| Show weekly news analysis kennedy kennedys Kenn edys bullitt war forecast justified by world situa situation cioll MY by joseph W la rine bine 1 EDITORS NOTE when opinions are r expressed ep esp in these columns tier they TV are those be of ct the sews news analyst mid and not cut necessarily ec esser ol of tin the newspaper international when U S foreign envoys make their rare appearances in congress it is usually to advise house and senate committees on foreign affairs but two days before president roosevelt Hoo sevelt gave congress his unprecedented defense proposals see be low two top ranking U S ambassadors a walked into secret session not with the foreign affairs co committees min it but with a committee on military affairs afra irs the ambassadors jos 1 0 X 1 V NY k KENNEDY BULLITT it looked like cold blooded truth eph P kennedy home from london and william C bullitt BuI litt home from paris though committee room walls supposedly have no cars it was learned that kennedy and bullitt thoroughly frightened their congressional audience with the follon following fol loh opinion on european affairs great britain has favored appeasement pea of italy and germany because neither she nor france have adequate arms so intense is british appeasement sentiment that london would permit germany to build an airbase in canada rather than revert to war but since czechoslovakian sellout at munich last september proved that one appeasement leads to another france has determined to stop this policy therefore france will not concede to italian territorial demands knowing that in war great britain must come to her aid and that russia in turn must aid the democracies crux of the kennedy bullitt opinion on that further appeasement as advocated by prime minister chamberlain ber lain will only delay the eventual showdown and make war even more critical when it comes which will probably be within the next few months the U S will not be drawn into this conflict immediately it if this was propaganda for president Roosevel ts long range national defense program committeemen swallowed it hook line and sinker and well they might because the forecast appeared to be cold b blooded truth when measured in the light of that days news from abroad it all looked like war THE BIG FOUR As prime minister chamberlain left londona Lon dons victoria station tor for his appeasement visit with italis premier mussolini unemployed demonstrators stra tors booed bloed him and shouted appease the unemployed not mussolini 1 between london and dover where he crossed the channel mr chamberlain might have reflected acted on the edvi advisability sabi lity of such a course hitler was clamoring for submarine parity with britain italy was fighting the spanish civil war and yelling for concessions from france both germany and italy were prop gand izing about british atrocities in palestine en route to rome the chamberlain entourage stopped in paris to 1 show germany and italy that france and britain stand together and 2 assure france that mussolini could not induce chamberlain to bring pressure for french concessions ces to italy after two hours of tea drinking a spokesman announced couric ed chamberlain would tell mussolini that france agreed to consider concessions on secondary questions these are 1 the status of italians in tunisia 2 control over the djibouti addis ababa railroad 3 administration of the french controlled suez canal As for himself chamberlain expected to tell mussolini he be refused to mediate between france and italy or grant gragat belligerent rights to general franco so long as italian troops are fighting the war but chamberlain also knew he must speak softly tor for only a week before the anglo french alliance had suffered a severe blow at berchtesgaden polish foreign minister joseph beck had deserted his french alliance to find greater security with germany moreover this meant that poland would be ready to block any russian effort to aid france and britain BrI tairi temporarily free from danger in the east the rome berlin axis was ready to lipply apply pressure on democracies the best prediction that chant cham mussolino conversations will lead to another munich peace conference but certainly not to general european peace HUNGARY last novembers italian german commission settled a boundary for czechoslovakia and hungary but neither nation liked it since january 8 a series of border incidents has kept both nations aflame each holding the other cespon responsible sible czechoslovakia has offered terms for truce but budapest refuses until prague pays tor for damages acknowledges responsibility tor for attacks and punishes individuals Is responsible the outcome ot of this squabble is unpredictable but germany may well step in to help the czechs czecho since the reich wants the border city ot of to be retained in czechoslovakian car patho ukraine the town is important in berlins program ol of fortifying ukraine in preparation lor for a german drive into russian ukraine meanwhile there is war on the czech hun hungarian arian frontier JAPAN britain and lie united states stalls are believed to be aware that should they resort to serious economic pr pressure assure against japan japan would have sufficient d termination determination and preparation to a resort to retaliatory measures against their main lands and depend dependencies dependence enc this war talk came from japans foreign minister hachiro arita in answer to measures great britain and the U S had already taken to combat growing japanese domination over the orient because tokyo has closed chinas cainas open door in violation of the nine power treaty both london and washington have given china financial support mean I 1 fam NO 13 1 1 1 11 I 1 flo 1 14 I 1 M V an I 1 A a JAPANS HACHIRO ARITA lie ile threatened a U S invasion while the U S has completely stopped the sale