k*j «_ SUNOCO . TiiUKSDAy^ JUjjL 27t194Q. (Time cut short, due to balloting results being given.) GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: No doubt you have been listening to the ballottmg i But there is a lull, so I'll pass along a fev; sidelights - and some foreign news. Until today the crowds have been slow in coming to the Convention sessions. But for this one, delegates and spectators came streaming way ahead of time. On. of th. first p«opl« I ran into .hi I got th. hall .as has. «1U Bays, It. of th. f»r..r pft.a.t.t And. »«. S.v, .. a ».t iht.r.stin, sid-Utht. f • you nay h... hoard, is » o«ar.lhd 'W \ terrify her. This .ornioi /"« fright.n.d photographers just ;his afternoon but was out of her wits by them. She wanted to come fellow Booster, and Ellen Mason, afraid to. So Mrs. Will Hays, a wife of Frank Mason, one of the in some rather extraorcl i nary c heads of thef MBC, disguis'Ked her lothes, dark glasses, and a veil. They've just gotten her in without anyone Wing who under the sun she was. Until this afternoon the Press Section has not been overcrowded. Buv now, the aisiles in the press part of the arena are so jarai.ec that you can harely force your way through. Until now I hadnTt seen many familial faces in the Press Section, fiut this afternoon they are all heije from all parts of America. After Taft the next candidate to be mentioned was Frank Gannett. V«'illkiefs name tame out a few minutes later when the Arkansas vote was simisH ann :>unced. Only two votes. But, it brought the first snouts fro|n the spectators. From then on, whenever V.'illkieTs name was mentioned, a yell went up. Whether this Willkie shouting has any significance, we don»t know yet. As the hallotting went on you realized that this Convention is not only a great historial affair but out and oat the biggest sporting event of the summer. Listening to the vot.es as they are called, keeping tabs or looking over the shoulder of somebody who is keeping score - it beats any horse race for LEAD - 3 interest and excitement, even a World’s Series ball Same. V.hen they were all tabulated and added up after the first ballot, the result was surprisingly close to the prophecies, Dewey way out in the lead - leading the race with three hundred and d. er still reater excitement to come. Dewey, three hundred and forty-two. Taft, two hundred and three. Willkie, one hundred and seventy-one. WAR Tne way of the war In Europe has gone, some sudden new flare ■' ' ' l- ■',VL' t .teen a large share of today’s headlines away mes away t ie Republic ::i .ational Convention, But no such thing : tie conflict in Euroeo takes no large amount of front­ page space away from the Republican party, as it selects its ‘ttjzsv? uru? candidate. zo far as actual fighting is concerned -- mer* reports -f sporadic air raids and skirmishes along Colonial borders, A In fact, the principal item of war nev/s features that opposite uord — peace. Gre t Britain kxxx is expecting a Hitler peaceA in advance that any Nazi peace move will be rejected -- no chance of any settlement ^/vith Hitler. Berlin, on the contrary, broadcasts a rep or t that the British arre hsxxg putting out what are described V as "peace feelers". The German radio states that Sir Samuel Rare who is on a mission in Spain, has approached the Franco government on the subject of peace - - with the idea that Franco would get in touch with Berlin. This German statement is vigorously denied in London, the British calling it — "rot". The denial is rcco 1>.inled b additional statements — — that Britain rejects any idea of peace. KQM/NIA Let’n ^fike time out fra. convention news and look at mjtrv' something that Clashes fron far away. /*olay'3 sensational Rumanian story is not yet quite official. There is every indication from Bucharest that King Carol's government has yielded to tte Soviet deiand, and is preparing to surrender the province of Bessarabia. ^*nd part —- And other territory as well. oP the rovince of Bukovin^, ttkThere is every indieeti n of ths — except an official announcement by tie Rumanian government. The announcement was expected ths afternoon in Bucharest, but it failed to materialize. Instead, the foreign Minister of Rumania stated that King Carol1 s regime had not yet taken the final step, had not yet given Stalin and the rest the definite word r- oksy, go head and take Bess: rabia^ The the decision is being delays 1, md I ipl word is there's increasing opposition in Rmcxixm Rumania tothe tame aurenoer. b e sMfcrfcx -noi rn ... n. I. Rumania getting no support from Gemany or Italy, and therefore vdll not tmd cannot resist the power of the Soviets. So Rumania must yield to fce ultimatum and give up Sisir&xxLbixiJC the territory the -c'v-0 ^ FOLLOW RUMANIA ■■■■■ Ami it's not only a case of Bessarabia and part of Bukovina. Tne neAo 1 ^ Lt us inat .»ioscow demands the possession of a couole of Rumanian harbors on the Black Sea -- these fop Soviet Black Sea MavaJ bases. Tne strethc of coast where these two harbors are, used zo belong to Bulgaria. And Bulgaria wants to get back the province in question. That puts three nations into the combination -- Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria. Exceedingly intricate. In fact, it puts tne whole Balkans into the combination — and Germany aid Italy too. For Hitler and Mussolini are vitally interested in the Balkans. The territ)ry the Soviets demand would give Italian control of the Rumanian oil situation — so we are told. And tne world knows how vital that oil suppl y is to the Hitler war machine. The whole tiling may turn into a general explosion in Eastern Europe. This, as Western Europe, is in tremendous suspense. Hazi Germany preparing for its attack on Great Britain. •JAPAN l on't think ,vi t- 1 this convention political topic A s are the only onesatfis^>-f«ry -.iter all, any national lve''Ll'Jt -eludes a lor^e part of the leadership ^nd statesmanship ^ *L co' l1^1- -Tnen "l th a watchful eye on happenings abroad tfo'it ey concern us. Nor exaiiple, v/hile the speeches ring and the delegates are voting, thereTs many a thought turned toward Eastern Asia4, and Japan. For the I land Empire i is wha t moving, and sa it may mean in the end nobody can tell. The Japanese are threatening French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies — and Hongkong. That’s a key point of danger — Hongkong, Britain’s Q d' h -'U ■gj k - < stronghold on the China coast. pgjyH <»> 43itg£sati In the .t^r r-nt-nmr ■ r symptoms of embarking on ' policy of excluding the Western nations entirely irom the aifairs of Eastern Asia. T ;day IM^KMinister Ari to went to the Imperial Palace, and trie re reported to the Mikado, upon the declaration that Japan appears about to issue. They are calling it a declaration of a Far Eastern ?onroe Doctrine. Under this Doctrine Japan will not tolerate what to* it chooses to call "interference" by other powers. Such are the co-aments in Tokyo today. ' ' --.. ““ JAPAN - 2 Yie’renot is* what the Mikado said to his Foreing Minister today, but no doubt there was a Japanese equivalent of — "All right, go ahead." We can surmise thereTs Imperial approval of what seems like a move to oust the Western people from the East. Well, any American can see the wide possibilities of that sort of thing, and here at this convention many a political figure is giving a thought to the Ear East as we come to this recess at the G.(VP. Convention. (Tonight, sometime, the Republican candidate will be chosen. Tomorrow, we’ll know and SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW. ■