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WENDELL WILLKIE
In the panic of 1893 financial In 1932 Wendell Willkte gave ruin struck the Willkies and a $150 to the Roosevelt campaign few years later Elwood's natural fund. The time came when he gas, prodically wasted, played announced that he would like to
have it back, but that was later. › out. By the time "Wen" Will- kie and his three brothers were For Willkie and Roosevelt had in long pants they found plenty quite a few ideas in common.
Willkie made no attempt to hide- of work in summer moving his opinion that business had abandoned Elwood houses.. into sinned in 1920 and should take
the country to be used as out its punishment.
buildings for farmers.
Power Politics
WENDELL LEWIS WILLKIE, chief obstacle in the way of President Roosevelt's third term election to
Their home was ʼn sort of per- INTEGRAL DOOR HANDLES, White House, has been aptly described by the American
Before the curtain Wilkie now- petual debating society. They stands as Roosevelt's opponent. A CONCEALED DOOR HINGES, weekly magazine "Time" as an Indiana crackerbox de-
kept more than 6,000 books lifelong Indiana Democrat, he to the GREATER VISIBILITY, bater in store clothes, and full of intellectual hops.
around the house and old Her only business man in the US; to be a Presidential pos- LOEWY-STYLED INTERIORS, He has an unruly mop of Between his apartment on
man Willkle, back at his law mentioned as
sibility. The "possibility" was mildly ---and a host of other improve-brown-hair, a barrel chest, and Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue practice harder than ever, woke fantastic at first but not no now that hia children in the mornings by willte has been nominated Repub- m nts that count for greater he stands six feet one in spite and his office on narrow, down shouting quotations from the lican choice for the White House. comfort and maximum safety. stooping as if he was per- town Pine Street he uses sub- classics.
petually leaning over a jury box.
ways and taxicabs. When he sits in a chair he
Hated Prussians Besides having no automobile, sprawls like a sheepdog, at rest but his blue, humour-flecked he carries no watch. He gets State University in Bloomington When "Wen" went to the eyes look out from under knitted the time from walters, or from in 1909 he soon became a prac interested but realistic eye. Stamp- On these Wendell Willkie casts an brows waiting for the argument clocks in store windows, and one ticing politician as well na ก to begin.
ed with anti-New Deal mark, be to of the duties of his man secre- conspicuous figure. He wore a still too much of a liberal to sult When it does, he gives tongue. tary is to tell him the time. loose-necked red sweater, chew- old-line Republicans, When friends He swings a leg over the arm The other duties of the secretary of the chair, his coat begins to include seeing that his clothes ́ crawl' up his back, his big hands
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India's Progress
A sintement of for-reaching Importance to India and the British Empire generally, was issued by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, on Friday,
Vigorous Talker
The
*Into Willkle's oMee come 500 let- ters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House.
ROOSEVELT'S No. 1 RIVAL
ed tobacco, preached socialism ask him whether he intends to be u from campus soap-boxes. By candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be His talk, with a native Indiana Family of Lawyers
a sucker to say "Yes?'" tang, is even more vigorous. To
name of Willkie was the time he became sophomore hell with formality. He talks originally Willeke. All four of he was a leader of campus Magic Touch
the "bards." roared against as men do in the locker room, Willkie's grandparents fled Ger-
preached revolt
To-day Wendell Willkie is the big- gest politlent Agure in U.S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par"), la
Pennsylvania
and spices his profanity with many after the revolts against fraternities, the Bible, Shakespeare and the tottering Metternich absolu. against the university faculty, law. He spills out figures, tism in 1848. When Wendell One of the fraternity leaders his business, but power in the general, dates, technical facts, historical was born in 1892 his father, (Beta Theta Pi) was his aristo- sense is a word that recurs often in his philosophy, Free,enterprise, free parallels,
Herman Willkie, was a lawyer cratic friend Paul Vories Me competition and free trade are his and When the argument grows
a wealthy landowner in the Nutt, whom Willkle still likes to tenets for raising the economic
at Indiana University standards of society. hot his eyes get hawk-like and town of Elwood, Indo. (pop. josh
alumni dinners. But in two or his stubborn upper lips stiffens. 10,685).
He belleves that the "magic touch three years Wilkie's socialism of par" corrupted business in, the If an opponent wilts under his His mother was also a lawyer, fire, Willkie is disgusted. He the first woman member of the wore out. As a senior he even booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just
destructive on broke down and joined the "s The announcement contained the doesn't want the argument to Indiana bar, and besides tending pompadourad Betas, but he did Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par news that India's legislative powers end. were to be greatly augmented, so
her family (six children, of much so that a very definite stride has been taken towards Dominion Status.
