davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Expediency Pointed Elsewhere.

the choice Of some one like House
Majority Leader Sam Rayburn Of
Texas, or Senator James F. Byrnes
Of South Carolina, or Federal Loan
Administrator Jesse H. Jones Of
Texas, in order to throw at least
sop to the more conservative wing
Of the party. All three of these
Southerners are men of proved ca
pacity, well up to or above the aver.
age Of vice presidential nominees on
that score. Each in his own sphere
has served the New Deal we'll and
faithfully and yet has maintained
his standing among the conserva.
tives.
Or expediency would have been
served by the nomination of the
unclassifiable Paul v. McNutt OF
Indiana. who had built up, as the
event showed, a considerable fol-
lowing in his campaign for the
presidency and who could have
been counted upon to make slash
ing campaign for the Roosevelt
ticket.
Whatever may be thought Of the
drafting of the President for third
term and the manner in which 1t
was brought about. it must be con-
ceded that he showed the courage
Of his convictions in discarding the
more available" vice presidential
aspirants and selecting Henry WAL
lace.
Wallace, though he has not always
gone along with the inner circle
Of the New Dealers in their practical
political maneuverings, is neverthe-
less. In his philosophy. New Dealer,
and is so identified in the public
mind. Indeed, he has a more con-
sistent philosophy Of social reform
than almost anybody else In the
administration; a fact which per-
haps accounts for the suspicion with
which at times he has been regarded
by the more opportunistic Of the
New Dealers.
Wallace for President?
Motives aside. there can be no
question as to the effect Of the Pres
ident's long concealment OF his
intentions with respect to a third
term. 1t produced. first, a condi-
ton In which his nomination
became inevitable. Second, it as
sured, within very broad limits, the
nomination Of any one whom the
President might choose as his run
ming mate. 1t is at least a tenable
theory that in the mixture Of motives
which must have contributed to his
silence was this desire to name the
vice presidential candidate without
regard to the usual political consid.
erations.
Anyway. whatever the reasons be-
hind the silence. one significant re.
suit was the naming of Wallace.
Clearly he was not chosen either
because Of his ability as a stump
speaker or In an effort to win over
dissident elements in the party. It
follows, I think. that the President
chose Wallace with the requirements
Of the presidency, as Mr.. Roosevelt
sees them, in mind. 1t follows that
he was definitely thinking In terms
OF the chance that he will not, If
reelected. finish out the third term.
| That consideration is something
that all too rarely has been given
its proper weight in the making Of
vice presidential nominations.
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night speech of Frederic william VILE.
acceptance served a highly useful
purpose in jerking citizens thoughts
away from the banalities of parti-
sanship and back to the stern real
tiles imposed by world conditions.
F. D. RS own plan to remain as
close to his Job as possible and de-
vote q minimum Of time to cam
paigning is cue to the Nation
not to waste its energies on the
futile froth Of politics, but to con-
centrate on the paramount issue OF
1910. That issue is the necessity
to spend every ounce Of national
gray matter and physical strength
on the supreme task of girding
Americas loins against the perils
that loom from across both the
Atlantic and the Pacific.
OF what value one day will be,
let US say. social gains or any
Of the other things over which spell
binders are about to wax eloquent,
pro or con, unless the United States
is equipped to repel armed attack.
We may sing God Bless America"
until the cows come home, but no
amount Of patriotic vocal effort will
avail II we do not reach speedily
the goal Of invincibinty on land, at
sea and in the air. There is NO
time to squander on politics-third
term. public utility evils or any
thing else Of minor Importance.
4 +
The Wallace "Dictate."
Henry A. Wallace's nominal ton
for the vice presidency may
strengthen the Democratic ticket in
certain rural parts. but 1t may
prove Of questionable value both
there and elsewhere, because Of the
somewhat totalitarian manner in
which it was brought about. Few
convention annals contain such evil
dence Of undisguised bossism. The
pandemonium that ragged during
the balloting was more than pro-
test against the selection Of a for
mer Republican as Roosevelt's run
ming mate. It was resentment OF
undemocratic dictation. The White
House escaped the ignominy Of hav-
ing its wishes flouted, but the ram
cor created by the whole Wallace
incident will ramify into the cam
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Roosevelt
| Draft Called
IA Fraud
Participants in
Nomination Are
Costigoted
Hv DAVID LAWRENCE.

