INTERNATIONAL: Charge and Answer The comments of a Catholic pri- mate in late January seemed des- tined to touch off a one-two-three sequence that would lead Europe to a real war. At the Vatican, August Cardinal Hlond reported that his primacy of Poland was the scene of mass shoot- ing, religious persecution and other atrocities by Nazi Germany. Add- ing its two-bits worth, Poland-in- exile charged from Paris that Ger- many had executed 18,000 Polish leaders. These things, true or not, made Berlin downright mad, insulted and vengeful. Diego von Bergen, am- bassador to the Holy See, protested HLOND AND VON BERGEN Did the Vatican start something? German executives in Po- Arthur Greiser, Arthur nquart and Hans Frank made speeches d gave interviews, the general theme being an admission of stern measures against ‘‘ch vinistic agitators’’ and sterner meas- ures against Polish Jews. But atroci- ties were denied; all repri they asserted, were designed make everybody happy. in vain, u enemies. his speech Der Fuehrer: (1) and Russia; (2) tried to “pep up” Germany's war morale; (3) at- tacked Britain as usual; (4) tacked France, which was not usual ’ about to start. somehow be split, two months of fighting, in addition to unestimated tanks, horses, trucks and miscellaneous supplies. Fin- land’s first major aerial offensive was assigned to Italian pilots flying Savoia-Merchetti bombers, who raid- ed an unnamed Soviet naval base. (In Moscow, Italy was warned against joining the Anglo-French war bloc. Like. wise, Norway and Sweden were warned not to aid the Finns. Nevertheless every conceivable aid short of a declaration of war was being rushed from these coun- tries. U. S. participation was evidenced by (1) assignment of American volunteers to a legionnaire unit, and (2) arrival in Norway of at least 11 American-made pur. suit planes.) The Balkans In the Balkans where Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Jugoslavia met to plan a mutual defense bloc, dis- satisfied Hungary opened a bitter press campaign for the return of Transylvania, ceded to Rumania after the World war. CONGRESS: Farm Fight tic slashes in such items as postof- fice, treasury, emergency defense Reason: tion year. tions In the senate appropria- there was mild mies, but they were destined to pass with adjustments. But when c minor ongress his budget, making no men the much-demanded $225,000,0 farm parity pay house appropriations slashed $154,530,000 from the - Russia than with Italy.) Western War In Britain, where a cold wave and tion suddenly struck home. Waves of Nazi bombers swept down the coasts for the second cgnsecutive day, destroying (according to Ber- lin) 19 ships. Just as France's Pre- mier Daladier had warned a few hours earlier that total warfare woulc start soon, so did Britain's Neville Chamberlain indirectly hint at the same thing when he made a speech containing strong overtures toward neutrals like Japan and the U. S. (Japan was still protesting British seis ure of 21 Nazi sailors from a Jap steam. ship. But she had more serious troubles closer home. Russo-Jap boundary discus sions broke down, indicating the Man. chukuoan-Mongolian war may start again soon. Also broken down was electric power, Reason: Fuel shortage.) Northern War In the Soviet-Finnish war, Russia's manpower and resources were being drained by defeat on five fronts. Helsingfors estimated officially that 250,000 Red troops had been lost in TREND How the wind is blowing . . . INCOME—A seven-year study by the Northwestern National Life In- surance company of Minneapolis showed that John Public was profit- ing from the war whether he ad- mits it or not: In 1939's last quarter, his check, climbed to the farthest point ($13) above living costs since pre-depression days. COMMUNICATIONS—The U. 8. Supreme court ruled a federal court of appeals has no supervisory power over the federal communications commission, Case: A court order demanding that FCC reconsider its action on the petition of a Potts- ville, Pa., radio station. ‘RUBBER’ — Standard Oil eom- pany of New Jersey announced ac- quisition of American rights for pro- duction of buna synthetic rubber from I. E. Farbenindustrie of Ger- many, MARITIME~To avoid U. S.-Brit- ish friction over contraband control, London may soon permit European- bound U. 8. ships to pass the con- trol at St. John, New Brunswick, AVIATION — Pan-American air- ways has ordered four-engine sub- stratosphere planes with a 300 m. p, h. cruising range to outfly com- petitive Italian and German ships. WALLACE AND JONES The patient was half dead. $40,975,000 for sugar benefits, $25.