WEEKLY MAVS A A LYSIS BY ROGER SHAW Enghmri to 'Fight On, Alone' I Ifepite French Capitulation; U. S. Speeds Up Defense Plans II 1)11 OKS OTK Ubin opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news anahst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) . Hele.ised by Western Newspaper Union. ExpenTeTH He is poor whose ev f eed his income-La WASIIIXGTONIANA: F ureifin Policies Following the President's speech at the University of Virginia, there was a storm. Part of it was a storm of applause by third termites, New Dealers, warhawks. The rest was a storm of protest by Republicans, Repub-licans, pacifists, independent Democrats. Demo-crats. Senator Wheoler of Montana b?gan to emerge as heir to the laurels laur-els of the late Senator Borah of Idaho. He indicated he might break with Roosevelt, if the Democratic party turned into the "war" party. Republicans planned to label the Democratic party by that tag, in the 1 D40 campaign. On the other hand, some of the I New Dealers wanted to rcDeal the Jf GERMAN WAR: Honorable Peace Pnrnier Paul Rcynaud of France h,-td often and sincr-rely pledged that he would lead his country in a "light to the finish" against the German invader. Thus when the government announced his resignation and the appointment of 84-year-old Marshal Henri Petain to take his place the French people knew without further information that a peace offer was In the oiling. And soon it came. Marshal Petain declared to his people that he was asking the enemy to end the war by giving to France a "peace with honor." Negotiations were immediately immedi-ately begun. While peace terms were being arranged, the badly crip- Johnson act, and Roosevelt's own neutrality act, with its cash-and-carry provisions. France kept raak- ' i ' I pled and out-fought French army was forced to carry on its battle against Cermany and Italy even after aft-er its leaders had asked for peace. England meantime was rallying every force at her command to prepare pre-pare for the next German blitzkrieg. Home defensos were bolstered and a firm resolution held sway over the island center of a world empire: em-pire: "Even alone, we will fight on." Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared in a radio address that the British empire would fight on "until the curse of Hitler is lifted from the brows of mankind." British leaders expressed the hope that despite any peace arrangements, that France's resources would not be used against England. Should Germany gain control of France's fleet (second only to England's Eng-land's in Europe) Britain would have a very serious naval problem on her hands. For the combined fleets of Germany, Italy and France are equal to or stronger than the EMBARGO? No Scrap The Roosevelt administration was reported as preparing an embargo on American scrap iron, which has kept Japan going for years in her Chinese operations. Italy has been another major importer of U. S. scrap. Apparently the administration administra-tion intended to wangle the measure m such a way that England and France could have American scrap iron, when they wanted it. One third of Germany's iron supply now comes from scrap, but the captured Luxembourg iron mines will more than make up the difference, according accord-ing to economists. America nowadays nowa-days is the world's premier scrap-iron scrap-iron exporter, and our big-scale automobile grave-yards play their part in this grim traffic. U. S. DEATH: MARSHAL PETAIN They knew what he meant. ing frantic appeals to Roosevelt, and to Americans generally, and this aerial propaganda had its effect. Some Americans went so far as to favor a declaration of war against Hitler, although for the time being, Mussolini was even more unpopular.' The senate passed, by 67 to 18, the presidential policy of trading in government-owned weapons to private corporations, for re-sale to the allies. Old rifles, older ammunition airplanes; and there was even talk of "obsolete" U. S. naval destroyers, destroy-ers, for England to hunt submarines and seasleds with. U. S. Steel, for example, was reported as planning a $37,000,000 deal, via the war department, de-partment, for the allies. The house of representatives passed an increase of 95,000 privates for the regular army, and there was congressional talk of running our armed forces up to a million men including the National Guard. The house also approved the national defense de-fense tax bill, to yield a billjon additional addi-tional dollars during the coming fiscal fis-cal year, and increasing the national nation-al debt limit to 49 billions a jump upward of four billions. Allies Kill, Too The first American civilian to die in the war was a little boy named Alfred Paul Ritter of New York city. He was eight years old, and a handsome child. The U. S consul con-sul at Stuttgart reported to the Washington state department that the youngster was killed by allied air raiders, near Ulm in the Reich It was not a pleasant episode, and indicated that Hitler's blitzkriegs know no favorites. But the press seemed partially to forget Alfred ' and continued to heap abuse on stabber-jabber" Mussolini. AGRICULTURE: Record Preserve Department of agriculture reports indicate that ever-normal granary ZIT tUPPlieS 0f surPlus an products have reached record levels and will be increased this year. This reserve supply held by the Commodity Credit corporation un-der un-der loans to producers or owned out-right out-right by the corporation has a total value of about $1,000,000,000. Chief crops in reserve are cotton, corn, wheat