ffiJRQPE ^ X l {- jCfif-O. Tod-vy an eighty year old soldier clad in an old uniform of hori/.on l lue journeyed by automobile in France, He was Marshal Retain the hero of Verdun and he wore the same unit orm that he wore when a quarter of a century ago he commanded /A the tremendous defense® of Verdun and stopped the legions of the Kaiser, Today went by car to meet Adolf Hitler — somewhere near Paris, The Naxi® received the aged Marshal with military honors. 'And the meeting was held in Hitler’s private railroad car, Wit^i Premier Petain was Vice-Premier Laval, who two was his Foreign days ago conferred with Hitler, With Minister Von Rit^bentrop and General Voa Keitel, German Chief of Staff. The ctonference is said to have begun at about three Hxyxnax P.M. and lasted unti}. five This event is surrounded with the deepest secrecy —] ecy. From neither the German or the French sides do the official bulletins announce anything more than the mere fact of the meeting, ^the impression given is portentous - especially after Hitler's conference yesterday with tm the Spanish Dictator, Franco^'From the Axis side the rumor is that France and Spain xiii are Joining Germany in a vast lineup against Great Britain. Berlin reports state the purpose as "the ^_5£tructior^ of B^itain,,. London is saying that Hitlerfs meeting with Franco and Petain are simple evidence tha^ the Nazi f warfare against Great Britain has failed, and Hitler needs allies* This evokes an angry denial in Nazi Germany* On the French side one surmise is that the Petain regime is merely trying to straighten things out with the conquering nation — one grtrap* being to re-establish A • ^ the French government in Paris. But there is another French report of a more sweeping sort* This rumor holds that Hitler and Mussolini are trying to draw Franco and Petain into a combination for peace* One immediate aim *ould bo for the group to try and break the British clockade, which is stopping food supplies to Western Europe. Beyond that, says the FrenchAirpireat there is a plan for a continental A- A lineup to fax* face Great Britain with a demand that jsuuuc* EUROPE - 2 peace be negotiated. And there are signs of diplomatic combinations farther to the East. Both Moscow a nd lokyo Intimate that / a Soviet Japanese non-aggression pact is in the making. If all these moves were to work out successfully it might mean a common front from Spain across Asia to Japan. ----------- ^— * ----- - • The war news £» bout the same tonight. The KJU&ts Nazi Air Force continues to i-omb Britain, and the Royal Air Force has hit Berlin again. DOCUMENT -£*JU ,o.«hi^ ttat „» , .i(;„ ltot ia,„ of pe,ce ;Is^ioaL in certain British quarters. The Civil Service, in particular - which is not at all like our American Civil Service. In Great Britain it consists of permanent officials v.ro constitute ^ne basis of the London Government - HMtRr^mcgygtayrflri under-secretaries, holders of bureaucratic posts — the civil servants * London reports that a document is being circulated in government offices. ItTs quite an American sort of document, entitled - TTA New Gettysburg Address.” It reads this way, in Lincolnian paraphrase:- "Four score and five years ago, our forefathers let loose upon this country a civil service conceived in obstructionism and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created idiots.” Then it goes on to state what is to be expected - in these words;- "That this nation shall have a new dose of appeasement, and that government of civil service by civil service and for civil service shall give Hitler the earth.” All of which is a Lincolnian way of charging^ ^ ■| n|1)1 : I.n nriam a^^nmant cwoe REFUGEES The arrest, of notable refugees continues in the news. In Spain it’s indicated that the Franco Government will extradite a former Rumanian official who was chief of the household of ^037099 King Carol. This chief of the household is wanted by the present Rumanian Government on charges connected with the suppression of the Iron Guard .. months ago. That wati taifrslJ.nte when fc^agHDar^1 on the iiro-Na^j^organiaiit iowjr w-ith-the killing of taany I ron Gward—1c M--V 5* Today’s arrest of the former chief of the royal A household ties in of course with the detention of King Carol and Madame Lupescu by the Spanish police. There*s no definite iKoHBurfci certainty that the Bucharest Government is seeding to extradite the former King and the woman with whom he fled. However, Franco newspapers are expressing the opinion that the much discussed couple should be sent back to Carol’s former kingdom. From Rumania itself, we have an announcement of the ariest of Marshal Sraie,ley He was the Commander-in-Chief RFFUGEES - 2 of the Polish army, and the strong man of Poland at the outbreak