- 000,000 for farm tenancy loans) and sent it to the floor. In the ensuing argument 1940's en- tire economy drive seemed destined to rise or fall. Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace was highly critical. He asked for a permanent scheme of subsidies, pointing his argument by suspending the cotton export pro- gram. Next he hinted the house could expect “political reprisals’ if it dealt too severely with the farm- ers. Most incensed was Texas' Rep. Marvin Jones, who argued all after- noon after the appropriations com- mittee presented the revised bill un- expectedly, giving the farm bloc no chance to prepare its defense. Said he: “It's pretty bad to perform that big an operation without letting us see the patient until he is half dead . . .” Failing in the house, farm leaders planned a fight in the senate to re- store the cuts. Also in congress: @ The senate foreign relations com- mittee heard Jesse Jones express doubt that private investors would subscribe to a Finnish bond issue, as suggested by Mississippi's Sen. Pat Harrison. Probable outcome: An Export-Import bank loan for non- military supplies. @ House hearings: (1) Labor board committee, which heard NLRB de- fended by its chairman, Warren Madden; (2) ways and means, which discussed the reciprocal trade act. G. O. P. opponents of Secretary Hull, who fathered the act, dug back 11 years to prove he has changed his mind about tariffs. (Michigan's Senator Vandenberg introduced a bill providing for a foreign trade board to replace both congress and the administration in fram- ing trade treaties.) 4 Michigan's Rep. Frank Hook in- serted statements in the Congres sional Record purporting to show that Texas’ Rep. Martin (*'un-Amer- icanism’’') Dies had been in collu- sion with a fascist “Silver Shirt” leader, When Hook's informer ad- mitted the charges were based on forged papers, the house demanded an apology. 4 President Roosevelt celebrated his fifty-eighth birthday by asking con- gress for $7,500,000 to build 50 small- town hospitals as an experimental ofa to better the nation’s ealth, HEADLINERS MERRY FAHRNEY (above), patent medicine heiress, was ac- cused of love trysts with her first husband when she sought a di- vorce from her fourth, Count Oleg Cassini. MRS. WILLIAM E. BORAH, thinking her late senator husband had been ‘‘poor,” was surprised to find $207,000 in his safety de- posit box. MARRINER 8S. ECCLES, spending-lending chairman of the federal reserve board, was re- appointed by the President over opposition, REP. JOSEPH MARTIN, G. O. P. house leader and dark horse presidential possibility, keynoted the Republican campaign at To- peka, Kan., by plunmping for G. O. P.-sponsored neutrality. ERNST VON STARHEMBERG, ex-vice chancellor of Austria, ex- leader of the Austrian heimwehr, was commissioned an infantry lieutenant in the French army. FATHER CHARLES E. COUGHLIN, Detroit ‘“‘radio priest,” heard the justice de- partment was not going to inves- tigate him after all, despite a statement to that effect by the New York Jewish Peoples’ com- mittee, which charged him with anti-Semitism. LAZARO CARDENAS, dent of Mexico, that further arbitratic priated British owned oil lands is presi- announced flatly n of expro- Denounced President Roose- were Labor le- house Tabled g Pres- and the come investigating it. Ng for a third term. Handed to the omnipotent union ex- board (whose powers re- right to support him with union funds. This done, John Lewis Mine Workers home They had served They had given him an audi- ence for his nouncing the launch his ipaign for Montana’ ton K. Wheeler; a carte blanche to ladle U. M. W. campaign funds into whatever coffer will best serve his purpose. JUSTICE: Anti-Trust Restraint Since autumn Trust Buster Thurman Arnold has secured indict- ments against 519 persons, 124 cor- porations, five trade associations and 34 labor unions, carrying on a popu- lar campaign against combinations in restraint of trade. Considerably enlarged over last year, Arnold's division is operating on a $1,300,000 budget but is still too small to prose- cute all cases now scheduled. When budget estimates were pre- pared last autumn he asked for $2,208,000 for the 1940-41 fiscal year. Instead the budget bureau granted $1,209,000—o0r $100,000 less than Ar- nold's current appropriation. All ef- forts to get the fund increased have met with opposition in the economy- minded house appropriations come mittee, despite the fact that Arnold's division will probably collect $6.