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The Gold Hill News. Gold Hill. Oregon W E E K L Y NEW S A N A L Y S IS B Y R O G E R SHAW An Emphatic No Fundamental Strategy of War Undergoes Major Alterations; Presidential Race \\ arms Up I Thursday, August 1, 1940 FDR-Wallace Ticket Choice Of Democrats Third Term T radition Is broken by Delegates At Convention. (E D IT O R 'S N O T E — When opinions are expressed in these columns, they a re those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) R e le a s e d by W e s te rn N e w s p a p e r U n io n . By GEORGE A, BARCLAY TRADITION of 152 years standing was s h a tte r e d when President Franklin De lano Roosevelt was nominated for a third term by the Demo cratic convention in Chicago. It was the first time in his tory that such an event has To A dolf H itler’s "last chance p e a c e o f f e r , ” P r im e M in is te r occurred. Churchill of England sounded the From start to finish at the A expected “no.” I.onn an enem y of H itler, Churchill has been particu larly obnoxious to the Fuehrer, Even when C.hurehill was just a private citizen. H itler sin fled him out for oratorical attack. convention it was evident he would be nominated. Even when speak ers proposed the names of other candidates, it was apparent that when the vote was finally taken. President Roosevelt would be draft ed. A surprise to many convention attendants was the fact that when the nominations started, Alabama did not yield to New York, but gave its junior senator. Lister Hill, the honor of nominating the President. Greatest speculation centered around the nomination of a vice president. It became known on the final day that President Roosevelt’s choice was Henry A. Wallace, secre tary of agriculture. As in the case of the renomination of the Presi dent, the delegates knew for whom they were to vote before entering the hall. But it was only after a neck-and-neck race with Speaker William B. Bankhead and a noisy demonstration by groups of dele gates and spectators who shouted objections when Paul V. McNutt, federal security administrator, asked withdrawal of his own name, that Mr. Wallace was nominated. His selection is expected to appeal to agriculture and to act as an off set to the same appeal of Sen. Charles McNary, Republican vice- presidential nominee. Erunklin I). Roosevelt Henry A, Walluce spearhead of the opposition to the With evidence mounting that third term, moved the nomination Roosevelt would be drafted when it of the President by acclamatii». came time to ballot later In the Aside from the balloting and the week, there was little opportunity reading of the planks In the plat for suspense or excitement the open form, three things stood out in sharp ing day. The keynote speech of Tem (Set— M u lti Ttlka.) relief in an otherwise unemotion porary Chairman William B. Bank- al and unexciting convention. One head on opening night warned both was the candidacy of James A. Far political parties that the American HITLER TALKS: ley and the speculation over his people are in no mood for petty Endlessly future role in the party. The other politics in the forthcoming race, Hitler’s speech came over the ra was the reading by Permanent that the major objectives of both dio, translated into an extreme, ul Chairman Alben W. Barkley of Ken parties must be unity and solidarity tra, English accent. It must have tucky of a statement summarizing of purpose in preserving the struc been Lord Haw-Haw putting it President Roosevelt's views on the ture of our government und the per across. It went on endlessly. Hitler nomination the night before the bal petuation of the people's freedom. loting in which he said he had no said he didn't want to destroy the Fire at Republicans. desire or purpose to continue in of British empire. He said he shrank ***** F R A N C f- Heavy guns were turned on the fice and released all delegates Republican at the destruction which hung over party in the speech of England, and suggested an “honor pledged to him. The third was the Permanent Chairman Barkley, the dramatic appearance of 82-year-old This map graphically shows the many points of attack on the British able” peace. Hitler reviewed his following night. Senator Barkley Senator Carter Glass of Virginia held their platform up to scorn, conquests, his methods, and his dip Isles open to Hitler’s air raiders. from a sick bed to inveigh against nounced Wendell L. Willkie, de lomatic wrangles with Chamberlain at to break the British blockade and and Daladier. He said he spoke not breaking the third term tradition GERMAN WAR: tacked statements of Herbert Hoover feed the starving French, Dutch, as a victor, but as a rationalist, anx as he nominated Mr. Farley. at the Republican convention and Strategy and Belgians, with American food ious to terminate futile misery. Roosevelt vs. Farley. pointed to the record of Republican It is about time that we exam stuffs (of which we would have a Some 31 Pacific coast radio stations The approaching dissolution of the congressional voting on various pre ined the fundamental strategy of the surplus). This would make the iso cut off his speech because it was partnership between Mr. Farley and paredness bills. One mention of German war, at this point. For lationists take an interventionist po trying to “justify his crimes against President Roosevelt was evident as President Roosevelt's name brought the whole situation has changed, in sition. Meanwhile, the intervention civilization itself.” the chairman of the Democratic Na a demonstration lasting 22 minutes. ists would cry “hands off” the Brit England, in