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Vandenberg
Pushes New
Trade Plan
But Board Would
Advise President
On Treaties
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan,
recognizing the principle of flexible
tariff arrangements in dealing with
foreign countries, has proposed the
establishment of
a Foreign Trade
Board to advise
the President of
the United States
in the proclama
tion of tariff
duty changes.
Mr. Vanden
berg has been
among the lead
ers in opposition
to the present
method of con
cluding trade
agreements by
the Department
of State. Inline Dav,dLawr~,«
with the oft-expressed point that a
critic should present an alternative,
the Michigan Senator reveals his
plan in the form of a bill which
he has just introduced.
The bill would in general transfer
all powers from the present inter
departmental committee which han
dles tariff matters for the Depart
ment of State to a newly created
Foreign Trade Board. This board
would have the advantage of being
occupied all the time with trade
matters and not as an incidental
part of other governmental ma
chinery.
But the new board is merely to
advise the President, who. in the
last analysis, is to be given power
by Congress to raise or lower tariff
duties as emergencies require or
as changes in world Conditions may
dictate. This conforms with the
experience of our Government in
recent years in connection with the
Trade Agreements Act.
VUiIftlvSS TMIUIU Vlicvn.
The chief difference, of course,
Is that Mr. Vandenberg would have
the Foreign Trade Board use all
methods of handling the tariff ques
tion and he would have Congress
check the operations of the board.
It is presumed he would want trea
ties or agreements with foreign na
tions subjected to approval by a
two-thirds vote of the Senate.
Such an institution as Mr. Van
denberg now suggests was brought
forth by George N. Peek, formerly
foreign trade adviser to President
Roosevelt, but Mr. Peck is a strong
believer in the two-way barter sys
tem and he opposes strenuously the
continuance of so-called favored
nation treaties. It is difficult to see
how the Vandenberg plan could
avoid running into treaty compli
cations, but the Michigan Senator
has provided for such contingencies
by reposing power in the presidential
office which, of course, under the
Constitution, handles foreign rela
tions.
The question of method is a large
controversy, whether by barter
agreement or by reciprocity agree
ments or favored nation clause
treaties, but It is significant that
Senator Vandenberg, who has some
times been construed as a strictly
isolationist Senator and one who
would not favor continuance of
Borne trade agreements, comes out
frankly for a realistic program that
should go far in removing doubts
about the breadth of his view.
His Views on Matter.
He says, for instance, with refer
ence to world conditions and the
Foreign Trade Board:
"Such an agency will be doubly
necessary in post-war periods of
readjustment. All of the principal
nations of the world have already
abandoned most of the methods
previously employed in world trade.
New and radically different methods
already are in vogue. These na
tions have resorted to unilateral
actions such as exchange controls
quotas, embargoes and other export
and import controls, and they have
The Capital Parade
Straws Indicate Anti-Third-Term
Strength in Senate Is Waning
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
In the interminable discussion of the third-term question, much
is made of the theory that the President will not run unless drafted, and
cannot be drafted. It is argued that a substantial block of delegates,
chiefly captained by anti-New Deal Democratic Senators, will prevent a
draft by fighting the President’s renomination to the last ditch.
Last summer, this theory seemed to hold considerable water. The
President had taken a terrific hammering in Congress. The 16 or more
rebellious Senate Democrats seemed to be coalescing into a coherent,
organized group, determined to op
pose the third term with all the
means at their disposal. In the
shrewd private estimate of Post
master General James A. Farley,
expressed in conversations with
members of the Senate group, the
President’s political fortunes were
at their lowest ebb.
The war, however, has changed
all that. The war helped the Presi
dent to reunite his party. The near
approach of the election has strengthened the war’s unifying effect,
for all Democrats, of whatever political color, are anxious to win in 1940.
Investigation in the Senate now fails to disclose any such anti-third-term
strength as existed last summer.
gainst the Tide
What happened in Iowa explains the altered picture. Iowa is a
normally Republican State, but it has been Democratic during the Roose
velt years and has two Democratic Senators, Guy M. Gillette and Clyde
Herring. Both were personally anti-third term last summer, and Gil
lette. one of the survivors of the 1938 purge, felt so strongly that he placed
his feelings on the public record. Toward the end of last summer’s
congressional session, Gillette also was active in promoting group action
among the Senate Democratic conservatives, and at one time proposed to
; call them together and pledge them to anti-third-term co-operation be
; fore the session ended.
