Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1939 — Page 9
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ITALY PROBLEM CHILD AS ALLIES
AWAIT DECISION
Duce May Spring Surprise Similar to Nazi-Soviet | Pact, Simms Says.
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By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor | WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—TItaly may shortly spring a surprise as great and as far-reaching as the! pact between Moscow and Berlin. Whether the impact of the Italian decision will fall hardest on London and Paris, as was the case with the Nazi-Communist accord, or on Berlin, remains to be seen. But Mussolini will hardly be allowed to have his apple and eat it too. England and France are not expected to stand bv and permit
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Concrete Common Problems By WILLIS THORNTON
Will Be Discussed at prio Wee . itish d French d Panama City. ritish an rench propaganda
Last in a series of stories on foreign propaganda activities in the United States.
agents start off with a tremendous advantage today because the marks of their extraordinarily effective
propaganda of 1914-18 are still {grooved deep in the American mind.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Oppor(tunity for achieving “continental| The alertness of the British to | solidarity” among American Tepub- | DrOpaganga possibilities is wel | ties, hitherto a v {shown by the fact that even before | h neue sort of phrase, {general fighting started on the westis ‘enhanced as the United States ern front they had deluged Germany (and Latin Americar. neighbors to|from airplanes with several million {the south prepare for their confer-| Propaganda tracts, printed in Ger-
lence at Panama City the last of Mman—obvious evidence that they | this month | were prepared beforehand.
| ; The line o 7's iti | The conference will be confronted | yas well x Yday's or Bs ou {with a series of definite and con-| . : :
crete common problems raised by
| Rogerson in his book, “Propaganda in the Next War,” rare in this coun-
Beware of Propaganda
British Use Big Names to Advantage, French Agents Employ Subtlety
|Speaking Union has been very active, and the Pilgrim Society only less so. Many Americans, under the impression that they were receiving “inside stuff,” have subscribed to
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By UNITED PRESS At least 21 ships, of 100,000 gross
“confidential news analysis” services coming by mail from Britain. French influence is more indirect. The French tactics were well described by Deputy Adrien Dariac in a speech: “It is necessary to avoid all public effort . . . . one finds the best propagandists among members of the Association of Former Liaison Officers With the American Army; it | is composed of French Americano-| philes and American Francophiles.| {. + . There are, in all cities of the U. S, French and friends of France. It is well first of all to obtain an] exact list and to centralize the data | we can get regarding them, then, to choose those who can have an| influence in this and that quar-| ter. y
Societies Help
Among the prominent French or- | ganizations seeking more sympa-|
MONDAY, SEPT. 11, 1939
SERVICES TOMORROW FOR MINISTER, 97
Times Special RICHMOND, Ind. Sept. 11.—Funeral services for the Rev. Jehiel Bond, one of the oldest ministers of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, will be tomorrow afternoon in the Webster Friends Church. The Rev. Mr. Bond died yesterday at the home of his son, Dr. S. Edgar Bond. He was 97. Born on a farm near Webster, Wayne County, he served as pastor of the Webster church for many years. Since his retirement seven years ago he has been interested in art and painting. “This spring he and Mrs. Bond celebrated their 73d wedding anniversary. He is survived by his wife and son.
U. S. LINER LEAVES ITALY NAPLES, Italy, Sept. 11 (U, P.) .— The American steamship President Adams sailed today for Genoa en
thetic feeling toward France are the route to New York. The vessel was
him to reap the benefits of an antiBritish, anti-French alliance with NN Germany and enjoy the security and blessings of neutrality at the! same time,
| crowded with American round-the-world tourists who have curtailed visits to European points.
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| the European war, on which there | will be an attempt to come to some general agreement as to procedure. | Undersecretary of State Sumner | \ Ny \ \ | Welles, who will head the Ameri-| Sods : "l Churchill New Factor A \ N 3 \ N can delegation, is aa ne agenda shall look to the Indirect variety,” \ \ 4 in co-operation with the Latin | Vote Rogerson, “directed toward | | neutrals and allies—to engage the]
American countries which will group |, : ‘ : total, 12 of the Vv rere | the problems under two general | former on our side if possible, but ’ e vessels sunk were|
tonnage, have been sunk by tor- | France-America Society, the Federa'pedoes, mines and shells since the tion of French Alliances, and the | war on the seas began nine days Maison Francaise in Rockefeller ago, a survey disclosed today. (Center, New York. The French ex- | Announcements of the British In-|Pl0it university connections and formation Ministry and reports from Prominent writers in the same way |
rescue ships disclosed that o |as the British. P the But al! these are the mere ele-!
ments in foreign propaganda, based |
try, but quoted at length in the Congressional Record by Senator
“For offensive propaganda we
Winston Churchill, for one thing,! is now a member of the British
Cabinet. A realist and a believer in action, he has said that Italy and Britain must be friends or they must fight. be asked to decide which it shall be. Italy's position is unhappy.
