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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS_J_ Washington Digest U. S. Senate Passes *Men and Property’ Britain Likely to Get Destroyers; Draft Bill as Defense Program Spurts; Both Parties Disown Isolationists Retarded Blitzkrieg Credited to Franco; Puce Whips Up Hate Against Greece Roosevelt-Willkie Debate on Any Issue Improbable; Icke’s Speech Ignores Conditions at Time (KPITOK’g NOTB—When opinions are expressed U these columns, they are non ot the mews analyst ui no* necessarily ef this newspaper.) Of Munich Conference. *' Released by Western Newspaper Union

t nn— ii a i> ineas^—as——m m. —.. By CARTER FIELD far as Austria is concerned, he had Sham Battles Give WASHINGTON.—Best opinion in made no pretense that he had any Boys Strenuous Workout Washington now is that Britain will intention of paying heed to the terms get those 50 old World war destroy- of the Versailles treaty. ers for which Gen. John J. Pershing So when Chamberlain went to Mu- made a radio appeal recently. The nich, there was no reason to doubt big question is whether Britain will that whatever terms to preserve get them in time to do any good. peace might be obtained would be The point is that the Battle of Brit- lived up to. ain may be decided before delivery. Far more important, Britaiif was Wendell Willkic properly ignored in no position to fight at the moment. the destroyer episode in his accept- Britain was woefully unprepared. ance speech. But while he did not This might have been partly the mention them, he left no doubt in responsibility of Chamberlain, but any administration quarter that obviously it was much more the there would be no attack by him if fault of the preceding administra- the government decided to give this tions, headed among others by Stan- sorely needed aid to Britain. There ley Baldwin nnd Ramsay McDonald. would have been no point in his So Chamberlain knew he HAD to mentioning the destroyers, because appease. therfe is nothing Willkie can do about But more important, from the them. Even if he is elected, the standpoint of Mr. Ickes’ slurring at Battle of Britoin will have been won the former premier, is the fact that or lost before he assumes office. President Roosevelt appealed to both As a matter of fact, it will probably Hitler and Chamberlain, urging that have been won or lost six weeks be- the differences be adjusted without fore election day. war. He also appealed to Mussolini September 15, for some reason, to use his good offices to bring about has been the German "deadline.” It the same result. This Nasi plane Is used to help bay more British fighters. A little will be recalled that German repre- rvi icusi, during me years wnicn I* contributing to the Red Cross fond after paying her ad- sentatives, negotiating with U. S. preceded Munich, Britain kept up mission to view a German Messersehmitt plane which was shot down business men, proposed deliveries its navy. It was under the delusion. near Croydon. When the Germans bombed the town, one attacking plane utter that date, though they were Just as were military experts in vir- which was hit landed in good condition. It was pat on display by the unwilling to discuss why this date tually every other government in- Red Cross to raise money for the Croydon Spitfire fond. Spectators nay was picked. They merely said that cluding our own, that the French look sixpence to at it. the military establishment in had "the best army in the world." Below is shown an of 400 West on infantry group Point cadets marching the new Storm-King by-pass, for a informed them that the war would Meanwhile the had week of sham battles in the New York. Fifteen hundred cadets with CONSCRIPTION: DETOUR: Orange county hills, anti-tank guns and be over by September 15, with Brit- not completed a new battleship since eavalry scout cars, simulating tank ears, participated in the sham battles. West Point ‘Men and Upper right: eadets ain conquered. 1020, and was actually without an Property Hitler Late man the guns in a combat car maneuvers. The combat car is during equipped with 50-calibre machine guns By tne time tms magical date ar- adequate supply of ammunition. Qimp ring 14 days of debate in and two of 30 Delay of in arriving guns ealibre. Upper left: A well camouflaged scout car of the Twenty-flrst Reconnaissance com- fall weather will have set in two which; * coalition of istr a tion- rives, Nearly years ago Bernard M. admin in is pany of New York Is shown near the road in the of England attributed in Washing- city vieiaity Pyrites, New York, scanning sky and road on the English channel, with Baruch, on the of Louis John- ists and Republicans overcame the for fogs appeal ton to Spain. Plan was for General invading “Black” forces marching down the 8t. Lawrence valley. and which result in then of aa storms, might son, Roosevelt's assistant sec- opposition anti-conscription Franco to attack Gibraltar first. Dame Nature saving England again retary of war, personally guaran- as she did at the time of the Spanish teed a $3,000,000 contract for pow- an amendment £ Armada. Of course no one knows der-making rnyli|»)ajy £qT ••rtfaf authorizing available to battle Nazi the transports Marshall what the new "surprise Is only congress bad not government to draft private in- in the channel. Field weapon*' appropriated, that the Nazis have been talking so but the need for which had not been dustrial plants when such action