Show E washington D C JAP ORDERS DELAY V U S one of the things which is holding up the manufacture of more m military equipment for the army and navy is the fact that so 50 many U S factories are sending machine tools to japan the war department has just finished a confidential survey of the machine tool industry and finds that most american plants are working on orders for the japanese machine tools are all important in the munitions business because they are used to equip new nei factories expanding to meet new national defense orders As far as the war department is able to ascertain japan has plenty of machine tools and is storing many of the new shipments now received r A PERSHING AIDS FRANCE mrs frances warren pershing the tear arar gener generals ars daughter in law modeling a goten in new york for french tear relief bids for goinns ranged from to 1000 from the united states for emergencies gen cies japan also continues to be a big importer of U S scrap iron and also is storing it for the future these are two reasons why president roosevelt has asked special powers of congress to embargo shipments of materials which are considered vital to the defense of the united states he expects as soon as authorized by congress to slap an embargo on scrap iron and machine tools to japan 0 0 0 1 G 0 P BLASTS the barrage of republican blasts against a coalition cabinet which has strafed the country recently was no spontaneous meeting of minds neither was it aimed entirely at the president it was aimed much more against the republican party itself inner G 0 P master minds admit that their political chances have been almost as hard hit as the shattered allied lines in europe prior to this catastrophic development G 0 P election prospects appeared very bright indeed it looked as if the campaign would be fought chiefly on republican ground that is on domestic issues also it was doubtful whether roosevelt would run but the hitler blitzkrieg changed this situation overnight Roosevel ts move to bring one or more republicans into the cabinet made things worse something had to be done fast to block this the barrage on roosevelt was opened by colonel Lind berghs speech pooh hoohing any invasion danger in inner G 0 P circles this is credited to hoover via his close friend william castle former undersecretary of state this was followed up with the carefully spaced statements by landon hoover representative wadsworth house floor leader martin and others demanding that the president renounce a third term as the price for G 0 P participation in the ca cabinet binet 0 is a ICELAND AND U S there is a lot more behind the rushing of american consuls to greenland and iceland than appears on the surface boiled down to cold facts the roosevelt administration is afraid of a nazi air base only 1500 miles from maine bombing planes already have been developed which can fly this tar far loaded CAPITAL CHAFF said mrs ruth hanna mccormick simms 1 I have never seen anything like the sentiment out west for tom dewey but in her home state of new mexico mrs simms was turned down as a dewey delegate interesting sidelight on an how things are shaping for a third term rep gene cox of georgia is one of the bitterest anti new dealers in congress yet the day after georgia leaders named a third term delegation cox announced he would support this year roosevelt if he is the candidate SENATOR NYE ON BENITO quote of the week comes from sen gerald nye of north dakota mussolini is like southern republican delegates easy to buy but hard to keep bought |