| Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON Ambassador Joseph P. P Kennedy has been denying newspaper stories lately so he may deny this one But in Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood recently he had the movie moguls almost pop eyed with his confidential views on the outcome of the war and appeasement In brief he said that England was virtually defeated Ambassador Kennedy went out to California to visit William Randolph Hearst and to consider consider consider con con- sider a proposal by banking interests that he join the Hearst newspaper enterprises While there Jo Joe who once headed the Keith Keith-Albee- Orpheum Oi Theaters and later Pathe dropped in into into into to see some of his old friends in Hollywood At a private gathering of movie moguls he expounded these extraordinary views 1 That England although fighting heroically heroically heroic heroic- ally faced overwhelming odds and the United States might as well realize that England was virtually defeated 2 That the United States should carefully limit its aid to Britain so as to gain time timeto to become fully armed in order to be in a better position to do business with the axis victors 3 That Hollywood producers should stop making films offensive to the dictators Kennedys Kennedy's remarks although the record caused such a sensation that they were communicated communicated communicated com com- immediately to Washington Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy also told his Hollywood friends what he had already told the state department that he would definitely not return to London Note Note Joe Joe Kennedy one of Roosevelt's close personal friends was one of the most popular ambassadors ever to serve in London He stuck at his post during the rain of death which hit all around the embassy but for nearly a year has felt that England was fighting a hopeless war Whether she won or not Kennedy felt the war would completely revolutionize the British s social al and economic system also result in the loss of most of her world trade Planes to Greece Desperate Greece is is is' isnow now beseeching the United States for airplanes and the state department department department depart depart- ment has announced that the request is being given sympathetic consideration Not many people know it but state department red tape once cut off the shipment of 30 Bellanca bombing bombing bombing bomb bomb- ing planes ordered by the Gre Greek k minister of aviation This was about two years ago when the state department was in the habit of pointing an accusing finger at any small n nation tion ordering arms especially if it was suspected that the arms might be trans-shipped trans to aid loyalist Spain The 30 were listed as training planes though they could be equipped with bomb racks overnight However when the American minister in Athens Lincoln MacVeagh MacVeagh MacVeagh Mac- Mac cabled the state department for an export export export ex ex- ex- ex port licen license he got a peremptory No Joseph Green in charge of the state departments department's munitionS munitions mu mu- control board wanted to know why Greece such a little country wanted so many big planes So he banned the order on the ground that they might go on to Spain Finland and Greece In direct contrast is the response of the American public to the heroic stand taken by Greece and to the equally heroic stand taken by Finland against Russia A tremendous drive headed by Herbert Hoover Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver raised money for the Finns But although some money is being raised for the Greeks the enthusiasm has not reached anywhere near the same scale as that for the Finns This may result from the increased callousness callous callous- ness of the American public toward war Or it may be because Herbert Hoover is not whooping it up for the Greeks However the outcome of the Italian Greek-Italian war will mean far more to the outcome of the entire war than the battle of Finland For i if the Greeks succeed in holding off Italy for any great length of time it will be a terrific blow to the prestige of the axis The military odds of course are in favor of the much stronger Italian army in any long war And in the end Greece may suffer the same fate as Finland Finland especially especially i if Germany comes to Italy's rescue through Bulgaria Distributed by United Feature Syndicate |
