International As proprietor of the world's great- est empire, Great Britain assumes a right and obligation to be ringmas- ter of international diplomacy. Iu such a duty is incumbent during peace, it becomes more pressing in time of stress. The year 1938 is one of stress, and in November of 1938 Great Britain is still the ringmaster but is jumping to the lash of her own whip. Caught in the backwash of her own fatal conservatism, she is desperately making an expensive peace with dictators and democ- racies alike. A roundup of these peace overtures, with cause and ef- fect, with reverberations and re- percussions that echo around the world, looks something like the fol- lowing: GERMANY @® November has become an ‘‘inter- national crisis’’ month of more im- port than September. Reason is that September's Czech-German-Sudeten crisis had immediate effect on only a comparative handful of central Europeans. But in November, Ger- many has begun terroristic perse- cution of Jews, has moréover shown downright hostility toward all Chris- tian denominations in general and to the Catholic denomination in par- ticular. This treatment has aroused worldwide resentment against Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his Italian friend, Premier Benito Mus- solini, who uses similar tactics against world Jewry. It has also driven ghosts from the closet of Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, because he failed to get a German guarantee against Jewish persecution when he negoti- ated the ‘‘sellout’’ treaty at Munich this autumn, Though Christian Great Britain is horrified by Hitler's persecution, it dares not slap Germany's face. Not only are British banks planning SOUTH AFRICA’'S PIROW He expressed Britain's sympathy. loans to Nazi-controlled industries, but London must also exhibit sym- pathy with Germany's colonial de- mands in Africa. During the heat of Jewish persecution Berlin was visited by Oswald Pirow, minister of defense and industry for the Union of South Africa. Although Colonial Secretary Malcolm Mac- Donald has indicated Great Britain does not intend to surrender any colonies, Mr. Pirow's visit can only mean that the Union of South Africa fears Hitler and wishes to return Germany's war-lost colonies im- mediately. BALKANS (RUMANIA) ® Among such southeastern Euro- pean nations as Rumania, Jugo- slavia, Greece and Turkey lies Great Britain's last chance to resist German political and economic ex- pansion, and also to maintain a ves- tige of international prestige. Al- though social-minded London once shunned Rumania’s King Carol for his love affair with Magda Lupescu, daughter of a Jewish junk dealer, his recent visit to London (with Crown Prince Michael) found Eng- lish royalty only too glad to court his favor. This is because his friend- ship for Great Britain can stop Hit- ler's southeastward-bound steam- roller. If Carol gets British export credit of about $50,000,000, if Great Britain agrees to buy Rumanian oil and give Carol a large loan, Ru- mania will close its doors on Ger- many. Following this same policy, Lon- don must increase her sway in other Balkan states, also encouraging Jugoslavia, Turkey and Rumania to return war-won lands to Bulgaria, which stands alone outside the Bal- kan entente and is easy prey for German economic expansion. ITALY @® Even while King Carol's visit was marking an effort to stop dictators, smartly dressed Lord Perth visited the Italian foreign office in Rome and presented his credentials—to “the king of Italy and emperor of Ethiopia.” This constituted formal British recognition of Italy’s Ethio- pian conquest, which is now denied by only Russia and the U. S. among great powers. Such recognition was a British capitulation, and a few hours later Lord Perth returned to the foreign office to initial the Anglo- Italian “friendship” pact. It was recalled that last spring Prime Min- ister Chamberlain promised he would not invoke the pact until Spain's civil war had reached a ‘“‘settlement.” With a new rebel of- fensive just starting on the Ebro, that ‘‘settlement’’ has hardly been reached. FRANCE @® Though friendly with Great Brit- ain, France has lost much because its foreign policy has been following that of London. What is worse, French finance could not bear the unprecedented expense of last Sep- tember's military Labor Shaggy John L. Lewis has lost much prestige the last two years because his Committee for Indus- trial Organization initiated the wave of sit-down strikes, also because many of C. I. O.’s most outspoken members were ‘‘radicals.” Opposi- tion flared up in time to defeat many C. I. O. endorsed candidates in the November election, and by the time Mr. Lewis’ organization opened its constitutional convention in Pitts- burgh a week later, the handwriting was on the wall, C. I. O. (now the Congress of In- dustrial Organization) has made at { least two important bids for con- servative support. First, the con- | vention has adopted a resolution to | preserve the sanctity of collective bargaining contracts, thereby at- | tempting to appease C. I. O.