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Washington, D. C.
HITLER AND U. S.
From diplomatic information it is
possible to get a general idea of
what the immediate future will bring
forth in Europe if Hitler takes Eng
land, as he seems sure to do in
the next month.
FIRST, he will want to buy U. S.
cotton and grain in large quantities
—in fact, he will be willing to take
most of our surplus—but he will
want a huge loan from the United
States government to do it. This
will be called reconstruction financ
ing, and it will be tempting bait to
farming and business groups.
SECOND, it is more than likely
that Hitler will offer to freeze the
armaments of Europe and the Unit
ed States on the basis of their pres
ent armed strength.
This also will be tempting to a
tax-ridden American public. The
United States always has favored
disarmament, and several times has
proposed freezing armaments. How
ever, this was when France and
England had an army and navy, and
when this country was protected by
them in South America.
Today, Hitler’s reported plan
would leave the United States with
less than 250,000 men, Germany with
about 3,000,000. In other words, Lat
in America would be open to at
tack at any time, and the United
States would be powerless to pre
vent it.
Nevertheless, Hitler’s plans would
have strong appeal in the United
States, especially if accompanied by
the usual Nazi propaganda stating
that Hitler had only the kindliest
ideas about the United States and
cherished absolutely no designs for
any part of her soil.
Note—This was the propaganda
Germany dropped from airplanes on
France before the tanks came. It
told how France and Germany had
no basic quarrel, could live in peace
indefinitely.
* * *
HITLER’S SECRET GAS
All the evidence gathered by mili
tary agents abroad now points to the
probability that Hitler’s secret plan
for conquering Britain is poison gas.
It is significant that so far, Hitler
has not used gas. Even more sig
nificant is the fact that he has been
storing it up in huge reserves.
French and British intelligence offi
cers have sent back reports that
alarming quantities are now manu
factured and ready for use. Wheth
er any new and more deadly form of
gas has been perfected, they do not
know.
One reason Hitler did not use gas
in attacking France and Belgium
was that his army was moving too
fast. His tanks and armored cars
were penetrating into the enemy
lines so rapidly that they would
have caught up with their own gas.
It would have hampered Nazi opera
tions rather than aided them.
But in England it will be different.
For the English channel lies be
tween Germany and her victim.
There will be no danger of the gas
seeping back to Nazi invaders un
til they actually land troops.
And so far all evidence indicates
that before attempting to land
troops, Hitler will subject England
to a rain of bombs such as the world
never has seen before.
Only after Hitler has gassed and
bombed England to the verge of
surrender will the Nazi attack by
sea begin.
• » •
U. S. WAR PRODUCTION
One very real worry among some
of Roosevelt’s friends is that after
all the hullabaloo over national de-
fnse, October may come around
with not many more airplanes or
tanks constructed.
This, they know, would be disas
trous to the country, but also from
a purely political viewpoint it would
mean the defeat of President Roose
velt or any other Democratic candi
date at the polls in November.
This possibility has caused shak
ing of heads even among several
cabinet members who have seen
how slowly other projects moved in
the past. They know that with the na
tion voting the biggest national de
fense budget in peacetime history,
and with the President himself em
phasizing its urgency, the country
is going to expect results and ex
pect them fast.
• • •
CAPITAL CHAFF
Summer heat has come to Wash
ington, but not the new fiscal year.
Result: No electric fans for the
state department. The building has
just had its wiring changed from di
rect to alternating current, but the
money for new fans is not available
until the new fiscal year.
White House press conferences
are drawing between 150 and 200
newsmen these days.
U. S. Ambassador Steinhart looks
in vain for a day of rest in Moscow.
The Soviets have outlawed Sunday;
they take one day of rest every six
days. But it usually coincides with
a week-day in Washington when the
state department is at work—and its
cables keep Steinhart at work.
SEC Commissioner Leon Hender
son went back to his class reunion
at Swarthmore college, where 20
years ago they called him “Dub.”
The class parade was headed by
a sign reading, “Wall Street—Don’t
Be Afraid of Henderson—We Knew
Him When He Was ‘Dub’.”
GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
Washington, D. C.
‘DANGEROUS GESTURE’
The selection of the Republi
cans, Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson
as secretaries of navy and war re
spectively, has a poisonous signifi
cance. They are both ardent tom
tom beaters for war.
Mr. Stimson has been raising his
voice for us to repeat the follies of
1917 and 1918 in a steadily increas
ing clamor until his most recent
blasts insisted on our convoying
contraband of war to Britain and
opening our naval bases to the Brit
ish fleet—both irretrievable acts of
war.
