davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-06-21
from London to get Mr.. Woodring

from London to get Mr.. Woodring
out of the cabinet.
1T has succeeded" he shouted.
ibid Lord Lothian, the British Am.
bassador, tell the President?
my opinion is" Senator Holt
said, that there have been commit
ments made for our involvement in
war-the question is, will they be
carried out?"
Senator Byrnes, Democrat. Of
South Carolina jumped up to say
that IF Mr.. Stimson or Col. Knox
have made any commitments that
is matter that would be susceptible
of proof. I have no idea that the
Senator's statement u susceptible Ia
proof"
Evening star., 1940-06-21
u. S. S. Wichita Arrives
At Buenos Aires
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, June 21.-The
United States Cruiser Wichita ar
rived here today on good will visit,
following the destroyer O'Brien,
which came into port yesterday.
This visit is one of a number being
made in South American waters by
United States naval craft.
The U. S. S. Quincy, a heavy
cruiser, sailed into Montivideo Har-
Dor yesterday and was greeted with
cheers from a waterfront crowd.
The demonstration was interpreted
as symbol of an armed guard of
the Western Hemisphere by the
United States.
Evening star., 1940-06-21
By the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, June 12-X-ray
motion pictures became a possibility
today with development of an ultra
high speed X-ray tube enabling the
photographing of the inner structure
Of opaque objects moving at an ex-
ceedingly rapid rate or reacting to a
strong sudden external force or blow.
Developed by Westinghouse engi-
neers. the new glass tube makes
Evening star., 1940-06-21

lied high speed work, the new tube
nevertheless extends the possible
usefulness Of X-ray science into q
wide new realm. 1t does jobs that
conventional tubes cannot and do
not need to do, hence is designed to
supplement existing X-ray sources
rather than replace any of them"
Evening star., 1940-06-21
Myron ToyIor's Illness
Is Reported Worse
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME. June 2l.-The condition
Of Myron G. Taylor. President
Roosevelt's representative to the
Holy See, who is seriously i'll in
Florence. was reported today by
friends to be somewhat worse.
At the Vatican it was said Pope
Plus XII was grieved to hear of the
Americans illness and had asked
to be kept informed of his con-
dition.
Mrs. Taylor was en- route from the
United States by air.
Evening star., 1940-08-19

