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WENDELL WILLKIE

In the panic of 1893 financial In 1932 Wendell Willkie gave ruin struck the Willkies and a $150 to the Roosevelt campaign few years later Elwood's natural fund. The time came when he announced that he would like to gas, prodieally wasted, played

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. of work, in summer moving Willkle made no attempt to hide his opinion that business had abandoned Elwood houses into sinned in 1929 and should take the country to be used as out its punishment.

Power Politics

buildings for farmers.

JENDELL LEWIS WILLKIE, chief obstacle in the way of President Roosevelt's third term election to

Their home was a sort of per-

Before the curtain Wilkie now INTEGRAL DOOR HANDLES..White House, has been aptly described by the American

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 Indiano Democrat, he is 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 Presidential pos- LOEWY-STYLED INTERIORS, He has an unruly mop of

Between his apartment on man Willklė, back at his law mentioned as

sibility. The "possibility" was mildly practice harder than ever, woke fantastic at first but not so now that and a host of other improve- brown hair, a barrel chest, and Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue his children in the mornings by willie has been nominated Repub- ments that count for greater he stands six feet one in spite and his office on narrow, down- shouting quotations from the lean choice for the White House. comfort and maximum safety. of stooping as if he was per- town Pine Street he uses sub- classics.

Into Wilkie's office come 500 let- petually leaning over a jury box.

ways and taxicabs.

ters weekly, all urging him to keep Hated Prussians When he sits in a chair he

up the fight, many predicting that it Besides having no automobile, aprawls like a sheepdog, at rest

When "Wen" went to the will wind up with him in the Whe

House, but his blue, humour-flecked he carries no watch. He gets State University in Bloomington eyes look out from under knitted the time from waiters, or from in 1909 he soon became a prac On these Wendell Willkile casts an interested but realistic eye. Stamp- brows waiting for the argument clocks in store windows, and one ticing politician as well as a ed with anti-New Deal mark, he la to begin.

of the duties of his man secre- conspicuous figure. He wore a all too much of a liberal to suit 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 statement of far-reaching

Importance to India and the British

Empire generally, was issued by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, on Friday.

move in expressive gesture. In are pressed and that he some- a few minutes he is sitting up times gets a haircut. His critics straight, his forelock is hanging say that It's a pose, his friends ín. his eyes.

that he has always been that

way.

Vigorous Talker

Family of Lawyers

ROOSEVELT'S

No. 1 RIVAL

ed tobacco, preached socialism ask him whether he intends to be a from campus soap-boxes. By candidate he answers, "Wouldn't i be His talk, with a native Indiana

a sucker to say "Yes?'" The name of Wilkie was the time he became sophomore tang, is even more vigorous. To

he was a leader of campus Magic Touch hell with formality. He talks originally Willcke. All four of

the

Traternities, preached revolt

us men do in the locker room, Willkie's grandparents fled Ger- "bards," roared against and spices his profanity with many after the revulta against the Bible, Shakespeare and the tottering Metternich absolu. against the university faculty.

law.

To-day. Wendell Willkie is the big- gest political figure in US, business. Electric power (he calls it "par"), is He spills out figures, Lism in 1818. When Wendell One of the fraternity leaders his business, but power in the general dates, technical fnets, 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- condition and free trade ore his and a wealthy landowner in the Nutt, whom Willkie still likes to tenets

for raising the economic When the argument grows

at Indiana University standards of society. hot his eyes get hawk-like and town of Elwood, Indo. (pap, josh

alumni dinners. But in two or He believes that the "magle touch his stubborn upper lips stiffens: 10,685).

three years Willkic's sozialism of port corrupted business in the wore out. As a senior he even booming 20s. “Par," he says, "le just broke down and joined the "

If an opponent wilts under his

destructive (1) Pennsylvanin

His mother was also a lawyer, fire, Willkie is disgusted: He the first woman member of the The announcement contained the doesn't want the argument to Indiana bar, and besides tending pampadoured Betas, but he did Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Pur news that India's legislative powers. end...

her family (six children, of were to be greatly augmented, so much

so that a very definite.stride has

For being that sort of man whom Wendell was the third} been taken towards Dominion Status. This should in fact, constitute the

Wendell Wilkie gets $75.000 a helped her husband in his law next step.

it is safe to say that every section

of the Empire has long been, anti-, cipating the day when India could defnitely be listed amongst the in- dependent but loyal countries com- prising the British Dominions. This eventuality has

recently been visualised still more persistently, the more so as the present Viceroy of india, Lord Linlithgow, has untiring- ly been doing his utmost to bring about

racial

unity between the political parties within the country

self, necessary pre-requisite to

self-determination.

total

year, but he has never owned an automobile. (Old Indiana friends

practice.

