EUROPE: Double Feature All Hallow's eve found every Eu- ropean ear cocked to Moscow, awaiting history-making utterances from Premier Viacheslav Molotov. Adolf Hitler had 1,500,000 men poised at the front; so did the allies. But war hung in abeyance. For as Russia swung so would the war, be- cause every other European state had declared its status, neutral with leanings either toward Germany (like Italy and Hungary) or toward the allies. Stolen Thunder A few short hours before Molotov's speech, II Duce Benito Mussolini pulled a coup that must have stunned his erstwhile colleague in Germany. Dusted was Propaganda Minister Dino Alfieri, close friend of Nazidom's Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels. Qusted were Fascist Secretary Achille Starace, close friend of Dep- uty Fuehrer Rudolf Hess and the man who gave a signal for the Ital- lan chamber's demonstration against A 7 Fa gy — IL DUCE'S STARACE His demotion . . . France last winter; Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch and author against France; Gen. nann were Goering. Replacing them niddle-of-the-roaders like Mar- Retained were other favorites like ano (Mussolini's son-in-law) and tice. completely. Ambassador Giuseppe speech. In the Balkans it thought Mussolini disapproved Rus- gia's expansionist policy, especially since Il Duce did not even wait until Molotov spoke. But in Italy it was a simple indication that Mussolini had his ear to the ground; Italians wanted no pact with the allies, they merely wanted strict neutrality. Ominous Talk First allied reaction to Premier Molotov's speech was relief over his failure to declare a military al- liance with the Reich, even though he did charge Britain and France i RUSSIAN DEMANDS The Soviet would give Finland part ol Karelia (1) in exchange for moving bac Finnish frontier northwest of Leningrad (2); Russia wants (3) islands of Seiskari, Hogland, Lavansaari and Tytarsoari; would lease land (4) at mouth of Finnish gulf for naval bases: asks for Finnish part of Rybachi peninsula (5). were warring not to preserve de- mocracy or restore Poland, but to safeguard their world empires. But sober reflection made the allies wor- ry about: Finland. Molotov revealed, much to the Finns’ chagrin, the stalemat- ed proposals which have occupied these two countries for the past month. Besides a mutual assistance pact, Russia wanted territorial ex. changes (see map) which Finland declared would ‘rob us of the chance of defending the independence . . , of our land.” Germany. He said Nazi-Russian friendship was getting thicker. Next day it was revealed trade discus- sions were going forward success- fully. One report from Stockholm said Russian submarines would be given the Nazis in exchange for German merchant ships, providing a subtle way of staying ‘‘neutral.” Poland, question of restoring Poland that it was absurd to continue war for that cause. Polish any. Balkans, pansion there, but shook a finger at Turkey for signing mutual assistance shunning a treaty with the Soviet. blood brothers from heated argument which of Soviet-U. S. Commenting on President velt's earlier note expressing hope STALIN'S MOLOTOV « « « stole his thunder. sian relations, Molotov said: . One might think that matters are in better shape between United States and the Philip- pines . . . than between the Soviet litical independence 7 Next day, while Massachusetts’ Rep. John McCormack demanded from the house floor that Ambas- sador Laurence Steinhardt be re- the President dug from his files an exchange of notes with Soviet President Michael Kalinin last April, when Kalinin cabled an unsolicited “expression of profound sympathy" Know your news? One hundred points if you can answer all these. De- duct 20 for each complete question you miss. You can’t boast about a score of 40 or under, 1. Aviation News : (a) Who are Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll, shown above, and why are they so tired?; (b) What was the in- tended destination of a nonstop flight that left New York, and did it succeed? 2. What happened to Mrs, Homer Stout, Oklahoma farm wife who tried the “freezing” treatment for cancer? 3. True or false: The Mexican revolutionary party has asked for return of oil lands expropriated from American-owned com- panies. 4. Choice: Sen, Janfes Mead of New York introduced a bill pro- posing that $139,000,000 be set aside by the treasury for small loans to: (a) business firms; (b) distraught farmers; (¢) munici- pally owned power plants; (d) “little theater’ groups. 