| Show Merry Merry Round Round Co By DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. S ALLEN W WASHINGTON In In any showdown between the giant army anny of Adolf Hitler and the equally huge battalions of Josef Stalin United States military eXp experts are betting on the nazis nazi Russia's army for lor years was the largest in inthe inthe in inthe the world even today may be somewhat bigger than the German Gennan Furthermore it first developed developed devel devel- many military tricks now made so ef effective by the nazis such as parachute troops and the mass use of tanks Furthermore the Russian army is is well equipped well trained and well disciplined though not nearly as well mechanized as the German How However ver Hitler has two big advantages over Stalin One is the German genius for organization tion and efficient transportation The other is the fact that Germany can send lightning strokes against Russia in two or three different areas and to defend l against these the Russian army has to ta be scattered over a tremendous area in instead instead instead in- in in- in stead of concentrated in two or three places For instance United States experts figure Hitler will strike at Stalin from three directions 1 Via Finland toward Leningrad Already General who hates Russia has haS' been in conference with German generals and for some time has been ready to cooperate with Germany in a drive on Leningrad 2 On the other hand Germany might strike from Warsaw through Brest into Polish Russia I 3 Finally Hitler might move from Rumania Rumania Ru Ru- mania through the Ukraine to Kiev and Odessa This would be the deadliest attack of all all aimed to cut Russia off from her main southern outlet to the sea Already German Gennan troop transports are reported at Black sea ports of Rumania and Bulgaria waiting to strike at Russian oil on the theother theother theother other side of the Black sea Harry Bridges Deportation The Harry Bridges deportation case in San Sari Francisco is now closed and awaits decision by the trial judge Only he knows what the outcome outcome outcome out out- come will be But near th the very close something something something some some- thing happened which nearly upset th the governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's applecart Richard C CIO I a 0 Auto Worker official who tried to stop the North American Aviation strike was put on the stand as a government witness The idea of having testify was proposed by Director of Immigration Lemuel Schofield in charge of the deportation proceed proceed- ings But it was opposed by FBI Assistant director Earl Connelley who asked if Schofield knew what was going to say on the witness stand Schofield indicated that the United Auto Worker vice president was sas going to tell about Bridges' Bridges communist background but admitted that he had not gone into the details details details de de- de- de tails of his testimony Im absolutely against any witness going x on the stand until he has reviewed his testimony testimony testimony mony in advance advance Connelley remonstrated So they talked with who however declined to reveal his testimony Later Connelley saw talking with Bridges in the corridor and warned Schofield to be careful The immigration director however however how now ever insisted that be put on the stand Almost immediately after he was sworn in pulled a prepared statement out of his pocket and proceeded to berate the justi justice jus jus- ti bee tice e de department for trying Bridges twice While government attorneys rose to object pounded the government all aU over the lot But the trial judge would not stop him because e he was the governments government's own witness So proceeded calmly to the end of his prepared statement stepped down from the witness chair pu put pus on hs his hat and caught a plane for Los td join th the North American Aviation neg negotiations Automobile Showdown Behind that demand of Undersecretary of War Patterson for a 50 per cent slash in auto production is a a. a on head-on showdown in a long undercover inner defense battle between the business as usual boys and the military chiefs It never leaked out but before Patterson sent his letter to a 0 P M insisting on the auto cut the two groups clashed face to face at a meeting in his office Among those present a at this meeting was Yas Yasa a 0 P M Director General Knudsen The former fonner General Motors head was told bluntly that unless un un- less auto production waS wag drastically curtailed it would be impossible to obtain the steel and alloys needed for the greatly expanded plane ship freight car and nd pipeline programs One or the other had to be sacrificed there wasn't enough metal for both autos and defense The military chiefs backed their argument with the following telling figures Despite the 20 per cent auto cut three months ago the industry has been making new production production pro pro- records for weeks Last week it established established an time all-time high with cars At present rates of production the industry is op operating operating op- op on a ton ton steel-consuming steel basis This tonnage almost exactly coincides with the steel shortage which 0 P M experts several weeks ago said would face the country Distributed by United Feature Syndicate |
