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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW Democrats Meet Amid Rumbles Of Naval Action in West Indies And Threat of Third Party Action (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I Released by Western Newspaper Union. Atlantic Oc&an l(jUADELOUPE f RENCH GUIANA &88 Sp. Mi. 30,880 S?.Mi. v 204,239 Population 57,005 Population arM X Indies r A bean Sea ST. PlE"R RE , PARIS TODAY: No Glamour Paris, the reports said, was not Here you see Martinique uncomfortably close to the Panama Canal and the United States. Here there had been transhipped 300 0. S.-manu-faclured airplanes for France before that country succumbed to the Hitler juggernaut. Here British war vessels were maintaining a blockade to keep the planes from falling to Germany. And here American naval craft were dispatched to make observations. Here was a new and complex com-plex angle to the Monroe doctrine. so glamorous these days. The French cops and firemen still were on duty. But something was gone. One thing that was gone was two-thirds two-thirds of the population, which was scattered all around France. The French municipal administration carried on, but three German colonels colo-nels headed the three police departments. depart-ments. In the cafes, the German soldiers sang Lieder. There was a blackout at night, and a curfew at 10 p. m. Lutetia Parisiorum (as the Romans called the place) did not like that curfew. Once there were a dozen Paris papers. Now there were four: Le small D. He limited campaign contributions con-tributions to $5,000, and no more than $10 apiece in cash. He said he wanted no cash contributions from corporations, and asked for a hurricane of one-dollar bills. He added that he wasn't going to reward re-ward his wealthier backers with diplomatic dip-lomatic jobs, or anythine else like STORMY ISLAND: Martinique 'On Spot' In Chicago the Democratic convention con-vention was meeting to nominate the 1940 candidates. In Martinique, American airships previously sold to France, formed the prime reason for a British blockade and the rush of several American destroyers to the scene for observation. What had the one event to do with the other? Much, since the Monroe doctrine occupied both the attention of the platform makers at Chicago and the foreign departments depart-ments of several nations. A rather pointed exchange of viewpoints on the Monroe doctrine was made between be-tween Secretary of State HuU and the Hitler foreign office. "Europe for Europeans, America for Americans," Amer-icans," the Berlin statement seemed to say. Skeptics were not reassured. reas-sured. They believe they already saw evidence of Fifth Column work in some of the Americas. Matin, Paris-Soir, and two new ones, one of them anti-semitic. All were anti-British. The Paris banks were closed, and the German troops were always buying tobacco, beer, hard stuff, and chocolates. A German movie theater was running, for the field-grays, and some of the German Ger-man officers brought their families to town. There seemed to be very little friction between invaders and inhabitants. The Germans were reported re-ported especially as purchasers of picture postcards and silk stockings. Ahglo-French naval warfare helped the situation along, they said. PLATTSBURG, N. Y.: Once Again, Yet Some 800 civilians, who believed in preparedness, went to Plattsburg, N. Y., for a month of military train-ing. train-ing. It was to be at their own expense. ex-pense. It was a revival of the Plattsburg Platts-burg "idea" of 1915-16. This 1940 bunch were between 25 and 50 years of age. It cost them $43.50 apiece that. Congressman Joseph W. Martin Jr., of Massachusetts, Republican leader of the house, was Willkie's selection for campaign manager. When the Democratic convention opened, Jim Farley, aside from presidential talk, was also discussed as prospective head of a New York big league baseball team. At that time there was little belief he would again accept the national chairmanship chairman-ship which he held since 1932. II ENGLISH WAR: Extraordinary This is a most peculiar war. Russia Rus-sia dips in and out of it at will, against the Poles, against the Baits, against the Rumanians, against the Finns, against the capitalists of the world. Italy stays out, talks big, and then stabs a man in the back, although some claimed vociferously it was tactless of Mr. Roosevelt to put it that way. But there were The entire episode also prompted much "isolation" talk in the U. S. and threats of the formation of a third party, avowedly "isolationist" "isolation-ist" were heard. U. S. CAMPAIGN: Warming Up Now that the Democrats have met in convention, the campaign is due to warm up plenty with or without a third party ticket. Righi up to the convention opening Senator Wheeler of Montana kept right on saying he would seek the Democratic nomination at Chicago, no matter what Roosevelt was up to ranger tnings than that. Your correspondent was the first New York radio commentator to predict flatly that France would quit the British, and make a separate peace with Hitler. There was nothing noth-ing very novel about that. The British Brit-ish army sent only 10 divisions 200,000 men to France, and then lost 1,000 royal cannon and all the royal tanks. French conscripts were twice the age of the British conscripts, con-scripts, and there was the age-old friction between the French and British officers. Then the unbelievable happened. War broke out between old