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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw ! Trouble Looms in Balkans as Russia Masses Troops on Rumanian Border; Nazi Air Raids on London Continue; , Political Campaign Enters Final Stage (KDITOIi'S NOTE -When opinions are expressed tn these columns, they are those ol the news analyst and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) .'Released by Western NewspaDer iininn i r.X- ...... . t "V...-..'-"" K't r , I 'A fr'-J - . . t vtt V" -V'- i i " " ;. " , I r U f s " I . . . U . y C,rJ If1'-' A. ITALY: Indifferent Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's journalist jour-nalist stooge at Rome, denied that the so-called Axis was out to defeat Mr. Roosevelt. Gayda said that Jtaly was indifferent. Just the I isame, Italy was touchy. The local I authorities ordered the expulsion of i jthe famous Herbert Matthews, New Reports from the Balkans Indicate that Russian troops havo massed on the Rumanian border and are keeping a watchful eye on the activities of Hitler's troops who have entered that country. This picture1 would bear out these facts for here, is none other than that seldom photographed Deputy 'People's Commissar of Defense, Marshal S. Budenny (mustache), looking across the Russian border into Rumania from a Soviet observation post in the Odessa military district. Two army aides are shown with him. k'he falsely stated that Italy and the Axis would interfere in the United States' presidential election." The Romans claimed that Signor Matthews Mat-thews tended to disturb relations between be-tween Italia and Columbia. S Signor Matthews knows all about pauper Italy-at-war. He was in the Ethiopian war, as a correspondent, and also in the Spanish civil strife, where Italians were rife. He is considered con-sidered tops, professionally, as well as honest and objective, plus a conscience. con-science. He. wrote an exceedingly pod book on Spain & Euiibpia. ,' STYLES:"" " " Anti-papal? The pope addressed 10,000 Italian' young women. He objected vigorously vigor-ously to,up-to-date fashions and cos-' metics. He also warned against bad novels (some say they're all bad nowadays), plays, movies, and amusement hotspots. . - i Said the pofie:. ' "You should ask your conscience, before putting on a frock, how Jesus Christ would judge TIIEyAtf: v : I. Boiling Balkans . : Always a question mark in the intrigue in-trigue of European politics, the'Bal-kan the'Bal-kan states again are clairhing their share ol the world spotlight. When " Adolf Hitlef's 'troops marched into Rumania5 to "rirotect" Rumanian oil fields and "train'' Rumanian Ru-manian soldiers, military experts wondered what effedt this : would have on. the attitude of Soviet Russia toward the axi& powers. For Rus-sia, Rus-sia, tog, is interested in Rumania. More than this Russia is, vitally interested in-terested in any eastward expansion of the Hitler regime. At first Berlin reported that Moscow Mos-cow knew and approved of this infiltration. in-filtration. Then news began to come in that the Soviet troops were on the march, toward the Rumanian border,. Two Rumanian patrol boats on the Danube were reported sunk by the Russians. In the ' strategic area around the mouth' of the Danube Dan-ube both' the German 'and Russian forces were' reported" to be 'speedily strengthening their 'military positions. posi-tions. 1 i i i' .' Just what Hitler's plans in ;the Balkans are remained, of course, a closely .guarded military secret. There was much speculatiomcenter-ing speculatiomcenter-ing around two possible motives in addition to the avoiwed aid in straining strain-ing Rumanian troops and the. protection protec-tion of, the oil fields,.60 vita to. the German war machine. These speculative specu-lative motives were: .(1) perhaps, the axis P9wers were attempting - to draw attention away from the British Isles in order to launch some sort of a surprise tactic against England, no better'than'did Roosevelt.- It was true, objectors said, that British investments! in-vestments! in the Far East were 10 times as- large as those' of- the Yankees, and that the Far East was . 7,000 miles away, and that we were scheduled to get out of the iPhilip-pines iPhilip-pines anyway,. and many Americans did, not like Moscow at any price whatsoever., , ., ' ,; , Some of .the British were pleased, but others, were graveljy worried. Some, of them said that the, more we pointed far eastward, the less we could do for the British Isles in time Of stress, strain and the beating beat-ing hammer of Thor. Certain military mili-tary men grumbled about' quarreling quarrel-ing on two fronts at the feame1 time a basic army" axiom, 'anywhere, any time. ' It was all on the knees of the gods yellow, red, and white, alike. i DEFENSE: ' 1 Registration .. First step in national conscription was completed with the registration of some 16,500,000 young men between be-tween the ages of 21 and 6. Reporting Re-porting to more than 120,000 polling plades throughout the 'country they listed -personal information about themselves arid now atoait 'the' results re-sults bf the lottery -in Washington which will decide'in what order they may be called into service. planes : Estimates ! According to one conservative British estimator, the Germans have lost close to 6,500 planes,in the second sec-ond wojld war. This is a whale of an estimate. The planes would be iu tie also spoke for peace, and repair of the fruitless devastation of. the late-lamented past year. The Vatican showed anxiety lest England. and America start wooing atheist Russia,- as a counter-weight to Musso;Mikado-Hitler.