Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 14

Rumania fo Receive Nazi Munitions and Planes for Wheat King Carol Grants Trade Concessions to Avoid Greater Demands By the Associated Press. 4 BUCHAREST, April 20.—Fearful Rumania, continually preparing against the possibility of involve- ment in the spreading European war, today extracted from Germany a promise to ship huge quantities of munitions and fighting planes to this country in exchange for minor commercial advantages. Rumanian negotiators signed a trade treaty amendment with Dr. Karl Clodius, German trade nego- tiator. Aides of King Carol explained privately they were attempting to stall off greater German demands with comparatively minor conces- sions while at the same time. get- ting weapons to strengthen- the army so that the country ultimately could refuse greater demands from the Reich. Rumanian contracts with the Skoda Munitions Works, in former Czecho-Slovakia, were confirmed in the agreement and the Nazis agreed to speed up delivery. Also, a gentleman’s agreement pledged Germany to send 100 Mes- serschmitt pursuit planes to Ru- mania. Germany obtained a promise from Rumania to fulfill wheat contracts concluded before the recent Ru- manian embargo on wheat exports. The contracts were reported to in- volve about $8.000,000 worth of wheat, delivery of which will pinch Rumania, since she is facing a shortage. Hungary also is facing a severe crop failure. In addition to the damage caused by floods, frost and late snow, crop experts predicted further injury to the wheat crop in a sudden heat wave. Lincoln (Continued From First Page.) in its content than he has been in candidate personalities. Mr. Landon will be a member of the Resolutions Committee at the national convention. So wili Col. Knox, and it is expected that Rep- resentative Martin and Senator Mc- Nary also will be members. Mr. Martin, however, has been selected to be permanent chairman of the convention, which might interfere with his service on the committee. Presumably, Gov. Stasson of Minne- sota, who has been picked by the convention Committee on Arrange- ments to be temporary chairman and keynote speaker also will be in- vited to attend the pre-convention meeting. Uncommitted Block Likely. 1t was frankly admitted that if Mr. Dewey continues to round up delegate strength as he has been doing in recent weeks he may be the selection of the convention on an early ballot. Estimates last night were, however, that Mr. Dewey would go into the comvention with an approximate 300 to 375 delegates, Senator Taft of Ohio with another 300, and Senator Vandenberg of Michigan with 100—leaving a block of about 300 delegates in a position to settle the matter of the presiden- tial nomination. A good deal of work has been done to get together such a block of dele- | gates, ready, it is said, to work in the best interest of the party and to listen to the leaders. It was| pointed out that Mr. Landon and Col. Knox ‘are from the ntiddlewest and will have considerable influence with a large group of delegates from that section. Senator McNary, him- self a favorite son candidate from | Oregon, is likely to control many of the delegates from the extreme | northwest and the mountain States. | Representative Martin, frequently referred to as the No. 1 darkhorse candidate, may also have a follow- | ing among the New England THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Text of Roosevelt Address President Cites Democrats’ Liberalism In Warm Springs Speech By the Anociated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., April 20~Following is _the ‘text of- President Roosevelt’s address to- night - to - Young Democrats’ Clubs: I am speaking to you from the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and I always feel that -in this atmosphere one gets a better perspective on life, a better sense of proportion, a better outlook on all sorts of. things from peanuts to politics. I understand that these meetings of Young Democrats in many parts of the country are customarily held close to the birthday anniversary of Thomas Jefferson. While there have been certain debatable excep- tions in the past 150 years, I can properly say that when our party systenr began, the party of Thomas Jefferson was- without question the liberal party and his oppénents, the Federalists, represented conservative thought. In more recent times since the Civil War, it is equally true that when the Democratic party has been victorious it has repre- sented a more liberal position of public affairs than the Republican party. Grover Cleveland, while not per- haps what we would call today s fighting liberal, was certainly more of a liberal than James G. Blaine or Benjamin Harrison. Woodrow Wilson’s eight years in office repre- sented a progressive meeting of ‘dif- ficult problems of -his day, and it is not boasting for all of us to suggest that our country has perhaps been fortunate in having met modern problems of extreme seriousness in the liberal spirit—the do something about it spirit—during the last-seven years. Cites 1935 Statement To Prove Consistency. May I quote to you a few sen- tences that prove the consistency of the Democratic position during re- cent years: On_August 24, 1935, speaking to the Young Democratic Clubs of America, I said: “I, for one, am willing to place my trust in the youth of America. If they demand action as well as preachments, I should be ashamed to chill their enthusiasm with the dire prophecy that to change is to destroy. I am unwilling to sneer at the vision of youth. * * * But vision does not belong only to the young. There are millions of older people who have vision, just as there are some younger men and women who are ready to put a weary, selfish or greedy hand upon the clock of progress and turn it back. * * * The spirit of America is the spirit of inquiry, of