ILLIAM E. DODD, American
ambassador to Germany, has
stepped into the limelight and the
result may be embarrassing to him
ws and to the admin
istration. In a long
letter to Senators
Bulkley of Ohio and
Glass of Virginia he
urges all Democrats
to unite in support
of the President and
thus avert a dicta-
torship in the United
States. It was as-
sumed he meant the
: President's Supreme
Ambassador .ourt enlargement
W. E. Dodd pj) should be sup-
ported, since that is the measure
that split the party in congress.
Dodd, former professor in the Uni-
versity of Chicago, said he had been
told by certain friends that an
American, not named, ‘‘who owns
nearly a billion dollars,’”” was pre-
pared to set up a fascist regime
which presumably he would con-
trol. There are not many American
billionaires now, but no one has
ventured to guess publicly the man
Dodd has in mind.
“There are individuals of great
wealth who wish a dictatorship and
are ready to help a Huey Long,” he
wrote. ‘There are politicians, some
in the senate, I have heard, who
think they may come into power
like that of the European dictators
in Moscow, Berlin, and Rome.”
Congressional leaders were quick
to take up Dodd's assertion, Senator
Borah of Idaho leading off with the
declaration that the ambassador
was an irresponsible scandal mon-
ger and a disgrace to his country.
“I have an idea,” said Borah, ‘‘that
his supposed dictatorship is the fig-
ment of a diseased brain.” Senator
Gerald Nye of North Dakota, radi-
cal, introduced a resolution call
ing upon the State department to
aire in question.
In the house Representative Fish
of New York denounced Dodd, and
demanded that he be recalled and
ship.
This reaction in Washington
Ambassador Dodd to amplify
warning by a prepared statement
cautioning against perils which
would result from defeat of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recovery program
ing toward Fascist rule; but he still
disclosed no identities.
HERE were persistent reports
in Washington that the Supreme
court controversy would soon be
settled by the resignation of at least
two of the justices, Brandeis and
Van Devanter, and possibly Mec-
Reynolds and Sutherland. It was
said friends of these men had urged
their retirement ‘for the good of
the court itself.”
It was claimed that the President
would be compelled to withdraw his
bill if as many as two of the associ-
ate justices should retire, or else
face defeat. Proponents of the meas-
ure, pending the return of Mr.
Roosevelt to the capital, said there
would be no compromise.
Senator Henrik Shipstead of Min-
nesota, Farmer-Laborite, returning
to his seat after a long illness,
declared himself flatly against the
Supreme court enlargement bill:
and his colleague, Senator Ernest
Lundeen, another Farmer-Labor-
ite, said he would not support an
increase of more than two in the
membership of the court.
HILIP MURRAY, chairman of
the steel workers’ organizing
committee of the C. 1. O., called
paign of Lewis and
his associates to un-
ionize the steel in-
dustry. On his order
the employees of
Jones & Laughlin
Steel corporation
plants in Pitts-
burgh and Aliquippa
walked out after
Murray had failed
to get from the com-
pany a signed col-
lective bargaining
contract.
27,000 men. Thousands of pickets
surrounded the Jones & Laughlin
mills and kept non-union workers
from entering.
The company announced its will
ingness to sign a contract if it might
grant identical terms to non-union
employees and declared its disposi-
tion to deal solely with any group
that could poll a majority of its em-
ployees in an election supervised
by the national labor board.
Next day the strike spread to the
plants of the Pittsburgh Steel com-
pany at Monessen and Allenport,
Pa., where 5900 men went out.
Murray said it was inevitable that
the Republic, Youngstown, Bethle-
hem and Crucible steel concerns
would be involved very soon.
There was considerable disorder
at Aliquippa, and the police used
tear gas bombs to disperse the pick-
ets. Governor Earle hurried to the
region to help settle the trouble, and
he ordered the sale of liquor stopped
in western Pennsylvania areas af-
fected by the strike.
Employees of Fisher Body and
Chevrolet in Detroit returned to
work pending a conference with the
management; but the plants of
those concerns in Janesville, Wis.,
were closed by a dispute over the
status of 14 non-union workers.
Their plants in Flint and Saginaw
also were shut down, as was the
Fisher Body plant in Cleveland.
John L. Lewis, head of the C, I.
O., apparently killed any chances
for peace with the A. F. of L. when,
addressing the Lady Garment Work-
ers’ union convention at Atlantic
City, he called President Green a
traitor to organized labor and de-
clared neither he nor any of the
workers unionized in the C. I. O.
campaign wants peace with the fed-
eration. Lewis charged that Green
tried to prevent Governor Murphy
of Michigan from settling the Gen-
eral Motors and Chrysler strikes.
