| Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-It It doesn't pay to minimize the reports reports' of increasing fascist influence in Latin America Actually the situation is worse than appears on the surface The state department is now conducting a confidential confidential confidential con con- survey which shows that Mussolini is arming at least three Latin American countries In Nicaragua the Italian government has just delivered tons tonS' of munitions left over from the Ethiopian war They were sold on dirt cheap terms but even so it is doubtful that Nicaragua will be able to pay for them Nicaragua it will be recalled has given the United States a year 99 lease for the construction of a canal paralleling the Panama canal also leases on certain islands and on the Gulf of Fonseca as naval bases Recently however the Nicaraguan government has has' become totalitarian and not particularly friendly to the United States In Ecuador the Italian government has completed completed completed com com- another lar large e sale of arms Also in Paraguay Paraguay Paraguay Para Para- guay where the United States is attempting to negotiate peace in the Chaco Italy has sold a large consignment of second-hand second military planes NOTE Should NOTE Should these countries default on their payments next step would be for Mussolini Mussolini Musso Musso- lini to demand oil or mineral concessions Fas- Fas nazi cist tactics tactics' in South America are reported to tp be to get colonies colonies' through economic penetration penetration tion without fighting for them Annapolis Boss BossAll BossAll BossAll All the admirals love Roosevelt nevertheless they are awful sore that the admiral who becomes becomes becomes be be- comes superintendent of the naval academy next week does so only by benefit of the president The man is Rear Admiral Wilson Brown former former former for for- mer White House naval aide which is how he got ot othis his job Brown is not considered an upper bracket admiral Those in the upper brackets of efficiency efficiency efficiency effi effi- are made fleet commanders and it has been navy tradition that superintendents of Annapolis Annapolis Annapolis An An- must have had fleet experience Admiral Brown has never commanded a fleet and the navy was preparing to give ive him a nice quiet little navy yard such as Charleston when suddenly an order was received from the White House It advised that Admiral Brown should be given the naval academy if he wants it There was no doubt that he wanted it since he had done donea a little personal lobbying to get it Soviet Ambassador The British ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay P. 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C V V. 0 O. is tall perfectly groomed has an Oxford accent is the son of the Earl of Crawford is a firm believer in in the capitalist system The soviet ambassador Comrade Alexander is short skinned dark-skinned speaks hesitating English twice has been exiled to Si Siberia Siberia Siberia Si- Si beria is a riding hard-riding ex-cavalry ex officer is a firm believer in a communist government Yet the two men have a common bond v This came out the other day when the social secretary of the soviet embassy was making makin up upa a list for one of its famed receptions and included the names of two society colu columnists mists I will No said Ambassador not have them in my house What they wrote about you was not riot so bad remonstrated his secretary not the reason Its It's what they wrote about my colleague Sir Ronald Lindsay They were most unkind to him They said he went to sleep while talking to people That is not true Sir Ronald is a little deaf and when he cannot hear he closes his eyes eyes' to concentrate He does not go o to sleep 1 Sir Ronald is a diplomat and an anold anold anold old friend of mine No one who criticizes him will come to my house Political Gratitude Senator Byrnes' Byrnes chairmanship of the senate unemployment investigation has caused a lot of his Democratic colleagues to wonder whether there is such a thing think as personal gratitude Behind this is the fact that the senator is now knifing his old friend in the White House who spent around in South Carolina to keep Jimmy in the senate To get the full picture remember that for about four years Jimmy Byrnes was known as the presidents president's messenger boy Whenever there was a ti tight ht jam in con congress ress it was Jimmy who carried the message up Pennsylvania avenue and told the boys what to do Jimmy gloried in the glamour of it And the president seemed to like Jimmy for when there was danger of his defeat Roosevelt actually went down dow to South Carolina and made a speech in addition to granting two large P W A power projects projects' projects projects' pro pro- to aid Jimmy with his constituents But now that the senator from South Carolina is safely reelected he has been batting battin against the president on several important issues particularly particularly particularly par par- that of unemployment relief Byrnes Byrnes' colleagues claim that Jn in his present investigation he has been conferring secretly with Senator most effective Republican foe and with other Republican leaders Also administration witnesses coming comin before Byrnes are sharply questioned while witnesses are given the glad hand So it seems almost certain that the White ex-White House messenger boy will brin bring in a report rapping rapping rapping rap rap- ping relief expenditures at a time when his chief definitely stated that no one must starve Copyright 1938 1933 for br The Telegram |
