Show weekly beekly news analysis U S speeds defense plans army seeks younger personnel by bil joseph wo labine la bine A EDITORS NOTE NOT wien olain opinions 0 ia r a expressed in ta these columns they are r those of the news analyst and cot necessarily ol of the newspaper DEFENSE chin up and out best indication of U S reaction to adolt adolf hillers Hit lers reichstag speech has been rush to strengthen both military and economic defense theoretically against any aggressor but obviously against the rome berlin tokyo entente sample moves economic nevadas sen key pittman boldly offered a bill permitting the president to block american shipments to japan or any other violator of the nine power treaty plainly designed to rush a decision on U S neutrality policy the bill brought a quick answer that japan would be forced to strengthen its bonds with germany and italy it if congress passed the bill army secretary of war harry woodring offered a bill to hasten retirement of overage over age and unfit officers because we are the only power which has not recognized the need ka WARS IVARS WOODRING youth to the fore for younger men in command next fall it was announced aging gen malin craig will be succeeded as chief of staff by 58 year old brig gen george catlett marshall meanwhile a door closed behind the vast arms expansion program as orders were issued to keep secret the number of war planes ordered and delivered and to discharge all aliens working in private plant s which fill munitions orders navy engineering ordnance and construction repair departments may be merged in one of several navy department streamlining moves other naval developments 1 maritime commission chairman emory S land asked more power to requisition or purchase ships tor for national defense 2 about was asked to recondition five overage battleships 3 agitation began tor for a naval air research station at march field calif transportation president roosevelt recommended miles of new national highways to care tor for growing peacetime traffic and meet defense requirements EUROPE boomerang viewed in retrospect the biggest results of adolf hillers Hit lers infamous reichstag speech took place before that speech was ever made in that frantic week of anticipation when war seemed more imminent than any time in 20 years jittery nations found courage to choose sides commit themselves and forget traditional animosities sample democratic britain and communistic russia discovered both their geese might be cooked unless they got together if der Fuehr ers conciliatory refusal of president Roosevel ts peace plea broke the european tension its stern reassertion of german determination mi nation did not allow lesser nations to forget that tension russia britain and france hastened their triple entente as the foundation tor for a con wide network of lesser pacts the soviet wooed poland rumania and turkey britain also wooed turkey hoping to cement bulgaria rumania and greece in a balkan entente in the baltacs Balti cs poland reasserted its determination to stave off german demands on danzig and pressed mutual defense negotiations with finland Esth esthonia onla latvia and lithuania members of the new triple entente would agree to protect Eu ropes tour four neutral states belgium switzerland holland and denmark actually the picture was less rosy both baltic and balkan countries have made commitments to the rome berlin axis which could hardly be broken especially lithuania yugoslavia and bulgaria in a war however baltic states would be too small and too isolated to help germany the biggest certainty in european diplomacy appears to be french british military aid against germany it if the reich presses its demands against poland the second biggest certainty is that russia will also aid poland the latter nation being another that was jarred by hillers Hit lers speech anto nto such fright that animosity toward the soviet is forgotten thus the reichstag speech has served ed as a boomerang hastening the encirclement which herr hitler fears and hates history may therefore mark april 28 23 as the day germany carried a good thing too far and the day antinazi anti nazi europe began barking back philippines problem child less than a decade has passed since the U S fought philippine independence dence demands but tables have a way of turning given co congressional n assurance of early freedom philippine president manuel manu I 1 quezon hardly had time to exult b before japan turned imperialistic swaggered into china and began grabbing off every piece of unprotected real estate within asiatic waters since japs already hold a strong commercial position in manila moreover since even a double strength U S pacific fleet might not be able to hold the islands against sudden attack many americans believe their nation should headliners HEAD LINERS MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN born 57 years ago as plain philip henry kerr lord lothian takes britaina Brit ains no 1 diplomatic job next summer when he becomes ambassador to the U S A charter member of lady As tors allegedly X pro nazi cliveden set he began advocating appeasement in 1934 by urging elementary justice for hitler via negotiation As wartime secretary to ex premier david lloyd george the marquess became a british colonel house and has remained in close advisory positions ander under subsequent mcdonald and chamberlain regimes he advocated treaty politics as against power politics americans will find him an advocate of britaina Brit ains resuming token war debt payments bachelor twice an earl once a viscount and tour four times a baron he gained his titles in 1930 by inheritance from a distant cousin I 1 leave the philippines before getting involved in war added impetus is given by U S agricultures agri cultures resentment sent ment over concessions to fill pino sugar sensing that the U S was anxious to pull stakes manuel quezon last year appealed to president roosevelt and won an administration sponsored proposal calling tor for political independence in 1946 the 25 per cent tariff being increased by 5 per cent a year until wholly effective in 1961 since president quezon win will not be able to attend hearings this year the bill is being tabled until next session when men he be does arrive mr quezon will be offered an even stronger deal which members of the senate committee on territories and insular possessions have already accepted unanimously albeit secretly the deal if filipinos will cut political ties with the U S in 1942 current 25 per cent tariff rates will continue until 1946 as under the administration bill then rates will jump 10 per cent annually until the U S washes its hands of the whole affair in 1953 still officially unannounced the substitute bill suggested by mary lands sen millard E tydings has been hushed tor for fear japan may sail into manila immediately confident the U S does not care to defend the harbor admiral dewey dewey stormed so heroically in 1898 RELIEF election coming up for three months an economy minded congress has sought means of returning relief to the states thereby destroying slashing federal appropriations and making the U S only a money and general overseer until late april president roosevelt had commented on the new program no more than to endorse a ban on politics politic s in