Show FEE WEEKLY KL Y na NEWS ANALYSIS ty U S a russ D pact means second front and operation cooperation co for lasting peace yank warships join british blockade new pipeline to supply oil for east EDITORS NOTE NOT EWhen when opinions are expressed in these columns they ate are those ot of the news new analyst and not ly of this newspaper by western newspaper union i 6 1 I 1 1 n 4 I I 1 7 N 0 2 4 d p z I 1 n 1 A how the united states can help greece now starving and prostrate under nazi rule was among things discussed when king george 11 II of greece conferred with president roosevelt during the greek monarchs flying visit to washington above the president is shown with lun king george on the he white house lawn U US S RUSS PACT second front in succession came three moves by the united states russia and great britain that promised momentous consequences for the prosecution of the war and the safeguarding of the peace afterwards first president roosevelt announced that the united states and russia had reached a full understanding with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in europe europ 6 in 1942 second british foreign minister anthony eden an bounced that britain and russia had signed a 20 year military and political alliance pledging peace and renouncing e noun cing territorial greed third the united states and russia signed a mutual ais assistance istance agreement for prosecution cutlan ot at the war axis pledging increased lend lease old aid and postwar post war economic c cooperation central figure in negotiating the three thice way understanding was soviet foreign commissar V M molotov the russian statesman flew first to london and then hopped the atlan incognito of mr brown he was a white house otise guest for a week not until molotov was safely back in moscow was the curtain of secrecy about his visit lifted significance of this latest diplomatic coup for the united nations is that afir war activities willbe greatly speeded and the framework for a durable peace based on economic fair play provided OIL FOR EAST new pipeline acting to avert a threatened fuel oil famine in the east the war pro board authorized immediate construction of a 24 inch pipe li line ne from longview Long view texas to t the n e salem ill area the new pipeline will cut in hall half the distance texas oil has to travel at present by rail and inland waterway to reach the atlantic seaboard while mille it will have a capacity of barrels a day the pipeline will not supply enough oil to lift gasoline rationing restrictions in the east officials declared they pointed out that shipments of oil and oil products to the east have not been meeting essential demands despite rigid rationing and that stocks have fallen dangerously below safety levels RUSSIAN WAR nazis speed drive stepping up the tempo of their russian offensive nazi armies and air forces pressed attacks on three major fronts these included a push from kharlov in the ukraine a drive against besieged sevastopol in the crimea and an air attack on Mur mansk north of the finnish sector with completion expected by december 1 the mile pipeline will require tons of finished steel ol of the force directed at sevastopol suggested that the nazis were at last getting their summer campaign under way more than ten german divisions numbering men were reported S striking at the strategic black sea city the importance of this city is that it opens a gateway to the rich cau casus oil fields from moscow came a cheering announcing that despite the intensity and stubbornness of the attacks the enemy failed to break the resistance of the sevastopol defenders YANK WARSHIP join british fleet As land and air w warfare in eur europe ope and africa approached a crit critical ical stage the atlantic ocean ba battle atle theater crowded into the forefront with the announcement that a powerful task force of U S warships had joined the british home fleet commanded by rear admiral robert C giffen the american naval force win will help the british blockade german germ an controlled europe guard allied conco convoys y s and hunt axis submarines news that the yank sea reinforcement had joined the british became public in connection with a threedy visit to an english port by king george VI who board boarded a U S battleship and saw 0 other t vr warships of 0 the task loce force j british sea fei scattered in the atlantic the Mediterranean theT ti e ter thad and pacific oceans the arrival of substantial help from the american navy in the atlantic area had significant ant implications important among these was that the stronger 7 united nations naval squadron now would be able to keep closer watch on the powerful nazi warships lurking in norwegian waters I 1 NAZI TERROR in czechoslovakia in a reign of terror following the death of reinhard the hangman heydrich at the hands of czech patriots Nazi gestapo execl slaughtered the entire male population of the czech village of leiditz banished its women and children to concentration camps and burned it to the ground the axis controlled prague radio charged that the village had bad harbored