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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW F. D.'s Personality Dominates 1940 Democratic Convention; No U. S. Troops for Europe (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, (hey are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. Right up to convention time, Franklin D. Iloosevelt kept the country guessing on third term plans. The Democratlo National Convention, meeting in Chicago, however, felt at all times the weight of the President's personality. The sketch herewith is by the famous artist, Ilclge Sahlin. II GERMAN WAR: Ships & -Planes Germany and England continued to blast one another from the air, with foolhardy gallantry. Germany slowly seemed to be establishing supremacy of numbers, although her pilots were sometimes too young, and not equal on the whole to the veteran regulars who made up a considerable portion of the royal air force: the R. A. F. In the Mediterranean sea, the English and French and Italian fleets continued to skirmish, off North Africa, oft West Africa, off Greece. Some of the French ships were surrendered to the British navy, others were sunk or disabled. Demobilized French flyers were Joining up again, this time to help the Italian airmen bomb British Gibraltar. There were naval clashes between the Italian and British sea men, who already had eliminated seven of the eight French capital x warships. The 43,000-ton "He de France" -that French luxury liner so well known in America was seized by the British at Singapore, England's' No. 1 naval base in the Far East, in the Malay peninsula. The best French warship 35,000 tons was knocked out by a British motorboat, which artfully dropped a depth bomb near the stern. The vic tim was the famous Richelieu. NO U.S. TROOPS: But Billions for Defense Meanwhile, President Roosevelt emphatically told congress we would send no man to European wars, but would only seek to defend the west era hemisphere. Towards this end he asked for billions of dollars. This presidential statement to congress tended to match the "peace plank in the Republican campaign plat form, and might have removed one of the major issues from the 1940 race. NAMES ... in the news Gen. Juan Almazan, Mexican presidential pres-idential candidate, praised the "success" "suc-cess" of the Mexican election, and lauded its small loss of life. There were only 50 killed. John Dewey, philosopher and educationalist, ed-ucationalist, returned to teach at Columbia university for the first time in 10 years. He is 80 years old, but addressed 1,000 students with aU his old steam. CoL Brehon Somervell, WPA administrator ad-ministrator in New York, ripped out four airport murals at Floyd Bennett Ben-nett field in Brooklyn. It bad taken four years to paint the four. Obviously, Obvi-ously, said the rippers, they were red communist propaganda, and so indeed they appeared to be. A pioneer pio-neer parachute jumper looked suspiciously sus-piciously like Stalin, although the jumper really was Franz Reichelt, an Austrian tailor. (He had been killed. Jumping from the French Eiffel Eif-fel tower, back in 1912.) Soviet red stars and Spanish loyalist flyers also appeared in. the funniest places. YE CAMPAIGN: Fur Flies High Wendell Willkie appointed Congressman Con-gressman Joe Martin of Massachusetts Massachu-setts as his campaign manager, and then flew for Colorado on a vacation. vaca-tion. En route, the Willkie airplane stopped in Nebraska. Willkie wisecracked wise-cracked to the crowd like this: "When I was out here three or four weeks ago, they said I brought rain. If you folks vote for me in November, Novem-ber, we'll have the rain and the sunshine of economic progress." The folks thought that was just fine. John Hamilton remained executive director of the Republican national committee, though he was retiring as national chairman. Russell Davenport was Willkie's personal representative, and Oren Root kept busy co-ordinating volunteer groups and independent organizations. Ten newspaper men, three photographers, photogra-phers, and two telegraphists stuck to Willkie, and to the airplane: a 21-passenger 21-passenger DC-3. At this point the Democrats had become more and more chaotic, due to lack of Information about III term plans. Farley had been to Hyde Park, had learned the "truth," but came back to New York saying that it was all a secret. McNutt had indicated in-dicated that he knew about it, too, but Mrs. Roosevelt had said she didn't know a thing. Speculation was rife up to the time the national Democratic convention opened. Willkie, of course, had been praying for the III term (or so he said), in order to beat it down. But he still had not said anything extended, at that fcoint, about foreign affairs. ARMY NOTE: Neiv York Squadron A is the crack high-society high-society national guard cavalry outfit out-fit in New York city. It used to wear snappy gray European hussar uniforms. It plays polo, and likes to talk horses, and has a fine 56-year 56-year record. It turns out good riders, rid-ers, amid plenty of conviviality. Then a third of it got mechanized, and received 19 armored cars, in stead of 97 horses. The Seventh regiment is the crack high-society national guard infantry outfit in New York city. It used to wear fancy gray "1812" uniforms, with red stripes. It still does, on parade. It is more than 130 years old. Then it turned into an anti aircraft outfit, attached to the coast artillery, hardly the most aristocrat ic branch of the service. WINGS 11 UP: Soaring Aloft The United States aviation corps may soon get planes capable of soaring 11 miles aloft. Thus, we can bomb from 36,000 to 60,000 feet up in the air, while effective anti-aircraft fire is only good for 30,000 feet These flying fortresses are good for 300 miles per hour in the really high altitudes, and it takes 40,000 Darts to put one together. The U. S. government, it was reported, may order 1,000 of the super-ships. WHAT A JOB: Re-employed The luckless duke of Windsor, who used to be King Edward VIII, got another an-other job, at last. They made him governor of the Bahama islands, 20 of them inhabited, off the southeast coast of Florida. It was a $12,000 annual job, whose main function was to reign over ex-slaves and tourists from the United States. Capital of the Bahamas is Nassau, on New Providence island, where they have a nice beach, and a saloon of merit called "Dirty Dick's." Windsor used to have 500,000,000 people to reign over. Now he has 68,000, plus 6 officers and 124 policemen. Critics Crit-ics said the basic idea was to get him out of Europe, in case the Germans Ger-mans took over England. Hitler, they thought, might oust brother George, and reinstate brother Edward, Ed-ward, who is better liked all round. (On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth Eliza-beth is much better liked than Duchess Warfield.) M. PETAIN: Approved While the British and American newspapers were hammering old Marshal Petain, the saviour of Verdun, Ver-dun, who doesn't like Winston Churchill, the Vatican came out and declared that Petain was the best possible man to lead France. The Vatican said that the Marshal inspired in-spired French youth, and added that he represented the "best Freflch tradition." Petain Is a good Catholic, and a close friend of the Catholic dictator of Spain, his former pupil, Generalissimo General-issimo Franco. French General Weygand, who aids Petain in the new Italo-type French government, is also devoutly religious, although Pierre Laval, third member of the Gallic triumvirate, has a non-clerical background. Laval Is father-in-law of the official heir of Lafayette. While the Vatican approved, the "new" France got under way. The senate was to be appointed for life, while the chamber was to represent repre-sent trades, jobs, and occupations, as in the corporative state of Mussolini. Mus-solini. Both senate and chamber were to be largely advisory, and trade unions were to be abolished, on the Italic plan. The professional trade groups," in the chamber, were to take the place of unions, and of political parties as well. The slogan of liberty-equality-fraternity (dating from 1789) was to be supplanted by another trio: labor-family-nation. This, again, was based on the fascist system of Rome. One wit put it like this: "When In Paris, do as the Romans do." RACIAL: Interesting One of our foreign commentators raised an interesting point. It was this. He said that although Germans Ger-mans are currently unpopular, for excellent reasons, the American system sys-tem was still functioning splendidly. To prove his statement, he pointed out that Wendell Willkie was of Germanic Ger-manic family origin. But this did not stop Mr. Willkie, able and magnetic mag-netic and thoroughly likeable, from becoming the Republican candidate for President of the United States at a hectic time. Hitler himself, said the commentator, commen-tator, was born in Austria, with only one Germanic parent, and one Czech parent (his mother). But Willkie was born In America, he continued, with two Germanic parents. He concluded that Willkie was a better type of the Germanic stock than the rampant Fuehrer. It was interesting interest-ing to note, in addition, that our General Pershing's family name was Pfoersching, in the "correct" spelling. Also, the Roosevelts have a Dutch origin which sometimes is mistaken for German. III REICH: Complexities The Hitlerlan domain was sorted out into the following, to make its sway less confusing, for it covered a lot of ground in several main categories: cate-gories: f 1. Hitler himself, plus the Nazi party itself. 