Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne halifax named british envoy to Us S As eden gets foreign minister post U S defense setup set up revised in effort to speed up industrial production NOTE NOT EWhen opinion are re expressed la in aco eo volumn lumn me tt are br those ihor of 0 the tb news new an yet end ad not nee alfir ot t till this I 1 released by western newspaper auwon lon ma 1 1 71 1 4 VU YV wy Y lb A 8 M V 4 SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND A pioneer squid squad Is shown marching to work after a night raid on a midlands town the duty of these men mch Is to clean up the debris and make roads passable they also demolish parts of buildings left standing by the bombs but which might constitute a hazard often they work right through the raid while bombs drop BOSS Be becomes contes servant selection of viscount 11 halifax 1 as british ambassador to the united states was a case of the boss becoming the servant and vice versa tor for anthony eden was named as most likely candidate for succession to post as foreign secretary halifax left jolt the cabinet the last of the tha chamberlain appeasement crew a man tor for whose scalp tho the british I 1 anti chamber balnites lal lat Altes had howled for months without success washington conceded the great ability of the new ambassador bas and predicted success for or him hero here a while admitting that american public opinion viscount at the outset lutse t might halifax i recall his appeasement tactics be toro fora munich it was announced that britain might add the post of minister to its staff in washington B both oth ambassador bas and minister had been the custom in britaina Brit ains paris offices office but i hitherto washington has had only an ambassador just what eden r has been up to in egypt and the near east has never been made clear but it must have been successful because observers pointed to the tact fact that B E i before eden things had been at a standstill in the eastern mediterranean sector and after anthony arrived on the of a sudden the british rose up pelted belted the fascists and sailed them way back into libya 1 the british ellort rt against ie do de canese islands also was crowned with a great deal of success and E eden den Is believed to have had bad a finger in that pie as well so now ho he Is to be brought back as foreign minister from his present post as secretary for warland war and this will be odd for he will go back into a job ho he held under chamberlain and which he vacated because he openly expressed blin himself self as out of sympathy with the then premiers appeasement policy SECONDS lit in tho the ring italy was not perhaps knocked out of the war by england greece but her seconds at any rate jumped into the ring presence of large numbers of german troops was confirmed in many quarters purpose of these was aalt a bit dubious but ut consensus was that some would be used in actual fighting in the battle of greece and the battle of africa and that others would be employed to bolster home morale germany in admitting official aid to italy let it be known that axis partners must together and that tn in sending aid to 11 II duces tottering armies germany was but repaying aid sent to her by italy to in the form of hundreds of pilots palts and planes for or cross channel bombing it was too early for the general effect of these reinforcements to be noted in the war reports british mechanized forces backed by naval guns from the mediterranean and by naval and army planes from overhead pushed on rapidly into libya the te fall of salum forced an entry into italian territory and tle the british Is husIng using the german tactics of the fight through flanders shot ahead down aown the coastal roads ralles miles within tho the border completely surrounding and cutting off some troops InBar in bardia dla principal port bardia was placed in a state of I 1 elge and the british main forces after leaving sufficient men to prosecute the reduction of bardia later to be ba reinforced from the rear pushed on toward bobruk and derna marshal grazioni Graz Gra tani and his main forces were still able to keep ahead of the british but the letter latter claimed enormous numbers of prisoners killed and wounded mounded italians to totaling around great booty all accomplished complis hed with a british los loss 5 of only 1000 i just where the germans would enter the picture in the battle of africa was not clear with the british naval forces apparently in charge of the coastline and unmolested ai and rid the better ports either in bri british ti sh hands or under siege CLAUSE SIX arti and national defense when president roosevelt wants to do something drastic and final and something that has not be been en done before he has a system all his own he calls his legal begal advisers in tells them what he wants to doand do and then has them ond find a low law for it he has created a new job called ahe office lor for emergency production management and put into jt it william S knudsen wizard automobile production man with instructions that hells bels to be the