Show DR W fA OH Washington D C MAGNETIC TORPEDO Here is one reason why we needed the Azores so badly as an anti sub submarine marine marme base The U boats not only have new devices but also a new strategy and may converge around the bottleneck to the Mediterranean between the Azores and G braUar DEVICES Latest Nazi torpedoes are superior to the former type which exploded only on contact New torpedoes are exploded 1 on contact 2 by magnet c attraction on coming close to the steel hull huU 3 by the vibration tion of the engines of the ship un tin under tinder der attack This makes it possIble for the submarine to succeed in its mission much more frequently than before A torpedo Is much less likely to miss since missing actual con contact contact tact WIth the target does not now mean as prevIously that It misses the target STRATEGY Convoys have now discovered that Nazi subs are hunting m packs of sufficient number to employ the same sort of naval strategy which large Units of naval vessels are able to use A group of submarines will surface on one side of the convoy and thus decoy the escort vessels in that direction Meantime another group of submarines on the other side of the convoy will approach within easy firing range and dis discharge charge their torpedoes Observers believe however that the main mam artery of commerce from the United States to the European theater of war the North Atlantic run run-IS still so well guarded that the submarine menace Is licked so far as that run Is concerned It Is feared however that the NazIs will now strike at another vulnerable point namely the Straits of GI GIbraltar Gibraltar Since these straits must be passed by all Allied merchant ship shipping ping supplying the Mediterranean theater of war including North Al Sicily Sardinia Corsica Italy and the not Adriatic to mention all the shipping now passing through the Mediterranean bound for the Straits of Suez and this India area is due for a concentrated submarine attack A VISIT WITH STALIN Secretary Hull might have got some interesting pointers for hIS Moscow trip from Cuban Ambassador Ambassador dor Concheso only Latin American diplomat who has met Stalin Brilliant Senor Concheso Is both Cuban ambassador to the USA U S A and Cuban minister to Soviet Russia Recent he came back from a visit to the Soviet capital during wh ch chI I he presented his credentials to For Foreign eign Minister and ex expressed expressed pressed the polite hope that he might also call upon Stalin Knowing that Stalin was one of the busiest men In Inthe inthe the world however Concheso did not press the point and actually did not expect to see hum So he almost fell out of his ballet seat one night when someone tapped him on the shoulder and told him that Stalin would see him in 20 mm utes How Stalin knew the Cuban dIplomat was enjoying the famous Moscow Ballet Concheso did not know However he was told that a mo motor motor tor would call for him at the theater in 15 minutes and he should be ready Concheso consulted a British diplomat also present at the ballet who told hum that the man who had bad tapped hum lum on the shoulder was the Russian chief of protocol so he be had better be ready It was May but zero weather in Moscow However Ambassador Conche o did not find it cold m the Kremlin Churchill wore a zipper suit sUlt when he called on Stalin and Mrs Hull has been worrying on be behalf behall hall half of her husband about the cold coldin coldin in the Kremlin Only two officers guarded Stalin One officer met the Cuban at the entrance of the build building tog ing and escorted him to Stalin s of floe There he was met by another officer who took hum him the rest of the way There was no pomp or cere ceremony ceremony mony GENIAL JOSEPH JOSIPH Stalin himself was not fierce but kindly and genial His eyes accord according tog ing to Ambassador Concheso are deep and penetrating but with wren kles Iles of humor In the corners The Soviet premier seemed stir sur well posted on Cuban leans knew something about Its la labor labar bar bor law laws and its economic ques tiona However he was not familIar with Cuban U S relations and seemed to think that Cuba was still politically dependent on the USA U S A The ambassador explained that the Platt amendment had been abrogated abrogated ed and Cuba now enjoyed complete freedom CAPITAL CHAFF CI L Capt Ralph Ingersoll drafted away from hi his editorship of the newspaper PM was detailed by the army to help pilot the Five Flying Senators on part of their war zone trip It is reported that Ingersoll is 18 being queried by the war depart depart- department ment as to who leaked certain in information information formation to the senators Gov Matt Neeley of West Virginia for former former mer U S senator will run for fer th the house of represent representatives a lives in ID the First I West Virginia congressional |