The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw Nazi Long Range Guns and Bombers Blast Southeast Coast of Great Britain; Mussolini Seeks Greek Naval Bases; Japan Pushes English Out of Shanghai Doleful Duo Thursday, Sept. 5. 1940 G eneral HUGH S. JOHNSON Washington, D. C. Pretty Flowers Fill Crocheted Baskets * tSUbr. Washington, D. C. BULLITT MAY STUMP FOR BRITAIN AID AIR RASEN FOR U. 8. Ambassador Bill Bullitt, most Bele.i sc,l by W estern N ew spaper Union Getting air and nuval bases, from versatile and volatile of all Roose­ Iceland to the South American velt’s diplomats, probably will go on "bulge ’ should have the unified the stump throughout the country support of this country. It is a campaigning for “national unity” move in the direction we must go— and urging American support for which is to make our defense inde­ Great Britain. pendent of the strength of uny na­ His tour will be divorced from the tion but our own. The only criti­ New Deal, and he will not return cism of it is the inexcusable delay to his embassy in France. and lack of foresight in not having Many of the men around Roose­ done it long ago But whut we ure giving for them velt now are far ahead of him in proposing aid to Britain, and some is something else again. It has not of them may co-operate with Bullitt been revealed. Neither have the de­ in this movement. Some are def­ tails of our defensive deal with Can­ initely critical of the President, ada. Canada is a nation at wur. though close friend Bullitt is not. She has gone across the seu to at­ They feel that Roosevelt has been tack a European power. It puts us These seven-year-old twin re fu­ holding and that the country in a position of saying to Europe: llees from Hrussels. Belgium, Jo­ is ready back, P attern No. 6881. to go much further than “American nations can attack you hannes and Eranciscus Do Hunt he. but if you counterattack them we C'LOWERS in simplest stitchery • • • Doleman. sit and survey the futuro will fight you.” 1 fill these easily crocheted bas­ after landing at Jersey City, N. J., Perhaps in view of our geographic DEFENSE BLOW-UP ket edgings. Take your pick of from the child refugee ship the S. If certain legislative and adminis­ and strategic problem, that can't pillow cases, towels or scarfs. S. Exeter. Their trip from Europe trative snarls in the defense pro­ be helped. But do our Canadian was only the first leg of their jour­ gram aren't cleared up quickly, and British secret understandings Pattern 6681 contains a transfer go further? There was some im­ ney as they expect to continue on there is going to be a blowup in the plication in Mr. Churchill's recent pattern of 12 motifs ranging from defense commission that will knock 5 by 15 to 2 by 4 inches; chart to Java in the Dutch East Indies. dent in the Roosevelt administra­ peroration that they do—British and and directions for crochet; illus­ Pictured above is the United States representation on the joint Cana­ Many refugee children from Eu­ tion. Some fast footwork and American "co-operation” in war trations of stitches; materials dian-American Defense Board now meeting in Ottawa and working out rope are finding homes in the Unit­ placating White House palaver has rolling along the Old Man River, needed. Send order to: prelim inary steps in planning hemisphere defense measures. This photo ed States. kept the explosive situation under which is a symbol for fateful in­ was taken as the board met with President Roosevelt before proceeding I ____________________ evitability—the “flotillus of 1941,” cover so far, but it is very serious. to Canada. Members of the group (reading left to right) are: (Back B .w te , C irci* N .c d l.c ra ft D .p t. Inside fact is that William Knud­ which sounded like a promise of row) Capt. H arry W. H ill. Lieut. Col. Joseph T. M cNarney; Capt. Forrest WHAT THEN? American naval intervention. U R ighili A ** . New York sen, who gave up a $300.000-a-year P. Sherman, Lieut. Gen. Stanley D. Embick, John D. Hickerson. (F ro n t): , / it s Mr. Roosevelt is reported to have E n c lo .o 1S ceni* In cotn* (or P at­ General Motors job to become de­ Mayor Fiorello H . La Guardia of New York City, chairman of the board, ' ' n rl" " OH tern No.................. scouted the idea that there is any­ and President Roosevelt, seated. - People began to wonder whether fense production chief, is getting N atno ........................................ ............... . . . thing in the deal for bases about restive over the delays he is en­ i Russia might eventually enter the Addreaa ................................................... countering. He has made no our detaching a part of our insuf­ CAMPAIGN: war on the British imperial side, threats, but he has also made it ficient navy—50 destroyers—to Wight THE WAR: o ,, , 9 Critics thought it may be likely, if on the side of Britain. But things Long Range ^tfuaooles. the war dragged on long enough— clear that unless he gets action he that Mr. Roosevelt scouts, like his does not intend to continue in a posi­ Willkie found that his ardent sup and ’* mi8ht- Stalin fears Hitler Long-range German guns, posted tion where he could be blamed for third term ambition, have a curious in France along the channel shore, porters consisted of two groups: the and Mussolini in the Balkans, and lack of production. and tortuous way of promptly com­ banged away at England, not so independent Willkie clubs, and the wants to keep his rich Ukrainian ing true. A “plain operations man,” as he His Province- the No. 2 Russian federal many miles away. These were the dissident Willkie Democrats. No matter how it may be dis­ • A General Q uit famous Big Berthas of song and less ardent supporters were a good state- But if the Soviets helped Eng- describes himself, Knudsen worked guised or how warlike lawyers now story, but they failed at first to prove deal more basic. They consisted of land> whither America? It became out a schedule of production for split hairs, the detachment of those tanks, guns, planes, armor plate, much. They shot at ship convoys, the Republican party regulars, in a 0,004 question. destroyers is so clearly direct par­ T h e Questions For strong American business and the other vital essentials for de­ ticipation in this war that two years but their bore wore out quickly, and and out of congress. The regulars fense. But these plans, partly be­ they were clumsy and expensive. were grumbling like Napoleon's Old groups hated the communism of 1. Why is Colorado culled the ago, examining the question coldly, Russia, while even stronger reli- cause of tax delays, partly because there is not an international lawyer Centennial state? In the last war, the famous German Guard before Moscow. “Paris gun” was a waste of time, Willkie himself is an ex-Democrat 8*ous groups hated the Soviet athe- of business sit-downs, have encoun­ on earth who would not have re­ 2. To what type of road did a and these promised to be the same. and very independent of the regu- i ’slm’ Wou'd these people co-operate tered repeated obstructions. garded a contrary view as prepos­ Scotch engineer give his name? For example: Knudsen was first terous. Their objective, of course, was to lars in his ways and habits. He is w*th an England that boasted a 3. What two great Oriental cities cut across the channel, and close it disinclined to lean on the Old Guard, red' red a,1y- That the point. told that the amortization problem, From his Chicago “quarantine” were founded by the British? tight as a drum. This maneuver although the Old Guard begs to be Or, if Russia became an English which has held up the construction speech to the present moment, there 4. What is the most widely used failed to worry the increasingly leaned against. Old Guardisti com­ ally, would we start to pamper the of several new defense plants, would has not been an act of the Presi­ word in the world? cheerful British. plained that the candidate was too American Communists, who would be handled in congress in a separate dent Inconsistent with an inference 5. What is the line that follows In their first air attack on Berlin, casual about consulting—and obey­ also be the allies of Mr. Churchill? bill. But at the last minute, treas­ of his willingness, if not his inten- "Lives of all great men remind ury tax experts objected to this and tion, to mix this country up in the us” ? British bombers swooped out of a ing—them. Then again, many of insisted that the matter be included wars of both ' “ Europe and Asia. On night sky directly over the heart of the O. G. are isolation-minded, while Spain, Too 6. What is the name given to the the city, were driven off by anti­ the independents and Democratic Then again—it appeared extreme­ in the excess (war profits) tax bill. the contrary, with increasing tempo present royal house