Show WEEKLY ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W labine new totalitarian combination may spell doom of empires stalin acts as string puller EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they thi are those of 0 the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union i baltic sea IN V 1 FROM TO POLAND or ow OF EAST RUSSIAN by BONI of C 0 M N VIE TION I 1 twit aich AND SO T al IN fillI TONt LOST BY EMPIRE INOW N TO POLAND 1919 POLANDS PAST PRESENT FUTURE T territory taken by poland from lithuania and previously by lithuania irons from russia together with land lost to poland at al the treaty of riga is the soviets So vict first military objective in protecting ukrainians and white russians germany will probably take all polish land formerly belonging to herself and i to the austro empire eastern galicia populated by uk rain ians yet a part of the austro hungarian empire and highly coveted b by y germany gerac has a problematical future area in white may inay remain a polish state THE WAR diplomatic front thoroughly vindicated this month ere are the astute international observers who have called dussias Rus sias josef stalin the shrewdest diplomat of eu rope shrewder even than germa nys adolf hitler who begged and won dussias Rus sias friendship a few weeks ago like a remote control operator who needs only to punch buttons dictator stalin sat in his kremlin palace and manipulated diplomatic machinery that responded like one two three clock clockwork in a sequence of events that sped westward from tokyo to paris and london leaving the harried allies of Eu ropes war in miserable shape truce for five beers stubborn japan has fought an undeclared tn in l i formal war w with ith russia in the vast wastelands and outer mongolia ambitious elsewhere dictator stalin was not free to meddle meddie in european polities politics or peck nt at the british empire so long as japan remained a nuisance but one upshot T of the recent russ german non aggression 1 0 T v pa ct was a more thor ayes E y es turned west ough welding of world totalitarianism germany already allied with japan intervened to start conversations between soviet premier molotov and japans ambassador bas to moscow ShIge shigenori norl togo result A jap soviet truce welcomed in tokyo because it me meant a nt nippon could not only push tier her conquest of china but also oust pestiferous french and british interests from the orient conquest thus treed freed russia turned westward german tr troops cops already occupied half of poland whose defense was collapsing rapidly while dictator stalin ran the show from behind scenes premier molotov sent his troops tanks and plants planes wheeling across the frontier to take under their protection a bout about ukrainians and white russians in eastern and sou southern thern Po poland larEd thus relieved by prearrangement pre arrangement from conquering the rest of that nation germany w was as in turn treed to turn westward result some observers believed 70 german divisions used against poland were rushed to the western front where silence still masked hostilities lit in the basin but both france and britain knew their job was becoming more formidable hourly as the nazi juggernaut began unleashing its full strength questions F forecasts forecasts ore casts unnoticed in this ghastly and growing conflict were the fate and fortunes of men at arms britain had lost 22 ships including tile the veteran airplane carrier courageous three hundred thousand men fought in the with thousands more on the way gdynia fell brest litovsky and lwow were shambles warsaw in even worse shape negotiated her surrender paris heard the russians were invading lithuania also that the polish war had cost germany killed and wounded ono one dead was a grandson of the ex ral ser frances mine layer pluton exploded in morocco but men were merely pawns tn in the game game of war while they died their leaders fretted over a future which may make holocaust mild by comparison nations with far flung territories teni tories france and britain suffer most when their enemies japan russia germany and italy are also far flung while the harried allies had their hands full keeping mighty germany at bay behind her invulnerable west wall these things might happen japan under german coaxing dictator stalin might withdraw his support of cainas chinas long suffering generalissimo chiang kal kai shek thus paving the way for immediate completion 6 of japans war meanwhile the maze of european concessions and settlements in china could be wiped out because western nations are too busy at home to complain russia with men concentrated on the afghanistan border the soviet could use this nation as a jumping ping oft off place in tier her campaign to establish rule over india meanwhile the kremlins kreslins Krem lins threat is luring turkey away from her alliance el with britain and france thus closing the black sea outlet which has been manias Ru sole hope of independence pen dence germany between them the reich and soviet must divi divide dePo poland if germany takes only her pre world war territory see map alap and russia takes only the land poland took by force in 1919 20 a buffer state would still remain between the two powers provided a settlement can be