KV DAVID LAWRENCE.
Having attended both national
conventions there remains to be
written into the annals of American
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5e Wrong Assumption

the fact that he is now a candidate
for third term. Sensible observers
will grant the Presidents sincere
desire not to be candidate, If only
because, as he told Col. Frank Knox,
he thinks he cannot stand the strain
OF another four years in the White
House. However great his ambitions,
no man on earth willingly shoulders
such a burden as the President has
now shouldered.
The solution of the problem. ac-
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Shares u. ROSS selection by the
President without reaching the con-
clusion that other motives than the
conventional ones Of campaign ex-
pediency were dominant. True it
is that Mr.. Wallace is an Offset to
Mr.. McNary in the effort OF the
parties to line up the farmer vote.
To that extent the selection of the
Secretary of Agriculture to run with
the President wears the same aspect
Of expediency as does the choice Of
Mr.. McNary to run with Mr.. Willkie.
But there the parallel ends. Mr..
McNary was selected-and it ought
to be remembered that he was just
as much the personal choice of Mr..
Willkie as Mr.. Wallace was the per.
sonal choice Of the President-with
a view to placating elements hos.
tile to the presidential nominee.
Mr.. Wallace was chosen by tho
President in defiance Of hostile ele-
ments.
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Men Without q Country

instances half Of their money
banks in France important
obtainabe dollars
instances
be
techny the Consequently
unfortunate
return
important occupied by Germans life
is pleasant either.
The German military authorities have discovered the French
the simplest ideas about running their
The Town Council OF Paris recently to the German
Komandatur and told plainly nothing
allowing shameuy neglected
and that the German military would actually city through
town councils Some ordinances
forbidden their
that this demoraizing JewishOrienta
Inhabitants of Neul suburb Paris obtain
the German military police
required m giving family
for their desire to
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Political Philosophy Varied

Ooiot Communist is He prded himself
being the first honorary soldier Of the Red He obtained this
nation during visit Moscow pledged support
in France until the bourgeois overthrown
Since 1885 his political philosophy has included Fasm Nazim
nationasm antceca antiJewh sentiments
believing uples Doro is quite
willing responsibility avengng
quite heads roll He personal grdges which always
helpful In the event of political purges.
Many Frencmen in the handwriting the wall
making efforts out OF the country They finding
All Channel blocked
The through equally cu individuals
however they the difficulties Of obtaining vsas
small
side charging 500 francs abou 500 for
discuss the possibility obtaining In most the
thrown finds the applicants
brbes
amounting to between $500 and $500.
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Ameica el II
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further impressions from Mussolini
by way of Ciano, it is probably true
that the conference of the two die
tators was not a move in the di-
rection of peace. 1t may well have
been a further evolution of the
war strategy or at least the presen-
tation to Mr.. Welles of a united
front and a determination not to
recede from any peace terms that
might have been mentioned pre-
viously to the American envoy.
For the moment the President
feels the American press should
neither anticipate an early peace
nor despair of it's achievement, but
should comment cautiously on what
is happening abroad-a suggestion
that doubtless reflects his own in
certitude as to the meaning Of
latest developments. Undoubtedly
he felt the turn of events had
reached such an important stage
that he could not afford to omit
his press conference, but must take
the risks that go with getting out
of bed while suffering from a few
erish cold, in order to indicate, as
best he could, the trend Of affairs
abroad as it relates to Americas
efforts for peace.
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Christian Science
Lecture Is Given

Robert Stanley Ross, member Of
the Board Of Lectureship of the
First Church of Christ Scientist in
Boston, Mass, last night told an
audience at the Fourth Church of
Christ Scientist that mankind is
learning how to utilize the law of
infinite spirit" through Christian
Science.
Christian Science is teaching
mankind" he said, that the spirit
ual power to overcome material be-
lief-whether manifesting itself as
fear or worry, sickness or sin, un-
employment or wants available
to all who are prepared to think
and live in accord with the law of
infinite spirit or mind"
Mr.. Ross was introduced by Miss
Marion Mccoy, second reader Of
the Fourth Church.
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Borroge of Notes

