Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne nazis claim smashing of soviet army in terrific attack on eastern front pro nazi panama president Is ousted by regime friendly to united states 0 ar are expressed reed in these thee coburn oli n s they EDITORS liU HOnS NOTE NOT EWhen wh n opinions ep are I 1 aho hose of 0 the th news N s ast and n not of 0 this newspaper I 1 released ni nai by western newspaper union uhlon GAMBLE on eastern front hillers Hit lers dramatic announcement that events of enormous importance would take place on the eastern front was followed closely by what many observers and analysts of military tactics called the greatest gamble in the history of warfare then from the nazi high command camo came the word that in their opinion the la last st effective russian forces on the central front had been smas smashed hed and last army groups are being wiped out an initial campaign which had been planned for a month or less to yield leningrad kiev and moscow had been going on for more than 17 weeks and the yield had been kiev though knocking on the doors of leningrad entry had been denied and there were many reports that this new plan of hillers Hit lers to storm moscow from a beginning distance of between and miles would call for the abandonment for the present of attempts to take the northern metropolis the observers at the same time that they questioned the good sense of the all out campaign for moscow admitted that if hitler was to throw all his available forces into a blitz on the central front men would have to fall back but whether hitler could count on drive f ing all the russians out of western russia before winter they believed to be dubious in the extreme there was a general feeling in moscow that the attack was spurred on by desperation that hitler was feeling the effects of the unrest back of the eastern front and believed he would have to have a big russian victory before winter so that his front line forces could be relieved to clean up the mess in occupied europe steadily becoming worse as winter approached As usual whenever a german drive was announced there were those who believed it might be a cloak for something else some suggested suge ested that the first spearhead to bo be driven forward north of the sea of adov might be a cloak for a waterborne water borne attack on the caucasus oil fields it if this were true however the reds on the fighting lines were badly fooled for they reported a general central german attack of greater ferocity than any so far ei experienced perien perlen ced TWO BITES or just one just as many papers were asking editorially 1 why it was that congress was following the plan of what w 0 1 W N q C q wk 4 k 14 1 4 ai S J sen toni tom connally left and rep charles eaton baton of new jersey are shown before entering the lie white house as members of a bipartisan delegation from capitol hill summoned to discuss discus i with the president his plans for congressional changes chances in the nations neutrality law both men are members of the foreign relations committee in their respective branches of 0 con congress ress they called ABC A H B C legislation or the program of voting for or against bill A when everybody concerned know knew that bill 13 and bill C tw two e other steps were in the offing the white house brought them a new sample to chew over this was the question of the alteration terri te tion of the neutrality act the press was informed that the first congressional white house con ference on the bill was whether it would be advisable to take two bites out of the cherry or only one would it they discussed be advisable to settle the question of arming merchantman merchantmen merchant men and extending the right to american merchant ships to go to british ports separately or both at once were the question decided in the first method congressmen asked to vote on question A whether mer chantlen chant men should be armed would know full well that this question would be indissolubly linked with question B of whether they should allow merchant ships to sail into british ports but this question would not bs be before them PANAMA coup three presidents within the space of a few hours was the news fro from m the republic of panama as political elements favorable to the democracies ousted arnulfo arias pro nazi naz president and set up their new government in the bloodless coup ernesto jaen guardia former minister to mexico took over the duties of president as arias fled to cuba by airplane A cabinet was then formed guard resigned as president and adolfo de la guardia former minister of government and justice was elected president by the now new cabinet reports were that the coup was precipitated by the recent action of the arias regime in ruling that pan ama registered ships could not carry carly arms for protection against submarine attacks A cabinet ruling this regulation was ordered as the U S was considering armingo arm ingi its own cargo ships RED AID wins support despite the fact that president roosevelt had been conceded to have stirred up a hornets nest with his pronouncement about soviet K 4 V myron C taylor president Roosevel ts personal envoy to the vatican is pictured entering the white house upon his return from ronie rome before leaving the vatican taylor is said to have had a lengthy