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Show WEYGAND: Finally Unmasks WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Threat of German Invasion of Britain And Congressional Lease-Lend Debate Present Grim Picture of War Situation; Italians Continue to Fall Back in Africa t fMj(t NOIK Whn iniin ar tipfnfd la thie column, they mi a u-.mm ml Wi u w a fid out ii c c ur H f ef this ntwipjpcf J jcJ cy etern .Vr aj jper L' niun. t I ,y ' . ' J I -i. " " " -: : i 1 i . s LAIJOR: liaises Its Head The domestic labor situation became be-came st-ad:ly worse during the that the lease-lend bill was "on the tapis" in Washington. Perhaps the AJhs-Chalmers strike was the must serious, affecting as it did nut only that single industry, but as Alhs-Chalmers was making parts, it ir-ant a serious hold-up all along the line, particularly in planes and tanks. But the most striking labor development devel-opment of the week was the statement state-ment issued by Henry Ford through one of his industrial lieutenants. Ford authorized this man to say in TIM-IS: I or Ij-aw-l.fiitl r.-W i.Ti.'.j in the !-a-I.rf.d I i'..,n t ,'.nl a w-!l '!:ined pub-1..: pub-1..: t-:'(' to th.i af.'..iun; it.c nt-t nt-t ,i t ,t i -.'A. w-.v.i .'- i an 1 the n fill.'. fi-ll.'. ( Vf.'j..,. .'.. 'I .? r-i-iir' V.:: ad:fi:ni itra'Jon r :i-- i .jj h, ii.tt sNfp'-rt of ti.e ff,-- i -.ufe, ar.d pf-dictcd its I- j ; . i.;-r it ini.ii th.r wek betj.nning M ti i, 3. 'I h.j a-.'ii.-dule cald fur tiiufft.-d d.-h.ite in hou.ie and am-h am-h t-, but Uur were many indica-tJuns indica-tJuns that this limitation would bring fur th trtnnmdous opposition In fte-piihli'an fte-piihli'an fnr circles and in senate committees as well. Generally ipeakinj;, the public at-tJ at-tJ tude, as disclosed In numbers of r,,.lt. ,,t .,.ti,.w .,!, Kw GEN. MAXIME VVEYGAND He'll 'track-along.' Gen. Maxime Weygand went to Africa an enigma. Much of this enigmatic quality was dispelled when he issued a statement in which he definitely refused re-fused to "throw in" his band with DeGaulle, but said he would "track along" with the Petain reeime in f . - 1 V -r - . ,1 ' , d r f ' nc sfjaen tiircjuijhout the country, BKi-mvit to be that the all-out aid ti flritain pri:jciple was favorably received. The Lublic. on Die other hand, reined to fuel that there was at Want a reasonable doubt whether the President should be given as much and as drastic power as the oriKinal lease-lrnd draft indicated. This was reflected even in the sponsorship of the measure, because Ki'pri'sentutive lioom (N. V.) who was chairman of the house foreign relations committee, scarcely put up any opposition against three or four major amendments, limiting the time for which the presidential powers pow-ers would be granted, declaring in principle ngalnst convoys and other items in which the opposition found Vichy. Yet it was not quite so clear as all that, although it was extremely important that Weygand should have finally unmasked himself. For the Vichy situation was still. In its way, considerable of a mystery. mys-tery. The Nazis were reportedly much disgusted with Vichy's failure to back up the Laval ideology, particularly particu-larly in regard to the use of Tunisia for Nazi bases of operations in Africa. Af-rica. So the stand, announced by Weygand, Wey-gand, that he would continue to support sup-port the Vichy regime, could or could not be taken to mean that Weygand had fallen in with the Nazi party line. Yet Great Britain had hoped that null wini ine oiii. This showed the administration forces to be In the unusual position of fostering legislation of which they do not approve themselves, at least in part. Kithcr that, or they were "shooting "shoot-ing for the moon," and willing to I SIDNEY HILLMAN Mr. Ford refused to 'sit down' with him. his name that the Ford enterprises would never yield to the government govern-ment demand that defense products be manufactured under union labor conditions. Ford's rejoinder was that he would never knuckle down to labor's demands, that instead he would lease his industries to the government govern-ment at one dollar a year, and let thp Onuornmont 1U weygand, in going to Africa, was "escaping" from Vichy, and would turn in the direction of DeGaulle. That hope, at least, was completely complete-ly dispelled by Weygand's statement, state-ment, which unhesitatingly lined him up with the Vichy government. What that government would turn out to be, remained undecided. G. 0. P.: On Tivo Sides Oddest picture of the lease-lend r i L - j r vti bill fight in America was the sudder junket of Wendell L. Willkie, late G. O. P. standard-bearer, to England Eng-land to take "his personal look" at the state of Britain. Willkie's departure was' speeded by a paternal pat on the head from his erstwhile opponent, President Roosevelt, and a note written by hand to Winston Churchill. Willkie flew to Europe. He was greeted practically with presidential honor in the Azores, where the natives na-tives could not be convinced they were not greeting the