Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS churchill presage new action on second european front mediterranean naval battles indicate growing anglo american air strength EDI TOnS NOT EWhen opinions re Is expressed in these then columns coli imin they are those ol of the news analyst and 09 t ot of newspaper I 1 released Ro ne leased by wester fetn newspaper unton 0 3 4 q RM e it ot 1 1 t i z X Is 7 t X W gone are the days when this unholy trio of american nazi chiefs paraded around in their bund uniforms george froboese lefo lefi of milwaukee midwest bund head killed himself under a train en route to a grand jury hearing in new york fritz kulm kuhn center former national bund chief is III in sin sing g sing prison and dr otto willum cit chicago leader is under indictment as a spy CHURCHILL third Afe meeting eting for the third time within a year prime minister churchill and president roosevelt met face to face to discuss war war problems when the british statesman arrived unheralded in washington tor for a serles series of conferences their first meeting occurred last august aboard ship and resulted in the atlantic charter the second was mr Chur chills vi visit to washington lost last december after americas entry into the war it resulted in the declaration by the united nations this third i meeting following closely on russian foreign minister molotov vs i s historic conferences in washington recently promised momentous consequences in the prosecution of the war two matters of 0 pressing need the 1 opening of 0 a se second Europ european gan fr front ont an and fu further the steps step S to curb dangerously rising asin AP lied ship losses by axis s submarines a ines faced the two leaders another leader of the united notions nations to reach american sh shores 0 res was queen Wll helmina of holland REDS VS NAZIS histo history y repeats balaclava famed site of tenny sons poem the charge of the light brigade took its place in modern battle headlines as hitler had rammed his massed power against the defenses of fortifications the crimean fishing clava where the leg ended c charge h arge by the british occurred in 1854 was a fierce point of contention between the russ and nazi forces in the battle for control of the western black se sea a coast possession of the sevastopol Seva naval base was vital to the hard pressed russians for it represented a powerful barrier to the approaches of the caucasus oil fields a prize which would give the nazis nails coveted oil and bulwark their war effort to the north in the ukraine where the nazis were attempting to straighten out their long circular line at kharlov Khar kov battles raged doggedly with red army reporting successful counteract tacks FATS AND OILS housewives contribute frying pans pots and ro asters in millions of american homes yielded up a harvest of fat as the national program to salvage grease and oils from the nations kitchens got under way fats collected in this household campaign will be used in making glycerine an important element in explosives manufacture meat markets everywhere will be collection agencies where housewives will deposit the salvaged fat butchers will then turn the fat over to the ton ren darers in chicago where a fat salvage program has been in progress for months past it was reported that collections averaged pounds weekly AUSTRALIA japs still menace lest his countrymen be lulled into a belief that the battle of the coral sea had removed all danger of a jap invasion prime minister john curtin of australia held aloft a warning finger declaring that australia can be lost he declared it if the commonwealth fell to nippon that hawaii and the entire north american coast would lie ile open to japanese attack and west coast cities would be in danger mediterranean axis gamble F fails ails As the swiftly moving battle for world naval supremacy shifted to the mediterranean germany and italy had made a supreme gamble by throwing ever every y available a IT plane submarine torpedo boat and virtually the entire italian fleet into an eff effort ort to knock out the british forces the stakes were the strategic convoy routes supplying axis menaced bobruk and malta that the axis gamble had failed was due in part to the timely intervention of united states army heavy bombers which made their mediterranean debut by scoring 35 direct bomb hits on two italian setting them afire and sending the whole force of 15 italian warships scurrying home to port the epic sea bea and air fighting centered two heavily laden british convoys one leaving alexandria for bobruk and the other leaving gibraltar for malta both carried badly needed supplies for hard pressed british garrisons I 1 in two days of death struggle fighting the british and americans beat off axis attacks shepherded the convoys safely to their destinations sank or damaged seven italian warships wars warships bips ana shot down 33 planes LIBYAN FRONT nazi fox with the suez canal as his eventually hoped for goal foxy nazi general erwin rommel continued hs his I 1 h harr arr assing thrust against the british forces in libya