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Show r THE LEHI SUN. LEH1. UTAH SAJ Id pfkvrptAsoH iinunni Washington, D. C. ROOSEVELT KEPT HIS POKER FACE CHICAGO. There wai only one other person present when the President Pres-ident heard the first speech at the convention nominating him for a third term. The visitor was Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Cara-way, Arkansas' witty, motherly U. S. senator, who entered his White House office for a conference Just as Mayor Ed Kelly was starting his address of welcome. In this, Kelly declared that he knew Roosevelt did not want to run, but that he should be drafted anyway. The President was getting the speech from a s:riall portable radio on his desk. As Mrs. Caraway entered en-tered he greeted her with a smile, motioned to a chair and toned down the radio. From then on he listened in gra-e silence. When Kelly declared that Roosevelt had to "be drafted to "save the heart of humanity," the President's Presi-dent's face became solemn. Thon as Kelly continued, Roosevelt seemed to sink deeper and deeper Into himself. Once or twice he glanced at Mrs. Caraway, but his face was inscrutable. inscrut-able. It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. But as Kelly drew to a close, the President's mood lifted and when the Chicago mayor finished, Roosevelt smiled, threw back his head and said, "Well, the mayor is getting to be quite an orator." That was all. Mrs. Caraway asked no questions about the convention con-vention and the President volunteered volun-teered nothing. Note The day the convention opened, Mrs. Roosevelt told an old friend that she was reconciled to the President running again. "If he has to do it," she said, "then there is nothing else to do. I know he doesn't want to run, but there seems to be no alternative." WHITE HOUSE FITE-LINE From the moment Harry Hopkins landed here last week and that open wire was set up between his suite 308-10 In the Blackstone hotel and the White House, the President has been minutely informed of everything every-thing that has happened. From early ear-ly morning until late at night the wire has buzzed with reports from Washington. Roosevelt leaders have kept him informed of what, was being said and rumored in the hotel lobbies. And some of the politicos are in lor a shock when they learn that certain cracks they thought they were making in private are tucked away in Roosevelt's retentive memory. mem-ory. Whatever else the third-term organization may have lacked, it was good on "intelligence." Every delegation and headquarters was "covered" by a friendly contact who kept Hopkins and his lieutenants advised ad-vised of inside developments. STAGNANT CONVENTION It was a good thing that they were, too. For with time dragging on their hands, delegates seized every ev-ery rumor and promptly spilled it to the press. If administration leaders could have had their wa'y, they would have condensed the convention into three days and wound it up by Wednesday. Wednes-day. They even discussed doing his, but when it got to Jim Farley he promptly put down his foot Bent on forcing a roll-call in order to have himself placed in nomination, Jim warned that he would fight any attempt at-tempt to short-circuit the convention. conven-tion. The administrationites couldn't risk an open row, so they had to absorb the opposition's brickbats and make the best of it But it burned them up, and there are a lot of private scores to be settled later. Note One Roosevelt leader, urging urg-ing Farley to forget his grievances and remain as national chairman, said: "Jim, if you quit the public will forget all about you in six months." "That's okay with me," shot back Farley. "When I quit as chairman, I want to be forgotten." In addition to heading the Yankee ball club, Farley also will take an executive position with a nationally known advertising ad-vertising firm. MERRY GO ROUND Chinese Ambassador Hu Shin says blitzkrieg methods won't work in China, "because our spaces are broad and our peoples too many." While Washington warmly debates the question, "Will we or won't we?" the old war-time song, "Mademoiselle "Mademoi-selle From Armentieres," is coming back. A group of 35 Latin American ladies of the diplomatic circle put on white costumes and gather at the Red Cross building to make bandages. Beautiful Mrs. Harry Woodring, who has spent all her life in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and Washington, is being kidded about going out to live on the prairies of Kansas. But Helen says she loves Kansas, intends to have a swell time and do a lot of painting there. Washington irony: When the cabinet cabi-net group met to plan for disposal of surpluses of the Western hemisphere, hemi-sphere, the plan's author, Dudley Wood, prepared to leave government service because congress failed to appropriate funds to continue Secretary Secre-tary Hopkins "brain trust" A UPhillipr HITLER AND NAPOLEON ("Hitler V'uilt Tomb of Napoleon. headline) Napoleon Stop staring at mel Hitler I'm not staring at you; I'm looking at what I thought was a reflection. Napoleon