Show f WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward G C wayne greeks continue to push back italians As british seize new african bases laval loses french government post anu knudsen adsen claims defense industry lags EDI editone TOnS fotr when oi pinion nio ns aro are expressed in theme column solum ns 1 they h 8 T are re those abo of at the nw news an a y and d not ol of this 1 1 1 released Me inin leased tt by western newspaper union DEBACLE italian version unquestioned was the fact that italy had been kicked wholeheartedly out of the war by britain I 1 greece and tho the free french together with other sundry allies such as polish sh cz czech h and other hands that had joined into tho the dattlo battle of greece and the dattle battle of egypt the invader who stepped briskly into the war just at the moment of prances frances collapse collop set shot forces along the mediterranean coast from the border of libya to sidi Bar barrail Barra rani nl and w who lio sailed across mounta mountains ins for athens from oil an albanian takeoff take off hud had become the invaded on both fronts front s I 1 As the british and greeks summed up huge supplies of 0 war materials captured and e enormous inventories of prisoners in hand and still coming in the rum bles began sounding through varl 11 11 I 1 irta 11 1 1111 14 g wal I 1 s K 11 el 1 T ma A 1 1 4 tt I 1 4 11 fl I 1 I 1 1 A wn m 1 1 V I 1 C I 1 1 I I 1 sk v sm 41 1 X f 1 1 s I 1 11 1 I 1 ul 1 1 11 J 01 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 Js X 4 1 M irs 4 I 1 I 1 P 1 R 11 3 1 1 1 1 M V vf C I 1 t i I 1 1 A 61 V 1 1 1 1 k I 1 1 1 4 C W j 1 I 1 I 1 41 V ap k I 1 1 1 0 p 1 1 W t 1 ila 1 N M I 1 F s if u 1 I 1 I 1 11 W 11 I 1 I 1 V ap I 1 I 1 MJ i t V s I 1 7 1 1 N 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 7 1 1 1 4 11 e I 1 1 1 k 1 ka k 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 W 1 I 1 aft 11 I 1 0 I 1 I 1 I 1 Z persistent rumors current in europe say that bruno mussolini above eldest son of 11 II duce duac was shot down and killed during an air raid on kalonika Sal greece italian circles have denied tills this report and say ho he Is serving at an airport in southern italy ous parts of italy but more particularly ticul arly in the north and about the industrial cities of turin and milan respite despite all efforts of censorship to keep the true situation from becoming generally known the debacle was too enormous to be hidden longer and aides had to take to the radio and to the italian press to prevent a spread ol of the disaster to home fronts front dismissal of leaders disaffection in the Dode caneso canese islands riots in the streets of the two big factory towns had leaked out and then the fascist party line editors and corn com anen gators began dishing i out orders to the populace lare fr from orri the higher ups at the same iame time issuing warnings to britain and the hellenes as to what they might expect from the italian troops when they get really mad while there was some news of sporadic increased resistance at certain points inice in the fronts the general words were two retreat and evacuation all along the line and the press articles about the might of the british enemy and the unfair bayonets of the greeks were just a foretaste of what was to come with tirana full of wounded and dying soldiers back from the front unes lines I 1 UNREST french version britain was getting little comfort according to her own soura sources s from trances frances gov governmental ern mental upheaval which sent pierre laval pro fascist foreign minister flying out of the petain cabinet presumably into con IL KUi 11 ement and put flandin Fland ln pro nazi int ohis his place in fact british circles frankly doubted the authenticity of any internal disturbance to amount to anything and laid the whole change to or orders ders direct from hitler however it was a notable occur occurrence and accompanied by a scurrying about the streets of vichy and presumably paris of a 0 body of GP men frances new gestapo or in italy they were calling them action squads but they are all the some same sort of strong arm gov police france called them groupe de protection hence the GP on the armband arm band it was a GP band that took laval into custody thus put ting into at least a momentary de dine the man on whose boulders should s hould cn ers rested considerable of the onus of 0 francos frances surrender rumor floated double around tho the french overturn rumor no I 1 hod had it that old man Pe taiti realizing that revolt was stirring be neath him charged laval with plot ting to got get F france rance into the war wai against england and had summarily ousted him rumor no 2 was to the effect that laval had plotted to overthrow petain and create a now new government with himself as dictator whichever might bo be true watchers watcher agreed that the aged general acted with much the same speed as the younger hitler in slapping down a purge which shot lavala feet from rom under him with dispatch the upheaval met the same view in most circles that it was another evidence of tho the general european unrest that was moving through all tho the conquered territories s an unrest that might find no directional force for a long long time SIX DAYS thou labor pointing toward the six day perhaps seven day week in defense industry defense council chairman knudsen belabored american industry for lagging and declared the united states was not getting the spirit of defense work knudsen told the I 1 manufacturers many things but one of these was outstanding ond and had to do with airplane manufacture U S goal declared knudsen had been 1000 warplanes wor war planes a month by january 1 he said at tile the rate things were going well be lucky if we are getting a month by that time the reason tor for the tag lag Is lack ot of comprehension by manufacturer by laborer of the meaning of the no na lional defense program U S is supposed to be getting ready to protect the nation in case of aggression and to help england hold things in status quo until that time knudsen pulled no punches and told the manufacturers that they were spending too much time figurine figuring what to do with their profits and earnings and not enough getting out the material this was a double blow at the employers for temporizing with employees demands for higher pay and with I 1 I 1 k I 1 1 I 1 I 1 q lam el I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 1 1 na I 1 yf 1 U k I 1 I 1 1 X IN 0 Y K y 1 I 1 1 6 4 I 1 3 G I 1 11 1 Z i r 4 I 1 z I 1 k 11 I 1 W i ai y 1 jq it ZI 1 t ft 1 api 11 I 1 t I 1 4 I 1 0 o y 11 aa I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 WILLIAM KNUDSEN pictured its he urged a wartime basis for industry to speed production of vital defense needs employees for threatening and carrying out strikes lie he introduced the longer long er work week idea by stating that employers should find and a way to use machines on saturdays and sundays making the obvious point that use of these two days on a full time schedule would automatically speed up production about 30 per cent or the amount it Is 13 lagging in advance he answered the manufacturers af rs plaint that they lacked the trained men to do this knudsen told them to get more men and train more men he told them to stagger their trained men through the extra shifts thus swiftly training the less able to catch up to full time oro production his address to the manufacturers was an air clearer like the first lightning flashes before a storm that he hopes will rain airplanes and a nd other defense material |