But back home the petty Federal job-holders and Iowa Democrats
hopeful of places on the State pay roll took a different view. Opinion
among them was so general that only the President could carry Iowa for
the Democratic party that some time ago the Democratic national com
mitteeman, Hubert Utterback, decided to climb on' the third-term band
wagon. He sent his young henchman. Mark Reno, to Washington, to see
Thomas G. Corcoran, S. E. C. Commissioner Ed Eicher, who is a former
New Deal Representative from Iowa, and other persons active in the
third-term movement. Reno told the third termers that Utterback wanted
to help them get the State delegation for the President.
With Utterback on the band wagon, State Chairman Edward H.
Birmingham hastily scrambled aboard, which left Senator Herring in
danger of being left behind. Herring thereupon rose above principle,
announced for the third term, and put himself at the head of the
Iowa third-term movement. Gillette is now hopelessly out on a limb,
being unable to swim against the tide, yet being committed against
the President's renomination.
Pat and Jimmy
Such straws in the wind as the doings in Iowa do not affect the
handful of completely determined anti-New Deal Democratic Senators,
such as Walter F. George of Georgia, Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and
Millard Tydings of Maryland. These men may be attacked from the
rear, in their State organizations, as Byrd is now reportedly being at
tacked by his old enemy. Gov. Price. But at the convention they will cast
their votes against the President, presumably in company with the forces
of Vice President John N. Garner
Events like the doings in Iowa are important, however, because
they influence the numerous middle-of-the-roaders without whose help
the George-Byrd-Tydings group becomes an ineffectual minority. And
there are other straws in the wind
like those from Iowa. For example,
immediately after John L. Lewis’
speech predicting “ignominious de
feat” for the President, the Mis
sissippi Legislature unanimously
adopted a resolution attacking
Lewis and defending his victim.
The Governor of South Carolina,
Burnet Maybank, is strongly pro
Roosevelt.. Two of the Senators
» from these States, Pat Harrison and
James F. Byrnes, are as influential as any men in Congress. It would
not surprise their intimates if they eventually turned up at the con
vention ready to approve a third term, although their personal inclina
j tions are probably the other way.
Meanwhile, it is becoming clearer that although men like Harry
Byrd may oppose the President in the convention, they are unlikely to
i leave their party if their opposition proves fruitless. All of which ex
plains the growing conviction that the President can have the nomina
tion if he wants it. Whether he does want it appears to be the chief
! remaining problem, with the guesses of the wisest politicians differing
sharply.
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extended such arrangements through
a constantly growing network of ex
clusive, bilateral agreements, most
of which leave our interests entirely
out in the cold. It is not enough to
say that these things are wrong.
We must cope with these realities by
equipping ourselves to meet these
conditions which are not likely to
pass in our time. Furthermore, it
! is vital that our foreign trade policy
should be consistent within itself
and should not present constant
quarrel between different policies
pursued by different branches of
the same government.”
While a foreign trade board to
co-ordinate information and data
on exchange arrangements and
trade conditions would be a val
uable help to the national Govern
ment, the question arises whether
it can successfully conduct negotia
tions with foreign governments
which from time immemorial have
: been handled through diplomatic
channels. The Vanderberg plan
would subtract all these powers
from the Department of State
wherever trade matters arise. It
is to be noted that the new bill would
give the Foreign Trade Board power
to negotiate agreements with for
eign governments by and with the
advice of the President and not
the Senate. This is precisely what
the defenders of the trade agree
ments act have insisted was neces
sary under changing world condi
tions. The principal difference is
that the Vandenberg plan would
lean more toward barter than reci
procity, but the final result—agree
ments with foreign governments—'
would be the same.
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The Political Mill
Dewey's Entrance in Illinois Primary
May Upset Some Calculations
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The determination of Candidate
Thomas E. Dewey of New York to
enter the Illinois and other presi
dential preferential primaries may
upset the cal
culations of
some of the Re
publican leaders
in both Western
and Eastern
States who have
so far been in
tent upon send
ing “uninstruct
ed” delegations
to the Republi
can National
Convention.