of Italy? air craft fire and dropped their ex­ refugees are inclined, like Willkie ly probable that General Franco's Next Knudsen was assured by and intensity, every act has been 7. Which of the United States himself, to be interventionists. De­ Spain might go in on the German congressional leaders that the tax completely consistent with precisely has the greatest water area, Cali­ plosives on the city's outskirts. spite all the Hoosier getup, Willkie that aim. side. What then? Franco is the bill would be passed by August 17. The Germafi aerial losses had fornia, Minnesota, or Michigan? Mr. Ickes, Mr. Wallace and others been terrific, well over 1,000 planes, definitely, they said, has an eastern idol of the ruling class in Spanish But first the Republicans recessed T h e A nsw ers America because he saved the Span­ to attend the Willkie acceptance cer­ have emphasized Mr. Willkie's "en­ and maybe many more of them. outlook (and maybe he has). 1. It was admitted into the Union emonies at Elwood. Then it man­ dorsement” of “our foreign policy." Some of the regulars, too, thought ish church and crushed the Spanish The land invasion threat appeared In 1876, the Centennial year. Mr. Ickes has suggested that this to be “out”—for dictators cannot that “their man” Willkie was too reds. If our state department start­ aged to get other delays. 2. Macadam. is like the God-awful 1936 campaign risk the chance of a bloody setback New Dealish. He did not denounce ed to razz Franco, the ally of Hit­ 3. Hongkong and Singapore. where there were no issues except R FC LOAN D E L A Y S or repulse, especially one of so spec­ many of the Roosevelt reforms, but ler, the South Americans would be 4. "Amen” is believed to be the While this dilly-dallying was go- "The New Deal is good but I can most widely used word, being em ­ He infuriated. Then, what would hap- tacular a nature. It seemed that adopted them in principle. deal it better.” The New Deal boys merely promised to “improve” the pen to Secretary Hull's "good neigh- * n8 ° ° at Capitol Hill, Knudsen was the so quick-acting Germans were ployed by 1,000,000,000 Christians, just a bit puzzled about what to do administration of what the regulars bor” policy? Franco is also a spe- having other difficulties with Fed- hell-bent-for-a-war-crisis-before-No- Jews and Mohammedans. If eral Loan Administrator Jesse vember, had better look that thought next. They continued to tighten thought was a racket. In fact, the cial favorite of the Vatican. 5. "We can make our lives sub­ over carefully. their blockade of the British Isles New Dealers said that Willkie was, Franco joined the Germans, what Jones. lim e.” substantially, “their man,” too. effect would that have on the Amer­ Some of Mr. Willkie’s Republican The RFC was given wide powers by land and sea and air. 6. Savoy, The British banged back, by This made the regulars—the O. G.— ican faithful? Would they not be­ by congress several months ago to and Democratic supporters in New 7. Minnesota. huffier than ever. come increasingly isolationist? make loans to industry for defense York are also minded to involve us bombing the Heinkel, Messer- They would still dislike Hitler, of purposes. But when Knudsen sub­ in foreign war. But most of this schmitt, Junkers and Domier air­ F. D. Bonaparte course, but they could hardly help mitted a list of plant expansions that country isn’t. Especially that great plane works, and the Zeppelin works F. D. Roosevelt-Bonaparte found but admire the great Spanish cru­ needed financing, Jones balked. stretch of America from the Alle on Lake Constance, where the fa­ He objected on the ground that ghenies west isn't and, as I read his mous Mercedes-Benz air motors are himself in the same position as Na­ sader of 1936-39—the conqueror of The whole one-third of the output of the plants utterances, Mr. Willkie isn’t. manufactured. Other big industrial poleon, in the decisive year 1815, Moscow-in-Barcelona. • * * plants, in the Germanics, “got” it Bonaparte proper had then served subject was worth detailed Amer­ would go to fill British war orders Read This Important Messagel WHAT DO WE DEFEND? too, and German nerves (like those two terms, and he wanted a third ican pondering: From Washington Knudsen pointed out that this was D o you draad thoo. "trying yuan" ( U to Step by step in the rapidly expand not impairing U. S. preparedness of the Americans) are nowhere