THE T.EIII SUN. LEHI. UTAH Bruckart's Washington Digest Universal Military Training Plan Will Encounter Stiff Opposition Government Owned Monopoly to Control Trade in Surplus Products of North and South America Also Faces Serious Consideration. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. It begins to appear ap-pear that President Roosevelt again has put his head out as a target fur political pot shots. Indeed, the re action thus far to his proposals for universal univer-sal military training for all youths in the United States and his plan to create a gigantic government owned monopoly to buy all surplus products prod-ucts in North and South America bid fair to develop as much, or more, heat than did Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's program for grr 'niiii jmt in nu "TiM i x: William Bruckart packing the Supreme court of the United States two years ago. Tremendous opposition has sprung up to each of these plans, but the opposition comes from different quarters and for different reasons. As far as my survey has gone, of course, there are many duplications among opponents, but it must be said that the fundamental objection to each comes from a different base. Reasons for the two proposals, as stated by those who are working with Mr. Roosevelt on the plans, are to be found wholly in the fear that Hitler's legions armies and "fifth column" workers will invade the Western hemisphere, sooner or later. Whether this fear is wholly genuine or partly political, I cannot say; yet that fear is being used to the utmost to force acceptance by congress and the general public of a two-part program to meet the expected ex-pected invasion that is thus far just a mirage. The program, of course, comes from the wave of hysteria which has been allowed to develop, or has been openly promoted for political purposes. There is thus far no clear cut program pro-gram on universal service. Generally Gen-erally speaking, it provides for the training of youth of 18 for one year. It is not entirely a training on the drill field or In camp. It includes training in work "behind the front." That is to say, men must be trained in airplane factories, in handling planes on the air fields, in gun factories, fac-tories, powder factories, bridge building, transportation and general automotive work and a thousand other lines of service, each of which must contribute active and complete collaboration when the boys with the guns and bombs are out in front of the enemy. Both Girls and Boys Might Be Included That is the general thought. There are those in the administration, however, how-ever, who would go much further. They would make universal military training embrace both boys and girls. They would train the girls of 18 or 19 years to fit into a great war auxiliary equipped to make uniforms and medical supplies and produce and pack the proper foods and that sort of thing. And this group within the President's official family would have all of those boys and girls do this work and do it with almost no compensation, except ex-cept their own food and clothes. In other words, if the extremes are attained in this direction, it would mean adoption practically of the methods employed by Hitler, Mus solinl and Stalin in the training for military service. Of course, the congress will nev- er agree to such a thing as that There would be a public revolt against any such program, but 1 relate these details because they ac- tually are being discussed by men in key positions in the President's cabinet I doubt also that congress can be , driven into adoption of any military service program of a compulsory character. There are dangers in a world so upset as ours is of this day. No one can dispute that On the other hand, congress has voted some six or seven billion dollars to be spent for defense preparation, and unless that is wasted, as some 20-odd billions have been wasted in recent years, there ought to be some worthwhile defense structure result from use of that money. The present pres-ent defense program, as it stands today, provides a regular army of 400,000 men the largest peacetime army in our history. A navy of fighting fight-ing ships which will be the largest fleet in all history will be constructed construct-ed from these funds. Airplanes by the thousands are provided for in the general defense program. POT SHOTS President Roosevelt's proposals for universal military training for all U. S. youths and the administration's adminis-tration's plan to create a government-owned monopoly to buy all surplus products in the Western hemisphere, are due for a real political po-litical storm, in the opinion of William Bruckart, Washington correspondent He thinks they will develop as much "heat" as the Supreme court "packing" issue. From a political standpoint, the President has taken a long chance. That is more apparent as each day passes. United States Is Not Looking For Any 'Military Trouble It is to be remembered, first, that the United States and its peoples are not a military nation, not a nation na-tion looking for trouble. In another anoth-er phase, it is to be remembered that there are some 2,000,000 fellows who