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Show REPUBLICAN A : 'Read Out' WEEKLY A TIT'S A.ALYS1S BY ROGER SHAW' Terms of French Armistice Denounced by Great Britain; Fighting on Continent Ceases (KUITOIt'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Keieased by Western Newspaper Union. . k Frank Knox Henry L. Stimson (KavyJ (War) The Republicans read Stimson and Knox out of the party, with various expressions of condemnation, condem-nation, and Roosevelt indicated I that Philadelphia teas putting 1 partisanship ahead of total U. S. nationalism. The Republican counter-answer, to this, was "totalitarianism." "to-talitarianism." Colonel Knox was supposed to have said that the President agreed not to run for a third term, and Roosevelt teas understood, unequivocably, to have told him so. That remained to be seen. Earlier, the President Presi-dent had said that any coalition cabinet conception was "cockeyed." "cock-eyed." Things were becoming more and more complicated. ' &JJt rrki h 41 t 4( -s: -rp p ya: jm r f t ' - RED CROSS: Looks Things Over International Red Cross officials personally investigated war-prisoner camps in England, France and Germany, Ger-many, and pronounced things uniformly uni-formly decent, humane, and proper. This came as a cheerful verdict in a dark hour. With France humbled, England becomes the immediate objective of German and Italian blitzkrieg tactics of invasion. Citizens throughout the British Isles have been organized into various semi-military groups to resist re-sist In all possible manner such an invasion. In the above picture a detachment de-tachment of "parashots," an organization designed to "take care" of parachute para-chute troops that may be dropped, is shown at practice, "somewhere in England." "Parashots" use rifles and shotguns, ammunition being supplied sup-plied by the government and targets of clay pigeons and toy balloons are used. gas, etc. Germany also was forced to admit its "war guilt," in a self-condemnatory self-condemnatory clause of the treaty. French 'Debacle' The critics went to work on the French army. It was brave, well equipped, perfectly trained. But it was trained for defensive fortress warfare, which was to its credit, and did not know how to maneuver in the open field. All modern forces need armor, but French armor went into the static Maginot line, while German armor went into highly mobile mo-bile tanks and armored cars. The guns of the Maginot line pointed due east, and were too cumbersome to turn into rdiorco tj ...i iL II GERMAN WAR: French Terms Within six weeks after Adolf Hitler Hit-ler had begun his invasion against the low countries, France had signed an armistice with Germany and Italy (a combatant for only two weeks) and the "battle of France" was ended. In a war that has been strange in many respects it was not surprising that the first news of the terms ending end-ing the struggle came from London rather than Berlin, Rome or Paris. British officials announced that "through friendly French sources" they had learned that terms of armistice ar-mistice included: (1) Complete de- " seemea uiat uermany had 10 Anglo-French prisoners, to every one German in Allied hands. And if it counted in the Belgians, Dutch, Poles, etc., the ratio became startling star-tling 50 to 1. Germany still had a quarter million Poles, many of whom were working in labor battalions. bat-talions. The Red Cross further reported it had handled nearly a million letters let-ters and communications, between war prisoners and their relatives back home wherever "home" might be. Apparently, there have been few war atrocities in Norway, Holland, Belgium, France; but additional addi-tional atrocity data came leaking out of Poland data that reflected 5 equally unfavorably on Germans, : Poles, and Russians. AMERICA: ; At Odds & Ends Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daugh-. daugh-. ter of the late President Wilson, was . reported to be happy in a life-long Indian mystical sect. Marge, they said, was peaceful and secluded. The Harvard graduating class cheered, to the echo, their class orator, ora-tor, who said to stay out of European Euro-pean wars. It booed, to the echo, an old grad who talked about repeat- j ing the events of 1917-18. Tnhn T.oiiMt. u- - r . . iiLutc, wiieii mi Germans flanked the line, and tool it in the rear, after the capture o: Paris and the breakthrough at Se dan, the line and its really gallant "shellfish" became almost helpless. Meanwhile, the German motorized columns cleaned up the French channel chan-nel coast down to Nantes in Brit-tany, Brit-tany, took Tours and Lyons, and captured 700 new French tanks, 400 just-delivered American airplanes and two 35,000-ton French warships nearly completed. The French government gov-ernment had moved from Paris, to Tours, to Bordeaux, to Biarritz; 'the fascist-minded Corsican, Jean Chi-appe, Chi-appe, Daladier's mortal foe, had taken charge in Paris; and the two surviving Paris newspapers, Vic-toire Vic-toire and Matin, were more anti-Revnaud anti-Revnaud than th. mobilization of French land forces; (2) surrender of the French fleet; (3) German occupation of more than half of France; (4) merchant shipping ship-ping to remain in home ports until further traffic was authorized by Germany and Italy; (5) all French information about naval mines to be given Hitler and a portion of France's navy is to engage in mine-sweeping mine-sweeping along French ports. These in the main were the conditions con-ditions of peace demanded by Germany Ger-many and her ally, Italy. The French government headed by Marshal Henri Petain as premier, signed the armistice, declared