The President's Week

Last week the President:

> Signed the $4,393,221,154 Fifth Supplemental Defense Appropriation Bill, providing equipment funds for an Army of 4,000,000 men; signed the $1,414,626,838 Independent Offices Appropriation Bill.

> Announced the streamlining of national private welfare groups (Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Jewish Welfare Board, Salvation Army, Travelers Aid, etc.) into the United Service Organization for National Defense. USO will supply the recreational, welfare and spiritual needs of soldiers, sailors, defense workers; will ask Congress soon for funds to set up 300 USO centers.

> Sent King Peter II of Yugoslavia "earnest hopes for a successful resistance to the criminal assault" upon his country.

> Nominated Robert A. Lovett, New York businessman, as Assistant Secretary of War for Air (TIME, March 10); and New York Lawyer John J. McCloy as Assistant Secretary of War (see p. 27).

> Signed a bill extending the 1937 Bituminous Coal (Guffey Coal) Act two more years.

This week the President:

> Approved a War Department press release defending Major William Bentley of Richmond, Va., who was named by Italy as persona non grata as Assistant Military Attache in the Rome Embassy.

Major Bentley had been promoted from a captaincy only fortnight before.

> Threw his usual eccentric sinker in tossing out the first ball of the new baseball season (Yanks beat the Nats, 3-0), leaving Woodrow Wilson's clear supremacy as a pitching President still unchallenged.

> Greeted 53,258 Washingtonians, including some damp, tear-streaked children, at the annual Easter egg-rolling lawn party, where the usual percentage still held: 1 to 1.3 mothers to each child.

> Attended with Mrs. Roosevelt Easter church services day after her trip to Dedham, Mass, to see her niece-namesake, Eleanor Roosevelt, married to a young British architect, Edward P. Elliott. Sunday evening, Mrs. Roosevelt boarded a plane for Los Angeles to see her eldest son, Captain James Roosevelt, marry Miss Romelle Schneider, Mayo Clinic nurse (see p. 90).

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