Show news analysis Ama lysis nazi najiy argentine trade plans plaits threaten american Pro program grairt by joseph XV la bilm EDITORS NOTH win when opinions op flon to r expressed la in choso columns they n to those of the news flew analyst ni and cd not 0 o necessarily of th the trade high pressure nl al salesmanship runs counter to the reciprocal trade program of U 8 secretary of state cordell hull devoted to tho the cause of low tariffs and most favored pacts secretary lulls hulls idealistic and hon ost est efforts must compete with such devices as tho the german barter plan and a series of multicolored multi colored trade ideas which emerge annually from congress halls this month mr hull saw his beloved program threatened on several fronts argentine of all south american governments that at buenos atres aires Is I 1 least cast friendly with the U S at limas pan american conference argentina spoiled president roose belts continental solidarity declaration la by charging that the disgraceful is policy of dollar imperialism I 1 3 m was still r ram a mp panf a n f but the real roots of this dislike are commonplace mon place things like hoof and mouth disease drouth and depression an agreement was reached in 1033 1035 providing for U S import of cattle from argentine sections not infected with hoot hoof and mouth disease but congress failed to ratify it in 1937 1037 drouth and temporary U S prosperity forced heavy imports from argentina this business dropped with a thud in recession far faster than argentina curtailed her imports from the U S result has been a trade unbalance and subsequent strengthen ing of argentine exchange control against the U S encouraged by germanas germanys Germ anys increasing willingness to swap machinery for argentine foodstuffs this sentiment reached reache cl a climax with argentinas Argen Argenti tinas nals declara A f ARMOURS PRESIDENT CABELL lie e want german harmonicas harmo nicas tion that imports from the U S must be reduced to tho the level of 1935 36 faced with a 40 per cent f slash in exports secretary hull may be forced to dangle juicy trade trad plums before argentinas Argen tinas eyes seriously endangering cherest th the erest rest of his reciprocal program germany barter trade like nazi germanys germanas Germ anys Is allowed in the U S provided it does not interfere re with the most favored plan but artificial currency devices like german payment for U S goods with hade marks good only tor for purchase of nazi goods are taboo mid february found U S lard prices low and likely to drop still more when the spring hog run starts meanwhile germany hungered for fats putting two and two together german trade experts began contacting midwest packers to swap lard tor for machinery though the reich apparently progressed on two deals most packers turned their backs uninterested recalled was the experience of one km firm which arranged a swap deal with germany several years ago only to find itself burdened with several thousand nazi harmonicas harmo nicas typical was the comment of R H cabell president of armour and company who dismissed the bid by simply stating that the big packing houses are arc not interested in bartering but in the sale of products at market rates next day packers were pleased to note that lard fut futures u res were selling up but mr hull could not tall fall to note that the nazi program had made a mite mile of progress in his bailiwick agriculture crux of the cost 1 ot of production farm bill now before congress is that domestically consumed products shall have a minimum price all surpluses would be dumped abroad b road for whatever they would bring whatever the bills merits mr hull presumably regards it as an artificial trade barrier in the field of agricultural trade which would be reflected in other branches of commerce it if cost ot of production falls the state department must hurdle a second new farm measure which would extend governmental loans on three major crops cotton wheat COTI com equivalent to three fourths th tho 0 parity price an amount higher than the current market price farmers would then be expected to turn their crops over to the gov for tho the loan price domestically consumed products would sell at not less than the loan price with surpluses surplus ea the U S would attempt to recapture Its lost foreign markets though world economic satisfaction must be a prelude to permanent world pence peace an important principle in the hull program each nation seeks to further its own admittedly selfish interest with self preservation as a justification still to come Is the showdown in which nations will decide whether world problems will bo be settled via economic treaties at the expense of selfish alms or via force at another kindol kind of expense trend how tho the wind is blowing MOVIES illston historically ica ily taboo motion pictures may now be shown in vermont on the sabbath under local option KNEES no clothing which ex posed the knees could be ba worn in Province provincetown town mass under an ordinance which was passed then withdrawn because no record was kept of the vote POKER U S card manufacturers report more women now play poker also that it may supplant bridge as no I 1 card game MEDICINE james B conant harvard president recommends one eight your year course to replace two current four year courses for physicians D defense 10 n se last december president roose volts arms expansion program had more foes than friends in the still to convene seventy sixth congress two months later it had more friends thanks to clever white house publicity maneuvers and a lot of saber rattling in europe the house passed to 15 an administration bill to spend extra on defense the next two years same day great britain voted ab nb about out more tor for arms chief features are boosting the ardys aviation force to first line planes and making the panama canal impregnable certain of passage