V MAf1 d.n. - (2^£ c : ^ 40. c U^ l The height of goofiness in this whole present world of /I crisis c*nd war was reached today in the big international argument about a map. And £he European dispatches are accurately describing it as a cockeyed map. Cockeyed, in fact seems a little mild. r. The story reads like a huge Joke, with fantastic blunders and howling nonsense. When Sumner Welles was on his peace mission in Europe as President Roosevelt!s emissary, he was photographed in the office of the present French Premier, Reynaud. In the picture was a map - rather prominent. To begin the odd nonsense, the French * 4 censor blacked out the map for American consumption, ^he photograph that was pictured far and'wide over here, showed the ip* map a blank. This at the time was mildly beguiling.” The picture was printed in the French periodical, TT1I Illustrationn, but in this publication the map was shotfn. Nothing much toiixfc* happened until a copy of * got to Germany and then there was a tremendous /\ Nazi hullabaloo. The Hitler people roared that the map showed how the Allies intended to carve up Cenuany in the event of victory - M£P - 2 frontxer lines redrawn, great sections of Germany sliced off. The Nazis denounced the map, and also Sumner Welles. Apparently, the Germans argued. President Roosevelt*s emissary was being shown what the Allies intend to do with Germany - and was photographed in the process. Today one Hitler spokesman expressed it this way:- nIf Welles,n said he, nallowed himself to be photographed with ReynaudTs map - it was a shameless action. If the photograph was taken without his permission, then the French are playing an infamous game.n There!s so much row about it, that today a party of newspaper correspondents were taken to Premier Reynaud’s office and there were shown the map in question. The newspaper men studied it, and found it to be nothing extraordinary - most commonplace in fact, Merely an, old map o^. Europe, writh a few markings to show territories taken by Hitler during the past several years, Austria, Czechoslovakia. There was nothing to indicate any carving up of Germany, no redrawing of frontier lines, to show what the Allies Intend to do - 3 Wfaat^s tllU HXlil 8 Jia*:iwi^ It liea 1 tt 1-V ip —f^r-t—htrat—mg- IIIM[>^ the oaae Q&-fehe map Smaner Welleg-» piotwe pritllstiea In Ihe-p^rludludl.WH^vKfaVtvufiy—War thera. A •n>3tf>er m&? ,nap, in tho Premier *3 offictr?— Wot Ht» al-^rv Ttte my^tefy io pome thing else agaii»» « /<al»^oday the French 7F~ Government undertook to elucidate the strange dilemma. A member of the staff of Premier Reynaud gave out the statement, he said that in printing the Sumner Welles picture, the journal nl 1 Illustration” had retouched the map. That?fs common publication practice, retouching a photograph to make it clearer. But the retouching had been clumsy. The artist had bungled the job. He had got the geography all haywire, frontier lines all tangled up. It was the blundering MtMiskxlurxiuLji retoucher who had redrawn the map of Europe, in such a way as throw Nazi Germany into a frenzy Along with this came a description of how the map had been retouched, and it sounds like a nightmare. The Adriatic Sea extends inland almost as far as Brenner Pass, cutting the Alps in t*o. The Aegean Sea is mostly all land. Of all the historic .‘UP - 4 islfcs of Greece, only one is left, only Cyprus, What ^ill the poets have to say about thatl The Sea of Marmora doesn’t exist at all. The southwestern tip of England is missing - no Cornwall, no Land’s End. what did ^ do to the frontiers^ He garbled fifteen separate and tfuLs? individual frontier lines. no frontier between Belgium anft^ the Netherland^s^Ogl^twc^ of the three^Baltlc^t^tes are shown. _ 6 u4 , S- f ^the German territory west of the Q /> A section east of the Khine running north from Coblenz to the Netherlands. This includes Baden, the Palatinate and the Ruhr. Denmark gets German territory as far south as Hamburg. Poland gets East Prussia and Pomerania. Czechoslovakia gets parts of Saxony, Silesia and Bavaria. Austria is reestablished with a part of Bavaria and a corridor running through Italy to the Adriatic. Turkey gets part of Russia. Such is the nightmare of geography which is solemnly attributed to the clumsiness of magazine artist who retouched the map and the Sumner Welles photograph and got the job all balled u^o Ml - 5 &n i ^ Nazi ermany screaming and Fascist Italy expresses indignation. I suppose we»ll hear next from the Soviets. What has Sumner Welles himself g9t to say about it? n nonsense. In Washington he called the whole thing - fantastic tye hs4 never noticed any map in