Germany, and in the Hitler also made Goering some tional committee raised his gavel on The statement from President ish blockade, and would want the thing brand-new in the staid history Monday noon, calling the convention Roosevelt United States. which Mr. Barkley read The German aim was a simple continent to stew in its own juice, of the Prussian arm y: a Reich’s to order. Those who remembered at the conclusion his speech, had which would turn them into isola one. It was to attack England by Marshal of Greater Germany, and the situation in 1932 and 1936 when no effect in halting of the Farley was the organizing genius velt movement, although draft-Roose- land, sea, and air, without wasting tionists. This, then, was the key gave him the Grand Cross of the Acceptance Speech. Mr. Bark felt the contrast. No longer was ley had said “The President much time or effort in other theaters note to the European war situa Iron Cross. Goering designed him has In accepting the nomination for a Jim Farley the general-in-chief di of war, which were trifling, anyway. tion as a whole. Meanwhile, Hitler self a new. different, extra-special third term, Mr. Roosevelt showed never had and has not today any de liberated the Belgian war prisoners uniform—“the only one of its kind himself once more a tradition recting the strategy that would re sire or purpose to continue the office Italy was expected to take Malta, and sent them home, having long nominate his chief. He was in an in all German officialdom.” Hitler smasher. and Spain was expected to enter the President, or to be nominated, other role—that of a candidate for of war and take Gibraltar, with the since done the same by the Nor also created nine new field-marshals In a radio address broadcast from by the convention for that office. possibility that Japan might take wegian and Dutch soldier-captives. and two new field-marshals-general, the White House to the delegates he the presidency himself and an He wishes in all earnestness and Hongkong, but all these were side is The French were expected to be and 17 new colonel-generals (Ger said that he accepted the nomina avowed opponent of the third-term sincerity to make it clear that all of next on the parole list. Not so, the idea. man military grades run different tion only after deep conflict between sues as compared with the basic bat the delegates to this convention are “tough-and-ready" Poles, of whom months it had been apparent free to vote for from the American). tle of Britain. Here the preliminary any candidate." his personal desire to retire and the to For political observers that the Pres German air bombardment proved there were more than a million in urgings of his conscience. But now, ident and Mr. Farley no longer saw A demonstration lasting an hour BURMA ROAD: highly effective, and English Ports German military hands. he said, the European war had cre eye-to-«ye. The President’s silence followed the statement and it was a mouth and Welsh Cardiff were be CAMPAIGN: So Silly ated a public danger in the United on the third-term question and Far foregone conclusion that nothing lieved already to be gutted. Ed States. The Burma road controversy took L p-ff arming ley's known opposition to it in* could stop the delegates demand for ward VIII, duke of Windsor, was “In the face of that danger," he creased the difficulties. Their his Roosevelt when balloting took place. silliest turn on record. That called a fifth columnist by some The 1940 presidential campaign the Englishmen, and hailed as the next race was busy up-warming. It was, road carried war supplies to Chiang told the delegates, “all those who toric conference at Hyde Park. This was abundantly clear on Wed and his armies. The Brit can be of service to the republic N. Y., a week before the conven nesday night, as state after state monarch by others. in fact, getting warmer and warmer. Kai-shek ish foreign office closed it, on the have no other choice but to offer tion at which Mr. Roosevelt made seconded the nomination speech. The third term attempt, by Mr. themselves for service in those ca Churchill Plan Glass Gets Ovation. Roosevelt brought forth many dire heated demand of Japan. Then Sec pacities for which they are best known his views and pledged Far ley to secrecy, pushed the question The English war plan was thisr predictions from newspaper editori retary Hull protested that the Bur fitted.” Dramatic was the appearance of of their future relationship further Senator Glass on behalf of Post to hold out, like a besieged fortress, al writers. One excellent quip went ma road was necessary for world It was an apparently united party into the limelight. To many, it m a s te r G en eral F a rle y . Rising if possible for two or three months. the rounds. A lady said to a gent: trade and international commerce Then, late fall would put an end to “ But a third term’s un-precedent- (Hull is an old free-trader). At this that made the ballot unanimous for seemed virtual confirmation of the from a sickbed and attending what German operations against the is ed!” To which the gent replied, “So po'.it, part of the British parliament Roosevelt after the vote of the state long-standing rumor that Mr. Farley may well be his last convention, the land fortress. At this point, the was General Washington’s first r ..»ported Hull against their own for- delegations had given the President would resign his national committee Virginia statesman was eloquent in c gn office, with cries of "no ap 946 13/30 of the 1,100 votes in the and cabinet posts after the conven his praise of Farley and won for English would swing into