momentarily. TT 7 DS NA Risin ANN ITALY V0 ,—— ye LITHUANIA MEMEL Former Lithuanian city, pro-Nazi, cededtoGermany in exchange for Lith. uanian economic “advantages.” (USSR RUMANIA Here Hitler presses economicencroach- ment tomake nation another "protector ate” like Slovakia and Czechia. vB wi / RUMANIA \ 7 : EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinicns are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst, and not necessarily of the newspaper Europe It is easier to hoot at a boxer from outside the ropes than within. the average U. S. citizen were an Englishman he would be far less critical of a government which es- chews war even if it means loss of prestige. But after eigh a ‘‘foreign policy” wi concerned with ience than permanent direction, the most peace-loving Englishmen are now beginning to believe Minister Chamberlain might achieved greater results with no course, From the Czech crisis last Sep- tember until mid-March, Mr. Cham- berlain’s ‘appeasement’ cries grew France strengthened their defense against possible aggression from Dictators Hitler and Mussolini. By March 1 the two democracies were terms to the Reich, whose econom- ic position had grown intolerably weak. Then, overnight, all sem- blance of “policy” collapsed. events, in sequence: (1) Hitler grabbed Czechoslovakia, whose boundaries were guaranteed last autumn by France and Britain. Mr. Chamberlain said it concern of his. lain suddenly whipped about-face, accusing Hitler of dishonesty and unwarranted aggression. (3) Russia, for 15 years come in British circles, was askec to join London in a pact to ‘‘con sult” in case of future German ag- gression. (4) Britain reversed its again and made no protest Hitler occupied Memel, ership by Lithuania was guaranteed by British-French signature of the Memel statute. (5) Britain backed down on its pact with Russia, refusing any stronger measure than the useless ““consultive’’ treaty. The substance of these disjoined events is that Britain's ‘‘appease- ment’ policy has given way to no policy at all. It can well be doubted that London sincerely hoped its Rus- sian overtures would have more than a temporary jolting effect on German territorial ambitions. For Britain still wants nothing to do with Moscow; in fact, the fondest Tory hope is that Germany and Russia will eventually lock horns, fighting out the issue of Naziismm versus Communism to the ruin of both. Britain will be happy so long as Hitler drives eastward, confining his ambitions to such objectives as Dan- zig, the Polish corridor and Ruma- nia, ultimately reaching into the Russian Ukraine to invite war with the Soviet. This conclusion is inev- itable because the most concrete re- sult of Mr. Chamberlain’s umbrella waving thus far has been a French- British military pact to aid Switzer- land, the Netherlands and Belgium against German aggression. Congress Europe's Czechoslovak and Me- mel crises (see EUROPE) have brought quicker, more definite re: action in the U. S. than most people realize. Last January, when Presi- dent Roosevelt made timid sugges- tions that the present neutrality law should be changed, a terrific up- roar ensued. The same uproar re- turned when he asked a special $358,000,000 defense appropriation a few weeks later. But the new Euro- pean situation has brought a re- markable show of inter-party soli- darity, admittedly temporary, but strong enough to give France and Britain a strong moral support and warn Reichsfuehrer Hitler that he is not wanted on the western hemi- sphere: (1). Undersecretary of State Sum- ner Welles received both Democrat- ic and Republican praise for his diplomatic protest against Hitler's seizure of Czechoslovakia. (2). Neutrality legislation expiring May 1 permits ‘‘cash and carry” sale to belligerents of anything but war materials. Nevada's Sen. Key Pittman has asked that munitions be placed on the allowed list. Utah's Sen. Elbert Thomas would give the President power to designate an ag- (3). Washington's Sen. Homer T. Bone has offered, with bi-partisan war. of conflict, lowering exemptions and | ets for ranging individuals. up to 93 per cent Corporations value. thin 15 minutes, both senate declared (4). Wi and house passed ma canal fortifications, bigger sea- coast and inland defenses, hemispherical protection, W hite House How to raise U. S. price levels is one of the administration's biggest problems. Republican laymen, and | many Democrats, contend a re- trenchment of federal spending would do the trick. But the White House places more faith in Marriner | S. Eccles, federal reserve chairman, and Sen. Key Pittman, Nevada sil- ver advocate. Even these two ‘“doc- tors” find themselves at odds, | ever. During a recent public debate | they outlined these two opposing | paths to the coveted price level, Pittman. Favors currency | tion, “since government billions | have completely failed to raise the | price level.” Believes federal re- how- PITTMAN (LEFT) AND ECCLES The doctors did not agree. serve board's periodic increases and decreases in reserve requirements have had a bad effect on business. Eccles. Against currency infla- tion. Partially agrees it would help raise price levels, but fears new money would not be put to use. “Lack of opportunity