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Show Halifax Named British Envoy to US. As Eden Gets Foreign A m,st er Post, US.DefenseSet.Up Revised m Effort To Speed Up IndustriaFW 4 I Ihee column. ;.::"t,' ..' L'r-jon-1 ' . .,, t 1 J f ,xJ f " ' i -V - -i- 1 & a - ' - ' - y r I f J ' ' i I , - ' ' ' "'SAK : ! 80MKWIIKKE IN FN GLAND A Pioneer" squad ,, to work after a niKht raid on a Midlands LX U lo clean up the debris and make roads passable. They also 'lsn P of bui.dinK .eft standing by the bombs but wh.eh might consWule a ard. Often they work right through the raid while bombs drop. TRENDS AIRPLANES At San Diego, Consolidated Con-solidated Aircraft corporation announced an-nounced a $14,000,000 building Project Proj-ect doubling its present opacity. WINE - At Livermore, Cam.. Schenley Import corporation gave impetus to the American wine industry in-dustry by purchasing the Cresta Blanca Wine company. PRODUCTION-At Washington the Federal Reserve board reported that during November industrial production pro-duction hit a record high, 132 per cent of the 1935-39 average. ARMS At Washington, British officials of-ficials completed a master list of $3 000,000,000 in new war orders to be placed in the U. S., including 12,000 combat planes. 1 . jlJOSS: Becomes Servant Selection of Viscount Halifax as British ambassador to the United States was a case of the boss becoming be-coming the servant and vice versa, for Anthony Eden was named as most likely candidate for succession to Halifax's post as foreign secretary. sec-retary. Halifax left the cabinet, the last of the Chamberlain appeasement The fall of Salum forced an entry into Italian territory, and the British, Brit-ish, using the German tactics of the fight through Flanders, shot ahead down the coastal roads 175 miles within the border, completely surrounding sur-rounding and cutting off some 20,-000 20,-000 troops in Bardia, principal port. Bardia was placed in a state of seige, and the British main forces after leaving sufficient men to prosecute pros-ecute the reduction of Bardia, later to be reinforced from the rear, pushed on toward Tobruk and Derna. Marshal Graziani and his main forces were still able to keep ahead of the British, but the latter claimed enormous numbers of prisoners, killed and wounded Italians, totaling around 30,000, great booty, all accomplished ac-complished with a British loss, of only 1,000. Just where the Germans would enter en-ter the picture in the Battle of Africa was not clear, with the British naval na-val forces apparently in charge of the coastline and unmolested, and the better ports either in British hands or under siege. crew, a man for whose scalp the British Brit-ish anti-Chamber-lainites had howled for months without success. Washington conceded con-ceded the great ability abil-ity of the new ambassador, am-bassador, and predicted pre-dicted success for him here, while ad- f ; TiA mitting that American Ameri-can public opinion Viscount at the outset might Halifax recall his appeasement tactics before be-fore Munich. It was announced that Britain might add the post of minister to its staff in Washington. Both ambassador am-bassador and minister had been the custom in Britain's Paris office, but hitherto Washington has had only an ambassador. Just what Eden has been up to In Egypt and the near East has never been made clear, but it must have been successful, because observers ob-servers pointed to the fact that B. E. (before Eden) things had been at a standstill in the eastern Mediterranean Mediter-ranean sector, and after Anthony arrived ar-rived on the scene, of a sudden the British rose up, pelted the Fascists, and sailed them way back into Libya. The British effort against the Dodecanese Do-decanese islands also was crowned with a great deal of success, and Eden is believed to have had a finger fin-ger in that pie as well. So now he is to be brought back as foreign minister from his present post as secretary for war, and this will be odd, for he will go back into a job he held under Chamberlain, and which he vacated because he openly expressed himself as out of sympathy with the then premier's appeasement policy. GREEK: Aims Revised The Greek war cry of "Tirana by Christmas" had to be revised, when Italian resistance stiffened, and the skirted Evzones had to fight ahead every inch of the way at bayonet point. Whether it was German reinforcement reinforce-ment or not was not clear, but as the Italians neared the hopping off places they fought harder and the Greek advance, while continuing steady, was not as spectacular. The Greeks reminded one of a football team nearing the goal-line and meeting a stiffened defense. Enormously important' objectives had been achieved, however, Pogra-detz Pogra-detz on the north and Argirocastro on the south, Porto Edda and other vital points having fallen into their hands. Maps showed a good third of Albania Al-bania taken back from the Italian invaders. Immediate objectives were the port town of Valona, and the inland bases of Tepelini and Chimara. Greek generals claimed the Italians Ital-ians had moved out of Klisura, but 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 importance on the conquest of Tepelini, Tepe-lini, an important road junction point. They stated categorically that if the Greeks capture Tepelini, further fur-ther Italian resistance in Albania would be impossible. On the other side, experienced military men pointed out that beyond be-yond Tepelini and toward the coast line the Albanian plains, and it was in this territory that the Fascists' mechanized forces, especially if aided aid-ed by German tanks and dive bomb-ers, bomb-ers, might succeed in halting the Greek advance. The British fleet boldly ranged up and down Italy's private Adriatic bombing Valona with thousand pound naval shells and receiving no answering fire. The outcome still was in doubt though dispatches con-tinued con-tinued to favor Greece. CLAUSE SIX: And National Defense .When President Roosevelt wants to do something drastic and final and something that has not been done before, he has a system all his own. He calls his legal advisers in, tells them what he wants to do, and then has them find a law for it. He has created a new job, called the Office for Emergency Production Produc-tion Management, and put into it William S. Knudsen, wizard automobile automo-bile production man, with instructions instruc-tions that he is to be the "czar" for U. S. defense, and all lights extending extend-ing before 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. mu-nitions. "There must be no appeasement," he said, and he called the war in Europe "irreconcilable" in character, charac-ter, and asked the nation to "recognize "recog-nize the full gravity of the crisis" which resulted in additional power being given to his organization. One writer said that, seven months ago, when Knudsen was given giv-en the defense chairmanship, he gave that funny half-smile of his and asked President Roosevelt "who's the boss?" The President said "I am." And Knudsen took the job, it was said with misgivings. These misgivings have been more than justified in the defense industry indus-try lag. Now, it is held, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt has said to Mr. Knudsen in effect, "I was wrong before. Now SECONDS: In 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 con-firmed in many quarters. Purpose of these was a bit dubious, dubi-ous, but 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 st?nd together, and that m sending aid to U Duce's tottering tot-tering armies Germany was but repaying re-paying aid sent to her by Italy in the form of "hundreds of pilots and planes for cross-Channel bombing " It was too early for the general effect of these reinforcements to be noted m the war reports. British mechanized forces, backed by naval guns from the Mediterranean and by naval and army planes from overhead, over-head, pushed on rapidly into Libya. I & wciuIe. 1NOW you are the boss!" And now Knud-sen Knud-sen will go ahead with full authority As to Clause Six, and the part it Played, some of the Washingtonians Questioned the President's authority to give Knudsen supreme power. 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