Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH I 1 JV labine european peace pe ace talk persists despite increase I 1 in i n W warfare a Is Hit hitler lers s collapse imminent EDITORS NOTE NOT EWhen aben opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper Newt paper nm international peace in the wind though nazi mines and submarines counted almost two score victims in 10 days including polands bolands Po lands huge and britaina Brit ains RI bindl pindi thought though the allies re reportedly Port edly downed 22 nazi planes in 48 hours the big news ot of Eu ropes war was not conflict instead it was the story of peace efforts of one mediation after another of european and american overtures first to make pence peace and then to maintain it aenlo venlo munich by adding facts and subtracting propaganda neutral observers pieced together a plausible solution to the sherlock holmes mysteries which burst into into headlines after Adolt Adolf Hitler escaped the munich beer hall explosion november 8 heinrich Himm lers gestapo mem merely told germans and the world that S an 01 J 1 16 A 3 4 V 4 AND E it where does goering stand two british intelligence officers capt richard stevens and maj sigismund best had been seized tor for aiding in the munich explosion for which a german germa named georg elsor had subsequently been arrested by implication Il immler admitted a minor anti antl littler hitler movement in germany but by the time netherlands and britain got through with the story it looked like hitler was skating on thin ice at the hague the dutch newspaper paper r iles volk charged a belgian neutrality officer had been killed november 9 when best and stevens were abducted from venlo aenlo where they had boon been carrying on peace negotiations got latIons with anti hitler leaders from germany identity of these leaders remained a mystery that heinrich himmler would give his right arm to solve tor for many germans know he is a fervent nazi who looks suspiciously on field marshal hermann goering as a potential hitler toe foe ln in britain it was claimed that georg elser was merely a concentration camp prisoner who was seized for the record that the munich bombing had bad really been planned by himmler as an excuse for making wholesale nazi arrests and thus weeding out revolutionists possibly including herr goering Goerl ng whatever the true facts ot of venlo aenlo munich best stevens elser et nl al it was obvious nazi germany was vas worried by an underground anti hit ler movement which has roots in dissent lon following the wedding of and communism visionaries Vision aries scattered generously in dispatches from washington and europe have been suggestions concerning the peace to follow war few english men or frenchmen now believe versailles was a just treaty they now hope to lick hitler and give germany a rational postwar post war settlement most important there is growing talk ot of a european conte confederation dern whose units might include 1 eastern europeans encompassing pa asing nations from the gulf of finland to rumania with poland dominant 2 southeastern europeans allying the balkans to italy 3 central europeans drawing the catholic german czech and rhineland peoples nearer to france 4 northern europeans an aall ance of scandinavian countries 5 north central europeans permitting austria and n d to remain with the reich biggest visionary ot of the week was none less than prime minister neville chamberlain A war aim means defeat of our enemy the defeat of that aggressive bullying mentality if the german people can be convinced that spirit Is bad they will abandon it when we have achieved au our r war alms we can establish a fiew new europe a europe with a new spirit in such a europe it would be recognized that there can be no last ing peace unless there is a full and constant low flow of trade in such a europe each country would have the unfettered right to choose its own form of internal government american hand at washington the state department found the cause of international peace a good argument on which to hinge its plea for renewing the reciprocal cipro cal trade treaty act which expires next june assistant secretary george indicated the administration considered its treaties a basis tor for lasting peace when Eu ropes war is finished next day secretary hull himself jumped into the fight indicating he be be content to postpone th the e renewal until after election even though the 22 agreements already m made ado could be continued without a congressional vote though farin farm and industrial leaders have claimed the program has damaged their interests te rests secretary hull asked reporters to compare it with the republican smoot hawley tariffs two years after these took effect in 1930 he maintained 10 to 12 million americans had lost their jobs by contrast he said the reciprocal treaties have been calculated to boost employment POLITICS F forecast if he puts forth another big deficit spending pending pro program gront you can expect hins n ni to 0 be a third term candidate if 11 he goes goc in for economy he will not be a candidate alt alf landon 1938 1930 G 0 P presidential nominee made this forecast about franklin roosevelt lost last autumn it was hauled from moth balls when the president after permitting the treasury and a few Z tv X ALF LANDON no spending no running spokesmen to say their say about taxes made his own speech nt at worm warm springs ga public reaction to the tha no new taxes feelers had been good and it was especially clear that the administration would have trouble forcing congress to levy new taxes and at the same time increase the national debt limit in such a position the president wisely said little and left the problem up to congress and the people ills his statement that national defense outlays for the 1910 41 fiscal year will be increased about goo total approximately 2200 and that emergency defense taxes might inight be necessary but the people he be said should decide whether to finance it by borrowing or by new taxes that left the problem squarely up to congress with the president taking a sidelines seat there wae we re other indications he would seek no third term at warm springs he urged the good people to start agitating tor for a new post office because we have got only a little over a year left meanwhile columnist walter lippmann decided the president really want another term but only wanted the honor of having to turn it down other political notes fl L at dallas it was learned au authoritatively thorl tat ively that vice president john nance garner would soon announce his candidacy for the 1910 1010 nomona tion C at boston mrs ruth hanna nac mccormick simms ex representative fri fr m illinois asked the republicans to nominate young tom dewey a III alg ting young man a man of vigor co rage and proved executive ability 1 I it ASIA Chi chianis angs s woes boes into provinces proal provisional capital of nanning marched japans warriors nipping effective ly one ot of the two major supply routes whereby the chinese government gets its supplies from french indochina indo china and british burma on one side of his face generalissimo chiang kai shek laughed for publication ca tion asserting this jap coup meant little miles to the west in cunnan province runs another supply route but inwardly general chiang could be worried first thing the japs did at nanning was establish an air base from which to harass hars as s dunming Kun ming capital of cunnan meanwhile the chinese had other worries the support they have hav e long received from soviet russia appeared dwindling as the kremlin appeared ready to have a love feast with its longstanding long standing bitter enemy japan LABOR film strike whether A F r ot of L movie unions are powerful enough to shut down U S film theaters is a question no movie producer la Is anxious ito to test directed by william bioff blosl whom chicago authorities sought on a 17 year old pandering conviction dign studio unions in hollywood demanded a 10 per cent ceni wage increase and threatened to close theaters it if it was refused projectionists had promised their operation cooperation co producers refused at first claiming they had lost foreign markets since the war and faced sharp production curtailment unionists countered with not too farfetched far fetched charges of exorbitant salaries paid to stars As the deadline neared producers capitulated until february 15 the unionists will have a 10 per cent increase then the tha question will be opened again RUMANIA dangerous step |