Show known for loyalty fo 10 hitler nazi germany 1 I to succeed ced goering as nations leader dashington fas hington legislators closely study lett letters ers from constituents by BAUKHAGE iVa tiona farm and rome home hour four commentator sn service 1313 1343 11 street washington D C its a mad world and washington is 1 s a c days ys corner of it s de the iro iron pickets which sur the white house human pick aked their banners prot protested estea st convoys against sending soldiers abroad to ight fight f can an rho may be sent abroad helto bt charged the protesting pick t blocked down the men pushed 4 ornen around aroun d home returning til ker W goers stopped to cheer the th e zvi ers capitol capitol hill mail protesting t convoys poured iri in t at t after afternoon noo n washington was ned ed to hear t that hat a young farmer iland helped a german officer tad had just dropped from the j into his cottage and gave him lass Ss of water the officer was lieutenant rudolt trusted rs s and the news of his sensa flight eight dropped into the midst e washington melee to make 61 at jion ion worse confounded k I 1 fighting pickets hess in the lines blines pushed history back for pickets were attacked in front ie e white house at the beginning VAAI AAA orld war I 1 I 1 saw hitler lay fu accolade of succession to nazi ii iship upon hess the day world tl I 1 all il began mie me of the fighting pickets of 1914 staid grandmothers today isparta S LEADER I 1 you ou had asked me in 1939 when a broadcasting from berlin who all men in the nazi party would lal the hie least likely to desert its lead I 1 would have said hess he was a striking figure he did not pale e in the brilliant uniforms of herr ring ering he did not make the fiery ches of herr goebbels but he ADB 3 th the e real head of th the e party the me de man and so when he sud tl aly y turned up in britain I 1 could m 1 believe that he was there except p e about his leaders business i can see hess that day in berlin fa vas s a solemn sight the hurriedly led meeting of the reichstag in in lac tl ember 1939 there may have T to ME n many in germany then who I 1 hoped that britain and france md d not fight for poland hitler ika 15 d I 1 promised he would gain his jo ds without shedding german the bitter memory of the last ar the starvation the defeat the imilia illation tion were still sharp in the la ories nories of the people then they id had no victories to cheer them hitler aler himself was pale and worn jsn n he walked into the kroll opt house where the reichstag ts his speech was restrained 8 teemed seemed to me like a man who ill made his will and said his pray re he spoke almost apologetic sj A said his greatest desire was 1 ie t the he first soldier then announced that he was going goin g to front and he added if anys happens to me in battle party invade ade goering will be my suc r goering in a gaudy uni 31 on his high pedestal saluted 1 crowd cheered then en hitler turned to the right ace ere the tau tall lank lanky y hess was seat 1 on oil the stage in his simple brown orm and it if anything happens comrade goering comrade hess be his successor success the crowd lie ered hess heis rose deliberately ked d at his chief and saluted I 1 fould could think only of a great well ined and faithful st bernard ly y and obediently answering his asters whistle it is is hard to believe that this man w wd desert his master hess was rent ent he may not have been as blous as his hii frequent calls upon M almighty may have indicated the he had a fanatical devotion to amany any his loyalty to hitler from e earliest t contact with the fuehr based ona great faith 1 belief that hitler ana and hitler alro ne would save germany Geri any 0 legislators study from voters voter the wi senator I 1 w wanted anted to see was office and I 1 was waiting in his outer talking ang to lus his secretary who as an id had old d acquaintance of mine he in ftp sheaf fa of letters in his hand spite te of the 4 rules for keeping the s closed in order not to dis etna te the air co olin system in the as office b bu ia ilde the window one pen A breeze caught one of 1 the letters l it dropped on the floor and I 1 picked it up 1 I dont want to lose that the it sec secretary of y said its important read it was an emphatic protest on the subject of a measure before congress written in a firm hand in good straightforward english notice the paper said my friend see that hole in the corner there was a string through gl that the pad was fastened to the telephone and it was written with the pencil tied to another string I 1 happen to know the man who wrote it he runs a flour and feed store b but ut ad il d know just about the he type of writer it was from the paper why I 1 asked him is it that important its important because the people wi who 0 write on that kind of paper with a pencil are import important arit people to us they elect us this secretary always said us because he had been in politics with the senator for 10 years ever since his chief was a member of the state legislature for the past few weeks letters like that and other ones too which IU ill speak of in iii a minute have been flooding the post office in the capitol building they have concerned the question of convoys and they have had a lot to do with how congress voted LETTERS SPUR DEBATE when the letters stop the debate stops an axiom and on an important question the number of letters grows each day until it reaches a peak then suddenly the number drops the drive is over its time to vote and settle the issue there are several kinds of letters which come in to congress to commentators menta tors and writers there are the nut letters which are e easy to identify they dont count there are the form letters or letters which though sometimes they are individually written all have the same phraseology they are organized propaganda easy to identify and to assay then there are the letters on expensive stationery usually their writers are known they are in the minority then there are the letters I 1 spoke about first not always in pencil or on scratch paper but simple and spontaneously written they count but here is another interesting point just because there are more letters on one side of a question than there are on the other mean that the apparent majority is an evidence of the real attitude of the comm community unity more people who are against a measure will take pen in hand than those who are for it one senator in a community where we all knew the sentiment tor for a particular reason was very much pro convoy told me his letters were running three to one anti they would have to run ten to one against a measure before it would mean that the majority of my constituency w were ere against it he told me 0 PROPHET IN washington A prophet has come to washington but he will not syl he is john maynard keynes tall slim precise he was a member of the british delegation to the paris pans peace conference of 1919 with the ink hardly dry on the versailles treaty he wrote that the carthaginian peace a peace of force is not pra practically ay right or possible the clock cannot be set back with without out setting up such strains in the european structure and letting lettin g loose such human and spiritual forces as will overwhelm not only your guarantees institutions and t the e existing but your order of your soc society bety I 1 asked mr xe keynes nes who is is here in washington as a british treasury official to consult on the lend bease law it if he thought it was necessary to prepare for a new kind of peace answered but I 1 am yes he much more concerned con concerned cernea now with fighting the war mr keynes believes eulves that we must defense by a type for raise mon money ey of which cupa forced a par borrowing t of oa 08 all salaries a method are de by and turned over to the gov si ducted these fo reed ern ment after the war would to keynes Ic cording savings d then deover the perio help bense 0 tide production ST depression dyn drops 0 ff and like thus the help to o avo id a one that followed the I 1 last ast war |