Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Treasury Asks Billion Tax Boost To Carry Out U. S. Sweeping Soviet Advances Continue As New Assaults Puncture Nazi Lines NOTE When opinions are expressed In these they those of the news analyst not necessarily nf this by Western HE i y II n i r BB Secretary of the Treasury Henry as he presented a new 7 billion million dollar tax program to If approved by the new taxes proposed by the added to the present would yield approximately 23 billion million dollars in This would be an average of slightly more than for every woman and child in the War Not Cheap j The job of digging j In tax money out of the pockets of i the people of the United Slates had I been placed squarely before Secretary of the and he had placed a plan before the congress to accomplish He had prefaced his ment of the plan with the statement that it was a and that was not but a mil-i Lion times cheaper to win than to j The plan had called for a general doubling of income taxes between the bottom limit and increases of corporate increase of excise and a raising of the security payment One innovation was the secretary's suggestion that at least a tion of the tax be raised at the employers withholding weekly amounts from their workers' pay and turning it over to the treasury Secretary admitted i this might mean paying on two I years' taxes at the same time after about July but pointed out that it would reduce the burden the following and also would prevent taxpayers from spending in inflationary avenues to purchase that could not be in sufficient quantity to meet the The first reactions of congressmen in general had been It j was doubtful if the eventual tax bill would emerge in exactly the form as presented by Secretary but that something like it would be adopted was considered Samples of the schedules called for single persons making a net of now paying to pay for married persons making with no now paying to pay for married persons with two dependents making a net of to pay instead of the present Increase Pace It had been expected that as the I spring thaws began to set in the Russians would find the going more especially as Hitler made for his Some wonder had been caused when the Germans began issuing j telling of enormous num-i bers of Red troops being shoved up I toward the reports which were more or less confirmed from Red j There were two possible solutions to this either the Germans were I preparing their people for the expected report of the loss of the field which been in the Russa or they were trying to convince the United States and Britain that Russia did not need and could lot use additional lease-lend However this might observers aad considered it more likely that having placed a large group generals in the background posts if training new was put-Dg these into the fight in order to the before I get To the westward he Russian army has captured arge quantities of war It recalled statements of Napoleon and of the Germans themselves the last that conquering the Russians was impossible because of 1 their tremendous for thousands of new troops always appeared on all just one thought them well beaten There were many who had expressed the belief that In-stead of driving the Russians back if forced to a leavy battle on two even be mocked rapidly out of the war Validity of this belief will je determined in the next few I New Psychology The word had become increasingly important in the dictionary of the Allied In Washington Chief of Staff General Marshall had struck the and when the Japs came into and General Wavell was shunted off to leaving Dutch Ter in almost the first order to the men was to make an offensive out of the defense of the The which included some British and but which largely were Dutch and had hurled themselves at the enemy with considerably more force than had been evidenced by the British in either Malaya or and early successes were the estimated Japanese troops were able to turn the tide of battle against approximately Allied The Japs had landed at three the estimate being that warships and transports had been One landing was on the Sumatra point of the another in the north central and the third just west of Though most observers felt from the first that the battle for Java could have only one and though the at the were bitter against the United Nations for not having sent sufficient the battle was the first test of the new to be the instead of the defensive at all times The battle for Java marked the closing phase of the beginning of the Southwest Pacific Japanese successes in that won at a huge cost of man were largely the result of overwhelming air More of the of the fall of France and the reasons for it had been aired by outspoken Eduard ex-premier who had been placed on At the same time Maurice Gamelin had stood stiffly at refusing to answer a single question hurled at him by Pierre the prosecutor But giving still more import to the reports of dissension and ot within the charged that Ik the entire war ef- m fort of France had been W Irm lack of in- iKi I ter est of several 1 large steel Indus- lr I M He told two 0 0 11 c e 1 n s wn 1 cn St had been ap- by the Eduard government long before the war to take part in a government-private industry combine which would have set up huge arma- i ment works in northern had the government would have been able to have strengthened her armed But the industrialists approached refused to consider the plan until Trance was at war with I when it was too he had How to Spend Donald charged with the job of spending an apparently unending succession of billions of had issued a document called Directive 2 which outlined to the world his theories of how it should be In the he has ended competitive bidding on war He is he had to get the small not now in war into the war Change Toward Paris Indicated by Bombing Though the British had systematically bombed enemy installations ir occupied particularly thos nearest the channel ex for the token bombing in had been virtually untouched by with a sudden day anc night attack against the huge factories on the outskirts of Britain apparently had told th world that her policy toward th queen city of France had beer A large squadron of heavy meeting considerable anti-aircraft had flown over the and suburbs all day and far into the night dropping deadly loads in the neighborhood of the Citro and Reg-nier motor Vichy did not reveal the of the but said there civilian London had been terse about the simply stating that the Renault auto to France what Ford is to this had the symbol of French collaboration with The said known to have been engaged in the making and repairing of tanks and airplane engines for Made in a Day From the Pacific theater had come the story of a determined attempt by Japanese heavy evidently operating from an island to put one of our largest air- craft carriers out of The thanks to the vigorous defense of the pursuit escaped a the navy had Out of it emerged Edward O'Hare of St. as the war's first in a The Japs against the carrier with 18 bombers in two flights Wg s H EDWARD O'HARE Navy's in a of nine Only two got Yet the attackers came in with such ferocity that one of them attempted a with his load of bombs on the deck of the close was the navy had he was shot down by point-blank fire when less than yards from his O'Hare got six of the enemy planes all by The other pursuit fliers got the other Two returned to the Jap base j Two American planes had been shot but the pilot of one was It was a dramatic affair and one which showed the American pilots were being tried in combat and not found also that the Jap if they continued at five to one or soon were bound to be reflected in a loss of momentum for their Decided Upon While there had been little question that the Atlantic Charter and a possible spring offensive on the European plus the keeping of I supply lines open to Britain and Russia were the primary American I military a significant 1 strategy had been decided upon in the Pacific theater This strategy called for the use of Australia as a basing-ground and a hop-off point for the eventual winning offensive against the There had been numbers of bombing raids on Port Darwin and other points of importance to and the believed that were laying the groundwork for an eventual all-out But it was with the not I the defensive thought in mind tin at Australia was planning with the United States for men and munitions with which to make the continent a springboard for attack rather than |