EDITOR'S NOTE-—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst, and not necessarily of the newspaper. International When U. S. foreign envoys make their rare appearances in congress, it is usually to advise house and sen- ate committees on foreign affairs. But two days before President Roosevelt gave congress his unprec- edented defense proposals (see be low), two top-ranking U. S. ambas- sadors walked into secret session not with the foreign affairs commit- tees, but with a committee on mili- tary affairs. The ambassadors: Jos- rer MESSRS. KENNEDY, BULLITT It looked like cold-blooded truth, eph P. Kennedy, home from London, and William C. Bullitt, home from Paris. Though committee room walls sup- posedly have no ears, it was learned that Messrs. Kennedy and Bullitt thoroughly frightened their congres- sional audience with the following opinion on European affairs: Great Britain has favored *‘‘ap- peasement’’ of Italy and Germany because neither she nor France have adequate arms. ‘So intense is British appeasement sentiment that London would permit Germany to build an airbase in Canada rather than revert to war. But since Czechoslovakia's ‘‘sellout’” at Mu- nich last September proved that one appeasement leads to another, France has determined to stop this policy. Therefore France will not concede to Italian territorial de- mands, knowing that in war Great Britain must come to her aid and that Russia, in turn, must aid the democracies. Crux of the Kennedy-Bullitt opin- fon: That further appeasement, as , advocated by Prime Minister Cham- berlain, will only delay the eventual showdown and make war even more critical when it comes, which will into this conflict immediately. If this was propaganda for Presi- dent Roosevelt's long-range national defense program, committeemen swallowed it hook, line and sinker, And well they might, because the forecast appeared to be cold-blooded truth when measured in the light of that day’s news from abroad. It all looked like war: THE BIG FOUR As Prime Minister Chamberlain left London's Victoria station for his appeasement visit with Italy's Pre- mier Mussolini, unemployed demon- strators booed him and shouted: Ap- pease the unemployed, not Mussoli- ni!” Between London and Dover, where he crossed the channel, Mr. Chamberlain might have reflected on the advisability of such a course. Hitler was clamoring for submarine parity with Britain; Italy was fighting the Spanish civil war and yelling for concessions from France; both Germany and Italy were prop- agandizing about British “atroci- ties’ in Palestine. En route to Rome, the Chamber- lain entourage stopped in Paris to (1) show Germany and Italy that France and Britain stand together, and (2) assure France that Musso- lini could not induce Chamberlain to bring pressure for French con- cessions to Italy. After two hours of tea drinking, a spokesman an- nounced Chamberlain would tell Mussolini that France agreed to consider concessions on ‘“‘second- ary’ questions. These are (1) the status of 100,000 Italians in Tunisia; (2) control over the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad; (3) administration of the French-controlled Suez canal. As for himself, Chamberlain expect- ed to tell Mussolini he refused to mediate between France and Italy, or grant belligerent rights to Spain's General Franco so long as Italian troops are fighting the war. But Chamberlain also knew he must speak softly, for only a week before the Anglo-French alliance had suffered a severe blow. At Berchtesgaden, Polish Foreign Min- ister Joseph Beck had deserted his French alliance to find greater se- curity with Germany. Moreover, this meant that Poland would be ready to block any Russian effort to aid France and Britain. Tempo- rarily free from danger in the east, the Rome-Berlin axis was ready to @pply pressure on democracies, + The best prediction: That Cham. berlain-Mussolini conversations will lead to another *‘‘Munich” peace conference, but certainly not to gen- eral European peace. HUNGARY Last November’s Italian-German commission settled a boundary for Czechoslovakia and Hungary, but neither nation liked it. Since Jan- uary 8 a series of border incidents has kept both nations aflame, each holding the other responsible. Czechoslovakia has offered terms for truce, but Budapest refuses un- til Prague pays for damages, ac- knowledges responsibility for at- tacks and punishes individuals re- sponsible. The outcome of this squabble is unpredictable, but Ger- many may well step in to help the Czechs since the Reich wants the border city of Munkacs to be