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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne British Aerial War Against Germany Relieves Pressure on Russian Front; President Moves to Halt Inflation; Gas Rationing Marked by Conflicts (EDITOR'S NOTE When pinlsna are expressed In these eslomns, ther are those ef the news Moalyst and not necessarily ei this newspaper.) ' i Released by Western Newspaper IT"'"n ' I ' ? - y - ? - ' " r 1 v ; v , ' -.V ' su I y - ' , f j 4 1 .J r " 4 y w? ; BEAVERBROOK: Leads With Chin In Call for Invasion Lord Beaverbrook, in his masterful master-ful speech in which he praised Churchill to the skies, but called for a desperate and sudden invasion of the continent in order to create a second front and thus win the war swiftly while Russia is at her peak, caused a storm of controversy to arise in Britain. It appeared the famous publisher had led with his oddly shaped chin. And his opposition press was not long in taking a shot at it One influential newspaper in Britain Brit-ain after another criticized Beaver-brook's Beaver-brook's speech, most of them taking tak-ing the attitude that while Britain had been keyed up more and more for an invasion attempt, there was no spirit in the country to attempt it until the "last bullet necessary lor success was ready and in the hands of the troops." Britain, these papers said, "will not be hustled" into a decision to attack on the continent. This had put somewhat of a damper damp-er on the previous reports, which had emanated in the form of hints at the time of General Marshall's visit to London, that an invasion on a large scale of some part of the continent was definitely in the immediate im-mediate offing. It made it look as though high quarters were chastising Beaver-, brook, and that his speech indeed had been ill-advised. That the British were definitely on the offensive in the air could not be denied. But that a land offensive would come soon seemed wishful thinking. ARGENTINE: Sivinging Over Favorable news to the Allied nations na-tions had finally come from Buenos Aires. It had been learned that the new Argentine chamber of deputies, following fol-lowing an election, had swung over to the United Nations side. Thus the opposition coalition had gained control. Radical Deputy Jose Luis Cantilo had been elected president of the chamber. It had been a dramatic scene, with supporters of Acting President Castillo, the "neutrality toward all" Sir Claude Auchinleck, British commander in chief in the Middle East, (left) is shown with Maj. Gen. Napier Clavering, head of the British military mission to the Egyptian army, and Nahas Pasha, (right) prime minister of Egypt. The gathering, in Cairo, was in celebration of King Farouk's birthday. an additional car to the one already owned, Henderson said. Fourteen classes of persons had been previously authorized to purchase pur-chase ears, but hardly anybody was buying them, and the auto dealers had been loudly complaining that they were being strangled by government gov-ernment restrictions. DRAFT: Reclassifications Shortly after the older men, those 45 to 64 had gone out and registered, regis-tered, the selective service headquarters head-quarters had announced that it was going to begin to call to the colors younger men who had dependents, provided they were not in war-essential war-essential occupations. It had not been made plain how wide this classification would be, but it was stated that those in class 3-A would be called, and the continued deferment would continue to apply only to those in 3-B. A reclassification of these two classes was to be made, and the selective service heads said when this was finished, a start would be made in calling up those in 3-A. As to "war marriages," the board said: "In cases where the dependency was acquired after December 8, 1941, or acquired when induction was imminent, or for the primary s Vrtt3 BRITISH: Increase Tempo The tempo of bombings by the Royal Air force planes on objectives in Europe had been vastly stepped up, and there had been indications that more and more deliberately the British were attempting in these raids to aid Russia. Ever eastward had moved the objectives, ob-jectives, first Luebeck, then Stettin, and then Rostock. On this latter town, in two raids, the Royal Air force fliers had dumped a total of 900,000 pounds of bombs. The destruction was said to be most complete. Particular emphasis em-phasis had been placed on the Hein-kel Hein-kel aircraft factory. But these were not the only objectives. ob-jectives. On one day six giant raids had been carried out, with more than 600 planes zooming over the channel, bound on their lethal task. British losses were not increasing, showing that with more constant practice, the British fliers were stepping up their technique and managing to get home in increasing numbers all the time. Daylight hours had lengthened, weather had been favorable, and all of this was working to the liking of the British who were giving Germany, they believed, a worse and more continuous strafing than anything the Nazis had meted out to them earlier in the war. Germany had begun to increase their retaliatory raids, and the British, ducking again into their