The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 31, 1941 Page: 2 of 6
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THE ( ORRIGAN PRESS
Memos of a Girl Friday:
Dear Mr. W.: When William L
Shirer, CBS correspondent whose
best-seller is "Berlin Diary,” go1
back here after many years in Ger-
many, he visited all the Mr. Big9
In the War Dep’t. They found his
observations on the German army
$o interesting and informative they
urged him to call on the command-
ing officers of all the U. S. Corps
areas and relay the same info. He
was provided with letters of intro
duction and rec’d a warm welcome
and keen audience everywhere—
with one exception . . . Lieut.
General Yoo-hoo Lear brushed
Shirer off. virtually throwing him
out of his office. His explanation
was that “nothing a newspaper man
has to say about military matters
could possibly interest me."
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
U. S. Attitude Toward Japan Changes
With ‘Drive to South’ Viewed as Threat
To Vital Supplies From East Indies;
Soviet Discounts Air Raids on Moscow
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The college hoy who wrote
"Daddy” up and enlisted in the
marines—right after getting that
plump royalty check for his first
hit! . . . Jimmy Stewart is dating
Georgia Carroll when he get?
"leave.” He’s no dope.
Mrs. John Steinbeck is working in
a New York ad agency. She ad-
mits to chums they’ve parted, which
you reported months ago and then
"retracted”—just ’cause you were
asked to do so . . . Chaplin, I hear,
has already made a million from
"Dictator” and is supposed to have
created a trust fund with the coin
for all his employees who worked
with him on the picture . . . Hendrik
Willem Van Loon is ill at his Old
Greenwich home.
JAPAN:
A Change
Japan, following the establish-
ment of a new government under
the same premier, still rather puz-
zled observers as to what the new
regime might have in store for Ja-
Collier’s roving correspondent, Pan anc* wor^.
Frank Gervasi, sent the longest: Summed up by ‘‘the man in the
radiogram from Cairo. Says N. Y. street’’ in Tokyo, who commenta-
newspapers pilloried Lt. Col. Philip ' tors *eIt was as Sood a barometer
Astley for “mucking up relations ot the mysterious future as any, the
between American press and Gen- new government promised some-
eral H’quarters Middle East.” This j thing like this:
isn’t true, Frank says, Astley’s giv- j i- A sterner prosecution of the
war with China.
en everybody a fair shake, is a
great guy, etc., and even broke
some old fashioned rules to be of
help to U. S. scribes . . . Patricia
Garfield is pulling this brand of
baby-talk (calls it a game), to wit:
"What’s the color of marriage?”
(Answer: "Wed”) . . . "What's
the color of a non-trespassing sign?”
—("G’way!”) . . . "What’s the color
of a ghost?” "Boo!" ... "A baby
ghost?” . . . "Baby boo!” ... All
right, doctor, I’ll go quickly.—Your
Girl Friday.
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Wireless: There’s no great
loss to American dialers In Italy’s
ban of our newscasters. Their copy
had been whittled to nothingness by
the censors anyway. You’ll recall
Wm. Shirer decided to quit Berlin
when all they left him to say was
'Goebbels’ propaganda . . . The
Goering item showed that the news-
iest stuff originates outside the Axis
borders . . . Sen. Taft, who was
the darling of the G.O.P. dailies not
long ago, can’t get them to cover
his broadcasts nowadays. It’s sad
when your supporters decide you
haven’t got anything to say worth
listening to . . . Some of the shows
faded to a whisper the other eve-
ning, the reason being the explosion
of hydrogen gas up near the center
of the sun disk. Things have come
to a pretty pass when we have to
depend on another planet to silence
some of our radio comedy ....
"Daddy” is beginning to make us
holler "Uncle!” . . . Seme of the
bandleaders are now trying to be
clever and toss their quips as
though they were bricks.
The Story Tellers: Dictators’
gratitude, as reported by Francis
Hackett in "What Mein Kampf
Means to America”—a good book
for Senators: When Adolf penned
"Mein Kampf,” it was such a mass
of hysteria and ignorance it had
to be edited. A priest. Father
Stamepfle, blue-penciled the illiter-
acies and rewrote the rest. Hitler
couldn’t stand the priest knowing
him as such a dope, and had him
murdered in 1934, with the rest of
his best friends . . . Best of the
2. Outwardly, at least, no change
in the tripartite pact with Germany
and Italy;
3. A generally more placatory at-
titude toward the United States pro-
vided this were possible if Japan’s
aims were carried out.
