The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-11-21
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Rumors that Wendell Willkie will
be offered a cabinet post or chair
manship of the defense commission
are just rumors and no more. Roose-
welt has no intention of unifying
along such lines.
After the 1886 campaign, the Pres
ident and ALT Landon went out of
their way to be friendly. The mel
low Kansan called at the White
House when he went to the Capitol
in December for a Gridiron club
dinner, and a year later Roosevelt
appointed him member of the u. S.
delegation to the Pan-American con-
| ference in Lima. But with Willkie
the situation is entirely different.
Roosevelt deeply dislikes and dis
trusts nina feeling, incidentally,
that is strongly reciprocated by
Willkie.
Privately, the President believes
that the G.. o. P. standard bearers
campaign was motivated chiefly by
personal malice and went far out Of
bounds of legitimate political war
ring in deliberate Misrepresentation
and distortion.
On his side, Willkie feels just as
holly regarding Roosevelt.
EUROPEAN APPEASEMENT
The story of imminent European
| peace deals which f1oated around
| London, Berlin and Washington just
before election was no myth.
Since November these ideas are
dead.
Ever since Hitler's proposed in
vasion of England was frustrated
last September, Nazi diplomats have
sent out feelers to the effect that
| Germany now had almost the entire
continent of Europe and might be
satisfied to drop the war, leaving
England to stick to its own islands.
Such peace, of course, meets
no response from the great majority
| of the British people, nor the govern
ment, and absolutely none from
Winston Churchill. However, it has
been received favorably by the little
group of "City" men (London's Wall
Street,.
Diplomatic reports indicate that
| had Willkie been elected, this group
| would have launched strong drive
| for appeasement. This does not
necessarily mean they would have
had Wilkes blessing. But it means
that Wall Street groups in the United
States which think along exactly the
same lines as London's ''City" were
all ready to cooperate in this drive
and expected to get support from
| Willkie.
Latin American governments,
whose weather vane is the United
States and who study us with a
microscope, actually were getting
ready to warm up to Hitler. But
since November 5, the effect is just
the opposite.
PERSHING AS ENVOY TO VICHY
The situation inside France is such
that there is more and more senti-
ment among administration advisers
| to draft venerable John j. Pershing
as American ambassador to France.
1t is believed General Pershing
could do good job because of his
old friendship with Marshal Petain,
now No. / man in the Vichy govern
ment. The two were comrades in
arms during the World war, and
never do they meet without an af-
fectionate embrace on both cheeks.
Should the French North African
army become active on behalf of
England, it would mean much not
only to the British but to the United
| States, whose biggest worry con-
corning the Monroe Doctrine is that
a combination of German-Italian
forces might use Dakar, French
naval base on the bulge of Africa,
| for operations against Brazil and
| South America.
That is why "Papa" Pershing is
considered so important to influence
his old friend "Papa" Petain.