Show washington D C SHOOTING TUE THE WORKS there is every indication that hitler plans to throw everything he has into the war this summer in order to end it by october cabled reports by U S observers abroad all point to this there is almost certain to be a series of blows aimed at different parts of europe holland rumania hungary greece in quick succession hitler has ample munitions and raw materials to last him through summer and fall but perhaps not for the winter also there is a big nazi question mark placed over the presidential elections in the united states no matter which party is elected the nazis are figuring that the united states will at least lift the johnson act forbidding credits to defaulted nations and begin rushing major munitions to the allies on credit this hitler strategy of betting the whole pot on one hand is why italy is is moving closer to war it was always the italian plan to bet on the side of the sure winner and now mussolini appears to be convinced that the present moment in europe is equivalent to june 1918 when it was a foregone conclusion that the allies were bound to win today may 1940 mussolini seems to think that the situation is reversed that the nazis are bound to win and a lot of skilled american observers are worried over the fact that they agree with him TAFT CLAIMS A little noticed press release put out by taft headquarters last week deserved a lot more attention than it got it was significant on two counts first its challenging tone toward the claims of dewey for the first time the taft camp struck squarely and vigorously at the new yorker deweys deleys managers were pooh as much more proficient in making claims than in electing delegates and the flat assertion was made that taft will have delegate strength in practically every state and will be the real choice of a majority of the delegates second for the first time taft managers did some specific delegate claiming of their own previously they spoke only in total tota 1 figures ranging from to delegates but they always ava avoided id f C 1 il a Lin chosen but dew 4 taj lar ji supremacy fall in the j or of wishful thinking iowa A favorite son delegation for hanford minister to canada under hoover with taft definitely in the lead as second choice missouri at least 10 of massouris Mis souris 20 delegates in the taft bag new york taft has a good chance to get a bloc of delegates from deweys deleys own home state new mew mexico four of the six delegates privately favor taft even though this is the home state of mrs mra simms one of deweys deleys campaign managers north carolina at least 15 of the 23 for taft and not over five have even a leaning to mr dewey ohio solidly for taft the south the natural and normal sentiment of the southern states without wi phout a single exception is for senator r taft it is entirely possible that mr gannett will have more delegates from the south th than an mr dewey washington its delegates are no not t yet elected but not over six of the 16 will be for dewey in sum summary ary the taft campaign have more votes on the first ballot have most votes on the first ballot looks like the philadelphia convention will be interesting DUCE HARD TO SEE when ambassador phillips called upon mussolini last week it was the first time in one and a halt half years with one exception that a U S envoy had seen the real dictator of italy the one exception was when sumner summer welles visited rome W and insisted t that hat ambassador phillips sit in on his talk with mussolini Muss MUS SOini for 18 m months months prior to that phillips il II duce had not seen one foreign diplomat except the german phillips got the audience only because the president of the uni united ted states asked for it personally what roosevelt wanted of course was some word regarding italis war aims naturally no ambassador can ask the ruler of any country whether he intends tom to make ake war instead phillips raised the question of american shipping in the mediterranean it was at this point that mussolini replied reassuringly and indicated that american shipping did not have to worry but there was nothing definite denying war intention |