Show 1 r r. r WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Roosevelt Churchill-Roosevelt Meetings Presage New ew Action non on Second European Front wont Mediterranean Naval ova Battles Indicate Rising Anglo-American Anglo Air Strength EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns the they arc are those of the news analyst and not n necessarily of this newspaper newspaper Released by Western Newspaper Union Ir f 1 I- I t Gone arc are the days when this unholy trio of American Nazi chiefs paraded around in their Bund uniforms George Froboese left of Milwaukee Midwest bund head killed himself under a train en route roule to toa a grand jury hearing in New York Fritz Kuhn center former national Bund Bond chief is ill in Sing Sing prison and Dr Otto Chicago leader is under indictment as a spy CHURCHILL Third AI Meeting b For the third time within a year Prime Minister Churchill and President President President dent Roosevelt met face to face to discuss war problems when the British statesman arrived unheralded ed in Washington for a series of conferences Their first meeting occurred occurred occurred oc oc- last August aboard ship and res resulted in the Atlantic charter The second was Mr Churchill's visit to Washington last December after Americas America's entry intO Inta the war It resulted in the declaration by the United Nations This third meeting following closely on Russian Foreign Minister Minister Minister Minis Minis- ter Molotov's historic conferences in Washington recently promised momentous momentous momentous mo mo- consequences in the prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution of the war Two matters of pressing need the need the opening of a second sect sect sec sec- t ond and European front and further FH I steps to curb dangerously rising Allied Allied Allied Al Al- lied ship losses by Axis submarines r a faced the two leaders t I Another leader of the United Nations Nations Nations Na Na- to reach American shores was Queen Wilhelmina of Hollandt Holland t tJ J REDS VS NAZIS History Repeats Balaclava famed site of Tennyson's Tenny Tenny- f. f sons son's 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 port port port-Bala- Bala Balaclava clava where clava-where where the charge by the British occurred in 1854 was wasa a fierce point of contention between the Russ and Nazi forces in the ti battle for control of the western Black sea coast Possession of the naval base was vital to the pressed hard-pressed Russians for it represented a powerful powerful powerful pow pow- erful barrier to the approaches of the Caucasus oil fields fields fields-a a prize t. t which would give the Nazis coveted oil and bulwark their war effort To the north in the Ukraine where the Nazis were attempting to straighten out their long circular U J line at battles raged doggedly doggedly doggedly dog dog- gedly with Red army ques reporting successful tacks FATS AND OILS Housewives Contribute Frying pans pots and roasters in millions of American homes yielded up a harvest of fat as the national program to salvage grease and oils from the nations nation's kitchens got under J way J Fats collected in this household campaign will be used in making i glycerine an important element in Y explosives manufacture Meat markets markets markets mar mar- everywhere will be collection y agencies where housewives will deposit deposit deposit de de- posit the salvaged fat Butchers will then turn the fat over to the ren- ren In Chicago where a fat salvage program has been in progress for months past it was reported that collections averaged pounds f weekly i AUSTRALIA f JeE Japs s Still Menace J 4 r Lest his countrymen be lulled into a belief belie 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 V commonwealth fell to Nippon that Hawaii and the entire North k f American coast would lie open to toi tor i r Japanese attack and west coast l cities would be in danger I MEDITERRANEAN l Axis Gamble Fails As the swiftly moving battle for world naval supremacy shifted to the Mediterranean Germany and Italy had made a supreme gamble by throwing every available airplane airplane airplane air air- plane submarine torpedo boat and virtually the entire Italian fleet into an effort to knock out the British forces The stakes were the strategic strategic strategic strate strate- gic convoy routes supplying Axis- Axis menaced and Malta That the Axis gamble had failed was due in part to the timely Intervention intervention intervention inter Inter- of United States army heavy bombers which made their Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Medi- debut by scoring 35 direct bomb hits on two Italian battleships setting them afire and sending the whole force of 15 Italian warships scurrying home to port The epic sea and air fighting centered centered centered cen cen- around two heavily laden British British British Brit Brit- ish convoys one convoys one leaving Alexandria for and the other leaving Gibraltar for Malta Both carried badly needed supplies for hard- hard pressed British garrisons In two days of struggle death fighting the British and Americans Americans' beat off off Axis attacks shepherded I Ithe the convoys safely to their destinations destina sank or damaged seven Italian warships and shot down 33 planes LIBYAN FRONT Nazi Fox With the Suez canal as his eventually hoped for goal foxy Nazi I General Erwin Rommel continued his thrust against the British forces In Libya Whether Rommel's dream of a a. a drive to the Suez and a possible link with Japanese forces pushing west would ever materialize depended depend depend- ed on how stout was the British re re- re- re recently reinforced reinforced reinforced re re- by a huge British convoy was the the immediate target The tide