Dewey is sup
posed to have a
very consider
able popular'fol- G. Gould Lincoln,
lowing. Apparently the New Yorker
will try to capitalize on this popu
lar sentiment.
None of the other candidates have
so far said they will accept his chal
lenge and enter the Illinois pri
mary. Indeed, Senator Vandenberg
of Michigan has said that his name
would not appear on the Illinois
presidential preference ballot. Sena
tor Taft of Ohio has been giving
the matter consideration. He may
make an announcement before he
leaves tonight for a campaigning
trip to Florida. He will deliver two
addresses in that State, one tomor
row in St. Petersburg and a second
in Miami on Saturday.
Hill Blackett, Illinois Republican
national committeeman, according
to dispatches from Topeka where he
attended the Kansas Day Republi
can celebration, said he would now
invite all other candidates for the
G. O. P. nomination to enter the
primary. He will take this course
because of the entry of Mr. Dewey.
If other candidates accept the in
vitation, they must do so by Feb
ruary 9, the last day of filing. A
general entry of the candidates
would provide an interesting test of
popular strength in the State with
the third largest delegation to the
national convention.
First Test 3 Weeks Earlier.
Mr. Blackett was quoted as say
ing that he believed the rank and
file of the party should have an
opportunity to express their prefer
ence so that Illinois' delegation
may truly represent the wishes of
the voters.
Mr. Dewey's first test of strength
will come, however, on April 2. a
week before the Illinois primary.
On that date New York elects its
district delegates to the Republican
National Convention and Wisconsin
holds its primary for the election
of its delegation. In New York
Dewey is expected to win the great
bulk of the district delegates.
Frank Gannett, newspaper publish
er, is challenging Dewey, however,
in a number of upstate districts.
The Wisconsin primary finds a
Dewey slate of delegates opposed at
the polls by a Vandenberg slate.
Senator Taft is considering the en
try of a Taft slate there, too. An
other slate of delegates proposes to
go to the convention ''uninstructed."
Vandenberg Forces Active.
The Vandenberg forces have been
very active in Wisconsin. The Van
denberg for President Club of Wis
consin has opened headquarters in
Milwaukee, and when telephone calls
come in the answer right off the
bat is:
“It's Vandenberg, 1940.”
Many business firms in Milwaukee
they say, follow the practice of hav
ing their telephone operators an
swer by giving the firm's telephont
number. The telephone number ol
the Vandenberg headquarters i:
1940. Hence the answer.
The Vandenberg slate of delegate:
in Wisconsin is headed by Lt. Gov
Walter S. Goodland, and the resi
of the delegate candidates are wide
ly known in the State or in theii
districts.
The “principles" represented by
the Vandenberg instructed slate of
delegates on the official stationary
of the headquarters are "peace, em
ployment, experience.” Senator Van
denberg has been a leader in the
demand that America keep out of
European and Asiatic wars. His ex
perience in the Senate with na
tional and international affairs is
relied upon to give him an ad
vantage over 38-year-old Dewey and
Senator Taft, who has been a'mem
ber of the Senate only during the
present Congress.
Other Tests of Strength.
Mr. Dewey will have an oppor
tunity to test his strength with the
voters in other primaries where dele
gates are chosen. Nebraska has such
a primary on April 9, the same date
as the Illinois primary; California
and South Dakota hold primaries
on May 7, Maryland on May 6,
Pennsylvania on April 23, Massa
chusetts on April 30, West Virginia
on May 14 and New Jersey on May
21. None of these States has put
forward bona fide favorite son can
didates—as have Ohio, Michigan,
Oregon and New Hampshire.
There is no doubt that if Dewey
can make a big showing in Illinois
and some of the other primary States
just mentioned the psychological
effect will be important. Leaders
in other States may feel they have
to come to him. On the other hand,
if he does not do well in the primary
contests he enters the. jig will be
nn fnr him
Even if a great majority of the
States decide to send uninstructed ;
delegations to the Republican Na- |
tional Convention, it is inevitable
that as time goes on leaders in those ;
States will line up with one or an-!
other of the leading candidates for
the presidential nomination. And
when they do they will seek to in
fluence the delegates from their
States to support the candidate of
their choice. The struggle, there
fore, seems to be whether the con
vention shall be guided by these
various leaders or by the sentiment
of the people as expressed in pri
mary elections.
