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ueaaecioeiock noon and traversed the prin-nons wui oe on the programLaredo Delegation. At Randolph Today Seeks Air BaseHeaded by its newly elected president, John W. Ward, and flanked by Mayor Hugh Cluck and City Engineer, Frank Heins, a Laredo Chamber of Commerce committee today was scheduled to present Laredo’s qualifications for an army air base before Randolph Field officials.In a visit to Zachry Field a week ago, air corps officials outlined just what was needed for the new air base. This included electricity, water, telephone, gas, and a railway switch, the irMer capable of handling five carloads of freight a day. At .he hearing !hit afternoon $al Ellsworth and Walter Stein were to pledge the full cooperation of the Central Powe) and Light Company rnd the United Gas for the proposed(Continued on Page 4)Poor Old Marshal Petain Faces Tough Problem As Hitler Seeks to Make France Totalitarian Puppet Forever.BY DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press WrtlerAdolf Hitler will have made a great stride—at least on paper—toward consolidation of his conquests if the French government accedes to ihe new Na/.i terms for Franco-German coperation which he is understood to have discussed with Premier Marshall Petain yesterday at their meeting “somewhere in France.'* These demands are said to involveeven a moderate French cooperationin the war against England, as well as participation in the reconstruction of Europe under the Fuehrer's plans for a “new order.”Their acceptance would seem to wipe out the last vestige of chance that democracy may sprout again in unhappy France if the totalitarian dictators win the war.I believe Hitler’s move cuts far deeper than any mere preparation for another offensive against Britain. To my mind, the support heseeks from France is chiefly moral,his idea being to safeguard himself in the event of a stalemate in thewar with Britain.If he can secure French moral support or even open acquicscnce, he will have removed one of the chief obstacles to his scheme for remoulding the continent into a unit wlio.,e sole business will be to eonrtibum to the might of Germany.The all-important obstacle he Lis to eliminate is, of course, the Bn-(Continued on Page 4)
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Laredo Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Fri, Oct 25, 1940
Page 8
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