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(Note—In Drew Pearson's ab
sence, Herbert Bayard Swope,
long a student of British political
affairs, contributes a guest col
umn on the new labor govern
ment.)
By HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE
Former Editor of the New York World
and Public Relations Adviser to the
Secretary of W'ar.
NEW YORK.—The conservative de
feat in England is not so striking a
blow as some portray it. Unquestionably,
there will be a trend toward socializa
tion, but I think that this will be con
fined, at least for the next few years,
to the natural monopolies—power, light,
heat, transportation, communication
(already in the state’s hands except for
cables) and, of course, mining, steel, and
the Bank of England. But much of this
has been on their program for the last
25 years.
In fact, even the Lloyd George gov-
amment gave support to the basic plan.
There will be a trend on the part
of the radical movement in this
country to affiliate itself with the
British program. And I think there
will be efforts to gain a wider and
deeper association politically with
Britain and Russia. But I do not
discern any trend toward commun
ism.
Whatever Britain does will be done
not by dictatorship, but under the rule
of a true democracy. That characteristic
saves it from becoming a repetition of
Stalinism. After all, only two commun
ists were elected out of 27 who ran.
That’s not dangerous, even though the
propagandists can—and do—claim 100
per cent Increase! (The Commies had
one member in the last House.)
No New Foreign Policy.
I should doubt that there will be any
decisive changes in foreign policy.
Britain has consistently adhered to a
pretty well formulated foreign policy
for almost 300 years. However, it is
reasonable to expect a greater sympa
thy on the part of the British foreign
office for the movement left of center
than with the kings and Tories the ex
piring government supported. An ap
proach to self-government in India is
to be expected.
I think foreign trade will become
more international minded and more
collective. I think it will move toward
further cartelization. The question
about British commerce growing will be
dependent upon their range of wage.
Labor will drive for wider employment
and higher pay. Probably it will take
over many feat ures of Beveridge’s plan.
To hold the British position in world
markets will require subsidies. In other
words, Britain will embark upon a
species of protection.
Long Labor Rule
Attlee is a good man, overshadowed
by his association with Churchill. I5fy
guess is that labor is in for a long run
and, if there is any change it will be
to displace Attlee for one of its own,
such as Bevin or Morrison. As its name
implies, this is a labor victory, built in
a democratic framework.
Unquestionably, the fact that la
bor received a clear majority of all
the votes, will tend to unify the
country. I believe there is nothing
to fear from England. In fact, we
may be able to learn from this great
experiment. My hope is that there
will not be too great a limitation
set upon free enterprise.
We should remember that Ramsay
MacDonald's labor government swung
steadily to the right. In fact, it is
axiomatic that the ins grow conserva
tive and the outs more radical.
That is happening in America right
now. It wouldn’t be surprising if the
Republicans were gradually to move to
the left, as against the conservatism of
the southern democracy.
Universal War-Weariness
In my reading, it is almost a settled
law of history that every country en
gaged in a war repudiates the leader
ship that brought its people into the
war. We saw that exemplified after
World War I. All the victors were re
pudiated—Wilson in America, Lloyd
George in Britain, Orlando in Italy,
Clemenceau in Prance. And the losers,
too: the Hohenzollerens, the Hapsburgs
and the Romanoffs.
Apparently a great wave of war-
weariness overwhelms all peoples, and
they throw out anyone remotely con
nected with the war. If that be true,
It disposes of any question of military
candidates. But there is small Hkcll-
hood of that; America has chosen a
great military figure really only once.
That was Grant—an9 his presidency
was a stench.
Attlee's cabinet is a strong one and
certainly as good as Churchill had.
There is an additional point, in con
nection with the English result, on
which I should like to expatiate for
Just a moment:
We Won’t Copy England
There is an insistent belief that the
English elections are definitely an in
dication of how ours is going. While
unquestionably, the result shows a ten
dency, in reality there is nothing to
warrant the belief that it is any more
than such a tendency.
In 1908 to 1911, Lloyd George was be
ginning his successful campaign for vast
social reforms in Britain. We remained
conservative, electing Taft in 1908, and
would have elected a Republican In 1912
had It not been for the Bull Moose split.