offensive term.” easen-ent.” China, infuriated, convention and the other candidates tion to take over the majority stock himself a personal ovation. "Farley,” action in the following way: by an Some thoughtful students of politi hreatrned England with dire a combined total of 149 2/30. These of the New York Yankees’ ball club. he said, “is a man who never broke intensified sea blockade that would cal science believed that the third Complimentary references to Jim a pledge once given, who believes bring famine to the entire continent term phenomenon was a pale Amer .hreats. Germany, of course, took candidates included Postmaster of Europe. There have been crop ican reflection of totalitarian dicta the side of Japan. Thereby, Hitler General Farley, Vice President Gar Farley by President Roosevelt in in the unwritten law as advocated shortages, and failures, on the con torships abroad . . . just as our took the side of the British foreign ner and Senator Millard Tydings. his radioed acceptance speech and by Democrats ever since the days tinent, and another war-winter might Civil war of 1861 was a pale reflec office, against Hull and Chiang Kai- Secretary of State Hull, although not by Mrs. Roosevelt who appeared of Thomas Jefferson, who less than bring untold horrors to the Dutch, tion of “civil 1848” in Europe Hen shek. It was Anglo-Germany, plus a candidate, had received 5% votes. personally to speak on the closing three years before his death ap Belgians, French, Norse, Danes, etc. ry Wallace was put up as Demo Japan, versus the U. S. A. Mean One after another the names were night were interpreted as a gesture pealed to his party never to nomi nate a man for a third term." —and even to the Germans. This cratic vice president in order to while, England was trying to nego withdrawn and finally Mr. Farley, of friendship to Mr. Farley. was exactly what Winston Church match the Republican McNary, for tiate the finish to the Jap-Chinese But while the delegates cheered but apparently our own ill was counting on. both were agricultural experts of contest, Senator Glass, it was a personal state department was opposed to There was one hitch in this plan. the very first water. The choice of “ appeasement” in the Orient. All tribute only. Their minds were What food there was on the conti Wallace brought out that this New this made up. Tradition or no tradition nent, would go (1) to the German Dealer was an ex-Republican, and tions. hit a new low in foreign rela they wanted President Roosevelt for a third term. army, (2) to the German home Mr. Roosevelt had passed over a folks, and (3) to the Dutch, Bel number of regulation machine Dem ANGLO-SHIFT: With the nominations out of the gians, French, etc., etc. Thereby, ocrats. way, the Democrats faced their Turnabouts the British would make the Dutch Wallace, Ickes, Stimson, Knox, By HOWARD JARVIS jected by the all-men members of campaign opponents from a plat and French suffer for Hitler’s wrong Hopkins, Miss Perkins: none of them While Hitler was promoting all the Republican platform committee. form built on a strong defense of A NOTHER tradition was broken doings. But this was only the be had had a Democratic background. those glamour-boy generals and air This a statement which pro the New Deal against the Republi ginning of the repercussions. It was But then, of course, the ex-Demo- men, and scattering decorations to * * by the Democratic party when vided was that a woman’s marital status cans and of the Western hemisphere it gave women delegates an equal crat Willkie had only been a Repub expected that this plan—the “Church the four winds, England was kick should not interfere with her right against all aggressors. In its planks voice with men on the party plat ill plan,” they called it—would have lican for but two scant years. Hoo ing various people upstairs. An ar to hold a job. The plank was de on foreign wars, defense and aid form committee for the first time the following astounding effect in ver, too, was a former Democrat, rogant-looking gentleman named to the allies the platform was a close sired because 26 states at different the United States: it would turn the while it was expected that A1 Smith Lieut.-Gen. Sir Alan F. Brooke, re in American political history. approximation of similar planks times have had bills proposed to dis This action was taken at the fourth criminate against married women. adopted by the Republican conven isolationists into interventionists, would continue to take a walk. It cently general officer in charge of session of the convention. More than and the interventionists into isola looked as though the old party di Another victory for the women re tion at Philadelphia recently. southern command, became 2,000 tionists. The reason for this was as visions were breaking down all the women delegates had decided sulted Concerning foreign wars, the plat when the Democratic party commander-in-chief of the home follows: the humane isolationists along the line, and the terms New forces. He took the place of Gen. to put up a united front to demand was pledged to promote equal op form stated: "We will not partici could not stand the continental star Deal and Old Guard were increas Sir Edmund Ironside (it was Oliver this equality. portunity for women through the ef pate in foreign wars and will not vation, and would want to intervene ingly taking the place of the Re Cromwell’s ironsides that founded The women didn’t hesitate to use forts of Congresswoman Mary T. send our army, naval or air forces publican and Democratic tags. The their new-found power. They intro Norton of New Jersey. It