| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHA SHAW av nazi drive into low countries Is marked by terr terrific fie F fighting ight ing Chur churchill cbill replaces chamberlain NOTE NOT EWhen opinions are arc expressed in these columns they are those of the ilia news analyst and not necessarily of this lib newspaper released by western newspaper union i THE WAR rigger bigger and dorset orser domestic presidential politics were driven pro torn tem into second place by the march 0 of mars the germans added Il holland olland bel glum and luxembourg uio tho three little low countries to their list of victims which now includes czechs czecho poles norse and according to some tho the austrians Aust lans rians against the dutch and belgians littler hitler used much of the norse blitzkrieg buildup this included the tha big junkers air transports 20 men per ship parachute jumpers all armed to the teeth aerial bombardment of enemy air fields and con concentta centra alon centers and mass movements of infantry against tho the frontiers by land the french camo came to tho the as sl si stance of belgium as in 16 1014 1914 and the english crossed tho the channel to Il holland olland that some same channel that littler hitler himself would so much like to cross for a poke at john bulls midriff Tou jours ours la guerre luxembourg did not resist again like 1014 but belgium and holland and did the belgian army was was considered fairly good but ilia iho dutch troops did not carry so high a ranking nevertheless tho the belgians and dutch put up a stiff fight against the masses 29 divisions of oncoming field grays and the aerial hit and run tactics up above tho the dutch antiaircraft anti aircraft shot down close to a hundred nazi airplanes almost ot at tho the first volley but poor peaceful brussels took a bombing that killed or wounded more than five score citizens simultaneously with the german netherlands invasion came aerial bombing by tho the nazis of french airdromes aird romes railways coal mines and factories the dutch h east in dies interned all germans over 10 years old and seized german ships there japon japan with surprising de bency announced its respect for tho the oriental status quo at least in that ai dutch quarter dutch colonies include nearly a million square miles zno 44 ta 7 A IF 7 n p 44 w 4 4 P GENERAL GAMELIN for france courage energy g k confidence fe i and more than natives beautifully administered dutch east indian java and sumatra are excessively excessive rich in tin rubber oil and other badly needed raw prod SO THEY SAY what they said hitler said about it all the fight beginning today decides tho the fate of the german nation tor for the next 1000 years do your duty A bowl Gamel gamelin ln french generalissimo said for france and all her allies lies courage energy i roosevelt said tho the american people ore are shocked and angered by 1 the tragic news from belgium and the netherlands and luxembourg Luxem bou i Sw edens leading newspaper said I 1 highly civilized countries whose love ot of peace Is unquestionable were brutally thrown upon tho the sac I 1 altar P f the red cross said ta A needed 4 the N Y worlds fair said we 0 t feel that wo we will have a happy care i free f roe crowd at the fair on opening 4 1 day 11 opening day WA was the sec ond day of 0 netherlands chaos BIG ITEMS read E em fit i and weep au caray I 1 ao aco copies of sta been read in rus abc 7 in moscow V anit s wo works rk s h have ave totaled only iro abound tind and the wage differential in communist russia naw now Is to 1 wh ilein capitalist germany IV it is only about to 1 4 The different differential lat was said to exceed wen ven that of cuir our america U US S DEFENSE yankee speedup clup no sooner had the germans plunged ruthlessly into the low coun tries than lhnn washington was bombarded by demands tor for an american armament speedup at tho the top sec detary of war woodring after a cabinet meeting asked for it plans included a congressional grant y ae 4 ltv 1 W 1 SECRETARY WOODRING lie ile for a speedup ot of perhaps to equip a force of a million yankee regulars and reservists the aircraft factories were to bo be speeded up by more shifts of workers for example instead of two shifts three or more were proposed P ased small manufacturers were to bo be stimulated somo some 23 25 class S submarines now at the philadelphia navy bardin yard in fairly good condition w were ere perhaps to bo be reconditioned But there just Is no change in the plans for the fleet so spoke a high admiral congressmen too called for quick action all along tho the arms front their comments ranged from tho the calm objectivity of senator thomas of oklahoma to tho the florid blasts of now new yorks representative sol bloom senator king of utah talked about foulest crimes and wickedest wick edest assaults and democratic peoples roosevelt said in a speech that it was a mistaken ideal idea to believe that wo we americans americana were safe from would be conquerors because of miles of comfy distance roosevelt surprised some of his listeners by calling hirr self a pacifist fIst ENGLAND EXPECTS better luck perhaps nice old chamberlain finally got the gate in england umbrella and all al and the loud speaking winston churchill navy lord in the last war and this one too got the prime ministry chamberlain highly capitalistic in ills his outlook never could get labor support in peace or war churchill though a diehard tory for some reason has the affection of otheir chamberlain men went into political exile as the undertaker from birmingham supposedly Chur chills quip fell in france a couple of extreme conservatives serva tives with semi fascist views were taken into tho the reynaud cabnet cabinet to broaden the coverage