Anglo-Italian Plans
SUPPORTED by a large majority
in the house of commons, British
Prime Minister Neville Chamber-
lain moved rapidly toward realiza-
tion of his plan for
European appease-
ment, the basis of
which was to be a
speedy truce with
Italy, to be followed
by a four - power
pact including Brit-
ain, France, Italy
and Germany.
Chamberlain aban-
doned entirely the
British foreign pol-
Neville icy based on collec-
Chamberlain tive security. He got
rid of Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, putting in his place Lord Hal-
ifax, outspoken friend of Nazi Ger-
many, and defied the opposition of
the Labor party in parliament,
The earl of Perth, British am-
bassador to Rome, had conversa-
tions with Italian Foreign Minister
Ciano and was then called to Lon-
don for further instructions. It was
said Perth and Ciano agreed the fol-
lowing points must be discussed
and, if possible, made a part of the
London-Rome treaty:
Britain must recognize the Italian
conquest of Ethiopia.
An Anglo-Italian Mediterranean
pact should be arranged to include
Italian naval parity with Britain in
the Mediterranean, reduction in It-
aly’s troops in Libya, and British
assurances that the Suez canal will
be safeguarded against closing or
air attack.
Immediate cessation of anti-Ital-
fan propaganda in the British terri-
tories in the Near East in return
for which Italy will guarantee not
to include anti-British propaganda
in its Bari radio broadcasts.
Withdrawal of foreign “‘volun-
teers” from Spain was to be de-
manded by Britain, and it was un-
derstood in London that Chancellor
Hitler of Germany had agreed to
that, and that Italy would not re-
fuse, although Mussolini especially
wishes that Franco be granted bel-
ligerent rights.
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France in Tight Place
RANCE, it was expected, would
adopt a course parallel with that
Delbos said, she
would join
assured for Czechoslovakia and
Austria. The French secret defense
committee met to organize an
arms expansion program involving
$855,400,000 and to lay plans for de-
fending the Czechs against German
aggression.
The Chamberlain plan leaves out
Boviet Russia, an ally of France;
and the French also seemed likely
to lose another ally, for Poland, it
appeared, was about to enter into
an agreement with Germany
against Russia. Field Marshal
Goering, Hitler's right-hand man,
was in Warsaw, entertained by
President Moscicki, Foreign Minis-
ter Beck and Field Marshal Smigly-
Ridz, head of the Polish army. That
soldier and other leading Poles be-
lieve war between Germany and
Russia will break out before long.
They don’t like the Germans but
fear that if Stalin lost the war Hitler
would proceed to grab Poland,
Bek
Isolationists Cheered
MERICAN isolationists saw in
the new European develop-
ments the eclipse of the interna-
tionalism fostered by President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, and
were greatly encouraged in their
determination to keep the United
States free from foreign entangle-
ments. At the same time the pro-
ponents of powerful national defense
were elated and the administra.
tion's big navy program received a
great boost. The house naval af-
fairs committee was about ready to
report favorably the billion dollar
navy construction bill, which may
include provision for the establish-
ment of more naval bases, mainly
in the Pacific.
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Hitler Defies the World
OLITICAL turmoil spread over
Europe after Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler, in an address to the reichs-
tag, declared his intention to make
Germany one of the
most powerful na-
tions in the world,
gave warning that it
was re-arming and
did not fear war
though it desired
peace, and demand-
ed the return of
Germany's lost col-
onies. Furthermore,
Hitler upheld the ag-
gressive actions of
Italy and Japan,
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Adolf Hitler
not tolerate ultimate victory of the
co's rebel forces.
The Fuehrer told with gratifica-
tion of his success in compelling
Chancellor Schuschnigg to give the
Austrian Nazis representation in
his cabinet and to permit them to
act as a political party.
no assurance that the independence
of Austria would be preserved. He
openly threatened similar action
against Czechoslovakia unless the
Germans in that country were
granted *‘political liberty."
Hitler's speech might be summar-
ized as a declaration that Germany
will ignore Great Britain, France
and other western powers in carry-
ing out her international policies,
will continue her efforts to destroy
the last vestiges of the general set-
tlements which followed the World
war; will insist that the “have not"
nations must be restored to a basis
of equality with the “have’ pow-
ers, and is prepared to defy any
combination of powers which may
be formed against her.
