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WEEKLY KEW& ANALYSIS • •
British-Norse Forces Combine
In Attempt to Drive Out Nazis;
kill's Haakon Rallies His Army
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are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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'NORDICS' VS. NORDICS:
CONSPIRACY AND TREASON
Invasion of Norway by Nazi
forces was effected by the high-
est type of conspiracy and trea-
son, according to special infor-
mation revealed by the Chicago
Daily News. According to this
source, Oslo and other important
Norwegian seaports easily fell
into the hands of the invaders
because of a gigantic conspiracy
that included bribery, extraordi-
nary infiltration, and treason on
the part of a few important Nor-
wegian defense officials.
For eight years the Nazis have
quarreled with nearly everyone,
but they always stood up for the
Nordic race, and for Nordic suprem-
acy. But the Danes and Norwe-
gians are much purer Nordics than
the Nazis ever thought of being, and
so are the eastern English, eastern
Scotch, and eastern Irish. A strong
Slavic admixture is evident in most
of the Nazi leaders, and rank and
file.
And so, the theoretical "Nordics"
went to work on the actual Nor-
dics, by land, and sea, and air. It
was all very confusing. English
planes would attack German war-
ships in Norwegian ports, and Ger-
man planes would attack English
warships off the Norwegian ports.
The losses in ships, and planes, and
men, as reported by both thorough-
ly dishonest sides, were stupendous.
Every Norwegian coastal town, up
and down a long expanse, became
a miniature "front"—at Narvik,
Bergen, Trondheim, Oslo, the capi-
tal, and at several points elsewhere.
The little German garrisons, in the
Norwegian port towns, held on by
their backteeth, pro tem.
According to latest reports from
Stockholm, King Haakon of Nor-
way was rallying his armed forces
from a place of refuge in Norway's
interior. A royal proclamation was
issued calling upon the Norwegian
people to "stand with me . . . and
guard and fight for Norway's in-
dependence and freedom . . . The
situation is such that I cannot tell
you where myself, the crown prince,
and the government are staying . . .
God save Norway."
It appeared, currently, that Ger-
man ship losses exceeded those of
the English, and that hundreds, if
not thousands, of German soldiers
had been drowned as their troop-
transports were sent to the bottom.
NAMES
in the news . ,
Prime Minister Mackenzie King,
of Canada, left his "warlike" capi-
tal for a snug vacation in our own
state of Virginia.
Dr. Paul Ehrlich's name stood ex-
tra-high. This human benefactor's
chemical cure of syphilis apparent-
ly reduced its time-treatment from
many uncertain months to a flat five
days, and this was reported to be
true in 85 per cent of cases tested.
Dr. John L. Rice, New York city's
health commissioner, seemed espe-
cially interested and called a great
inter-state conference of public
health specialists.
Mile. Eve Curie, so-confidant
daughter of the French radium
cure-alls, wondered why the Ameri-
cans worry about the news of the
war, and boasted about the grace
of La Paree. She is half-Polish, and
genuinely well liked. Also, stylists
consider this brainy girl as a real
something to write, sartorially,
home about.
New York's Governor Lehman
banned all fireworks in his state,
except in experienced hands for
public display. Sale, distribution,
and possesion were barred, to be-
come effective August 1, 11M0.
KING HAAKON
"God save Norway."
her Faeroe islands, and the Danish
dominion of Iceland virtually de-
clared its independence. In North
America, misty Greenland is
Danish, but it appeared that either
the United States, or Canada, might
take over that vast tract to the
north. President Roosevelt talked
about the Monroe Doctrine, and less-
er lights defied the Germans to
come and take Greenland, which
they apparently had not thought of
doing.
PRESIDENT:
Our President, now in better
shape physically, vetoed a bill to
automatically deport alien spies,
saboteurs, criminals, and dopes.
This action aroused considerable an-
noyance among some native Amer-
icans, who are prone to purge the
Augean stables at historically
chronic intervals.
The President praised highly the
Civilian Conservation corps, and
wished it a long life, even though
the CCC is a child of the depression.