was the vinson naval expansion bill to spend on art naval air and submarine bases but there was little unity in this new strength closely allied to rearmament a Is the problem of U S military pry alliances with other democracies moc since the threat that inspired american rearmament Is the same threat that makes france and britain jittery after a california air crash revealed U S manufacturers were selling military planes to france after president roosevelt denied telling a senate military affairs committee that U S frontiers are in france the white house congress foreign policy debate come came out in full bloom questions 1 shall the U S keep its foreign policy secret 2 Is president roosevelt evelt risking involvement in war through secret international deals after a weeks debate there presumably surn ably were no longer any secrets about either the french deal or the administrations foreign policy actual cause of the rumpus was apparently patently ly removed but not congressional resentment thundered Cali fornias sen hl HI ram johnson no epithets applied to senators or newspapers w will 11 relieve the situation of its secrecy there Is resentment among the administration that anabo anybody dy should ask the facts but if there AS 4 N 4 I 1 x SENATOR JOHNSON lie ile resented white house resentment ment comes a war it will not be fought by the president blone alone facts themselves are startling faced with U S military orders under the new defense bill plane manufacturers already have their hands full w with ith export orders starting with in 1930 plane exports have roughly doubled annually approximating this year in the past eight months france and britain have ordered lr 0 ships chief congressional w wonder onder Is blitch orders will get precedence U S ov or foreign meanwhile aircraft firms are arc reluctant to lo expand their plants to satisfy production requirements rients which r may ay be ae only temporary europe Ert role in modern europe no month Is complete without its crisis janu arys crisis was prime minister neville chamberlains visit to rome februarys was the fall of barcelona and its decisive implications in march the crisis will again center on spain if three signs mean anything 1 germany and italy have helped insurgents win their battle thus tar far franca and england siding with loyalists because they were anti fascist today with loyalists on the run britain has granted do de facto recognition to gen francisco francos insurgents encouraging franco france to fall all in line obviously a policy of expediency ency the anglo french overture is accompanied by financial offers to help rebuild spain in wooing franco paris and london will positively arouse the rome derlin berlin axis to new wrath 2 combined british home fleets will maneuver around gibraltar in march just as germany completes its most thorough mobilization since sanco last autumns much feared troop concentration meanwhile italy Is doubling its garrison in libya adjoining francos frances african tunisia as an admitted step in retaliation against reputedly increased tunk garrisons 3 closer conformation of anglo french policy Is seen in londona Lon dons declaration to help paris ln in event of war also in britaina Brit ains de facto recognition of insurgent spain while awaiting official french action such parallel policies coupled with the bold british decision to spend more on armament Illi illustrato strato how Eu ropes two degen A 0 6 1 I 4 JOSE MIAJA his against are drawing closer together and preparing to meet the next totalitarian demands probably these demands will be italian territorial claims against france coming immediately after the spanish war meanwhile that war has gone merrily on its way as gen jose blaja finds himself practically the boss of loyalist civil and military branches with an estimated unenthusiastic soldiers under his command general blaja recently heard that his friend general franco was about to charge against valencia and madrid with men labor in washington john L lewis could peck at the calendar for march realizing it probably held the fate of his congress for industrial organization at the core of trouble Is united automobile workers of america torn during january when president homer martin simultaneously resigned and was booted from C 1 I 0 s executive board reason U A W underlings thought mr martin was conniving for personal control of ford motor companas comp anys heretofore independent labor vote while mr martin thought C 1 I 0 was curnin turning 9 communistic now split in two factions U A W opens a pro martin convention in detroit during early march and an anti martin parley in cleveland march 27 first victory was scored by the martin faction when property of U A W s plymouth local detroit w was as pulled from court custody and returned to martin cohorts still pending Is a replevin suit instituted by anti martinitis to rumors that he might lead U A W into alliance with william greens american federation of labor mr martin answered with an emphatic negative daily winning public support from such stich lewis henchmen as sidney hillman and philip murray mr martin stands a good chance of emerging not only as undisputed head of U A W but as leaded in a C 1 I 0 conservative movement people in mo cow secretary earl browder of the american communist party hailed president roosevelt roosevell cubas col fulgencio Fulgen clo batista and medicos cos president lazaro cardenas as opponents of fascism e Bi breaking enking a bottle of champagne to dedicate an at new yorks world fair swimmer eleanor holm was cut by flying glass e one hundred and two years old banker edmund J reardon of cambridge mass celebrated his birthday by staying away from the office e haying too numy other responsibilities bili ties president walter S gifford of the american telephone and telegraph company will resign as a 8 director of the united steel corporation april 3 |