Show weekly news review rome aronte berlin A axis ais may crumble if Geri germany nalLy Is given colonies es ily by joseph W L la al erinc foreign at best germany italy and japan are unnatural athral bedfellows bed fellows with nothing in common except totalitarianism and a grudge against the world flushed by her imperiali imperialistic victory at munich there is every reason to think germany might abandon italian and japanese alliances it if they stood in the way of her march to world power first step in this direction has been taken by fuehrer adolf hitler in presenting african colonial 0 P 3 cairo A F R I 1 A 1 k GERMANY IN AFRICA of on onetime f time german possessions olioun in black france holds mandates for To goland 1 and the Camer 2 great britain has minor interest in both ball british britch south africa 5 holds mandate lor for southwest africa 3 and britain a candate mandate for tanganyika 4 angola 6 is is held by portugal demands to great britain and france what hitler wants and probably will get is ret return urn of togo land Camer southwest africa and tanganyika held under league of nations mandate by britain and france since the versailles treaty if they pay this price for peace britain and france will also agree to german arms equality british bri tish french gain through such a transaction would be german friendship friend shi p and an understanding that italy had better confine her imperialism to the mediterranean area on pain of combined german franco british opposition moreover 11 II duce would be forced to withdraw from spain next der fuehrer may turn his eyes to japan which now controls onetime one time german islands forfeited after the world war since hillers Hit lers lerps aggressive imperialism makes orie one conquest merely an appetizer for the next moreover since self pity ing germany looks angrily at any nation which controls large territories and resources japan may find her chinese conquest threatened nor do observers overlook the chance of a german italian breach over Hun garys czechoslovakian claims now handed to the rome berlin axis for settlement mussolini Hun garys frie friend nd wants czechoslovakia oslo dissolved moreover wants hungary to get the common border with poland which she desires but hitler temporarily angry with hungary and anxious to preserve a path 0 0 the east through czechoslovakia vill fight partition transportation U S railroads arguing before resident Roosevel ts fact finding ommittee have claimed a 1 15 5 per ent pay cut is the only solution to heir problem labor which threat ns to strike if the pay oay cut is en arced says better management vill do the trick without waiting or the fact finding commission to aport railroad manag management dment has aken the matter into its own hands in n three fronts northwest before the interstate om merce commission have ap leared eare s stockholders oc 0 ers of two huge mes ines ch chicago icaco north western and chicago hi cago milwaukee st paul pa ic their plan physical consoli lation of the two roads im immediate m Y vonna effecting operating econ economies amies of a year had hastening ormal recovery of the two roads southwest Sou uc an I 1 C C examiner as recommended reorganization of he missouri pacific jacif ic line with sharp in its fixed interest debt ilso recommended is consolidation if f owned properties being operated operand is the missouri pacific system ex epting ing the missouri illinois illinois rau rail oad south placed before the I 1 C C fil a plan for urging merging the gulf moile iett northern tail railroad road with tho the lobile ohio line chief opponent s burlington railroad d which owns 77 per cent of G M N stock chief signia significance acance of alar ers and reorganizations is 1 that thaS railroads olds vill 2 labor become will iii economically suffer ur gh sound de ceased employment m thou gh wage avels probably will not be cut 3 cores of small cOmm swi unitie s ally built to follow the r railroads ail roads me of expansion w ill find them elves isolated wilho ut rail service defense etense il knotted inseparably in m aws have been recent japans conquest of hina and world dem m at apts to strengthen t their heir military gnomic economic positions at against rat ra t german alo jap agg aggression in PUA though nd d and the U S engve engh h have ave been rub ig 99 noses in their t trade rade j pact ne october of 1938 will be remembered primarily as the month when america first stood up and barked at modern imperialism within 24 hours two barks came from washington first was president Roosevel ts precedent shatter ing condemnation of nations employing force japan exile germany and repression italy as instruments of national policy next day on the heels of japans conquest of hakow the state department made public a 21 day old protest to tokyo against violation of chinas cainas open door policy this was but percussion in the new american overture of preparedness chiming in are plans to strengthen military and naval forces so that the western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation to the north at kodiak alaska the navy is quietly preparing two bases accommodating at least long range patrol bombers thus if britain and france deny it the U S admits japan has become the far no I 1 power and bids fair to dominate the pacific unless stopped although generalissimo simo chiang kai shek will continue battling japan in the hope his foe will eventually commit military and economic suicide there is little likelihood that chinas cainas door will be reopened to western nations unless japan wants it for a preview of things to come democracies nee need d only look at Manchu kuo where seven years of japanese proprietorship has both closed and locked the door T end HOW the icinda is blotting blo icing M TIME CLOCK film actors earning up to 1000 a week and all extras now punch time clocks each morning under new union contract with