Show weekly news review latest nazi anti jewish drive dr ive gives gaws restless reich a cause BY la bivie J religion in teet times of stress men are known to seek solace in religion but even religions solace becomes difficult when men are persecuted for their faith and race that to is the plight now facing all german opponents of Nazi doms socialistic ideology which dictates that the state must come first that religion must take what is left thus in less than a weeks time german jews were persecuted unmercifully and driven back to medieval ghetto style of living while german catholics also found themselves on the defensive though the vatican has long been outspoken against germanys germanas Germ anys five ave year persecution of jews outright hostility did not come until last months nazi storming of theodore kj ali sz CARDINAL VON terrorism arrived irom vienna cardinal palace in vienna now this battle has spread to munich where michael Car cardinal dindl von Faul habers palace was stoned at salzburg the catholic bathol lc university society has disbanded the im mediate immediate excuse tor for a 33 36 hour anti jewish hysteria was the assassination in paris of ernest von rath a german diplomatic by a 17 year old polish jew righteously proclaiming that german jews are answerable for the antinazi acts of world jewry germany has resorted to medieval ter terrors terrorism roris M and forced he her jewish citizens into such an economically impossible sit situation that self extermination appears to be the eventual result this seemingly ul ill reasoned solution of the jewish problem apparently typifies the nazi method of dealing with enemies real or imaginary observers are certainly not inclined to accept the von rath murder as a reason tor for the latest wave of persecution probably a better answer is that totalitarian rulers must have a constant cause celebre and that Naz idom having won its czechoslovakian cause has found founds a new wave of jewish persecution the most satisfactory method of kee keeping ing national enthusiasm whipped up however since world opinion has rebelled against such a gruesome policy it may prove a boomerang foreign to ward off germany Germ anys s aggression on southeastern europe turkeys late president kemal led formation of a balkan entente its members greece turkey rumania and in the center lies independent Sul bulgaria garla still sulking over world war territorial losses to greece Jugo and rumania waiting tor for the highest bidder to buy her favor since dynamic president died since gerr Germ germanas germanys anys economic drive has borne fruit this year in austria hungary and czechoslovakia the balkan entente is now looking for every possible me means ansof of solidifying itself observers predict that will return her war won territory to bulgaria before january 1 also that greece and rumania will do likewise in return bulgaria will join the balkan entente meanwhile although the entente will be strengthened by this shift of frontiers turkeys antinazi anti nazi position is not nearly so strong under her new president ismet inona as under Ata turk although turkey has hai long been pro british En glands vacillating policy of recent months has bas forced the turks to seek other alliances while an admirer of the united states and great britain inona cannot forget the obligations his nation assumed when it recently received a huge loan from the re reich ach thus he must operate cooperate co with southeastward bound adolt adolf Flit hitler ler a desperately seeking to avert na lional bankruptcy france has hal issued 32 decree decre e laws imposing Impo every restriction possible without violating the traditional principles of french government the gold reserve has been re valuated at the rato rata of francs to the pound sterling giving the government a paper profit of 22 billion francs all taxes have been raised and the controversial five day work week has bein been modified without discarding its principle forced to make sacrifices usually imposed only during a war frenchmen have only one alternative financial and economic collapse although the success of frances rehabilitation effort rests solely on operation cooperation co premier edouard Da ladler has one strong right arm in the support of world war veterans Dont domestic estic after 23 years of bickering the U S and mexico have reached a settlement over mexican expropriation of american owned larm lands on december I 1 a two man committee will meet in mexico city to de termine the amount of medicos cos liability after which a initial payment payment will be made subsequent payments will not be less than a year mexico insists however that the farm land settlement establishes no precedent requiring her to pay tor for in foreign owned oil lands seized during the tha past few years why she should uld pay for land which contains no oil meanwhile refusing to pay tor for land that does is a perplexing bit of reasoning the most likely answer Is in that farm land Is cheaper than oil land and that mexico hopes her larger sin will be forgiven it if she atones for the smaller sin agriculture the U S department of agrical tures efforts to export surplus wheat have never enjoyed the state departments sympathy since foreign wheat growing nations would be angry it if their domestic prices were depressed by U S dumping of surplus grain although secretary of agriculture henry A wallace now admits the export subsidy plan Is not efficient his department part ment is committed to disposing of part of the U S surplus in this manner meanwhile secretary of state cordell hull has held his breath hoping these exports will not injure international relations especially with south american nations this was the fhe situation when prank frank I 1 A theis kansas city grain broker appeared at rio de janeiro to sell bushels of U S wheat la in brazil that nation was not immediately hostile but a strong protest came from argentina which now supplies all of brazils wheat although brazilians Brazi lians could use cheap wheat to make cheap bread argentina is a good customer of the U S upshot was a protest state department delivered in washington by argentinas Argen tinas ambassador don felipe espel the problems crux IN K 1 argentinas ARGEN TINAS FELIPE ESPEL wheat provoked a crisis if argentina could prove the agriculture department was assisting mr theis in selling his wheat to brazil buenos alres aires would consider it equivalent to an international incident mr hull Is issued an immediate dental denial of official U S implication pl in the scheme