to get a profit is the principal impediment to re- covery today.” Whether the White House could pull a definite monetary program from such an exchange of theories is doubtful. But there are indica- tions that the ideas of Mr. Eccles, famed advocate of spending, hold favor. President Roosevelt told his press conference that he refuses to cut U. S. spending until private en- terprise guarantees jobs. Neither will he favor repeal of ‘‘deterrent” taxes, apparently, for he has mildly denounced advocates of a slash in the federal budget. But since Mr. Eccles is on record as favoring gov- ernment action to “remove impedi- ments to the encouragement of pri- vate capital,” White House and Ec- cles do not jibe. Neither do White House and Sec- retary of Agriculture Wallace jibe. Defending an unchanged AAA for 1939, Mr. Wallace told the house ag- riculture committee that industrial recovery was a prerequisite to farm recovery, and that industrial activ- ity should be increased 40 per cent as speedily as possible. Then, he said, farmers will secure their just share of the total national income. Politics Smart politicians never chickens before they hatch. But nei- ther do astute political observers forget that it is a nigh-well impossi- ble job to bounce a favorite from the saddle. Although more than a year remains before Republican and Democratic parties hold their nomi- nating conventions, New York's Re- publican District Attorney Tom Dewey and Texas' Democratic Vice President John Nance Garner have emerged definitely as men of the hour, Garner. Sometimes disgustingly independent to President Roosevelt, the vice president has led a power- ful Democratic revolt this session of congress and today controls approx- imately as many house and senate votes as the White House. Though 70 years old, he holds the favor of Emil Hurja, astute party analyst who has indicated there is little chance Garner can be bounced from favor in 1940. The chief Garner op- ponent is Postmaster General James Farley, whose vote-seeking efforts have been confined to east and northeast states while Mr. Gar- ner concentrates on the Southwest. Many Democrats can see nothing more natural than a union of these two forces, one for President, the other for vice president. Unpredictable as his father, Tex- as’ Elliott Roosevelt gave politicians a puzzle by announcing that Mr. Garner is “in the driver's seat, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1940.” That Son Elliott holds White House favor for this remark is se- riously doubtful. Franklin Roose- velt prefers not to run again in 1940 but will do so unless the party ac- cepts another man who will and can count ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT Garner in the driver's seat. carry out his New Deal philosophy. John Garner would not be apt to do this. Dewey. New torney lost the g« ular Herbert 1 per cent of the popular vote last fall, but the mere fact that he lost— and that a few weeks earlier his district at- rship to pop- Lehman by less York's Vern than AL tossed from court Mr much popularity. ut since la: vember ol cans dropped over, ike Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg have disinclination to run. » candidate must be O. P. voters have ur on Dewey since he convict Hines on the rackets con- spiracy charge. Whereas a mid- February poll by the American In- stitute of Public Opinion gave Dew- ey only 27 per cent of the popular Republican vote, a month later he had jumped to 50 per cent. Dewey t No- able men “came People Resolved, by Michigan's new Gov. Luren D. Dickinson, that no official business will be transacted on the Sabbath. Headliners COL. VLADIMAR 8S. HURBAN Though a Slovak, and although Hitler has made Slovaks inde- pendent of Czechs, Col. Hurban has so much dislike for Germany and Hungary, and so much pride in the late Czecho- slovak nation, that he refused to surrender the Czech legation in Washington to the German ambas- sador. Born in the Carpathian mountains, he knew Magyar op- pression as a child. Becoming a soldier, he went to Russia 30 years ago to accept a professor- ship in the czar's war college. When the World war broke out he and 70,000 other Czechs joined the Russian army. During the revolution these Czechs made their historic movement to Vladi- vostok, where the group collected funds to send Hurban to Washing- ton. There he joined Dr. Thomas Masaryk in founding the Czech nation. After the government was established he returned to Washington as Czech military at- tache, later going to Egypt as charge d'affaires, to Sweden as minister, and in 1936 back to Washington as minister. His greatest accomplishment here was consummation of the Czech- U. 8. trade treaty last year, now abrogated under Hitler's “protec. torate'’ regime. Col. Viadimar 8S. Harban WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON 1 TEW YORK.