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Show TTIE BULLETIN Brackarfs Washington Digest WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Public Sentiment Grows Insistent Intensified Warfare Started To Keep Out of European Muddle As Germany at Last Realizes Unmistakable Giange Is Going on Throughout the Futility of Peace Overtures Country; People Make Known Their Feelings and Their Thought Is Reflected in Congress. (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion are expressed la these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ' Released by Western Mwotptr Union. ' EUROPE: War of Diplomacy By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press BIdg., Washington, D. WASHINGTON. While the Roosevelt administration continues to subordinate everything to the general subject of the European war, there has been an unmistakable change in sentiment going on throughout the country and In the capital city. It is inescapable to the merest tyro of an observer. It represents a crystal lisation of that foggy thing called public sentiment. The senate has debated the issue of repeal of the arms embargo to the fullest, but the debate has fallen short of telling .the whole truth. There was an entire lack of any truly great speeches. Much additional light has been thrown on the whole question of a neutrality policy, yes; but I believe the senate failed to do the job in a way that history will measure as statesmanlike. The amailng fact is. therefore, that public sentiment should have solidified so definitely in such a short time, with a verdict that says: "We will stay out of that European mess; It is not ours, and we will not play their game." It is always difficult to describe what takes place in the matter of public sentiment, powerful as it is in the United States. But It is easy to describe the condition, the status, of national thought as represented by an overwhelming majority of the citizens. In the current case, it can be told in two sentences. A few weeks ago, the big shots of government were saying: "possibly" we can keep out of war; the present statement is that "probably" we can keep out of the war. It is a vital difference. The reason for this is obvious People have made known their feel ings. They have made clear that whatever else they may differ about, they are determined and united on the one proposition, namely, that we must not get tangled up with Europe's power politics. Further, existence of this sentiment has been thoroughly reflected In congress and those who would willingly toss our armies into the flame have begun to get scared about their own hides. Clark Takes Wallop at Assistant Secretary of War I must qualify that statement that all of the big shots have toned down their remarks. Several continue to shout in an inflammatory way. The best known of these is Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war. It is unnecessary for me to discuss Johnson's unwise statements. I can quote a real authority, for Senator Bennett Clark, the Missouri Democrat, dealt quite fully with the assistant secretary's utterancesespecially that in which Mr. Johnson said that "if the United States were not fully prepared for war. It would be overrun like Poland." Of that remark. Senator Clark had this to say. during the arms embargo debate in the senate: "In my judgment, no more idiotic, moronic or unpatriotic remark ever has been made by a man in high public office . . "This is the same Louis Johnson who has been flying around the country in an army airplane for the last several years, preaching the inevitability of war and the certainty of our being drawn in and drawing horrific pictures with grisly prophecies of our shores being invaded and our own land being laid waste." But after Senator Clark had streamlined the assistant secretary of war, he proceeded to fall off into the deepest water of demagoguery by attacking President Roosevelt's , selection of members of the war resources board. To make that eagle scream In its shrillest notes. Senator Clark described it ai a "Morgan-duPon- t board," which, to anyone who knows the facts, is a rather silly statement With respect to the attack on Mr. Johnson, I only wish that Senator Clark had gone ahead with disclosures so that the row in the war department could have had an airing. d Johnson Reported Seeking Job of Secretary of War It Is no longer a secret in Washington that Mr. Johnson has been trying for months to get the job of secretary of war. He and Mr. Wood-rin- g do not get along, and have not for much of the time the assistant secretary has been on the job. The result has been continual friction, a handicapping of department policies and a general fear among army officers. They are afraid they will get tangled up in departmental politics and every officer knows if he g guesses wrong, the chances of top flight assignments are nil. As can readily be seeu. such s