bill as
it stands is expected before evening,
which will send the first half of the
defense program to conference with
the House.
The new chain of naval air bases
is embodied in a bill offered jointly
late yesterday by Chairmen Walsh
and Vinson of the State and House
Naval Committee, respectively. While
it is only the basic authorization,
they said as soon as it passes, a de
ficiency appropriation will be sought
for the full amount of $124,132,000 to
lay out 21 bases, extending along the
Atlantic and Pacific coast lines and
at strategic points in this country’s
insular possessions.
One of the new air bases would be
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Senator Walsh explained that
heretofore the Navy's authorized air
force of 3,000 planes was designed
primarily for fleet operations, while
the new program is essentially for
shore defense, with 7,000 planes and
14,000 new pilots added to man
these new bases. In announcing the
plans after a visit to the White
House, the two Naval Committee
chairmen said;
“It will take from two to three
years to develop the training facil
ities and from three to five years
to develop the air bases, even if
operations are started at once.
"The President is expected to
assign 100 millions of the 250 mil
lions asked for the Navy in his
special message, for aviation pur
poses.
The above completes the naval
aviation program for the present
session of the Congress as agreed
upon today by the President, Sen
ator Walsh, Representative Vinson,
Admiral Stark, chief of naval op
erations, and Admiral Towers, chief
of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics.
“The additional air bases author
ized in the present bill are essen
tially those recommended to the
Congress last year by the Hepburn
Board, except that the present bill
does not authorize the development
of Ouam as a major air and subma
rine base.”
The $100,000,000 referred to in
their statement is expected to be in
the Navy supply bill about to come
out of the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
Shipbuilder Dies
NEW YORK. May 22 (IP).—George
J. Robinson, 69, former president of
the Robins Dry Dock de Repair Co.
and a director of the Todd Ship
yards Corp., died last night.
High Court Is Asked
To Clarify 1917 Act
Forbidding Spying
Counsel for Two
Convicted Men Ask
Question Be Settled
By the Associated Pres*.
The Supreme Court was asked
today for an “authoritative con
struction" of the 1917 act which
forbids spying at any place "con
nected with the national defense."
If applied too broadly the act
could be held unconstitutional, the
court was told by counsel for Mikhail
Nicholas Gorin and Hafls Salich,
convicted in Southern California of
violating the act.
Salich, who once worked for the
Naval Intelligence, was charged with
furnishing Gorin, described as a
Russian citizen, with Naval Intel
ligence files concerning activities of
Japanese and alleged Communists
in this country and of Japanese in
Mexico.
The petition said Gorin solicited
the information, in 1938, “for use
in the event of trouble between
Japan and Russia."
Counsel for the two men told the
Supreme Court the question pre
sented by their case was:
“What disclosures of information
are prohibited by the Espionage
Act?”
Arguing that it was an everyday
thing for persons to collect and re
port information about matters more
or less connected with national de
fense, the petition continued:
“There is the gravest danger, not
only to unintentional lawbreakers
but the public generally, in defining
offenses of this (espionage) char
acter in such vague terms that in
times of stress and public excitement
large numbers of persons may be
subjected to criminal prosecutions
for actions which heretofore had
been regarded as either minor
derelictions or entirely innocent
exercises of a citizen’s right to know
how his Government is being car
ried on.”
Gorin was sentenced to six years
in the California Federal Court,
Salich to four years.
Gorin, with his wife, was said in
the petition to have entered the
United States in 1936, and to have
Gov. Rivers Calls
Civil Liberties Union
Reds' 'Prestige Front'
*
Charge Follows Fight on
Campaign to Register
Aliens in Georgia
By the Auoclated Preu.
ATLANTA, May 22.—Gov. E. D.
Riven charged today the American
Civil Liberties Union, which is
threatening an injunction against
his campaign for registration of
aliens in this State, "has been the
prestige front for communistic
agiators since the days of Lenin."
The Georgia chief executive issued
a written statement in comment on
a protesting telegram he received
from Roger N. Baldwin, director of
the A. C. L. U.
“They have tried to keep out of
jail every fifth columnist and notor
ious criminal who ought to be in jail
from Sacco-Vanzetti to the Scotts
boro rapists and Angelo Herndon,"
Gov. Rivers declared.
“They boast of their defense of
these enemies of our country who
try to destroy it from within. We
will be ready for these enemy para
chutists if they do try to ball out in
Georgia.”
Gov. Rivers seeks to invoke
Georgia’s old anti-sedition law under
which Angelo Herndon, a Cincinnati
Negro, was convicted years ago of
Inciting to insurrection. The United
States Supreme Court reversed the
conviction and voided certain sec
tions of the Georgia law.
News dispatches from New York
yesterday said the A. C. L. U. plan
ned to seek an injunction against
Gov. Rivers’ “order” that aliens be
registered and fingerprinted. It was
pointed out at the Capitol, however,
that the Governor issued no order
but merely a proclamation request
ing aliens to register and be finger
printed.
