Speedway Flyer, Volume 9, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1940 — Page 7
General P HueH s * BHHRHI UnUnd Fenturrv WNUJkrrk* Washington, D. C. MUST WIN MARKETS It is all right by Pan-American conferences and unions, to create as much good-will as possible, but let’s not kid ourselves into any reliance on them or into heavy commitments on our side. The plainest lesson of this war is that dependence on any kind of collective security among nations is madness. Each nation will follow the path of its individual interest and its former friends must take care of themselves—regardless of treaties or alliances. There is nothing new about this. George Washington said it almost a century and a half ago. It had been proved many times then. Never has it been so clearly proved as in the past seven years. The fall of the little central European nations of the cordon sanitaire, which vainly relied on France, as she vainly relied on them, proved it no less clearly than the fall of France and the deadly peril of Britain—among the strongest nations on earth. s 0. O * In a military, economic and racial sense, the strength and the ties that bound England, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were many times greater than any Pan-Ameri-can union could possibly be. The recorded stability and responsibility of those nations were far better than those of any Latin-Amer-ican country. Yet that community of interest proved a rope of sand. Of course, the principle of our policy is to allay actual jealousy and ill-feeling to the south of us, to procure naval and air bases absolutely necessary to our defense and to make it harder for any sudden Nazi-engineered eruption in a South American country to surprise us with an axis-country in this hemisphere. O. K., but let’s not deceivd ourselves on its value or give away our body, soul and breeches in the process. • • • When this war is over, the business of this world has got to proceed. If we are not going back to the Glacial age, international commerce must continue. While England has a sporting chance to defend herself and her empire, there is going to be a new industrial situation in Europe. It may not be the dream of Napoleon (by force) or Briand (by agreement)—a United States of Europe on our model. But it will be a great industrial grouping no longer frozen into, a honeycomb of water-tight trade compartments by tariff barriers. It needs markets and it needs raw materials—especially such foodstuffs as South America and this country produces in vast surplus. Is it our policy to prevent this exchange of merchandise—either by some vast cartel through which we buy the mountainous surplus of South American meat and grain and add to bur own unmanageable abundance, or by diplomatic or naval quarantine? Something that points in that direction has been suggested for the Havana conference. We must not rely on any military promises of that conference. We must not there engage to underwrite the exports of this hemisphere. ♦ • * Our job on the military and naval side is to get too strong for anybody to dare to intimidate us on the economic side. The economic side is not to intimidate or subsidize others. It is to win and hold markets in the only way it can be done permanently and soundly—by producing better goods and services at lower prices. The outlines of this proposed $2,000,000,000 cartel system are not yet clear but they seem to be a new boondoggling futility so vast as to make all the other magnificent squandering put together look like a poor piker’s penny ante. • • • TWO-WAY DOCTRINE An editorial in the Washington Post emphasized that the Monroe Doctrine is a two-way street. The forgotten part is: “In wars of European powers relating to themselves we have never taken any part nor does it comport with our policy to do so . . . our policy in regard to Europe . remains the same, which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government to us.” This is much too often forgotten. The “military expert” Major Eliot has now joined our "military expert” secretary of war in insisting that we make our harbors bases for the British fleet. Of course,' this would be war. To excuse it as “undeclared war” or “undercover war” is to adopt the very poisonous deceit we so lately condemned in Spain and China and other unfortunate lands. Why should we rush to war with many of the. controlling strategic developments still unknown? The tide of battle may turn eastward. Russia may collide with either Japan or Germany. The British navy is still so superior that it doesn’t need ours —we have no army or equipment to send. \
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Washington, D. C. ROOSEVELT KEPT HIS POKER FACE CHICAGO.—There was only one other person present when the President heard the first speech at the convention nominating him for a third term.« The visitor was Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Arkansas’ witty, motherly U. S. senator, who entered his White House office for a conference just as Mayor Ed Kelly was starting his address of welcome. In this, Kelly declared that he knew Roosevelt did not want to nm, but that he should be drafted anyway. The President was getting the speech from a small portabit radio on his desk. As Mrs. Caraway entered he greeted her with a smile, motioned to a chair and toned down the radio. From then on he listened in grave silence. When Kelly declared that Roosevelt had to be drafted to “save the heart of humanity,” the President’s face became solemn. Then as Kelly continued, Roosevelt seemed to sink deeper and deeper into himself. Once or twice he glanced at Mrs. Caraway, but his face was inscrutable. It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. But as Kelly drew to a close, the President’s mood lifted and when the Chicago mayor finished, Roosevelt smiled, threw back his head and said, “Well, the mayor is getting to be quite an orator.” That was all. Mrs. Caraway asked no questions about the convention and the President volunteered nothing. Note—The day the convention opened, Mrs. Roosevelt told an old friend that she was reconciled to the President running again. “If he has to do it,” she said, “then there is nothing else to do. I know he doesn’t want to run, but there seems to be no alternative.” WHITE HOUSE - PIPE-LINE From the moment Harry Hopkins landed here last week and that open wire was set up between his suite 308-10 in the Blackstone hotel and the White House, the President has been minutely informed of everything that has happened. From early morning until late at night the wire has buzzed with reports from Washington. Roosevelt leaders have kept him informed of what was being said and rumored in the hotel lobbies. And some of the politicos are in for a shock when they learn that certain cracks they thought they were making in private are tucked away in Roosevelt’s retentive memory. Whatever else the third-term organization may have lacked, it was good on “intelligence.” Every delegation and headquarters was “covered” by a friendly contact who kept Hopkins and his lieutenants advised of inside developments. STAGNANT CONVENTION It was a good thing that they were, too. For with time dragging on their hands, delegates seized every rumor and promptly spilled it to the press. If administration leaders could have had their way, they would have condensed the convention into three days and wound it up by Wednesday. They even discussed doing this, but when it got to Jim Farley he promptly put down his foot. Bent on forcing a roll-pall in order to have himself placed in nomination, Jim warned that he would fight any attempt to short-circuit the convention. The administrationites couldn’t risk an open row, so they had to absorb the opposition’s brickbats and make the best of it. But it burned them up, and there are a lot of private scores to be settled later. Note—One Roosevelt leader, urging Farley to forget his grievances and remain as national chairman, said: “Jim, if you quit, the public will forget all about you in six months.” “That’s okay with me,” shot back Farley. “When I quit as chairman, I want to be forgotten.” In addition to heading the Yankee ball club, Farley also will take an executive position with a nationally known advertising firm. MERRY GO ROUND Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih says blitzkrieg methods won’t work in China, “because our spaces are broad and our peoples too many.” While Washington warmly debates the question, "Will we or won’t wei ” the old waY-time song, “Mademoiselle From Armentieres,” is coming back. A group of 35 Latin American ladies of the diplomatic circle put on white costumes and gather at the Red Cross building to make bandages. Beautiful Mrs. Harry Woodring, who has spent all her life in Massachusetts and Washington, is being kidded about going out to live on the prairies of Kansas. But Helen says she loves Kansas, intends to have a swell time and do a lot of painting there. Washington irony: When the cabinet group met to plan for disposal of surpluses of the Western hemisphere, the plan’s author, Dudley Wood, prepared to leave government service because congress failed to appropriate funds to continue Secretary Hopkins’ “brain trust.”
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