WEEKLY NEWS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE LINLITHGOW LOTHIAN GREAT BRITAIN: U. S. Trouble F U. S. public opinion once favored the British against Germany, it had shifted by late January until most Americans looked with equal disdain on both sides. Reason: British interference with American shipping, seizure of mail and re- fusal to recognize the 300-mile neu- trality zone thrown around the West- ern hemisphere. To make it worse, all protests by Secretary emptorily, until finally Mr. slapped back with an aide memoire. Its gist: That U. S. vesse being held up by the control three times shipe, therefore we 1 as ong ton Bri an saw Indic Trouble M ox: ANDAS K. GANDHI pendence demands broke into p it when gan demanding war ass the en roy, ti ght time enough independence storm of protest, tiously urged a paign. Lord Lin was willing to d he was still play or Rritai brits o Japanese Trouble LREADY has been fri “rebel” Gen Japan's i ; British warship senger vessel 21 Ger ing ret Next Ww : 3 ire pecause f nd lv ing bassador Sir Robert L. note demanding amends, calling the incident an ‘‘unfriendly act” and warning that repetition would ag- gravate Japan's anti-British senti- ment. Next day, when a British vessel halted Japan's Tatuta Maru, Ambassador Craigie found thousand of Japs milling around his em- bassy, while the press bleated against his country. Craigie a Lowland Trouble V J HEN Winston Churchill made a speech demanding that Neth- erlands and Belgium join the allies in fighting Germany, the government of these houted angrily. To without losing t : placate dritain w » but would 5 Saying lum. a8 Te = itated them Rumanian frou ble gd C AR OL of Ru i cautious! wo y 4 4 4 J Can you answer the following ques tions about the following people? Per- fect score is 100, Deduct 20 points for each question missed. Score of 80 is excellent; 60, good; 40, average; 20 or less, poor. 1. Giuseppe Motta, five times president of a mountainous Euro- pean country, just died. What country? 2. Edwin Carewe became fa- mous as a movie director. Why was he in the news recently? 3. Ignace Paderewski, world- famous pianist, has just been named president of what govern- ment-in-exile? 4. Earl Russell Browder, U. S. Communist leader, was tried on a federal charge of passport fraud. What was the trial’s out- come? 5. Wang Ching-wei, an Oriental, is about to become head of what government? News Quiz Answers 1. Switzerland, 2. He died 3. Poland -in-exile: ed in France 4. Browder was sentenced to four years in prison. He appealed. 5. Japan's puppet government in China. government locat- POLITICS: Break “I am convinced that, with the condi tions now confronting the nation and dis satisfaction now permeating the minds of the people, his candidacy would result in ignominious defeat.” Thus, before his Workers conventicn at Columbus, did C. 1. O. President John L. Lewis score Franklin Roosevelt. Since Mr, ndi- McNutt, this lat- ghtened suspicions Demo- a's Sen. United Mine dates Garner and favor the candid Montar Next day he ex intended (it) struck again, confident C aro ccept their aid got the ed by Press Germany Rumani firms operating CONGRESS: Yes, but— “Do 1 think the budget should be bal anced? Yes. Do | think should be cut down? Yes. Do 1 think taxes should be increased? Yes. But if you say, ‘Morgenthau, what kind of taxes should there be?’ | cannot answer that because | do not know.” This from expenditures apparent the secretary ly frank recitation of the treasury big headlines. On budget and decreased expenditures he prob- ably was more outspoken than the President, but not on new taxes. Never has any administration spokesman suggested what kind of levies congress should enact this ses- sion, and Henry Morgenthau's state- ment before the house appropri- ations committee failed to clarify matters. Biggest news was Mr. Morgen- thau’s contention that the federal debt limit should be hiked five bil- lion dollars above the present $45,- 000,000,000 mark with which it is now flirting dangerously (see graph). He remarked that there was ''no particular danger involved” in this act, but his audience apparently thought otherwise. Trimming des- perately, congress lopped $11,491,000 from the treasury-postoffice supply bill, bringing to $128,143,300 the re- TREND How the wind is blowing . .. AGRICULTURE — Mortgage-debt payments of 75,000 farmers holding land bank commissioner loans will be eased by a reamortization plan extending payments over longer pe- riods. Cause: Henry Wallace's new full control over the farm credit ad- ministration. CANADA-Instituting an econom- ic embargo, Canada now forbids ex- port of wheat, scrap iron, and steel ingots to countries adjacent to Ger- many (except by license), thus re- moving the danger of trans-shipment to the Reich, One result: Cancella- tion of a 1,250,000-bushel wheat shipment to Russia. FREEDOM-National Labor Rela- tions board ruled that constitution- ally guaranteed free speech is not an absolute right. Case: Refusing Ford Motor company permission to distribute pamphlets criticizing NLRB and unions, NATIONAL DEBT $50,000 000.000 next? from administration esti- mates already in the mill. With enough such reductions congress hopes to avoid both new taxes and a boost in the debt limit. Also in congress: 4. To aid Finland without taking re- sponsibility, the senate banking and currency committee rigged up a “finesse formula'’ to increase the Export-Import bank's revolving fund by $100,000,000. Still to be adopted by congress, the measure would let Jesse Jones give Finland an extra $20,000,000 for non-military purchases. However, since only a third of the present $10,000,000 loan has been used, Banker Jones doubt- ed whether Finland would be inter- ested. Reason: The Finns want munitions, not food and clothing. € In the house ways and means committee, pros and cons continued fighting over the reciprocal trade act, which expires June 1. A breach in agricultural opinion was evi- denced when Farm Bureau Presi- dent Edward O'Neal testified for the trade program while National Grange Master L. J. Taber spoke against it, €. The house voted Rep. Martin Dies of Texas $75,000 for his committee investigating un-Americanism, @ North Dakota's G. O. F. Sen. Ger- ald P. Nye was named to the senate foreign relations committee to re- place the late Senator William Borah of Idaho, whose remains were es- corted back home to Boise by 10 sen- ators following state rites in Wash. ington, 4 As U. S.-Canadian conferences on the proposed St. Lawrence seaway were adjourned, congressmen from interested states (like Ohio, New York, Minnesota, Michigan and Wis- consin) began stirring up interest for an appropriation to build the deep sea channel, ductions Nn two ! * Crisis ¢ were grata r having searched {See BRITAIN. garded pe raona Ji ap The tions between day-to-day Peaee talks between S. An sador Joseph Drew and » Japanese foreign office were ended abruptly Tokyo sat on it nds, hop- for th was no chance the near future, partment had Jag wanted her. Uf mand proved insufi DBs. \ 5 there new treaty in cause state de- right here it present repri- icient to make quit interfering with U, S. rights in the Orient, there still re- mained the highly potent embargo Although the senate foreign rela- tions committee indicated there was little chance fur an embargo (which would hamstring Japan's war in China), there was plenty of pres- sure fortwoming from U. 8S. church groups. Why, they demanded right. eously, should American scrap iron be used to kill Chinese? THE WARS: Russo-Finnish Helsinki claimed 20,000 Soviet troops fell when the Finns repulsed Russia's strongest war northeast of Lake Lagoda. timated Red casualties to date: 100,000. While foreign legionnaires swarmed into Finland from Scandi- navia, the Baltic states, Hungary, the U. 8S. and elsewhere, the de. fenders still had no adequate de- fense against Soviet bombers, who enjoyed a field day strafing civilians in small mid-Finland towns, Allied-German Only four days after Britain's de- stroyer Grenville was torpedoed with a loss of 81 men, the destroyer Ex mouth went down in the North sea carrying 175 crewmen to the bottom. It was her twenty-third acknowl edged naval loss since the war be- gan five months ago. On the west. ern front, meanwhile, all was peace- ful. MISCELLANY : Protest In Rome the Fascist press com. plained that the liner Orazio, which burned at ses, might have reached Barcelona safely had it not been stopped by a French warship. 