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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1940
Page
2
Britain loses world sympathy through harsh war measures and U S Japan protest sea action. The piece notes shifting U S opinion, Hull protests, Gandhi independence, Japan Britain tensions over ship seizures, Netherlands Belgium neutrality, and Romania's cautious stance amid oil contracts with Germany.
C I O president John L. Lewis targets Franklin Roosevelt amid labor policy debates at Columbus. Resolutions urged a third term for the president as Japan and the United States drift toward confrontation over trade and embargos while church groups press for moral limits on scrap iron sales to China.
Helsinki claims 20000 Soviet troops fell as Finns repulse a major invasion near Lake Lagoda with total Soviet casualties around 100000. Foreign volunteers pour into Finland while Soviet bombers strike civilian towns. British destroyer Grenville sunk. Exmouth also lost with 175 crew. Western front reportedly peaceful.
Brackart argues the proposed 60 million dollar Finnish loan forces a national policy choice with global and domestic implications. He warns that aiding Finland risks drawing the United States deeper into the European war and could trigger broader loans to Norway Sweden England or France, challenging the Johnson Act and Roosevelt's neutrality stance.
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau tells the House Appropriations Committee that the federal debt limit could be raised by five billion dollars above the current 45 billion. He endorses budget balancing and spending cuts but dodges proposing specific new taxes, saying he does not know what form they should take. Congress trims 11.5 million from the treasury post office supply bill, raising total to 128.1 million.
Debates shift from tax relief to debt limits as reductions bite. A proposed finesse formula would boost the Export-Import Bank by 100 million to fund Finland with 20 million in nonmilitary purchases, though Finns favor munitions. House Ways and Means fights over reciprocal trade. Dies gains 75 thousand for anti un-American inquiry. Nye named to foreign relations to replace Borah. St. Lawrence seaway talks stall as states push for deep sea channel funding.
Mortgage debt payments for 75 000 farmers with land bank loans will be eased by a reamortization plan extending terms. Henry Wallace gains full control over the farm credit administration. Canada imposes an economic embargo on wheat scrap iron and steel ingots to neighboring countries, canceling a 1 250 000 bushel wheat shipment to Russia. National Labor Relations Board rules that free speech is not an absolute right in distributing pamphlets attacking unions.
Five trivia prompts test knowledge of Giuseppe Motta's death, Edwin Carewe's recent news, Ignace Paderewski's presidential role, Earl Browder's passport fraud trial outcome, and Wang Ching-wei slated to head a government.
A quiz item notes Switzerland and Poland in exile with a government in France. Browder received a four year prison sentence and appealed the verdict. It mentions Japan's puppet government in China as context.
In Rome the Fascist press said the liner Orazio, which burned at sea, might have reached Barcelona if not halted by a French warship. Berlin renamed the pocket battleship Deutschland Suetzeu under Hitler, sending its old name to one of Germanys new 35 000 ton battleships.
The piece weighs the possible US role in aiding Finland and notes American sympathy for the Finns. It argues national policy, not sentiment, will guide any loan or financial action and that lending money would link two unrelated aims of selling goods and extending credit.
Expansive force during water freezing is due to ice crystal lattice expansion. Latin is used in medicine for precise universal terminology and tradition. Retreat bugle call originated from military signaling in 17th century Europe. The zipper was invented by Gideon Sundback. Russia is the largest country by area, while China has the largest population.
The text lists measurements of material strength, notes Latin as timeless and universal in medicine, claims Latin’s ancient origin and Crusader usage, credits Whitcomb L. Judson with the hookless fastener in 1893, and states Russia as the largest country by area with 8,144,228 square miles while China has the world’s largest population with over 400 million.
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