invite the European dictators to
organize air forces on their terri
tories, and that those air forces
would not move northward with
dive bombers to the Panama Canal
and then move against this coun-
try? Are you sure that our exist
ing fleet and air force would be
able to defend even the northern
route to the United States by way
of Greenland, Newfoundland and
Canada?
1t is as clear as anything on this
earth that the United States will not
go to war, but it is equally clear
that war Is coming toward the
Americas.
The agents of the dictators are
already here preparing the way for
their armies. They are preparing
the way in the same manner in
which they prepared the way in
France.
In France much of the most ter
rible and traitorous work was done
by the Fascists and Communists
working together. Many honest
French democrats and liberals had
been shared by Communist propa-
ganda and argued that, because the
Communists called themselves a
political party and pretended at
the time to be in favor of democracy,
it would be undemocratic to deny to
the Communists the rights of any
other political party.
Communists Camouflaged
As Political Party.
The honest French patriots and
democrats who protected the Com
munistS did not discover until too
late that the Communists were act
ing as spies and agents of the
dictators, that the Communist party
was merely camouf1aged as poll
tical party and was in reality a
conspiracy to commit patricide at
the direction of a foreign dictator
They discovered too late that the
Communists were traitors who were
claiming the protection of the state
which they intended to destroy only
in order the better to prepare for
| it's destruction.
When the German invasion began
to sweep into Belgium and France,
there were Communist and Nazi
agents of Germany in each town
and village who produced panic
among the civilian populations by
| spreading fantastic tales of mur-
dering by the German troops of
men, women and children. b. this
means, 100000 civilians were har-
ried in fear from their homes and
clogged all the roads. SO that the
French, British and Belgian Armies
could not maneuver, SO that trans
port of supplies became almost i'm
possible, and a magnificent fighting
force became a clotted mass OF men
and material, perfect target for
bombing and machine-gunning from
the air.
At the most critical moment Of
the fighting in Belgium, other Ger
man agents, this time Communist
railway men, stopped all traffic On
the Belgian railways so that there
was no transport by train for the
French, British and Belgian armies.
Throughout France. especially in
Paris, there were hundreds OF Com
munist and Nazi agents of the die
tators with extremely short-wave
portable radio transmitting sets in
their hiding places. They kept the
Germans fully informed of the
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supercharged war temperature. The
German nation has been made
predatory army of assault. It's or
ganization is military. Its military
operations have enormous momen-
tum. 1t cannot stop in its tracks.
1t can only be stopped.
Change in Objectives
Would Require New Leaders.
Were Germany to try to resume
the ways of peace, the military
discipline which is the very founda-
ton of the NaZi hierarchy would
crumble In order to continue in
power that hierarchy must continue
to lead Germany on new predatory
adventures. The Third Reich cannot
change its objectives and methods
without changing its entire organi-
zation and leadership.
The Americans who believe that
the Nazis will not have to be stopped,
but will stop of their own accord
are indulging in the fatal vice of
wishful thinking. They want to be-
lieve this. Therefore they believe it.
There is no other basis than they
wish for their conclusion that the
Nazis suddenly will become peace
loving men.
The men and women who tell you
that the dictators will not attack
the Western Hemispnere may be
honest, wishfll thinkers or they
NAV be agents CT the dlctators; but
in either caJe, bv lulling you into
a false fee..ny of security and re-
tarding YOUR preparations for de-
fense, they a.e keeping the way
clear for an assault on America by
the dictatOrS. They are enemies,
consciously or unconSciouSly, of our
country and our liberties.
In France there were high-placed
and influential German agents who
circulated in what was called society,
and argued, because Hitler had
said he loved France, that Ger
many would never SO much wish
to invade France as to attack the
Maginot Line which was estimated
to be such tremendous obstacle.
Today, we hear Americans of the
same stripe arguing that the die
| tatorS will never SO wish to invade
the Americas as TO cross the Atlantic
which Is regarded as such a tre-
mendous obstacle They ask us to
ignore the fact that the Atlantic
is an obstacle only SO long as the
European exits to the Atlantic are
controlled by nation which is
genuinely friendly to us.
We can remember, however, that
in the past when those exits have
been in the hands of a power un-
friendly to us, the Atlantic has be-
come a broad highway for the in
vasion of the Americas. BY way
of the Atlantic cur own land was
invaded twice, during our Revolu-
ton and the War of 1812-and that
with sailing ships. BY way of the
Atlantic, Mexico was invaded dur
ing our Civil War.
Atlantic No Protection
without British Navy.
The truth is that the destruction
of the British Navy would be the
turning of our Atlantic Maginot
line. Without the British Navy,
the Atlantic would give us no more
protection than the Maginot Line
gave France after the German
troops had marched through Bel
gium.
The soothing words, "Maginot
Line" were the refrain of a lullaby
Evening star., 1940-08-19
u|itts Address Urging u to Speed Defense Measures

