Show weekly news Avin analysis lysis britain drops 6 appeasement 9 but policy even weaker Now by joseph AV la POLISH CORRIDOR german agitation for this expected LITHUANIA momentarily MEMEL former lithuanian city pro nagi ceded to Germany in exchange for lith economic alan DANZIG advantages free city needed by U S S R germany to close aap between prussia RUMANIA and mainland idere hitler presses economic encroach f ment to make nation POLAN D another protector ate like slovakia and chechis Cz 0 INN X HUNGARY PRO nazia RUMANIA 1 TA LY UGO SLAVIA L EASTWARD THE MARCH or ic GOES 1 supply of conquests and objectives EDITORS whon wan opinions ate expressed la in these columns they jr at those of th the news analyst mid and not necessarily ol of the newspaper europe it Is easier to hoot nt at a boxer from outside the ropes than within it if tho the average U S citizen were an englishman ho he would be far less critical of a government which eschews war even if it means loss 0 of prestige but after eight months 0 of f a foreign policy which is more concerned with immediate convenience than permanent direction the most pence peace loving englishmen are now beginning to believe prime minister chamberlain might have achieved n chi 0 v a of greater results with no more risk by holding to a steady course from tho the czech crisis last september until mid march mr chamberlains ber lains appeasement cries grow grew progressively weaker as britain and franco france strengthened strengthen dd their defense against possible aggression from dictators littler hitler and mussolini by march I 1 the two democracies were strong enough to suggest dictating terms to the reich whose economic position had grown intolerably weak then overnight all semblance of policy collapsed the events in sequence 1 littler hitler grabbed czechoslovakia whose boundaries were guaranteed last autumn by france and britain mr chamberlain said it was no cone concern 0 rn of his 2 two days later mr chamberlain suddenly whipped about face accusing littler hitler of dishonesty and unwarranted aggression 3 russia for 15 years unwelcome in british circles was asked to loin join london in a pact to consult in case of future german aggression gres sion slon 4 britain reversed its course again and mode made no protest when hitler occupied memel whose ownership by lithuania a was gu guaranteed a r a nt a ed by british french signature of the memel statute 5 britain backed down on its pact with russia refusing any stronger measure than the useless consult lve treaty the substance of these disjointed disjoined dis joined events is that britaina Brit ains appeasement policy has given way to no policy at an all it can well be that london sincerely hoped its russian overtures would have more than a temporary jolting e effect fre ct on n german territorial ambit ambitions jn S for britain still wants nothing to do with moscow in fact the fondest tory hope la Is that germany and russia will eventually lock horns fighting out the issue of versus communism to the ruin of both britain win will be happy so long as hitler drives eastward confining h his s ambitions to such objectives as da danzig n the polish corridor and rumania ultimately reaching into the russian ukraine to invite war with the soviet this conclusion Is inevitable because the most concrete result of mr chamberlains umbrella waving thus far has been a french british military pact to aid swit switzerland z er the netherlands and belg belgium lum against german aggression congress E Eu ropes czechoslovak and memel crises s fee ce EUROPE E h have a ve brought quicker more definite reaction in the U S than most people realize last january when president roosevelt made timid suggestions that the present neutrality law should be changed a terrific uproar ensued the same uproar returned when he asked a special defense appropriation a few weeks later but the new european situation has h is brought sk a remarkable show of inter party solidarity admittedly temporary but strong enough to give france and britain a strong moral support and warn hitler that he Is net wanted on the western hemisphere 0 1 undersecretary of state sumner wanes received both democratic and republican praise for his diplomatic protest against hillers Hit lers seizure elzure of czechoslovakia 2 neutrality legislation expiring may I 1 permits cash and carry sale to belligerents ot of anything but war materials nevadas sen key pittman has asked that munitions be placed on tho the allowed list sen elbert thomas would give tho the president power to designate an aggressor nation and forbid shipments to it 3 sen homer T bone has offered with bl partisan support a bin bill to tax profit out of w war a r the plan greatly increased tax rates would be imposed in case casa of conflict lowering exemptions and imposing surtaxes sur taxes on highest brackets ranging up to 93 per cent for individuals corporations would bo be taxed per cent on net incomes over 6 per cent of their adjusted dec declared anred value 4 within 15 minutes both senate and house passed the emergency defense bill authorizing army planes stronger panama canal fortifications bigger seacoast a and nd inland defenses better army equipment and more effective hemispherical protection white house how to raise U S price levels is one of the administrations biggest problems republican laymen and many democrats contend a retrenchment trench ment of federal spending spendin 9 would do the trick but the white house places more faith in marriner S eccles federal deseive reserve chairman and sen key pittman nevada silver