President himself. him-self. He landed at Lisbon, was ferried Ford agreed in principle with the necessity of America arming in its own defense, and with the principle that in defense work patriotism was the primary urge, and profits had no part. He therefore offered to give up his industries, and let the government operate them under a non-profit arrangement, ar-rangement, producing whatever vital vi-tal materials were wished for. The only government answer to this was to refuse Ford a contract on which his organization had been low bidder. Basis of the dispute had been Ford's refusal to sit down with Sid- nni. T-TIll 11 ..... ney Hillman, labor chief of the national na-tional defense, and to find some plan by which the Ford interests could operate in the defense scheme settling set-tling the labor difficulty once and for all. Labor, as personified by the C.I.O, had set as its major objective for 1941 the organization of the Ford plants. This objective seemed to mean only one thing abandonment of the Ford plants of their complete divorcement di-vorcement from national defense contracts. REP. SOL BLOOM Scarcely any opposition. Rive and take in order to reach their main objective of the passage of a bill which would in effect repeal the Johnson act forbidding loans to bel- gerents who had not paid their World war debts. INVASION : Threat IS' car As the lease-lend argument reached its zenith, prediction, th t ak was ierned hastily to England, dined with Chur-chill, Chur-chill, lunched with royalty, and hob-nobbed hob-nobbed with the plain and fancy in London. He underwent air-raids, habitually roamed about the streets without helmet or gas-mask, (on three occasions occa-sions he had to be handed both with a gentle reprimand from some higher-up), and generally inspected the state of Britain as he, Willkie had intended to. America was treated to the strange spectacle of the Democratic administration "needing" the testi mony of the ex-Republican standard-bearer standard-bearer to help It over the hill on the lease-lend bill. The whole situation was something some-thing of a shock to Republican leaders lead-ers of the fight against the measure, meas-ure, especially when Hull let it be known that Willkie's sudden return had been demanded by Senator George, head of foreign relations m the senate, who wanted the Indian-n Indian-n to testify before the commUtee hearings on the bill Lngland was hearing the critical period m the Battle For Britain were legion. Lindbergh had set the most gloomy picture, figuring that En am could never withstand the onslaught. One could figure which side of the lease-lend battle the predictor was on by the darkness of the picture he painted. Knox and Stimson predicted predict-ed a crisis, but gave few details would be the outcome. But those opposed to the lease-end lease-end proposal varied widely in what tU.v saw m the future's crystal ball Most gloomy of all was Von Wie-gand. Wie-gand. who in a dispatch date-lined ITALY: In Africa The African campaign of the British Brit-ish forces against the troops of Mus-sohni Mus-sohni continued to be a victorious one. despite the fact that it was reported re-ported that the Nazi air force had given considerable aid to the Fascist legions. In succession one port on the Mediterranean Medi-terranean after another had fallen to General Wavell's men-Salum, Bardia. Tobruk and Derna. In Libya none but Bengasi remained to be conquered. All the cities previously captured SOme Of thprr. . t'lulea. In fact, the shock was so drastic some quarters that Republican groups m various centers held meet" mgs to "decide Willkie's statu?- the party, with the evident tatimf bon that it he should prove too good might t adminition8 he might be "read out of the party " JAPAN: The 'Peacemaker' With dramatic suddenness , settle the hostilities' and Tins settlement, as mieht h Germ , , ' reprt What G n an and Japanese autho believed was about to occur. Six . weeks would tell the tale, said w :esand. He envisioned 247 divisions di-visions of trained men. 15.000 para-chut,,,,. para-chut,,,,. a Icore of tank I ; dcendmg on England, and Hears raL. printed an "artist's concep- v; ad tear London into shreds-long ba", ,!-e' 'eri"n a;d colJi swing the t..E.VO:y.au'for; who discussed 1 . - hL , . ey Were onIy a few huts huddled together and a small grotm of embryo wharfs, had been 47a X were mnnvPaSS'ng DeTOa Brish were moving on the capital of Cyre-na.ca. Cyre-na.ca. and were stepping into't raneedmr0Un,ain0US territ0' so! called Green Mountains of LibyT where a force of 50,000 Italians were determined to hold out to the last -" L'ban campaign Ther 3m the campaign would end. ditional cessions of ierrZy Keenest observers of th "n scene foresaw in Va"'635' -ention ihey believed that t become so doming ern Asia that Th:.;i southeast China would 'soobe31 states similar to 1.1 The state department in Walton Wal-ton viewed these event wit! "s eye. seeing m th S6ri' that sooner" I would have to be a J I teere Power in ol I United States and Japa, |