Show weekly news analysis Acin lysis will I 1 deladier Da ladier turn dictator I 1 st strike rike defeat aro arouses uses fears I 1 by joseph NV la bine alne I 1 J EDITORS NOTE wan wa 4 I 1 are M express edin la these calum as th I 1 fit rs t abw h of tin the news analyst ad v aar cy I 1 ol of the foreign french labor won a 40 hour week sin in 1936 under premier leon blums Social Soc laUst lit administration one of 01 socialist blums henchmen then the n was edouard deladier Da ladier ladler who rose from war minister to become a premier himself B but ut premier deladier Da ladier ladler t though la labeled beleda a radical socialist has been growing cooler towards la ia bor bors 81 deft left wing popular front ever since adolt adolf hitler be became camei a leading force in european affairs reason labor and the popular front are communistic an and adolf dAdolf hitler hates haies I 1 communists moreover labors labor s 40 hour week has needed drastic modification i since the Sep september r crisis i though anxious I 1 to appease appease the i I 1 1 Y vl I 1 A S 1 1 1 S 11 1 1 I I I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 40 4 s 11 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 1 10 1 1 e n 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 il jt wa 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 Z I 1 1 11 I 1 I 1 T i I 1 1 1 k 1 I 1 aa I 1 I 1 W u 41 I 1 V 11 I 1 i 41 11 I 1 r 11 1 1 I 1 1 i 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 al deladier Da ladier remembered M briand I 1 reich deladier Da ladier ladler also realizes france must speed armament production to cope with the menace across the rhine when french labor first be gan I 1 protesting against increased hours it became apparent that the ultimate showdown would have tremendous significance the showdown has now arrived but the full I 1 significance e will not be known for several weeks under leon joubaux Jou haux french composite of americas john lewil and william green members of the potent general labor confederation announced a one day I 1 strike its purpose to protest agai against fist drastic decree laws which premier deladier Da ladier and finance minister paul reynard believe necessary to stave oft off financial chaos one protested decree naturally was that increasing work hours to 44 a week not everi even labor leader joubaux denied the strike ewas was purely political being simply a popular front attempt to test the power of premier disadier Da Di ladier who has steadfastly refused to assemble parliament for a showdown on his decree dearie laws but agthe as the strike hour neared the premier remembered what another smart frenchman aristide Aris tlde briand did under similar r circumstances in 1910 to railroad workers and others employed in 16 essential utilities he be sent conscription conscript lon orders though they would strike as private citizens they could not finore ignore a call au to the colors without courting drastic punishment in the ind end M joubaux one day strike was a failure immediate significance a victory tor for premier deladier Da ladier failure for or drastic french social changes such agthe as the 40 hour week probable success cessor of the cabinets daring recovery eri plan defeat of the popular front doom tor for communism in western europe 10 long lo ng range significance the possibility lity that premier deladier Da ladier ladler swollen with confidence may emerge a simi semi fascist dictator over his jittery nation the certainty that he win will continue his policy of appeasing herr hitler treasury mid december Is a regular U S quarterly financing date in recent years a favorite season tor for predicting W 1 how much the national delt debt will rise during the current fiscal year and 2 whether federal expenditures can be expected to rise or fall during the next few months th this is biar year as Seer secretary kary of the treasury henry jr prepares a financing deal observers may safely predict that the national deb debt twill vill rise from its cur curl l rent mark ot of to 40 before e the fiscal year ends next june 30 but the they y can also detect a downward downard trend in U S expenditures temporarily atlease at least although the government has spent 2 for every 1 collected since lost last july 1 although the fiscal beir year thus tar far shows expenditures slightly over the comparable period last year and receipts slightly under last years mr says he has ample cash on hand without any new borr borrowing ming at al the present tune time during aurini the current month however he is borrowing in new ew money and re financing la in notes maturing next march 15 but bt the outlook still remains copti t 1 1 m mastic astle last summer the president den andar and mr estimated thi the treasury would need in new money before the fiscal year Is ended decembers December 8 plus ODO borrowed last las sep brings the total thus far fai to only with business busl nesi on the upgrade with relief costs cost expected toil to drop drop as ai a i result and with federal receipts expected to tc begin increasing immediately there then ksevery is every prospect that martof part of the th remaining included include ed li in last summers estimate win will not bf be needed I 1 mr has made no such prediction however his ex plana tion ol of current financing activities is is this we dont have to raise money pow now and we I 1 could get by until march with what we have but we know what we will n eed between now and d july julya 1 A reasonable way to do it would be notto not to do it all it at one tune time si so we will do some of it now international I 1 french british fears to the contrary Eu ropes next wars war is not apt to involve western democracies versus i us adolf hitler and benito mussolini when worldwide world wide imide military threats are sifted down they appear more certain to center around ger banys drive to the southeast southia st in I 1 which the clash will involve nazi fascism versus communism this thi s theory even takes into consideration the long awaited russ jap war which observers do not bellive believe immediately me serious Ja japan panis is shattered bycher chinese con conquest quest and russia dires dares not neglect her E european uro fro frontier fitler to throw smili military tary strength against nippon I 1 today as hitler transfers austria and Czech czechoslovakia from his bis list of ambitions to his life of achievements he finds I 1 the word ukraine seemah se see map awaiting next it attention As self tro pro bounced ruler of Gerin germans ids everywhere as the covetous statesman whose heart bleeds for raw materials going unused he can well smack his lips over this choice bit ot of russian property his alleged justification on i racial interest in the ukraine and along the volga uve live germans whose russian