Elwood was then riding high.

goes to men's heads. When you see not brush his hair.

the bust of Napoleón on the desk of Willie graduated from law a businessman, you'd better get out... school in 1916, went into prac- quick und sell him short. The same tice in Elwood, but dropped it goes for Government officials." on the day war was declared be- "Next election," he says, "the New say that when he did try driv- Natural gas had been discovered cause he had a family hatred of Deal is going to be on trial again.

He ing an automobile he was a and the supply was so plentiful anything Prussian,

ables! be. President Roosevelt is its

spokesmmand in 23 Democratic menace, always arguing over his that no one took the trouble lo came a lieutenant of field artil

We Can debate it to everybody's shoulder, frequently letting go turn out the street lights by lery, learned to like gunnery, country it deserves an able advocute. 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- hands).

let them burn.

discipline..

cursion."

The British Government has lona! WHAT HAVE-NOT' ITALY HAS TO DEFEND

expressed a desire that India should

attain dominion status, and animated i

by this hope, it was announced in the TTALY, although she has con-Land, veined with barbed wire ent-colonial campaign similar

1

J

must ambitious colonial programmes,-|

to that i Autumn of Inst year that the Govern

divides Libya from waged in Germany's African colonles So much for Italy's colonial or-General's Council should be

stantly grumbled that she is tanglements

Ind during the Great War will

possessions. She also has expanded so as to include a a number

Egypt and the waters of the Nile. of Indian representatives

one of the "have-nots," never- of the

Libya hus been the scene of Italy's the Abyssinian tribes in action on several strong points in the Mediter- various political parties as soon as theless had before she entered

our side.

ranean, one of which, PANTEL- evidences of concord and coopecia-

gone the war a large colonial empire Foreign journalists have been con tion warranted the step.

Up the mountain railway from LARIA, is bound to figure largely in leaders of every party were, there extending over 1,395,000 square ducted triumphantly through a few in French Somaliland, arid the war news zoon. fore, urged to take practical steps to

Moslem y fond from Massawa, the part of settlements; local miles, with a. population of model achieve this end.

chiefs have smiled politely while the Italy's Eritrea, Mussolini has for nearly 13,000,000.

Duce has brandished "the Sword of four years been bringing large sup-sland some 45 square miles in arck,

piles of oil and munitions

standing roughly halfway between LARGEST of her colonies is Islam,"

French Tunts and the Island of But the country remains mainly mountain capital of Addis Ababa.

Sicily. There, the Italians hope, it Egypt, French Tunisin and French land of turbulent tribes, kept in But these vital supplies of oil, controls the sca route between West Africa with a 1,300 mile const-check largely by the Itaan garris arms and men have now been eu Gibraltar and Malta, and thence to line along the Mediterranean.

son that has been maintained thereof.

Alexandria,

LIBYA, It lies between

to the

Pantellaria is п

small volconie

The telegram now received an- nounces that the Government is pre- pared to welcome these additions to the Executive Council and, at the same time, has expressed a desire for the establishment "uf 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 readiness to help Great Britain in the

huzi, are some 500 miles from Italy, rison numbers over 200,000 men.

and the mountains of passing through the Mediterrancan struggle now being waged.

She

has earned the recognition that the Home but are dominated by Malta, Bri-|

FTER Libya, ABYSSINIA, Abyssiniu, whose vast resources Italy, have seen the lights on the heights. Government hus accorded her. The tain's island naval base, 200 miles,

with an Italian garrison has so far been able only to touch of the island which mark the Italian country clearly sees that Hitler and away.

or 80,000, is Italy's next most im-upon, lies ERITREA, oldest of the fortifications.

