Show WEEKLY NEWS MEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne halifax named british elvo envoy y to U S As eden gets foreign minister post Us S defense setup set up revised in effort to speed up industrial production LIDI TORS NOTE when 0 opinion 1 n ions are exposed in these columns column they be are re hose 61 aloo tb news a calp nalgot y ri t and no not t necessarily carlly ne ot of this newspaper I 1 released Me leased by western newspaper bunjon Un Jon VI 4 A t J 2 SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND A pioneer squad Is shown march ing to work actor A night raid on a midlands town the duty of these men Is to clean up tile the debris and make roads passable they also demolish parts of buildings jell et standing by the bombs but which inight constitute a biaz hazard often they work right through tho the raid while bombs drop BOSS becomes servant selection of viscount halifax os as british ambassador to the united states was a case of the tha boss becoming the servant and vice versa tor for anthony eden was named as m most ost likely tor for succession to post as foreign secretary halifax left the cabinet the last of the chamberlain appeasement crew a man tor whose scalp the british anti chamber lal balnites had howled tor for months without success washington conceded the great ability of the new ambassador bas a and d predicted succo success o s for r him here while admitting A that american public opinion viscount at the outset might I 1 halifax I 1 recall his appeasement tactics before munich it was announced that britain might add the post of minister to its staff in washington both ambassador bas and minister had been the custom in britaina Brit ains paris office but hitherto washington has had only an ambassador just what eden has been up to in egypt and the near east has never been made clear but it must have been successful because observers pointed to the fact that B E before eden things had been at a standstill in tho the eastern mediterranean sector and after anthony arrived on the scene of a sudden the british rose up pelted belted the fascists and sailed them way back bach into libya the british effort against the do de canese islands also was crowned with a grelet deal of success and eden Is believed to have had a finger in that pie as well so now he le Is to be brought back as foreign minister from his present post as secretory secretary for war and this will be odd tor for he will go back into a job he held under chamberlain and which he vacated because he openly expressed himself as out of sympathy with the then premiers appeasement policy SECONDS lit i the ring italy was not perhaps knocked out of the war by england greece but her seconds at any rate lumped jumped into the ring presence of large numbers of gorman german troops was confirmed in many quarters purpose of these was a bit dubious but consensus was that some would be used in actual fighting in the battle of greece and the battle of africa and that others would be employed to bolster home morale germany in admitting official aid to italy let it be known that axis partners must together and that in sending aid to 11 II duces tottering armies germany was but repaying aid sent to her by italy in the form of hundreds of pilots and planes tor for cross channel bombing it was too early for the general ellece of these reinforcements to be noted in the war reports british mechanized forces backed by naval guns from the mediterranean and by naval and army planes from overhead pushed on rapidly into libya the fall of saturn forced an entry into italian territory and the british using the german tactics of the fight through flanders shot ahead down the coastal roads miles within the border completely surrounding and cutting off some troops in bandla principal port bardia was placed in a state of beige and the british main forces after leaving sufficient men to prosecute the reduction of bardin later to be reinforced from the rear pushed on toward bobruk and derna marshal graziani and his main forces were still able to keep ahead of the british but the latter claimed enormous numbers of prisoners killed and wounded italians totaling around great booty all accomplished complis hed with a british loss of only 1000 J just where the germans would enter the picture in the battle of africa was not clear with the british naval forces apparently in charge of the coastline and unmolested and thy better ports either iq in british hands or dir under siege CLAUSE SIX and Pai ional defense when president roosevelt wants to do something drastic and final and something that has not been done before he has a system all his own he calls his legal advisers in to tells I 1 ls them what he wants to do and then has them find a law tor for it he has created a new job called the domce for emergency production management and put into it william S knudsen wizard automobile production man with instructions that he Is to be the czar for U S defense and all lights extending before e him will be green lights knudsen took the job which he almost had before the new order grabbed his new authority and told america amer I 1 c a t to 0 roll up its sleeves and go to work building planes and munitions nit ions there must be no appeasement I 1 he said and he called the war in europe irreconcilable in character and asked the nation to recognize the full gravity of the crisis which resulted in additional power being given to his organization one writer said that seven months ago when knudsen was given the defense chairmanship he gave that funny half smile of his and asked president roosevelt chos the boss the president said 1 I am and knudsen took the job it was said with misgivings these misgivings have been more than justified in the defense industry lag ing now it Is held mr roosevelt has said to mr knudsen in effect 1 I 1 was wrong before now you are the boesl and now knudsen will go ahead with full authority As to clause six and the part it played some of the washingtonians Washington ians questioned the presidents authority to give knudsen supreme power he pointed to the second reorganization reorganisation act now that act did not give the president this power specifically but acting under its authority the president issued an executive order which lie he WAS empowered to do clause six of this order read 6 in the ebent of a national emergency or threat of a national emergency the president may create such office for emergency management as the president shall determine tor mine 11 |