Show weekly news analysis analyse will deladier Da ladier turn dictator strike defeat arouses fears i by joseph UT la bine bille EDITORS EDITOR NOTE NOT EWhen when opinions opinion off f expressed in in these columns column they ther off tf these of the news analyst lad and not act necessarily ol of the newspaper foreign french labor won a 40 hour week in 1936 under premier leon blums socialist administration one of socialist blums henchmen then was edouard deladier Da ladier who rose from war minister to become a premier himself but premier deladier Da ladier though labeled a radical socialist has been growing cooler towards labors left wing popular front ever since adolf hitler became a leading force in european affairs reason labor and the popular front are communistic and adoli adolf hitler hates comm communists uni st s moreover labors 40 hour week has needed drastic modification since the september crisis though anxious to appease the A N 5 ov ix N it LEON af deladier Da ladier remembered kl briand reich deladier Da ladier also realizes france must speed armament production to cope with the menace across the rhine when french labor first began protesting against increased hours it became apparent that the ultimate showdown would have tremendous significance the showdown has now arrived but the full significance is still to appear under leon joubaux Jou haux french composite of americas john lewis and william green members of the potent general labor confederation announced a one day strike its purpose to protest against drastic decree laws which premier deladier Da ladier and finance minister paul reynard believe necessary to stave off financial chaos one protested decree naturally was that increasing work hours to 44 a week not even labor leader joubaux denied the strike was purely political being simply a popular front attempt to test the power of premier deladier Da ladier who has steadfastly refused to assemble parliament for a showdown on his decree laws but as the strike hour neared the premier remembered what another smart frenchman aristide briand did under similar circumstances in 1910 to railroad workers and others employed in essential utilities he sent conscription orders though they would strike as private citizens they could not ignore a call to the colors without courting drastic punishment in the end M jou haux one day strike was a failure immediate significance a victory for premier deladier Da ladier failure for drastic french social changes such as the 40 hour week probable success of the cabinets daring recovery plan defeat of the popular front doom for communism in western europe long range significance the possibility lity that premier deladier Da ladier swollen with confidence may emerge a semi fascist dictator over hi his s jittery nation the certainty that th at he will continue his policy of appeasing herr hitler treasury mid december is a regular U S quarterly financing date in recent years a favorite season for predicting 1 how much the national debt will rise during the current fiscal year and 2 whether federal expenditures can be expected to rise or fau fall during the next few months this year as secretary of the treasury henry jr prepares a oooo financing deal observers may safely predict that the national debt will rise from its cur rent mark of to 40 before the fiscal year ends next june 30 but they can also detect a downward trend in U S expenditures temporarily at least although t the he government has spent 2 for every 1 collected since last july 1 although the fiscal year thus far shows expenditures slightly over the C comparable period I 1 last ast year and receipts slightly under last years mr says he has ample cash on hand without with out any new borrowing at the present time during the current month however he is borrowing in new money and re financing in notes maturing next march 15 but the outlook still remains last summer the president and mr estimated the treasury would need in in new money before th the e fiscal year is ended decembers plus borrowed last sep brings the total thus far to only with business on the upgrade with relief costs expected to drop as a result and with federal receipts expected to begin increasing immediately there is every prospect that part of the remaining included in last summers estimate will not be needed mr has made no suc such h prediction however his explanation of current financing activities is this we dont have to raise money now and we could get by until march with what we have but we know what we will need between now and july 1 A reasonable way to do it would be not to do it all at one time so we will do some of it now international french british fears to the contrary Eu ropes next war is not apt to involve western democracies versus adolf hitler and benito mussolini when worldwide world wide military threats are sifted down they appear more certain to center around ger banys drive to the southeast in which the clash will involve nazi fascism versus communism this theory even takes into consideration the long awaited P russ jap war which observers do not believe immediately serious ja japan pan is shattered by her chinese conquest and russia dares not neglect her european frontier to throw military strength against nippon today as fuehrer hitler transfers austria and czechoslovakia from his list of ambitions to his life of achievements he finds the word ukraine dee see map awaiting next attention As self pro bounced ruler of germans everywhere as the covetous statesman whose heart bleeds for raw materials going unused he can wen well smack his lips over this choice bit of russian property his alleged justification racial interest in the ukraine and along the volga live germans whose russian background dates back to 1763 when catherine II 11 invited colonization in the uncultivated steppes in 1803 came a similar invitation from alexander I 1 clannish germans developed a thousand colonies be v SOVIET I 1 RUSSIA 0 ahra 0 POL