little and she fights on the side of Ger-| many, she stands to lose a lot of blood while Germany wins most of the loot But Britain and France could give Italy concessions in Ethiopia | and French Tunisia. Moreover, Italv might be justified | in shifting her stand. For the Rome- | Berlin axis was based on the anti- | Comintern agreement, and whenj Herr Hitler deserted and formed his | partnership with Communist Stalin, | the foundation of the axis was destroyed. | Break Is Possibility
So a rupture of the Rome-Berlin| Entente is regarded as one possibil-! ity. Another is that Italy is simply playing fox—giving London and Paris the run-around until Germany can finish off Poland, after which the Germans and Italians would attack France, en masse. This would be extremely serious for France. Having no more to worry about in the east and with a stalemate along the Siegfried-Mag-inot lines, the Germans could pour through Brenner Pass to fall on the French between Switzerland and the sea. That frontier has its defenses, but no Maginot line. Thus is it highly important to Britain and France to reach an understanding with Italy at the earliest possible moment.
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Mrs. Edward Williams . . . witnessed the Zeppelin raids.
Local “Woman's Son Held
In Gas-Masked Edinburgh
By JOE COLLIER
War catches up with Mrs. Edward Williams, a World War bride, even as she sits on the sheltered porch of her home, 1627 Lawton St. In her native Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Williams, as Nellie Reid,
front.
Today she reads and re-reads a letter from her 17-year-old son, James, who spent the summer in Edinburgh with her mother, and who now finds it impossible, because of the new war, to book passage to the United States In that same city Where Mrs. Williams witnessed air raids Zeppelins during the World War, her son has been issued a gas mask and been instructed in the use of bomb-proof shelters. Except that it is planes these days that are feared instead of Zeppelins, war conditions described by her son in a letter she has just received are practically the same in Edinburgh now as then, she said. “He writes me that anti-aircraft guns are on top of some of the buildings,” she said. “They didn't have them there during the World War, and they didn't issue gas masks. They're better prepared this time, I guess.” James left in June to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Jane Reid, and
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{ spent the World War years doing the work of some man who was at the| (pe seas.
somehow got an extension for a ‘longer visit than he had intended to make. But he had booked passage for Aug. 25 on the S. S. California, a British boat. It didn't sail because of the war. “The radio said that all Americans should leave the country as soon as possible,” James wrote his {mother. “So I went to the American embassy and booked passage jon the Califcrnia. When it didn't
sail, I went back to the embassy |
jand they told me to wait.
they are going to send a battleship
after us.” | Mrs. Williams smiled as she read this. She said she was not particularly worried about the situa-
| tion, but will worry considerably | when she knows he is on tke high
seas. James is a senior at Tech High School and was to have graduated this year. He is a Boy Scout and
attended an international encamp- | j : was to have returned in August. ment of Boy Scouts in Scotiand this | Canal, as well as keeping the Carib- |
summer. | Mrs. Williams also has a sister, Miss Christine Reid, in London about whom she is worried.
600D CROPS MAY KEEP WAR GOING
By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — Europe has good crops this vear, a U. S. Department of Agriculture | survey shows. fore go on that much longer before starvation becomes a factor Herr Hitler waited until the reapers had gathered in the grain before sending them out to be scythed down themselves. | Potatoes and sugar beets, top crops in both Poland and the Reich, have yet to be dug, their harvest | season being in September and October. | Europe's corn crop, like America's, is of bumper proportions this | year.
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categories: lover to ti 4 { 1. Neutrality, its maintenance and | ih {zone will be the
| protection against its violation. { 2. Dislocation of economic and, | financial structures, incident to war.
Take Action Like U. S.
| South American nations have is{sued general proclamations of neu- : |trality under international law, Signed stories by great literary | similar to the one issued by Presi-|figures like Lord Bryce, G. K. | dent Roosevelt, but they have noth- | Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Alfred ling like our neutrality act with its| Noyes, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Con|additional precautions against in-|rad. Rudyard Kipling and J. M. volvement. | Barrie. : The conference will consider the| Recently, the American papers possibility of complications arising have been regaled with the signed from continued trade with the Stories of Winston Churchill, Anpelligerents, and of procedure under thony Eden, Wickham Steed, Alfred international law with the opponents | Duff-Cooper, and (for the French) lin Europe seeking to prevent ship- | Andre Maurois. Eden only recently | ments of supplies to each other, and | concluded a lecture tour in the
| wit marines and raiders roving United States. | With sub . That is the key to British tech-
nique—to use names already faRadio Is Problem | miliar to American readers, and to | President Roosevelt's proclamation | cultivate influential contacts already of neutrality imposed definite re-| friendly. strictions on belligerents using har- When the Congress on Education bors in this country, as to taking on | for Democracy met recently in New | supplies, fuel, etc., and time of their | York, the chief British delegate was | stay, with prohibitions against pro-| Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. whose |curing of war munitions and the | prominence as Stanley Baldwin as- | like. | sured headlines. And Americans are | Another modern instrument which | now recalling that the muchposes its problem is the radio. One trumpeted visit of the king and consideration of the conference will queen was announced just nine days be to prevent belligerent ships, vis- after Munich. iting or interned in Te Wy this Distributes Information i s , SigTE rs us ss Ou os Sir Gilbert Parker's Wellington
[nals about the movements of enemy | : liington (House “information organization
n of World War days carried on a | vast correspondence with Amerns of potential British sympa-
. . . This neutral great battleground of propaganda. ...”
