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Show jVcics Ilevietc of Current Events DEALS WITH DICTATORS Chamberlain Planning Anglo-Italian Agreement and Four-Power Pact . . . France in Dilemma - ' " p. i Chancellor Hitler delivering the sensational speech In which he defied the world, declaring Germany was not afraid of war. Above him is seen General Goering. This is a radiophoto from Berlin. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Anglo-Italian Plans SUPPORTED by a large majority in the house of commons, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Chamber-lain moved rapidly toward realiza-p., realiza-p., tion of his plan for S- v x ! European appease-' appease-' , - i ment, the basis of ! , - .: which was to be a i i speedy truce with s: Italy, to be followed " by a four - power f pact including Brit- i - ain, France, Italy I ' and Germany. I ' j Chamberlain aban- doned entirely the British foreign pol-Netille pol-Netille lcy based on collec-Chamberlain collec-Chamberlain tive security He got rid of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, putting in his place Lord Halifax, Hal-ifax, outspoken friend of Nazi Germany, Ger-many, and defied the opposition of the Labor party in parliament. The earl of Perth, British ambassador am-bassador to Rome, had conversations conversa-tions with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano and was then called to London Lon-don for further instructions. It was said Perth and Ciano agreed the following fol-lowing points must be discussed and, if possible, made a part of the London-Rome treaty: Britain must recognize the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. An Anglo-Italian Mediterranean pact should be arranged to include Italian naval parity with Britain in the Mediterranean, reduction in Italy's It-aly's troops in Libya, and British assurances that the Suez canal will be safeguarded against closing or air attack. Immediate cessation of anti-Italian propaganda in the British territories terri-tories in the Near East in return for which Italy will guarantee not to include anti-British propaganda in its Bari radio broadcasts. Withdrawal of foreign "volunteers" "volun-teers" from Spain was to be demanded de-manded by Britain, and it was understood un-derstood in London that Chancellor Hitler of Germany had agreed to that, and that Italy would not refuse, re-fuse, although Mussolini especially wishes that Franco be granted belligerent bel-ligerent rights. France in Tight Place ENHANCE, it was expected, would adopt a course parallel with that of Britain, for, as Foreign Minister Delbos said, she might otherwise find herself isolated in Europe. However How-ever Premier Chautemps served notice no-tice on Chamberlain that the French would join in the proposed four-power four-power pact only if protection were assured for Czechoslovakia and Austria. The French secret defense committee met to organize an arms expansion program involving $855,400,000 and to lay plans for defending de-fending the Czechs against German aggression. The Chamberlain plan leaves out Soviet Russia, an ally of France; and the French also seemed likely to lose-another ally, for Poland, it appeared, was about to enter into an agreement with Cermany against Russia. Field Marshal Goering, Hitler's right-hand man, was in Warsaw, entertained by President Moscicki, Foreign Minister Minis-ter Beck and Field Marshal Srnigly-Ridz, Srnigly-Ridz, head of the Polish army. That soldier and other leading Poles believe be-lieve war between Germany and Ruissia will break out before lonj;. They don't like the Germans but fear that if Stulin lost the war Hitler would proceed to i;rab Poland. Isolationists Cheered AMERICAN ir.oiatiofii.:ts n.-iw in the new Kuropcan developments develop-ments the eclipse of the interna-tionnlisrn interna-tionnlisrn fostered by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, and were greatly encoiiraH'.'rl in their determination to k'-ep tin; Unil'-d States free from foreign ent.'innle-rn'Tils. ent.'innle-rn'Tils. At the same time the proponents pro-ponents il pov'-rful national fh-fi-n(f.e were elated and the administra tion's big navy program received a great boost The house naval affairs af-fairs committee was about ready to report favorably the billion dollar navy construction bill, which may include provision for the establishment establish-ment of more naval bases, mainly in the Pacific. -K Hitler Defies the World DOLITICAL turmoil spread over Europe after Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in an address to the reichs-tag, reichs-tag, declared his intention to make Germany one of the most powerful na- -V tions in the world. gave warning that it V was re-arming and -did not fear war wf though it desired i peace, and demand- ed the return of f Germany's lost col- ? onies. Furthermore, v ' Hitler upheld the ag- gressive actions of ' Italy and Japan, AdoU Hmer and- asserted that Germany would not tolerate ultimate victory of the loyalist faction in Spain over Franco's Fran-co's rebel forces. The fuehrer told with gratification gratifica-tion of his success in compelling Chancellor Schuschnigg to give the Austrian Nazis representation in his cabinet and to permit them to act as a political party. He gave no assurance that the independence of Austria would be preserved. He openly threatened similar action against Czechoslovakia unless the Germans in that country were granted "political liberty." Hitler's speech might be summarized summar-ized as a declaration that Germany will ignore Great Britain, France and other western powers in carrying carry-ing out her international policies, will continue her efforts to destroy the last vestiges of the general settlements set-tlements which followed the World war; will insist that the "have not" nations must be restored to a basis of equality with the "have" powers, pow-ers, and is prepared to defy any combination of powers which may be formed against her. Halifax Succeeds Eden EFUSING to go along with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Cham-berlain in his plans to "buy" a friendly