got their feet stuck in French mud and who fought off French cooties as well as German attacks. They are scattered throughout the United States. I know of few of those fellows who ever want to see any more of war. They are saying so with great freedom. They have convinced their friends and neighbors neigh-bors and the families. So, from a general philosophy of peace and the word-of-mouth expressions of experience, experi-ence, it strikes me that universal military service will not get very far now unless the entire New Deal political machine can be used to run over the opposition as Hitler's armies overran France. In another way, I think Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt made a big political mistake by sponsoring universal military service for use when the nation is not at war. It builds up a Republican Republi-can opposition and supplies that opposition with an added type of criticism to be used in the forthcoming forth-coming presidential campaign. And from what I hear, the Republicans are going to use it! Now, concerning the great monopoly monop-oly for handling all surplus products prod-ucts of the Western hemisphere: The idea behind this gigantic cartelgovernment-owned and directed the dream that is proposed to be made into a reality is that there is as much danger of German infiltration infiltra-tion through business as through armed forces. Moreover, it is held that with Hitler and his gang dominating domi-nating Europe, they will dictate 1 trade. That is to say, Hitler's Nazis not only will determine who will sell to those peoples under his steel boot, but they will decide the terms at which the products will be sold. The school of thought behind the monopoly plan contends that such a control of international markets will mean wrecking North and South American trade. Contention Holds That Hitler Will Influence All Trade Further, it is contended that small, or even great corporations in North and South America will find themselves so thoroughly browbeaten brow-beaten by the Hitler tactics that they will yield to whatever methods the Nazis desire to employ. All of which, they say, will mean that Nazi agents will be all over the place, speaking their pieces and promoting pro-moting their propaganda. So, comes then the plan for a giant corporation that would absorb all of the products of the Western world. This corporation, in the minds of the dreamers, would be so powerful power-ful that it could tell Hitler and his gang where to get off. The company com-pany on this side of the Atlantic could say to Hitler's representatives, in effect, we will trade with you, but you will not take advantage of us; we are too big. If you don't trade with us, you get nothing over here. All of which sounds swell. It sounds like hard boiled stuff. But it will not work, and no really sane person believes it will work. In addition, ad-dition, it has all of the elements of danger that can be crowded into the meaning of the word "regimentation." "regimen-tation." The first reason it will not work is because there is not the chance of a snowball in the nether regions that all of the South American nations will join. Unless it embraces everything, ev-erything, It will flop of its own weight And if all of the South Americans do come, where is a guaranty that they will stay in? They have jumped the traces so many times that there is little faith to be placed in their agreements. Another reason is that if such a corporation attempts to take all of the surplus, there must be control of production, complete and final control con-trol of production of food and fiber and materials of every known kind. If there is no such control, the corporation cor-poration will find itself shortly owning own-ing an accumulation of several years' output, and more coming in because the world can and does produce pro-duce more than it uses in a great many years. I might ask also for all persons to stand who think that production con trol could be enforced in Mexico or Brazil or the Argentine or most any other nation in the vast reaches of South or Central America. I might suggest further that if the Hitler market as envisioned by the dream boys, is going to be the only mar ket he might be just smart enough to say: "Okey, boys, hold your stuff. I will get along without it!" And what a lovely situation that would bel These two items will furnish much lively congressional debate. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Famham F. Duiieon 'Dark Horse' Willkie Named G.O.P. Presidential Candidate; McNary for Vice President (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are those of the news analyst and .Released by Western j 3cSS5r$$i 7 y J y 6y Germans j ril TJ A at French Ex- "All Gaul is divided into three parts," said Caesar, and now modern France, covering most of ancient Gaul, is again divided into three parts. The two most important segments will be occupied by the Axis powers, Germany and Italy. Germany received the black area in the above map according to armistice terms which ended the fighting. Italy now controls the dotted area on the map. The white area remains under French control. POLITICS: G.O.P. 