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THE COIUUGAM PRESS
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France, England Fricndless
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Foreign
Since the notorious peace of Mu-
nich, almost every day has seen the
stars of Great Britain and France
descend to new lows, torn by dis-
sention from within, heaped with
ridicule from without. Hardly had
Alfred Duff Cooper resigned from
the British cabinet in protest against
Prime Minister Chamberlain’s “sell-
out” before Winston Churchill arose
in the house of commons to state
his views. He prophesied that Eng-
land will be dependent on German
good will for its very existence. “We
have sustained defeat without war,
and the whole equilibrium of
Europe has been changed,” he
summed up.
That Prime Minister Chamberlain
agrees is shown by his insistence on
a high-speed rearmament program,
a move quite contradictory to his
Anglo-German peace pact and his
treaty with Italy. It is an admis-
WINSTON CHURCHILL
He, among others, teas ashamed.
sion that not even Mr. Chamber-
lain trusts Adolf Hitler or Benito
Mussolini very far.
Meanwhile, France has been '
quick to make peace with Italy \
by recognizing her conquest of Ethi-
opia. Her parliament, by over-
whelmingly approving the Munich
pact, agreed that no price was too
high for peace even though it meant
relegating France to the position of
a second-rate power. But sorely-
taxed Frenchmen want to know why
they must pay for a huge army and
navy that refuses to fight.
There are other signs, as well.
The resignation of Czech President
Eduard Benes in the face of grow-
ing public sentiment against weak-
kneed democracies, indicates that
Czechoslovakia is giving in to de-
mands for co-operation with the
Rome-Berlin axis. It is almost
humorous to reflect that Great Brit-
ain has agreed to defend Czecho-
slovakia’s integrity. Even more
tragic is Chancellor Hitler’s demand
for reparations from Czechoslo-
vakia, to be paid out of the $150,000,-
000 loan recently granted the Czechs
by Great Britain.
With central Europe turned over l
completely to dictatorship, with \
Russia breaking her French alli-
ance and crawling back into silence,
France and Britain apparently i
stand alone, friendless, merely tol-
erated by her “friends'—Italy and
Germany.
Taxation
Though campaigning politicians
do not speak of it, next winter’s
congress will probably turn the in-
come tax headache into a night-
mare. With another federal deficit
in prospect, with high income
brackets already taxed to the lim-
it. the solution will be a broadening
of tax base on middle and low in-
come groups, i. e., the man making
less than $50,000 a year. Present
exemptions are $1,000 for single per-
sons, $2,500 for married persons,
with $400 extra for each dependent
under 18 years of age. If 2,067,736
persons filed 1935 returns on that
basis, an estimated 8,400,000 would
yield from $200,000,000 to $500,000,-
000 more under the proposed plan
for reducing exemptions to $500
for single persons, $1,000 for mar-
ried persons and $200 for depend-
ents. Chief victims would be those
now paying in the low income
brackets, a prospect that bodes vir-
tual political suicide for any con-
gressman who favors the measure.
Only alternative would be federal
sales taxation, which “horrified”
President Roosevelt when he first
took office and has since been a
dead issue.
Business
When President Roosevelt asked
early this month that there be less
“saber rattling” by business and
labor, instead of more co-operation
to aid the almost-certain economic
recovery, he gave business an op-
portunity to speak. The answer
came from Charles R. Hook, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers, whose slight rebuke
that “encouragement from leaders
in public life would help” was fol-
lowed by a truly straightforward
plea. Said he: “Manufacturers are
extremely eager for a more co-op-
erative attitude . . . Industrialists
want to see a sound business re-
covery . . . Industry wants to see
a higher income for every family
. . . Industry does not want to see
runaway prices ... To help this
recovery along, every group in this
country can assist. Manufacturers,
farm leaders, by using tolerance
and patience . . . can do much to
promote industrial peace and prog-
ress, which are essential to real
recovery.”
Labor
Chief result of the American Fed-
eration of Labor’s Houston conven-
tion has been a widening of the
breach between A. F. of L. and
John Lewis' Committee for Indus-
trial Organization. Labor leaders
have long harbored hope of bring-
ing the two factions together; A. F.
of L. made a gesture last winter,
while David Dubinsky’s Internation-
al Ladies Garment Workers have
long been on the fence, acting as
mediator.
