Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward Wayne Shipping Losses and Kearny Incident Have Effect on Neutrality Act British Invasion as French Assassinate Two Nazi Officers NOTE When opinions ore expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this I by Western Newspaper I One of the most momentous steps in U. trade relations took place in the historic white room at the government house at Buenos Aires as a new treaty was signed between the two Picture shows ceremony at signing and pictured left to right arc Carlos Argentine finance U. S. Ambassador Norman Enrique Argentine foreign In the background arc members of the Argentine government and U. S. embassy Starting Things The fact that the U. S. destroyer hit by a Nazi had been more than slightly had suffered the loss of some 11 lives and had several persons badly wounded landed with a jolt in a Washington already jittery in the midst of a debate on the Neutrality act The navy refused any information except the broadest pending a fuller report of the and the incident left congress in a welter of On top of this had come two further those of the Bold former Danish ship carrying the flag of and the Lehigh which was flying the Stars and The Lehigh was sunk off the coast of far from the combat The Impact of these three incidents on a congress which was being asked to permit the arming of merchant ships was Immediately measures were placed before congress ranging all the way from a complete repeal of the Neutrality act to a resolution asking for a declaration of This last was not actually but certain isolationist senators said that it would as a counter measure to the being exerted from the White Out of it all emerged the second half of the Neutrality act the measure to send American ships into combat and this had been reported to have received presidential favor as a matter of present as the administration was meeting severe opposition on one of its fate and the news played into its Tough Battle Pressure shifted from one direction to another along the Moscow front with the Russians putting up a desperate There had been a sudden heavily reinforced in the or Orel and the Nazis had claimed the capture of a city of and described as leading armament center of the Donets Still later the Nazis had announced gains on the front and the defenders believed the Germans were shifting their attack to the There had been reports of Stalin personally in command at the central his headquarters in an armored But the capital had been moved to a spot miles southeast of Russian sources had declared the picture at Leningrad to be the brightest of that on any part of the long with the defenders of Russia's second city inflicting terrific losses on the and still holding their defense British following a protracted demand on the part of labor and certain sections of the press for an Immediate Invasion of the officially declared this plan an The it was was still smashing the Reich territory on a London authorities were testy over the that Britain was not doing all she could to aid and it was revealed through high officials that shiploads of i airplanes and munitions had been that many already had Others were en The British declared that fully one-half of the German air force was being compelled to be held in the west because of the daily attacks by and that the British are doing everything that the Russians themselves have suggested in the way of 50 FOR Officers Shot The killing of Colonel the Nazi commander at by assassination was promptly avenged by General occupation by the killing of 50 French The commander criminals paid by England and Moscow killed the field commandant at with shots in the back on the morning of October Until now the assassins have not been expiation of this crime I have as preliminary that 50 hostages be Considering the gravity of the crime 50 other hostages will be shot if the assassins are not The general offered a reward of francs for the surrender of the guilty Four members of the gendarmerie at Nantes had been taken into including the prefect of the He and the mayor of Nantes issued an appeal for aid in the arrest of the On that very in the neighborhood of a freight train was a section of track having been For other offenses four Frenchmen had been and the total of hostages executed during October was said to have reached Next day reports told of the killing of another Nazi officer in This a Policy At the height of the neutrality debate more than Republicans took part in an appeal for the repeal of the Neutrality in the face of the recollection that this action in the last war was shortly followed by American entrance as a full These were led by Wendell L. who upon millions of Republicans are resolved that the ugly smudge of isolationism shall be removed from the face of their the same time he criticized the administration for the handling of labor saying desire of many in the administration to rewrite our social and economic life under cover of the national effort must be out during the On Prices Secretary of Agriculture calling the parallel between the present war and the last one too close for urged on congress the necessity of immediate price fixing to stave off disastrous inflationary He declared himself in complete agreement with provisions of the pending price-control and said that the planned price-fixing authority might not be The nation's agricultural production next he will be the highest in and the Increase would be mostly in and He recalled that of the banks which failed most were country and said he didn't believe the American economy could stand a second siege like Or Watchers of the perilous situation in the Orient were still wondering whether Siberia or Thailand would be the to feel the touch of Japan's expected military In spite of unconfirmed reports that the United States and Japan had reached some basis of the tension continued Japanese quarters were pressing on the government to do something first about Low-Down-on-Low-Bid Appearing before the Senate defense investigating Sidney associate director is as he declared that low hid by a CIO contractor for a Michigan housing project disregarded because its acceptance might result in strikes and open violence involving the entire construction industry in The committee probing charges that favoritism i to Civil Strife An internal war within the organization was revealed when a strike at a Detroit steel plant was suddenly The public was treated to the unusual spectacle of a union leader telling his members to go back to work because the army had been ordered to take over the plant and being roundly There were yells of on the The union John United States army already has received orders to move The government has notified our union that this strike will not be The who claimed that their own union leaders had them in wage hissed and but they went back to There were hints of sabotage In this and the open charge by Federal Conciliator Dewey that he was looking for a in the Dewey had been In the conference which resulted in this particular steel company signing a contract with the Releases Aliens Latin-America and the States had been puzzled by a report from Mexico stating that close to Nazis and Fascists from the seized Axis ships had been released and returned to their former status of foreigners legally in the American circles could not understand why President Camacho took this as it was believed certain to complicate Mexico's espionage already quite It had been pointed out prior to their these Nazi and Fascist ships had been hotbeds of and that one of the had maintained a printing plant and that in addition to flooding the country with material along the Nazi party had given many entertainments aboard for Mexicans and had shown many propaganda Of Heroes The British official reports of the episode were filled with many stories of but none of them more poignant than the story of the lost brigade of This was a group of British soldiers who held the French vital to the use of as a debarkation for all the days while the evacuees were crouched on the vulnerable to thus permitting their brothers-in-arms to Of this only 47 ever returned to The commander was Brigadier C. and after standing heavy bombardment and with the town he was defending In he received this terse hour continue to exist is of the greatest help to the The government therefore decided that you must continue to We have the greatest possible admiration for your splendid One spearhead of the German attack was desperately anxious to take Calais and to sweep on to to fall on the helpless and vulnerable men at that But the riflemen of the Calais brigade held despite the bombings by wave after wave of Nicholson himself was among the His last radio appeal send us more guns still holding It was the evening of the fourth Calais had held out long Their work was |