Vi AR T::is day an historic event occurred. For the fourth tire - ^7 *-p— ^Gei-o.n troops marched into Paris. The first time v.as back in nignteen Thirteen, v.hen Napoleon was overthrown. Then the Germans were chieiiy the army of Prussia, and with them were the British, -he second time was after hapoleonfs return from Elba, after V'aterloo. Dnce more the Prussians and British marched into Paris as conquerors. The third time was during the Frunco-Prussian V.'ar, when Paris fell after a bitter siege and Bismarck proclaimed the unification of Germany at Versailles. And today - the fourth timej the Nazi legions rumbling past the Arc de Triomphe and down the Champs Elysees. Tne Nazi troops gazed about at scenes of traditional charm, Paris in the early summer - stately boulevards, and the ornate buildings, the cp.esTaut trees. Paris, undamaged, umvurt by any bombardment. Yet the capital of France seemed like a city of the dead. Aoout a third of its population remained, nearly a million, but today the Parisians Kept indoors. One can pity the bitter humiliation of the proud men and women of France, staying in their houses - while the i.azi conquerors . rocesded in .~&ssive co-nj.ms through the streets. To make things vrorse, the report is that Hitler will sa^ie .»azi entrance into raris. Of course he will - with that pomp^that aar^ed zhe Hitler entrances into Vienna, Prague, Danzig, i’> a r s aw • .-aris in tne news tonight is an affair of history and moody drama. Tne focus of the tense jailitary news today is distant from the fair city on the Seine. Military events have moved rapidly, TVe Germans are advancing at such a rate that the French Gove.nnent has left Tours, about a hundred and fifty miles south of Paris, and gone to Bordeaux, which is on the extreme southwestern coast of France. The eastern wing of the German army is driving at treuendous speed to the south. The French|report their forces retreating, but in good order. The German^ continue to claim that they are disintegrating. Today, motorized columns penetrated /\ ^ as far as Yitry le Francois. That tow£ ijs to the south of .r cowr Chalons, where they were ^.as z night J Tne uerman a,.my j . s - behind the laginot Line, ready to a-iaox. it in the rca.1 . ...e iermans claim tney are already beginning to reduce tnat supposedly Ge which they '.ave con.letely impregnable series of fortifications, out:lanked. Berlin reports the capture of Montmedy, the northern t st stronghold of t:.c iaginot Line. Tnaj launched a tremendous attack on the &ine in the area of tne Sa r Valley, an onslaught of tanks and mechanised e.uipment; tnis has been hurried bac^, say the Allies. Tne Germans claim they’ve taKen - rDead Man’s Hill.” That's one of the forts of Verdun, famous in First 7.'or Id V.ar history. Verdun lies benind the Maginot l^ine, and it's part of its immense strength. The Gazi legions are taking Verdun from the rear, as tney threaten to do the entire Magnot system of defenses. A late French fcelletin states tnat the swift German drive is tnreatening to cut off the retreating French Army from tne Maginot Line. British reenforcements are said to be arriving by thousands, London putting forth supreme efforts to help the hard-pressed all avalnab- ally of Britain, troops by the tens of thousand, and £ equipment, tfe nre told that .ritain is stripping ner ov»n home defenses in , tj inc. to help - ra-.^e t his in tne face of jubilant .Nazi and that Britain mighf of 3errany boasts that France is virtually out of .t--e war. will now become the immediate mar.-:for tne mecnanized ‘ PEACE Here’s an extremely significant dispatch from London. I’la reac it verbatim, as the United Press gives it. ’’Great Britain, it was understood today, has agreed to accept whatever future political and military decisions Frs-nce is forced to maK.e - carrying on the war alone against Germany if the French should be compelled to give up.” Then the story from London proceeds to state the following:- ”It was indicated,” says the dispatch, ”that the British are now willing to accept as final whatever further decisions must be made by the French, as to carrying on the war in French territory.” Ail this is a clear indication that Great Britain believes that France may be forced to make a separate peace. The authorities for the story are not given, it merely uses the current journalistic forms — ”It was understood.” And — ”It is indicated.” riOA^er, and this is important — the story was passed by the London censor. In Rome there’s a rumor, which I’ll repeat for what it is wor Italian sources say there’s dissention in the French Cabinet, that President L ebrun wants to make peace, but that PEACE - 2 Premier neynaud wants to fight on. Lebrun, however, is supported by several members of the Reynaud Cabinet - who agree with him that France should renounce the hopeless conflict. The most sensational report