Will France Fight England?
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Will France Fight England? By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD Washington IF I WERE DIRECTING the foreign policy of the United States I should be paying more attention to the reports of food...
...The English continue to believe that to feed France wholesale will aid Hitler...
...The mice, some from family lines free of cancer and some with varying degrees of hereditary tendency toward cancer, are placed in a bell jar into which is admitted a mixture of air and tobacco smoke under a pressure that insures entry of measured amounts into the mice's lungs...
...Isador Lubin, federal commissioner of labor statistics, to help cushion the shock when employes are dropped as the rearmament program wanes...
...French Know English Veto Keeps Food From Coming In THINKING FRENCHMEN know that food can be had, that their government has the money to buy it and the ships to move it, that the English veto alone keeps food from coming in when there is plenty available...
...Moreover, its agricultural life is mechanized and is today lacking the gasoline and lubricants so needed in the raising of crops...
...They will only recall in their desperation that the English with their control of the sea are keeping all but a few relief ships away and they may yield readily to the seductive voices of the Nazis asking them to make common cause against those whom the Nazis represent as the authors of all of Europe's miseries...
...They will Oswald G Villardno...
...the hands of the gods...
...It is exactly what Hitler would like to have happen and the psychological effect of it on top of what is happening in the Balkans and seems to be coming in Spain would necessarily have a profoundly discouraging effect upon the English people...
...There again, England blocks the way and there the danger is, too, that the French may soon insist on sending ships and convoying them...
...She is no exception...
...Claiming that the farmer is America's forgotten man, Patton said that in spite of the AAA and the Farm Security Administration "the farmer is still in a worse position than the WPA worker...
...They say that if things get desperate in occupied France the French will revolt against the Nazis because they know that it is the Nazis who are responsible for the existing situation since they have taken a great amount of food out of their country...
...Yet their government and ours, which seems to take all its cues from London, will hear of no relaxation of the food blockade on a large scale, • Will French Sold iers Starve While They Have War Weapons...
...Some tarlike substances have been found in tobacco which causes cancers when placed on the skin in large quantities...
...As now organized, members of the wholesale are principally cotton ginning cooperatives...
...If then England .interferes with its fleet, hostilities will be at hand...
...When I asked her if she really wished French women and children to starve to death, she replied: "Well, that would be too bad, but the French women should not have allowed their country to be corroded by their rotten politicians...
...Census Finds Less But Larger Farms The number of farms in the United States has decreased by 3.1 per cent in the last decade while their average size has increased, the Census Bureau reports...
...In the face of a perilous shortage of wheat, meat, sugar and fats, the spectre of famine and death comes into *ight...
...Tobacco Tested On White Mice In Lung Cancer Research White mice at a United States public health service laboratory at Bethesda, Md., are reaching for a Lucky instead of cheese, to determine whether cigaret smoke develops lung cancers...
...While Tichenor praised the "valiant" efforts of the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice and the work of the women's clubs in advising <- consumer problems, he quoted Thurman Arnold, head of the Anti-Trust Division, as saying that trust busting is like "filling 100 bottles under a faucet, one at a time...
...During January the South American republic's exports to the U. S. were 41.3 per cent of all its exports...
...There the need is for sugar and other staples...
...If I were Mr, Churchill I should be watching the coming of famine in France even more closely than the alarming developments in the Balkans, for it is a belief here in Washington that if the starvation in France goes far enough it will inevitably drive the French into Hitler's arms...
...I pointed out to her that the French women have never had the vote so that they had not direct responsibility...
...Is it possible to expect that they will see their babies dying before their eyes and calmly say that it is all for the best and that their children must be sacrificed so that democracy shall triumph ? That is no conjuring up of some future horror...
...If it should again come to hostilities between the British and French navies, no one could possibly tell how far it would go...
...IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Patton Urges Farm-Labor Cooperation Cooperation of farmers with organized labor, and the joining of farm cooperatives as a means of economic salvation, was urged by James G. Patton, Denver, president of the national Farmers' Equity Union in a talk before the Union's Wisconsin branch at Madison this week...
...After the period of "dismissal wage" payments ended, regular unemployment insurance benefits would be paid the former defense worker...
...Admiral Darlan is becoming apparently more and more powerful in the Vichy government and he has a deadly hatred of the British for their attack upon his fleet at Oran...
...That made no impression upon her...
...Some of these may get into the lungs when smoke comes in contact with the delicate tissues, and although such amounts would be minute, prolonged exposure to these small doses may have the same effect as a few big doses...
...By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD Washington IF I WERE DIRECTING the foreign policy of the United States I should be paying more attention to the reports of food conditions in Europe than anything else, for there lies the greatest danger to the existing order and to the future of democracy itself...
...Credit Unions Lent $100,000,000 Federal credit unions lent more than $100,000,000 to their members during 1940, according to C. R. Orchard, director of the credit union section of the U. S. Farm Credit Administration...