4. A strengthening of Japan’s po-
sition in Manchukuo and on the Si-
berian border, but no provocation
or forward move against Russia
unless the Germans were shown to
be positively winning a decisive vic-
tory.
5. A definite "grab” in the south-
ern portion of the Pacific front,
probably in Indo-China.
This last possibility, believed defi-
nitely promised since Japan was ac-
cusing the British of a similar at-
tempted "grab” and hence follow-
ing the old Axis technique of ac-
cusing the other fellow of doing
what you intend yourself to do,
would, it was feared, definitely in-
volve the United States.
The inclusion of a noted Japanese
banker in the cabinet was said to
mean a promise that Japan’s in-
ternal house would be put in order,
as far as possible, and hence a
move toward Indo-China would be
along that line.
II. S. Attitude
Japan’s drive met some real op-
position in the attitude of the U. S.
government Acting Secretary of
State Sumner Welles came out with
a statement declaring the occupation
of French Indo China was primarily
in preparation for “more obvious
movements of conquest in adjacent
areas.”
He was of the opinion that such
moves have a direct bearing on the
national security of the United
States because they threatened sup-
plies of strategic defense materials.
He was referring here to supplies
of rubber and tin now being ob-
tained from the Netherlands East
Indies.
President Roosevelt added weight
to the changing U. S. attitude to-
ward Japan. He told a civilian de-
fense group that the United States
"had” (he used the past tense) been
allowing oil shipments to Japan to
make it unnecessary for that nation
to go to the East Indies for this
supply. He indicated that the pol-
icy had worked for two years, thus
re-
anecdotes in the SEP’s piece on Col.
McCormick, Chi. Tribune publisher, I keeping war out of the Pacific
reports the time the State of Rhode gion.
Island got under his hide. The vTf'UV.
Colonel expelled that state from the ▼ 1* ■ •
Union, removing a star from the Still SiII h iII,r
flag in the daily’s lobby . . . Very 1 * n
timely, and very attention-worthy is
"Free Man Speaking,” by W. F.
Bigelow in Good Housekeeping . . .
By all means read Edgar A. Mow-
rer’s comparison between America
and France in Look. If his revela-
tions don’t wake you up—then,
brother, you ain’t asleep—you're
dead.
The Vichy government, helpless
against Germany and Italy, and
equally helpless against Britain, as
seen in the Syrian debacle, was
seen as sinking more into a position
of powerlessness by the announce-
ment that if Japan moves on Indo-
China that Vichy will have no
course but to submit.
RUSSIA:
And Nazi Claims
Since the move of the British com-
mission into Moscow, also since the
establishment there of a short-wave
radio station, which would permit
observers like Erskine Caldwell to
make broadcasts direct to Ameri-
can homes, it was possible for the
Russian sources to make more defi-
nite denials of German claims than
had been possible heretofore.
For instance, the first large blitz
raid by planes on Moscow was de-
scribed by the Germans as having
ruined the city, particularly the
Kremlin.
Announcers came on the air the
following morning and declared that
the raid was much less effective
than similar raids the speakers had
gone through in England, and that
their trips about the city had showed
no signs of panic or disaster.
The British commission, which
earlier had said that the Russian
air force had far from been knocked
out of the air, told of German planes
shot down, and said that air bat-
tles they had witnessed showed that
the Nazi pilots, in fact the British
pilots, did not have as good tech-
nique as the Russians in clipping
off rudders and tail surfaces with
machine gun bursts of fire.
It also was apparent that Nazi
claims on land, that their forces
had completely disintegrated that
Russian defense, that Smolensk had
been taken and that the invaders
were past Kiev and had Leningrad
practically surrounded were entirely
premature.
These maneuvers and triumphs
might possibly be carried out, but
they were some time in the future,
those on the ground in Moscow re-
ported, and the reports were not
entirely the Russian communiques,
but the reports, censored, it is true,
but nevertheless made by Ameri-
cans and British on the scene.
SERVICE:
And House
Chief of Staff General Marshall
went before the senate and evident-
ly made a deep impression. Presi-
dent Roosevelt followed this with a
request for the passage of legisla-
tion declaring a national emergen-
cy, and the sum of these two ap-
pearances before the upper house
was evident in two ways:
First, an effort by administration
leaders to hustle the legislation to a
vote.
Second, a general upturn of senti-
ment in favor of the bill.
This was one of the oddest con-
troversies since the World war start-
ed. The first feeling evidenced
when it was hinted that the guards-
men and draftees might be kept in
service longer than the statutory
year was that the selective service
people themselves felt it a breach
of faith with the drafted men.
