AF                                 PLAIN
                              Bern
                                   Dated December 27, 1941
                                   Rec'd 9:55 a.m.
 
 
Secretary of State,
       Washington.
 
       452, twenty-seventh.
 
       German press twenty-sixth devoted toAmerican
 
participation in war and Japanese successes, without
 
mentioning Axis reverses, Eastern Front, North Africa;
 
all newspapers give prominence to Hitler's decree
 
death penalty for misuse winter clothing collected for 
 
Front soldiers. VOLKISCHER BEOBACHTER calls for en-
 
listment noncommissioned officers for air force schools.
 
Beginning April l, 1942, applicants seventeen to eight-
 
een years old enlist for twelve years. Same paper
 
states "before Winston Churchill entered White House
 
he was faced with fait accompli in contrast to his
 
prototype Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt has shown himself 
 
to be a good business man. Roosevelt stated with air 
 
of dictator that agreement had been concluded between
                                       
United States and Canada, head of which still remains
 
George VI, production which entirely subordinates Canada's war
 
production United States. This agreement, advantageous
 
 
                                                       to United