'Oomplt From the opening session of the Republican national convention in Philadelphia, there was little doubt as to what presidential nominee aspirant was the "gallery's choice." For each time the name of Wendell Wen-dell Willkie was mentioned on the convention floor a sally of cheers swept down from the onlookers. The New York lawyer and utilities utili-ties executive in a decidedly brief (two months) period of time had risen from the political unknown to the pinnacle of popular G. O. P. favor. Entering the convention balloting with a mere handful of pledged dele gates, Willkie's dynamic super-salesmanship super-salesmanship started its telling ef fect in the form of a definite trend toward him as the second roll call of states was called. On the first ballot he had 105 delegate votes cast in his favor and ranked third while Thomas E. Dewey held first place with 360 votes and Robert A. Taft of Ohio was second with 189. On successive ballots Willkie then gained 65, 86, 47, 123, and finally on the sixth roll call he went over the top with a net gain of 204 votes, giving him a total of 633501 being necessary for the nomination. Will kie having won, all state delegations then made the nomination unanimous. unani-mous. Next day, on the first balloting for the vice presidential nominee, Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore gon was elected as the party's overwhelming over-whelming choice for Mr. Willkie's running mate. Tagged as a "peace, preparedness and prosperity" platform, the G. O, P. 1940 statement of party policy straddled most important national issues but packed plenty of anti-New Deal and anti-Third term punch. Unanimously approved, the platform plat-form contained a keep-out-of-war declaration; a plan of Republican-inspired Republican-inspired national defense; a slap at President Roosevelt's "provocative" speeches; and a demand to limit presidential service to two terms. Willkie's political rise stands out as one of the most dramatic in American history. Coupled with the fact that he started his campaign a short two months ago, is the fact that up until the last few years he has been a Democrat Many political politi-cal experts thought this would spell political doom in a Republican convention. con-vention. But it didn't NAMES in the neius C. Secretary of State Cordell Bull announced that he had ordered Anthony An-thony J. Drexel Biddle, U. S. ambassador am-bassador to Poland, to follow the exiled ex-iled Polish government from its temporary tem-porary capital at Bordeaux, France, to London, England. . Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist party in the United Unit-ed States, lost another court battle when the Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld his conviction of wilfully using a passport obtained by false statements. C. Chairman of the now very important impor-tant senate foreign relations committee, commit-tee, Key rittman (D., Nev.) expressed ex-pressed hope that British plans "to fight from the New world" (Canada) (Can-ada) with its navy would not be delayed de-layed "too long." London cracked back that no such move was being be-ing considered currently. are expressed in these columns, they not necessarily of this newspaper.! Newspaper Union.. Other experts were sure that his connection with the public utilities industry would carry a political curse that could end nowhere but in oblivion. But his winning personality added to the fact that among all the candidates he stood out as the one having the most political "oomph" appeared to be the determining factors fac-tors in his favor. In his campaign Willkie was quoted quot-ed as saying that he sincerely hoped President Roosevelt would accept the Democratic nomination for a third term as he would be happy to campaign against him. This attitude atti-tude seemed to please Republican party leaders, who realize that a vigorous, energetic personality like Wendell Willkie's will be needed in the coming political battle. UNEASY WORLD: Europe As the Nazi war machine continued con-tinued to push its military occupation occupa-tion of France's entire Atlantic sea coast and German bombers continued contin-ued scattered raids over an uneasy England, the power of the Soviet Union was being felt in Rumania. Word from Bucharest indicated that the Rumanian grand council, headed by King Carol had decided to agree to Russian demands for the cession of Bessarabia long a disputed dis-puted territory. Bessarabia belonged to Russia before the World war and the Soviet has for many years fumed about its control by Rumania. Up until a few months ago it seemed that Rumania would fight Russia rather than accede to demands for the province. But of late King Carol has had an uneasy time attempting to keep his nation at peace with both Germany and Russia. With collapse of French forces it appeared that the small nation was not willing to force the hand of its powerful neighbor by refusing this demand. Late dispatches dis-patches indicated that a portion of the province of Bucovina was included in-cluded in the grab. U.S. DEFENSE: Activity Plus In the Brooklyn navy yard, the new construction program which will