reached in southeastern poland whose rich galician Gall cian lands are coveted by both berlin and moscow italy shattered was the popular bellef that italy would not only stay neutral but might even come to the allies side observers still expected benito mussolini to promulgate a peace conference any day but they also knew he had an ulterior motive italy wants the french italian port of djibouti entrance to italian Ethl ethiopia opla made a free port she wants control of the djibouti addis ababa railroad she wants a w I 1 za ayi 1 k 11 IN WEST WALL while allies had their hands full major voice in admi administering ni the suez canal she wants other assorted and miscellaneous concessions which the allies foolishly denied her after the world war choice the tour four totalitarian na eions might decide to strike first and talk peace later or they may poise their threats and then sue whichever course they take britain and france are on the spot never in modern history have their empires been so completely threatened probably the better part of valor Is to fight and ignore totalitarian isms iams peace offers from expert ence Eu ropes democracies have learned appeasement merely whets the thel appetite and prolongs the torture LOUISIANA next case when e dr J james monroe monoe smith fled his louisiana state university for a canadian haven last summer the U S lost no time sticking its foot into a messy state political pud dle die resigned was gov richrrd W leche succeeded by the late huey P kingfish longs brother earl one after another of bf loussi anas politicians were caught in tho the trap including seymour weiss alleged political powerhouse and finally richard leche himself rumor had it that U S attorney general frank murphy was merely using louisiana as a proving ground to show the democratic party was equal in purity to new yorks rack et busting states attorney and G 0 P presidential possibility tom dewey whatever the reason the U S got its first conviction five Louisi anians including dr smith and seymour weiss were found guilty of selling hotel furniture to the state university not once but twice basis for the federal charge A check for the ill gotten gains was sent through the U S malls mails immediately the federal prosecutors went to work on their second case an open and shut matter of interstate ter state commerce and therefore clearly under U S jurisdiction in this trial prosecutors hope to find weiss and leche guilty ot of conspiracy to violate the connally hot oil law for allegedly piping contraband oil to texas DOMESTIC s war talk in 1917 it was public opinion that forced the U S into war in 1939 as in 1914 public opinion wants no truck with Eu ropes troubles but americas memory of the war is still so vivid that its citizen rys judgment is more reasoned less apt to be colored by propaganda from home or abroad even so there is no unanimity representative of antiwar anti war thought was the unprecedented radio talk by col charles A lindbergh whose congressman father committed political 77 7 7 7 77 7 7 7 V al V iw i w wa COLONEL invasion suicide by voting against war in 1917 As long as we maintain an army a navy and an air force lorce worthy of the name as long as america does not decay within we need tear fear no invasion it if we enter fighting for democracy abroad we may end by losing it at home this was a fine spirit as was the gallup poll finding that 84 per cent of the U S wants to keep american ships out of war zones a tenet of the proposed neutrality act but america was nevertheless plugging for france and britain another gallup po poll 11 3 showed h owed 82 per cent of them thought the allies would win while 44 per cent dangerously near a majority tor for so earl early yAnthe in the wary war favored sending ngU U S troops abroad if it appeared germany would win amid such befuddled opinion congress met to argue the presidents neutrality proposal to repeal the present arms embargo and sell belligerents lige rents anything they want pro elded they pay cash and use their own ships isolationist sentiment was growing but so was cash and carry sentiment simply a result ot of greater public interest most alost popular objection to neutrality revision dagnot was not that it would discriminate in favor of the allies because they rule the seas but that common sense overruled led changing legislation after afier the war has started closer to trouble more realistic in its attitude the state department knew it must move chessmen as belligerents moved theirs exam pie russo busso jap rapprochement meant the philippines might fall all easy prey to tokyo unless the U S delayed independence plans no easy job awaited congress administration forces moved to limit debate and the nation both booed bloed and praised no problem ever deserved more thought and discussion yet paradoxically this was a problem which seemed only to grow more confusing when pondered and debated agriculture cotton 0 last december per cent of the mouths cotton growing farmers agreed to limit the unrestricted sale ot of this years crop to bales penalty A fine of three cents per pound on all cotton sold above the quota announced tn in washington by secretary of agriculture wallace was another re feren dum on 1340 1940 marketing to take place december 9 |