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Show WEEKLY f.FWS ANALYSIS By Ed.vard C. Wayne President Calls for Armaments Drive With Increased Aid for Democracies; Irish Investigate Bombings of Dublin; New Congress Tackles Vital Problems " " ' i. W..wrn w.t-fcr Union.) Stale of the. Siilion, C.,:.,.4 u(,,o .11 a. S. e.tin to -ii ...in u.e i..'T.r.r-1 tt.ut U.e wr' ii ic-rwn a ar r-.vlf d.-M..ir:..i." ! ii!it H.'-v-:lt In h. ..-, ill rl.-l.yrr.rd It. rl. !!.. to U.r n-1 S.-w,t-r.-V.-n'h C:l.rrM t,..,-. . . k'-i';; n ,r d ff.oi our b-rm ..h-f." II.: ,.i. out li..it hf h.-ln-vi-d II. ;,.,v. S'.i'i-j to b f "n ,..,r... . ,r,.,l f,r.-.,:n P'-nl aixi he f.r a "iuft arid driving in-cri-ni-" l" ariii.'inHTit production. i.,Ui U. l.'nit.-d S'.it.-s ami the "de- i, ,,Nn..i" would hmp the benefits of u. h ii.rri-..-.i d production, accord.. ac-cord.. if to the I'rend.-nt. "I l a.k tins congress," said the I'reiid.-nt. "for authority and for funds sullicient to manufacture additional rnurutlons and war sup- IK ELAND: On War's Brink Aerial war reports were featured by a small but continued bombing of neutral Ireland, and George Bernard Shaw ru.-.hed an interview over the cables saying that either Britain or H.'.ier would get Ireland into the war somehow before long. H.tier. said Shaw, wants Ireland in on trie Axis side, to give him a possible landing site for aerial invaders. in-vaders. England wants Ireland actively ac-tively in on the British side to give her good naval bases and a better defense against submarine activities in the eastern Atlantic. Investigation of the bombs that dropped at first seemed to indicate that the Germans were attempting to line the Irish coast with magnetic mines and that some of them had inadvertently landed inshore. This, however, was not borne out, plies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now In ui tu.d war with aggressor nation! na-tion! " While he did not actually list Ihe nations to which sucn aid would go it is generally believed that he meant Ilritam, China and Greece. I'leMd. nt Kooscvelt then proceeded proceed-ed to m ike cle ir that he did not r. .render such aid an "act of war even if a dii tator should unilaterally for later bombs were not of tne marine type, and then came a full daylight raider, with no exeuse for missing, and popped one or two right into the streets of Dublin. Examination of the bombs showed them to be of German manufacture. The Axis, both Rome and Berlin, immediately leaped into print claiming claim-ing that the bombs had been taken from downed planes by the British, who had been calmly bombing her neighbor, trying to get the Irish mad enough to declare war on Germany. SOLDIERS: Spoil for Fight The old saying "spoiling for a fight" was borne out in the fall of Bardia, Libyan port besieged for several days by the British forces in northern Africa. The British blitz mowed down Italians and rushed them back from the Egyptian border into their own territory, almost to Tobruk, with the result that an estimated 20,000 Italians Ital-ians were surrounded and cut off at Bardia. General Wavell, wishing to conserve con-serve lives of his soldiers, decided to put on a siege, to "take things easy" and bomb and shell the Fascists Fas-cists into surrender. But his command included fresh, vigorous Australian troops (much like Americans in makeup, physique and morale), and they howled for a chance to charge in. Finally Wavell surrendered to desire de-sire of his own men for attack, and "let 'em go." They smashed through the Italian defenses, captured 5,000 prisoners the first day, and within three days had captured the town. Capable authorities estimate now that Graziani's forces have been cut about one-third, and that British probably outnumber their enemy now on the Egyptian front. 1 ' 1: L . i t . ('' ' ' '4 Ik... ...v'". v. if-- y-r'iTinvi''" ""Iti'tWirVTifiij GREEKS: Still on Move Despite the rumbling thunder of Germans about to swoop through Bulgaria toward Salonika, the Greek armies, facing worst blizzards in Albanian history, continued to move forward, but more slowly in the face of stiffening Fascist resistance. resist-ance. Chief gains were made on the southwestern front, but gains were reported in all sectors. Interesting were the dispatches telling of how Italians were taking to skis with disastrous dis-astrous results, and how Italian mechanized forces were bogging dOWTl. Picture editors in this country continued con-tinued to get dozens of photos of Italians surrendering, one of the captions cap-tions even saying that when a cameraman cam-eraman happened not to be present at one "surrender scene," the Fascist Fas-cist troops obligingly posed for the picture when one finally showed up. "Tirana by Christmas" did not materialize, and the Italian stifferre-sistance stifferre-sistance did but there was continued con-tinued evidence that if the Greeks were to be beaten back and Italy kept in the war, German planes and German troops would have it to do. Hitler's statement, made when he was "mad" with Italy before her entrance en-trance into the war on the eve of the fall of France, that it would take 10 to 15 divisions to