Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Hitler Continues to the As Pressure Nets Results in Labor Unrest in Defense Industries Will Be Handled Under New Agency NOTE When ars expresses to these they are these ef the sews analyst and net necessarily af by Western Newspaper Prelude to Peace Nazi soldiers marched Into They were not Bulgarian officials who earlier talked but no steps to prepare the nation for capitulated to Berlin's demands when the final test Hundreds of thousands of Germans poured across the border in 48 Panzer divisions raced across roads and took positions on the borders of Turkey and They supplanted officials known to be unsympathetic to their rationed directed and virtually placed the whole nation under German military law and Secret police followed close behind to round up those who loved their country too well for German Berlin announced the occupation as a great military although not a shot had been But the action did have a strangely familiar I It paralleled closely the Nazi pattern that brought the downfall of many other European nations where officials had been induced to visit Munich to Fascism had come to ruled by King from long before it had been compelled by force of arms Bulgaria was sold as many other brave but hesitant nations had been sold out by those groups within its own borders who believed they stood to gain in in prestige and In wealth if a Fascist form of government would be They will be as other groups have been disillusioned In other once independent nations In in in in the In in France and even in Germany Drang Osten It is said no man lives unto himself that his every action reflects on the life of his community and his If that is then it is equally true that no nation lives to itself that its policies reflect on its neighbors as So it was with The highways of Bulgaria lead to other frontiers and conquest-seeking Germans rested on the borders of Greece and The small Greek army had halted the first Axis move to the east by defeating superiorly equipped Italian allied to had stood as the guardian of the eastern But these nations found themselves in Jugo- I KING BORIS OF BULGARIA Fascism came from through which better roads lead to was in the same AU found themselves facing the choice of fighting against an efficient j war machine or bowing to the will of None had much hope for if they All looked to England for but the problem of sending such assistance was The Germans I had available divisions for use in the Balkans The only British force competent to deal with such numbers was in North Whether the British had the means available to transport and land an expeditionary force was General Wavell's speedup i campaign in Libya undoubtedly was i to clean up that area quickly in the hope of using his troops in the Bal-j The factor of time and space in such a seemed The hibernating bear of the began to show signs of Moscow sent a sharp rebuke to denouncing the Significantly no protest was made to Berlin shrugged off the Moscow with the observation that Russia's attitude was only a defensive that its army was not equipped for offensive Therefore the protest was of no Adolf Hitler wasted no time while Greece and He quickly sent couriers to their capitals with offers of He said he had no designs on their Turkey and Greece took small comfort from these They had the same kind of pledges given Czechoslovakia and other small countries that now have no way of life of their Hitler seemed well along toward success of the old German ambition of drang drive to the To the cast lies the riches of Asia India and East NEW LABOR By Executive Order A new labor board to serve a. a in disputes involving defense industries is in the It will be created by President Roosevelt by White House order and consist of 11 three to represent WILLIAM S. KNUDSEN He wanted 30 days before a the public and four each from labor and The board of non-salaried members would act only in cases where the labor department's conciliation service failed to make progress and so certified It would have no power of compulsion but would be so constructed as to make mediation machinery Strikes The President's decision was said to be caused by the strike at the Buffalo plant of the Bethlehem Steel There employees brought their work to a halt when the Steel Workers Organizing committee said the corporation failed to bargain with Picket lines surrounded the several miles of But the Office of Production Management in Washington quickly stepped without waiting for the labor department to get under William S Knudsen and Sidney offered a compromise plan of settlement which called for return of all workers with seniority negotiations with the union and an NLRB Both sides Meanwhile in Michigan the United Automobile Workers filed notice with the state of Michigan that it will call a strike at the three main plants of the Ford Notice of such intention is now necessary under Michigan Knudsen Plan in the wrote a memorandum to Representative chairman of the house judiciary which is considering changes in the national labor Knudsen's plan would deny protection of the Wagner act to unions or employees considered He proposed that strikes be forbidden In defense Industries unless employees of a plant had given their consent by secret conducted under the supervision of the U S. labor After such notice is he proposed the be given 30 days to seek Grab Headlines When Lord British ambassador to the United arrived at President Roosevelt met his setting a Not to be King J George VI met the train which took the new S. ambassador to the Court of St. John C to That also was a A new Canadian minister was selected for the United He is Leighton G Toronto No stranger to the U. S. is Ambassador nor to President Am- j McCarthy has for several l years been a director of the Warm Springs U. S. Control Grumbling in the house of in over the swap of Caribbean bases to the U. S. for 5 over-aged has been forbidden to break into the open by Prime Minister However the wide authority given the U. S. in areas is just beginning to become Take for There the U. S. has acquired about j a tenth of the acreage of the tiny 1 The chief hotel has been leased by U. S navy for its The hotel has no room for In another hotel army engineers have set Marines have pitched a camp in still another In Carl Vinson chairman of the house naval disclosed the terms of the Bermuda which are similar to the terms of leases at all other They The lease to run 99 with the United States granted the if necessary for to assume control and conduct military operations within any part of other areas to be if Americans to control ship and air operations and communications within leased Americans to have the right to improve anchorages near leased land bases and to install Americans to have the lame privilege as the British in the use of roads and bridges and the right to use British docks and Supervision Asked Discussion of federal control of life insurance was heard in Washington before the joint senate-house committee investigating Sumner T. representative of the Securities and Exchange told the committee he believed the federal government should not supplant the states in control j of insurance but that a I program of strengthening the state j systems was Senator said he opposed the So did j Representative Sumner the vice Thurman assistant attorney general in charge of the anti-trust said if the states cannot do the job we might wake up after the war j and find we have to take more dras- 1 tic action than otherwise would be j C. There now ia in gold In the vaults of Fort the largest treasure ever assembled under one roof in the history of the The new total was reached when was transferred from vaults in New The pile of glittering bars is just about half of all the gold in the C Alec blind petitioned an Illinois court for an accounting of his naming his parents and an He asked they be restrained from exercising management of his He alleged his Andrew Bry-son and Mrs Sarah May and their attorney had allotted him only monthly for expenses since during which time he earned He said he signed some papers which were read to him and some which he was ad it was not necessary for him to |