"| ECHNICAL workers in the
movie industry at Hollywood
were disappointed when the screen
actors’ guild, settling its own trou-
bles with the producers, refused to
support their strike. But the C. L
0. took up their cause, assured them
of active support and promised to
place 340,000 men on picket duty in
important cities throughout the
country. At least, that is the as-
sertion of Charles E. Lessing, head
of the striking unions.
Lessing said the film boycott
would be directed at theaters in in-
dustrial areas where unions are
strong. He selected New York, Chi-
cago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, De-
troit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and
St. Paul as key cities for picketing.
RITISH royalty and the British
government are at outs con-
cerning the wedding of the duke of
Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield.
The duke wishes it
to be public and of-
ficially supported by
King George and
Mary, the queen
mother, with whom
Edward discussed
the affair by
phone. The cabinet
insists the marriage
should be strictly
private and not at-
tended by any mem-
: ber of the royal
Windsor family except as a
private person. Edward postponed
the marriage until June at the re-
quest of his brother the king, and
it is said he would yield to the de-
mand of the government and have
a private wedding; but Queen Mary
Duke of
nized as a matter of ‘““fair treat-
ment’ for the duke, and that his
bride should be formally recognized
as the duchess of Windsor.
“" EMEMBER, this is the Presi-
dent's pet project. He wants
the CCC made permanent, not ex-
tended for a two year period.”
So shouted Representative Wil-
liam P. Connery of Massachusetts
at the members of the house. But
the house would not heed the im-
plied warning and voted, 224 to 34,
in favor of giving the CCC two
more years of life. This was in
committee of the whole, and next
day this action was confirmed.
The senate, forgetting all about
economy, approved, 46 to 29, an
amendment to the second deficiency
appropriation bill which commits
the government to the expenditure
of 112 millions on a new Tennessee
river dam at Gilbertsville, Ky.
EPRESENTATIVE DIES of
Texas has proposed to congress
that President Roosevelt call an in-
ternational monetary conference for
the purpose of seeking an equitable
distribution of the world's supply of
gold and silver. Specifically, he
would have the conference:
1. Stabilize currencies on some
permanent basis that would prevent
wide fluctuations in their purchasing
power.
2. Establish a bimetallic—gold
and silver—base for the currencies.
3. Distribute the world’s gold and
silver supply more equitably so as
to give each nation proper support
for its currency and an adequate
medium of international exchange.
4. Make available to the countries
Hivolved the raw materials they
need.
TO SETTLE the long pension con-
troversy between railroad oper-
ators and their employees, a com-
promise bill was introduced by Sen-
ator Wagner and Representative
Crosser amending the railway re-
tirement act. Fundamental conces-
sions to workers include eligibility
for pensions for employees absent
on account of sickness, increases
in death benefits, and authority to
include prior service in calculating
length of service upon which an-
nuities are based
N RESPONSE to the recent re-
quest of a foreign government,
reported to be France, the adminis-
tration has taken the position that
it will not permit the export of he-
lium for military purposes abroad.
The request was for a very large
amount of the gas, presumably for
a large airship, and investigation
convinced officials in Washington
that the nation asking it was plan-
ning no such commercial service as
was performed by the German gov-
ernment with the ill-fated Hinden-
burg.
(CLAD in a cloth of gold robe em-
broidered with colored emblems
and lined with white satin, King
George VI of Great Britain knelt
before the archbish- gov 4
op of Canterbury in |
Westminster abbey
and the primate
placed on the mon-
arch’'s head the
crown which Ed-
ward never wore.
Then the queen's
crown was placed
on the head of Eliz-
abeth, and the two
took their places on
their thrones. At the
same time all the vi
assembled peers and peeresses
donned their coronets, drums and
trumpets sounded and the guns at
—_.,
King George
tacle that had attracted many thou-
sands of persons to London and that
held the attention of the world for
a few hours.
First of the day's events was the
procession to the abbey, which was
observed by vast throngs in the
streets, windows and stands. It was
two miles long. The lord mayor of
London, gorgeously clad and carry-
ing the city mace, arrived first at
the annex built at the abbey en-
trance, and was followed closely by
the speaker of the house of com-
mons, representatives of foreign
governments, the prime ministers
of the dominions and the princes
and princesses of royal blood. Next
came Queen Mary, and then King
George and Queen Elizabeth.