For being that sort of man whom Wendell was the third) helped her husband in his law This
Wendell Willkle gets $75,000 a should in Inet, constitute the next step.
It is
safe to say that every section year, but he has never owned an practice. of the Empire has long been anti-automobile. (Old Indiana friends' Elwood was then riding high. on the day war was declared be- "Next election," he says, "the New elpating the day when India could say that when he did try, dr’v- Natural gas had been discovered cause he had a family hatred of Deal is going to be on trial again, definitely be listed amongst the in- ing an automobile he was a and the supply was so plentiful anything Prussian.
He dependent but loyal countries com-
be- President Roosevelt is its ablest prising the British Dominions. This menace, always arguing over his that no one took the trouble to came a lieutenant of field artil- spokesman and In eventuality has recently been visualised still more persistently, the shoulder, frequently letting go turn out the street lights by lery, learned to like gunnery. We can debate it to everybody's more so as the present Viceroy of the wheel to gesture with both day. It was just as cheap to but never learned to like army satisfaction. It will be a great dis- india, Lord Linlithgow, has untiring-hands).
ly been doing his utmost to bring about racial unity between the political parties within the country itselt,-
pre-requisite to total self-deled.
The British Government has long expressed a desire that India should attula dominion status, and animated by this hope, it was announced in the Autumn of last year that the Govern- or General's Council should bc expanded so as to include a number
let them burn.
་
goes to men's heads. When you see not brush his hair.
the bust of Napoleon on the deals of Willkie graduated from law a businessman, you'd better get out school in 1916, went into prac- quick and sell him short. The sume tice in Elwood, but dropped it goes for Government officials."
discipline.
J
Democratic
country it deserves an able advocate.
cussion."
WHAT HAVE-NOT ITALY HAS TO DEFEND
ITALY, although she has con- Land, veined with barbed wire en-colonial
stantly grumbled that she is tanglements
campaign similar to that divides Libya from waged in Germany's African colonies during the Great War will find
of Indian representatives of the one of the "have-nots," never- Egypt and the waters of the Nile. various political parties as soon as
warranted the step,
Indian
theless had before she entered
nearly 13,000,000.
our side.
for
Puntellaria
La a
smul volcani
chiefs have amited politely while the Italy's Eritrea, Mussolini has Duce has brandished "the Sword of four years been bringing large cup-island some 45 square miles in area,
piles LARGEST of her colonies is Islam."
of oll and munitions to the standing roughly halfway between LIBYA. It lies between
French Tunis and the island of But the country remains mainly mountain capital of Addis Ababa.
Sleily. There, the Italians hope, it Egypt, French Tunisia and French
a land of turbulent tribes, kept in But these vital supplies of oil, controls West Africa with a 1,500 mile coast check largely by the Italian garri arms and men have now been cut Gibraltar and Malta, and thence to the sca route between. line along the Mediterranean.
son that has been maintained there oft.
DETWEEN
and the mountaina
BETW the Red Sea
Alexandria.
So much for Italy's colonial possessions. She also has Libya has been the scene of Italy's the Abyssinian tribes in action on several strong points in the Mediter- avidences of concord and coopera- the war a large colonial empire/most ambitious colonial programmes, |
ranean, one of which, 'PANTEL- tion warr
Foreign journalists have been con- Up the mountain railway from LARIA, is bound to Ogure largely in lenders
of every party were, there extending over 1,305,000 square ducted triumphantly through a few Jibuti in French Somulllund, and the war news soon. fore, urged to take practical steps to miles, with a population of model settlements; local Moslem by road from Mossawa, the port of achieve, this end.
The telegram now receive an nounces that the Government is pre- pared to welcome these additions to the Executive Council and, at the some time, has expressed a desire for the establishment "of a body which will more closely associate Indian public opinion with the conduct of hte war by the Central Government."
India has shown her loyalty and Its chief ports, Tripoli and Beng-for the past ten years. That gar- readiness to help Great Britain in the
hazi, are some 500 miles from Italy,rison numbers over 200,000 men.