of all, is passed along to me by Wythe Williams, editor of GREENWICH TliE. Wythe.a veteran foreign correspondent, specializes in procuring inside stories from abroad. He tells me that^he has grapevine information that today Marshal Retain of the French Government communicated with General Franco, the Spanish Dictator - *and asked Franco to open overtures with Hitler, overtures for peace between Germany and France, After last nightTs appeal by'Premier Reynaud to the United States, the French sesap to ta^e the attitude that their resistance depends upcn the immediate help they can get from the democracies. President Roosevelt indicated today that all possible help is already being given. Congressioxiai circles are saying we can’t do any more without going to war. Hitler today made some statements about the British Empire a;*d the United States. He made them to a well x_no?,n American newspaper man, harl von V.iegand of the Hearst papers. In an interview which tsat Hears"g.rr:j yu; lisned this afternoon, Hither declared that he had never intended to smash the British Empire, said he had repeatedly offered peace and accommodation to London, only to be contemptuously rebuffed. What his treseijL, ideas about the British Empire might be were no^ made quite clear. Hitler said Germany intended to end the British domination of the seas and end what he caj-ied — ^the domination oi tne capitalistic clique. This domination, he intimatedoverthrown by the people themselves, j^st what that may mean is ■•not too trailspe.p©nt. Coixerning the United States, the Brown Shiru dictator was less cryptic and nebulous. He denied that Nazi Germany has any ambition in the Ai'ericas, said tnat Germany intends to respect, the Monroe Doctrine. He remarked tnat Europe snouid not interfere with America, and added that America snouid not interfere with Europ He summed it up by resorting to a familiar former speech, "rurope for Europeans, and America for Americans.” saying - nlTL.nK This Hither pronounce::ient concerning our own country %as promptly taken to President Roosevelt today at his press conference. Told of HitlerTs promise not to interfere in the Americas, the President responded - nThat brings up recollections.” Recollections - of the broken Hitler promises in the past. He added that it was hardly necessary to specify the nations tnat got the promises and the dates on which the Hitler pledges 7.ere made and broken. A c c ^ » '7 ro:-dor. re LC-rt£ t nit influentI&l A_eiicr.n ir. i-urr^e nave trexs^ittec to Vgshington a dark picture of the probebilities - if Kazi Gerrar.7 shooJd nzn. ho;.don eapnasizes t._at tnese gloomy prognostications 00 not enanate f ran Allied t/r on art eo s - but iron i.o-£--cans aLzarz abroad, nere os tne picture - if Hitler should ran! France v,ouid be reducec to a seoono o_a00 poT.er, anc stripped of her entire. Soviet Fussia ■ftoold be dr aim into Gernany! s econonic orbit uni nayie -.ater on ■ rou I o be attached by Gemar.y and Ja:aa. It^ly Touid control- Spain and Korth Africa. under tne dotoination of Germany __ c . c. 1. n r 0 - e v, z 0 _ 0 0 e C-*-w _ . C- _ ' Japan wo^.d estao^ish a super—empire in Asia, taning over Hong Kpr.g an- Sir-gapore. -Itu cte^Vj . apan v. 0 u - 0 oe_o.e tne In ten F=st i-die £ , Malaya and tne Fhi--ap; ines. _na_a wou^d oe an am v apan conpet—ng • 0 e r a 10. on v _ n w e - n ,* ul no en 0 e Fanada v0-1c o-e nominally independent, out in close :o:.. iri*n the ln-ted States. A--ueo xkxi inning .ossessoo-us in £OJ_herr. American waters would be taken over by the United states - az tne request of the Allies. Australia and i\ew Zealand -i;j.£nt be forced to open tneir doors to Japanese immigration.---- D ' i~ >WBWiif 1 T 1 iif r n - 4 ji ultima do min a A- ^ Germany would try to make Great Britain and France surrender their fleets by threatening & mass-air-raid and bombing- attack on the civilian populations. Thus, a naval combination of Germany, Italy and Japan would probably be supreme in European waters, in the East Atlantic and in the South Atlantic. Also, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific. The United States would ‘ace an immediate economic war in both South America ana the Tear mast, with the totalitarian states trying to monopolize the wEanr-rxanriggicyT markets in those areas. The United States, busy with an enormous defense program, would be handicapped in a competition for trade. Such is the ominous picture which Aoeric^n sources in Europe are said to have transmitted to the Washington Government .ikely probability - if Hitler should win. G.hi'TACK German newspapers are devoting some attention to the United States - on the score of the aid we are giving the Allies. Today one Nazi paper ta^es up the subject of American politics, and what it has to say may be a bit astonishing to Americans. It declares that we are in need of what it calls - ’’political