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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH NEWS ANALYSIS WEEKLY yes-and-- ll Washington, D. C. EAST POKER GAME For perspective on the present South Pacific between Japan and Britain, it is well to remember that for years Thailand, then known as Siam, was a pawn in the power game of the bigger nations of the Pacific. In this game the United States -- FAR (EDITORS NOTE When opinion ara eiprea.ed In thaaa celuaana, (bar axa tbaaa l (ba newt analy.t and sot neceaaarily al this aewapaper.) iReleaaed by Western Newspaper Union.) tug-of-w- ar had a hand. For years, American financial advisers have been attached to the Thailand throne, one of them having been Francis Sayre, n HISTORIC MEETING: A Declaration . . d. soap-boxe- r, down-and-out- er PRIME MINISTER CIIlRCHILL PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT From their historic meeting al sea cat uur aims and a plan for a better future (St below; HISTORIC best-selle- r, d TOKYO, JAP AH. -- The fourth anniversary of the outbreak of Chinese Incident the was marked in Tokyo by speeches by They army and navy told the populace of the great gains made but made no attempt to explain the delay in the final break-dowof Chinas defense. Above is I.ieut. Gen. llideki Tojo, Japanese uar minister, delivering one of the main addresses. big-uig- s. After a secret meeting at sea. President Roosevelt and Prime Minwere expert at publicity, the col- ister Churchill of Great Britain, laboration of a literary wife in the issued and signed a joint declaration of general war aims. and an imwriting of a This declaration in its introducmeasurable belief in his own great tion explained that two men, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world, The declaration then went on to outline the sort of world that would be sought following the end of the war. In its eight point text, the message expressed in a general way the foreign policy of the present U. S. administration and from the British point of view it was most concrete statement of war aims yet disclosed by that government. In the opening point of the declaration it was declared that neither the U. S. nor Britain sought aggrandizement, territorial, or other. In the next and following points the ideals expressed included: the right of all peoples to choose their own ly ALTER WINCH ELL, who is a form of government; a system of lieutenant eoininauuer in the C. S. world trade working to the benefit naval reserve is shown in uniform of all nations; a desire for fullest while on temporary active duty. collaboration between all nations in the economic field; after the final ness, converted (him) into a nation- destruction of Nazi tyranny hope al hero and eventually into a na- was expressed for a peace in which tional danger. You're wrong. He all nations could exist in safety and was referring to John C. Fremont, a traverse the high seas . . withNapoleon of another era out hindrance; and finally, a plea . . . Readers Digest insists money for the abandonment of the use of isnt important . . If you dont force between nations of the world. think money is important ask the This historic document and meetpeople who havent any. ing, when they were announced ended two weeks of rumors about the The Front Pages: The sense of possibility of the men meeting. No most of the communiques from the sooner had the President left WashHeinie High Command seems to be: ington on what was announced to Were licking the tar out of the be a short vacation cruise before Russkys, but dont quote me . . . the speculation and guessing began There are dailies on this side of the to sweep through this country and Atlantic that fit Donald Wickhams England. Churchill was said to be vignette (in Truth) of The London absent from London on pertinent war matters. A paper which has always Times: had a shrewd sense of the news For five days no direct word as value of looking earnestly ahead to the Presidents whereabouts was and an even shrewder sense of the available to the U. S. public. Then political value of looking earnestly came word that an announcement into space . . . When Richard was to be made. Boyer got back from Germany he It was reported that at the meetrapped the Nazi stunt of inviting ings (there were several conferforeign correspondents to the war ences) high ranking army and naval zone. The reporters were practicalofficials of both countries were presly prisoners, he reported, and were ent. From the White House came a steered by Goebbels helpers to the statement that they had examined items they wanted sent to the U. S. the whole problem of the supply of Well, the boys are making tours munitions of war. again, this time on the Russian front. Maybe they figure its bet- DRAMA: ter to send back propaganda rather In Washington than no word at all. It was high drama, that passage of the bill which makes the service New York News Reel: Maiden of selectees, guardsmen and reguLane which was so named be- lars 18 months more than they cause it was a footpath used by signed up for. lovers along a rippling brook . . . The closeness of the vote, 203 to The Center Theatre which has a 202, was part' of it, but the suddenspecial ventilating system to carry ness with which it came, the bitteroff the heat produced by the 400 ness of the press and forensic bulbs in the chandelier . . . The fight on the measure, gave the batfellow at 34th Street who runs a hot tle its and severity. punch dog stand and plays classical reThe climax came when the calm cordings on his phonograph between voice of Speaker Sam Rayburn ansales . . . The beauty parlors nounced the for totals, a warning to patrons: Ladies should the administration by victory one vote. be seen and not hard . . The This was met by a tumult in galantique shop on 3rd Avenue with a leries and on floor of almost indesensayuma. It displays jokebooks scribable excitement. in the window most of which you It had been one of those things can hear on the radio every night that no one could have predicted, . . . The doors of the vaults at the and in which both sides felt sure Federal Reserve Bank which weigh of victory until the totals had been 90 tons. announced. As the count grew late, low and