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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw 'Battle of Britain' On as Nazi Bombers Increase Momentum of Mass Attacks; British Are Forced Out of Shanghai; Italy Stages Minor African Offensive 'EDITOR'S VOTE When options are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) . .(Released by Western Newspaper Union. independence, right now. Churchill had always been the No. 1 foe of Indian home-rule, and the Indo-na-tionalists simply didn't trust him. In the last war, India had dished up millions of soldiers and workers, and many, many millions of good, hard dollars. What Churchill really wanted, want-ed, was another crack at these untold, un-told, untapped resources. But Gandhi, Gan-dhi, as usual, was from Missouri or, perhaps, from the Irish Free State. THE WAR: Step-Up Reports from both London and Berlin indicated that long awaited aerial blitzkrieg against the British isles had been stepped up to the point where as many as 500 Nazi planes were making periodic attacks at-tacks on shipping ports and airdromes. air-dromes. Apparently the German tactics had a threefold objective: (1) to challenge Britain's sea control of the English channel by damaging naval na-val harbors and shore establishments; establish-ments; (2) weakening of British air defenses by bombing airports, silencing si-lencing ground guns and attempting to wear down British pilots by forcing forc-ing them to maintain 24-hour patrols; pa-trols; (3) a bolstering of the morale of the German people by continued reports of air victories. As usual London and Berlin in turn each claimed to have the upper hand in the first days of this "battle "bat-tle of Britain." Nazi leaders declared de-clared that in the first raids the ports of Margate, Dover and Portsmouth Ports-mouth (naval yards) had been ruined ru-ined by constant bombings. British sources reported a large number of Nazi warplanes shot down (as many as 60 in one day) and government In Africa The Italians in Ethiopia staged an offensive against little British So-maliland, So-maliland, on the Red sea. Mussolini's Musso-lini's local legions started out by doing do-ing very well, and won some bush-league bush-league initial successes. It looked as if the Somali capital of Berabera, was going to get it, and the Italians captured some tanks and sunk some airplanes, as they forged ahead. London did not worry much about Berabera. That hell-hole is no gold mine like Shanghai, Hongkong, Bombay Bom-bay or Calcutta, where imperial profits stack up. MOSLEY'S: Upper Crust One of the funniest aspects of the war developed. It was this. Perhaps Per-haps 400 of Sir Oswald Mosley's blackshirts male and female are FINLAND: Doomed? The Germans took over Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia in two stages. The first stage consisted in grabbing the Ger- manic Sudeten region, and the second sec-ond stage came five months later, when Hitler snatched virtually all the rest of the country. So, with Russia and the Finns. After a war of 100 days, Stalin took the Manner-heim Manner-heim line, Viborg, Finland's second city, strategic islands, and border strips. Finland was almost dis. armed. Then the Soviet's absorbed Bessarabia (from Rumania) and the spokesmen praised what they called the "heroic work" of the British fighter plane pilots. little Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia Lat-via and Estonia. Now it looked like Finland again or what was left of it The Russians said they "feared" Finnish activities, activi-ties, and accused the Finns of maltreating mal-treating their Communist minority. It was the old formula, to precede aggressive action. Meanwhile, the Finnish red leader, Otto Kuusinen, was elected vice president of the Down East , The most interesting new phase of the II German war was not in the least degree German. It came as John Bull's worst setback in the whole fracas, since last September, and Hitler had virtually nothing to do with it. It was simply this: The Japanese kicked the British out of the wicked Chinese city of Shanghai. Here England has controlled con-trolled the so-called international settlement for a century. In North China, where corrupt Shanghai is queen-city, there still are 10,000 British Brit-ish subjects, and nearly a billion dollars' worth of British invested capital. But out the British garrison garri-son went, and it was sent far south to Hongkong, a British commercial island just off Canton. Hongkone - y x Soviet Russian parliament, as a significant sig-nificant gesture. Kuusinen had been an open traitor to his country during dur-ing the first Finnish war of 1940. The number of Finnish Communists, actually, ac-tually, is rather minute. They call themselves "members of the society for friendship and peace with the Soviet Union in Finland." NO JEWS? Persecution The two toughest papers in Nazi Germany are the Stuermer and the Schwarze Korps. The latter is the organ of the party's "elite" black bodyguards. It came out with an editorial which said: a German peace will be a Jewless