| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne long hard war now being forecast As indicates U so S and britain will furnish supplies to sov soviet iet in hi 42 vladivostok looms as trouble spot in these columns they EDITORs NOTE wh n and or mo 0 t expressed necessarily of this newspaper a lyst are those of the news j I 1 released by western newspaper union 4 M f V when the he american federation of labor street car and bus strike was called in detroit thousands of workers in vital defense plants had to find other methods of getting to work from their homes this picture shows part of the many hundreds of busses that were idle pending the outcome of the surprise strike LINCOLN an echo for some time after president roosevelt had quoted Lincol ns gloomy words following the first year of the civil war correspondents puzzled themselves as to what interpretation could properly be put upon them the words Lincol ns were these 1 I have no word of encouragement to give the military situation is far from bright and the country knows it as well as I 1 do the fact is the people have not yet made up their minds that we are at war with the south they have not buckled down to the determination to fight this war through for they have got theider the idea into their heads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by strategy the word strate strategy gyl general mcclellan thinks he is going to whip the rebels by strategy and the army has got the same notion they have no idea that the war is to be carried on and put through by hard tough fighting that it will hurt somebody and no headway is to be made while this delusion lasts president roosevelt wrote his own headline over this interview based on Lincol ns words to a group of chicago women in an off the record talk and let it be known that he intended drawing a parallel but the newsmen saw two parallels one that the president was telling american people that some of them were going to get hurt in this war the other that he was telling the people that hard tough days are ahead and that the military situation was far from bright though either of these parallels seemed simple enough to draw from the words of lincoln others pointed to the fact that the president himself when talking to the correspondents spon dents underlined that portion the people have not made up their minds and so forth and this in view of the fact that there was still a considerable group and that they were extremely vocal and claimed large numbers seemed one of the more likely parallels to draw from the presidents echoing of Lincol ns words later in his talk with the correspondents spon dents the president let drop a remark which despite his expressed wishes formed the lead of most of the dispatches that the war preparations were being made for it to last at least until 1943 yet he had said previously that the russians he believed would hold out through the winter of 1941 that the winter he believed would see a general cessation of the fighting on the east front due to weather conditions and that britain and the united states would concentrate on getting aid to russia for the opening of the spring campaign in 1942 DAMAGE in germany one of the first recent eyewitness reports of actual damage in germany from the heavily stressed new royal air force attacks was brought to london by a returning neutral diplomat he struck the keynote of the situation by stating that the women of hamburg where he was stationed were consoling themselves with the statement well its not so bad as it is in bremen the witness had not visited bremen but he said that conditions in hamburg were comparable to those in london and other british cities hard hit by the german bombings he told of whole blocks laid low of rail traffic disrupted of whole dockyards dock yards and shipbuilding yards smashed and theaters and amusement centers in ruins all the way from the central railroad station to the town hall the principal thor thon ough fare of the city had been laid in ruins and closed to traffic for days at a time he reported JAPAN australia speaks up prime minister robert menzies of australia accusing japan of creating all the tension that existed in the far east made a statement which showed that british sources still had not given up hope of maintaining some sort of peaceful condition in the orient he said in part any talk by japan that russia america britain china and the dutch are trying an encirclement of japan is utterly untrue he pointed back to the churchill roosevelt conference and stated that japans in invasion vason of indo china and her other moves in that direction were aimed at creating tension and were unjustified yet there was in his statement as well as those emanating from london every indication that there is a belief the situation surrounding japan is not hopeless many of these observers pointed to vladivostok as the future storm center and that japans peace or war would rise or fall on her action concerning the siberian port for it is to vladivostok that au all the aid for russia from the united states and britain must go and although japan had made some remarks that she could not watch such procession of military movements quietly british circles seemed to feel that nippon was beginning to realize that a move against vladivostok certainly would involve her in war and that she must come out on the short end if she chooses that pathway they saw japan as holding her hand as thinking things over and that the proper policy