Washington County News | 1938-08-25 | Page 2 | 'international Lawlessness' Deplored by Secretary Hull

I Weekly News Review 1 'International Laivlessness' Deplored by Secretary Hull I Hy Joseph W. LaKiue ' International Last week as neurotic Europe jittered jit-tered and shivered, Adolf Hitler led 1,500,000 troops through unprecedented unprece-dented maneuvers. .In England, there were signs that Neville Chamberlain's Cham-berlain's "kid glove" policy toward Germany and England was breaking break-ing down. In Shanghai, Japan made bold advances on the International Settlement. (See below). Into such a troubled world stepped U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull to deplore once again the "tide of lawlessness." A good maker-of-points. Statesman Hull listed a sev- - 0 ; I tV,':. 'S , Bunn-iiim wiinnnriiir ranrt nr, k km CORDELL HULL ... a "narrow mental horizon." en-point International program to accomplish this aim: (1) economic reconstruction; (2) adherence to international in-ternational law; (3) observance of treaties and their orderly modification modifica-tion when necessary; (4) abstention from use of force; (5) non-intervention with other nations' internal affairs; af-fairs; (6) disarmament; (7) collaboration collab-oration for culture. To America, Mr. Hull's speech was a warning that U. S. isolation is no longer possible. To European chancellories it was intended to be a pep talk for internationalism. But as comment drifted back home next day from London, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Tokyo, it appeared Mr. Hull had only made his friends dearer, dear-er, made his enemies stronger. Berlin spoke of his "narrow mental men-tal horizon," Rome called him "idealistic and impracticable," Tokyo To-kyo said his speech was a "repetition "repeti-tion of his idealistic diplomacy which contains nothing not included in recent pronouncements." But from ally-hungry Paris and London came only praise. Two days later Franklin Roosevelt Roose-velt found occasion to make another official U. S. utterance on Democracy Democ-racy vs. Dictatorship. At Ontario's Queens university, where he got an honorary degree, the President (1) extended the Monroe doctrine to Canada by promising that "the people peo-ple of the U. S. will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil Is threatened by another empire;" and (2) took a slap at Hitler, Mussolini, Mus-solini, et al, by remarking: "We cannot prevent our people from having hav-ing an opinion in regard to wanton brutality . . . undemocratic regimentation regi-mentation . . . misery inflicted on helpless peoples." To France this was proof that "the democracies of the world are standing together." Foreign Last February 20, dapper Anthony Eden resigned s Britain's foreign secretary because ha didn't believe In consorting with dictators. But Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain set out to make friends with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Appointed Ap-pointed as Eden's successor was Viscount Halifax. Next came conversations at Berlin Ber-lin and Rome, a British-Italian friendship pact, a plan to take foreigners for-eigners out of the Spanish war, an avowal of peace from Hitler. Until last fortnight Neville Chamberlain was a success at winning friends and Influencing people. But a few days later his house of card3 collapsed. Italy began antl-Eritish antl-Eritish propaganda despite her "friendship" agreement. Hitler massed 1,500,000 men for war maneuvers despite his peace avowal. avow-al. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Fran-co, Spain's rebel commander, balked at eliminating foreign fighters, fight-ers, presumably on advice from Berlin and Rome. What was still more disheartening, Viscount Halifax met secretly with opinionated Anthony Eden and was reported ready to resign. Some thought Neville Chamberlain might also resign, placing weather-beaten Sir Samuel Iloare In line for the premiership. At Cologne an anil aircraft gun was planted In front of the U. S. consulate, barking every 20 minutes at on Imaginary enemy In the sky. Throughout Germany, troop trains pulled renr-rves to the borders of r'rnnee, Poland and Czechoslovakia for Adolf Hitler's Ifi-day war maneuvers. From many points, foreign ribiiervers sent word of wholesale