The hinterlands taking over Times apprehensive whistles were heard from the members of congress as BroadSquare for the week-enway on Sunday is Scranton, Pa., the vote balanced and then unbalon Monday . . . The Columbus Ciranced each other. cle talking to an audiThe vote found the widest split of ence of one a bored cop . . delegations in many a year. There Safety sign seen near tire Lido were 182 Democrats for the measBeach Club: Drive Slowly. Dont ure and 21 Republicans; 65 DemoBe a Hearse's Neck! crats and 133 Republicans against, . . . The near the City Hall 14 paired and 14 not voting. fountain washing his face and dryThis vote did something that leging it with a dirtier kerchief . . t islation seldom does, in giving each The chalked lettering on Tombs representative a keen realization of Prison Cooler Inside. the value of his single vote. self-style- of Woodrow Wilson, now high commissioner of the Philippines. He wooed Thailand on many occasions, including the ornate reception given the former king of Siam, who as Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half Brother of the Sun and Keeper of the Twenty-fou- r Golden Umbrellas, came to Washington in the days of Herbert Hoover and was regally entertained. The British were even more m- -, terested m the Siamese. British advisers for a time ran the kingson-in-la- w . The Story Tellers: Bernard de Voto writes in Harper's of a certain misguided American: Chance, the willingness of the public to let picthe turesque heroes pontificate, management of smart men who Smart Chair Set Simple to Make Explains Incident Edward C. Wayne Meeting at Sea Brings Joint Declaration of War Aims Seeking A Better Future for World; Vichy Nazi Collaboration Strengthened Roosevelt-Churchi- Notei of an Innocent Bystander: The Wireless: One of the reasons the news from the new war zone is is because the transmission from Moscow is haywire. The relays hit the Axis areas, and they change the bad news or just lose it . . . Leland Stowe jeered at the alarmists who cried Surwhen our troops reached prise! Iceland. Mr. Roosevelt prepared us for it, he reminded, when he declared the emergency. Then he Jt would be stupid to allow said: the enemy to get a foothold . . . Jan Yandrich, guesting on We, the People," reported that the people of Tobruk, where hes been, have other things besides war to murder their sleep. Theyve got a sister of the Hut Sut song, called Laughing Mathilda . . . Whos the new announcer with the divine falsetto? He can lisp words with no lisping letters in them, and hes got waiters in the saloons fluttering on tiptoe during his broadcasts . . The way some of the brassier bands swing the classics, youd think they were after revenge on listeners. By ! t an joint declaration of general r the uorld ." eight-poin- EkTINGA Dtclsrttioa) COLLABORATION Vichy Nazi Pact -- Coming Russo-Germa- n ORIENT: Japan Committed : The report that the Japanese had at a moment when the landed 180,000 men in a war was in its most and that most of these would be conIndo-Chin- critical stage, and at a time when the Japanese situation was at a sort of peak crisis, the Vichy-Narapprochement, ending in an upset of the governments policy of limited collaboration, and putting the highDarlan practically at ly the helm of French affairs was a sensation indeed. It was one of those sensations of the type that we knew all along was going to happen, but it was still a major shock when it happened. One was forced to look at the matter both from the viewpoint, however, and from the viewpoint, largely a matter of ones imagination, of Marshal Petain himself. Preparatory articles had been written by escaped Frenchmen quoting the record of Petams career to show that he had been both obstructionist and defeatist in the last war, and not at all the hero that early histories had painted. His collapse, therefore, was not unexpected in wiser quarters, and yet a double analysis of his reasons was possible, one perhaps more charitable to the old- - man himself, the other perhaps a more realistic summation of the whole affair. Petain, one might say, viewing the impossible situation of France, was making a complete surrender to Germanys demands, hoping for and betting on an eventual German victory, and at the same time expecting that when the debacle and reorganization of Europe might come, France would get some crumbs from the conquerors table. centrated on the Thai frontier, was taken in British circles to mean that the Japs were committed to invasion, and that when it started, Britain would find herself fighting on a new front. What sounded very much like an ultimatum to Nippon was described in dispatches from Melbourne, which stated with positiveness that Britain and the United States had informed the Japanese that they must inform the two countries whether she agrees to forego her policy of expansion southward, and that a reply was insisted upon within a stipulated time. Russias answer to Japanese objections to the use of the Siberian e port of Vladivostok for ships from America was that Russia intends ttf convoy such shipments with naval vessels, producing another eastern danger point. The Russians also demanded that pact Japan sign a without reservations. The report of Japanese occupation with 180,000 troops came from Manila, a source which also stated that the British are forming in considerable force along the Malayan and Burmah borders of Thailand, ready to move in if they feel Japanese invasion is a certainty. History Will Tell propriation bill, the first defense appropriation amount that has not passed with a rubber stamp regularity. The committee, headed by Senator Glass of Virginia, made the cut by unanimous vote. The cut amounted to 17.3 per cent of the amount asked, a substantial slice indeed. The house already had passed the bill on July 28, and had sent it to the senate with the inclusion of an item of $1,347,000,000 for tanks, and k for and guns. Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson had personally urged the inclusion of this item. It was, he said, essential to the army if the United States was to move into armed conflict. The senate committee, having slashed $1,347,000,000 by disapproving this item, then turned around and added $112,000,000 to the bill, thus making the net cut $1,235,000,-00- zi anti-Britis- doms government, trained its army, supplied the one or two ships for its navy. But half a dozen years ago the Japanese began preaching the doctrine of Asia for the yellow man, and Siam for the Siamese. That was how the name came to be changed to Thailand, a nationalistic token of home rule. Reason for J apans interest in this small country was not nationalism, but the fact that a slender finger of land, about as wide as the Isthmus of Panama, called the Isthmus of Kra, is controlled by Thailand. A canal through this isthmus, connecting the Indian ocean and the Gulf of Siam, would give a new short route from the Pacific to India, render Singapore impotent, and cut three days from the trip between a and Burma. Such a canal would leave Singapores giant guns and expensive naval bases guarding an sea highway, almost as unimportant as the Straits of Magellan after the Panama canal was built. That is one reason the British are ready to fight to keep the Japanese out of Thailand. h British-America- n That was the realistic view of the situation, and the one most generally accepted in Britain. More charitable was tlpe thought that Petain, working for France in a country already vanquished, and with Laval and Darlan, both friendly to the Nazis, at his side, had no other course than to surrender and those so viewing his act expressed the hope that Petain was secretly wishing for a complete resistance to German occupation of French colonies and bases by the Weygand forces. Whichever might turn out to be the factual reason, the eventuality was the same, for few doubted but that the French fleet, barring British preventive measures, perhaps aided by the United States, would be placed at Hitlers disposal for some move in the western Mediterranean. Perhaps, it was said, full collaboration was a prerequisite to an invasion attempt on the part of Germany, and, if successful, a complete German victory. That, in sum, was Petains dream, say the British, when he addressed his people over the radio and said: Frenchmen, I have grave things to tell you! all-o- ut RUSSIA: Second Phase The Nazis big second push on the eastern front was producing results in territory gained, but it still was debatable as to whether Russian resistance was being shattered, or whether the pattern of Chinese resistance to Japan was being repeated in another sector of the war. Russia admitted gains of considerable importance on the northern and southern fronts, with Germany making the border claims, one asserting that a territory of approximately 35.000 square miles had been nipped off in the Black sea region. They asserted their panzer divisions had driven down to the Black sea coast past Odessa, trapping within this territory some large numbers of Russian armed forces, which, they asserted would be annihilated in due course of time. Russian fliers still continued to raid Berlin. Indo-Chin- out-of-da- te lend-leas- BRITISH INVASION PLANS First British plan for an invasion of the continent (since the start of SLASH: In Army Fund Of considerable significance in the Washington scene was the fact that the senate appropriations committee made emergency history by slashing more than a billion and a quarter dollars from the army anti-tan- anti-aircra- ap- ft 0. The main facts about the request- ed appropriation were kept from the public as military secrets, but it was known that the amount asked was for equipment for over and above an army of 3,000,000 men. In other words, this Dumber of men could be equipped with tanks, k and guns through appropriations already O.K.a, but the committee turned thumbs down on the additional equipment to go beyond the 3,000,000-ma- n anti-tan- anti-aircra- ft figure. The figures called for 4,600 medium tanks; 1,500 light tanks, and that the biggest item was for guns, and that 1,000 of these were to have been of 4.7 inch caliber. anti-aircra- ft CHANNEL: Plane Attacks , the Russian-Naz- i conflict) was a landing in Holland. This, it was figured, would get sympathetic support from the Dutch; would create a second front requiring Hitler to divert part of his troops and airplanes from the Russian front. The original British idea was to have the United States in a landing force. This, however, scarcely got beyond the informal suggestion stage. It was immediately and emphatically vetoed, first, for political reasons; second, because Roosevelt did not have the power to send troops abroad; third, because of the scarcity of shipping to transport and supply an American army overseas. Since then, none of the proposals for creating a second European front has contemplated any American participation. The second idea discussed was a British attempt through Spain and Portugal. This also scarcely got beyond the discussion stage, because it was figured, first, that the German army probably could take over Spain by the time British troops began to land; second, that even if a foothold could be obtained, a march across the Pyrenees to France would be too difficult. The only part which the United States might have played in such a plan was to send food ships with which to help win over the Spanish population. Norway Heavily Fortified. Since then another plan for possible British invasion of Norway has been discussed. However, this also is difficult. The Nazis now have 10 divisions in Norway; more important, they have been working feverishly with characteristic German thoroughness to fortify Norwegian ports and possible invasion points. The chief factor holding back the British, however, has been their lack of armored equipment. Although the British army is about 2,000,000 strong, only about 750,000 men are fully armed with modern equipment. And the most serious defect in their equipment is the lack of tanks. Vast numbers of tanks were lost by the British at Dunquerque, a loss which has not yet been replenished. And no invasion of the continent could be successful without a powerful tank force. Also, despite the strength of the Nazi army on the Russian front, a total of 47 German divisions are stationed in Western This is approximately Europe. 700,000 men. 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