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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940
Washington, D. C.
GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
Washington, D. C.
BULLITT MAY STUMP FOR
BRITAIN AID
Ambassador Bill Bullitt, most
versatile and volatile of all Roose
velt’s diplomats, probably will go on
the stump throughout the country
campaigning for “national unity”
and urging American support for
Great Britain.
His tour will be divorced from the
New Deal, and he will not return
to his embassy in France.
Many of the men around Roose
velt now are far ahead of him in
proposing aid to Britain, and some
of them may co-operate with Bullitt
in this movement. Some are def
initely critical of the President,
though close friend Bullitt is not.
They feel that Roosevelt has been
holding back, and that the country
is ready to go much further than
he.
• • •
DEFENSE BLOW-UP
If certain legislative and adminis
trative snarls in the defense pro
gram aren’t cleared up quickly,
there is going to be a blowup in the
defense commission that will knock
a dent in the Roosevelt admMistra-
tion. Some fast footwork and
placating White House palaver has
kept the explosive situation under
cover so far, but it is very serious.
Inside fact is that William Knud-
•sen, who gave up a $300,000-a-year
General Motors job to become de
fense production chief, is getting
restive over the delays he is en
countering. He has made no
threats, but he has also made it
clear that unless he gets action he
does not intend to continue in a posi
tion where he could be blamed for
lack of production.
A “plain operations man,” as he
describes himself, Knudsen worked
out a schedule of production for
tanks, guns, planes, armor plate,
and the other vital essentials for de
fense. But these plans, partly be
cause of tax delays, partly because
of business sit-downs, have encoun
tered repeated obstructions.
For example: Knudsen was first
told that the amortization problem,
which has held up the construction
of several new defense plants, would
be handled in congress in a separate
bill. But at the last minute, treas
ury tax experts objected to this and
insisted that the matter be included
in the excess (war profits) tax bill.
Next Knudsen was assured by
congressional leaders that the tax
bill would be passed by August 17.
But first the Republicans recessed
to attend the Willkie acceptance cer
emonies at Elwood. Then it marv
aged to get other delays.
• • •
RFC LOAN DELAYS
While this dilly-dallying was go
ing on at Capitol Hill, Knudsen was
having other difficulties with Fed
eral Loan Administrator Jesse
Jones.
The RFC was given wide powers
by congress several months ago to
make loans to industry for defense
purposes. But when Knudsen sub
mitted a list of plant expansions that
needed financing, Jones balked.
He objected on the ground that
one-third of the output of the plants
would go to fill British war orders.
Knudsen pointed out that this was
not impairing U. S. preparedness,
but on the contrary was providing
the country with vital productive
capacity at the expense of the Brit
ish.
Still Jones, despite the President’s
policy of extending every assistance
to the British, didn’t like the idea
of lending U. S. government money
to aid factory expansion for the Brit
ish.
• • •
BLITZKRIEG
It remains the firm convictio. of
Secretary of War Stimson and Gen
eral Marshall, his chief of staff, that
if Hitler is to invade this country it
will come this fall before we are
prepared. They are inclined to
think that as soon as Hitler is fin
ished with the British, he will move
here. Stimson and Marshall have
indicated this view to congress, but
they are even more positive in their
private conversations.
Despite the large air force guard
ing the canal, military authorities
admit that it would be impossible for
them to prevent an enemy air ar
mada from getting over the locks.
Ope well-placed bomb can put the
locks out of commission for about
three months.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pointing to the Willkie headquar
ters in Washington «n the first floor
of the Woodward Mtilding, directly
under the TVA offices on the third
floor, New Dealers wisecrack that
“Willkie is still under TVA influ
ence.”
AIR BASES FOR U. S.
Getting air and naval bases, from
Iceland to the South American
“bulge” should have the unified
support of this country. It is a
move in the direction we must go—
which is to make our defense inde
pendent of the strength of any na
tion but our own. The only criti
cism of it is the inexcusable delay
and lack of foresight in not having
done it long ago.-
But what we are giving for them
is something else again. It has not
been revealed. Neither have the de
tails of our defensive deal with Can
ada. Canada is a nation at war.
She has gone across the sea to at
tack a European power. It puts us
in a position of saying to Europe:
“American nations can attack you
but if you counterattack them we
will fight you.”
Perhaps in view of our geographic
and strategic problem, that can’t
be helped. But do our Canadian
and British secret understandings
go further? There was some im
plication in Mr. Churchill’s recent
peroration that they do—British and
American “co-operation” in war
rolling along the Old Man River,
which is a symbol for fateful in
evitability—the “flotillas of 1941,”
which sounded like a promise of
American naval intervention.