Reynaud 1 s office. all^gaH^ion^ ^which is sho^n ij^ a p^ioto^raph^ of Mr. fceyn^ud ana\mys tic J^>nsei^e,n says'he. \nAt\no t^me ^Vjringvth\cou^ as "f oll'i f w? intervi^ew iiv Paris or enne made to any ^pap: ch nu ce nFantastic nonsense" is right; The whole international uproar about the map and the'buugMfif seems to be nonsense too fantastic for even this fantastic and nonsensical world. IKONSIDE Today there was some plain speaking by the British Cnief of the Imperial General Staff. General Sir Edward Ironside had a press conference wjrtf* he unburdened himself with surprising frankness - surprising in so high a military commander. The gist oi what he said is contained in this phrase, flThank goodness,” he exclaimed, "that Germany did not attack us during the first seven months.” Then he amplified that in these words:- ' ”1 tremble to think what would have happened if Germany had attacked at the start, because we did not have much of an army then. But,” he added, ”in seven months Britain has built a fine army.” The Imperial Chief-of-Staff, General* Sir Edward Ironside, had a few things to say about the Germany army. He described it in these words:- ”A wonderful machine, but it lacks z commanding officers.” He pointed out that Hitler!s army is a new creation, and its officer corps lacks experience, ^e put it this way:- ”No German commander now was above the rank of a captfin in the World War. ” Then he added:- "Britain and France have many more experienced commanders - colonels and generals galore.” General Ironside gave his explanation why the Nazis IRONSIDE - 2 are keeping such an enormous army at the Western Front. "An army kept at the front," said he, "is much easier to control than one in the rear areas." He indicated that he thought Hitler »ould eventually have to make an attack. "Germany," said he, "cannot continue to keep her armies at the front inactive. The army must do something or its morale will crack." ilosophy of inaction applied to the British and the Frenchl STEEPLECHASE There was plenty of horse race irony in the running of the classic British Grand National today. The horse that came in first didnlt win. That same horse caused the winner to win. 4 A £*rSounds like a paradox, but here*s the story. One of the hot favorites to win the great steeplechase was Royal Danieli, who was in the lead most of the way. The course has thirty-two Jumps, and at the thirty-first, the next to the last Royal Danieli was fighting to win. But right there occurred a fantastic break of the game. One entry in the race was the American thoroughbred. National Night, but that horse came to grief earlier in the race. National Night stumbled and threw his rider. Then the American horse recovered his stride, and kept going - without a Jockey. The riderless thoroughbred ran a magnificent race, taking the Jumps in splendid form. At the thirty-first National Night was out in front with the leaders. crossed the field, and bumped Royal A — causing that probable winner to stumble and fall. Tliiltt ^'’Yeinning chance to Bogskar, who swept on to the finishing h line - for a grand national triumph! But actually, out in front STEEPLECHASE - 2 of Bogskar, was National Night, the horse without a rider* After bumping down the favorite, the American thoroughbred kept on going, and came in first. Being without a rider, he was of course disqualified - and Bogskar was named the winner.---- <aj 2 J 2 i*Es> . MEXICO The United States has made to Mexico a proposal for A arbitration in the oil controversy. This was stated today by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who refuses to give any further details. The foreign oil companies.claim# that the property A seized from them by the Mexic^^overnment has a value of four hundred and fifty million dollars. Of this, the American interest is between two hundred and two hundred and fifty million. The Mexicans donft admit any such value, and have failed to offer any sort of acceptable compensation. The controversy has been dragging on with all sorts of negotiations. These have been getting nowhere. And now the Washington Government makes a formal offer of arbitration. ROOShVELT This afternoon the United States Senate passed the Trade Treaty Resolution. This occurred after a fight in which the issue of battle was joined between the President and the Vice-President. Vice-President Garner was behind a drive to prolong the administration program for only one year. That limit was strongly opposed by the White House. Today President Roosevelt at his press conference vigorously denounced the one-year idea. He said three years would be about right. IigsedUWly-afterword fche