Show National Whirligig By Ray Tucker I WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The The overwhelming aerial supremacy the Anglo-American Anglo forces have attained at at- attained over north Africa now now permits this country country coun coun- try to employ its major naval strength against Japan for the first time since Pearl Harbor The world may soon witness a spectacular demonstration tion of the Intimate relationship between the plane and the warship In closed waters like those lying between Tunis and Sicily bombers have proved far more effective than destroyers submarines or battle- battle wagons Mussolini's fleet has not dared to stir from safe harbors since the united nations obtained ob ob- obtained airfields along the coastal strip from Cairo to Gabes Under pounding from the skies It is doubtful whether the nazis can stage a retreat on a Dunkerque Dun Dun- Dunkerque scale As a result Britain haS been able to release numerous surface craft which she had to maintain in the Mediterranean until Rommel was cornered in Tunisia These vessels v vill sel tWill now undertake duties s in the Atlantic and elsewhere which had been performed by American units Although detailed plans plana are secret It will not be long before Uncle Sams Sam's navy will outgun and outnumber the Japanese It would not surprise observers here if we set out on a hunt for Tokyo's main mam armada which has remained in hiding since December 7 1941 Tojo has not dared to risk it in a decisive engagement Leu Lewis is Being Cast for Scapegoat Role The administrations administration's best minds have prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared spectacular a wide nation campaign designed designed designed de de- de- de signed to pillory John L. L Lewis if he does not agree to a coal settlement before May 15 They have fashioned schemes worthy of a Hollywood director in their plan to depict him as responsible responsible sible for most of the woes that have befallen the United States like those of New York will be enforced enforced en en- forced in all large cities Movies theaters and stores will be required to douse their lights as asa asa asa a means of saving power Travel by train will be restricted to people engaged in business schedules schedules schedules sched sched- ules will be reduced and disrupted Letters from soldiers overseas denouncing Lewis will be read from the floor of house and senate Steel and munitions plants may be shut shut down and the stoppage of war work blamed on his It Is figured that such a stage play would crush the U UM M W boss and break him forever as a political figure F D R needs only to say the word for all this thus machinery oo of ot condemnation to be set in opera opera- tion Almost every interest necessary to make the show a success would be only too glad to cooperate MacArthur Boom Under Wraps The president MacArthur-for-president boom has not been buried by prominent leaders of the Republican lican titan party It has just been wrapped in moth balls temporarily and the Inside fact is that it enjoys more real strength now than it ever di did d in the past The politicos pushing the andi of the general are not personal friends of his his some c of f them have never met him But their surveys convince them that he would have the best chance chant e of defeating President Roosevelt and they want wanta t a winner They are also motivated by the fear r that their two leading contenders Wendell Willkie Willkie Will Will- kie and John W. W Bricker will mangle each other r so badly at the convention that neither can an b be e nominated In such circumstances the current curren t hope is Governor Thomas E. E Dewey of New York but they do not believe he could make th the e grade The progress of the movement on behalf o of f the hero of Bataan will depend of course o on n the wars war's trend Should he be engaged in a ha hard rd campaign by nomination time it would be dangerous dangerous dan dap for the G GO O 0 P to attempt to draft him Should MacArthur be kept in the army when hen n he reaches retirement age next January that t circumstance tod would raise difficulties Under r the Stimson edict against officers running fo for public places which they did not hold before they y donned uniform the general would have to re r re resign sign at a time when his services might be most needed Despite these obstacles numerous ke key y insiders Insist that he is the G 0 O Ps P's best bet McClure Newspaper Syndicate Syndicated It Is essential that when this war is over th the e united nations should maintain sufficient force to insure that neither Germany nor Italy no nor r Japan can ever again plunge the world into war Anthony Eden If we do not find the common ground o on n which to build peace this time we shall not have deserved victory Anthony Anthony Eden |