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THE CR08BYT0N REVIEW
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Farnham F. Dudgeon
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On Plan for 'Pelcetime Draft';
Air Battles Rage Oyer England
(EDITOR'S MOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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' Pulpit or Ballet (.Landlubbers Will Be U. S. Ensigns Bye and Bye
NfrCcsfrom London reports
that members of the House of
Lords and Commons, doctors,
lawyers and ministers are be-
ing put through their paces
as members of the local de-
fense volunteers. Dr. Jocklyn
Perkins, Sacrist to Westmin-
ster Abbey, is shown here be-
ing instructed in rifle drill by
a member of the local defense
volunteers.
Now that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have ended their 22-year
independence by voting themselves into the Soviet Union the influence of
Russia turns in a new direction. Reports indicate that Moscow is inter-
ested in seeing a "popular government" set up in Rumania and some
sources claim that King Carol is said to be preparing a shift away from
the Nazi-like cabinct of Ion Gigurtu. Is the bear's paw reaching out for
another "grab"?
U.S. DEFENSE:
Fall In
With legislation still pending be-
fore congress for the first United
States military draft since World
war days, the army has Announced
- its preliminary plans* for a citizens'
training program, should tb? Burke-
Wadsworth compulsory military
training bill become a law.
Testifying before the house mili-
tary affairs committee, Brig. Gen.
William E. Shedd, assistant to. the
army chief of staff, declared that
if the conscription legislation passed,
training for 400,000 men would begin
on October 1, this year, and for
400,000 more next April 1 and an
additional 600,000 October 1, 1941.
Registration of all U. S. male citi-
zens between the ages of 18 and 64
would take place September 1, this
year but only those between 21
and 45 would be liable for active
service. The other age groups would
be used for home defense purposes.
First draft would probably call to
the colors men without dependents
between the ages of 21 and 31, Gen-
eral Shedd said flatly in part of his
testimony that "never in time of
peace" would legislation require
men with dependents to enter mili-
tary training.
While the senate military commit-
tee started the compulsory training
legislation on the road with a de-
cided majority for the approval of
the measure a real legislative fight
looms on the floor of both house and
senate. Typical of the opposition
faced by the measure is the attitude
of Sen&ior Norris (Ind.-Neb.) who
.has raisecLhis voice against the leg-
islation with the statement it would
gradually transform the United
States into an "international bully"
bent on the destruction of other na-
tions.
Only present member of the sect
ate who voted against U. S. en-
trance into the World war, Norris
claim* that the effect of military
•training on American youths would
'have a tendency to make them even-
tually recognize no ideal "except
that of military force."
I THE WAR:
|. 'Dtte Are Cast*
When England's foreign secretary
Viscount Halifax replied to Adolf
Hitler's "last chance peace offer"
he left very little doubt as to the
firm intention of the Churchill gov-
ernment to resist until the last any
NAMES
• . in. the news
hi
C. Halle Selassie, long a name-ih-the-
news while his native Ethiopia- Was
Under invasion by Italy's Benito
M—Iollnl/ popped back into the
spotlight with the announcement
t he was returning to Africa from
to dirfect his nation's, fight
Dm. x. v"
i told that an Italian had quot-
s saying that Britain would
r, George Bernard Shaw,
sous author, brlstlttd.
stomas "ttntrue,-4 urst dell Wlilkie- has chosen August -17
that"I don't aa the date and Elwood, Ind., (Eli
Britain is going to
lose the war, even with the help of
5 d despicable
kidnaper, the highwayman or the
burglar," ; •, r
ny Umrifcrftiry
ttfatiiry, midc things
for U. S. citizens who
v tax returns, with the
duplicate, or ■■■
return would not be
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the
attempted Invasion by Germany, for
in part of his address he declared:
". . .we realize that the struggle
may cost us everything, but, just
because the things we are defend-
ing are worth any sacrifice, it is a
noble privilege to be the defenders
of things so precious ... we shall
not stop fighting until freedom for
ourselves and others is secure."
