Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Nazi Gains at Kiev and Leningrad Are Reported as Russians Continue To Claim Success in Moslem Holy Is Bombed NOTE When opinions are expressed In theme they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this f by Western Newspaper Doubting Nazis News analysts and those who speak in guarded tones of information received through diplomatic channels in Washington were letting It be known that for the first time since the start of the war there was beginning to be a general opinion that Germany would not be the winner In the present Discounting the Nazis' spectacular which had had many diplomats of conquered or menaced countries shaking their heads over the feeling of the in the of their countries as to the eventual the they had stated had or ADOLF HITLER Diplomats were changing their minds about the Three main factors emerged as the The unexpectedly strong resistance of reports from the front Indicate that the Nazis' gains were The growing importance of American aid to Britain and the belief that this nation was drawing closer to actual Britain's growing mastery over the German air plus the ability of England to the worst the Nazi planes had to offer and to carry the fight back across the The fall of the low German victories In the Balkans and had combined to spread the conviction through more distant points in Africa and South to say nothing of the United that nothing could stop Talk with diplomats in Washington had revealed that this conviction had gone replacing itself with Their Claims On the basis of German the Russians faced a certainty of the loss of also the certainty that the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus would be reached and made a theater of war on the The battle of the North they was progressing with half a dozen reported since the President's speech and action sending the navy In pursuit of Nazi Washington announced no further losses' after the but it was hinted at the capital that such reports might be withheld until a considerable time after their occurrence as The Nazis based their assertion on Leningrad on the fact that they had reached the city's outer that were dynamiting and that the city was being subjected to steady sir bombing and artillery On the the Germans asserted two crossings had been made of the lower either cutting Crimea off from the north or to do and that though the river was to yards considerable numbers of troops vere passing with nothing them in the way of natural hazards until the Don river should je The menace to the Caucasus was deemed and some saw In this an explanation of Russian pressure on and criticism of seeing In the latter country a hop-off point for the sending of water-borne troops to the Caucasus Painting vastly different picture of the the Russians claimed continued In the center over determined plus reports that the through had been forced to withdraw half a million men from France Far from accepting the loss of Leningrad as a matter of the Russians told of retaking an island In Lake Ladoga from the and of the repulse of a German air and water assault on the island of off the coast of Holy City The bombing of a city to the which Britain had early in the would result In the reprisal bombing of Italy's holy finally had taken with the death of 39 persons and wounding of Immediately the British press had started the outcry Rome Though the port of had been bombed the enemy planes had never bombed the city and this the was not immediately Nor was there an Immediate bombing of the silencing of the Cairo and the failure of the daily to arrive had caused many to believe that the British answer to the Cairo incident might be the launching of the long-awaited drive into Hit at Lewis Trouble within the fold of the United Mine Workers of John L. Lewis' personal labor and the basis on he founded the was the latest labor to claim It resulted when a committee charged with discussing a strike ballot instead returned a 50 cent assessment against each member each Union members immediately set up a new which met at Shenandoah in the heart of the Allegheny hard coal and made an odd They ordered Lewis himself to come before them personally and JOHN L. LEWIS An explanation was without delay and satisfactorily explain the or that they would go on strike The monthly dues of the union members now had been boosted from a month to and the miners were up in arms and the union trouble within the union was said to be Building Cruisers A new type of cruiser to chase Nazi raiders Is under construction for the it had been a report disclosing that work had started on six each of a type never before They are to be tons heavier than any other cruisers now In the navy's and only tons lighter than our heaviest They were being built at N. by the N. They will bear the names of Samoa and Puerto The navy withheld all details concerning their speed or A Critique Newspapers directed sharp criticism at part of the when it was learned that of huge allocations made for the purpose of building plants to manufacture tons of aluminum a only one site had been selected and not one plant had been placed even in The original outlined by had been to have the plants in actual operation next April or when the shortage of the metal will become even if the work gets under way now it is the plants cannot be in production until next fall at the Records of the senate defense-Investigating committee revealed that there had been a rift between Jesse and Harold fellow cabinet member over the sole contract which has been signed which gives the Aluminum Company of America the right to build plants that would produce about half the estimated Power clauses in this contract are said to be the quarrel's Looks at War HERBERT HOOVER Hitler collapses Some criticism of Roosevelt's foreign especial ly his latest had been voiced by Herbert former who was inclined to along with in the chief His' own position on war issues was Build an impregnable Give material aid to Bulwark our freedom at home and conserve our strength for the stabilization of peace Hitler collapses because of his own His criticism of the President's policy was confined to the alleged violations of the Neutrality which Capitol Hill had said would be the next target of the He Roosevelt was right in protesting against the firing on U. S. warships and the sinking of But the policy of edging our warships into danger ol sending American merchant ships with contraband raises the most critical of all NEW Traffic With all the biggest ships in the merchant trade either on bottom of the sea or tied up at afraid to venture it was hard to believe that New York could be having a harbor traffic But such was the case when ships of all nationalities except Italian and German paraded into port within 36 leaving scores of them with nothing to do but to lie at anchor in the awaiting a vacant When one considered that an estimated ships carried all the lease-lend aid to Britain since the plan was it gave an idea of the immensity of the cargo space represented in this merchant flotilla arriving in one American port on practically one business Reprisals Typifying stories of unrest from occupied Europe had been the coming out of Paris of sniping of citizens at and of the executions of military prisoners held by the German forces of The box score at one point two dead and several 13 shot by firing squads none The second Nazi was shot to death after the 13 been and it had been expected that the shooting of hostages would At that point not one of the alleged actual assailants had been The forces of unrest also had their son of Alfred vice president of the Vichy Paris newspapers asked a woman who the second Nazi fatally wounded to come forward and help the Germans with She is reported to have told a subway ticket-taker she saw the But she then disappeared and could not be The man shot the same day that the 10 hostages were Goes to War That rugged of all the stales in the came to the conclusion that following the President's address she is now at Both of the legislature adopted a declaring that the United States had been in armed conflict since the speech on the subject of naval action In the The approval of the resolution had this immediate It put into operation a monthly bonus for all Vermonters in the U. S. navy or marine A fund of was set up for this 1 |