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...write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike the security of U. M. W. and C. I. 0. would be equally endangered...
While Poland and Germany thus prepared for a showdown, journalistic prophets were busy. New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich...
...publicly buried his own appease-the-dictators policy, it was evident last week that such an old habit would die hard. Correspondents even suggested that the Cabinet's Stop Hitler campaign was welded more by the white-heat of public indignation than by any new warmth for a showdown by the Government. Mr. Chamberlain admitted, however, that the present was no moment for him to go flying to see Führer Hitler again as he did last September...
...honest showdown, not only Vice President Garner and influential Senators like South Carolina's Byrnes would be found at Pat Harrison's side, but perhaps even loyal Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. At week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise...
This week the showdown came. Unable to bring all the Arab and Jewish delegates together during three weeks of the abortive Round-Table Conference, the British Government, rather than allow the deadlock to continue, threw its cards on the table. In an "unofficial recommendation" submitted by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to the Arab and Jewish delegations, the British Government proposed that they end their League of Nations mandate over Palestine and set up the Holy Land as an independent state, tied by treaty relations to Britain...