Go away. I'm tired of tourists. Hitler I'm no tourist Napoleon Who are you? Hitler I'm the new landlord. Napoleon You are Joking. Hitler That's what a lot of people peo-ple thought Listen. Lis-ten. Nappie, it's time you and I met We have everything ev-erything in common. We are two of a type. Napoleon Do you realize you are talking to the most famous conqueror conquer-or in history? Hitler That's the very question I was going to ask you. You were good for your time, but you're outclassed. out-classed. Napoleon By whom, may I ask? Hitler Even if you didn't ask, I'd still tell you. By mel Napoleon Who are you? HIter-I am Adolf Hitler. Nap-Jcon Hitler? Hitler? I once knew a sausage maker named Hitler Hit-ler . . . Hitler I am the conqueror of most of Europe. In two years I have taken nine nations. Napoleon (bored) I wish I knew what you smoked. Hitler In two months I took Denmark, Den-mark, Norway, Belgium, Holland and France. Napoleon Nobody ever takes France. It's purely an illusion. Hitler Believe it or not I have captured France. Napoleon (derisively) You and who else? Hitler Paris is mine. This tomb is mine. I even own you. Think of it. Napoleon the Great now under the ownership of Adolf Hitler! Napoleon(winc-lng) Napoleon(winc-lng) As if I hadn't suffered enough during those years at St Helena I Bah, the world must be softening up. You don't look like a conqueror. Hitler You don't look any too hot yourself. Napoleon Go on with your story. You say you have conquered nine nations? Hitler 1 have the world at my feet Napoleon That's what I was crazy enough to think once! Remember Re-member it's only a short trip from your feet to your throat Hitler And do you know what I am going to do next? I am going to capture Englandl Napoleon Take a tip from me and forget it I once had that idea. Hitler I shall capture the British Brit-ish isles and destroy the British empire. em-pire. Napoleon Would you mind repeating re-peating that? t Hitler I shall capture the British isles and destroy the isnusn em pire. I shall be boss of Europe and of the world, the greatest conqueror of all time! Napoleon (beckoning) Come on int I'll move overt RACE CHART STUFF Bold Turk . Not out since November Key Ring Should find opening Sailor's Yarn Unreliable Skagerrak ............. Tough spot Stalagmite Dropping down Ceiling Zero . Seldom comes through It seems that the 24 garment workers who have been playing in "Pins and Needles," a revue staged by the garment workers' union, have retired from the garment industry and Joined the Actors Equity as pro fessional entertainers. Now if some actors would only shift to the gar ment business all would be well. A correspondent telling of the flight and return to Paris of refugees tells of one man who clung to a heavy Paris telephone book coming 'and going. When asked why he replied, re-plied, "I don't know, I Just grabbed it up. I guess I might as well throw it away now." Maybe the French phone books carry those instructions "How to Get a Policeman." Sonja Henle has been married and the Office Cynic says it is going to be a great letdown to her when her husband finds the refrigerator out of order and yells "Say, do you know anything about ice?" CAN TOU REMEMBER Away back when you could boast that you were "working like a Trojan" Tro-jan" without drawing any hard looks? Uncle Sam is going in for "Panzer Division." (Samzer divisions would seem better.) He will build tanks almost as big as Nazi ones and capable ca-pable of at least 50 miles an hour. Nobody can beat him in the auto motive field, and we predict that be will not only turn out super tanks, but do it in colors. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW lampaign of 'Peace Rumors' recedes Britain 'Blitzkrieg'; C U w -v y- f f C F. D. and Willkie Set for Battle (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Bpii-aKpd by Western Newspaper Union v? Seeking John THE CAMPAIGN: Chicagoings-on This was the Democratic convention's conven-tion's lead-off message: "I (Senator Barkle.y) and other close friends of the President, have long known that he has no wish to be a candidate again. We know, too, that in no Way whatsoever has he exerted any Influence in the selection of the delegates, del-egates, or upon the opinions of delegates del-egates in this convention. "Tonight, at the specific request and authorization of the President, I am making this simple fact clear to this convention. The President Presi-dent has never had, and has not today, to-day, any desire or purpose to continue con-tinue in the office of President, to be a candidate for that office, or to be nominated by the convention for that office. He wishes in all earnestness ear-nestness and sincerity, to make it clear that all of the delegates to this convention are free to vote for any candidate. That is the message I deliver to you tonight from the President Pres-ident of the United States, by authority author-ity of his word." Some 22,500 men and women, packed into the Chicago stadium, heard the presidential message. It was a turning point, probably, in American history. For the convention