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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW Surrender by Belgium Marks New Phase in the World War; Germans Hold Channel Ports (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 Union. - S I A strange refugee problem has arisen in Paris, France, because of the current war. While thousands of Parisians have fled to outlying sectors to avoid possible bombing raids by the Germans, still other thousands of refugees have been pouring into the city from all over France, Holland and Belgium. Just as in the World war of 1914-18, the French government is providing food and shelter for these people. In the above photo, a family of Belgians, sadfaced, is being fed in a Paris center. THE WAR: Belgian Surrender Probably one of the most epochal days in history occurred when King Leopold of Belgium ordered his troops to lay down arms and surrender. sur-render. How long would France and Britain continue to wage war, was the question immediately raised. The whole war's outcome was thus thrown into the balance. The mechanized, motorized, and air-geared German army continued its channel sweep in a wheeling semi-circle, which began at Cam-brai Cam-brai and Bapaume, and took in Abbeville, at the channel mouth of the Somme river, and then coastal Boulogne and Calais. Calais is exactly ex-actly across from English Dover, and only 20 miles distant. Boulogne was Napoleon's headquarters when he tried to invade England in 1805. German flyers came more and more to dominate the channel, making mak-ing the work of English troop transports trans-ports exceedingly difficult. For reinforcements re-inforcements from England, or re-treaters re-treaters to England, were bombed mercilessly from the air, as at least half a million allied troops appeared caught in a horrible steel trap, of Nazi manufacturer. At the other end of the channel drive, the Germans were in Antwerp, leaving the allies only the channel ports of Dunkirk (French) and Ostend (Belgian). Paris, pro tem, had been left "neglected" "neg-lected" for the Germans were said to be considering a separate peace with France, a peace some Frenchmen French-men were reported as not unwilling U. S. DEFENSE: Billions The critics went to work on Roosevelt's Roose-velt's plan for 50,000 airplanes, and an extra appropriation of a billion dollars. How much would 50,000 airplanes air-planes really cost? And how many men would it take to staff them, and operate them? The experts began be-gan to figure. They discovered that at the price England and France pay for aircraft, air-craft, 50,000 planes would cost at least six billions. The American aviation avi-ation professionals backed up this astonishing sum. Then our air chief put it at seven billions. But this was not all. It takes thirty men per plane, to keep it properly conditioned condi-tioned and piloted. Hence, it would take 1,500,000 men to run our 50,000- plane aerial armada ? r-- These, plus the force J -V. of 750,000 regulars 'jA now talked about, fmafi'' would make for an army of over 2,000,- 000 men, mostly air ' force. And there I s came the rub for an army of 2,250,000 f ii (minimum) would I mean nothing less than universal, cost-ly cost-ly conscription. But, Charles A. asked the critics, Lindbergh didn't Roosevelt know that a mere billion dollars would buy and equip comparatively few airplanes? Meanwhile, America's three best practical military critics, Lindbergh, Rickenbacker (our No. 1 ace), and General Smedley Butler of the ma- to accept. V COLUMN: In England While Sir Anthony Eden's anti-parachute anti-parachute "sharpies" had increased to half a million game-keepers, unemployed, un-employed, flaming youths, and Colonel Blimps, Scotland Yard cracked down on the so-called English Eng-lish Fifth Column. Sir Oswald Mos-lpv. Mos-lpv. World war flver at 18 and son- rines, expressed the belief that the United States was quite safe, and endeavored en-deavored to allay current hysteria, most evident in the U. S. on the eastern seaboard. PUTTERINGS: On Potomac The senate appropriated nearly two billions for the war department, by 74-0. Also, it appropriated nearly near-ly a billion and a half for the navy in-law of the late foreign minister, Lord Curzon, had headed the British Brit-ish fascists' organization, and opposed op-posed the II German war. Five Yard detectives took him in. The Yard also grabbed off Archibald Ramsay, Eton Conservative and aristocratic member of parliament, and John Beckett, a former M. P. who loves a roughhouse. Parliament passed a tough Treachery Bill, but the Irish Republican Repub-lican army merely smiled. This dangerous dan-gerous secret society has been actively ac-tively anti-British, and definitely fifth-columnar. The I. R. A. made England feel that Ireland might be .., a base for German j J V invasion of the Bri- 'l. tannic midriff, even I J though Ireland's Pre- Iw M i mier De Valera vig- 'J ! i orously opposes the 11 "bomber-bhoys." Al- I Is0' was exPected that the new English ' I dictatorship would 1 launch out against A. I the English commute commu-te jtj&Mtf-i nists. British Labor Premier appeared especially UcValcra enthusiastic over Churchill's mailed fist in a kid glove. Nevertheless, Churchill's niece and Mosley's present wife are sisters. A third sister is Hitler's English girl-friend, Valkyrie. FORODDS & FORENDS: The British government kicked the women and children out of Gibraltar, Gi-braltar, that "firm" imperialist rock at the western gate of the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. The liner President Roosevelt got oft for Ireland, to pick up stranded American refugees from England. The state department warned the belligerent powers to let it alone. The sister liner President Harding, sold to Belgium, had recently been bombed to the bottom by German I flyers. department, by 78 to 0. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau talked with a hundred representatives of the country's aviation plants, but it didn't seem to amount to much. The navy department then clapped on a 48-hour week in its naval yards, and hired 15,000 additional civilian workers. work-ers. Chairman Dies, of the Dies committee, com-mittee, shuddered over the fifth column col-umn at work in the United States. Dies primarily assailed Russia and the communists, whom apparently he still dislikes more than Germany. Roosevelt is inclined to prefer Russia, Rus-sia, but for once he said something nice about Dies & Co. Roosevelt had asked congress to approve the transfer of the immigration-naturalization service, from the labor department de-partment to the department of justice, jus-tice, in order to "deal" with fifth-columnar fifth-columnar extremists. Roosevelt said that a coalition Re-publico-Demo-cabinet was simply "cock-eyed." But he had talked to Landon and Knox, last-time Republican Repub-lican candidates, and Landon asked him to give up thud-termite aspirations aspira-tions which, carpers said, led to a Roosevelt-Republican deadlock and the "cock-eyed" verdict. Weather prophets predicted an unusually dirty presidential campaign for 1940, and some people accused Roosevelt of exploiting the European war to promote third-termitis. RELIGION: The Lutherans America's third biggest Protestant denomination is that of Martin Luther, Lu-ther, with well over 4,000,000 adherents. ad-herents. But more than 50 per cent of the world's Lutherans are now under Nazi rule, it was divulged. This includes Germany proper and Germany "improper." Germany "improper" takes in the Lutherans of Norway, Denmark, Slovakia and Poland. Holland is Calvinist, Belgium Belgi-um is Catholic. |