Woe
Halifax Succeeds Eden
EFUSING to go along with
Prime Minister Neville Cham-
berlain in his plans to “buy” a
friendly settlement with Germany
and Italy, Capt. An-
thony Eden, British
foreign secretary
who has fought the
ambitions of Euro-
pean dictators for
two years, resigned
. from the cabinet.
ft With him went Vis-
os count Cranborn, the
principal foreign un-
| dersecretary. Vis-
count Halifax was
Lord Halifax ,.. inted to suc-
ceed Eden temporarily. This change
was in effect another triumph for
Hitler, was especially regretted by
France, and threatened to precipi-
tate a serious crisis for the British
government,
Viscount Halifax, lord president
of the council and former viceroy of
India, is a personal friend of Hitler
and an insistent advocate of imme-
diate friendship with Germany and
Italy, even at the cost of great con-
cessions by Britain. He was sent
to Berlin not long ago to talk over
matters with the Nazi leaders.
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Crop Insurance Manager
OY M. GREEN of Missouri has
been made manager of the
$100,000,000 federal crop insurance
corporation, the agency created un-
der the new farm law to insure
wheat growers against crop fail-
ures. The appointment was made
by the board of directors, which also
selected Cecil A. Johnson, formerly
of Ames, Iowa, as its secretary,
Green has been chief of the Agri-
culture department's division of fi-
nance in the puteay of agricultural
McNutt Hullabaloo
P AUL V. McNUTT, high commis-
sioner to the Philippines, came
home to report to the President,
and as soon as he arrived in Wash-
ington his enthusiastic friends
staged a big reception for the pur-
pose of booming him as Democratic
nominee for the Presidency in 1940.
All experienced politicians agree
that this is most premature, and
in the capital it was felt that it was
decidedly distasteful to Mr. Roose-
velt, who doesn’t wish to be hurried
in picking his possible successor.
No member of the cabinet except
Secretary Roper and no important
man of the administration attended
the reception.
McNutt said he was not a candi-
date for any office, but Senator Sher-
man Minton, Governor Townsend
and other leading Democrats of In-
diana insist he should be nominated
in 1940, and no one doubts that he
would like to be so honored.
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Chandler in Race
OVERNOR A. B. (“HAPPY")
mally announced his candidacy for
the senate seat occupied by Alben
W. Barkley, majority leader. He
said he would try to confine his
fight to state issues, but would not
hesitate to take issue with the
Roosevelt administration if it inter-
fered in the primaries in behalf of
Barkley.
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Green Hits Lewis’ Plan
M OVING to stop John Lewis and
4 his C. 1. O. from gaining polit-
ical control of Pennsylvania, the
American Federation of Labor re-
voked the charter of the state fed-
eration. President Green announced
that action with a declaration that
the votes of 400,000 “loyal’’ federa-
tion members in Pennsylvania
“cannot be delivered’ by ‘‘‘self-con-
stituted labor leaders, ambitious for
political power."
Lewis and his unions are planning
to elect Lieut. Gov. Thomas Ken-
nedy to the governorship. He is
gsecretary-treasurer of the miners’
union.
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Coal Prices Revoked
| Jf ACED with growing litigation,
the national bituminous coal
commission announced it had taken
the advice of producers and labor
unions and voted unanimously to
| suspend its schedule of soft coal
| minimum prices, marketing rules
and regulations. The prices had
been set aside by the courts in nu-
| merous cases.
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Franco Regains Teruel
RANCO'S insurgent forces recov-
ered possession of Teruel, Spain,
| and continued their progress toward
the Mediterranean coast. In the re-
captured city they took more than
16,000 prisoners and buried 9,000
government dead. Rebel warships
bombarded the coastal cities of Va-
lencia and Sagunto and were in turn
attacked by government bombing
planes.
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| Rumania Goes Fascist
UMANIA is now a Fascist cor-
porative state of guilds pat-
terned after Italy. This was settled
when King Carol proclaimed the
new constitution, ie 1
which provides for 1
a parliament com-
posed of guilds of
farmers, workers
and intellectuals.
