Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW F do Ds s personality dominates 1940 democratic convention no U so S troops f for or europe EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns column s the they y are arc those these of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union i A 5 ilk ak sr right hight up to convention time franklin D roosevelt kept the country guessing on third term plans the democratic national convention meeting in chicago however felt at all times the weight of the presidents personality the sketch herewith is by the famous artist beige II 11 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 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 off west africa off greece some of the french ships were surrendered to the british navy others were sunk or disabled De mobilized 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 seamen who already had eliminated seven of the eight french capital warships the ton lie ile de france that french luau luxury y liner so well known in america was seized by the british at singapore En glands no 1 naval base in the far east in the malay peninsula the best french warship tons was knocked out by b y a british motorboat which artfully dropped a depth bomb near the stern the victim 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 western 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 platform and might have removed one of the major issues from th the e 1940 race NAMES in i the news gen juan almazan mexican presidential ident ial candidate praised the success ot of the mexican election and lauded its small loss of life there were only 50 killed john dewey philosopher and educationalist returned to teach at columbia university for the first time in 10 years he is 80 years old but addressed 1000 students with all his old steam col brehon somervell administrator in new york ripped out four airport murals at floyd bennett field in brooklyn it had taken four years to paint the four obviously said the rippers dippers rip pers they were red communist propaganda and so indeed they appeared to be A pioneer parachute jumper looked suspiciously like stalin although the jumper really was franz an austrian tailor he had been filled led jumping from the french eiffel 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 joe martin of massachusetts as his campaign manager and then flew for colorado on a vacation en route the willkie airplane stopped in nebraska willkie wisecracked to the crowd like this when I 1 was out here three or foai four weeks ago they said I 1 brought rain if you folks vote for me in november well 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 Will kies personal representative and oren root kept busy coordinating co volunteer groups and independent organizations ten newspaper men three photographers and two ts stuck to willkie and to the airplane a 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 that he knew about it too but mrs roosevelt had said she 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 I 1 in order to beat it down but he still had not said anything extended at that point about foreign affairs ARMY NOTE new deiv york squadron A is the crack high society national guard cavalry outfit 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 record it turns out good riders amid plenty of conviviality then a third of it got mechanized and received 19 armored cars instead 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 years old then it turned into an antiaircraft outfit a attached to the coast a artillery rt illery hardly the most aristocratic branch of the service WINGS 11 UP 0 soaring L 0 aring aloft the united states aviation corps may soon get planes capable of soaring 11 miles aloft thus we can bomb from to feet fee t up in the air while effect effective iv e antiaircraft anti aircraft fire is only good for feet these flying fortresses are good for miles per hour in the really high altitudes and it takes parts to put one together the U S government it was reported may order 1000 of the super ships WHAT A JOB re employed the luckless duke of windsor who used to be king edward VIII got another I 1 job at last they made hin him governor of the bahama islands 20 of them inhabited off the southeast coast of florida it was a 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 dicks windsor used to have people to reign over now he has plus 6 officers and policemen critics said the basic idea was to get him out of europe in case the germans took over england hitler they thought might oust brother george and reinstate brother edward who is better liked all round on the other hand queen elizabeth is much better liked than duchess warfield M X PETAIN approved while the british and american newspapers were hammering old marshal petain the saviour of verdun who 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 french youth and added that he represented the best french tradition petain is a good catholic and a close friend of the catholic dictator of spain his former pupil generalissimo is franco french general 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 cleri cal 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 trades jobs and occupations as in the corporative state of mussolini 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 are currently unpopular for excellent reasons the american system was still functioning splendidly to prove his statement he pointed out that wendell willkie was of germanic family origin but this did not stop mr willkie able and magnetic and thoroughly likeable from becoming the republican candidate for president of the united states at a hectic time hitler himself said the commentator 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 st to note in addition that our general ings family name was in the correct spelling also the Roosevel ts have a dutch origin which sometimes is mistaken for german ill III REICH complexities the hillerian Hit lerian domain was sorted out into the following to make its sway less confusing for it covered a lot of ground in several main categories 1 hitler himself plus the nazi party itself 2 germany including austria the Sud eten danzig posen boscn etc 3 protectorates Protect orates of poland czechoslovakia norway denmark luxemburg holland belgium of which denmark is the pet with the 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 russia wants constantinople 8 client states of sweden rumania through sweden and hungary germany has army transit rits rights spain and rumania might come into the war on the german side there was much talk about a single currency for hitler europe to promote continental free trade the U S A now has 80 per cent of the worlds gold of it and if it was loaned to hitler europe it would have to open wide its doors to hitler european goods hillers Hit lers continental currency it was suggested might not be based on gold at all which would leave yankee kentucky out on a limb said a foreign statesman an axis victory means the end of 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