The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon
W EEK LY NEW S ANALYSIS_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ By Edw ard C. W ayne
Tag ~ Day j
Thursday. Jan. 30. 1941
GENERAL
HUGH S.
P resid en t’s Third Inaugural A ddress
Emphasizes Faith in U. S. Democracy;
Lease-Lend Act Fight Rips Party Lines
As Cabinet Supports Roosevelt’s Plan
Washington, D. C.
Washington, D. C.
CRISIS MARCH 1ST
WILLKIE'S NEW ROLE
Secretaries Stimson and Knox did
The Bill of Rights in our Constitu
not go into details when they told
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tional crisis in 60 to 90 days, but what part of it means la, that it is
actually their war department ex every American's sacred privilege
competent" on foreign policy ques
THIRD TERM:
perts have gone so far as to fix the to say what he pleases, think what
tions. Ambassador Kennedy was be
approximate date of March IS for he pleases und change his mind as
ing welcomed with open arms by
Inaugural
often us he desires. That goes for
; the crisis to break.
isolationist editors and hailed as a
After taking the oath of office as comrade and then said he considered
This estimate is based not only Wendell Willkie.
President of the United States for a the isolationists the worst “defeat
But with such privileges go obli
upon the already known fact that
precedent breaking third term, ists” of all.
Mr.
British shipping and its convoys soon gations, moral if not legal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered to
must be reinforced, but also on se Willkie, after a considerable period
American unity, supposedly the
a waiting nation a high tribute to his nation's greatest safeguard during
cret negotiations to establish an of hesitation as to just what it was
faith in democracy. In the inaug the stress of national defense pre
Eastern Front, thus make Hitler all about, during which his stock
ural address which was marked with paredness, appeared jeopardized.
slumped from the remarkable high
fight two wars instead of one.
constant references to the “spirit of National leaders differed in their
This was one of the big reasons of the Philadelphia convention to a
America" and the “spirit of democ prescriptions for the critical moment
Inaugural day was really "Tag" for the pilgrimage of Col. “Wild very low point in August, Anally be
racy” the President declared that the as far as the poles.
day for news photographers who Bill” Donovan to North Africa, also gan to attract followers again. He
purpose in his next four years of
They ranged from Carter Glass. covered the event as the above pic for visits of officials from the Amer announced that he was leading a
office would be to: “protect and per Virginia, who wanted the U. S. to
ican embassy in France to Algiers. crusade to return America to the
petuate the integrity of democracy." declare war at once, to the outright ture clearly shows. Here Charles Their reports are extremely signifi Americans. He stood against any
“For this," he said, “we muster isolationist and non-interventionist Knell, news photo agency camera cant-asserting that Marshal Wey- further delegation and concentra
the spirit of America and the faith of the type of Montana's Senator man displays (i few of the passes gand, commander of the French tion of power in the President.
of America. We do not retreat. We Wheeler, who opposed No. 1776 from necessary to wear and keep in plain forces in Africa, has become vig
He was for aiding Britain “within
are not content to stand still. As opening word to finish.
our own and international law," but
vietc throughout the day's events. orously pro-British.
Americans, we go forward, in the
Furthermore, he has stated quite he "sit that if Mr. Roosevelt were
While this was the temper of of
service of our country, by the will
bluntly to American representatives re-elected it would be construed as
ficial
Washington,
a
couple
of
U.
S.
of God.”
FORWARD:
that If he were sure of getting suf a mandate for an immediate, head
While some of the pomp of other sailors fanned the flame by tearing
ficient tanks, airplanes and ammu long rush toward war. He, Willkie,
down
a
Nazi
banner
from
a
German
Go
the
Greeks
Inaugural days was missing because
nition, he would undertake a cam stood for caution and discretion and
consulate
celebrating
the
seventieth
of the solemn pall of foreign affairs
As Germany still continued to paign against the Italians immedi- the building of an impregnable
that hung over Washington, the thou anniversary of the founding of the withhold aid to Italy in Albania, the i ately.
American defense.
German
Reich.
They
clambered
up
Greeks moved steadily forward in
sands that lined Pennsylvania ave
In private conversations, he was
These
supplies
would
come
to
Ca
nue to watch the President pass to a ninth-story flagpole in San Fran their effort to drive Italian forces sablanca, on the coast of French even more explicit on this and re
cheered loudly as they saw his party. cisco to cause a national crisis to from the western shore of the Adri Morocco, and what is more impor vealed that his only reason for not
The day was bright but a raw wind become that much more critical, atic.
tant, they would come from the Unit being explicit openly was that he
while thousands cheered on the side
A thousand “crack" troops were ed States.
chilled the onlookers.
feared that he would lose the sup
walk
below.