settlement with Germany pi and Italy, Capt. An- !. thony Eden, Eritish f:. - . -. ; foreign secretary & .ii.i-'-'- - who has fought the f ambitions of Euro- j"- . J pean dictators for I y 'J iwo years, resigned -i V-"" i J from the cabinet. f With him went Vis- f tfir count Cranborn, the - A principal foreign un- h. -'f jj'j-l dersecrelary. V 1 s-, s-, .. ' count Halifax was Lord Halifax app(jinted to suc. ceed Eden temporarily. This change was in effect another triumph for Hitler, wa3 especially regretted by France, and threatened to precipitate precipi-tate a serious crisis for the British government. Viscount Halifax, lord president of the council and former viceroy of India, is a personal friend of Hitler and an insistent advocate of immediate imme-diate friendship with Germany and Italy, even at the cost of great concessions con-cessions by Britain. He was sent to Berlin not long ago to talk over matters with the Nazi leaders. Crop Insurance Manager f OY M. GREEN of Missouri has been made manager of the $100,000,000 f.-deral crop Insurance corporation, the agency created under un-der trio new farm law to inniirn wheat grower ngnlnr:t crop fail-uies. fail-uies. The appointment was made by the board of directors, which also f;el(v:t''d Cecil A. Johrir.on, formerly of Ami,.t!, Iowa, an ila r.ecrclary. Green has been chief of the Agriculture Agri-culture department's division of finance fi-nance In the bureau of nuriciiltural economics sine: 1!KJ5. McNut Hullabaloo pAUL V. McNUTT, high commis- sioner to the Philippines, came home to report to the President, and as soon as he arrived in Washington Wash-ington his enthusiastic friends staged a big reception for the purpose pur-pose of booming him as Democratic nominee for the Presidency in 1940. All experienced politicians agree that this is most premature, and in the capital it was felt that it was decidedly distasteful to Mr. Roosevelt, Roose-velt, who doesn't wish to be hurried in picking his possible successor. No member of the cabinet except Secretary Roper and no important man of the administration attended the reception. McNutt said he was not a candidate candi-date for any office, but Senator Sherman Sher-man Minton, Governor Townsend and other leading Democrats of Indiana In-diana insist he should be nominated in 1940, and no one doubts that he would like to be so honored. Chandler in Race r OVERNOR A. B. ("HAPPY") CHANDLER of Kentucky formally for-mally announced his candidacy for the senate seat occupied by Alben W. Barkley, majority leader. He said he would try to confine his fight to state issues, but would not hesitate to take issue with the Roosevelt administration if it interfered inter-fered in the primaries in behalf of Barkley. Green Hits Lewis' Plan TV l OVING to stop John Lewis and '' his C. I. O. from gaining political polit-ical control of Pennsylvania, the American Federation of Labor re voked the charter of the state federation. fed-eration. President Green announced that action with a declaration that the votes of 400,000 "loyal" federation federa-tion members in Pennsylvania "cannot be delivered" by "self-constituted labor leaders, ambitious for political power." Lenris and his unions are planning to elect Lieut. Gov. Thomas Kennedy Ken-nedy to the governorship. He is secretary-treasurer of the miners' union. Coal Prices Revoked TRACED with growing litigation, the national bituminous coal commission announced it had taken the advice of producers and labor unions and voted unanimously to suspend its schedule of soft coal minimum prices, marketing rules and regulations. The prices had been set aside by the courts in numerous nu-merous cases. Franco Regains Teruel FRANCO'S insurgent forces recov- ered possession of Teruel, Spain, and continued their progress toward the Mediterranean coast. In the recaptured re-captured city they took more than 16,000 prisoners and buried 9.000 government dead. Rebel warships bombarded the coastal cities of Valencia Va-lencia and Sagunto and were in turn attacked by government bombing planes. Rumania Goes Fascist T) UMANIA is now a Fascist cor-porative cor-porative state of guilds patterned pat-terned after Italy. This was settled when King Carol proclaimed the new constitution. . m-which m-which provides for v a parliament com- . 1 V j posed of guilds of farmers, workers and intellectuals Both the chamber l ? -of deputies and the y " -.i senate are reducea . . ' v in size and election 4 of members is to be : by trades and pro . j fessions, not by po- i litical parties. The M"K Laroi i king will appoint half the senators j and will have veto power over all i legislation. All Rumanians arc declared de-clared equal, with radical distinctions, distinc-tions, and religious freedom is granted with the Orthodox Rumanian Ruma-nian church as the state religion. Trials by jury are abolished and the death penalty reintroduced for certain crimes. The constitution was created by Rumania's powerful crown council, a special body established by King Carol to define general policies. Hungary Offers Pay JOHN TELENYI, minister from Hungary, revealed that his government gov-ernment has proposed a readjustment readjust-ment of its "war debt" whereby it would repay the United States the full amount of its original loan but without Interest. Parker Gilbert Dies S PARKER GILBERT of New York, who at the age of thirty-two thirty-two won fame by his brilliant work as agent general for war reparations, repara-tions, died of heart disease. After completing his job in Berlin he became be-came a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., dealing especially with matters of international finance. Army Planes' Groat Flight SIX bombing planes of the United Stales nrrny nlr corps successfully success-fully completed (in epochal mass flight of fi.000 miles from Miami, Flu., to Buenos Aires. The only Intermediate stop was at Lima, Peru. From there the bombers roared river the snow-capped Andes and landed lit the Argentine capital, capi-tal, where thnti:artds cheered the aviators. The planes carried 411 men be.'iirles the llichl comma nder. I. lent. Col. Robert Olds. |