- 000,000 in fines during the current year. Unless his fund is increased, observers believe the anti-trust cam- paign is apt to bog down. PEOPLE: ‘Glub’ In New York John Barrymore cel- ebrated the Broadway opening of his play, “My Dear Children,” with a night club party. When he found awaiting him both his daughter, Diana, and his estranged fourth wife, Elaine Barrie, he chose the latter. Stomping out angrily, Diana shouted denunciations on ‘that woman. When reporters asked Miss Barrie if this was a reconciliation, she an- swered: ‘Ask John.” Said the Great Lover, swallowing from his cocktail glass: “Glub.” It was good publicity. PENSIONS: 3,700 Checks Mailed from Washington late last month were 3,700 checks to workers and their dependents in 48 states, constituting the first monthly bene- fits from U. 8. old age insurance. Recipients: Wage earners over 65 who have retired, their wives, wid. ows, children or dependent parents. Highest checks were $42 for mar- ried couples 65 or over, though the average is $40 for married couples and $26 for unmarried workers. sent his from startling speech de- President; an oppor- presidential Sen. Bur- last 5, * By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.—The Democratic High political temperatures The condition probably will But a lull will Political strategists, presi- dential aspirants and wheelhorses will not be able to maintain the current pace until convention time. If they attempt it, there is only one end possible: the Democratic party will be split beyond any hope of repairing the damage. There is one thing to be noted, even now: New Dealers, near-New Dealers and New Deal payrollers have put on one of the really great drives to insure the renomination of President Roosevelt for a third term. They have hit in every direc- tion. Some blows appear to have been effective, The payrollers hope all of their efforts have brought fa- vorable results, i probable. In the period under discussion. there likewise has been a terrific attack upon the present New Deal leadership. This originally from John L. Lewis and his C. 1. O. labor organization. It dragged with it some others who n not have moment—Sen. but that seems im- came ht or migh become so active at the Ef ot Jurton Wheeler « Montana, for instance. Lewis Support Like ‘A Kiss of Death The solely Lewis attack because it final stage of a break between him- self and Mr. Roos « 1 have heard many persons say it was a break of luck for the President. Mr. Lewis doesn’t rate more. That is, his a port is something death.” It will be recalled how Mr. Lewis called Vice President Garner “a po- ker-playin whiskey drinking, evil old man." last summer. hat at- tack by Mr. Lewis surely did more to boost the Garner presidential candidacy than uny other one thing that has happened. It convinced hundreds of thousands of voters that Mr. Garner must be a pretty good guy if he disagreed with sit-down strikes and attempted dictatorship of the government by the C. 1. O. The evidence is that Mr. Lewis gave Paul McNutt a boost, too, by his espousal of a declaration that the Democratic party had not kept faith with organized labor. Nutt, and present federal security admin- istrater, is sticking right close by was import: represented the he is not going to seek the Demo- cratic nomination unless Mr. Roose- velt gets out of the way. It is held, therefore, that when Mr. Lewis tried to pin back the Roosevelt ears, he inferentially helped Mr. McNutt for the reason that only a few political students here believe Mr. Roosevelt was damaged by desertion of the Lewis following from the New Deal to which they gave half a million dollars in the 1936 campaign. As regards the Garner candidacy, observers seem to feel that the Lew- is outburst was another feather in their cap. Mr. Garner, of course, has said he wants the nomination and wants to be elected and he made no mention at all of the possi- bility that Mr. Roosevelt may want to run for a third term. Thus, when Mr. Lewis said the Democratic par- ty had broken faith with labor-—-he obviously meant with his own fac- tion of organized labor-—he could not have hit Mr. "Garner as much as the out-and-out New Dealers. Mr. Garner certainly is not of that stripe. Strange That Wheeler Should Encourage It The demonstration of the United Mine Workers in favor of Senator He has given every indication senator, openly. I cannot help won- dering why Senator Wheeler