Show GENERAL JOHNSON ihma wah washington washingto no D C DILLINGER TACTICS nut adventurers are beginning to plan to win the nutty offer of a million dollars by samuel harden church president of the carnegie institute for the capture and delivery of adolf hitler unharmed to the league of nations for trial for his crimes against the peace and dignity of the world this ridiculous attempt at subordination di of reaches reache s down into the dillinger underworld to 13 pr P r cr c t ar i A rendezvous ecith destiny by thomas adopt tactics of condemned by federal statutes and those of every state hang the kaiser and make germany pay for the warl war that was the slogan either tacitly adopted or permitted to go unchallenged in england and france as a statement of war objectives sufficiently simple for popular digestion every statesman knew neither was possible but it was good war diet it returned to haunt them at the versailles peace conference riding roughshod over american objections they made an impossible war breeding peace it was forced by one reason among several that they were politicians and did not dare wholly repudiate what they had permitted the public to believe terrible destructive and inhuman as have been the acts of adolf the discredited and almost nonexistent non existent league of nations has no jurisdiction sanction equity or law under which to bring him to trial much less to sentence him flushed with his increasing success and power napoleon bonaparte who was not particularly bloodthirsty except in battle did exactly what is suggested here but with more justification in law ile he crossed the borders of france the french duke of en enghien Eng chien hien tried him as a traitor and had him hi executed at st helena he see seemed e to agree with the verdict of many of his critics that it was a principal blunder of his career it shocked the conscience of the world mr churchs churche absurdity is trivial but any sucker american approval of it is dangerous 0 AN F D R MISTAKE 1 I never yet made one mistake id like to for varie tys sake so sang the sheriff of nottingham in de kovens opera robin hood our president also makes mistakes and admit them unlike the sheriff he just sing about them he crams them down the throats of his critics he just calls their criticisms spinach or partisan or personal and then puts the heat on congress and the heat or the gravy on executive departments and officers tilts his holder at a more aggressive angle and rides on 0 0 one of his prize mistakes occurred when he carelessly sent down to congress an executive order transferring control of civilian aviation back to the department of commerce it was there formerly under the supervision of one of the worst executive flops in this administration assistant S secretary ecret ary J monroe rowboat johnson while it was there it was uniformly marked by a sickening record of air disasters many traceable to regulatory blunders and a stench of political and other mon key business that shocked the country an astonishing reversal of form occurred when at the presidents suggestion an independent administration was set up without warning this control was ordered back to the reeking place from whence it came public reaction in condemnation was swift and overwhelming but the president had his dutch up and his jaw set because of the malodorous previous administration of the airways by assistant secretary johnson the boss did as he had done with harry hopkins when he got into the stench zone rowboat was kicked upstairs to the interstate commerce commission that left a place in which mr hinckley chairman of the civil aeronautics authority could be fitted this gentleman had every reason to stand by the pilots and the air travel traveling i ng public and oppose this shift |