a day of mourning. Winston Churchill, British prime minister, was quick to scold his old ally and declared in effect, that while i , x u praised ex-President Hoover and said he had nothing to do with the great American Ameri-can depression, blaming politicians for this libel. Doctors over the nation, reported that Euro-blitzkrieging had made Americans literally sick, due to nervous emotion and worry: the war of nerves, they added, was producing produc-ing neurotics. Twin bombs, within an hour went off anonymously in New York city outside the- German commercial agency, and Communist party head quarters. Ten people were hurt and district attorney (candidate) Dewey got down to work at once. . New York city, according to census cen-sus figures, now has 7 million people, peo-ple, which is half a million more than 10 years ago. The borough of Queens has the larepst oi. on to France it was not the "peace with honor" that Petain had sought. Rumors of a provisional French government with headquarters in London were heard in official quarters. quar-ters. After the fighting had ceased on the continent, one major fact stood out: the mighty armed forces that are Hitler's now had but one objectivethe objec-tivethe complete defeat of Great Britain. Berlin and Rome were optimistic op-timistic that it could soon be accomplished. ac-complished. London was sure that it could not, and British circles reminded re-minded the world that the Rome-Berlin Rome-Berlin axis had still to break the iron ring of England's powerful navy. A c ann-u-er- man. The great Zola wrote a book about the Franco-German war of 1870, called "Debacle." This 1940 debacle was 1870, all over again. THIRD TERM: The Campaign The President, Mr. Roosevelt, appointed ap-pointed two conservative Republican colonels to his cabinet, to head the army and navy departments. They were Stimson, Hoover's old secretary secre-tary of state and Taft's old secretary secre-tary of war, and Knox, Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936 when he ran with Landon. The Roosevelt action blew the lid off. anrl tho iittn-4. . German Terms To complete the record, the terms toe Germans got at Versailles in 1919 included: loss of all colonies, a million square miles; loss of a seventh of Germany in Europe; loss of nearly all the German iron supply; sup-ply; loss of the entire German navy loss of the entire German merchant marine; more than $30,000,000,000 to be paid in war "reparations"; limitation limi-tation of the German army to 100 000 l--.vear regulars; abolition of German Ger-man tanks, planes, submarines big guns, big warships, general staff cent The Bronx borough is most populous, with famed Manhattan only third. Brooklyn is second Queens fourth, and Utile Staten Island Is-land fifth. Tokyo is now the world's second city, with London Con the down and down) third. WAR REACTIONS: j 'Many and Varied' England and Germany kept bomb-ing bomb-ing each other from the air The English strafed the Berlin suburbs, Trt , G"mans hammered hundreds hun-dreds of miles of the English east coast, where the "true" Anglo-Sax ons hail from. Canada, Austral and New Zealand proved their loyalty. loy-alty. Canada put in conscription, for service within the limits of the dominion. The new governor-gen-eral, Queen Mary's brother, Aft. lone arrived from England, to pep up the Canadians eVen more. lut another British dominion, South Af nca was debating a separate peace with Germanv c fedce , campaign in American history got under way People said that the third term and the World war depended on one another, an-other, and had become an interlocking inter-locking directorate. Congressmen asked Roosevelt to resign, or said in pnvatae that he ought to be impeached. im-peached. Roosevelt's Charlottesville speech came in for increasing condemnation, con-demnation, and so did Stimson and Knox, both of whom admittedly are extremists in their help-Ally viewpoint. view-point. Within Roosevelt's own cabinet Farley and Garner were apparently against the cabinet shift, and Garner Gar-ner was reported as opposed to the Roosevelt "meddle" policy in European Euro-pean wars. Roosevelt, who is notably nota-bly short-tempered, was beginning to bridle under the heavy fire, and the fact that his popularity was constantly constant-ly on the up-and-up in England it was feared, would not help him overmuch over-much with plain American voters But Mr. Roosevelt replied, in self defense: "overwhelming sentiment deadlocked wilh rTrnFer Hen zog and the Dutch Boers squabbled w.m the British colonia?s down Soviet Russia tightened its hold on the three little Baltic states of Llthu-ania, Llthu-ania, Latvia, and Estonia, with an aggregate population of perhan, 6,000 000. Tiny Estonia underwent a workers communist putsch, and ousted its middle-class rulers The Red army aided in this "revolu-.onary" "revolu-.onary" development, and other developments" were expected in Latv,a and Lithuania. What 1m become of honest, steaia t debf paying Finland, was the nex ques. Hon, and . one that agitated some Americans more than the sad fate ol brave M. Reynaud. oi me nation for national solidaritv in a time of world crisis, and in behalf be-half of national defense, and nothin else. U. S. DEFENSE: Addenda Roosevelt asked congress for 84 more warships, to give America the largest fleet in the world. It was to be a two-ocean navy, capable of defending the country in the Atlantic and the Pacific simultaneously Many Americans felt that there was some rhyme and reason in this, but continued to ask how the United States could spare anything, 0f any military sort, for the armies of any European power. |