‘Foreign
Seldom had the world seen such
furious shadow boxing.
In France, 100 motor busses
burned up the roads, carrying troops
to the frontier in a maneuver that
made Frenchmen recall Gen. Joseph
Simon Gallieni's taxicab roundup of
1914. Premier Edouard Daladier’s
cabinet, which a fortnight ago had
shuddered at the idea of a longer
work week, now condescended
meekly. And Paris looked to Eng-
land as a frightened child looks to
its mother.
Back to London rushed German
Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson.
Back, toe, rushed vacationing cabi-
net members. In the morning,
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
walked his wife around St. James’
park as if nothing had happened.
But by afternoon his cabinet was
immersed in gloom. Echoing puz-
zled Britain's thoughts, the isola-
tionist Daily Mail cried: ‘‘The Brit-
ish public are disquieted . ru-
mors of all sorts go ‘round, but
from official sources people hear
nothing. It is time that the British
public were frankly told what is
happening.”
Much would Mr. Chamberlain
have paid te know what was happen-
ing. Cause of this international fuss-
ing was Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler,
who even then was doing some fuss-
ing of his own. Two days before,
England’s Sir John Simon had
warned Germany to keep its hands
off little Czechoslovakia, on pain of
war with Great Britain. But Adolf
Hitler answered this bluff with a
new bluff, preparing to keep his
1,000,000 reserves under arms until
mid-October.
tier to the next, Dictator Hitler
that all Europe fears he will soon
point at Czechoslovakia.
For more than a month, Britain's
Viscount Runciman has struggled to
arbitrate differences between Czech-
oslovakia and her 3,500,000 rebel-
lious subjects, pro-Nazi Germans
living in the Sudeten region which
fronts Greater Germany. While
Adolf Hitler's official newspapers
whip up Nazi resentment against
Czechoslovakia, Sudetens them-
selves have been doing their best
to stir up trouble. Their leader,
Konrad Henlein, has obeyed Herr
Hitler by refusing all mediation ef-
forts by Viscount Runciman or
Czechoslovakia’s government.
Since Germany would quite likely
gobble up the Sudetens if given an
opportunity, Great Britain has
strongly protested Konrad Henlein's
demand for autonomy. Last week,
after sitting calmly through these
protests, Sudetens pointed an admir-
ing finger at England's autonomy
arrangement with Ireland (Eire).
While Viscount Runciman blushed,
they asked why a similar arrange-
ment could not be made between
Czechoslovakia and themselves.
After a week's bluffing, the end
was not yet in sight. For his part,
Fuehrer Hitler bluffed that he want-
ed (1) complete autonomy for Sude-
tens; (2) repudiation of Czech al-
liances with France, Russia, Po-
land; (3) Czech non-aggression pact
with Germany; (4) Czech customs
union with Germany. Though Eu-
rope was jittering badly, the dis-
interested observer could count
noses and find Adolf Hitler forlornly
friendless. Lined against him were
France, Britain, Russia, Czechoslo-
vakia. Silent, but presumably fa-
voring the Czechs, were Rumania,
Jugo-Slavia. Even his best friend,
Benito Mussolini, warned he would
not intervene in the Sudeten squab-
ble.
Politics
Last month, South Carolinians
were treated to the unique political
show that no other state can boast.
Since law demands it, three Demo-
crats running for U. S. senatorial
nomination traveled together,
stayed at the same hotels, de-
nounced each other daily from the
same platforms. These men were:
Ellison D. (“Cotton Ed”) Smith,
who has stayed a South Carolina
senator 30 years by championing
SOUTH CAROLINA’S SMITH
Southern womanhood was vindicated.
three stock issues—white suprema-
cy, the price of cotton, Southern
womanhood. Under Franklin Roose-
velt’s party leadership he has been
an “80 per cent New Dealer,” op-
posing wage-hour and government
reorganization measures. For his
luke warm New Dealism, ‘Cotton
Ed” Smith's defeat was asked last
month by Franklin Roosevelt.
Gov. Olin D. Johnson, strapping,
41-year-old World war veteran, who
had Franklin Roosevelt's blessing.
His chief campaign argument was
that “Cotton Ed” once remarked a
man could live in South Carolina on
50 cents a day. Actually, Governor
Johnson misconstrued his oppo-
nent's speech in the senate opposing
the wage-hour bill. He really meant
that South Carolinians could live
cheaper than New Englanders.
