Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1940, Page 11

Itaiy Is Seen Casting Lot With Nazis War Move Expected By Mussoiini Within 2 Months By DAVID LAWRENCE. Extension of the European war to include more neutral countries is confidently expected by diplo- matic Washington within the next six or eight, weeks. The countries Which are ex- pected to be in- vaded soon are Sweden and Hungary. This may tend to draw other countries into the war. The Information reaching here : from diplomatic sources abroad . of a reliable character is that David Lawrence. Premier Mussolini has agreed to| take Italy into the war just as soon as the Balkan situation moves into another crisis which is expected to be ' precipitated when Germany starts out to “protect” Hungary. The allies, it is believed here, have received the same information and are preparing to act accord- Ingly. Those who are in a position to know say that the die has been cast by Italy and that the next move will be timed to coincide with the invasion of Hungary. As for Sweden, the Nazis are be- lieved to be ready to extend their military operations just as soon as it becomes apparent that control | of the Swedish railroads is neces- | sary to bring the much needed iron ore through the Baltic when navi- _ Bation opens. U. 8. Government on Guard. The Washington Government has | been receiving reports of this kind for a long time, but does not make them public because they have too often in the past been premature. | But the Government is nevertheless | on its guard in warning American | residents abroad to make the neces- sary preparations and adjustments. | Official Washington has four | channels of information —allied sources, Nazi sources, neutral sources | and American Government sources. | Lately most of the information that | has been coming here has arrived | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, The Capital Parade Landon Is Reported Inclined Toward Dewey; Observer Declares Hoover Is Friendly to Taft B.y JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER. One of the shrewdest and best-informed Republican leaders in the country is convinced that Thomas E. Dewey will obtain the support of Alf M. Landon. The Landon mocierate faction is as important as any in the party, so the matter 1s well worth investigating. His forecast is derived from two recent pieces of evidence and from the operation of what he calls a “natural force.” The first bit of evidence is quite tangible. A number of important Republicans in Congress were visited this week by W. R. Ronald, editor of the Daily Republic, Mitchell, S. Dak. Introduced by Landon, Ronald came to discuss the farm plank in the Republican platform. He recently spent considerable time with Landon in Topeka, and gave the impression that he was on good terms if not an emissary from the titular head of the party. His report was simple. Landon had no commitments but he was favorably inclined toward Dewey. Ronald is pro-Dewey himself, so his statement must be discounted. But he recently made a similar written report to the Dewey headquarters in New York. ' The second bit of evidence al- ready has been widely commented upon—the congratulatory letter from Landon to Edwin F. Jaeckle, an ardent Deweyite, on his selection as New York State Committee chairman. It may easily be argued that Landon could not have cone gratulated Jaeckle, knowing his selection placed the Dewey men in control of the State machinery, without realizing that the letter would be in- terpreted in Dewey's behalf. It may also be argued that Jaeckle is an old friend, having managed Landon's upstate New York campaign in 1936, and therefore the letter has no significance, Flattery for Taft Men in daily contact with Landon deny any commitment to Dewey, but it is true that they speak less disparagingly of Dewey than they do of his two leading opponents, Senators Taft and Vandenberg. Surprisingly enough, Dewey spokesmen make no claim of Landon’s support, confining themselves to “gratification” over recent reports from Topeka. To continue to quote our Republican’s predictions, he makes his final judgment on the basis of a “natural force.” He is convinced that Herbert Hoover is friendly to the Taft candidacy and doubts that Hoover and Landon will be in favor of the same candidate. Hoover has given no public sign of whom he favors, and in fact some Republicans believe that he remains hopeful of being nominated himself. But recently in‘private Hoover is reported to have spoken in flattering terms of Taft. If by chance the Landonites should plump for Dewey, and the ad- mirers of Hoover for Taft, Joseph Pew, the “fat cat” of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, will be in an énviable position, for it may be that Pennsylvania delegates will decide the nomination, As a front candidate, who is not taken very seriously by any one, Pew has Pennsylvania's Governor, Arthur H. James. The most recent reports from Philadelphia indicate that the Pew