4. At Berlin, under Adolf Hitlers di- rection, the pocket battleship Deutschland was renamed Luetzow after slipping home through the al lied blockade. Its old name will go to one of Germany's new 35,000-ton battleships. Es- Didn’t Favor Landon, So He Played Ball With Home State Dems. By ROBERT S. ALLEN (Co-cuthor, with Drew Pearson, of “The Washington Merry-Go-Round”) (Released hy We per Union.) W\/ ASHINGTON. — The Sen- ate just doesn’t seem the same without Senator Borah. He was the first leader 1 came to know intimately as a cub Washington reporter 15 years ago, and I saw him last the day before his fatal acci- dent. I think I am the last news. man he talked to. It was late in the knew that the Presi on the Finnish loan © next day, and 1 dropped office to get his an army blanket, lying on a couch, reading an article on trade treat es. He motione ed me {0 a chair, On marble m anti direct! y over him a stri he new tograph of if which he liked very much. stern Newsp: afternoon. 1 dent's message vas due the into Borah's views, Wrapped in he was the Duty Came First, Borah looked well, bu recalling that during the 1 holiday he had told me he was of taking 4 sy Rs hat abc ut ing ney to anyor we let down the bi at it may ut of ths sce wi keep { nersonal our i HE WATCHED LANDON—Sen- ator Borah waited for Alf Landon’s campaign before “prejudging” him, but he later confided: “I am not for him.” his speech—which he secretly hoped would stampede the : countered Borah I It was past midnight, hot : “Come with n here." So we streets the ct along, 1e,”’ he said and he onvention ary Doubted Landon’s Ability, “Th © y row, '"* he set ‘Il nominate Land N EW YORK. » jingles coins pocket and the duke of Windsor straightens his necktie. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt jerks his head sideways. Call them habits, manner- isms or just plain nervous- ness, but they're among the distinguishing features you've no- ticed . when famous men make -— Al reel camera. Most of us, great or are thumb twiddlers, button twisters, arm swingers or fist clench- ers in our forgetful moments, “This Is the Point.’ A widely known Boston professor “Now this,”" he would say at in- “is the point."”” Each time his amused students finally made up sweepstakes on how many times he'd do it each hour. The late William Jennings Bryan combined his mannerism with prac- ticality. Before his platform ap- pearances he would have someone a piece of ice to the rostrum. As Bryan would run the palm of his hand over the ice, then over his forehead. To break this routine he would cceasionally step to the front of the platform, weaving back and forth while the audience gasped for fear he would topple into the front row. A Monocle Swinger. Bertha Wells of Boston, who was formerly in Chautauqua work with Bryan, recalls the platform gestures of many other speakers. Dudley Crafts Watson, director of music at the Chicago art museum, went through a repeated routine of tak- ing off his monacle, swinging it around in his hand and replacing it Vo the eye. “One woman speaker asked m for a handkerch ef ust ore § went on,” Miss ils rememl “All through her lecture she stoo twisting it in her hands. When she returned it, the handkerchief looked like a cruller.” Sen. James Reed of Missouri used to have a habit of chewing tobacco in the courtroom, while Sen. David I. Walsh of Massachusetts can never speak without thrusting his left thumb into the corner of his trou- sers’ pocket. Ex-Gov. John G. Wi- nant of New Hampshire used to hang his arms straight down his We stage like a small boy reciting his ‘‘piece.’’ Emerson Had It Too! Such mannerisms are not exclu- sively a modern device. Many years ago the highly intellectual Ralph Waldo Emerson had a habit of plac- ing the thumb and forefinger of one hand between the thumb and fore- finger of the other, moving them gently while speaking. Henry Ward Beecher would emphasize the cli- max of his speech by rising to his toes and throwing his arms over his head, virtually pulling the audi- ence up tith him, Psychologists who have watched such carryings-on from the specta- tor's seat don’t believe it's neces sarily a matter of nervousness. Sometimes the speakers are merely throwing off excess energy. Or, as one psychologist suggested, it may not be so much the energy or the audience as what the speaker had for dinner, If the Lights Go Out, Look for a Muskrat! 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