Show s GR f A EN ENs 1 t. t y ai Washington D. D C. C i t HITLER AND U. U S. S From diplomatic Information It li Is possible to get a general Idea of ol what the immediate future will bring forth In Europe if U Hitler takes take England England Eng land as 81 he seems seem sure ure to do in inthe Inthe Inthe the next month FIRST he will want to buy U. U S. S cotton and grain in large quantities In In fact he will be willing to take most of our surplus surplus but but he will want ant a huge loan from the United States government to do it This will be called reconstruction financIng financing ing and It will be tempting bait to farming and business groups SECOND it is more than likely that Hitler will offer to freeze the armaments of ot Europe and the United United United Unit Unit- ed States on the basis basi of their present pres ent armed strength This also will be tempting to a tax ridden tax American public The I United States always alway has favored disarmament and several times has proposed freezing armaments However How ever this was when France and England had an army and navy and when this country was protected by them In South America Today Hitler's reported plan would leave the United States State with less than men Germany with about t In other words LatIn Latin Lat Lot in America would be open to at attack at t tack at any time and the tile United States would be powerless to prevent prevent pre pre- vent It Nevertheless Hitler's plans would z have strong appeal in the United f States especially if accompanied by bythe bythe f. f the usual Nazi propaganda stating that Hitler had only the kindliest ideas about the United States and i. cherished absolutely no designs for tor L any part port of her soil I Note This Note This was the propaganda Germany dropped from airplanes on r France before the tanks came It told how France and Germany had L rL no basic quarrel could live in peace indefinitely d HITLER'S SECRET GAS GASAll GASAll GASAll All the evidence gathered by military mill mili tary agents abroad now points to the then n probability that Hitler's secret plan for conquering Britain Is Js poison polson gas It Is s significant that so 80 far far Hitler has not used gas Even more significant sig is the fact tact that tha t he has been f storing It up In huge reserves French and British intelligence am- am k f cers have sent back reports report that li alarming quantities are now manufactured manu manu- f N a t and rea ready y for use Whether 4 er cr any new and more deadly form of ot gas has been perfected they do not know 1 One reason littler Hitler did not use gas r f. In attacking France and Belgium was that his army was moving too fast His tanks and armored cars were penetrating Into the enemy if lines so 0 rapidly that they would have caught up with their own gas It would have hampered Nazi Nul operations opera lions rather than aided them But in England It will be different For the English channel lies between bej between be be- j tween Germany and her victim t There will be no danger of the gas gay seeping back to Nazi Invaders untIl until until un un- un- un til they actually land troops m And so far all evidence indicates that before attempting to land troops littler Hitler will subject England to a rain of bombs such as 81 the world never has seen een before Only after littler Hitler has gassed and bombed England to the verge oft of t R surrender will the Nazi attack by sea ea begin I T U. U S SV V WAR AR I PRODUCTION One very real walT worry among some of ot Roosevelt's Roosevelt friends is that after all the hullabaloo over national defense defense de- de tense October may come around y V with not many more airplanes or tanks tank constructed L V G This they know would be disastrous dins trous to the country but also from i e a purely political viewpoint it would t. t w mean the defeat of President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- l velt or any other Democratic candiL candidate candi L date at the polls in November This possibility has caused shak- shak shaking t f ing of heads even among several 4 oJ cabinet members who have seen how slowly other projects moved in inthe inthe inthe the past They know that with the thena thena- na nation Lion tion voting the biggest national defense defense de de- de- de tense budget In peacetime history and with the President himself emphasizing emphasizing emphasizing em em- Its lis urgency the country is going to expect results and expect ex pest them fast I CAPITAL CHAFF Summer heat has come to Washington Wash ington but not the new fiscal year Result No electric fans tans for the state department The building has just had Its wiring changed from direct di direct direct di- di to alternating current but the money for tor new fans Is II not available until the new fiscal year White House press conferences are drawing between and newsmen these day days U U. S S. S Ambassador Steinhart looks In vain for a day of rest in Moscow The Soviets have outlawed Sunday they take one day of rest every six 1 days das But it usually coincides with witha a week weekday week fay In Washington when the state stale department is at al work work and and Its cables keep Steinhart at work SEC Commissioner Leon Henderson Hender Hender- son on went back to his class reunion rew on at al Swarthmore college where 20 years ago the they called him Dub f l t The class clas parade was headed by bya 1 a sign Ign reading Wall Street Street Street-Don't Don't Dont Be De Afraid of Henderson We We Knew Him When He Was Wu Dub I b. b a |