pledged to fight in foreign lands outside of loss of Jim Farley, the political ge the British regular army). duced several amendments to the the Democrats to work for “equality the Americas, except In case of at Sir Ironside, a huge, hulking fel nius who managed the party ma party platform, and those amend of opportunity for men and women tack.” chinery for Roosevelt, was a heavy low, who once commanded Gibral ments were passed. Foreign policy without impairing the social legisla Concerning defense the platform tar, was kicked into being a field- and women’s rights received partic . . . in the news blow to many of the Democrats. tion which promotes true equality by pledged to "enforce and defend the general. Viscount Gort, former com ular attention. safeguarding the health and eco Monroe doctrine,” “provide Ameri More of It mander of the ill-fated British ex At the insistence of Mrs. Arthur nomic welfare of women workers.” ca with an invincible air force, a New York city’s Mayor LaGuardia While a good many Democrats peditionary force in France and strongly advocated universal mili were muttering about the III term, Flanders, had the same experience. Condon of Washington, D. C., the Women delegates concerned them navy strong enough to protect all on foreign policy which had selves primarily with the business our seacoasts and a fully equipped tary service. Wallace, and Farley, Willkie stressed He became inspector general of plank President Manuel Quezon of the his own humble origin, and inferred forces for training. Previously, Gort already been accepted by the com of the convention and forgot their and mechanized army.” Philippines told American high-com artfully that Roosevelt’s path had had received the sacred order of mittee was changed to provide a social activities, according to Mrs. The platform is pledged to safe missioner Francis Sayre (Woodrow been a lot softer. Willkie said, fur the bath, which evoked considera warning to foreign dictators. Five Elizabeth A. Conkey, national com- guard the farmer’s foreign markets, Wilson’s son-in-law): “We must do thermore, that he was making no ble criticism. But Gort, everybody words, “except in case of attack” mitteewoman from Illinois. As con expand his domestic markets for all our own thinking and learn lessons sacrifice, but that he really wanted admitted, was a good organizer. were added to the pledge not to send vention hostess, she pointed out that domestic crops, to promote farmer- from contemporary history — or to run—which was certainly obvious Brooke had commanded the II corps troops to fight in foreign lands. most of the social activities had been owned co - operatives, marketing The new committeewomen put concluded before the convention got agreements, extend crop insurance bust!” to almost anybody. of the British expeditionary force. through a plank which had been re- down to its serious work. Claude Dornier Jr., son of Ger and safeguard the family-size farm. Vitamin B many’s outstanding aircraft design OIL, OIL, OIL: In other planks, the party pledged er, was in New York, and planned to Petroleum Simultaneous with the military extension of the Social Security act enter an American university in the turnabouts, England went in for a to "millions of persons not now pro autumn. Dornier bombers were be Large shipments of oil have been new kind of white bread. It was tected,” but without specifying them. ing massed for the battle of Britain: going through to Spain, from Ameri rich in vitamin B and calcium salt, A provision calling for "early reali all-metal monoplanes. can Texas, and also from South to help overcome the wartime strain <L More women delegates cast their <L One - eyed Connolly, p e re n n ial zation" of a minimum pension for Gen. Eugene Mittelhauser’s fa American Venezuela and Colombia. of nerves and physical fatigue. It votes in the various state delega gate-crasher, failed to crash but at the aged was considered an appeal mous Near Eastern French army Something like 214 million barrels was a revolution in nutrition. The tions than ever before in the history tended the convention wearing the for votes of the Townsendites. was reported, at last, ready for had been sent from the United States of conventions. One state delega badge of an assistant sergeant of The party devoted considerable final disbandment, under the direc in eight months of the war. Was scientific food ministry was enthusi tion—Utah—had more women than arms. He assisted Andy Frain, in space to its declaration for continu astic about it, and it might turn out tion of an Italian war mission. Mit- Hitler getting much of it? Probably, men, the ladies outnumbering the charge of ushers. ation of public hydro-electric projects to b» a real boon to medicine, and gentlemen nine to seven. In the <L telhauser succeeded Gen. Max Wey- they thought in Washington. Hollywood was represented by and condemning the “ Power Mo to humanity in general. The Brit gand when the latter went to France Florida delegation the representa screen star Melvin Douglas and his nopoly” in one paragraph mention Some, in fact, believed that Ger to wind up the war and help reor- many had been getting far more ish public began to buy it up, and tion of the sexes was equal. The wife, Helen Gahagan. He was a ing indirectly Wendell L. Willkie’s ganie» th» government. New Jersey delegation had Rep. California delegate, she his alter long duel with the Tennessee Valley oil from America than from Russia. gulp it down. prontisi'n’’n. Mary Norton as its chairman. nate. authority. f Democratic Women Gain Voice In P a rty ’s Platform Council NAM ES
