EUROPE &Z - , CZ^.Af, /f&f. The best description of the situation in Europe today came from an obscure member of the British Cabinet* ^he Minister of Supply ^addressing a visiting rms group of Canadian engineers and industrialists, explained it in these terms:- w-^urope is in a sort of twilight whwn peace has certainly ended, but war has not yet begun.” When it comes to actual facts, concrete actions. the excuses £>r being hopeful are In many respects we see a picture of events enaerfely like that which preceded the war scare of Czeeho-slovakia itiUe.’h ended by the surrender at Munich* For instance, Britishers In Germany are either leaving or getting ready to leave just as they did *to railroads, during the Sudeten row^ It is reported that all the^Mdbo^all the highways In the outlying parts of Germany, are clogged with troops on the move, tanks, artillery, k & xx caissons, supply trucks * "^naturally these movements are particularly heavy around the Polish frontier. The military experts of other countries In Berlin believe that by this time tomorrow Hitler will have two million men under arms. That will include a EUROPE - £ heavy concentration of his soldiers 0n the German fortifications that face the Maginot Line.^Tomorrow night the German army is going to have air raid practice on a inrigigcft tremendous scale. ‘ihe entire Rhineland ar®& will he blacked out. add to reports of alarm it was announced in Berlin that the Foreign Minister of Hungary is one hundred percent in favor of kk cooperation between Germany and Hungary. Among the powers lined up in opposition to the axis there were just as frantic warlike preparations. Facing the rTiSr^ H4 quarter of a Million Nazi troops in Slovakia, the Poles have A /\ army massed aefos» the frontier, ^nd the Polish A General Staff has ordered the^ on tidy closed and has laid A- A mines under all the important highways and bridges that connect 1 ? Poland with what used to be Slovakia. The British, for their part, are pa preparing to mobilize the entire territorial army, the home guard. That will enable the war office to have an expeditionary force of thirty-two divisions ready to send overseas for service abroad. It is reported that the Firth of Forth, one of the bases of the Jiome fleet, has bee^ mined mmm. & and that emergency precautions have been taken in every British seaport and harbor, ^ Prime Minister Chamberlain returned toLondon twenty-four hours earlier than he was expected. He returned without his umbrella. And that’s taken to mean that appeasement is out/ Qthag Ministers are on their way for a special session of the British Cabinet tomorrow. When an Englishman comes rushing back to London in August and cuts short his grouse shooting, then something really grave is afoot. It is reported that Chamberlrin is about to summon Parliament back into session next week. * ! ; I ADD BUROPF, I IS I Events are moving just as swiftly in France. President 1 i cut short his vacation. An I A " A emergency meeting of the full Council of Ministers has been called for Thursday. The French have been almost on a war basis for weeks* All the military resources of the Republic are standing in leash waiting for the word to go, ; V* BFUgSBLS - Follow Europe There*s just one silver lining to the European clouds. That*s the appeal for peace made by King Leopold III of Belgium. He^called a conference of what is known as the Oslo Powers; Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Wetherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg*. The Oslo powers are so-called because it was at the Norwegian Capital that they first got together and made plans to act in concert in case of just such a crisis as faces the world today. The foreign ministers of the Oslo countries will meet at Brussels Wednesday. The idea, efr,*emicg»» 4 is that they will draw up an appea* to the big powers for peace, A and submit a practical plan for mediation. All those countries have just as sound and raw sensible a reason for dreading war as any other country. In case of a European conflict their territory and their people would be in danger/^from the war-making armies, just as Belgium and Luxembourg* were in 1914, At the same time the Oslo countries will consider means of clubbing together their own resources ad protecting themselves not only against aggression from the big powers, but against- the terrible economic effects of a general war. RUSSIA •*of the prime sources of anxiety in Europe today was the news of ^bha^trade agreement between Stalin and A. Hitler, Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. A