of the war. His military forces were pulverized by the first blitzkrieg, ana tne Marshal fled to Rumania — where he has been ever since. His arrest today naturally recalls the seizure ^the former Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck - who, they say, was trying to flee the country with a British passport. SABOTAGE Secretary of War Stimson today warned the United States against sabotage. He said the situation was more dangerous than it wab during the V.orld War. The Secretary used these words:- "Attempts at sabotage,^5Sa=£®^H»have already been shown by bexiigerent nations, Germany, for example * to be far more dangerous than tv,enty years ago." He didn!t expatiate on the meaning of the significant words - "shown to be more dangerous." He refrained from stating whether any actual cases of sabotage had been disclosed in this country. The Secretary of War made ^his declaration in stating the need for the creation of Home Guards - citizen* soldiers to take the place of the National Guard units that have been drawn into the regular army. The Secretary indicated that there was not much modern armament on hand with which to equip these Home Guards - but they could use World War rifles. ue said the army had enough Lee-Enfield guns of the World War period to equip a hundred and twenty-five thousand Home Guards Prggidenti flftoseveht -e -l^giwft- •ftuthorrzing the hme—Ouard unitfry^tfavi ns-Aini crea>»»n of tfcem-tip- POLITICS ^oday we find ourselves with the realization that the political campaign has certainly become as tense and hard-hitting as we expected it would. The first of President Roosevelt's campaign s.etches has brought the two candidates to grips. From now on it * s to be - hammer and tongs, catch as catch can, or any simile you like. Today in Ohio Wendell Willkie gave a reply to the presidential declarations of last night. Of course, Willkie did some replying in his address at the Herald-Tribune Forum - the L 1 1 t" \ speech he made shortly”after the President spokejp^illkie did a neat joD of picking up a cue. He had his talk all set, but at the same time it was up to nim to give some reply to the Presidents remarks made so^*±fi£iye'before. The Republican candidate was prepared to talk about excessive one-man power and a third term. He listened to the presidential declarations, then neatly picked out the fact that Hr. Roosevelt made no mention of the third term issue - of the doctrine of indispensibility. Willkie seized uion this omission as a cue, and thereby gave as a reply the line of reasoning that he had already laid out - excessive power, a Perpetuation of power and Ag»A third term POLITICS - 2 Today, on his campaign train in Ohio, he went ahead to answer other points contained in the first of the Presidents five speeches, he took up the statement that President Roosevelt has done everything to keep the nation away from war - following the road to peace, fre frho Prerridettfcis pcoaise W taiie-^his nation ^ The war issue comes to the front with increasing importance. / Last night the President gave a pledge against wax* more strongly and specifically than ever before. Hitherto, the promise mostly has been not to send the army, American boys, to fight in foreign wars. Last night the presidential pledge was all inclusive -- t^armyf the navy, and the air corps. Willkie A foday, by declaring that the President had broken his platform pledges of Ntneteen Thirty-Two. n -O jz XA aji /* -n«If he doesn't keep his Nineteen-Forty pledges^, said Wi.lkie, "our boys soon will be sailing in transports to take part in a foreign war." So the war issue is at the front. ^—Pres-itTgrrt Rooa „ aade-ift' »^erepresentatpointcn a~- -wnen he said ^f^aw^lwoscvcib nad toiepnowea POLITICS - 4 —r^ecftiri- -th^-ee^ / Today Willkie issued a warning concerning the armament program. He repeated once again that he^ all for building an overwhelming defense, but stated that defense expenditures were no road to permanent recovery. He warned that after the armament program was complete, we might have the worst depression ever - unless the internal economy of the nation were soundly constructed on a normal basis. President Roosevelt spoke a^ain today. Tnis afternoon from Washington he made an address transmitted to the Herald-Tribune Forum in New fork. The president spoke on the theme of democracy versus dictatorship, and at times one thought one heard an echo - a political echo. With this utterly tense election coming swiftly to a climax and close, I suppose we're inclined to hear political echoes in everything. The Democratic President spoke of Abraham Lincoln, Just as the Republican candidate last night -LrCJ praise of Thomas Jefferson - things are getting topsy-turvy these days. Tne President told how Lincoln