5. True or false: No food ration- ing will be needed in Britain dur- ing the winter. { Answers at bottom of column.) | POLITICS: | Candidate-of-the-W eek i i Rooseveltian third-term talk, which took a back seat in early days of the war crisis, again San Francisco when Secretary Agriculture Henry Wallace boomed the President for re-election y day Secretary Steve Early clear that Franklin Roosevelt w ed no boom, and Gillette left a ence where the portedly tion to next year's conventi unpledged. The Mr. Roosevelt will not seek re-elec- tion, and certainly wants the mat- {| ter hushed for the present But Henry Wallace had started the political pot boil Into the Republican picture jumped Oregon's Sen. Charles McNary, who tenta- | tively consented to run. Into the | Democratic picture jumped a brand new name, Montana's Sen. Burton | K. Wheeler, who tried to win vice presidency with the elder La- Follette in 1824, Writing California's Gov. Cuth- | bert Olson to protest a meeting of | “progressive leaders” } loomed asked deduction the scheduled ration. retary Steve Early: “It would seem that he (Molotov) had the embargo in mind rather than what he termed Finland.” (Unspotlighted, the neutrality bill wormed its way through the house which voted 237 to 177 for sending it to con- ference with the senate, conferees to have definite instructions. One instruction: To repeal the arms embargo, by a vote of 243 to 181. Thus congress expected to get out of town immediately. Britain hailed the repeal; Nasidom was enraged. One sud: denly discovered danger of cash-and-carry is that the allies will indeed buy more arms but will cut other imports from the U. 8. One Britisher thought imports of U. 8. industrial products and foodstuffs may fall off $150,000,000 a year.) Western Front Abandoning purely defensive posi- tions, German ‘shock troops" stormed the French frontier at scat- tered points as murky weather gave way to sunshine. Fears grew that Belgium and the Netherlands might be invaded. The Dutch proclaimed a state of siege in eight provinces, flooding frontier positions to check any Nazi advance. At Sea While the embattled U. 8S. 8. City of Flint steamed carefully down the Norwegian coast to Germany under a Nazi prize crew, the U, 8S. asked both the Reich and Britain to pro- tect her interned American crew. Washington also reported 27 U, 8. ships have been detained by bellig- erents since the war began. The war at sea came too close to Amer- jcan shores when the British freight- er Coulmore was reportedly torpe- doed 450 miles off New England. Nazi planes and U-boats continued successful raiding of allied shipping, but Britain retaliated by naming Lord Nuffield (her ‘Henry Ford”) to a key post in the air ministry. His instructions: To intensify the navy’'s North sea blockade against Germany, . SENATOR WHEELER AND WIFE Plenty of friends. next month in Salt Lake City, C. L O.'s John Lewis gave, among other reasons: “The slight to Senator Wheeler and other great liberals of the west, who have not been con- sulted . . Lewis apparently considered the meeting (some of whose participants may be violating the Hatch “no politics’’ act) as a third-term boom. Certainly it was made clear that Sen- ator Wheeler should be consulted in any future ‘‘liberal” discussions about 1040. Washington observers, realizing that Lewis support may be a kiss of death to any political aspirations the senator may enter- tain, nevertheless admitted he has A. F. of L. backing, a big railroad following and plenty of friends in the senate. COMMUNICATIONS: Twisted Wires Following an ultimatum from Chi- cago’'s District Attorney Thomas J. Courtney and U. S. District Attor- ney William J. Campbell, the Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph com- pany barred Moses Annenberg's race betting information service from us- ing its facilities. The Illinois Bell Telephone company followed suit. 1. (a) Schlieper and Carroll are en. durance fliers who stayed up six hours more than 30 days over Long Beach, Calif. That's why they're tired; (b) The destination was Lima, Peru, but flight ended in Ecuador, 2. She died when “thawed out” but sicians sald cause of death was rup. ure of a bile duct, and that cancer treatment had probably been successful. 3. False. Party has demanded that lands be seized permanently, 4. (a) Is correct. 8. False. Ration cards will be distrib. uted starting December 1, with empha. sis on butter, ham and bacon. Un-American WASHINGTON. — The long, and sometimes wearisome, investigation by the special house committee on un-American activities, headed by Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, has be- gun to bear fruit. It is not yet clear whether all of the fruit will be good. believe that, with of even some be helpful in retaining America for Americans, I have a feeling to a close, most of us will have a fluences that have our midst, will know about the ‘isms’ that have transported to our shores and spread Ve r to conceal ng clique that are d the purposes which gains i ey, to a con foreign lands. For another thing, it is now evi- dent that whatever else the Dies committee has done, it has disclosed how thoroughly it rat-eyed, sche ) foreigners to a contr strength and its jerable extent, from of dictatorship. they use. The testimo fact again things in the world is to Americans. delivered tation of some for correcting generalities, y has brought ¢ » of the 1 EE ge or evn} OTK il vidu great movemet out knowing using the memoer: ever crooked purposes their own interests. Activities of Nazis and Communists in U. S. Revealed threatened. E y President Roose- velt characterized some of its ations as a ‘a sc i Members of the groups tory and purposes bare have she about “unfairness,’ yuted useful the should served a public stuck pig Let us ord. It shows the American Bund'' is a tool Nazi leaders, if German government, It s communists have been and erating in countless ‘‘celis’” in the United States, and because of the record the committee made, Earl Browder, the boss communist in the United States, is under indictment