add four huge capital ships to the U. S. fleet, got under way with the laying down of the keel of the 45,000-ton super-dreadnaught, the Iowa. Contrary to the usual practice very little ceremony surrounded the event and only officials were on hand to watch the beginning of what will be the largest battleship ever built for America's navy. Less dramatic perhaps but vitally vital-ly important was the announcement that the Reconstruction Finance corporation cor-poration had started bargaining to obtain reserve supplies of rubber and tin. Under a new bill simed by the President the corporation is authorized to finance purchases of strategic material so that "in anv eventuality" supplies will be on band. First major snag hit by the de fense program was the decision of Henry Ford to discontinue his plans to start mass production of airplanes air-planes for the federal government aow both deals are off. For Ford has now announced that he would be able to turn out 1,000 fight planes a day in his automo bile factory, the government author ized the purchase of 3,000 Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce motors from him. At about the same time the British air min istry announced it was negotiating an order for 6,000 motors of th "me tvpe with the Ford company. 'Socks' That Count - V , fc J- f - ' ' 1 """"-V i ! , ' "k i ' . . I ' 1 ' If ' ; 1 vH " 1 1 jJ ' 5 It's better to drop bombs on an invader than to knit socks for young soldiers in the opinion of Mrs. Lorene Hollo-way, Hollo-way, able Jackson Heights, N. Y., air pilot. If near strikes this country, she wants to join U. S. defense forces and organize or-ganize young women fliers into in-to a fighting corps. AVIATION: Spreading Wings Three new air routes mark current cur-rent developments in America's ever-expanding aviation industry. Hailed by Alaska's governor, Ernest Er-nest Gruening, as a stride toward national defense, the 20-ton Alaska Clipper began regular pay-passenger seivice between Seattle and the territory ter-ritory On the first flight the Clipper Clip-per made a trip that usually takes four days by boat in slightly over five hours. Tweuty passengers were aboard. Th's initial flight called attention to Alaska's ai- defenses which are in the process cf being strengthened ty toe U. S. navy Two new flying bases at Sitka and Kodiak are under un-der construction at the present time and the naval expansion program calls for further bolstering of Uncle Sam's air arm in the area. Pan American Airways is starting transoceanic service over 8,000 miles of the South Pacific to New Zealand and a new flight schedule with daily plane service to Argentina Argen-tina is slated to get under way July 12. On the New Zealand route, four and a half day service will be provided pro-vided between Los Angeles and Auckland, New Zealand. INDUSTRY: Change of Pace Current reports of Federal Reserve Re-serve banks plus other commercial indices reveal that a downward trend of industrial activity which has marked U. S. business since last December has now been reversed. Expanding production is noted in many key industries. With much of such increasing activity ac-tivity centered directly or indirectly in war and defense materials, non-military non-military industries are also registering register-ing important gains. Steel production is now booming along at capacity speeds and new orders from foreign and domestic buyers which are currently pouring pour-ing in should keep blast furnaces roaring for many months to come. Automobile tire shipments have shown large increases and leading rubber companies say these more than offset a seasonal decline in sales to car manufacturers. Southern South-ern Pacific railroad is negotiating for the purchase of some 2,500 new freight cars. LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Business Report Eighty-nine employees of the league of nations the last 89 to be exact were given notice to resign for business appeared to be at a standstill. Secretary General Joseph Avenol started closing up shop about May 16 when Germany launched its blitzkrieg against the low countries. It was then he gave 205 league officials and employees a chance to resign or have their contracts suspended upon any notice. Two decades agd the league was created to aid in the settlement ol international disputes, but business was dull until two years ago, when aggressors started to work in ear-' nest and things began to hum in the great marble building that housed uie aeiegauons. But this activity began to slow down as one by one, Austria, Poland, Po-land, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Fin-land, Fin-land, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Neth-erlands, Belgium and then France wilted under the pressure of more powerful nations. Starting out as a noble bid for peace and world understanding, an idealistic institution is closing' its books in a world where force holds the balance in the ledger. MISCELLANY: Fortune magazine announced results re-sults of a nationwide poll it had conducted which revealed that 49 per cent of the voters believed they would support President Roosevelt for a third term. The survey