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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne U. S. Policy of 'Delivering the Goods' In Effort to Aid Foes of Hitlerism Is Nation's Objective, Says President; Nazis Pound Russians on Three Fronts (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) I (Released by Western Newspaper Union. ) . 1 DEFIANCE: By Miners Following a 40-day period in which the National Mediation board had sought vainly for a peaceful settlement, set-tlement, and in which finally President Presi-dent Roosevelt himself had attempted attempt-ed to take a hand, a strike of 35,000 coal miners in seven vital mines had been called by John L. Lewis. The headlines made . the issue plain. Lewis Defies Roosevelt. Once an enthusiastic partisan of the administration, ad-ministration, a man who had seen his C.I.O. grow to enormous stature under the broadly liberal labor laws passed under the Roosevelt administration, Lewis openly defied the President's personal request for "no strike." The mines were the captive mines of the steel companies, and from them the coal and coke vital to steel-making were drawn, the steel firms contracting for the mines' entire en-tire output. The strike was seen to hit at the very heart of the national defense. Out of it, the friends of the labor movement frankly feared, would come the signing by the President of a long-dreaded "work or fight" order which would draft all defense strikers summarily into the army. The, strike was being watched with keen anxiety in dozens of important im-portant quarters. KNOX: And Japan Secretary Knox of the navy, In an address, had stated that some sort of clash of a military and naval nature with .Japan was "inevitable" and for once Tokyo seemed will- POLICY: Defined by FDR On the same day as the senate opened its debate on the historic measure aimed at stripping the neutrality neu-trality act of all restrictions on American shipping, the President delivered his Navy day address in which he declared that the U. S. foreign policy was one of "delivering "deliver-ing the goods" to friends of democracy. democ-racy. He said that despite U. S. efforts to avoid it, "the shooting has started." start-ed." Bristling with challenges to the Nazis, his speech pledged his administration to a policy of destroying de-stroying Hitlerism and assisting in establishing a peace which will make a better world. In writing to the Foreign Policy association an exposition of his own foreign policy, President Roosevelt Roose-velt had said that it was so simple a child could understand it. The cardinal principle, he asserted, assert-ed, was the destruction of the "Hitler "Hit-ler menace" and the protection of the American way of life from a system that would destroy it. He admitted that there were those in this nation who would lull the people into a sense of false security, but warned that this action had preceded pre-ceded the fall of every country now occupied by Axis forces. This and his Navy day address served the purpose of clarifying the situation as regarded the road the United States was prepared to travel in following the administration's administra-tion's leadership. The President expressed himself as confident that his aims were the popular aims of the nation, and that the people would be ready with such sacrifices as would be necessary neces-sary to carry them out. SOVIET DEFENSE: Last Ditch . What was called the "last all-out" attack possible for the Germans to launch had been touched off on all three of the major Soviet fronts, and there were indications that the defenders de-fenders were reaching their last ditch. The "military miracle" was happening hap-pening before the eyes of the world, as the Red troops had apparently halted the full fury of the Nazi advance, ad-vance, had kept their defense lines intact, and were putting up what even Berlin admitted was a magnificent mag-nificent defense. But whether they could continue to hold or not remained the latter part of the needed miracle. Germany Ger-many announced the fall of Kharkov, Khar-kov, Donets basin industrial center, cen-ter, a city of 850,000 souls, of 12- El-pfepiipBL. w i' t ( v fjl 1 1 j j From Tokyo comes this picture of a Japanese aviator described by the caption as "about to take off" in fighting the Chinese. Note the Japanese Jap-anese flag being tied about his head. ing to agree with one of his utterances. utter-ances. The Domei news service and the Times Advertiser, both authoritative, authorita-tive, predicted that a special session ses-sion of the diet would be called for the direct purpose of discussing Japanese-American relations. They were both gloomy over the outlook for the lasting peace in the Pacific that the United States desired, and Japan was apparently fighting for provided it would be a peace dominated by Nippon. The American formula for peace was this: Withdrawal from China and Indo-China of Japanese, Americans Ameri-cans and British. Recognition of the United States of the puppet gov-: ernment of Manchukuo. Guarantees Guaran-tees of inviolability of territory to the "status quo" of governments. And all recognized that Japan was far from willing to sign any such treaty. KEARNY: A Diary Story The widow of a London doctor, only passenger on a recent convoy from Britain to the United States, kept a brief daily diary of her trip, and from it readers were able to glean more facts about the Kearny's Kear-ny's torpedoing than they had from naval reports. The torpedoing occurred two days after the convoy left Iceland, two days after the ships had been joined by the Kearny and "another U. S. destroyer." Though the diarist's vessel was some distance from the naval ships, she wrote of the shattering impact of the depth bombs discharged by the Kearny when a submarine was reported. She wrote: "Our ship trembled like a leaf at each discharge. I thought surely we had been hit." The Kearny and the other destroyer destroy-er left the convoy, and were not seen again, she continued. Twc days later she heard the Kearny had been torpedoed. This gave the public a picture of the incident, and showed that in all probability the Kearny, after dropping drop-ping depth bombs, must have followed fol-lowed the trail of the submarine, and finally was hit by a torpedo during the pursuit. LABOR: Clement Atlee, Britain's leading labor figure, had flown to this country coun-try by clipper to attend a union conference, con-ference, had been met in New York by Labor Secretary Perkins. In an interview he painted a not-too-bright picture of British labor j conditions, the army having drained ' industry until the labor shortage was acute. Efforts to replace working men with women had not succeeded, Mr. Atlee said, and the solution of England's Eng-land's problem was not in sight. These are three women of the crew of the Russian freighter Pe-trovski Pe-trovski which docked in the U. S. recently the first Russian vessel to arrive here since the outbreak of the Russo-German war. The women .sailors, photographed under the Red banner are (left to right) : Maria Antonovna Bondarenko,. Klavdia Sergena Borovik and Valentina Stutzerenko. story industrial buildings, dubbed the Pittsburgh of Russia, Fantastic stories were told of the losses on each side. Strange was the report from Moscow, Mos-cow, telling of Stalin in personal command, of the removal of Buden-ny Buden-ny and Voroshilov from command, to take charge of the forming of new armies, and of the placing of Timoshenko in actual command of the defense of the capital. 'BUTCHERIES': Continuing Prime Minister Churchill, President Presi-dent Roosevelt and General De-Gaulle De-Gaulle all had their say about what they called the "Nazi butcheries" of hostages which were continuing all over occupied Europe. Resentful people were taking pot shots at high Nazi officers, and each time one of these hit a vital mark, scores of persons connected only distantly with the crime were being be-ing executed. Churchill, reading President Roosevelt's statement concerning the killings, called them flatly "butcheries." He said he agreed with Mr. Roosevelt's sentiments. The President had said that it was a primary tenet of civilized man that it was barbarous for anyone any-one to make the innocent suffer for the guilty. He said the practices should be a lesson to all those who would advise "giving in" to Germany, and that it should be a warning that the German "Lebensraum" policy is being pursued in such manner. |