Curious revision of the Neutrality
to aid the English and French produced the difficulty
of the
while leaving
neutrals begerents
onerirriants English policy
likely bad feeling here.
In their use of such wartime devices purchasing and exchange
controls blockade
bad boggle the Department.
1t still something of a why
much of the English points
of State Corde Hull who his
did think the
taken by certain departmental officials that the
essentially legal rather political
private protests
points of
Division where the lawyers had glorious time preparing stiff legasc
fundamental American policy. Finally after months
the leading
exaggerated
passed pipe
The Harsh Facts
with the English and quietly
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Iron Worker Asks
$4,000 for Injuries

Claiming permanent injuries,
Frank R. Phillips, structural iron
worker, of 485 G street NV. filed
suit in District Court yesterday
against the Bethlehem Steel Co. for
$4,000. He contends that he was
injured when an iron worker at the
Mellon Art Gallery dropped steel
bull pin on his foot.
Represented by Attorney Daniel
B. Maher, Mr.. Phillips advised the
court in the suit that the negligence
of an agent of the company caused
the accident, which occurred on
October 27.
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American lnQuS-
try and heir to
the largest in
dividual fortune
in the country,
Henry Ford II
will soon be re-
ceived into the
Church of Rome
at N eW York.
Now a senior at
Yale, the grand
son OF H e n r y
Ford and eldest
of Edsel Ford's
f our children,
Henry Ford II
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will be married Frederic william Vile.
this summer to Miss Anne McDon-
nell Of New York City and South
ampton, Long Island, the daughter
of James Francis Mcdonnell, promi-
nent in the financial brokerage busi-
ness, and Mrs. Mcdonnell 1t Is
presumed that one of the incentives
for the Ford scion's abandonment
of ancestral Protestant faith was to
wed Miss Mcdonnell, who is de-
vout Catholic, graduate of the New
York Convent of the Sacred Heart
and later a student at the Grot-
tanelli School at Sienna, Italy.
Catholic U. Priest His Instructor.
Henry Ford II has been taking
instruction for entry into Roman
Catholicism from Msgr. Fulton J.
Sheen, brilliant professor of philos-
ophy at the Catholic University of
America in Washington, whose voice
is familiar to millions of radio listen
ers on the N. B. C.'s Catholic Hour.
Msgr. Sheen is specialist as
converter, in which work he is said
to spend 10 hours a week. Among
his notable conquests was the late
Haywood Broun, whom the 44-year-
old priest personally baptized, gave
last rites to, and buried. Though
Protestant adherents, the Fords
have not been particularly active in
any one denominational field Mr..
Ford has no church affiliation; says
he likes them all" Mrs. Ford be-
longs to and is supporter of Christ
Episcopal Church at Dearborn,
There seems to be no friction in the
family over the grandson's choice.
Henry II prepped for Yale at
Hotchkiss School. and at New
Haven is manager of the varsity
crew He is member of Book and
Snake and of Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Two straws indicating Ford SYM
pathies with Catholic works are
these-Mrs. Henry Ford takes a
lively interest in certain Catholic
charities, including Father Flana-
gan's Boys Town, while William ).
Cameron, vice president of the Ford
Motor Co. and its spokesman on
the radio Sunday Evening Hour, will
be one Of the speakers on the pa-
tionally broadcast program Of Uni
versal Notre Dame Night on April
tx
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and the general impression of bungng bunbng often by
the allied leadership all contributed varying degrees the
thinking.
criticize the allies for refusing
struggle.
only hope
Munich almost Historically
English leaders
harsh for the English They be
by the Amer
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to the allied negotiators. Charles
Rist and Frank Ashton -Gwatkin,
who may eventually iron out the
blockade and related controversies.
But meanwhile the harm has been
done for the present.
Isolationist leaders. both in
Congress and out, have seized upon
the State Department notes as
great talking points for their side.
The dullness of the war. the sour
oftorto octo IF +bo dofoot of Eiy,Iap5
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news and world
events go right
on a nd h / S
makes it i'm
perative for him
to issue certain
impressions and
Q o u n t era C t
o t ers before
they gain too
much nomen-
tum.
Thus the Presi-
dent undoubted-
ly met the press
yesterday, in Or
der to straighten
out, a. number of
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available information do not intend
to attempt to break through the
Magnet Line: neither do they con-
template, according to the same
sources invasion of Holland, Belgium
or Switzerland. The most that can
be expected is an intensified aerial
warfare against Great Britain in
connection with a severe submarine
campaign. 1t appears that the OBJ
jectives OF German bombing will be
the harbors of Great Britain II, an
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war, like Britain, can hardly be
expected to observe trade obliga-
tions which impede their power TO
meet the enemy with every recourse
at their command. but Pittman
favors the Hull reciprocal program.
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in part with
Federal funds,
f a C es roug h
going in the
House. Immedi-
ately ahead of
it are two nur-
dies that may
prove difficult
t h e Judiciary
Committee and
the Rules Com
m ! I I e e.. II it
gets by these
two, there will
still be stiff OPP
position on the
fnpr nf Z n O
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WeIIes Extremely Cautious

