| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER roar M SHAW refugees r lock flock across atlantic As battle of en england land impends Im 1940 campaign 0 gets under way EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they aro are those of the news newa analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper I 1 1 ne released leased by western newspaper union I 1 11 II GERMAN WAR air murder terrific german air raids on eastern england went on and on in end less waves of bombers protected by fighting ships german los losses ses were very heavy at least 75 planes in a single week but the german airmen nearly potted king george from tho the blue and a rumor circulated all over england that they I 1 had wounded winston churchill this proved untrue however tor for churchill escaped in southeastern southeast orn england into an air raid shelter tho the british blasted back at france belgium holland and the rhineland but were generally outnumbered man for man their long service regulars were much more than general Goc rings hot shot youngsters but there the british advantage ended the british cudlic under fire was wa 8 showing its usual courage and c endurance n tho the very heart was blasted bla t out of one english city which remained unnamed ghastly time bombs an effective f form 0 rm of assap assassination si were bein being g dropped by both sides and each cacti side blamed it on the other FW the germans were producing a brand new fighter plane called FW F W it was good for miles per hour as against the of th the e british spitfires Spit fires and the of the british hurricanes the th e new german germ an freak had tho the propeller in back to push instead of in front to pull it was a flying wing design with no tall but with a couple of sticks running back to support the two rudders rs it had two cannon mounted out on the wings and four ma chine guns stuck in the nose of the pilots cabin it was heavily armored and outweighed the hurricanes and spitfires Spit fires the two standard d types it has to fight against I 1 FW was a monoplane worth watching SHIP NEWS arrivals maurice arrived at now new york on a greek liner with his wit wife and parents in law ho he is now 78 and ferociously anti german despite his blue bird philosophy somebody commented on the weary calm of the belgian shakespeare president hambro of the norwegian parliament was also in new york he had hold held the job tor for 15 years then he lost it also in new york was young otto H ansburg aps burg austrian pretender to various thrones and there was talk about his imperial mother ex kal serin zita coming over too duke and duchess windsor were to b be e 0 on n the way en route to the dukes new bathing preserve the ba bahama homa islands the rich I 1 an anglo 9 I 1 a americans were trickling home tit at a great rate but their hearts belonged to churchill AN ANALLY ALLY selassie etc one of the oddest war bits yet to evolve come came to light england made halle selassie n full fledged war ally against italia london formally recognized the little exile as emperor of ethiopia lion of judah etc and told him that he be was now back on the ethiopian throne mussolini was reported as enormously amused by it all though Selas sies revival may aid native rebels against italy in the Ethl ethiopian sector of italian east africa england had formally and officially recognized the italian conquest of ethl opla by an agreement of 1938 halle is ii still only 49 years old and was said to be aarin to go but where another british ally was the sultan of dehore dehore is near singapore in the malay peninsula the sultan met a rude canadian in a london air raid shelter the sultan london now has a polish daily newspaper transferred from the previous polish capital of angers in france it is londona Lon dons first stab at morn morning ing Pol onlan the renault automotive factory outside parts paris was reopened by the nazis it employed workers in good tim times es renault cars are famous they always carried the ra alator behind not in front of the hood sweden seemed to be fitting into the new united europe though without any enthusiasm it made trade agreements with germany norway russia denmark italy and hungary much of it will be based on goods for goods that is by barter instead of via plutocratic gold the U S liner manhattan brought brouil it in 1000 american refugees from lisbon portugal the export liner exeter brought more of nt them the U S liner washington brought in some 1500 americans from galway in ireland these were considered last minute emergency voya voyages geso said lie he was the sultan the rude canadian said nothing im the king of ireland but the good d natured sultan laughed and proved his point once the french police arrested him for photographing the Maginot line area ills sultana was scotch but ho he divorced her by saying baying under moslem lawt law got get out four times she got out pronto 1940 CAMPAIGN phases fc phrases now no doubt begins the season of straw polls the big political con can vent mentions ions are over but the campaign has scarcely begun the democrats 1 had lad the limelight for th the 0 past week or two but also managed to got get a bit of publicity hero and there battling willkie chose chicago for his campaign base a and nd his national headquarters iio he rented a large suite of in the loop the chicago headquarters to bo be run by john hamilton former national chairman for the G 0 P and now executive director ot of the national committee new york was designated us as ea eastern st headquarters candidate willki e made holiday in n colorado where his breezy ways got breazy greetings E ENIGMA on and andoff 0 molotov tf I 1 w 1 J 14 ada A PW I 1 J lk foreign minister molotov of russia does not break into print often at least not so often as some of his predecessors ot of all of them he has been the most enigmatic and thus dussias Rus sias place in the european drama remains mysterious Is it germanys germanas Germ anys ally or Is it preparing for war with til the 0 nazis dussias Rus sias grab in rumania of 0 area formerly belonging to it does not answer these questions berlins recent warning to hungary to 10 dehave behave with relation to demands on rumania only complicated the dope of the experts whether molotov and his big berlin allies are on friendly terms or oft off la Is vs secret still the 31 situation tut 1 on has furnished an open season for commentators speculations of every fancy have appeared most of them were highly conjectural jec tural martinique wat a mess aless the little french west indian Is land of martinique was still block abed by british warships they were after the french naval units there including the one french aircraft carrier loaded down with american made planes anglo french bitterness was growing apace and a naval battle threatened with uncle sam as the unhappy referee how to feed martinique that was the question it seemed po possible isible that american steamers might bring in supplies to the beleaguered beleaguer ed french who were out on a limb and far from home some critics hoped the french would scuttle their ships and get it over with thereby strengthening neither hitler nor john bull the monroe doctrine was being further confused and twisted every day and wee little uruguay appeared to be its chief latin american upholder while the mexican presidential aspirants twisted uncle sams coattails chile was a perfect example of it all here were five communist daily papers and four distinct trotskyite Trotsky ite parties germany was its second best customer and 40 per cent of the chillani Chi Chil lians lans were illiterate in peru two thirds of the people we were re straight indians who knew and did nothing south americans were talking about the tour four horsemen of the apocalypse the four horsemen were labeled littler hitler stalin john bull and uncle saml sam I 1 this was exemplified in a bitter chilian challan cartoon |
