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Show i Washington, D. C. BRITISH WEST INDIES ; Within a two hour plane flight of the Panama canal lies the British island of Jamaica, wich is 99 per Icent black and 100 per cent restive. (Intelligence reports from -Jamaica . warn of the danger of a Negro up-rieing. up-rieing. Jamaican Negroes have never ibeen prosperous, but this year has been unusually bad. The cane crop was a failure, the banana crop was ruined by a hurricane, and on top of this, word is being passed around among the Negroes that their misery mis-ery would disappear under German , rule. As a result, British authorities, practically deserted by the home government, are keeping a watchful . eye on their arsenal. Unrest in Jamaica would create a double problem for the United States and the other American republics. .Koosevelt has already warned European Euro-pean dictators that he will tolerate no change of sovereignty in this hemisphere. But the situation would be embarrassing if the natives na-tives of Jamaica were to revolt . against England and invite in Hitler. Note Jamaica's harbor, Kingston, Kings-ton, is one of the finest in the West Indies and just 600 miles from the I Panama canal. At the beginning of the war, Britain held in this har-ilor har-ilor a convoy fleet of 70 ships, i Changing Attitude. Confidential reports cabled back to the state department show that ; the French people have become bit-;ter bit-;ter not only toward Great Britain "but against the United States. Sentiment has been so vitriolic ;'that it was the subject of a conversation conver-sation held by Ambassador Tony ..Biddle, who substituted for Bullitt 'in Bordeaux. Sumner Welles also mentioned it a little sadly to the ..French ambassador in Washington. The French simply cannot understand under-stand why the British and Americans Ameri-cans did not come to their aid. Only "their men were killed, their coun-:try coun-:try destroyed, and their prisoners .are now seen marching behind German Ger-man guards. This has so infuriated them that now many Frenchmen al-. al-. anost relish the possibility that their jfleet may be used against the Brit-.'iish. Brit-.'iish. Another effect has been a change -of feeling in France toward the Germans. Ger-mans. Frenchmen, especially in -Paris, are beginning to say: - "Well, after all we are Euro- ; peans, so let's be Europeans. T ! with .the Anr-io-S:vons. They .-Can't be depended upon. Maybe the Germans are not so bad, after .all." ' This attitude has been helped by the excellent behavior of the Nazis in Paris. There are almost no "troops on the street. Nazis have kept out of sight, and the arrests made by Herr Himmler's Gestapo have been done very quietly. Meanwhile, some of the French . newspapers, obviously coked up by Nazi subsidies, have begun a terrific ter-rific attack upon the British, togeth- er with a campaign to educate the French people regarding the better qualities of the Germans. The French are still inclined to . look upon their conquerors as Germans, Ger-mans, not as members of the National Na-tional Socialist party. Few Frenchmen French-men seem to realize that this is a revolution, not a war, and that Hitler Hit-ler is conquering Europe for National Nation-al Socialism, which has made more .lar-reaching changes in the capitalistic capital-istic system than Russian Comma- nism. Hitler's Tactics. It has become increasingly obvious obvi-ous that the smartest thing Hitler did was to knock off the countries of Europe one at a time instead of permitting them to gang up on him. When Hitler took Czccho-Slovakia, tor instance, the Poles were en- couraged to take a small piece of Czech territory. Then after they had taken it, Hitler took back the little piece of Czecho-Slovakia plus one-half of Poland. One reason Hitler was able to take Poland was that he promised Russia the other half. And now Stalin, realizing re-alizing his own peril, is frantically defending his Polish-Baltic border. One year ago, talking to American Ameri-can diplomats in Berlin, Nazi leaders lead-ers made no secret of their intention inten-tion to employ the same strategy In the Western hemisphere; in other words, to isolate the United States from Britain and France, then provoke pro-voke revolutions in South America and take those countries away two and three at a time. The United States itself, Nazi leaders said, would be relatively easy. Social . revolution was sure to come in a .year or so, at which time all Ger-nany Ger-nany needed to do was to aid the revolutionary party. 1 MERRY-GO-ROUND Erudite Senator Wagner of New York is the author of most New Deal labor legislation, but his choice diversion away from the senate is j strictly top-hat. He is the senate's I leading grand opera fan; buys a I reason ticket for the Metropolitan every year. i Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma is not only one of the senate's most accomplished orators, but also is a hot Wild West movie fan. Three nights a week he takes in a ride-'em-cowboy thriller at a 15-cent cinema. |