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LOANS TO FOREIGN LANDS
Washington. D. C.
WASHINGTON.—Poor Mr. Hoover
STIMSON GIVEN FULL
once set out to help our foreign
AUTHORITY
Henry L. Stimson, Republican trade to dispose of our surplus prod­
secretary of war, and the only man ucts by loans to "backward and crip­
in the United States who has served pled countries.” Loans to bankrupts
have a way of turning sour. These
in three cabinets (Taft's, Hoover’s
did,
and what a panning Mr. Roose-
and Roosevelt's) is proceeding cau­
velt in 1932 gave the Great Eugineer
tiously. But he has been given com­
for that suggestion.
plete authority by Roosevelt to re­
Mr. Hoover was only proposing a
organize the entire war department,
even including the ousting of Demo­ policy of private loans—the money
of risk-takers for profit. His project
cratic appointees.
The inside story of Stimson's ap­ was relatively piker's chicken feed.
Mr. Roosevelt now wants to take
pointment can now be told.
It so happened that he had just $500,000.000 out of the treasury to
delivered a strong pro-allied address lend to Latin-American countries to
enable their governments tq buy up
at the Yale uni­
and hold their own surplus of agri­
versity t om-
cultural
products. This is a price­
mencement exer­
pegging plan such as Mr. Wallace
cises. when he
has practiced in American farm
got home and re­
products. It has never worked in
ceived the long
the history of the world although
distance call from
it has frequently been tried—notably
Roosevelt inviting
in Brazilian coffee. East Indian rub­
him to become
ber, Canadian grain and American
secretary of war.
wheat, corn and cotton.
"Mr. Presi­
It doesn't work because it is the
dent,” replied
presence (rather than the mere own­
Stimson. “I have
ership) of unmanageable surplus
just delivered an Heni., l . Stimson
and the certainty of oncoming crops
address which no
that overhangs the market and de­
man in high official position should
presses price. That was the basic
make."
fault with Mr. Wallace’s ‘‘Joseph’’
“I know aU about your speech.”
or "ever-normal granary” day
Roosevelt replied in effect, "and I
dream. Joseph could successfully
still want you to be secretary of
buy and store the surplus of Egypt
war.”
for seven fat years and then sell it
Stimson then replied that the deci­
at hold-up prices during seven lean
sion was so momentous that he
years until he owned all of Egypt
wanted two or three hours to talk it
He could do it because he had a
over with his wife and close friends.
dream-book and a direct wire to the
“Take all the time you want, Hen­ Pearly Gates.
Hhnry apparently
ry,” said the President
has a dream-book but no direct wire,
Note—To get the full significance although the President says we are
of this exchange, it is necessary to to underwrite the South American
remember that Stimson and Roose­
surplus only for one year. How does
velt had fought each other in New
he know?
York state politics ever since 1910,
In the romantic days, when spices
when Stimson ran for governor and
Roosevelt just out of Harvard, ran were the only practical food preser­
vative and therefore invaluable, the
for the state senate.
After two or three hours Stim­ Dutch controlled much of the East
son telephoned the President and Indian trade. They had a rougher
If too
accepted the appointment Howev­ remedy for market gluts.
much anise, cinnamon, pepper, nut­
er, he added one condition.
“I'm not as young as I used to meg, cloves or what-not was con­
be,” he said, "and I can't work 18 gesting on the wharves, they simply
and 20 hours a day any more. There­ sank the surplus in the sea. Mr.
fore I've got to have men around Wallace has tried variations of that
me whom I know intimately and can also. That is why he killed the little
absolutely trust. A tremendous re­ pigs and cattle, plowed under the
sponsibility will be on my shoul­ cotton, paid farmers for not produc­
ders," Stimson added, "and I can­ ing and recently and more intelli­
not afford to fail."
gently, through the food-stamp plan,
To this Roosevelt replied in ban­ sold farm surplus to the poor at a
tering tone: “Appoint anyone you great discount in price and all the
want, Henry. The only thing I ask rest of us footed the grocery bilL
is not to appoint too many Repub­
O. K. for our own people, This
licans at the very first”
column is for a direct federal sub-
Stimson apparently did not catch sidy to a “parity price" to our
the joking note in the President’s farmers for all their products that
voice, for he replied: “You can can be consumed at home and also
rest assured. Mr. President that for the food-stamp or any similar
whether Democrats or Republicans, plan to subsidize consumption of our
they will be good men.”
food products to all low-income
The first man Stimson asked to groups—not merely to help consume
help him in Washington was a Dem­ our farm surplus but to relieve us
ocrat Benedict Crowell, now presi­ of the insufferable charge of permit­
dent of the Central National bank of ting Americans to starve or be un­
Cleveland and formerly assistant dernourished in the midst of rot­
secretary of war under Woodrow ting overabundance.