whether brommels Rom mels dream of a drive to the suez and a possible link with japanese forces pushing west would ever materialize depended on how stout was the british resistance si bobruk recently reinforced in by a huge british convoy was the immediate target the tide of battle had surged back and forth with the nazi desert force registering a superiority in tanks and antitank anti tank strength hope for the british Britis lulay i lay in receiving further supplies and replacements and in a wearing down of nazi power due to its sustained exertions the seriousness of the libyan situation was evident from the fact that the axis offensive succeeded in splitting the british army one force withdrawing to bobruk to make a stand while the other withdrew t to 0 PO positions sitione near egypt ARMY PAY 50 lor for bucks uncle sam prepared to add at least 20 more per month pay check of every enlisted man in the nations armed forces when president roosevelt signed legislation granting the first general military pay increase in 20 years non commissioned officers shave tails and ensigns shared in the raise american soldiers and sailors thus became the highest paid fighting men in the world the lowest grades buck privates and apprentice seamen will receive 50 a months month as against 30 formerly officers above the rank raia of second lieutenant or ensign got no pay raises but were allowed boosts in their subsistence and rental allowances one result was hoped tor for by sponsors of the new legislation that yas was to eliminate recruiting competition between the army and nan navy y it had been charged that the navy had been in better position to obtain recruits since it could offer more attractive ratings the uniform pay schedule would it was waa believed equalize the appeal of an all services AIRCRAFT T CARRIE CARRIERS RS lessons learned lessons learned in the battles ol of the Cor coral alsea sea midway island and the struggle for the aleutian islands island were applied by the house naval affairs committee when it approved an expansion bill projecting a five ocean navy for a definite swing to sea air power was discernible in the bills provisions calling for immediate construction of of tons of aircraft carriers while postponing the c construction ol 01 five ton super battleships this trend was the immediate result of the smashing blows dealt japanese sea power er in recent weeks by american airplane carriers and their accompanying forces it was tacit recognition that a revolution in naval tactics has occurred as a res result alt of the battles in the pacific in place of the posta postponed boned battleship s the navy will rust rush I 1 construction of more than a sc score ore of ali aircraft craft carriers with escort vessels and submarines n a scheduled to be completed 6 d within a year they will be distributed among naval forces in all areas in which axis fleets are operating CHINA japs push ott on As jap armies drove deeper into china and two pincer columns were converging on the strategic mile kianos railroad the china high command appealed again for an allied blow that aou would id divert the steadily mounting power of the en invasion discouraging news was made p public in the announcement that shang jao an important station on the line and capital of province had fallen with all highway sources cut off by the japanese china had to depend on giant american cargo planes to deliver supplies for her embattled armies this trickle would have to be augmented to a full scale flow of supplies if effective resistance was to continue by b chiang Kaish eks armies PEACE TECHNIQUE cooling off of A clue to postwar post war peace table technique was disclosed by sumner welles undersecretary of state when he advocated a cooling off period after the war before final terms are made in effect the american statesman urged that both the victor and vanquished plan together and prepare I 1 2 SUMNER WELLES cool off an equitable settlement that would preclude future wars speaking before a united nations rally welles declared operation cooperation co is no less essential in maintaining peace than in winning a war the final terms of peace he said should wait until the immediate tasks of the transition period after the defeat of the axis powers have been completed and final judgments can be coolly and rationally rendered VICHY FRANCE Diston discontent tent grows somber were the words 86 year old marshal petain spoke to the french people on the second anniversary of his nations military collapse admitting that his recovery program had suffered many setbacks the aged chief of state declared that discontent is growing and warned that the government must undertake sterner measures of punishment to stamp out unrest public anger and greed petain made no reference to pierre laval in his brief radio speech although he had declared recently that he and laval are going along hand in hand and in complete understanding not only the opposition of the people but a slack imlack and sometimes incapable administration by the government was blamed by the marshal for present conditions |