Acute Food Shortage Jay Pierrepont Moffat Named Americanism Is Answer In Soviet Threatens U. S. Minister to To'Fifth Column,’Says Dies Canada Br the Associated Press. JAMESTOWN, N. Y., May 28.— Famine Next Winter Career Diplomat for Adherence to the principles of American freedom is a potent Two Decades Will weapon in fighting “fifth column" New 'Squeeze Reform' activities, says Representative Mar- Succeed Cromwell tin Dies, Democrat, of Texas, chair- Starts Another Passive man of the House Committee Inves- Br the Revolt of Peasants Artoclited Preu. tigating un-American Activities. Jay Fierrepont Moffat, descendant Mr. Dies told a Rotary Club audi- of the country’s first Secretary of ence last night "no arms can sub- By LELAND STOWE, State and one of Secretary Hull's due America” as long as Americans Chlc« go D»lly New* Forelyn Correspondent, key assistants, Is President Roose- adhere to the principles of demo- BUCHAREST, May 28.—Soviet velt’s choice for Minister to Canada. cratic freedom. Russia is now in the hungriest pe- At a moment when events in Eu- Taking as his theme "Americans riod that its score of millions of rope were giving Canada a height- must be free,” he “strict en- nonparty proletarians have urged experi- ened importance as a neighbor of forcement of the laws we now have enced since the big famine of 1933. the United States, Mr. Roosevelt without fear or favor—with addi- Nearly half of the Russian prov- nominated Mr. Moffat yesterday to tional legislation necessary—if we inces are to be in reliably reported succeed James H. R. Cromwell. are to deal with the ‘fifth column’ a condition of semi-famine, while Mr. Cromwell, whose pro-ally ut- successfully.” acute hunger the inhabitants gnaws terances while Minister at Ottawa “In all crises,” he said, of large areas of “people many provinces. brought a public rebuke from Secre- have turned to God for Amer- After 1938’s bad har- help. extremely tary Hull, resigned last week to ica was bom out of that faith. Our vests and last har- year’s very poor accept the Democratic nomination democracy rests cm the vest, the Soviets stand in the most principles for Senator from New Jersey. of freedom, and if you people are urgent need of good this au- crops Mr. Moffat, a career diplomat for determined to adhere to those prin- tumn, but the Kremlin’s latest more than 20 years, has been chief ciples, then no arms can subdue “squeeze reform’’ has precipitated of the 8tate Department's European America.” another passive rebellion of peas- Division since 1937. In that capacity JAY PIERREPONT MOFFAT. PARACHUTISTS WHO TOOK FORT EBEN BELGIUM— ants on thousands of collective EMAEL, These men were specially selected from the highly trained para- he accompanied 8umner Welles to —Harris-Ewing Photo. farms. In Some of the addiiion, and for several parachute troops who took Fort Eben Emael near chute corps for the assault on this fort. Passed by German Europe a few months ago on the Nazis Transfer Giraud pertinent reasons, this season’s sow- Liege during the recent German advance fact-finding mission for the Presi- rapid through Belgium. —Wide World Photo. port trade of the United ing and planting is more than a censor._ dent. States with From Castle to Fort Canada Is than with month behind normal schedule. Sixth Generation of Diplomat*. larger any individual and other nation. Br the Aisoclited Press. Accordingly—unless the summer garden plots potato precautions—perhaps Including more demand of unconditional capitula- Mr. Moffat represents the sixth BERLIN, May fa- lingers exceptionally long—there patches. Consequently, the govern- hostilities—may combine to do to Berlin tion.” generation of his family to be in 2. Canada at war is turning Into 28.—“Special a ment reduced quite the Soviet Russia’s food next a cilities” to exists the serious possibility that drastically supplies (Continued From First Opposed by Government. the diplomatic service. His forebear, huge manufacturing plant and captive British and dimensions of such winter. Page.) second devastating famine may permissible More and more, the Soviets Later a second announcement was John Jay, was America’s first Sec- training center for the British Isles, French officers will “now cease," the Soviet Union next win- plots. Even taxes on fruit trees seem doomed to march close to the of State. His wife is particularly in aviation. sweep the surrender was '‘unconditional.