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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH JF. LaBINE
U. S. Speeds Defense Measures:
Army Seeks Younger Personnel,
New Highway Network Planned
(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions sre expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Copyright. 1839.
DEFENSE
Chin Up and Out
Best indication of U. S. reaction to
Adolf Hitler’s Reichstag speech has
been Washington’s rush to strength
en both military and economic de
fense, theoretically against any ag
gressor but obviously against the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo entente. Sample
moves:
Economic. Nevada’s Sen. Key
Pittman boldly offered a bill per
mitting the President to block Amer
ican shipments to Japan or any oth
er violator of the nine-power treaty.
Plainly designed to rush a decision
on U. S. neutrality policy, the bill
brought a quick answer that Japan
would be “forced” to strengthen its
bonds with Germany and Italy if
congress passed the bill.
Army. Secretary of War Harry
Woodring offered a bill to hasten
retirement of over-age and unfit offi
cers, because “we are the only pow
er which has not recognized the need
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WAR’S WOODRING
Youth to the fore.
for younger men in command.”
Next fall, it was announced, aging
Gen. Malin Craig will be succeeded
as chief of staff by 58-year-old Brig.
Gen. George Catlett Marshall. Mean
while a door closed behind the vast
arms expansion program as orders
were issued to keep secret the num
ber of war planes ordered and de
livered, and to discharge all aliens
working in private plants which fill
munitions orders.
Navy. Engineering, ordnance and
construction - repair departments
may be merged in one of several
navy department streamlining
moves. Other naval developments:
(1) Maritime Commission Chairman
Emory S. Land asked more power to
requisition or purchase ships for na
tional defense; (2) about $9,000,000
was asked to recondition five over
age battleships; (3) agitation began
for a $5,000,000 naval air research
station at March field, Calif.
Transportation. President Roose
velt recommended 26,700 miles of
new national highways to care for
growing peacetime traffic and meet
defense requirements. The plan’s
essence: Five east-west and seven
north-south arterials would be built,
free from the tolls proposed under
an earlier super-highway plan.
EUROPE
Boomerang
Viewed in retrospect, the biggest
results of Adolf Hitler’s infamous
Reichstag speech took place before
that speech was ever made. In that
frantic week of anticipation when
war seemed more imminent than
any time in 20 years, jittery nations
found courage to choose sides, com
mit themselves and forget tradition
al animosities. Sample: Democratic
HEADLINERS
MARQUESS OF LOTHIAN
#
Bom 57 years ago as plain
Philip Henry Kerr, Lord Lothian
takes Britain’s No. 1 diplomatic
job next summer when he be
comes ambassa
dor to the U. S.
A charter mem
ber of Lady As
ter’s allegedly
pro-Nazi “Clive
den set,” he be
gan advocating
appeasement in
1934 by urging
“elementary jus
tice^’ for Hitler
via negotiation.
As wartime sec
retary to ex-Premier David Lloyd
George, the marquess became a
British “Colonel House” and has
remained in close advisory posi
tions under subsequent McDon
ald and Chamberlain regimes. He
advocated “treaty politics” as
against “power politics.” Ameri
cans will find him an advocate of
Britain’s resuming token war
debt payments. Bachelor, twice
an earl, once a viscount and four
times a baron, he gained his ti
tles in 1930 by inheritance from a
distant cousin.
Britain and Communistic Russia
discovered both their geese might
be cooked unless they got together.
If Der Fuehrer’s conciliatory re
fusal of President Roosevelt’s peace
plea broke the European tension, its
stern reassertion of German deter
mination did not allow lesser nations
to forget that tension. Russia, Brit
ain and France hastened their triple
entente as the foundation for a con
tinent-wide network of lesser pacts.
The Soviet wooed Poland, Rumania
and Turkey. Britain also wooed Tur
key, hoping to cement Bulgaria, Ru
mania and Greece in a Balkan en
tente. In the Baltics, Poland re
asserted its determination to stave
off German demands on Danzig and
pressed mutual defense negotiations
with Finland, Esthonia, Latvia and
Lithuania. Members of the new tri
ple entente would agree to protect
Europe’s four neutral states, Bel
gium, Switzerland, Holland and Den
mark.