czar for U S defense and all lights extending before 1 him will be green lights knudsen took the job which he almost had before the new order grabbed his new authority and told america to roll up its sleeves and go to work building planes and munitions 1 nit ions there must be no appeasement he said and he called the war in europe irreconcilable in character and asked the nation to recognize the full gravity of the crisis which resulted la in additional power being given to his organization one writer said that seven months ago when knudsen was given the defense chairmanship he gave that tunny funny half smile of his and asked president roosevelt Koo sevelt chos the boss the ithe president said 1 I am and knudsen took the job it was said cald W with ith misgivings those these misgivings have been more than justified in the defense industry lag now it Is held mr roose velt has said to mr knuda knuds knudsen en in effect 1 I was wrong before now you tire ore the bassill boss and now knudsen will go ahead wIth full authority As to clause six and the part it played some ot the washingtonians Washington ians questioned the presidents authority to give elve knudsen supreme rne power he pointed to tle the second reorganization net act now that act nat did not give the president this power specifically but acting under its authority the dent issued an executive order which he WAS empower empowered kd to do clause six of this ils order read 6 in the event of a national emergency or threat of a national erner emergency gency the president may create such office tor for emergency management as a the president shall determine term lne t T TRENDS R E N D S I 1 AIRPLANES at san diego con soU dated 4 aircraft corporation announced a building project doubling its present capacity WINE at Liver livermore inore calif schenley import corporation gave impetus to the Aine american rican wine in austry by purchasing the cresta blanca wine co company PRODUCTION at washington the federal reserve board reported that during november industrial production hit a record high per cent of the 1935 39 av average crake ARMS at washington british officials completed a master list of bf in new war orders to be placed in the U S including combat planes GREEK aims revised the greek war cry of tirana by christmas had to be revised when italian resistance stiffened and the skirted had to fight ahead every inch of the wiy way at bayonet point whether vit it was german reinforcement or not was not clear butas but as the italians neared the hopping off places they fought harder and the greek advance while continuing steady was not as specia spectacular cular the greeks reminded one of a football team nearing the go alline and meeting a stiffened defense enormously important oba objectives eltjes had been achieved however bogra 1 delzon detz det zon on the north nort hand and Argiro castro on the south porto edda and other vital points having fallen into their hands maps showed a good third i of albania taken back from the italian invaders immediate objectives were the port town of valona md the inland bases of and Ch chlomara chimara imara greek generals claimed chaimea the italians I 1 had moved out of but bu that the greeks were not entering the town until the fascists had been stormed from their positions on the heights to the rear former greek army officers now in the united states placed utmost 1 importance ortance on the conquest of lini an important road junction point they them stated categorically that it if t the ie greeks capture further italian resistance in albania would be impossible on the other side experienced military men pointed out I 1 that i beyond Te and toward the coast jine line the albanian plains and etwas it was in this territory that the fascists mechanized forces especially it ij aided by german tanks and divi dive bombers might succeed in halting baiting the greek advance the british fleet boldly ranged up and down italis private adriatic bombing valona with thousand pound naval shells and receiving no answering fire the outcome still was in doubt though cUs dispatches patches continued to favor greece HOOVER speaks again herbert hoover announcing bhim himself as definitely and forever out of politics took the speakers stand again to ta appeal tor for a general U S sentiment in favor of making plans to feed Eu ropes hungry without letting any of the food get into iao german stomachs the former hero of belgian relief told the people he believed this could be accomplished but that it would not be the work ofa of a week or a month but would require months of planning before it could be car ried out millions of men women and catl dren in the overrun countries of eu rope will be facing real hunger cold and starvation before the next harvest and if ff lives are to behaved be saved said hoover america mustio must do the saving hoovers statement as to the imminence e of starvation went unchallenged and news dispatches from shanghai for instance told of bodies being found lead from starvation more than two thirds of them chinese children in six alone in the one city |