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Show WEEKLY SEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW German March Toward Paris Marked by Terrific Fighting; U. S. Maps New Defense Plans (liOITOK'S NOTK When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ftr leased by Western Newspaper Union. H Of! KM AN WAR: .VVi Nothing succeeds like success. Trio latest Third Iteirh included Ger-rn.'iny, Ger-rn.'iny, Austria, Czecho Slovakia, Poland, Po-land, Norway, Denmark, Holland, liel'inm, Luxembourg, Mi-fncl, the Saar. Its friends and allies took in Russia, Italy, Japan, Spain, Hungary. Hun-gary. Its sinister "list" seemed to include Switzerland, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Ru-mania, and some said Sweden. It was more than Napoleonic Poland In 18 days; Norway in 21; Holland POTOMAC POW ER: FDR Wants Money The President told congress, dramatically, dra-matically, in joint session, that he wanted a billion bucks and 50,000 warplanes to defend our country against 3,000-mile blitzkriegs. Two-thirds Two-thirds of the billion were to go to the U. S. army. Roosevelt hinted that it might be nice to raise the legal national debt limit which is $45,000,000,000. He asked that he be given $100,000,000 in cash, to provide pro-vide for "emergencies." But an answer, m part, came from presidential presi-dential possibility Willkie, in an Indianapolis In-dianapolis speech. Willkie said that adequate national defense depended on domestic recovery. Meanwhile, the continentalists rallied against the anglophiles and internationalists, in and out of congress. Senators Johnson, Norris and Wheeler all of them, naturally, pro-ally were especially active against any "1917" In 5. So what next? England by parachute? France by tank? There was serious talk of moving tiie French government out of Paris destination unknown. England rounded up another 3,000 Germans and Austrians between the ages of 16 and 60: two-thirds of them refugees refu-gees from the nasty Nazi terror at home. Some quarter-million English Eng-lish volunteers enrolled to sharp-shoot sharp-shoot parachuters, and Premier Winston Churchill nervously promised prom-ised his new constituents blood, and sweat, and toil, and tears always a clever psychological trick in deal- i . 1 f - f i 'Ax,) , I I " Qi - ANTI-PARACHUTE: Penn Patriots England's new war minister, cute-looking cute-looking Sir Tony Eden, has been active ac-tive in organizing local corps of sharpshooters to pick off, willy nilly, invading parachute jumpers from across the channel. Jeannette, in western Pennsylvania, was not to be left behind. It formed a group of "sharpies" the first civilian anti-parachute anti-parachute legion in the United States. Its members feared that I parachute activities might be direct- ing with dogged Englishmen. German authorities indicated that the government of any of their "protectorates" "pro-tectorates" depended on how much resistance the "protected" had put up. Thereby, Denmark was getting grade-A treatment, Norway perhaps grade-B, and Poland a very low grade indeed. Holland was expected expect-ed to get a rating similar to that of the Norse, though perhaps a trifle lower. For the Dutch had fought rather hard. Belgian Bungle Brussels, Namur, Liege, and Lou-vain Lou-vain fell as the Germans pushed ahead in Belgium. (The three big Belgian fortification sites were Namur, Na-mur, Liege, and Antwerp.) The Belgians, Bel-gians, on the whole, fought better than the Dutch, but as the Belgic capital surrendered to Hitler, the German invaders were within 75 ed against the Pittsburgh industrial belt, of which Jeannette is a part. "Gauleiters" Brust and Landis, local lo-cal marksman and local editor, headed the Jeannette parachute-poppers. S.S.HARDING: ; In Memoriam The former United States liner, President Harding, was sunk by bombs off the Flemish coast of Belgium. Bel-gium. She was built in 1921, and her tonnage totaled 13,869. Your correspondent returned on her from the war, last October. The U. S. lines sold her to a Belgian shipping corporation, after American neutrality neutral-ity rules precluded U. S. boating in the war zone. The Belgians renamed the Harding, the Ville de Bruges. So perished the namesake of the leader of the Ohio Gang. But out of death comes life two brand-new WENDEL WILLKIE lie has an answer for a tougk problem. wiles. But old Pershing, a big man in 1917, spoke of the "possibility of war," while War Secretary Woodring spoke of our maintaining peace. It was all very confusing. There was even talk of lending some money to the no-pay French and English, but it was only talk. Good Old Garner There was a tale to the effect that Vice President Garner now admitted admit-ted Roosevelt's nomination for the Third Term. He said, supposedly, that Roosevelt had absolute control of the Chicago convention, and that was that. But, Texas Jack continued contin-ued (so they say) that he himself would not run again, because he was opposed to Third Terms for vice presidents, as well