would be e for britain and the united states to be increasingly firm thus giving an impetus to japanese caution menzies simply warned the japanese britain and the united states though one a belligerent and the other a neutral are entering into a great moral partnership one british commentator said that a blockade of vladivostok certainly would bring war between japan and the western democracies the plural seemed to include america with britain TRENCHES A letter home with what purpose in mind it was difficult to understand but berlin released a story purporting to be from a soldier on the easte eastern rn front describing in detail the difficulties of trench warfare on the keynote now we can tell our fathers that we too fought in trenches although the sector was not designated igna ted certain items caused the belief that it was in the central al part of the huge battlefield where for weeks the german advance was bogged down and where the high command complained of weather and road conditions the soldier writing home told of the rain and the mud in the trenches of shoes not taken off for weeks and of the terrific dangers from russian hand grenade and a artillery r fire the corporal who wrote the letter said it was like a punch and judy show for whenever a head was lifted a grenade was hurled this pictured a war of position not one of movement and bore out the russian claim that the motorized advance had been halted at least in the center BUDENNY the germans in their official dispatches claimed that marshal Bu dennys army of the south had been trapped in the capture of all of the ukraine west of the ani e pee i river yet british sources S seemed inclined to agree with the russian assertions that a large part if not au all of the army had been withdrawn in an orderly manner british commentators said it would be a serious disaster to the russian defense if this army were trapped NEXT phases of war assuming it to be correct that the germans will be bogged down by the advent of winter on the eastern front many were asking what the next phases of the war would be it was generally agreed that the center of activity and interest would shift to the near east and to northern africa for the advent of winter in the soviet battlefield would br bring ang to that territory what many believed the nazi army had been waiting for cooler weather general smuts predicted that the nazis would try a huge assault in north africa in september and that it would fail some sort of activity also was expected on the syrian and turkish front As to the russo german war it il was believed certain that the nazis would try a blitz attack across the river in an attempt to complete the conquest of the ukraine before cold weather and that the use of large numbers of parachute troops similar to the attack on crete might be looked for in fact there were dispatches that the russian antiaircraft anti aircraft fire had shot down large german planes actually carrying tanks proof th thai at this had been part of the plan the nazis have for the invasion ol of britain the only time that the budenny army will have these authorities pointed out to prepare to meet the onslaught of the german army under general von wo would uld be that required by the nazis to mop up such resistance points as odessa and others in the part cut off by the pincer movement the chutis ts they said would be employed in an effort to drive russian machine gunners from the east bank of the river and dive bombers bombe would be used to harass the artillery farther to the russian rear FERRY to africa suez A method by which american america n fliers could ferry british war planes to suez and africa without technically impairing this count rys war position was found pan american airways agreed to do the delivering hiring pilots for this purpose and flying the bombers and fighters over already organized pan american passenger routes this showed the advantage of well organized air lines in time of war the pan american officials pointed out how difficult the ferrying 9 job was in view of the fact that th the e british had no such organized routes and that when planes were delivered there was great difficulty on the part of the british in getting the pilots back to their starting point but pan american with mail and passenger routes to south america and the near east could send the planes over with hired pilots and fly them back to this country as passengers on their regularly scheduled planes or could add more special transport planes to already organized routes with weather reports landing bases fuel supplies and radio communications already established the plan evidently soon to be put into effect was another implementing 0 of f americas lend lease aid to britain and was seen as wiping out another bottleneck A WIDOW though declaring herself still certain that she is a widow because one of josef secret agents assassinated her husband mine leon trot trotsky ky in an interview on the first anniversary of her husbands murder expressed the prayer that russia would win the war with the nazis DETROIT one of americas key defense cities detroit automobile center of the world was badly tied up when the street car and bus operators struck in a jurisdictional dispute involving one union each of the A F of L and the CIO some factory and office workers use this means of transport and had to find emergency ways of getting to and from work mayor jeffries said to the A F of L conference you cant run the city of detroit |
