| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Nazi Drive Cuts Deep Into Greece As Army Is London Blasted With Raids In Reprisal for Attacks on Berlin NOTE When are expressed In these ther are those t the news analyst and not necessarily of this by Western Newspaper I Before the Nazis' Balkan campaign had been under way two weeks it was apparent that another major catastrophe for Hitler's enemies was in the but how extensive or how catastrophic none was prepared to After eleven days of Berlin reported that army of some men had capitulated and laid down their fighting equipment which had proved relatively ineffective against the highly mechanized Nazi London announced bad news too with the report that it had been subjected to the worst air blitz all German sources say this terrific raid came as a reprisal for British raids on and objectives in In the very beginning of the Balkan the Nazi-Italian forces took the offensive in Northern and the two battles proceeded almost in the British being driven practically out of Libya by the time that the British sources were ready to admit that had been Reaction of the British people was not that they were unwilling to receive news of a defeat that had been more or less but because the ministry of information and the intelligence department were accused of having fallen down on the This also was the reaction in where it was freely said by those in the military know that the British permitted Roosevelt to promise aid to and Greece when it should have been known that aid to the former was to be only a and that the Serbs and Slovenes could not hope to stand up to the attack more than a week or Washington sources of high military Information frankly said that the British intelligence bad fallen as it had in the Battle of and that the best information in our national capital had been to the effect that the infiltration of Nazi mechanized forces into North Africa had been of the These sources said they had been told that this shipping of tanks and men to North Africa had had only one purpose that of- putting pressure on the French and forcing them to stand firm with the Vichy Whether this was deliberate or an attempt to delude the American and British people was not but certainly it was bad whether deliberate or For in about two weeks the British had lost everything they had gained in and found themselves seriously on the defensive as far as the vital Mediterranean port of Alexandria and the equally vital Suez canal were On Her Heels The Greek which had checkmated the unaided Italian forces presented against them in the Albanian found themselves facing a horse of another color when the Nazi hordes moved in Bulgaria and south from Greek sources in the United many of them intensely patriotic and hoping against hope for a Greek had been saying during the Albanian battle that if the Nazis ever got Greece could not hope to hold out a How true these predictions were in their essence began to be seen as the Nazi campaign against northern Greece trapping much of the Greek army in Eastern Macedonia and Then the Germans broke through into the river through the Monastir gap and made contact with the Italians in northern It was not long before the plan of the forces to defend a line running in an inverted V-shape from Adriatic to Aegean seas had to be and the whole hinge of the in the Lake sector had to be and the armies retreat until the line was more nearly Along this line a frightfully intense battle and few were sanguine enough to believe that the line would hold and further retreat and withdrawal not be particularly as the as first lay over heavy mountain ranges with peaks up to feet And the Nazis had broken through and the fighting in its secondary phase was on terrain more to the liking of the mechanized And Defense The strike situation showed some further with the announcement by Bethlehem that about of its workers would get a increase in for the relieved the public of the anxiety lest a strike hit this holder of more defense contracts than any other one concern in the and one of the nation's largest builders of merchant The coal continued to cause with four more killed near at a mine which was continuing to operate despite the general shut Negotiations for the ending of this strike were in their final with every evidence that the agreement would go through and that soft coal strikes would be over for another two if not Those watching the labor situation felt that the soft-coal agreement would pave the way for better industrial conditions and that promised strike threats against U. S. Steel and General Motors might not settling of the Ford strike was held up as a shining example of handling what looked like certain Yet there were still moves afoot in congress which would not exactly outlaw but which would provide for a off before the actual calling of a and also calling for official recognition of the Dykstra-headed national mediation And Spies The shooting to death of Editor John F. Arena of an Italian language newspaper in Chicago was tabbed as Fascist secret police slaying after It was learned that a few hours before he was shot he had furnished Information to the Dies A Chicago newspaper man who had talked with Arena a few hours before he was murdered beside his quoted the editor as that he had received threats against his I THE Plan Long range views of the eventual German plan in the Balkans as given to the house of commons by and as figured out by observers In neutral points like Ankara and Berne centered on one general with certain Individual Once Greece had been said these and the kingdom subjugated much after the pattern of France and the Low then the Nazi flushed with would turn their full attention to the Battle of the In this observers saw the North African campaign and the Balkan campaign as a huge pincers aimed at the Suez canal and points The recent overturn in the government of frankly said to have been engineered in provided a back-log of soil turned back of Turkey and The Nazis would it was turn their attention to Turkey and aiming at the oil in Iran and and the wheat-Gelds of southern These would be mere by-products permitting a fuller supply source for the eventual campaign against In the meantime it was the these observers for the Italo-German drive against Egypt to and to meet the southward-pushing Nazis at that point And Knox The growing seriousness of the crisis as far as the United States was concerned brought grave statements in congressional committees from Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy warning of the gravity of the told congress that men now in uniform would have to be trained not only for service in the United but also in all parts of Central and South if need and in other parts of the There were many who believed that the secretary was not talking about the Philippines and but was pointing to the eventual likelihood of another A. E. F. On the same day addressing another said that the day was past when we could consider ourselves as and declared that was being encircled by unfriendly The American had to guess at the amount of lease-lend aid that was actually getting j over the No facts or figures were being given and yet on judging by reports from various ports along the Atlantic British-bound merchandise j was showing a tendency to pile and the action regarding Danish and other seized vessels was still being talked about in Draft The selective service popularly known as the may be amended by this congress to include lads of and also lower the top limit from 35 to some lesser President Roosevelt told newspaper men that changing age limits was under study now in draft circles in and that the matter may be taken up formally early in Army sources also revealed that the war department has modified its ban against men with criminal From now on the induction authorities will consider each of the 1 cases on Its and will be per- I to pass for possible military service those whom it considers desirable to Trainees also have been given five more days in which to report for induction after receiving an to do and this period can be extended to CO days or by order of the local where a hardship might otherwise |