forces are booming Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, who is an extremely aple man. Pew would like to call the turn at the last moment and he may well get his opportunity. Dewey and the Pictures Meanwhile, opinion is divided on the effect of Dewey's open fight on one-time friend and political sponsor, Republican National Come mitteeman Kenneth Simpson. Dew- ey has thus lost 20 or 50 of New York County’s delegates that would ,, have been his on the first ballot, and he has given Simpson the oppor- tunity to wage open war in return. But as one of Dewey's chief advisers puts it: “Ken Simpson never was for Dewey for President. He would THATS JUST FINE A his ANDWE ALSO. | MAVE GLAMO CANDIDATES Z through neutral governments. The | Btate Department is able to check through its own diplomatic repre-: sentatives abroad, but secrets of this | kind are well kept. The infor- | mation that Italy will soon enter the war on the side of the Nazi does | not come from the American Gov- | ernment. It comes from informants | have voted his delegates once for Tom and then bolted. We couldn’t afford that. and in fact we couldn't afford to have Simpson with us. In public speeches he has been burlesquing Dewey by making fun of glamour candidates and laughing at primaries that were won like motion picture popularity contests. Privately he has been telling any one who would listen that Dewey wasn't fit to be President. He asked for the fight.” There is no question that Simpson was doing all these things and many more, But the opposition of Simpson, once Dewey’s closest politi- who know the Central European|ca] adviser. continues to pose the question: Why are those who have situation and have communicated it to various governmental represent- atives here and abroad. ‘The entry of Italy into the war would be a regrettable step viewed! from the standpoint of the United Btates. At present, passenger traffic and mails intended for the smaller countries as well as the belligerents is being taken care of by service between American and Italian ports. If Italy becomes a belligerent there will be no direct communication except through combat zones where American ships are forbidden to enter. The United States will be virtually cut off from all trade re- lations with Europe in her own ves- sels. This situation is naturally looked upon with the utmost con- cern by Americans. Mussolini Can Act Quickly. It will be interesting to learn the position of the Vatican in the event that Italy becomes a belliger- ent. Up to now the influence of the Vatican and the royal family In Italy has been known to be lined ; up against Italian entry into the war. A decisive stroke by the Nazis in Central Europe may change the eituation, however, over night and persuade the Italian dictator to move. He does not need to consult the parliament of the people—he ean act whenever the fancy strikes him. The cabled press dispatches tell two noteworthy developments bear- Ing on the extension of the war at an early date. A German military mission has arrived in Rome and a French military mission has arrived worked the closest with Dewey in New York his most bitter private critics today? . } (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) | in Istanbul, Turkey. | doubt here that these moves would | not have been made unless im- portant decisions are in the offing. Russia Remains An Enigma. Curiously enough, the future of the war as it relates to Russia is still an enigma. The British and | French have maintained friendly | relations in a formal sense with the Soviet. If Italy enters the war and the Balkan states get mixed up with Russian claims for terri- tory, the question of what Russia may do will become increasingly im- portant. It is apparent that the allies have not abandoned hope that Russia will not become an active belligerent and that her assistance to the Nazis will be gradually les- sened. The one thing American officials | do reveal is a sense of awareness of | eritical events impending. The whole domestic situation is, of course, af- fected by drastic changes in trade and foreign exchange relationships. While there is the usual talk about America possibly being dragged into the war, this is not supported by anything persons in official position are saying or doing. The prospect is that America will have a_year of worry, of loss in trade and Hnancial There is little | Town fo Sue for Property Offered for Library A “friendly” suit to secure prop- erty once offered to the town of Hyattsville, Md,, by the late William P. Magruder for a public library will be filed in the Circuit Court at Upper Marlboro, it was learned to- day. Waldo Burnside, corporation coun- sel, was authorized to file the suit by the Mayor and Council. Mr. Burnside explained that in March, 1937, Mr. Magruder noti- fied the Mayor and Town Council that he wished to donate a piece \* property on Spencer street, west of the present post office, for a library building not to exceed $15,000 