State Senator Edgar Brown, once
Governor Johnson's colleague in the
state Democratic organization con-
trolled by Highway Commissioner
Ben Sawyer. Two days before the
election, he withdrew and threw his
support to Senator Smith.
After weathering this stormy bat-
tle as best they could, South Caro-
linians marched dutifully to the polls
and sent “Cotton Ed” Smith back
to the senate. That night, standing
under a statue of Wade Hampton,
the South Carolina governor who
ended carpetbagging and Negro
domination, Senator Smith dcaned
toned: ‘No man dares to come into
South Carolina and try to dictate to
the spns of those men who held high
the hands of Gen. Robert E. Lee and
Wade Hampton!”
periodically gives birth to pension
ideas. Townsendism arose there, so
did Upton Sinclair's E. P. I. C. (End
Poverty in California). This year's
pension plan came from Sheridan
Downey, a San Francisco lawyer
who would pay $30 each Thursday
to every Californian who is jobless
or over 50.
Downey pension would be paid in
script, legal for taxes or goods. Pen-
sioners would stamp their warrants
every week with 2 per cent of their
face value, purchasing stamps with
real money. At each year's end,
every $1 warrant would bear $1.04 in
stamps. The state would redeem it
for $1 from the stamp fund and re-
eR
Since coming to the U, 8. from
Australia, Alien Harry Bridges has
become John Lewis’ chief C. 1. O.
aide among Pacific coast maritime
workers. Last month the un-Ameri-
canism committee of Rep. Martin
Dies (Dem., Texas) produced inter-
esting charges about Harry Bridges.
The charges:
(1) That he is a member of the
Communist party, having been seen
paying a $2 assessment and mem-
bership dues; (2) that he is more
interested in advancing Communism
than the interests of his maritime
WAR
Shirley Temple vs. Harry Bridges.
that he claims more
power behind him than the U. S.
government; (5) that Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins had more
than enough evidence to deport
him.
Harry Bridges' deportation
blocked last April pending a court
ruling which does not forbid aliens
to belong to “the Com 1st party
or any other party except one which
teaches overthrow . of the gov-
ernment of the United States."
armed with his evidence,
Chairman Dies demanded that Sec-
retary Perkins resume deportation
action against Harry Bridges. Next
day came the answer:
was
Jut,
legislative
branch . . . to attempt to usurp
cannot ac-
cept your analysis and evaluation
of the evidence . . . as it appears to
have been made without sufficient
knowledge of the law . ”
“Perhaps it is fortunate that Shir-
citizen and that we will not have to
CALIFORNIA'S McADOO
He'll get $30 every Thursday.
Downey ran for Democratic sena-
torial nomination against 74-year-old
Last July, Franklin Roosevelt
Adoo, asked Californians to re-elect
him and censured Candidate Down-
ey's campaign as “utopian.”
Same day as South Carolina de-
feated Franklin Roosevelt's candi-
date (see above), Californians also
exercised: their franchise. All day
they voted, and at Los Angeles the
short, sharp earthquake was felt.
By midnight,
Candidate Downey was nominated.
Next day, California's Supreme
court met to decide the legality of
‘$30 every Thursday.”
Aviation
Once a captain in the
czar's guards, Alexander P. de Sev-
ersky came to the U. S. when he
found himself an exile, established
a name for himself designing speed
planes. His latest ship: a low-wing,
single-motored military pursuit
plane which Aviatrix Jacqueline
Cochran hoped to fly in this year’s
Bendix races.
To test his new ship, Seversky flew
from New York to Los Angeles in
10 hours, 3 minutes, 7 seconds, bet-
tering by almost 1% hours the mark
set in 1933 by Roscoe Turner,
Carrying a remarkable load of
fuel in its wing-to-wing tanks, the
ship can cruise 3,000 miles, would be
a logical convoy for new U. 8. “fly-
ing fortresses’ that cruise 5,000
miles.