Just the same, most Americans, lib-
eral or conservative, approve of the
young Conservators, although some
pacifists fear it is a first faltering
step toward universal military train-
ing. Such people, and some others,
allege that Roosevelt merges na-
tionalism and socialism in a high-
diluted National-Socialist form.
The President conferred with New
York Governor Lehman at the Hyde
Park hideaway, and did not ask Vice
President Garner to a White House
legislative conference. This was
unusual, and appeared to be a slap
at Texas Jack, who is an anti-Third
Termite, and a rival of Roosevelt
in avowed terms. Texas Jack, how-
ever, is singularly nonsensitive to
such digs, and went his own sweet,
"poker-playing" way.
LABORITIS:
John L. Lewis, czar of C. I. O.,
took a beating on the Jersey front.
There, the laborite Non-partisan
league took a vote and plumped for
Third Termism, even though the
big chief is against it.
The Utility Workers Organizing
committee in New York city de-
manded that Mrs. Elinore M. Her-
rick be fired by the much-beaten Na-
tional Labor Relations board. The
NLKB, however, refused the urge,
did not send her to St. Helena,
where I er opponents thought *he
belonged.
SW EDEN WILL FIGHT
. . . all three, the Allies, Rus•
sia and Germany, if necessary to
maintain her neutrality, accord-
ing to Alexis Wenner-Gren,
Swedish industrialist, pictured
above as he arrived in Miami
from Nassau. Star negotiator in
the recent Russo-Finnish peace
treaty, Wenner-Gren brought
his yacht from Nassau to fore-
stall seizure by the British in
the event Sweden became em-
broiled with Britain. Said he,
"We (Sweden) are going to fight
for our neutrality. We may have
to fight all three."
Bruckart's Washington Digest
But neutral Swedish sources poured
cold water on the redhot news of
spectacular German losses. Win-
ston Churchill was subjected to con-
siderable panning, in England and
elsewhere, for his alleged "usual"
mishandling of the English fleet, in
the face of German tactical success.
His political future did not look
overly bright. People remembered
his high praise of Hitler, in a fa-
mous Glasgow blurb of 1937. Home
folks began to call him "Winnie the
Pooh."
Unhappy Denmark, which did not
resist like the Norwegians, began to
be treated, by the allies, as a Ger-
man province. The English seized
Keeping Out of Europe's War
Is Order of Business for U.
S.
Conflict's Spread to Norway and Denmark Brings Problem
Of Neutrality to Attention of Nation's
Statesmen.
RADl
MEXICANA:
Apparently, our troubles with
Mexico will never cease. If iron is
the curse of Sweden, oil is the equiv-
alent curse of Mexico. Secretary
Hull, growing more impatient, de-
nounced the seizure of American
possessions below the Rio Grande,
in a note demanding immediate ar-
bitration of Yankee claims tor com-
pensation and a "just" pay-off. And,
as usual, the Mexicans took the Hull
volley, not sitting down, but decid-
edly standing up. They know,
smartly enough, that with their Ar-
gentine friends, they are the per-
fect fly in the ointment to the so-
called Hull-Roosevelt good-neighbor
policy, at which so many laughed in
Lima, 16 months ago.
The Mexicans, who have no good-
neighborly illusions, turned out in
masses to defy Uncle "Sam-Hull,"
while the Mexican press fired off
thunderbolts of what Americans
would call July 4 oratory. In Mex-
ico City, with its magnificent cli-
mate and location, President Car-
denas, No. 1 Indian of the Ameri-
cas, with 50,000 others, watched
20,000 anti-Americans march in de-
fense of their country, as they put
it. Cardenas, generally quite sin-
cere, said it was the most moving
sight he had ever seen.
And that was not all. Just to clap
the climax and out-maneuver the
maneuverers, the Mexican federal
council of conciliation and arbitra-
tion demanded that some 17 Amer-
ican and other foreign oil com-
| panics, cleaned out by the Mexicans
two years back, should pay their
former proletarians roughly $20,000,-
000 for a "severance" fee. This
hurt aplenty.
