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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Russia Becomes New Factor
In East European Diplomacy;
Baltic, Balkan States Worry
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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THE WAR:
In the East
In 1916 the late Lord Balfour told
his British cabinet brothers that
“the more Russia is made a Euro
pean rather than an Asiatic power,
the better for everyone.” His thesis:
That Germany would then be forced
to divert attention to the east.
Lord Balfour’s wish came true in
late September when Russia and
Germany split Poland. (See Map),
agricultural Russia getting more
farm land which she doesn’t need,
and industrial Germany getting
more manufacturing facilities which
she doesn’t need. But there was
nothing to indicate this split-up
pleased France and Britain, for Ger
many and Russia had become fast
friends and were upsetting every
applecart in eastern Europe.
Except for Warsaw’s heroic re
sistance, the war in Poland was
over. But there was plenty of other
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For each, more of the same.
trouble. Pro-Nazi Iron Guardists in
Rumania assassinated Premier Ar
mand Calinescu and a reign of (ter
ror began as his successor executed
hundreds of other Iron Guardists as
an object lesson. Under similar con
ditions of internal strife, other na
tions (Austria and Czecho-Slbvakia)
had been invaded by Germany.
While Germany turned her eyes
westward, Russia closed the Neva
river and thus stopped export of Fin
nish lumber to England (because
cellulose, essential in ,gunpowdey,
comes from woodpulp). Next the
Kremlin was host to a flock of visi
tors, including little Esthonia’s For
eign Minister Karl Setler who found
his nation under big Russia’s thumb.
Latvia and Lithuania also watched,
because Russia covets the Baltic
sea outlet which any of these three
nations could give her. Another ear
ly arrival was Turkey’s Foreign
Minister Sukru Saracoglu, indicat
ing increased Soviet sway over the
Black sea. Yugo-Slavia and Hun
gary were rumored anxious to re
store diplomatic relations, for the
Kremlin was definitely in eastern
Europe’s saddle.
At Sea
After nearly a month of war, the
score on losses stood at 29 British
ships, one French, nine German and
nine neutral. Scandinavian nations
began suffering as two Swedish and
two Finnish boats (both carrying
woodpulp to England) were torpe
doed by Germany. Miscellany at
sea:
C The Polish liner Batory was
placed in Canadian service as a mu
nitions carrier.
C. A U. S. Mediterranean destroyer,
the Jacob Jones, saved a British
steamer from submarine attack off
Portugal.
<L Germany announced sinking an
unnamed British destroyer.
In the West
As a construction crew works
harder when the boss is watching,
so did Germany’s army put its
shoulder to the western front when
Der Fuehrer and Col.-Gen. Walther
Trend
How the wind is blowing . . .
FINANCE— “To protect itself
against market uncertainty,” the
New York Telephone company
prepared to finance a $75,000,000
bond issue through nine insur
ance companies.
GOLD— Mid-September U. S.
gold holdings neared 17 billion
dollars, compared with 1314 bil
lions a year ago. Reason: Con
tinued flight of European goM.
MILADY— War’s reaction on
two feminine items: (1) A hos
iery maker advanced prices 65
cents a dozen on its full-fashioned
line; (2) diamond prices have
jumped 20 to 300 per cent.
EMPLOYMENT— Non-agricul
tural U. S. employment has
jumped 550,000 since mid-July.
Reason: European war demands.
PHILIPPINES — Assemblyman
Jose Romero urged Filipinos to
re-examine the desirability of
complete independence from the
U. S. in 1946. More concrete ac
tion in this direction is expected
immediately.
von Brauchitsch arrived from Po
land. Gone was the last chance for
peace (See (FAR OF (FORDS) and
the lethargic fighting of earlier
weeks developed into serious war
fare. Though French-English troops
repulsed the Nazi sorties staged for
Adolf Hitler’s benefit, the real battle
was yet to come when Germany’s
70 divisions arrived from Poland.
Seizing time by the forelock, Brit
ish and French planes reportedly
bombed the Friedrichshafen Zep
pelin works and pounded their way
right up to the main Siegfried line.
War of Words
Biggest revelation of the week
was Britain’s “blue book” on pre
war diplomacy, showing that Am
bassador Sir Nevile Henderson had
been warned on August 16 that Rus
sia would join the Reich in parti
tioning Poland. This disposed nice
ly of the Soviet excuse that she had
marched to protect Poland’s Ukrain
ians and White Russians.
Biggest propaganda news was the
British announcement that Germa
ny’s “freedom" radio station was
active again, urging people to desert
Herr Hitler.