Mr. Knox has been preaching
armed intervention for months. This
choice leaves no doubt whatever
about the President’s own inten
tions. If he is not stopped he is going
to take this country into bloody war
as soon as possible whether it wants
to go or not—and with about 85 per
cent majority, it doesn’t want to go.
• • •
Both men are leading citizens with
honorable and distinguished rec
ords. Mr. Stimson was at one time
secretary of war and at another,
secretary of state. In neither posi
tion did he leave any record that
would recommend him as a great
cabinet minister. As secretary of
state he was ready to use force to
oppose Japan in Manchukuo, a
course which, however high-minded,
would have been fatal to the Amer
ican strategical position in the Far
East.
Both these gentlemen have served
as volunteer temporary army of
ficers in time of war—Mr. Knox
in two wars. There can be nothing
but praise for that patriotic and
high-minded performance. But a
little knowledge is a dangerous
thing. Such temporary service in
relatively subordinate commands
sometimes—fortunately not fre
quently—leaves the “veteran” with
the conviction that Providence real
ly intended him as a latter-day
Napoleon—or at least a master of
strategy, logistics and tactics.
That is true in both these cases.
In both, this conviction has per
suaded these gents that we should
commence firing tomorrow—before
we get guns to fire. That strategic
folly is another danger of this blitz
krieg move.
• • •
Surely the President doesn’t feel
the need of any such expert ama
teur military and naval advice. He
shares a similar conviction about
his own powers in these fields. It
was obviously not with 'any idea to
improve technical preparedness that
this move was made. It will have
a reverse effect. It is too clearly
a pure political gesture in an elec
tion year—the “coalition-cabinet”
slickness that the White House has
denied intending. It is a dangerous
gesture because it is designed to
destroy the third term tradition and
erect a war dictatorship by impair
ing our two-party system, which is
of the very essence of American
democracy—and that is menacing
and sinister in the extreme.
Mr. Stimson won’t do the war de
partment any good. It will take
months to educate him in the com
pletely changed condition since he
left—and his is the sort of inflexible
mind which does not filter fast.
This is a cruel blow to the fine
work that has been done—especially
recently—by Louis Johnson in the of
fice of assistant secretary of war.
Under a statutory mandate Mr.
Johnson’s organization has done
much of the preparatory work nec
essary to rapid supply and industrial
mobilization. In its recent historical
floundering to make up for its crim
inal neglect of preparedness, this
administration has simply ignored
the valuable product of work and
planning—by-passed it and paral
leled it. Now it has taken the tucker
out of Mr. Johnson’s dynamic lead
ership and energy by kicking him
aside and giving him a new boss
whom it will take weeks to educate.
• • •
DEFENSE BOOM
We haven’t even scratched the
surface of consideration of defense
of our cities from sudden air raids.
That requires tens of thousands of
guns with some kind of semi-mili
tary home guard and expert crews
—and we haven’t even begun to
think about it or to provide one-
tenth of one per cent of the material
the whole program will require.
Shall we, like England, dally along
with a bunch of Chamberlains un
til it is too late for any Churchill to
do his stuff?
Our effort to build our defenses,
if vigorously and intelligently han
dled, should create much employ
ment and even some kind of an in
dustrial boom.
Appropriations asked for seem
tremendous but, if they are really
to prove sufficient and effective, we
ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We haven’t
even made a good start. It has
been estimated by the best informed
authority that if the World war had
extended through 1919, our expendi
tures for that year would have been
$35,000,000,000.
War, whether offensive or defen
sive, is now largely a matter of in
dustrial production of arms—spar
tan discipline and sacrifice to the
single purpose of military efficiency.
THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940
Doctor Bids ‘Babies’ to Huge Party
Dr. A. O. Belmore of Bridgewater, Mass., ton platform, right) speaks to some of the 2,002 babies he has
brought into the world, in unusual party staged at his home, in celebration of his thirty-fifth anniversary as a
practicing physician. Close to 1,000 of his “babies’* attended the party.
Refugees to Canada From British Isles
Gracie Fields, famed British comedienne who has been entertaining Tommies at the front, shown among
some of the British refugee children brought to Canada. Right: Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands
holding one of her children on train at Halifax, while F. E. H. Groenman, Netherlands minister to Canada,
holds her eldest child. The royal party will reside temporarily at a vacation resort in Canada.
Royal Inspection of Canadian Fighters
Against Reds
Queen Elizabeth is interested in a Toronto Scottish machine gun
crew in training, while her husband, King George VI, chats with Major
General A. G. L. McNaughton, during a visit to a southern England en
campment. They are inspecting regiments of the Canadian active serv
ice force.
