Show WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne f British Take Offensive Role in Capture Sidi Knudsen Deplores Defense Work Roosevelt Proposes More British Aid NOTE When opinion arc expressed In these they re those of news analyst and not necessarily of by Western Newspaper I History Repeats the night before The year was Hessian soldiers under the command of the t British had captured New York and moved across New Jersey toward George Washington was in He got across the Delaware The Hessians had a superior and better equipped they were flush with Few in the Colonial army even had shoes to protect them from the ice and So the in a mellow established a strong force to protect their front and then celebrated the portending Meanwhile Washington gathered boats from nearby The front door was closed to so he ferried selected men around the entered from the captured prisoners and turned victory into Something quite comparable to that military fete was occurring this year In Substitute hot des- crt sands for cold winter snows and Wi the same thing was true in Egypt In the Italian army was retreating along the Adriatic sea abandoning port after The fighting there was but more threatening to the Fascist legion was a movement against their left i flank which threatened to envelope their entire army and wipe out Italian rule In the If the force of the Grecian drive could be 7 kept up for another victory seemed certain a most remarkable victory of a poorly equipped army over a numerically superior and mechanized f And In Egypt the same kind of I tactics by the British drove Marshal v- Rodolfo Graziani's army back Into Three months earlier the Italians had Invaded Egypt and ad- 75 miles to Sidi Once ther a RODOLFO The drove him road back to Libya In order to move was made im- But the British General Archibald didn't bother about the He went around to the cut the splendid Italian-built road and for a time threatened four Italian divi- of men in a death Half of them fleeing back to Libya with the British in V The balance were taken prisoners or were In both places the Greeks and British turned dismal failure into surprising More Important than the victory however was r The British had taken the offensive jc for the first time In the r AID TO Congress to Decide When President Roosevelt ap- pears before the new congress dur- ing the first week in an r important part of his message Is expected to be devoted to aid to There has been talk of an outright subsidy to England to help thai na- tion finance the manufacture of mu- Discussion of a loan gets little The gen- y eral sentiment Is that a loan couldn't be paid anyhow and would only cause a headache of misunderstand- ing after the An outright gift would have it done and over President Roosevelt advanced another He would Britain such war materials as we have on This proposal envisions Britain's use of the material while America held After the war it would be returned to the U. 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That which could not be returned in as good shape as it was would be paid The President likened It to a man lending a hose to a neighbor whose house was on Important development in plans to help Britain would be what course Nazi reaction would First hint of the German attitude toward the rumored Roosevelt plans came in the form of unofficial press comment from These reports tended to give the Impression that further moves to aid Britain would be regarded as being longer By the French In continental French Statesman Pierre Laval was never considered a bargain by the He was pro-German and French Statesman Pierre-Eti-enne Flandin also was But he was more pro-British and less When capitulation came to the Pierre Laval emerged as vice premier and to Chief of PIERRE LAVAL Dropped so hard he State Philippe He knew the Germans and Italians and had friends in both Then came disaster to the Italians in Albania and Egypt and no matter what might happen it was evident Mussolini's role in the Axis definitely had There even was a chance that Britain might have to be It might be coincidence but almost at the same time Laval was dropped from the He was dropped so hard that he bounced into along with a great many other pre-war French statesmen who are accused of Afterward there were many It was revealed the Germans had asked permission to move an army through occupied France to a Mediterranean in order to send troops to Italy's Laval was said to have agreed but Marshal Petain was refused the Germans and fired Emerging as the successor to La- Pierre-Elienne Did the Germans like Not at Hitler's ambassador to left Paris for He took with him a squad of German soldiers armed with sub-machine He called on Petain Petain had Laval brought from his prison and join the When Abetz left on his return to Laval went with DEFENSE Plain Words Twenty-four hours after War Secretary Stimson announced that the schedule for calling Guard troops into service had been revised due to inability to contractors to complete Defense Commissioner William Knudsen went before the National Association of Manufacturers with plain He asserted the entire production schedule was The airplane he was 30 per cent Knudsen warned his audience that both capital and labor must show more co-operation or expect grave Later the association announced that a would be taken of factories and manpower to locate production The association pledged Itself exert its utmost effort in co-operation with the government to carry out the program of defense with all possible speed and Also on the defense C Frank wife of the navy was sponsor at launching of the aircraft carrier Hornet at Newport The craft is designed to handle 83 It cost exclusive of C. A movement was afoot to have the U. S. buy or seize refugee ships now rotting In harbors and give or sell them to which has admitted sea losses arc so alarming the food situation as well as supplies are BEHIND THE Discontent Rumors of discontent in Italy and conquered lands flooded the but there was little disposition in official circles to take them The grapevine In Italy made known the full extent of the reverses in Albania and Italians got pleasure out of tipping their Word had gone around that tipping of the hat was a way of expressing a desire for In Jews were ordered to wear while The following day masses of Gentiles appeared with white bands on their The Dutch also got sly satisfaction in changing signposts along In there was open display of Danish Nazis attempted to parade in They were arrested by the police and thrown into Outside the thousands stood and jeered at In there was more Whistling was because the natives adopted the custom of whistling whenever a German soldier Many Germans have been shot by Labor practiced sabotage and bankers refused to bid on Oslo In a cinema advertised the title of its next The next caption for one ending Audiences flocked to the show to cheer the Program Trouble Theme songs will change and much of the music now heard on the radio will be banned after January unless broadcasting companies and the American Society of Authors and Publishers can get together before They are in disagreement over fees to be paid for copyrighted The broadcasters have set up a rival organization of copyright Broadcast But whereas the ASCAP has rights to more than selections of the leading has only about many of them South American hill billy songs and children's Many radio stations already have stopped playing tunes owned by The vast majority have been using ASCAP tunes only in commercial Union Trouble When one chain announced It would sponsor programs from army with regimental bands playing it ran into another James C. president of the American Federation of Musicians of protested and the broadcast was said the union's musicians suffer from that sort of He went to Washington for a conference with War Secretary Henry the radio companies want to sponsor such a broadcast every we won't If they intend to send out programs like that several times a that's a different C. In the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the most famous of all The a sacred place for the is partly surrounded by peddler's From one of them a customer bought torpedoes to celebrate the When the first torpedoes proved the customer threw the balance into the peddler's They So did all the peddler's Nine were seriously C. In the East Room of the White Roosevelt gave the first of the season's afternoon The program was by refugee Polish and Virginia a Negro A year ago Miss Lewis was a domestic In a Philadelphia C. Edward L. counsellor of the American embassy In was ordered To speed the trip he asked permission to enter Germany and sail from in Atlantic port The German government replied it that be not go through |