WORLD IN BAD SHAPE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20141, 10 January 1940, Page 9

WORLD IN BAD SHAPE

ROOSEVELT'S WARNING MATTER FOR REALISM (Reed. Jan. 10, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Addressing Democratic Party leaders at the Jackson Day dinners throughout the nation to-day, President Roosevelt said: “The people of the United States recognise two facts to-day. The first is that the worldoutside our hemisphere is in really bad shape. This is a matter for realism. It is a fact so big that few people grasp its meaning; a fact so big in its effect on the future of the world that all our little partisan squabbles] are shameful in the light of it. “The second fact is that we have made great gains at home in our own economic prosperity and the security of individual citizens. These gains must not be chipped away. They must be the foundation on which to build further gains.” The Washington correspondent of the United Press of America says that although the President’s remarks were good-humoured, they nevertheless are considered a blunt and forceful warning that the Democratic Party must continue to earn the support of the Liberal Republicans, Progressives, and others who flocked to its standards in 1932 and 1938, and that the speech was an unmistakable declaration that the Democrats cannot win with a conservative Presidential candidate.

UNIFIED CONTROL AIR FORCE IN FRANCE VICTORY FOR THE ARMY (Reccl. Jan. 10, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 9. The Daily Mail’s diplomatic correspondent says that the army high command won a long struggle against powerful opposition from the Air Ministry for tactical control of all the Royal Air Forces in France. An air officer commander-in-chief will shortly be appointed and will work under Lord Gor-t’s direction. The army has long argued that single control would result in closer cooperation and greater striking power than the dual control hitherto practised. BELGIAN DEFENCES UNEMPLOYED FOR ARMY •(Reed. Jan. ID, 9 a.m.) BRUSSELS, Jan. 9. The Cabinet has decided to conscript 8000 unemployed in order to demobilise men with families.