England went liberal during the war,
and thereafter, but we turned solidly
to the right Immediately after the war,
while England, In the early ’20s elected
a labor government. In 1923, when Mac
Donald got a plurality, we put our lead
ership in the hards of Calvin Coolidge.
By JACK LAIT
(Pinch Hitting this week for
Walter Wincbell)
Memo from Manhattan—
With my son, paratrooper-war corre
spondent George Lalt, I saw a private
projection of “The Story of GI Joe,”
which then had not yet opened In New
York. This is a film centered around
some of the famous activities of Ernie
Pyle. We both have a sentimental in
terest in Ernie. I knew him when he
was an inconspicuous desk drudge on
a Washington newspaper, a nice little
guy who gave no Indication of the im
mortality he was to attain in our pro
fession. But George knew him more
intimately than he knows his brother.
They crossed together in a tiny tub to
Lisbon, flew from there to London,
shared a little flat during the mur
derous blitz. They went together to
Africa and shared tents, Jeeps and fox
holes during the adversities of the
British defeat and retreat and through
the triumphs of the allies from El Ala-
mein to conquest of the desert and thi
Mediterranean. •
They were side by side in Sicily
and in Italy. George had caught
malaria in the desert and came
back hers for a spell of rest. After
that he went through campaigns in
New Guinea, Saipan, through the
bitter fighting on Leyte. He made
battle jumps with the Eleventh Air
borne Division and was about to go
on to Luzon when the malaria
caught up with him again. Gen.
MacArthur ordered him flown back
on sick leave. Meanwhile, Ernie
Pyle had come home to rest and re
cuperate at his house in Albuquer
que, N. M.
I met George at my Beverly Hills
retreat, the day after he landed in San
Francisco, and while we were there
Ernie visited us. He was now on his
way to cover the fighting in the Pa
cific. By this time, he was the most
widely syndicated reporter in the world,
the only man in my knowledge who
ever had both the top best-sellers on
the book market at once, and he could
liiive commanded princely prices to lec
ture, write for magazines or take any
of a score of broadcasting offers. . . .
George, who had been through plenty
with him, told him he was bound for
stuff much worse and more dangerous
than he had ever known. George point
ed out to him his situation, on top of
the world, and literally begged him not
to go. But Ernie said the very fact
that he had built up so large a follow
ing was a mandate and an obligation;
he couldn’t quit In the middle; he had
a hunch he would never come back,
but he Insisted he should go on.
“The Story of GI Joe" takes him
only as far as his turning to the road
to Rome. . . . Burgess Meredith, who
gives an uncanny personification,
studied under George and others who
knew Ernie well and acquired his little
intimate mannerisms; makes even those
who knew Pyle think he looks like him.
. . . But, though he is a star and play
ing a greater one, GI Joe is the hero—
collectively—of this brave film. I call
It brave because Lester Oowan put
two and a half million dollars into it,
though he had pledged Ernie not to
glorify him, gave his principal charac
ter no suggestion of any sort of ro
mance, and contracted to let Ernie
throw out any scenes he didn’t like.
He did discard several, which were
quite costly, because they made too
much of him and too little of the men
he loved and who loved him. . . .
Perhaps it was this spirit and faculty
that lifted Ernie Pyle above any other
reporter of his generation. He was a
self-effacing little fellow, not physically
brave, who sweated and shuddered dur
ing action, but who not only never
ducked it, but went, weary and woe
begone, to seek 1L . . . George tells me
that during the nightly Nazi raids on
London, Pyle would be panic-stricken—
yet he was the first one at his type
writer when it stopped. ... He had a
lot of resistance, as many wiry little
men have. . . . With the kind of stuff
he wrote, he could have almost as well
worked miles back of the front But
the reporter In him drove him right to
where things were thickest.
