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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Roosevelt Peace Bid May Delay
Spread of European Conflict;
Near Eastern Crisis Continues
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INTERNATIONAL:
Mounting Trouble
New war threats were spreading
fast the day Franklin Roosevelt act
ed. The situation was especially ex
plosive in the Balkans and the Near
East. Turkey had seized the Ger
man-owned Krupp shipyards at
Istanbul harbor (see photo above),
ousted more than 100 Nazis and an
nounced a sabotage plot against the
Turkish navy had been nipped.
Russia fortified her Turkish border,
fearing a thrust against her oil re
sources. Greece’s Premier John
Metaxas warned solemnly that his
nation was being drawn into war's
meshes, making particular refer
ence to the British-French troop con
centrations along Russia’s near
eastern frontier.
( About 100,000 colonial British troops
from New Zealand and Australia, origi
nally bound for the western front, were
dropped instead at Suez and dispersed to
near eastern posts.)
There seemed a general direction
to this agitation. Even Italy, long
an enemy of Turkey, was reported
framing a trade pact with Istanbul,
drawing Rome closer to Turkey’s
friends, France and Britain. Italy
is already close tc the Balkan en
tente, which over the week-end had
wooed and won Bulgaria away from
Russian influence. It all meant that
southeastern Europe and the Near
East were being mobilized either (1)
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HOUSE AND WELLES
A repetition of 1916? :
for defense against threatened
Soviet-German aggression, or (2)
for an allied-sponsored drive against
the Russian oil wells which are sup
plying Germany.
(Supplies will come faster than ever
now, because the Reich and Soviet signed
a trade pact whereby Moscow will swap
oil and ores for German machinery.)
Peace Bid
Peace was already in the air when
Franklin Roosevelt acted. A few
days earlier there were persistent
rumors that the Reich would offer
peace terms to the League of Na
tions economic committee meeting
in The Hague. But this was nebu
lous compared to Franklin Roose
velt's action.
Unexpectedly, as is his publicity
wise wont, he announced that Under
in the news . . .
. A Syracuse (N. Y.) university stu
dent analyzed speeches of great
men, finding the pronoun “‘l’’ used
once every 53 words by Adolf Hitler;
once every 83 by Benito Mussolini;
once every 100 words by Franklin
Roosevelt; once every 249 words by
Neville Chamberlain.
€. The senate approved President
Roosevelt’s nominations of Marriner
Eccles as federal reserve board
chairman, and Chester Davis as a
board member.
g At Detroit, it was reported Arch
bishop Mooney had warned Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest,
against controversial broadcasts on
political and racial topics. At the
Vatican it was admitted the devel
opment brought no displeasure.
€ At Cairo, the Egyptian govern
ment announced its Queen Farida
is expecting the birth of a second
child late in March.
4. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, ad
dressing Chicago Jewry, pictured
the highlands of central Africa as
a refuge for 10,000,000 victims of
war and persecutir=
secretary of State Sumner Welles
would leave immediately to visit
Berlin, Rome, London, Paris and
neutral centers, seeking a meeting
ground for peace. Presidential crit
ics frowned, remembering the last
time a Democratic chief executive
sent warring Europe such an envoy:
That was in 1916, when Woodrow
Wilson’s Col. Edward House failed
to win peace, but brought home in
stead the makings of U. S. embroil
ment in the war.
The President did two more
things. He ordered his special en
voy to the Vatican, Steelman Myron
C. Taylor, to get going at once in
the hope he could work for peace.
Then he addressed the pinkish
American Youth congress, for the
first time denouncing publicly the
Soviet invasion of Finland. He also
took a light slap at Adolf Hitler.
Anti-Rooseveltians were quick to
criticize. This meant Sumner
Welles would visit European capi
tals whose rulers already knew on
which side of the fence the U. S.
administration stood. On the other
hand, however, why was it sinful
for the President of a Christian
democracy to criticize the rape of
Finland?
Within a few days reactions began
trickling in from Europe. Most na
tions were ‘‘interested’’; France
even expected Adolf Hitler to post
pone his scheduled western front of
fensive until after Peacemaker
Welles has come and gone.
The Wars
Northern Front. United Press’
Webb Miller left the Finnish front
for the first time in more than two
months, sending an uncensored dis
patch from Stockholm. High points:
(1) Russia’s Karelian isthmus drive
was at last bogging down; (2) fast
foreign planes were arriving in large
numbers to aid the Finns; (3) plans
are already underway to ‘‘blackout”
the nation with bog fires next sum
mer; (4) the Russian army is not
so slovenly as most of the world be
lieves.
Western Front. French frontier
posts bombarded the Germans—
with loudspeakers blasting propa
ganda.
CONGRESS:
New Taxes?
Forwarded to the President was
the first evidence of congress’ re
bellion, an emergency national de
fense bill from which had been
lopped about $20,000,000. Os six ap
propriations measures handled thus
far, a total of $260,000,000 had been
cut, the latest being a $100,000,000
item from the billion-dollar naval
expansion program.
But it was the same old story of
house slashes and senate restora
tions. The independent offices bill
was passed by the senate after re
storing $39,500,000 of the approxi
mate $95,000,000 deducted by the
house. Meanwhile agitation grew
for senate additions to the farm bill,
from which the house had cut $66,-
000,000. Not only did the farm bloc
want this money restored; it also
wanted $200,000,000 for parity pay
ments, an item from which the
President has kept hands off. If
these tactics continue, leaders see
little hope of avoiding the $460,000,-
000 tax levy which will be necessary
if the national debt limit is not to be
raised.