Bund Bigger Than Guard
In Boston, Bridges Says
By the Auoclated Preu.
BOSTON, May 22 —Asserting he
had information that there were
more Nazi bundsmen than National
Guardsmen in greater Boston. Sena
tor Bridges, Republican, of New
Hampshire, demanded that Presi
dent Roosevelt clean up the fifth
column in the United States before
proceeding with his defense pro
gram.
“There is no sense in launching
such a tremendous defense pro
gram,” he declared in a Boston
speech last night, “without cleaning
out the Bund members and Reds
who infest the country. Unless the
President leads in this job he is
derelict in his duty.”
The Republican presidential as
pirant said he had been informed
there were 15,000 members of the
Bund in greater Boston.
obtained employment with a Los
Angeles tourist company. Salich
came to the United States in 1923,
and, after naturalization, was .said
to have served on the Berkeley
(Calif.) police force from 1930 to
1936. He was employed by the
United States Naval Intelligence as
an investigator in the San Pedro
(Calif.) office.
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War Communiques
French
PARIS, May 22 VP).—The French
high command issued the following
communique today:
“Enemy pressure continued in the
direction of the coast, taking the
form of raids carried out by small
motorized detachments. Arras is
noW in our hands.
"In Lorraine since the enemy had
bombarded three towns behind our
front we retaliated on three towns
behind the German front.”
German
BERLIN, May 22 VP).—The text of
today’s German high command
communique follows:
“The break-through of German
troops toward the Channel coast
yesterday also was widened north
westward in the direction of St. Pol
and Montreull-Mer.
“Quays of the port facilities of
Ostend, Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne
and Dieppe again were successfully
raided by the German Air Force.
“In Flanders the enemy covering
the retreat on the Scheldt River,
still offers strong resistance. At
Valenciennes, the attack is under
way, Coupled with hard fighting
against French forces concentrated
in this region. Attempts of the op
ponents to force their way out
southward near Artois via Arras has
been repelled.
“At Arras, Junkers dive-bombers
contributed considerably to frus
trating an English tank attack.
Capture of 29,MS.
"During the fighting concluded
May 1^ in Zeeland (Holland), 16,000
French and 13,000 Dutch troops were
captured by a smaller force of Ger
mans.
“The modernized strong forts of
Neufchateau which are part of the
Liege fortifications have fallen.
“Twelve officers and 500 men fell
into our hands.
“On May 22 the German air
force, wfth great success, chiefly
operated to disturb the enemy re
treat. Several heavily used airports
were raided with bombs and run
ways, hangars, equipment and air
planes on the ground were de
stroyed.
“The stations of Compiegne and
Creil are burning.
“In and outside Belgian and
French ports, one cruiser, merchant
and transport ships were destroyed
and a number of other ships were
damaged. Speedboats of the Ger
man Navy during this undertaking
against French channel ports sunk
one enemy auxiliary cruiser.
"Losses of the enemy amounted
yesterday to 120 airplanes, of which
35 were bagged in air fights, 14 were
shot down by anti-aircraft guns
and the rest were destroyed on the
ground. Ten German planes are
missing.
“As previously reported in a spe
cial announcement, fighting units of
the air force on May 20 attacked
parts of the British fleet operating
at Narvik. One battleship and one
heavy cruiser sustained severe bomb
hits.
Bombs Damage Warships.
“Two additional warships and
three merchantmen were damaged
by bombs. During another attack
on May 21, one destroyer and qne
transport were severely hit. In the
sea region of Bergen, five smaller
Norwegian naval vessels were safe
guarded by our own naval forces
and taken over by the German Navy.
“The fighting of the Narvik group
against a far superior enemy force
is continuing.
“Mountain troops attacking from
Trondheim northward took Mo and
Storforshel, 400 kilometers (about
250 miles) north of Trondheim.
These toops captured numerous
Norwegians and English operating
there. The latter, who had em
barked from England as early as
May 7, first went to Narvik, then
shifted to Mo.
“In the course of the night of
May 21-22, enemy airplanes aim
lessly dropped bombs in Western
Germany which fell mostly upon
open fields. Military objectives were
not hit.
“Two enemy planes were shot
down by anti-aircraft defenses.”
Explosion Is Reported ':■!
In Biggest British Arsenal-.
By the Ansociated Preu.
LONDON, May 22.—The Britt*
Press Association reported a slight
explosion early today in a section
of the Woolwich Arsenal. It was
understood one man was injured in
the blast. A Are which followed
was put out quickly.
The explosion occurred about
2 am.
As a precautionary measure elec
tric lights in the section affected
were turned off and measures taken
to isolate the area from other parts
of the building.
It was stated that the general out
put of the department would nst
be seriously Interfered with.
The Royal Arsenal in Woolwich,
one of the boroughs of London, is
the largest in Great Britain. ,
The Woolwich explosion was the
seventh disclosed in British muni
tions and gunpowder factories sines
the start of the war.
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