advocate even these two doctors find themselves at odds however during a recent public debate they outlined these two opposing paths to the coveted price level pittman favors currency inflation since government billions billion S have completely failed to raise tha price level believes federal re ante 0 N ta V PITTMAN LEFT LE FT A AND N D ECCLES E the doctors did not agree serve boards periodic increases and decreases in reserve requirements h have olve had a bad effect on business eccles against currency inflation partially agrees it would help raise price levels but fears new money would not bo be put to use lack of opportunity to get a profit is the principal impediment to recovery today whether the white house could pull a definite monetary program from such an exchange of th thories theories ories Is doubtful but there are indications that the ideas of mr eccles tamed famed advocate of spending hold favor president roosevelt told his press conference that he refuses to cut U S spending until private enterprise ter prise guarantees jobs neither will he favor repeal of deterrent deter reit reat taxes apparently for he has mildly denounced advocates of a slash in the federal budget but since mr eccles Is on record as favoring government action to remove impediments to the encouragement of private capital white house and EC cles do not jibe neither do white house and secretary of agriculture wallace jibe defending an unchanged AAA for 1939 mr wallace told the house agriculture ri committee that industrial recovery was a prerequisite to farm recovery and that industrial activity should be increased 40 per cent as S speedily Peco illy as possible then he said farmers will secure their just juat share of the total national income politics smart politicians never count chickens before they hatch bugnel but nel ther do astute political observers forget hint it Is a nigh well impossible job to bounce a favorite from the saddle although more than a year remains before republican and democratic parties hold their nominating conventions now new yorks republican district attorney tom dewey dewcy and texas democratic vice president john nonce nance garner have emerged definitely as men of the hour garner sometimes disgustingly independent to president roosevelt the vice president has led a powerful democratic revolt this session of congress and today controls approximately as many house and senate votes as the white house though 70 years old lie holds the favor of emil hurja astute party analyst who has indicated there Is little chance garner can be bounced from favor in 1940 the chief garner opponent Is postmaster general james farley whose vote seeking efforts have been confined to cast and northeast states whilo while mr gar ner concentrates on the southwest many democrats can see nothing more natural than a union of these two forces one for president the other tor for vice president unpredictable as his father texas elliott roosevelt gave politicians a puzzle by announcing that mr garner is in the drivers sent seat well in the lead as a likely democratic candidate for the presidency in 1940 11 that son elliott holds white house favor for this remark Is seriously doubtful franklin roosevelt prefers not to run again in 1040 1940 but will do so unless the party accepts another man who will and can Y ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT garner in the me drivers seat carry out his now new deal philosophy john garner would not be apt to do this dewey new yorks district attorney lost the governorship to popular herbert lehman by less than 1 per cent of the popular vote last tall fall but the mere fact that he lost and that a few weeks earlier his case against james hines alnes had been tossed from court cost mr dewey much popularity but since last no vember old guard republicans have dropped from the picture moreover able men like sen arthur 11 have shown disinclination to run realizing a candidate c andi date must be found soon G 0 P voters have unofficially settled on dewey since he came back to convict hines on the rackets conspiracy charge whereas a mid february poll by the american institute of public opinion gave dewey only 27 per cent of the popular republican vote a month later he had jumped to 50 per cent people resolved by new gov luren D dickinson that no official business will be transacted on the sabbath headliners Head liners COL VLADIMAR S HURBAN though a slovak and although hitler has made slovaks independent of czechs czecho col hurban has so much dislike tor for germany and hungary and so much pride in the late czechoslovak nation that be refused to surrender t the la a czech legation in washington to the german ambassador bom in the carpathian Carpa mountains h a knew magyar op col viadimir VIa dimar pres slon as a S hurban child becoming a soldier he went to russia 30 30 years ago to accept a professorship in the czars azars war college when the world war broke out he and other czechs czecho joined the russian army during the revolution these czechs czecho made their historic movement to vladivostok where the group collected funds ands to send hurban to washington there he joined dr thomas masaryk in founding tho the czech nation after the tha government was established he returned to washington as czech military later going to egypt as charge daf faires to sweden as minister and in 1036 1936 back to washington as minister III ilia greatest accomplishment heye here was consummation of the zech czech C U S trade trad a treaty last year now abrogated under hinlers Hit lera lers protectorate lor rite regime |