The biggest certainty in European
diplomacy appears to be French-
British military aid against Germa
ny if the Reich presses its demands
against Poland. The second biggest
certainty is that Russia will also
aid Poland, the latter nation being
another that was jarred by Hitler’s
speech into such fright that animos
ity toward the Soviet is forgotten.
Thus the Reichstag speech has
served as a boomerang, hastening
the “encirclement” which Herr Hit
ler fears and hates. History may
therefore mark April 28 as the day
Germany carried a good thing too
far, and the day anti-Nazi Europe
began barking back.
RELIEF
Election Coming Up
For three months an economy-
minded congress has sought means
of returning relief to the states, !
thereby destroying WPA, slashing
federal appropriations and making
the U. S. only a money allocator and
general overseer. Until late April
President Roosevelt had commented
on the new program no more than
to endorse a ban on politics-in-relief.
Then, however, he asked congress
for a $1,723,000,000 appropriation to
meet relief needs during the 1939-40
1938
f $2,258,943,000
V •
1937
1 $1,536,584,250 ]
1936
f$1,880,693,074 ]
1935
',396,939,691 1
RELIEF SINCE 1935
Chart shows appropriations since 193»
compared with the new request (at top).
Pending appropriation represents only
original budget request, while figures for
previous three years represent original
request plus monies voted later to meet
emergencies.
fiscal year, of which $1,477,000,000
would go for WPA. Tacitly, there
fore, he spanked reform measures
proposed by South Carolina’s Sen.
James J. Byrnes and Virginia’s Rep.
Clifton Woodrum, making it plain
that he wants WPA kept intact and
moreover is opposed to Republican
plans for decentralizing relief.
High points in the message: (1)
continued high volume unemploy
ment is due largely to a 500,000 an
nual influx of new workers; (2) relief
needs will remain high until the
U. S., like the rest of the world, has
undergone “a process of readjust
ment, particularly in connection
with production and distribution of
goods;” (3) retainance of present
formula on federal-state division of
WPA costs (20-25 per cent by the
states) is essential; (4) the new gov
ernment reorganization plan will re
sult in WPA economizing, whereas
return of relief to the states would
result in “inefficiency and confusion
through lack of co-ordination and
uniformity.”
Though $1,477,000,000 for 1939-40
WPA relief is far from a high-water
mark (see chart), congressional his-
torials recall that for the past three
years deficiency appropriations have
been needed to fill WPA’s empty cof
fers before year’s end. Carefully
making no accusations, they never
theless reflect that next year is elec
tion year, when smart politicians
will know better than to slash re
lief rolls for economy’s sake.
PEOPLE
In the Army Now
In 1915 handsome, 18-year-old An
thony Eden joined the British army,
became its youngest captain and
won the military cross for gallantry.
Today, at 41, he is regarded as Brit
ain’s coming man of politics, a like
ly successor to Prime Minister Ne
ville Chamberlain. Deserting par- I
liament for the moment, he has
joined the London Rangers regiment
for a “freshener” course, thus stim
ulating British military interest. As
signed to the rank of major, which
he won in the war, Mr. Eden re
fused command of a battalion.
AVIATION:
Success Story
Eighteen years ago a drug-store
clerk named Jack Frye began
spending part of his $25-a-week sal
ary learning to fly. Handy at the
throttle, he soon became a transport
pilot and naval reserve officer. Bui
Jack Frye yearned to try the busi
ness end of aviation. In 1930 he and
Paul Richter, whom he had taught
to fly, got their fingers in big-time
aviation by merging Aero Corpora
tion of California with fast-growing
Transcontinental and Western air
lines. By 1934 Jack Frye had be
come TWA’s president, and by this
spring his firm was flying 33 twin-
motored ships over 6,236 route miles
between New York and Los Angeles.
Aided by Paul Richter and several
unidentified associates, the one-time
drug-store clerk bought an estimat
ed 45,000 shares of TWA stock from
New York’s Lehman Brothers and
Chicago Financier John D. Hertz,
finding himself major owner of one
of the nation’s major airlines. Only
parallel is the case of Capt. Eddie
Rickenbacker, World war ace who
last year bought Eastern airlines.