bellef then however he asked congress 1939 1938 i 1937 1936 1935 iJ RELIEF SINCE 1935 chart shows appropriations since 1935 compared with the new request at top pending appropriation represents only original budget request while figures for previous three years represent original request plus monies monies voted later to meet emergencies tor for a appropriation to meet relief needs during the 1939 40 fiscal year of which would go for tacitly therefore he spanked reform measures proposed by south carolinas sen james J byrnes and virginias rep clifton woodrum making it plain that he wants kept intact and moreover is opposed to republican plans tor for decentralizing relief high points in the message 1 continued high volume unemployment is due largely to a annual influx of new workers 2 relief needs will remain high until the U S like the rest of the world has undergone a process of readjustment particularly in connection with production and distribution of goods 3 retain ance of present formula on federal state division of costs 2025 20 25 per cent by the states is essential 4 the new government reorganization plan will result in economizing whereas return of beleff to the states would result in inefficiency and confusion through lack of ordination coordination co and uniformity though for 1939 40 relief is far from a high water mark see chart congressional his corials recall that tor for the past three years deficiency appropriations li have ve been needed to fill empty coffers coffer fers s before years end carefully making no accusations they nevertheless reflect that next year is election year when smart politicians will know better than to slash relief rolls for economys sake AVIATION success story eighteen years agoa ago a drugstore drug store clerk named jack frye began spending part ot of his 25 a week salary learning to fly handy at the throttle he soon became a transport pilot and naval reserve officer but jack frye yearned to try the bustness business end of aviation in 1930 he and paul richter whom he had taught to fly got their fingers in big time aviation by merging aero corporation of california with fast growing transcontinental and western airlines by 1934 jack frye had become president and by this spring his firm was flying 33 twin motored ships over route miles between new york and los angeles aided by paul richter and several unidentified associates the onetime one time drugstore drug store clerk bought an estimated shares of stock from new yorks lehman brothers and chicago financier john D hertz finding himself major owner of one of the nations major airlines only parallel Is the case of capt eddie world war ace who last year bought eastern airlines PALESTINE silver lining the holy land has been britaina Brit ains most consistent headache since lord balfourd Bal fours declaration made it a homeland tor for wandering jews under league of nations mandate palestine arabs dislike the jews and vice versa during the six months ending last april 1 about persons were killed and 1100 injured a typical casualty list for the warfare which last year caused a roy royal al commission to recommend that palestine be split into three areas an arau arab and a jewish state and a zone under british mandate both arabs and jews rejected this and other proposals at a march conference in london where each set of delegates refused to meet with the others insistent on settlement britain then formed a final plan understood der stood to provide full independence for palestine after a 10 year period in which both races would learn self government jewish immigration would be pegged at the first five years then stopped entirely hoping for early peace the british government sighed happily when arab leaders of egypt palestine iraq saudi arabia and trans jor dan ended a two day conference by looking kindly on the final plan having won their major point arab domination over palestine delegates probably decided they can do what they want with the holy lands jews after the 10 year probationary period is over CANADA tour or torture prime reason for the journey which king george and queen elizabeth are making to canada this month is to promote empire unity it if canadian editorial opinion is any criterion the tour is more successfully promoting a dominion headache sample arguments 1 premier W L mackenzie king is charged with rushing adjournment journ ment of parliament so sic he can accompany the royal entourage while the ottawa journal remarks the visit is not tor for the glorification of officials or political bigwigs big wigs montreali Mont reals gazette calls the hurried parliament adjournment an outrageous proceeding 1 2 itinerary planners are charged with booking so many stopovers that the journey will be not a royal tour but royal torture speaking again the ottawa journal examines the crowded june 7 schedule day before the sovereigns cross to the U S on that date george and elizabeth h could be required to spend nearly 11 hours visiting six cities handshaking all mayors city councilors councillors counci lors and their wives and participating in the inevitable accompanying festivities rest time during the day an hour and a halt half including a hurried private lunch BOLIVIA democratic dictator forbears of 35 year old president german busch came from the country which supplied his baptismal name but tor for two generations busches have been loyal bo bivians liv ians in 1935 german busch emerged from the gran chaco war with paraguay to find his count rys BOLIVIA AND BUSCH his plan may work government in horrible shape friendly to labor and business boasting strong catholic support youngster busch became provisional president in july 1937 when col david toros socialistic state was toppled last may he was constitutionally tio nally reelected elected re beginning a task from which lesser men might have turned away plagued by and fascism bankrupt and facing possible revolution it if three chaco war parties liberal republican socialist republican won the may legislative election president busch surprised the world by announcing a new type political animal dictatorship to prepare for a real democracy observers give german busch a good chance of succeeding having canceled the election dissolved his congress and abolished constitutional guarantees on the plausible assumption that restive bolivia a does not deserve democracy at this moment colonel busch is the worlds first dictator to 1 invite patriotic criticism of his regime 2 reject his cabinets resignation 3 view fascism and with pain and 4 promise an election five to eight months hence to let bolivia decide its own destiny PEOPLE in the army now in 1915 handsome 18 year old anthony eden joined the british army became its youngest captain and won the military cross for gallantry today at 41 he is regarded as brit ains coming man of politics a likely successor to prime minister neville chamberlain deserting parliament tor for the moment he has joined the london rangers regiment for a freshener course thus stimulating british military interest assigned to the rank of major which he won in the war mr eden refused command of a battalion C e in paraguay gen jose felix estigarribia ribia current minister to the U S and hero of the gran chaco war with bolivia was elected dent western newspaper union |