was taken after the war reached its critical crit-ical stage, magazine officials pointed point-ed out Justice department officials are preparing for registration and fin-gerprinting fin-gerprinting Bf some 34 million ali ens in this country a result & legislation passed by emgress. iirnnv.nn.nr.nkin Washington, D. C. BRITISH WEST INDIES Within a two hour plane flight ot the Panama canal lies the British Island of Jamaica, wich is 99 per cent black and 100 per cent restive. Intelligence reports from Jamaica warn of the danger of a Negro uprising. up-rising. Jamaican Negroes have never been prosperous, but this year has been unusually bad. The cane crop was a failure, the banana crop was ruined by a hurricane, and on top of this, word is being passed around among the Negroes that their misery mis-ery would disappear under German rule. As a result, British authorities, practically deserted by the home government, are keeping a watchful eye on their arsenal. Unrest in Jamaica would create a double problem for the United States and the other American republics. Roosevelt has already warned Euro-pean Euro-pean dictators that he will tolerate no change of sovereignty in this hemisphere. But the situation would be embarrassing if the natives na-tives of Jamaica were to revolt against England and invite in Hitler. Note Jamaica's harbor, Kings-ton, Kings-ton, is one of the finest in the West Indies and just 600 miles from the Panama canaL At the beginning of the war, Britain held in this harbor har-bor a convoy fleet of 70 ships. Changing Attitude. ' Confidential reports cabled back to the state department show that the French people have become bitter bit-ter not only toward Great Britain but against the United States. - Sentiment has been so vitriolic that it was the subject of a conversation conver-sation held by Ambassador Tony Biddle, who substituted for Bullitt in Bordeaux. Sumner Welles .also mentioned it a little sadly to the French ambassador in Washington. The French simply cannot understand under-stand why the British and Americans Ameri-cans did not come to their aid. Only their men were killed, their country coun-try destroyed, and their prisoners are now seen marching behind German Ger-man guards. This has so infuriated them that now many Frenchmen almost al-most relish the possibility that their fleet may be used against the Brit ish. Another effect has been a change of feeling in France toward the Germans. Ger-mans. Frenchmen, especially in Paris, are beginning to say: "Well, after all we are Europeans, Euro-peans, so let's be Europeans. To - with the Anglo-Saxons. They can't be depended upon. Maybe the Germans are not so bad, after all." This attitude has been helped by the excellent behavior of the Nazis in Paris. There are almost no troops on the street. Nazis have kept out of sight, and the arrests made by Herr Himrnler's Gestapo have been done very quietly. Meanwhile, some of the French newspapers, obviously coked Up by Nazi subsidies, have begun a terrific ter-rific attack upon the British, togeth er with a campaign to educate the French people regarding the better qualities of the Germans. The French are still inclined to look upon their conquerors as Germans, Ger-mans, not as members of the Na tional Socialist party. Few Frenchmen French-men seem to realize that this is a revolution, not a war, and that Hit ler is conquering Europe for Nation- al Socialism, which has made more far-reaching changes in the capitalistic capital-istic system than Russian Communism. Commu-nism. Hitler's Tactics. It has become increasingly obvi ous mat the smartest thing Hitlei aid was to knock off the countries of Europe one at a time instead ol permitting them to gang up on him. When Hitler took Czecho-Slovakia, for instance, the Poles were en couraged to take a small piece oi i-zecn territory. Then after they had taken it, Hitler took back the little piece of Czecho-Slovakia plui one-half of Poland. One reason Hitler was able to tak Poland was that he promised Russia the other half. And now Stalin, realizing re-alizing his own peril, is frantically defending his Polish-Baltic border. One year ago, talking to American Ameri-can diplomats in Berlin, Nazi leaders lead-ers made no secret of their intention inten-tion to employ the same strategy in me western hemisphere; in othei words, to isolate the United Statei from Britain and France, then provoke pro-voke revolutions in South Americ and take those countries away twe and three at a time. The United States itself, Nazi leaders said, would be relatively easy. Social revolution was sure to come in year or so, at which time all Germany Ger-many needed to do was to aid th revolutionary party. MERRY-GO-ROUND Erudite Senator Wagner of New York is the author of most Ne Deal labor legislation, but his choici diversion away from the senate ii strictly top-hat He is the senate'! leading grand opera fan; buvs i season ticket for the Metropolitar every year. Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma i. not only one of the senate's mos' accomplished orators, but also is I hot Wild West movie fan. 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