Miscellany
Fifteen years ago, in 1923, an
earthquake killed 150,000 Japanese
in Yokahama. Night before this
year’s anniversary, sentimental Yo-
kahamans retired, planned to spend
the next day in mourning. At mid-
night there was a high wind. At
2:45 a typhoon struck, collapsing
houses, grounding steamers, flood-
ing streets. Pushing on to Tokyo,
the typhoon killed hundreds. Thus
was an earthquake's anniversary
observed.
mittee in regard to this innocent and
Plainly, Madame Secretary Per-
and Representative Dies
At Philadelphia's county prison,
mornings later, 25 ringlead-
dike" building with its row of tiny
id except for a slot, whose walls are
radiators, guards tossed four or five
prisoners. Then they turned on the
heat.
By noon the convicts were suffer-
ing. By nightfall they fought for
the privilege of sucking air through
the door slot. By midnight they
prayed on their knees for guards to
turn off the steam or shoot them.
By next morning they cried insane-
ly and clawed at their own par-
boiled flesh. By evening most of
not turned off until next morning.
when guards inspected their vic-
tims, four were dead.
Into this modern black hole of
Calcutta walked Coroner Charles M.
ing them with homicide.
perintendent William B.
Prison Su-
Mills said
wise. As his investigation began in-
volving not only prison authorities,
but all Philadelphia officialdom as
well, he threatened: ‘Before I am
finished, everyone responsible for
this revolting situation will be pun-
ished.”
Navy
Pet ambition of every navy is a
fleet second to none. Never in U. S.
naval history has a chief of opera-
tions voiced absolute contentment
with his equipment. Last year, as
1938's war scare was just beginning
to sprout (see FOREIGN), congress
approved a huge naval building pro-
gram to squelch its navy’s growing
inferiority complex.
Last week, in the seventy-fifth an-
niversary issue of the Army and
Navy Journal, Admiral William D.
Leahy made a remarkable state-
ment: “The new building program
will give the United States for the
first time a homogeneous fleet, well-
balanced and equipped with modern
weapons and machinery."
But naval satisfaction proved
short-lived. Though the U. S. now
has 18 capital ships, 8 aircraft car-
riers, 18 heavy cruisers, 28 light
cruisers, 144 destroyers and 56 sub-
marines, plans were rushed to ask
congress for 18 more ships in a 1939
40 construction program
WASHINGTON.—It has been a
matter of frequent reference among
observers how President Roose-
velt’s supporters or subordinates, or
spokesmen for him, have caught the
brunt of opposition criticism. Mr.
Roosevelt personally has been un-
der the direct fire of his enemies
on only two occasions. He played
his political cards so that, when
some plan blew up, it was some
subordinate or supporter whose
neck was found out too far. The
President, of course, found himself
as the target when he proposed
additional justices of his own choos-
ing and when he scught reorganiza-
tion of the government, but, general-
ly speaking, the Roosevelt prestige
terference in state primaries, and
declaration that it was a viola-
publicans to enter a Democratic
primary. This controversy is the
most heated and has the broad-
implications of any of the
which the storm cen-
tered about Mr. Roosevelt's own
head. It is likely to be the most
far-reaching in its result. The
Roosevelt prestige is bound to
be damaged u hether he wins or
loses when the score finally is
totaled, and, as
seen now, he will not be able to
avoid it.
I remen
the
est
three in
far as can be
ber having written, when
3 3 . ce ry
it made his Cre coun-
e dual
Presider
trv trip in 1}
and
capacity of Pres-
of the Democratic
appeared difficult to
disassociate th WoO capacities I
predicted at that time,
ago, that
ble in an attempt.
long before the germs were grow-
ing Mr. Roosevelt's pat on the
back for Senator Bulkley of Ohio,
and his bold command to the Demo-
cratic voters of Kentucky to send
Sen. “Dear Alben’ Barkley back to
the senate brought a shower of ripe
verbal
the President or the
Democratic party.
which personality was naming the
favorite Democratic candidate in the
primaries t nor do I yet know.
From all of the information from
those states since, I gather that the
voters in the primaries did not know
ident head
party, that it
such It was not
head of the
port the President of the United
States or the head of the Democrat
ic party.
Pat on Back for McAdoo,
Face Slap for O'Connor
the Far West, the pat on the back
for Senator McAdoo, who has oppo-
sition for the Democratic senatorial
nomination in California; and, next,
in Georgia where Mr. Roosevelt ut-
tered the now famous ‘God bless,
you, Walter—but you're no liberal”
to Senator George, to be followed
by a direct endorsement of Law-
rence Camp for the senatorial nom-
ination against Mr. George.