in cost. The counsel said that the town accepted the gift of the property, but that actual delivery was never made. The question to be determined by the court, it was explained, is whether the formal acceptance of the property by the Town Council made the transaction a consumated gift or whether it was a contract that could be executed. ‘The suit will request that the court authorize the trustees of the estate to turn over the property to Mayor disturbance as the European war |8and Council, gradually extends its battlefields. (Reproduction Rights Reserved.) Don’t be a traffic chisler—be faii D. C, THURSDAY, grtis opintons of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. The Political Mill Bennett Clark Controls the Missouri Delegation to Democratic National Convention By G. GOULD LINCOLN., Senator Bennett Champ Clark emerges from the Missouri Demo- cratic State Convention, held last Monday, in control of the State’s delegation to the Democratic Na- tional Conven- tlon. Senator Clark has been at times a bit- ter opponent of the Roosevelt & d m inistration. His suocess, therefore, at the State conven- tion, which vir- tually gives him the direction of 30 delegates to the national convention, act- G. Gould Linceln. ing as the Missouri delegation does, under the unit rule, cannot be con- sidered an encouragement to the New Dealers. That Senator Clark would be able to turn the delegation against President Roosevelt in the event the President should run again is not only problematic but unlikely. But, should the President not runm, it might be impossible for him to get the Missourians to support a New Dealer for the presidential nomina= tion—such a New Dealer, for ex- ample, as Attorney General Robert H. Jackson of New York. Clark-Stark Contest. While Senstor Clark and his friends apparently dominated the State convention and elected a great majority of the delegates to the national convention, Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, who had declared for a delegation ready to do what Presi- dent Roosevelt wanted, was not eliminated from the delegation. He was chosen one of the four dele- gates at large, despite efforts to turn him down for the place. Also half.a dozen of his friends and supporters were elected to the delegation. And so Senator Clark won the first round in the contest which has de- veloped between Missouri’s two strongest Democrats of today. Up until last summer Clark and Stark had been extremely friendly. But control of the State delegation to the Democratic National Conven- tion, plus rival ambitions—both men had been mentioned as possible favorite son candidates for the presidential nomination—caused a rift which widened more and more as the months rolled by. Gov. Stark not only was mentioned as a pos- sible dark horse candidate for the presidential nomination, but he was talked of as a probable choice for the vice presidential nomination in the event President Roosevelt should be a candidate to succeed himself. Indeed, he might still be given such consideration. At the same time, Gov. Stark announced last summer his candidacy for the Democratic senatorial nomination against Sena- tor Truman. The Missouri primaries do not take place until August—for the nomination of senatorial and other candidates. In the meantime, the Democratic National Convention comes and goes, meeting July 15 in Chicago. What happens there may have considerable bearing on the po- litical future of Gov. Stark—as well as that of Senator Clark. To con- fuse further the situation in Mis- souri, Maurice Milligan, United States district attorney, has resigned that office to campaign for the sena- | torial nomination against Stark and Truman. He is expected to have the support of Senator Clark. Milligan was the prosecutor of the cases brought in the Federal courts against Boss Pendergast and some of his lieutenants. Pendergast is now behind the bars, and his organi- zation in Kansas City has recently been defeated in & municipal elec- tion. However, the Pendergast ma- |~ chine is not entirely submerged. The Pendergast Machine, Members of the machine went to the recent Missouri State conven- tion and put on a demonstration against Gov. Stark. The machine has turned its hatred particularly against the Governor—rather than | against Milligan. They regard Stark SPEED UP DISHWASHING «»» SMOOTH UP HANDS Try NEW IVORY SNOW...gentle Ivory purity in every speedy sud! What a find! A new kind of soap that’s kind to hands—and speedy for dishes, too. That's Ivory Snow—new form of pure Ivory Soap. Fast! Not an extra second of tiresome dish- washing! Ivory Snow sudses in 3 seconds. You get lively, creamy suds that make grease vanish! 