| Show i WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH Nazi-Russ Thrust Into Balkans Feared Next Move in Reich Threatens Low Countries i NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper Union I THE Norse Blitzkrieg Thu government thereby assumes protection of the kingdom of Norway for the duration ft Reich's government is convinced thai it serves best interests by this action All resistance would have to be and would be broken Day Britain bad planted mine fields along the Norwegian hoping thereby to block Nazi trade lanes through Norway's territorial Hopping Oslo More Germany took So so secretly that it was over before the world Nazi troop ships seized Copenhagen while the government ordered Danes to offer no Up north along the Norwegian coast the Reich staged a modernized version of the old Trojan horse At and other ports peaceful looking merchant vessels suddenly bristled with Crewmen turned into While warships steamed up the Oslo 30 heavy trl-motored bombers landed troops at Oslo airport and sent them marching against the The government fled inward to hurling a declaration of war at the After seven hostilities had finally Reactions What happened at sea the next two days was at best a for no observer knew how many allied and Norwegian ships were locked in the biggest North sea battle since In 48 hours an estimated 27 naval vessels reached Davey Jones' 20 of them Early reports told that British ships had pushed their way Bergen and other Norwegian Atlantic MODERN TROJAN HORSE Nazi at Bergen ports held by the They were even reported steaming up Oslo threatening to bombard the city unless the Germans But such news was Despite fierce every port remained in Nazi Though several troop transports were sunk in the was substantiated within a few hours that Nazis had landed in Oslo In French Premier Paul Reynaud flew to London for conferences at 10 Downing A hours later he left returning to tell an enthusiastic am sure the allied navies will live up to their glorious Meanwhile Britain's Neville Chamberlain told fresh and rash act of aggression will rebound to Germany's disadvantage Though men of both Britain and France were sinking with the folks back home were somehow relieved that the war had finally In the Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg in Scandinavia brought justified fear to Dutch and Belgian It was learned authoritatively that the Nazis delivered a virtual ultimatum to both informing them that any attempt to place themselves under British-French protection would serve as the signal for an immediate lightning Strict censorship was clamped down In both while Britain's War Czar Winston Churchill hinted in a speech to the house of commons that the allies expected this to be the next site of Nazi In the Significantly silent was Germany's axis but a fast developing crisis in the nearby Balkans held great potential Same day as German troops reached Propaganda Minister Joseph charged the British with sabotaging Germa-ny's Danube river outlet to southeastern the next 24 hours found Russian troops massing on Rumania's while and Bulgaria received simultaneous from Give us control of all Danger here was that the allies might consider this bringing war into the A few hours later It was learned confirmation that the allies had placed mines In every British-French-owned oil well In threatening to blow them up if the Germans or Russians In Silent as a about these goings-on was the Reich's 1 But observers wondered if Hitler's invasion of Norway and Sweden might be part of a plot for eventual Nazi-Soviet dismemberment of on the hot held her In Thoroughly certain she was next on Adolf Hitler's Sweden ordered a constant full army mobilization and nightly To every pound of Sweden's merchant marine went the radio Seek a neutral haven and stay WHITE Scandinavian Rebound Back from a Hyde Park holiday sped Franklin It was time to take more neutrality Off to the state department in search of U. S. aid went Minister Wilhelm and Denmark's De Soon the wheels began turning First presidential job was to extend the ban on U. S. shipping against Sweden and arctic ports of maim waited the and foreign exchange transactions involving Assets Norway and thus preventing the Reich from seizing those country's assets in the U. S. C. Authorized foreign sale of several new type Idle Week Day before Germany Invaded North Carolina's Bob Reynolds made a Said Sweden and Denmark did not get Into the last World war are today within a stone's throw of a repetition of the same and they are not going to get into Rest of the outside of ribbing Bob congress managed to spend a little time In committee Most eyes were on the European Congressional C To avoid boosting the debt Colorado's Senator Adams suggested that the treasury be authorized to borrow money to meet specific C Several senators got worried about Alaskan Russia has recently built fortifications in the north One suggestion was that the U. S. should take sovereignty over Wrangell Island which lies midway between Alaska and C. Ohio's Senator Taft labeled per cent several provisions of the Wagner-Lea bill relating to investment C. President Roosevelt vetoed the Starnes alien deportation Its penalties for alien spies and saboteurs were I TREND I the wind is BUSINESS The commerce department reported a 48 per cent rise in U. S. exports to Latin America during the first six months of Europe's Biggest Mexico and and 54 per SCIENCE Announced by Du Pont was a rayon cord claimed to be per cent sturdier than having greater tensile strength than structural steel and capable of running miles under conditions which destroyed an ordinary tire in AVIATION airways asked for permission to extend its lines eastward from Kansas City to Fourth Try Thrice silver-tongued Norman Thomas has run for the presidency on the Socialist In early when his party inaugurated the 1940 national convention Socialist Thomas came back At the convention named as his vice presidential running mate a economics professor from the University of Maynard C Krueger Backed by a campaign fund yet to be THOMAS AND KRUEGER They have a Candidates Thomas and Krueger promised to stump the country from May until October on a two-point complete isolation from the and socialization of major U. S. Other political C In John who rebelled against the Kelly-Nash-Horner watched painfully many months while Henry ailing let a run the feeling his oats a few days before the primary Stelle took an unprecedented He declared himself summoned the legislature In special session and Samuel L. state finance director and right-hand Horner On election Stelle lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Harry machine C In both Illinois and Nebraska primaries G. O. P. Hopeful Tom Dewey rolled up Impressive primary unopposed in the More noteworthy in both states was the way Franklin D. Roosevelt's supporters won delegates to the national Biggest Nebraska's defeat of Edward R. Wheat Forecast With Europe's war apparently the U. S. took stock of Its Released was a periodic agriculture department forecast on winter wheat heavy with bad Statisticians figured about 29 per cent of the acres seeded last fall had been abandoned for lack of moisture and other unfavorable Total winter wheat will be lowest since But added to a normal spring crop of and a carryover of about will leave Uncle Sam's granary in good Rebuke For almost three years the U. S. has sought vainly to secure a settlement on American-owned oil lands which Mexico Though arbiters have been near the goal posts several negotiations have Invariably broken In early Secretary of State Cor-dell Hull got Forwarded to Mexican Castillo Na-jera was an unusually sharp note which the state department made public a week One the past 25 one American interest In Mexico after another has suffered at hands of the Mexican Republic Loses For labor resulting in the Little Steel strike of the Republic Steel corporation was banded a labor board order last year directing reinstatement oi about C. I. O. strikers with back pay of more than Republic but the third circuit court of appeals upheld NLRB's This month Republic's case reached the U. S. Supreme |