Every effort has been made to Libya, formerly Tripoll, was an portant colonial possession. Or its Italian colonies. power, not only put back "self-deter-nexed by Italy during the war with ten million population, it can be From the sen you can see mulorial make Pastejlario... an -Itólian Malta, mination for India" for generations Turkey in 1011-12. Much of it is safely assumed that a large propor- lowlands rising towards the fantas-and even the lava from the extinct In fact, for so long as his system en- desert. But on the coast plains andtion would welcome the chance to tie volcanic rock formations of the volcano has been tunnelled for the dured but he would exploit the

the slopes of the hills palm orchards, rise against the new rulers

who Interior, cou country to its utmost. In plain words, he would rob the country of olive graves, lemon, almond and g brought the "civilisation" of bombs trees and vineyards are cultivated by and poison gas to them four years all it possesses, forcing the people Into slaves, existing only for the natives and Italian settlers alike. aggrandisement of the German race. realizing what is at stake, is all

Its chief ports, Tripoli and Beng-for the past ten years. That gur- BE ETWEEN the Red Sea For years past passengers on ships

his system would prove on enemy to

Indian civilization. He would, If in

Along its western border modern

the more willing to offer her man- forts and urs, manned by Hallan power and her resources

to Great and native troops, perr from the Britain towards the final overthrow background of red sandhills at simi- of the reign of aggression that is lar French fortifications in Tunis. sweeping through Europe dis-

ustrously.

To the east a desert No Man's

Indla now frices a task of great

prove if this is the case or not, but! magoltude. She has repeatedly de- clared for self-determination." The at a time like the present when Bri- tain is engaged in'n struggle for Kacress of the opportunity now given

the her depends solely

existence, there can be nothing on the capacity of the Indians themselves to and way at "hedging or haggling" but their own way out of the complexity only a straight-forward offer to of disagreements in which they have India to work out her own salva- hitherto struggled. Great Britain as tion". India can, therefore, he said the determining factor in Indian to be at the crossroads of her exist- affairs has enabled the country to live ence. The next few months will in reasonable security and concord prove whether she is able to forget with the possibility of making good all the political hostilities that have Renerations within progress socially as well as economie- smouldered for ally. It is now. India's chance prove that the guiding hand can be withdrawn with impunity....”

to her ranks, forget her religious bre- be judices and emerge as glorious adultion 10 the Dominions, or

The task will not be an easy one ink into a weller of discord. We one whether the will allow herself, to

as past events have proved, and some

quarters. fear that this friendly offer prefer to-belleve the former and lo

by Britain will have better success look forward with confidence to her

ngo,

It is A

mire guess

In any case the Abysshions like ghting If there is a night going.

that any

LIBYA

CANOLOC

LGYPTIAN

JAUDI

ARABIA

BLİCİAN

·CONIO

KENYA

than previous offers made by her people. Ko make themselves, the This map shows Italy's possessions for self-government. The future will Founders and makers of a new India, in Africa and the Mediterranean.

forts.

.

...

entranco

Massawa, its port, a collection of

ASTLY, at the LAST whitewashed buildings with a nest!

to the Aegean Sea, and of petrol tanks and a few derricks lying along the Turkish coast, are

to show that it is a sea port, lies the: DODEÇANESE (Twelve 18- Jilke a smudge of vivid Chinese white Innda). jon the coastline.

These Italy seized in her war with The R.A.F. has picked on it as a Turkey in 1012; obtaining the ald first-class target.

of the islanders by an unfulfilled

In the interlor the natives moke promise of autonomy.

apoor living by the growing of

After the Great War Italy twice Cereals and the raising, of cattle, promised to hand the Dodecanese whose skins and hides are exported over to Greece, but has never done

FARTHER South,

below so...

French and British Soma-

Instead, she has fortified some of Band, lies the last unit of Italian the islands, converted Leros into a East Africa, ITALIAN SOMALI- trong nuval and air base, which LAND, which covers 194,000 square should form a valuable lair for sub- miles and has a population of about mariner, and has concentrated 80,000 1,300,000.

troops there, delete

It has one peculiar claim to 'faine.

The 'nres, around - the Dodecanese It produces, half of the world's sup was among the first of the Meditar-

ply of incense. Most of the inhabi-ranean waters to be mined by the tants inako their living by steep or British Navy

cattic rearing or fishing along the

1,000 miles of coast

B. M.

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