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Show ' WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SIIAIT Fundamental Strategy of War Undergoes Major Alterations; Presidential Race Warms Up (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ' . Released by Western Newspaper Uoion I " 1 T-. i sl X. WSt A Tract 4ik 5 Nil) S R-A C Ir N irwK w I HITLER TALKS: Endlessly Hitler's speech came over the radio, ra-dio, translated into an extreme, ultra, ul-tra, English accent It must have been Lord Haw-Haw putting it across. It went on endlessly. Hitler said he didn't want to destroy the British empire. He said he shrank This map graphically shows the many points of attack on the British Isles open to Hitler's air raiders. at the destruction which hung over England, and suggested an "honorable" "honor-able" peace. Hitler reviewed his conquests, his methods, and his diplomatic dip-lomatic wrangles with Chamberlain and Daladier. He said he spoke not as a victor, but as a rationalist, anxious anx-ious to terminate futile misery. Some 31 Pacific coast radio stations cut off his speech because it was trying to "justify his crimes against civilization itself." to break the British blockade and feed the starving French, Dutch, and Belgians, with American foodstuffs food-stuffs (of which we would have a surplus). This would make the isolationists iso-lationists take an interventionist position. po-sition. Meanwhile, the interventionists intervention-ists would cry "hands off" the British Brit-ish blockade, and would want the continent to stew in its own juice, which would turn them into isolationists. isola-tionists. This, then, was the keynote key-note to the European war situation situa-tion as a whole. Meanwhile, Hitler liberated the Belgian war prisoners and sent them home, having long since done the same by the Norwegian Nor-wegian and Dutch soldier-captives. The French were expected to be next on the parole list. Not so, the "tough-and-ready" , Poles, of whom there were more than a million in German military hands. CAMPAIGN: Up-Warming The 1940 presidential campaign race was busy up-warming. It was, in fact, getting warmer and warmer. The third term attempt, by Mr. Roosevelt brought forth many dire predictions from newsoaDer editori- GERMAN WAR: Strategy It is about time that we examined exam-ined the fundamental strategy of the German war, at this point For the whole situation has changed, in England, in Germany, and in the United States. The German aim was a simple one. It was to attack England by land, sea, and air, without wasting much time or effort in other theaters of war, which were trifling, anyway. Italy was expected to take Malta, and Spain was expected to enter the war and take Gibraltar, with the possibility that Japan might take Hongkong," but all these were side issues is-sues as compared with the basic battle bat-tle of Britain. Here the preliminary German air bombardment proved highly effective, and English Portsmouth Ports-mouth and Welsh Cardiff were believed be-lieved already to be gutted. Edward Ed-ward VIII, duke of Windsor, was called a fifth columnist by some Englishmen, and hailed as the next monarch by ethers. Churchill Plan The English war plan was this: to hold out, like a besieeed fnrtr. Hitler also made Goering something some-thing brand-new in the staid history of the Prussian army: a Reich's Marshal of Greater Germany, and gave him the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. Goering designed himself him-self a new, different, extra-special uniform "the only one of its kind in all German, officialdom." Hitler also created nine new field-marshals and two new field-marshals-general, and 17 new colonel-generals (German (Ger-man military grades run different from the American). BURMA ROAD: So Silly The Burma road controversy took the silliest turn on record. That road carried war supplies to Chiang Kai-shek and his armies. The British Brit-ish foreign office closed it, on the heated demand of Japan. Then Ker- retary Hull protested that the Burma Bur-ma road was necessary for world trade and international commerce (Hull is an old free-trades) . At this point, part of the British parliament supported Hull against their own foreign for-eign office, with cries of "no appeasement" ap-peasement" China, infuriated threatened England with dire threats. Germany, of course, took the side of Japan. Thereby Hitler took the side of the British foreign office, against Hull and Chiang Kai- al writers. One excellent quip went the rounds. A lady said to a gent: "But a third term's un-precedent-ed!" To which the gent replied, "So was General Washington's first term." Some thoughtful students of politi-, cal science believed that the third term phenomenon was a pale American Amer-ican reflection of totalitarian dictatorships