2. Germany, including Austria, the Sudeten, Danzig, Posen, etc. 3. Protectorates of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Luxemburg, Lux-emburg, Holland, Belgium, of which Denmark is the pet, with the Slovaks, Slo-vaks, Norse and Dutch next 4. Fascist France half victim, half neutral, a wee bit of an ally. 5. Italy, an ally, active. 6. Japan, an ally, passive. Also Spain and Hungary. 7. Russia, a treaty partner, uncertain. uncer-tain. (Russia wants Constantinople.) 8. Client states of Sweden, Rumania. Ruma-nia. (Through Sweden and Hungary Germany has army transit rights. Spain and Rumania might come into in-to the war on the German side.) There was much talk about a sir gle currency for Hitler-Europe, to promote "continental" free trade. The U. S. A. now has 80 per cent of the world's gold, $20,000,000,000 of it and if it was loaned to Hitler-Europe, Hitler-Europe, it would have to open wide its doors to Hitler-European goods. Hitler's "continental" currency, it was suggested, might not be based on gold at aiL which would leave Yankee Kentucky out on a limb. Said a foreign statesman: "An axis victory means the end of gold slavery." Kathleen Norris Says: Good Medicine for Foreign-Bom Isms Bell Syndicate Lively arguments will trail themselves right out of the dining room and continue over the dishpan, but that's exactly what you want. Drill them aU in Americanism. By KATHLEEN NORRIS PERHAPS you are one of the mothers the many, many mothers! who are vaguely worried today for fear that a "fifth column" is forming, or is already formed, in America, and that Nazism and Fascism and Communism are about to break out in our midst. "Fifth column," you know, is one of the phrases coined in the late Spanish war. It means those enemies within our own ranks, those quiet forces that operate underground, under-ground, winning converts and gaining strength that is some-, day to be used against America. Amer-ica. How strong these elements are, in our country, I don't know, and I don't suppose anyone else does. When I was young it was the Socialists So-cialists who were appealing to the restless and rising generation. But they never put a candidate into office; of-fice; they never formed anything like a formidable party. And so much more violent, radical and unnatural un-natural are the isms of today that much that the Socialists advocate has come to seem to us quite practicable. prac-ticable. America Has Progressed. For although we never adopted a socialist platform, our ideals have changed. Working hours and wage scales and living conditions have all undergone changes. Time doesn't bring about ALL that the reformers want but it "does much, and to read Henry George's great land value classic "Progress and Poverty" today to-day is to realize that the world really HAS grown better at least in America, since 1878. If fear for Americanism, our institutions in-stitutions and ideals, our Constitution Constitu-tion and our Bill of Rights, really haunts you, there is a simple thing that you can do to check, combat and eventually destroy the last shred of anti-American activity in our midst For these foreign doctrines, brought here by the disaffected from other lands, reach our rising generation genera-tion first In other words they reach your children and mine. And those children, like the children of every generation, are looking about the world critically, wondering why so many things are stupidly done, wrongly done'why there is so much preventable poverty and idleness and suffering and sin. When strange panaceas are presented to them they accept them gladly, neither able nor anxious to criticize them too keenly. The cure for this situation, which is actually worrying America very much, was suggested to me a few days ago by a fine old American woman who has raised sons, taken an active part in the hundred civic and social activities, and who served America as one of California's representatives rep-resentatives in congress for many years. I see no reason to conceal her name: Florence Kahn. Study the Constitution. Mrs. Kahn and I were talking about the recent awakening or beginning be-ginning of awakening, of American women to a sense of civic responsibility responsi-bility and civic power, and I told her that many of our