Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. C Wayne Nazi Gains awls at Kiev and Leningrad Are Reported as Russians Continue To Claim Success in Area Cairo Moslem Holy o City 1 Is s Bombed I EDITORS EDITOR'S When NOTE When opinions are expressed In these thelle columns column they art ArC those of the new news analyst and not rl necess necessarily y of this newspaper I m Released by Western Newspaper Union I WORLD ORLD Doubting Nazis News analysts and those who speak in guarded tones of information information tion received through diplomatic channels in Washington were letting it be known that for the first time since the start of the war there was wasI beginning to be a general opinion I that Germany would not be the winI winner win win- I ncr ner in the present war I Discounting the Nazis' Nazis spectacular lar victories which had had many manyI I diplomats of conquered or menaced countries shaking their heads over I the feeling reeling of the man manin in the I street of their countries as to the eventual outcome the people they I had stated now had changed or I 3 I 1 I II I II I cJ ADOLF HITLER Diplomats were doubting were changing their minds about the situation Three main factors emerged as the reasons 1 The unexpectedly strong resistance resistance resistance re re- re- re of Russia However reports from the front indi indicate ate that the Nazis' Nazis gains gams were continuing 2 The growing importance of American aid to Britain and the belief belief belief be be- lief that this nation was drawing closer to actual participation 3 Britain's growing mastery over the German air force plus the ability of England to take the worst the Nazi planes had to offer otTer and to carry the fight back across the channel The fall of France the low countries countries countries coun coun- tries German victories in the Balkans Balkans Balkans Bal Bal- kans and Greece had bad combined to spread the conviction through more distant points in Europe Asia Africa Africa Africa Af Af- rica and South America to say nothing of the United States that nothing could stop Hitler Talk with diplomats in Washington Washing Washing- ton had revealed that this conviction conviction conviction tion had gone replacing gone replacing itself with doubt GERMANS Their Claims On the basis of German claims the Russians faced a certainty of the loss of Leningrad also the certainty that the the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus would be reached and made a theater of war on the south The battle of the North Atlantic they claimed also was progressing favorably with half a dozen sink sink- ings reported since the Presidents President's speech and action sending the navy in pursuit of Nazi raiders Washington announced no further losses after the Montana but it was hinted at the capital that such reports might be withheld until a considerable time after their occurrence occurrence occurrence occur occur- rence as military secrets The Nazis based their assertion on Leningrad on the fact that they had reached the city's outer defenses defenses defenses de de- that were dynamiting dynamiting dy d- dy- dy buildings and that the city was being subjected to steady air bombing and artillery fire r rOn On the south the Germans asserted assert assert- ed two crossings had been made of the lower either cutting Crimea off from the the north or threatening threatening threatening threat threat- ening to do so and that though the river was 1000 to 2000 yards wide considerable numbers of troops were passing over with nothing before before before be be- fore them in the way of natural hazards until the Don river should be attained The menace to the Caucasus was deemed imminent and some saw in this an explanation of Russian pressure on and criticism of Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria Bul Bul- garia seeing in the latter country a off hop point for tor the sending of water borne troops to the Caucasus region RUSSIANS Painting a vastly different picture of the battle the Russians claimed continued victories in the center over determined opposition plus reports reports reports re re- re- re ports that the Nazis through losses had been forced to withdraw half hall a million men from France alone Far from accepting the loss of at Leningrad as a matter of cost the Russians told of retaking an island in Lake Ladoga from the Finns and of the repulse of a German air and water assault on the island of coast of Estonia J. 2 y t. t I i l i t. t 1 J r 1 t. t J. CAIRO H Holy City The Tha bombing of Cairo a holy city to the Moslems which Britain had said early in the war would result in the reprisal bombing of Rome Italy's holy city finally had taken place with the death of 39 persons and wounding of 93 Immediately the British press had started the outcry Bomb Rome Now Though Alexandria the port of Cairo had been bombed repeatedly the enemy planes had never bombed the city itself and this event the first was not immediately immediate immediate- ly repeated ted Nor was there an immediate bombing of Rome However the silencing of the Cairo radio and the failure of the daily to arrive had caused many to believe that the British answer to the Cairo incident might be the launching of the long awaited drive into Libya MINERS l Hit at Lewis Trouble within the fold of the United Mine Workers of America John L. L Lewis' Lewis personal labor union and the basis on which he founded the CIO was the latest labor diU- diU to claim attention It resulted when a committee charged with discussing a possible strike ballot instead returned a 50 cent assessment against each member member member mem mem- ber each month Union members immediately set setup setup setup up a new committee which met at Shenandoah City Pa in the heart of the Allegheny hard coal area and made an odd demand They ordered Mr Lewis himself to come before them personally and f o r. r d d 1 w rat t f 4 s ss s e r