For years past passengers on ships struggle now being waged. She bas earned the recognition that the Home
but are dominated by Malta, Bri- I
of passing through the Mediterranean FTER Libya, ABYSSINIA, Abyssinia, whose vast resources Italy, have seen the lights' on the heights Government has accorded her. The tain's Island naval base, 200 miles,
with on Italian garrison has so far been able only to touch of the island which mock the Italian country clearly sees that Hitter and
away.
lof 80,000, is Italy's next most Im-upon, lies ERITREA, oldest of the fortifications. system would prove an enemy to Indian civilization. He would, if in
Libya, formerly Tripoll, was an portant colonial possession. Of its Italian colonies.
Every effort has been made to power, not only put back
From the sea you can see malaria! make Pantellarla an Italian Malta, Turkey in 1911-12. Much of It is safely assumed that large propor- lowlands rising towards the fantas- and even the lava from the extinct In fact, for so long as his system en- dured but he would
exploit the desert. But on the coast plains and tion would welcome the chance to the volcanic rock formations of the volcano has been tunnelled for the country to its utmost. In plain the slopes of the hills palm orchards, rise against the new rulers who interior. words,
he would rob the country of olive groves, lemon, almond and fig brought the "civilisation" of bombs all it possesses, forcing the people trees and vineyards are cultivated by and poison gas to them four years into slaves, existing only for the
natives and Italian settlers alike. ngo. aggrandisement of the German race. India, realizing what is at stake, is all the more willing to offer. her man- power and her resources to Great Britain towards the final overthrow of the reign of aggression that is sweeping through Europe sa dis- astrously.
his
mination for India" for fer-nexed by Italy during the war with ten million, population, It can be
Along its western border modern In any case the Abyssinians like forts and guns, manned by Italian fighting if there is a fight going. and native troops, peer from the background of red sandhills at simi- lar French fortifications' in Tunis.
To the east a desert No Man's
India now faces a task of great magnitude. She has repeatedly de prove-If this is the case or not, but clared for self-determination. The at a time like the present when Bris success of the opportunity now given tain is engaged in a
nothing in the
her depends solely on the capacity existence, there can bouggle for
of the Indians themselves to find their own way out of the complexity of disagreements in which they have hitherto struggled. Great Britain as the determining
factor in Indian affairs has enabled the country to live in reasonable security and
concord
with the possibility of making go progress socially as well as economic- ally. It is now India's cliance, to prove that the guiding hand can be withdrawn with impunity.
The task will not be an easy one as past events have proved, and some quarters fear that this friendly offer by Britain will have no better success than previous offers made by her for self-government. The future will
to
way of "hedging or haggling" but only straight-forward offer India "to work out her own salva- tion". India can, therefore, he said to be at the crossroads of her exist ence. The next few months
will prove whether she is able to forgel smouldered for generations. within all the political hostilities that havo
her ranks, forget her religious
pre judices and emerge as a glorious addition lò the Dominions whether also will allow herself” to sink into a welter of discord. We prefer to believe the former and to look forward with confidence to her. people to make themselves founders and makers of a new India,
It
П Euro
guess that any
ANGLOT
EGYPTINH
SAUDI
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BELGIAN CONDO
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the
This map shows Italy's possessions Africa and the Mediterranean.
forts.
whitewashed buildings with a nest
Massawa, its port a collection of LASTLY, at the entrance.
of petrol tanks and a few derricks lying along the Turkish coast, aro to the Acgean Sea, and to show that
it is a sca port, lies the DODECANESE, (Twelve Is- like a smudge of vivid Chinese white lands). on the coastline,
The R.A.F. has picked on it as a Turkey in 1912, obtaining the hid These Italy salzed in her war with first-class torget.
of the islanders by an unfulfilled
In the interior the natives mako promise of autonomy.
a poor living by the growing of
After the Great War Italy twice cercals and the raising of cattle, whose akins and hides are exported over to Greece, but has never done promised to hand the Dodecanese
FARTHER south, below so.
French and British Soma❤, Instead, she has fortified some of land, lies the last unit of Italion the Islands, converted Lores into a East Africa, ITALIAN SOMALI- strong naval and air base, which LAND, which covers 104,000 square should form a valuable tale for sub- miles and has a population of about marines, and has concentrated 50,000 1,300,000.
troops there.
It has one peculiar claim to fame.
The
area around the Dodecanese
It produces half of the world's sup was among the first of the Mediter
ply of incenso. Most of the inhabl ranean waters to bo mined, by the tants make their living by sheep or Brillah Navy. cattle rearing
or fishing along the
1,000 miles of coast.
B. M.
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