—When James D. Ross was appointed by the President as chief of Bonneville, the biggest dam in the world, in Octo- ber, 1937, it was believed in some quarters that his selection would sharpen the dis- To- day it appears that Mr. Ross has allayed, rather than provoked hos- The utilities rate him as ““reasonable.” Bonneville has been the bete noir of western power de- velopment. This writer hears there is now a better chance for two-way appeasement than at any time ir the past. Mr. Ross, for 20 years head of the municipal power develop- ment of Seattle, has human traits which perhaps account for his expedient rather than doc- trinal trend. No mere doctri- naire would amuse himself by keeping a copper ball in the air with no visible means of support ~ just because he loves kilowatts and likes to see them work. the York and the St. La 14« wr a sultant for PWA powe New wrence sea Y OUNG America is naturally en- vious of Capt. Hare E Gray, who will be at the controls when the Yankee Clipper, Pan- Gray Shipped w ays flying t ais No Step to Fly takes off for its Air Leviathan flight across the Atlantic, It is now trying a few preliminary crow- hops ar New York harbor. Captain Gray, it seems, had a system, in qualifying for this stellar role in aviation. First he became a licensed airplane mechanic; then he qualified as an aeronauMcal engineer, a master mariner and a radio technician; after all, he took diplomas in metereology, sea- manship, international law, ad- miralty law and business admin- istration, That seems to be about par for the lad who would be a skipper on one f tl leviathans of the air. ige American und una of these new All this, and many years of hazard- ous flying over the mountain wilder- ness of Mexico and Central America bring Captain Gray to the ripe old age of 33. He left college in his second year at the University of Iowa and was aloft for the first time at the age of 19. His home town is Guttenberg, Iowa. fp V ARREN LEE PIERSON, head of the Export-Import bank, ap- pears to rate an assist in the Nazi The big credit deal, to clear the trade ways be- tween the two countries, is widely accepted as a goose-egg for the Reich. The young and energetic Mr. Pier- son, who became head of the bank in 1936, toured the Latin-American countries last summer and fall and Pierson Assists In Nazi Put-Out In Brazil Game tarian drive, by deploying credit to grease the trade run-around. When it came to Brazil, he got eager attention from both the state department and the admin- istration, as Brazil is an impor- tant consideration of naval geog- raphy as well as trade. Shoul- dering far out into the Atlantic, with the new fascist threat to the Canary Islands, it would, if hostile, pinch us in a narrowing seaway, with Argentina, on the whole not so clubby with the U. 8. A, away down under. For both strategic and commercial reasons, Brazil is our entrepot to South America, if we keep on being neighborly. In Harvard law school Mr. Pier son was obsessed with foreign trade and directed his studies to practice in this field. Practicing law in Los Angeles, his opportunity came in 1934, when he was appointed general counsel for the Export-Import bank. In 1936, there was, for him, a time- ly New Deal row, which resulted in the resignation of George N. Peek as head of the bank and the upping of Mr. Pierson. ® News Features. Service, Star Dust %* Ties That Don’t Bind %* Gene Charms Royalty | % Listed for a Beating { —— By Virginia Vale — | JOSEPH BENTON NORTH | has performed fifty-two | marriage ceremonies, and ! | ing effect. He can recite the | marriage rituals of forty- | seven varieties of religion, ranging from the voodooistic | ceremony to that of the Church of which he made up himself. As you've probably suspected by now, he is a minister without portfolio, one who officiates only in the | movies, Of the many screen players whom he has “married’’ North reveals that Claudette Colbert exhibited the most nervousness; he thinks that was be- cause she the most religious. The calmest person, he says, was Rochelle Hudson: she took two of his ceremonies in her and is stride, - were CLAUDETTE COLBERT apparently thought they ing. Laura LaPlante ” : screen as a marrying m for “Wuthering Heights.’ Oberon and David N bride and groom, and he us ritual dictated by the period. The Princesses Elizabeth and Mar- garet, of England's royal family, were asked recently to name their favorite motion picture star. Ignor- ing Norma Shearer, Janet Gaynor, Clark Gable, and the other top- notchers (including Shirley Temple) they replied “Gene Autrey.” When Billie Burke broke her ankle she was considerate enough I a perfect time in whic} tripped as she was “Maiden Voyage" set, went the ankle. Being trouper, her first thought w picture, and the y ti be caused by her accident. But it happened that all walking shots had been m was due just to sit in the rest of the picture anyway. s How'd you like to look ahead to faking a beating? That is what Walter Pidgeon has been doing. For “Six Thousand Enemies’ is slated to delay of her ade. She calls for him to be soundly beaten by one of the six thousand —with a husky pugilist selected by the cast- | ing department for the role. Pid- geon has been using his spare time practice up a bit, but he is none too optimistic about his own skill, even on the amount of damage that is to be done to him. wma | country home. | Whiteman and Benny Goodman | have farms in Pennsylvania; Lanny Ross and Lowell Thomas each own acreage in New York state; Tommy Dorsey's place is in New Jersey, and Morton Downey's in Connecticut. 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