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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Roosevelt Asserts Positive Stand Against Appeasement as Lindbergh Sees Trouble With Great Britain; Diplomats Try Their Hand in Far East (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) . ! PEOPLE: And Realization President Roosevelt, realizing that he was faced with a determined anti-intervention bloc, both in press and congress, which was taking as its theme "pooh-pooh, there's no danger," had been making strides in his effort to bring about in the American public a realization of what he considered to be the real seriousness of the international situation. situ-ation. Coupled with this was an effort he was making to have Americans Amer-icans alsg make a more realistic evaluation of their own blessings. In recent utterances, particularly in one from Hyde Park, he quoted at length from a personal letter to him finding themselves at least technically technical-ly enemies of the British. Lindbergh's Lind-bergh's speech was headlined in many newspapers as "Lindbergh Says British May Fight U. S.," and given prominent position. At about the same time Representative Represent-ative Cox of Georgia, bitterly denouncing de-nouncing the presidential shakeup of the defense production group, declared de-clared that the White House was letting the "left-wingers" take control con-trol of industry, and that the new alignment would "tie - the' hands" of William S. Knudsen, and "kick Stettinius out of the picture." Yet on the same day Mr. Knudsen himself was quoted as saying: "I feel that the new arrangement will achieve splendid results in increasing in-creasing the rate of production." It was a succession of incidents like these which enlivened the American war effort at the same time confusing newspaper readers as to the thought of leaders on controversial con-troversial subjects of how the effort ef-fort should be conducted. VICHY: In Limelight The shooting of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat by Paul Collette, a Norman youthful assassin who had to join the French Legion to fight the Soviet in order to get close to the Nazi collaborator with his pistol, turned eyes suddenly toward Vichy, and the double assassination attempt seemed confirmatory of previous reports re-ports of serious unrest. At almost the same time that stories sto-ries were coming across the wires telling of the sudden arousal of sympathy sym-pathy for Collette, a New York newspaper writer uncovered a story about the operations in the United States of a clique of Vichy agents, working under the direct control of Gaston Henry-Haye, French ambassador ambas-sador to the United States. It was a romantic yarn, telling how advance plans of General De-Gaulle's De-Gaulle's ill-fated expedition against SEES PRESIDENT Ambassador Nomura recently delivered de-livered a personal message to President Pres-ident Roosevelt from Prince Konoye, Japanese premier. This started rumors ru-mors of "peace" negotiations for the Pacific. from an unnamed mother, in which she said, in part: "It is terrifying, coming from Europe, to realize that many of these people (in America) in their unruffied existence, seem to have no idea of what hangs over their heads today. "They put themselves in a posture pos-ture where they cannot squawk about what they don't see. "They go about their 'daily dozens' ignoring the threatening heel of human beings who want to destroy the freedom, the normal life to which they have been accustomed. accus-tomed. "In Europe there is not a nation j of those who have suffered abuse whose people are not aware of what America stands for. They pray daily that America will save itself by helping greatly to defeat Hitler-ism." Hitler-ism." The President, echoing her sentiments, senti-ments, said: . "That is a thought we all feel. We want to keep America so that in all the years to come, long after all of us here are gone, someone will be able to meet as we are doing, as we hope to meet next year." And, later, in a message particularly particu-larly to labor, along the line of urging urg-ing America to consider its own blessings, he said: "Only in a democracy could there be a day set aside for millions of workers, free men and women in a free country. "Only in a democracy could they spend the day in free worship, en-j en-j oy ing the right to speak their minds, to read uncensored news and to hear uncensored radio programs. "Today we in America are faced with the great task of preserving that democracy and we, too, will offer our utmost in labor and sacrifice sacri-fice just as our fathers and our fathers' fa-thers' fathers did." His Labor day talk declared unequivocally for the defeat of Hitlerism and his refusal re-fusal to become "a Benedict Arnold" by accepting appeasement and "crumbs" from Hitler's "peace" table. LINDBERGH: Sees Neiv Menace Charles A. Lindbergh, chief administration admin-istration critic, enlivened the discussion dis-cussion of extended aid to Britain and Russia by turning on England, and warning the American people in an address that if we banked too much on the British, we might find ourselves in the same company with Finland and France. Pointing out that these two nations, na-tions, like this country, started out in their participation of the war as allies of Britain, and now were SHOT The shooting of former Premier Pierre Laval, Nazi collaborator, is believed to be but one instance of widespread opposition in France to the Petain-Hitler program. Dakar were smuggled into the U. S. in the gasoline tank of an automobile automo-bile shipped to Hoboken from London Lon-don and on a Greek steamer. The plans presumably were turned over to the Vichy government by agents here. The story, evidently the result of long and careful investigation inves-tigation by the writer for his newspaper, news-paper, named more than a dozen names, including that of the ambassador am-bassador himself, and created a profound pro-found sensation, certain to bring repercussions. re-percussions. It was charged, among other things, that a secret French police agent had been sent here and had established the undercover organization. organiza-tion. At the same time that Laval and Deat were near death from their wounds as a sort of culmination of French unrest and sabotage against the pro-Nazis, it was reported from Stockholm, mine of information about conditions in Norway, that Quisling himself had tried suicide by taking sleeping pills. The report stated that the nervous puppet Nazi leader in conquered Norway had been found unconscious and that prompt medical attention saved his life. The Swedish sources stated in passing that their country, as well as Switzerland and Portugal, the only three European nations not en- gaged in the struggle one way or another, were being strongly propagandized propa-gandized by Germany on takin? sides, with considerable "advice" as to which side to take. |