-; World Catholicism: still regards Stalin as the No. ffoeman, and perhaps not without reason. But Earl Browder, the bad redboy, had another viewpoint view-point altogether, for he suggested a triple Chinese-Russian-American ,al-liafice ,al-liafice to "win .through;, but of the present danger and chaos." BERMUDA;'1 - worth around half ja billion 'dollars, which is a lot of money, and in marks is astronomical... Nbt only that; There was more to it. The same estimator -estimat- ed that the Germansj had lost 13,5fl0 pilots. Pilots are much harder to . replace than, mere airplanes, be they Messerschmitts, Heinkels, J,unkers, or Dorniers. It was figured that the Germans had lost three fjmes as many bombers (Heinkels. Junkers) Junk-ers) as they had fighters "(Messer-schmitts "(Messer-schmitts made in Augsburg) . Most of these planes had MerfcedesiBenz motors, built in the aid 'Zeppelin works on Lake Constance, at) Mannheim, Mann-heim, and Stuttgart. The Mercedes plants have, been badly bombed -by the royal air force. Germany was supposed td have an airi force of approximately 20,0(10 planes and 25,000-30.000 pilots. The sensational British igures ' were probably topheavy, as ij usual in aerial warfare. 'Kinder' ' ' ' Sidelight' V - .. , There was a' curious little appeal from New York out'-of Bermuda J' It was just' this. The retreat at' Dunkirk Dun-kirk was covered by two heroic Highlander regiments the Black Watch and: the Camerons. (Other Highland outfits are the "Gordons the Seeforths, rthe Argyle & SuUV erlands: They, aU date back dose to 200 years.)). : ir : t, ! Some '-200 of the shattered Cameron Cam-eron veterans were sent td Bermuda for cecuperation. .- Most of .them . were wounded, and had been decorated. deco-rated. Many were,; under : 20 years ;of. age. Their pay s only' $3 75 per week, and they .couldn't afford ! to sight-see. in carriages or travel by train. " r : So an appeal went ut from New York for old bicycles, that, these boy-vets could get .around and have some fun. The appeal aroused con-s.derable con-s.derable interest. The committee rf ? collect a"d dispatch the bikes free of charge or (2) Germany was" using the Balkan Bal-kan route for a march to drive, the British out Af thef" eastern Mediterranean Mediter-ranean regions. CAMPAIGN: : : ' Home Stretch As the '1940 campaign entered, its final stages it continued to follow the outline established following the major ma-jor party conventions. Willkie continued con-tinued to make most of the speeches for his party and Henry Wallace was the busiest political speaker of the Democratic party. Willkie's speeches grew more vigorous vig-orous as the campaign drew toward a close and Roosevelt's rare "political" "po-litical" appearances still possessed the same pattern of 1932 and 1936. Public 'opinion polls came in for their share of the praise and abuse. When the Gallup poll 'showed that Candidate Roosevelt would more than likely carry the election, the Republicans countered with the Dunn survey, reputed to show Can-! Can-! didate Willkie out in front : BIG FOUR: : No, Like? ; . . ' . ' There was -increasing ;talk of a vast four-sided alliance between the British Empire:' the United States, Soviet: Russia and the China of General-Dictator Chiang ; Kai-shek. It was intendsd to thwart the axis of Germany, Italy and Japan. Thus would the world's1 seven big powers line up, it was stated by some rail-birds. rail-birds. - ' ; The state department Was 'undoubtedly 'un-doubtedly wooing the. Soviets, .to counterbalance the rising sun of Nippon, Nip-pon, Stalin liked the axis combine Germany might have lost those 6,500 and .13,500, but the Londoners didn'.t take it to heart. The London county 'council advised all mothers in its complete 29 areas, to evacuate themselves and their Children 1 in toto. In addition, everybody of 65 or over, " and the' infirm of bo'dy were told' to get out . and stay1 out' These.provisions had previously been apphed only to the 14 worst local areas, and .the spread-over to'' 29 made the whole matter "totalitarian.," "totalitari-an.," Health Minister Malcolm Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, son of the rate-lamented famous fa-mous Ramsay, was in charge of the woman-child-aged-infirm trek to the sticks. MISCELLANY:' ft One hundred ..fifty years,'' eight months and five days after the firs U. S. Supreme court assembled in New York city to begin the writing of U. S. judicial history, the ninf present justices of that body gathered gath-ered in Washington 'for the first ses-sion ses-sion of the 1940-41 term :' 0. Axis diplomacy was read 'info the Italian honor which was extended to Spain's General Franco, whereby he was made a "cousin'' of fhe "king He was decorated with the CoHar of th. Supreme Order' of Salnti&inL Annunziata. r C. A serious New York truck strike was .averted, when after a 36-hour aWgartdptiVetrS emp,0"" Mar LUaPGuardrS ft In Cuba, 38-year-old Fu'lgencio rrted C"derE1r--George of England, broadca , "g ternational radio message to au t children of the British which she apperTnTte b" brave and hav 0 be these "days XU,eU"aEe |