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WENDELL WILLKIE.

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In the panic of 1893 Anancial In 1932 Wendell Willkie gave rain struck the Willkies and a $150 to the Roosevelt campaign few years later Elwood's natural fund. The time came when he gns, prodically wasted, played announced that he would like to out. By the time "Wen" Will have it back, but that was later. kle and his three brothers were

For Willkie and Roosevelt had

In long pants they found plenty quite a few idens in common. of work in summer moving Willkie made no attempt to hida his opinion that business had abandoned Elwood houses into

sinned in 1929 and should take

the country to be used as out- its punlahment."

buildings for farmers,”

Power Politics

Before, the curtain Wilkie now

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

Their home was a sort of per- INTEGRAL DOOR HANDLES, White House, has been aptly described by the American

petual debating society. They stands na Roosevelt's opponent. A CONCEALED DOOR HINGES, weekly magazine "Time" as an Indiana erackerbox de-

kept more than 6,000 books Ifelong Indiana 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 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 frst but not so now that his children in the mornings by wikle has been nominated Repub- mints 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.

petually leaning over a jury hox. When he sits in a chair he

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Into Wilkie's office como 500 let- tern weekly, all urging him to keep Hated Prussians

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

When "Wen" went to the will wind up with him in the Whis but his blue, humour-flecked ho carries no watch. He gets State University in Bloomington eyes look out from under knitted the time from walters, or from in 1909 he soon became a prac- On these Wendell Willkle casts aní brows whiting for the argument clocks in store windows, and one tlcing politician as well as ed with anti-New Deol mark, he is intcreated' but reallalle eye. Stamp- to begin,

of the duties of his man secre- conspicuous figure. He wore a still 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 cont begins to include seeing that his clothes crawl up his back, his big hands

move in expressive gesture. In are pressed and that he some.

times à few minutes he is sitting up

gets a haircut. His critics straight, his forelock is hanging say that it's a pose, his friends in his eyes.

that he has always been that way. Vigorous Talker

His talk, with a native Indiana Family of Lawyers lang, is even more vigorous. To

The name

ROOSEVELT'S

No. I RIVAL

the

preached revolt

To-day Wendell Willkie is the big- gest political figure in U.S. business. Electric power (he calls it "par"), is

ed tobacco. preached socialism ask him whether he intends to be a from campus soap-boxes. By candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be

a sucker to say "Yes?'"* of Willkie was the time he became sophomore

he was a leader of campus Magic Touch Igned by the longkong Telegraph to hell with formality. He talks originally Willeke. All four of

as men do in the locker room, Willkie's grandparents fled Ger- "bards," roared against 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 parallels.

Herman Willkie, was a lawyer cratic friend Paul Vories Me- competition and free trade are his bis philosophy. Free enterprise, free When the argument grows and a wealthy landowner in the Nutt, whom Wilkie still likes to icucts for raising the economic

nt Indiana University standards of seclety. 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).

lle believes that the "magle touch three years Willkie's socialism of par" corrupted business fa the If an opponent wilts under his

His mother was also a lawyer, wore out. As a senior he even booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just firg, Willkie is disgusted. He the first woman member of the broke down and joined the as destructive On Pennsylvania doesn't want the argument to Indiana bar, and besides tending pompadoured Betas, but he did Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par

India's Progress

A statement of far-reaching Importance to India and the British Empire uenerally, was issued by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, on Friday.

The announcement contained the news that India's legislative powers were to be greatly augmented, so much so that a very definite stride hos been taken towards Dominion Stutus, This should in fact, constitute the next step.

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It is safe to say that every section of the Empire has long been anti- cipating the day when India could definitely be listed amongst the In- dependent but loyal countries coin- prising the British Domluions. This eventuality Jins 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 itself, it necessary pre-requisite to total self-determination.

end.

gots to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napolean on the desk of u businessman, you'd better get out

her family (six children, of

not brush his hair. For being that sort of mun whom Wendell was the third)

Willkie graduated from law Wendell Willkic gets $75,000 a helped her husband in his law school in 1916, went into prac- quick and sell him short. The same year, but he has, never owned an practice.

tice in Elwood, but dropped it Eves for Government officials.” automobile. (Old Indiana frienda Elwood was then riding high. 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 Dept is going to be on trial again.. ing an automobile he was, a and the supply was so plentiful anything Prussian. He be- President Roosevelt is its ablest menace, always arguing over his that no one took the trouble to came a lieutenant of field artil. spokesman and In. a Democratic shoulder, frequently letting go turn out the street lights by lery, learned to like gummery, we can debate it to everybody's country it deserves an able advocate.. 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).

discipline.

let them burn.

cussion."

The British Government has long expressed desire that India should attudu dominion stolus, and unimated by this hope, it was announced in the Autumn of last year that the Govern-TALY, although sire has con- Land, veined with barbed wire en-colonial campaign similer

WHAT HAVE-NOT-ITALY HAS TO DEFEND

LA LIBYA. It lies between

to that

during the Great War will find i

our side.

possessions. She also has

ranean, one of which, PANTEL-

t

volcanic

or General's Council should be

divides Libya stantly grumbled that she is tanglements

from | woged in Germany's African colonies : So much for Italy's colorin expanded so as to include a number of Indian representatives of the

one of the "have-nots," never- Eynt and the waters of the Nile. various political parties as soon as theless had before she entered Libya has been the scene of Italy's the Abyssinian tribes in action on several strong points in the Mediter- evidences of concord and coopera-

most ambitious colonial programmes. tion warranted the step. On the war a large colonial empire Foreign journalists have been con- Up the mountain railway from [LARIA, is bound to Agure largely in leaders of every party were, there-extending over 1,395,000 square ducted triumphantly through a few Jibuti in French Somaliland, and the war news soón. fore, urged to take practical steps to

miles, with a population of model settlements; local Moslem by rond from Massawa, the port of achieve this end.

