PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1940 Willkie Won't Offer Specific Foreign View G.O.P To To . Nominee CommitI Policies In Refuse Himsel. Advanc COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,dAug 9.-(,/1)--Wendell L. Willkie said toy day he would not enter "into advanc commitments and understandings with the Roosevelt administration re garding foreign policy. He gave his press conference statement saying that during the las weeks "several persons have corm municated with me, some frankl stating that they did not represen the administration, while others le: their status in doubt. "It was suggested by some of these, Willkie continued, "that it was de sired that I enter into certain com mitments on specific proposals con cerned with the foreign policy of thi United States, provided the admin istration would take certain position with reference thereto. "In order that there may be n possible misinterpretation, I want t make my position quite clear. Firs of all, my general views on the for eign policy and vital interests of th United States in the present inter national situation are well known having been stated by me public several times." "As to specific executive or legisla tive proposals, I do not think it ap propriate to enter into advance cor mitments and understandings." 1940 Western Confere Date Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan N 9/28 f Calif. W _Away s 10/5 Bradley Texas S. Dakota M.S.C.Z ff Home I Home Home Home e 10/12 S. Calif. Nebraska Wisconsin Harvard Home Away Home Away 9. 10/19 Michigan Iowa Indiana Illinois Away Home Away Home e " 10/26 Notre Dame Northw'n Minnesota Penn Home Away Away Home a 11/2 Wisconsin Ohio St. PurdueT st Away Away Home. - 11/9 Northw'n Mich. St. Nebraska Minnesota l y A way Home Away Away it - ft 11/23 Ohio St. Wisconsin Notre Dame Northw'n Home Away Away Home 11/16 Iowa Purdue Illinois Ohio St. N - Away Away Home Away I- 0 I- B- Minnesota Northwestern Ohio State Pittsburgh Purdue Wisconsin ashington Home Nebraska Home Syracuse Away Home Purdue ( Home Northw'n I Away Ohio State Home Ohio St. Wisconsin Away Away Iowa Indiana Home Home . once Football Schedule Minnesota Home Cornell Away Indiana Home Butler Home )hio St. Marquette Away ENome M.S.C. Iowa Away Away Northw'n Home lisconsin Purdue Home Away Iowa Illinois Away Home 'ordham Columbia Away Away Minnesota Indiana Away Home WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.---(R)-The Navy moved today to strenghten the garrison of its station at Guantan- amo Bay, Cuba, an important base for warships guarding the eastern approaches to the Panama Canal. In a formal statement, the depart- ment announced that the 2,2900 offi- ers and men of the First Marine Brigade would be moved to Guant- anamo from Quantico, Va., during Navy To Strengthen Cuban Base the month of September. The announcement said the shift was "for the purpose of prelimin- ary training of this force in view of extensive maneuvers planned duripg the winter in the Caribbean area." Press officers said the maneuvers would be carried out by the marines and that they would involve landings and other operations. Similar maneu- vers are conducted each year. Northw'n Away Michigan Home Minnesota Home Illinois Home Michigan Away I Purdue Home Wisconsin Away I Illinois A Away V Notre Dame Home Michiga Home an Indiana Minnesota Home Home (Big Ten Service Bureau, June 1940) k TO i-nton o dm cooing 10 to st r- ma 1e on - Br n, th ly m - 1- r p- thi 1- fo ch va En th air us: Se led ed dif Br 72 tat Ge 00 G ca. DAY-- The "Toppr" Author has Another Wild Comedy--- with ADOLPHE MENJOU and Great Cast It's a Grand Farce- DON'T MISS IT! Sunday-- "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" II_ _ Shop an at the S "Cut Rate Drugs 365 Days a Year" ;ritish Claim German Losses Greater Than Own In Attacks to of LONDON, Aug. 9.-(I)-The Ger- German losses in planes $3,072,000 t an campaign of mass air attacks -24 dive bombers at $80,000 apiece in these islands was declared by some and 36 Messerschmitt fighter planes i itish observers today to be costing at $32,000 apiece. S e Nazis a great deal more-in British losses in planes $512,00--.- tr oney, morale and Messerschmitts 16 fighters at $32,000 apiece. than the defenders. British losses in ships sunk or lam- This claim that air invasion is aged $500,000. us far a bankrupt strategy was put Net German loss $2,060,000. rward on the basis of an official In addition, the British claimed at eckup of the results of yesterday's least 106 German airmen died, st raid by 400 German planes on against 13 "British fliers. glish Channel shipping. Alfred Duff Cooper, the British For this, said the Air Ministry, was minister of information, told Ameri- e score: can correspondents at a tea this af- German planes destroyed-60. ternoon that, if he hopes to win the British planes lost-16. war this year, Hitler must attempt British shipping destroyed, both by the invasion of England regardless and the torpedo boat attack that of what he does in Spain, Africa or hered in the air assualt, 5,039 tons the Balkans. ven ships in a convoy were acknow- Iged damaged, but all were declar- taken to port.G any Aga F es (The German score sheet was far Magnetic Mine Warfare fferent: Berlin claimed that 49 itish planes were shot down and BERLIN, Aug. 9.-(P)-Germany is ,000 tons of British shipping sunk.) reverting to use of magnetic mines From all this, unofficial commen- strewn in English harbors to rein- trs reached the conclusion that the force her counter-blockade and also rman loss in money was some $2,- reports success against a new British 0,000-aside from the far heavier defense, ship-towed barrage balloons. erman casualties reported here. The High Command announced to- This is the way these observers day that its huge mine-laying sea- st up the balance sheet: planes were "able to continue" the sowing of mines "off British ports according to plan," after reporting 49 British planes shot down and 72,000 tons of British shipping sunk in yesterday's giant dive-bombing S a v e and torpedo boat attacks on convoys off Dover and the Isle of Wight. of The daily communique said Mes- ign of serschmitt fighters punctured and sent into the sea near Dover 12 of the big gas balloons which Britain has been tryig as a new defense weapon against attacks on her con- voys. The balloons, attached to ships, were intended to keep deadly dive bombers at a distance. 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