that we want to know what are our
duties, not what are our privileges7
When are we going to say to them
that we don't want to hear any
longer about what we can get from
our country, but we do want to hear
what we can give to our country.
When are we going to stand before
God and say that we know human
being is worthy of freedom only
when he serves the ideal in which
he believes?
Do we want to see Hitler In Inde-
pendence Hall making fun of the
Liberty Bell? No!
Then here, in this square. where
Washington walked with Jefferson,
where our independence was cedi-
Gated, where our Constitution was
framed, I ask you and all other
Americans who hear my voice to-
night to join in the fight to keep
our country free.
Write and telegraph to your Sen
ators and Representatives. Write to
YOUR newspapers. Demand the
privilege of being called into the
service Of the Nation. Tell them
that we want CONSUMPTION. Tell
them that we back up Gen. PERISH
ing.
Defense Against Enemies
Remains Unorganized.
If you belong to great patriotic
organizations, make them act. II
you want to make your will felt, but
do not know how to make 1t felt,
write to me and I shall try person.
ally to put you in touch with the
men and women who know how you
can help most effectively IN your
own home towns and villages.
Our defense against the enemies
who are already within our country
has still to be organized. Nearly
all our defense against the enemies
that are still outside our country
has still to be organized. If We
won't act, our Government can't.
1t Is up to us.
The fighting line of the war for
the enslavement of the human
spirit is nearing our shores. For
every American there is no dis
charge in that war" An American
is free man or he Is nothing. Our
fate and the fate of our children
depends on what each one Of Us
doeS-nOW.
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movements Of the Frencn Army
and of the intentions Of the French
government. Since they could
change their hiding places daily,
the French were never able to
track down more than one-tenth
of these spies.
The French had been more hos
pitable than are even we Americans
to refugees from Germany. More
than one-half the spies captured
doing actual military spy work
against the French army were refu-
gees from Germany.
Do you believe that there are no
Nazi and Communist agents of this
sort in America?
On the 10th day of last May, the
people of France were as confident
as the people of the United States
today that their country could not
be conquered. Three days later, on
the 18th day of May, the Germans
had smashed through the center of
the French army and France was
doomed.
Way Prepared by Spies,
Agents and Pr0pagandists.
The way had been prepared by
spies, agents and propagandists, but
it was the strength of the German
Army and the skill Of its leaders that
enabled Germany to strike the fatal
blow. The blow was struck just
where the French did not expect it.
The attack was made by a new
method that the French had never
imagined. Waves of bombing planes
preceded waves of tanks with per-
feet coordination maintained by
radio. The tanks cut through the
French lines, then wheeled and
Topped off piece after piece Of the
French Army.
The French soldier fought as
courageously and magnificently as
any soldier has ever fought. Divi-
sion after division, cut off from
supplies of all sorts, fought on until
there were no more shells for the
cannons or cartridges for the guns,
then charged with the bayonet. The
courage of the French was magni-
ficent but of no avail against the
tanks and planes of the Germans.
And, make no mistake the German
infantrymen were as brave as the
French.
The entire Western World had been
lulled by stories of the inferiority
of German equipment. have seen,
myself, hundreds of thousands of
German soldiers with all their mo-
torized and mechanical equipment.
l have never seen one piece of that
equipment broken down.
The German military machine
today is without question the most
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Of death for France. The soothing
words, Atlantic Ocean," are being
used now by the propagandists of
the dictators in the hope that they
may become a lullaby of death for
the United States.
The French knew that they were
outnumbered two to one by the
Germans, and that all Germans
men, women and children-had been
mobilized for war. They know that
Great Britain was unprepared for
war and that little help could come
to France from England. When
they thought hard, therefore, they
knew that every French man, wom-
an and child ought to be working
for the national defense.
The French had, of course, uni
versal military training for the
army. Even the French priests
were trained to fight, and they
fought at the front like other good
soldiers and would not have been
respected if they had not.
But when the question arose of
mobilizing the whole nation for ma
tional defense by compulsory ma
tional service, even as a temporary
measure to save the liberties of
France, the French found it more
comfortable to listen to the voices,
some sincere, some bought by the
dictators, which told them that
their individual liberties were
sacred and must not be sacrificed
for a moment even to save the lib
critics of the nation: that it was
more important for the individual to
work only 40 hours week than for
his country to have enough air
planes; that the voluntary accept
ance of national service as tempo
rary measure would be an imitation
of the relationships.
Thus, in the name of the preSer-
vation of individual liberty, the ma
tional liberty of France was con-
demned in advance to destruction
Recently. in this country, we have
heard men and women arguing
that we ourselves would be initiating
the relationships if we should create
through conscription an Army ade-
quate to defend our country. They,
too, are playing the dictators' game.
French Plane Production
Allowed to Decline.
Then there are many in France,
some honest, some agents of the
dictators, who argued that since