High point of the day's historic
reported captured in one engage
Next move in this strategy, after port of certain great New York pub
rituals came when the President CABINET:
ment, and all along the southern . crushing the Italians between Brit- lications.
standing below the Capitol’s white
and eastern battle lines, the advance j ish-French pincers, would be to
The impression that he tried to
dome, placed his hand upon a 200- Rolls Sleeves
was steady, but slow.
. transport French troops to Greece leave was that he stood against the
year-old family Bible and swore for
For once in a national issue, ap
Many American Greeks, most fa and further north in order to bolster war-minded and those who had been
the third time to “preserve, protect parently that entire part of the Pres vorable to their countrymen’s cause, the
Jugoslavs along the German bor careless of American defense as
and defend the Constitution.” The ident’s cabinet which could conceiv were most cautious about the situa
der.
Conversations between the Brit the apostle of all-out hemisphere de
oath was administered by Chief J us- ably have anything to do with the tion, however, informed sources
ish
and
Jugoslavs already have pro- I fense and the traditional American
tice Hughes of the Supreme court.
situation rolled up its sleeves and holding that the Germans were hold gressed to the point where London policy of a minimum of meddling
went to bat for No. 1776, the lease- ing back only because of the dif believes that country is ready to with the interminable European con
CHURCHILL:
ficulties of fighting over moun resist Hitler. However, the Jugo- i flict.
On this basis, millions of people
tainous Balkan terrain in the win Slavs are most insistent on one thing
Looks Ahead
left their party moorings, some of
tertime.
! —ample munitions.
Winston Churchill, following his
They believed that the Nazis
Furthermore, the Turks have them at great sacrifice of personal
conferences with Harry Hopkins,
would move in force, perhaps not moved threp divisions from Anato- friendship and prestige, to follow
Roosevelt’s personal ambassador,
through Bulgaria (which would | lia, in Asiatic Turkey, to Thrace in him. Some gave him more help than
looked into the future of the war dur
bring Turkey, perhaps Russia into European Turkey, in order to be the leading members of his own
ing 1941.
new-found party. It was not a ques
the war) but through Jugoslavia.
ready for Hitler.
He said that Britain would not find
tion with them of partisanship. It
While admitting that many things
the war less terrible this year than
was a question of patriotism.
ROY HOWARD AND WILLKIE
may happen in the next two months
last, would have to face continued
Nothing has happened since to im
Wendell Willkie’s decision to go to
to
change
the
situation,
these
destruction of British towns and
London to gather first-hand informa pair the apparent soundness of that
sources felt anything but confident tion to support the lend-lease arma doctrine. If anything, what has hap
cities without being able to make
that the Grecian forces, in the long ment bill brought him a grateful bow ; pened since has strengthened it. But
adequate reply.
run, could drive out the Italians.
He admitted Hitler’s great advan
from the White House, but it cost it would have been impossible for
tage in being able to move his
Particularly on the northern front him a hot verbal battle with one of Mr. Willkie to have gone further
armies about Europe at will.
was the advance slow, though in cen the most potent press backers of than he has now gone to repudiate
tral Albania Klisura had fallen and his presidential candidacy.
Churchill said Britain wanted no
it and those ardent followers of it
Tepelini was apparently a certain
armies from overseas in 1941, but
Roy Howard, of the Scripps-How and him.
ty,
and
Greeks
in
the
north,
it
was
would need a constant stream of
ard group of newspapers and an
AIDING ’EVERYBODY’?
felt, might be particularly vulner ardent “negotiated peace” advocate,
One thing should be made and
able to a sudden attack from either spent the better part of one night
the Bulgarian or the Jugoslavian trying to persuade Willkie to drop kept clear about the fight on the
“lease-lend” bill in its present form.
border.
' the trip plan.
CORDELL HULL
German aid on the Albanian front
Back-stopping Howard in his ar It is that the issue here is not wheth
ITith others, he 'went to bat.’
to that point, however, had confined guments was Bruce Barton, former er we shall send aid to Britain.
are, on either side of the
lend bill, calling for all-out aid to itself to the entrance of a few Stupas New York congressman and defeat There
and bombers from the forces quar ed G. O. P. aspirant for the seat of "lease-lend" argument, men of sev
Britain.
New Dealer Sen. Jim Mead. Like eral shades of opinion on both sides
Morgenthau, treasury secretary, tered (reportedyl) on Italian soil.
Howard, Barton was one of Willkie’s of that question—from those who be
stepped into the arena, declaring EGYPT:
earliest and staunchest boosters and lieve in all aid Britain may ask, to
that Britain was right then at the
played a leading role in putting other men who insist only so
end of her dollar rope, and that j Quiets Down
much be sent as will not slow up
some form of unpaid-for aid must , In the African campaign, the Ger him over at Philadelphia.
