Show BREAK thought near AW A complete break between the united states ind and the axis powers was believed to bo be close following several voral steps in aftermath to the sinking of the robin moor first oil all assets of germany and I 1 taly italy were frozen froze nand and these countries responded in kind then ion all consulate employees were ordered out of the country cormany germany and italy responded with the same move president roosevelt went to congress with a surprise sur alse special message in which ugly nam names es for tho the germans and the sinking of tho the moor were dotted throughout his statement the state department followed this up with a strongly worded note and to so nothing remained by the thin thread of restricted diplomatic representation resen tation between the united states and the nazis and tho the fascists only this nothing more RAF R A F Syn ashing av aitay ay though submarine losses continued heavy and german planes were still taking a toll of british shipping for once with germany occupied heavily on her eastern frontier brit ains airplanes found themselves able to make attacks at will on the invasion coast and on western germany as well day after day britain suffered only the most desultory of bombings from the nazi planes while RAF squadrons reputedly numbering hundreds of planes many of them built in the united states went across the channel in waves dropping tons tens of thousands of pounds of bombs german dispatches admitted little damage but british observers claimed that the same sort of attacks were being made on germany as germany had made on england previously and that the huge casualty and damage list in england must be repeating itself now in germany and the he t occupied bases with the situation on tho the russian border what it was the RAF looked with complacence across the channel and smashed away to its hearts content at nazi objectives the raids on the invasion coast were the simplest of all in fact RAF members pilots and gunners refer referred ted to raids on these ports as nursery raids in other words raids taken part in by the less experienced perien perlen ced pilots as a part of their final training for bombing and combat the explosives were d described ascribed as falling so thick along the coast that the british coast coast could feel the shot shattering of the explosions explosion i GUARD to stay in most news commentators and analysts felt when the national guard was inducted into the federal service ervice that they would never get out after 11 a years training this was predicated on the double assumption that they would not be trained in a year to permit them to return to civil life and that second it if the world crisis continued they would be needed to aid in the training of tees both of these assumptions turned war part ment asked that americas guard men have their period of training extended the department sent s e nt the recommendation e to the president and it seemed c certain e ertain to be carried into effect the only immediate question was whether the president himself had power to order it or whether it must be submitted to congress but c ither either way it se seemed emeda a certainty the move to keep the guard in training did not come as a surprise to the guardsmen guardsman Guards men themselves for from timeto time to time since they were first inducted it was a general topic of conversation and most of the men themselves felt that they were in for longer than a year perhaps tor for the duration the first reason given by the army was that the guard units now con talked thousands of tees and that it if the guardsmen guardsman Guards men were returned to civil life it would disrupt the entire organization of the army the guards were inducted from last september to february and the war department revealed that from being just a question of conversation now that the guardsmen guardsman Guards men were in midyear mid year of their training the question was being dally daily put to the department from thousands of men are arc we in tor for a year or longer the war department said the questions were right and proper for the citizen soldiers it if they are going to be held in for much longer will have to make adjustments in their civilian affairs the tip off oft on how the prospects were came from representative wadsworth of new york who introduced the draft bill who said that congress would surely authorize another years training it if the president requested it OUTCOME the betting on the probable outcome of the russian german hostilities tili ties was so variable that one could almost write ones own ticket the views ranged all the wy way from a swift campaign and a swift sur render on the part of russia to the theory that britain and the united states would hurl themselves into the tray ray and that russia using the china technique of a rubbery retreat would lure the nazis nto into their vast country until they would suffer tie te late fate of overextended japan |