Back came Berlin with bombs
plus bombast. As widespread aerial
raids were launched up and down
the British coast, official German
circles let it be known that the
talking was over and henceforth
"facts must now speak."
—Just what shape these "facts"
would take was not announced by
the Nazi high command but London
believed that a "stagger system" of
increasing air and naval attack day
by day until it would be capped by
a general offensive in conjunction
with a wholesale attempted landing
of troops would be attempted by
Hitler's forces,
Cost of War
England's biggest wartime budget
was announced as the heaviest taxes
in British history were introduced
to meet the demands of the govern-
ment's war program.
Income taxes were boosted to 42%
per cent and experts declared that
this in connection- with other in- ,
creased taxes would demand that
Britain surrender almost 70 per cent
of all normal income to finance the
fight against Germany and Italy.
U. S. residents of those states im-
posing a sales" tax of 2 and 3 per
cent who are inclined to grumble as
they lay do\yn the pennies may take
whatever comfort they can from the
news that the British now pay a
"purchase tax" ranging from 12 to
33V4 per cent on entertainment,
beer, wine and tobacco. Rate on
non-luxury items is 12 per cent of re
tall prices.
POLITICS:
No Moth Balls
While the bunting_of'both major
political conventions is safely
packed away in moth balls for an-
other four years, the 1940 presiden-
tial campaign is beginning to warm
up and is taking on the aspects of
the most ppirited campaign contest
since Wood row Wilson defeated
Charles Evans Hughes in 1916.
Biggest news on the Republican
front is the announcement that Wen-
birthplace) as the place, to .be of-
ficially notified that he is the O. O.
P. presidential nominee.
Out In Wyoming, the man who "is
glad to run" against Franklin Delano
Roosevelt turned his vacation into a
campaign trip and started a series
ot personal appearances throughout
the wild and politically important;
West . ♦-
Willkle also announced the forma*
of a committee of four Demo-
apd former New Dealers who'
broken with, toe President to
a national campaign which
enlist Democrats and tode-i
P«ndenta in the support of the Re>
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PAN-AMERICA:
Hull in Havana
As representatives of the 21 Amer-
ican republics gathered at the Ha-
| vana, Cuba, conference were thresh-
ing out their problems of (1) Euro-
I pean colonies in the Western hemi-
! sphere, (2) fifth column activities
! and (3) relief for disrupted econom-
ic systems resulting from Europe's
war, principle challenge to United
States leadership in a program of
unified activity came from the Ar-
gentine delegation. ~
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
outlined the program advocated by
the United States which calls for jji-
mediate financial aid to any country
in need of it (congress was speed-
ing work on a $500,000,000 fund to
aid Latin-American countries whose
markets had been lost" because of
the war), diplomatic and consular
planning aimed at suppression of
subversive and fifth column activity
and a joint trusteeship of foreign-
owned possessions in this hemi-
sphere by all of the American re-
publics.
Argentina particularly objected to
the latter suggestion for that~couh-'
try has some very definite ideas'
about the British Falkland islands,
and in case of England's defeat by'
Germany would prefer actual pos-
session of them rather than a joint-
rule with 20 other nations. Vene-
zuela would like the Netherlands
East Indies and Guatemala is re-
ported RTTiave~ designs ~on British
Honduras.
Main reason that the Argentine
delegation was hesitant to immedi-
ately fall in line with any proposal
that might be construed as a slap
at the dictators was because of the
effect upon her future trade rela-
tions wilh Europe. 4
BUSINESS:
Pile Up
As numerous mills and factories
continue to run at the highest levels
since 1929, orders for defense goods
are piling up much additional busi-
ness for U. S. industry.
Since the. beginning of the gov-
ernment's preparedness program,
over one billion dollars in army and
navy contracts have been awarded
and while little cash has actually
been expended these orders and
those placed by the British govern-
ment in this country are directly re-
sponsible for the current climb in
business indices.