groups in the National Legion of the Mothers of America were taking their first interest in-terest in the Constitution, and had formed clubs to study it "I wish," she said, "that they'd go a little deeper than that I wish they'd take the matter right into their homes, read the Constitution aloud at the dinner table, discuss it, get the children to discuss it and keep it up keep it up keep it up! Until," she finished, "every growing grow-ing American girl and boy would WNU Service.) realize the simple truth, that there is no reform, no desirable change, to benefit humanity and right wrongs, to control privilege and extend ex-tend opportunity, that they can't accomplish ac-complish right here in their own country, under their own flag." If our worrying parents, alarmed at the half-baked red doctrine that so many of our college students seem to be imbibing today, would take this simple suggestion to heart we should soon see not only the decline of anti-American influence, but the healthy growth of new Amer? ican movements that might bring our country back once more to the standards of the great Fathers of the Constitution. Revive Dinnertime Discussions. It has often occurred to me that it is a pity that the old fashion of good talk at dinner-time has gone out Judging from old American books and biography and letters it was a pretty usual custom a hundred hun-dred years ago. It may do the whole family good to have you revive re-vive it The father or man of the household house-hold may greet this idea with a groan. "Darling, I'm dead tonight. Do we have to have politics at the table?" ta-ble?" he may plead. But persist anyway. The best system is quietly to produce the book that is to be read; handing it from one to another, an-other, and keeping steadily to a 10-minute 10-minute program, night after night Of course it will presently run to far more than 10 minutes, and lively arguments will trail themselves right out of the dining room and continue con-tinue over the dishpan, but that's exactly what yeu want Drill them all in Americanism until there remains re-mains no question as to the potentialities potenti-alities of their own Constitution that they need leave unanswered. Don't warn anyone of what you are doing,' for both husband and children have a deep-rooted objection to being educated, edu-cated, but make your dinner-table a little political forum for a few months,, and you'll find that they want to keep it up longer than you do. It is a great tragedy that with a governmental system as flexible and as inspired as ours; with a beginning begin-ning only 165 years ago that startled star-tled the whole world with its ideals of universal suffrage, equality and humanity, we should let our children chil-dren grow up with the idea that we are just about as reactionary, as filled with class distinctions and social so-cial injustices as are the old nations of Europe. It is surely no fault of America's founders that we know so little of our own country's ideals, and use so imperfectly those that we do know. t History's Greatest Experiment Truly, injustices and suffering have long had a foothold here. We have slums, we have unemployment unemploy-ment we have crime. But we also have, as an excuse, the largest international in-ternational population that the world has ever seen; we are making history's his-tory's greatest experiment in the amalgamation of races, and incidentally inciden-tally succeeding at it It is inevitable that to the top of our great melting-pot scum shall arise. The laws of all the European Euro-pean countries are far from being the same; it is for us to reconcile them. America must teach us the lesson that Europe never has learned, that all these may live together in peace. Meanwhile, if that hot-headed revolutionary revo-lutionary boy of yours can be made to read the Declaration of Independence, Independ-ence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and if you ask him temper-ately temper-ately and sympathetically what he and his new red friends want from their country that is not obtainable under these franchises, you will be taking a great step to reduce all our little scattered disease spots o? foreign for-eign isms to our one great ism-Ami ism-Ami cicanism. Washington, D. C. SFIIIXX ROOSEVELT Franklin Roosevelt will go down in history as the greatest keeper ol a secret in American politics. For more than two years scores of friends, Democratic leaders, newsmen news-men and others tried their hand at worming from him some hint on the third term question. None succeeded succeed-ed until the Democratic convention was only a week away and this one, Jim