...Here is f. dispatch in the Chicago Daily News, from one of its special correspondents in France, dated February 19, reporting that the previous week in Paris "the most famous hospital doctor had brought before him one morning three corpses...
...Will the French be content to be thus sacrificed ? The answer to that the French will give—first perhaps the troops of General Weygand in Northern Africa, whose supplies are reported to be getting perilously low...
...It is simply astounding how ready our officials are to sacrifice the French to the cause of England...
...Thus, the wife of a high official has just said to me that of course it will be too bad if there should be starvation in France, but that, after all, France earned it by "letting the Germans win...
...They were of babies, dead-because of cold and starvation...
...To this the reply here is that when men are starving they will fight desperately for life against those they know to be keeping food away from them...
...He foresaw 4,000,000 more workers to be employed at the defense program's peak than_are employed now, and claimed a rise of 2,200,00 in employment figures since May...
...But when the abnormal demand for defense materials ceases, Lubin indicated, unemployment will necessarily follow...
...The French Ambassador is saying that to our State Department every chance that he gets— and Sumner Welles brushes it aside...
...This correspondent reports that a high official of the Department of Agriculture in Vichy said to him that: "France can live until the end of March, but after that the lives of 40 millions of people will be in...
...This is, however, sure...
...RAIL SPEED QUICKENS The quickened tempo of rail transportation was disclosed recently in a report of the Association of American Railroads showing that there are now 1,226 daily trains run at an average speed of more than a mile a minute...
...He illustrated that argument by citing the informative labeling program now adopted by some grocery chains after two years of pioneering by cooperatives...
...He cannot forgive the loss of life there and the destruction of his vessels at anchor and completely unready...
...Will they be so obliging as to starve quietly in their barracks when they still have guns, tanks, airplanes and ammunition ? Arms Tax Urged To Soften Shock As Boom Ends Payment of "dismissal ¦ wages," financed by a special tax on all defense contractors, was proposed this week by Dr...
...Co-ops Best Aid To Consumers, Tichenor Says Cooperatives offer "the easiest and most natural safeguard" in protecting consumer interests, George H. Tichenor of the Eastern Cooperative League told a conference of the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs in Boston last week...
...TT AMAZES ME TO meet many Americans here who are perfectly A willing that the French shall starve if thereby England shall profit...
...In some parts of the French countryside herds of wild dogs have attacked women and children along deserted roads...
...He said after the first World War farm prices dropped sharply and since then have never reached parity...
...Lubin also suggested extending the present maximum of 18 weeks of unemployment benefits to "at least 26 weeks...
...The high-ranking New Deal economist suggested the dismissal wage be paid for by a special tax of perhaps five per cent, levied on all prime or subcontractors in defense industries...
...He pointed out that prices are "50 to 70 per cent of parity with mortgages based on abnormally high prices...
...Lubin warned the Temporary National Economic Committee that "a catastrophe is inevitable" unless a "conscious effort is made to meet the depression threatened by future cessation in the demand for munitions...
...we are not going to help the Nazis...
...If cooperatives "set the pace for fair business practice," Tichenor continued, other business enterprises automatically follow suit...
...Public health statistics indicate that the infant mortality rate in Paris in January was twice as high as that of 1939...
...If the mice fail to contract cancer, it's a great opportunity for a mouse testimonial for some cigaret advertiser...
...Representatives of agriculture, labor and industry must get together, ask for technicians, and paint a picture of what we are going to do for low income people and what changes should be made in our economy—all in the light of new world conditions," Patton declared...
...One of our great American humorists announced his willingness during the Civil War to sacrifice every one of his wife's relatives to the cause of the Union...
...Anne Morgan, who has done more for France than any other American woman, demands that food be sent over no matter what the cost and no pne listens to her, • Hostilities Would Have Very Disturbing Effect On British ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN, in Algeria for example, the situation is also very Dad...
...The co-op representative emphasized that a "big stick" is no "substitute for the yard stick...
...Here, in her warm and very comfortable home, she could condemn the women and children of a nation to a most horrible, lingering death without a qualm...
...j New Wholesale Co-op Opened A new regional consumer cooperative wholesale—Producers and Consumers Cooperatives—has been established in Dallas, Tex., to provide petroleum products and related products to its member coops...
...U. S. Bought Most From Argentina Argentina's best customer in January was the United States, with Great Britain second, figures published by the national bureau of statistics reveal...
...on the contrary she is the rule and she represents the controlling opinion in the State Department and the government...
...No results are expected for months, since if cancers are caused by cigarettes they probably appear only after a long period of constant smoking and perhaps only in persons with cancer tendencies in their constitutions...
...undertake to rise with their bare hands against the occupying troops, nor will they go into huddles to ponder just how much of the blame attaches to one side or the other...
Vol. 5 • March 1941 • No. 10
