Both AFL and CIO mail news sheets and pamphlets through civilian channels
By Phelps Adams, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Guarantees to farms and industry cited in demand for post-war pay program
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Republicans considered most likely to usher in post-war prosperity
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Members of Military Affairs Committee assure Weiss of ‘sympathetic consideration’
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
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Washington (UP) –
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today that accounts given by some Republican Congressmen of their foreign policy discussion with him yesterday were “garbled and inaccurate in important respects.”
Mr. Hull’s brief statement, made in response to a request for comment, follows:
As is usual when a few people get to talking about an off-the-record discussion, second-hand accounts are garbled and inaccurate in important respects, as in this case.
The State Department would not undertake to give what it considered a correct version.
The Republicans, describing the administration as having too much of a “do-nothing” attitude on international affairs, appeared to be preparing to inject that theme in their political campaign.
Governor is called ‘blushing violet’
Boston, Massachusetts (UP) – (March 25)
Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan tonight described New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, leading potential candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, as a “blushing violet” and challenged him to “come out into the sunshine.”
Speaking at a Jackson Day dinner, Mr. Hannegan also challenged minority party spokesmen to discuss openly and frankly government scandals and other incidents that transpired under Republican rule following the end of the Civil War and World War I.
Without identifying Mr. Dewey by name, Mr. Hannegan said his challenge was inspired by predictions of newspaper correspondents that the Republicans would nominate for the Presidency a man who is not even a candidate in the party primaries.
‘Smirking and lurking’
Mr. Hannegan said:
They report that he is smirking and lurking and dodging behind the pretense that he is not a candidate for the Presidency, and hence has no obligation to discuss the fundamental problems which lie before the American people.
If Republican leaders plan to put over such a candidate, then we propose to turn on the searchlight of truth so that all may know their plans.
He described as “arrogance” and as a “libel on our citizenry” a statement which he said Republican National Committee Chairman Harrison E. Spangler made to the effect that the GOP “can win the Presidency with anybody.”
‘Offer nothing’
Mr. Hannegan said:
This means that the Republican Party, in the opinion of its leaders, needs to offer the American people nothing at all – which, in the way of constructive principles, is exactly what the Republican Party has.
It means that the Republican Party is expecting America to accept its own social and economic bankruptcy – take it and like it. It means that our people di not desire nor deserve leadership based on principles of freedom and equality, in the opinion of leaders of the Republican Party.
Mr. Spangler has repeatedly said that he was misquoted in the “win-the-anybody” statement made at a press conference in Chicago during the meeting of the GOP National Committee recently. He contends he said the party could win with anyone the convention nominated, explaining that it “would not nominate a weak candidate.”
Irish issue mentioned
Mr. Hannegan touched lightly on the recent refusal of the Irish Free State to accede to President Roosevelt’s request that Axis missions in Éire be closed for the duration on the ground that they are the sources of espionage activities which threaten the safety of Allied forces poised in England for the invasion of the continent.
Noting that many of his listeners were Irish, Mr. Hannegan said:
The land of our forefathers is in the news these days – not as we Americans would have it, not in the time-honored tradition, not in the great part that Ireland has ever played through the ages in man’s fight for freedom.
Three problems listed
Today, he said, “there is frustration; there is bewilderment. Irish eyes are not smiling.”
Three major problems, he said, will face the post-war world:
Formation of a just and equitable plan for taking care of the nation’s 11 million returning soldiers and sailors.
Reconversion to peacetime needs of America’s vast and sprawling war machine.
Adoption of a peace plan providing cooperation with other nations to banish war from the face of the globe.
Washington – (March 25)
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War in the Hoover Cabinet and now roving ambassador for President Roosevelt, is being discussed here as a possible keynoter for the Republican National Convention at Chicago in June.
Gen. Hurley’s name, put forward by Rep. Leo E. Allen (R-IL), elicited a favorable response in many Congressional quarters, where it was agreed that he not only would be an excellent choice as the keynote speaker, but that he might develop formidable strength as a vice-presidential possibility.
His colorful career, his military record and his forthright manner of speaking qualify him, in the opinion of his backers, for a place in the front rank of contenders for these posts, while his strongly nationalistic views, coupled with his “energetic support” of Mr. Roosevelt’s foreign policy, would make him an asset to the entire Republican campaign.
The choice of a keynoter will be made by the Committee on Arrangements which will meet April 18 and 19 in Chicago. Others mentioned as possible keynoters are: Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-CT), Senator Edward H. Moore (R-OK), Senator Chapman Revercomb (R-WV), Pennsylvania Governor Edward Martin and Illinois Governor Dwight H. Green.
Started as miner
Born in the Choctaw Nation before it became Oklahoma, Gen. Hurley made his way from a humble beginning as a coalminer and a cowboy to positions of prominence in the legal profession and in government. his military record is unusual, in that he has held every rank in the Army from private to a major general.
During World War I, he participated in the Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne and Saint-Mihiel offensives. President Hoover appointed him Assistant Secretary of War when he formed his Cabinet in March 1929, and, late in the same year, promoted him to the secretaryship.
On domestic issues, Gen. Hurley opposes governmental ownership in general, and is an ardent believer in private enterprise; yet, abhorring communism and those who advocate its adoption in this country, he is a strong believer in Russia as a world power.
At Tehran Conference
He has long been a member of the English-Speaking Union and believes that the future peace of the world rests upon the maintenance of Great Britain in her present position of eminence.
As one of the President’s aides at the Tehran Conference, he drafted the Iran declaration guaranteeing the independence of Iran and reaffirming the principles of the Atlantic Charter. For several months, moreover, he has been ironing out differences and difficulties between the British and the United States in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Near Eastern countries.
He thus is being suggested by his friends as the logical answer to the problem which the Republicans face this year in charting a course between the isolationist elements of the party and the interventionist supporters of Wendell L. Willkie.
Dreaded flow of lava subsiding
By Eleanor Packard, United Press staff writer
Naples, Italy – (March 25)
More than 30 persons were killed and several score injured this week as tons of flaming boulders, brimstone cinders and huge walls of scorching lava poured from the crater of Mount Vesuvius, crunching and searing everything for miles around.
Most of the deaths were the result of crashing roofs, which, buried under tons of heavy volcanic ash, toppled in during the night on sleeping citizens, the Allied Military Government said.
The volcano still belched smoke and ashes thousands of feet into the air, but the dreaded flow of lava had subsided considerably.
Prof. Giuseppe Imbò, director of the Royal Italian Observatory on Vesuvius, said the volcano still continues in an “abnormal condition,” but he declined to comment on whether it had passed the critical stage.
The bodies of 26 dead have already been dug from the wreckage of homes and buildings, the AMG said.
In the province of Salerno, 12 people were killed at Nocera and nine others at Pagani, due to collapsing roofs, AMG officials said. In Naples Province, three persons were killed at Terzigno by stones flying from the crater of the volcano.