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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Roger Shaw German Troops March Into Rumania To Protect Oil Supply From British; U.S. Army Tanks Delivered to Canada; Chamberlain Leaves Britain's Cabinet (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) RioncH by Western Newspaper Union. ficial leader of the powerful Conservative Conserv-ative party, which has a heavy majority ma-jority in parliament. This had been an added tower of strength to the so-called "great appeaser." Chamberlain and Churchill had always al-ways been unfriendly. The former was a typical Nineteenth-century Victorian (rather of the tory type) while the other tends to be a dashing, reckless cross between the Eighteenth and the Twentieth centuries cen-turies (more the aristo-democratic liberal type). Churchill used to call Chamberlain (so the story goes) "the undertaker from Birmingham." Birming-ham." Labor Ernest Bevins, a radical Labor man, was admitted to the inner British Brit-ish war cabinet. Bevins had been THE WAR: Whither, Hitler? ' It really looked as if the German invasion of England was called off for the season. The fogs were getting get-ting worse, and the channel was getting get-ting stormier. The German flat-boats flat-boats along the Franco-Flemish coastline had taken an awful hammering ham-mering from the royal air force, and that seemed to be that. The low-down was simply this: The Germans had gone through France, like a knife through a hunk of over-ripe cheese. It surprised everybody, ev-erybody, including the Germans themselves. They had expected victory vic-tory but only after a much harder fight than they got. Hence, when they landed on the French and the engineering brain behind the terrific ter-rific British general strike, back in 1926, which very nearly succeeded. His executive, driving genius has been an important factor in the present pres-ent war, and people spoke of him as Churchill's future successor. If Bevins Bev-ins did actually succeed Churchill, it would mean some sort of social revolution rev-olution in England, and the Tories realize this. But Labor is getting more and more of its members into the British government, Hugh Dal-ton Dal-ton and Herbert Morrison being two of the other "pink" up-and-comers. ASIA: Trouble Ahead? Events in the Orient worried U. S. State Department officials to the point of informing consulates in China, Manchukuo, French-Indo-China and Japan, that American citizens within those territories CAMPAIGN: Roughage One metal wastepaper basket Three eggs Melons andor tomatoes .One stone, via a dining-car window. win-dow. These were the tributes of certain enthusiastic New Dealers to Willkie, who was barn-storming around in Michigan. Detroit, especially, proved itself Rooseveltian, tough, and exuberant exu-berant in its proletarian fervor, and in its roughhouse tactics. Mr. Roosevelt and Boss Flynn, the Democratic campaign manager, were quick to repudiate such be- should return to this country as soon as possible. Especial emphasis was placed on the early departure of all women and children and men in non-essential posts. Approximately 9.000 white Americans Amer-icans live within the affected zone, plus some 2,000 Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans. DEFENSE: Tanking There was a new angle to national defense, which evoked violent differences dif-ferences of opinion. The Canadian havior, and they were courteous and correct in their sporting attitude. But it showed a significant thing, alas and alack. The wave of unthinking un-thinking brutality which is sweeping the world, has its echoes even in the United States. The Detroit incidents in-cidents seemed un-American, but they did not seem un-totalitarian, somehow. Willkie took the matter in a spirit of good humor. Sidelight This sidelight might well be labelled la-belled "ouch." It hurt. Three of the Michigan egg-throwers contra Willkie, Will-kie, were young lads of 15 or IB. SIR JOHN ANDERSON A former Home Secretary and Minister Min-ister of Home Security, Sir John succeeded suc-ceeded Neville Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council. Flemish coasts, they were far, far ahead of schedule, and totally un-. prepared for any proper invasion of the British isles. The net result has been the aerial duel that has raged all over western Europe. The hammer ham-mer of Thor is battering the British anvil, but to what ultimate purpose, none can tell. But if invasion of England was not under way, Hitler's troops were by no means idle. For from Bucharest Bucha-rest came word that German troops had entered Rumania. Berlin sources confirmed this news and readily explained the purpose of the infiltration. They said that oil and gasoline supplies are essential to the Nazi war machine and that they had heard rumors of an English plot to sabotage these supplies. Rumania's government, now under un-der control of the dictator Ion An-tonescu, An-tonescu, had earlier charged that British oil men with interests in Rumania Ru-mania had plotted to blow up oil fields. There was some indication, too, that the Nazi soldiers would be used in training Rumanian troops and would also assist in