and tobacco. Smaller amounts of peanuts, figs, butter British fleet. England's effective sea blockade of the axis powers would thus be put to the extreme test. Russia meanwhile had not been idle. Exactly what the Soviet Union had in mind, few men except Joseph Stalin could be sure, but Russian troops marched into Lithuania, Es- f v - - - t. . . ..v . : . . . . .v: :! I ' rr"V ! A 1 'EX-PREMIER' REYNAUD Ajter him, a peace offer. tonia and Latvia and the governments govern-ments in these three tiny Baltic nations na-tions were being "reorganized" on a basis "favorable to the Soviet." are hS? k turpentfae resin l 1 nlause of loans made last year. This year, loans averaging averag-ing 64 cents per bushel on 1940 oWn1eb35 ctntS n cen s on barley have already been authorized au-thorized and loans are virtually cer-tarn cer-tarn on 1940 cotton (9 cents per pound) and corn (between 57 and 62 cents per bushel). While farm prices are at a low ebb because of the loss of manx foreign for-eign markets due to the war tiiere is a feeling in some quarter that H may oecome necessary for the ofmthreCf S r:ntUally SUP most tJons fCr Eurou"p-n na- It is known that generally speak-mg speak-mg these nations do not have hu.e supplies of food. and will be forced l' to get huge stocks of grain from somewhere. V Column Congressman Van Zandt of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania demanded that Roosevelt begin a drive against the fifth column col-umn here in America. Roosevelt was requested to fire the 563 people listed by the Dies committee, as government employees who belonged be-longed to the reddish League for Peace and Democracy. But the fifth co umn charges became wilder and wilder-each American making up his own list of fifth columnars, and putting on it special grievances A complete list of "amalgamated" fifth columnists was assembled It in eluded Republicans, Democrats, third termites, anti-third termites pro-Germans, pro-Russians, pro-Italians, pro-Britons, aliens, communis commu-nis soc.alists, the Bund, pacifists professional" Irishmen, Jews Catholics, atheists, gossipers, defeatists defeat-ists parlor pinks, roaring reds, anarchists, an-archists, pietists, and conscientious objectors. Readers of the column may add to this partial compendium, compendi-um, at their pleasure Italy Itemizes Egypt broke off relations with Mussolini, and put all her bases at the disposal of John Bull, but Mr. Bull had control of these anyway, even in times of perfect peace. The Italians flew over Toulon and Malta and Kenya colony, and the allies flew over Turin, Genoa, and Italian East Africa. Some lives were lost, mutually, and some names were called. Mayor LaGuardia of New York (half Italian) taking part in the name-calling himself. Everyone Every-one agreed that Italy was hardly heroic, but old-timers remembered Italy's parallel action (in reverse) back in May, 1915. when Mussolini again was war-active. Spain Stirs Spain, in the Sixteenth century, was the greatest and strongest oi all imperial powers. There was nothing to beat her. Then, like the Romans, she declined and virtually lell. But Dictator - Generalissimo Franco was kicking her into stirrin again. Spaniards yelled for the re turn of Gibraltar in street mobs Mussolini and Hitler helped Franco in the Spanish civil war and his group are duly grateful. When ' Italy went in. they declared Spain not neutral, but merely non-bellig-erent, and Spanish-owned Moor troops seized the International Zone (supposedly neutralized) at Tan-gters, Tan-gters, m North Africa, which is too near Gibraltar for solid comfort FORODDS & FORENDS Russia and Japan finally agreed on a exact borderline between red land led SUn' in ae debatuble land of Mongolia. The Jans anH British reached another agreement their dispute about foreign con: cessions at Chinese Tientsin The caPnfaVred Naring government o" China, demanded that the soldiers' guards and warships of all belliger' em nations get out of China, The Irish Free State was in a hum of preparation, toward off Ger man or British invaders , i T Wilhelmsssetl'S Street may have fifth g among the high-spliGar"' Crown Princess Juiiana of and, and her two babies had fl from the Dutch to the Brit'i,h the British they fled to ie CanadT ans, and that was where thev n -ere The Dutch crown PHnce J liana s husband, hails from Germ "" Lippe. He used to be a Nazi trooper, before he w.entDuTchStrm- : planes in 19390. He was ml ' name was Cobber E T v. 1 a nice lad. too. He c- -hr7' -here in France, and ne roT ' torce lost his services foerra it mT ' INTERNAL INTERESTS- Ex-Gov. Richard Leche of Louisiana Louisi-ana got 10 years in a federal jail for using the U. S. mails to defraud de-fraud the state in the purchase of orH,S- mLe?e heW Suberna- tonal office from 1936 to last June when he resigned. A new 35.000-;on battleship, the North Carolina, was launched in the Brooklyn navy yard. Sabotage spv. ing. and insidious camera work were careful . v guarded against, as the great ship slid down the wavs The S4.000.000 Italian building at New Wk's World fair kept open despite the U. S. domestic roasting of Laly. and a reduced clientele Pennsylvania supports half a mil-:on mil-:on people, unemployed and on relief. re-lief. A major purge was scheduled to ous stogie, able-bodied men from the rolls, for the sake of econom" A. Aloany. N. Y., an organization known as the First Column was or" E-ri;, plf'rpose was ,0 bl0 Erl Browcer for communist presi n. of the United S:ates-a . ..er.t which seemed hardlv neCes ;ary under the conditions