is Franco began a press campaign much and about cor- necessary to insure production of de- about, which revealed to congress by the admin- to work up the Spanish to- fense materials. The roll call vote people respondents with the German army istration. ward this end. * # • He had students on the Belgian and French coasts was 58 to 31. Proponents of the march in the streets crying for Gi- have been Franklin Roosevelt and amendment argued that “if you con- hinting. Wendell braltar. But just then a British It is must con- possible, of course, that the Willkie on the same platform—at script manpower, you mission arrived in Madrid. It prom- Germans have figured out a way to the same each oth- script property, too.” ised Franco time—answering food for his people im- land an in after er I Can The draft measure would require army Britain, pul- you imagine it7 Yes, but mediately and a share in- control attacks the don’t 12,000,000 men between the ages of verizing by bombing you expect it, and neither of Gibraltar after the war. behind the coast on does else. But it was a 21 and 31 to register for a year of country right anyone good Franco hurriedly sent a delega- to compulsory military En- which they propose land, which idea, and would be even better if training. tion to Berlin to get a counter offer. dorsed unequivocally by President would make it possible regardless there were any chance of FDR’s tak- He decided to play both ends. It’s of weather Roosevelt as an of his conditions. This seems ing Willkie up on his integral part an old challenge. Spanish custom. Meanwhile but it is unwise to But the facts are $14,000,000,000 rearmament meas- highly unlikely, that President Hitler’s blitzkrieg was stalled. dismiss ure, the bill went to the house of any possibility. Roosevelt does not want any part The remains of a debate representatives where a fight SHELL GAME: general picture that, with Willkie on ANY at the the odds are issue. Least of loomed to raise the age bracket to moment, slightly all, curiously enough, Britain. The re- on the electric 21 to 45—in effect doubling the res- un me oeacties against picture power issue which ervoir of draftees. mains, however, that IF she is able Roosevelt has made so important, potential Wen- Super-guns capable of shooting dell Willkie the to hold out until the fogs and storms and which he will prove a during week had tremendous ranges long have been hopes come, those 50 old destroyers would great to Willkie. come out for a “draft bill now” hinted to be ’s much-her- handicap be a tremendous help. It also ap- The truth is that the New Dealers which helped kill delay attempts by alded secret weapon. So when shells pears to be a fact, if the recent are just a little bit shell-shocked the isolationist grotip. began falling on the British Dover published polls are correct, that a whenever they think of ANY debate The senate acted less than 24 cliffs, thousands of residents packed large majority of the American peo- with Willkie since that time the then hours after the President signed the their worldly goods and scampered are in favor of the Brit- Commonwealth & Southern National Guard mobilization bill au- inland. ple letting president ish have them, on the theory that off Robert H. Jackson in thorizing him to call out 408,000 state However, the distance from Do- polished the Britain is to a on militiamen reserves a longer able fight, the debate the New Deal, before and army for ver to the gun emplacements on the of active service. longer America has to get ready. the Town Hall in New York city. year The first French coast is hardly more than of be mobi- The isolationists, headed by Sen. To appreciate this, one must know contingent 55,000 may 20 miles. Most modem powers have Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, are what the New Dealers in lized beginning September 15. coastal guns that will shoot that dis- general, fighting this, screaming at William and Roosevelt in particular, think of tance. They are the same 12 and DEFENSE: C. Bullitt for his speech urging Jackson. Even FDR thinks Jackson 14-inch guns carried on battleships. chairman of the committee for the care of more aid to Britain and is the second best More and more speed is the tempo The German European children, gets acquainted with promptly, statesman in the shelling didn’t last Gwendolyn Kell, 6, of and In U. S. The London, Geoffrey A. Newbold, 6, of Middlesex, as the children arrive on the Samaria. doing everything they dare to pre- world today, and there are a good military preparations. long. British guns with the same available for them, and according to aU indications, they were happy because of the vent further aid. But politically they many New Dealers treasonable National Defense commission let range on the German em- hospitality opened up them* Bunks were for Rl*ht: at a premium, and at times durinr the voyage some of the 138 have no place to go. Neither Roose- enough to think that Jackson is real- contracts 3,000 airplanes. The placements. rhiidren refugee from Great Britain in lifeboats. and Trevor Davies velt nor Willkie them No. 1. now has on order. slept Clyde (shown) are so doing. They were gives any ly army 10,015 sent to a home in Boston. since the Willkie oo wnen wuiKie President Roosevelt also named a In the Air chance, accept- vinuiuy unocKea ance to the one the No. 1 six-man board which met with a Raids by Marshal Goering’s Luft- speech, play against champion (certainly