Mr. Roosevelt is reported to have
scouted the idea that there is any
thing in f the deal for bases about
our detaching a part of oui insuf
ficient navy—50 destroyers—to fight
on the side of Britain. But things
that Mr. Roosevelt scouts, like his
third term ambition, have a curious
and tortuous way of promptly com
ing true.
No matter how it may be dis
guised or how warlike lawyers now
split hairs, the detachment of those
destroyers is so clearly direct par
ticipation in this war that two years
ago, examining the question coldly,
there is not an international lawyer
on earth who would not have re
garded a contrary view as prepos
terous.
From his Chicago “quarantine”
speech to the present moment, there
has not been an act of the Presi
dent inconsistent with an inference
of his willingness, if not his inten
tion, to mix this country up in the
wars of both Europe and Asia. On
the contrary, with increasing tempo
and intensity, every act has been
completely consistent with precisely
that aim.
Mr. Ickes, Mr. Wallace and others
have emphasized Mr. Willkie’s “en
dorsement” of “our foreign policy.”
Mr. Ickes has suggested that this
is like the God-awful 1936 campaign
where there were no issues except
“The New Deal is good but I can
deal it better.” The New Deal boys,
hell-bent-for-a-war-crisis-before-No-
vember, had better look that thought
over carefully.
Some of Mr. Willkie’s Republican
and Democratic supporters in New
York are also minded to involve us
in foreign war. But most of this
country isn’t. Especially that great
stretch of America from the Alle
ghenies west isn’t and, as I read his
utterances, Mr. Willkie isn’t.
• • •
WHAT DO WE DEFEND?
Step by step in the rapidly expand
ing policy of intervention every
where, our general staff has been
confronted with new and lightning-
like changes in policy. There is this
difference between the harnessing of
Nazi foreign policy with Nazi mili
tary preparation — that Hitler
planned nothing on foreign policy
that his general staff hadn’t been
told to prepare in military strength
and wasn’t given time to prepare.
In our case, the whole surprising
brainstorm shift in a constantly in
creasing foreign policy of threat and
aggression has proceeded with no
regard whatever to our military
preparation to make it good and
with no sufficient allowance of time
and money to do so.
General Marshall’s talk about an
army of 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 men
was wholly based on a new diplo
matic theory that we are to police
every American country from the
North Pole to Cape Horn. That the
ory is utterly fantastic and impos
sible. We can’t afford it, couldn’t
do it and have no business indulg
ing in any such popular deceits and
ludicrous international posturing.
It is about time that this govern
ment settled down and decided ex
actly what its foreign policy is go
ing to be and, more precisely, as
controlling that, exactly what pol
icy it can enforce, without absurdity
and possible disaster, within the
realistic and reasonable limits of its
present and immediately potential
strength of arms and men on land,
sea and in the air.
Significant of the extent of the
split between John L. Lewis and his
co-C. I. O. founder Sidney Hillman,
labor defense commissioner, is the
disappearance of Hillman’s name
from the letterhead of Labor’s Non
partisan league.
Wendell Willkie and Edith Wilk
(now Mrs. Willkie) attended Indiana
university together—without meet
ing. They met in later years at the
wedding of a friend.
The corn stalk discovered flourish
ing in a commerce department
grass plot was no accident. It was
planted by Lee Wood,.
In that connection, the immediate
controlling nubbin is naval and po
litical policy in the Pacific. As be
tween our necessary defensive pol
icy of remaining dominant on both
American coasts as far as Natal in
Brazil and in addition to that of
maintaining a threatening attitude
in Asia, Indo-China and the East
Indies, there is a difference of un
estimated billions of dollars of ex
pense and of comparative safety as
contrasted with sprawling all over
the map and constantly risking not
only our prestige but our peace and
even our existence.
Duke of Windsor Becomes Governor of Bahamas
“We deeply appreciate the honor and distinction which his majesty, the king, has conferred upon the
Bahamas in appointing your royal highness to be governor of this ancient and loyal colony,” says W. K. Moore,
president of the Bahaman legislative council, as he welcomes the duke of Windsor on behalf of the islanders.
The scene is the tiny legislative chamber in Nassau, Bahamas. The duchess of Windsor is on the duke’s left.
Wild West Glamour Revived at Pendleton Roundup
Covered wagon days and the glamour of the old West will be revived at Pendleton, Ore., in the annual
four-day Roundup beginning September 11. The Far West’s most celebrated rodeo will attract the most
famous steer wranglers, lariat artists and stunt riders in America as well as thousands of Indians participat
ing in parades and pageantry. Above are shown typical scenes in connection with the Roundup.
Police Chiefs Hold 47th Convention
Sextuplet at 77
Police executives from all sections of the nation have gathered In
Milwaukee for the forty-seventh annual congress of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police. Principal speakers shown above are
J. Edgar Hoover, center, director of the FBI; Maj. Ernest W. Brown,
Washington, D. C., upper right, president of the association; Lieut. F. M.