Howard and Barton strove might or make impossible our own defense.
be found if Britain was to continue mans began the groundwork of more
The debate here is whether on the
to get supplies.
vigorous aid to Italy, while the land ily in their effort to win Willkie over plea of aiding Britain—by methods
to
their
views.
But
the
former
G.
Hull, in a most powerful session - attacks of the British colonial army
“short of war” principally by sell
with the committee which left the continued favorably, though not O. P. standard-bearer stood firmly ing or giving supplies, with or with
nation stunned, excoriated the totali- quite so sensationally as in previous by his guns.
He contended that aiding Britain out credit—whether on that plea, one
tarians, and called for the nation to weeks.
to
beat back the Axis aggressors man, the President, should be given
realize that the crisis was real and
The fall of Tobruk, another impor
was
crucial to U. S. security; that he unlimited authority to dispose of as
immediate.
tant Mediterranean port, was re
much as he pleases of the material
Stimson, war secretary, declared garded as a foregone conclusion, had always advocated this and did resources of the United States and
in a two-day bout with the commit and the British armies, in command not propose to change his position. its armament in ships, guns, planes
HARRT HOPKINS
tee that he favored sending Amer of Libya’s important coastal roads, Also, that while he didn’t pretend and ammunition, not merely to Brit
'Roosevelt's personal ambassador.’
ican warships “anywhere,” and that moved at will toward other objec to be a friend of Roosevelt, Roose ain but to any nation anywhere.
velt was elected and if he was to
munitions, “far more than we can Britain's complete crisis was a mat tives like Derna and Bengasi, the function as President he had to have
Those who want to aid Britain
ter
of
60
to
90
days.
country’s
capital.
say they wish to do so to defend
pay for.”
authority
to
do
so.
He
(Willkie)
Navy Secretary Knox hinted that
Yet there was a feeling, almost would have demanded this had he America. By this most of them
Britain, however, is not in “ex
tremis” if such aid comes, said the real crisis might be the wresting like an “aura” of standstill in the been elected, so he was not going to mean that they want to keep the
of Britain’s navy from her control land campaign, possibly attributa
Churchill. He said:
permit personal feeling or partisan ocean approaches to our country
“We have enough men on the fight by the Nazis, who then would be ble to a rearrangement of forces for ship to prevent him from urging open by supporting the British navy
able
to
establish
themselves
in
South
a new offensive.
ing line to hold the front line of civ
such a policy for his successful rival. and the British bases in the Atlan
ilization if we get American aid and America.
tic and elsewhere. But the “lease-
That the Italians were anything
American credits.”
lend” bill intends something much
CELEBRATE INAUGURAL ON
but
satisfied
with
the
situation
was
This unheralded address before a ASIATIC:
JACKSON DAY
more than that. Taken with the
the most favorable reaction evident
Glasgow audience was widely quot Turmoil Grows
President Roosevelt’s inaugura President's fireside chat and annual
in press dispatches. The Fascist
ed in the lend-lease fight in Wash
All Europe and all the Western army in Africa was regarded as tion took place on January 20, but message, his war aims are no longer
ington.
hemisphere was watching the dip having been rendered impotent, and the formal Democratic celebration merely to defend America in this
lomatic battle between the United without German aid in considerable of the history-making third-term vic sense.
BITTERNESS:
They are no longer “short of war."
States and Japan before a backdrop numbers, Britain was favored to tory will not take place until March
They are to “defend America” by
And Unity
of Asiatic warfare that was becom make its victory in Africa complete. 29.
That is the date that has been insuring freedom of speech and wor
Yet events seemed to be pointing
President Roosevelt’s inauguration ing daily more sanguinary and
fixed for the Jackson Day dinner, ship and from want “everywhere on
to
the
fact
that
the
Nazis
were
plan
gloomy.
day came at a time when the fever
Even the Battle of Siam was as ning such a move in force, and the annual affair when all good earth,” and to secure all nations
of the country was away above nor
Democrat« come to the aid of their from attack "anywhere on earth.”
mal in a bitter fight over the lease- suming more headline proportions, watchers anxiously awaited the un party with checks. In the past the Under the terms of the bill, all that
with
conflicting
reports
from folding of such a plan.
lend bill—No. 1776.
dinner usually has been held late in is necessary for him to do to be free
Not since the Supreme court fight French Indo-China and from Siam
January, but this year, because of to send our military and naval
PLANE:
itself
as
to
the
success
of
the
counter
had the press of the nation printed
the inaugural and a reorganization substance to any country whether it
moves.
stories of such vitriolic attacks by
Versus
Warship
within the national committee, it has is at war now or not, is to “find”
Most positive claims were made
one group upon another, with coun
Loss of the 9,000-ton cruiser South quietly been decided to hold it in that to do so would help American
ter charges and charges flinging by little Siam, which claimed that ampton in the Mediterranean after March.
defense. That is power to declare
Indo-Chinese
border
themselves across committee tables important
an attack entirely by Stukas finally
National Chairman Ed Flynn and and fight economic war for anybody
points
had
fallen
to
their
arms.
