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Show WEEKLY KEIFS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW' Fundamental Strategy of War Undergoes Major Alterations; Presidential Race Warms Up l1LD.IJ0R'S?TEWhen oP'n'ons are expressed in these columns, Ihey are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union 7 1ST i 'A PtVMOinv moem HITLER TALKS: Endlessly Hitler's speech came over the radio, ra-dio, translated into an extreme, ultra, ul-tra, English accent. It must have been Lord Haw-Haw putting it across. It went on endlessly. Hitler said he didn't want to destroy the British empire. He said he shrank t the HpctrilHnn mkh j iTm'ssss: the many points of attack n the Bruish England, and suggested an "honorable" "honor-able" peace. Hitler reviewed his conquests, his methods, and his diplomatic dip-lomatic wrangles with Chamberlain and Daladier. He said he spoke not as a victor, but as a rationalist, anxious anx-ious to terminate futile misery. Some 31 Pacific coast radio stations cut off his speech because it was trying to "justify his crimes against j GERMAN WAR: Strategy It is about time that we exam-med exam-med the fundamental strategy of the German war, at this point. For the whole situation has changed, in England, in Germany, and in the United States. The German aim was a simple one. It was to attack England by land, sea, and air, without wasting much time or effort in other theaters j of war, which were trifling, anyway Italy was expected to take Malta, and Spain was expected to enter the war and take Gibraltar, with the possibility that Japan might take Hongkong, but all these were side issues is-sues as compared with the basic battle bat-tle of Britain. Here the preliminary German air bombardment proved highly effective, and English Portsmouth Ports-mouth and Welsh Cardiff were believed be-lieved already to be gutted. Edward Ed-ward VIII, duke of Windsor, was t called a fifth columnist by some Enghshmen, and hailed as the next monarch by others. j Churchill Plan j The English war plan was this: p to hold out, like a besieged fortress, a to break the British blockade and feed the starving French, Dutch, and Belgians, with American foodstuffs food-stuffs (of which we would have a surplus). This would make the isolationists iso-lationists take an interventionist position. po-sition. Meanwhile, the interventionists intervention-ists would cry "hands off" the British Brit-ish blockade, and would want the continent to stew in its own juice, which would turn them into isolationists. isola-tionists. This, then, was the keynote key-note to the European war situation situa-tion as a whole. Meanwhile, Hitler liberated the Belgian war prisoners and sent them home, having long since done the same by the Norwegian Nor-wegian and Dutch soldier-captives. The French were expected to be next on the parole list. Not so, the "tough-and-ready" Poles, of whom there were more than a million in German military hands. CAMPAIGN: Up-Warming The 1940 presidential campaign ace was busy up-warming. It was, n fact, getting warmer and warmer.' Che third term attempt, by Mr Joosevelt brought forth many dire 1 iredictions from newspaper editori- j 1 writers. (W sv..nn i . Hitler also made Goering something some-thing brand-new in the staid history of the Prussian army: a Reich's Marshal of Greater Germany, and gave him the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. Goering designed himself him-self a new, different, extra-special uniform "the only one of its kind in all German officialdom." Hitler also created nine new field-marshals and two new field-marshals-general, and 17 new colonel-generals (German (Ger-man military grades run different from the American). BURMA ROAD: So Silly The Burma road controversy took the silliest turn on record. That road carried war supplies to Chiang Kai-shek and his armies. The Brit- he,, Hr!,ign ffiCe Closed " the heated demand of Japan. Then Secretary Sec-retary Hull protested that the Rr. - "c.it uiy went . the rounds. A lady said to a genf ' 'But a third term's un-precedent- ed! To which the gent replied, "So was General Washington's first term." Some thoughtful students of political politi-cal science believed that the third term phenomenon was a pale American Amer-ican reflection of totalitarian dictatorships dicta-torships abroad . . . just as our Civil war of 1861 was a pale reflection reflec-tion of "civil 1848" in Europe. Hen-ry Hen-ry Wallace