Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne landing of naval forces in iceland brings speculation on future moves of Us so S in setting up defense B bases ases shaded dim war picture EDITORS NOTE NOT EWhen mon opinions opinion are expressed in these columns column they of th ebli I 1 0 newspaper and not necessarily 0 are re those hoc ol of the he news analyst released by western newspaper union Trl nl W 7 7 13 7 JO X t r th dr J C mccracken superintendent ot of the american hospital for rel refugees in shanghai china is pictured with two of his charges from t the h baby clinic the children seem to be thriving on meals made up of cracked wheat which they consider a luxury the red cross bags are then cut up and used tor for making clothes for the children ICELAND A move the sudden step which president roosevelt took in ordering the occupation cu of Icela iceland fid by american noval naval forces forced and the plan to thus rel rei bileve the british in the handling of that distant adjunct of the occupied danish kingdom no not tonly only clarified the present foreign policy but brought repercussions on both sides of the atlantic these were both favorable and unfavorable 1 to th e move mhd th british hailing obvious delight as hecth and definiteness into the U S policy of insuring arrival of lease lend aid and the fullest cooperation sh of war with britain the axis powers as were to be expected were quoted variously as vigorously opposing such action which apparently they did note not learn of until it was an acco accomplished M fact the germans said the U S now had broo troops ps in the war zone and could expect results the italians called it a provocative is step te a and I 1 thea called it del de facto A american mp rican entry into th the ewar war ahse sentiments were echoed on this side of the water by the chief opponents of bf the adain admin administration 1 tatlo senator wheeler not only being outspoken against it but drawing white house fire for having announced the rumored objective before it took place thus according to a white house secretarial statement jeopardizing american 11 lives more interesting were the speculations concerning future moves the nazi i s sources recal lingIn lingl their comment on the presidents i action the fact that he had spoken previously of the strategic import from a western hemisphere viewpoint of the azores the cape verde islands and dakar african port the president also made clear that geographical definitions of the western hemisphere as far as he is concerned do not make much difference and that when one Is defending fending a certain section of the globe it ismore is more important to outguess the other fellow lellow than to draw geographical limitations on your activities tivi tivit ties les RUSSIANS A picture gradually as the russo german war moved into the latter part of the first month a clearer picture ol of i the ilia situation could oe be 0 oa bained ta ined stripped c d of equivocal nil air and delving behind these with the aid of town names and general lines here was the portrait of conditions at that period the germans together with their allies had attacked along a 1100 mile front with initial quick success in the extreme north in in the central district and a slower success in the south this continued with the russians falling back and burning towns and a nd supplies as for far as possible for about a week or 10 days then the german advance ran into the stalin line and an entirely different tempo of russian resistance ance it was almost as though a large train had run into a resilient obstacle which halted it gently and then even began to shove it backward the russian painted this picture as far more favorable to the reds and the germans minimized or ignored things and spoke of everything being expected and running on schedule all this of course might be true depending on the schedule from other points came data however r tending to show that the german machine had perhaps not met its master but at any rate a foeman worthy ot of its steel and one that was not going to be a pushover in the sense of previous opponents AXIS sickness two american incidents tended to show that since the start of the russian campaign even before there had been some signs within germany and italy of what might be termed axis sickness walter alexander 57 year old american citizen born in germany left there about six six weeks ago he had been in the real estate business in berlin since sance 1933 he finally arrived in jersey city where he was quo quoted tedas as follows 1 forty per cent of the german geranan deop people le are against hitler and the war the german people are just beginning 81 to tire of it and abad they have the feeling that it does not matter whether they win they ahey feel they have lost their freedom anyway Busl business nei men in germany are disgusted because they cal can make no move except under tinder government regulation and orders and count carlo once a member of cabinet but who now dec declares lares he was one of the original foes of fascism said ann arbor mich that a british victory in the war would be the instant sign signal alfor for the fall of the mussolini S government even now the count declared there might a at any time be a passive strike on the part of the italian navy which does not like to 6 fight anthe on the side of the germans lie he said however that italy was so much under the domination of hitler that the people knew a sign signal al for revolt against mussolini would mean that the germans germani would march on milan venice and trieste and also on rome rom germany must fall first bafo before