Show aa X STAS STASSEN SEN GETS LIBERAL A ADVICE lai acie I 1 I 1 washington governor governo r harold d stassen took away with him three pieces of advice from G 0 P congressional leaders on his keynote speech 1 make it liberal in tone 2 bear down strong on the new deals failure to solve the unemployment problem 1 1 3 go the limit in talking iso i lat the young minnesotan was strong ly IY advised to take his cue from the moderate glenn frank program committee report he was warned to avoid any old guard strictures and to tread lightly on agriculture and relief I 1 on these he was counseled to follow I 1 the glenn frank strategy of a i left handed AAA endorsement with administration of unemployment relief by the states instead of the the jobless problem stassen was told should be tied up with the national debt and failure to balance the budget by i i pointing out that although the democrats had spent billions the country still was faced with unemployment of eight to ten million persons on the war issue stassen was urged to stress two points 1 that a democratic regime got the U S into the first world war 2 that while this administration professes devotion to the principles principle s of neutrality tra lity its conduct is characterized by a strong undercurrent of jingoism As illustrations of this the G 0 P leaders cited the warlike pro ail ally Y remarks of james cromwell U S minister to canada and the sensational statement of rear admiral joseph K taussig that war with japan is inevitable stassen was told to picture the G 0 P as the great peace party of the country pledged to oppose any step that might lead to involvement in a foreign conflict 0 0 NORWAY TROUBLES most spectacular british naval victory since the graf spee was the sinking of seven german destroyers in the northern norwegian port of narvik barvik what most people do not know however is that despite that victory the town of narvik barvik remained in german hands what happened was that the nazis were able to remove several three inch and five inch guns from their destroyers beached in shallow water and placed them in the narvik barvik fortress these have been able to hold off british troop transports meanwhile al the railroad to sweden has been kept open and the swedes have been sending in food labeled medical supplies all of this illustrates the odds a against which the british are operating in in norway in the first place the fiords fiorda are narrow easy for the germans to defend and difficult for large vessels to maneuver second tanks and artillery are even harder to land than troops so the british have no tanks to oppose the heavily eft armored mored forces of the germans some of these difficulties partially are being overcome but for a time british general staff officers were so concerned over the problem of landing troops in norway and doing battle on a large scale that they argued vigorously against sending a norwegian expedition it was only the table pounding of winston churchill who demanded that an army be sent to norway immediately that overruled the british high command you are going to hear a lot of internal political rumbling in great gre at britain over this 4 TAUSSIG OMITTED ONE rear admiral joseph K Taus sigs remark that war with japan is is inevitable in the only bombshell in his sensational speech before the senate naval aff affairs airs committee there was another that at the last minute he fir fire e halfway halfe ay in his manuscript immediately following the paragraph warning that the consequences of modern warfare are so far reaching that the overthrow of our form of government is not improbable was this startling statement our financial structure none too sound at present on account of the huge public debt cannot stand such a strain taussig skipped this hot dig at the new deal when he read his prepared paper but newsmen know it because no copies of the speech were distributed A member of the committee who later happened to 9 glance ance through the manuscript discovered the interesting interest 9 omission n scratched ched out in pencil by taussig a KENNEDY MAY RESIGN you can write it down as certain that joseph patrick kennedy one of the most colorful and hard work ing envoys ever sent to lo 10 london adon will resign as ambassador to the court of st james just jus t as soon as the president will w ill let him joe is n not at in very good health is a bit bored with the job and also he has been a little too frank for the british his statements indicating that the th e empire might be b e in in for a tough time before this war was won did not sit so well in london |