building a large naval and air base on the Black sea. halo Meanwhile, the Italians had bogged down in Egypt. They had invaded the land of the Pharos from I j They came from Pontiac, and they evidently took after big chief Pontiac, Pon-tiac, who panicked plenty of Yankees Yan-kees in his time. The juvenile court judge sentenced the three laddies to "a good old-fashioned whipping." Juvenile authorities offered to do the triple-job, but the stoical parents volunteered to do it themselves. Then the guilty were to write apologies, apolo-gies, to be read in person before the student body of the Pontiac high school. Just how hard the parents beat the offspring, nobody seemed to know. Two other boys, implicated in the great eggy putsch, escaped the corporal punishment of the luckless luck-less trio afore mentioned. NAZI: Nags German soldiers and German farmers are reported as having a very tough time in teaching the dulcet dul-cet Teuton tongue to draft horses, requisitioned from France. Poland their own Lybian colony, next door, and were proceeding along the coast. Their ultimate objective was the Suez canal, England's trap-door at the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. But, it appears, the Italians did not do so well. The Germans began to take over the direction of the Egyptian campaign. It was rumored ru-mored that the Nazis would "winter in Egypt," while the Goering flying circus continued to make Hitler-hash out of London. It was believed that if the Germans really went to work in Egypt, they would perhaps clean up the place, and the Suez canal, MAJ.-GEN. EDMUND DALEY In charge of Uncle Sam's important Caribbean "Gibraltar" is Edmund h. Daley, recently elevated to the rank of major general in charge of the department de-partment of Puerto Rico. War in Europe and developments about the Caribbean nations has put this vital gateway to the Panama canal on a virtual tear footing. Daley formerly commanded the coast artillery in New England. army received no less than 24 old American tanks, which were shipped over on flat-cars, to Camp Borden, Ontario. The Canadians have eat. Belgium and the Netherlands. There are a great many of these, ranging from the elephantine percherons of Belgium and northern France, to the wiry little ponies of the flat'polish steppes. The huge percherons by the way, are the direct descendants of the old-time steeds of medieval knights. They can't gallop; they can only trot. German grammar, always intricate, intri-cate, according to foreign corre-spondents, corre-spondents, is giving the kidnaped horses special trouble. Dutch and French grammar is much simpler I too. Egypt itself, supposedly an j English ally, like Turkey, another I English ally, continued to be a neu- traL NEVILLE: Cliamberlain Neville Chamberlain finally left the British cabinet. Winston Churchill Church-ill had taken away his premiership last May, but Chamberlain's pale ghost had lingered on in the cabinet. cabi-net. Then Chamberlain had a serious se-rious operation, for an intestinal obstruction, ob-struction, and his health visibly slowed up after that His retirement retire-ment had been expected for some time. Chamberlain was also the of ten hold of no less than 200 Yankee "combat cars," as tanks are called officially. These tanks are six-ton-ners, lightly armed, and built in the period of 1918-21. Most of the German tanks are Suhls, made in central Thuringia. It was an old Jewish concern. The French tanks were chiefly Renaults, the Italian tanks were Fiats, and the British machines (mostly lost at Dunkirk) were products of the Birmingham Birm-ingham Small Arms company, commonly com-monly known as B. S. A. A large part of the new American tankage will be Chrys-ler-builts. Russian tanks are B. S. A.'s, or else come from the Red Putilov works in Leningrad. MISCELLANY: HlGj 6llS ame over for a visit. We had already had Bertrand Earl of Russell, Sir Norman Angeli, and Capt. Alfred Duff Cooper and Lady Diana Manners. None of these gentlemen agreed hoped the United States would stay out of the war. He also denounced the religious Lord Halifax (a semi-mystic semi-mystic with one arm) as "the quintessence quint-essence of all that England should be afraid of." Lord Halifax is the British fore.gn minister, and a super-aristocrat super-aristocrat while Wells is inclined to the plebeian side, genius or n genius. u RUSSIA: What Now? Russia was of great interest for several reasons. One reason was this: It looked as if the Washing, tonian state department would be forced to woo the Soviets, due to the squabblings with Japan in the Far East, and the Jap-German axis ngreement. This was an all-round headache for a large and influential influ-ential section of the American people, peo-ple, both religious and business-minded. Wells said London was betting 10 940 3? Ik"51 3 German invasi" n 1940. Like a good many others, he disapproved of the evacuation of children to the New World. He was pleased by the Chamberlain ouster He added that Hitler was at the end o his "tether." He described some of the German pilots shot down over England, as merely boy.gang" s ers. and hardly trained aviators at all. 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