His widow, Gerry, has pleased all
his friends by stepping hard on a
professional project to establish a
gaudy memorial park in his mem
ory. ... That's exactly what would
have made him wince . . . Perhaps
modesty was his predominant char
acteristic, and it shows In this film,
over a natural temptation for a pro
ducer, director and actor to create
a hero ... To himself, Ernie was
no hero ... He was bewildered by
the praise and prosperity which
poured down on efforts which he
intended to be simple and humble,
as he was to the last, and which I
am sure he would want his memory
to be.
After many long years at every angle
of the business, I am scarcely a starry-
eyed worshiper of a man simply be
cause he does a newspaper Job well
... Devoting all my space this week to
Ernie Pyle makes the first time I have
done that since, 30 years ago this week,
I wrote an obituary tribute on Paul
Armstrong, who was the exact antithe
sis of the man I deal with here . . .
That bears out a theory which has long
seemed sound to me—a man is judged
in the direct ratio of what he accom
plishes to what he attempts.
Six Pairs of Twins in Family
Regains Court Title
The land of the Dionne quintuplets has produced another marvel: six
pairs of twins in the same family. Of these 12 twins, 7 are still living.
They were part of a family of 19 children born in 23 years to farmer
Olivier Brault, 42, and his wife Germaine, 39, near Montreal, Canada.
The 12 living children are pictured with parents.
After three years of inaction,
Sarah Palfrey Cooke came back to
regain the National Amateur Wom
en’s Tennis title from defending
champion, Pauline Betz, 3-6, 8-6, 6-4.
The tournament held at Forest Hills,
New York, was the first postwar
event.
Boyington-W ain wright-W ermuth
Three outstanding heroes of the war against Japan, Maj. Gregory
Boyington, marine corps ace, left; Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero
of Corregidor, center; and Capt. Arthur W. Wermuth, “one man army of
Bataan,” credited with killing 116 Japs singlehanded, were all found alive
in prison camps, despite extreme hardships they underwent.
Pete The Pooch Is an Able Seaman
Impatience is the name for Pete, who can’t wait for a line to be
tossed from the chock, but dives into the sea and swims ashore, guiding
the coast guard cutler to its berth at LeHavre, France. After being lifted
out of the water, with the line in his mouth, he sees that it is properly
moored to bollard. The wire-haired fox terrier meets all ships.
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Hurley Serves as Peace Maker
Mao Tse-tung, Communist leader of China, was escorted by Maj. Gen.
Patrick J. Hurley, American ambassador to China, to a meeting with
Chiang Kai-shek. The result of Hurley’s efforts was a report, “Now with
the victorious conclusion of the war against Japan, China is about to en
ter the stage of peaceful reconstruction.” L. to R., Mao, Hurley, Chiang.
Our Flag Over Japan
Proud G.I.s of the 11th airborne
watch the American flag flapping in
the breeze, soon after their arrival
at Atsugi airstrip from Okinawa, as
planes in the background wing over
the field. The raising of the flag
marked complete surrender of Japs.
Champ Girl Hurler
Connie Wisniewski, of Detroit, ace
hurler for the Grand Rapids Chicks
of the All-American Girls Profession
al Ball league, broke a pitching rec
ord with 34 wins for the season, as
well as for the three years the league
has been in existence.
T Did No Wrong’
“Tokyo Rose,” did nothing more
than entertain G.I.s, which despite
her statement, and that of her rela
tives in Chicago, is not what she in-
tc::.'.cd.
VT’OUR correspondent is not among
•l those who see only greatness in ths
past history of sport. All games ad
vance when greater numbers of play
ers take part and improved methods
are utilized in training and competition.
But when we read and hear that the
new golden age of sport, due to follow
in the postwar boom, will far surpass
the golden age that came after World
War I, an immediate disagreement is
hereby entered. This doesn’t concern
the greater crowds that will undoubt
edly pay out more cash in sport’s com
ing boom, but it does concern the
quality of the talent the next few years
will bring along.
Suppose we look over a few names
that featured our headlines some
twenty or twenty-five years ago—
Baseball — Babe Ruth, Rogers
Hornsby.
The Ring — Jack Dempsey, Gene
Tunney.
Golf—Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen.
(Hagen got an earlier start, but he was
still a big part of the show.)
