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Show WEEKLY ,EWS A.ALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW Fighting Shifts From Flanders As Nazi Air Force Bombs Paris; Malta Looms as Trouble Spot (i:iITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those ol tiie news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Iteleased by Western Newspaper Union. . -. . t I -"" : i ' - ',i -, f, f, .. - J,;.,.f.- , ' l ' f k r - ' , z t ':'7t ' -7 SS ICILY Li.: i 1 i 1 MAlTAtVAUTTA - - If Italy should move against Great Britain in the Mediterranean she might very likely direct an attack at the great British naval base at Malta. Malta has been on a war footing since the beginning of the European Eu-ropean crises. Map at the right shows the relationship of Malta to Italy. Vulnerable perhaps to bombing attacks it would be a tough nut for Mussolini Mus-solini to crack by sea. Top left is a view of the harbor at Valetta with British man o' war at anchor. Below, one of the big coastal guns that ring Malta is blazing away during gunnery practice. (SEE ITALIC NOTES.) U. S. REDS: Don't Love Nazis The American Communist party, in the last six months, has sent $5,000 to German reds, to help them in their underground struggle against Hitler. This fact was announced an-nounced at the C. P.'s national convention con-vention in New York, which gathering gather-ing appeared to be unabashed by the Russo-German pact of last August. (This anti-Hitlerism, however, how-ever, did not make things any easier eas-ier for the Finns early in the year.) There were visiting reds at New York from Mexico, Chile, Haiti, Iceland, Ice-land, Puerto Eico, and Cuba. A Mexican delegate condemned Congressman Con-gressman Martin Dies and his committee. com-mittee. The convention opposed participation in the national advisory advi-sory defense commission "and any subordinate boards." ANTI-ROOSEVELT: II GERMAN WAR: Flanders Battle The Dutch-Belgian-Flanders-Artois battle came virtually to an end, save for up-moppings and kitty-corner operations here and there. The Dutch and Belgian armies had been surrendered or finished, and the First, Seventh, and Ninth French armies were destroyed. Nobody came out of it with any laurels save the British navy, which somehow succeeded in ferrying perhaps two-thirds two-thirds of the British army out of Dunkirk by means of warships, transports, yachts, barges, and lifeboatsand life-boatsand under heavy aerial fire. It seemed that the German air force fell down on this debarkation operation, for British losses, in retreat, re-treat, were smaller than might have been expected. Somehow, the allies secured a temporary air supremacy in the Dunkirk sector, and the British Brit-ish Spitfire machines showed a Italic Notes All private motoring stopped in Italy, due to government conservation conserva-tion of gas and oil. Italy has no native petroleum, iron or coal. Pro-Italians were jailed in England's Eng-land's Mediterranean naval base, Malta. Possession of this strategic island is a leading Italian objective. The English suspended Italian papers pa-pers read by the Italian-speaking Maltese. A minority of Maltese talk the ancient Carthaginian tongue of Hannibal and his elephants. Mussolini said he was too busy to see U. S. Arabassador Phillips, who was toting a message from Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Mussolini also broke off a shipping ship-ping deal with the English, in the matter of illegal contraband control, which put the shivers into London. Italian journalists left Paris. D. of C. AND White Housings Un Campaign Wendell Willkie said, out in Denver, Den-ver, "I'd love to go to the people s" v"'" ' against that fel- V?'i, low-" "That fel- - 1 0 w " meant t ' 4 Roosevelt. To get I i I 1 rid of Roosevelt, fS- T 4 Willkie felt, was ) 5 I ! I the only way to ir i i j unite natio" LJ - I aaulst the totali- ftk ' f I arian threat, t ' Jg"f I Willkie was Pr $0 I e(iually hard on BofeiA..,..:tatf Hitler. He called slight superiority to the German Messerschmitt combat craft. British Brit-ish morale, strangely enough, was reported as excellent, but French morale did not appear in quite so favorable a light. , The German general gen-eral headquarters was strangely restrained re-strained in its moment of triumph. Lille, fourth city of France and its "Pittsburgh," was in German hands, along with Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Rot-terdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend, Calais, Boulogne, The Hague, Liege,' etc. Would refugee-choked, hysterical hyster-ical Paris be next, wondered the railbirds? Even as these railbirds wondered, Hitler's warbirds came out of the skies and rained