Image provided by: The Willamina Museum; Willamina, OR
About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1940)
THURSDAY. AUG. 8. 1940 TIMES. W IL L A M IN A . OREGON W E E K L Y N E W S A N A L Y S IS B Y R O G E R SHAW' German Flyers Slash at Britain; American Republics Sign Pact; U. S. Studies ‘Peacetime Draft’ (EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ■ R eleased oy W estern N ew spaper U nion. ,, B rue kart’s Washington Dig eat WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON New U. S. Political Alignment Is Now Taking Definite Shape P .D .R AARBLOl TW ECHAt^P C H A L L E N G E R V U IL L K IW - nor« o» COUMTIAV (Consolidated Fe atu re s— W N U S ervice .! XT EW YORK.—J. B. Priestly and ’ the U. S. A. got along nicely to / W H O D ID W fv J lL L K I« EUEFtA gether until his play, “Time and the L IC X f H6 SUU5T Conways," began to make trouble A BARNSTORMER r n g la f n d j » this in 1 937> Mr. I n WHO B E A T UP HIS V o ice o / f E piay> .STABLE MATES 1 T a k e s J a b a t O u r Priestly went R a d io C o m m e n te rs metaphysical and conjured time into fourth dimentional un reality. Perhaps because they had long felt the urgency and reality of a newspaper deadline, the Ameri can dramatic critics didn’t quite get it and scored the play as just so-so and maybe not even that. Mr. Priestly said they were rude and boorish about it and challenged not ■ only their time sense, but their sense 1 of propriety and their fitness for their jobs. That must have gone deeply Banter at the under Mr. Priestly’s skin, sinee, This new streamlined mobile station of the 17. S. Army Recruiting as the “Voice of England” at a By WILLIAM BRUCKART service is shown as it was put into service at Bradenton, Fla., with a moment when time, at any rate prospective soldier already taking the first step towards “warrior” status. WNU Service, National Press Bldg., seems to be real, he takes a If and when Congress approves the Burke-Wadsworth bill, the army is Washington, D. C. short-wave, short jab at radio ready to put into effect a selective compulsory military training program, WASHINGTON— Something like commentators in this country. In which event the coaxing of recruits will become a lost art. four years ago, I wrote in these col He thinks that “people who are (See— The D r t / t ) umns an expression of belief that not prepared to fight anything, siders itself the natural leader and President Roosevelt would be the anywhere” should mind their THE WAR: champion of Spanish America, ; manners and not belittle others instrumentality of our era to bring against Uncle Sam, Hitler, and the about a realignment of political Mostly Aerial who can and will fight. While groupings in the United States. I The war was becoming increasing Mikado alike. Argentines think that i that may not necessarily make Mexico, Cuba, Bolivia, etc., should j wrote, then, that his own thoughts “Time and the Conways” a good ly aerial and submarine in its es and actions, together with the play, it reveals Mr. Priestly, sential nature. The armies w’ere take advice from themselves—and sources of the advice he was accept and no doubt England, as ready q¿net, for they had little to do. The not from the Yankee Colossus, as ing, would bring about this result Germans had released the Dutch, they call the Americanos. Ireland ; to meet all comers, and that whether Mr. Roosevelt so intended Norse and Belgian war prisoners, generally throws a monkey wrench i seems all to the good. Perhaps or not. and sent them home on parole. Some into British imperial conferences, when television comes, we’U be The prediction that I made in No 250,000 Polish prisoners were ex and Dr Leopoldo Melo has been do- ■ saying, “Smile when you say vember, 1936 was based upon what pected to be next, with the French ing approximately the same thing, that, pardner.” believed likely to be the princi not too far behind. The German to the secret distress of Secretary This reporter, having once talked I ples to which Mr. Roosevelt would troops were playing “skat” in weary Hull. Mr. Priestly, can testify that adhere in his second administra As the conference ended the 21 with garrison duty, from the Arctic cir he has a nice smile. While his esti cle down to Portugal, and they were nations signed a pact, known as mate of our present or potential tion. There was no intimation at infiltrating into Spain. It looked the “Act of Havana,” which pro belligerency may have been some that time, however, that Mr. Roose as if the Spanish and Rumanians vided for “provisional administra what tactless, in his novels and velt could, or would, be a nominee might enter the war on the German tion” of any European owned pos magazine articles he has shown for a third term as President. Even side, and already the British foreign sessions in this hemisphere “ if a much more sound discernment of without that indication, the wide office was trying to back up little non-American state shall attempt to the American scene than the writ breach between the conservatives of Bulgaria in its claims for some Ru replace another non-American state, ings of certain other visiting Brit both Democratic and Republican thus threatening the peace of the ons, who kiss and run and there parties, on the one hand, and the manian territory. advisors that surrounded the Presi Russia, the bear that walks like a continent.” after engage in long-distance smear dent seemed certain to accomplish man, as Kipling put it, increased its ing. He, at any rate, said his say the end that I then predicted. Soviet hold on the three small Bal THE DRAFT: while he was here. With Mr. Roosevelt seeking his