When all the fortunate ones en-
titled to places in the abbey had
taken their seats, the ceremony be-
gan with the ancient "recognition"
ritual; the archbishop of Canter-
bury presented the king to the peo-
ple, and four times the throng re-
sponded with “God Save King
George.” After the rite of corona-
tion and the actual enthronement of
the monarchs the doors of the abbey
were thrown open, George and Eliz-
abeth, wearing their crowns and
carrying their scepters, stepped in-
to their coach, and the second grand
procession made its slow way to
Buckingham palace,
Every detail of the spectacle and
ceremony had been rehearsed until
y all were perfect in
their parts and noth-
ing marred the per-
formance upon
which the British
government spent
about $2,000,000. It
really was a gor-
geous show and no
one begrudged the
money it cost, espe-
/ 3 cially as visitors to
Ls x London spent prob-
Queen ably ten times as
Elizabeth 0} Though in
general ancient routine was fol
lowed, there were some notable con.
cessions to modernity? For instance,
the abbey was equipped with tele-
phones and loud speakers. Anoth-
er innovation, on the days before
the coronation, was the stationing
of companies of soldiers from the
various dominions as sentries at
Buckingham and St.
aces. Never before had this duty
been entrusted to other than
British guards.
Throughout the British empire
coronation day was celebrated with
4
ishers came together,
was toasted.
In a chateau near Tours, France,
Edward, duke of Windsor, sat be-
fore a radio listening to a broadcast
of the coronation ceremonies; and
by his side was Wallis Warfield, his
fiancee,
his throne.
It was announced that Wallis had
Warfield.
veteran labor leader who has
been serving as President Roose-
velt’s ‘‘co-ordinator for industrial
co-operation,” what.
ever that may
mean, is now United
States senator from
Tennessee, having
been appointed by
Governor Browning
to fill out the term
of the late Senator
Nathan L. Bach-
man. He will serve
until the Jeguiae
election in Novem-
ber, 1938. George L.
Mr. Berry, who is Berry
fifty-three years old, is one of the
largest landholders in the South. He
owns a weekly newspaper at Rog-
ersville, Tenn., and the Internation-
al Playing Card and Label com-
pany. He has been president of the
International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union of North
Amesicy since he was twenty years
old.
The new senator has been one of
President Roosevelt's most ardent
supporters, and was himself con-
sidered for nomination for the vice
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presidency in 1024,
NATIONAL PRE CIR IE ol
Washington.—President Roosevelt,
from the time he was Assistant Sec-
o ba retary of the Navy
Building in the Wilson ad-
the Navy ministration, has
always been re-
garded as a friend of the military
forces of the United States. He has
never been a fanatic about his posi-
tion but has held consistently to the
view that the military services must
be protected against continuing po-
litical attack which would destroy
their usefulness. Likewise, Mr.
Roosevelt has constantly argued for
a policy of building up the army,
navy and marine corps.
Since he has been in the White
House, Mr. Roosevelt has taken
cies of development were invoked
as regards the military services and
in this di-
In con-
sequence, the President has brought
about a program of building in the
navy that, examined from any an-
gle, must be considered as having
established a splendid first line of
defense for our country. Whether
one favors a big navy or a small
navy, I think it must be admitted
that the navy is the first line of de-
fense and so the President, being
fully acquainted with developments
throughout the world, has seen to it
that our navy shall be in a strong
position as our first line of defense.
It may be, as some critics of the
President contend, that the hun-
dreds of millions expended under
Mr. Roosevelt's policies constituted
too much of a fund in this direction;
that we have no need for a navy as
large as that now contemplated, and
that the creation of a large navy in-
dicated a policy of aggression by
the United States. My own feeling
is that these objections are not well
founded. The turbulent situation in
international relations, both in Eu-
a definite move on the part of the
United States to be equipped. In
wish our nation again to be caught
without ) worthwhile fighting
units ready for action as we were
in 18177 although we are
any
of the 1917 conditions be-
cause we can not afford the waste
of money that characterized the
building up of our armed forces at
that time.
repetition
One reason for the comments that
There have been a good many
millions of citizens of the United
States come onto
Look at this earth since
the Facts the armistice of
1818. Among these
are undoubtedly many who will
with a feeling of safety; who will
think that nothing now can happen
and their mothers, wives and sweet-
hearts will feel they need not worry
about the time when these younger
generations of men will
march away,
and flags flying, never to return.
ent neutrality law certainly is help-
ful. My suggestion is, however, that
they look the facts in the face. When
one of these overt acts is commit-
ted, in we will go regardless of the
neutrality law.