h Undersecy OF State has been extremely
not hidden the fact
preceoented situation
mnt between the nations
mission Outside
he oegeren had to suggest nothing
suggestions and o1erngsf and whenw have
the Wle House either through usual
some address of Mr. Roosevelt world
outside
question of guarantee, either informal
In these official quarters
to place himself in the political position
They
assurance to all countries through the League of Nations
had just
emotonallsm of people
narrowing backing for
his scheme
At the time it that the people
oaont thought
incidents and ntges in Europe and Asia
foreign diplomat
a
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country under LONDON datellne
are considered as trial balloons and
inspired by responsible official quar-
tersfin Great Britain.
1t appears that in influential
quarters across the Atlantic there is
an idea that the war-if permitted
to continue-would be as damaging
to the economic interests of this
country as to those of the warning
nations
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HE opinions OF the ortters this page their
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to gtpe all sides questions interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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The Capital Parade
Returning American Official Disturbed ot
indications of u. S. Irritation With Allies

Official
Munich"
In view of the last days events Europe the question raised
official decidedly
increasing irritation with the allies and particularly the British He
the
threatened by Htlers
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Another Famous Grandson.

Oscar S. Straus II, grandson and
namesake Of another famous Amer
ican, Oscar Solomon Straus, Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor In
Theodore Roosevelt's last cabinet
and later Ambassador to Turkey
under President Taft, is about to
become 8 chip Of the old block, and
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possibility of
Italians the will
believe
pressure eective-espcay
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Pittman Not Fighting Hull.

Pittman Not Fighting Hull.
Senator Key Pittman was quoted
the other day by a news service as
demanding outright cessation Of
all reciprocal trade agreement ne
gotiaticns, in retaliation for British
embargoes on American imports.
The Nevadan asserts he never held
or voiced any such view. He has
told Secretary Hull that nations at
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Ulster Meetings Bonned

BELFAST, March 20 P.-Al
meetings and professions that might
be planned in commemoration Of
Ireland's 1916 Easter uprising were
banned for one week today.
Evening star., 1940-03-20
This Changing World
European Leaders Overlook Fact Thot U. S.
People Are More IsoIotonist Than Ever
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

1ntmatons from London that Europe might possible
the United States would shoulder the burden guaranteeing
nations
the White House the State Department
While O
the British the French published
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Hearts of Catholics throughout
the United States are rejoiced this
Eastertide over the fact that the
bearer of the greatest name in
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Events Call
President to
Conference
Feels Press Should
Not Anticipate
EorIy Peace
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

For several days now President
Roosevelt has been battling with a
cold, and, unfortunately, when the
Chief Executive is in that dilemma,
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interests this
btan nave sought to inspire the thought that
almost
END to the present European act-hndng" trip
WeLes to have thoughts.
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Hatch Bill
Neurs House
Precipice
Passage to Present
Stotes With Problem
or City Machines
b. CHARLES G. ROSS,

The Senate-approved Hatch bill,
extending the provisions OF the
present Hatch law to State and
local jobholders paid In whole or
Evening star., 1940-03-20

Ilt pIt-WUlICIl E1lgIISIl utpfeCa-
ton of the Czechs-they were, it
will be recalled, a tactless, bump
tious people, tyrannous in dealing
with their minorities, led by tricky
men-and the present American at
titude toward the allies.
Signs of MicaWberism are Ger
tainly not far to seek in this coun-
try One is the congressional in
clination to solve the dilemma of the
budget by Slicinp the national de-
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Outspoken on Co-operotion

