Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
British Labor
Will Welcome
John Winan+
# He Is Appointed Envoy.
Cooperation VIII Come
BY PAUL MALL0N


WASHINGTON. Jan. 80 Mr..
w Roosevelt tilted the lid on
British internal politics when he
reached for a labor expert, John
Winant. 10 be considered as
ambassador to the Court of St
JameS-a gilded chair in which
only the wealthiest have sat.
Winant is earnest. able, ner-
vous, not particularly social. In
all of which qualities he is the
antithesis of the usual top
ranking diplomat For the past
few years he has been a great
student of international labor
affairs through his $4,000 a
veal job as head OF the IUtrTUa=
fional labor office under the
League of Nations.
To the chair of AiellaH=I22iiHa-E
ham and Kennedy. he viii bring
working acquaintance with the
British labor leaders who are
becoming increasingly pTOml-
nent in the war government.
They may be in charge before
the war is over. The necessity
OF securing their full co-opera-
ton for the production effort
will at least continue to gain
them constantly expanding au-Z
thority. Credcnee in recent in
side talk along this line is APP
parently shared by Mr.. Roose-
welt.
A Els BILL GREEN disclosed
"A in the lease-lend hearings
that British unions have, actu-
ally turned millions of pounds Of
sterling over 10 the government
One union, he said, gave the
British treasury $4,000 pounds
without interest,
Green did not speculate on
the prospect of American unions
doing the same thing but some
thing is likely TO develop along
this line soon.
Such contributions would help
10 StaVe off initiation and the
damage which runaway money
does to man on salary.
I'D FLYNN, the Democratic
Il chairman who was supposed
TO retire, is instead getting his
fingers on the Democratic or
qganizatieH- -
You never hear of Flynn like
you did Jim Farley Farley'S
hold on the national Democratic
machine was built on personal
friendship tines. He knew every
body. Flynn is card-indeX man.
He may not know the people
but he knows their names and
where they fit.
Flynn made his Bronx or
ganization superior even TO
Tammany by requiring every
one to fall in line to the suprem-
acy of the organization, He is
doing the same thing now ma
tionally, and some of the DEM
ocratic senator's and congress
men are acting as though he had
given them each a hotfoot
They are accustomed to 60
ing their easy individual ways,
siding with the administration
when they choose and differing
occasionally when they see fit.
FlynnS book of rules does not
allow for much differing
What specifically has fired
their tootSies lately is Flynn's
plan to handle patronage
through regular Democratic
state organizations - instead of
through the congressman This
method of handing out jobs over
their heads has been tried in
few states in the past but not
many Mr. Flynn may soon find
his feet on fire.
IT MAY have been Just as we'll
L that the House foreign affairs
committee closed its doors to
hear the army and navy officers
answer Colonel Lindberghs an
alysiS of the military situation in
Europe
Army and navy share the
view that Britain cannot be in
vaded until Hitler acquires mas
terry of British air. which seems
impossible now; also that Brit
ain cannot possibly invade the
continent: therefore. the war has
entered an apparent Sfdicmate.
Mind you, this docs not mean
the army and navy share Lind
berCh's disregard of the relative
merits of the British and Ger
man causes. They are all-in pro-
British. But his military analy-
sis is irrefutablc.
Lmdbergh'S trouble is that he
is q sincere believer IN peace
H4Al Il ttrtHte neutral fft-. ifi5c ms
father. has gust declined 10 sac
rificc his personal beliefs TO fol-
low the popular will of the coun-
try IN these respects.
Like his father also. he may
have to await the end OF the war
for a fair appreciation Of his
position.
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