rebellion among workers drafted for "stale tasks." Nowhere was this Nazi rIhiw of power more keenly Telt than In lilllo Czechoslovakia, win-re 400. DIM) troops were necrelly mobilized to forestall a sudden Invasion move 1 by Germany. Meanwhile, England's Lord Runciman made little progress prog-ress in his mission to settle the scrap between loyal Czechs and pro-Nazi pro-Nazi Sudeten Germans. As negotiations nego-tiations reached an impasse, Sudeten Su-deten Ernst Kundt warned the government gov-ernment that the "gap is unbridgeable." unbridge-able." Fortnight ago, Chinese nationalists national-ists in Shanghai celebrated the first anniversary of Japan's invasion by raising flags and waging guerrilla warfare. Result was an invasion of Shanghai's International Settlement Settle-ment by Jap secret service agents who were promptly spanked and sent home. Last week two French soldiers were seized and taken to the Japanese embassy where they were held despite protests. Though Shanghai itself now lives peacefully under Tokyo rule, the foreign-owned International Settlement Settle-ment houses 1,000,000 Chinese still loyal to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Kai-shek. Shanghai diplomats feared that Japan might attempt to seize the settlement, a move that would send U. S., Great Britain and France into an outraged uproar. Meanwhile, Tokyo tightened its belt once more, taking more economy econ-omy measures to speed up the war in China. Hankow, long-sought objective, ob-jective, still remained 100 miles away from war weary Nipponese. Business Last week Secretary of State Cordell Cor-dell Hull reported satisfactory progress prog-ress with his reciprocal trade treaty program whereby the U. S. becomes be-comes "most favored nation" with a host of governments. Then came a stumbling block, thrown in his path not by a foreign power but by Mr. Hull's next door neighbor, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace. Wal-lace. In all the world there are wheat surpluses of 975 million bushels. Of this the U. S. has 325 million, Canada Can-ada 250 million. Easily the biggest competitors in wheat export business. busi-ness. North America's "good neighbors" neigh-bors" have made price-cutting moves against each other to sell a major part of the 400 million bushels bush-els the world export market needs this year. What Secretary Wallace suggested suggest-ed last week was an "understanding" "understand-ing" on wheat export policy with the Canadian government shich has pegged No. Jjvhont -at a minimum of 61 cents a buihel and agreed to absorb lfjs.ses connected with export business. After he reaches an agreement. Secretary Wallace hopes to make a similar provision for U. S. exports, subsidy money to come from customs receipts. Determined to dispose of at least 100 million bushels on the export market this year. Secretary Wallace might easily disrupt the reciprocal trade treaty by underbidding nations na-tions now operating under agreements agree-ments with Secretary HulL Politics This year, more than ever, state primary campaigns have brought complaints of "dirty poker." In Kentucky, both Sen. Albcn Barkley and Gov. A. B. "Happy" Chandler were accused of misusing federal and state funds to influence voters. Investigating such charges last week, Sen. Morris Sheppard's committee com-mittee on campaign expenditures found a particularly juicy morsel. Uncovered In Pennsylvania were letters carrying Sen. Joseph F. Guf-fey's Guf-fey's signature, urging WPA work- p II - ' I4hk"V" " -t ' ' . !: ' ' I i ri : " ' i ii-flSt rvi arialrf i i r- . . . - v. a. .-. . 1 PENNSYLVANIA'S GUI I KY tin wrote ton many letters. ers to contribute to campaign chests of Gov. George A. Marie, running for the senate, and C. Alvin Jones, running for governor. Section 2011 ,,t the U. S. criminal code forbids solicitation by o federal fed-eral officeholder of political funds from any person receiving federal compensation. Vehemently denying the charge, Senator (tiillYy'n secretary secre-tary nevertheless T.ped word across the Atlantic to his boss, who is touring tour-ing Europe. In Wyoming, a quiet primary renominated re-nominated Gov. Leslie A. Miller, naming Nels II. Smith ns his Republican Re-publican opponent next November. Also renonilnaled was Wyoming's only