Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1940 — Page 3
NAZIS MOPPING UP
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AS HITLER HANDS "TERMS TO FRENCH
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promise. November 11, 1918
began, in this train, the time
of suffering of the German people.”
The preamble in sharp
words thus restated Hitler's
thesis—that Germany had notflost the war in 1918, that the war was given up by the vacillation and treachery of ~ statesmen in Berlin and that Germany’s post-war sufferings
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stemmed in inevitable consequencé from these causes.
“What dishonor and debasement,” said the preamble, $‘what human and material suffering that could be inflicted against a people-was begun here. “Perjury and a breach of promise conspired against a people which after more than four years of historic resistance succumbed to only a single weakness—belief in the promises of democratic statesmen. -
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“September 3, 1939, 25 years after the siiibrenk of the
World War, England and France again declared war against Germany without any grounds. Now weapon’s decision has required that the Reich Government make known the German conditions for an armistice.
“Deepest Shame of All Time”
“If the historic Compiegne Forest has been chosen for handing over these conditions, then it has been done in order, once and for all, through this act of just retribution, to eradicate a memory which was not a glorious page in French history and which was felt by the German people to be the deepest shame of all time. “France has been beaten in a series of bloody battles after heroic resistance and has collapsed. Germany does not intend, therefore, to lend to the armistice conditions or the armistice negotiations the character of abuse of so valiant
an opponent.”
Germans Claim Many Gains
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Meanwhile French units
still resisting in Alsace-Lor-
raine were being mopped up and German troops were pushing southward across France with virtually no opposition. The German High Command claimed the sinking of a 10,000-ton transport and a 4000-ton auxiliary cruiser by
bombing planes in the mouth
of the Gironde and said sub-
marines had claimed four British merchant ships including an 11,000-ton Royal Mail steamer. Six British planes were said to have been shot down in raids over Germany. Ten persons were said to have been
killed and many wounded in Wednesday night.
a British raid on Dusseldorf
It was reported that Gov. Gen. Georges Le Beau of ‘Algeria and Resident General Marcel Peyrouton had indi-
cated they would be bound by Petain’s decision.
And Pierre Laval, friend
of Premier Benito Mussolini,
was said to have assured.Petain of parliamentary support. But reports continued that the French Navy would not be bound by Germany’s term, that it was continuing to operate as it has since the outbreak of war under British orders in close liaison with Britain. Italy was drafting its own armistice terms for France and there were suggestions that Laval might be the French emissary to Italy. The Italian high command claimed great
damage by air attacks on the
French naval base of Bizerta, in North Africa.
British base of Malta and the It said 10
‘Allied planes and 40 British tanks had been destroyed. War on Italy Motionless
The war against Italy was almost motionless except for the official assertion that during the first week France had
sunk two Italian submarines,
one by airplane bombing, the
other by the dispatch boat Curieuse. French officials insist that they continue to control the
normal communications route
with Africa, and they assert
that in reprisal for Italian air raids on Corsica, Tunisia and the French mainland, French planes have bombed more,
military objectives in Italy.
It is asserted that Italy lost 50 planes during the first
week of war.
In Canada a sweeping bill giving Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King’s Cabinet almost unlimited power to conscript man power, industry, wealth and property becomes law today with the routine formality of royal assent. The emergency conscription bill, passed last night by the House of Commons and the Senate, is modeled after Britain’s emergency powers act under which Prime Minister Churchill's Cabinet is conducting the war.