-hating Munich. direction, following but a few hours friendship accord. Having won Brit- ish acceptance of its foreign policy, Italy has turned to Britain's one- time closest ally (France) for colo- nial demands. The demands: France cede to Italy the Djibouti- of Djibouti, in French Somaliland, and share with Italy the control of the Suez canal and administration of Tunisia. Not only are such de- she now sees the fallacy of trying to appease the insatiable hunger of either Germany or Italy. RUSSIA @® Though the Soviet paper, Inves- tia, has urged closer Russian co- operation with the U. S. for preser- vation of world peace, and though Dictator Josef Stalin is more in- terested in his domestic develop- ment than in world-wide expansion of Communism, no democracy can afford to disregard the fact that Russia's political sympathies are trengthened by Germany must many and Italy. the Munich pact, peace with her. It has been au- thoritatively reported that Chancel- lor Hitler has sent three peace of- fers to Dictator Stalin, the latest of which suggests a division of carries dynamite, for once Moscow and Berlin make from expanding at will. UNITED STATES @® At home, the above international developments have brought three (1) Great Britain has rushed to gram, the agreement is an impor- tant effort to loosen and swell the flow of U. S.-Canadian-British trade. Not voiced, but tremendously evi- dent, is the fact that this treaty marks a new solidarity among democracies as opposed to dicta- torial nations. (2) U. 8S. indignation over Ger- many's Jewish persecution has found expression in‘ the plan put forth by Joseph P. Kennedy, U. S. ambassador to Great Britain. Its essence: World-wide co-operation for removal of Germany's 600,000 Jews to North and South America AMBASSADOR KENNEDY For German Jews, a solution. and parts of the British, French and Netherlands empires. Great Britain would arrange land for new settle- ments, while U. S. Jewish and pri- vate groups would provide money. (3) Rather than accept French and Russian bids for leadership in world peace movements, President Roosevelt has invited 20 sister re- publics in the Western Hemisphere to unite in a defense against Euro- pean or Asiatic aggression. This new U. 8. foreign policy is evidenced by: (1) the President's outspoken denunciation of Germany's Jewish persecution; (2) his recall of Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. ambassador to Ger- many; (3) his announcement of a multi-billion dollar defense program to protect not only the U. S. but all Western Hemisphere nations; (4) U. S. interest in the Pan-American conference opening December 8 at Lima, Peru; and (5) an apparent effort in Washington to steer away from European entanglements, other than those with France, Brit- ain and other democracies. ALIEN HARRY BRIDGES Even C. I. O. became hostile. | employers. Second, C. I. O.’s much- | publicized Harry Bridges, alien west | coast labor leader, was figuratively | bounced from the convention when | he attempted to secure official en- | dorsement of so-called “radical” po- | litical views. This was Mr. Bridges’ | second blow of the day, for at In- dianapolis a demand for his depor- | tation was issued simultaneously by | Stephen F. Chadwick, commander of the American Legion. | Now permanently organized, C. I. O. has charted a finish fight with the older, more conservative Amer- ican Federation of Labor. The bat- tle will not only be one of organiza- | tion principle, but it will also en- tail the future status of 22,000,000 unorganized American workers. Though C. I. O. boasts a ‘simple and democratic’ constitution, ob- servers checked the figures and found that five members of the ex- ecutive board will speak for 2,021,- 845 of the 3,787,877 members. C. I. 0. will remain substantially under the thumb of Mr. Lewis, Sidney Hill- man of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Philip Murray of the Steel Workers’ committee. | White House Attorney General Homer 8. Cum- mings’ retirement from the Roose- | velt cabinet was not unexpected, for the 69-year-old Californian has often sought refuge from official Washing- | ton the past 12 months. Though ef- forts have been made to attach po- litical significance to his move (he is the first New Deal cabinet mem- ber to retire voluntarily) it is un- derstandable that Mr. Cummings should desire to return to private law practice. But his retirement does arouse speculation about other cabinet changes. Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson has been ill, and may be sucteeded by As- sistant Secretary Charles Edison. Madame Secretary of Labor Fran- ces Perkins has lost the good graces lof both C. I. O. and A. F. of L.., and many observers predict her resig- nation. Secretary of Commerce Daniel L. Roper, though unpopular | with business, has made it plain he | will not resign. Meanwhile, Wash- | ington whispers say that Harry | Hopkins, WPA administrator, and Michigan's defeated Gov. Frank | Murphy are both considered as po- | tential cabinet timber. Agriculture The 1938 farm program was not | put into effect until many U. 8S. pro- | ducers had their crops under way. | This has been one explanation of | its failure, and next year the agri- culture department plans to give | the plan its “first complete test.” | Details: The program will involve $712,000,000. Minimum bounties to co-operating farmers include 3.6 cents