Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW campaign of peace rumors precedes britain blitzkrieg 9 F D and hilll willlie aie set for battle batt le EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those ot of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union 1 seeking john bulls E eye ye THE CAMPAIGN on this was the democratic conventions leadoff lead off message 1 I senator barkley and other close friends of the president have long known that he has no wish to be a candidate again we know too that in no way whatsoever has he exerted any influence in the selection of the delegates or upon the opinions of delegates in this convention tonight at the specific request and authorization of the president I 1 am making this simple fact clear to this convention the president has never had and has not today any desire or purpose to continue in the office of president to be a candidate for that office ice or to be nominated by the convention for that office he wishes in all earnestness nest ness and sincerity to make it clear that all of the delegates to this convention are free to vote for any candidate that is the message I 1 deliver to you tonight from the president of the united states by authority of his word some men and women packed into the chicago stadium heard the presidential message it was a turning point probably in american history for the convention the next day nominated president roosevelt for a third term no man had ever before received this honor A day later henry wallace secretary of agriculture was nominated vice president virtually at the request of the president the convention indicated the issues would be foreign affairs and the utilities principally wendell willkie in the meantime warned the democrats he said he want to hear any more about the insull scandal and indicated that he was tired of wisecracks wise cracks about public utilities it was true that some democrats had been whispering at a great rate along those lines willkie was a bad man to try and smear for he is peppy peppery and given to rough biting invective vec tive but winkle willkie did agree with the democrat bankhead in condemning the speculative orgies of the willkie said too that he liked to protect the investments of the people against the assaults of their governments this all emanated from Will kies vacation haunt at colorado Spy springs ings as did a statement that he welcomed the third term issue presented by roosevelt what price party wendell NAMES N A M E S in in the king zog of albania his tiny crown prince skander and his half american queen geraldine plus bogs sisters three were planning to come to the united states that new st helena allyn jennings general superintendent of new york cites parks since 1936 became the new general director of new yorks famous bronx zoo willkie republican candidate for president was a registered democrat until two years ago henry A Ny wallace allace democratic candidate for vice vice president was a registered republican until four years ago that willkie would prefer to make the campaign on domestic issues and that president roosevelt would keep it on the foreign issue if poss possible seemed indicated in the early days of the campaign but wise william allen alien white who in in the capacity of jour journalist nali st attended both conventions declared that neither willkie nor roosevelt would determine the results of the final election in november it would be hitler he stated he meant no doubt that the repercussions oi of a complete hitler victory or vice versa would weigh more with the american voters than the oratory of both willkie and roosevelt roo sevelt one thing seems conclusive the old guard in both the republican and the democratic parties were not at first satisfied with the final c choices much may depend on how they ultimately accept the decision of their conventions II 11 GERMAN WAR Ru there were twin rumors going the usual rounds in the usual rialtos ri altos one of these rumors predicted a huge mass offensive by the G germans armans against england the other rumor was of peace hillers Hit lers blitzkrieg against britain had been set by various authorities on several days these were wrong guesses time and again as were the peace guesses NO BASIS B byoir Y air no nazi not everyone who is called a communist is one and not everyone who is called a nazi agentis agent is one carl byoir new york publicist is no nazi representative says the federal bureau of investigation the FBI investigated on by airs request because rep wright patman one day got up in the house and sounded off against byoir the enmity between the two is really over another matter Pat mans chain store tax bill is the source of their feud byoir has been directing publicity against the patman bill so among other things patman called byoir a nazi tool there was no basis to the charge reported the FBI CUBA LIBRE elections col fulgencio batista cuban dictator for seven long years beat dr grau san martin in the cuban presidential ident ial election also six provincial governorships governor ships most of the may or ships and 24 senatorial seats were scheduled for batista candidates batista had supporting him parties of the right left and center san martin had supporting hi him rn more parties of the right left and center the communists commini ats plumped for batista but so did some of the cuban o 0 oo 00 tories tones 0 HOLYLAND HOLY LAND bombed italian airplanes raided british mandated palestine and dropped 50 bombs in 20 minutes they peppered the mediterranean port of haifa where an oil pipeline for the british navy feeds john bulls water monsters it brings in petroleum from the rich fields of arak and is considered a key spot in the empire in the italic aerial stab one american oil refiner was in injured his name was flannigan italian planes also were raiding off of the grecian coast while italian and british warships were skirmishing up and down the blue waters ol of mare nostrum but the loudest bombs exploded on the pages of the italian newspapers the above was ancient Pale stines first experience with streamlined modern bellicose methodology II 11 spanish war the hideous spanish civil war 1936 39 killed more people by murder and execution than it did in actual fighting between the armies it resulted in the clerical dictatorship of generalissimo franco a kindly pudgy creature on the whole meanwhile a number of the exiled spanish reds fled to latin american spots like mexico and chile in mexico they made a certain amount of trouble but in chile they agitated actively against the fascists of spain chile had a so called popular front government and loyalist spain had had the same thing the spanish radicals felt quite at home in santiago and valparaiso but franco like all this he was touchy about his relations with latin america and distrusted popular fronts of all sorts chile had been pro loyalist in the spanish civil war so franco broke off spanish chilian diplomatic relations a bitter family quarrel between mother and child it was too bad for chile a long strip of rocky coastline with only people could hardly damage senor franco the friend of herr hitler meanwhile chiles president pedro aguirre banned strikes lockouts and other labor disturbances and kept a cold hawkeye on the local nazis this was one of the things that franco hitler did not like NEXT DOOR canadians every canadian had to register if he or she was over the tender age of 14 failure to register mea means n s a fine of and three m months imprisonment also there was provided a 10 daily fine for lateness in registration false information means another and refusal to answer questions costs other crimes cost 50 apiece if you lose your registration card and it may be demanded at any time its an additional 20 observers declared that totalitarian england on the point of invasion still appeared more liberal than the no 1 dominion safe by miles meanwhile canada was not invited to the pan american conference at havana which tended to simplify things considerably for canada has no exact legal standing under international law MANILA quezon M the little boss manuel quezon of the philippine islands began to talk about a semi dictatorship way out there toward asia already senor quezon has compulsory military service now he wants social restraints stra ints social justice and the yield up of property rights he does not want the japanese incidentally at any price by 1945 the filipinos w were ere supposed to get their r complete independence but with nippon on the loose things did not look so promising and senor quezon was doing a bit of back watering meanwhile at tokyo the japanese army forced out of office the comparatively liberal cabinet prince konoye father of the captain of the princeton golf team was scheduled to come in and bring with him a new semi fascist setup no wonder that senor quezon felt jumpy only a couple of jumps away from that Mik rising sun the filipinos began to realize that there was worse than yo your kindly old uncle samuel FLYING atlantic II 11 the civil aeronautics board at washington gave permission for export airlines inc to start a transatlantic service in competition with pan american airways the new service was to be operated between new york and lisbon and was set to start at a near date the export outfit announced that its planes and ships would be coordinated co nothing succeeds like competition said the aviation critics and they pointed out as proof that roosevelt had liberalized the republican party |