Show weekly news analysis europe drope rushes to new crisis As loyalist spain Is crushed ity by joseph W ln la bine J RUSSIA germany promise to let poland in pan uk E conquest POLAND germany dern ads czecho ERMAN y slovakia join german NN italo jop communist ECHO pact HUNGAR Ilung ary joins and com 0 eunist pact under nall RUMANIA pressure ITALY 4 italy wins friend Wp by mediating in Ilung arlan dispute WALL OF neutrality map alap shows how hitter hitler and mussolini have built eastern european alliances to protect themselves irom from russia while pressing new demands against france and britain see sea EVROPE 1 EDt EDITORS TORS NOTE NOT EWAn when opinions ftc r expressed la in hess columns colum ni they iff r those of the news aws analyst tad and not necessarily ol of the A newspaper europe E except for spain january found nil all europe immersed in an ominous calm broken only by occasional un dor der cover whispers among democracies on one side and dictators on the other europe was a theater and spain was its stage by the end of the month the play on stage was definitely approaching its climax because fascist subsidized rebels had put the communistic loyalist government to flight at barcelona this marked the beginning of loyalist end soon to leave both italy and germany free to press new demands against britain and france the reason for this embarrassing situation Is that Eu ropes democh democracies U c les have followed n policy of nonintervention in spain declining to admit that nonintervention intervention non Is really a disguise for the now discredited policy ol of dictator appeasement regardless gard less of the moral issues reportedly port edly involved in war london and paris must now realize that their mistake has not been the refusal to side with loyalists against the rebels but rather their permitting germany and it italy ily to aid the insurgents the result Is that fascist nations now control spain france Is therefore surrounded on three sides by potentially hostile nations while the mediterranean becomes predominantly dictator con trolled strolled troll ed war Is not finished but it has been sufficiently localized to tree free hands for other pursuits almost every competent european observer has predicted a now new crisis following Barce lonas collapse and the whispers throughout europe have backed up that prediction most important foundation work for the new italo german demands Is the assurance that any resultant conflict will be localized this means preventing huge mysterious russia from aiding britain and france therefore rome and berlin have quietly established a solid bloc of neutral states reaching from the baltic to the adriatic see map which will stand as sentinels against russian aggression sion while italy and germany turn their backs to face france and britain the new crisis will center around italian demands against france though it may be enlarged through now new declarations by chancellor hitler italy wants tunisia enabling her to blockade the mediterranean control of the suez canal and ownership of the djibouti addas ababa railroad providing an outlet from ethiopia these demands are vital to britain because italian control of the mediterranean might cut off londona Lon dons If lifeline feline to india and the east probable dictator strategy will be tor for germany to assure france she will not biot help italy thereby en cou raging britain to stand aloof then germany would aid italy in a possible war just as she has aided aide d rebel spain with volunteers whether london and paris will watt wait for such an eventuality Is another matter thoroughly scared by bk reports ports s that joint italo german do demands will be voiced by chancellor hitler before the reichstag by italian mobilization of her 1908 army class by threatened german mobilization liza lizi tion of men by february 15 the two democracies are beginning to wake un UD encouragingly great britain has begun an intensive army recruiting campaign but almost completely gil setting this practical step is the report that prime minister chamberlain will soon invite hitler mussolini and french premier deladier Da Dal ladier idler to a new munich conference there to buy peace with more concessions chile earthquakes usually come when sea bot bottoms torAs sink forcing up mountainous areas and jarring the land tor for miles around squeezed along the rocky west coast of south sou h america chile has often experienced such phenomena but never in such disastrous fashion as the earthquake which recently struck a zone miles long and miles deep for newly inaugurated president pedro aguirre cerdo reportedly fascist bent it presented the worst initiation under fire ever experienced by any western hemisphere chief executive total fatalities which probably will never be determined run from to injuries run into even more thousands faced with a stupendous reconstruction job which will require several years chile will probably need all outside financial assistance available to stave off national calamity congress last summer rep martin dies and his committee on un american ism unearthed dirt concerning harry bridges west coast labor leader who Is not a naturalized citizen but nevertheless guides the destinies of many american laboring men as an unofficial mogul of 0 john lewis C 1 L 0 this put madame secretary of labor frances perkins on the spot because the dies committee claimed harry bridges was an alien rind and a communist that he advocated overthrowing the government by P 06 J PARNELL THOMAS california Cali lornia also spoke up lip force and that he had made disparaging remarks about the president of the U S secretary perkins has failed to give dies committeemen what