| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne communist plot Is charged by vichy following shooting attack on laval british russian forces occupy iran senate launches gas Shor shortage fdge probe EDITORS NOT EWhen opinions are r expressed la in these thee columns eoln min they are re those of f th the 0 12 new two n x at and not dot necessarily ot of this newspaper released by western newspaper New paper union F J Z q y I 1 some of the workers in the kearny N S J shipyards are pictured as they went back to work after the U S navy had taken over supervision of the plant producing defense shipping the yards had been closed for 18 days because of a CIO strike LAVAL and a purge in paris three me men n were guillo tined as the first action in a purge of anti vichy elements following the shooting of pierre laval and marcel deat french leaders advocating closer collaboration with germany special courts convicted the assailants and it was declared that the attack on laval was but part of a avast vast communist conspiracy IRAN art an occupation that the russo british action against iran would be virtually an occupation rather than a full fledged invasion was seen almost immediately after the troop movement started I 1 i two things were early in indications dictions of this fact first the sending by british transport planes of small detachments tach ments of troops far into the interior to protect british industrial outposts second the fact that points like bandar shahpour which could have been bitterly defended fell at once to the invaders in fact it was apparent that while the iran government might have been under und erthe the nazi thumb because of the presence in the country of hordes of fifth columnists it was not a heavily implanted thumb and within the government itself was apparently patently ly enough friendly strength to create an early offer of peace that russia and britain would regard this peace offer as acceptable only if they were given control oakey of key points was obvious the refusal of the Ir anians to expel the germans as demanded by britain and russia was nazi inspired it is true but the decision to offer to expel them after the invasion was under way and the nazi bluff had been called was entirely too pat to suit the invaders A glance at the map was sufficient to show the tactical importance of iran in any defense of india and the middle east and collaboration with russia from the great centers of british supply would demand some point of land contact also the oil establishments on both sides of the caspian sea demanded protection and the position of iran demanded control of that area in order to accomplish this the berlin reaction to the iranian adventure of the soviet and britain was not expressed until the campaign was nearly over and then it was called a classical case of brutal attack on a neutral state which had done everything to prevent war and respect the interests of third parties GAS senate probe it was forecast that leon henderson price administrator was contemplating tem plating setting a ceiling price on gasoline in the east as reports of profiteering by individual filling stations poured in as the shortage real or imaginary began to be felt the senate undertook an investigation to answer these questions 1 Is the shortage real or imaginary 2 Is there an organized effort to confuse the public 3 was the country itry justified in transferring 50 tankers from the gulf eastern trade to britain 4 are the tank cars being used to their fullest ability to overcome the shortage RUSSIA still fighting despite the loss of with or without the huge power dam and in spite of repeated german which announced the continued successes of the nazi arms at the north and south there was every evidence that the soviet was continuing to fight and to battle with an organized army of sorts it was one thing for the german finnish army to report itself 35 miles from leningrad and another thing to explain the lack of announcements noun cements of airplane damage to the city of any extent the germans also reported advances south of the he city yet these were averaging eight to nine miles a day 30 or 40 miles daily gained irthy in the battles of frince france and poland I 1 the russians reported a fierce battle for the mastery of the skies over leningrad with the issue in doubt the city they said was still moscow also elicited the breathless praise of the british mission for its defense against german air raiders there was every indication that the russian strength and ability had been underestimated both by hitler and the rest of the world it was true ahat that the third month of the war found the whole left bank of the in german hands but there was evidence that the germans had planned to conquer what they sought of russia in one month and then to offer peace to britain the peace offer was still in the offing so was tle the german drive on russia as far as the objectives were concerned any serious capitulation on the part of the soviet seemed as far distant as ever the russians had reported a daring adventure on the central front the sending of a well equipped army in a southerly direction to attempt to cut the german lines at gomel and to trap the entire advance force no definite report was forthcoming as to the outcome of this effort but british hints sent out over the wire after bright hopes had been entertained for nine days during which some 20 villages were re taken finally seemed to show a growing belief that the effort had failed JAPAN A again gain storm center the official japanese that it would consider the shipping of oil to vladivostok by britain the united states or the dutch east indies an unfriendly act again placed nippon in the center of a storm especially as this was considered japans official answer to the warnings of chu churchill achill dussias Rus sias answer to japan was that she would consider it distinctly an i unfriendly act if japan interfered in any way with dussias Rus sias commerce through her principal siberian port the russians called to the attention of japan that the material thus received was not in any way to be used as a reservoir for any attack on the japanese but solely to defend herself against the invasion of germany any child could i see the truth of this statement but the more that russia was on the defensive in the west the bolder japan was bound to be i return ticket 4 here are at least three refugees that were lucky enough to have a return ticket to england after a stay of a year in the united states these three british children left to right keith valerie valeric collins and colin rodin radin are shown as they appeared in the pan american clipper plane in ire which they were flying back to england ARMY praise from stimson secretary stimson gave the army a pat on the back when he said those troops maneuvering in the pacific zone which he inspected were far far ahead in their training of any of the divisions sent to france in the first world war stimson and general marshall looked them over and expressed pleasure at the job being done with the west coast troops the general said the army has shown tremendous improvement since the maneuvers in april the object is to permit soldiers to make all the mistakes when they are not too costly and can be corrected he indicated that the army will not be caught napping when the time comes to expand its numbers again he said camp sites are being selected and preliminary surveys made for 20 cantonments canton ments if the need arises we shall be in a position to start building immediately if it we can file the plans away ICELAND news at last the ban of the government on news from iceland was lifted and returning correspondents began picturing to americans what life is like on the newest frontier to the east one of them described the country as a fishy smell surrounded by piles of cinders and quoted the first soldiers he talked to as saying it aint much compared to the 0 f USA the town of reykjavik they reported has two movies but both have their ticket windows closed at 3 p m sold out however the americans had seen all the pictures before so they mind much the only refreshing beverage was beer I 1 per cent the stores open at 10 a in and close at 6 p m and at noon saturdays the girls the american soldiers reported were like the climate cold yet the economic conditions the wealth of the people and the character of the buildings were uniformly reported to be good most of the houses and buildings in reykjavik vik were said to bi be of sturdy reinforced concrete and would have done credit to any modern american city TAXES still in makin making 0 it was evident that the huge tax bill which many thought was all set for passage after the house got through with it paring the expected down to was still in the making for the senate more operative cooperative co with capitol hill was quick to recommend a widening of the income tax base bringing about 00 more taxpayers into the fold and later engaged itself with a move to raise corporate taxes as well the income tax recommendations alone if carried ou out t and put through the house in conference later would increase the total amount to be raised to and many expected still more to be tacked on what would be the reception oi of these ideas in the more recalcitrant house was difficult to to foresee but that there would be bound to be some increase over the amount set down by the lower chamber seemed fairly obvious the main thing was that the tax bill generally believed to be ready for passage still faced rehashing before a final vote |