warned against what F.D.R. POLITICS - 5 described as "fear mongers and calamity howlers" - "the appeasers of that trouoled time ' , said he. Well, this recalls that the President's running mate, Henry Wallace, launched the charge that Mllkie was an appeaser. Also — last night the President charged the Republicans with -- fear propaganda. Today the President is talking against the totalitarian dictators, warned us against what he called TTthe foreign propagandists who seek to divide us with their strategy of terror.” That reference to ’’foreign propagandists who seek to divide us” recalls rather reminiscently the Republican charge that the third term threatens to disunite us. Yes, % everything these days seams to have a political echo. COMMUNISTS In New York State today the Co-nmunist ticket was knocked right out of the election. Supreme Court Justice Murray handed down the verdict and declared his belief that signatures on the Red election petition were fraudulent. According to New York State law, any party to get into at least an election, has to present a petition signed by twelve thousand A i voters, with JLdLxiusk fifty from each county. The Communists handed in their election document, with the right number of signatures - and it was pruper^ challenged. Members of the American negion went to court about it and charged that many of the signatures were false. In the proceedings that ensued, various people whose names were signed to the petition, testified and swore that they had never done the signing. The Communists retorted that these witnesses had been forced to deny their signatures by intimidation. "A campaign of terror," said the Reds - who should know something about terror. The signatures repudiated were of W.P.A. workers, and the Communists claimed that these persons had been threatened from relief - unless they testified that tneir with being cut off i COMMUNISTS - 2 signatures were false. Of course, there's a federal law which prohibits the W.P.A. to have Communists on the relief rolls. All of A'hich would, seem to make a W.P.A. worker signing a Communist petition, something of a paradox. But then there are a lot of paradoxes around nowadays. Communist Candidate Earl Browder testified that the attack on the Red petition had been instigated - by another political party. didnft say which political party it was. He intimated that the idea was that if the Communists didn’t have a ticket in the field, the Red voters would thereupon vote for that political party, which he refrained from naming. Still another paradox. Browder is going to testxly hKis* before the Congressional Committee in Washington about what he describes as terrorism exercised against the Communists in New rork. And in doing so he's supposed to name the mysterious political party. Anyway, the court in Albany today tossed the Reds out of the election, and they say they're going to appeal. In a hospital at Ontario, Oregon, today, Frank Pollen, a sheep nerder, told his story briefly - after he had recovered from the etner. The sheep herder was out in the wild country far from anywhere, when he suddenly became desperately ill. Luckily, he had with him his dog - named Bud. You know, how intelligent and devoted those working sheep dogs are. So here!s Frank PollenTs story! T!I guess I would have died out there if it hadn t been for Bud*. * When the pain doubled me up so I couldn’t walk,n he relates, ”1 wrote a note telling friends where I was. I pinned it to Bud1 s collar and told him - !Go home.1 Bud trotted off," the sheep herder concludes, "and three hours later he reached the John Palmer ranch, eighteen miles away * that’s the kind of story to make one feel rather football Tnere was a Harvard-Cornell football clash today - not on the gridiron, no impact of powerful it^m^fckling JZL speedy backs with the ball. The field of combat is on paper - ana in print. And the cause of the trouble is that old problem oi amateur athletics, Simon pure, no subsidizing. The HARVARD CRIMSOh today launches the charge that Cornell has violated an agreement made t^o yeai s ago - a pledge to keep football as amateur as amateur can be. The CRIMSON blast is fired particularly at the head ce^ Cornell Coach^Carl Snavely. Hefs accused of violating an agreement not to proselytize. ^eanir% £er likely ir fop heir Higher il J ulb Irion d The Harvard pronunclamento contains these sprightly v/ords:- "Carl Snavelyit says, "is the biggest traveling salesman that ever wore rubbers off the tires of an automobile. Last year," it continues, "he drove several thousand miles solely in an effort to corral grid talent ior Cornell’s future teams*" Well, if that’s true, Coach Snavely ought to be a good •fro1 go 4)o» customer for Nu-Blue Sunoco. We’ll have to look into that Hugh,