Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne british see far east squeeze play in japans attitude toward thailand nazis claim big victories over reds son killed in air crash EDITORS NOTE when opinions ore are expressed aed in theme columns they are those of the news newa analyst and not necessarily of this newsy newspaper berj released by western newspaper union Un ionI N RAI W na 1 1 0 I 1 heres a striking contrast in the modes of fighting equipment according to the berlin caption the picture shows a german horse drawn artillery piece racing past soviet tank somewhere along the russ nazi battle lines of the eastern front CONGRESS big ta work three bills of huge importance were before congress and although passage for all was predicted the importance laid as much in what their final form would be as it did in whether or not they would become law these were the tax bill the draft extension bill and the price fixing bill the latter linked inseparably with the draft industry bill the tax bill it was apparent would be voted into existence m minus lilu s the requirement that all married couples file joint income tax returns roughly this will cut off the yield of the law which will then have a ceiling of about this is to be divided roughly into a billion for income taxes A a billion for miscellaneous and special taxes and a billion and a third for corporation po ration income taxes a small balance coming from gift taxes the draft extension bill showed the opposition to the administration losing one battle after another but reforming their lines with more support after each defeat when the administrations resolution calling for an extension of present draftee terms by 18 months was brought to a vote the senate passed the measure by a vote of 45 to 30 this meant that total term of draftees national guardsmen guardsman Guards men and reserve officers would all serve a total of 21 22 2 years the bill went from the senate to the house following the vote the price fixing and draft industry bills were chartered along a more difficult course the latter passed the house but immediately there started in the opposition press a battle claiming that there was a threat to the freedom of the press and freedom of speech through radio as these businesses too might be seized by the government As to price fixing leon henderson seemed the center of this fight and many in congress declared they would feel more kindly toward the bill if they felt more confidence in hendersons ability to carry it out indeed the house appointed a special committee to oversee the enforcement of this legislation JAPAN warned again london warned japan that if she moved against thailand in any way she would find that britain would consider such a move as a definite threat to singapore and would act accordingly this was seen as a sort of confirmation fir that the british are sending expeditionary forces of occupation into siamese territory and that any japanese effort to clit cut th the e burma road will bring the world war to the far east the statement came from foreign secretary eden making it in the house of commons it had been rumored that british troops would be sent to thailand from eastern bases and that a considerable british fleet already was in those waters vaters and it also was believed that japan was committed to move against thailand by its agreement with the other axis powers this was as part of a squeeze play olay against india eden said every fresh move on the part of japan naturally has the result of bringing china and ourselves closer and closer together that friendship and that collaboration with china will continue and I 1 pray that it will grow men and materials are pouring out to strengthen our forces in the middle east for their next forward plunge and these will strike their blows for the independence of the countries in the middle east as much as for our own independence DEATH to a youth from rome came the report that bruno the second son of benito mussolini had been killed in an air crash while on a plane testing flight near pisa he was 22 years of age and ranked as a captain of aviation he had seen action in three wars in ethiopia in the spanish war and in the present war h he had engaged in what italian sources described as daring and risky actions GERMANY makes claims the germans who had been pictured fairly hopelessly stalled on the eastern front with wih the reds growing in in strength and in some points taking the offensive came out finally with a statement in which they made the largest claims thus far they claimed prisoners taken and many times more in killed and wounded the entire russian resistance shattered no semblance of order in the red army and pictured moscow as without any clear picture at all of the situation blindly believing its army still fighting when it came to giving details of places the while a lengthy one was not very communicative nica tive but from it one could picture the front through the german eyes with sk in the center a sort of island of doomed russian battalions ta lions still holding out although surrounded leningrad on the north was a hopeless city menaced from the south and the north with another small island of surrounded red troops still holding out in the vicinity of tallinn tallian Tal linn estonia kiev on the south was shown in this document document as partially surrounded with two huge pincers having pierced the stalin line north and sath south of the city itself which is an integral part of that line th the e claims were contained in four special al from th the e headquarters of adolf hitler himself and were broadcast throughout tigh the german nation RUSSIANS their version completely ignoring the claims of the germans the reds admitting nazi pressure on the south say that they are counter attacking and were using t the h e same tactics which threw the germans back in the central front in fact the russian reports considered the front from sk to bel a distance of miles as a single unit rather than a definite pincer movement and said that there was mobile fighting going on all along this front in fact the reds asserted they were holding the germans in two other sectors that of cholm miles south of leningrad and on the estonian front where the germans had claimed important advances the russians also reported taking many prisoners and revealed that many of them are either 17 years old or the older type reservists showing that the nazis are drawing heavily on their reserves BRAZIL in azores the united states is secretly urging that brazil take over the azores islands portuguese possession in the interests of western hemisphere defense I 1 berlin had charged although this was promptly denied in washington considerable prominence was given the dispatch in that the question of the azores was prominent in long range plan for defense of the western hemisphere |