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Until shortly sbortly after alter the tbe Munich Munichcrta Munichcrisla crta criste crisla . , when wben r'nglaDd rnglaDd F"naland Fnaland England " ' learned what wbat ahe sbe she might mtlbt ( some lIome day have bave to lace face ( aceonly . , only tbia this high bll'h bllh ' rickety fence lence separated the tbe mighty mlebty fortress lortrells from , thiSpanish the theSpanlsb theSpanish Spanlsb Spanish mainland Since Slnoe that time thus engineers enl'lneers enllneers engineer ' have bave labored unceaslnely unceasingly unceaslnelyto unceasinglyto unceasing : ! ] to protect this tbls Achilles AcblUes Aohillea heel of 01 the tbe key to the Mediterranean In a war warwith warwith waiwith with England Italy may strike one of 01 her first firat blows at GibraltarIts GlbraUar Gibraltar GlbraUarUs GibraltarIts Us Its surrender may be asked aa as an alternative to a ( German Lerman , erman blltzkrlel blitzkrieg blltzfcrleion blitzkriegon ' on England Eneland gome afme some ) war oracles claim dalm MORE WAn WAR WARBig WARDig Big B g PushWith Push PushWith With the son- son sarr sari sone - e a deadly technlqutthat technique technlqut techniquethat technlqufthat that has humbled Poland Scandinavla Scandlnavla Scandl Scandi navia navla Luxembourg The Nether Netherlands Netherlands lands and Belgium Delgium Adolt Adolf IIltler Hlllei IIltlerI Hllleiturned Hitleiturned I turned from trom his triumph in Flan Flandcrs Flanders Flandcrs dcrs ders to launch a mighty driv drlvt drive drivethrough drlvtthrough < through central Fral1ce--almed Fral1ce almed France-aimed France aimed France - - aimed dl di directly dlrecUy directly recUy rectly at that Ulat nation 3 s caLltal capital caLltalParis capitalParis capitalParis capitalParisAs ) Paris ParisAs As usual u'lual ulual ' this technique Included Includec Includedthe Includecthe Includedthe the thousands of well equipped equippec equippedIroops equippectroops equippectroops Iroops troops supported by the nowfamous nowfamous now nowlamous lamous famous and highly feared teared dive dlvt divebombers dlvtbombers divfbombers bombers strongly armored tanks tanksand tanksand tanksand and the mifchtlest mlbhtlest mihtiest , of heavy hE'llVY hEllVY ' artlllery artllleryFull artil artillery artillery lery leryFull Full strength of the drive struckat struckat struck struckat at the heart of 01 the French line whichstretches which whichstretches whichstretches stretches across 200 miles of French Frenct FrenchsolI Frenctsoil Frenchsoil solI soil along the bomme Somme omme and Aisne Alsne r1vems rivers rlv r1v rlvers ers ems This line of ot troops under thecommand thecommand the thecommand command of o ( Gen Maxime Maxlme Wey Weygand Weygrind Weygand gand grind was hastily bolstered whilethe while whilethe whilethe the Nazis were busy with their at atI attack attack attack I tack on the British and French Frenchi Frenchtorces Frenchforces Frenchforces i torces forces cscap eScap ng from the Flandertbattlefield Flanders Flandersbattlefield Flandersbattlefield battlefield via Dunkirk and the English Eng Engl1sh English l1sh lish channelBut channelBut channel channelBut But it If the allied 1 ne of 01 battle hadbeen had hadbeen hadbeen been bolstered it was done with withFrench withFrench withFrench French s Idlers ldlers and not British BritishTommles BritishTommies BritishTommies BritishTommiesFor Tommles Tommies TommlesFor TommiesFor For fr tr im In nn > London came carne word that thatlor thattor thatfor lor for the time being France would be beIOrled beforced betoned IOrled forced to bear the brunt of the Genman German Ger Gen German man attack as the English In escap escapIng escaping escaping Ing the Nazi trap in Flanders fol following following tollowing lowing Beig Delg Belg i t m s capitulation capltulaUon hadbeen had hadbeen hadbeen been forced to leave behind huge hugestores hugestores hugestores stores of equl equit equicment