a pound on cotton, 14 cents a bushel on corn, 27 cents a bushel on wheat, 22 cents on rice, 3 cents on potatoes, $3 a ton on peanuts. Com- pared with this year's 290,000,000 acres, 1939's program will be con- fined to about 280,000,000 acres in the hope of reducing surpluses. Big- gest slash of all will come in wheat, which was harvested this year from 71,000,000 acres, and which would be restricted to 60,000,000 acres next year. For soil conservation pay- ments the government has a half- billion dollars available, with an- other $212,000,000 for price adjust- ment payments. Only catch to this program is that congress’ new Re- publican minority may interfere. Politics To elect 8 new senators, 81 house members and 13 new governors in the November elections, U. S. Re- publicans had to pile up a large to- tal vote. Figures now available show that in 24 states the G. O. P. had 51.5 per cent of the popular vote, compared with 40.1 per cent two years ago. Not included in the survey thus far are southern states, traditionally Democratic, I WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK.—G. S. Messersmith, assistant secretary of ‘state, optimistic about Germany set. Worried Over tling down to normal trade in- Trade Rights tercourse than he appears to be now. He predicted that ‘“‘evolution’’ would soon follow revolution and urged the world to give Germany a chance to work through a period of stress and con- fusion. Today he is concerned about “‘world law and order’ in trade in- tercourse, and says, “We ought to be prepared to protect our interests wherever they may be attacked.” German barter activities, particu- Messersmith Widely experienced and mi- nutely informed in foreign trade, Mr. Messersmith has been an evangel of Secretary Hull's re- ciprocal trade policies. His zeal in this is not lessened, but he reveals deep concern over the subordination of the rights of business and property ‘‘to the will of individual leaders or na- tions for expansion and domina- tion.” This writer has just obtained from a friend, an economist returning from Germany, his first close-up of what Dr. Walther Funk, German minister of economics, his shrewd hunch - man, Hjalmar Schacht, are doing with their new militarized economics. My inform- ant, who wrote books about the old, mellow, beery, bassoony Germany, had many old friends there and was steered right into the wheelhouse. According to him, the new German formula is as revolutionary as com- munism. Every atom of surplus wealth is sluiced into the ‘““dynam- ics’ of expansion, and the Reich out- reach is based on jug-handled trade relations which mean commercial subjugation for any short-enders who try. to do business with it. lcd V E REGRET the lack of space to reprint here some merry lit- tle poems, such as ‘“The Bird and the Burdock,” and ‘““The Tern and the Turnip,” b The Debunker Pprotessor Ro Of Death Ray ert W. Wood of Goes Poetic and Johns Hopkins, just vecently honored by the British Royal society for his work in experimental phys- ics. He tossed off a book of them, along with whimsical drawings, in between takes of ‘Fluorescence and Magnetic dium Vapor and Their Analysis." He is one of this department's favorite scientific debunkers. One of his high scores here was banishing the death-ray bogey— pertinent just now in view of our sensitiveness to Martian attack. In this connection, the British government has good reason to give him a medal. An inventor was demonstrating his death ray to British war office representa- tives at Dawn. He focused the ray on a cow in a meadow 200 yards away and threw a switch, The cow flopped, dead as a mackerel. The inventor collect- ed and departed. Then they found the cow's feet wired to an underground circuit, connect ed with the inventor's switch. precision and spectroscopic search. He was educated at Har- diplomacy, are becoming consid- erably scrambled these days. Pro- fessor Harry D. Gideonse, just tak- ing over as head of Barnard col- lege’s depart- On Horseback’ May TakeUs ment of social sciences, has been up to his ears all his life in dry-as-dust economics, and now, in his first work-out before the under- graduates, he swings on swing as “musical Hitlerism." He says, with the current divorce of reason and emotion, and with the latter going haywire, some ‘man on horseback’ is apt to get us, Prof: Warns: ‘Man educated at Columbia and versity of Geneva, a former teacher of economics at Columbia, Barnard, Rutgers and the University of Chi- SEW HERE is an amusing story about the mittens and scarf shown here. They were not hand knitted. They were purchased rather hurriedly and sent to a young miss who was away at scheol. She had wanted something rather gay and a bit foreign look- ing to wear for skating and these were perfectly plain and pretty drab. She didn't take her disap- pointment lying down, but decided to brighten up that scarf and mit- ten set and make it speak a for- the Swedish cross-stitch design shown here and copied it in all its gay colors on the ends of the scarf and backs of the mittens. Hand knitted mittens and other Start at the upper and make the cross stitches as is a the small flowers bright blue and the stems jade green. 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