Marshal Petain and Winston Churchill. It was over the French navy, fourth largest in the world. It was to be demobilized for duration of the war, according to the armistice terms! but the British did not believe it. So they attacked the French fleet at Oran, in Algeria, and also at Alexandria, Alex-andria, Egypt. The British sank French battleships, seized many more of them, and killed about 1,000 French sailors. It was a rather ghastly business. The French were furious, and Petain broke off relations rela-tions with England. The Germans sat back, and smiled with satisfaction. satisfac-tion. So did the Italians, whose "heroic" Mediterranean fleet took at 20 cents per meal. Some of them were first World war officers. Win-throp Win-throp Rockefeller, grandson of old John D. and son of John D. Jr., was put on kitchen police duty, which was abolished in the Brjtish army some time back. There were four Plattsburgers per tent, and many of them were Wall Street specimens or the equivalent. The coffee mugs had no handles. Newbold Morris president of the New York city council, coun-cil, was there. Said Col. James Muir, in command of the Plattsburg Platts-burg barracks: "This is a fine body of men." DEFENSES: Washingtoniana The program for defenses passed the $10,000,000,000 mark, which is a lot of money. Said the National Economy league: "Confusion still seems the order of the day in Washington." Wash-ington." The navy department contracted con-tracted for 44 vessels, including 13 submarines, 11 cruisers, 20 destroyers, destroy-ers, and a seaplane tender. This meant a two-ocean navy, or in other words, two navies. It meant a 70 per cent increase in the navy in the next six years. The indicated lineup was as follows: United States two navies; next Japan; then Ens'. John Lewis of the C. I. O. thought that Wheeler was the only man who could beat Willkie. Wheeler felt, apparently, ap-parently, that both Roosevelt and Willkie were interventionists, and that he had inherited the classic mantle of the late Senator Borah and the magnificent elder LaFol-lette. LaFol-lette. Wendell Willkie tried to show himself him-self democratic, of course, with a NAMES . . . in the news C George Bernard Shaw thought that Hitler should be supplied by Englandwith Eng-landwith food, so they could all fight it out to a finish. Was G. B. S. turning into an insular warhawk? C Cross-eyed Ben Turpin, plenty beloved, be-loved, died in Hollywood at the aee of 71. C Pat McKenna died, too. He had been White House door-keeper from Roosevelt to Roosevelt. He was 65. Everybody that knew him liked him! C Max Ailken, son of the British "Hearst," Lord Bea'verbrook, a self-made self-made Canadian, won the distinguished distin-guished flying cross for double-crossing four German aviators. He shot them all Sown or, at least, that was his story. British flyers have shot down 107 German planes, in or around the British isles, since the start of the war. Germany demanded that the Norwegians Nor-wegians depose their king, Haakon VII, who had fled to England. The ex-allies previously deposed Belgium's Bel-gium's King Leopold, and so the crowned heads kept a-falling. England Eng-land was packed with them. C Earl Harrison, Philadelphia attorney, attor-ney, got the job for finger-printing aliens (and registering them) under the new federal law, which begins to operate by September 1. Harrison Harri-son said "no witch-hunting" and planned an extensive alien educational educa-tional program. absolutely no part in the tragic battle bat-tle of Oran. Things were going from bad to worse. BacJxgrowid There has always been a pro-British and an anti-British faction in French politics. Through the 1890s, the anti-British group were in power, pow-er, and France and Germany were on very decent terms. In 1904, the pro-British faction got control,' and agreed to the Entente Cordiale, with Edward VII of England. This led directly into the first World war During this war, Clemenceau led the pro-British faction, and CaiUaux led the anti-British group. Clemenceau Clemen-ceau put CaiUaux in jail, for advocating advo-cating an early peace. The pro-Britons pro-Britons called the anti-Britons "defeatists." "de-featists." Anglo-French victory, in 1918 made the pro-Britons stronger than ever, but the antis were gathering strength. With the collapse of 1940 they came back into power for the first time in 36 years since 1904 As to the French people, they are divided, di-vided, and probably have no special love for either big neighbor. ianc, itaiy, and Russia. France and Germany now have virtually no na vies, to accomplish anything with The rest of the world's navies are so much petty junk, and why they have them at all, nobody knows. The Dro verbial Swiss and Irish navies con! tinue to non-exist. Meanwhile the American national debt went up to almost 43 billions, and we SDenr nearly 10 billions during the fiscal year. When Roosevelt came into office the national debt was around 20 billions. Unemployment, world depression, and Adolf Hitler have come high. e FORODDS & FORENDS- A rough and bloody Presidential election cost the lives of more than 100 persons in riots through Mexico Rumania went completely Nazi' with King Carol still on his horse There were anti-semitic riots an.i' Semitic laws, and British t'echn " cians were fired from the oil fle,d and elsewhere. Many 0f the B ' manian Nazis wanted to oust Pn , entirely. st Laro1 The radical Hindu patriot. Subhns Chandra Bose, was arrested in r , cutta by the British Cal" |