Also in congress:
¢ The reciprocal trade treaty act
was approved for continuation by
the house ways and means commit
tee. If passed, it would let the ad
ministration retain the right to
make trade pacts without congres
sional consent.
¢ The senate foreign relations com
mittee, still working on a bill to aid
Finland by boosting the Export-Im
port bank’s working capital, planned
to pigeon-hole proposals for an eco
nomic embargo against Japan. Since
China would also get a loan if the
Export-Import bill were adopted, Ja
pan would be slapped anyway. Sen
timent also grew for the proposal
to let Finland purchase military sup
plies with the money she has paid
on her war debt. Meanwhile, Ne
braska’s Sen. George W. Norris
asked the nation to impose ‘“‘moral”
embargoes on Japan and Russia,
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
AGRICULTURE: _
Tobacco Ban? Bl
Sorely hurt were American tobac
co farmers when Great Britain
slapped a ban on imports of U. S.
leaf. Reasons: (1) Britain needed
her ships’ cargo space for war sup
plies; (2) Britain was wooing Tur
k:lye, which also had tobacco for
sale.
After several weeks of negotia
tions, Secretary of Commerce Harry
Hopkins announced he thought the
ban would soon be lifted. Britain’s
action was noc violation of the recip
rocal trade treaty, it was decided,
therefore no protest was possible
on these grounds. But Mr. Hopkins
figured the British government had
to do something to halt the declining
revenues from import duties, and to
replenish declining stocks in British
warehouses.
Whether this announcement was
based on wishful thinking or actual
negotiations, no one but Mr. Hop
kins could tell. But observers won
dered how Britain could be expected
to turn against Turkey at this stage
of the diplomatic game,
YOUTH:
Pinkish Congress ,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, its
best friend, was in the audience
when the American Youth Congress
opened its convention in Washing
ton. As the congress made news,
so did Eleanor Roosevelt. First
shock came when the convention
ejected the First Lady’s first cousin,
young Archibald Roosevelt Jr.,when
he attempted to introduce a resolu
tion condemning Russia’s invasion
of Finland. ’
This gave credence to the com
mon belief that the congress is pink
ish, but Mrs. Roosevelt will not be
lieve it. Said she of her first cousin:
I think it is peculiar to get up in a
meeting with an arranged program
and say, ‘I want to speak.’”’
Next day the Roosevelts began a
two-day campaign to straighten out
their young friends. The President
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Her cousin was peculiar.
denounced Russia (see INTERNA
TIONAL). His wife said she knew
all the arguments in favor of the
Soviet invasion, having heard them
from ‘‘her Communist friends.’”’ But
she still thought America’s sympa
thies should be with Finland.
Still true to its pinkish past, the
congress adjourned amid cheers,
yells and stomping for continued
American neutrality. s
COURTS:
Omnipotent NLRB
Earlier this winter the U. S. Su
preme court opined that the Wagner
labor act’s chief trouble was not in
its administration by NLRB, but
rather in the excessively broad
scope of power delegated by con
gress to NLRB. This month, with
out saying as much, the high court
intimated again that something
ought to be done.
Reviewed was a circuit court of
appeals decision which reversed an
NLRB ruling. Case involved the
Waterman Steamship company, and
was the outgrowth of A. F. of L.-
C. I. O. friction. It was the old story
of company favoritism toward A. F.
of L. and NLRB favoritism toward
C. I. 0., but that was beside the
point.
The Supreme court ruled that fed
eral courts have no right to substi
tute their own judgment for that of
NLRB, a decision which left NLRB
so powerful that congress will prob
ably be jarred into clipping NLRB'’s
wings.
POLITICS:
G.O. P.Up Front
Having named Chicago as their
convention site, Democrats took a
back seat to the Republicans in mid-
February, the G. O. P. launching
its attack with a coast-to-coast se
ries of Lincoln day speeches. Mean
while Washington hummed with ac
tivity as the Republican national
committee met to choose its con
vention site, chances being 100 to 1
that Chicago would get the bid.
Possible convention dates: G. O. P.,
June 18; Democrats, July 2, pro
viding a rousing July Fourth cele
bration which might end in Frank
lin Roosevelt's renomination,
ASIA: ;
New Crisis
What may be the prelude to a
new Oriental crisis took place in
Tokyo during mid-February. Japan
government anrounced abrogation
of its arbitration treaty with The
Netherlands, leading observers to
believe she may be contemplating
expansion into Dutch-dominated
South Pacifiz. Moreover, there was
continued talk of abrogating the
worthless nine-power pact guaran
teeing China’s territorial integrity.
School for Baseball Umpires
Shuns Bottle-Ducking Course
W hen baseball teams head south for
spring practice the umpires enter
training, too, preparing for a summer
of virtual isolation and desolation.
During the season they must travel
alone, live alone (and like it), endure
stinging insults from audience and
~ player alike—and still keep their tem
~ pers. They must even learn to duck
pop bottles, for the big league fans
and players seem to have a standing
credo that most errors must be blamed
on the umpire.
W hen calling a player out,
McGowan says you hold the
head and thumb just so,
possibly affecting a disdain
ful demeanor. To call a man
safe: “You bend the knees
and hold the hands like
this” Walter Fry, a stu
dent, learns how to welcome
a successful base-runner
who’s just scampered home
from third. If it's a close
decision, he'll hear boos
from the grandstand in just
a moment.
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Umpires are trained by
Bill McGowan, American
league arbiter shown here
giving lessons. Above, Mc-
Gowan plays the erring dia
mond warrior as one of his
students executes the cor
rect (and effective) way of
telling a player to get off
the field. Right: Umpires
must duck not only pop bot
tles, but foul balls as well.
McGowan shows a student
how to protect his arms
from injury.
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