And
with apparent utter abandon.
settled the question of whether a his lieutenants hope to make the af anywhere.
Party lines were smashed to while the French did not deny these first-class warship could withstand fair bigger and more profitable than
Furthermore, some of the lan
smithereens, with Willkie claiming facts, they did claim that any such a first-class plane attack.
guage in this bill is so generalized
ever before.
the Republican party would kill it advances had been purchased at an
One plan is to stage dinners in a (for example the appropriation
The planes won the verdict. Yet
self forevermore if it failed to recog enormous loss in manpower.
lot more cities. Another, suggested clause) that it is not clear that it
the
Illustrious,
26,000-ton
new
Brit
European diplomats of the Axis
nize the principle of “blank-check”
by Richard Reynolds, new national does not deliver to the President
aid to Britain, and allow Roosevelt powers were striving to keep Japan ish aircraft carrier was more fortu treasurer, is to combine the victory power to give away the financial re
nate,
and
escaped,
though
apparent
and the U. S. at odds, thus hoping to
all the power he desires.
celebration with a reunion of all fac sources of the country as certainly
Republican Tinkham countered cement Japan more firmly to the ly with tremendous damage inflicted tions; that is, the return to the fold it grunts him power to give away
upon her.
with the charge that Willkie was “in- Axis.
all the ships of our whole navy.
The official British phrase stating of "absent” leaders.
• » •
Among those Reynolds has in
that she “made port under her own
mind
are
men
like
A1
Smith
and
one-
There
is
talk
nbout guarding
power” hints that she was limping,
in the news
tirtie Budget Director Lewis Doug against any such designs by limit
if not crawling back to Malta.
The Illustrious carried plenty of las. They now see eye-to-eye with ing this all-out economic war dic
planes, yet dispatches failed to tell Roosevelt on foreign policy, and tatorship and partial military and
<L Federal Loan Administrator Jones <L The war department announced
Reynolds believes this opens the naval dictatorship to two years.
announced that defense commit its plans to maintain the army at why more of them did not get into way for a big party rapprochement
Many of the "emergency” powers
the
fight
to
protect
the
carrier
and
1,418,000
enlisted
men
and
97,371
of
ments of the RFC now aggregate
by expanding the Jackson Day cele granted since '33 have been so lim
save
the
Southampton,
which
was
more than $1,000,000,000, including ficers during the coming fiscal year.
bration into a unity affair.
ited. All have been extended. Why?
approximately $550,000,000 in loans This would include selectees and sunk by her own crew to guard her
Because the granting of such mas
secrets after she caught fire.
• • *
for the construction of defense National Guardsmen.
sive powers with a time limit is also
Official communiques about the II-
plants; $125,000,000 in loans to man <L A long stream of American-made
MERRY-GO-ROUND
a grant of power to force the exten
lustrious-Southampton
incident
did
planes
was
being
flown
from
Bot-
ufacturers; $260,000,000 for the pur
The reason you seldom see a pic sion of that time limit.
It has
say
that
12
Nazi
bombers
were
shot
chase of strategic metals; and $140,- wood, Newfoundland to England, the
ture of Secretary of War Stimson proved so with us over and over
000,000 for the acquisition of stocks record being from "breakfast to tea down into the sea, but gave no fig is that he is camera-shy. The flash again during eight years of grants of
ures about Rrit.ish planes.
time.”
of rubber.
bulbs hurt his eyes.
emergency powers with a time limit.
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Fortunately for Passenger
No Rules Were llroken
As the west-bound express train
thundered through the wayside
station, a door burst open and a
passenger fell out.
Fortunately,
he landed on a heap of sand, so,
though badly shaken up, he wasn’t
hurt much.
The train shrieked to a stop and
the conductor hurried to the side
of the victim.
“ Hurt bad?” he inquired.
“No, I guess not,” replied the
man, “but what'll I do now?*
"Let me see your ticket," said
the representative of the railroad.
When it was produced he exam
ined it closely, then:
“ It’s all right," he said. “This
ticket allows for a break in the
journey."
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw. tender, tn-
flanu-il bronchial mucous m em
branes. Tell your druggist to sell yon
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
lor Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Shadows of M ind
The shadows of the mind are like
those of the body. In the morning
of life they lie behind us; at noon,
we trample them under foot; and
in the evening they stretch long,
broad and deepening behind us.—
Longfellow.
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