Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne Us S isolationists view with alarm all moves to aid britain and greece bottlenecks worry defense leaders italian drive suffers new reverses EDIT NOTE aben pinion opinions are r ll 11 11 it is th he eo ali tl larns i they T are r those of f the th me new wa anal lyst and nd not dt ni aly 1 ol of this 1 l newspaper 0 released by western newspaper union alvas f he before cheh all rough the house not a creature burds stirring not even a ariouse tri ouse mined 0 o j 0 gi tz I 1 IN ron mm mryT ai k Z ta 1 q g N n fw R I 1 FF N TAKING HAND US U S steps jr in while hile prominent isolationists viewed wivi alarm each successive step it was evident that the united states was becoming dally daily a more vital factor in the various phases phase of world war 11 II summed up these might be cata loguen under a promised old aid to greece b promised food credits to spain c placing aid to britain ev even en ahead of 0 vital national defense d preparations to place the navy immediately in shape to aid britain in patro parroting ting ing ocean lanes president Roosevelt Roosevel ts 8 assurance to king george of greece that ma aerial aid will come from this corn try and immediately was vas couched in terms that showed the nation ready to succor any and all peoples suffering from aggression at the same time that the state department and national defense council busted busied themselves with this problem ambassador weddell approached pro ached the more ticklish task of aiding axis friendly spain the spanish admittedly were in dire need of food to tide them over the winter franco was unable to give immediate assurance of nonpar non par in the war but while america apparently was willing to waive a definite pledge a demand was made that spain announce her principle of nonintervention intervention non the united states was anxious to give spain food partly from this country partly beef from the argentine but equally as anxious that these provisions not fall into the hands of axis belligerents in addition to huge american commitments to give britain planes tanks and war material of all kinds the need for merchant ships was being met through the purchase here of ships more than of them to be constructed by one shipyard alone NAZI SPEECH rival worlds in a 90 minute address to german war workers vor hers adolf hitler told them and the world that the current war was a fight between two worlds one of special privilege in which he included the united states the other a world of equality and freedom as represented by nazi germany lie he indicated that britain would feel more and more the might of nazi nail armed force expressing supreme confidence in germanys germanas Germ anys strength hitler promised his followers that the tempo of war would be stepped up until nazi nail victory was assured LAGGING bottlenecks appropriating billions for defense production Is one thing getting the material another as the U S defense leaders were finding out the head headache a che bottleneck enecks sl I 1 number one of these was engines number two aluminum number three landing gears number four machine tools and number five guns in spite of big increases in production at the pratt whitney curtiss and allison plants facilities for making planes were still tar far ahead of the engines to make them go those in ole alie know admit S commitments to great britain are such that our plants will not be able to deliver engines in quantity to this country until around next september after that time the ford plants it was said will be geared up to make pratt whitney engines in quantity and the packard factory will have the rolls royce liquid cooled motorman mo motors in hand these are essential for pursuit planes two other auto factories are sur ability to turn out airplane anes jnes but even lathey if they work out th problem they wont be in pro duclon dualon until late in 1941 well behind the ford and packard situation As to ilu aluminum minum the country is increasing its production of the raw material rapidly but there Is a long lag between raw material and the sheets and forging 3 necessary to make turrets mounts and fuselages next bottleneck was the landing gears the shortage being in wheels brakes brake s and the air compression cylinders necessary tor for the heavy types of bombers with retractable wheels factories are gearing up tor for these in mass production but are far behind the plane factories machine tools starting point in all mass production constituted the biggest headache among the bottlenecks knudsen and his hig associates star started tedon on the machine tool too problem first knowing it would be most vital but the lag here has been even greater than expected one new machine tool having to be built and turned out in mass production may cause a lag of months in making airplanes on an assembly line basis the guns referred to are of heavier caliber aba than n those we formerly used on our planes here again the defense leaders have realized that guns are not designed and built in quantity in a day and concen grated effort Is being made in this direction ITALY unrest at m home serious signs of italian unrest at home matched continuing news of disaster at the grecian front although the lapse between occurrence and admission still was about ten days to two weeks the italians have to watt wait at least that lo 10 long g before learning whit what has happened to 0 their boys over there across the smiling adriatic at first there yere were reports of constant sue successes as the fascist war machine smashed into grecian territory sweeping the greeks ahead of them as the defenders their forces corces sw swiftly and sought defendable positions for or men and guns then the Ev zones those kilted gilted mountaineers began striking and italian gains became losses and the invaders were swept back across the albanian frontier into a retreat that was steadily Ij continued it it was 10 days after the fall of important northern base before the italians learned of it officially fici ally northern italy learned of it through their yugoslavian Jugo neighbors long before the press hid had it the news of the abandonment of porto edda and Argiro castro was similarly delayed reports of rioting inside italy especially in northern ern elites was persistent but unconfirmed officially as marshal pietro baroglio badoglio Ba doglio popular hero was summarily 3 tet set down dom for the failure of the albanian invasion M HEROES ROES sagas saas ol of the sea the ton merchant cruiser carnavon castle took its place among sea heroes when it limped into montevideo after telling of a chase fight of nearly 24 hours with an unidentified nazi surface raider that has taken a heavy toll of british and neutral shipping once more as in the case of the graf spee spec the battle took place in south atlantic waters tending to confirm the british belief that ports in that general neighborhood send out ships ship which refuel and re pro vision the raiders the carnavon castle undoubtedly lighter in armament and slower in n speed than the german raider reported that it ft left its antagonist badly hit astern and afire Carn Corn avons skipper expressed the opinion that the raider had not long to survive the merchant cruiser arrived in port hit a dozen times with many killed and wounded and listing heavily to port ballast tanks had been filled on purpose to accomplish this and to lift her starboard side out of water thus brin bringing gi ng huge holes at the waterline up out of the water keeping the ship afloat REDS in school an aftermath of dies committee revelations occurred in new york where the american legion took cognizance of hints that communist party members were teaching in new york classrooms and the revelations were sensational no less than 24 teachers many of them in brooklyn college a city owned institution were found in n colleges high and grade schools who were charged with being red party members instances of circulation of marxist propaganda also the teaching of communist doctrines were uncovered and the matter well alred aired CRASH another tragedy perhaps a mite smug over their wonderful record of cf safety in pas carrying the plane lines had a rude shock when a mainliner maln liner crashed in chicago with the loss of many lives review of accident brought two things to the notice of investigators 1 that pilot scott changed from one plane to another in cleveland because he like the sound of one motor when he revved it up prior to a takeoffs takeoff 2 ile he had to circle about tor for 28 minutes in a blinding snowstorm over the chica go airport before he could land six ships were in line stacked up at thousand foot intervals as they took turns coming into the port the possibility of snow blindness was mentioned as at the last moment the pilot radioed ground forces that he had a good view of the landing field and was coming in suddenly a wing dipped and he crashed from ISO feet six died at once and tour four later pilot copilot and stewardess lost their aives lives FOREIGN JOTTINGS 41 berlin jan kubelik master violinist was ie reported ported to have died in prague at 60 reckless of money he died in comparative poverty and with his beloved czecho slovakia crumbling around him by his side was charles dawson a hindu medical student who once heard kubelik play deser deserted led his own life and d studies to stay forever with such a master fl paris an international incident was the detention by nazi occupation cu authorities of mrs elizabeth deegan 40 a clerk in the american embassy it took washington days to find what had become of her fl 41 london londoners Lon doners who think german raiders are aiming right at them were disabused dis abused of this notion by british pilots who reported that at usual bombing height five miles up and more london looks as big as a book on the floor and bombers are lucky to hit the city let atone alone 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