Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1931, Page 11

E REVIVAL OF TRADE S BRITAIN' TASK | | | Main Industries After War Found Old Markets De- stroyed. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 14.—Great Britain, having balanced her budget, i trying to balance her trade and make her exports pay for the Imports Otherwise, England will be eating her capital, Outwardly her troubles date from the war. Just across the ribbon of sea that makes England an island lie the nation's war dead. Up in the black north coun- try, down in the pit-scarred valleys of Wales, along the low banks of the Clyde are England's other war victims—cotton teel and ships. ‘These are Britain's heavy industri a' the core of its economic difficultie and 1goir wounds must be healed before dep:#®¥on leaves England. Flourishing Before 1914. All were flourishing before 1914 During the war all bent their cnergies to its needs. Markets were neglected, improvements in equipment delayed, trade trends passed by, new technique unstudied. The war ended, British industry turned to resume its old proud place in the world. Its old place was not there. Coll "“i~; found ofl and water-power had become the source of much of the modern world's energy and that repara- tions in kind were cuting away a big slice of the trade that once was theirs Shipyards learn: he world had built ships so feve the war Weakencd By Cable to The Star. PARI1S, October 14..— Anti-French propaganda in the United States has assumed serfous .proportions, in the opinion of Marshal Petain, and govern- ment and high military officials in Paris are growing uneasy about it and have decided to employ effective methods to check it. This was revealed by Marshal Petain, hero of Verdun and former chief of the French general staff, just before he sailed for the United States on the cruiser Duquesne. The marshal will be the chief delegate of France at the historical celebrations in Yorktown, Va. Before leaving Paris for Toulon, where he sailed, the marshal said he would Jaunch “a determined attack against the calumniators of France in the United States.” | “In France a diplomat seldom speaks land an officer never,” said Marshal | Petain. “But I cannot refrain from saying a few words regarding the ob- ject of my first visit to the United States. To Ask Meaning of It. “My going is mnot solely for the pleasure of seeing again my gallant comrades in arms. I have a duty to | perform in America. I have serious questions to ask. And I am going to ask them boldly and straight from the shoulder, for I figure that we French and Amcricans have nothing to hide from each other. “I want to ask the meaning of the flood of anti-French propaganda cours- nations | loped that warships, whic! building hum, were Steel found other production costs, fast tions, advanced des market Lancashire’s cotton mills discovered that Japan, with modern machinery and low production costs, had captured the vast Far Eastern market and was muscling-in on India, Britain's best textile custom The Indian boycott struck another blow to a groggy in- dustry. U. S. Is Hard Competitor. The United States was in the world market in full force. wit enormously expanded by wc demands, running at top s British indu the 1913 pace But it wasn't a 1913 wo buying. Wants and tastcs 1 whistled jazz t s, bobbed Jokes about flapp own yards, and once made ships longer stylish. tions with lower sales organiza- ns and a curtailed s 1d made Appreciable Savings Now on Fisher Dyeing I Tl NI Even before the war there were in- | dications that difficulties were on the way. The war left Britaln with a tional debt cf $37,000.000.000 and nea & million men in narrow graves. This was a burden to carry through 10 years of trouble, while Britain was trying to catch thg new step. WORK FOR .ROOSEVELT Club Files Articles of Incorporation fornia. if., in SACRAMENTO, C {P).—The r art Roosevelt Club filed ration with the Secre! terday. The club is to “conduct a cam. paign of education through the press, radio, and otherwise to draft and secure the nemination of Franklin D. Roose- velt, New York Governor, as the Demo- cratic candidate for President of the United States.” October 14 Franklin D, cles of incorpo- of State yes a- | Since 1888 Finest Cleaning and Dyeing 3 vears of conm- e. of tinnous servic your assurance quality workman- Phone for Prices NoOWw. Verdun Hero, Coming to Yorktown Fcte, Sees Friendship Between Nations by “Lies.” ing virtually unchecked through & con- siderable part of the American press What sinister power lurks behind this? Who is responsible for the ungencrous hints that France is a sort of vindictive wild beast wanting to sink its claws into the weaker peoples cf Europe? “These are some of the questions I am going to put to my old comrades of the American Legion and of the American Army command with whom I learned |to sce eye to eye in days gone by. I am going to appeal fo America’s sense of fair piay and justice, and I believe I will be understood.” The marshal's eyes flashed as he enumerated articles which had appeared in some American papers and maga- zines, articles wherein, he contended, the French viewpoint on the world | ation was “intentlonally distorted. Deplores “Misrepresentation.” | “The American people are consciously | being incited against France, and we feel the thing has gone far enough, sald Marsii1l Petain. “To give credence to certain writers and public men in the United States, cne would think | France was animated by nothing but | a passtonate lust for power and domi- nation, that our general staff and our | government were scheming night and | day with diabolic intent to enslave | Europe under the military hegemony of France. / | “My military ccllcagues and T have been watching the situation carefully { for months, and we Rave come to th> ' realization that hostile forces are subtly * you can't afford new V LOW PRICES s0-low you ..never has heen measure the od First, we garme by our famous met we style it periec retur it We from the n ng finished. 3 art assume entire is safely returned our fine workn We pride ou b, and our low every color is avz If You Can’t Aflord New Things . . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON IPETAIN TO FIGHT PROPAGANDA ' OVER HERE AGAINST FRANCE responsibility D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931 —11 " against France. With the spread of this feeling each act of France, each word of its leaders, becomes the object of cynical doubt as to its sincerity. We are pictured as the new bandits of Europe, the saber-rattlers, whose chief object is to intrigue and bully and in- um_}g:xle. . “There mus| millions in the United States who have come to believe by now that France is marching rough- shod over the prostrate nations of the continent. Nothing is farther from the truth. No people in Europe are more whole-heartedly for peacé and interna- tional co-operation than the French. “Monstrous Lies” Told. “But when Americans are told that our new chain of fortifications is a | menace to world peace because its forts | are said to be s0 constructed that they | are in reality not defensive precautions, | but rallying centers and jumping-off | places for attack, they are told mon- | strous lies. All we want is security and protection. Our forts are a menace, in- | deed I should hope, but only to the | power which would try to invade our | territory.” Marshal Petain does not believe a European war possible in the near fu- ture, he said, but he added that what | he considers the poisoning of the Amer- | ican_public mind was obyiously the ye- 141019 DayCruises West Tndéss The COLUMBUS Sails December 19 - January o The BERLIN january 26 February 13 - March 5 37 Broadway, N. 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Tollow, Al © um Soine: 9. ok with) L\ ant GSoversdia el e el iplok men in ‘America who I know will un-| Which involved Paul Kauffman, 32, derstand me and who will appreciate | under sentence to be hanged for crim- France's pregsent military position. inally attacking and slaying Avis Wool “I am not going to mince WOrds OF | —eeeeeeeeeeeeo talk in vague allusions. Americans like to hear the truth. That's characteristic of them. And they are going to hear the truth this time.” (Copyright. 1931, by the Newspaper Alliance BLOCK JAIL BREAK Two Kansas Slayers Scheme to Kill Guard and Flee Prison. 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