so did mr wallace but he could not refrain from worrying publicly about the U S agricultural problem since future international incidents ci will almost inevitably result if the U S tries to sell any more wheat abroad mr wallace must now concentrate on solving the problem domestically the recent elections rebuffed his 1938 farm bill but he promises to defend it before the next congress he has even invited newly elected congressmen to affer offer their suggest suggestions lons Mean meanwhile whilo little more is heard of the two price plan tor for domestic dumping under which low income families would buy surplus commodities at special rates people great britain is badly indeed in need of salesmen to keep her far flung empire intact and no better salesman could be found than the duke of windsor now exiled in paris with his wife the former wallis warfield ld En glands abdicated king may soon return to En glands good graces that conciliatory gestures are in the air has been shown by the visit to paris of the duke and duchess of gloucester windsors Wind sors brother it is considered likely that edward and his wife will spend christmas day in london probably returning later to take up permanent residence at fort belvidere politics like all natural phenomena and many no not so natural U S political fortunes run in cycles of liberalism and conservatism thus thu every lengthy republican administration has been succeeded by a shorter democratic one attesting to the american peoples inherent nh erent conservatism since the republican party reached its latest low ebb under candidate alfred landon in 1938 1936 none but the most optimistic expected anything but a minor gain so early as 1938 but it has proved otherwise thanks to 1 a growing belief that the roosevelt administrations expensive recovery efforts have been unsuccessful and 2 a tear fear that new deal policies were en cou raging the growth of radicalism moreover it has been apparent that the public must eventually protest against the political corruption which unavoidably gathers around so large a financial project as though the roosevelt administration may be blameless in this respect such political machines as that of pennsylvanian Pennsyl gov george H earle have unsavory reputations another consideration one that received less attention than eventually proved justified was dissatisfaction mong among americas numerically fm portana farmers since the agricultural ful vote can control congress it looked bad for the administration when this years highly touted farm program failed despite secretary of agriculture henry A wallaces Walla cei sincere efforts now new deal farm legislation has left producers in northern states without permanent pei manent relief see agriculture almost without exception the november general election has therefore made the U S return to its most normal political alignment in approximately 15 years always democratic the solid south has clung tenaciously to tradition but this tradition does not mean the south up per cent behind president roosevelt tor for south carolina georgia and maryland elected senators partially unsympathetic with the new deal several other southern senators and congressmen not u up p tor for reelection election re this year are also unsympathetic though in many cases the republican trend Is not so great as first appearances might indicate practically all northern states have shown a surge back to conservatism this was especially marked in minnesota and wisconsin where farmer labor and progressive partisans were e ousted after long incumbencies michigan swung away from democratic gov frank murphy largely because he sympathized with the radically tinged committee tor for in du organization in all northwestern w C stern states the swing to republicanism lican ism was due partly to agricultural dissatisfaction new englan En glands ds industrial population rebelled against allegedly oppressive tax taxation a and the C 1 I 0 while this ter ri torys traditional conservatism also played an important role substantially ly the same explanation can be made for votes in ohio and pennsylvania the only important new deal gains have come in california where a rock ribbed republican governor was ousted in northia north Nort hDa dakota whose notoriously unsettled political situation has freakishly placed a democrat in the governors chair and in maryland but such a resume does not tell the entire story tor for even those states which remained democratic have shown an amazingly strong re pu publican alican upsurge new yorks gov herbert heibert H lehman won by only votes over his republican opponent youthful thomas E dewey whereas two years ago mr leh man had a margin illinois which remains pre predominantly domina n aly ne new deal increased its republican house representation and returned a much larger jarger conservative vote than in 1938 1936 having gained at least 8 senators 81 house members and 11 governors the republican party once more has a vocal minority in congress moreover its 1940 presidential hopes are better belter despite the defeat in new york of tom dewey once consid jered isred a likely candidate if the 1938 election has created any new presidential possibilities they are ohlas republican sen hobertf robert tait taft and massouris Mis souris democratic sen ben bennett ne tt champ dark clark what the republican upsurge will dolor do for theu the U S remains conjectural but post election stock market acty ity has been encouraging to help industry the american federation of la labor oi y Is already ban akong kingon Wk onG G OP 0 P congressional aid in amending the wagner labor relations act the outstanding tact fact Is that republican party has emerged a liberalized entity well spanked for its former conservatism ultra defense when financier bernard baruch first prop proposed a huge united states rearmament program after the european war scare one of his talking points was that private enterprise would be revitalized official washington agrees as shown by rumors that the 1917 war industries board may be established reestablished re to ordinate coordinate co a rearmament spending program by private industry the govern ment expects to bo be spent for rehabilitation and expansion of railroads public utilities chemicals automotive and aircraft industries it il also expects mobilization iza tion of americas raw materials solving such problems as that of manganese an essential element in steel production which now comes largely from cuba because united states deposits are not de developed ve loped I 1 |