Show OR W E washington D C POLITICAL DYNAMITE there was real political dynamite behind that letter president roosevelt sent the young democrats convention in louisville blasting D democratic emo isolationists as obstruction ests who are in the wrong party the scorching attack was a tip off on undercover plans which may make next years congressional elections the hottest in years nothing has been said about it but certain administration and republican leaders have discussed uniting democratic and republican forces to oppose all congressional isolation ests regardless of party label under the proposed plan admin adain GOP backing would be thrown behind incumbent anti isolationist congressmen whether they are democrats or republicans furthermore strong coalition candidates would be entered against isolationist lat congressmen seeking reelection one of the most significant things about the plan is that it has the hearty approval of wendell willkie discussing it with a group of friends the GOP standard bearer declared the people should have the opportunity in every senatorial and congressional election next year for a clear cut expression of opinion on this all important issue of foreign policy this referendum should not be cluttered up with phony or inconsequential issues in districts represented by iso we should put the strongest candidate in the field we can get regardless of his party label or economic views id like to see young men and women brought into this campaign lets get away from the old political hacks lets bring youth into this fight its theirs primarily and they should be in the lead in it personally I 1 am prepared to support anti isolationist candidates regardless gard less of their party affiliation or economic views if they are right on the foreign issue then I 1 will be for them and will take the stump for them 4 0 SMASHED PLANES president roosevelt announce it but there were two big reasons why pan american airways is taking over the ferrying of airplanes across the south atlantic up the interior of africa to the near east one reason has since been published the need of american war planes to help the british in iran and thus protect russian oil fields I 1 in n the caucasus the other has not been published namely that the british had been wrecking an extraordinarily large number of brand new planes in fl flying y them across africa As a matter of cold unpleasant fact the british have been losing about 20 per cent of the planes we have been giving them this was partly because the british did not use their own pilots but czech french poles and dutch these aviators sometimes too full of sloe gin and sometimes not too well trained in the tough job of handling fast war planes have succeeded in scattering the wrecks over the heart of africa furthermore central africa is one 0 of f the most uncharted and difficult flying areas in the world the hop across the atlantic has not caused the casualties it is the remainder of the flight from freetown on the west african coast up tip to egypt this is why roosevelt finally called upon pan american airways to take over the african hop its pilots have done a brilliant job of pioneering the jungles of the amazon and the peaks of the andes and roosevelt figured that if anyone 0 ne could fly over africa pan american could do it AMERICAS ANSWER the is just releasing for wide distribution its first post promoting its drive for greater production entitled americas answer production it is a masterpiece of power and drama it pictures a brawny bramy arrn arm twisting a monkey wrench fastened to the letter 0 shaped like a machine nut in the word production the artist is jean carlu as free a frenchman as ever worked with one arm he lost his right arm fighting for democracy in the first world war and until the fall of france was doing an expert left handed job painting posters for the french government recently arrived in this country carlu wanted to continue his fight for a free france he submitted submitter sub mitte d his poster po ster idea in sketch form and ana officials snapped it up MERRY GO ROUND taking a cue from the german dive bombers U S army engineers have included a powerful siren in the midget ma tanks its shrill shriek freezes green troops and the army is counting on its scare power at a 70 mile an hour speed to make advance breaks through enemy lines phil baker in his new broadway show said he will feature a song on how to have a good time in a parked car the song is titled thanks for a lovely evening mr ickes |