rJOHN JOHN L. L LEWIS An explanation was demanded r without d delay lay and satisfactorily explain ex ex- explain I ex-I plain the assessment or that they would go goon on strike forthwith The monthly dues of the union members now had been boosted from 1 a month to and the miners were up in arms and the union trouble within the union was said to be spreading NAVY I Building Cruisers A new tyPe type of cruiser to chase Nazi raiders is under construction for the navy it had been revealed a report disclosing that work had started on six ships each tons of a type never before built They are to be tons heavier than any other cruisers now in the navys navy's possession and only tons lighter than our heaviest battleships They were being built at Camden Camden Cam Cam- den N. N J. J by the N. N Y Shipbuilding ing Corp They will bear the names of Alaska Hawaii Guam Philippines Samoa and Puerto Rico The navy withheld all details concerning their speed or armament ALUMINUM I A Critique Newspapers directed sharp criticism criticism criticism cism at part of the I when it was learned that of huge allocations made for the purpose of building plants to i. i manufacture tons of aluminum a year only one site had been selected and not one plant had been placed even in con con- f The origin original l plan outlined by itself had been to have the plants in actual operation next April or May when the shortage of the metal will become acute Instead even it if the work gets under under under un un- un- un der way now which it is not the plants cannot be in production until next fall at the earliest Records Records' of the senate defense defense- investigating committee committee revealed that there had been a rift ritt between Jesse Jones head and Harold Harold Harold Har Har- old Ickes fellow cabinet member over the the sole sale contract which has been signed which signed which gives the Aluminum Aluminum Aluminum Alum Alum- Company of America the c cright right to build plants that would produce produce produce pro pro- duce about half halt the estimated yield Power cl clauses uses in this contract are said to be the qu quarrels quarrel's basis I h i. i i 1 l il It j Ul 1 w r dew t. HOOVER I Looks at War WarI w s 5 a A 9 y R t r tK y HERBERT HOOVER DOOVER I When Hitler collapses Some criticism of President Roosevelt's foreign policy especially especial especial- ly his latest steps had been voiced by Herbert Hoover former President President President dent who still was inclined to go along with the administration inthe in inthe inthe the chief chic issues His own position on the war issues was this 1 Build an impregnable defense 2 Give material aid to democracies democracies 3 Bulwark our freedom at home and conserve our strength for the stabilization of peace when Hitler collapses because of at his own over over- reaching His criticism of the Presidents President's policy was confined to the alleged violations of the Neutrality act which Capitol Hill had bad said would be the next target of the admin admin- He said President Roosevelt was right in protesting against the firing on U. U S. S warships and the sinking of mer mer- But the policy of edging our warships into danger zones of sending American merchant ships with contraband raises the most critical of all questions NE NEW YORK Traffic Jam With all the biggest ships in the merchant trade either on the bottom bottom bottom bot bot- tom of the sea or tied up at their docks afraid to venture out it was hard to believe that New York could be having a harbor traffic jam But such was the case when ships of all nationalities except Italian and German paraded into port within 36 hours leaving scores of them with nothing to do but to tolie tolie tolie lie at anchor in hi the harbor awaitIng awaiting awaiting await await- ing a vacant dock When one considered that an estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated ships carried all the lend lease-lend aid to Britain since the plan was ina inaugurated it gave an idea of the immensity of the cargo space represented in this merchant flotilla arriving in one American port on practically one business day I PARIS Reprisals Typifying stories of unrest from occupied Europe had been the tales coming out of Paris of sniping of citizens at Nazis and of the executions executions executions of hostages military prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- held by the German forces of occupation The box score at one point stood Nazis two dead and several wounded wound wound- ed hostages 13 shot by firing squads squads none none wounded The second Nazi was shot to death after the 13 had been executed and it had bad been expected that the shooting of hostages would continue At that point not one of the alleged actual assailants had bad been The forces of unrest also had bad their hostage year old son of Col Alfred Allred vice president of the Vichy party Paris newspapers asked a woman who saw the second Nazi fatally wounded to come forward and help the Germans with their tion She is reported to have told a subway ticket-taker ticket she saw the assassination But she then disappeared disappeared disappeared and could not be found The man was shot the same day that the thc 10 hostages were executed VERMONT Goes to War ar That rugged individualist Vermont Vermont Vermont Ver Ver- mont of all the states in the Union came to the conclusion that following following following follow follow- ing the Presidents President's address she is isnow isnow isnow now at war Both branches of the legislature adopted a resolution declaring that the United States had been in armed conflict since the speech on the subject of naval action in the Atlantic At At- lantic The approval of the resolution had this immediate effect it put into op operation ration a 10 monthly bonus for all Vermonters in the U. U S S. army na navy vy or marine corps A fund of ot was set up for this purpose I |