L.T. - SUNOCO. MONDAY. JANUARY £0. 1941. GOOD EVENING EVERI30DI: Sure this has been an historic day. Somewhere in Europe two men met secretly, the two arch dictators. Hitler and Mussolini, men of destiny, so their followers think. Over here the United States was inaugurating a President, a President whose hope it is to upset the plans of those men of destiny; frustrate ■ MM their world conquest plans. ^As the least known verse of the British national anthem puts it, T*to confound their politics, frsutrate their knavish tricks.” That clandestine meeting in Europe lent additional drama and color to the third inauguration of Mr. Roosevelt. It hardly needed any additional color for the first inauguration of a third term president was by itself a red letter day for American history books, the milestone oi a tradition smashed. Then too, that uselul planet, the sun. did EAD - 2 its own bit of tradition-breaking by shining upon the third term President. I believe it’s almost the first^tEipj^within the d cJr ^n^eL history of living new spa perment tire flttn-ha» chown ofi fry* There was a touch of melodrama too, three men arrested one of them carrying a concealed deadly weapon. It wasnTt during the inauguration that they were collared by the police, but in the afternoon. A couple of them appeared to be relatively harmless 0ne of them was a fellow who yelled at the President while he was / driving from the White House to the Capitol for his inauguration. It isn!t yet revealed what he yelled, but at any rate the^^o^s. pitched him up, and asked him some questions. Again, an elderly man, seventy years old, from Maryland, strolled along Pennsylvania Avenue v/ith a faded army campaign hat on his head and a sword \ATVUQ in his hand. When the police asked him, what** the idea, he said he wanted to protect the President. So they gave him a chance to crotect the President at the station house. LEAD - 3 The nan vho carried the weapon was a forty-five year A old barber, dressed in an American Legion uniform. He was loitering in front of the White House near the Court of Freedom i stand from which Mr. Roosevelt was tothe inaugural parade. It would have taken a miracle for anybody of suspicious appearance or intention to elude the police in Washington today. Never before had so many cops been put on the job for an inauguration. It did^t take the officers long to spot the fact that the man in the legion uniform had / concealed inside his steL**'. When they searched him they found it A to be a thirty-eight calibre revolver. They ares** giving out his name or saying anything about him, except that he was taken ~tfcdtr to the hospital for observation, andpistol^eotteeel*# inside cj M&> his was loaded and in good conditions* AA Th®i*e were two thousand uniformed police on the k kxUc/c jtei. to say nothing of detectives in plain clothes. There was a A cop every eight feet all the way from the White House to the Capitol. Every officer in the District of Columbia, the Washington city police, the United States Park police, the ■bi^AD - 4 adZS? Capitol guard, the Building Guard, the Secret Service, mere out A in force, besides that, eighty detectives and three hundred uniformed policemen were borrowed from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and Wilmington. The car in which the President <* rode was escorted by four army combat cars, literally bristling with weapons .equipped as they wou^d be for a battle. Before the President took his oath and made his inaugural address, an old and familiar public figure performed A his last official act at Washington. The honorable John Nance Garner for y*cs*s one of the most redoubtable members of Congress, former Speaker of the House, now a former Vice-President, administered the oath of office to the bikr man who succeeds him, Henry^ Wallace. QgPfter preserved his homespun humor to the last, he didn t have a K top-hat and he was derned if he was going to buy one. So he borrowed one from a newspaperman, Bascom Timmons, the nashington corespondent for a string of Texas papers. SimcMSEx Timmons's hat was way too small for him, but that didn't faeze the ex- Vice-President. "That's all right," said Garner, "you don't have to wear the darn thing, you just carry it." After he had performed LEAD 5 his role in today’s performance, he got on the train for Uvalde, Texas^ for a week of personal isolation, ^he sal<!