PHILIPPINES:
Problem Child
Less than a decade kas passed
since the U. S. fought Philippine
independence demands, but tables
have a way of turning. Given con
gressional assurance of early free
dom, Philippine President Manuel
Quezon hardly had time to exult be
fore Japan turned imperialistic,
swaggered into China end began
grabbing off every piece of unpro
tected real estate within Asiatic
waters. Since Japs already hold a
strong commercial position in Ma
nila, moreover since even a double
strength U. S. Pacific fleet might
not be able to hold the islands
against sudden attack, many Amer
icans believe their nation should
leave the Philippines before getting
involved in war. Added impetus
is given by U. S. agriculture’s re
sentment over concessions to Fili
pino sugar.
Sensing that the U. S. was anxious
to pull stakes, Manuel Quezon last
year appealed to President Roose
velt and won an administration-
sponsored proposal calling for polit
ical independence in 1946, the 25
per cent tariff being increased by
5 per cent a year until wholly ef
fective in 1961. Since President
Quezon will not be able to attend
hearings this year, the bill is being
tabled until next session. When he
does arrive, Mr. Quezon will be of
fered an even stronger deal which
members of the Senate committee
on territories and insular posses
sions have already accepted unani
mously, albeit secretly. The deal:
If Filipinos will cut political ties
with the U. S. in 1942, current 25 per
cent tariff rates will continue until
1946 as under the administration bill.
Then rates will jump 10 per cent
annually until the U. S. washes its
hands of the whole affair in 1953.
Still officially unannounced, the
substitute bill (suggested by Mary
land’s Sen. Millard E. Tydings) has
been hushed for fear Japan may
sail into Manila immediately, con
fident the U. S. Ocss not care to
defend the harbor Admiral Dewey
stormed so heroically in 1898.
BOLIVIA:
Democratic Dictator
Forbears of Bolivia’s 35-year-old
President German Busch came from
the country which supplied his bap
tismal name, but for two genera
tions Busches have been loyal Bo
livians. In 1935 German Busch
emerged from the Gran Chaco war
with Paraguay to find his country’s
government in horrible shape.
Fiiendly to labor and business,
boasting strong Catholic support.
BOLIVIA AND BUSCH
His plan may work.
Sfoungster Busch became provision
al president in July, 1937, when Col.
David Toro’s “socialistic” state was
toppled. Last May he was constitu
tionally re-elected, beginning a task
from which lesser men might have
turned away.
Plagued by Naziism and Fascism,
bankrupt and facing possible revolu
tion if Bolivia’s three Chaco war
parties (Liberal, Republican, Social
ist Republican) won the May legis
lative election. President Busch sur
prised the world by announcing a
new type political animal, dictator
ship to prepare for “a real democ
racy.”
Observers give German Busch a
good chance of succeeding. Having
canceled the election, dissolved his
congress and abolished constitution
al guarantees on the plausible as
sumption that restive Bolivia does
not deserve democracy at this mo
ment, Colonel Busch is the world’s
first dictator to (1) invite “patriotic”
criticism of his regime; (2) reject
his cabinet’s resignation; (3) view
Fascism and Naziism “with pain,”
and (4) promise an election five to
eight months hence to let Bolivia
decide its own destiny.
Behind-the-Scenes Workmen
SmootlnPath for Sovereigns
On American Trip This Month
White House Solves Its Banquet Problem;
French Canadian Barber Prepares
To Tackle the Royal Whiskers.
By WILLIAM MASTERSON
John Q. Public just puts on his hat and goes traveling. But
when Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth set out
for a month’s junket to North America, there’s enough behind
scenes bustling to shame a dozen circuses. From London to
Vancouver, from Toronto to Washington, unseen hands have
been smoothing the bumps since last autumn, making certain
that Britain’s sovereign couple will have clear sailing from
their arrival at Quebec on 1 ® “
May 15 until their departure a
month later from Halifax.
From the king’s official bar
ber to the chap who will seat
guests at the White House
banquet, this vast army of
“stagehands” will work
ahead and clean up behind
as the royal entourage glides
gracefully on its way from coast to
coast, untroubled by the petty de
tails that bother you and me when
we go sight-seeing.
To the Britishers, Canada will be
not nearly so much a problem as
the United States, where customs
defy the traditional English stand
ards, where photographers rush pell
xnell to shoot every visiting notable,
and where there’s apt to be a dearth
of the ceremony customarily attend
ant upon a visit of such esteemed
guests.