But the biggest word battle of
all was found between Rome and
London. To Bologna Fascist lead
ers, Dictator Mussolini pointed out
that Poland was ’’liquidated” and
that the justification for war was
therefore ended.
Next day a British spokesman re
iterated Prime Minister’s earlier
recitation of Britain’s war aim: “To
redeem Europe from the perpetual
fear of German aggression.” IJ
Duce’s peace feeler had failed.
PAn'aMERICA:
Job, Opportunity
Undiplomatic as happy kids who
know a secret are U. S. business
men who stand to profit from South
American trade expansion during
the European war. In late Septem
ber, while 22 American nations met
at Panama City to weld their friend
ship and neutrality, there was much
bustling among tradesmen in New
York and Washington.
The National Economic and So
cial Planning association said the
U. S. stands to gain “tremendously”
in Latin-American trade, 'but was
wise enough to warn that expansion
must proceed on the “basic prin
ciple that the only justifiable pur
pose ... is to benefit all con
cerned.” Next day American Ex
press company’s Lynde Selden an
nounced his firm was opening a
chain of Latin-American offices to
help the U. S. in a boom trade he
expected would reach nearly $300,-
000,000 a year.
Gone are the days of U. S. “dol
lar diplomacy” in Central and South
America, a policy which reaped as
much ill will as it did profits. But
there is every indication that Eu-
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SUMNER WELLES AND WIFE
He bore no gifts.
rope’s new war will indeed bring a
trade boom, moreover that U. S.
profits this time will be instigated
just as solidly by our southern
neighbors as “dollar diplomacy’s”
profits were instigated by American
profiteers.
This turning of tables was obvious
at Panama City. First off, the con
ference talked about neutrality and
a 300-mile defense network around
the entire hemisphere, in which bel
ligerent activities would be banned.
But U. S. Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles drew just as much
attention as neutrality. While long
hostile Argentina was negotiating a
reciprocal trade treaty in Washing
ton, Undersecretary Welles was kept
busy explaining why his country
could not arrange more financial aid
like it recently extended to Haiti,
Nicaragua, Paraguay and Brazil.
Reason: Congress’ failure to pass
the lend-spend bill. Thus the Ex
port-Import bank, which financed
Brazil’s recent purchase of 14
freighters, could not underwrite a
similar bid from Chile.
Though he bore no gifts, Under
secretary Welles could go back
home with a pretty good idea of the
job and opportunity confronting the
U. S. in Pan-America relations: To
“carry” its economically strapped
markets until world markets art
restored to normal.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
NEWS QUIZ
Know your news? Deduct 20 points
for every question you miss. 100 is
excellent; 80, good; 60, fair; 40, poor;
20 /
Muitcrranun Su
1. Choice: Smyrna, indicated
on above map, was in the news
because: (a) It was bombed by a
German cruiser; (b) An earth
quake killed 150 people; (c) The
president of Turkey denounced
harems in a speech there.
2. Necrology: Name a German
war general who was killed in ac
tion. Also name a World war
correspondent (one-eyed) who
died.
3. What part of the U. S. suf
fered an unusually long and un
seasonable hot spell?
4. Choice: U. S. bonds slumped
badly for several days because:
(a) Everyone wanted to buy
“war baby” stocks; (b) Fed
eral reserve banks withdrew
their support; (c) Administration
opponents started a whispering
campaign against the bonds.
5. What national convention
drew 250,000 visitors to Chicago?
(Answers at bottom of column.)
CONGRESS:
Neutrality
Strange bedfellows and cockeyed
political combinations mingled with
pleas for “an adjournment of poli
tics” as congress got its teeth into
Franklin Roosevelt’s neutrality
problem. The argument: Should the
arms embargo (barring munition
sales to belligerents) be replaced
by “cash-and-carry,” under which
warring nations could buy and car
ry off (in their own ships) anything
they wanted? A Gallup poll showed
57 per cent of the U. S. favored
“cash-and-carry,” but that didn’t
stop an argument. On the contrary,
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EDDIE RICKENBACKER
One of many peculiar chums.
one kind of politics adjourned and
another took its place. Incidents:
<L Alf Landon, 1936 G. O. P. presi
dential nominee, told the New York
Herald-Tribune that a third term
denial would be Franklin Roose
velt’s greatest contribution in the
present emergency. The President
(whose popularity has zoomed to
1936 heights) made no comment.