d»bA£g^afcartedthe— tak#n, -wad the strfcwspt of the Garesgy. fopoes-to put—through the eno -year limit- wans -defeatred-^ 1 ~H ll 11 FT* the-"fonn 1- awa. Senate passed the resolution extending the Reciprocal Trade Treaty Law for three years,^requested by the President. The vote was forty-two to thirty-seven. And now the whole Trade Treaty controversy is over, with the bill going to the White House. AVIATION There may be a tremendous mechanical revolution in the woi Id o. j \ iatioPy According to the news from Montreal, {here at the Curtiss-Reid aircraft plant, they are building a plane to be run by electricity - an electric motor instead of a gas mot oi-. This new development is entirely'experimental, we are told. Ti.e secret lies in the new type of battery, very light and very powerful. 1 hey say the newr electric plane is designed to fly three hundred miles an hour. How long will the batteries keep it in the air? We are told ilxixxariilxi* its cruising range is three hours, nine hundred miles. There’s no need of saying what a vast change in aviation all this would mean - an electric airplanel PLOT loua. tne defense began its case in the We?. Xork trial C- the seventeen young men charged with a plot to overthrow the government. Their attorney declared that the witnesses who would appear against them are Coiaiaunist agents, who had acted as provocateurs. One of these alleged communist agents is described as a most mysterious fellow. He is said to attend meetings of the Christian Front but would nevor give his name. He spoke five languages and his story was that he had been a secretary to General Franco in Spain. Also that he had fought with Lawrence of Arabia. Odd how that legendary name of Colonel Lawrence gets dragged into so many various things. Anyway, the Red mystery man is said to have acted as a provocateur in framing a supposed plot to overthrow goverinhent. CIKCUS The cxrcus season begins tonight. The big show is opening a^ i',ew Yorkf s Madison Square Garden. That should make a fellow cheery, or even boyish, but it only makes me sad and pessimistic - all because of the singular behavior of a newspaper reporter on the HERALD-TRIBUNE. There was a bit of excitement, as the Ringling Brothers - Barnum and Bailey’s Circus moved into the Garden. First of all, there was a tragedy of wild animal life - when the magnificent white Siberian snow leopard, the only one of its kind in captivity, was attacked and killed by a tawny Indian Jungle leopard. The two spotted cats were performers in the great circus animal act, and had been quarreling recently, the feud culminated when the Indian Jungle leopard made a sudden and fatal attack upon the proud snow leopard frotf Siberia. 'And here’s an ironical angle of the wild animal tragedy. The Jungle leopard was the understudy of the snow leopard. So, the understudy killed the star — and tonight takes the star’s place. That was only the beginning of the excitement, ^ater on. as the circus was getting set, still another leopard went on the rampa&e. This one contrived to escape, and went dashing across the big empty arena. The great spotted cat went straight toward t^at iii.n-ttijr-TRIBUNE reporter whom I mentioned. The newspaper man was busy scribbling notes for his story about the circus, and when he looked up he sa/. a couple of hundred pounds of leopard approaching l What did he do? I repeat the question - What did that HERALD-TRIBUNE reporter do? First, I must tell you who he was - John 0!Reilly. Son of the famous old soldier of fortune - Jex 0TReilly. In places where tales of danger and daring are related, you 111 hear about Tex O’Reilly. I myself once wrote a book about his adventures in the deadly perils of war and wilderness - in Mexican revolutions, in battles against fanatical tribes in North Africa- If it had been Tex O'Reilly standing there as the leopard came stalking, Tex would have seized the ferocious Jungle creature by the throat and strangled it. But Tex’s boy John didn’t do that. When he saw the great spotted cat coming, John ducked behind some canvas and hid^— Fie there, John O’Reilly^ do you know what your father, M T CIRCUS - 3 Tex, *ouxd have done? deM have walked up to that leopard and made the beast cower with the glare of tho«« OtReilly eye#. Or if Tex were really annoyed, hefd reach^oown and dis up a rattlesnake and hit the leopard with it. HeTd use^the rattlesnake to whip tne spotted hide off the ferocious jungle creature. Well, it only goes to show how men nowadays are not the men their fathers were. It just shows how much the world is not improving. A* J r And now, Hugh, cheer us up with something gisS about A Nu-Blue .Sunoco.