Show weekly news analysis nazi drive into low countries marked by terrific fighting T shiaw by roger EDITORS NOTE when opinions ar are e eap exp expressed in these columns they th e y are those of the sews news analyst and n not ot necessarily of this newspaper THE WAR bigger and domestic presidential politics were driven pro tern tem into second place by the march of mars the germans added holland belgium and luxembourg the three little low countries to their list of victims which now includes czechs czecho poles norse and according to some the austrians Aust rians against the dutch and belgians hitler used much of the norse blitzkrieg buildup this included the big junkers air transports 20 men per ship parachute jumpers all arme armed d to the teeth aerial bombardment of te enemy nemy air fields and concentration centers and mass movements of infantry against the frontiers by land the french came to the assistance si of belgium as in 1914 and the english crossed the channel to holland that same channel that hitler himself would so much like to cross for a poke at john bulls midriff tou jours la guerre luxembourg did not resist again like 1914 but belgium and holland did the belgian army was considered fairly good but the dutch A U Is v GENERAL GAMELIN for france courage cp urage energy confidence troops did not carry so high a ranking nevertheless the belgians and dutch put up a stiff fight against the masses 29 divisions of oncoming field grays and the aerial hit and run tactics up above the dutch antiaircraft anti aircraft shot down close to a hundred nazi airplanes almost at the first volley but poor peaceful brussels took a bombing that killed or wounded more than five score citizens simultaneously with the german netherlands invasion came aerial bombing by the nazis of french airdromes aird romes railways coal mines and factories the dutch east indies interned all germans over 16 years old and seized german ships there japan with surprising decency announced its respect for the oriental status quo at least in that dutch quarter dutch colonies include nearly a million square miles and more than natives beautifully administered dutch east indian java and sumatra are excessively rich in tin rubber oil and other badly needed raw products SO THEY THE Y SAY what they said hitler said about it all the fight beginning today decides the fate of the german nation for the next 1000 years do your duty now bowl gamelin french generalissimo said for france and all her allies courage energy confidence roosevelt said the american people are shocked and angered by the tragic news from belgium and I 1 the netherlands and luxembourg Sw edens leading newspaper said highly civilized countries whose love e of peace is unquestionable were brutally thrown upon the sacrificial rifi cial altar the red cross said needed the N Y worlds fair said we feel that we will have a happy carefree crowd at the fair on opening day opening day was the second day of netherlands chaos ENGLAND EXPECTS better luck perhaps nice old chamberlain finally got the gate in england umbrella and all and the loud speaking winston churchill navy lord in the last war and this one too got the prime ministry chamberlain highly capitalistic in his outlook never could get labor support in peace or war churchill though a diehard tory for some reason has the affection of laborites labovites Lab orites other chamberlain men went into political exile as the undertaker from birmingham supposedly Chur chills quip fell in france a couple of extreme conservatives serva tives with semi fascist views were taken into the reynaud cabinet to broaden the cojei coverage age and tighten things up the british labor party remains excessively important por tant not because of its numbers in but because of its myriads of highly organized trade unionists in the munitions factories and in other war industries british liberals also endorsed churchill OUR YOUNG DEWEY and his rivals tom dewey the young presidential go getter who sometimes seems to have few friends but many many votes got back home to new york from his transcontinental trip he received eight votes and Ma rylands 16 votes for the republican national convention down in maryland senator tydings whom roosevelt once tried to purge gained an even stronger position of power in in maryland democracy roosevelt beat garner by six to one out in california but garner won down in texas by something like 20 to 1 speaker bankhead got endorsed as the alabama democrats favorite son reorganization where the air the presidents reorganization plan to transform the civil aeronautics authority to the department of commerce was approved 53 5 3 by a special senate committee on reorganization after two days worth of hearings thereby the CAA would lose its vaunted independence and become a mere bureau of the department of commerce under harry hopkins flyers do not appear to like this proposed setup U S DEFENSE yankee speedup no sooner had the germans plunged ruthlessly into the low countries than washington was bombarded by demands for an american armament speedup at the top secretary of war woodring after a cabinet meeting asked tor for it plans included a congressional grant ol 01 0 f perhaps to equip a force of a million yankee regulars and reservists the aircraft factories were to be speeded up by more shifts of workers for example instead of two shifts three or more were proposed small manufacturers were to be stimulated some 25 class S submarines now at the philadelphia navy yard in fairly good condition were perhaps to be reconditioned but there just is no change in the plans for the fleet so spoke a high admiral congressmen too called for quick action all along the arms front their comments ranged from the calm objectivity of senator thomas of oklahoma to the florid blasts of new yorks representative y Z SECRETARY WOODRING ile he asked for a speedup sol bloom senator king of utah talked about foulest crimes and wickedest wick edest assaults and democratic peoples roosevelt said in a speech that it was a mistaken idea to believe that we americans were safe from would be conquerors because of miles of comfy goe geographical graphical dis tance roosevelt surprised some of his listeners by calling himself a pacifist brainchild of mussolini pet project his play cavour opened at the state theater in berlin goebbels and goering attended and so did a pack of italian fascist cavour was the italian george washington active in the middle of the last century mussolini collaborated with a well known italian playwright named giovacchino forzano a patriotic word technician and dialogue king the audience was reported to be calm SCIENCE with a name like a feared nazi submarine but with power which scientists believe to be vastly more than any other now known a newly discovered natural substance has been discovered and named U