| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward G C wayne long hard war N now ow being forecast As indicates Us S and britain will furnish supplies to soviet in 42 vladivostok looms as trouble spot EDITORS fotr when opinions are expressed in these columns the 1 are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union 7 39 N 14 VA 6 KZ 01 4 I 1 when the american federation of labor street car and bus strike was called in detroit thousands of workers in vital defense plants had to find other methods of getting to work from their homes this picture shows part of the many hundreds of busses that were idle pending the outcome of the surprise strike LINCOLN an echo for some time after president roosevelt had q quoted doted Lincol ns gloomy words following the first year of the civil war correspondents puzzled themselves as to what interpretation could properly be put upon them the words Lincol ns were these 1 I have no word of encouragement to give the military situation is far from bright and the country knows it as well as I 1 do the fact is the people have not yet made up their minds that we are at war with the south they have not buckled down to the determination to fight this war through for they have got the idea into their heads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by strategy the word strategy general mcclellan thinks he is going to whip the rebels by strategy and the army has got the same notion they have no idea that the war is to be carried on and put through by hard tough fighting that it will hurt somebody and no headway is to be made while this delusion lasts president roosevelt wrote his own headline over this interview based on Lincol ns words to a group of chicago women in an off the record talk and let it be known that he intended drawing a parallel but the ne newsmen amen saw two parallels one that the president was telling american people that some of them were going to get hurt in this war the other that he was telling the people that hard tough days are ahead and that the military situation was far from bright though either of these parallels seemed simple enough to draw from the words of lincoln others pointed to the fact that the president himself when talking to the correspondents spon dents underlined that portion the people have not made up their minds and so forth and this in view of the fact that there was still a considerable group and that they were extremely vocal and claimed large numbers seemed one of the more likely parallels to draw from the presidents echoing of lincoln Lincol ns s words later in his talk with the correspondents spon dents the president let drop a remark which despite his expressed wishes formed the lead of most of the dispatches that the war preparations were being made for it to last at least until 1943 yet he had said previously that the russians he believed would hold out through the winter of 1941 that the winter he believed would see a general cessation of the fighting on the east front due to weather conditions and that britain and the united states would concentrate on getting aid to russia for the opening of the spring campaign in 1942 DAMAGE in germany one of the first recent eyewitness reports of actual damage in germany from the heavily stressed new royal air force attacks was brought to london by a returning neutral diplomat diplo he struck the keynote of the situation by stating that the women of hamburg where he was stationed were consoling themselves with the statement well its not so bad as it is in bremen JAPAN australia speaks up prime minister robert menzies of australia accusing japan of creating all the tension that existed in the far east made a statement which showed that british sources still had not given up hope of maintaining some sort of peaceful condition in the orient he said in part cart any talk by japan that russia america britain china and the dutch are trying an encirclement lement of japan is utterly untrue he pointed back to the churchill roosevelt conference and stated that japans invasion of indo china and her other moves in that direction were aimed at creating tension and were unjustified yet there was in his statement as well as those emanating from london every indication that there is a belief the situation surrounding japan is not hopeless many of these observers pointed to vladivostok as the future storm center and that japans peace or war would rise or fall on her action concerning the siberian port for it is to vladivostok that all the aid for russia from the united states and britain must go and although japan had made some remarks that she could not watch such P procession ro cession of military movements quietly british circles seemed to feel that nippon was beginning to realize that a move against vladivostok certainly would involve her in war and that she must come out on the short end if she chooses that pathway they saw japan as holding her hand as thinking things over and that the proper policy would be for britain and the united states to be increasingly firm thus giving an impetus to japanese caution menzies simply warned the japanese britain and the united states though one a belligerent and the other a neutral are entering into a great moral partnership one british commentator said that a blockade of vladivostok certainly would bring war between japan and the western democracies the plural seemed to include america with britain TRENCHES A letter home with what purpose in mind it was difficult to understand but berlin released a story purporting to be from a soldier on the eastern front describing in detail the difficulties of trench warfare on the keynote 11 now we can tell our fathers that we too fought in trenches although the sector was not designated igna ted certain items caused the belief that it was in the central part of the huge battlefield where for weeks the german advance was bogged down and where the high command complained of weather and road conditions the soldier writing home told of the rain and the mud in the trenches of shoes shoe i not taken off for weeks and of the terrific dangers from russian hand grenade and artillery fire the corporal who wrote the letter said it was like a punch and judy show for whenever a head was lifted a grenade was hurled this pictured a war of position not one of movement and bore out the russian claim that the motorized advance had been halted at least in the center 4 be assured 5 M J kl IU Z 42 french ambassador gaston caston henri alenri haye is pictured being interviewed by y the press following his latest conference with sec of state hull bull the ambassador assured the secretary that france has no in intention of turning over the french fleet on french colonial bases to germany these assurances were part of the formal explanation of marshal retains Iet Pet ains declaration of c closer oser french collaboration with germa germany ny NEXT phases of war assuming it to be correct that the germans will be bogged down by the advent of winter on the eastern front many were asking what the next phases of the war would be it was generally agreed that the center of activity and interest would shift to the near east and to northern africa for the advent of winter in the soviet battlefield would bring to that territory what many believed the nazi army had been waiting for cooler weather general smuts predicted that the nazis would try a huge assault in north africa in september and that it would fail some sort of activity also was expected on the syrian and turkish front As to the russo german war it was believed certain that the nazis would try a blitz attack across the river in an attempt to complete the conquest of the ukraine before cold weather and that the use of large numbers of parachute troops similar to the attack on crete might be looked for in fact there were dispatches that the russian antiaircraft anti aircraft fire had shot down large german planes actually carrying tanks proof that thal this had been part of the plan the nazis have for the invasion ol 01 britain the only time that the budenny army will have these authorities pointed out to prepare to meet the onslaught of the german army under d er general von would be that required by the nazis to 1 mop up such resistance points as odessa and others in the part cut off by the pincer movement the chutis ts they said would be employed in an effort to drive russian machine gunners from the east bank of the river and dive bombers aou would id be used to harass the artillery farther to the russian rear FERRY to alrica africa suez A method by which american fliers could ferry british war planes to suez and africa without technically impairing this count rys war position was found pan american airways agreed to do the delivering hiring pilots for this purpose and flying the bombers and fighters over already organized pan american passenger routes this showed the advantage of well organized air lines in time of war the pan american officials pointed out how difficult the ferry ferrying job was in view of the fact that the british had no such organized routes and that when planes were delivered there was great difficulty on the part of the british in getting the pilots back to their starting point but pan american with mail and passenger routes to south america and the near east could send the planes over with hired pilots and fly them back to this country as passengers on their regularly scheduled planes or could add more special transport planes to already organized routes with weather reports landing bases fuel supplies and radio communications already established the plan evidently soon to be put into effect was another implementing of americas lend lease aid to britain and was seen as wiping out another bottleneck A WIDOW though declaring herself still certain that she is a widow because one of josef secret agents assassinated her husband mme ame leon trotsky in an in interview on the first anniversary of her husbands murder expressed the prayer that russ russia 1 a w would W win in the war with the nazis |