keep Italy ' going if she did come in, seemed to have been conservative. Estimates of German troops already al-ready available for an invasion of Greece through the Bulgarian door had risen to half a million, or four times the maximum of Hitler's estimate. ( i.i rvttrinn Vice 'resident John V. Citinvr, an he rapped his guvel call' inn tit order (he 77th t ortures. He will tt teld the nmel until the new ice President, Pres-ident, flenrv II ullitve, becomes the sen-ur'i sen-ur'i preitlirin oifner after his inauguration, inaugu-ration, January 'JOth. proeliiim it so to be." He stated (urtluT that "When the dictators are ready to make war upon us they will not wait for nn act of war on our part. Thry did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands Nether-lands to commit an act of war." He also said that the American people would never "acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers." HOPKINS: Hops to Europe Announcement that President Roosevllt was sending Harry Hopkins Hop-kins at once to Britain as his "personal "per-sonal representative," caused considerable con-siderable speculation as to the reason rea-son for delay in naming an ambassador ambas-sador to fill the shoes of the recalcitrant recal-citrant Kennedy. Washington observers were inclined in-clined to the view that Hopkins' hop to London meant that a "career man" would finally be sent, probably prob-ably one at a considerable distance, who could not leave right away. Eyes turned to Norman Armour at Buenos Aires as a possibility. He is a career man he is far away it would take him time to get ready to go. That seemed all the basis for the report, as the White House was si- IS'KW IJKOOM: Gets Sn ecping Material Tlie "old broom," namely the Seventy-sixth congress of the United States, days old. having closed down, its successor found itself with n lot of "sweeping" to be done, and leni. ine iormer commerce secretary, secre-tary, however, was a fact, not a rumor. the evidence was plain that it was scheduled to be a stormy and epochal ep-ochal session. Swearing in of new and re-elected congressmen accomplished, the sen-v sen-v ate iind house hoppers, emptied of all unfinished business, rapidly began be-gan tilling with the new. and it was plain that the bills would come under un-der three general classes. There would be bills aimed to test the stiensth of President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's administration, most of them in the form of curbs upon his powers; pow-ers; there would be administration-inspired administration-inspired bills seeking wider aid to Britain and broader powers to rush forward the lagging American national na-tional defense: there would be something some-thing dene about labor, unemployment unemploy-ment and relief, what one might call the social relations field. Kapidly, as the session rushed into its full stride, various figures of importance im-portance raised their voices in one or another of these outstanding issues, is-sues, some exyectcdly, others to the considerable surprise of their constituents con-stituents and the general public. Back ef it all the various polls especially the Gallup Poll, which IcK.es sought to stir'.e. kept sounding public opinion on moot questions'! Eighty per cent of Americans wanted want-ed national defense ir.dustrv speeded speed-ed up: J4 per cent wanted all aid to trjland. even if it put the country coun-try i;.;0 War; and so en. It loosed like a race to see whe- LAG: Leads the Neivs Usually it takes something more than a lag to make a headline. But the continually lagging national defense de-fense program continued to lead the news pages. Mark Watson wrote that an aluminum alumi-num shortage was menacing plane production right at a vital stage. And this story came out just after the public had been informed that there was plenty of this important material. Watson said his information was being flatly denied by defense commission com-mission men, yet revealed that production pro-duction men were finding the short-ages short-ages of aluminum alloy castings forgings and "extrusions" (shapes which are pressed cold) were giving them more headaches than any one thing. There are two bottlenecks, says Watscm.-one of them the fact that several new aluminum plants will not be in full production until mid 1942 and one of the main ones nol .until June, 1941; and the other bot tleneck is the dependence of the country mainly on Guiana and Bra! zil for supplies of bauxite, the raw material from which huge electric Plants make aluminum ingotT cr congress would wag the polls, or if t.e polls would co the wagging. - utstaiiu i-.g ar.-.ei-.g the early measures meas-ures was ci-.e air.-.ed to curb the FrcsMont's -arc:.;! rowers, ducted t-e -t.-.r 'a: en bill; one aimed to ci-a-ge the national labor picture through revamping the labor board i'.-.c creating an appeals "court" for l.-er: s:.U another urging repeal of t-.e neutrality act ar.d a substitute : $c0 the n-.cr.th. FIRE: New Angle to Bombin Germans, having found that fir6 bombs are more effective in LI o'civilizeddweUingpeS hh explosives, have changed the " work by fine fighters saving the tv |