physicists at the university of minnesota and columbia university are responsible for most of the progress made in the isolation and extraction of the substance U is a powerful source of radiation resembling radium in this respect but it is tremendously more powerful than radium A minute fraction of a gram of U was obtained last february by prof alfred 0 nier in a university of minnesota laboratory he sent this to columbia where scientists placed one ten millionth of a gram in their atom and brought out the substances potentialities NAMES in the news C L gov culbert olson of california told president roosevelt that progressive gres sive democracy in his state demanded a third term nomination roosevelt third termites won a 3 to 1 victory in the california democratic primary to olsons delight C the pope addressing p pilgrims il in vatican city in large part newlyweds feared the war would spread and advocated peace by prayer he added that the world was poisoned by disloyalty C henry dixon cowell internationally famous pianist got out of st quentin jail in sunny california the modernistic composer served only three and a halt half years of a 15 year sentence cowell was paroled his was said to be a morals ot of tense 41 unknown soldiers sufferers in berlin were running out of tobacco beer wine customers stood in line angry women were downie turned and tobacco retailers were cut to a third of their wholesale purchases berliners have been allowed 10 cigarettes and two cigars per man per day 41 fl king carol of rumania seized all polish gold now deposited in the rumanian national bank this said carols mouthpiece was to pay off polish debt to rumania and to help support polish refugees in carols kingdom poles in other lands were enraged fl wendell endell VV willkie republican presidential ident ial outside possibility received a gold medal from the national institute of social sciences in new york james west boy scouts chief executive and mrs carrie chapman catt woman suffrage association chief also were in the gold willkie made a speech declaring we should help the allies every way short of entering the war he said america ought to hand a brass knuckle to the democracies one critic answered that perhaps hitler already had handed the democracies a mickey finn 41 war minister klement of soviet russia lost the job he had held for more than a decade bungling in the finnish operations was laid at his door marshal chilov was succeeded in the departmental job by marshal semyon two other soviet field marshals simultaneously were cr created e to take the place of those marshals purged back in 1937 41 mrs william S kilborne jr became chairman of the young national republican club she succeeded mrs frank L patterson jr both of new york C george lansbury grizzled english pacifist and labor party leader died in london the old man was loved and respected by all classes and all political faiths he was opposed to the war and ever was a firm friend of america which he knew well another notable death was that of webb miller the well known united press war correspondent who covered tour four major wars and had flown miles in search of trouble A real daredevil miller apparently was bumped off in a london railway blackout miller in his circle was almost as popular as old lansbury C mrs carl rufus is a professors wife at the university of michigan her husband teaches astronomy and so appropriately enough mrs rufus aged 60 is an aviatrix she owns and airplane and has done nearly a hundred hours of solo soaring they call her flying grandma but that was nothing much mrs barbara haiden of california celebrated her birthday by going to a beauty parlor tor for a facial she said the world is on the up and up C L attorney general bob jackson did not think so however he told an upstate new york audience that he viewed with alarm a world in which our own would be the only free nation we have an interest said he and we have some anxiety meanwhile his enemies rumbled about the department of justice and its too active G men whom they labeled gestapo like fl L in france joan of 0 arcs name was in the news as soldiers and civilians joined in paying tribute to that nations legendary heroine on the national holiday in her honor biggest difficulty confronting r of U is the work woric wor kC 4 N cost involved in extracting it fron from A uranium a rare substance itself which first must be extracted from pitchblende the dark mineral which is also the source of radium it is reckoned that one pound of the new substance would be times as powerful as the same amount of dynamite just what uses it could be put to depend upon its development say engineers who estimate that it may be 10 years before 10 pounds of U can be extracted from its source and put to practical use QUARTER MILLION for consolation senator guffey of pennsylvania introduced trod a bill into our upper house the bill concerned itself with no less a sum than this was to console the american or ambassador to poland anthony drexel biddle for furniture tapestries pictures and other odds and ends lost during the polish ambassador blitzkrieg of 18 13 biddle days last fall the biddle villa outside warsaw also was damaged by german bombs and it seems that somebody took the biddies silver too biddle now is attached to the makeshift polish gov in exile in france HAWKEYE he never missed senator lundeen farmer laboi man of minnesota is a pacifist and an isolationist of the first water but he crack military sharpshooters in washington turning in g in perfect scores with the ardys new semiautomatic garand rifle and also with its rival the johnson J 0 h n s 0 n rifle senator lundeen senator lundeen scored 28 23 bulls eyes without a miss while the eyes of the U S regulars nearly popped out the garand fires eight shots without re loading the johnson fires 11 BIG ITEMS leadem read em and weep nearly copies of works have been read in russia it was announced in moscow lenins works have totaled only around and the wage differential in communist russia now is to 1 while in capitalist germany it is only about to 1 the soviet differential was said to exceed even that of our america sixteen members of a chicago scottish drill team had their kilts stolen just before their exhibition in the national drill and ritual competition held in detroit but in borrowed regalia from fellow campeti tors and old timers present the laddies strutted their stuff brought home first place pan one of the new york bronx park zoos two pet giant pandas died in his cage pandas are rare popular amiable and extremely expensive the london panda is said to resemble rather strongly dowager queen mary mary martin from texas who sang my heart belongs to daddy on broadway got married to a film studio story editor his name is richard halliday mary has made the movies Marri marriage ace was in nevada released by western newspaper union |