Show OR W was washington etim D C GERMAN ITALIAN antagonism with the invasion of sicily th the e question of whether germany an and a italy can pull ual together as I a team now becomes b ines something much more than n a subject of amusing wisecrack tha the basic hostility always existing between therm them both bot h the arm armies a and the people ma may y nr now prove to be the fatal to fault u t in an the axis ave united states state dip diplomats tomato and ne newsmen who lived int interned ern ed in italy until t 1 may 1942 r recall call many a an anent expression pr ea ron i of italian desert resentment again against s t the germans on the night bea before ore the niters interned americans american left rome to return to th the e U S a group of newspapermen me including luding richard G M massock baek of the associated press visited a restaurant called Bibbo teca which had been a favorite haunt boom f for r most a t of the them b before s fare the dve days of of internment ute erit the place was packed largely with will germans but when the head waiter recognized them he hustled some in diners off to make room for in his S old aid american friends friend an italian at tu the next table mumbled ble d something about germans intruding whereupon AP a s massac massock a spoke poke up i p I 1 we a are not german excuse e me said the italian indicating dica di t ing clearly that to call a man a german G erman is a fighting word war I 1 this prompted mother another italian to come im on e to massock mo s accod the first american AT ner he had seen for months with wt h an am affectionate embrace he sai said d P please ease give my mv kind r regards gards c 1 to president roosevelt TANKS AND POTATOES the army doehm doesn t like to say too much about it but the th united ud states now has hag an embarras embarrassment sm R or a of riches with respect tot to tanks kr A year r ago and for at least a year be before f ore that there was great dow clamor r about speeding production product on of this weapon with which hitler overran an the continent IT however wever both the ro invasion of S sicily icily and raids over germany now make it apparent that the weapon a po hn with which we shall ta take k back the continent is not the tank but the plane i tanks n were needed for the ca campaign T in north africa and a year ago g they hy were a the em most important ampo clant spa we weapon in the arsenal n in preparation tie for the lamidin landing g of november a 8 but fewer feier tanks were es expended T in north africa than had been expected and we still have most TO I 1 of 0 those th so which h were sent t to t that atthe theater te r further F rt h cc there th g will w 11 be 0 less demand for tanks in europe than the an africa because of shorter distances and less mobility A tank factory closed cl down in m ohio last week a fact which normally would have caused great alarm but it pas passed ed almost unnoticed because of the fact that we now have mil miles of tanks standing in n bof r line waiting to 0 be e used d in wh whatever t r th theater ter may require them nt note claude says that took tanks are like potatoes A few months ago everybody clamored for them now they are a glut on th the e market NAZI AIR STRENGTH air force experts are commenting on the fact that german air I 1 activity is stiffer in every theater of the european war more german planes have been rushed to italy are also active on the russian front and are more active over the european continent in combating allied bomb raids than at any previous time in the war experts bel believe eve the germans have put up all their air strength this is highly significant for it means they have taken everything they have ha leaving no reserves T thus hug every loss inflicted on an the in any of these theaters represents a decline from the momi mini mum required for a defense of the continent and when you cut a force below its necessary minimum you are bringing bt about b t it its df downfall aund ROUND L A professional came appraisal of capital figures as seen under the flesh flash bulb cordell hull patient donald nelson harried and ad hurried handsome ed Stet vain as a hollywood actor henry wallace philosophically r reflecting of act on how the news earner camera disich distorts ng life C enemy broadcasts ead u intercepted apted by FCC declare W washington a h is pushing an argentine break with the he A axis with increasing eagerness to set sat sty U 8 appetite for ene encamping 9 on an the falkland islands I unjustly t snatched h ed cb by yar britain a it from argentina ihus berlin tries eto drive wd wedges both beaw between e en argentina and U 8 rod and between U S and britain PACIFIC WAS WILL TIGHTEN operations in the pacific have met with akiri glorious u initial some successes as and american forces win no push on ir from imp one 11 island to another the sm in a campaign a which c h will have no per ner me manent me t pause but dont don t look for a continuation of one sided warfare much longer W we a made our first landings in places 11 c where the a japanese aware w were ere weak wark and 0 w where h ere resistance er was as not subs substantial an t a T but as a we advance to fa ther resistance will been become me stiffer and the progress slower |