situation in a policy-makin- g agency of government certainly does the nation no good! It is said that President Roosevelt sees Assistant Secretary Johnson more frequently than he confers with Mr. Wondring. the head of the deportment. Wheth get-lin- C Biggest news on the diplomatic er that is true or not, it is a fact front was wishful thinking in Lon that the President has done nothing don and Paris to the effect that row. Italy waa swinging away from Ber at all to settle the long-standi- Getting back to the senate debate. attention ought to be turned momentarily to the defeat of the motion to separate the arms embargo question from that involved in the -' "cash and carry" sections of the bill. Senator Tobey, New Hampshire Republican, proposed that tha bill be split up, because there was virtually an unanimous vote in prospect for a law that would let American business sell ordinary sup plies to both aides of the European struggle, provided the buyers came here in their own ships, paid cash for their purchases and hauled them away in their own vessels. Short shrift was made of that mo tion. It was licked by more than two to one. The reason: if the "cash and carry" section were disposed of, there would be so much leu interest in the arms embargo repeal that its eventual defeat would be entirely possible. Old Party Whip Is Used To Keep Followers in line Which brings us back to the of politics. It will be remem bered that President Roosevelt called for an "adjournment of politics." during the dansrerous neriod. No one made the open charge in de bate, but there were plenty of senators who felt that the President ex erted pressure to keep his own fol lowers in line. The administration's leaders were quite well aware that a titanic struggle confronted them to obtain repeal of the arms embargo If It were cut loose from tha "cash snd carry" section. So the old party whip was brought into lin to form a strong Balkan peace bloc, meanwhile adopting a policy of "benevolent neutrality" toward the allies. There were good reasons for such a move because Italy has strong trade Interests in the Balkans, where Russia is trying to win an upper hand. Backing the rumor, Italian news papers continued heaping insults on Communism. Partially spiking it, however, was authoritative Editor Virginia Gayda. whose 7 CiornmU Erlialie termed Prime Minister Chamberlain's refusal to call off the war "a dangerous no." Meanwhile Germany continued efforts to avert war, having waited until the final heart breaking moment in the hope that Prime Minister Chamberlain would capitulate. U. S. aid, asked unoffi cially, was not forthcoming. Such desperate efforts could only mean that Germany had been surprised, perhaps to her ultimate ruin, by al lied determination. For recourse Der Fuehrer redoubled his efforts to cement trade relations with Russia, now busy elsewhere after getting aQ she wanted from Germany. Big gest question: Now that the allies had shunned peace, where was the Germany and Russia had threatened only two weeks last-minu- te (Praclm int in m Armiillr ihtv PretSArttt Roosevelt revived Europe's intervention hopes -by asking American to look for-com to a time wnen u put end enduring peon shall be established,") bothered "denying all these reports." Six other British and French freighters went to Davy Jones' lock er within three days, but on Friday the Thirteenth the British navy sank three At Rome, the official paper Vie deWArtm "revealed" an ambitious Nazi scheme to blow Britain's navy off the sea by allotting 200 planes to bomb each warship. Fireside war of fighters of the airship vs. warship agreed the Nazis had made a good start long-theoriz- Russian Education In the U. S., John Public discovered for the first time that Soviet Russia had a president To Michael Kalinin, who Is Dictator Josef Stalin's No. 1 puppet Franklin Roosevelt expressed a hope for continued peaceful Russian-Finnis- h re lations. Many another nation was also learning about Soviet Russia, a bear which has just be gun to feel its strength: . Scandinavia. Having won domina tion of the Baltic states, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, the Soviet turned to Finland and demanded military-navbases. A Finn named Dr. Juho Kustl Paasikivi went to al . Moscow and heard the Russian re- while quests the folks back home rushed mobi-lizati- on and a lined up firm Scandinavian bloc. To Stock- holm, Swevener- - KALININ F.D.R. addressed him. Gustav summoned Denmark's King War on Land & in Air Christian, Norway's King Haakon On the western front 69 German and Finland's President Kyostl Kal-divisions were massed from the sea lio to decide Scandinavia's attitude, to the Rhine. Significantly, 30 of It was expected the Finns would sur them stood opposite Holland and render a few islands, but not the Belgium, satisfying the experts that strategic Aalands which Russia cov Nazidom's offensive will follow 1914 