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Show Washington, D. C. FARLEY RELEASES William Burke, Massachusetts Democratic state chairman, has confided con-fided to friends that he received a personal letter from Farley containing con-taining authority to release the delegation del-egation "if the President's name is presented to the convention." Since this is certain to happen, Jim s letter let-ter means he will not fight a third term nomination. Burke's friends attribute Jim's letter to the sweeping change in public pub-lic sentiment since the catastrophic war developments. Hitler's blitzkrieg blitz-krieg through the hapless lowlands i Air Raids in U. S. Too! By Thomas. washed up the numerous Democratic Demo-cratic hopefuls as well as the Dutch and Belgians. Massachusetts' 34 delegates are the only ones pledged to Farley. Whether his retirement from the nomination race means that Jim is ready to manage another campaign is unknown. SUPERIORITY IN TANKS The fighting which took place in Flanders probably was the most desperate in the history of the world, even bloodier than the Battles Bat-tles of the Marne and Verdun. Corpses were piled house high. The trapped French and British made the Germans pay in floods of blood for every foot they advanced. They knew that most of them had no chance of escaping, but their objective ob-jective was to weaken the Germans, give time to General Weygand to strengthen the defenses of Paris. The key to this war (and also to American defense) is to remember that khaki does not stop machine-gun machine-gun bullets, while tanks do. Also that it is impossible to whip an enemy en-emy whose airplanes can spy out every move and blast that move even before it gets started. The air and tank preponderance of the Nazis is the crux of their successes. suc-cesses. NAZIS IN SOUTH AMERICA The problem of protecting the Monroe Doctrine has undergone intensive in-tensive nights of study of late around the state, war and navy departments. depart-ments. Nobody is exactly predicting predict-ing that Hitler will invade South America this year, but nobody expected ex-pected him to invade Norway either. eith-er. And the British, one year ago, didn't expect to be invaded at all', and did not very well prepare for it. So U. S. strategists, not knowing what Hitler, in the full flush of victory, vic-tory, might do, are endeavoring to be prepared. On the maps of . South America hung in government offices these days are two danger spots. One is Brazil, the other Uruguay. Other spots are bad, but these two have the largest number of Nazi sympathizers sympa-thizers and fifth column plotters. Uruguay is simply honeycombed with Nazi agents. There are also strong German colonies in southern Brazil, and even in Buenos Aires In Argentina, the older army officers of-ficers are strongly pro-German, hav-mg hav-mg been trained by a German officer. of-ficer. In Brazil, the younger army officers are pro-Nazi. Particularly worrisome is the fate of these countries with Italy in the war. There are at least 2,000,000 Italians m Argentina-or about one-fifth one-fifth of the population. Also there are large Italian colonies in Uruguay Uru-guay and Brazil racfaf1 ? dercover strategy of these racial groups is to overthrow tee present governments in South America, in favor of puppet govern? cause. Then these puppet governments govern-ments could renounce the Monroe Doctrine and invite Hitler to toe Western hemisphere Note-New aviation aids, enlarged enlarg-ed evenT' f pilotl U S c-Peration of the bors ar! W UStag Brailian nar-boLter nar-boLter th? UndCr discsion to . WAR CHAFF ProbablyTahheerdPo;eu0f V "e nis aUityudehTod,KlS;reS,.dCnt given he1baya.rUM-nU,),ent WUS who said: ''Cur . r" in Mil,n' drove us into Z -inc. the Snr f U- there. food B"rti,gu |
