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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW War Opens Up on Norway Front As British and French Arrive; Balkan Nations Fear Nazi Coup (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) "Rplpagpri by Western Newspaper Union ' YE WAR TALK: Norway continued to hold the center cen-ter of the stage, in what has been called the Second German war. In the south of that unhappy land, the German invaders extended their already al-ready extensive gains, based primarily pri-marily on Oslo, the Norse capital. There was seemingly savage fighting fight-ing around Trondheim and Narvik, ports on the Norse coast, but uncertainty un-certainty and mystery continued to screen the accuracy of Norse Front news. French troops swung into action, along with English and Canadians, in the various isolated landings from allied transports and warships, up and down the endless, inlet-studded coastline. The Germans flew in more troops and equipment. Estimates Esti-mates of the total German strength in Norway ranged from 18,000 (Washington) to 60,000 (Paris). This force would be merely a corporal's guard, in terms of modern totalitarian totalitari-an warfare. As to warships, on both sides they continued sinking, or grounding, or puncturing, at a truly alarming rate, according to the propaganda stories wafted to America. One German garrison of marines, said the reports, re-ports, consisted of 1,300 men but Belgrade of a German invasion by the Trojan Horse method; for there are, in Jugoslavia, half a million Germans, many of whom are Nazi-minded. Nazi-minded. Late reports from Belgrade indicated that Premier Dragisha Tsvetkovitch (see cut) had succeeded succeed-ed in stamping out the uprising when he interned Stoyadinovitch. Jugoslavia, Ju-goslavia, ever anti-Soviet and pro-Czarist pro-Czarist in policy, nevertheless hastened has-tened to come to terms with Unholy Russia, agreed to a Russian trade treaty, and bargained for Russian-owned Russian-owned weapons, manufactured by the famous Skoda arms works in what used to be Czechoslovakia. It seemed, all round, that national governments gov-ernments were just as effective mer-chants-of-death as the so-condemned private profiteers ever thought of being. There were echoes of the Jugoslav worriment, elsewhere. Holland went under martial law, to prevent Nazi boring from within, while Belgium counted foreign noses. Sweden stretched her blackout even to lighthouses, light-houses, closed her important port of Gothenburg; while the sturdy Swiss planned mobilization of the entire little country, and called up 60,000 more homespun militia. As for the Turks, they began to throw out foreigners, for-eigners, especially tourists and visitors, vis-itors, who might be carrying automatic auto-matic rifles in their golf bags, and wearing uniform Field Gray underwear. under-wear. No Trojan steeds for the Ottomans Ot-tomans and Osmanli! But Trojan horsemanship aside, England threatened dire things to loud-speaking Mussolini, the tough Nazi Gestapo in Poland, and the Indian In-dian nationalists who want their independence. in-dependence. None of these gentry seemed overly perturbed by the lowering low-ering Lion of London. Mussolini, in particular, was urged by an English cabinet minister to put up, or shut up. Some critics ventured to suggest sug-gest that His Majesty's minister might better have so addressed the "kibitzing" Yankees, safely overseas. over-seas. POTOMAC PEPPERS: Germany occupied Denmark, and there was much talk of Uncle Sam taking over Danish Greenland, in the New world. Should Germany occupy Holland, there was much talk of Uncle Mikado taking over the '.y si i yf t iy , ; i V'ti 1 j x) ' - j JUGOSLAVIA'S TSVETKOVITCH TSVETKO-VITCH He nipped an uprising. (See 'Trojan Steeds.') then lost 1,600 men in action. Another An-other report rumored that the English Eng-lish mines laid in Norse territorial waters (which precipitated the German Ger-man invasion) were purely fictitious, and that Winston Churchill had bluffed the Germans with these "verbal" deathtraps. Other "good" rumors (Norway aside) included the fact that Prime Minister Chamberlain Chamber-lain and Heinrich Himmler, of the Nazi Gestapo, were blood brothers in an esoteric cult, and that Secretary Secre-tary Sumner Welles was a Welshman. Welsh-man. As to the English-ultra Lord Haw-Haw, Haw-Haw, German broadcasting ace, he was variously reported to be a renegade rene-gade English fascist, and the South African grandson of a rabbi. Daily he "sank" the British navy in Norse waters, by word of mouth, and the English public fairly ate up his words, while his Canadian audience was extraordinary. Most people laughed at Lord Haw-Haw, but a portion of the British proletariat were inclined to take him seriously, which led to hectic English counterblasts. counter-blasts. TROJAN STEEDS: The Germans penetrated Norway by deceit, trickery, and subversion. They used Trojan Horse tactics: "tourists," "peaceful" freighters, "business" men, bribery, spying and a general boring from within. Other European nations took alarm at this novel method of Nazi invasion. Jugoslavia "isolated" her last year's premier, Stoyadinovitch, i who had a pro-German and pro-Ital-; ian reputation. There was talk at OUR PRESIDENT: Our President warned the Pan-American Pan-American Union governors to be tough, meeting force with force, if that force came from overseas. No mention was made of force coming from above the Rio Grande. He also tossed the opening pitch in the opening open-ing game, between Washington and Boston, and took