was put up as Democratic Demo-cratic vice president in order to match the Republican McNary for both were agricultural expert's of the very first water. The choice of Wallace brought out that this New Dealer was an ex-Republican, and Mr. Roosevelt had passed over a number of regulation machine Dem-ocrats. Dem-ocrats. Wallace, Ickes, Stimson, Knox I "Pk'n!' Miss Perkins: none of them had had a Democratic background. But then, of course, the ex-Demo crat Willkie had only been a He Lean for but two scant years. Hoo- whi'lP T 3 frmer Demat, while ,t was expected that Al Smith would continue to take a walk It looked as though the old party d ma road was necessary for world trade and international commerce (Hull an old free-trade). At this Point, part of the British parliamen supported Hull against their Z Tor pegasemt:.'"WithChr V?" e, En- --ted ---took took the s de of the British foreig" office, against Hull and Chiang Ka? Jaoan '"-Germany" p,us Japan, versus the U S A m while. England was trying tiate the fiish to l "ego- contest, but annnrn P h'"ese 'tate d'eparL n'f was yonl'r rtWn "appeasement" n the o ' ' 'his hit a new low , nt A" tions. W ln foreien rela- ANGLO-SHIFT: Turnabouts men, and ,w,' senerals and a r- e fouA I CEngghdnedCrati0nS l ing various peopfe I , W3S kick" rogant-looking ten'e A" ar-Lieut-Gen. Sfr Ahn P R ,nmed eently gCneraI r- Brooke, re- " poss.oie lor two or three months. Then, late fall would put an end tc German operations against the island is-land fortress. At this point, the English would swing into offensive action in the following way: by an intensified sea blockade that would bring famine to the entire continent of Europe. There have been crop shortages, and failures, on the con-tment, con-tment, and another war-winter might bring untold horrors to the Dutch Belgians, French, Norse, Danes etc' -and even to the Germans. This was exactly what Winston Churchill Church-ill was counting on. WW? "TV"6 hUch in this P!an. What food there was on the continent, conti-nent, would go (1) to the German army, (2) to the German folks, and (3) to the Dutch Belgians, Bel-gians, French, etc., etc. Thereby the British would make the Dutch and French suffer for Hitler's wrongdoings. wrong-doings. But this was only the beginning be-ginning of the repercussions. It was expected that this plan-the "Churchill "Church-ill plan " they called it-would have the following astounding effect in the United States: it would turn the isolationists into interventionists, and the interventionists into isolationists. isola-tionists. The reason for this was as follows: the humane isolationists could not stand the continental starvation, star-vation, and would want to intervene ""J southern com j '"'ge or commander-in-cS"1"'1 bccame ces. Hetoo,c nenHthe hom Sir Edmund IronsiHo ? " of G. weli's iZOU the British regular army fl",C,cd Slr Ironside a h,, , l0. who onc; CornrnC' ;UlkinS W-t". W-t". was kicked nTb d Gibri"-general. Gibri"-general. Viscount Gort f' " flld-mander flld-mander of the ill fif'nicr cm-peditionary cm-peditionary fore' Drilish ex-F'-dershad the Pr"" and ?e became tosr 6 "Perience. forces for training Prov","3' " had received the bath, which evS rdlT hie criticism. But p cosidern-admitted. cosidern-admitted. fc. 1 Gort. cveryh,lrI e Dreaking down all along the line, and the terms New Deal and Old Guard were increa ! ingly taking the place of the Re-publican Re-publican and Democratic tags. The loss of Jim Farley, the political ge! nius who managed the party machinery ma-chinery for Roosevelt, was a heaTy blow to many of the Democrats More of It While a good many Democrats were muttering about the III term Wallace, and Farley, Willkie atresd a fT h.rble rigin' and taforrea artfully that Roosevelt's path had been a lot softer. Willkie said fur thermore, that he was makina sacrifice, but that he rea Z, to run-which was wan'ed Brooke had comm. OTKnni?cl. V itam-m B Simultaneous wiih turnabouts, England u, mi,il''"-y new kind of whu" , C'11 in for a in vitamin B Canb;C;,d- U was t0 help overcome thel'1"01'11"18"". sc;e"l,ncfodmini" m''""n. The astic about it. an . "y . ei,ullls,. t0 bea real boon 'm":,U U"'' out lenity in ,.7'"e. nnd lsh Plic began " Tho "'-it. to almost anybody. 10US OIL, OIL, OIL: Petroleum Large shipments of oil hnv h had been sent from the United Stnlj in eight months of the war u Hitler getting much of ft "prob-M' they thought in Washington manTha'd oil from America. manR |