ets. Baltic. Estonia's Gen. Johan Lai doner assured the people their na tion was still free, but there were signs to the contrary. Among them: The premier resigned and a new cabinet was established. Mean while Lithuania, which received a better break from Moscow than ei ther Latvia or Estonia (winning rule over the former Polish city of Wil no), decided to demand that Ger- den's able King NAMES BP ii that made news k Too Many FORD STERLING At Hollywood, the film comedian early-da- y si Good Ones 'Gang Busters' Do Artie Shaw Goes G. B. died. DR. KURT VON Vienna, said ''absolutely authentic sources," the former Austrian chancellor is being pounded into unconsciousness daily for refusing to issue a proclamation urging Austrians to defend Hitler Germany. O. J. ARNOLD At Chicago, the president of the Northwestern National Life Insurance company told business men to reject government subsidies and donations. CULBEST OLSON In California, the governor made news: (1) by winning a drive to pardon Tom Mooter's alleged accomplice in the Preparedness day disaster. Warren K. Billings, and (2) by ordering hearings on alleged beatings at San Quentin prison. SCHUSCH-NIGG-- I By Virginia Vale I argument between Davis and Warner Brothers should set a record of some kind. Usually a star protests because she either wants better stories or more money. Miss Davis didn't want either. THAT She gets studio can tives cant out trying the best stories that the find; In fact the execuhear of a good one withto buy it for her. The latest purchase is "No Time for Comedy," the play that Katharine Cornell has been doing so successfully for so long on the New York stage. Xfp said that George Brent will play opposite Miss Davis, in the role done in New York by Laurence CONGRESS: Peace? Olivier. Miss Davis complaint Is that they buy too many of these good stories for her in other words, she works too hard. Since last January she "Dark Vichas made "Juarez, tory," "The Old Maid," and "Elizabeth and Essex," which makes an Impressive record. Neutrality was making a bum this month out of many an otherwise efficient statesman. Each day the lower house of congress assembled listened to a few pointless speeches and went Its way to Washington's cocktail rooms and bars. There was nothing else to do until the senate finished wrangling with neutrality and sent the bill over. Meanwhile that happy day was drawing nearer. Senators passed the 300.000-wor- d mark in their debate on isolationism y. vs. Though they were still going, strong, compromise waa in the air to replace the premature victory song of embargo Some of the incentive came from outside, auch as CoL Charles A. Lindbergh's second radio speech in which he plumped for retention of the arms embargo. Howard Coon-le- y, president of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, pointed out that industry is opposed to war and realizes the falseness of war profits. This gave North Dakota's Sen. Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye a new talking point Thus far, Isolationist propaganda has tried to' convince the nation y, Loretta Young, in "Eternally Yours," has a chance to and orchids and look beautiful against a luxurious background. The picture Is light and amusing, and some of your favorite people are in wear-chinchil- cash-and-carr- that neutrality will get America into war. But the cam paign failed to jelL so Isolationists found a more potent weapon by r dramatizing the depression that will Inevitably follow if U. S. industry expands to serve warring LORETTA YOUNG Europe. Said Mr. Nye with pretty fair logic: "I dare the senate to find the cast (at least they deserve to 10 (of 50 leading Industrialists) who be among your favorites). Hugh win wish to repeat the experience iieroerr, zasu Pitts, C Aubrey of the last war boom." Smith. Ralph Graves and David A few minutes later, when Senator Niven have combined to give you Nye returned to the old song that something to laugh at In this one. dminlatration neutrality proposals S are a "step" toward war, he found Andrea Leeds beared off from himself confronted for the first time playing apposite Gary Cooper la many grant her with Nebraska's Sen. "The Outlaw" so that she conM get rights In the harbor of MemeL which George W. Norris who had a few married: she wants a real weddinsr Adolf Hitler seized last spring. The things to get off his mind: "This and real honeymoon. Instead mt Lithuanians hoped Russia would charge (that the President's recom ene ofa those harried ceremonies that back their request mendation would lead to participa motion picture actresses asnallr Balkans. Hungary feared that tion in the war) is without founda participate In. She may decide to I know this bill give np her screen career Russia's Baltic conquest would be tion whatever altogethfollowed by demands for Ruthenia, won't please Hitler. But are we go er, la favor of matrimony. the Ukrainian province