provision for overtime work NOBODY A baby born to one of sad eyed jewish refugees living in a ditch in the czecho slovak german no mans land has been named niemand meaning nobody BANG WARFARE japanese e troops patrolling streets of newly captured canton disperse terrified chinese by merely pointing their guns and shouting bang U S LANDLADY women hold 25 per cent of all U S jobs apart from domestic service are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of all life insurance own 50 per cent of all corporate stock operate 60 per cent of savings accounts HAIR RAISING mrs dorothy kantack of chicago has won a divorce decree against the husband who protested against her new upswing coiffure I 1 people british royalty symbolically corresponds to the U S flag since the czech crisis proved great brit ains empire is becoming vastly independent a little flag waving is entirely proper first king george and queen elizabeth announced a r al 1 2144 1 1 rac GREAT BRI TAIN S MARINA Is she being exited exiled for usurpation state visit to canada and probably to the U S latest news is that the popular 35 year old duke of kent ent becomes governor general of australia next year to fun loving kent and his wife beauteous former princess marina of greece australia will mean virtual exile from their favorite diversion london night life though english papers paper S discreetly failed to mention it part of the U S press called kent and his wife victims of royal jealousy the claim that slim elegant marina is usurping queen elizabeths elizabeth s rightful place as ruler of british fashion at alias lonely canberra where kent will receive a year not a single night club will help break the tedium of this british siberia I 1 miscellany at anaheim calif miles mile S of surplus third grade grad e oranges were dumped wh when en federal diversion funds ran out leaving the 8 per ton price unsupported Q at Preston burg ky 34 year old fleming tackett married 10 year old rosie columbus treasury inconveniently close to election day have come piecemeal reports and offhand predictions concerning the U S fiscal situation when president roo roosevelt sevelt talks finance before congress on january 3 he may ask almost anything B but u t right now as the president busies busie s himself with budget planning he can be guided by facts and forecasts facts despite up swinging business the U S treasury deficit for the current fiscal year jumped above one billion dollars october 20 2 leaping forward several million dollars a day gold reserves mounting since the european scare hit revised the 1939 fiscal deficit prediction pred action stands at second largest in new deal history by next june 30 when the SECRETARY I 1 coolest of all concerned fiscal year ends the U S public deb twill hit compared with in june 1931 forecast though pump prim ing will help business the 1940 budget will be una balanced only by continued spending can the administration hold a mass vote for the 1940 election thereby forestalling the normal swing to republicanism but it is far more painful to pay than merely file away the bill and next winters congressmen will present at least five new methods of making john public pay 1 A 10 per cent one shot income tax levy to garner needed for increased armament 2 a processing tax to pay for the agriculture airi culture departments proposed domestic dumping program for crop surpluses 3 removal of tax exemption from future issues of federal state and local bonds also on official salaries 4 extension of social security to include farm laborers domestics domestico bank employees self employers etc 5 lowering of income tax exemptions under 1000 coolest of all concerned with fiscal affairs has been the man in direct charge secretary of the treasury henry jr unworried by mounting gold reserves we have plenty of storage space he predicts improved business conditions will cut relief rolls and help the budget which observers now think will run to only fear has centered around the british pound sterling whose declining tendencies have adverse effects on U S commodity prices and export trade ITI tite house when its investigations first opened the dies congressional committee on un americanism confined most of its probing to fascism and neither of these isms iams has much support among U S politicians but with election time approaching and its witnesses becoming influenced by political fever it was natural that the probe should should turn to a more pop popular ular ism communism comm un i sm first came the charge that secretary of labor frances perkins was impeachable for failing to support aggressive deportation proceedings S against communistic harry arry bridges madam perkins replied that she was awaiting court decision on a test case that proceedings ce could move no faster than the courts themselves next the committee asked why gov frank murphy of michigan had taken a passive interest in the 1936 sit down st strikes r ikes only to learn that governor murphy had commented that sometimes events make laws malleable s president roosevelt hopping mad by this time jumped in to charge the dies committee is providing a forum for politicians with elec tion year axes to grind though recalling that no such reprimand was fort forthcoming when the lafollette olIette civil liberties committee held its hearings impartial observers vers agreed the dies committee might have done a le ss S s bonate impassion Po nate a job tam in 1937 or 1939 1 quoit Os 1 1 SEN WILLIAM E BOKAS on U S intervention to t 0 force justice tor for je jews Ws in great britaina Brit ains palestine fa lestine problem we cannot retain the respect ct of europe and our own self respect by directing nations how they shall carry out their treaties 8 nd lations obligations Sat ions and do nothing i but direct HARRY HOPKINS on record we have made mistakes but our greatest mistake has not been in doing too much but in doing too little |