| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne war action shifted to balkan states As hitler moves toward dardanelles Darda barda nelles british forces sweep on in africa churchill plea send tools not men EDITORS NOTE when opinions art are expressed in these hue columns tb they e T are arc those of the news analyst and not necessarily of 0 this n newspaper L released by western newspaper union APPEAL but not lor for men winston churchill in an address to the empire but phrased also for U S consumption said the british did not need american armies this year next year or ever as far as he could foresee but england does need munitions he said give us the tools well finish the job he appealed there was indication that the tools were arriving in january U S factories had a quota of war planes and at expectations were that the quota would not be met by 30 per cent but this was an error survey showed 1000 planes were produced if half of them went to england as the president i promised england was getting what it needed the amounts will increase but adolf hitler was carrying out his threat to torpedo american help to britain the planes are being flown to england via iceland german bombers raided iceland and bombed the airfield there iceland is 1000 miles from the closest german air base in four more hours the swastika craft could reach the north american continent senate goes on in washington the house passed the lease lend bill for aid to britain the senate began discussion with the expectation that talk would not cease before the end of february if this keeps up said senator glass the germans will be here before we get done debating home from a survey of war torn britain came came wendell willkie to ap 4 41 N 1 WINSTON CHURCHILL not this year next year or ever pear before the senators he said britain can halt an invasion but he urged that the U S send them more destroyers he said five to ten a month will be necessary to keep the se alanes open SPRING in fit the balkans spring and adolf hitler came to the balkans the fuehr ers great criticism of world war tactics was that germany permitted itself to become involved on two fronts at the same time he has always avoided this whether his movement into bulgaria and toward the dardanelles Darda nelles was an indication that he did not intend to move against england immediately was not clear but it seemed apparent that germanys germanas Germ anys next campaign would be toward the mediterranean for months hundreds of thousands of german troops have been moved into rumania the revolution that ousted king carol put nazis in control of the government these native nazis quickly put themselves under order of germany rumanian oilfields oil fields and railroads became sub eject to their direction first news of the infiltration of german soldiers into rumania came in a speech by winston churchill sofia denied it but within 24 hours neutral sources made it known that thousands of german soldiers in uniform but wearing civilian overcoats were passing the border into bulgaria then came swarms of nazi transport planes with parachute troops bulgarian railroads suddenly restricted civilian traffic bulgaria had depended upon russia for protection it was a false hope moscow sent an envoy to tell bulgar ministers not to expect them to fight bulgaria and turkey who had spoken big but not mobilized their troops suddenly began to talk out of bf the other side of their mouth king boris who had bad ridiculed the german army was silent across the waters on the other side of the mediterranean in africa the british were sweeping the italian troops before them it appeared as though the rival armies would hold securely the opposite shores of the great inland sea marshall graziani grazian and his fascist legions were retreating so fast that british armies had chased them out of virtually all of libya and were faced with the question of pursuit 1 N A ADMIRAL DARLAN marshal petain was bowing into french tunis there gen maxime waited with french troops which way h he e wo would uld swing w was as not clear but in vichy aged marshal petain was bowing to the instructions of the fascist minded admiral darlan and it was believed pierre laval might soon return from paris to take over the helm of government general franco was en route through southern europe for a conference with premier mussolini it was said mussolini would make a supreme effort to get spain into the war on the side of the axis and permit an attack on gibraltar in eastern africa the italians also were losing fast hemmed in on all sides by british troops and ethiopian warriors they knew not which way to retreat meanwhile british bombers raided italy they dropped tons of bombs and naval shells upon genoa where winston churchill said a nazi army was preparing to embark embar k for africa the spring campaign had begun OH GAY PAY 00 in the U S A chambermaid in a second class washington hotel opened a guests room and found a man sprawled led over the bed in a pool of blood she called police they found a pistol in the mans hands and notes in russian german and french signed samual ginsberg A certificate of suicide was issued and police prepared to write off the case after notifying a new york lawyer who was named in the dead mans notes but it that easy the hotel guest was identified as gen walter G krivitsky former high ranking authority in the soviet secret service an early communist general krivitsky had taken part in many secret negotiations once he was chief of the communist bartys secret police in western europe general krivitsky had incurred the displeasure of the stalin regime when his associates went before the firing squad he fled to america here in a series of magazine articles he began to expose what he said were the plans of the communist internationals ale for world revolution he foretold the agreement that later was signed by stalin and hitler he said the american communist party was under orders from moscow he named some of their followers in the U S army and navy since then he has appeared before the dies committee with additional revelations but he told close friends that his life was in danger he traveled under cover and hid his wife and young son in isolated areas just a week before his dea death th he told friends that the most dreaded killer of the russian secret police the pronounced oh gay pay 00 had arrived in america SEDITION dictator in democracy 4 OF k VV FULGENCIO BATISTA for hirn him two events one blessed fulgencio Fulgen clo batista president of cuba is a study in contrasts in 1933 he organized a revolution squashed the rule of aristocrats at any time thereafter he could have become president he chose instead to accept promotion from army sergeant to colonel and head the army but under his behind the scenes dictatorial regime cuban citizens had their civil rights extended schools were built peons geons given land and the national administration put on a business basis last year batista decided to seek the presidency he could have seized the office with little trouble instead he resigned from the army campaigned in american style and gave the island its quietest election in history but there has been unrest in cuba and the crop of rumors of new revolutions have been on the usual weekly quota last summer when rotary international held its convention in cuba many delegates were so impressed by the rumors that they went to bed each night with tion many of the delegates from the united states came home alarmed they told of nazi penetration in the island how newspapers openly confessed german subsidy how german lotteries were being operated with the winners impressed the largess came from the german government they said german U boats were being supplied along isolated spots of cuban territory the facts may be true or otherwise but many delegates were impressed through it all fulgencio batista showed no signs of being alarmed then ahen suddenly as this winters tourists were at their height one night they saw sandbags sandbars sand bags being erected around the presidential palace and machine guns being mounted on public buildings batista was holding conference with his leading military commanders comman ders batista announced that all civil rights were suspended the following day a cuban army plane landed at miami fla and there alighted col jose E pedraza chief of the cuban army col angel A gonzales commander in chief of the navy and col bernardo garcia chief of the national police with them were their families back in havana batista announced they had resigned after he caught them in certain unnamed seditious acts civil rights were returned to the people cuba was quiet again there was still more rejoicing the following day senora eliza godinez de batista wife of the president gave birth to a daughter in the presidential palace president batista announced immediately that every child born on the island that day would receive a ten pesos apesos note and a five pesos apesos savings account in the cuban postal savings art an average of babies are born each day in cuba STRIKE but not at once demands for vacations with pay rejected executives of 14 railway labor unions have notified president roosevelt that a vote to strike will be taken during february there will be no strike at once the existing agreement between the unions and the nations class 1 railroads hiring about men provides for mediation machinery but even that period is likely to be exceeded george M harrison head of a committee of union leaders rs said about 30 days will be necessary to take the vote should a strike be authorized by the ballot harrison would fix the he t date for it miscellany C when jacksonville fla sees snow its a rare day until this year the last flakes were seen in 1935 1936 since 1871 there have been just 10 days on which c h snow snowfall f all was recorded this year is one for the record snow arriving in thin flakes on february 9 and 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