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.)
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WHO’S
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THIS
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
New U. S. Political Alignment
Is Now Taking Definite Shape
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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