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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Enactment of Price Fixing Measure And Repeal of U. S. Neutrality Act Are Chief Congressional Problems; Soviet Situation Grave, Say British EDITOR'B NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they , Are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) (Released by Western Newspaper TT"" ) ; s ' - b -P 1 thi Bernard M. Barucli, who headed the War Industries Board during World War I, is pictured as he urged congress "to put a ceiling over the whole price structure including wages, rents, and farm prices." Baruch, who appeared before the House Banking and Currency committee, advocated advo-cated a much more drastic price control bill than that planned by the ' administration. Photo shows, left to right: Representative Gore of Tennessee, Ten-nessee, Rep. Paul Brown of Georgia, Rep. Brent Spence of Kentucky, Rep. Clyde Williams of Missouri, Chairman of the Committee Rep. Henry B. Steagall of Alabama, and Bernard Baructi. J KIEV: " Two Versions i The Germans had claimed the 4 complete capture of Kiev, the en- ' tering of the whole city, the "mop- ping up" of small bodies of "die- ! hard" troops, and the fleeing of W Russian commanders. On the same day the Russians, It admitting the German entry into the Kiev suburbs, had pictured a "battle to the death," and a defense de-fense of the city which was Costing the Nazis 150,000 men and vast quantities of material. Odessa, in the south, was finding - the "pressure relieved," the Reds had reported. In these diametrically opposing ; statements, perhaps the only light was coming from British sources, presumably getting information from mission observers on the m, scene, but the British reports had jjj been entirely gloomy. The British had reported that an 3 "apparent" cutoff of the Crimean i peninsula had occurred, and though d, they scouted the German report of :b having trapped 400,000 to 500,000 Russian troops in an encirclement m near Kiev, they saw the Russian situation as grave indeed. From out of all this it Was evi-ui evi-ui dent that the fall of Kiev seemed f inevitable and finally even the Rus- sians admitted its fall, after what , was termed "fierce fighting." PRICES: And Baruch Bernard Baruch, World war wartime war-time industries head, threw a bombshell bomb-shell into the price-fixing bill discussion dis-cussion when he postulated that no price fixing would work without fixing fix-ing costs of merchandise, including wages and rentals. That his pronouncement had a profound effect had been immediately immedi-ately evident in the acceptance of his views by at least two influential members of the committee, and, it was considered more than possible that the final form of the bill would carry an amendment to fix wage ceilings. Also there was more than an undercurrent un-dercurrent evident hitting out at Leon Henderson, price control administration ad-ministration by executive appointment appoint-ment in the committee's feeling that the bill should be administered by a board, not an individual. POLICY: Gains Support Faced with the grimmer picture of European war, and a realization through Russia's crisis that American Amer-ican aid would have to be considerable consid-erable if the Axis were finally to be defeated, and the democracies win the victory, one notable change in Washington sentiment was a growing grow-ing support for the White House foreign for-eign policy. It was evident in the pre-action discussion of the repeal of the Neutrality Neu-trality act, President Roosevelt's latest request anent his policy. Even from circles most strongly isolationist, and most vigorously opposed to the President it was conceded con-ceded that the act would be repealed, re-pealed, perhaps within two months. The cohesion of foes of the President's Presi-dent's policy was becoming less firm. Senator LaFollette, for instance, in-stance, had urged aU isolationists, non-interventionists to gird for the battle of ballots this fall, and to make the foreign policy their issue. Senator Taft, at the same time, had urged campaigners and voters in the congressional primaries to leave the foreign policy out of the picture. He said: "Congressional votes on the question ques-tion have cut across party lines, and there is no reason for the party to make an issue of foreign policy." Wendell Willkie, storm center of both of these statements, saw the first as an acceptance of his challenge chal-lenge to the isolationists to meet interventionist candidates he would put in the field, and the second as an unwillingness on the part of a Republican leader to meet the issue. (j BULGARIA: On Nazi Side Britain had admitted the decision j of King Boris of Bulgaria to throw his nation, final Balkan question-mark, question-mark, in on the side of Hitler, i In this was seen a more general .picture of' the German effort, which " undoubtedly was to be a threaten-5 threaten-5 ing move toward Turkey, and the "ii establishment of sea-borne invasion f ' points to go after Rostov and the V oil fields. y, All this was tied up indissolubly with the Russian crisis, as it was i plain Turkey would view with alarm 1 1 the Russian weakness and her own 1 resistance to Nazi advances would be tempered by the strength or i weak character of Soviet military )v power. A Also the effort of the British to Jf bring her own and United States' material to the Russian fields through the Persian gulf was largely large-ly to stand or fall as a result of the success or failure of this southern I German drive. ' I Hence it was that W. Averell 4 Harriman, head of the American M mission to the Soviet, had stressed f( the immediate and'1 vital necessity & of rushing all possible material to Ij Russia. rj JAPAN: 3 Gets Tougher V Nippon, in the meantime, had been taking a strffer attitude toward the United States, and in bl particular had turned her ire upon tL Russia, sensing that in the wound-' wound-' ed "bear's" distress lay her opportunity oppor-tunity of hitting out at her old rival. ' Charging that the Russians had cut loose floating mines in the Japanese Jap-anese sea, in violation of interna-" interna-" tional law and friendly behavior between be-tween nations, Japan made the strongest representations. At the same time she was rebuffing rebuff-ing efforts of the United States , toward a peaceful settlement in the ' Pacific, and was issuing propaganda charging that the Chinese would demand de-mand equality with the white races, and a right to enter the U. S. The government of Thailand, faced further with the request from Vichy that America, in settling peace in the Pacific, see that the Japanese were expelled from Indo-China, Indo-China, and realizing the critical times in the Orient, informed its people that war for Thailand was near at hand. ONE-FOURTH: The tax-gatherer in the United States was to collect, during 1941-1942, 1941-1942, about $22,500,000,000, or about one-fourth of the estimated national income, a study of the total national J tax structure had revealed. The President's signing of the $3,500,000,000 income tax measure and defense tax bill, largest ever passed by congress, brought the total to this sum. The federal tax bill was thus raised to $13,000,000,000, and the state and local tax figures for the nation estimated at $9,500,000,000. i DUTCH: In Rebellion Sabotage, theft and anti-Nazi rebellions re-bellions were occurring on an increasing in-creasing tempo in Holland, it had been reported in London through a Dutch news agency. The Rotterdam public prosecutor stated that the city was unsafe, and that the forces of law and order were unable to cope with the wave of crime. While not giving actual instances of anti-Nazi demonstrations, the censored dispatches had spoken of "rowdyism, burglary, petty thefts and other outrages." In Utrecht special guards were appointed to aid the police. HOSTAGES: The Germans in Paris, under General Stuelpnagel, executed 12 French hostages to pay for the death of one German non-commissioned officer, shot in the back on a Paris street as he walked to his home. The shots came from a passing auto. The assassins were not arrested. ar-rested. Summarily taken' out and shot had been seven Communists, one Jew and two persons accused of having been in the possession of weapons, and three who had been charged with attacking soldiers. And the general sternly warned residents of Paris, in putting on a curfew rule for all citizens, that the 12-1 ratio would be increased if the killings of Germans went on. At that point the score had been: two Germans killed; three wounded; several attacked. The number of hostages executed had risen to 35. At the same time Vichy, evidently wishing to please the Nazis by the extent of her collaboration, sentenced sen-tenced three-V suspected spies to death, and gave out several life sentences to suspects in sabotage and other plots. |