dicta-torships abroad . . . just as our Civil war of 1861 was a pale reflection reflec-tion of "civil 1848" in EuroDe. Hen. if possible for two or three months. Then, late fall would put an end to German operations against the island is-land fortress. At this point, the English would swing into offensive action in the following way: by an intensified sea blockade that would bring famine to the entire continent of Europe. There have been crop shortages, and failures, on the continent, con-tinent, and another war-winter might bring untold horrors to the Dutch Belgians, French, Norse, Danes, etc and even to the Germans 'This was exactly what Winston Churchill Church-ill was counting on. There was one hitch in this plan What food there was on the continent conti-nent would go (1) to the German army, (2) to the German home folks, and (3) to the Dutch, Belgians. Bel-gians. French, etc., etc. Thereby the British would make the Dutch and French suffer for Hitler's wrongdoings. wrong-doings. But this was nnlv tha k ry Wallace was put up as Democratic Demo-cratic vice president in order to match the Republican McNary, for both were agricultural experts of the very first water. The choice of Wallace brought out that this New Dealer was an ex-Republican, and Mr. Roosevelt had passed over a number of regulation machine Democrats. Dem-ocrats. Wallace, Ickes, Stimson, Knox Hopkins, Miss Perkins: none of them had had a Democratic background. But then, of course, the ex-Democrat Willkie had only been a Republican Repub-lican for but two scant years. Hoover, Hoo-ver, too, was a former Democrat while it was expected that Al Smith would continue to take a walk. It looked as though the old party divisions di-visions were breaking down all along the line, and the terms New Deal and Old Guard were increasingly increas-ingly taking the Dlaro nf th ginning of the repercussions. It was expected that this plan-the "Churchill "Church-ill plan," they called it-would have the following astounding effect in the United States: it would turn the isolationists into interventionists, and the interventionists into isolationists. isola-tionists. The reason for this was as follows: the humane isolationists could not stand the continental starvation, star-vation, and would want to intervene 1 shek. It was Anglo-Germany, plu Japan, versus the U. S. A. Mean- while, England was trying to nego-' nego-' tiate the finish to the Jap-Chinese contest, but apparently our own state department was opposed to appeasement" in the Orient All this hit a new low in foreign relations. rela-tions. ANGLO-SHIFT: Turnabouts While Hitler was promoting all those glamour-boy generals and airmen air-men and scattering decorations to the four winds. England was kicking kick-ing various people upstairs. An arrogant-looking gentleman named L.eut.-Gen. Sir Alan F. Brooke re-cently re-cently general officer in charge of the southern command, became commander-in-chief of the home forces. He took the place of Gen Sir Edmund Ironside fit was Ohver Cromwell's ironsides that founded the British regular army) 0Unded Sir Ironside, a huge, hulking fel-ow, fel-ow, who once commanded Gibra tar, was kicked into being a fipfi general. Viscount Gort, rormer Lm Pmeditta?y T Flanders, had theammeFexpeCrienaced He became inspector general nr forces for training. Previously Gor had received the sacrort J ble criticism. But Gnn ,era' admitted, was a good 'J Brooke had commanded flT of the British expeditionary"5 Vitamin B Simultaneous with the v, turnabouts, England wen, new kind of white bread. 'V was rich in vitamin B and ca.cium s7l to help overcome the wartime strain of nerves and physical bu was a revolution in nutrition Th scientific food ministry was 1 astic about it. and it m-Z , "S" to be a real boon to m h Ut to humanity in Z 'e. -ish public began to buy it un gulp it down, prontissimo! publican and Democratic tags The loss of Jim Farley, the political genius ge-nius who managed the party machinery ma-chinery for Roosevelt, was a heavy blow to many of the Democrats. More of It While a good many Democrats were muttering about the III term W allace, and Farley, Willkie stressed his own humble origin, and inferred artfully that Roosevelt's path had been a lot softer. Willkie said furthermore, fur-thermore, that he was making no sacrifice, but that he really wanted to run which was certainly obvious to almost anybody. OIL, OIL, OIL: Petroleum Large shipments of oil have been going through to Spain, from Ameri-can Ameri-can Texas, and also from South American Venezuela and Colombia Something like 2 million barrels had been sent from the United States m eight months of the war Was Hitler getting much of it? Probably they thought in Washington. Some, in fact believed that Germany Ger-many had been getting far more oil from America, than from Russia |