Heyd hendrichs richs killers the towns population was estimated at indicating that upward of men were shot leiditz was located a few miles yek of prague and not far from where ahe the hangman was fatally wounded by patriots while driving along a winding road I 1 I 1 ALEUTIAN ISLANDS jap footholds while lethe the navy department denied axis claims that japanese navland navy and army units had established footholds on the inhabited areas of the aleutian island chalm chab stretching 1500 miles across the north pacific from alaska further reports of the extent extant of the american air and naval victory at midway island camei came from admiral chester W nimitz commander in chief of the pacific fleet admiral Nimitz antim intimated at ed that of a jap invasion fleet of more than 30 vessels engaged in the battle probably halt half were casualties besides heavy loss in warships and transports the toll of manpower we r ran ran into thousands JQ 4 i that the tokyo government was preparing the nipponese public for news of thelea the sea reverse was indicated by reports that an official j spokesman had chad warned a radio a audience not to expect that all battle hews bews could always be favorable 4 FOOD VS ARMS anglo V U S pool the announcement by president roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill of the establishment of two combined boards to integrate integrand anglo american arms production and plan the most effective use of food resources sources ie of the united nations had a twofold two fold significance 1 it meant that the united nations war effort would be speeded up tremendously by quicker production of essential materials and a more efficient use of shipping facilities 2 it meant that careful plans for the postwar post war world were being laid for the organization of the vast resources of the united states carried into peacetime peace time operations could auld help solve international problems of distribution eliminate cutthroat competition and raise living standards that both the arms production board and the food board would h have ave the benefit of the best anglo american planning brains was evident from their per personnel sonn el donald M nelson wa war r production chieftain and oliver Lytt lyttleton lyttles let n british minister of brodu production action comprised the production board claude R secretary of agriculture was named american representative on the food board working with the hon R H brand head of the british food mission reduction of american food sur pluses might become necessary president roose roosevelt elt warned as a means of alleviating hardships abroad one of the objectives odthe of the food board he said is to distribute foodstuffs on a fair basis among all united nations BUMPER CROPS for U S F farms arins progress in the battle for all out food production was reported by the department of agriculture which predicted that all previous records of united states farm production may be considerably exceeded it if weather conditions remain favorable the department said most crops were in better condition than at the corresponding time last year when the nation had one of the most bountiful harvests in its history A winter wheat production of bushels was forecast the department likewise predicted a spring wheat crop of bushels if harvested a crop of this size once more would far exceed domestic requirements of about bushels of wheat a year and add substantially to the nations food stockpile for war purposes and peacetime peace time planning WAR production ahead of schedule donald M nelson told the world that america is doing the impossible s ble with war production exceeding all estimates the chairman of the war production board in an address before the 01 missouri confidently declared this year we shall make airplanes and by the end of the year 0 11 DONALD al NELSON Itri impossible possible is accomplished 11 we shall be picking up speed for an I 1 even greater production pio we have found our total production of war goods is higher than we had any reason to suppose it could be when he blue prints were first prepared for war plants but it was of the postwar post war period of opportunity as well as the conflict itself that the round faced production boss spoke it if this war is costing us a fearful price he said it is also developing tor for us new technique and new abilities it is placing at our disposal an industrial plant a set of developed de eloped resources that will be beyond price poverty is not inevitable any more the sum total of the worlds greatest possible output of goods divided by the sum total of the worlds inhabitants no longer means a little less than enough for every everybody bod 11 VICHY ICHY FRANCE keep ties to most americans the vichy government of franceis anathema but to ambassador william D leahy in the united states since the return to power of pro axis pierre laval the petain regime has merit enough to warrant uncle sam in maintaining diplomatic relations in the eyes of most americans petain is far fal less a nazi tool than laval who is looked upon as 83 a traitorous puppet |