| Show I National Whirligig W WASHINGTON American prod production of nickel which is absolutely absolutely ab absolutely ab- ab essential to manufacture manufacture ture of armor plate and many products has been blocked for more than three years by year dollar-a-year men on the war production board still on the pay roll of the International International International Nickel company of Canada Canada Canada Can Can- ada which enjoys and means to retain a 90 per cent monopoly of of the world supply That startling revelation has been presented to a senate judiciary judiciary judiciary ju ju- subcommittee headed by Senator Guy M M. Gillette of Iowa This group under pressure from western has begun an investigation of Df the prospects of decentralizing heavy industries industries indus indus- industries tries at the close of the conflict conflict con con- It also seeks to promote domestic development of numerous nu- nu numerous minerals which we obtain obtain obtain ob ob- tain now only from abroad It aims to make America suf self in the event that future cris crises s should cut off peacetime sour sources es inquiries indicate that po powerful VI e r f u 1 interests in In- In trenched in fn various war agencies agencies agencies agen agen- cies in Washington are using their their- official positions to crush potential potent ah competitors in iril these line lines linest t The final Gillette report rna may be one of the most sensational sensational sensa sensa- documents Capitol Hill has read in years The cl clash sh of corporate cliques exposed by th the able senator from Iowa has ramifications extending extending extending extend extend- ing far fal beyond this country's current needs for ores which will wilI- toughen e the metallic skin akin of warships artillery planes and tanks It involves the capacity of of the United States to play playa a size man-size role at the peace table and in the era because because because be be- cause those nations which control control control con con- the basic materials required for waging war will be able to prevent aggressors from re re- re- re arming and precipitating another er Gethsemane That theory lies at the bottom of all unrevealed plans for an economic league of nations which shall serve as a policeman for the world Hitler could not have built a military m machine ch ne had such a scheme been instituted after World War I. I Republican bigwigs are scared stiff that the imaginative Franklin D D. D Roosevelt may stage a military coup designed to shove their June convention in jn Chicago from the headlines and microphones Under such mch circumstances cir cir- circumstances the public might have to scour the want ad or comic pages to ascertain the names on their presidential slate To the layman un unversed In inside partisan maneuvering such a fear may appear fantastic fantastic fantastic fan fan- and as childish as suspicions suspicions sus sus- of a bogey man But the coincidences between dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic Roosevelt-managed Roosevelt shows and G GO GOP 0 P billings have been so numerous that that- the superstitious politicians do not regard them themas as accidental happenings Franklin D. D Roosevelt has avoided many of the pitfalls into t which Wood Woodrow ow Wilson stumbled But he seems een s to be beOn beon beon on the verge of repeating Wilsons Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's tragic error that error that of not nailing down guarantees in return return return re re- re- re turn for aid Those rhose in the know maintain that the exposition of Hulls Hull's seventeen sev sev- seventeen enteen points was Vas not so much a platitudinous platform for home consumption as s a shaft aimed at Moscow while hinting that westill we westill westill still believe in all the noble aims set forth in the document But Moscow paid scant attention t to the sermon from the Tennessee mountaineer We could have written an ironclad program of collaboration tion before we exported the first lend lease jeep to Archangel But then we were in the way one-way Santa Claus mood an event unique in history Now we have havea a a. second chance Washington does not need to issue ultimatums it needs merely to tal talk honestly and |
