Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward edwaed C wayne greeks continue to push back italians As british seize new african B bases ases laval loses french government post knudsen claims defense industry lags NOTE when 6 pl a to re Me presed la in theme her column they are to th thoi of 1 I the news new an analyst y I 1 and not necessarily of 0 this newspaper new paper released by western newspaper union DEBACLE italian version unquestioned was the tact fact that italy had been kicked wholeheartedly 0 out ut of the war by britain greece and the free french together geth er w with ith other sundry allies such as P polish 11 h czech and other hands that h had a d joined into the battle of greece and the battle ot of egypt the invader who stepped briskly into the war just at the moment of frances collapse shot forces along the mediterranean coast from the border of libya to sidi Bar bahrani Barra rani nl and who sailed across mountains for athens from an albanian take takeoff off had become the invaded on both fronts As the british and greeks summed up huge supplies of war materials captured and enormous inventories of prisoners in hand and still coming in the rumbles began sounding through vari X X ra z fa 6 persistent rumors current in europe say that brano mussolini above eldest son of 11 II duce was 1 shot hot 1 down and killed during daring an air baidon raid on kalonika Sal greece official italian circles have denied this report and say he is serving at an air port in southern italy ous parts of italy but more particularly ticul arly in the north and about the industrial cities oi of turin and milan despite all efforts of censorship to keep the true situation from becoming generally known the debacle was wa s too enormous t to 0 be hidden longer and aides had to take to the radio and to the italian press to prevent a cpr spread ead of the disaster to home fronts dismissal of leaders disaffection in the Dode canese islands riots in the streets of the two big factory towns had leaked out and then the fascist party line editors and commentators menta tors began dishing out orders to the populace from rom the hil fiher hi lher ups at the same time issuing warnings to britain and the hellenes as to what they might expect from the italian troops when they get really mad while there was some news ineas of sporadic increased resistance at certain points in the aror fronts its the general era words were two retreat and evacuation all along toe the line and the press articles about the might of the british enemy and the unfair bayonets of the greeks were just a foretaste of what was to come with tirana full of wounded and dying soldiers back from the front lines UNREST french version britain was getting little comfort sti according cording to her own sources from frances France 1 governmental upheaval which sent pierre laval pro fascist foreign minister flying out of the petain cabinet presumably into confinement and put flandin Fland ln pro nazi into his bis place in fact british circles frankly doubted the authenticity of any internal disturbance to amount to anything and laid the whole change to orders direct from hitler however it was a notable occurrence end and accompanied by a scurrying about the streets of vichy and presumably paris of a body of GP men frances new gestapo or in italy they were calling them action squads but they are all the same sort of strong arm governmental ern mental police france called them groupe de protection hence the GP on the armband arm band it was a GP band that took laval into custody thus putting into at least a momentary decline the man on whose shoulders rested considerable of the onus ot of frances surrender rumor floated double around the french overturn ru rumor mor no 1 had it that old man petain realizing that revolt was stirring beneath him charged laval with plotting to get F france rance into the war against england and had summarily ousted him rumor no 2 was to the effect that laval had bad plotted to overthrow overter ow petain and create a new government with himself as dictator whichever might be true watchers agreed that the aged general ac acted I 1 ed with much the same speed as the younger hitler in slapping down a purge which shot kavals feet from under him with dispatch the upheaval met the same view in most circles that it was another evidence of the general european unrest that was moving through all the conquered territories an unrest that might find no directional force for a long long time SIX DAYS thou labor pointing toward the six day ay perhaps seven day week in defense industry defense council chairman highlights HIGHLIGHT S in the weeks news baltimore bottimore the diw new marilu 3 28 26 r latest american medium bomber underwent test nights flights made around miles an hour landed at miles and was able to stop on on the field OK army pilots hailed it is as a bombers dream one said that lf leits its brakis brakes were shot away it would roll more mor e than two miles against the wind before it would stop knudsen belabored american indus try for or logging lagging and dec declared laed the united states was not gettle getting ng the spirit of defense work knudsen told the manufacturers many things but one of these was wag outstanding and had to do with airplane manufacture U S goal declared knudsen had been 1000 warplanes war planes a month by january 1 he said at the rate things were going well be lucky if we are getting a month by that time the reason for the tag lag Is lack of comprehension by manufacturer b by y laborer of the meaning of the na dional defense program U S Is supposed to be getting ready to pro hect the nation to in case of 0 aggression and to help england hold things in status quo until that time knudsen pulled no punches and told the manufacturers that they were spending too much time fig aring what to do with their profits and ear earnings ninis and not enough getting out the material this was a 2 d double blow at the employers er a for temporizing with employees demands for or higher pay and with 6 A WILLIAM KNUDSEN pictured as he urged a wartime basis for industry to speed production of vital I 1 defense needs employees for or threatening and carrying out strikes strike he introduced the longer work week idea by stating that employers er s should find a way to use machines on saturdays and sundays making the obvious point that use of these two days on a full ume time schedule would automatically speed up production about 30 per cent or the amount it is lagging in advance he answered the manufacturers plaint that they lacked the trained men to do this knudsen told them to got get more men and train more men he told them to stagger their trained men through the extra shifts thus swiftly training the less able to catch up to full time production oro his address to the manufacturers was an air clearer like the first lightning flashes before a storm that he hopes will rain airplanes and other defense material hoboken fire destroyed a mil lion ilon dollar defense plant engaged in making unreported appliances needed by U S naval vessels washington the government sought fought WO at the lowest rate of interest ever to be paid on a loan on the first day it was oversubscribed eight times more than being offered for or toe the certificates |