Senator Taft will have the Ohio
presidential preferential primary all
to himself so far as Republican
preference is concerned. Gov. John
W. Bricker of the Buckeye State has
announced his support of Mr. Taft i
and will be named as a Taft dele
gate to the convention. Dewey made
it known early he would not enter
primary elections in States which
| have favorite son candidates—as,
' for example, Oregon, where Sena
| tory McNary is being put forward:
New Hampshire, where Senator
| Bridges is a candidate, and, of
! course, Ohio. Michigan elects its
delegates in a State convention.
His Florida trip will be Senator
Taft's first excursion into the South
as a presidential candidate. He has
been in many other sections of the
country already, and all reports are
; to the effect that he made much
headway. In Florida at this time
of year Mr. Taft will not only get
the ear of the Floridians but also
that of visitors who have flocked
there from every section of the
country.
Conference to Protect
Foreign-Born to Meet
The fourth annual conference of
the American Committee for the
Protection of Foreign-Born, headed
by Dr. William Allan Neilson, presi
dent emeritus of Smith College, and
Ernest Hemingway, author, will be
held at the Annapolis Hotel.
Mr. Hemingway, co-chairman with
Dr. Neilson of the Committee of 100 i
Sponsors for the Conference, made
public today a special report on
"anti-alien propaganda” which at
tacked the ''800 organizations cloak
ing themselves in a pseudo patriot
ft
ism and engaged in the distribution
of hate-inciting anti-alien propa
ganda.”
“These 200 per cent Americans are
false patriots,” the report said.
“They serve to spread hatred, op
pression and a confusion that can
only be harmful to the welfare of
the American people.”
This Changing World
Hitler, Promising Heavy Fighting, Is Likely
To Find It in Danubian Basin
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Hitler used to say interesting things in his speeches. He was disap
pointing Monday when he said exactly what his opponents in Britain and
Prance have been saying ever since the outbreak of the war: that nations
are going to fight to the bitter end.
The only difference between what the Fuehrer and Messrs. Chamber
lain and Daladier have been saying is that the allies still talk about how
they would organize peace after Hitler has gone, while the Reich’s Chan
cellor does not even mention the word peace.
Hitler's speech like the ones made earlier by his opponents, have
sent shivers down the spine of those neutrals who are unhappily between «
the fighting lines of the combatant
powers.
He said there is going to be
heavy fighting somewhere in the
course of this coming spring and
summer.
Military experts Deueve tnat i j
the heavy fighting will take place on
the Danubian basin. Their belief
is strenghtened by the fact that
for the first time since the middle
_ of September, the French censor
ship has let the news out about the army of General Weygand in Syria.
The fact that a powerful army was being organized in the Near East
was known to most people who keep in close touch with international
developments. But the French military authorities have never permitted
this news to be cabled over to the United States in a definite form. There
have been hints, here and there, but nothing positive.
The official announcement that such an army exists is regarded as
an indication that all preparations to send that force into action have
been completed. All the French and the British are waiting for now is
milder weather to make military operations possible.
The Germans are not idle, either. Reports from Germany indicate
that the few divisions (about three) which were sent a few weeks ago to
the Russian Rumanian border have been strenghtened. New troops are i
being sent at the present time to the Hungarian border, while the Russians, |
despite the heavy punishment they are taking in Finland, are sending I
divisions from the Caucasus and Azerbaidjan to increase the Dniester
river forces. These have been estimated tentatively at between 400,000
and 600,000 men, with mechanized units and an impressive aviation.
Palace Accepts Rationing
Buckingham Palace has decided to submit everybody there, including
the whole royal family, to the same food restrictions as inhabitants of
the most humble cottage In the United Kingdom.
Sugar, bread, butter and meat cards have been received by the
high officials of the Palace who take care of the King's table. There
are two meatless days in the palace, when the King and Queen eat
only fish. Oyster stew has become a favorite dish despite the fact
that it is an alien dish and oysters are expensive and not as plentiful
in Britain as they are in this country. The game keepers of the Royal
properties are sending rabbits to the palace. These frequently are
served on days when the menu could include roast beef.
In order to show how close the British-French alliance is, French
wines are served exclusively at the royal table. In the past wines from
South Africa and Australia were served with most meals.