Both the chamber
of deputies and the
senate are reduced
in size and election
of members is to be
by trades and pro- A
fessions, not by po-
litical parties. The King Carol
king will appoint half the senators
and will have veto power over all
legislation. All Rumanians are de-
clared equal, with radical distinc-
tions, and religious freedom is
granted with the Orthodox Ruma-
nian church as the state religion.
Trials by jury are abolished and
the death penalty reintroduced for
certain crimes.
The constitution was created by
Rumania's powerful crown council,
a special body established by King
Carol to define general policies.
Hungary Offers Pay
OHN PELENYI, minister from
Hungary, revealed that his gov-
ernment has proposed a readjust-
ment of its “war debt” whereby it
would repay the United States the
full amount of its original loan but
without interest.
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Parker Gilbert Dies
two won fame by his brilliant work
tions, died of heart disease. After
completing his job in Berlin he be-
Co., dealing especially with matters
of international finance.
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Army Planes’ Great Flight
Sx bombing planes of the United
States army air corps success-
fully completed an epochal
flight of 6,000 miles from Miami,
Fla., to Buenos Aires. The only
intermediate stop was at Lima,
Pera. From here the bombers
roa over snow-capped Andes
and landed at the Argentine capi-
tal, where thousands cheered the
aviators. The planes carried 48 men
besides the flight commander,
Lieut, Col. Robert Olds.
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National Topics Interpreted
National Press Bullding
Washington, D.
ee
Washington.—Changes in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's policies have been
coming so fast
lately that about
all I am able to do
this week is to re-
view the situation. 1 have gath-
Changes
Come Fast
many official sources in an earnest
As the air
would report while flying
The proper basis for a start,
cies of the Roosevelt administration
tion to accomplish higher prices.
Another basic plank is the foreign
ated with numerous foreign nations.
These two planks were designed to
make markets available for what
we produce, first, through scarcity
of quantity and, secondly, to stabi-
lize the world exchange of goods on
price levels which we, in this coun-
try, considered to be worth while.
Various other legislative acts and
White House announcements came
into the picture also, but we need
not be concerned with them just
now.
Vell, the higher prices began to
materialize. ‘hey came along to
the poi where eight or ten months
ago there was genuine evidence of a
speculative boom. Mr. Roosevelt
said recently in a statement to the
press that on this cir-
cumstance was a bit alarming. Sud-
denly sion set-
i
the outlook
y, however, the
tiled down on the cot
ident took note of i
nounced that prices had to come
order to encourage buying
cons
y of this yea
down in
by the
Januar
ruary,
had
the country out of the
I was on
ve, he took
ion on the price question.
in a formal statement
“It is clear that in the present
situation, a moderate rise in the
present price level is desirable and
that this rise need not and should
not extend to all prices.”
So that now we are committed to
8 price rise on some commodities
and present or even lower prices
on some other commodities t is
to be presumed (because there is
to show a contrary view)
that all of the machinery of govern-
ment is to be used to bring about
price rises in “some commodities’
but not all of them.
However, to continue our review:
I reported to you in December, 1937,
and have mentioned several times
umers
he told hat there
be higher prices to bring
depression.
February
another posi-
He said
to
as the famous *‘'big stick’ which
Theodore Roosevelt used when he
was President. Twenty-nine cases
against so-called monopolies
pending now in federal courts and
the federal trade commission has
some others in process of prosecu-
tion. The prosecutions range all the
way from ladies’ half-size dresses
and against individuals who design
styles through the list to Aluminum
Company of America.
Now, while the trust drive has
been on (and some folks have been
cruel enough to charge that the
trust busting drive is to keep the
folks from realizing we are in a de-
pression), another thing has hap-
pened. I refer to the passage of
the new farm aid legislation. I have
not been able to understand the
law, but Secretary Wallace calls it
ers because he says that it will re-
duce or limit production and there-
by force a greater return to the
farmers. In Mr. Roosevelt's state-
ment on the general price situation,
however, he spoke of the new pro-
“Our program seeks a balanced
system of prices such as will pro-
mote balanced expansion in produc-
tion. . This is not a policy of
restriction; it is a policy of abun-
dance.”