the present italian regime collapses he said SYRIA end of 01 war the official announcement that a formal request for an armistice had come to the british from general dentz of the vichy defenders seemed to bring an end to a campaign which ended on the saddest of possible notes churchill struck the british attitude by saying 1 I hardly need say how very glad ills his Maje government is to see an end brought to this very distressing conflict in which 1000 to 1500 british australian and indian andla troops 60 who had volunteered in order to defend france havi have fallen killed oi or wounded under F french r ench bullets as w a result of the lameh lamentable table confusion into which the affairs of so many good people in so many parts of the world have been thrown by the victories of hillers Hit lers army this was a gentle gentie way of acquainting the people with the number of casualties there had been in the liri british tish forces how many the free french under de da had lost w was as not mentioned but it was believed to have been heavier as they assum assumed edthe the brunt of the attack alfred duff cooper said I 1 1 I am horrified to hear that funds are being collected to celebrate the victory in syria the decision of general dentz to sue for peace came at a time when the pressure was being put heavily on oil beirut which it turned out I 1 was the key to the whole campaign R RAF A F the mastery of the d daytime a al air r on the western front of the war remained with the raft RAF which was carrying out bombing attacks in the ho new large tempo with squadrons aloft by day and by night it was revealed that the nazis now have floating antiaircraft anti aircraft batteries teries around wilhelmshaven Wilhelm shaven and that flights of bombers which meet with no resistance at all over the french co coastal a stal areis areas except from antiaircraft anti aircraft fire are meeting with considerable fighter resistance as soon as they get over germany Q LEASE LEND aid speeding A report that president roosevelt was gong to ask for another large lease lend appropriation to add to the seven billions of dollars a goodly portion of which was spent and all of it allocated was coupled with the statement that american lease lend aid to britain is now moving at a speedier clip the statement was made that a ship a day approximately is docking and unloading at red sea ports not accounting for such others as may be arriving in convoy in england I 1 itself ts ea f if these ships are well loaded with the munitions of war then the british commands in north africa as well as on the british isles should be having measurably strengthened their hands the period in which general auchinleck took over and general wavell gave up the north african command was followed by a continuance ti nuance of the inactivity which had marked this stalemate but as soon as the syrian peace was announced it was was expected that the north african battle would be resumed and that the new general plus his new equipment would make a determined effort to release the long besieged garrison ofT of KNUDSEN and rubber i the statement by william S knudsen udden ot making a tour of the defense production areas that he had little worry about the rubber situation despite the fact that the government foreseeing a shortage had ordered the tire makers not lot to ilse use more rubber than they had in the first six months mr knudsen said that the rubber situation was this that even if the supply of real rubber was cut off I 1 the industry knew enough about synthetic rubber manufacture to pick right up and continue e the supply of suitable tires and other articles wit without hitt feeling the shortage af the actual article at all A talk with rubber experts revealed that while some disagreed withof with Mr Mf knudsen the outstanding majority believe it could be done and with ease said olie one we can make a tire that will 0 outlast and outperform a real rub ed bertice ber erl tire right now all that is needed Is for our factories to make slight c hanges changes in technique if our supply of raw real rubber were cut oft off here is what I 1 think would happen factories would be started in construction to manufacture hundreds of thousands of tons of synthetic rubber while we were waiting to get them in production we have six months supply of sheet rubber on hand and for another six months we could operate with mixtures mixture of reclaimed rubber and sy synthetic rubber and so inthe in the 12 or 14 months that it would take to get the new factories built and in operation there would be no lost motion at all for we hu have inventories of finished tires that would last jast a bout about six months he could say little about the price of such tires but some experts thought they might be slightly more expensive than rubber tires at first until th the kno know v how had been achieved in making them miscellany london if nazi fliers dropping in bombs over england were beginning to mix leaflets with them announcing in the english language the battle of the atlantic is being lost berlin A german newspaper editorially tori ally commented on the occupation of ic iceland eland this is a stab in the back of a nation wrestling rest ling with bolshevism 0 moscow Alo scow women and children heeding request for guerrilla action on german forces in the rear of the front line are joining such bands moscow sources claimed that these bands had accounted for 18 tanks london when the war is won say british political leaders a pan slav agreement whereby russia czechoslovakia and and poland will join a united and organized front contiguous to germany was envisioned |