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Polo—Tommy Hitchcock.
Racing—Man o’ War.
Football — Knute Rockne—Red
Grange—the Four Horsemen.
Tennis—Bill Tilden, Little BUI John
ston.
What chance has the next f'.ecade to
surpass this list in skill, olor and
crowd appeal? It might happen, of
course, but the odds are the other way.
Such present day stars as Joe Louis,
Billy Conn and Byron Nelson were at
or around the top some time before
World War II started, and so can
hardly be classed as members of the
new “golden age” group who are sup
posed to outclass the u.ames we havs
mentioned.
WHO CAN EQUAL THESS?
Will any ball players come along to
pass Babe Ruth's home run record to
pack ball parks that had, in many
places, been drawing from 800 to 1200
spectators? Will any ball player come
along to average above .400 for four
consecutive years, as Hornsby did?
Will any golfer come along to equal
Bobby Jones’ grand slam, or hold the
high average Gene Sarazen has carried
for twenty-four seasons?
Will a better polo player than Tommy
Hitchcock report, or a greater tennis
player than Bill Tilden?
Or what new heavyweight will take
over the show who has the ring appeal
that Jack Dempsey knew in his seven-
years reign?
All in ail, that bunch of old-timers
will be hard to outclass as we look at
the picture.
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The new golden age will first have to
depend largely upon stars established
before Germans and Japan decided to
split the world like an apple and not
even leave a core.
This would have to Include such well-
known names as Joe Louis, Byron Nel
son, Ted Williams, Bob Feller and a
few others. After this/ we get a long
list from baseball and football stars on
the pro side who were called by Army
and Navy when they were barely start
ing their invasions of fame’s kingdom.
STARS AMONG VETERANS
In spite of valuable years they have
lost on the field, many of these will
return and scrap their way into coming
headlines. But the majority of the new
stars will have to como from the mil
lions of kids now under eighteen, plus
the roll-call from some 11,000,000 serv
icemen who have been taught many
games they never had the chance to
know before at close range.
There is no doubting the fact that
the general average of skill will soon
be well above the average we knew
twenty years ago. And that is what
counts heavily. There will be new rec
ords—especially in distance races as
we go out after the flying Swedes.
We will have a far greater number
of participants, also deeply important,
in every sport. And these will all play
to record-breaking crowds, as Belmont
showed the way last week with its
57,000 human sardines hurling well
over $4,000,000 into the mutuei’s maws.
There will be a far greater mass of
competitors to call upon. But that first
golden age is still something to out
class—Ruth, Dempsey, Jones, Tilden,
Man o’ War, Grange, Hitchcock and
the others mentioned. For in addition
to their si ill and power they also had
Incredible flares of color and crowd
appeal. In the main, their names were
known around the world.
In addition to Louis and Nelson,
Williams and Feller, the new golden
aga should lay claim to the Army and
Navy football teams of 1945. The iwo
great squads directed by Red Blaik and
Swede Hagberg have the chance to be
rated among the best any colleges have
ever known—Including Notre Dame,
Minnesota, Michigan and Southern
California.
Unfortunately, they haven’t the com
petition known before the war, but
this isn’t their fault. Whatever happens,
the next few years in sport will be
something to watch and follow, pos
sibly the most interesting decade that
any crowds have ever known.
We have often heard various flights
of oratory about the best ball player
or the most valuable ball player
through the war era. Many names have
been mentioned, Including those who
were not called to war service, for
various and official reasons which in
no sense reflect upon the ball player.
But when you complete your excava
tions and get down to what is techni
cally known as rock bottom, there is
only one answer. His name is Hal
Newhouser, the willowy left-hander of
Detroit’s Tigers, who won 29 ball games
last season and has already packed
away 20 victories in this waning Au
gust campaign. This means a total of
49 winning starts in the last two sea
sons, with several weeks left. Dean
won 58 games in 1934 and 1935—Hub-
bell 49 in 1935 and 1936. Newhouser is
sure to pass the 50 winning game mark
for two seasons, meaning 1944 and
1945, and this pleasant fate doesn’t
happen to many pitchers.
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