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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Protection of Lend -Lease Shipping Is Extended to 'Ships of All Flags' By U. S. Warships as Far as Iceland; Conflicting Reports Mark War News (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) . 1 RUSSIANS: Hold and Advance Conflicting reports from the Russo-German front continued to paint, as near as it was possible to determine, a general picture of the Russian's holding out in the siege of Leningrad, and making a steady and fruitful advance against the Nazis in the central sector around Smolensk. Whether this was the natural sagging sag-ging of a salient due to the removal of Germany's best troops to the Leningrad Len-ingrad front, or whether, as the Russian communiques insisted, the Red victories were against the Reich's crack legions in full force, was of course a matter of conjecture. conjec-ture. Two names emerged from the daily dispatches those of Marshal Semeon Timoshenko, general commander com-mander on the central front, and that of Gen. Jacob Kreuzer, leader of the Russian blitz forces who were doing much of the driving ahead. The Russian daily claims of 7 to 10 miles advanced might be discounted, dis-counted, but the names of places SHOOTING WAR: Recapitulation Repercussions among the iion-interventionist iion-interventionist opponents of President Presi-dent Roosevelt's general foreign policy pol-icy were surprisingly calm, following follow-ing his address in which he told U. S. naval skippers to shoot first and ask questions afterward. Beyond Be-yond seeing it "as a step toward war," there seemed to be an utter unwillingness on the part of the White House's opponents to sail into the President tooth and toenail. The request of Captain Halliday of the sunken Steel Seafarer "give us guns and we will shoot, too," brought the discussion of arming of merchantmen into the fore. In this the pattern of the last war was being sharply paralleled. The declaration by Germany of unrestricted submarine warfare was closely followed in those days by the arming of merchantmen, which, in turn, was followed by the country's active entrance into the war. However, it was not immediately apparent that any such move was being sponsored on Capitol Hill. , 'For All Flags' Later the trend of U. S. policy became be-came more clear as Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, in a speech before the national American Legion Le-gion convention in Milwaukee, indicated indi-cated that U. S. warships would 'provide protection . . . for ships of every flag carrying lend-lease supplies between the American continent con-tinent and the waters adjacent to Iceland." While he avoided the use of the word "convoy" this appeared to be the plan for providing the promised prom-ised protection and to most observers' observ-ers' it looked like the logical follow-up follow-up to the President's former "shoot on sight edict against German or Italian raiders. REYNOLDS NIPPED: A Repercussion Cancellation of an address scheduled sched-uled by Sen. R. R. Reynolds of North Carolina before the Advertising club" of Newark, N. J., was another repercussion re-percussion which bid fair to be a typical reaction of the times following follow-ing the President's "shooting" speech. The senator had been booked to speak September 24 "many months ago," and the statement made public pub-lic by the club declared: "and the : ' J": : I lte : : : : : Jar h - . V. i I if) J Strange sight for a war-torn land is this picture taken in Vichy, France, as Marshal Petain, head of the Vichy government, awards a trophy to one of the winners in the meet that marked the revival of athletics ath-letics in France. Admiral Darlan and other important government leaders attended the meet. where fighting was reported showed definitely that there was an actual advance, and of no inconsiderable proportions. Three towns easily locatable on detailed maps of i Russia which lie well "behind Smolensk" Smo-lensk" were reported captured. Absence of any further German claims on the Kiev and Odessa fronts were accompanied by simple Russian statements that the battles there were "continuing." One Russian Rus-sian commander said "Stalin's order or-der not to yield Kiev is being complied com-plied with." Many military observers believed that the long, waving line of the Nazi front was fraught with exceeding exceed-ing danger to the German campaign provided the Red army on the cen-. cen-. tral front really has the enemy in an important retreat. Perhaps the outstanding Russian claim was the recapture of several points on the west bank of the Dnieper. This, if true, did much to bear out the feeling that the second sec-ond great Nazi blitz against Russia again was bogging down. Isvestia stated "the Napoleonic record of 83 days from Warsaw to Moscow still remains unchallenged by Hitler." IRAN: Sends Nazis Out Eighty Nazis were reported expelled ex-pelled from Teheran in carrying out the terms of the British-Russian-Iranian armistice, and that eight of them were sent to Siberia, "very glum"; the rest going to India. The German legation had, by a variety of excuses, postponed the departure of the special trains for nearly 24 hours. The British and Russian diplomats had expected about 225 to be expelled, and were visibly disappointed when only 80 left. The German legation was reported report-ed to be housing about 400 men, women and children rounded up in preparation for the expulsion. SENATOR ROBERT REYNOLDS Foreign correspondent was substituted. club directors at that time felt that, regardless of the senator's decidedly decided-ly isolationist position, the club should continue its poicy of listening listen-ing to both sides of every question. "However, because of the recent Nazi sea incidents and the recent clearly definite speech of President Roosevelt, we feel now that Senator Sena-tor Reynolds' talk might be in a definite conflict with the national defense program. "The withdrawal is in no sense an indictment of the eminent senator. sena-tor. He is entitled by the Constitution Consti-tution of the United States to express ex-press whatever viewpoints he chooses to indorse. "Nevertheless I feel sure that the people of New Jersey, one of the thirteen original States of this country, coun-try, are 100 per cent against Hitler, and, in my opinion, are solidly opposed op-posed to the views expressed by Senator Reynolds." A foreign correspondent was substituted. |