Show weekly news analysis roosevelt asserts positive stand against appeasement of hitler edward C wayne EDITORS NOTE when opinions re expressed in ia these columns they jr rs those of the news analyst lOt lyst sad and not necessarily of this newspaper PEOPLE and realization president roosevelt realizing that he was faced with a determined anti intervention bloc both in press and congress which was taking as its theme pooh pooh theres no danger had been making strides to in his effort to bring about in the american public a realization of what he considered to be the real seriousness of the international situation coupled with this was an effort be was making to have americans also make a more realistic evaluation of their own blessings in recent utterances particularly in one from hyde park he quoted at length from a personal letter to him from an unnamed mother in which she said in part it is terrifying coming from europe to realize that many of these people in america in their unruffled existence to have no idea of what hangs over their heads beads today they put themselves in a posture where they cannot squawk about what they dont see they go about their daily dozens ignoring the threatening 4 W 11 letl SEES PRESIDENT ambassador recently delivered a personal message to president roosevelt from prince konoye japanese premier this started rumors of peace negotiations for the pacific heel of human beings who want to destroy the freedom the normal life to which they have been accustomed in europe there is not a nation of those who have suffered abuse whose people are not aware of what america stands for they pray daily that america will save itself by helping greatly to defeat hitlerism the president echoing her sentiments said that is a thought we all feel we want to keep america so that in an all the years to come long after all of us here are gone someone will be able to meet as we are doing as we hope to meet next year and later in a message particularly to labor along the line of urging america to consider its own blessings he said only in a democracy could there be a day set aside tor for millions of workers free men and women in a free country only in a democracy could they spend the day in free worship enjoying the right to speak their minds to read uncensored news and to hear uncensored radio programs today we in america are faced with the great task of preserving that democracy and we too will offer our utmost in labor and sacrifice just as our fathers and our fathers fathers did his labor day talk declared unequivocally for the defeat of hitlerism and his refusal to become a benedict arnold by accepting appeasement and crumbs from hillers Hit lers peace table LINDBERGH sees new menace charles A lindbergh chief administration critic enlivened the discussion of extended aid to britain and russia by turning on england and warning the american people in an address that if we banked too much on the british we might find ourselves in the same company with finland and france pointing out that these two nations like this country started out in their participation of the war as allies of britain and now were finding themselves at least technically enemies of the british lind berghs speech was headlined in many newspapers as lindbergh says british may fight U S and given prominent position at about the same time representative cox of georgia bitterly denouncing noun nour cing icing the presidential shakeup of the defense production group declared that the white house was lettin letting the left wingers take control of industry and that the new alignment would tie the hands of william S knudsen and kick out of the picture yet on the same day mr knudsen himself was quoted as saying 1 I feel that the new arrangement will achieve splendid results in increasing the rate of production it was a succession of incidents like these which enlivened the american war effort at the same time confusing newspaper readers as to the thought of leaders on controversial trover sial subjects of how the effort should be conducted VICHY in limelight the shooting of pierre laval and marcel deat by paul collette a norman youthful assassin who had to join the french legion to fight the soviet in order to get close to the nazi collaborator with his pistol turned eyes suddenly toward vichy and the double assassination attempt seemed confirmatory of previous reports of serious unrest at almost the same time that stories were coming across the wires wires telling of the sudden arousal of sympathy for collette a new york newspaper writer uncovered a story about the operations in the united states of a clique of vichy agents working under the direct control of gaston henry haye french ambassador to the united states it was a romantic yarn telling how advance plans of general de gaelles Ga ulles ill fated expedition against dakar were smuggled into the U S in the gasoline tank of an automo highlights in the news REHOBOTH this delaware summer resort town had a blackout of several hours and an airplane caused it the plane carrying a man and woman crashed to a forced landing through electric power lines and burst into flames although the pair escaped instant death the town was thrown into darkness for several hours there was annoyance but no casualties ROME foreign minister lorkovic of croatia sprang a sensation when he accused the former united states consul at zagreb john J meily with being a spy and with giving illegal aid to enemies of germany and italy YORK PA physicians nurses school and health officials banded into an army to attempt to quell one of the nations most serious outbreaks of infantile paralysis all public meetings were being banned and end of summer holidaying holida ying was at a standstill bile shipped to hoboken from london and on a greek steamer the plans presumably were turned over to the vichy government by agents here the story evidently the result of long and careful investigation ti by the writer for his newspaper named more than a dozen names including that of the ambassador bas himself and created a profound sensation certain to bring repercussions it was charged among other things that a secret french police agent had been sent here and had established the undercover organization at the same time that laval and de deat a t were near death from their wounds as a sort of culmination of french unrest and sabotage against the pro nazis it was reported from stockholm mine of information about conditions in norway that I 1 4 SHOT the shooting of lormer former premier pierre laval nazi collaborator is believed to be but one instance of widespread opposition in france to the petain hitler program quisling himself had tried suicide by taking sleeping pills the swedish sources stated in passing that their country as well as switzerland and portugal the only three european nations not engaged in the struggle one way or another were being strongly kropa gandi zed by germany on taking sid sides es with considerable advice as to which side to