But when A. F. of L.’s William
Green began throwing charges of
"communism” at C. I. O., when he
alleged further that two members
of the Wagner labor relations
board (Donald Wakefield Smith and
Edwin S. Smith) were pro-C. I. O.,
the last hope for peace faded. As
a result, C. I. O. has called its first
constitutional convention at Pitts-
burgh November 14, when delegates
from 42 international and national
unions will meet with representa-
tives of 180 industrial union coun-
cils. At that time, A. F. of L. may
expect to be blasted in return.
Strangest feature of labor’s war
is that both factions remain loyal to
President Roosevelt, who should
have incurred A. F. of L.’s wrath
by reappointing Donald Wakefield
Smith to the labor board last month,
and who should have made C. I. O.
angry by consenting to changing the
Wagner act next winter, on Mr.
Green's request. Though Mr. Lewis
has been conspicuously silent about
the administration, Mr. Green has
been quick to point out that C. I. O.’s
constitutional convention is a rebuff
to the President’s moves for labor
peace.
War
To the Japanese soldier clawing
his way toward Hankow, the pros-
pect has been discouraging. Even
if he survives the stubborn, bloody
Chinese resistance, even though he
helps raise the Jap flag over Han-
kow, the war will not be over. Nip-
CHINA S CHIANG KAI-SHEK
“There can be no peace . .
pon has announced Hankow’ as the
final objective, and it probably will
be taken soon. But Chinese Gen-
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek insists
his people will continue to resist.
His latest statement: “If Japan
does not abandon aggression and
withdraw her instruments of inva-
sion, and if she does not restore
China’s territorial and administra-
tive integrity, there can be no peace
. . . The longer our armed resist-
ance continues, the stronger will our
determination grow.”
General Chiang’s prophecy is al-
ready fulfilled. Though Chinese
have won no spectacular victories,
Japan’s drive up the Yangtze to
Hankow has cost more casualties
than any previous phase of the war.
Every indication is that Japan will
never control more than rivers, rail-
roads and highways, that huge and
lumbering China will eventually as-
similate whatever permanent Jap- I
anese population is sent over to ad-
minister the conquered territory.
• Since “peace at any price” be-
came Europe’s watchword during
the Czechoslovakian crisis, it is just
possible the same watchword may
be applied to Spain’s civil war. In
this imbroglio, where Germany and
Italy have aided the strong Fascist
cause of Insurgent Generalissimo
Francisco Franco, communistic Loy-
alist Spain has suffered repeated
setbacks and now controls but a
small area.
France, and especially England,
have already made peace overtures
to Italian Premier Benito Mussolini
in the Spanish conflict. One pro-
posed settlement is division of the
peninsula into a democracy and dic-
tatorship.
Observers think it entirely pos-
sible that Germany and Italy may
force a sell-out of Loyalist Spain
just as Czechoslovakia was sold out,
that England and France may even-
tually agree to give Generalissimo
I Franco victory.
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WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
VIEW YORK.—G. Ward Price,
British war correspondent, who
is Adolf Hitler's friend and support-
er, and w’ho has traveled, lunched,
dined and visited
Hitler Baret with him off and
Hit Soul to on for years, is
Mail Scribe England's most
authentic news
source as to Der Fuehrer’s plans.
Lord Rothermere’s paper, the Lon-
don Daily Mail, which employs Mr.
Price, has been scooping the ears
off the other London sheets on Hitler
stories.
Mr. Price previously has related
how he and Lord Rothermere were
two of four guests at Mr. Hitler’s
first formal dinner party after he
seized power. That was December
19, 1934. It was about this time that
Lord Rothermere, reaching 80 per
cent of the British reading public,
through his newspapers and press
associations, began his unceasing
campaign for fascism in England.
A third guest at the dinner was E.
W. D. Tennant, of the Anglo-German
fellowship, a fellowship which Lord
Rothermere and Mr. Price have dil* 1
igently fostered, with their Apologia
Fascisma.
Mr. Price, educated at Cam-
bridge university, is a seasoned
and richly garlanded British war
correspondent. As foreign cor-
respondent of the Daily Mail, he
was with the Turkish army in
the first Balkan war; he was an
official correspondent at the
Dardanelles, he was with the
British army at Salonika. He
has long been a quasi-official re-
porter for the British empire.