Mr. Roosevelt gave a vicious politi-
in New York, and at-
vey Lewis ought to have the Demo-
cratic nomination.
ferences in state primaries,
Roosevelt's subordinates—men like
ries in Iowa, Oregon, Idaho and else-
where. They were well licked in
Iowa and Idaho, and it was the re-
sult in the latter state that has
brought up the second stage of the
controversy.
Idaho's Senator Pope used to say
that if any constituent wanted to
know his position on a given ques-
tion, it was necessary only to in-
quire whether the President was for
or against it. Apparently, the vot-
ers in Idaho did not like that; they
preferred a senator to vote their
views rather than one who consist-
ently voted the President's view.
Anyway, they nominated Represent-
ative Clark, in their Democratic pri-
mary. He had something in ex-
cess of 3,500 more votes than Mr.
Pope.
The licking administered to Sen-
ator Pope did not taste well to the
President or the coterie of New Deal
advisors. Senator Pope obviously
did not like it either, and he did the
childish thing of emitting a loud and
noxious squawk that the nomination
was taken from him by Republi-
cans. He said they went into the
Democratic primary and gave Rep-
resentative Clark their votes in suf-
ficient number to override the will
of a majority of the Democrats in
the state. Senator Pope went to
Hyde Park, N. Y., to weep out his
story on the shoulders of Mr. Roose-
velt, but it has not been made clear
whether it was the shoulders of the
President of the United States or of
the head of the Democratic party.
Anyway, there was weeping at
Hyde Park,
Takes Important Second
Step in Controversy
And after that meeting and when
the tears were wiped away so there
would be no sniffling, Mr. Roosevelt
took the important second step in
the controversy. He denounced the
Republicans as having “violated pub-
lic morals” by voting for Mr. Clark
requires I have been unable to fig-
Mr. Pope know that it was the Re-
publicans and not the Democrats
Anyway, Mr.
President of the United
terrible
in a
such
Republican votes
party—condemned
gs as
of action, the President or the head
stituted an attempt to destroy the
It appar-
dent or the head of the Democratic
party that Mr. Clark had cam-
paigned as a Democrat while Sena-
tor Pope was sounding off as a 100
per cent New Dealer
I have n wondering, sir
Hyde Park condemnation of the
. ans }
ce the
Re-
be
r
tion in the two pha:
ciled
seemed to me to be so t
the President or the
the i
if the Presi-
a Republican) to state his
views about candidates. Probably,
presidential office ought not to
be used that way, but I can not get
about it as some writers
some newspapers and some pol-
done. I am inclined
to regard such action as the purest
tics is a game and
{or
5 > 1
the Republican party
dent be
the
and
iticians have
There has been a lot
gushing going on
Roosevelt's course that
press me at all,
on the other hand, there is
Consistency,
In remembering
applying that thought, it® ap-
pears to me that Mr. Roosevelt has
end of the pool
is a game
of meaningless
Mr
Jut,
an old, old quotation:
Indeed, isn't it a rath-
, an utterly stupid piece
to claim the right to
the common, ordinary garden varie-
position because he once played on
other team?
Further, I am wondering whether
Mr. Roosevelt's forgettery works so
peal in 1932 and again in 1936 for
the old gander can eat the
Further, there is a bit of logic
Take the state of
Georgia, for example,
him in congress is concerned, if he
His only course, if he pre-
ferred one Democratic candidate to
another, would be to enter the Dem-
ocratic primary and vote for one of
those candidates. Assume that the
Republican voter lives in Idaho.
If that voter feit that neither
be allowed to vote in the Democratic
primary in order to express his
can nominee.
sense to express his preference on
that side of the fence. I believe Mr.
Roosevelt's record would look very
much better at this point if he had
extended his congratulations to Rep-
resentative Clark in Idaho, and
promised. him the support of the
Democratic national committee in
the forthcoming election, as was
done by National Democratic Chair-
man Farley. Surely, that would
have been sportsmanship and the
attitude of a good loser.
It may be, however—and this is
an implication from the indications
of the day--that Mr. Roosevelt is
trying deliberately to force a re-
alignment of voters throughout the
country. He may be seeking to drive
radicals into his camp—in case of
a third term urge—and the conserv-
atives into another camp.
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