| Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-It It is a deep state department department department depart depart- ment secret but Australia has put out feelers toward tying up with the U. U S. S Pacific defense system Behind the move is a growing fear among Australians that because of their leanings toward state socialism the clique controlling the Chamberlain government is prepared to sacrifice them to make a deal with Japan in China just as the Czechs were sold down the river to woo Hitler's good will in central Eu Eu- rope Several years ago the Australian labor government government government gov gov- thumbed its nose at the demands of London money powers With these powers now in the saddle in Downing street the Australians Australians Austra Austra- lians hans are afraid that th the financial interests will n n Hn toss Australia on the Japanese chopping block to save their holdings in China To circumvent such a trade the Australians are prepared to shift their external orientation orientation orientation orienta orienta- tion completely Instead of facing toward the east and thinking in terms of the British empire empire empire em em- pire they would turn westward and become part of the American continent orbit To fo effect this new alignment the Australians would establish a line of air and nd naval bases that would tie in with the defenses of Hawaii the Panama canal and South America Should Australia under the pressure of London policies switch its orientation from the European to the American continent the change would have tremendous effect on Canada whose bonds with the U. U S. S already are far closer than those between the U. U S. S and Austra Austra- lia ha Too Natural I Because Cordell Hull behaved too naturally a newsreel censored him They were taking shots of the secretary of state want wanted cd one of him receiving an important dispatch from abroad They placed Hull at his desk and asked his aid Harry A. A McBride to bring in a message As the camera started grinding McBride entered approached Hull and said Mr Secretary Secretary Sec See we have just learned that the Turkish leac leader Kemal is dead Hulls Hull's reply was unpremeditated and nat nat- ural With Tennessee simplicity he cocked his head and said Sho The newsreel feeling that the secretary of state should be more dignified deleted the scene and made Hull act it over Wyoming G. G O. O P. P Victory Editors Editor's note not One note One of the Round Merry ers continuing a survey of what the U. U S. S A. A thinks of the new deal gives the following re report report report re- re port from the Rocky mountain states CHEYENNE Wyo If If Cordell Hull lull wants to find out what farmers think of his reciprocity treaties he h should come out to this highly in individualistic individualistic in- in state of Wyoming Out here where they thy still still look look upon fences as an intrusion upon personal liberty the new deals deal's grazing measures crop regulation and trade treaties have been received with the same cordiality as the brain in W Wall ll street This was the chief reason for Wyoming's Democratic defeat on November 8 More than many states where there were factional Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic cut clean splits Wyoming represented a victory for the Republican party It was also a victory for the big cattlemen long rulers of this state slate who have been getting sourer and sourer on the new deal particularly Secretary Hulls Hull's reciprocity treaties The Canadian treaty which lowered the tariff tariff tar tar- iff on young steers to be fattened in the United that riled the cat cat- States States' was the first measure Next came the sanitary convention with Argentina which proposed to admit a certain certain tam tain amount of chilled mutton from the antarctic tic end of Argentina where mouth hoof-and-mouth disease does not exist It is doubtful whether m more re than a driblet of meat would have entered the United States but the cattlemen weren't taking chances A lobby operating with the same efficiency as the veterans promptly bottled the treaty in the senate foreign relations committee from which it will never budge It would be worth the political life of any Rocky mountain senator to vote for it New Argentine Pact The third thing which irks the cattlemen is the danger of pf a new treaty with Argentina this time on general trade Secretary Hull has been promising this pact to the great Rio Plata republic ever since he assumed office six years ago With the British agreement under his belt he is all aU set et to open negotiations with the Ar Ar- If he does docs he will not exactly cause Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming nung to secede from the union but he will cause its definite loss to the Democratic party Copyright 1938 for The Telegram I |