they consider a satisfactory answer her claim that a court ruling Is now penig pending on whether membership in the communist party is a ble offense not since 1876 has an attempt been made to impeach a cabinet member but that has not stopped one dies committeeman from setting a modern precedent new jerseys rep J parnell thomas has introduced a resolution calling tor for an investigation to determine whether secretary perkins should be impeached pe ached along with immigration commissioner james L houghteling and labor department solicitor aitor gerard D reilly that madame perkins ns interest in the bridges deportation case Is not popular lids has been indicated at sacramento calif where the state legislature may ask her for an immediate report on mr bridges citizenship status so far as ho he had determined said assemblyman C don field the labor leader has twice taken out naturalization papers but has failed to file them in the required time aviation mans top running speed is miles per hour horses trains 1271 boats 1309 automobiles and airplanes but at buffalo N Y a pursuit monoplane being built tor for the french government lias has broken the old airplane record by about m p h with motor wide open but entine engine speed held down by an electrically tri cally controlled propeller pro H lloyd child began diving at feet his vertical descent until ho ha reached feet the graph chart chalked up his speed until it reached m p h then moved off the paper landing with no ill effects child estimated he had flown at m p h since air reacts like solid matter at just over m p h scientists explained that child had probably traveled fast as a modern plane could ever go white house this years congress was advertised as highly independent probably ready to fight any proposal coming from the white house but within three weeks after congress opened president roosevelt had apparently ly introduced the bulk of his legislative program and could expect favorable action on most of it defense ills his emergency two year program Is moving slowly slowly but certainly aided by war clouds over europe and asia social security broad revisions and extensions will probably be approved though congress may demand an accounting on the huge social security reserve fund reorganization defeated last year by republicans and insurgent democrats governmental reorganization Is again doing being broached in the house by massouris Mis souris rep john J cochran since this years anti administration bloc Is bigger than reorganization Is probably doomed for failure public health already introduced Is the national health program bill to be paid for jointly by states and the U S first years federal appropriation would be about 50 50 eventually the total annual cost to state and federal governments would be aided by growing public health consciousness the bill Is expected to pass railroads tho the white house has introduced no bill but has given its blessing to railroad relief measures introduced by Cali californians California fornias 8 rep clarence lea and sen burton K wheeler since rail relief Is an established need not a political question it Is being justified on the bases of national defense public safety and national economics monetary powers the white house will probably be granted continuation of the treas currency stabilization fund which reportedly netted a neat profit last year and the presidential power to further devalue the dollar which congress does doe not think has been abused only stumbling block is that st stabilization abill fund operations have been secret which congress does not like communications not vital but a white house fetish is interest in the federal communications commission which president roosevelt would like reorganized this session ills his purposes to improve legal framework and administrative machinery if congress gets time this will probably be approved taxation legislation to permit reciprocal taxation of federal state and municipal bonds and salaries now exempt Is apt to bo be adopted in the face of strong state and municipal opposition to the bond exemption feature labor last year homer martin president of C I 1 0 s united automobile workers of america quarreled with his vice presidents president john L lewis of C 1 I 0 stepped in appointing vice presidents sidney hillman and phillip murray as mediators bors but 18 of U A W ts s 21 board members were anti martin men and early last month they voted to strip him of power reason mr martin had been consorting secretly with harry bennett personnel director for the ford motor company only non U A W auto manufacturer C 1 I 0 chieftains thought mr martin was playing tor for personal control over the huge ford labor vote the upshot has been C 1 I Os refusal to recognize mr martin as head of U A W followed next day by mt mr martins resignation from C 1 I 0 s executive board with the charge that mr lewis has 1 personal ambitions ambit ioris and a dictator complex the outcome of this scrap crap will be settled at a martin sponsored sponsored election march 4 and a C 1 I 0 sponsored election 20 days later un I 1 g e Q U A W S HOMER MARTIN lie ile resigned and was fired til then no one knows who controls U A W this row has made big headlines observers are prone to dismiss the possibility that it may indicate a collapse of C 1 I 0 more likely it is an internal squabble it if the antl martin majority of 18 6 on U A W s executive board Is any criterion U A W will remain pro C L 0 under a now new president people james S douglas father of onetime U S budget director lewla lewis W Dou dougas flis has renounced U S citizenship to return to his boyhood home of quebec reason abhorrence of recent american governmental trends |