Scotland Yard Intervenes.
This problem falls principally on
two people. Chief Constable Albert
Canning of Scotland Yard and
George Summerlin, head of the
state department’s protocol division,
both now immersed in plans for the
visit which starts when the royal
train crosses the American border
at Niagara Falls on June 7, and
ends five days later when George
and Elizabeth emerge once more
into Canadian “civilization" at
Montreal.
L^te in April Mr. Canning ar
rived at Washington and went into
conference with the secret service
concerning the 1,500-mile American
itinerary of the royal train. His
first act was to hush Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, who had planned to
tell reporters about the royal suite
prepared m the whitfe House with
$16,000 WPA funds (no other appro
priation was available).
To provide maximum protection,
the royal train will follow a pilot
train carrying reporters from the
border to Washington. At all public
appearances, the most dangerous of
which will be New York’s inevitable
ticker tape shower, Mr. Canning’s
men will keep guard to prevent trou-
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double line of marines down which
the party will walk from the train
shed to the waiting automobiles, for
an army band to play “God Save
the King,” and for a motorcycle
escort to precede the party on its
triumphant ride to the White House.
The White House’s chief behind-
scenes workers will be Mrs. Hen
rietta Nesbitt, official housekeeper;
Mrs. James Helm, who is Mrs.
Roosevelt’s social secretary; A. B.
BARBER—Paul Emile Tasse,
who promises not to press a sham
poo or hair tonic on his royal cus
tomer, will travel in the official
train. In recent weeks his chair in
the basement shop in the Chateau
Laurier at Ottawa has been usurped
from regular clients by “rubber
necks" eagerly stretched for the
hands which will shave the royal
face and cut the royal hair.
Tolley, a member of the White
House staff, and H. C. Spruks, cere
monial officer of Mr. Summerlin’s
department.
Everyone Gets a Seat.
Thanks to Mr. Lascelles’ carte
blanche, the seating problem at the
White House banquet has been
solved. Under England’s system the
President and Queen Elizabeth
would sit at the head of the table,
with the king and Mrs. Roosevelt
buried among lesser lights at the
foot. That’s no way to treat a king,
so by substitute arrangement all
four personages will sit facing each
other across the center of a long
table.
Mrs. Helm will make up the guest
list and send it to Mr. Spruks who
will worry several days over who
sits next to whom. According to
custom, American officials run down
the line with the President first,
vice president second, followed by
ambassadors, Supreme court jus
tices, senators, representatives and
whoever else is left. Mrs. Helm must
decide, among other things, what
ambassadors, justices and congress
men get precedence in sitting clos
est the President.
Next the list will go to Mr. Tolley,
HOUSEKEEPER—As the no.
tion's “first housekeeper" Mrs.
Henrietta Nesbitt must be pre
pared to meet any emergency that
may arise when King George and
Queen Elizabeth arrive next month.
Since the Roosevelts are a large as
well as a generous and impulsive
family, and since the White House
is the center of the country*s hos
pitality, Mrs. Nesbitt’s emergencies
sometimes come quite frequently,
calling for a meal serving either
three or 100 guests.
who perfects the seating arrange
ment by cutting out a cardboard
“dummy” complete with miniature
place cards. So much for the ban
quet.
The food, linen and household
problems surrounding a royal visit
fall on Mrs. Nesbitt, who staunchly
refuses to worry about the king
and queen of England any more
than she would about a yreek-end
personal guest of Mrs. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Nesbitt plans all her meals in
advance on a large chart, leaving a
block of space for each meal, desig
nating the hour and number of
guests. Since she custojnarily han
dles several large banquets a year
(there were 94 at the last diplomatiic
clambake) the mere matter of visit
ing royalty is nothing to get excited
about. Only for Mrs. Nesbitt, Mr.
Summerlin et al this is a busier-
than-average social summer. The
two world fairs are bringing enough
European personages to keep the
Roosevelt family busy dragging out
their guest silver both at Washing
ton and Hyde Park, and the protocol
division must be just as active at
the latter place as at Washington.
The King Has a Barber.