Wilson. He is also a close friend
But it is absolutely opposed to
of Roosevelt’s, who was then assis­ pouring five hundred or any other
tant secretary of the navy. Crowell number of millions of public money
got to know Stimson when the war down any Latin-American rat holes
department was under bitter Repub­ to subsidize our own competition and
lican attack in 1920, and Stimson, a possibly to find their way into Hit­
Republican and an ex-secretary of ler's coffers or certainly, in no small
war, defended him.
degree, into the pockets of various
So this time Stimson asked satellites of the assorted dictator­
Crowell to help him, by going to ships of the banana republics.
Washington and making a quiet sur­
Sure, we need Pan-American sol­
vey of the situation inside the war idarity and friendship, but we can't
department. Stimson had not yet buy it. The only thing that will
been confirmed by the senate and make it on any worthwhile basis, is
could not make the survey himself. cold-blooded community of interest.
But he wanted to know all the facts
If that isn’t there, any amount of
in advance in order to waste no billions is just money thrown away.
time once he took the oath of office.
Mr. Roosevelt has neither right
Crowell made the survey and re­ nor reason in calling this a “loan,”
ported that the production of new intimating that one year's operation
war weapons and material was pro­ will do the trick, or limiting his re­
gressing most satisfactorily. How­ quest to half a 'oillion.
ever, he found the war department
It is well known in Washington
rent with feuds and the personnel that this first step is part of a two-
situation badly in need of reorgani­ billion dollar program to make Uncle
zation.
Sam the international broker for all
This is one of the first jobs Stim­ the products of the Western world. ,
son is tackling. There will be an
That, too, is grotesque fantasy.
important shakeup in high rank
Its cost would eventually take us
army officers.
out of the multiplication tables and
• • •
into the field of logarithms.
NEW NAVAL BOSS
The eyence of all New Deal plan­
Col. Frank Knox, new Republican ning. statesmanship, diplomacy and
secretary of the navy, already has solution of all public problems can
been sized up by the admirals. They be expressed in a single phrase
describe their new boss this way: “give us billions of dollars.”
“Hard-boiled and seems to know his
As statesmanship, that is about
stuff.”
as realistic as Santa Claus and Alad­
Naval officers frankly admit, how­ din’s lamp.
ever, that they don’t like Knox—
• • •
which is a good omen. For the ad­
LOUIS JOHNSON
mirals never like a secretary of the
I returned to Washington after the
navy who really runs the show. conventions to find a rumor that
And in the navy today they certainly the new Tory Republican secretary
need a two-fisted secretary.
of war had asked his vigorous as­
Note—It is significant that Knox sistant, Louis Johnson, to get the
is clearing all naval changes through hell out of there.
Roosevelt. The President still keeps
Politics marches on—ruthlessly,
the navy as his governmental pet.
respecting nothing, sparing nothing.
• • •
I have not always seen eye to
eye
with Mr. Johnson. At first I
MERRY-GO-ROUND
thought he was politicalizing and
Ex-Senator George McGill of Kan­
New Dealizing the army. My criti­
sas, lame-ducked in the 1938 G. O. P. cism was well-informed but It
cleanup, is hot after the Land Bank proved premature.
commissionership that will become
That job differs from any other
vacant August 1, when incumbent sub-cabinet position. It is charged
Roy Green leaves to become presi­ by statute with industrial mobiliza­
dent of the University of Colorado. tion of the whole nation in an emer­
McGill has the backing of American gency. My observation was that
Farm bureau moguls who have Mr. Johnson did not fully appre­
ciate this vast problem in the be­
bucked the administration on land
ginning.
He certainly does now.
bank policies—which won’t help His work here is not paralleled else­
McGill’s chances.
where in government.
Friday, August 2. 1940
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features— WNl! Service.!
EW YORK -The first World war
tipped over 20 reigning princes
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and dukes, four emperors and seven
!
kings, in addition to a scattering of
small-fry roy-
European Royalty alty whose
1» Heading Our names are
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.
now all but
Way in Drove» for<oll.Q,
Carol of Rumania and George of
Greece were the only kings who
came back, knd they aren't a good
risk
for
Lloyd's—and
perhaps
Lloyd's isn't either.
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Landlubbers from colleges all over the United Stales (above left) are lined up In civilian clothes In New
York city as they prepare to participate in a program of training 600 young men for naval reserve ensign
If the Mayflower were still afloat,
it could book a full passenger list of commissions. A boatload of reservists (center) shown on their way out to the U. H. H. Wyoming, the training
kings fleeing from commoners, seek­ I ship. Right, Robert Morgenthau, son of the secretary of the treasury, is pictured In formation with other ro-
ing a haven in a new world—at any servists after donning the uniform of an apprentice seaman.
rate, kings and their consorts, their
courtiers' and others of princely
rank.