charged with having forged pass- ports that enabled him to make frequent trips to Russia without the facts being known. It shows also that there are numerous organiza- tions in this country which are sim- ply the catspaw of the communist party of Russia. It appears there is more scandal, more evidence of violation of law, yet to come. Largely, because of the committee's exposures there prob- ably will be prosecutions of various foreigners or officials of so-called American organizations because they have failed to comply with our law. They have not registered with the department of state showing their connections with foreign gov- ernments or foreign groups. In addition to all of these, the committee has made a ghastly ex- purpose remember that squeals the loudest. amd that of the yws that fices of our own government. It published the names of 563 persons, on the government payroll, who are members of the American League for Peace and Democracy, with the assertion that part of them, at least, Publication of the list stirred offi- It was an action that was undoubtedly a grave mis- take, because anyone can examine the list and find ‘‘victims" of the racketeering organizers -- persons who were misled, persons who be- lieved they were serving a sincerely fine purpose. Many of them are likely to lose their jobs in the gov- ernment—minor clerks, messengers, stenographers—because of their al leged connection with an outfit whose motives, unknown to most of the members, were designed to de- stroy our form of government, It was about this action that Pres. ident Roosevelt spoke, although it has been known for months that he had little respect for the Dies com- mittee program. Chairman Dies un- doubtedly deserves censure for pub- lication of the entire list. Common, ordinary horse sense ought to have shown him and his committee that 1 vould have been so easy to have real crooks and no them. But the others were just vic- as such. in other words, this bad mistake the Dies committee has done otherwise. 1 am hopeful that the department of justice will be forced into the po- where the real leaders, be- been destruc- y leniency is pre ting sx ll acd far «14h called for with respect to other stupid, but sincere, individuals who make up the list. ly they were hose i who was behind th movement.” Operations Are Directed From Moscow and Berlin But how did the Russian “Comin- ¢ to get into these vari- ic nd promotie its toward world a so-called intelligent » of people here? "me ms a hemes The processes, according to the by Browder ar mittee, others were very 3 agree- Americans and cans were not serve the Russian- low Russian-made Brow Jut munist in this country to a corner by com- and finally ex- plained that it was ‘customary’ for merican members of the party to company’ with the group v failed or refused to agree And was forced ac- from Moscow, as far stand words. » rules or fol ding to y rted schemes. y action directed as 1 can unde American “Fuehrer’ Kuhn, of the American bund, appears to system. before the co } ganization had no connection \ { the Nazi party leaders and was not guided in any way by them. This | statement was made despite testi- ) from Kuhn, h | that he had many s¢ contacts in and that made re- | eent visits to Adolph Hitler. | There has been considerable sus- picion that both Browder and Kuhn have many men and women in their organization who can be described only as racketeers. That is to say, they have numerous “workers” wh are fully aware of the general pur- poses but who are willing to engage in the “movement” solely because they have well-paying jobs within the ranks—which, in my opinion, rates them as completely dirty crooks. mony, some nself— Jerlin Confidential Information Available to Foreigners But to get back to the Dies com- mittee list of alleged communists, or fellow travelers, within the gov- ernment itself. Those of us who have been in constant contact with individuals in various official capac- ities recognize the dangers that are inherent in their situations. I, for one, am genuinely fearful of them. Any government worker comes into possession of vast quantities of high- ly confidential information. It is in- formation that belongs to you and to me and to others, because we are compelled by law to supply to the government all records and facts which the government secks. It is not information that belongs to any one government employee or official and that person has no right to use it or disclose it to others, ex- cept as the laws require. I believe, therefore, it does not take a vivid imagination to see how such information can be used de- structively by one of the rats who secretly owes allegiance to the So- viet or the Nazis or to the Fascists, of Italy. America long has pro- ceeded upon faith. If that faith is breached between individuals, our laws and our courts are available for correction, for damages, for en- forcement of rights. But what, I ask, are any of us going to do when, within the offices of the government itself, there are concealed men and women who descend below the level of common thieves and secretly sup- ply facts about our nation to for- eigners whose purpose is to destroy us? Who knows but that this sort of thing goes on and our navy? 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