of war materials to japan minister aritas statement appearing in fascist newspaper nichi bichl is the most warlike gesture yet made against again st the U S what equalized the threat however was a similar gesture made against russia by gen densuke isogai japanese chief of staff in manchuria said he we do not want war but the soviet authorities have shown no sign of cooperation instead they are strengthening their military works and reinforcing in their armies in russia and the far east AT HOME checking the above news with bullitt kennedy statements congress was in fine shape to discuss U S defense measures tennes sees rep andrew J may of the house military affairs committee popped up to urge military training for boys he also asked tour four lane superhighways down atlantic and pacific coasts and across the gulf states next day the president sent congress his defense message well pared down from the multi billion figures originally bandied about washington the total extra emergency appropriation request half of which should be spent before the next fiscal year is over presidential arguments few of which were needed pointed out that the U S Is relatively no better prepared today than in 1917 when it took a year from the war declaration date for american troops to reach a major engagement items in the proposed outlay to increase army air corps up to fighting planes tor for critical items of war equipment for industrial mobilization for improved seacoast defenses tor for stronger atlantic and pacific naval bases tor for more naval planes for civilian pilot train training ilig tor for adequate panama canal defenses cana because massachusetts statehouse custom decrees the governor shall have private nonstop elevator rides the operator whizzed new gov leverett past a group of employees on their way to lunch said the governor pick them up in the future I 1 like to ride with people agriculture under ider secretary henry A wallace ce the U S agriculture departments original objective has been increased consumption through one method or another last summer came announcement ol of a new method a two price plan I 1 for or boosting domestic consumption ol of farm products under this arrangement the U S would subsidize manufacturers whose products would be sold at a below normal price to low income families first objections came from manufacturers and retailers many of whom thought the plan would curtail free enterprise then congressmen turned a cold shoulder suggesting difficulties in getting the special purchase privilege in the hands of people deserving am them As congress got underway it be became came certain that mr wa wallace ilace had dropped the plan entirely though still clinging to the original objective jec tive announcement was made that conferences are being held with cotton manufacturers to encourage the lowest possible prices for mattresses na t lc to be sold to low ir income me families grapefruit Grape truit will be similarly merchandised said mr wallace we want increased consumption we will use an any y method to obtain it we hope we can get the trade processors and distributors to do specific things to shave costs to the limit W via london U S farmers have learned that the agriculture department proposes to reduce american wheat land from acres to acres resulting in total wheat plantings of acres even it if some growers do not cooperate this news came from the international wheat advisory committees mit tees conference where 21 nations had sent envoys to study schemes tor for export and import limitations As the sessions go got t underway a discouraging note appeared in the international institute of ag ri cultures report wheat available for or export in the year ending next july 31 the report said was bushels against a world import demand of bushels people at san pedros terminal island correctional prison where he was transferred from alcatraz at al capone was said by a guard to be screwy as a bedbug e in vienna jewish persecuted dr salomon frankfurter 80 rejoiced that the U S had elevated his nephew Harv ards felix frankfurter to the supreme court races less evil than that of any other high nazi is the reputation ot of dr hjalmar hialmar schacht pres president of ger banys bank in appearance more a business man than a politician dr schacht is the no 1 contact with foreign commercial interests when it came time to peddle germanys germanas Germ anys jews abroad chancellor hitler turned naturally to dr schacht knowing he was vas the only high nazi whose utterances te rances on the jewish problem would get a hearing abroad A cold business man as well as a diplomat dr schacht could be depended on to evolve a jewish plan which would work to the financial benefit early in january at london he announced the plan part one within the next three years of the jews would be shipped abroad the remaining to be retained as s common laborers the emi emi gres would leave by installments heads of families going first for aged and infirm germany would guarantee satisfactory provision part two world jewry would raise a loan secured by jewish property in ger w 0 gi k MR 1 M I 1 g g k F 1 4 FINANCIER SCHACHT lie ile mixed diplomacy and business many funds to be used for sending poor german jews abroad the loan would be serviced by increased german exports to be paid tor for in free foreign exchange world jewry which nazi germany regards as all powerful in democracies would decree greater use of german export items still master of the situation the reich can apparently force jew respecting nations to choose between accepting the plan or tolerate further persecution for germany the schacht idea provides for disposal dIs disposition of undesirable citizens whose property will be confiscated most important it offers a way to break the world boycott on german goods but where jewry can raise Is another problem |