Today's War ‘Moves
y J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert
Reports that Germs may postpone announcement of peace terms
put will demand uncondi
ional surrender of France at the armistice con-
ference imply a high degree of psychological efficiency to Hitler,
If the Germans declare at this it would stimulate the activities of those Frenchmen
Government and continue the war in opposi-
impose on France, who wish to form a rump tion to the Petain Ministry. Germany’s chief desire for the moment is to demobilize France completely in order to concentrate all effort against. the British. A realistic war . policy, therefore, would seem to point to enforcement of French surrender without at the same time driving the French to such despair ' hat hey might prehn yo fight on, even in their weakened state. Without stating final peace terms the Germans can use any part of France as bases for their own future operations, once French surrender has - -been ar-
Mr. Mason
ranged. If conditions in. Germany were pecoming so disquieting as to require action to heighten civilian morale, then immediate dismember-
¥ ment of France could serve a use-
ful purpose for Hitler. But there is no a mnid that the German home front is in any present danger of collapse. It does not yet need to be stimulated, for the German victories Bgvs been sufficient for that
p A tiles partitioning of France and division of her colonies might well be postponed, too, until the war
is over, so that neutral resentment
against Germany may be kept Wwithin bounds. Germany certainly is uneasy regarding the trend of public opinion in the United States, and it would show psychological realism r top the immola-
time the inflictions they intend to
tion of France on this account alone. Too, the Japanese are uneasy concerning the future of French indoChina. As long as the war goes on, the Japanese are in a bettef position to check German seizure of this territory than they would be if the Germans concluded the war with complete victory for themselves. Although the Germans talk of forcing unconditional surrender on the British Empire, it is far more reasonable to believe they expect an
‘eventual compromise peace with the
British. But, if France were torn asunder now, the Germans might well conclude that Great Britain would fight more bitterly and the war might be prolonged to the point of exhaustion for the Germans with no hope of compromise. Also, the Germans understand very well that whatever peace terms might be inflicted on France now can have only temporary validity. Their permanence will depend on the outcome of the struggle against Britain. If that struggle were to result in the necessity for a compromise ending of the war, the British would insist on France being a party to the peace negotiations. Any previous peace conditions might have to be disregarded, requiring open retraction by Germany and so indicating, in this respect, a German defeat. If wisdom prevails in the Hitler camp, therefore, it would seem advantageous for Germany to refrain from an immediate impetuous grab of France's possessions, though perhaps militarily occupying some of them. ° :
days, are the only two Republicans
RUSSIANS MASS ON NAZI FRONT
100 Divisions os Along Border Hint Pressure on Carol to Resist Reich Demands.
By UNITED PRESS Again the world wonders about
Soviet Russia’s part in Europe’s war. Usually reliable quarters in Bucharest report Moscow has established
approximately 100 divisions of the Red Army near the Russo-German (Polish) and German-Lithuanian
-| frontiers.
Some quarters believed Russia was putting pressure on Germany to keep King Carol from acceding to alleged Axis demands that he put -a strongly rightist government in power.. - Known Facts Disturbing
While rumors outpace the known facts, the latter are sensational enough. : Starting last week, the Red Army
republics—Lithuania, Esthonia and Latvia - — which separate Soviet Russsia from Germany on the Baltic Sea. A few days after the arrival in Moscow of new ambassadors from the Allied countries—Sir Stafford Cripps from Great Britain and Erik Labonne from France—it was disclosed in London that Britain was negotiating for tanks, guns and other war material from Russia. Rumors Multiplied Matching that item was one from Washington to the effect that the United States Government has released machine tools, dies and machinery to Russia. In Rica, Latvia, the rumors multiplied, One said Russian warships were maintaining a virtual blockade of the Baltic republics, halting outgoing ships and searching those incoming. In Southeastern Europe, Turkey shied away from the Allies and leaned closer to Russia. Jugoslavia relied upon her new Soviet friend to balance the increasing pressure from the Axis nations. Bulgaria, like Rumania, hoped Russian interests in the Southeast would serve to offset’ strains and stresses from other directions.
SOVIET RECEIVES ENVOY MOSCOW, June 21 (U. PJ. French Ambassador Erik Labonne presented his credentials to President Mikhail I. Kalinin today.
HAMMOND REPORTS SHORTAGE OF MAIDS
Times Special HAMMOND, Ind, June 2% Eighty- -four housewives in the Whit-ing-Hammond region who are seeking housemaids are unable to get them. The Women’s Service Division in the Hammond State Employment office, which serves Whiting, said that the women have placed orders for maids but that they could not be filled. Part of the shortage is attributed to the fact that many married women, qualified for the work, have withdrawn their names because their husbands have returned to work and they no longer need to supplement the family income.
400 REFUGEES ARRIVE NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P.).— The Cunard White Star liner Brittanic arrived from Liverpool today with 768 passengers and 766 boxes of gold. Of the passengers, 89 were children, 75 British seamen. and nearly 400 refugees.