conven-tion the next day nominated President Presi-dent Roosevelt for a third term. No man had ever before received this honor. A day later, Henry Wallace, secretary of agriculture, was nominated nomi-nated vice president virtually at the request of the President The convention con-vention indicated the issues would be foreign affairs and the utilities, principally. Wendell Willkie in the meantime warned the Democrats. He said he didn't want to hear any more about the Insull scandal, and indicated that he was tired of wisecracks about public utilities. It was true thfet some Democrats had been whispering whis-pering at a great rate along those lines. Willkie was a bad man to try and smear, for he is peppy, peppery, pep-pery, and given to rough, biting invective. in-vective. But Willkie did agree with the Democrat Bankhead, in condemning con-demning the speculative orgies of the 1920s. Willkie said, too, that he liked to protect the investments of the people against the assaults of their governments. This all emanated emanat-ed from Willkie's vacation haunt at Colorado Springs, as did a statement state-ment that he welcomed the third term Issue presented by Roosevelt What price "party"? Wendell NAMES ... in the news King Zog of Albania, his tiny crown prince Skander, and his half-American half-American Queen (-raldine, plus Zog"s sisters three, were planning to come to the United States, that new "St Helena." AHyn Jennings, general superintendent superin-tendent of New York city's parks since 1936, became the new general director of New York's famous Bronx zoo. Tope Pius instructed his official tuncio to France, Valerio Valeri. to give every aid and support to Marshal Henri Petain's new fascist government Generals Petain and Weygand, two of the triumvirate, are devoutly clerical. Dark-faced, white-tied Laval, the third member, is not Oswald Lewis, Tory member of parliament suggested that England sell America at least one of the West Indian islands for use as an air and naval base. This, said Mr. Lewis, would cancel that "eternal", war debt question. v tffX v - jS-S-' sv- ,-t-nrr--W. OV ' BulV$ Eye. Willkie, Republican candidate for President was a registered Democrat Demo-crat until two years ago. Henry A. Wallace, , Democratic candidate for vice president was a registered Republican Re-publican until four years ago. That Willkie would prefer to make the campaign on domestic issues and that President Roosevelt would keep it on the foreign issue if possible possi-ble seemed indicated in the early days of the campaign. But wise William Allen White, who in the capacity of journalist attended at-tended both conventions, declared that neither Willkie nor Roosevelt would determine the results of the final election in November. It would be Hitler, he stated. He meant, no doubt that the repercussions of a complete Hitler victory, or vice versa, would weigh more with the American voters than the oratory of both Willkie, and Roosevelt. One thing seems conclusive. The Old Guard in both the Republican and the Democratic parties were not at first satisfied with the final choices. Much may depend on how they ultimately accept the decision of their conventions. II GERMAN WAR: Rumorings There were twin rumors going the usual rounds in the usual rialtos. One of these rumors predicted a huge mass offensive by the Germans against England. The other rumor was of peace. Hitler's "blitzkrieg" against Britain had been "set" by various "authorities" on several days. These were wrong guesses time and again as were the "peace" guesses. 'NO BASIS': Byoir No Nazi Not everyone who is called a "communist" is one, and not everyone every-one who is called a "Nazi" agent is one. Carl Byoir, New York publicist publi-cist is no' "Nazi" representative, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Investi-gation. The FBI investigated on By-oir's By-oir's request because Rep. Wright Patman one day got up in the house and sounded off against Byoir. The enmity between the two is really over another matter. Patman's "chain-store tax" bill is the source of their feud. Byoir has been directing di-recting publicity against the Pat-man Pat-man bill. So, among other things, Patman called Byoir a Nazi tooL There was "no basis" to the charge, reported the FBI. CUBA LIBRE: Elections CoL Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator dic-tator for seven long years, beat Dr. Grau San Martin in the Cuban presidential pres-idential election. Also, six provincial provin-cial governorships, most of the mayorships, may-orships, and 24 senatorial seats were scheduled for Batista candidates. Batista had, supporting him, parties of the right left and center. San Martin had, supporting him, more parties of the right left and center. The communists plumped for Batista, Ba-tista, but so did some of the Cuban-ero Cuban-ero Tories. Meanwhile, Generals Camacho (government candidate) and Alma-zan Alma-zan (opposition candidate) continued to fuss and argue about the net results re-sults of the Mexican presidential election. Both appealed to the fair and tolerant President Cardenas, the "honest broker." Just the same, Camacho had it in the bag. Rome Wants Return The University of Rome demanded demand-ed that France give back, pronto, all the art treasures that Napoleon carted out of Italy, and set up in Paris. HOLY LAND: Bombed! Italian airplanes raided British-mandated British-mandated Palestine, and dropped 50 bombs in 20 minutes. They peppered pep-pered the Mediterranean port oi Haifa, where an oil pipeline for the British navy feeds John Bull's water wa-ter monsters. It brings in petroleum petrole-um from the rich fields of Irak, and is considered a key spot in the empire. In the Italic aerial stab, one American oil-refiner was injured. in-jured. His name was Flannigan. Italian planes also were raiding off the Grecian coast while Italian and British warships were skirmishing up and down the blue waters of Mare Nostrum. But the loudest bombs exploded on the pages of tha Ttaiinn nowsnaners. The above was ancient Palestine's first experience with streamlined, modern, Deiiitosc mhodjlogy. Spanish War ? ? The hideous Spanish civil war, 1936-39, killed more people by murder mur-der and execution than it did in actual fighting between the armies. It resulted in the clerical dictatorship dictator-ship of Generalissimo Franco, a Unrtlv nnHffv creature on the whole. Meanwhile, a number of the exiled Spanish reds fled to Latin American Amer-ican spots like Mexico and Chile. In Mexico thev made a certain amount of trouble, but in Chile they agitated actively against the fascists oi SDain. Chile had a so-called Popu lar Front government, and loyalist Spain had had the same thing, me Spanish radicals felt quite at home in Santiago and Valparaiso. But Franco didn't like all this. He was touchy about his relations with Latin America, and distrusted Popular Popu-lar Fronts of all sorts. Chile had been pro-loyalist in the Spanish civil war. So Franco broke off Spanish-Chilian Spanish-Chilian diplomatic relations a bitter bit-ter family quarrel between mother and child. It was too bad, for Chile (a long strip of rocky coastline, coast-line, with only 4,000,000 people) could hardly damage Senor Franco, the friend of Herr Hitler. Meanwhile, Chile's President Pedro Aguirre banned strikes, lockouts, and other labor disturbances, and kept a cold hawkeye on the local Nazis. This was one of the things that Franco-Hitler Franco-Hitler did not like. NEXT DOOR: Canadians Every Canadian had to register, if he or she was over the tender age of 14. Failure to register means a fine of $200, and three months imprisonment Also, there was provided pro-vided a $10 daily fine for lateness in registration. False information means another $200, and refusal to answer questions costs $100. Other "crimes" cost $50 apiece. If you lose your registration card and it may be demanded at any time it's an additional $20. Observers declared de-clared that totalitarian England, on the point of invasion, still appeared more liberal than the No. 1 dominion, domin-ion, safe by 3,000 miles. Meanwhile, Canada was not invited in-vited to the Pan-American conference confer-ence at Havana, which tended to simplify things considerably, for Canada has no exact legal standing stand-ing under international law. MANILA: Quezon, M. The little boss, Manuel Quezon, of the Philippine islands, began to talk about a semi-dictatorship way out there toward Asia. Already Senor Quezon has compulsory military service. Now he wants social restraints, re-straints, social justice, and the yield-up yield-up of property rights. He does not want the Japanese, incidentally, at any price. By 1945, the Filipinos Filipi-nos were " supposed to get their complete independence, but with Nippon on the loose, things did not look so promising, and Senor Quezon was doing a bit of back-watering. Meanwhile, at Tokyo, the Japanese Japa-nese army forced out of office the comparatively liberal Yonai cabinet. Prince Konoye (father of the captain cap-tain of the Princeton golf team) was scheduled to come in, and bring with him a new semi-fascist setup. No wonder that Senor Quezon felt jumpy, only a couple of jumps away from that Mikadonian rising sun. The Filipinos began to realize that there was worse than your kindly old Uncle SamueL FLYING: Atlantic 11 The civil aeronautics board, at Washington, gave permission for Export Ex-port Airlines Inc. to start a transatlantic trans-atlantic service, in competition with Pan-American Airways. The new service was to be operated between New York and Lisbon, and was set to start at a near date. The Export outfit announced that its planes and ships would be co-ordinated. Nothing Noth-ing succeeds like competition, said the aviation critics, and they pointed out (as proof) that Roosevelt had liberalized the Republican party. BALTIC: Bust-Ups The three little Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia went red, and then went Russian. They were to become federal states of the great Soviet Union, which already al-ready had aDDroximatplv a hthese entities (they vary somewhat anu some are elaborately subdivided). subdivid-ed). In Estonia, the red vote totalled 93 per cent Lithuania, a thoroughly Catholic country, voted 90 per cent red, just the same. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON 13 m Jour: Washington, D. C. MUST WIN MARKETS It is all right by Pan-American conferences and unions, to create as much good-will as possible, but let's not kid ourselves Into any reliance on them or into heavy commitments on our side. The plainest lesson of this war is that dependence on any kind of collective col-lective security among nations is madness. Each nation will follow the path of its Individual Interest and its former friends must take care of themselves regardless of treaties or alliances. There is nothing new about this. George Washington said it almost a century and a half ago. It had been proved many times then. Never has it been so clearly proved as in the past seven years. The fall of the little central European Euro-pean nations of the cordon sanitaire, which vainly relied on France, as she vainly relied on them, proved it no less clearly than the fall of France and the deadly peril of Britainamong Brit-ainamong the strongest nations on earth. In a military, economic and racial sense, the strength and the ties that bound England, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were many times greater than any Pan-American union could possibly be. The recorded stability and responsibility respon-sibility of those nations were far better than those of any Latin-American country. Yet that community of interest proved a rope of sand. Of course, the principle of our policy is to allay actual jealousy and ill-feeling to the south of us, to procure naval and air bases absolutely absolute-ly necessary to our defense and to make it harder for any sudden Nazi-engineered eruption in a South American country to surprise us with an axis-country in this hemisphere. hemi-sphere. O. K., but let's not deceive ourselves on its value or give away our body, soul and breeches in the process. When this war is over, the business busi-ness of this world has got to proceed. pro-ceed. If we are not going back to the Glacial age, international commerce com-merce must continue. While England Eng-land has a sporting chance to defend de-fend herself and her empire, there is going to be a new industrial situation situa-tion in Europe. It may not be the dream of Napoleon (by force) or Briand (by agreement) a United States of Europe on our model. But it will be a great industrial grouping group-ing no longer frozen into a honeycomb honey-comb of water-tight trade compartments compart-ments by tariff barriers. It needs markets and it needs raw materials especially such foodstuffs food-stuffs as South America and this country produces in vast surplus. Is it our policy to prevent this exchange of merchandise either by some vast cartel through which we buy the mountainous surplus of South American Amer-ican meat and grain and add to our own unmanageable abundance, or by diplomatic or naval quarantine? Something that points in that direction direc-tion has been suggested for the Havana Ha-vana conference. We must not rely on any military promises of that conference. We must not there engage en-gage to underwrite the exports of this hemisphere. Our job on the military and naval side is to get too strong for anybody any-body to dare to intimidate us on the economic side. The economic side is not to mtimidate or subsidize subsi-dize others. It is to win and hold markets in the only way it can be done permanently and soundly by producing better goods and services' at lower prices. The outlines of this proposed $2,000,000,000 cartel system are not yet clear but they seem to be a new boondoggling futility so vast as to make all the other magnificent squandering put together look like a poor piker's penny ante. TWO-WAY DOCTRINE An editorial in the Washington Post emphasized that the Monroe Doctrine is a two-way street The forgotten part is: "In wars of European powers relating to themselves we have never taken any part nor does it comport with our policy to do so . . . our policy in regard to Europe . . . remains the same, which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; pow-ers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government to us." ' This is much too often forgotten. The "military expert" Major Eliot has now joined our "military expert" ex-pert" secretary of war in insisting that we make our harbors bases for the British fleet Of course, this would be war. To excuse it as "undeclared war" or "undercover war" is to adopt the very poisonous deceit we so lately condemned in Spain and China and other unfortunate lands. Why should we rush to war with many of the controlling strategic developments de-velopments still unknown? The tide of battle may turn eastward. Russia Rus-sia may collide with either Japan or Germany. The British navy is still so superior that it doesn't need ours we have no army or equipment to send. No Blackout t auure to d snlav t,-i ,. 1 their baby cant' W wei fined fa mlSj Walsall, SUffordh?:! t I were made after one of nae, wa. 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