take JAPAN and roosevelt A long conference between ambassador bas and president roosevelt followed by the announcement no from the white house that the president personally would attempt a peaceful solution of the japanese united states impasse brought hopes up high that the outcome might be the freeing of the NEW YORK having confessed 10 murders of women jarvis R catoe 36 was held in jail as a score or more cities on the eastern seaboard asked detectives to question him about still other unsolved murders of women washington A further cue is forecast in oil supplies from producers to dealers during the remainder of september at the same time admiral land head of the maritime commission said it was his opinion that the pipeline plan of the oil companies sponsorship sor ship would not be effective he recommended the construction of oil barges to be towed back of existing tankers others criticized lands statement holding that a further shortage of tankers on britaina Brit ains part and the need for more tankers to aid russia might leave the barges with nothing to tow them around in the meantime the senate was I 1 investigating the problem pacific fleet or a portion ot of it to aid in the battle of the atlantic No muras attitude following the conference had been the gaps between the policy of our two nations are not so great but that they can be bridged peacefully almost immediately prince konoye japanese premier issued a statement of alms aims in which two points stood out a desire to idis dis pose of the chinese affair and a wish for lasting peace and prosperity in the pacific those were broad aims with which the united states had no quarrel yet a recent speech of churchill was taken by some to mean that america was about to appease japan by tossing china overboard this the president swiftly denied and said it should not be read into the churchill speech however that remained remain ed a chief issue for few could reconcile with president Roosevel ts general foreign policy the throwing over of a democratic oppressed nation to appease a nation already labeled by this country as aggressor even a bigger obstacle and one requiring most delicate handling was the question of lease lend aid to russia again unless the president was to make a most drastic appeasement pea move gasoline and oil would be going to the soviet through vladivostok a pill japan so far had announced itself unable to swallow some observers saw these two items as insuperable obstacles to any rapprochement between the japanese and americans and believed the statement and the konoye message were simply further japanese stalling and bluffing to avoid becoming embroiled in any further warfare the nazi announcements and many believed the japanese government was taking its dictation from berlin gave japan no choice if it wanted to follow german leadership stated flatly that they opposed oil shipping into vladivostok not only on their own part but on that of japan and sharply criticized president roosevelt and churchill in these words the abyss separating the real future of our japans and ger banys common destiny from the propagandistic verbosity of churchill and roosevelt is clearly visible the vladivostok plan was denounced as plans to bring in foreign influences through such back doors to keep bolshevism alive TIMES wants more aid the london times in an outspoken editorial on american aid to britain said we are frankly disappointed over the paucity of american aid without us you would have nothing but a reprieve you must do more for us and for yourselves you had better face it the flood is raging and we are breasting it in an effort to save a drowning civilization america throws out a line to us and will give us dry clothes if we reach the shore we understand her attitude but the waters are rough we think ink it would not strain her resources to wade in at least waist deep and stretch out a firm hand we say this because we are fra frankly rildy disappointed with the american contribution to the rescue only a fraction of american industry is harnessed to war production and even that portion is subject to delay Is it asking too much for the comfortable new world to devote more millions of man days to salvation some americans are arguing whether to help russia at all it is time people realized that they are living on the earth not in the clouds if we fall fail america will not have three years of independence ahead of her TAX BILL still unsolved As the senate made ready to act on the new tax the situation was the house had pared about from what secretary had asked tor for about three and a hall half billions the house thought enough the senate finance committee on the other hand set the ameri american c a ta bill at or about abou it lf more than secretary mott mot had asked in the first place thus the amount the pocketbooks of the country would provide toward mee meeting americas present war expend expenditure it ure was still very much in doubt and tied into this doubt were several features of the various taxes on which there was considerable difference of opinion washington observers figured that out of the huddle and the debate would come a tax bill carrying something halfway between the decision of the two houses or right close to Morgen thaus original figure three and a halt half billions RUSSIANS fight harder P the imminent danger to benl len grad and odessa brought from the russian hussian emanating from f rom moscow the claim that the nazi army was appreciably weaker and that the russians once more were beginning to stall the german advance short of its goal the general halting of the first nazi drive far short of its first objectives jec tives had been credited to the russians excellent army by moscow and generally to the difficulties of road and terrain by germany which admitted the stalling in that instance this time the germans admitted no stalling no russian counteroffensive but did let drop that weather conditions and the terra terrain n were severe handicaps to the blitz movement odessa had held out longer than anticipated and while the finns and germans took Vii puri they still were little nearer leningrad and were not claiming any large scale bombing successes on the second soviet city the russians however were pai painting n ting a different picture general kovens big offensive toward gomel south of the sk sector was still continuing successful ly they said and they cited bayonet attacks that had the german center in retreat the nazis were gleefully describing the russian retreat from galinn estonia as a that come off and said 21 merchant ship troop transports n sunk by mines during their flight A u A TAKES POISON J IVL quisling has become a word s sy anonymous nony with treachery quisling nazi intriguer was put in charge of his bis native norway when hitler conquered it quisling was reported last week to have taken an overdose of sleeping pills deliberately opposition tien to hitlerism has been growing in in norway released by western newspaper union |