| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S.-Russ Pact Means And Co-Operation for Lasting Yank Warships Join British New Pipeline to Supply Oil for East NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this Released by Western Newspaper I How the United States can help now starving and prostrate under Nazi rule was among things discussed when King George II of Greece conferred with President Roosevelt during the Greek monarch's flying visit to the President is shown with King George on the White House U. S.-RUSS In succession came three moves by the United Russia and Great Britain that promised momentous consequences for the prosecution of the war and the safeguarding of the peace President Roosevelt announced that the United States and Russia had reached a understanding with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942 British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced that Britain and Russia had signed a military and political alliance pledging peace and renouncing territorial the United States and Russia signed a mutual assistance agreement for prosecution of the war against the pledging increased lend-lease aid and post-war economic Central figure in negotiating the three-way understanding was Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. The Russian statesman flew first to London and then hopped the Atlantic to where under the incognito of he was a White House guest for a Not until Molotov was safely back in Moscow was the curtain of secrecy about his visit Significance of this latest diplomatic coup for the United Nations is that war activities will be greatly speeded and the framework for a durable peace based on economic fair play OIL FOR New Pipeline Acting to avert a threatened fuel oil famine in the the War Production board authorized immediate construction of a pipe line from to the The new pipeline will cut in half the distance Texas oil has to travel at present b rail and inland waterway to reach the Atlantic While it will have a capacity of barrels a the pipeline will not supply enough oil to lift gasoline rationing restrictions in the officials They pointed out that shipments of oil and oil products to the East have not been meeting essential despite rigid rationing and that stocks have fallen dangerously below safety RUSSIAN Nazis Speed Drive Stepping up the tempo of their Russian Nazi armies and air forces pressed attacks on three major These included a push from in the a drive against besieged Sevastopol in the Crimea and an air attack on north of the Finnish sector With completion expected by December the pipeline will require tons of finished The size of the force directed at Sevastopol suggested that the Nazis were at last getting their summer campaign under way More than ten German divisions numbering men were reported striking at the strategic Black sea city The importance of this city is that it opens a to the rich Caucasus oil From Moscow came a cheering announcing that the intensity and stubbornness of the the enemy failed to break the resistance of the Sevastopol defenders YANK Join British Fleet As land and air warfare in Europe and Africa approached a critical the Atlantic ocean battle theater crowded into the forefront with the announcement a powerful task force of U S. warships had joined the British home Commanded by Rear Admiral Robert C. the American naval force will help the British blockade German-controlled guard Allied convoys and hunt Axis News that the Yank sea reinforcement had joined the British became public in connection with a three-day visit to an English port by King George who boarded a U. S. battleship and saw other warships of the task force With British scattered in the the Mediterranean and Pacific the arrival of substantial help from the American navy in the Atlantic area had significant implications Important among these was that the stronger United Nations naval squadron now would be able to keep closer watch on the powerful Nazi warships lurking in Norwegian NAZI In Czechoslovakia In a reign of terror following the death of Reinhard Heydrich at the hands of Czech Nazi Gestapo executioners slaughtered the entire male population of the Czech village of banished its women and children to concentration camps and burned it to the The Axis-controlled Prague radio charged that the village harbored Heydrich's The town's population was estimated at indicating that upward of men were was located a few miles west of Prague and not far from where was fatally wounded by patriots while driving along a winding ALEUTIAN Jap While the navy department denied Axis claims that Japanese navy and army units had established footholds on the inhabited areas of the Aleutian island chain stretching miles across the north Pacific from further reports of the extent of the American air and naval victory at Midway island came from Admiral Chester W. commander in chief of the Pacific Admiral Nimitz intimated that of a Jap invasion fleet of more than 30 vessels engaged in the probably half were Besides heavy loss in warships and the enemy's toll of manpower ran into That the Tokyo government was preparing the Nipponese public for news of the sea reverse was indicated by reports that an official spokesman had warned a radio audience not to expect that battle news could always be FOOD Anglo S. Pool The announcement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the establishment of two combined boards to integrate Anglo-American arms production and plan the most effective use of food resources of the United Nations had a two-fold It meant that the United Nations' war effort would be speeded up tremendously by quicker production of essential materials and a more efficient use of shipping 2 It meant that careful plans for the post-war world were being for the organization of the vast resources of the United States carried into peace-time operations could help solve international problems of eliminate cutthroat competition and raise living That both the arms production board and the food board would have the benefit of the best Anglo-American planning brains was e i-dent from their Donald M. war production and British minister of comprised the production board Claude R. secretary of was named American representative on the food working with the R. II head of the British Food Reduction of American food surpluses might become President Roosevelt as a means of alleviating hardships abroad One of the objectives of the food he is to distribute foodstuffs on a fair basis among all United BUMPER For U. S. Farms Progress in the battle for all-out food production was reported b. the department of agriculture which predicted that all previous records of United States farm production may be if weather conditions remain The department said most crops were in better condition than at the corresponding time last year when the nation had one of the most bountiful harvests in its A winter wheat production of bushels was The I predicted a spring wheat crop of bushels If a crop of this size once more would far exceed domestic requirements of about bushels of wheat a year and add substantially to the nation's food stockpile for war purposes and 1 peace-time planning WAR Ahead of Schedule Donald M. Nelson told the world that America is the with war production exceeding all The chairman of the War Production board in an address before the graduating class of the University of Missouri confidently year we shall make airplanes and by the end of the year i DONALD M. NELSON Impossible is we shall be picking up speed for an even greater We have found our total production of war goods is higher than we had any reason to suppose it could be when blue prints were first prepared for war But it was of the post-war period of opportunity as well as the conflict itself that the round-faced production boss this war is costing us a fearful he is also developing for us new technique and new It is placing at our disposal an industrial plant a set of developed resources that will be beyond is not inevitable any more The sum total of the world's greatest possible output of divided by the sum total of the world's no longer means a little less than enough for VICHY Keep Ties To most Americans the government of France is But to Ambassador William D. in the United States the return to power of Pierre the Petain regime has I merit enough to warrant Uncle Sam in maintaining diplomatic In the eyes of most Petain is far less o Nazi tool who is looked upon as a traitorous puppet |
