Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Attacks on U. S. Ships in West Atlantic Termed Acts of Piracy by Orders Navy to Shoot Axis Raiders In Waters Held to Be Out of War Zone NOTE are expressed In these they are these of the news analyst and net necessarily ef this by Western 1 When news was flashed that the U. S. freighter Steel Seafarer had been sunk In the Red the war came home to more than one family In the U. S. Here yon see Rose McCade In Jersey Cily and members of her family eagerly listening to bulletins which finally told them that her Alexander and the rest of the crew of 25 had been rescued by passing Piling Up Incident was piling on incident when President Roosevelt In a radio broadcast heard all over the world declared German attacks on American twice on U. S. as acts of piracy and ordered the U. S. navy to shoot first when sighting any of the Axis submarines or surface raiders in the western The President in vigorous fashion declared for the freedom of the seas and announced ships of any flag would be given protection when plying their peaceful trade in waters which the President maintained were not in the war The the President were plainly calculated by Hitler as part of his plan to control the seas as well as land areas by a series of The President vigorously assailed obstructionists who would lull the nation with any false thought that with the British navy gone we could possibly be a match against the Axis To the Greer affair was added the sinking of the a former Danish and the Steel an American the latter carrying lease-lend aid to the British Middle East All but three of the crew aboard the Sessna were and the it was carried no war materials solely food and other supplies for the Danish government of The sinking took place prior to the Greer and was only announced following the picking up of the The Steel Seafarer was sunk In the Red and all hands were but only by their own brisk action In difficult The according to was sunk by a heavy-caliber aerial perhaps an aerial The which would be heard for 10 tore open the starboard plates of the ship and sent her to the bottom so swiftly that the captain's boat only left the side two minutes before the doomed ship took her final Members of the crew said it was impossible that the boat could have been mistaken for for the American flag was flying in the vessel's and she was not in traveling The import of the loss was considered being less than 2 per cent of the lease-lend aid sent to the Middle East so That would roughly place the amount of this aid at 50 It was a typical general lend-lease Two Americans were lost on the but in the President's recapitulation of the events for which he intends to hold Nazi Germany strictly accountable he cited five American-owned ships sunk presumably by German and at least 65 American citizens who suffered loss of life in the sinking of the American and other Many felt that the recent three coming so close might have been the result of an order from Hitler for an against the American lend- lease as Hitler might be fearing the effect of an all-winter war with In this it was he might be afraid that the U. S. would strengthen Britain's hand so much In the interim that a successful military move against the British would be Impossible for all thus making victory for Germany well-nigh A Warning After first- stating positively that the Greer was the aggressor in the battle with a German submarine in the waters off Germany issued finally a flat warning that all of whatever nationality in her war zones were subject to attack without This was similar to the warning issued in the last war which brought about the sinking of the Lusitania and a definite American demand for entry into the state department in Washington at the same time lifted its restrictions and said it would permit American citizens journeying from Britain and the United States to travel on The Nazis said that there was no use talking about a general order to attack American They said the only general order was to attack all They added that they considered President Roosevelt's dictum that the Red Sea constituted neutral and that American-flag ships could navigate there was and constituted a to the Germans and Italians to attack such Thrills in Trials The expected thrills in the spy trials in New in which 16 persons are accused with having taken part in espionage on behalf of Germany against the United panned out early in the FBI witnesses revealed that the German spy system had been tricked for The G-men built a radio station on Long arrangements having been made through an entirely at the request of the Germans for a quick method of getting For months the station the Nazis with false Information about the navy and air all the victories of wits were not on the American For one witness testified thinking to make his German masters he offered to steal plans of the secret American bomb-sight and send them His told needn't worry It already is In our by The railroad which had seemed and which would have thrown the entire defense production structure into a was at least temporarily halted by President who personally set up a five-man mediation Fourteen non-operating unions had voted to walk out September and four days later the big five brotherhoods had decided to quit Legally this put the strike in mothballs for 60 The Railway Labor act stipulates that the President's board has 30 days in which to examine the and another 30 days in which to make Its During this period the workers arc under obligation not to leave their j A Coup Though censorship hid from the public many of the the British Invasion of group of islands close to the Arctic undoubtedly was a coup of considerable industrial and military It gave the British another base threatening German-occupied also important coal and more important willing workers to go to England and aid in the operation of British It also freed several French officers and men who had escaped there after the fall of When the British warships hove into the Spitzbergen these French came out in their small and some of them were seen to kiss the war-painted side of the big transport One grizzled former commander of a tank 14 months we were dead Britain and Canada have given us new All planned to get back to various fields where they could join the Free French forces of The military Import of the far north was made obvious in the British commentary on the Siberian ports further these are the Arctic circle ports which Britain believes vitally Most of them are in British The British have felt the effect of the Nazi control of of and other points of that and still did not apparently realize it when the first Nazi victories brought them under German Now they realize that the Far North constitutes a flank against the and the Spitzbergen adventure was in order to add one more strong point to the list already Short sea routes exist up in those and may yet be used in the plans for British-Russian-American trade Hie long-awaited probe of the movies and the radio as to whether they are carrying on pro-war propaganda brought sparks right from the Senator leading appeared as the chief prosecuting and ran slap and headlong into Wendell who appeared as counsel for the film Nye proceeded to list a number of films as pro-British and then made the declaration that he had been informed that if Britain lost the a number of American film companies would go into He painted a picture of these companies desperately making pro-British and pro-war endeavoring to get the American people to take up the cudgels more and thus to their But Willkie countered by calling Nye's statements and and scored a telling blow against the witness when he charged him with a rear-guard action against the foreign policy of the which the senate on more than one occasion has overwhelmingly Thus the former Republican presidential nominee in a few adroit words aligned the cause of the film industry with that of the Battle The admittedly on the outskirts of and officially opening its followed their customary of making general sweeping and then being forced to contradict themselves day by They announced that Leningrad was completely cut off by land from the rest of Russia on September and two days later had to admit that this was a premature |