| Show INSIDE i STUFF Politics and tv Finance McClure Newspaper Syndicate 5 W WASHINGTON AS INGTON 1 By Paul Taul Mallon MaHon There Ther is s a 1 good private reason why will not pay us at atthe the end ei this month z She wants to pay She has the money oney Yet she will default as a aI I gesture to France They I have uve an understanding that Germany Will ill II pay no one unless she pays Trance ranee That understanding probably should hould not cover the insignificant fifteen teen millions she owes us us' in this c ming payment for mixed claims rind d the array of occupation t However the Von does not want to do any- any to arouse French investors at ibS juncture if That i-That That inside situation Is re realized by byo o eur administration at Washington Therefore it will be none too harsh pith the Germans Two months ago the he Germans conI confidentially con con- I approached Treasury Sec See tary Mills They pointed out that their contract with us required ninety m days days' d ys' ys notice of default They wanted f to know if Mills intended to hold old them to the letter of that contract f Mills hemmed and hawed Congress f Vis P then in session He knew that anything he said would be us used d him connection with i the more mere Important war debts due De De- 15 The G Germans rm ns bowed and w went nt out put Bief carried with them the distinct Impression that Mills Mill would be le le- He wilL The v The inside dope Is the tr treasury will waive waive the day day 90 clause It will also waive th the 15 millions In one way or another because we will not get it S The he situation may prove a precedent prece prece- dent cent for the December 15 war debt payments They also require 90 days v notice notie e of default That means means means' they w would uld have to speak September 15 I hey wont won't Nobody here in the administration wants that debt question raised in hi middle of the campaign r. r t. t No o. o tears would be shed here if ev everybody forgot about it permanently f V. Germany is using the shrewdest seen in Europe since Bismarck Bis- Bis marck m k World sympathy is is Is' being aroused ed by fears fears' of civil war and hints that the kaiser is just around ith the corner comer The French are being Ut t informed at every turn Our diplomats will vill privately bet beti i you that Germany will win as much is u 1 she really wanted out of ot her prof pro- pro f for arms anna equality with Prance Franco F t. t Continued on Pare Pae Three o I INSIDE STUFF Politics Finance Continued from froni Pate One There is an important story behind that What Germany wants Isto is to tear up the tre treaty of Versailles and establish hers herself U as a B nation She is using using- as she slie long has used used all all her local troubles to gain that international en end She asked for arms arias equality knowing she would not get it Our private ad advices vices say she probably will get permission to reorganize her army so she can suppress can suppress the and communists The transatlantic cables ca en- bles whisper that Fran Prance France e will permit per per- permit mit her to do dp that It will be a big step ir In the direction n she he is moving I Politicians will jT watch atch minutely the progress of Governor Roosevelt's western trip starting today Republicans are expecting a break They remember the trouble Al AI Smith hit In Denver in 1928 His water power pronouncement alienated many thany potential potential po po- supporters there No modern presidential candidate who ever went west came back without with out making mistakes Hughes lost the election In California It is a far tar more hazardous undertaking undertaking under under- taking than the public realizes Local factions and issues must be met every every- where Republican master minds have several several sev sev- eral ideas in their sleeves to to- counteract counteract coun coun- the bad news expected from the American Legion convention this week One is the effort to show through grand jury proceedings here that the B B. E. E F. F had dynamite and guns That argument appears to be start start- ed on an endless an-endless endless trail tail The Inside I story is that no one tine will ever beI be beable beable I I able to prove what some individual members of ot the B B. B E. E F F. had hidden Prosecution of or the case will offer publicity for tor the administration argument ar No one will be convicted a a i NEW NEWYORK YORK YORK By James McMullIn l n The Republicans ns ara are d doing some some som ambitious figuring to prove that the Hearst poll doesn't mean menn anything They have it doped out that the true Republican percentages are 19 per percent percent percent cent greater than the poll indicates They got this figure b by comparing Republican percentages with those registered in the solid south in 1916 This reasoning leads them to the conclusion that any state which gives Hoover 42 per cent or better in the Hearst straw vote is safely in their column They also argue that Cali CalL California California fornia will come their way no matter matter mat mat- matter ter what straw votes show This logis gives gives' them electoral votes It takes to elect and the idea is that either Minnesota l Oregon or Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- cousin will come across The Democrats are conducting a i private poll among newspaper edi editors tors asking their opinion as to who will carry the state in which the newspaper is located They have had replies to date Indications from this ballot are that Roosevelt will have votes Hoover with 20 in doubt WWW The Berlin Steel Helmet veterans meeting on September 4 was President dent Hindenburg's answer to Hitler's boast that the regular army is in sympathy with the Nazis Hindenburg Hinden Hinden- Hindenburg burg has now shown that he too has hasa a private army one army one which can match the brown shirts at any time Hindenburg honorary chairman of the Steel Helmet has notified the organization organization organization or or- leaders on both sides that at the slightest sign of Hitler's storm troops being in movement the entire Steel Helmet army will be sworn into I government service General von Schleicher approved the plan as a n astep astep step likely to have a favorable influence in in- influence fluence on the morale of the younger army officers who are arc inclined to sympathize with Hitler Von Schleicher real power in the Von government has friendly enemy relations with France He is known to 10 be seeking on an understand understanding ing with the French general staff Communism Is a menace of sufficient gravity to each nation to make a secret se se- secret cret military treaty a near The one thing at all likely to upset upset up up- set the applecart in Germany would be death This might bring chaos No one has been I groomed to take his place a a a aThe The dope here Is that Henry Ford Fordis is negotiating with his for fora a further wage cut of 30 per cent This would enable him to cut the price of his car below In spite of the new eight Ford only got cot 28 per cent of new car registrations inthe in inthe inthe the first seven months of or this year as against 33 per percent cent last year I |