Defense projects, including ship-
ways, ammunition and fuel storagi
facilities, barracks, explosive plants i
machine shop extensions, additiot |
to orders for airplanes constitute thi
major factors in the general rise o:
business activity. . i
Other business Arms of a non- j
military nature seem to be following
the general trend of the "war- I
babies." For example, as the mo
tor car industry reported that sales 1
are unusually high for this season :
of the year, Schenley Distillers cor- j
poration (liquor) announced that net
earnings for the first half of 1940
were up almost 50 per cent over the
comparable period of 1939—return- j
ing $1.44 per share on common stock
as compared to 78 cents last year, j
and Brunswick-Balke-Collender com- '
pany, maker of billiard and bowling
equipment, reported a veryLjjmilar
increase in business by showing V
net profit of. 87 cents a share for the
first six months of this year as com
pared with 45 cents in 1939.
MISCELLANY:
*Great I Am*
C Twenty-four leaders of the "Great
I Am" cult were indicted by a Los
Angeles federal grand Jury on
charges of a $3,000,000 mail fraud.
The indictment charges that the cult
sets itself up as a charity organiza-
tion but actually defrauds those who
contribute to it. The cult has
claimed a million members through-
out toe country and was founded in
1930. Its Jtoudder, George Bwllird. ,
Safe from the horrors of war are these three children of Maj. Arthur
Lockhart of the British army who landed in New York city recently.
They were members of another band of refugee British children seeking
a haven in the United States. Their father is an officer in the King's
Hussars, now fighting for England against the Axis powers. The yonng
refugees are being cared for by relatives in America.
Even the Experts Spill Sometimes
Literary Exile
even the mo,t expert of experts.wifl spill once in a
While, Ed Stanley takes a header during a practice ran for the annual
aah*tt*n be*ch r*ce at Hennosa beach,
Calif. Still upright and riding high la Bob Brown, who won the race
three years ago. The event draw* the champion aquaplanbta of the Pa-
CIDG COM! CftOB |r« • ■ ■
STIMSON GIVEN,^*,iiA
AUTHOttnr - A ,
Henry --E. Stimson. ^ j
Secretary of war, and the
in the United States who
Landlubbers from colleges all over the United States (above left) are lined up In civilian clothes in New
York city as they prepare to participate in a program of. training 600 yonng men for naval reserve ensign
commissions. A boatload of reservists (center)- shown .on their way out to the U. S. S. Wyoming, the training
ship. Right, Robert Morgenthau, son of the secretary of the treasury, is pictured in formation with other re-
servists after donning the uniform of an apprentice seahrair.
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Australians Turning Out Guns for the Empire
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Straining evepy nerve to aid thp mother country in her hour of need, Australian factory workers are toil-
ing day and night turning out tanks, planes, guns and ammunition that will be used in the defense of Great
Britain. Above is a scene in a Melbourne factory where gun parts are manufactured for shipment1 by sea to
ports in the United Kingdom where they will be assembled and turned over to the defending British army.
They're Ready to Learn American Ways Cleared by FBI
Carl Byoir, New York public rela-
tions counsel who was cleared of
charges made by Rep. Wright Pat-
man of Texas that he had engaged
In un-American activities. The de-
partment hf justicc declared that an
FBI investigation "disclosed no evi-
dence whatever" to support the aU
legation.
His long hair put up in a net.
Maurice Maeterlinck, famous Bel-
gian author 6f "The Bluebird,'* is
shown soon after his arrival in the
PrttedStatea as w.rMl t+
W*
in three cabinets (Taft's
and Roosevelt's) is proceWJTJ? I
tiously. But he has been gi^^i
plete authority by Roosev«H^
organize the entire war departmiM
even including the ousting of tw
cratic appointees. " "•(> jSv'
The inside story of Stimwtf.w
pomtment can now be !
