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Show Merry.Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON One reason for the confident confi-dent air around the White House that the embargo em-bargo will be revised is a secret ace up the sleeve of Franklin Roosevelt. Jim Farley is going down the line one hundred hun-dred per cent on this issue. This Is the first time since the ill-fated purge campaigns of 1938 that Jim Is taking off his coat and going to bat for the president on Capitol hill. Throughout the last session. Jim, unlike previous sessions, never lifted a finger to help the White House. More than once, when his Influence might have swayed the few needed votes in a close contest, Jim remained aloof. But this time Jim will be back at his old stand and that fact is one of the most significant signifi-cant political developments of the year. The Farley-Roosevelt working agreement was reached at a two-hour luncheon conference last Wednesday, their first real talk following Jim's return from Europe. Jim was abroad all during the crisis which led up to the war and the experience made a profound Impression. He returned feeling very strongly that personal and partisan differences should be dropped and Democratic ranks closed in a united front Also, the conference he had with Roosevelt at Hvde Park before sailing had cleared up some of the chief misunderstandings misunderstand-ings and helped prepare the way for last Wednesday's Wed-nesday's rspprochement Nothing wss said by either about Roosevelt's 1940 plans. The subject was not mentioned. But Roosevelt did make It very clear to Jim that he wanted him back in the fold and that he was counting on him for advice and support In the trying months to come. Jim assured him he would be in there pitching, but at the same time frankly told the president that if he wanted harmony he had to be more conciliatory. "The time has come to drop all this wrangling wran-gling and quarreling among ourselves and getting get-ting even with people," Jim said. "That's all petty stuff now and the thing to do is to forget It and restore peace in the party." Note Several hours after Jim departed the president announced the appointment of James E. Heath, close friend of Senator Carter Glass, as collector of customs at Norfolk. Va. Last spring Roosevelt and Glass were at dagger points over a federal judgeship. Whether this olive brsnch to Glass was the result of Farley's lecture lec-ture is not known. But it brought quick results in the form of a statement from the Virginia senator sen-ator that he was "very much gratified by the appointment." Hitler and Roosevelt Diplomatic reports from the European firing line indicate that the impending special session of congress Is having a far greater effect upon the war than is realized by the American public. For behind the terrific drive of Adolf Hitler in Poland is a desire to clean up that country and set up a dummy Polish government before Roosevelt can get any embargo action in congress. con-gress. Hitler's plan Is to have a new pronazl government gov-ernment in Poland sue for pesce and send messages mes-sages to France and Great Britain that Poland does not desire their aid. This would leave the French and British very much out on a limb, fighting for a country which had washed out on them. Also it would make Roosevelt's task of amending the neutrality act vastly more difficult diffi-cult He would be confronted by a battery of congressional haranguers asking why the arms embargo should be lifted when the French and British were unnecessarily prolonging the war against Germany. The speed of Hitler's drive Into Polsnd also Is aimed to bolster the Italians and Jugoslavs. Latest diplomatic reports from those countries indicate that in this der fuehrer has been successful. suc-cessful. The Italian government which has been in a high state of vacillation, now is reported to be much impressed by the overwhelming Polish defeat and is Inclined to stick with its axis partner. Biggest unsolved mystery among U. S. military mili-tary strategists, who have been studying every move on the Polish battleground, is what became be-came of the Polish air force. Poland had more than 1000 fighting planes, but few of them have been in evidence. Also Poland had an army of 1.500.000 men facing about 800.000 Germans. Yet the Germans Ger-mans advanced so rapidly they did not even take the trouble to cover their flanks. Until they got to Warsaw, the Poles fought only rearguard rear-guard action. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Ino. ' -v |