shelters, hoped that these planes had been withdrawn from the Russian Rus-sian and Libyan fronts, thus giving giv-ing the Red and the British troops more respite from attack. Of the six raids in one day, three were on Baltic ports and the other three on channel coast points, the air ministry had said. Heaviest hit town of England had been Exeter, home of a famous boys' school, where hundreds were said to have been made homeless and 12 deaths had resulted. But only 25 planes had taken part in this attack at-tack and this small number the British Brit-ish counted as a moral victory. GASOLINE: Rationing The order that all gasoline in the eastern seaboard states would go under un-der severe rationing on May 15 had remained much in the air with Ickes' office and that of Henderson sending out daily statements which now and then- were reconciled, but for the most part were marked by strong conflict. One moment it would be announced an-nounced that rationing would be 2Vz to 5 gallons weekly for nonessential cars, and the next moment it would be, from the opposite source, announced an-nounced that the ration would be 30 to 50 gallons a month. At the same time it had been announced an-nounced in Washington that new car rationing would be relaxed in order to put them in owners' hands and thus gain valuable storage space. Henderson's office issued regulations regula-tions which included that men having hav-ing essential need of automobiles could get them if the present cars were declared inadequate. This seemed to boil down to a car being a 1939 or earlier model, or having been driven more than 40,000 miles. Under some circumstances owners own-ers could apply for the purchase of DEPUTY JOSE LUIS CANTILO Argentina's man of the hour. t leader, leaving the room in an effort ef-fort to prevent a quorum. But 81 deputies, one more than a quorum, remained on the floor, thus giving the coalition its victory. Argentina and Chile had remained the only two South American republics repub-lics to fail to break off relations with the Axis powers. A resolution to break off relations immediately had been offered in the new Argentine chamber, and it was expected to pass. Cantilo was viewed as the man of the hour. JAPAN: The Japanese fleet, heavily concentrated con-centrated in two general sectors, the Southwest Pacific (including the Indian In-dian ocean) and in home waters near Japan, was rumored to be on the move toward the northeast, the Japs having decided that the bombers bomb-ers of Tokyo had been based on the Aleutian islands. Observers had been quoted that if this should be the case, then there was a chance of a major sea battle in these waters, with at least an even chance that the United States navy would win. True, the Japs had 13 aircraft carriers against about four for the Americans, but it had been said that the Japs could only marshal, on these carriers, 800 planes as against about 700 for the American fleet. As close a margin as this would give the United States, on the basis of past performances, a definite edge, sufficient to win the battle in all probability. BURMA: British and Chinese defenders of Burma, the former mostly Indian territorial troops, of which the British Brit-ish army had in it more divisions than those from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa combined com-bined (believe it or not), were still on the retreat under terrific Japanese Japa-nese pressure. , purpose of providing a basis for dependency deferment, pregnancy, birth or acquiring a child shall not be cause for classification in class 3-A." It also was planned to move back into 1-A those whose dependent wives had voluntarily quit their jobs which had been adequate for their self-support. ANTI-INFLATION: Presidential 'Musts' A seven-point program "to keep the cost of living from spiraling upward" up-ward" was presented to congress by President Roosevelt. Living costs have increased approximately 15 per cent since the outbreak of war in 1939. The presidential program pro-gram proposes the following steps: 1. "We must tax heavily, and in that process keep personal and corporate cor-porate profits at a reasonable rate. (The President called for a $25,000 net limit on individual income.) 2. "We must fix ceilings on the prices which consumers, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers pay for the things they buy; and ceilings on rents for dwellings in all areas affected by war industries. 3. "We must stabilize the remuneration remu-neration received by individuals for their work. 4. "We must stabilize the prices received by growers for the products prod-ucts of their lands. 5. "We must encourage all citizens citi-zens to contribute to the cost of winning win-ning this war by purchasing war bonds with their earnings instead of using those earnings to buy articles arti-cles which are not essential. 6. "We must ration all essential commodities of which there is a scarcity, so that they may be distributed dis-tributed fairly among consumers and not merely in accordance with financial ability to pay higher prices for them. 7. "We must discourage credit and installment buying and encourage encour-age the paying off of debts, mortgages mort-gages and other obligations." |