trade treity of itself sould not be of world shattering importance at any time. But atVhis date the serious question is what lies behind it? Is there a secret military agreement be­ tween Hitler and Stalin, or even a neutrality agreement? Nobody knows that except Hitler and Stalin. But it has been prophesied that such an agreement was Inevitable. The dif­ ferences between a Nazi regime and a Bolshevik Soviet regime toda^ran^a matter of name. ( In Warsaw officials of the Polish government were openly hinting that Soviet Russia was playing a double garaey As a matter of fact the Poles have never trusted Russia. Russia has been Poland*s historic enemy for many centuries. By the same token it's no secret that Stalin distrusts Great Britain, his suspicions of British policy, and moreso since the surrender of Czechoslovakia in Munich last year RUSSIA - g However, a dispatch from Moscow brings a Soviet denial of these suspicions. Spokesmen for Stalin says the signing of that trade treaty with Germany at this time is just a happenstance, that it has been under negotiation for a long time, months before the British and French military missions were sent to Moscow. Negotiations between the military chiefs of the three powers mere going on all day, today. ^Herefs a late and most important sounding bulletin:- Foreign Minister von RIbbentrop, says the United Press dispatch, will le^ve on Wednesday, for Moscow, to conclude negotiations for a German^Soviet Non-aggression pact. This is an official announcement made in Berlin tonight. And here’s a later one — just off the wire:- This announcement came like a bombshell In Europe tonight, says the United Press DIES A Nazi German Consul was the sublet of the testimony before the Dies Committee today. Hitler*s Consul at Hew Orleans was described as having indulged in some mighty queer and undiplomatic activities. The witness was Dr. John Harvey Sherman, President of the University of Tampa. The story that he told was characteristic of many others we have heard. For two years the Chair of German ± k language and literature at Dr. Sherman's University has been held by professor Otto Kraus, who came here from Vienna and became a naturalized American citizen. How Dr. Kraus is a typical Viennese, and a man of Democratic opinions, bitterly anti-Hazi. Soon after he tool#: the Chair at the University of Tampa a whispering campaign was started at the expense of Dr. Kraus. Rumor, Innuendo, slurs^upon his knowledge, attacks on his personal character. President She man says that he and the faculty of the University of Tampa ignored those attacks, took them* for what they were worth. Then Dr. Sherman xx was approached by the German Consul at Tampa, who said he had a friend who might mm. _g A give the University a library. That friend, it turned out, 11 ^ 1 ^*’“ '^eSLwxjg t was the high, well-born Baron Edgar von Spigel^ When the high, him, well-born Baron was introduced to^Dr. Sherman asked whether he was the gentleman who wanted to give the library. The ___ 3 Baron replied: «Bot I, but my Government.” The Baron^ VHrrvO CL^^L^f 'Uv (y^iSZsz^suts*--* , then explained that they were in that way ( encouraging the study of German in the colleges, and that they had given books elsewhere. And, added the Baron, of course they would have to be sure that the Professor in charge of the Department was educated. At that point, says Dr. Sherman, the conversation ceased to be pleasant. The German Consul told President Sherman that it was a mistake to have Jews at the University and on the Board of Trustees and on the Faculty, a mistake that the university would eventually regret. Dr* Sherman told the Consul that the University v/asn*t interested in his offer of books and he didHbOt believe their professor would be acceptable to the German Government. ^In short,^ says Dr. Sherman, *he got rid of the Baron as quickly as he could, and wishes now he had thrown him out. Dr. Sherman also testified that the % esx ± President of Tul&ne University told him he had had similar experiences with the Baron and that he around -fcfcnp his A In New Orleans the Baron declared that Dr. Sherman 1 s testimony was a wanton invention. He said that he had made presents of gx German books to many other colleges and universities in the eight states under his jurisdiction. was di spleased^|fila the with V campus They had been gladly accepted Postmaster General Farley of the United States occasionally takes a rest. But Chairman »Sunny Jim" of the Democratic National Committee is always on the After his visitfto the Pope^Jim was in Paris today. And of course, the As correspondents got hold of him. i^postmaster General he said nothing. But as national Chairman he gave tongue. What he said was only what you'd expect a national Chairman to say* t And it only becomes news because it £s cabled from Paris. f,A Democratic victory in 1940 is certain,11 says Chairman Jim. "But," he adds, "we must have a united party." On the other side of the globe, in Los Angeles, a Democrat of a different type had his say on the same topic. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, a leader of the anti-New Deal Bloc in the Senate that defeated several of Mr. Roosevelt's pet measures* ^e also is of the opinion that the chances for the Democratic party next year are excellent* He also thinks that if M-. Roosevelt wants the nomination he can have it. « But," he added, "it would be a great mistake And he also said that if there's a split the Democrats can't w: m Peace in the labor world, friendship between the American Federation of Labor and the C.I.O* is the aim C<i2? -- of the strongest union the International T ^sZ. ^ypeographical Union which its annual convention at Fort A A Worth, Texas.Hot long ago the I.T.U* was suspended by the A. F. of L. for being twenty-two thousand dollars in arrears on Its assessments for the war chest in the struggle between the A. F„ of L. and the C. 1.0. The printers deliberately withheld ¥€« assessments, refused to be assessed for any such A cause* Resolutions were offered today for a conference of —£ all the unions to bring an end to that warfare. The same A Resolution provides that the printers, will not even try to get back into the Federation until the A.F, of L. and the C.I.O. are at peace. MILK II f: I tihat-the uMiiiary 11 e-j~teirg-ew m a ad > -i g- oy-hoe pa—eteeyt^n- the -ctii^i ivovO milk strike in Hew York State is^being felt in the homes wv and kitches of hundreds of thousands. In great Hew Xork City there were restaurants and drugstores where it was impossible A :: i t . to get a drink of milk. The supply available for children /V in homes was less than half normal. New York needs almost four and a half million quarts a day, Mayor La Guardia called a conference to settle the 7F* 'I rp- strike./rThe President of the Dairy Farmers Union offered to supply consumers direct so long as the strike lasts. 11 Upstate, where the milk comes from, there were no much peaceful gestitres. At bottling plants and cn highways there were fi^^^T^State^^^icemen beaten, milk dumped^by the A I wayside. Gome of the milk trucks were routed from Western Hew Xork State to Mew Xork City through Pennsylvania. There they v/ere guarded by Pennsylvania motor police, and when they reached the Hew Jersey State line they were protected by Jersey troopers. I! Unpleasant reports of a similar nature come, from South Barre (Bar-re), Massachusetts, where the workers at a combing woo mill are out. Two women who tried to get through the picket line were stripped their clothes. A man was dragged from his car and beaten up. And there were stories of violence in various parts of the city FQRF.ST FTRR8 Near the border between Oregon and California «a~ town ts in ashes^ More than a hundred and fifty and (fCtL^j? homes, a hotel^^many^building s, wum burned to the ground * The flames reached as far as the Klamath Indian Reservation and Siskiyou under control National Forest. T1 forest fire is but a pall of smoke .still hangs over Portland, °regon,and more than a thousand weary men $Hre still fighting the flames on Mt. Hood, Tillamook, and Estaeada. K * There were forest fires in California too, but they also are under control. ? sm * 4 HEAVEN An aristocratic villa at aristocratic Newport, Rhode Island, echoed today with unaristocratic cries of f,Peace, it*® wonderful.11 In a mansion where Ambassadors, potentates, millionaires, fashionable people and sometimes also even nice people, used to dine, a-vimiiJtila meal was served to six 'K A of the negro Angels of Father Divine. But those six aren*t going to have that million dollar mansion all to themselves. Theythe advance guard of three hundred more. Gilt-edged social register tongues still wagged causti- cally on the subject of Mrs. Angela Kaufmah,^ .^the owi^er of that-rrru turning retorted by saying that the time will come when fashionable Newporters will find Father Divine's heaven a great social help to Newport* The Angels, as she put It, will bring to that beautiful seaside town loving hearts brimming with human fashlonab^r mansion * They criticized her for her castle into a rniaw heaven, ^rs. Kaufman kindness