mLnt mcnt Until these thesecould thesecould ' could t be 17e e replaced rcplaced the British BrJtlsh armycould army armycould armycould could do little to help their allieson allies allieson I Ion on \ the U\e U e conUnci contJnel conuner tIVengs t tWin Win WUlg IVengs . Oier Over OL ( > r ParisNot Pans Paris PansNot Not only were the Girman Gt.rman Gtrman German . bomb bombers bombens bombcrs ers ens doing their wt w ( rk on 011 the battle-front battle front battle- battle battlefrontUley battlefrontthey - - front--Uley front Uley front-they they - - they penetrated much fur further furthey further ther they than the troops For ror the loni long loniexpected longexpected longexpected expected b tnbing muing inbing attack attal k on Pariswas Paris Pariswas Pariswas was carried o 0 ItEvidently itEvidently it itEvidently Evidently the first n a r raid was wasnot wasnot wasnot not aimed at the city Llty llsilt Itsdl itself but atairports at atairports atairports airports and other n Hilary I1Itary ilitary objec objecfives objectlves ! tlves fives on its outskirts Lven E.ven Even . French Frenchofficials Frenchofficials , officials admitted that tl1a t it did not looklike look looklike I Ilike like the bombing of ot an open cityand city cityand cityand and while they promised to repayGermany repay repayGermany repayGermany Germany bomb for bomb their at attacks attacks attacks tacks would also be directed at stra etra etrategic strategic gtrategic tegic military points they added addedIn addedIn addedIn In this first raid about 1 000 per persons persons pergon sons were )0 0 ) killed 11 cd at least that manyNAMES many NAMJ NAMES S . . . in lit ini the ( /i i / < * netcs TleltS rfeltS netcsfl rfeltSIt fl Cl . It . I resident Iresident Roosevelt became agrandfather a ag.andfa agrandfather g.andfa gandfa grandfather . 1er again as a boy was born bornI bornt t I Mrs Mn Anne ( dark Clark ) Roosevelt wife wifeof wifeof 01 of John i l 1 s youngest son sonCl sonq Cl q . < ! . 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Mrs \In In ! \ Dwight W Morrowhas Morrowhasurged Morrow Morrowhas Morrowhas has -urged urged - 1 I nmedlate nmediate a ad d to l U Ue Uallies Lieallies e eallies allies ask ng that we sen St'll Stll sea ' j f ! theeverythlng theeverything the theeverything everything everythlng that could coulli help htlp v . itheir 1 } 1their their struggle aga uga nst nsl nst.errnai Lermal German ( -.errnai .errnai - . y yCl yft yft Cl ft . Ambassador Ambaasador William Wltitam C ( , . BulllU Bullllt Bulllltcabled BulllUcabled Bullittcabled cabled the secretary aecretary o of ( stale state < ; ta te L C c , rdell r rdell rdell dell Hull a dram dramal dramat at c a tccount 'ccount ccount account " ' ot of hisescape his hisescape hisescape escape from a Nail NarJ tYazi ; bomb during a B Braid araid raid on Paris Heavy bcmbg b.mba bombg b .mba mba < . lell fell ( ell onall on onall onall all aides sides of 01 the building buildine inwhich in which hewas he hewas was attending a luncheon lun.heon lunheon . and onedud onedud one onedud dud that did not explode : .truck truck struck struckwithin . truch1 , wIthin . . . . . . a _ lew few . _ - teet feet of i him , , ? , he i , said saidM . , , . M more Injured and Immense property propert propertydamages properdamages ! ; damages inflicted The French re retaUated retaliated retaliated taUated taliated with bombings f a Munlclmotor Municlmotor MUnich Munlcl MUnichmotor motor factory and n II Hilary Hltary ilitary base bases basesnear basenear ; near Frankfort on MainPREPAREDNESS Main MainPREPAREDNESS PREPAREDNESS PREP AREDNEc . , , ' ' ' Tragically 'TragIcally Short As the nation wide dr ve VI ye " to builcup build buih buildup buihup up military defenses went forwurr forwurrwith forward forwardwIth forwardwith wIth every governmental agencystraining agency agencystraining agenc ; straining to the utmost to be helpful help- help helpful helpful - ful Gen George C