tic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Conscripts? Mr. Priestly, 46 years old, took third term under the Democratic la Lithuania, and on the Rumanian in literature and history at bel, and Wendell Willkie running as What about universal military honors province of Bessarabia as well. But Cambridge, went to London from his the prospect of German-Russian service in peace time? That was a native Yorkshire and found the lit the Republican nominee, there sure ly can no longer be any doubt that burning question before all the warfare did not appear to be very erary ladder just an escalator. likely. The European continent was Americans. Some of the best mill- ' His novel, “The Good Companions,” the campaign of 1940 will see a quieting, and it was slowly consoli tary critics opposed it as inefficient, was his first big success. This read complete and very unusual shift dating in its new “continental” form. and the Republican Senator Vanden- ' er thought there was deep insight among voters. The closing of the The Germans, Rumanians, Hungari berg and the Democratic Senator I in his “Midnight in the Desert,” polls on November 5 will have re ans, and Bulgarians conferred at Wheeler did not seem to like it ei written after his stay in Arizona, corded, I believe, probably the great Salzburg, in what used to be Aus ther. Neither did the pacifists, nor with his family. In his routine est transition in political thought tria. Over the conference loomed many of the isolationists. A real short-wave address, he stresses the alignment that our nation ever has the red shadows of Stalin and the congressional debate over the issue common cultural ties of England known. An assertion so broad requires an was taking definite shape. Stalinites. America, without being oily explanation. An explanation of the Was it scientific, in the light of , and about it and has seemed to this hear reasons can go only to the funda modern warfare, which demands i er 4 9 • 9 • 9 • 9 an effective special pleader. But i mentals of the circumstance. That highly trained small groups of me- ! The aerial losses of Germans and he does seem to look on our critics British were so conflicting, in the chanical specialists, like tankmen as alien parachute-jumpers, or even brings the statement that, in the minds of many long-experienced pol and flyers and motor-minded tech reports, that nobody could hope to something less admirable. iticians, the issues are going to be judge. So were the amounts of dam nicians? Perhaps it was. Perhaps ; age done, but the unhappy Dutch it was not. There was need for i *T'HE professor who pieces out the more sharply defined this fall than in most any campaign within the were probably suffering as severely cool, hard rationalizing, and no place ! dinosaur from a single bone has as anybody, along with the English for hysteria or emotionalistics. Some a distinct advantage over interpret recollection of this observer. east coast and the German Rhine of the best generals were for it, ers of world events. Nobody can Issue o f T h ir d T e rm land. It was indecisive, criminal, and so were many public-spirited ■ • ister . . dispute writer him. W ill Be H o t ly D e b a te d and stupid. Rumors of peace con citizens. By and large, American J a p W a r M in youth seemed to be anti-conscript, ■ First, anyone who doubts that the tinued on all sides, and the conflict B ears a F e a th e r has just fin- ing radios blared incessantly. Def and some people linked intervention- I On H is S h o u ld er lshed* reading Republicans and anti-third term initely, the Vatican was peace-mind ism with the proposed draft. It was . are going to let the third a magazine Democrats ed, and so were the Hollanders and a fair field for patriotic debate, and article of 1934 about Lieut. term issue pass unnoticed must be Eiki (it was variously reported) General intelligent study. Many good U. S. Tojo of Japan, in which it Gen. somewhat “teched” in the head. is made Goering and Mr. Lloyd George. nationalists went at it in that en clear that he is typical of the head- I From what is now plainly visible, Would the lightning-war Blitzkrieg lightened spirit. fact and every possible sup strong army caste, sure to destroy every turn into a Blitzfried, or lightning position about a third term, or the itself, and that quickly. BRETONS: against any man staying peace? But here today is General Tojo tradition in the White House for 12 years, named war minister in the new army From Britain HAVANA: be filling the air and the news which seems bent on de will Early in the Middle ages, a lot of cabinet papers from the moment that Mr. The 21 stroying anybody or anything rather frightened Celts escaped from Brit Willkie's speech of formal accept The 21 American republics and ain and settled across the channel than itself. In the short view, at ance is recorded. It is much too “ republics” found out, at Havana, in France. They called their new least, the dinosaurs of totalitarian- | obvious to pass by also, that the that the Argentine was the chief home “ Brittany” in honor of their ism are subject to laboratory obser- | Roosevelt opponents will accuse him stumbling block This generally old home. The people that chased vation—but only in the short view, of every type of malicious design happens at Pan-American get-to them out of Britain were the heath close to a deadline. and insincerity which clever politi Little is known about General gethers, for the following reasons: en Anglo-Saxons, who changed Brit cal brains can conjure into written Tojo in this country, but avail The Argentine is pure white—much ain into Anglo-land (England.) The or spoken word. purer