showers of bombs upon southern France and later upon Paris itself. In the first attacks at-tacks about 150 German bombers swept over the city, dropping their cargoes of high explosives, setting many fires, inflicting huge property losses and killing at least 45 persons in Paris and its suburbs. The allies promised to repay Germany bomb for bomb in the new air offensive they were launching. President Roosevelt made another request for money. This time it was for more than a billion, for the army, navy and civilian training train-ing program, coupled with a fear that all continents may become involved in-volved in the II German war (he did not mention Germany by name). Roosevelt asked for specific authority author-ity to call up the national guard and army reservists if and when needed need-ed to "safeguard" and "defend." And Roosevelt asked for a corps, of dollar-a-year men, to expedite national na-tional defense preparations. Also, there pame a. request for a million dollars, to expand the navy department depart-ment and munitions buildings in the capital. Talkative young Elliott Roosevelt assailed so-called fifth columns in Mexico. Elliott is a radio ra-dio executive. War department plans called for immediate orders to get 2,800 planes, 1,700 tanks, 500 heavy artillery artil-lery units, and big consignments of anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. The senate voted, 55-4, for a new alien control resolution, already . Passed by the house. The immi- rwr-rs. gration - nat-t nat-t uralization Y - bureau would be I transferred t v I from the de- $hs Partrrent of f labor to the J (i department iJJ f justice. Senators Wendell Willkie tne Fuehrer a "m a d m a n." Planes and guns, said Willkie, are not built by emotion appeals over the radio. "We have confused liberty with license," added the Republicans' Repub-licans' dusky equine. But Candidate Dewey, in New York, characterized certain of Roosevelt's defense measures as "progress in the right direction" He added, in sorrow, that much remained re-mained to be done. Dewey had not yet selected a nominator (for himself), him-self), to boost him at the Republicans' Republi-cans' Philadelphia convention this month. Dewey, on the whole, tends to before kid-glove and velvetine than the rugged quipster, Willkie Liberals, for some reason, much prefer pre-fer western Wendell to the "O. A." ART DEPT.: On P. P. Rubens Hitler's Vienna paper, on the 300th anniversary of Rubens' death, said that Flemish artist was a "German-ic "German-ic pagan" who painted Christian sagas with a fleshly relish. This seemed fairly obvious to art critics some of whom call him the Falstaff of the Palette. Rubens liked to depict de-pict "mountains of flesh," said the Vienna journal. Rubens, too, added the paper, was fond of "Christian Venuses' and "Nazarene wrestlers wres-tlers He was "without the blinds of churchly virtue, and fearless in the face of nature." It will be remembered re-membered that many of Rubens-themes Rubens-themes were religious. Senator Wheeler Norris and Wheeler, liberals lib-erals opposed to the transfer, as-sailed as-sailed J. Edgar Hoover and the G-men. G-men. while Wheeler censured the current American "hysteria." Archibald Macleash, "radical" librarian li-brarian of the Congressional library at Washington, said that the II German Ger-man war was not a revolt of the masses. He said that, instead, it was the revolt of a gang $65,000,000: Battleship The S65.000.000 battleship Washington, Wash-ington, was launched at the Philadelphia Phila-delphia navy yard. It is a 35,000-tonner-1,600 tons bigger than any American battleship now in operation. opera-tion. The Washington is our first new capital ship in 19 years. It is -oO feet long. Fifteen-year-old Virgin. Vir-gin. a Marshall of Spokane great-great-great-granddaushter of Chief Justice John Marshall, was the Washmgtonian christener. The boat was named after her heme state. BILLY PHELPS: And the 1,400 Prof. Billy Phelps of Yale, book- I man of renown, said he'd rather lose the war with the allies than win with Hitler. Billy said Hitler had changed "Athens into Sparta " fh 1'4 Yale students thought otherwise. They signed a pe! t.tion asking that America's isolation continue. They were of draft age" COUP IN CANADA: 'Mosley of Montreal' The Canadian mounted police Uirmng into a local Gestapo or OGPU, seized eight members of the National Unity party in Montr e the British empire's great French city. Most important of the victims was Adnen Arcand. French Can, dian Fascist leader. importan t Quebec provincial politics, and op posed to tee war. There were simul taneous coups in at least three oth er Canadian cities including Ottawa Toronto and Windsor ' |