* Issued stating that the Belgian retary the German authorities announced to- ter. If the Soviet should in- were introduced. I was told that the hunger line or to across into of get slip Observers here believe the chance King had reached his decision daughter Joseph Drew, Ambas- 3. There has been speculation as in in the such tax on a few trees famine. sador to day, as a result of reports that volved war, meantime, apple might outright for a strong French counterattack against the wishes of the majority Japan. to whether the British government, amount to as much as a few thou- These conditions and these Bom German officers the a development would appear almost pros- to break the trap from the south of his government, which is sitting at Rye, N. Y., 43 years ago, if Britain were overrun by Germany, captured by inevitable. Even the menace of sand rubles—or the of 10 pects cannot be in Mr. Moffat Allies “are so, equivalent reported anything passed four or five and saw in Paris. The Belgian government attended Harvard Uni- would transfer itself to Ottawa. extremely badly treated." like their full days ago a future famine offers no guarantee months wages for an average lab- amplitude from inside was with versity. In 1917 he became private The announcement said that nothing to halt Germany’s lightning charged being chiefly re- 4. Some have speculated over the of to Russia's inarticulate orer in Soviet Russia. Even if this the Soviet Union because censor- to the American Minister French Gen. Henri peace advance to the Channel. sponsible for the “catastrophe/’ and secretary possible transfer of the British fleet Giraud, cap- masses. all and all ob- tax should be half that amount, it ship has remained extremely severe at The Later tured in the battle of Against logic Berlin it was said it still seemed inclined Hague. assignments to Canada if Britain is the Meuse, ever since the was jubilant at news of the defeated in stacles. both human and mechan- represents a crushing burden for the Red Army invaded to obey orders of “English-French took him to Warsaw during the heretofore accommodated in a cas- Finland. surrender, and men in the street Europe. ical. Dictator Josef V. Stalin may Russian peasantry with such taxes Censorship in Russia to- Bolshevik to Tokio tle, now has been transferred to a “We Sail employers.” invasion, during day is still that of a nation at war. sang: Against England.” 5. President Roosevelt on two oc- decide at any moment that Bessa- and with their garden plots cut to a Authorized quarters said the Allies the earthquake, to Turkey in time fortress in Western Germany. He For the two months this war However, there was no hint to casions has brought Canada clearly rabia must be taken and that Mos- bare subsistence level. Peasant past of made an air raid on Dusseldorf last see the republic declared, to will be given a French colonial sol- has not been on soil; it is what the Germans intended to do within the Monroe Doctrine by cow must control the mouth of the sabotage against the regime has at- foreign night. No information was available Switzerland for the Disarmament dier instead of a German for an another kind of battle inside the should cut ofT the remainder promising that the people of the Danube, but if the Kremlin takes tained serious proportions. they of on the extent of the Conference, and to Australia. orderly. home the immediately United States would not stand this at any time frontier, but it is nonetheless trapped Allies. From Reims Mr. Moffatt’s nomination was re- idly “The future treatment of French desperate gamble The abnormally late Russian damage. The raid was described, if composed of certain elements of des- they would be in a to drive ceived with by any foreign empire threatened officers in the next two months, millions of the and the position as nsw.” satisfaction in the will depend on treatment of spring, delayed sowing however, “nothing to dominate Canadian soil. a fearful peration. southward across the line of com- Canadian last Par- German officers who are proletarians will pay price stubbornly bitter rebellion among “It happens practically every capital night. prison- It is difficult to forget the words munications of the entire ticular ers of war in before the year ends. the on the collective Maginot in the border a significance was attached to French hands,” the peasants farms, of one night,” region, authority who said to me, "If Line and turn on Paris or make lor the fact that a announcement concluded. Aftermath of Finnish War. all point to more and more hunger spokesman said. he was career the Finns could have fought on for England. of wide Lamaze Dies A of what this price can inside the Soviet Union. They all diplomat experience. George pre-view another two months there might King himself — be was afforded by the Russo-Finn- confess the fact that the Red Army Leopold asked for Canada in Vital Role. PHILADELPHIA, May 28 well have occurred a major catas- an FALSE TEETH REPAIRED ish War.