| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Russian Army Plan for Slowing Blitz Follows China's Retreating Churchill Hails Soviet as Extension of Draftee Service Sought NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily ot this I by Western Newspaper I Deeper into Russia than their companions bat unarmed these Invading Nazi soldiers are marched to a Red prison camp after capture on the eastern That shirt-clad panzer fourth from in the front looks out of place among his who seem to be shock-headed On Defense The Russian no matter what the might was obviously putting up a hard fight before the advancing German mechanized and the who had taken the quick defeat of Russia as a foregone conclusion were beginning to who had been through three previous milder stages of hailing Russia as a companion In finally and very bluntly told the house of commons course Russia is an ally of One of the signs that the Reds defense of their homeland was vigorous and not without military merit came from an official admission on the part of Germany's high command that the Nazi armies had hurled back a considerable naturally saw in this admission proof that the Russian armies were actually and battling to some purpose in their gradual withdrawal to the Stalin line and perhaps further to the Washington observers cautioned against too much faith in an eventual Russian unless the defenders would be able to withdraw their armies with much of their equipment into that hinterland broadly described as As in the Battle of it was conceded that the French would have had a chance of immobilizing the war only if they were willing to give up Paris and other cherished and move backward with the harassing the advancing Nazis and softening their with the as the boxing phrase has This was the which enabled to make a four-year-old war of position out of the Japanese blitz of 1937 in It was the same technique which observers in this country were recommending for There was nothing In dispatches to show that the Reds were not doing just save that no city of vital importance like Moscow or Kiev had yet though Germans claimed they had passed the It was In view of conflicting to determine with even probable accuracy and allowing for a wide margin of error to figure the price being paid by either side In the If German claims were to be Russia had left only a fragmentary part of her motorized equipment and her air If Russia were to be believed Germany was reduced to using tanks and mere boys to operate But even the German admitted Russia still had hundreds of tanks in and hundreds of and the Reds' bombing activities were reported from neutral points to be hitting targets far within Rumania and far within The actual facts of the remained continually clouded In despite the fact that correspondents finally admitted to which also installed a short-wave radio to give out war news to the United States and other To London Harry President Roosevelt's and was being sent to London While there was little definite Information readily available as to the i reason for Hopkins' second trip to it was recalled that only the other day In the house of commons there had been some bitter statement over the handling of American plane His Plan George C. chief of staff of the U. S. urged two major points before congress senate military affairs and apparently the President was willing to go along with but not with the Point 1 was that the should be kept in uniform longer than a calendar year from the time of their He wanted this restriction removed by congress from the selective service Point 2 was that he wanted the restrictions removed ordering that could serve only in the Western The President apparently was willing to exert some While House pressure on congress to get the second provision early polls of senatorial reactions to both points were though a majority of those questioned reported themselves and to hear the The question had broadly resolved itself Into how large an army the U. S. should and how long it takes to train a General Marshall also made the point that the had been poured into all army with the result that If they were sent home after a these units would suffer On Verge The sudden resignation of the Japanese together with many dispatches quoting the indefinite seemed to in that Nippon might be on the verge of some important step in world What this might be remained though British statements seemed to hint that Japan might be contemplating a move into A secondary guess was that Japan might be planning a assault on Russia's east coast perhaps to attempt to close the port of Vladivostok name famous in the Japanese-Russian war at the turn of the The quitting cabinet is the one which put Soviet Russia into the Rome-Berlin and strangely Into a neutrality accord with The government was almost exactly a year In so It could not be charged with the stalemate In in fact it was not organized to do anything about the Chinese There was little that could be said surely about the some holding that the cabinet resignation meant that Japan's whole foreign policy would be reoriented in view of the German-Russian Whether this would mean that the next government would be more or whether Japan was getting ready to withdraw from all European commitments could hardly be Certain it was that In Tokyo was a little group of Nazis who were said to have dominated the last and to have been urging the strongest possible intimidation of America in the in order to occupy the United States so strongly with the West coast that aid to Britain might be Nazi Names The German In its previous references to had been relatively On the the papers were now with each other to use strong language about President The said one circling like a vulture over the Azores and the Cape Verde Another has raised to be a symbol in Now British The victory of the British and Free French in being somewhat dwarfed by the news from Russia and the war developments in this country seemed to receive only minor mention in the American though the British were getting more solid satisfaction out of it than had appeared on the eve of the Some of the terms began to come and it was significant that they called for the turning over to the British of all arms except those belonging to including ships and Paris was quick to report that all planes and ships had escaped though this coming from German-controlled was somewhat Churchill summed up the advantages of the Syrian victory briefly as removing to a greater distance the threat to also the fact that some of the disaster of Crete had been in that the air base on the island of Cyprus now could be The lly engaged with I I seemed in no hurry to try another air conquest from Crete to j That the Germans' air position in the eastern Mediterranean was sufficiently strong was indicated in the sinking of a British small naval vessel of tons by air the survivors reporting that they were attacked by 80 dive bombers at one Their convoy escaped with supplies destined for beleaguered Most important of the Syrian armistice terms was the choice to be offered to French civilian and as to whether they would be deported to French or whether they would join the Free French government under British Business as Usual The Royal Air stepping up its bombing scale reported as one day of as the dropping of tons of bombs on cities in Germany and occupied The British were claiming that these attacks were at least as severe as any Britain had had to withstand during the hey-day of the German onslaught from the air and that they would get stronger as time wore One contrast between the Nazis' blitz of London and other British objectives and the British attack on Germany and occupied countries was in the photographic Outside of one or two pictures sent out from Germany showing fire fighters atop buildings in the country might as well be entirely as far as picture evidence would Whereas the American newspapers had carried literally thousands of photographs of air-raid effects in from the digging out of the dead and wounded to the damage that was done to Westminster Abbey and the tower from which Big Ben chimes out the reason was that the British took the pictures of their own and the censors permitted them to be sent So the United States got a view of modern war was The Germans permitted two or three such pictures to get to this but for more than a year nothing of the kind was and as the air attacker can't get low enough to photograph his own damage it didn't look as though any would get Among the targets were Cologne and other big centers of rail and steamship And the British assumed that tons of their bombs would wreak about the same havoc on Bremen as the same weight of German bombs bad on Churchill summed it up when he said that he believed if the British people were permitted to vote on whether bombings of cities would continue or be slopped by both they would vote And audience cheered to the |