re- tained in Czechoslovakia’s Car- patho-Ukraine. The town is impor- tant in Berlin's program of fortify- ing Carpatho-Ukraine in prepara- tion for a German drive into Rus- sian Ukraine. Meanwhile there is war on the Czech-Hungarian fron- tier. JAPAN “Britain and the United States are be. | lieved to be aware that should they resort | io serious economic pressure against Japan, Japan would have sufficient deter. mination and preparation to resort to re- taliatory measures against their mainlands | and dependencies.” | This war talk came from Japan's Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita in answer to measures Great Britain | and the U. S. had already taken to combat growing Japanese domina- | tion over the Orient. Because Tokyo has closed China's “open door” in violation of the nine-power treaty, both London and Washington have given China financial support. Mean- Agriculture Under Secretary Henry A. Wal- lace, the U. 8. agriculture depart- ment’s ‘original objective’’ has been increased consumption through one method or another. Last sum- mer came announcement of a new method, a ‘two price” plan for boosting domestic consumption of farm products. Under this arrange- ment the U. 8. would subsidize man- ufacturers, whose products would be sold at a below-normal price to low income families. First objections came from man- whom thought the plan would cur- tail free enterprise. Then congress- men turned a cold shoulder, sug- gesting difficulties in getting the special purchase privilege in the hands of people deserving them. As congress got underway it became certain that Mr. Wallace had dropped the plan entirely, though still clinging to the “original ob- jective.” Announcement was made that conferences are being held with cot- ton manufacturers to encourage the lowest possible prices for mat- tresses to be sold to low income families. Grapefruit will be simi- larly ‘“‘merchandised.” Said Mr. Wallace: ‘‘We want increased con- sumption We will use any method to obtain it. We hope we can get the trade (processors and distributors) to do specific things to shave costs to the limit.” @® Via London, U. S. farmers have learned that the agriculture depart- ment proposes to reduce American acres, resulting in total wheat plantings of 65,000,000 acres even if some growers do not co- operate. This news came from the mittee's conference, where 21 na- tions had sent envoys to study schemes for export and import lim- itations. As the sessions got under- way, a discouraging note appeared in the International Institute of Ag- riculture’s report. Wheat available for export in the year ending next July 31, the report said, was 1,140,- 000,000 bushels, against a world im- port demand of 540,000 bushels. At San Pedro's Terminal island correctional prison, where he was transferred from Alcatraz, Al Ca- pone was said by a guard to be ‘screwy as a bedbug.” @® In Vienna, Jewish, persecuted Dr. Salomon Frankfurter, 80, re- joiced that the U, S. had elevated his nephew, Harvard's Felix Frank- furter, to the Supreme court. Races Less evil than that of any other high Nazi is the reputation of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of Ger- many’s Reichsbank. In appearance more a business man 1 a politi cian, Dr. Schacht is the Rei JAPAN'S HACHIRO ARITA He threatened a U. S. invasion. the U. 8. while has completely to Japan. Minister Arita’s statement, ap- pearing in Tokyo's Fascist news- paper, Nichi Nichi, is the most war- like gesture yet made against the U. 8. What equalized the threat, | however, was a similar gesture made against Russia by Lieut. Gen. | Rensuke Isogai, Japanese chief of | staff in Manchuria. Said he: “We | do not want war . . . But the Soviet | authorities have shown no sign of co- | operation. Instead they are strength. | ening their military works and re- inforcing their armies in Russia and i the Far East.” AT HOME Checking the above news with Bullitt-Kennedy statements, con- gress was in fine shape to discuss | U. 8S. defense measures. Tennes- | see’s Rep. Andrew J. May of the house military affairs committee popped up to urge military training for 300,000 CCC boys. He also asked four-lane superhighways down At- | lantic and Pacific coasts and across | the gulf states. gress his defense message, well | pared down from the multi-billion figures originally bandied about Washington. The total extra, emer- gency appropriation request: $552. 