I might advert to some of the
things that happened between 1814
and April 6, 1917. President Wil-
son, a sincere advocate of peace,
did the best he could to prevent our
participation in the World war. It
was a matter that actually brought
about his re-election in 1916 because
his campaign leaders used the slo-
gan, “He kept us out of war.”
Events came through with such
startling speed, however, that a
month after he was inaugurated for
his second term, he was standing on
the rostrum before a joint session
of congress asking for immediate
passage of a resolution placing our
country in the war on the side of
the Allies and against Germany and
the Central Powers. Two days later
we were formally in the fight and
then, once we were made a bellig-
erent by the decision of our govern-
it became “a war to make
the world safe for democracy.”
I think I need not review all of
the various slogans that were em-
ployed in the national propaganda
to solidify our nation behind its mil-
There were many of
The nation was ninety-five
per cent behind the government in
a war to end all wars Hundreds
upon hundreds of millions of dollars
were borrowed from citizens
who bought, first, liberty bonds and
later, victory bonds. For the first
time in later ‘history of our nation
we had a tremendous national debt,
more than ten billions of which were
loaned to those nations with which
we were associated in the war. The
our
President
velt's policies
the fact that
have a new neu-
Neutrality
Law
is
trality law.
day ahead of the expiration of the
80.
like money in the hands of a drunk-
en sailor, ashore for the first time
in the year. Nor is there criticism
to be made of that spending be-
cause we were not prepared for
war.
the next few years, I am quite con-
as any neutrality law that can be
written. It represents the work of
men in congress who are very se-
rious in their desires to create ma-
chinery that will keep us out of war,
try into international conflict.
American citizens or American cor-
porations to any nation which the
President may hold to be a *“‘bel-
ligerent’’ nation, which is the way
The law has a further important
and interesting provision. It re-
to buy products in this country,
commodities that are not prohibited
by the neutrality law, it must come
to our shores and get them and
must pay for them before the boat
leaves. Thus, it
and carry’ neutrality act.
That title sounds very satisfying.
make loans again as we did during
repaid except in some minor in-
gunboats because we are transport-
ing munitions of war to any bellig-
erent. Surely, this phase of the law
will in a measure retard our en-
trance into any war and it will at
the same time reduce the excite-
ment in this country incident to
the manufacture and sale of muni-
tions of war because of the profits
accruing under such circumstances.
But, it strikes me that, after all,
this neutrality law is likely to be a
rather futile gesture. Having ob-
served governmental action over an
extended period of years, I refuse
to kid myself. I will not say that
the new neutrality act will keep us
out of war because, very definite-
ly, it will not.
Let us see why. There are a
thousand and one acts that a for-
eign nation can do to insult our na-
tional honor or damage our citizens
and their commerce. These are
called “overt” acts. When an overt
act is committed, it is so easy to for-
get about the high principles stated
in the present neutrality law. It can
be repealed and a declaration of
war substituted for it almost within
twenty-four hours.
strong army. It will serve us well
and will cost us very much less
than if this building up process had
to be accomplished overnight as it
was in 1917. It may be surprising
to a good many people to know that
ber 17 in the list of armies of na-
tions even though our country is one
in the family of nations.
made to rank with the greatest and
that our army will be possible of
expansion, taxpayers’ money will be
much better spent than through
boondoggling or wasted through
useless development of theoretical
schemes.
* * *
As the battle over President
preme court of the
United States with
Six new judges
grows in heat, it
becomes increasingly evident that
Supreme
Court
the political aspects of the situation
the early stages of the fight.
circumstance certainly is working
to the advantage of those who op-
pose the President's scheme and it
is interesting to look at the picture
from that angle.
My observation of congressional
activities in the past leads me to be-
lieve that every President must ex-
pect in his second term a certain
amount of defection, a certain
amount of running away, among the
supporters who stood by him un-
flinchingly during his first term. Of
course, most of his stalwarts will
stick by him through thick and thin
but it always has happened that a
rather deep fringe of his party will
begin to balk or duck when they
reach the second lap and know that
the head of their party will not
seek election to a third term. The
reason must be quite obvious. All
members of the house and one-third
of the senate membership have to
seek votes in their home districts
every two years. With a President
in his second term, the interest of
these candidates for office must
turn to what their voters think rath-
er than what the President thinks,
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ber present. The closest approach
to a 100 per cent attendance was
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1831, when 433 of its 435 members
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