airplane design was changing
rapidly, France should have good
models, but should not manufacture
planes in great quantity until after
the outbreak of war. These men
were prominent and powerful. AS
a result. at one time French plane
production was allowed to sink to
81 a month while Germany was
producing 1000 month.
Have we been wiser during the
past years? Have we built the
planes or trained the aviators to
man them? Have We prepared the
tanks or the men to drive them?
Have we trained and equipped even
infantry for our national defense?
Are there not among us many who
think and talk as did the French
men who opposed adequate prepa-
rations?
Recently I heard a Senator who
is as good an American as any of
us state that while he would favor
conscription the moment We should
be attacked, he would oppose con-
scription until after we should have
been attacked. The ruined homes
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powerful that has ever been created.
It. has been used with consummate
skill. And you may be sure that,
If the Nazis have an opportunity
to turn it against us, 1t will be as
strong or stronger than 1t is today
and will be used in the most unex-
pected manner.
I cannot tell you where and when
the attack will come, any more
than the French general staff
could have told you that the Ger
man attack would be made at
Sedan on the 18th of May. But l
am certain that if Great Britain is
defeated, the attack will come, and
that all the strength of this Ma
tion will be needed-mobilized or
ganiZed, equipped and ready-if we
are to parry it and save the inde-
pendence of our country.
U. S. Greatest Adventure
In Human Freedom.
Why are we sleeping, Americans?
When are we going to wake up?
When are we going to tell our Gov
eminent that we want to defend
our homes and our children and
our liberties, whatever the cost in
money or blood? When are We 60
ing to give the lie to those who say
that the people of the United States
no longer care about their liberties,
that they look on the United States
just as a trough into which to get
their snouts and not as the greatest
adventure in human freedom that
this earth has known?
When are we going to let the
world know that in spite of all
the efforts of all the propagandists
who call their propaganda "debunk-
ing" and try to teach us to fear
every truth, we still know that when
any one tries to debunk the Ten
Commandments and the sermon on
the Mount, he prepares for HIM
self hell in this world and in the
next?
When are we going to let legisla-
tors in Washington know that we
don't want any more politicians who
are afraid of the next election and
scared to ask us to make some
sacrifices that we know are neces-
sary to preserve our liberties and our
Declaration of Independence and
our Constitution?
When are we going to tell them
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Of France, the women and children
starving on the roads, cry out to
him, and to every one of us, that
wars are won or lost by the prepa-
rations made or not made before
they begin; that unframed soldiers
are not opponents but merely VIC
TINS for trained men with tanks
and planes. The dictators, who are
confident that all democracies will
always be too late, count not only
on their agents to befuddle Ameri-
can opinion, but also on honorable
men like that Senator.
What stands today between the
Americas and the unleashed dicta-
torships? The British feet and the
courage of the British people. How
long will the British fleet be able to
hold the exits from Europe to the
Atlantic? I cannot answer that
question nor can any man.
You have heard the appeal of Gen.
Pershing for aid to the British fleet.
You have heard the appeal of Ad-
miral Standley. You have heard the
appeal of William Allen White and
his associates. If you let these ap-
peals 60 unanswered and the British
fleet goes under, do you realize what
that would mean to you, to all Of the
people of this country?
Great Britain and Ireland, along
with the whole continent of Europe,
would be organized into one eco
nomic unit directed from Berlin; a
unit which would be far stronger in
productive capacity than the United
States, which would have five times
our capacity to produce warships; a
unit whose trade would be controlled
by one trading trust directed from
Berlin. No country of North or
South America would be able to
trade with Europe except on such
terms as might be pleasing 10 the
dictators. Those conditions 1or
many of the countries of South
America would be the acceptance of
a greater or less measure of Nazi
control.
Nazi Control Would Cause
Grave Economic Crisis.
For us, since we would not ac-
cept Nazi control, they would mean
the cutting off of our markets for
cotton, tobacco and other export
products That would be so fatal
to the economy of certain sections
of our country that we should face
the gravest economic crisis in our
history, a crisis which it would be
the task of Nazi and Communist
agents to exploit.
In the Pacific would be the Jap
anese Navy. cooperating with the
dictators, which would be able to
cut us off from our supplies of rub
ber and tin and would compel us to
leave a large part of our fleet in
the Pacific to defend Hawaii and
the West Coast.
In the Atlantic would be COM
bined fleets of the dictators which
would be so close to our own feet
in strength that they would be able
to cut us off from all commerce
not only with Europe but also with
Africa, and would endanger even
our communications with the
southern portion of this hemis-
phere.
Are you sure that under those
circumstances the powerful Nazi
and Communist movements which
already exist in various countries
of South America would not be
able to seize power and would not
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miles hour! Hub hub duels 15O For 500
bering nervewrag mlboraory equivalent of $4,000 normal
highway driving miles, Ys its Americas thrilling classic of
speed proving ground of safer and efficient
the aerodnamc design hsompresson alloy
The weekly echo., 1940-08-30