C A “Wisconsin-Palo Alto axis”
was formed by isolationists and anti
repealists, embracing such peculiar
chums as former President Her
bert Hoover, former Wisconsin Gov.
Philip LaFollette, Father Charles E.
Coughlin, Capt. Eddie V. Ricken
backer and J. C. Hormel, Austin,
Minn., meat packer. As his fellow
aviator, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
had done the week before, Captain
Rickenbacker made a radio talk.
The “axis” named itself the Keep-
Out-of-War committee.
C, All Republican and one Demo
cratic (Missouri’s Bennett Champ
Clark) members of the senate for
eign relations committee were
barred from a private session of
that group called to draft a neu
trality bill. This brought many sar
castic remarks about “adjourned
politics.”
At last a measure was submitted
to the complete committee and
seemed certain to reach the floor for
heated debate. Not only would it
provide “cash-and-carry” neutrality
but it would placate presidential foes
by requiring a majority of both
houses for invocation. Another ex
ecutive check: the munitions con
trol board must report to congress
on sales to belligerents each six
months. Ninety-day credit was ex
tended to belligerents. Other fea
tures: (1) Authorizing the President
to designate combat zones and bar
American ships and citizens from
them; (2) prohibiting collection of
funds for belligerents; (3) requiring
belligerents to take title of goods
before shipment.
News Quiz Answers
1. (B) is correct. Earthquake killed
ISO people and was felt throughout Tur
key.
2. Necrology: Col. Gen. Werner von
Fritsch was killed at Warsaw. Floyd
Gibbons died at Stroudsburg, Pa.
3. Southern California coastal tempera
tures ranged around 100 for a week.
4. (B) is correct. Federal reserve
banks withdrew their support.
5. American Legion.
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“The Beast in the Glass Room 79
Hello, everybody:
Nina C. Marbourg of New York city tells today’s yarn
and it’s a pip of a story, too. You know, Nina says she went to
see that picture, “King Kong,” that was playing in the movie
houses a few years ago, and terrifying as it was, Nina took it
without a single shudder. It didn’t make much of an impression
on her because—well—Nina claims she had a tussle with a real
King Kong—in the flesh—back in the summer of 1908. And after
that, no mere picture of the brute was going to scare her.
I’ll have to admit, and so will Nina, that King Kong grew
quite a bit in the years between 1908 and the showing of that
picture. The King Kong in the movies was a great, ape-like
creature about a quarter of a mile tall—big enough to hold
an ordinary human in the palm of his hand. Nothing like
that ever existed in real life, as far as I know, and I’ve seen
all the big ones, from Jess Willard to Primo Camera and
Man Mountain Dean.. Nina’s King Kong came about up to
her chin, she says, but he was just as hairy and just as bestial as the
big brute that hopped out onto the screen from that strip of Hollywood
celluloid. And Nina was locked up with him in a glass room!
Chimpanzee Scheduled to Pose for Pictures.
It all came about over a matter of some photographs. Nina had a
job, at that time, that made it necessary for her to take pictures of the
latest thing in chimpanzees. The chimp was in the Bronx zoo, and
Nina made arrangements with his keeper to have the animal pose for her.
When she got to the zoo the obliging keeper brought the brute
out into a big, glass-enclosed room where the light was ideal for
photography. The animal shook hands with Nina, and she says
that’s the first time she’d ever met a chimpanzee socially. Then
the keeper began putting him through his tricks while Nina took
shots with her camera. She snapped him posing at a table, on a
Ipcycle, and going through all his various stunts. She got all the
pictures she wanted but one, and then the keeper realized that
he had forgotten to bring the properties needed for that picture—
the chimp’s roller skates.
“Just a minute,” he said. “I’ll go and get them.” He went out of
the room, closing the door behind him. Nina heard the spring latch
click, but she thought nothing of it at the time. Several seconds passed
“His other hand went to my hair and began to shake my head from
side to side.”
while the chimp wandered around the room. But suddenly he turned
and began scrutinizing Nina with his beady little eyes—and at that
moment she realized she was locked in a room with a chimpanzee, and
no telling what the animal might take a notion to do.
As a matter of fact, the animal seemed to be taking some sort of
a notion right then. He was advancing toward Nina at a slow, sham
bling gait, his little eyes leering straight into hers. “I remembered,”
she says, “that animals were supposed to be afraid of you if you looked
them straight in the eye. I looked steadily at this one, but still he
came on.
Chimp Draws Closer Despite Steady Stare.
“Closer and closer he came, and still I held his eyes with
mine. The nearer he came the more panicky' I grew. AH I
could think of to say was a silly, ‘Nice monkey—nice monkey!’