HD LOVA RUMANIA aea UKRAINE DI STRICT DISTRICT Is it next on If Hit lers iders list came wealthy and preserved their racial culture when dussias Rus sias government collapsed during the world war germany made a separate peace with the ukraine and dominated the land until november 1918 resource interest in the ukraine is enough anthracite to run german industry indefinitely plus forests forest S wheat lands crimean oil corn c cattle at and poultry also there ther e is land which adolf hitler would like for colonization purposes because the reich is now crowded though he bluffed his way to victorious peace with france over the ruhr basin and with czechoslovakia over hitler cannot expect to bluff russia out of the ukraine yet he plans to follow this course so far as possible building up political and economic unity with the rest of southwest europe in in preparation for the day of conquest already he has safeguarded hi his military economic and propaganda path to the southeast by refusing to give hungary and poland a common border at the expense of his new vassal state czechoslovakia more important still is his new understanding with rumania which borders on the ukraine and offers a convenient stepping off place weighed against these advantages are polands bolands Po lands new hostility over the czech border dispute and the ques tion mark that is named russia will moscow fight to retain the ukraine or will russia and germany reach a sphere of influence agreement whereby berlin is left free to exploit the I 1 ukraine in n return for russian aggression privileges in the finland area people states satt capt naval ross ros T maln mcintire united surgeon general and personal physician to president roosevelt has been given a jump promotion to the rank of rear admiral over the heads half ha of a him dozen captains who outrank politics americas political pendulum periodically from conservatism swings back again ta 0 liberalism and coolidge hoover conservatism was followed by roosevelt liberalism but the return swing to conservatism that started last november 8 is more apt to stop in the middle of the road than to veer violently back to rock ribbed republicanism washington observers who claim president roosevelt has discarded middle road new dealers in favor of left wingers like solicitor gen robert H jackson and administrator harry hopki hopkins ns predict the president must either abandon this policy or lose the support of postmaster gen james J parley farley the presidents answer will come when he names a successor to attorney gen homer S cummings A mcnary ile he made friends with democrats if mr jackson is appointed mr parley farley will interpret the move as a buildup build up leading to mr jacksons presidential nomination in 1940 he will place the same interpretation on any efforts to win mr hopkins a cabinet post mr parley farley casting about for a 1940 possibility is reported to look favorably on secretary of state cordell hull the only cabinet member who has refrained from casting his lot with any factional element within the democratic party mr roose belts choice apparently lies between running for a third term or endorsing some middle grounder like secretary hull evidence is already piling pili g up testifying to the political expediency of this middle road position republicans who will at last make them selves heard in congress next month are inclined to assume such an attitude rather than fight for a return to the traditional G 0 P conservatism in the senate where republicans now have 23 members they need the support of only 28 26 democrats farmer laborites labovites pro gres or independents to hold a majo majority rit by B Y catering to the middle ground idea the president can possibly forestall the rising tide of republican strength which is being built on this very platform he can also avert a revolt in democratic ranks which otherwise will almost certainly rise to the surface during next cong congress ess A meeting of republican and democratic minds is already evi evident dent on curtailment of governmental expenditures and a new policy for administering relief Or egons sen charles L mcnary republican minority leader has announced that republicans will join with other groups on such a program one of his plans that of turning relief administration over to bipartisan state boards finds expression in the bill being drafted by north carolinas sen josiah W bailey a democrat his political cohort sen edward R burke of nebraska has announced that although i the bailey proposal is a democratic move republican support will be welcomed business last spring congress gave business a chill by appropriating for a national economic committee P to investigate competition price levels unemployment prof profits 1 ts I 1 and consumption headed by wyo W YO sen joseph C Ol Mahoney the committees statisticians economists and investigators have spent the ensuing six months digging out the past record of american business meanwhile business has frightened itself into believing the committee is an offshoot of the U S justice departie departments depart me ints antimo anti mo drive but true to mr OMa honeys I 1 promise the groups two year investigation vesti gation has ha s opened minus any signs of a witch hunt or an effort to make business the goat after spending three days introducing historical facts and figures to give the hearing a background committeemen launched a quiz of patent pools in the automobile and glass industries observers considered this a good sign of no witch hunting since the custom of pooling automobile patents has certainly kept that industry from becoming a monopoly unless the investigation bogs down under its own tre tremendous mendo us 1 size it is expected that one of two trends will be visible within a few months either the hearings will point the way to continued existence of business as a private function the under capitalistic system or fears will arise that government is to tak take control co antro 1 |