rejuvenation one way or another.” And it suggests - ”a third party”, an anti-w’ar party. The same old political panacea - third party. The Nazi newspaper s-ys it gets this political magic from a prominent .American business man who is in Berlin. This prominent business man is quoted as say'ing that both the Democratic and Republican Parties are incapable of evolving what he describes as ”a flexible foreign policy which will be needed in order to be compatible with Europe’s new suit of clothes.” £o we need a tnird party for tne new European suit *of clothes. The interview goes on to describe the Republican Party as - ’’spawn^by harvard.” Weil, I can at least one Harvard product in tne Democratic Party - he happens to live in the V.nite House. The profound political analysis goes on to describe the Democratic Party as - Lasebaii-fed. Y.eli, we al_ kno* that Democrats can be great baseball fans - especially in Brooklyn, but I We never heard before that the New De£l feeds on baseball. Altogether, it may be significant that the Nazi press is opening up on the United States, but as for Berlin’s crystal gazing in the realm of Anerican politics X a ITALY The British announce the bombing of an^LtnI-r57r:^rnr«8ar>- This occurred at the Italian naval base in Libya. The cruiser A is said to have been hit, set afire. T vjo submarines were likewise ca^wr hit. The Italians reported a naval clash tat what they call - brisk fighting. The home radio states that Italian destroyers had a battle with French warships in the central Mediterranean, home says that the French flotilla retired — apparently without loss ------ - tic- -xll? There1s some dispute about the Spanish occupation of Tangiers. ^ f^'SSSl African port just across from Gibraltar. According to treaty, it has a neutral status. But today the Spaniards moved in and occupied Tangiers - to insure its neutrality, says the Franco Government. The declare that the Spanish move was cade with the permission of ■>- Bpi* ain *7^4 Trance. The Germans report that permission was given after Franco had already made the move - ohay, because there was nothing else to do. V.’AR DiibTS United Lt&tes Seiiete today took a bo^t in the direction C- nortnern ^ep^Liic of Finland, atid said: niio, iuy dear Finiaiid, v/e will simply not permit you to pay." Meanwhile, Finland has been saying, rMy dear Uncle Ssni, %e insist on paying.^ It’s all very polite. 6 -e- Finland infetal<rttoA.t foll-dijr1 when t're 1 itt-ie hcpuu.Lic wg* battling against-tno ant uignt of Covict ;tuao.Lu. And tuc-White' H uus ^ j and Ccngpees dooidod-to 4^‘n tr.e- Finn ion payment jvur tcrwai iLlief in pu-^erf of tU* t^Hret;ori natiQn.^ Now - another debt ii.stalment is due, tomorrov., and Finnish Minister Procope has announced - the cash will be on the line. Today, however, the Senate adopted a resolution decreeing that the United States will not accept the money - neither the present instalment nor the next one, due in six months. The twister is that we have a law, the Johnson Act, which forbids credit from the United States to any nation which doesn’t pay up. So, by refusing to accept the payment, we might put the Finns in a position A Aft DEBTS - 2 v,here ■Lefc&iiy they couldnft get any credit over here. That would ce a raurier -el^-i'-cinded kind of favor. However, todayTs Senate resolution specifically provides that our refusal to accept the money Vkill not jeopardize the commercial credit that Finland enjoys m the dnited Afe..-, fmn rr n'rnid A ina faoT. t r?;oIbiti&n le a ooin;jj.iiiiLiil Uld'~S4nalr, l:j LtiiT" ; 1—of t.nc-Finite ^Senator Johnson 2±ro approved, but he said he didn't want the case of Finland to be a loophole through which credits might be extended to other nations tnat have not xxx met their war debt payments. The California Senator is dead set on retaining the lav. that bears his name - this in the face of >- pnna A d<rsTx^f opinion in Congress that v.e ought to lift the credit ban against the Allies. The United States handed a protest to Japan today - a complaint about bombing raids the Japanese have made recently against the Chinese National capital at Chungking. Yesterday, Secretary of State Hull made a statement in which he complained about the Japanese bombings, saying tnat the destruction from the sky had threatened the United States Embassy and other American properties. This contention was made formal in a protest which Ambassador Grew today presented to the Tokyo Foreign Office. JaXnese m^ike a prVnapt retWt. They'Vilaim ChsHiese have been using the foreign VmbassiesXas a shield f their oWn defense for\tifiCutioris. Tnej^ve been ^JULS.iinjXbuirdj Lg efense positions in t\e near vicinity foreig!^ properties. iat way \o keep \he defenke positions fromVbeing japAnese. TAkyo suggests that outside Viations .Apve s\’orishmexits to a\safety\one - otkerwise tne ps wil\ not beVesPonsiVe daraaAit doe^