WAR TRADE:
Harry Hopkins' commerce de-
partment announced that the value
of American exports had gone up
some 33 per cent during the first six
months of the war abroad. Partly,
of course, it was airplanes, which
certainly are a profitable sale any
time, anywhere. Trade to Europe
was up by 27 per cent; to Asia, up
33 per cent; to Canada and Latin
America, up 47 per cent. It is to
Canada, direct, that most of the air-
craft go. The Japanese against
China and the Russians against Fin-
land have done quite well with their
useful imports from the United
States!
MISCELLANY:
The Dies committee had another
fearsome fuss with six workers-of-
the-world, so-called, who would not
answer questions or give away their
fellow Communist members. The
six came up in batches of three, the
second batch more bothersome even
than the first. The irritated house
of representatives voted "contempt"
citations. Red-minded Earl Brow-
der, jailed f«r a passport fraud, was
subpoenaed, with 19 others, regard-
ing the passport racket.
General Francisco Franco, "reb-
el" Spanish dictator, indicated that
he and his country intended to be
neutral and stay neutral, despite
the intense indignation felt, over
Norway and Denmark, in Spanish
America.
Rear Admiral S. M. Robinson,
U. S. N., said that he thought Eng-
land's big battleships were more im-
portant tactically than Germany's
planes and submarines, and so tes-
tified before a senate committee of
would-be military experts.
The 17 anti-Semitic Christian
! Frontists continued on trial at New
York. They were accused of want-
ing to overthrow the U. S. govern-
ment. Dennis Healy, chief prose-
cuting witness, told how he took
notes on his carefully starched cuffs
at Front meetings, and treated the
worldly Frontlings to drinks and
meals at U. S. government ex-
pense. "An old czarist trick," said
one New Yorker. Before Mr. Healy
collapsed from nervous strain, he
said the Front talked of shooting a
dozen congressmen, of making re-
tired General Mosely dictator
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.—More and more
people seem to be expressing doubt
that the United States can stay out
of the new world war. One hears
the talk in many
quarters, official
and unofficial. It
frightens me. It is
disturbing because
so many seem to
feel that the war is
growing closer to us
and they are, there-
fore, taking the view
that we cannot stay
out of it.
To all of those who
are saying that it William
appears we are Bruckart
doomed to get into
the war which remains, as before,
simply Europe's war, and to every
one else I want to present this ques-
tion:
Why is it necessary for us to get
into it?
That is the question. It is not how
can we stay out, but why should we
get into it.
There is no doubt, of course, that
extension of the war, spread of the
flames to Norway and Denmark
touches more American hearts. It
is sad, indeed. But it would sad-
den many more hearts in these
United States if we get mixed up
in the conflagration. Moreover, no
one has presented so far as I know
any reason why the United States
or any of its people or any of its in-
terests should be involved in a war
that represents fundamentally noth-
ing more than the thirst for power
of a very few men in all of the
people. Again, it is sad, but it is not
a quarrel of our making and I fail
to see any reason why or how the
United States should shoulder any
responsibility.
The American government is tak-
ing precautions. Some of them
seem to be rather silly, rather an
excitable reaction. For instance,
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts,
and Representative Vinson, of Geor-
gia, chairmen of the senate and
house naval committees, respec-
tively, held a long conference with
President Roosevelt the other day
at which they discussed the propo-
sition of an expanded navy.
President Has Extended
Foreign Combat Zones
The President has extended the
"combat zones" which no American
ships or citizens may enter, legally.
Very wisely, I believed, he did not
delay in issuing a proclamation that
the war zones of Europe included
the waters of Norway, Sweden, and
similar areas. That will go far
towards preventing greedy, daring
and chance-taking individuals from
getting their ships shot to pieces.
So^iie of them would take that
chance, you know, because the prof-
its are large. But always the rest
of us must think of wha\ mr gov-
ernment is forced to do n citi-
zens of the United States,
business, are slaughtered bj^j
eign navy or army. We ha
to look back to 1915 and 1'
see how such killings, step bjta 3S9TOBJB*nment
took us into World war No. 1..