Gene Tunney lambasts the Reds,
and especially what he terms their
control of the National Youth con
gress. He is speaking at a press
conference at Hotel Roosevelt, New
York city.
‘Armistice Car’ in Old Role—In Reverse
German Consul
The most fantastic retake of history was staged in this historic vehicle
recently, at Compiegne forest, France—an armistice meeting in which
the French and German roles of 1918 were reversed. The Germans, as the
conquerors, handed to envoys of the defeated French, peace terms which
“must be accepted as a whole.”
Baron Edgar von Spiegel, German
consul general at New Orleans, al
leged to have made remarks to the
effect that Germany will not forget
U. S. aid to the allies.
AS THEY SWING THROUGH JUNE
ASEBALL form still is somewhat
muddled as the major league
teams swing along. In the National
league, the Reds and the Dodgers
are holding up, but the Cardinals,
heavy pennant choice in some sec
tors when the spring predictions
were under way, lag so badly that
if they are not already out of the
race they are teetering on the verge.
In the American league the Yan
kees have come on but not rapidly
enough to fit in with
the pre-season
schedule that called
for them to be away
out in front by this
time. Otherwise,
the race in that
league is in accord
ance with the dope,
with the Red Sox,
Indians and Tigers
up ahead and the
second division held
by the White Sox,
Senators, Athletics
and Browns. The
Browns, it seems, have had their
splurge and from now on not much
is likely to be heard from them.
One of the main surprises has
been offered by the Giants who, aft
er a bad start, have moved up into
the running. At the outset, the
Giants didn’t look any better than
they did at the finish of the 1939
campaign. But the return of Joe
Moore, the fine pitching of Carl Hub-
bell and the batting of Harry Dan-
ning pulled them out of that early
season slough.
They still don’t look as if they
might sneak through and grab the
pennant. But they do loom as a
threat to the Reds and Dodgers, be
tween whom the pennant seems to
lie. They can make a lot of trouble
for those teams. Unable—or so it
appears—to win themselves, they
can have something to say about
who does win.
The Reds and the Dodgers
The Reds naturally are favored.
They moved back briskly from their
collapse against the
Yankees last fall,
lost little time tak
ing over the lead
and have played at
a steady gait most
of the way. Again
this year two of the
most important fac
tors in their play
have been the pitch
ing of Bucky Wal
ters and the all-
around work of Bill
Werber. Walters seems headed for
a season as brilliant as that which
he had in 1939. Take Werber out of
the Red infield and it would sag so
badly the weight of it would drag
the team down.
The Dodgers have exceeded the
expectations of Larry MacPhail and
almost met those of the Brooklyn
fans. Larry said in the early spring
he didn’t think the Dodgers would
be as good as they were last year,
while the fans claimed the pennant.
And, of course, they remain the
most exciting team in baseball.
A Quick Comeback
The robustness of the Dodgers’
spirit was emphasized by the man
ner in which they threw off the ef
fects of the loss of those two games
to the Giants on Memorial day.
That, it must be remembered, was
more than just the loss of a double-
header. It was a bitter, humiliat
ing and total defeat suffered on the
home grounds at the hands of a hat
ed enemy and with all the fans who
possibly could be packed into Eb-
bets field looking on. It was enough
to have thrown them off their stride
for a couple of weeks at least, but
they bounced right back from it as
only a thoroughly game outfit could.
Once more Leo Durocher is dem
onstrating his skill as manager as he
guides the Dodgers past bumps
such as that defeat by the Giants
and the loss of Pee Wee Reese. The
Brooklyn players—and this is one
of their main sources of strength—
think he is the greatest manager
the game ever knew. I can’t go
quite that far with them but I will
say there is no manager in base
ball now who is doing a better job.
Yankees on the Way
The Yankees, though they have
lagged, may be on their way at last
—not yet with the smoothness that
is characteristic of them—but in a
fashion that makes them still look
like a fair bet to smash precedence
and win a fifth pennant in a row.
They have got over their bewilder
ment, brought on by early season
setbacks, and are hitting again. In
Marvin Breucr—they have the best
first-year pitcher in either league.
They have had days recently such as
they usually have at their peak.
The Red Sox, holding first place,
aren’t going to be overhauled eas
ily. Even the Yankees know that.
Cleveland, with Bob Feller swinging
along and a fine second-base com
bination in Mack and Boudreau, and
Detroit, with a lot of power, are
dangerous, too. The White Sox are
going to be troublesome from time
to time—as they were last week,
when they took two games out of
three from the Yankees—but they
scarcely are contenders and the rest
of the clubs do not matter, either.
That’s the way it looks as the
teams roll through these weeks.
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