Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW democrats meet amid rumbles of naval action in west indies and threat of third part party y action EDITORS NOTE when opinions are arc expressed in these columns colum nii they are those hose of the lie news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released rie leased by western newspaper union irl ORIVA 19 atlantic ocean FRE tICH 0 ap sami mi sp mi population population lail lon WEST caribbean sea 0 PIERRE 93 sq mi 10 9 0 4 population tio 4 Z Z 2 E i la 17 li 5 6 59 M i 6 97 U I 1 ol 01 Z az alere you see sec martinique uncomfortably close to the panama canal and nd the united states hero here there more had been tran shipped U V S manu fractured airplanes for franco before that country succumbed to the litter hitler juggernaut hero here british war vessels were maintaining a blockade to keep the planes from falling failing to germany and here american naval raft craft were dispatched to make observations hero here was a new and corn com plex lex angle to the monroe doctrine STORMY ISLAND martinique ott spot in chicago the democratic convention was meeting to nominate the 1040 1940 candidates in martinique american airships previously sold to france formed the prime reason tor for a british blockade and the rush of several american destroyers to the scene lor for observation what had the one event to do with the other much since the monroe doctrine occupied both the attention of the platform makers at chicago and the foreign departments of several nations A rather pointed exchange of viewpoints on the monroe doctrine was made between secretary of state hull and tho the hitler foreign onice europe for europeans america tor for americans the berlin statement seemed to say bay skeptics were not reassured they believe they already saw evidence of fifth column work in some of the americas Amerl cas the entire episode also prompted much isolation talk in the U S and threats of the formation of a third party avowedly isolationist were hoard board U S CAMPAIGN warming up now that the democrats have met in convention the campaign Is due to warm up plenty with or without a third party ticket night up to the convention opening senator wheeler whaler of 0 montana kept right on saying he would seek the democratic nomination at chicago no matter what roosevelt was up to john lewis of the C 1 I 0 thought that wheeler was the only man who could beat Will willkie kle wheeler felt apparently patently ly that both roosevelt and willkie were interventionists and that he had inherited the classic mantle of the late senator borah and the magnificent older elder lafollette wendell willkie tried to show himself democratic of course with a N NAMES A M E S in ill the news 41 george berna bernard rd shaw thought that hitler should be supplied by england with food so they could all light fight it out to a finish was G B S turning into an insular war hawk tt ti cross eyed den ben Tur turpan plit plenty beloved died in hollywood dt at the age of 71 4 C rat pat mckenna died too ile he had been white house doorkeeper door keeper from roosevelt to roosevelt ile he was 65 everybody that knew him liked him 41 amax max aitken son of 0 the british hearst lord Beaver beaverbrook brook a self made canadian won the distinguished lying flying cross for double cross ing four german aviators ile he shot them all down or nt at least that was his story british flyers have shot down german planes in or a round around the british isles since the start of the war germany demanded that the nor depose their king haakon VII who had fled to england the ex allies previously deposed bel alums king leopold and ro r 0 o the crowned heads kept it falling england wab packed with them 4 C earl harrison philadelphia attorney got the lob job for fingerprinting finger printing aliens and registering them under the new federal law which begins to operate by september 1 harrison said no witch hunting and planned an extensive alien educational program small D ile he limited campaign contributions to and no more than 10 apiece in cash he said ho he wanted no cash contributions contribution i from corporations and asked for a hurricane of one dollar bills he added that he going to reward his wealthier backers with diplomatic jobs or anything else like that congressman joseph W martin jr of massachusetts republican leader of the house was Will kies selection for campaign manager when the democratic convention opened jim farley aside from presidential talk was also discussed as prospective head of a new york big league baseball team at that time there was little belief he would again accept the national chairmanship which lie he held since 1032 11 II ENGLISH WAR extraordinary this Is a most peculiar war russia dips in and out of it at will against the poles against the baits against the rumanians against the finns against the capitalists of the world italy stays out talks big and then stabs a man in inthe the back although some claimed vociferously it was tactless of mr roosevelt to put it that way but there were stranger things than that your correspondent was the first now new york radio commentator to predict flatly that franco france would quit the british rind and make a separate peace with hitler there was nothing very novel about that the british army sent only ID 10 divisions men to france and then lost 1000 royal cannon and all the royal tanks french conscripts were twice the age of the british conscripts and there was the age old friction between the french and british officers then the unbelievable happened war broke out between old marshal petain and winston churchill it was over the french navy iirth fourth largest in the world it was to be de mobilized tor for duration of the war according to the armistice terms but the british did not believe it so they attacked the french fleet at oran in algeria and also at alexandria egypt the british sank french battleships seized many more of them and killed about 1000 french sailors it was a rather ghastly business the french were furious and petain broke oft off relations with england the germans sat back and smiled with satisfaction so did the italians italian s whose heroic mediterranean fleet took absolutely no part in the tragic battle b at of oran things were going from bad to worse background there has always been a pro brit ish and an anti british faction in french politics through alio the anti british group were in power find and france and germany were on very decent terms in 1904 the pro british faction got control and agreed cc d to the E entente corrlale cardiali Cord Car lale diale with E edward dward VII of england this led directly into the first world war during this war clemenceau Clemenc cau led the pro british faction and caillaux Call laux led the anti british group clemenceau put caillaux Call Cati laux in jail for advocating an early peace the pro britons called the anti britons 1 defeatists anglo frerich french victory in 10 1018 1918 made the pro britons stronger than ever but the antis were gathering strength with the collapse of 1910 19 1940 lo they came back into power for the first time in 36 years since 1004 1904 As to the french people they are divided and probably have no special love tor for elther cither big neighbor |