Kreml, upper left, Northwestern University Traffic Institute; Mayor Carl
F. Zeidler, Milwaukee, lower left; Congressman Martin Dies, lower right.
Mrs. Alincia Bushnell Parker, one
of the sextuplets born to Mrs. James
Bushnell of Chicago in 1863—before
the days of ballyhoo and press
agentry. Today that event would blot
out war headlines, but something
misfired In 1863, and the world knew
little of that authentic, amazing
event. Fame and fortune passed
them up, and today Mrs. Parker, a
white-haired woman of 77, lives on a
meager pension at Silver Lake, N. Y.
She is a widow and the mother of
seven children. Mrs. Alice Hughes
of Phoenix, Ariz., is the other sur
viving sextuplet.
Nazis ‘Wash Hands’ of Ship’s Safety
Happy Birthday!
The American army transport, American Legion, which sailed from
Petsamo, Finland, recently, with 897 refugees aboard. The German gov
ernment declined responsibility for the vessel’s security because her
scheduled course lay “dangerously near the field of military operations
around England.”
A boy king and the aged head of
a far-flung financial empire will ob
serve their birthdays this week. The
king is youthful Peter of war-threat
ened Jugoslavia, whose seventeenth
birthday falls on September 6. The
financial tycoon is John Pierpont
Morgan, head of the world’s largest
private bank, who will celebrate
his 73rd birthday on September 7.
/~\VER 35 years ago Jack Chesbro
stepped out and blew himsef to
40 Yankee victories. A few years
later Ed Walsh moved into the 40-
game set, a record which doesn’t in
clude 10 or 12 other games he hap
pened to save. Walsh that year
worked in 66 ball games.
Under changed conditions it may
be that Bob Feller will never reach
the 40-game mark
on the winning side,
but with any luck at
the age of 21 he will
sit in the 30 win
ning-game division
this next fall with
such all-time per
formers as Christy
Mathewson, Grover
Alexander, Walter
Johnson, Smoky Joe
Wood and Lefty
Grove. Matty and
Alexander reached
this mark on three
consecutive occasions.
But Feller is headed for the same
fertile country at the age of 21.
There is no telling what heights he
might reach if the draft or war
doesn’t interfere. The Cleveland
star is without any question the
greatest young pitcher in baseball.
Matty was just getting under
headway at 21 and Alexander was
24 when he came to Philadelphia
and hung up 28 wins. But at 21
Feller is all ready to join the pick of
the flock.
U the world ever settles down to
something like its old normality
there is no telling how many ball
games Blasting Bobby might put
away before he checks out.
Right From the Start
Feller war an amazing kid from
the start. He came to Cleveland in
1936 at the age of 17—a big, raw-
boned kid w’th a great pair of hands
and a great pair of wrists.
You can Phiagine the feelings al
most any 17-year-old player would
carry into action, facing his first
start under the Big Tent. Not Fel-
Grantland Rice
BOB FELLER
ler. He lacked control, but from the
jump he was as cool as a slice of
cucumber on ice.
After whiffing 17 of the enemy in
one of his first games, the Van Meter
phenom was a trifle too keen on the
strikeout path for some time. Tliis
wrecked his control. He was also
a bit lopsided at holding runners on
base. But he has long since cured
both faults. He has added a good
curve ball to his speed.
Feller has the poise and balance
of a much older man. He has
shown no sign so far of an enlarged
hei,d, no sign of kid freshness with
older men.
A fellow like Feller will mean a
healthy package to Cleveland when
the stretch running begins a few
weeks later on. And a fellow like
Feller can turn a world series up
side down, if he gets the chance.
The Reds’ Sad Story
When I sat on the bench a short
while back with Bill McKechnie his
Reds had a nine-game lead and they
looked to be breezing. It was the
first time I had ever seen Uncle Will
breathing normally with his pulses
in order. You could see that with
this lead, plus Derringer, Walters
and Thompson, his worries were
just about over.
But they are not over now.
It has been suggested that Willard
Hershberger’s death had a depress
ing effect. But the sliding had start
ed before the young Red catcher
ended his life.
The shock began when the Giants
beat Bucky Walters in the game that
Walters had tied up in a true lover’s
knot in the ninth inning with two
out. The Reds have never quite re
covered from that shock. Later on
tile suicide episode didn’t help.
They were due for a slump, but
no one looked for any such August
dip. They still have the call with
the pitching they have, but the old
easy-going gallop is over. As some
philosopher has said, “There is also
gameness in front running.” In
fact, there is plenty.
What About Foxx?
The Mel Ott day was a knockout.
No ball player had more wild laurel
blossoms coming his way. Except
possibly one James Emory Foxx of
the Red Sox. Here is a great ball
player and a great guy.
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