He writes concisely, clearly and
expertly, with a keen alertness
for revealing little human
touches and with little concern
for the dry imponderables of po-
litical or economic theory.
His book, “I Know These Dicta*!
tors,” published in this country last
year, was, in the view of this writer, I
big news, and should have stirred up
a lot of excitement. Principally
about Adolf Hitler and Benito Mus-
solini, it builds out of intimately ob-
served minutiae of their minds and
persons a synthesis of virtue, charm
and heroism.
Mr. Price, in this book, reports
that Adolf Hitler is genteel, humor-!
ou.^ courageous, chivalrous, abste->
mious, profoundly intellectual, kind-
ly, forgiving, unselfish, tender, a
clever story-teller, and loves dogs i
and children.
• • •
r\R. NORBERT WIENER chal-
lenges Milton, or Pope or who-
ever it w’as that observed, “Chaos
umpire sits, and by decision more
. embroilsthefray.” ;
Scientists Can At last, says this
Now Predict famous savant of
Way of Chaos the Massachusetts
Institute of Tech-
nology, scientists "can row predict
what will happen in states of com-
plete confusion.”
As Dr. Wiener explains the new
outreach of the calculus, at the
fourth international congress for ap-
plied mechanics at Cambridge, it
seems to clock everything, from a
case of hiccoughs to Adolf Hitler,
just so long as it is "pure” chaos
and not a mere adulteration. That
ought to let in most of Europe.
He read English at the age of
three and Latin at five, and en-
tered Tufts college at the age of
11, finishing in the class of 1910. j
He took his master’s degree in
1912 and his doctor’s in 1913,
both at Harvard.
At the age of 19, he was an as-
sistant professor at Harvard, lectur-
ing on “The Theory of Knowledge.”
Dr. Wiener has kept on steadily
gathering laurels in the groves of
Academe.
• • •
INVENTS of the last few weeks
have, of course, flushed many
half-pint Hitlers in Europe, chief
among them being young Leon De-
. grelle, of Belgium.
A Petticoat Counted out last
Putsch la year, he now
New Threat bounces back with
some show of pow-
er; enough, at any rate, to make a
martial stir of men and horse in
Brussels, with word that he might
start delivery on the "terror” which
he has been promising for several
years.
Thirty-two years old, of the
type of a healthy and husky
high-school lad, he is the best-
looking of all the Hitler appren-
tices, and there’s no knowing but
that he might start the world’s
first great petticoat putsch. ,
Comely young women have
flocked to his banner in shoals, |
and much of his support has 1
come from women. He has both
allure and showmanship and few
of the stigmata of the paranoiac, j
unless it be his apparent deter-
mination to scare everybody to
death.
He tried to seize Brussels in Oc-
tober, 1936, stirring up considerable
violence. His party is the “Rexist.”
® Consolidated N«-wn Features.
WNU Service.
It Must Be Admitted
Waiter Was Not Tactful
The customer was raging and
fuming as the manager came up.
"What is the matter, sir?”
asked the manager.
"Discharge that waiter at
once!” demanded the diner.
Regarding the boiled egg which
had been served, the manager
said:
"I’m very sorry about this egg,
sir, but I can’t discharge the wait-
er for that. After all, he wasn’t
to know that there was a chicken
in it.”
“Perhaps not,” snapped the
customer. “But when I told him
there was, he needn’t have taken
away my spoon and brought me a
knife and fork.”
Norse Seamen
Hardy, indeed, are Norway's
seamen. Though Norway ranks
but forty-seventh in population
among the major nations, her
merchant marine is fourth largest
in the world. Since the days of
the Vikings, Norwegian seamen
have specialized in long ocean
trips. Even today they carry most
of the cargoes from America’s
Gulf states to Europe.
In the days of sailing ships, too,
Norwegian skippers began taking
their families to sea because
ocean voyages took many months.
The sailors’ superstition that
women are bad luck to a ship
never bothered them.
'Hill-Climbing' Boats
A unique steamship service op-
erates between the East Prussian
towns of Elbing and Deutsch-
Eylau, a distance of 40 miles. Part
of the trip is made on a canal and
part on a railroad, whose special-
ly designed trucks pick up the
little vessels and quickly carry
them over four long hills. These
"hill-climbing boats” have ren-
dered unnecessary the construc-
tion of 20 locks.—Collier's Weekly.
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