I seem to recall some phrases of
a few years back which described
the plans as leading, first, to higher
prices for agricultural products
through ‘‘scarcity’’; then, there
came ‘‘the more abundant life’’ and
abundance. 1 as-
“balanced expansion”
must represent something taken in
between the other policies, but 1
the reason why I have attempted
this report to you by way of a re-
view,
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Although admitting that much of
the new program is too Seep Sor me
to analyze, there
Trade are certain phases
Treaties of it which have
been operative
and from which results have be-
gun to show. Take the reciprocal
trade treaties as an example, I
came across some figures down at
the Department of Commerce the
other day and they were semething
of a revelation. They showed that
in 1937 this nation of ours was im-
sis
ties than it exported. I could not
find when that condition had ob-
tained before. Certainly, there have
been few times in our history when
that has happened.
The department figures showed
that the United States imported 18
per cent more commodities from
the farms of the world than it ex-
ported from our farms. Further ex-
amination of those statistics reveals
the disturbing fact that the bulk of
those imports were things which our
American farmers could have
grown right at home. 1 can find
no other reason for the condition
than that the reciprocal trade trea-
ties which were to bring us pros-
perity have taken prosperity to
some other farmers.
The circumstance caused me to
wonder then whether these trade
treaties are not slowly grinding the
American farmer into the dust. I
have tried to find out how the new
farm aid law, which restricts pro-
duction further in the United States,
ment that it will result in higher
prices for our farm products, will
it not by the same token make a
greater difference between foreign
prices and our own? And if that be
there will be more imports of farm
products from foreign lands? My
reasoning brings an answer of
“yes” in each case, and so I cannot
see where we are going to get
“balanced expansion’ out of those
factors.
Now, as Al Smith used to say, le
us look at the record as it concerns
the trust-busting drive and its re-
lation to prices, employ
the like. 1 simply hav
at all with the big business groups
that ignore or forget their responsi-
bilities to the public. There is no
excuse and can be no excuse for
| crushing any individual who is try-
ing to run a business of his own. It
is one thing, however, for a busi-
ness to have grown big because it
serves its public well and quite an-
other thing for the same group to
{ have attained its bigness through
savage tactics.
* * ®
That brings me to the recent con-
viction of the oil companies in a
trial that was held
Trust at Madison, Wis.
Busting As far as 1 have
read the record in
that case, the basis of the charge by
the government was that the oil
companies had used a pricing sys-
famous NRA, a policy laid down by
congress. Secretary Ickes of the
of the loudest mouths in the chorus
of bust the trusts, insisted on the
oil companies getting together.
wrote letters to them to that effect.
Of course, the NRA was held un-
| constitutional but the decision was
based on the question of congres-
| sional authority to delegate powers
to the executive officers.
the tactics employed by the govern-
ment.
the trust busting drive, lately has
been promoted to the job of solicitor
general of the United States. Mr.
Jackson told a senate committee
the oil case.
ment of Justice would continue to
do it. They ficked a New York
court to hear the case against the
Aluminum company in order to get
| did in the oil case.
The tactics used in the Aluminum
rehensible. For instance, the gov-
ernment had been anxious to set a
date for the trial and the Aluminum
tion.
court in New
when Judge Knox proposed a date
early in April, Walter Rice, one of
to the court that the government
did not yet have enough evidence
to prosecute.
This seems far afield from the
price question. I wonder if it is
so far off the subject. As I said
earlier in this discussion, legal ac-
tion against anybody, individual or
corporation, is destructive, demoral-
izing and expensive. I know noth-
ing about the merits of the oil case
or the aluminum case or any of the
others beyond what I have picked
up in the records. On the other
hand, however, it is plain for any-
one to see no “price structure’ can
be arranged for ‘‘balanced expan-
gion’ if the federal government is
going to decree one course of ac-
tion for business with one hand
write an obituary for the same busi-
ness with the other hand. That is
to say, if the people are unable to
know or understand what their gov-
ernment policies are, it is quite
likely that those same people will
continue to ask each other: “Where
are we going and what is the end
going to be?”
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