Show Round Merry-Go-Round Trade Mark By B DREW PEARSON And md ROBERT ALLEN llEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Those Those who have been sitting in In on some of the confer conferences between British an and American diplomats diplomats' durin during th the Mediterranean and rid far eastern crisis say that t probably nev never r before not even during the th world war was war was there theres s such ch complete understanding and sympathy between the heads of the two speaking English-speaking countries Here is one significant illustration of this which has escaped general attention When the Canadian treaty was signed signe it was yas only natural to expect an outbreak of or indignation from the British press The effect of the treaty virtually was to nullify British empire trade preference preference preference in Canada The lowering of tariffs against U. U S S. S goods meant a definite blow to British sales to the dominion Yet there was not a single peep from the British British British Brit Brit- ish press Reason was that the British foreign office which usually can guide the press in its attitude toward foreign relations had given it a quiet hint to lay layoff off The foreign office did not want anything anything anything any any- thing to disturb the new Anglo-American Anglo en en- en tente Reason for th this s entente is no secret It accrues from R Roosevelt British fears that Japan will en engulf engulf engulf en- en gulf all eastern Asia coupled with the knowledge that the British and American navies each is powerless powerless powerless pow pow- pow pow- erless in the far east without the support of the oth other r. r This is behind the appointment of tary of State Phillips as a delegate to the London London London Lon Lon- don naval conference Actually this conference will move more to solidify Anglo-American Anglo policy in the far east ast than it will wili to reduce navies Note Senator Hiram Johnson h has s written friends that he will stage one of his old-fashioned old league of nations forensic battles against the Roosevelt neutrality policy or or-as or as he says says lack lack of it He claims Roosevelt is taking the United States into the back door of at the league of na na- na Bug Expert be surprised at Rex He knows a lot about bugs says Lee A. A Strong chief bug expert in the department of agriculture A uA lot Jot ot of people dont don't know the difference between between between be be- tween the cotton boll weevil and the pink boll bollworm bollworm bollworm worm but Rex Tugwell does says Strong He knows all kinds of bugs fruit bugs fruit flies chinch bugs grasshoppers or the wire worms in Walla Walla Strongs Strong's enthusiasm for Rex Tugwell as an entomologist grows out of a recent trip to Mexico with the undersecretary of agriculture They drove a thousand miles together from San Antonio Antonio Antonio An An- tonio over the new highway to Mexico City We took it easy so we could see the country country- side Every once in a while Rex would get out and pick an orange from the orange trees that grow wild in the hillsAnd hillsAnd hillsAnd hills And if it he got of an insect he knew it every time I tell you theres there's nothing amateurish about Tugwell's knowledge of bugs Note Note Though Though h Tugwell's main job is administrator administrator administrator adminis adminis- of resettlement he remains undersecretary of agriculture Propaganda War Var Drums Drum At which point enters that part of at the picture not fully tully realized hitherto namely that Mussolini proceeded to use the English as a drum-beat drum to lead his armies into Abyssinia Prior to that time there had been no En anti glish t sentiment in the Italian press Nor had there been any outburst against Italy in Great Britain References in the London press were mild and casual Captain Anthony Eden had even gone to bat for Mussolini during the negotiations with the Abyssinian delegate at Geneva But suddenly out of at a clear sky the Italian press flared forth against England Only those familiar with the way the fascist press operates can appreciate the significance of such a blast Under this system all editors are required to take their cue from the editorials of certain designated designated designated spokesmen Usually this spokesman is Mussolini's Mussolini's Mus Mus- own paper dItalia And even papers devoted exclusively to sports must reprint as their leading article certain policy editorials which appear in dItalia Every paper i ir in th the country on that day will carry the same editorial together with elaborations by indi- indi al editors eda bt |