Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Current War Front Shifts to Syria With Oil Fields of Iraq as Everything Legislation Aims To Break Strikes in Defense Plants NOTE Wot n an In ther re those ml to news analyst and net of this by Western Newspaper IN V. S. of Bear N. YH received a taste of what actual war attack mem when aie coast tillery and West Point cadet put on a dive-bombing attack and anti-aircraft I defense of a big bridge near that Guns and equipment used were in tame positions they would actually occupy in an actual battle for defense Production Returning foreign making a junket of the defense production industries as guests of the war found that airplane considered one of the potential are being rushed into production at one plant in Connecticut to the tune of horsepower One official of this reviewing what he knew of the potential production of this predicted that between and airplane engines will be turned out during The total airplane from a motor should eventually be turning out horsepower a While these producers had no accurate figures on Axis it was figured that It might be between and a month at the present with future capabilities In addition to the three great American aviation motor concerns' the automotive Industry has been asked for and while not in production they will eventually contribute a large percentage of the totaL This turned the pages back to World War when America's most important fighting airplane the was turned out In quantity in a leading automotive This factory by the was making the recoil mechanism for the gun then a war A stiff fight against President Roosevelt's measure sent to the congress closely following his appeared though the administration forces seemed willing enough to modify the measure from its first The President softened the shock of the which at first sight looked like an effort toward a complete economic by a later announcement that its major purpose was to permit the administration to break strikes in defense which were still a knotty problem all over the Both Senator Byrd of Virginia and Senator Tydings of Maryland had taken the floor to demand that the President himself take the leadership in halting Byrd are 60 to 70 strikes In defense and new ones are occurring every I don't assume the government would want to take over and operate all these prohibition against strikes and compulsory arbitration would be a better The which in its original form would give the under his proclamation of a state of unlimited power to seize and sell anything in the nation's long list of private found its first compromise offer coming from administration leaders in the form of a time limit on the President's together with a proviso that congress must first itself declare a national emergency before they could be Labor-minded members of both wildly suspicious of the started their own Investigation to try to determine its Bigger Range of eight British ships by torpedoes fired from U-boats revealed that the German Instead of being a smaller vessel with a shorter range operating In greater Is becoming a bigger boat with a bigger Some of these reported took place within miles of the United well within the supposed neutrality patrol On New Front The collapse of the Greco-British defense of Crete was followed by a good deal of backing and filling as the forces of Great Britain wondered where the axe was going to fall The preponderance of British belief was that it would be in and two things happened at The British started mobilizing toward Syria and began air on Syrian and the French started propaganda efforts to prove that they needed German aid to repel British The British countered by via their Turkish that Germany already had landed men in civilian who doff their tourist garb and take up arms just as soon as sea-borne transports landed Also the British asserted that German planes were already at Syrian ready for an attack on Iraq's British army from bases in defiance of Franco-British by agreement with the government headed by The observers in this country were not fooled by this sort of diplomatic and were able to recognize the same with some that had preceded the German occupation of the Balkans and the subsequent blitz attack upon Britain's plan was not only a delaying but because of the peculiar location of the immensely valuable oil to try to get Into Syria while the German were still and to destroy the landing fields there If Home Front Churchill's taking a great deal of criticism because of the Crete because many British people thought the Crete battle might have been won if better now found itself with an Intensely serious problem on its There were signs that in Britain were preparing the public as gently as might be for a practical abandonment of the Mediterranean as a naval control area since the loss of and one announcement flatly said that American aid must hurry if it was to get to the Red sea and Suez in time to get to the British forces in North The British were expecting airborne attacks on Alexandria and but whether the Germans would attempt parachute troop operations after their huge losses in Crete was In the Turkish slant on the attempt to land in Syria was that sea-borne invasion would be carried out A dozen or more large ships were to carry supplies to Syria via the and from these it would be Turkey to land in Syria by an overnight sailing under cover of Five hundred motorized troops had made such a Turkey though France vigorously denied Harking back to the days when Near-East army was estimated at figures were now being given out in allied circles that De had an army of men at the present Loyal to The stories about the first Nazis landing in in stated that were being sent in to the French forces In whose loyalty to the Vichy government was in There had been many reports of disaffected troops leaving Syria before the German infiltration to flee Into there to Join the Free but just how much of this bad occurred was largely a matter of End of Road The death of former Kaiser Wil-helm at 82 of a blood clot on the lung and the elaborate military funeral accorded him by the dictator of Adolf former Austrian brought an odd and dramatic close to a long and Interesting The man who was so much In the forefront of the last war that the slogan the was on the lips of half the Allied died after 22 years of exile after a ripe and peaceful old even in the midst of a present war which had brought the conquering hordes of his former country In triumph to his point of exile at even in this though the Germans could have brought the monarch back to his throne had their desire been to do this was not and the kaiser and his family remained in there for death to find him while the issue of the fate of his country was still in the relations between Hitler-controlled Germany and the former monarch were as odd as the position of the civilized world at the time of the kaiser's Hitler seemed filled with respect and homage to his former though what the kaiser thought of the humbly born Austrian who succeeded him was little In and mattered just as Hitler's final move to order a funeral with full military was the last there was in the news about the lord of the An Issue No sooner had Secretary Ickes suggested as a means of controlling the oil supply of the country than administration critics began asking embarrassing How could this with control of half the world's oil be facing an How did it happen that American concerns were selling oil and its products to To To other countries yia which it might get into Axis The defense investigating committee in congress was asking some of these and getting strange The Standard Oil company had to explain the deal to its and this brought the issue into more The oil concern admitted the sale of oil and gasoline the airplane to but said that when the agreement was made the American and Dutch governments were and that the terms were entirely acceptable to all It was one of the puzzling phases of America's defense SEA Claims having claimed that half of Britain's entire merchant ship strength had been asserted that the total had reached Britain admitted six Both agreed that British pre-war strength had totaled around 21 millions or 22 millions of The German claim was her ships Britain was to and that a speedup of airplane attacks merchant ships and war vessels might be The still anxious for shipping aid from the United expressed gratification that the United as would immediately start picking up the British shipping lines in the Orient and the thus freeing many vessels for the carrying of munitions Most while believing that the German claims were admitted that the ship losses were tremendously and that it was one of Britain's most serious challenges of the |