Farley, in turn sealed his own Hps. Except for Farley, there wasn't a person on earth who could say he had heard from Roosevelt himself what he planned to do. There were many to whom he said that he did not want to run. There were some to whom he voiced a preference for Secretary of State Cordell Hull as his successor. But there was no one, including members mem-bers of his family, to whom the President gave the slightest clue whether he would run again. Illustrative of the complete mystery mys-tery even within the inner council was the fact that Secretary Morgen-thau Morgen-thau did not believe the President would be a candidate, while Secretary Secre-tary Hopkins was confident that he would. Both had to admit that Roosevelt bad said nothing and that their opinions were based wholly on "deductions." Last week Sen. Sherman Minton, New Deal whip, and State Chairman Chair-man Bays of Indiana, tried to penetrate pene-trate the silence. Both are members mem-bers of the Hoosier convention delegation dele-gation and strong taird-termers. As they were leaving after a White House call they said: "We hope we'll have the privilege, Mr. President, Presi-dent, of voting for you at Chicago." Roosevelt smiled broadly and replied, re-plied, "I'm sure we'll have a ticket that will win." Possibly the secret of how Roosevelt Roose-velt kept his secret so well and so long was that he didn't know himself him-self what he was going to do. Significant was a remark he made to a Midwesterner following the nomination of Wendell Willkie.' The visitor expressed the view that Willkie's Will-kie's candidacy made it necessary for the President to run again. "There isn't anyone who can lick him but you, Mr. President," the caller said. "I think what happened in Philadelphia makes it imperative that you run. I am sure you don't want to; no man who has undergone the ordeal you have for eight years would want any more of it But it's not a case any more of your preference. pref-erence. In my opinion, the choice is no longer yours." The President paused as if thinking, think-ing, then said quietly, as if to himself, him-self, "This decision will be the .most momentous in my life." FOREIGN AFFAIRS PLANK For the Democratic platform makers, like the Republicans, the biggest headache was the foreign affairs af-fairs plank. The same bellicose forces, isolationist isola-tionist and anti, which made life miserable for the Philadelphia platform plat-form writers, gave the deep blues to the Democrats. In fact, the rival camps among the Democrats were even more troublesome. The Republicans, while they squabbled hotly among themselves behind closed doors, were too conscious con-scious of party interest to kick up an open ruckus. On the final showdown, show-down, the boys worked out a compromise com-promise that gave each side a sop. The result was rather ambiguous, but it left the door open for the Republican Re-publican candidate to move whichever which-ever way he wanted. But the prima donna Democratic factions were insisting on the whole hog or nothing. Senator Burt Wheeler, Wheel-er, backed by the glowering John L. Lewis, is demanding an unequivocal, unequiv-ocal, isolationist no-war declaration; declara-tion; and threatens to head a third-party third-party ticket if he doesn't get his way. Anti-isolationists, foremost among them Roosevelt himself, are flatly against such a plank. At the same time they were acutely aware of the powerful "peace" sentiment in the country and they know they've got to watch their step. CONVENTION NOTES The Chicago convention literally dripped with vice presidential candidates. can-didates. With more than a score already in the field, Iowa's genial, bald-domed Senator Herring tossed his hat in the ring . . . One Washington Washing-ton correspondent at' Chicago attended at-tended the convention in a dual capacity. ca-pacity. TalL mellow-tempered Bas-com Bas-com Timmons covered the convention conven-tion as a newsman and also acted as the national committeeman proxy of his close friend and fellow Texan. Vice President Jack Garner. MERRY-GO-ROUND The post office department and census bureau will handle the details de-tails of registering the estimated 3,600,000 aliens in the U. S., to begin September 1. The justice department depart-ment which now has control of alien regulation, plans an extensive educational edu-cational program in Americanism for resident foreigners. In line for G. O. P. floor leader should Sen. Charles McNary become be-come vice president is Vermont's ble Warren Austin, present assist-wit assist-wit floor chief. 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