seized from ing to ask him what to do? Are we early this year. RuJimmie Carney's sister. Jean. mania had similar worries over who's twenty, has landed a mnvi area Bessarabia, the petroleum-ric- h contract for herself; starts her new she took front Russia after the World career with a salary of S250 shUt "war. Moreover, Rumania heard re not bad for a thnueh in ports that Russia might try to set Hollywood language that's barely tle Balkan troubles at her expense. put money. ROYAL OAK taking both Bessarabia and Ruthe Sunk: 875 men and mm omen. nia, and placating the Hungarians "Gang Busters" starts its fourth and by giving each a year la a crusade against crime tat tactics. Intensified German pres slice Bulgarians land they lost to Rumania aa enlarged network that includes sure was not long In coming. In a after of the last war. il CBS outlets. Since Its debut It single day it drove the French back This, it was reliably stated, held Ms presented more than 150 drama to their own soil on a a of actual eases: thronrh clnea nre-top place among demands Russia front in the Moselle valley, but at seated near the end of each broad of Michigan, each of whom cost of 500 to 1.000 casualties and tried to force down the throat of cast. It has been credited with the Turkey's Foreign Minister Sukro has a whole flock of Presidential the loss of 20 tanks. as mediator for Saracoglu. nlUmate arrest of more than 130 sus Acting beea swarming inside of his Repub But bigger news came from the all Balkan states, Saracoglu had repects. Its producers work with law lican bonnet air. Berlin's first bombing scare enforcement authorities, and each portedly refused not only to sell Ruarrived one evening as Nazi house mania short but also to recognize case that la dramatised la based on Farley Has Party Control wives were meditating on lard sanda neufacta supplied by official agencies. Locked Up in His Own Safe wiches for next morning's break-fa- Russia's Polish grab, create tral Balkan bloc under German-RussiaIt has been noted, reoeatedlv. how (included in the week's suggestDuring each program CoL H. Nor domination, or break Turkey's the arms embargo debate has found ed ration menu). Twenty thousand man Schwartzkopf, former head of with Britain and France. alliance the New Jersey State noUce. Inter many of the feet up, artillerymen Russian troops were massed on Democrats aliened with the Presi views officers connected with the spotted a "raider." Shot down in dent favoring repeal Most of the the panic, the plane turned out to be her borders, but the Turks stood so case just dramatized. It adds a firm that many a diplomat felt she senators whom President Roosevelt a lost German bomber. thrill to Saturday evenings. the balance of European powsought to "Duree" from the Demo. Britain had a genuine scare next held NORRIS (LEFT) AXD NYE cratic party believe with the Chief day. Fourteen German bombers in er. Her position: Turkey would stay Artie Shsw. whose clarinet slav Are we going to tilt Hitler? Executive that the embargo ought to vaded English soil for the first time. neutral if the allies fought Russia, ing practically makes history, has be repealed. . Some few of the ar Their objective: The huge naval but she would join the allies if Italy been startling people especially his to be so afraid that we will took sides with Germany. With going dent Roosevelt supporters are stand base and bridge at Firth of Forth, on en a mm that we are going to re- sponsors by saying what he thinks troops under arms, con about the jitterbugs. Band leaders near Edinburgh, Scotland. When the 2,000,000 the ing against repeal. The interesting strategic Dardenelles fuse to act?" fact is that the Intra Dart v row. melee was over Britain counted 52 trolling have wanted to say what he has. in Within a few days action seemed times past but haven't dared, beamong the Democrats, has had no killed or wounded, and slight dam- and holding considerable influence effect upon the stand taken by the age to one cruiser. Four Nazi bomb- over other Balkan states, the Turks imminent The arms embargo was cause the yelling, shouting mobs were not to be slighted. a cinch for repeal, but on nthnr who stormed the theaters where party members in the embargo con- ers had been brought down. Issues there was compromise. Chair they And. there troversy. thus, has been were "the public." man Key Pittman of the foreign re- They appeared considerable speculation whether War at Sea didn't dare pause to consider lations committee abandoned the on. the rest of the there Is to be a healing of the public, who went to In 1651 Britain's fugitive King wounds. I think there will not be. day credit clause, which critics hear them play. hid in an Charles oak II tree at 1$ How the Wind Blowing . . , The differences seem too deeply charged was a circumvention of the So Shaw haa came ant Inta the Boscobel, Shropshire, after the bat Johnson act (forbidding loans to In term THRIFT seated. the ending tle of Worcester. A few years later open, rebelling against being goadwar debt defaulting nations). ReJune 30, a total of $12,854,114 However, that may be, it can be ed Into writing autographs when a named Britons aftproud on warship S. U. strictions shfDDinc would in now be school waa said that "Big Jim" Farley, er their revered deposited savings "royal oak." The relaxed to permit operations in bel- - he's dne on the a tare, reaeatlnr be who Is chairman of the New York accounts by 2.534,472 U. S. chil. . . was sunk ti ing Jeered at when he the by promptly ship State Democratic committee in Dutch dren. ugereiu areas lar removea rrom the he's asked. His radio doesn't de as 1667. Ten more "Royal in sponsors feared sector war Australia. New Tea. LABOR At Cleveland and San addition to bejng chairman of the. fcc that It might affect hia popularity. carried the ill omen, the last land other and A. L. of coloF. and O. I. National Democratic committee, has Oaks" C Francisco, It-action at Jutland less attracts mere peonies). On this point presidential rar irera he closed their national conventions control of the party locked up in his going .into a month after being commisthan ever. than ple discretion will probably, be the rule. with no hint of peace. own safe. If he chooses to align sioned. Weathering this battle, she POLITICS Among G. O. P. himself with the ODDS Jhlri mi r rwne waa damaged at Valencia in 1937. i ..wot ABOR: hopefuls, a Gallup group, Mr. Roosevelt and his folpresidential likes "Over the Rainbow" mitnj the was Last $10,000,000 craft the beU of year showed New lowers are through, washed up. If Thomas York's poll the popular tune ...A print of "sunk" in a British film labeled Building Probe he decides to support Mr. RooseDewey losing popularity since het been Bent to the King of This month the Royal "Torpedoed." At laindictment a war was Washington, of Isolationwhile declared, velt again, the Sweden, requeued by the president Demo Oak was really torpedoed and sunk. bor union ist Sen. Arthur Vandenberg has charged with delaying .1 . crsts will be tosi-cabout li.:e a '.n"eB oweaisn societies . . . to the bottom her ill omen work on government buildines made slight gains. Ohio's Sen. straw in a whirlwind. It appears to carrying HW , IIIH,- ' men. 789 some and U. S. at-- woof femininsj contingent knitting opened the Robert A. Taft, who outlined a this observer as of this lime that ths This was only one part of a week tack on reputed trade restraints in rr wiir wntaten or tn$j AUietiVQtcn t swing of public sentiment definite"negative" program for sfnsvf miMmi'ik i ijL. terrific warfare at sea. Berlin end's the building industry. Among cities for repealing New Deal meastlj fll ly against anything in the nature of Kith their needles girls . . . And look same submarine the which claimed to be probed: Chicago. New York. ures, has held his own. Percent-sgeAmerican participation In the EuroOUt lor m flnnA am. Brlnm. tmilk sank the Royal Oak also damaged Seattle and Cleveland. The allegaDewey, 30; Vandenberg. pean war probably will moan a Britain's "Kspionete" as e temple, though cruiser battle but Repulse, tion: That union jurisdictional fights ttrendm Marshall is above the 27; Taft. 17 Farley swing to the the admiralty said it couldn't be are hamstringing a building revival heroine you ran expert to tee. evtrege side of the lino. Play. But an of the chances that have taken place in the country's thought nave had one reaction in Washington that Is not obvious to those Hv- ing outside of the capital city. I nave reported to you before how the little clique that surrounds the Presidentextreme radicals and men with dreams who know how they win disappear If Democrats instead of New Dealers are in control saw in the possibility of war an assurance of President Roosevelt s elec tion to a third term. They were rubbing their hands and licking their chops because they saw them selves certain to continue In their jobs, exercising great power. The lacK or enthusiasm for their plans has left them with nothlne to do but mope and sulk. Their strategy has oeen Blown up under their own noses. They do not know what to do about It. The question that now confronts the country, from a political standpoint is whether the European war will run six months or a year or six years. The answer to the ques tion is vital to the politicians. It is especially important to those who would "draft" Mr. Roosevelt to run for a third term, and I think it is being studied with great care by auch men as Postmaster General Farley and Vice President Garner. It is being studied with equal care by Senators Taft of Ohio, and extra-territori- cash-and-car- ry post-wa- al ... Czecho-Slovak- ia bee-inne- four-mil- e Van-denbe- rg st anti-aircra- n ft Trend 1 A French-Britis- Gamer-Harriso- n h . 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