readjustment, of im- provement, above all a spirit in which youth can find the fulfillment of its ideals.” On January 8, 1936, I said: “Whatever may be the platform, whoever may be the nominee of the Democratic party * * * the basic issue will be the retention of popu- lar government—an issue fraught once more with the difficult prob- lem of disseminating facts and yet more facts, in the face of an op- position bent or hiding and dis- That, I might add, was before the presidential election of 1936. During the whole of the spring and early summer of that year, you were told that the result of the election wae in the lap of the gods; that the-Republicans had a chance | to win—that people were tired of | liberal government. You remember | the Literary Digest and other polls | —and most greatly you remember that only 2 States out of 48 voted to return to “do-nothing con- | servatism.” | In 1938, in speaking against the | | misuse of concentrated power by reiatively small minority groups in our country, I said that this ad- ministration was. “striving to up- hold. the integrity of the morals of our democracy, and that. attacks (by government) on the misuse of concentrated power have been dis- torted into attacks on * * * our whole_system of private profit and private enterprise.” And to illus- trate I pointed out that at that time $800,000,000 worth of owner- ship. of electric utilities securities held substantial control over $13,- 000,000,000 worth of all electric utili~ ties securities—and I said, by way of illustration “here is a 98-inch dog being wagged by a 4-inch tail” This year the Nation faces very much the same kind of an electoral campaign as it did in 1932 and 1936. It seems to me very obvious that it the Democratic party is to de- feat the Republican party next No- vember we must nominate a liberal pair of candidates, running on a liberal and forward-looking plate form. Wants Nation to Help Post-War Recovery. I am not speaking tonight of world affairs. Your Government is keeping a cool head and a steady hand. We are keeping out of the wars that are going on in and in Asia, but I do not subscribe to the preachment of a Republican aspirant for the . presidency who tells you, in effect, that the United States and the people of United States should do nothing to try to bring about a better order, a more secure order of world peace when the time comes. It is the domestic scene which I stress tonight. During the next four years there will be new problems to face. We need a national govern- ment with enough imagination and enough courage to meet those new problems with congrete, specific remedies—just as we have met many problems that were new during the past seven years with imagination 4and courage and practical idealism. I do not say that the mashinery that we have used or are using is perfect or that it cannot be im- proved—but you need practical idealism to make the ‘present ma- chinery function better, On . the other side,: the pre-con- vention campaign, up to date, has resolved itself roughly into three parts, none of which appeals great- ly to my intelligence. First. our opponents are seeking to frighten the country—by telling people that the present administra- | tion is deliberately trying to put this Nation into war or that it is inevit- ably drifting into war. ‘You know | better than that. Scandals of Rep#blican Regimes Pointed Out. Second, they are telling you that many of the measures of the past seven years are good but t they would carry them out with greater efficiency if they were in power. I| do not think that we can. swallow that assertion because, quite aside from millions of ‘fine citisens who normally vote the Republican ticket year in and year out, we and they must acknowledge that practically ettt e tbet il ol o will perform an amazing miracle— that they will give everybody jobs —that they. ‘will maintain relief— that-they will give work to the un- employed—that they will meet the needs of the national defense—that they will reduce your taxes—and that they will do all kinds of un- known things for the farmers—and that with ali, the total of the ex- penditures of the Federal Govern- ment will go down so much ‘that they will have a surplus in the Treasury. And you and I ki from long experience, when we ask them how are you going to do it, that their only answer is the vague assertion that they will repeal all of the sordid and nerve-racking re- strictions on private business and 5 D. ¢, APRIC 21, 1940—PART ONE. Sees Voter Tiring of Cries of Alarmist. Speaking as an American, I am sorry that & campaign, which should be pitched on a level of intelligent argument, has fallen into such low estate as early as this. Speaking as a partisan, I rejoice, because I am confident that the average voter in the United States is already some- what tired of the “view-with-alarm” outcries of the Republican candi- dates. I do not think that the campaign of Democrats should be hitched on the old_level of just pointing with pride. During these seven years I think * that we have “accomplished much, but that a great deal remains to be done by way of sccomplish- ments in relation to mldmlnm lems and that the next n - tion will have to devise ways and means, in & liberal and progressive spirit, to meet dificulties which we are only just beginning to appre- ciate and to analyze. I say to you, therefore, that the young people of the United States— young Democrats and all the otiyers —have another magnificent opppr- tunity to support a Government of proven liberal action rather than to switch over and take a long chance with a party historically founded on conservatism, no ‘matter what the glitter of their studied generalities trumpeted forth in an election year. Young people, and all of us for that matter, know what sticky fly- paper looks like. 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