Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W labine netherlands invasion foolish say critics of N nazi aai strategy Y 9 churchill blasts peace hopes E NOTE when opinions are expressed in columns they hey are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper i released by western newspaper New paper union EUROPE dutch episode glueck muss der huben haben A follow fellow has to have luck c commented m adolf hitler when he escaped cape d the munich beer hall explosion by 20 minutes but the allies wondered if etwas luck so hysterical were the nazi cries of british conspiracy that many an observer en an the opposite side of the fence called it a cunning plan like the 1933 reichstag fire to weld german opinion in britain where anti corn com eunist nazis were blamed for the incident hillers Hit lers yells served only to unite the empire in its vow to free europe any hope for peace went dwindling when winston churchill first hord of the admiralty made the most vitriolic attack on record 1 I will not attempt to prophesy whether the tha frenzy of a cornered maniac will drive hitler into the worst ot of all his crimes but I 1 will say without doubt that the fate of holland north sea NETHE V DUTCH BE AN blackin black in areas oj of the fhe nether netherlands lands could auld in be floo flooded dedi arrows show probable r b end routes of invasion nether netherlands ba used for or aerial operations bejel against britain belgium would new path to france tt sad belgium like that of poland czecho slovakia and austria will be decided by a victory of the british and the french only oly an hour bour earlie rall hopes for dutch belgian mediation atlon offer made a ate week before went glimmering when britaina Brit ains king george sent gent a long and polite message acknowledging the peace move but pointing outs out that any fur further lher pro must come from germany the retch reich for her part was silent elc except ept for gk newspaper attacks r charging the netherlands X and belgium were endangering dan gering XI their neutrality by r 1 submitting to the brit f i f naw man lac ih blockade i despite a german clerman dutch border incident and nazi flights over bel glum which were repulsed by antiaircraft guns tho the little nations remained cool after agreeing that an attack on one would bo be an attack on the other they to took ok pains to P point clint out that our mobilization stands its as it ft guarantee to all belligerents that our neutrality will bo be maintained military experts meanwhile pointed out that a nazi invasion of the dutch lowlands would be foolish only possible advantage and that a minor one would be to bring german air bases CO 50 miles nearer britain but by the same token britain could also violate defunct dutch neutrality flying straight over the lowlands to german industrial strongholds strong holds instead of taking a roundabout round about route to avoid dutch eoll western West erts F front row twenty one years to the day after armistice was signed in the lost last war german planes swarmed over northern french territory from the tha channel to switzerland that night they made raids along the frontier fk weekend week end of intensified activity was climaxed when air raid signals began screaming in paris when it was over the french admitted nazi reconnaissance planes had reached within 28 miles of the city before antiaircraft anti aircraft guns sent them scurrying for home out of formation though still spasmodic ana unorthodox western front warfare showed precipitous gains which observers attributed to two blasts one at munich and the other from winston churchill ww war at sea most noteworthy maritime news was the reappearance of german merchant vessels in the north sett sea defying britaina Brit ains blockade two such boats were s sunk anac and their crews rescued by a british warship off singapore in far east 20 were killed when a merchant ship struck a mine sinking in 15 minutes Nazi doms only contribution trib ution to the warfare was a pointless 1200 mile bombing night flight to the tin tiny y shetland isles off of scotland where a few bombs did no damage reason there was nothing to damage RUSSIA finnish sandy hook said Fin lands foreign minister eljas eerko to a U S newspaper man 1 I believe there Is a place called sandy hook outside new york harbor how would you like to hand that over to some foreign country this he indicated was the reason finland refused dussias Rus sias demand for a naval base on F finnish territory at the entrance to the gulf of finland there were also reports that finnish russian conferees meeting in moscow were having trouble revising the southern border between tho the two countries on the isthmus after several days of this during which the soviet press pless warned that russia would find ways and means of obtaining whatever we need foreign minister eerko suddenly announced the ti bitin tin had definitely ended europe wondered what would come next tor for the russian bear was obviously out of sorts A DEFENSE army navy from arom Direct director gr john C gebhart of the national economy league the 11 S got as good a reason as any why it should stay out of war whereas our participation in tho the world war cost 24 billion dollars at the time gebhart figured the cost to date was 57 billions moreover any future war would cost at least 30 billions a year and would probably bring inflation and ruinous taxation which would probably mean a lower standard Atan dard of living tor for generations to come one good way to avoid avol dwar war is to i arm against it which will be no I 1 on the congressional agenda january 3 defense Is making news these days on both army and navy fronts army having become an expert by traveling miles visiting army establishments Alaba mas RIAN A k MW P A 0 o W R 0 aw 1 tv WR k ME k ilah M 11 tj aly 1 I all M N K om W STARNE A mile expert rep joe starnes returned to washington and reported nn an acute need for coast and antiaircraft anti aircraft defenses all along the atlantic and gulf sea boards it was announced the war department would ask next congress the first overall appropriation request in departmental history planned reorganization creation of four armies made up of nine corps each army under a lieutenant general expansion of air force coast artillery civilian personnel and post properties navy before asking any appropriation pria tion tor for sea forces illinois rep ralph E church suggested ed that the navy department should be reorganized our committee house naval affairs has been unable to find out at times chos responsible for what we had a secretary of the navy swanson who was unable to be at his domce and then wo we had an acting but not duly confirmed confirm Cd secretary edison DOMESTIC neutrality disappointing to would be S profiteers was the reaction to removal of embargo restrictions against belligerents As expected orders for motors and aircraft increased but purchase of war supplies was not large in terms of aggregate export volume some quarters expected orders to pick up later but any hopes for or a boom were nipped in the bud spectacular trade gains of september and october were nol no longer apparent at new york federal works john carmody warned that only of the unemployed 41 k could expect 1 A jobs from the w S w wartime a r t I 1 m e 4 b business it s I 1 in e s s y pickup A more m 0 r e 5 serious pr problem ob kv S was the depression facing at SK sav B least one CURRAN branch of jobs wanted commerce 1 the merchant marine rn arine since U S boats cannot sail call in combat areas new york ports soon became jammed with jobless sailors and idle boats among the first to cry out was C 1 I 0 s joseph curran president ot of the national maritime union within a few days day the president began ironing out this mess following conferences with joe curran maritime commissions emory land and A F of Ls joseph ryon hyan and matthew dushone dushane the white house outlined three tentative remedies 1 I 1 extension of social security to provide learner with old age pen lions and unemployment insurance 2 absorption of beached seamen in a maritime training program pro graml 3 absorption of others in vessels convoying strategic materials from nonbelligerent ports under the governments program prop am miscellany spanish ouster in madrid it was hinted that dictator francisco franco insists on removing catholic cardinal vical y Bar Dar and several bishops because he believes them hostile to his regime phantom radio alin fl in mexico city the government played hide and seek with a mysterious german radio station which reportedly sent information on ship movements from a mountain stronghold probably located in chiapas state |