background dates back to 1763 when catherine 11 II invited colonization in the uncultivated steppes in 1803 came a similar invitation fr from ormAl alexander 1 I clannish germans de I 1 0 i I 1 1 SOVIET 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 WH I 1 2 t POLAND 1 v I 1 LA NGA RUMA IA I 1 UKRAINE DISTRICT Is it is next on hillers Hit lers list liss a thousand colonies became wealthy and preserved their racial culture when dussias Rus sias government collapsed during the world war germany made a separate peace with the ukraine and dominated the land until november 1918 resource interest in the ukraine is enough anthracite to run german industry indefinitely plus forests wheat lands crimean oil corn cattle and poultry also there Is land which adolf hitler w would 0 like for colonization purposes purposes I 1 because the reich is bowl now crowded though he bluffed his w way a y to victorious peace with france c a over the ruhr basin and with czechoslovakia over hitler cannot expect pee t to bluff russia 0 out at of the ukraine yet he plans to follow this course so far as possible building up political caland and economic unity with the rest of southwest europe la in preparation forthe for the day of conquest already he be has safeguarded his military economic and propaganda path to the southeast by refusing to give hungary and aid poland i a common border at the expense e of his bis new vassal stal staf C il Is ahls his new understanding u roumania riu mania a ula which borders on th kraine and offers a convenient stepping off place weighed ag against aleff these advantages are polands bolands Po lands new hostility over the czech border dispute and the question mark that is named russia will moscow fight to retain the ukraine or fill will russia andeer and germany reach a sphere of influence agreement whereby berlin is ii left free to exploit the ukraine in return for russian aggression privileges leges in the finland area people capt ross rois T united states naval surgeon general and personal phy physician Relan to president roosevelt hei has been given a jump promotion to the rank iani of rear admiral over I 1 the heads head of W a half dozen captains who outrank urn him i I 1 r i J I 1 I 1 politics americas political pendulum swings periodically from rom conserva to liberalism and back again hoover conservatism was followed by roosevelt liberalism but buethe the return swing to conservatism thit started i last november 8 is more apt to stop to in the middle of the road than to jo veer violently baik back to rock ribbed republicanism ama washington s I 1 I 1 I 1 ington observers who ho claim president i d nt roosevelt has he s discarded middle road new dealers in favor of et lett wingers like solicitor gen robert H jackson ad administrator minis harry bockins Bop kins predict the president must either abandon this policy orlise or lose the support ot postmaster gen james J parley farley the presidents answer will come when he names la a successor to at torney gen homers homer S cummungs if mr jackson is appointed mr par parley I 1 ey will interpret the move as a buildup build up leading to mr jacksons 1 k 1 L I 1 6 I 1 I 1 I 1 ir 1 m f 1 A I 1 I 1 6 C x I 1 I 1 1 i 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 f 1 t I 1 1 p X A I 1 A 1 I 2 T 0 i 1 1 I I 1 1 A ald J q 4 V I 1 1 Us ue mode mado friends with democrats presidential nomination in 1940 he will place the same interpretation anany on any efforts to win mr hopkins a cabinet post mr parley farley casting about for a 1940 possibility is reported to look favorably on secretary of state cordell hull the only cabinet member who has refrained from casting his tot lot with any iny factional element within the democratic party mr roose belts choice apparently lies iles between bet w een running for a a third term or endorsing en dors some middle grounder like secretary hun hull evidence is already piling up testifying to the political expediency of this middle road position republicans who will at last make themselves heard in congress next m month anth ari are inclined to assume such a an n attitude rather than fight tor for a return to the traditional G 0 P conservatism in the senate where republicans now have 23 members they need the support of only 26 democrats farmer labovites laborites pro gres or independents to hold a majority by catering to the middle ground grod idea the president can possibly forestall forestal lAhe the rising tide of republican strength which is being bunt built on this very platform he can also I 1 avert a revolt in democratic Demo cratie ranks which otherwise will almost certainly rise to the surface during next congress A meeting ol of republican and democratic minds is already evident on curtailment of governmental expenditures and a new policy tor for administering relief Or egons sen charles L mcnary republican minority leader hasan basan bounced that republicans will join with other groups groups on such a program one of his bis plans that ot of turning relief administration over to bipartisan state boards finds expression in the bill being drafted by north carolinas sen josiah W bal bai ley a democrat his political cohort sen edward R burke of nebraska has announced that although the bailey proposal Is a democratic move republican Republica ii support will be welcomed business last spring congress gave business a chill by appropriating tor for a national economic committee to investigate competition price levels unemployment profits and consumption headed by wyo sen joseph C the committees committee s statisticians economists and investigators have spent the ensuing six months digging out the past record of annerl american business meanwhile business has frightened rIght ened itself into believing the committee is an offshoot of the U jjustice Sj sf justice ustice departments antimo anti mo drive but aue true to mr OMa OlMa honeys promise the groups two awo biar year investigation vesti gation has opened minus any signs of a witch hunt or art an effort to make business the goat after spending three days introducing historical facts and figures to give the hearing a background committeemen launched a quiz of patent pools in inthe the automobile and glass industries observers considered this a good sign of no witch hunting since the custom of pooling automobile patents has certainly kip kept t that industry from becoming a monopoly mo unless the investigation bogs downs down under its own tremendous size it is elpe expected eted thione that one of two trends wm will be visible within a few months elther either the hearings bearings will point the way to continued existence of lutiness burkness burl but iness ness as a private function under the capitalistic system or fears will MU arise aitse that government isio is to take control I 1 I 1 1 1 |