after the other. indication is that FDR of the New similar Canadian board to survey waffe on British industrial and mili- Every himself) Dealers even the Middle Western states are into a cocked hat in a joint defense plans. Mayor Fiorello tary centers grew progressively President public de- Roosevelt at Maneuvers To Arouse America to- and on issues not so LaGuardia of New York is chairman. heavier. Gradually more attention gradually moving, though slowly, bate, dissimilar was being paid to London and the ward the position taken by both ma- from those to be argued in this cam- candidates. the visits extended as long as six and jor paign, impression was pretty Women in the News seems more of a seven hours. High explosive and So it certainty nearly indelible. Certainly it is still that Britain will the And Miss Betsy Ross, 20-year-old incendiary bombs were dropped and get destroyers. clearly legible. it says: “Don’t a of let flier of Lebanon, Pa., established the air ministry admitted the toll of It’s just question whetfc^r it WUlkie get you into a debate will be soon even if name the a new altitude record for light casualties and property damage was enough. you judges. He’ll Ur steal ’em from planes. With a 65-horse power growing. Fires swept over fashion- WAKE you.” It is rather strange that none of engine she reached 18,200 feet. able West End as well as the Remember how timid Dave Lilien- poorer AMERICA the comments on the recent speech workingmen’s sections. thal was when Willkie offered to Laiy Haw Haw is the name of of Harold Ickes, supposedly replying let an The British returned the the SEC itself referee his American woman who is calls to Wendell Willkie for President company’s promptly. In dispute with TVA? And there are broadcasting propaganda to U. S. murky flying weather Roosevelt, have taken issue with they in on Berlin New Dealers who think from Berlin, much as Lord Haw dropped several Ickes' criticisms of former Prime Dave was nights in succession. gypped when Willkie let Haw nightly talks to England. Heavy explo- Minister Neville Chamberlain. Ap- virtually sions were heard on Unter Lilienthal himself referee Friends of Constance Drexel, for- den Lin- it is not fashionable to de- the nego- den, Berlin’s parently tiations! mer newspaper Broadway. The Ger- fend Chamberlain for he man anything woman who was last located in war office said, But even if FDR were to however, only did, though there was plenty of ap- willing suburban spots had been hit and debate with Willkie on other sub- Germany writing pro-Hitler arti- proval at the time. the central was he would not debate cles, cl*im to have recognized her city untouched. Mr. Ickes said: “Mr. Willkie criti- jects, with him voice. on the public thesis. cizes the Blum government in ownership Not this fall! There are several Princess Elisabeth, who some France and holds it responsible for signs to NAMES that the New Dealers do not want day may succeed the throne the defeat of France. Has he no criti- at celebrated her thir- any more referenda on that England, • in cism of subject, the neivs England's pro-Munich gov- in teenth birthday with plain sponge with its of particularly politically strategic ernment, policy appease- locations. cake. Icing was missing because ment?” of rations. Cabinet—Jesse Jones of Texas re- For the sugar Let's take a look back at instance, there is San Fran- ceived President Roosevelt’s quick Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U. S. invita- what the sit- cisco. The city has given a to the Munich conference, good to and tion Join the cabinet with the res- minister Oslo, Crown Artist James was and what Mr. Ickes’ many indications of getting fed of Montgomery Flagg uation then, up Princess Martha of ar- ignation Harry L. Hopkins as sec- on the New Norway is shown beside the poster he has chief, President Roosevelt, for whom Deal’s public power rived in New York on the U. S. retary of commerce. He may con- ideas. Back in just completed as a contribution to he was answering Willkie, had to do 1913, congress ap- American tinue on as federal loan adminis- the Hetch army transport Legion. the work of the “Wake Up, Amer- with it. proved Hetchy project, The had wa- trator, holding two jobs with one with a that never ship passed through ica" committee, of which he is a The facts are that, up to Munich, proviso should this ters declared as mined. pay. "*t,on* be distributed Germany peace time army maneuver* ii member. Aims of the committee are and for a short period thereafter, power by privately had Parting—Myron C. the explainedfxniliHLi to Presidentp **!* Franklin owned San Washington informed Berlin Taylor, D. Roosevelt General Draw i and moral be made that Adolf agencies. Francisco paid at by Hugh physical preparedness no charge could it would hold President’s personal envoy to the Norwood, New York. The no attention to this. It Germany responsi- President, who is seated in his ear, and Uu i with mightier force, and the Hitler had ever broken a He sold the is home and not pres- treaty. ble for the Vatican, expected general carefully go over a of the terrain over power to the old ship's security. map which the maneuver) i ervation of peace in the Western I had said he was going to do things, private company, to return, due to ill health. wtr® held. took a nice on the Hemisphere. I and he had done them. So far as profit sale, and* let the sell to its | the Rhineland is concerned, or so company citizens.