The next phase came from the
selectees themselves, also from the
guardsmen. The officers and non-
coms of the latter seemed willing
to stay in, but many of the private
soldiers among the guardsmen ex-
pressed voluble desires to be let
out.
In the midst of this came the an-
nouncement that all selectees of 28
and over would be deferred auto-
matically, and the bill to this effect
passed the senate by a terrific mar-
gin.
Following a half-hour conference with Acting Secretary of State Sum-
ner Welles, Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo is pictured in Washington
as he expressed to newsmen the hope that the feeling between the U. S.
and Japan "will become better and better.” Later. Welles had a little dif-
ferent version of the conference. He said he had warned the ambassador
that Japan’s actions threatened sources of U. S. defense materials and had
a direct relation "upon . . , our national security.”
(For other news ot Japan set below: JAPAN: A Change.)
Open Season
It's open season on Beauty
Queens again and here is !\liss
California as chosen at fen-
ice, Calif., where beauty pag-
eant uhicls she won was
staged. She is Barbara Wil-
son, a brunette, and she poses
herewith the winner's cup and
flowers awarded to her. She
will act as official hostess at a
national beauty contest to be
held in Venice in mid-August.
R.A.F.:
Pounding A tray
There was some sentiment in
Moscow, British reports stated, that
the Russians, used to enormous
land army maneuvers, were won-
dering why it was that the British
didn’t land troops on the continent
now that the Russians had the Nazis
busy up to their necks in the east.
The British were very frank in
saying “No” to this whole proposi-
tion. In the first place, said the
war office, there was still consider-
able doubt whether the Russians
were able to put up a really suc-
cessful fight against the Germans.
In the second place, war office
authorities went on, the best that
England could do short of landing
troops on the continent would be so
to slash away at the Reich by air
that numbers of German fighter
planes would be kept busy on the
west front, thus taking them away
from the eastern theater of war.
These air raids by the R.A.F.
were increasing in scope daily, with
the bombers taking advantage of
each minute of darkness that was
added as the nights grew longer, to
stretch their raids further and fur-
ther Into Germany.
Already, it was pointed out, they
were hitting at the suburbs of Ber-
lin. and the capital itself would
come in for strong blitzing be-
fore long, the British promised.
NAZIS:
Blast FDR
The main upshot of the attempted
Nazi coup in Bolivia, and the state-
ment by President Roosevelt that, if
necessary, the Bolivian government
would have the full aid of the United
States in quelling the attempted
coup d’etat, was that the Nazis
turned their guns on the President.
The war news went flying off the
front pages as the leading Berlin
dailies paid their respects to the
President in the most sarcastic and
belittling terms.
One said:
"The President of the U. S. A. is
trying to bring Bolivia into the status
of colonial dependence on the
United States.”
Another wrote:
“Mr. Roosevelt’s message to con-
gress and the press constitute noth-
ing but lies.”
Still another:
“President Roosevelt is a main
tool of Jewish world freemasonry.”
This paper published a picture of
the President and his three sons
holding a Masonic lodge session.
This picture, according to the Nazi
press, was found at Masonic head-
quarters in Oslo, Norway. The pa-
per snid It was taken November 7,
1935, and pictured the President as
taking part in the initiation of his
sons. James and Franklin Jr.
According to Nazi tenets being a
Freemason is almost a cardinal sin
FOURTEEN:
Netv Points
Reminiscent of the "Fourteen
Points” of the last war settlement,
Undersecretary of State Welles had
issued the most definite statement
so far promulgated intending to give
America's post-war objectives.
The statement by Welles came at
the laying of a cornerstone for a
new wing of the Norwegian legation
in Washington. He prefaced his re-
marks with the assertion that there
could be no peace until Hitler had
finally and surely been destroyed.
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2. The Orientals do this as a
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3. Iberian.
4. Angel falls in Venezuela is the
world’s loftiest cataract. It is
about 4,400 feet, or 26 times as
high as Niagara falls.
5. Twenty, two of whom were
killed in the raid upon the armory
and arsenal at Harper's Ferry,
October 16, 1859.
6. The Goddess Hebe personified
youth to the Greeks.
1. How many years is a chiliad?
2. Why do many Orientals re-
move their spectacles when talk-
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3. What peninsula comprises
Spain and Portugal?
4. Which is the highest water-
falls in the world?
5. John Brown, the abolitionist,
of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia,
fame, was the father of how many
children?
6. What goddess personified
youth to the Greeks?
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