There is considerable doubt, '
ever, about the wisdom shown
the President in sending Underse"
retary of State Sumner Welles on\
that European junket. Mr. Welles
has been home a month now. Some
of the results can be appraised
properly. The answer is that in-
sofar as tangible results are con-
cerned, the trip was a flop of the
first water. That is, unless the trip
may have aroused suspicions of our
motives, it was a flop. If the sus-
picions were aroused—suspicions
that America was planning on fu-
ture entry—then, of course, the trip
was a most dangerous thing.
European Rulers Might
Misjudge Welles' Mission
Private expressions from some
diplomats here have caused me to
believe there is some suspicion
about us in Europe now. It is nat-
ural, I suppose, that the dictators
and even the French and the British
would be looking for hidden reasons
for such a mission as Mr. Welles
executed. They are always double
dealing themselves, so we can sup-
pose that they look for similar traits
among Americans. In any event,
nothing of consequence came out of
that tour of the European capitals,
not even political prestige for the
President.
Which reminds me that when Mr.
Welles' appointment was an-
nounced, there was a good deal of
undercurrent gossip in Washington
that the whole plan was conceived
and engineered by a little group of
New Dealers. They thought the
mission might lead to peace negotia-
tions and Mr. Roosevelt would be-
come a sureshot for a third term
in the White House. As usual, the
so-called "inner circle" had no
knowledge of what the real fight
was about overseas.
As against the things that might
cause trouble and thereby endan-
ger our neutrality—and more about
our neutrality below—it surely is a
commendable thing that the mem-
bers of congress are keeping their
tongues still for once in their col-
lective lifetime. I do not mean that
senators and representatives are
quiet. I do not mean that the halls
of the house and the senate are not
ringing with the usual amount of
demagoguery. Far from it. What
I mean and what I am commending
is that congress as a whole has ex-
ercised the finest caution in talking
about the war. Whether they re-
alize it or not, the members of the
house and senate, by maintaining
silence on the subject of the war,
are inducing millions of other
people to quit talking about the war.
Attitude in United States
Is Not Really Neutral
About our neutrality: That is not
a proper description of the position
of the United States. We are not
neutral. We are, as a nation, cer-
tainly favoring the cause of the Brit-
ish and the French. I am that
"v&* — . ,
STAGESCREEN
By VIRGINIA VALE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union *
JUDGE DUDLEY S. VAL-
ENTINE of the Los An-
geles Superior court conduct-
ed an important trial recently
—not in court, however, and
the judge wore overalls in-
stead of his judicial robes.
The issue at stake wa-
whether or not he still re-
tained his skill as a locomo-
tive engineer. The scene was
a movie location set, and the
stars of "Torrid Zone" com-
prised the jury. It seems that
years ago the judge was a railway
engineer, and when he learned that
an old-time locomotive would be run
over its own private track on the
movie location, the jurist accepted
the Invitation of the location man-
ager—also a former engineer—to
put the train through its paces.
With Pat O'Brien and Andy De-
vine in the cab. His Honor took the
driver's seat tugged the whistle
cord and opened the throttle. He
made the two-mile run in six min-
utes flat, cheered on by his two pas-
sengers.
If you liked "Topper" and "Top-
per Takes a Trip" you'lJ probably
be delighted with "Turnabout," by
the same author. Hal Roach is pro-
ducing and directing it, and the cast
is made up of people famous for
their gift for smart, sophisticated
comedy. It includes Carole Landis*
Mary Astor, Veree Teasdale.
Adolphe Menjou, William Gargan,
Margaret Roach, John Hubbard.
Donald Meek and Polly Ann Young.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has par-
chased the rights to "Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde," and is planning to pro-
/
ROBERT DONAT
WAR TALK
Talk of the United States' en-
trance into the European war is
growing in many quarters, ac-
cording to William Bruckart. He
maintains that such talk is not
necessary. Because the conflict
has spread to Norway and Den-
mark, Americans believe that it
may some day be impossible for
us to stay out of the fight. But
Bruckart asks for just one good
reason for our involvement.
SUMNER WELLES AND WIFE
. . . His mission misjudged?
way, myself. I really do not care
who blows Hitler and all of his1
gang sky-high. Officially, however,
the United States is still friendly
with Germany and Russia. It is so
ridiculous that one has to laugh.