of battle had bad surged back and forth with the Nazi desert force registering registering reg reg- a superiority in tanks and tank anti-tank strength Hope for the British lay in receiving further supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies and replacements and in a wearing down of Nazi power due to its sustained exertions The seriousness of the Libyan sit situ sitti situation was evident from the fact that the Axis offensive succeeded in splitting splitting splitting split split- ting the British army one army one force withdrawing to to make mOlke a stand while the other withdrew to positions near Egypt ARMY IY PAY 50 for Bucks Uncle Sam prepared to add at least 20 n more re per month to the pay paycheck paycheck check of every enlisted man in the nations nation's armed forces when President President President dent Roosevelt signed legislation granting the first general military pay increase in in 20 years Noncommissioned Noncommissioned Noncommissioned Non Non- commissioned officers tails shave and ensigns shared in the raise American soldiers and sailors thus became the highest paid fighting men in the world The lowest grades grades buck buck privates and apprentice apprentice apprentice tice seamen will seamen will receive 50 a month as against 30 formerly Officers above the rank of second lieutenant or ensign got no pay raises but were allowed boosts in their subsistence and rental allow allow- ances One result was hoped for by sponsors sponsors sponsors spon spon- sors of the new legislation that legislation that was to eliminate recruiting competition competition competition com com- petition between the army and navy It had bad been charged that the navy had been in better position to obtain recruits since it could offer otTer more attractive ratings The uniform pay schedule would It was believed equalize the appeal of all services AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Lessons Learned Lessons learned in the battles of the Coral sen Midway island and the struggle for the Aleutian islands were applied by the house naval affairs affairs af Olf- af- af fairs committee when it approved an expansion bill projecting project project- For definite definite definite def def- ing a ocean five navy a swing to sea was discernible in the bills bill's provisions calling for immediate construction of tons of aircraft carriers while postponing the construction of five ton super This trend was the immediate result result result re re- sult of the smashing blows dealt Japanese sea power in recent weeks I by American airplane carriers and their accompanying forces It was tacit recognition that a revolution in naval tactics has occurred as a result of the battles in the Pacific In place of the postponed battleships battleships battleships battle battle- ships the navy will rush construction construction tion of more than a score of aircraft carriers with escort vessels and submarines Scheduled to be completed completed completed com com- within a ol year they will b be distributed among naval forces in all areas in which Axis fleets are arc operating c CHINA J Japs aps Push On OnAs As Jap armies drove deeper into China and two tW pincer columns were converging on t tl the e strategic mile railroad the Ch China nOl high command appealed again for foran foran foran an All Allied ed blow that would divert the steadily mounting power of the enemy's enemy's enemy's en en- emy's invasion Discouraging news was made public public public pub pub- lic in the announcement that Shang Shang- jao lao an important station on the theline theline theline line and capital of province had fallen With all highway sources cut oft off by the Japanese China had hOld to depend depend depend de de- de- de pend on giant American cargo planes to deliver supplies for her embattled armies This trickle would have to be augmented to a scale full flow of supplies if effective effective resistance was to continue by Chiang shek's Kai-shek's armies PEACE TECHNIQUE Cooling Off Oft OffA A clue to war post-war peace table technique was dis disclosed by Sumner Welles undersecretary of state when he advocated a cooling of off period after the war before final terms are made In effect the American statesman urged that both the victor and vanquished vanquished vanquished van van- plan together and prepare M I I r 1 d 1 wr S' S SUMNER WELLES Cool Oft Off an equitable settlement that would preclude future wars Speaking before a United Nations rally Welles declared operation co-operation is no less essential in maintaining peace than in winning a warThe warThe warThe war The final terms of peace he said should wait until the immediate immediate imme imme- diate tasks of the transition period period- after the defeat of the Axis powers have have been completed and final judgments can be coolly and rationally rationally rationally ration ration- ally rendered VICHY FRANCE Discontent Grows Grows' Somber were the words 86 year old Marshal Petain spoke to the French people on the second anniversary anniversary anniversary anni anni- of his nations nation's military col col- col- col lapse Admitting that his recovery program program program pro pro- gram had suffered many setbacks the aged chief of state declared that discontent is growing and nd warned that the government must undertake undertake undertake under under- take sterner measures of punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment 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 go got goting going going ing along hand in hand and in incomplete incomplete incomplete complete understanding Not only the opposition of the people but a slack and sometimes incapable administration by the government was blamed by the Marshal for present conditions |