000,000, half of which should be spent before the next fiscal year is over. Presidential arguments, few of which were needed, pointed out | that the U. S. is relatively no better prepared today than in 1917, when it took a year from the war declara- tion date for American troops to reach a major engagement. Items in the proposed outlay: $300,000,000 to increase army air corps up to 3,000 fighting planes; $110,000,000 for *“‘critical” items of war equipment; $32,000,000,000 for industrial mobilization; $8,000,000 for improved seacoast defenses; $44,000,000 for stronger Atlantic and Pacific naval bases; $21,000,000 for more naval planes; $10,000,000 for civilian pilot training; $27,000,000 for adequate Panama canal gde- fenses. Politicana Massachusetts state. house custom decrees the governor shall have private, nonstop elevator rides, the operator whizzed new Gov. Yeyerett Saltonstall past a group employees on way to lunch. Said the governor: “Pick them up in the future. 1 like to ride with people.” When it Germany's came time 600.000 Hitler turned knowing he was the only high Nazi whose ut- on the Jewish problem would get a hearing abroad. A cold business man as well as a pended on to evolve a Jewish plan which would work to the Reich's financial benefit. Early in January, at London, he announced the plan: Part One. Within the next three Jews would be shipped abroad, the remaining 200,000 to be retained as common laborers. The 400,000 emi- gres would leave by installments, heads of families going first. For aged and infirm, Germany would Part Two. World Jewry would raise a $2,500,000,000 loan, se- cured” by Jewish property in Ger- 0 He mized diplomacy and business. many, funds to be used for sending poor German Jews abroad. The loan would be serviced by increased German exports, to be paid for in free foreign exchange. World Jew- ry (which Nazi Germany regards as all-powerful in democracies) would decree greater use of Ger- man export items. Still master of the situation, the Reich can apparently force Jew- respecting nations to choose between accepting the plan or tolerate fur. ther persecution. For Germany, the Schacht idea provides for disposi- tion of 400,000 ‘undesirable’ citi. zens whose property will be confis- cated. Most important, it offers a way to break the world boycott on German goods. But where Jewry can raise $2,500,000,000 is another problem. WASHINGTON.—It is always ex- pected that the annual message to congress from the President of the United States will outline his poli- cies. The message is presumed to reflect, in a broad general formula, what the Chief Executive regards as the major problems and what should be done about them. Moreover, the annual message on the state of the Union is a document that usually embraces some political considera- tions and, frequently, therefore, con- stitutes the basis for a test of its author's leadership either from what is proposed or because of things which were omitted. ! President Roosevelt's recent mes- | sage meets each of the phases just described. He outlined the general policies: 1. the necessity for armed preparedness in protection of our religion, our liberty and our forr of government-—democracy: 2. he of retreating from his New Deal social policies and that to buttress them and accomplish national pro- tection against dictatorship, he pro- poses to keep on with his policies of spending. He likewise omitted to give one bit of assurance that there or any means by which the ness of the country, as large, can look governmental messing. small 1 yrward doubt that what Mr. Roosevelt posed, as well as what places his *S54K¢e In a p st of his among the legi vant larger armed forces: ge who t l say lea hose here are those wh no reduction ” until the government itself quits it wild orgy of spending ing—they want a balanced budget. Message Most Temperate Roosevelt Has Delivered Any President's message is greet- ed with hurrahs by his party sup- porters and hisses from the m ty. This one was no excep nori- ation, respectively, do not always go to the merits. Frequently, they are more than half politi . And if I were asked to evaluate those that I have heard in the last 10 days, I should say that each side was about 50 per cent right. In the first place, Mr. Roosevelt's message this time was the most temperate he has ever delivered, or so it impressd me. There was an evidence of greater sincerity in messages to congress. He spoke out boldly against dictatorships and supported our form of government with an emphasis that belongs with States. In the matter of armament, he told why he believes it is needed. | He may have gone too far: he may be inviting another battle on a sub- ject akin to the long-time League of Nations controversy by proposing protection “of democracies.” Yet, fundamentally, I think it must be agreed that we, world, must be able to snarl as well | as to smile, In the matter of social reforms, there can and will be violent differ- | ences of opinion. It appears that Mr. Roosevelt had not listened very | closely to the election returns of | November 8 because, instead of a | “mandate” which he believed he re- | ceived in 1036, the last election was | a distinct brake on the machinery of | social reform. In the matter of continued spend- | be regarded as having its greatest | weakness. There was less justifica- | tion in his words for the conclusions he reached than in any other phase of the document. Even a substan. tial number of his own partisans could not swallow his assertions that the spending of some 20 bil- lions of borrowed money was an “investment.” People Wondering When Dividends Can Be Expected It is pretty difficult for one to ac- cept these piling deficits and in- creasing totals of the national debt as being anything except an ex- tremely dangerous condition. When Mr. Roosevelt's argument about the “investment” is followed by a budg- et message that fixes next year's deficit in excess of $3,300,000,000 and a probable national debt of $44,500,- 000,000 in 1940—well, a good many people are wondering when divi. dends can be expected. Three years Ey Bement fe natic ebt, say there was no need to fear it. He held that it could go to $5,000,000, 000 before it became a real burden upon the nation. It is only six bil- lions short of that total now, and many members are getting fidgety about it, especially, as I mentioned earlier, since no mention was made of a balanced budget. This question of debt, therefore, can be expected to provide some legislators, and there will be other bases upon with the Chief Executive will rest. wondering, for example, Senator Johnson of California will only a strengthened tional point, policy going beyond that It may not happen, but the Jorah-Johnson shea $b wnat of school Continued Spending Makes There are prospects of opposition his 8 program confr the President, therefore, am and senators there ne be program, melirnt vO years after they nd supplies for yutlined by the number of strong Democrat red again. Mén of the type of Sen- f Virginia and Bailey of 1a others in the hey can not be a program and y will have the Republican mi- nority backing them up wherever and whenever they attack continued spending government funds, to continue spend. 5¢, 18 linked like a tan- yarn with the whole question relief administration, and there is no telling what may come of that row. Senator King, Utah Democrat and anti-New Dealer, already has a bill in the hopper to eli ate the entire federal relief setup. He would turn it back to the states, led to such weal Sal of On top and alongside of the Dem- ocrats who, for one reason or an- other, will differ with Mr. Roose- velt’s program will be found almost a solid Republican phalanx. There are 169 of them in the house, now, and 26 in the senate. This is far that number is coupled with any de- fections from the Democratic ranks, the answer spells out into the words “trouble for Mr. Roosevelt.” Causes Some Comment From the standpoint of political considerations, there were numer- in which openly chided Mr. Roosevelt for at. tempting to capitalize politically upon sentiment among the church people. I relate that because it il- lustrates how no political leader can be quite sure when he makes a statement whether it will be re- ceived favorably or not. It is so easy, and every politician knows it, to make a perfectly sincere state- ment, only to learn two days later that it was being held up to ridi- cule as bunk or being torn to pieces as being unsound, fundamentally, Those who have been razzing Mr. Roosevelt's use of the subject of religion recognize, of course, that destruction of free religion has been one of the keystones of dicta- torship. They recognize further that the actions of Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini in this regard have been responsible, as much as any other one thing, in creating bitter resent- ment in the United States. Obvious. ly, then, they look upon the Roose- velit appeal in this regard as being good politics, but they are unwilling to let him get away with it. In summary, then, it seems prop- er to catalogue Mr, Rooseveit's 1939 message to congress as one of his best state papers, but it must be added that it stands to create greater difficulties for him than other annual message he has deliv. ered. 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