encour- ages it. It strikes me that Senator Wheeler must know how a C. I. O. endorsement will be taken out in the country--the small towns and among the farmers. Moreover, there is a growing belief among po- IT CAN'T KEEP UP If the present boiling state of the Democratic political pot should keep up, the party would be split, says William Bruckart. But a lull always follows faver- ish moments in politics, The Lewis blast against Roosevelt, the Wheeler demonstration at the C. I. O. meeting, and boasts in Flor- ida and Ohio about delegates, will soon quiet down, and we'll have a few weeks of quiet. They Part Company ‘No Third Term,’ Thunders C. I. O. Lewis. litical students, that Mr. Lewis can not pull the entire labor vote, or even a strong majority of it, for anybody. I personally have believed for a long time that political cater- ing to the “labor vote’ was simply catering to a myth. But there have been other things happening the Democratic front. In Florida and in Ohio, the pot boiled over. We were treated, in each instance, to some of the usual political bunk. 1 aiong Senator Pepper, who frequently announces his importance as a Democrat leader in his native state of Florida, came into Washing- the Democratic na- nvention would be for Mr. It for a third term. That all right. Closer investiga- however, seemed to indicate Pepper was talking headgear. If my infor- 1 18 correct and it came from a trustworthy source, the facts are that every move to direct the Flor- ida vote towards Mr. Roosevelt was badly licked. Indeed, the word that came to me from Florida was that Senator Pepper was spanked by his home folks. He tried to steer the Roosevelt ship and had the rudder taken out of his hands by the state convention by the rather lopsided vote of 72 to 37. And the impor- tant, yet unpublicized, phase of the » that the boys who paddle upon the logua- nator Pepper are known to be for Mr. Garner. In Ohio, State Chairman Arthur Linback apparently tried to do the same thing as Senator Pepper did in Florida. He made a lot of an- nouncements about where the Ohio Again, upon delegation to tional oosey sounde tion, $34 ¥ »- that ¢ O17 € A a pointed out by the state chairman. Those Making Clamor Mr. Linback obviously wants to curry favor with the New Dealers. But Ohio sources, political observ- ers mainly, advise me that there is small chance of Mr. Linback con- trolling the delegation to the Demo- cratic national convention. In the first place, there has been no slate of delegates made up and the pri- mary is quite a way in the future. So, it is made to appear that Mr. Linback, like Senator Pepper, was doing a bit of popping off in the hopes that he could start a band- wagon movement, with him in the driver's seat. From Mississippi, some days ago, there came word of an effort to get lature that would have praised the New Deal administration and New Deal policies. It fell flat. tion of the scope of the drive by the New Dealers. want Mr. Roosevelt renominated lies their political future. their jobs, leads. would keep the bulk of them in office if he were to be elected. It is abso- lutely certain that Mr. Garner would get rid of them. Another thing: the last few weeks has shown the same group in the van of the demand for a Roose- velt third term. Men like Secreta- ries Wallace and Ickes, Senator Guf- fey of Pennsylvania, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador Davies, are making the original pro- nouncements. The lesser lights pick up the song and sing it. It would be interesting to know what the total payroll is of the men now heading the Roosevelt third-term drive. But soon the lull will arrive. Sen- ator Wheeler's demand that Mr. Roosevelt announce now whether he is, or is not, going to seek a third term will get exactly no further than the front pages of newspapers. The Peppers and the Linbacks will have had their say and their pro- nouncements will measure exactly unless Mr. ultimate importance, part of politics. I believe I am go- ing to have a lot of fun around the middle of June when I lock back over the files and see who was im- portant in January and February. Corselette Waistline HE corselette waistline is scheduled for much popularity This simple little top, that look > A ~~ perfectly i 1 Ape Ha Lia addy, prea pn Betton shes dadnirebion very COO gham for vith f ricrac ‘Il also like a dress street and informal iat be- printed silk or crepe, : e of those easy, coming 3 11 repeat several times. 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