Literary Men Take Part
{the World War the American press was immediately deluged
| ships. President Roosevelt's proclamatio forbids the sending of radio signals | V2 by belligerent ships in American ! 1p harbors, except distress signals, and | thy, distributed tons of Sriash ‘authorizes the sealing of radios Propaganda, arranged interviews while in American harbors. {with prominent Britons, and facili-
| tated the getting of information | Canal Is Common Interest |
| for those who would be likely to | The United States and Latin handle it sympathetically. American nations have a common!
How actively these principles are ; . i ie rward today, it is interest in protecting the Panama being carried forwa 3
impossible to know. But the skeleton of a foreign propaganda
bean free of belligerent bases of OP- |... headed by Lord Perth, was
eration. | Latin American trade and finance | will be disrupted by the war, par{ticularly in those countries which British council from “promoting | pave had barter arrangements with cultural relations” abroad. Lord | Germany. Commitments with Ger- | Perth since has been succeeded hy many will be affected. Their mar- gi. mndiater Stewart. kets in Germany will be shut out by | = yt a5 the Germans count on (the blockade which England's navy | americans of German background is throwing about that country. {to do their work here, so the This presents those nations with a | gritish rely on Americans With | temporary problem of adjustment in| British connections—and there are {which the United States may assist more of them. The Englishand, at the same time, it offers an opportunity for the United States to get a share of Germany's lost| trade. |
SOVIET REINFORCES WESTERN FRONTIER
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| MOSCOW, Sept. 11 (U. P).—The newspaper Pravada said today that] | Russia is concentrating troops on her western frontier to protect it! (against Polish soldiers who may at-| (tempt to retreat across the border. | The newspaper said that the] partial mobilization of several | classes in Western Russia was or-| dered to defend the Soviet-Polish frontier and to provide the ma-| chinery for disarming and interning | as many as one million Poles, should | they be permitted to flee into] Russia. In an article analyzing the situa- | tion in Poland, Pravda said the country was as good as lost already | inasmuch as its most important military and economic centers were in the hands of the Germans. Poland's Government, the news-| paper continued, is disorganized and | its military forces at a disadvantage | because of the lack of sufficiently powerful fortifications. Moreover, Pravda asserted, Po-| land’s western allies have not as yet | supplied her with any effective as-| sistance.
WINDSORS TO RETURN HOME ON WARSHIP|
LONDON, Sept. 11 (U. P.).—The| Duke and Duchess of Windsor will |
lion dollars at its disposal, and
This battle is already on. During |
| established in July with a half mil- |
$720,000 was made available to the |
at all costs to prevent their going | British, four were German, two were
| Dutch and one Greek. | At least 145 persons were killed or missing. The Copenhagen newspaper Berlinske Aftenavis today said that a Swedish steamer rerorted seeing an unidentified German warship blown
with (up yesterday by a floating mine off}
| Trelleborg. Its crew was taken aboard a German trawler, it was said. There was no confirmation. | Over the week-end six of the total were sunk. They were: British | Magdapur, 8641-ton freighter, position undisclosed; Information Ministry says number of dead or injured is uncertain. | Rio Claro, 4086-ton freighter, sunk near the Azores; crew rescued. | Kennebec, 5548-ton tanker; po- | sition undisclosed; crew rescued. Goodwood, 2796-ton freighter; po- | sition undisclosed: crew rescued. | Gartavon, 1777-ton freighter, sunk {near Azores; 24 of crew picked up | by Swedish steamer; survivors say | freighter was shelled by submarine. | Blairlogie, 44c3-ton freighter, torpedoed in mid-Atlantic, crew of 32 rescued by American Shipper, which | radioed “all crew reports being treated with consideration by submarine commander. German | Helfried Bissmark, 727-ton freighter; struck mine in Baltic off Sweagen and sank; seven of crew of 14 | reported drowned. Dutch | Mark, 1514-ton freighter; struck a mine in the North Sea; crew of |22 took to lifeboats and all were
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