representative, Paul It. (Ireev-er, (Ireev-er, who will face Frank O. Ilorlon, personal friend of Herbert Hoover. Crime In September, 1934, the body of a headless woman was washed ashore on Cleveland's Lake Erie front door. The next three and one-half years produced nine more headless bodies, bod-ies, seven of them men, two of them women. In each case, clues were maddeningly absent; always the same mutilation and cleavage of bodies, always the papers and boxes into which the pieces were packed, always the hopelessness of identification. identi-fication. Last week, rummaging around a lake front dump, police stumbled on an eleventh victim, headless like the rest. Four hours of patient examination ex-amination brought no clues. A few hours later crowds swarmed over the dump, uncovered a twelfth torso. tor-so. Both were women; one may have been a Negro. As police continued to seek the "mad butcher of Kingsbury Run" they knew only that he was a surgically sur-gically skilled maniac who apparently appar-ently has no other motive except 1 a fiendish desire to dissect human bodies. Sports In New York's Madison Square Garden, 20,000 fight fans saw dusky Henry Armstrong enter a boxing ring wearing two crowns, world featherweight, world welterweight. In another corner sat Lou Ambers wearing one crown, world lightweight. light-weight. For 15 rounds they fought at terrific pace as Henry Armstrong clearly held the edge. In the fifth. Ambers dropped under a crushing right In the sixth he dropped again under a fusillade of rights. But in the thirteenth he fought Armstrong to a standstill. At fight's end, Henry Armstrong left the ring wearing three crowns Instead of two, the first man in boxing box-ing history to hold three titles at one time. But from the audience came jeers, boos, catcalls, straw hats, cigar butts and pop bottles. Domestic "7 am quite confident that is u superior su-perior in learning and ability to anyone any-one els available and tiiat his charac-tPT charac-tPT is equal to his gifts. He has been a dear friend of mine for many years, but I am confident ihut the judgment I express is not the child but the parent of my afj eclion." Thus, in 1932, wrote the late beloved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes regarding Harvard's Felix Frankfurter, whom he wanted appointed ap-pointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Su-preme court But fumed Jurist Frankfurter declined the ofTer and I I 1 1 1 'mm ' - - , ; ' : v p FELIX FRANKFURTER' "He is superior in learning . . Justice Holmes died. So did another an-other great liberal. Justice Benjamin Benja-min Cardozo. To fill Justice Cardoso's post was a job confronting Frnnklin Roosevelt Roose-velt last week. Since the court already al-ready has a liberal majority he I would not find It necessary to con- i slder that factor. Some thought a I westerner should have the Job for , reasons of geographical distribution. Others thought it should go to a j Jew or Catholic for religious rca- i sons. Though no appointment was rx- 1 peeled before congress reconvenes. pro-Frankfurter sentiment was 1 growing rapidly In Washington. , First to climb the bandwagon was Nebraska's Sen. George Norris I Most observers thought Felix Frankfurter would make a good addition ad-dition to the high court. Army Last week, ns Adolf Hitler pa-raded pa-raded his manpower before the world and England's Leslie Hove-Helisha Hove-Helisha began "streamlining" Great Britain's army, many nn American wondered about his own national defense. To their surprise. Investigators Inves-tigators learned (hat U. S. army of. flclals are placing nn nrcent on youlh, nre moreover lighlenlng efficiency ef-ficiency airings. New regulations rcqulro periodic reports on major generals and 12,500 officers below that grnde. And. because a score of majors and brigadier generals reach retirement n go this year, n wholesale, reshuffling reshuf-fling of upper ranks Is In progress. Hut to MaJ. Gi n. Geoi go Van Horn Moseley, attending Third army mnncuvei s nt Camp Mullls. Texas, officers were only part of the problem. Said he: "The No. 1 problem facing tho Unlled Stales loday from n mililaiy standpoint Is manpower, which In Hip worst j,, our liislory. There are five reasons, In this oriler: graft, crime, heallli illiteracy and venereal disease."'