POLISH HEADS GO TO LONDON LONDON, June 21 (U. P.).— Wladyslaw ‘Rackiewicz, president of the Polish government in exile, and Premier August Zaleski are expected here today after the arrival last night of five members of the Polish government.
HURT IN 30-FOOT FALL
Robert Harper 45, of 2630 Holt Road, fell 30 feet today while paint-
Hospital with a dislocated right shoulder.
In Indianapolis Is on Page Nine of this Edition.
proceeded to occupy the three tiny |.
ing his home. He was taken to City
Wendell Willkie gets a shoe shine.
Gallup Poll Shows Willkie Rises Steadily i in Popularity
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J., June 21.—With the Republican convention opening in three days, a final survey among the rank and file of G. O. P. voters shows another sharp rise in the popularity of Wendell L. Willkie as a Presidential candidate. Mr. Willkie and former President Herbert Hoover, whose popular strength has also shown a spurt in the last few
with popularity gains on the eve of the convention. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who has led in popularity in In-
nearly two years, » continues to be the first choice of 'G. O. PDP voters by a comfortable margin, but his strength is not so great today as it was two weeks or a
AMERICAN INSTITUTE
ponLrc’opnaon
month ago. The popular standing of the leaders is shown in the following table. Approximately one-third (34 per cent) of Republicans polled are still undecided at this time—a surprising fact in view of the imminence of the convention. Among the rémainder who did name a candidate for the Presidency, the choices are: : TODAY (Exclvding. ‘Undecided’ Vote) DEWEY =. iinevvrsnvnrosivve 47% Willkie .......si0rivvervnees 39 Taft Vandenberg .....
WEEK AGO (June 12) She euanine waa veeeen 52%
... 13 12 2 1 2
Dewey Willkie Taft Vandenberg Hoover .... Landon Gannett Others The increase in Mr. ones strength is the fifth successive rise in his popularity measured by the Institute since March. month, before the Willkie boom began, he polled less than 1 per cent. By early May the Willkie vote had risen to 3 per cent, by the end of May 10 per cent, by the second week in June to 17 per cent, and finally to 29 per cent today. The shifts and changes in opinion are a clear indication that G. O. P. sentiment on candidates is far from crystallized. It is significant, too, that as the war in Europe developed, the number of Republicans who are undecided has grown. Today’s undecided vote of 34 per cent compares with only 26 per cent a month ago. If the undecided vote is included in the tabulation, today. s results are as follows:
Dewey Willkie Taft vas eseves ene Vandenberg ....c.... sessees Hoover Others se 0g 000 RRR RLLRON 2 Undecided aves at The Institute has been measuring G. O. P. sentiment on candidates for the last four years. During that time many swings of sentiment have taken place, many booms have started up and subsided. In the period from 1936 to 1938, it was Senator Arthur Vandenberg who led in popularity among Republicans, with ex-Governor Landon second. There was a temporary spurt in the popularity of Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York in 1938. In those days, Mr. Dewey, busy prosecuting the criminal rackets in New York City, ranked sixth or seventh in popularity as a Presidential candidate. Dewey. Jumps to First After Dewey ran a close race with Governor Herbert Lehman of New York in November, 1938, he jumped into first place as the popular G. O. P. candidate for the Presidency, with Vandenberg second, and Robert A. Taft of Ohio, newly elected to the Senate, third. This triumvirate continued to poll the most votes until June of this year when Mr. Willkie, starting from scratch, pushed past Senator Vandenberg and Senator Robert Taft into second place. The results of this poll are not to be taken in any sense as a prediction of the outcome of next week's Republican convention. The vote merely shows the popularity of the candidates among the rank and file of Republican voters. It is a well-known fact that conventions often fail td select the most popular man. Indeed, the Republicans in Philadelphia may pick a man whose name has not appeared prominently in any of the polls. Besides the leaders in today’s survey, the following Republicans received frequent mention by voters: Ex-Governor Alfred Landon, Publisher Frank E. Gannett, Publisher
ee0veoee ees sees svse 31%
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Governor James Bricker of Ohio, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Rep. Joseph Martin, and Governor Wil-
liam Vanderbilt of Rhode Island.
stitute polls for|
In that
Frank Knox of Chicago, Senator H.}| |S. Bridges of New Hampshire,
1. DEFENOS
ECONOMIC ‘WAR
Terms Cartel for Americas Extra Step in Program For Defense. (Continued from Page One) Hemisphere nations participating in|
{the program. He said that $2 ,000,-
000,000 would be too high a figure for the cartel’s capital stock.
Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins, who accompanied the President here for the week-end, estimated that surplus commodities in the United States would be valued at slightly better than $1,000,000,000 and that surpluses of the cther Americas—Wheat, beef, cotion and other supplies—would lift the total to the neighborhood of $2,000,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt charged that opponents of his “national solidarity” Cabinet are acting from partisan rather than patriotic motives. He defended his nomination of Col. Frank Knox’ and Henry L. Stimsort as secretaries of Navy and War and said that after retiring on his - special train last nignt, he turned the entire Cabinet over in his mind, and feels that his conclusions on the subject approximate those of a great many other people. These conclusions, he said, have bearing -on the difference between different types of peoples. One type, he said, think in terms of patriotic motives; the other in terms of partisanship.
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cestitution for wrongs done her “by
force of arms.” The scene was solemn in the
stuffy French railway dining car which France has preserved for 22
|years as a memorial to her tri-
umph over Germany in 1918. Over the scene hung powerful memories—for both the Germans and the French. Hitler sat at the head of the long table in the car—in the seat of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the seat where Foch in 1918 addressed his brusque remark to the German petitioners: “Gentlemen, what is the object of your visit?” Today the French Were in -the|« place of the Germans. As they entered the car Hitler and his High Command rose and raised their arms in the stiff Nazi salute. In 1918, as the Germans quickly noted, the French remained seated when the Germans brought their suit for peace. Hitler was the first to speak. He
turned to Keitel, on his left, and|.
asked him to read to the four French plenipotentiaries the preamble to his terms of armistice. That preamble crystalized the memories of the old war. It spoke of . President Woodrow Wilson, of broken Allied pledges, of dishonor to Germany and enslavement, of weakness—weakness in believing the “promises of democratic statesmen.” “If the historic Compiegne Forest has been chosen for handing over these conditions,” said the preamble,
“then it has been done in order, once and for all, through this act of just retribution, to eradicate a memory which was not a glorious page in French history and which was felt by the German people to be the deepest shame of all.” The ceremony was brief. In 10 minutes it was over and. Hitler walked from the car as a German military band played “Deutschland Uber Alles” and the “Horst Wessel Song,” leaving the French to ponder his terms. 5 Facilities - for telephone communication with Bordeaux were set up so that the French might quickly transmit Germany’s proposals to the government headed by arging Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the saviour” of Verdun. There were few witnesses to this hour of glory for Germany and defeat for France. Outside of the highest officers of the German state, only foreign and German newspapermen, attaches of the high command, the foreign office and the propaganda ministry were present. It was believed the French decision might be made speedily and it was assumed that the plenipotentiaries would remain here until word was received from Bordeaux as to what France will do. The Nazi war banner flew over Compiegne today and German troops formed a guard of honor around the scene of the conference. Near the ceremonial railroad car was a large tent set up by the Germans to be used by the French for their consultations.
Nazis Provide Escort for French Envoys . . . Motorcycles All Flying White Flags
In the tent was a conference table and at one side was a smaller table with water pitcher, glasses, and writing ‘materials, On the larger: table was a calendar turned to the date—June 21, 1940. Arrangements | ticked off with military precision. Hitler arrived at the scene at | 13: 15 p. m. He was accompanied by | his military leaders, Rudolf Hess, “his deputy, and Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop. As Hitler sat, in Foch’s chair in the railroad car. he could see from the window a marble bust of the famed French generalissimo closely. He watched out the window the.” arrival of the French emissaries. They came ri in automobiles with an escort of Moloroycligts ay ing white flags. | {
JOBLESS AID AREA HERE 1S ENLARGED
Franklin, Martinsville and Knightstown job insurance claim
records and employment applica-
tions will be transferred within the
next three weeks to the Indianap- =~
olis field office; of the Unemployment Compensation Division. Division officials said this trangfer would add Johnson and Morgan counties and corners of Rush and Henry counties to the present area served by the Indianapolis office, which" now covers Marion, Shelby, Hancock, Hendricks, Boone and Hamilton. |
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