Show Round Merry Merry Merry-Go- Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ROBEET S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Allied Allied and Roosevelt diplomacy diplo diplo- macy struggled behind the scenes until almost the last minute to keep Mussolini out of war On Monday the Italian dictator shouted hi his voiced hoarse-voiced proclamation of war An And as late as the preceding Saturday the French still were dickering with him At that time they offered him the island of Corsica birthplace of Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon Napo Napo- leon as well as the important African colony of Tunisia plus French with its Red sea port of But Mussolini wanted more He already had demanded the six Alpine departments ext extending Irom from the French Riviera to Geneva And this time h he also demanded that the French pay him hun for the cost of mobilizing the Italian army This was too much for the French to swallow and Mussolini undoubtedly knew it Real fact probably was that that he e could not afford to antagonize Hitler by failing to declare war A nazi victory looked too certain in in which case Mussolini would have been left facing the triumphant and resentful hordes of nazi Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many across the Brenner Bre pass Note Note Note-A A lot of people think Mussolini will face an aggressive nazi army anyway Super-Bund Super in U. U S. S A. A Behind the presidents president's sudden request for funds to employ additional F FBI B I agents agents' were some amazing fifth column discoveries One of the most sensational was the existence of a super bund that apparently i is of recent origin and has a picked hand-picked membership in 10 cities with large origin German-origin populations First clues were uncovered by Dies committee investigators After some weeks of quiet probing probing ing mg with the aid of paid informers the investigators investigators investigators gators reported to the committee that the organization organization organization or or- makes Fritz Kuhns Kuhn's outfit look like e ea a peanut show it is the cleverest rest and most sinister subversive group w we have encountered They also reported that whether knowingly or unwittingly we dont don't know Which yet certain certain tam tain industrialists have cooperated with the se secret secret secret se- se cret organization in order to fight labor unions ions There is big money behind this movement one investigator reported and its it's not coming from Germany I The cities listed by the Dies agent as containing containing con con- taming branches of the super-bund super are St. St Louis Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Los Angeles Boston Cleveland D Detroit troit and Baltimore The organization is a branch of the German national socialist nazi party All members must Swear an oath of ot allegiance to Hitler and the immediate program is to spread pread pacifistic and Semitic anti propaganda Italian Prospects United States military observers generally accurate regarding Hitler's war moves are not quite sure how to gauge the Italo French con con- Briefly the situation is this The French have an excellent army along the Alps which is also a difficult terrain for the Italians to pass pasS' However However However How How- ever the fascists have a superior air force while the French are weakened by the loss of hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of planes on the western front At sea the combined French and British fleets are superior to the Italian But But and and this is important the important the Italians Italians' are far superior in submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines and in m the air The French and British would have real difficulty in getting close enough to the Italian coast to bombard its cities Earlier in the war the French said they welcomed wel wel- com corned an Italian offensive But now weakened and fighting desperately in the west it is another another another an an- other story Political Chaff The C CIO I 0 torn tom with internal strife over whether to follow John L L. Lewis against Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt will hold a special convention after the Democrats nominate in July Frank Waltman Waltman Walt- Walt man an G. G O. O P. P press nabob has arranged a specIal special cial stunt to open the Philadelphia convention A ceremony broadcast from Independence hall hail will carry the soun sound of the Liberty bell hen around I the world w while lle Richard Ichard Crooks Metropolitan opera star will sing a song especially written for the convention Cradle of Liberty Libe The man mal who who will place Senator Bob Taft in nomination nomi nomi- nation nahon will WIn be Grove Patterson editor of the Toledo newspaper owned by Paul Block who last week eek came out for Herbert Hoover Vice President t Jack Garner apparently has decided h his s public career is over He has sent to Uvalde pictures files flIes and other personal things he has never before shipped home Distributed b by United Feature Syndicate |