Perhaps the most colorful behind-
scenes worker on the entire British
schedule is one Monsieur Paul
Emile Tasse who will be King
George’s official barber from Que
bec to Vancouver and back to Hali
fax. As barber-in-chief for the Ca
nadian National railways he has
shaved everyone from Prince Chi-
chibu (brother of the emperor of
Japan) to Joe Doakes, private citi
zen. Since the announcement that
he would shave King George, M.
Tasse has received fan mail, one
letter addressed to the “K. B.,”
which means king's barber even
though you won’t find it in Burke’s
Peerage.
His shop on the royal train must
accommodate all men on the official
entourage.
“There’ll be lots of them, so I’ll
be busy all the time. The king,
perhaps, may want to be shaved in
his own room, and maybe I’ll do
some of the others, like Mr. Mac
kenzie King (Canadian prime min
ister) the same way.”
M. Tasse figures he’ll scrape the
king’s chin while the train is stand
ing still, because “if I cut the throat
of a newspaper man there’s always
two or three to take his place.”
If the king wants conversation
with his morning shave, M. Tasse
will give it to him, but not uninvited.
And there’s another nice feature
about having your own barber—M.
Tasse won’t try to sell his majesty
a shampoo or hair tonic.
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Edouard (Tough Guy’) Daladiei
Sets New Fashion for Dictators
bert Canning, chief constable of
Scotland Yard, who carries an
umbrella like a typical English
man, will watch out for the sov
ereigns’ safety during their five-
day visit in the United States. His
system is just the opposite from
that of the American secret serv
ice. British detectives will mingle
with the crowd watching the king
and queen. The secret service
sticks with its President.
ble. Unlike American secret serv
ice agents, who cling to the Presi
dent and watch the crowds for dan
ger signals, Scotland Yard’s 20
agents will mingle in the crowd it
self. Mr. Canning says he’s found
that’s the most successful way.
When in Rome . . .
Mr. Summerlin’s jobs can be
roughly lumped under the heading
of etiquette, but they include meet
ing the monarchs at the border and
providing official entertainment un
til the day they leave. Things like
curtsying to the queen and seating
arrangement at the White House
banquet were sticklers until Alan
Frederick Lascelles, the king’s sec
retary, called one day and an
nounced: “We will be guests of your
country and you naturally set the
customs to be followed.”
Mr. Summerlin will see to it that
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and
Mrs. Hull meet the royal train at Ni
agara Falls. He must arrange for a
If Europe stays away from war it
will probably be through the acts of
a tough little Frenchman who
strangely turned dictator, to fight
dictatorships, a business-like former
poetry teacher who stays silent as a
sphynx and equally undramatic, de
spite the modern political teachings
which say dictators must have a
flair for the sensational.
Edouard Daladier is the more a
success because he’s making a
comeback, having been tossed from
the French premiership five years
ago as an aftermath of the notorious
Stavisky pawn-shop scandal. Last
year, given tempo
rary dictatorial pow
ers during the Mu
nich crisis, he han
dled them so imper
sonally that the
country obligingly
returned the staff of
,power on March 19
when France seemed
headed for an even-
worse crisis.
Daladier’s tough
dictator recipe has
turned France from a nation of daw
dling wine drinkers into one purpose
fully planning against war. A few
weeks ago he suddenly announced
the 40-hour work week would be ex
panded to 60 hours, getting by with
it to the surprise of political con
federates who remembered ruefully
the unhappy union troubles of last
autumn. He told reliefers to help
with the defense program or get
off the government payroll. Mean
while French munition factories
have been sent full steam ahead un
der a veil of secrecy that parallels
the German or Italian system, cer
tainly strange for a democracy.
Daladier came from a peasant
family in Provence, and was named
to the chamber of deputies in 1919.
In 1924 he joined the cabinet un
der Edouard Herriot, who had been
his old university professor. Tena
ciously clinging to politics, he has
since held cabinet posts for colo
nies, labor, education, war, public
works, justice and foreign affairs.
France is thankful for a strong
man just now when Italy is pressing
her Mediterranean demands and
Germany presents a threat along
the Maginot line. Easy-going Pari
sians shrink just a little when he
starts banning political parties, clos
ing newspapers, executing spies and
mobilizing the nation. It isn’t dem
ocratic. But they’re pretty sure that
when the crisis passes, Edouard Da
ladier will no longer want to be i
dicta*
Daladier
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