as for Presidents. Thereby, he established his consistency, consist-ency, and may have opened the door to a swarm of ambitiously would-be V. P.'s. Roosevelt had at least 431 convention delegates pledged or committed, and was expected soon to possess more than the necessary 548 majority. v . v j 5 - American destroyers were launched in Washington's Puget Sound: the Hughes and the Monssen, both named after Yankee naval heroes, and christened by their widows. YANKEE JAW-POWER: We Can't Bite MARSHAL IIENRI FETAIN A cabinet post jor this hero of Verdun. miles of that not so gay Paree. The Belgian government decamped to a safer spot, Ostend on the channel. In at least four places, the Germans Ger-mans had pierced the French Magi-not Magi-not line extension, back of the Belgian Bel-gian border. Dr. Robert Ley, the not very Nordic Nazi minister of labor, la-bor, announced that the German army was performing a "God-given natural mission." The Field Grays, ha nr4A ; JJ . America is not short on manpower, manpow-er, but it was announced that Americans Ameri-cans are short on jawpower. Forty-five Forty-five years ago, the average Yank could bite 171 pounds-worth. But in 1940, the Yank, degenerated, can only bite 125 pounds-worth. Soft food, alas, has done it. Take the average Eskimo, lucky fellow. He has, it is said, a good strong bite of 300 pounds-worth. This is called "chewing-force." I U. S. CIVIL WAR: Dot vn in Looseana Down in Creole Looseana, there was an American civil war going on. It was being fought out between be-tween hard-working units of Uncle Sam's tried and true regular army. Some 30,000 blues were defending the state against 25,000 red invaders from Texas. Somehow (an unusual feature of this' La-Tex strusele) tho defenders were reported as employing employ-ing blitzkrieg tactics, and seemed to be forging ahead. There even was a fifth column, to make things perfect. per-fect. This fifth column (so-called) consisted of local bovines, who licked the insulation of army telephone tele-phone lines, and thereby committed military sabotage in the first, second sec-ond and third degrees. In Russia, they'd have fixed 'em! But these fifth-columnar cows of Dixie gained" reprieve. As to the battleground itself, it-self, Looseana its new governor, Sam Houston Jones, told 10,000 people peo-ple at a barbecue that no more Huey Longs would run the state .1 auucu, iiueiiueu tu mane tne world "happy and reasonable." But the French refused to be happy, and the English were certainly not feeling reasonable. In desperation, the English Churchill government began to woo Russia with a "new and more friendly approach" Russia, Rus-sia, the recent "red beast" that victimized vic-timized brave little Finland. Meanwhile, Mean-while, the United States and the 20 Latin American states went on record rec-ord with an official denunciation of Germany's invasion of Holland and Belgium. Harsh observers branded the joint resolve as a Uruguayan "publicity stunt." And in France, a cabinet reshuilie found the hero of ON TIIE MOVE: 25.000 residents in the Dutch East Indies, definitely were off the move. These were suspects, both German and Dutch, rounded up by the watchful watch-ful colonial authorities, only too conscious of fifth-column and Trojan Tro-jan Horse tactics. Simultaneously, in New York, great dissension arose when a popular native declared: "The fifth column in this country is headed by that fellow in the White House." At this, the pro-Roosevelts pro-Roosevelts decidedly got a move on. At Odessa, by the Black sea. Russia Rus-sia has a parachuting doctor, who bails out in a big hurry, to get to urgent cases. He delivered two babies ba-bies from the air. It was suggested suggest-ed that, next December. German parachute men might be disguised as Santa Clauses. New York hosiery counters reported report-ed a hectic rush for nylon, at si. 35. And. alas, the feminine rush was followed by nylon runs. Or so they said. Macy reported 20 fast-moving women at the nylon counter in the first minute, but there was little or no intra-female earrv.e Verdun in the last World war. Henri Philippe Petain, named as vice premier pre-mier to Premier Paul Reynaud. Bull on Spot John Bull, said critics, was on the spot. The state department warned 7,000 Americans to get out of Britain, Brit-ain, and stay out, and ordered them to go to the peaceful, prosperous Irish Free State. It was indicated that a Yankee rescue ship would fish the U. S. refugees out of the emerald Eire. But many Americans Ameri-cans refused to leave J. Bull. Suedpn Overmatched Sweden was nervous as bullying German troops, in Norway, were reported re-ported massed on the Swedish borderwhence bor-derwhence corr.es more than a third of the German iron supply. But that was not all. The ent:re Swedish match industry, turning out 90.000.000.CCO matches per year, was closing down because it could not export. "Sweden is-or-has no match for Hitler." exploded a wit. But fine Swedish iron continued to pour out of Swedish Lappland. |