Wees said have regarding possibility
OF co-opon reciprocal trade
of gold
helpful
we'll
months
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Washington Observations
Grondsons in News: Henry Ford II Joins Catholics;
Oscar Strous II Enters Diplomacy

enter diplomacy. Young Straus, 26
years old graduate of St. Paul's and
1886 A. B. of Princeton, recently
passed the foreign service eXamina-
ton at the State Department and
is now eligible for appointment to
the career Since leaving college,
he has been bank clerk in Kansas
City. His father is Roger Williams
Straus, a prominent mining engi-
neer. Or his mothers side Oscar
II is related to the Guggenheims,
and he bears cousinly relationship
to the late Ambassador to France,
Jesse I. Straus, to Federal Housing
Administrator Nathan Straus, and
to Percy Straus, head of Macv's.
X
A New Type of Reporter.
Until the New Deals deep plunge
into the economic and sociological
waters, Washington reporters had
only to know about local and ma
tional politics, conventions and pri-
maries. If they had the lingo of
the political game and were pals
of the principal players, that was
their chief requisite. For decades
they made and wrote history along
the Potomac. But when F. D. r.
and his brain trusters came along,
Washington journalism underwent
a revolution. The profession grad
ually filled up with young college
men and women. many of them Phi
Beta Kappa, with a sprinkling of
Rhodes scholars. For the most part,
besides trimmed spectacles, they
bore degrees in political and social
science, economics, sociology, law,
banking, statistical research, agro-
nomics, foreign affairs, engineer
ing or other courses commonly con-
fined to campus "grinds." Sud-
denly they found themselves in de-
mand as Washington correspond
ents. Editors needed reporters
down here who would know their
way about the maze of alphabetical
agencies and novel activities which
superseded the old-time purely po-
ntical Washington.
Big Utility Grabs One.
A typical reporter of the college
bred variety, Alfred Friendly. honors
man of Amherst, '33, has just been
grabbed by the trustees appointed
by S. E. c. to take over the man.
moth public utility holding COM
pany, Associated Gas e. Electric
Corp. Active until this week on the
staff of Washington morning
paper, young Friendly was drafted
by his old economics professor at
Amherst, Willard l.. Thorp, one of
the triumvirate which will devote
the next two or three years to find
ing out what made the vast Hopson
power combine tick. He will be
Thorp's right-hand assistant in New
York. Friendly accepted the as
signment for only year, despite
its financial lure, in order to return
to his first and only love, newspaper
work. He formerly served under
Thorp in the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce.
1t was two Washington corre-
spondents. Dick Wilson of the Des
Moines Tribune Register. and Rus
sell Virgins of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press, who suggested to Secretary
wallace the setup for the present
A. A. A.. as way out of the De-
partment of Agriculture's plight in
1884 after the Supreme Court had
knocked out original Triple-A. VIII
son recently became president of
the National Press Club, and Wig
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gins is managing editor of his st.
Paul paper.
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ability that after the will economic than
depths Of
the allies which be traced and anayzed the Immediately
interesting.
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The Harsh Facts


department
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-28

The Cape Fear Country club an
mex on Harbor Island vas the scene
of a delightful bridge tea on Friday
afternoon. The bridge game began at
$3.50 o'clock and at the conclusion of
the game tea, cakes and sandwiches
were served.
Among those present were Mrs.
Hill Hunter, of. Greensboro, Mrs.
Barnweil, of Savannah, Ca, Mrs.
Mrs. Frank Weatherbee, of Albany,
Ca, Mrs. Philip w. Delano, Mrs. w.
H. Chambers, of Baltimore, Mrs. J..
Walter Williamson, Miss Emma Bel
lamy Williamson, Miss Carrie Har-
riss, Miss Lila G.. Bellamy, Miss
Jeanne Strange, Mrs. G.. Herbert
Smith, Mrs. B. R.. Morrison. Mrs.
Roy Craig, of Lake Wales, Fla, Mrs.
r. D. Cronly, Jr., Mrs. Joseph w.
Hooper, Mrs. E. E. Guilford, of Mid
land, Mich, Mrs. Robert Jewett,
Mrs. Fred Burr, Mrs. duBrutz Pois'
son, Mrs. E. C. White, Miss Mary
Lathrop, Mrs. Nelson Myers, Mrs.
J.. Goodlett Thornton, Mrs. Charles
B. Parmele, Mrs. Cleves M. Symmes,