^ John Nance Garner tonight is a private citizen for the first time in forty-six years! President Roosevelt’s third inaugural addresswas an more than that, it mt*& /■----------------- d_________/ apostrophe to democracyf a to the enemies of democracy./’’There are men,*1 he said. ’’who believe that for some unexplained reason, xjc tyranny and slavery become the surging wave of the future and that 'd is an ebbing tide. But we Amer ican?,”'he cried, ’’know that this is not true.” ’’In Washington’s djiy,” said M e . Roosevelt, ’’the task of the people was to create and weld together a nation^ in Lincoln’s day to preserve that nation from disruption from within. In this day,” he added, ’’the task of the people is to save that nation ani its institutions from disruption from without." He went on to say: "Democracy is not dying. V,e know it because we have seen it revive* and grow." To which he added: LEAD - 6 f,\.e < 10 v: it cannot die, because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women, because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life. " Oddly enough, the broadcasting of the inauguration and address was probably heard by as many or more British people than Americans. The word from London is tnat everybody throughout the Island, who could, flocked to the nearest radio. More than twenty million people in Great Britain, say the correspondents, were listening in. That was due to some extent to the hour. When Mr. Roosevelt spoke, it was already six o'clock in the evening, Greenwich time, over there. So almost everybody was at liberty to listen, and the British Broadcasting Corporation had switched its usual six o*clock broadcast, to another hour. ITALY The meeting of the Duce and the Fuehrer. A to ":^3B signal for a fresh outburst of Italian energy. One manifestation a threat and a warning. On^ gf Fascist^.aper* announceei a fresh blitzkrieg to begin whenever winter is over. That!s hardly news: tiie As. same prophecy. A But the gist of the Italian warning wct that the blitzkrieg that- A olooms in the spring lr» ~i*~V will surpass anything that Europe saw last year. And while Mussolini was talking to Hitler, tei» editor, Virginio Gayda, was complaining that many of the planes used by the British in the north African campaign were made in America as well as a large part of the trucks that the Australians used ’ in the desert. But here* s a more concrete symptom of the revival of Fascist energy. (*» Athens reports that tip Piraeus, the classic^) seaport of the old city', -fes attacked by ItallanjDombersJbwlcg=^ .x3Aji^ J|1cl-^Tr—PlTr-ryc fipitlsS Royal Air Force^dwciares that^tSey iieta'-t do' assn, damage • And the high command of the Hellene army reports it has information that General Cavallero, the new Italian Coamander-in-Chiei ITALY xn crania,new and daring military tactxcs^ He has brought thousands of Italian sappers over from the mainland, and conscripted jl numberAlbanian laborers to -VN strengthen the fortifications of Berat and Valona, the two principal Italian strongholds^ The Greeks also report thai fresh Italian troops Cfcre pourrf^Lnto the front lines. Commander-in-Chief Cavallero is believed to have made a wholesale shake-up of his officers; he dismisse^T^wo generals, seven colonels, A majors, captains, and so fior^u A and scores of HITLER»MUSSOLINI There’s one thing sure about the Nazi and Fascist rulers: they can effectively keep public affairs from the knowledge of the public. ^What happened at that meeting between Hitler and Mussolini today nobody knows except Hitler and Mussolini. And, their Foreign Ministers, Ribbentrop and Ciano . au we get from the official statement is this:- "Hitler and 111 Duce had an intensive discussion in the spirit of cordial friendship between the two heads of government and in the close comradeship of battle between the German and Italian peoples." Then it added:- "It resulted in the complete agreement of views on all questions." To which the comment of one obsefver was, "If your house is on fire, you could hardly afford to disagree with the chief of the fire department." AFRICA In Africa, the British forces are advancing on a new front. They have thrust their way into Eritrea, the Italian strip on th« Red Sea, and have occupied two strongly fortified posts on the frontier between Eritrea and the Sufdan. (They were strongly fortified, so the British declare, but not defended. The Italians n withdrawn their troops in expectation of the British advance. A The Cairo high command reports that the B ritish have the Italians on the run in that part of Africa. British troops are in contact with the retreating enemy, is the way they phrase it. LAVAL The French government at Vichy gives out an explanation of that meeting between Marshal Petain and ila* former Vice-Premier Pierre Laval. But it!s an explanation which doesnft say much and leaves room for a lot of guessing. One reason for was the campaign of criticism against si A the^ichy government,in Parisian^newspapers. When PetAin decided to deprive