The President's Week

Last week the President:

> Expressed his views on wiretapping. Massachusetts' Thomas Eliot asked his opinion on a pending bill which would permit any Government agent to engage in wiretapping; the President wrote back that it went "entirely too far." He would have the wires tapped only by the Justice Department, and only in kidnapping cases and "against those persons . . . who today are engaged in espionage or sabotage against the United States."

> Denied that Ambassador John Winant was carrying peace proposals to Great Britain, outraged isolationists by saying that first things must come first, the war be won before a peace can be devised.

> Extended the export licensing system to cover beryllium, graphite electrodes, aircraft pilot trainers, belladonna, atropine, sole leather and belting leather. Country principally affected: Soviet Russia.

> Refused to comment on the bottle-throwing fight of U. S. Minister George Earle in a Sofia cafe (see p. 33), except to say that he had read the newspaper accounts, found them very sedate.

> Attended the National Theater to see White House Guest Alexander Woollcott play The Man Who Came to Dinner.

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