and tighten things up tho the british la bor party remains excessively important por tant not because of its numbers in parliament but because of its myrious myriads of highly organized trude trade unionizes unionises in tho the munitions factories and in other war industries british liberals also endorsed churchill OUR YOUNG DEWEY and his rivals tom dewey dewcy the young presidential go getter who sometimes seems to have few friends but many many votes got back home to new york from his transcontinental trip lie a received rec dIved eight votes and Ma rylands le 16 votes for tho the republican national convention down in maryland senator tydings whom roosevelt once tried to purge gained an even stronger position of power in maryland democracy roosevelt beat garner by six to one out in california but garner won down in texas by something some thing like 20 to I 1 speaker bankhead got endorsed as he fhe alabama labama 1 democrats favorite RE reorganization organization where the air tho presidents plan to transform the civil aeronautics authority to 0 o tho the department of commerce was approved 53 5 3 by a special senate committee on reorganization after two days worth of hearings thereby the CAA would lose its vaunted independence and become a mere bit bi riidu idu tau ut t the h a department of cot commerce amerce under harry hopkins flyers do not up ap pear to like this prop proposed used setup QUARTER MILLION for consolation senator gulley of pennsylvania introduced trod a bill into our upper house tho the bill concerned 1 itself with no less a sum than this was to console tho the american ambassador to poland anthony drexel diddle biddle tor for furniture t tapestries pictures and other odds odd S and ends lost during the polish ambassador Ambas gador blitzkrieg ot of 18 my biddle days last fall tho the biddle villa outside warsaw also was damaged by german bombs and it seems that somebody took the biddies silver too diddle now Is attached to tho the makeshift polish gov in exile in france SCIENCE U with a name like 0 n feared nazi submarine but with power which scientists believe to bo be vastly more than any other now known a newly discovered natural substance tins has been discovered and physicists at tho the university of minnesota and columbia university pro aro responsible for most of the ress made in the isolation and extraction of the substance U la Is a 0 powerful source of radiation resembling radium in this respect but it Is tremendously more powerful than radium A minute frac trac traction uon of a gram of U was obtained lost last february F by prof alfred 0 aler in a university of minnesota laboratory ile iio sent this to columbia where scientists placed one ten millionth of a gram grain in their atom and brought out the substances potentialities biggest difficulty confronting development of U Is the work and cost involved in extracting it from uranium a rare substance itself which first must bo be extracted from pitchblende the dark mineral which Is also the source of radium it Is reckoned rcck rec ored kored that one pound of the new substance would be times as powerful as the same amount of dynamite just what uses it could bo be put to depend upon its development say engineers who estimate that it may be 10 years before 10 pounds of U con can bo be extracted from its source and put to practical use HAWKEYE ile he never missed hissed senator lundeen farmer labor man of minnesota is a pacifist and an isolationist of the first water but he ym crack military sharpshooters in washington turning in perfect I 1 scores with the ardys new semiautomatic garand I 1 rifle and also I 1 with its rival the J john 0 h n s a 0 n rifle senator lundeen senator lundeen sc scored orad 28 bulls e eyes y es without a miss while the eyes eye s of the U S regulars nearly popped out the garand fires eight shots without reloading the johnson fires 11 NAMES III the news fl L gov culbert olson of california told president roosevelt that progressive gres sive democracy in his state demanded a elrd term nomination roosevelt third termites won a 3 to 1 victory in the california democratic primary to olsons dolight delight C the pope addressing pilgrims 9 rims in vatican city in large part n newlyweds feared the war would spread and advocated peace by prayer ile he added that the world was poisoned by disloyalty 41 L henry dixon cowell internationally famous pianist got out of sti quentin jail in sunny california the modernistic composer served only three and a half years of u 15 year sentence cowell was paroled ills his was said to be a morals offense fl L unknown soldiers A sufferers in berlin were running out 0 of tobacco beer wine customers stood in line ingry women were downie turned tur neri and tobacco retailers were cut to a third of their wholesale purchases berliners Ber linera have been al allowed I 1 owed 10 cigarettes cigarette s and two cigars per man per day C king carol of rumania seized all polish gold now deposited in the ru national bank this said carols mouthpiece was to pay off polish debts to rumania and to help support polish refugees in carols kingdom poles in other lands wore enraged 41 wendell willkie Will kle republican presidential ident ial lal outside possibility received a gold medal from the notional national institute of of f social sciences in new york james west boy scouts chief executive and mrs carrie Cli chapman apman catt woman suffrage association tion chief also were in the gold willkie made a speech declaring we should help the allies every way short of entering the th war re he said america douht to hanc a brass knuckle to ti the damoc eracles one critic anay anavi cred ertol tha perhaps hitler already had addeo andeo h ue ie democracies a Alli finn fine |