himself of the services of Laval, the reasons at the time could not be thoroughly explained to French opinion. So said an official radio announcement. The consequence was confusion, which the Paris press exploited and increased. Marshal Petain wanted to do away with any misunderstandings which could poision the relations between the German authorities and the French government. his conversation with Laval. The announcement went on to say that France lives under the same regime as before and will respect to the letter every line of the armistice convention. The French fleet will not be used against the British* hut the French will continue to safeguard their empire. % UjJkT It sounds reassuring; but, the world would still like to know what happened at that interview between Petain and the stormy petrel, Laval. PLANES Here’s the latest report on the American war planes that were sent to Britain, the subject of so much argument. We are faced today with two contradictory statements. The discussion first came up when a correspondent returning from England said the American planes weren’t of much use, only btirag omployed for training. Quentin Reynolds, correspondent for COLLIERS, took that report to Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production. Beaverbrook described it as a scurrilous article, ss Quentin A Reynolds writes in the current issue of COLLIERS. Beaverbrook sent Reynolds to factories and airplane bases, and he was told \ '^S^mplimentary things about fcha made-in-America planes. He quotes one British squadron leader^as wishing that he had a thousand of «rch"A^ertosn ptLane*/ A Now here’s another side to the story. It comes from a high official in charge of research for the Royal Air Force. He told a group of American correspondents that if United States fighting planes are to compete on the best possible terns with __ German planes, American designers^** build more speed and PLANES - 2 altitude into them. So Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding told a group oi us at luncheon. As lor the German planes that have been captured, the experts of £he R. A.F, admire them immensely. Their material is good, construction excellent, and the equipment often ingenious. There*s nothing ersatz about the German planes that the British have seen. They have examined thoroughly those they captured but could find no vital secrets in them. Just good ddsign, good material, good construction. On the other hand, the British fighters haven*t the same complimentary thing to say about Italian fighting planes. I STEEL Heir’s a new record^not in the world of sports, jinnufaetuioe^ Steel is being turned out in terrific quantities in the United States. The country’s mills this week are operating at ninety-nine points one per cent 0 # capacity^ tfoat'is CjLS~>Sl efipaAnd that, we^tmdgris a record high, in point of tonnage^higher even than t^iat most spectacular of years. Nineteen Twenty-{jine. CREDITS The President begins his third terra v.ith a *ord of encouragement from his Secretary of the Treasury. Morgenthau issued a special statement for Inauguration Day, ^ith the highly optimistic $ message that the credit of the United States has never been more soundly established,and.he adds that the dollar has become fch* ^ ' A standard currency the world, Along with this reassurance comes a word of warning we must expect greater financial burdens. That- is no surprise^ £o~be surer AS^Secretary Morgenthau also was paving the way for a new departure in public finance, which is going to stir up a lot of argument^ £££*. that ever ticklish question of removing the tax exemptions from &noie Sam’-f bonds. A 4 That’s one th* of the ways, says^4ff£gS^h§gr^i^wl:lich we must meet greater financial burdens-=thtst facr^~»»u A HOPKINS There was a public meeting of workers at Glasgow, the great Scottish city where the British build so many ships. The principal speech-maker was Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself. Sitting on the platform with him, was cur uwn Harry Hopkins, former Secretary of CoL'imerce, former head of national relief, and now the Presidents personal envoy in London. When the Prime Minister finished his address, the audience set up a steady cry of"Harry, Harry, Harry!" There was no keeping them quiet, so finally Harry jarose from his chair, said he wasn’t allowed to make a speech, did not intend to make a speech. However, he did permit himself to say one thing, and he put it in these wordss- ”1 know that the vast majority of my countrymen carry for you in their hearts and prayers the confidence and assurance of ultimate victory over your enemy." And, as he sat down, the crowd yelled back a shout of, "Thanks, Harry!" J