an outstanding citizen of this community
a faithful steward of Pleasant Grove
Methodist Church, and financial mem.
her of HBA Lodge No. q died August
Il, 1910 in the Oten Hospital, Ashville.
NC. He leaves wife, children two
sisters and three brothers. The funeral
- conducted as follows:
Professional, Nearer My God to Thee;
Must Sessu Beer the Cross Alone"
Choir. Psryer, Rev. S. T. Horn; Fade
Fade Each Earthly Joy'-Choir. Scripture
Rev. A. F. Nelso~; Close To Thee by
Choir; Obituary and Testimonials: Sole
As]ee in Jesus Miss Esther D. Thorn
ton; Sermon, Rev. A. F. Nelson; Abide
With Me-, Choir. zr
The weekly echo., 1940-08-30

When Chimes of Normandy a jazzeo
I'D version of the old Planquette opera
got under way at the Auditorium OF
the American Negro Exposition in the
Chicago Coliseum last Thursday night
Ii was instantly acclaimed by every
daily newspaper critic in Chicago as
one OF the greatest spectacles presented
In recent years, more than living up
TO predictions that it was hotter than
nanny on their way to the great
shows some of the iitterbugs and
the famous Swing Mikado" put on
The weekly echo., 1940-08-30

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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO H. B. A.
MEMBERS

All H. B. A. members who failed to
pay their Convention assessment in the
amount OF 6Oc re ur ed to to il
September Boards bsgin. Otherwise II
will cost SIPS to renew The Constitu-
ton as revised in tn. Convention state
that all members wishing to renew
must pay SIPS to the office renewal
fee.
Send in your Convention assessment
through your local president at once.
Rev. E. F. Young, President.
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SOME RECENT OBSERVATIONS
Continued from page One)

Continued from page One)
do we realize that if we allow them to
grow up as a plant without any cult
walton that they may prove failure
IN life. l found too many loose chilo
rem growing up for future cit zens
without receiving home training that
viii produce the law abiding citizen
Many children vino needs a mothers
care and guidance We're all wed to go
Wher. and where they choose, t. return
likewise.
/ heard a girl of fourteen saying O
ner chum girl that she had tean -
until three in the morning attending q
dance. / asked if her mother had &C
eompanied her. She replied, ''No, mother
does not go with me when l am havins
a big time. l could only pity that
mother and sympathize with that chic
whose future should be a bright one
but very probably it will be shor,
dark one. l believe tn t as the worlc
becomes enlightened to the mode Il
ways of living that we all should try
to keep abreast with time inasmuch as
mental and spiritual standards of life
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Frontiers Group Raps
Defense Discrimination
DEFENSE DISCRIMINATION

COLUMBUS, o., Ahg 30 (ANP)- In
q special petition to President Roosevelt
urging him to end racial discrimination
IN all branches of the army and navy,
members of the Frontiers of America.
meeting here in convention last week,
went ON record as pledged themselves
against such action as unAmerican and
unDemocratic.
In the anti-discrimination resolution
which calls for peace with national self
respect and cities the heroic record of
Negro citizens in all the nations wars
the group petitions the President tc
use his offices to see that all the
various departments and branches Of
the entire defense program be thrown
open to Negro citizens of the United
States
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81 doesn't coStct with the phys cal.
mental and spiritual standards of life.
is one which I do not endorse. l hope
those of us who are mothers will soon
realize that the social standard of on
ace cannot reach its desired zenity
with that type mother and daughter.
reads this bit of observation to take