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Show I NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS I 1 Written for The Telegram . By Ray TucUr i WASHINGTON President Roosevelt has received the diplomatic diplo-matic lowdbwn on the European war from a returned ambassador ambassa-dor Joe Kennedy and from confidential reports from his men in other world capitals. Here is the crux of their information: Nobody the governments, the women, the men wants to fight a prolonged war. The allies believe be-lieve that they can strangle Germany Ger-many by their land and sea blockade and eventually force the abdication of Herr Hitler, with a moderate taking command com-mand and negotiating some sort of a peace with Great Britain and France perhaps by spring. And then the western powers, including Germany, will turn on Russia in a conflict which will pit the communist system against the capitalist structure. Messrs. Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini, according to these reports, are far more afraid of Stalin and his radical philosophy than they are of Hitler. If our diplomatic reporters know what they're talking about, the present pres-ent slow motion war will soon become a conflict involving the western powers Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Russian menace. Ambassador Kennedy has in- . witted themselves last week when they staged their annual dinner in honor of President Roosevelt And nobody enjoyed the Joke more than F. D. R, whose Iseen naval eye quickly detected de-tected the marine blunder. Acting Navy Secretary Edison furnished the model of a battleship battle-ship that was set up in the lounge outside the Press club ballroom. Newspaper humorists listed the vessel as 'The Frank Hague flagship, Armament 16 electoral votes, to be delivered to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940." But the president, as he entered en-tered the lounge, noted the navy's own description of the "Hague flagship." The model was a replica of the old Maine which was blown up in Havana harbor har-bor more than 40 years ago. There may be a moral to this story, but the president who may need Hague's 16 delegates next June, made no comment for publication when It waa pointed out that the "Hague flagship" has been lying at the bottom of the sea for at least two generations. genera-tions. So far as F. D. R. is concerned, con-cerned, it can stay there! The National Press club's dinner din-ner committee they're the guys who arrange the club's entertainment enter-tainment for the president each year are a cynical and hard-boiled hard-boiled bunch; When they Invite a public official to their annual brawl. It means that they like him. Well, here are the cabinet members' who were permitted to come as S6-a-plate "deadheads": Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, James A. Farley, Charles A. Edison and, of course, Jesse H. Jones. Copyright, McClure Syndicate formed the White House and the , state department that he looks for an allied victory if the war continues along the present lines. He Insists that Great Britain and France, with their economic blockade, can force Herr Hitler to capitulate within a year at the most Germany, according to private information reaching Washington, Washing-ton, lacks almost all the essential essen-tial materials for waging a protracted pro-tracted conflict and feeding the home population. As the Soviet's military collapse during the Finnish Fin-nish invasion It is far .worse than the headlines convey has proved, the reich cannot depend on Russia for reinforcement. Hitler Hit-ler now realizes, Mr. Kennedy has reported to the White House, that he made a bad bargain when he signed on the dotted line with Joe Stalin. The British and the French, according to our diplomatic scouts, will not make peace with Germany so long as Hitler rules the reich. But if he will retire to his mountain retreat in Bavaria Ba-varia and let Goering become the nominal ruler of a new Germany, the allies will be only too happy to call off the war. Clarence Streit's plan for a federal union of the 15 leading democracies hasn't made much practical headway, but already it has run Into competition. A rival group of federal unionists insists that the new order must take In every nation In the world regardless of its contemporary form of government. govern-ment. The two groups are aa hostile as though they had their respective unions already established estab-lished with armies to back their ideologies. National Press club wags out- |