It so happened that he h«a "il
delivered a.strong pro-allied i '
at the -¥ale uni-
versity com-|
mencement exer-
cises, when >he
got home and re-
ceived the long
distance call from
Roosevelt inviting
him to becojpe.
secretary of war.
"Mr. Presi-I
dent," replied
Stimson, "I have'
Just delivered an l. RUm*
address which no -
man in high official position;
make."
"I know all about your spcttk,?
Roosevelt replied in effect, "MllJ
still want you to be secretaij g
war" >im
Stimson then replied that thedgi.
siqn was' so momentous that h*
wanted two or three hours to tal^| •
over with his wife and close frienfc, ■
"Take all the time you want,
ry," said the President.
Note—To get the full significant*,
of this exchange, it is necessary ^
remember that Stimson and
velt had fought each other in
York state politics ever since IMi
when Stimson ran for governor aoi
Roosevelt, just out of Harvard, 19a
for the state senate. .
After two or three hours Stfc
son telephoned the President aoi
accepted the appointment. Horn
er, he added one condition. •
"I'm not as young as I used to
be," he said, "and 1 can't worfcjl
and 20 hours a day any more. Xbq&
fore I've got to have men aroint
me whom I know intimately and-cta
absolutely trust. A tremendously
sponsibility will be on my
ders," Stimson added, "and I
not afford to fail." ' .
To this Roosevelt replied io liffr
tering jgftc: "Appoint anyone jm
want, Henry. The only thing 1
is not to appoint too many Repub-
licans at the very first." t
Stimson apparently did not cafeb
the joking note in the Presido#*
voice, 'for he replied: "You 9tk
rest assured, Mr. President, tat
whether Democrats or Republican
they will ;be good men." -e.
The first man Stimson askei %
help him in Washington was a Dm*
ocrat, Benedict Crgwell, now pnit
dent of the Central National bankdi
Cleveland and formerly assMM*
secretary of war under Woodro*
Wilson. He is also a close trtH#
of Roosevelt's, who was then aiiifr
tant secretary of the navy. Crowd!
got to know Stimson whefi the war
department was under bitter Repub-
lican attack in 1920, and Stimson, a
Republican and an ex-secretary ef
war, defended him.
So this time Stimson a«k«d
Crowell to help him, by goin| to
Washington and making a quiet M-
vey of the situation inside the war
department. Stimson had not yet
been confirmed by the senate so*
could not make the survey himidt
But he wanted to know all the hcto
in advance in order to wadKJno
time once he took the oath qf. nffltfa
Crowell made the survey and it-
ported that the production of new
war weapons and material was
gressing most satisfactorily.
ever, he found the war departmtft
rent with feuds artd the peripw*1
situation badly in need of reofltt""
zation.
This is one of the first joba Stim-
son is tackling. There will
important shakeup in high *WT
army officers. .«
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NEW NAVAL BOSS
Col. Frank Knox, new Republic®
secretary of the navy, already^**
been sized up by the admirals. Wff
describe their new bois this
"Hard-boiled and Safins to know®
stuff." - "
Naval officers frankly admit, bof
ever, that they don't like
which is a good omen. For
mirals never like a secretary W*
navy who really runs the •bo*
And ip the navy today they certaiw
need a tWo-flsted secretary. _ _
Note—It fg significant that
is"clearing all naval changes ttoWP
Roosevelt. The President itHl****1,
the navy as his governmental P
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MERRY-GO-ROUND —
Ex-Senator George McGiU
sas, lame-ducked in the lWfr^ _
cleanup, Is hot after the Land W*
commissionership that will
vacant August 1, when
Roy Green leaves to becom<^_
dent of the University of OMWi?;
McGill has the backing of AmsflW®
Farm bureau moguls who to
bucked th« adminlstrat
bank policies—wkft;h
1-McQWschances.
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