Jim Farley along with him a gesture of reconciliation, reconcilia-tion, or a common love of sport? Farley is a ball player from way back. Our President asked congress for close to a billion dollars, for the worthy purpose of relief over the fiscal year-to-be. He said he might have to spend it all in the first eight months. Our President took a beating from the house when it passed the Logan-Walter Logan-Walter bill, which subjects the actions ac-tions of 130 federal bureaus to court review. Our President, and the New Dealers, were strongly against this "vicious thing." CENSUS: Still ringing doorbells and ferreting ferret-ing out information, Uncle Sam's census enumerators counted the 100,-000,000th 100,-000,000th American, with about 30,-000,000 30,-000,000 to go. Actual counting was expected to be completed within a week, but the bigger job of tabulating tabu-lating and compiling the information obtained will take months and in some cases years. Totals for states and the nations should be available during the summer. Near Zanes-ville, Zanes-ville, Ohio, one footsore enumerator claimed he had made 11 unsuccessful unsuccess-ful trips to the same house. Local wits suggested that possibly some of Mr. Tobey's (Rep. Charles To-bey To-bey of New Hampshire, arch-opponent of the income question in the census questionnaire) relatives lived in the district. MISCELLANY: Barnstorming Tom Republican-nomination-candidate Dewey barnstormed barn-stormed Indiana and the Southwest, raising hades about the New Dealers, Deal-ers, and their new dispensation. He sizzled with a special vigor in Indianapolis, Indi-anapolis, and in Oklahoma City. The Roosevelt Third Term motif loomed up clearer and clearer; but Secretary Secre-tary Hull was called, by the governor gover-nor of North Carolina, the one Democrat Dem-ocrat who could unite the party. Birthday Hitler celebrated his fifty-first birthday, the controlled Germanic press turned on the eulogy-faucet, and the topmost press agent declared the Fuehrer was a genius living a century ahead of his time . . . ! Greatest A New York Town Hall ballot for the Greatest American rated George Washington a mere third. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who emancipated the trade-unionists, and Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves of another sort, were tied, even-steven, for first. War Planes England and France put in a contract bid for 1,500 American Amer-ican warplanes, at cost of a cool $120,000,000, amid the joyful antics of our domestic aerial stock-holders. Smears The SEC was charged, by the president of the Georgia Power Pow-er company, a man named Preston Arkwright, with a hideous charge that of employing the fell methods of the Russian Ogpu and the German Ger-man Gestapo. As for the New Deal as a whole, continued the irate Georgian, Geor-gian, it was out to "smear" public utilities in general, and J. Edgar Hoover told the sympathetic D. A. R. that communists were out to "smear" the G-men. Train Smash-Up. Some 125 people peo-ple were killed and injured, when a New York-Chicago express train was derailed in central New York stale. There were approximately 300 passengers aboard. The cars piled up for half a mile, and the engine exploded. Identification oi many corpses, due to hideous mangling, man-gling, was impossible. The Missus The basically good-hearted good-hearted Mrs. F. D. R. put herself on the growing side of America-stay, out, by declaring at Battle Creek, Mich., that a neutral U. S. means "the one torch of hope in the world." Remember, Chief, You Are in the Western Hemisphere. Dutch East Indies, in the Far East. There was, however, one essential difference: Greenland is plenty poor, and East Indies is reeling rich. Secretary Hull apparently viewed with alarm, and got out a statement to warn the Japanese against any meddle-meddle with the East Indies' In-dies' oil, rubber, tin, and strategic location. The Japanese politely regarded re-garded this question as none of Mr. Hull's business, and some Americans Ameri-cans were inclined to agree with them. It seemed that the Japs were as afraid of an English seizure, as the state department boys were of a Japanese seizure. Then Roosevelt entered the word-fray on Hull's side, lauding the status quo in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the senate (after a mere four-hour chat) voted a virtual billion dollars to the admirals, to pay for the two biggest battleships in the world, two cruisers, an airplane air-plane carrier, eight destroyers, six submarines, and five other craft. This hasty balloting was regarded as a gesture against the Japanese, who were reported as also on the buildup. build-up. So-called experts said that Japan Ja-pan was slapping together some eight super-dreadnoughts, "for the American trade." At this point, the world's biggest warship is the 42,-000-ton English Hood. The admirals also renewed their chronic demand that insular Guam be turned into a major American aerial and submarine base: a pistol pis-tol to be pointed, presumably, at the head of Nippon's Son of Heaven. LAEOR ELECTION: The A. F. of L. took a signal beating beat-ing in the Genera Motors general elections. C. I. O. won out by a total of 90.000 to 30.000. with another an-other 15,000 workers balloting for scattering independent unions. Chief Green of the A. F. of L. had charged that Chief Lewis of the C. I. O. wanted a political revolution, to make himself U. S. dictator. But the Brotherhood of Consolidated Edison Ed-ison Employees, independent union, beat C. I. 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