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Stark has given Missouri an excellent administration, in addition to shaking the State lose from the | grip of the Pendergast rule. The three cornered race makes it more difficult for Stark to win the senatorial nomination, particularly if Senator Clark is to back Milligan. However, the demonstration against the Governor by the Pendergast fol- lowers at the State convention has done much to arouse public senti- ment in the State already, and it may increase the Governor’s chances | of success. Senator Clark a year ago was con- sidered one of the likely contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination—when the talk was mostly over a conflict between the New Deal faction of the party and the more conservative, old line Dem- ocrats, represented by Vice President Garner, Senator Clark, Senator Byrd of Virginia and many others. Now, however, the third term drive has gone forward with a rush, and with it apparently a willingness on | the part of many of the party lgad- ers, even those who have been ex- tremely lukewarm toward the New Deal, to accept the leadership of the President, even if he does not run. That the President would ever agree to the nomination for Presi- dent of Senator Clark is entirely | unlikely. Clark fought the President bitterly over the court bill in 1937, over the Government reorganization bill later, over the spending pro- gram and, last fall, over the repeal of the arms embargo. He did re- cently, it is true, support the admin- istration in the extension of the reciprocal trade agreement act. Wishful Thinkers, ‘The proposal of some of the wish- ful thinkers to give to Wendell L. Willkie, president of the Common- wealth & Southern Power Co., is| fantastic when examined in the cold light of practical politics. Mr, Will- kie has the backing of a consider- able number of men of wealth—who have been impressed not only with his business ability, but his ability to speak and to handle himself in debate. It will take much more than those factors to give the presiden- tial nomination to Mr. Willkie, how- ever. No one knows Mr. Willkie in poli- tics. He has never held public office, never served on important political committees, never held any of the| minor jobs in the political machine. His support, outside of some of the men who have the money bags, is entirely paper support. He is a Hoosier and apparently the love of APRIL 18, 1940. We, the People Treason in Norway Argues for Investigating The Nazis, Not Hounding the Communists By JAY FRANKLIN. Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News did more than score & world- scoop in his Stockholm dispatch describirg the treason and sabitage by whicl certain prominent Norwegians admitted the Nazis to their country. He also made it abundantly clear that Martin Dies, the D. A. R.'s and our de luxe Red-baiters, are barking up the wrong tree in their current at- tacks on Communism. In Norway, for example, it was not the Communists who admitted the German Army. It was a number of highly placed Army and Navy officers and ambitious conservative poli- ticlans who spiked the guns of the Norwegian Navy, surrendered forts and ports, sabotaged defense plans and equipment, and generally greased the rollers of Hitler’s wooden horse. It is as though—to use a far- fetched comparison—some of our prominent conversatives, the chief of naval operations, the comman- dant of the New York Corps Area, and a number of well-placed officials in the Government had arranged to allow the British Navy to take possession of Portland, Boston, New York City Philadelphia and Washington—on the promise that the appointment of Governor-General of a new British protectorate over the United States ‘would go to one of them. Not One Communist Coup This Norway affair cuts the ground from under the American super- | patricts. For the voice of history reveals the following facts: | In the last 20 years not one single country has been captured by a | Communist revolution. The advocates of the class-struggle have not one | success to their credit since the Russian Revolution of 1917. | In Spain, it was not the Communists but generals and grandees who | invited the Moslem Moors, the German Junkers and the Italian Army into their own country in 1936. [ In Germany, it was not the Communits but the Nazi, the industrialists and the Reichswehr that seized revolutionary powers over state in 1933. In Italy, it was not the Communists but the Fascists, the industrialists and the large land-owners who organized the march on Rome in 1922. In Austria, it was not the Communists but the conservatives, the Heimwehr and the clericals who paved the way for annexation enforced. In Prance and England, before Munich, it was not the Communists who counseled appeasement of the German ambitions but the conserva- tives, the Tories, the Cent Familles. Ir almost every case, Communism served as the excuse for tolerating foreign invasion and social revolution. In almost every case, including our own, class-hatred, social subversion, Jew-baiting, etc., started from the top, and spread downwards through the press to the good-tempered and eterrally patient masses of farmers and industrial employes. ‘The treason of the prominent Norwegians who opened their own country to