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Show NEW YORK AIR DEFENSE Wajtiington, D. C. The army is not anxious to publicize pub-licize the fact, but as of today there are only 39 anti-aircraft guns in the whole New York city defense area. Six months ago not even the most cautious generals would have worried wor-ried about this. But after watching German air operations in the past j month, and after doing a little fig-curing fig-curing with paper and pencil on the flight performances of German planes, the army is rushing more (.aircraft guns to the nation's biggest jity. , Twenty-two battalions with 264 additional ad-ditional guns will be sent to New vfcilH'fiyr'iVi hiSltffai "ifihaihflajt : ttjsi j BEHIND THE CLOUDS Ambassador Lothian of Great Britain (left) and Ambassador dc Saint Quen-tin Quen-tin of France find something to cheer them after a conference in Washing-Son Washing-Son with State Department officials. York as soon as the army can get them, but that will not be before the end of the year. Note The arithmetic which worried wor-ried the army was this: Norway to Iceland, 7i3 miles; Iceland to "Newfoundland, 1,500 miles; New-loundland New-loundland to New England, 800 miles. .More arithmfii Ogrman Mes-! Mes-! KprsphmiH Nn. 11ns havp a fivin range of 1,700 miles; German bombers bomb-ers have a minimum range of 1,230 miles, most of them more; and Germany Ger-many has between 8,000 and 10,000 of them. NAZI STRATEGY When Sumner Welles was in Ber-j Ber-j lm on his peace pilgrimage, the Hit-. I ler entourage told him flatly that if I Britain wanted to continue the war, j Germany was ready to lose 9,000 i planes if necessary in raining the I greatest barrage of bombs in his-.tory his-.tory on England. I With Dutch air bases, plus new submarine bases in Norway, the Nazis plan to put the greatest squeeze in history on England, subject sub-ject her to a -terrific air bombard- ment, and land invading forces for ! the first time since the triumphal ; march of William the Conqueror In 1066. The military strategy of the Nazis j is the old Schlieffen plan used by i the kaiser's troops in the last wat Briefly summarized, the plan it; I Outflank, Develop, Destroy. J To this, the Nazis have added I some streamlining of their own, j namely the "locusts" or parachute troops, whose objective is to get into the enemy's radio and telegraph of-i of-i flees, disrupt communications, and cause as much confusion as possible possi-ble behind the lines. i ARGENTINE NEUTRALITY If anyone around the state de-! de-! partment ever had any doubt that ' Cordell Hull was not a candidate j for President, they changed their minds after seeing him sit upon the ' Argentine proposal for the American nations to give up neutrrfty for a 1 state of "non-belligerency." This i meant a status somewhat similar to j Italy's but friendly to the allies in-; in-; stead of to Hitler. : The Argentines pointed out that, like President Roosevelt, they had : sent sympathetic messages to the king and queen of Belgium and Holland; Hol-land; that they had impounded the ' money and property of the Low Countries in order to keep it out of ' Nazi hands; and that as a matter of cold fact, none of the Pan-Americans was really neutral anyway. |