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Show Washington, I). C. JAP OKDEKS DKI.AY V. S. One of the tilings which is holding up the manufacture of more military mili-tary equipment for the army and 1 navy is the fact that so many U. S. factories are sending machine tools to Japan. The war department has just finished fin-ished a confidential survey of the machine tool industry and finds that most American plants are working on orders for the Japanese. Machine Ma-chine tools are all-imporlant in the munitions business, because they tire used to equip new factories expanding ex-panding to meet new national defense de-fense orders. As tar as the war department is able to ascertain, Japan has plenty of .machine tools, and is storing many of the new shipments now received ; A PERSHING AIDS FRANCE, Mrs. Frances Warren Pershing, the war general's daughter-in-law, modeling a gown in Neiv York for French war relief. Bids for gowns ranged from $250 to $1,000. rlrom the United States for emergencies. emer-gencies. Japan also continues to be a big importer of U. S. scrap iron, and also is storing it for the : ae. These are two reasons why President Pres-ident Roosevelt has asked special powers of congress to embargo shipments of materials which are considered vital to the defense of the United States. He expects, as soon - e - 2,,t,",rized by c:nrec,'., . t1 slr an embargo on scrap iron and machine ma-chine tools to Japan. ... I G. O. P. BLASTS The barrage of Republican blasts against a coalition cabinet which has strafed the country recently was no spontaneous meeting of minds. . Neither was it aimed entirely at the President. It was aimed much more against the Republican party itself. Inner G. O. P. master minds ad- xait that their political chances have been almost as hard hit as the shattered allied lines in Europe. Prior to this catastrophic development develop-ment G. O. P. election prospects appeared very bright indeed. It looked as if the campaign would be fought chiefly on Republican ground; that is, on domestic issues. Also, it was doubtful whether Roosevelt Roose-velt would run. But the Hitler Mitzkrieg changed this situation sivernight. Roosevelt's move to bring one or more Republicans into the cabinet made thines worse. Something had to be done fast to block this. The barrage on Roosevelt was opened by Colonel Lindbergh's -speech pooh-poohing any invasion danger. In inner G. O. P. circles this is credited to Hoover via his close friend William Castle, former undersecretary of state. This was followed up with the carefully spaced statements by Landon, Hoover, Representative Wadsworth, House Floor Leader Martin and others demanding that the President renounce a third term as the price for G. O. P. participation partici-pation in the cabinet. ICELAND AND U. S. There is a lot more behind the rushing of American consuls to ' Greenland and Iceland than appears on the surface. Boiled down to cold facts, the Roosevelt administration is afraid of a Nazi air base only 1,500 miles from Maine. Bombing planes already al-ready have been developed which can fly this far loaded. CAPITAL CHAFF Said Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick :Simms: "I have never seen anything any-thing like the sentiment out West for Tom Dewey." But in her home state of New Mexico, Mrs. Simms was turned down as a Dewey delegate. dele-gate. Interesting sidelight on how things are shaping for a third term: Rep. Gene Cox of Georgia is one of the bitterest anti-New Dealers in con-. con-. gress. Yet the day after Georgia leaders named a third-term delegation, delega-tion, Cox announced he would support sup-port this year Roosevelt if he is the candidate. SENATOR NYE ON BENITO Quote of the week comes from Sen. Gerald Nye of North Dakota: "Mussolini is like Southern Republican Repub-lican delegates easy to buy but hard to keep bought." |