Allies Accept Hardships With Smile
From all reports (not necessarily from releases which pass through
censors) it appears that the British and the French are taking good
humoredly the restrictions on food and gasoline. The French are get
ting sugar from' Great Britain—it seems that there are available stocks
there—and are gladly depriving themselves of butter which the British
need badly. Both nations seem to have made up their minds that
they are bound to stand or fall together. The harmony between the
high commands—French and British—is perfect, much better than
during the last war. The British have given with a grudge full authority |
to Gen. Gamelin to handle their army in France while the French have ;
placed their aviation and navy into
the hands of the British. All ef
forts of the German and Russian
propaganda to undermine the con
fidence of the French people in
their allies from across the Chan
nel have failed. British officers
and privates who must be billeted
in French homes behind the front
are not received as foreign heroes
but as sons of France. And the
British officers take pleasantly the
irksome deficiencies of the French housekeepers. When an officer who
insisted on his afternoon tea was brought toast burned to cinders and
the tea looked like lye, the officer smiled and told his landlady, ‘‘This
will cure me of homesickness.”
There is no defeatism in Germany, either. The young men and
women are so fanaticized over the war and the Fuehrer that they ac
| cept all hardships with a smile. The story is told by a Belgian diplomat
about a German girl about 20 wrho visited a distinguished Belgian
; family. She was served coffee, bread and butter in the morning at
; the family breakfast. She refused to eat the butter, saying that since
i the Fuehrer himself was depriving himself in the Reich of such a
' luxury, she could not possibly accept to eat it abroad.
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Cardinal Hlond Has
Been Devotee of
Flying for Years
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
Auguste Cardinal Hlond, who sub
nits to the Vatican his report of
_"dark, apocalyp
tic disaster” under
the German ter
ror in Poland, Is
a vigorous and
courageous cleric
who has made
ecclesi a s t i c a 1
* history on sev
L- eral other occa
l iHe-g sions. Tall and
energetic, given
to bold innova
tions, he was the
first cardinal to
broadcast the
-mass, when he
Cardinal Hlond. installed a radio
station in the Posen Cathedral in
L928, against the opposition of the
second primate, Cardinal Kakawsky.
He said he believed it was imperative
;hat the ministry of the church
should reach into remote byways
vhere it could not otherwise pene
trate.
In June, 1929, he was the first
member of the Sacred College to
use an airplane, flying to Rome to
ittend the beatification of Don
Bosco. founder of the Silesian Order,
to which he belongs. Some of the
more conservative members of the
college questioned the propriety of
too-$ager conformity in modem ma
terial devices. He replied that he
believed the church should make
use of any instrument of speed and
convenience, and, thereafter, became
a devotee of flying.
He is the titular primate of Posen
and Gnesen. and has been the pri
mate of Poland since 1929, one of
the most vigorous and progressive
members of the Sacred College, ag
gressive in the furtherance of his
ministry through all Poland. When
the Germans invaded his country, he
used the radio frequently, promising
his flock that the "mirages of atheism
and apostasy” would pass, and rally
ing them to new allegiance to their
faith. Before his elevation to the
higher order of the church he was a
brilliant student and authority on
ecclesiastical law. He will be 59
years old next July, but, athletic and
muscular and swift in movement, he
looks much younger. He holds a
calm assurance that Poland will be
reconstituted as a free nation, with
full religious liberty.
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Pre-World War Movies
Three pre-World War motion pic
tures will be featured on the pro
gram of the Flicker Frolics, annual
event of the Senior Interclub Coun
cil. Saturday night at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
Q streets N W. The films are “Mil
lie the Arcadian Maid,” starring
Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore
and Mack Sennett; “Every Inch a
Man.” with William S. Hart, and
"The Adventurer,” with Charlie
Chaplin. The program is scheduled
to begin at 8:30 p m.
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folks ?” says Aunt Jenny. “No need for any other
shortenin’ in the house when you have Spry.
Cakes, pastry, fried foods
all so delicious with purer Spry
“I could talk for hours about the wonderful
cakes Spry gives, so light an’ fine-grained an’
delicate, so good-tastin’. An’ Spry pastry an’
fried foods are just as big a treat, too. No
‘off-flavors’ in tender, flaky Spry crust. For
Spry is not only purer to start with but stays
fresh longer, too, an’ right on the kitchen shelf.1
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