Evidence of how our siding in
with the allies obtains even in gov-
ernmental affairs was given just the
other day when the President pro-
claimed the new combat zones
ground Norway and Sweden. It was
At roclamation that avoided saying
mm countries of Sweden, Norway
Denmark were "at war."
y? Well, if the United States
acting through the
ent, had said those nations
t war, another law would
me operative and Mr.
id not want that law to
e. If those nations had
fed formally "at war,"
would have prevented
being loaned to them,
elt wanted to keep the
o that help can be ex-
becomes necessary.
T^gain, you can see the
i ; of danger. Also, the
idence of the American
lelp Germany's enemies
i see. If we think, how-
ik the lending of money to a
fiation that is engaged in
duce it in England, with Rpbert Do-
nat in the dual starring r^*k Many
years ago it was the harrjM'lctura
of the year, with John ^Prymore
playing the lead so magnificently
that he scared audiences almost into
fits.
tended
possibi
definite
desire
ever,
foreign
war does not lead to additional steps
and additional dangers, then we
have become an ostrich and are
trying to hide our head in the sand.
The dangers of these various acts
are apparent, it seems to me. I
make no charge that Mr. Roosevelt
is trying to lead us into war. I
believe quite the contrary. But
with conditions as they are—with a
dozen nations with their backs to
the wall—every move made here re-
quires the greatest of care and the
greatest of understanding before it
is made. The examination, as I
insisted at the beginning of this dis-
cussion, should be made from the
standpoint: Why is it necessary to
stick out our necks? We can find
no valid reason to get into the war.
The whole Western hemisphere
has nothing to gain and everything
to lose by participating. I entertain
the hope that staying out of the war
will become a major issue in the
forthcoming political campaigns.
In that way, the importance of ev-
erything done in Washington, with
relation to foreign affairs, will be
driven home by competent speak-
ers. And any candidate who wig-
gles or squirms on the question
of why should we get into war ought
to be snowed under so deep that
he would never be beard from
again.
Los Angeles is noted as being one
of the athletic centers of the coun-
try, but when Ona Munson (the
"Belle Watling" of "Gone With the
Wind," and the "Lorelei" of radio's
"Big Town.") landed out there she
couldn't find any women to play
squash with her. She is an avid
squash fan. so she advertised in a
newspaper for feminine partners,
and received no replies. But Ona
didn't let that stop her. She was
determined to play squash—and play
squash she does, with men. The
Men's University Club in Hollywood
has an ironclad rule—"No Women
Allowed." She's an exception. She's
admitted, to play squash—but on
Sundays only.
ODDS AND ENDS - William Powell
ind Myrna Loy will next he en-starred
by Metro in "I Love You A gain" . . .
If hen radio's "Screen Guild Theater"
rings down its curtain the last of this
month the motion picture relief fund
will have added f570,000 to its treas-
ury . . . Bin* Crosby may spend this
vear't vacation in South America . .
Miriam Hopkins will appear opposite
Melvyn Douglas in ~Singapore, for
Columbia.
*
Since his current program, "Mu-
sical Americana." took the air Ray-
mond Paige has received thousands
of letters from students requesting
auditions and advice about careers.
Paige's sponsor— Westinghouse—re-
cently held auditions for a "Vocal
Stock Company." and received
enough applications to form hun-
dreds of them.
*
In preparation for bringing Kath-
arine Hepburn back to the scree*
In "The Philadelphia Story," Mete*
made a recording of a performance
of the play. She has had a long mad
successful run In it, and It's one (t
her best roles. In the screen ver-
sion Robert Taylor will have the
male lead.
Edgar Bergen wasn't sorry to
pack up Charlie McCarthy and go
back home to Hollywood. During
his recent series of broadcasts from
New York the demand for tickets
was overwhelming, and Bergen con-
fessed to a friend that he didn't be-
lieve he'd ever dare come back-
said he'd had to refuse tickets to
so many people that he was afraid
he'd alienated all his friends.
Paramount has announced a new
picture. "Merchant Marine," with
Fred MacMurray ui the lead
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