| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Billion Dollars in U. S. War Supplies Is Pledged for Assistance to Russia As Stalin Asks in Nazi U. S. Warns Finland to Cease Fighting NOTE When opinions are expressed in lhee they are those of the new Analyst and nt necessarily of this by Western Newspaper U. S. Pledge Same day the state department announced that a billion dollars worth of war supplies had been pledged to Josef Stalin in a speech deplored the lack of second front in the battle against Speaking on the eve of the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Bolshevik the Soviet leader claimed that the Nazi blitzkrieg was a failure but added that his Russian forces were not doing as well as they could be expected to do because Germany had thrown her entire force on Russia believing there was no fear of a western front opening He asserted that Russia was still strong and that the losses inflicted on Germany far outnumbered damage to About this time Moscow sources were announcing that the Nazis had been fought to a standstill around Moscow and Berlin claimed to have gained in both areas and reports from the South Indicated a Nazi break through into the more or less a gateway to the Yet it had become apparent that Russian defense ideas were not basically founded on a defense of the but that the Reds considered as the entrance to the and would hold as hard there as perhaps as successfully as at Moscow and There had been no indication that Nazis early prediction of collapse of Russian resistance could be looked and observers felt that if that eventuality was then Moscow and Leningrad would hardly have been defended so vigorously and The developments on the other to a real and serious fall-down of the Nazi perhaps JOSEF STALIN Same day he asked for a he got a billion connected with the but definitely halting the invasion short of Russia's two main Lozovsky called the situation and there was a rumor that Stalin had left perhaps heralding its There was little effort on the part of the Russians to minimize the of the loss of Leningrad or with divisions reported moved by the Nazis from occupied countries to the Russian Neither did the Russian statements sound and the armies apparently were in the To Finland The United States acted parallel with Great Britain in sending to Finland a stern warning that continuance of the Finnish participation in the Nazi attack on Russia would be considered an unfriendly act The tragedy of Finland was that of a small country caught between naturally hostile and powerful neighbor empires Germany and There was little question if Russia were to win the war with or without British as Britain's partner in the fighting she would demand a return to the frontiers of Finland was faced with the fact that a German victory would leave Finland and that a Rus sian victory would rob her again of her natural America's viewpoint was that If Finland goes on then Russia's strength will be impaired and through Russia the strength of Britain and the United There was seen in the move a tacit guarantee of after the war aid to Finland if she should stop Fight Bitter Foes of changes in the neutrality which included not only all the regular anti administration stalwarts but one or two new acquisitions to the fold had turned out to be a bitter-fighting though hardly a member of it had expected to see victory perch on its The effort seemed to be not so much to defeat the generally conceded to be but rather to whoop up a general anti-foreign policy Hattic Caraway of only woman and mother of two sons in the is shown making a speech In favor of passage of revised Neutrality using every argument and White House word as ammunition and Senator Walsh of the navy affairs typical of the arguments against the amendments repealing two important provisions of the said it would hurt the The navy didn't have ships or men requisite for an entry into the this is an said we already are With its differences of the stand of the minority was ever the however that the President had gone far beyond the authorizations of congress by taking steps already and that the White House in asking an on these and tacit permission to go Lays Down Law A list of terms for the United States to abide by or get into trouble with Japan had been laid chief among which was the immediate stoppage of economic and military aid to The all military and economic aid to and cease all propaganda or military missions to keep at war with America could advise to make encirclement of Japan by naval and air bases and by economic Proceed no further with military and naval movements in the western Japan's sphere and her leadership in the western Nobody can undo wHat has been done at once the freezing of Japan's assets in the U. S. the trade abolish all restrictions on shipping and The published by the Japan Times and organ of the foreign declared that the Pacific was the brink of It was considered significant in Washington that there was no mention of the Axis in the statement It stated that could be no from these poles away from anything the American state department was prepared to Japan felt that America's aid to China program was simply an evidence that this country was afraid to fight Japan Near Iceland Somewhere south and west of Iceland it evident that Germany had established a big of submarines preying upon and apparently giving especial interest to American What inroads this country's navy had been making on it was not the published being totally in favor of though the navy department had early announced that no successes against U-boats would be The loss of the Reuben the navy entailed 95 all of the officers being missing as well as half of the enlisted Only two known one survivor dying of his injuries and the other a body picked from the were Reports of the torpedoing of the destroyer were that the was struck in the center and broke in the forward half sinking at and the going to the bottom a few minutes Evidently most of those saved were and succeeded in picking up a few of those hurled into the ocean from the other part of the The navy is probable that the attack took place during From the terrific force of the explosion it is a possibility that the magazine It is a probability that the majority of the casualties occurred in the forward although two of the survivors were from that part of the Latest incident was the mg of the navy in the same district where the others had The Salinas made The navy would not give details of her but published no casualty list among the A rumor which had been worrying housewives that the United in addition to seeking price would also start food control and was categorically denied by Donald who said should He is priorities director of the and said that any rationing of any type of whether edible or would normally go through his That the matter had been he then showed his own awareness of the situation by stating that he had known that there would be shortages of certain but that a rationing program had not been tallied Foods he mentioned were of which huge quantities are being sent to and which has been short for a good and which also is a favored lease-lend New Wonders It was announced that new drug dug out of the soil three years ago by Rene who had modestly declined any public claims for the and had given it out for testing to a dozen medical schools and has turned out to be the wonder drug of the age far more powerful in germ-killing than the Its potency is from to times as great as which has saved thousands of One or about the siVe of a drop of mist or has been sufficient to protect a mouse from lethal doses of pneumonia First reports of its use on humans came from two Boston university medical who told of curing ulcers in three weeks which had defied all drugs for 15 if curing a chest Infection which is almost per cent fatal |
