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Show Washington, D. C. FAKLKY RELEASES William Burke, Massachusetts 'Democratic state chairman, has confided con-fided to friends that ho received a personal letter from Farley containing con-taining authority to 'ease the delegation del-egation "if the President's name is presented to the convention." Since this is certain to happen, Jim's letter let-ter means he will not fight a third term nomination. Burke's 'friends attribute Jim's letter to the sweeping change in public pub-lic sentiment since the catastrophic war developments. Hitler's blitzkrieg blitz-krieg through the hapless lowlands Air Raids in V. S. Too! I By Thomas. washed up the numerous Demo- I i cratic hopefuls as well as the Dutch and Belgians. Massachusetts' 34 delegates are the only ones pledged to Farley. Whether his retirement from the nomination race means that Jim is Teady to manage another campaign is unknown. ; SUPERIORITY IN TANKS The fighting which took place in TFlanders probably was the most desperate in the history of the world, even bloodier than the Battles Bat-tles of the Marne and Verdun-Corpses Verdun-Corpses were piled house high. The trapped French and British made the Germans pay tn floods of blood for every foot they advanced. They knew that most of them had no chance of escaping, but their objective ob-jective was to weaken the Germans, .give time to General Weygand to strengthen the defenses of Paris. The key to this war (and also to American defense) is to remember that khaki does not stop machine-, machine-, m bullets, while tanks do. Also that it is impossible to whip an enemy en-emy whose airplanes can spy out every move and blast that move even before it gets started. The air and tank preponderance of the Nazis is the crux of their successes. suc-cesses. NAZIS IN SOUTH AMERICA The problem of protecting the Monroe Doctrine has undergone intensive in-tensive nights of study of late around the state, war and navy departments. depart-ments. Nobody is exactly predrct-.'.ig predrct-.'.ig that Hitler will invade South America this year, but nobody expected ex-pected him to invade Norway either. eith-er. And the British, one year ago, didn't expect to be invaded at all, and did not very well prepare for it. So U. S. strategists, not knowing what Hitler, in the full flush of victory, vic-tory, might do, are endeavoring to be prepared. On the maps of South America hung in government offices these days are two danger spots. One is Brazil, the other Uruguay. Other spots are bad, but these two have the largest number of Nazi sympathizers sympa-thizers and fifth column plotters. Uruguay is simply honeycombed with Nazi agents. There are also strong German colonies in southern Brazil, and even in Buenos Aires. In Argentina, the older army officers of-ficers are strongly pro-German, having hav-ing been trained by a German officer. of-ficer. In Brazil, the younger army officers are pro-Nazi. Particularly worrisome is the fate of these countries with Italy in the war. There are at least 2,000,000 Italians in Argentina or about one-fifth one-fifth of the population. Also there ' are large Italian colonies . in Uruguay Uru-guay and Brazil. Chief undercover strategy of these racial groups is to overthrow the present governments in South America, in favor of puppet governments govern-ments friendly to the Nazi-Fascist cause. Then these puppet governments govern-ments could renounce the Monroe Doctrine and invite Hitler to the Western hemisphere. Note New aviation aids, enlarging enlarg-ing of airports, training of pilots, nd even the co-operation of the V. S. fleet In using Brazilian har-fcors har-fcors are now under discussion to bolster the present pro-allied gov-ernments gov-ernments of South America. ! WAR CHAFF 1 : Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma :isays: "The people of my state are .Probably ahead of the President in his attitude toward Europe." Dorothy Thompson says the best 'key to Italian war sentiment was .given her by an Italian in Milan, who said: "Curse the English, who drove us into the arms of those ;swine, the Germans!" U. S. diplomatic reports from Russia Rus-sia describe a bad food shortage there. |