It Is understood that the Em­
press Zita af Austria will be la
America before long. The word
"former" is omitted here, tn def­
erence to a clever, purposeful
woman, who has never admitted
that she isn't still the empress.
Of her son. Archduke Otto, now
living in a two-room apartment
in New York, she once said, "If
the time ever comes when he#
has but one servant, that ser­
vant will call him ’your majes­
ty.’ ”
In early-day San Francisco a
stately old gentleman with a splen­
did, kingly uniform announced that
he was "Emperor Norton,” and was
pleased to make San Francisco his
royal domain. Nobody knew who
he was or where he came from,
but he looked and behaved like an
emperor, so they took him up on his
proposition.
He held court, for
years, received homage and issued
decrees, and when he needed rev­
enue levied on the stock exchange,
finding a handful of $20 gold pieces
always ready.
He died sitting
straight upright in his little cubby­
hole room, wearing his full-dress uni­
form. The city gave him a grand
funeral. San Francisco was proud
of her emperor. They never did
learn anything about him.
This department was never par­
Straining every nerve to aid the mother country In her hour of need, Australian factory workers are toll­
ticularly partial to kings, but in ad­ ing day and night turning out tanks, planes, guns and ammunition that will be used In the defense of Great
dition to child refugees it might be Britain. Above is a scene In a Melbourne factory where gun parts are manufactured for shipment by sea to
a nice idea for each city over here porta in the United Kingdom where they will be assembled snd turned over to the defending British army.
to adopt a
Citie» May Bid
king, or a
For the Unhappy prince or
duke. Holly-
Royal Refugee»
w o od,
of
course, would get Zog of Albania—
now in London and fixing to sail for
America, according to news reports
—a “swingtime king” who installed
in his Graustarkian palace a 40-piece
American jazz band and became one
of the best hoofers in his kingdom.
Australians Turning Out Guns for tlie Empire
They’re Ready to Learn American Ways
r
Philadelphia probably would
put in a bid for the Grand
Duchess Charlotte of Luxem­
burg, a thrifty homebody, now
in Quebec. The news la that, if
England falls, she and her six
children will come to the U. 8.
.A. She knits; plays the piano;
to a fluent linguist and rears
her children beautifully. There
might not be any bidders for old
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the but­
terfly collector. He has a knack
for pagMntry, however, which
might intemt New Orleans.
In case the above should appear
to be a callous reference to tragic
unhappiness, the main idea is that
this democracy might well accord a
certain respect to fugitive royalty
because it appears to have some­
thing it really believes in.
P MIAMI, FLA., IN October,
1934, John Dwight Sullivan,
then commander of the New York
department of the American Legion,
urged the Legionnaires to concen­
trate less on more and bigger
bonuses and to center their efforts
on understanding and supporting the
government in constructive under­
takings. He emphasized the need
for co-operation as citizens rather
than activity as a pressure group.
His was a scholarly essay on citizen­
ship.
Now Mr. Sullivan has placed
before the convention of the New
York County Legion a proposal,
for a single, unified United States
air force, in which all air arms
of all services would be under a
single command. Mr. Sullivan
is chairman of the Legion’s na­
tional aviation committee. He
is a New York lawyer, and an
alumnus of Princeton university.
He has been active in the further­
ance of civil and military aviation
for many years and was appointed
a member of the New York state
aviation commission by Governor
Roosevelt in 1930. He is 47 years
of age, scholarly and ascetic in
appearance, preaching social re­
sponsibility in the Legion for more
than a decade.
He Insists that the organization
cannot attain its high purpose with­
out widening activities in political
education, and an informed attitude
on basic questions of domestic and
foreign policy.
Cleared by FBI
Safe from the horrors of war are these three children of Maj. Arthur
Lockhart of the British army who landed In New York city recently.
They were members of another band of refugee British children seeking
a haven in the United Htates. Their father is an officer In the King’s
Hussars, now fighting for England against the Axis powers. The young
refugees are being cared for by relatives in America.
Even the Experts Spill Sometimes
Proving that even the most expert of experts will spill once In a
while, Ed Stanley takes a header during a practice run for the annual
Catalina-Hermosa-Manhattan beach aquaplane race at Hermosa beach,
Calif. Still upright and riding high to Bob Brown, who won th«* race
three years ago. The event draws the champion aquaplanlsta of the Pa­
cific coast each year.
Carl Byoir, New York public rela­
tions counsel who was cleared of
chartes made by Rep. Wright Pat*
man of Texas that he had engaged
In un-American activities. The de­
partment of Justice declared that an
FBI Investigation "disclosed no evi­
dence whatever" to support the al­
legation.
Literary Exile
His long hair put up In a net,
Maurice Maeterlinck, famous Bel­
gian author of "The Bluebird," to
shown soon after his arrival in the
United Htates as a war refugee, foi-
lowlna the German triumph.