peace. It said: the Nazis plan to clear the probably will be next. Already, the Japanese are penetrating French In-do-China, which doubtless won't be "French" very much longer. That's Not All There are 500,000,000 folks in the British empire. Of these, about 70,-000,000 70,-000,000 are whites, and the rest are multi-colored. Some 400,000,000 of them live in India. In the II German Ger-man war, they have been practical- MRS. OSWOLD MOSLEY She has her sunbalhs on the prison lawn. entire European continent of Jews, and colonize them in some remote spot. It said: the recent Hungarian and Rumanian anti-semitic legislation legisla-tion is too weak. Needless to say the radical Schwarze Korps did not speak for the German conservatives like Goering, Krupp, and Schacht,' whom it dislikes, and who openly dislike it. interned in the Brixton and Hallo-way Hallo-way jails in London. Mosley is a wealthy blueblood, and so are more of his Fascist followers: people who are used to the best, in everything. These Fascists have turned the two jails into pleasure resorts. One lady Fascist ordered 26 bottles of champagne cham-pagne in a single day. The wardens war-dens have turned into waiters. The government has had to advertise for more wardens, to do more waiter-ing. waiter-ing. Lady Mosley, sister of Hitler's famous girl-friend, Unity, takes sun-baths sun-baths in a bathing suit, on the prison lawn. Good Sir Oswald eats via an outside caterer, wears silk shirts, and sports a different, newly tailored ensemble each week. DEFENSE? Nat-Guard The senate passed the measure of National Guard mobilization by 71 to 7. The National Guardsmen who didn't seem to know what they were in for, could be sent absolutely anywhere in the Western hemi-sphere, hemi-sphere, or to the far-dune Philm. Juhus Streicher, Nazi boss of Nur-emburg, Nur-emburg, and publisher of the radical radi-cal Stuermer, was reported dead Then he was reported alive again but it seems he had lost his lucra tive Nuremburg job. Streicher is a close student of Yankee lynchings. wh.ch he approves. He always quotes the "latest" lynch in detail when the Yankees assail his methods meth-ods m he III Reich. Streicher is especially disliked by Tory-minded Goering. Plebeian Mr streich a self made man. Goering is not JhEi airDmarShaI attended the arista-W arista-W "West PoinV and father was a bigshot under the old Kaiser. Goering own. the Na taonal Zeitung of Essen, which is comparatively "respectable'- It J not especially anti-semitic, nor i the German air force MAHATMA GANDHI From Missouri or Irish Free Stale? ly neutral, although some Indian Regulars in the British army have seen service. England is anxious to get India into the war, and so offered of-fered Mahatma Gandhi "full and . equal" dominion status, like Canada Can-ada or Australia, but not until after the war. The Indians were too foxy. They replied they would be a great help if they were given complete pines, for that matter. Most of them were business men, and could ill be . spared from key positions. Married Mar-ried men were exempted if they resigned re-signed within three weeks after they were called up. As a whole, the Na--.f' Guard is suPPsed to have , Willkie tendencies, and not Roose-veltian Roose-veltian ones. But Mr. Roosevelt hastened to assure the Guardists that it was most unlikely they would be sent far afield-something like a 100 to 1 shot. This tended to cool their disgruntlement. New York's crack high-society cavalry became an armored-car outfit, and New Yorks ditto infantry turned into coast artillery anti-aircraft. So did Harlem's ditto-ditto infantry Ne groids. The entire New England National Guard had two tanks fCn Hartford, Conn.), and it was authen tically asserted by war department b.gw.gs that we wouldn't have a real army till 1944. aI More of It Another aspect of Nazi persecute persecu-te is the Danish case. Up n Co Z7l - the ""th' Z, Cla,'mthey sti" like to aEh duel. But the Nazis have disarmed "w'er?rss" "Hie madefy ac drattiC local actress Sr. . i . bout a lenged the critic Th actor chal-cepted. chal-cepted. There were 6 aC" Ps. no nothing 7ery ZV will find a way Th. hale to hows andwr-Zrr Lghts of arrows. me ator Pinked in the arm Was over Th . ' nd il was all el ybodweCM r '0kCd "' happy. " em hme anti-Nazi, but NO SHIPS: For Hitler England did one thing that will calm many an American heart ShJ promised categorically to surrender none of her warships to Germany in case the latter won the war. L and indicated she would scuttfe them instead. This was fin a., round. The EngU0-' for 50 to 100 Yankee destroyer. l seemed that British naval losses in the destroyer class, had been very heavy indeed. y Those same Nazis it nounced from Vichy an" JO P- cent of tb?? force in 46 days of th u h air France. Pierre Cot f baUle air minister, was D nTr French hy the enraged Gle,0" 'ria, Weygand, and pert, " T '" nd -son. MeanMeStWMh0m sapped a 15 per ' . "e Ni"-is -tax on znlVZT lects, for "soci-,1 7 oIlsh sub-also sub-also claimed Tn'1" 21"-"'" They .subject 'Dnut hCW d:rmt"lt' a manners. Jd such bad |