near one. His first term had lasted for to Wala Wala and Yonkers. S l ) i Ar* you getting moody, cranky and but on the contrary was providing lng policy of intervention every­ as good as stolid Britannic neurol­ 14 years. Then came Elba. His NERVOUS? I>o you four hot llaahea, arank- •nlng dlaay ,p.U»? A n you loaloua of atten­ the country with vital productive where, our general staff has been ogy. It began to look like a much second term lasted 100 days. Then POLAND: tion* otbar womra fa t? TH EN L IS T E N — longer war, which did not help Will- came Waterloo. But the point was Tyranny capacity at the expense of the Brit­ confronted with new and lightning- Thaaa aytnptoma often rmult from f.m alo functional diaordora. So atari Iodo* and lake ish. like changes in policy. There is this kie’s chances for the presidency this: There was more German tyranny famoua I.ydla E. I'lnkharn’a Vaf*tabla Com. Bonaparte (like Roosevelt) de­ any. Still Jones, despite the President’s difference between the harnessing of pound. For o n r M yaara Plnkhnm'a Com­ pended on the proletariat, as against in conquered Poland. The iron mil­ policy of extending every assistance Nazi foreign policy with Nazi mili­ pound haa halpad hundred* of thouaanda of itary heel was crushing down old grateful woman to go "amlllnf thru” difficult the economic royalists and Bour­ Italics Hitler to the British, didn’t like the idea tary preparation — that any*. Ptokham’a ha* halpad calm unatruag bons. The French proletariat hated Polish customs and ways of life. nary** and lemon annoying female func­ The Italians continued to bully the the Napoleonic conscription like poi­ There came a new decree, of an un­ of lending U. S. government money planned nothing on foreign policy tional "lrragularltlm." Ona df t h . maaf */**- Mm "woman'*’’ tonic*. Try ill It rocked the to aid factory expansion for the Brit­ that his general staff hadn’t been Greeks, in quest of Greek naval son, and many Am«riv»> rzN V eo- heard of nature. told to prepare in military strength bases to use against England in ans dislike the prospect of conscrip­ steppes, the towns, the metropoli. ish. • • • and wasn’t given time to prepare. the Eastern Mediterranean. Greece tion, too. But regardless of their It was this: Lim ited View In our case, the whole surprising B L IT Z K R IE G was tied to Turkey, Russia, and anti-conscript attitude, the French Every taxicab driver in Warsaw Who stays in the valley ne’er brainstorm shift in a constantly in­ It remains the firm conviction of England in one way or another, and plebs rallied round Napoleon, be­ and Cracow, Poland's No. 1 and No. sees over the hill. all three of them expressed inter­ cause they feared the Bourbons 2 cities, must shave at least every Secretary of War Stimson and Gen­ creasing foreign policy of threat and aggression has proceeded with no eral Marshall, his chief of staff, that est and sympathy. Would the war would repeal all the Napoleonic so­ other day. The edict declared that spread still further, the critics won cial reforms. The American plebs, it was just e* important for cab- if Hitler is to invade this country it regard whatever to our military dered? Would Greece turn into an against conscription though they drivers to curry than-*».’, es as for will come this fall before we are preparation to make it good and They are inclined to with no sufficient allowance of time Italic Finland? Meanwhile, the Ital­ may be, have the same attitude. these cabbies to curry and groom prepared. think that as soon as Hitler is fin­ and money to do so. ians took British Somaliland on the They fear that if the “Bourbons the good old dobbins. Here was an General Marshall’s talk about an Red sea, in an effort to cut the ocean recapture the White House, even example of the usual combination: ished with the British, he will move May Warn of Disordered route between England and her though they would scrap conscrip­ German oppression and German here. Stimson and Marshall have army of 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 men Kidney Action indicate'd this view to congress, but was wholly based on a new diplo­ treasure-house of India. The Brit­ tion, they might also scrap the cleanliness. Modern life with Ita hurry and worry; they are even more positive in their matic theory that we are to police ish garrison got away, by flight and Roosevelt reformation. Hence, the *r,*