Mirshall M'1rshall M1rshall Marshall ' army armychlel armm armmchief armchief ) chlel chief of staff statY stall tild tId t ) Jld congress that thatmanpower tha thamanpower thaimanpower manpower is the army s tragicshortage tragic tragh tragicshortage traghshortage shortage And he added it is the theonly the theonly th ( only thing in a large ll.lrge lllrge . measure that thatcan tha thacan tha'can thacan ' can produce immediate Immedla te resultsEarlier resultsEarlier results resultsEarlier Earlier he had said sold that procure procurement procurement procurement ment of equipment was the mos mosvital mos'vital mosvital most mostvital ' vital need but when his testimonybefore testimony testimonybefore testlmon ] before a house appropriations sub sub- subI subcommittee subcommittee subcommittee - I committee was made i I ubiic ubllC ublic it waslearned was wat waslearned watlearned learned that he believe bellevt betievc . j I ! the army r rmaximum s smaximum tmaximum maximum peacetime strength o of ol280000 . 280000 280 000 men would be mbie Il'lule Illule iribte ' to handie han handie handie , die emergencies stemn stems ing mg tog from the theI thecurrent th thecurrent ( current international s iation tlatlon iatlon tlatlonWhile t iatlonWhile iationWhile I While he oppose 1 I s 5 ggestions ggestlOns thaicitizens that thatI thatcitizens I citizens military tr triir tr'1l1 tr1l1 ' au n It rr g camps be beexpanded beexpanded beexpanded expanded to meet nrn urn ama y personnel personneldemands personneldemands personneldemands demands he favored a plan nowauthorized nowauthorized now nowauthorized authorized but never u used ed whereby wherebyyoung wherebyyoung wherebyyoung young men coul cool 1 I \ 1 Ie e trained for tot forthree totthree torthree three or four lour m in r i ! tlis tlls the r i r d then beallowed be beallowed beallowed allowed to go back t tl II it eir elr err regular regularoccupations regularoccupations regularoccupations occupations Thus a l t 1 je ke . , , e re reserve reserveof reserveof erve 01 of partly trained tramed in m rn i v \ ild lId rid lIdt.ven ridtven t-ventually t ventually t.ven tven t.ventually tventually . - tually be built upCompulsory up upCompulsory Compulsory Compu.lsory . ) ' From some conbre congress conjrecv , il 11 it sources sourcescame sourcescame sourcescame came the prediction tha that t f 1 r ( Lt Ciirmanywins , rmany trmany trmanywins . rmanywins wins the European EuroP'an EuroPan " ' war wlolr s ich mill milt milttary milltary milltary tary training will bee bec e a compul compulsory compulsory compulsory sory Setting up a tra I i g system systemof systemof systemof of this type has been w dely discussed dls dis dlscussed discussed cussed since the I resi rest res I lIt I t i t s II a recentproposal recent recentproposal recentproposal proposal to give him c ntrol of ofthe ofthe ofthe the National Guard an 1 I OrganizedReserves Organized OrganizedReserves OrganizedReserves Reserves was ai al at n i r ! iid -id id l.d ld cad l.dIt cadIt ( - . idIt It is argued that ui or h Ur r b s s > l ) icli .h h ctr < . a plan plana a defense system systeln w N " uld old prove lesscostly lesscostly less lesscostly costly than atten pt g l I t b iild Hid old up a alarge alarge alarge large army of i ir i r t I troops troopsRep troopsRep troopsRep Rep Smith (1) 1 ( ( D ) i r It I ( ) claimsthat claims claimsthat claimsthat that half of tt tl ti 1 1 J 5 50 5L ( , ( < (00 00 ( youths youthswho youthswho youthswho who reach nit n rr II l t HV ary > ry te he ie , , tech t ( ich dch < yearcould year yearcould yearcould could be trained 1 I t w N \ . , Id providean provide an adequate stai stal stat 1 I h b ( , drmy army i > rmy during duringtheir duringtheir duringtheir their terms f t tr i r " Under sucha such a system tl U ti c < r \v v i \ . \ 11 I i receiveh receIve receIvemuch receivemuch much less pay tl II ti tlC.O r h t . 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