Presently he was within a few feet of me. They say that a
drowning person reviews his whole life in his last few seconds.
All I could think of were the horrors of Poe’s tale, ‘The Murders
in the Rue Morgue,’ and all the other dreadful stories I had ever
heard of apes at large.
“The chimpanzee took another step forward, raised one great,
hairy arm, and let his hand drop on my shoulder. His other
hand went to my hair and began to shake my head from side to
side. It was before the days of bobbed hair, and mine was long.
Hairpins fell tinkling on the cement floor, and this seemed to
delight the brute. He bared his teeth in a horrible grin, took a
firmer grip and shook harder.”
More hairpins fell from Nina’s hair. The chimpanzee began jumping
up and down in front of her, pulling her head down and shoving it back.
Then, to Nina’s terror, his other hand came up. It caressed her cheek,
then slipped down to her neck and she felt the animal’s K short, powerful
fingers tightening on her throat!
Chimp Hears the Sound of His Keeper’s Footsteps.
Nina held her breath. She felt pretty certain then that the end had
come. “He leered up horribly at me with his glittering little eyes,”
she says, “and then gave my head a fearful shake that nearly threw me
off balance. Then, suddenly, he stood perfectly still. His thick lips
began to quiver. He snarled, whined and ground his teeth. And while
I was wondering what was coming next, the door opened. His ears
had been quicker than mine. The keeper had arrived and spoiled his fun.”
But the keeper didn’t see any fun in the situation. He stood in
the doorway, his eyes bulging. “Don’t move,” he whispered.
“For God’s sake, don’t move!” With that, the chimpanzee gave
Nina’s head one more fearful shake, screamed frightfully, and
struck Nina in the chest—a blow that sent her reeling against
the wall. Then, like the crack of a whip, the keeper’s voice rang
Out. He barked a curt order, and suddenly that beast became
the meek, docile exhibition monkey he had been before the keeper
left the room.
Nina didn’t take any more pictures that day. When the chimp ha<
been put back in his cage, the keeper came back, drew her to one side,
and began talking nervously. “I should have known better than to
leave you alone with that animal,” he said. “It’s a wonder you weren’t
killed. Chimps are queer with strangers, and especially with women.
Look here, I hope you don’t say anything about this. Because if it ever
gets out. I’ll lose my job.”
So Nina kept quiet about it for a long time. Now it doesn’t matter,
because the keeper isn’t working at the zoo any more, so Nina is passing’
the yarn along to us.
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Many Residents of Copenhagen Are Bicycle Enthusiasts
Copenhagen has a bicycle for
every one and one-half inhabitants.
And since many of the machines
are tandems and young Danish
mothers usually have a baby-carry
ing contraption rigged on the han
dlebars, the city could easily go
cycling en masse and simultaneous
ly
As it is, Copenhagen does prac
tically take to wheel in a body on
every summer Sunday. The holi
day exodus takes place so rapidly
that there are roads where 30,000
bicycles pass a given point in an
hour. Few accidents are reported.
Traffic troubles are eliminated by
having a system of cycle roads from
which both motor vehicles and
pedestrians are barred.
The Danish mode of road travel
has some advantages over our
method of going places. It is free
from gas fumes, and it is silent;
family parties, squadrons of club
groups, couples side-by-side with
arms around each others’ shoulders
drift along with no sound except
that of conversation and laughter
and sono
jlsk Me Jlnother
£ A General Quiz
1. What is a sampan?
2. What is the greatest depth of
the Pacific ocean?
3. What state always elects two
Indians to the lower house of its
legislature?
4. What fish is commonly used
for filet of sole? For filet mignon?
5. What state has most cities of
100,000 population or more?
6. What federal body has the
sole power to try impeachments?
7. Here is the first line of a well
known poem: “Oh, why should
the spirit of mortal be proud?”
Can you give the second line?
8. What is the abomination of
desolation mentioned in the Book
of Daniel, in the Bible?
The Answers
1. An Oriental boat.
2. The greatest depth of the
Pacific ocean is 35,400 feet, just
north of Mindanao of the Philip
pine isles.
3. Maine.
4. Flounder. Filet mignon is a
piece of steak.
5. Massachusetts.
6. The senate.
7. “Like a swift-floating meteor,
a fast-flying cloud.”
8. It is supposed by Bible stu
dents to refer to the desecration
of the Temple in Jerusalem by the
soldiers of Antiochus Epiphanes.
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