interview with the pope and it was reported that this was the subject of his bis discussion with the president I 1 russia and religion the house of f representatives even while the press battle over the subject was raging put its OK 0 K on a plan to give ca cash sh aid to td russia in addition to material help this had been regarded reg aided as indicative of the tenor of house thought on th the e subject of helping the reds in their defense ol of their homeland an attl attitude tude that had been echoed in the american federation of labor convention ven tion this group while assailing communism as such completely endorsed the sending of aid to russia in increasing quantities the house action came when in discussion of a bill which would in increase the lending power to a billion and a half representative smith of ohio said he understood russia going to get any of it but he wanted to make doubly sure so offered a prohibitive amendment ALUMINUM A decision in an opinion that required ia 8 courtroom days to dictate judge francis caffey cadley of a new york federal court ruled that the government had failed to prove its charges of violations under the sherman antitrust act by the aluminum company of america thus ended one line of the longest trials in U S history with ALCOA the apparent winner on all points inasmuch as the government failed to prove its case judge caffey said that it aou would id be contrary to the public in interest to dissolve or enjoin ALCOA an interesting part of the courts opinion was the statement that it appears that there exists in in this country adequate supplies of bauxite ore of aluminum and water power available to anyone therefore he said anyone is and has been able to go into production of bf virgin aluminum since the list last of patents ran out in 1909 HUMAN interest tale there was probably no human in interest story in in the news which had the depth of poignancy of the abortive exchange of german and british prisoners of war seriously wounded men women and children both combatants and noncom non com batanus ba tants two hopeful ships laden with an unmentioned number of german nationals had lain at newhaven ready to set sail for a port still to be selected where these ships would pick up such british citizens as germany would release but the ships did not sail sad and imagination painted the anxiety and heartbreak aboard those vessels emotions undoubtedly shared by an equal or greater number across the channel there were rumors that the nazis were demanding the inclusion of hess this was promptly denied by england who said that his name was not even mentioned suddenly it was evident that the whole plan had broken down germany britain said had broken germany was holding out for a swap of even numbers whereas the covenant had stated sta tedi the british asserted that the exchange would be ba without reference to rank or numbers some day a historically minded writer will pen the sto story ry of those days spent by seriously wounded british and german prisoners while two nations quarreled quarrels lq over their fate whether to die on foreign soil or to be sent back bach to their loved ones to close their eyes in peace TURKEY makes a deal under a deal between turkey and germany which had been concluded after months of difficult diplomatic maneuvering and under terrific pressure from the retch reich the turks agreed to give germa germany ny half of their output of chrome ore are necessary to highest grade steels but only lo 10 to start delivery in 1943 germany under the agreement started at once to ship war material to turkey and the total deab w was as said to involve n not ot so big jn ain a world which as ono one comedian said was playing bingo with billions germany was shipping turkey motor vehicles without tires but not airplanes which turkey wanted prior to this agreement britain and the united states have been getting pert perc cent of turkish exports of chrome however hoever the stubborn resistance the turks put up against signing this agreement and the dating of the first shipments in 1943 showed britain that it any friendly agreement it was recalled that russia and germany now locked in deadly combat with each other had an agreement which looked far more friendly on the surface than the turkish german pact JAPAN gets jittery the japanese becoming jittery over the world s situation it antion which was starving them of oil and strangling them economically while germany continued to pour men and munitions into the campaign against russia had issued an odd request to her reich partner inobe in the axis tokyo through the daniel news agency called on berlin to end the war with russia s so 0 as to conserve men and material fo for adall an all out cut assault on britain the pacific situation continued tense with the government con trolled strolled press of tokyo laying down a barr barrage ag e of criticism aimed at the un united cited states and concentrating on reports of a in military tary conference at manila between british and american leaders the report said in part judging from the arrogant attitude of the united states japan roust must be pre prepared to meet nieca the worst there micro is a limit to japanese perseverance severa i nce in making peace moves if the limit IsAi is ignored nored japan must rise to her feet |