than the United States. It is Bretons kept on speaking Celtic, and able data indicate that his rise From many sources among Dem two-thirds Hispanic, and a third they refused to join France politi to power will not be reassuring ocrats who are sticking to party sturdy North Italian, extremely cally until about 1500. When the to those who look for peaceful, faith and doctrine, always hereto good stock. It is prouder than great French revolution came, in pleasant solutions of world dis fore strongly resentful of the third Punch, and ultra-patriotic. It con- 1789, they resisted it by force for cord. His betes noir are the term idea, I hear that preserva 17. S. A. and Russia. eight long years, for they were back tion of the party, itself, depends ward and ultra-conservative. Like Pericles of Greece, he ad upon preventing Mr. Roosevelt from N A M E S Of late years, they learned about vanced himself by kicking up war becoming the first person to have independence from the Celtic nation scares. He agrees with the doc three consecutive terms. It is too . . . in the news alists of Ireland, and a Breton na- trine of Adolf Hitler, expounded in early to say whether those Demo I tionalist movement got going. When “Mein Kampf,” that all alliances crats will be effective in their aid (L Mrs. Daisy Borden Harriman, the war broke out last fall, Premier Da are push-overs and that the only to the Roosevelt opponents, but, American lady ambassador to Nor ladier jailed some of the Breton na tough and durable nation is the one whatever their numbers are, they way, was reported en route home, tionalists, along with other “danger that stands alone. He is smart, tell me of their decision to regain jn the U. S. army transport Ameri- ous” elements. This was a mistake. hard-boiled, resourceful and con control of the Democratic label. The war within the Democratic :an Legion—in company with the It made the Bretons pro-German. temptuous of theories, sentiments, Yankee ministers to Estonia, Lat Now, with German help, a new and and negotiations. He is of an un party itself together with the third ida and Lithuania, recently absorbed semi-independent Brittany may ba reconstructed feudal family, and has term issue, therefore, presents the set up: its capital at Rennes. been in the army since his early basis for a tremendous shift of par jy Soviet Russia. youth. i / T H E CHAMP ' 1 5 \ a /A .5 H H D , U P A N D T IC B O 3 | S t T w IC e K v T a H l E l IR - N H .C < S QL)~r . C IC S TOO Q F T E t « Fi&ht Camps. ty strength. It forms the basis for one phase of that realignment for which I spoke. If those Democrat* fail to regain control of the party— and they were beaten down in the Chicago convention by the well-oiled New Deal faction’s machine—the conservative wing of the Democrat ic party has no place else to go. save to the Republican side. Some of them, like Vice President Gar ner, who was so completely ignored that his name hardly was mentioned at Chicago, doubtless will go a-flsh- ing. There will be quite a few of those. The question yet to be an swered is, how many will be uw active in the campaign? R e lie f a n d F a rm V o te S h o u ld G o to R oosevelt On the other hand, Mr. Roosevelt will gain some votes from the other side. He will get a large percent age of the relief votes again, as ha did in 1936, and he will have per haps as much as 40 per cent of the farm vote, or that is the guess of men who know political thought in agricultural areas. The President’s foreign policies have proved attractive to certain elements in this country, and obvi ously they are going to stick with the man who has helped their fa therlands. From these three angles—the re lief, the farm and the foreign vote— we see a regrouping along new lines. The relief and the farm votes may be said to have been held by the President before, but that is not quite an accurate statement. The realignment, in these two cases, ap pears to be something of a settling down process. W illh ie S u p p o rters W ill W o o A H D is g ru n tle d D em o crats From the Willkie camp, observers cannot fail to note how plans are be ing made to give a haven to dissat isfied Democrats. Moreover, those same plans take into account the need for a political home for that portion of the farm and labor voto which has a desire to find new affili ations. It is very clear that the Roosevelt farm program has not won complete endorsement, and the Republicans have the feeling, too, that the actions of the National La bor Relations board which surely has been influenced by John L. Lew is and his C. I. O. have not helped the New Deal team with William Green’s A. F. of L. There have been so many com plaints from business men, great and small, about the bungling and the waste in Washington that Mr. Willkie can be expected to hold most of that vote. He can be expected also to have whatever influence that segment of national life has in per suading workers to turn to the Re publicans. And with respect to the third term, already guns have begun to bark out their missiles of criticism of the Roosevelt “draft” by the Chicago convention. They are saying thus early that the “draft” was no draft at all; that Mr. Roosevelt carefully planned the machinery by which he would be “drafted,” and that his re lease of the delegates on the eve of the convention voting was a gesture so painfully sour that it serves as proof of the President’s lack of ca pacity as a politician. They are charging also that Postmaster Gen eral Farley knew there was no draft movement, except that which the President prompted, and that is why he is fading out of politics and be coming a baseball club president. -A