the Nazis and thus made it a battlefield between Germany and the allies, ought to cause our Government to concentrate on its real | enemies rather than the legendary Reds. Time to Check on Treason The time to act is now. The F. B. I. should immediately set to work in checking over the Army, Navy and National Guard officers and men with a view to checking treason masquerading as anti-radicalism. The Labor Department should begin to check over the immigrants from Ger- many and Italy over the last 10 years, with a view to locating some of the pegs in Hitler's potential Trojan Horse (American model). The Dies Committee should go into action to get the facts and affiliations of the revived Ku Klux Klan, the Associated Farmers and other thousand per cent “patriots.” It would be a joke if Martin Dies felt obliged to issue a subpoena to himself, in the course of this investigation. For history at least is not a liar, and history says that in 20 years | Communist revolution has not'cap- tured & single country, while .Nor- way is only the latest of a dozen | nations to yield to foreign invasion and domestic treason for the benefit of the Fascists. Finland alone sup- plies the proof of the social pud- ding, for in Finland there was no Communist “woodsn horse” to ease the entry of the Red Army and the Russian-Finnish dispute was decided on the battlefield, not in the treach- ery and sabotage of the borders from within, (Released by the Consolidated News Peatures, Inc.) | ‘tioml Convention meets June 24, and there is not much chance to tell the voters—and the delegates— about Mr. Willkie. His nomination would be a miracle. politics runs in his veins, as it does in the veins of all other Hoosiers. | But he is getting around to the game |a little late. No one knows whether Mr. Willkie would be able to deal with Congress or what he would do in the matter of executive administration of the Government. It is just about two ! months until the Republican Na- France has a coast line of 1,760 miles, of which 456 are on the Mediterranean. 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Both the Netherlands and ; Belglum declare themselves de- termined to fight against any ag- gression event Constantine Brows. though they are clearly warned that they soon may be attacked. The Balkan nations are looking around everywhere for some sort of palliative to postpone, at least, the evil hour when they may be faced with an invasion. Aim to Avoid Destruction. ‘Within these countries there are trends and suggestions made to the governments as to how to avoid in- vasion. The paramount thought of all political parties and of the bulk of the population is to avoid the de- structtion which the “protectorate” with its implications may cause them. The Nordic neutrals have been living outside the turmoil of war for over 150 years. While the big powers were fighting and destroying each other these neutrals have been building up important industries and developing all the resources of their country—war or no war out- side their borders. Now they see everything their forefathers accom- plished being destroyed by the struggle which the big powers bring into these neutrals’ territories. The Netherlands, the Swedish and the Swiss governments realize that if their countries are made the theater of operations between the invaders and the protectors neither of these big, strong, warring na- tions will ever be able to pay them for the reconstruction of their in- dustry and trade which will neces- sarily be destroyed by war. Hence this desperate attempt on their part to satisfy everybody provided the big boys stay out of their territories. Internal Politics Blamed. According to reports which have begun to come through to official quarters in Washington the luke- warmness of the Norwegians to re- sist the Germans was due to inter- nal politics. For several years Norway has had a Socialist government which was welcomed by the masses but disliked by the middle and upper classes. Men in business saw themselves taxed out of all their profits. And they were yearning for a good old- fashioned conservative government. The German agents offered them such & possibility if Germany were permitted to obtain a foothold in Norway. The Norwegians have only a militia. That is to say, the officers of the army are only part-time sol- diers. Their chief source of income came from various business activie tles. It was these men who have been attracted by suggestions of the German agents and decided that it would be better for the country to have the Germans in to end the So- cialist government than resist them and play into the hands of the So- cialists. | Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, W.C.T. U. Leader, Dies By the Associated Press. LIBERTY, Ind., April 18.—Mrs, Elizabeth Stanley, 81, who for more than a quarter of a century fought for temperance in Indiana, died at her home.here last night after s year's illness. 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