Pantelleria is The telegram

chiefs have smiled politely while the Italy's Eritrea, Mussolin has for

sina}) now

received un nearly 13,000,000. nounces that the Government is pre-

Duce has brandished "the Sword of four years been bringing large sup-sland some 45 square miles in area, pared to welcome these additions to

ARGEST of her colonies Is Islam" the Executive Council and, at the

plies of oil and munitions to the standing roughly halfway between

French Tunis and the faland of same time, has expressed a desire for

But the country remains mainly mountain copital of Addis Ababa,

Selly, There, the Italians hope, it the establishment "of a body which Egypt, French Tunisia and French]

a land of turbulent tribes, kept in will more closely associate Indian West Africa with a 1,000 mile coast check largely by the Italian Earri-arms and men have now been cut Gibraltar and Malte, and thence to But these vital supplies of oil, controls the 201 route, between public opinion with the conduct of hte

line along the Mediterranean.

son that has been maintained there on. 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 hazi, are some 500 miles from Italy, rison numbers over 200,000 men,

For years past passengers on ships struggle now being waged. She hus

and the mountains of passing through the Mediterranean earned the recognition that the Home but are dominated by Malte, Bri-již.t

FTER Libya, ABYSSINIA, Abyssinia, whose vast resources Italy have seen the lights on the heights Government has accorded her. The lain's island naval base, 200 miles, A

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.

system would prove an enemy to

uf 80,000, is Italy's next most im-upon, lies ERITREA, oldest of the fortifications. Libya, formerly Tripoll, was an portant colonial possession. Of its Italian colonies.

Every effort has been made to population, it can be From the sea you can see malarial muke Pontellorja an Italian Malta,

the

Indian civilization. He would, if in power, not only put back

mination for India" for exed by Italy, during the war with, ten million

BETWEEN

Alexandria.

the Red

Sea

forts.

Masaawa, Its port a collection of

whitewashed buildings with a nest

the

LASTLY, at entrance of petrol tanks and a few derricks tying along the Turkish coast, ato the Aegean Sea, and

to

in fuct, for so long as his system Turkey in 1911-12. Much of, it safely assumed that a large propor- lowlands rising towards the fantas- and even the lava' from the extinct- dured-but he wouldst in plain the slopes of the hills palm orchards, rise against the

the desert. But on the coast plains and tion would welcome the chance to le colcanic rock formations of the volcano has been tunnelled for the to its utmost. In

new rulers who interior. ords

he would rab the country of olive groves, lemon, almond and g brought the "elvilisation" of bombs forcing the people trees and vineyards are cultivated by and polson gas to them four years into slaves, existing only for the

natives and Italian setilers alike. ego. aggrandisement of the German race. India, realizing what is at stake, 'is all Along its western border modern In any case the Abyssinians like to show that it is a sen port, lies the DODECANESE (Twelve Is- the more willing to offer her forts and guns, manned by Italian fighting if there is a fight going. like a smudge of vivid Chinese white power and her resources and Britain towards the final overthrow

Jon the coastline. It is * sure guess that any of the reign of aggression that is

The R.A.F, has picked on it as a Turkey in 1912, oblaining the ald Theso. Italy, seized in her war withi Aweeping through Europe so dis- astrously,

|first-class turget.

of the Islanders, by an unfulfilled In the interior the natives make promise of autonomy.

din

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 bus repeatedly ic-

jurove if this is the case or not, but The at a time like the present when Bri- clared for self-determination. success of the opportunity now given tain is engaged in a struggle for her depends solely on the capacity existence, there can be nothing in the of the Indians themselves to and way of "hedging or; haggling" but their own way out of the complexity only: straight-forward offer to of disagreenients

work out her own polve which they have India *to hitherto struggled. Great Briain us tion". India can, therefore, he said the determining factor In Indian to be at the crossroads of her exist- ence. The next, few months will whether she is able to forget convord. provej

all the political hostilities that have smouldered for generations

within to her ranks, forgot her religious pre-

judices and

emerge, as. a glorious

the to

Dominions,

in

affairs has enabled the country to live

in reasonable security and

常

with the possibility of making good progress socially, as well as economic ally. It is now India's chance prove that the guiding hand

can be withdrawn with impunity.

addition

one whether she will allow herself, to

The task will not be an easy one

as past events have proved, and come sink into a weller of discord. We quarters fear that this friendly offer prefer to, bellove the former and to by Britain will have no better success look forward with confidence, to, her than previous offers made by her people. make themselves - the

LIBYA

Dodecanest

ja poor cercata

ZAUDI

ARABIA

CYPTIAN

·CONDO

BELGIAN KENYA

.

Jands).

After the Great War Italy twice

living by the growing of and the raising of cattle, whose akins and hides are exported. Promised to hand the Dodecanése over to Greece, but has never dono below 50. FARTHER South,

French and Brlish Soma-

Instead, she has fortified some of Hand, les the last unit of Italian the islands, converted Leros into 'a East Africa, ITALIAN SOMALI strong naval and air base, which LAND, which covers 104,000 square should form a valuable lair for sub- milles and has a population of about marines, and has concentrated 30,000 1,300,000.

troops tliere." It has dae pecullar claim to fame.

The area around It produces half of the world's sup was anong the first of the Mediter- ply of Incense. Most of the Inhabieranean waters to be mined by the tants make their living by sheep or Britlab Navy.

This map shows Italy's possessions cattle rearing or Ashing along the

for self-government. The future will founders and makers of a new India, in Africa and the Mediterranean. 1,000 miles of coast.

the Dodecanese.

B. M.