Show weekly news analysis A allied blied troops leave norway as spotlight turns on italy by H ho W 9 er shaw CH EDITORS NOTE when opinions are r expressed in these columns they are r those of the sews news analyst and not cot necessarily of this newspaper WOTAN WINS in norway following aust austria ria czecho S slovakia lova poland came poor norway said one neutral statesman nervously the kiss of england is the kiss of death frightened swedish netherlands and balkan leaders were inclined to agree norse N writers and generals denounced john bull while the english cabinet was tottering the allied troops de barked from and namsos namios in the strategic trondheim Trond heim area and sailed away under a terrific hamm hammering ering from the german bombers much of their equipment was abandoned and the norwegian troops poorly poorly armed and trained as is natural in a small democracy with no imperialist intentions did not make much of a stand in isolated sectors the english expedition aries in norway had been out shot out flown and outgeneraled out raw london militia and half trained regulars had to face toughened german veterans of the 18 day polish war last fall fail the british marines too were not trained for landing operations to be followed by a land war of maneuver good men all their duties had been aboard ship and as brass but ton garrisons in far flung colonies U S marines have had exactly the right training for a norse operation and would have given the germans a far more telling battle according to american army and navy men this was a technical matter of opinion anti italics english and french battleships were concentrated in the carawa faraway y eastern mediterranean and the british merchant marine was ordered out of the blue mediterranean waters the english itinerary to india the imperial lifeline was rerouted around the african horn hom the cape of good hope to escape italian submarines seaplanes sea planes and sea sleds for italy has the third best air force in europe and perhaps the worlds best submarine flotilla and italian torpedo carriers are a tested roman specialty Roosevel ts ambassador to rome william phillips pleaded with mussolini to keep out of the war and moscow accused rome of blackmail finland is so easily forgotten the aegean sea loomed up as a possible location for italo allied warfare but some observers believed that the badgered french might cede mussolini their african tunis just below sicily in order to keep the iron duce quiet there are roughly an equal number of italians and french living in the predominantly arabic colony france must learn to give remarked a worried U S official b P Z U usar S S R F R CE tilli ku i y TURKEY 01 01 0 1 t IRAM 16 1 1 1 J ap ALGERIA V f I 1 isufi anal 1 1 LIBYA fr FR ARABIA f A F RJ d A r 41 nt 0 I 1 AMI ANGLO 0 I 1 EGYPTIAN as J i NIGERIA 1 UDAH t ITALIAN 1 AFRICA C 1 1 f BELGIAN KENYA r A rk p co HGO ti i 1 all I J 7 90 J 4 5 W X ON 7 ks 5 AFRICA aa iwho THE IE LONGEST WAY AROUND tras the shortest way home for british ibish ships in italian when england fearing italy was getting t ready to enter the war on the side of germany ordered these vessels to head for home ports via the suez canal and cape of good od hope this route indicated by the broken line on the above map is a distance of miles normal route indicated by solid id line is only 2000 miles one minor school of thought held that the english battleships were moved to the eastern mediterranean to get them away from doomed scapa flow and the pestiferous ti german flyers naval aerial although the british navy appeared to have suffered severely in in the norse and scapa flow operations and elsewhere it also appeared that the little german navy had been really badly crippled by the norwegian coastal fighting losses that england could easily afford were serious matters for hit lers admirals on the other hand germany had been relying on planes rather than on ships and the nazi air force still remained intact although reportedly short on gasoline but the norwegian coastal bases were meat for the german air force wherewith to raid british ports and naval bases norse bergen is only miles from the shetland islands and miles from the highly important orkney group where lies famed scapa flow bergen is miles from edinburgh ancient wo tans burg the scotch capital NAMES in the news alfred duff cooper formerly eng lands secretary of war and also her secretary of the navy called the german governmental leaders a gang of moneymaking money making murderers duff coopers wife is the beautiful lady diana manners who starred in america in the miracle long years back duff cooper himself has been a special student of that shifty old french statesman talleyrand whose biographer he is declared old knut hamsun great norwegian novelist and nobel prize winner in 1920 england is incapable of helping us except with small flocks here and there roving about our valleys and asking for food in newark N J a man got a divorce 11 vorce he said he had been compelled to move 27 times in six years his name was allan macfee he told the judge he never knew which bus to take home at night my wife was the moving mans friend said he mrs macfee got the divorce on grounds of desertion mr macfee did not contest mrs charles H mayo chosen as no 1 american mother for 1940 advised young couples to go 90 in for babies instead of motorcars she advised that the baby comes first of all and after that if money is lacking for an automotive a wheel bar row will do just about as well the automobile industry did not endorse this matronly muttering the metropolitan opera star luisa Tet age 68 63 died at milan in italy the italian song star was ugly but beloved and was especially prominent from roughly 1 norse stavanger Sta vanger is miles from the english east coast port of hull and less than that to edinburgh also german seaplanes sea planes have acquired danish bases in addition to the german seaplane bases of and helgeland Hel goland both these vital spots once were dane owned DOMESTIC shipping despite restrictions placed upon it by the neutrality act U S shipping has climbed to its highest point in 10 years As this news was announced attorney general jackson was forming a special justice department part ment unit to investigate and prosecute any violations related to neutrality sedition espionage and similar offenses because so many ships are clearing U S ports for foreign destinations law enforcement agencies have been hard pressed to keep track of all violations of the neutrality act SMALLER FRY yet notable the national assembly of the filipinos slapped down an immigration quota of per nationality per year despite howls of rage from the japanese who are perhaps trojan horse borse minded in the philippines maj gen bernard paget redhead son of the late bishop of oxford wa was especially praised by prime minister chamberlain for his skillful retreat from norway he got troops wounded and supplies away by sea under the very nose of german aircraft prior to this feat he was almost unknown he has a crippled left arm a souvenir of the first german war he gets a no I 1 hero rating giovanni ansaldo italian news writer who is the mouthpiece of count ciano italian foreign minister son in law predicted that as a result of its norse and other victories germany would successfully invade great britain 1940 is riot not 1066 replied an english journalist in haste go west young man applies now to staid old harvard that university will erect in the rocky mountains of colorado the worlds high est observatory to study the sun with exclusive equipment of ultra scientific value miss jean eisner of new york city reproved a local subway guard for yammering hammering yam mering heil hitler the cammerer yam promptly popped her on the left jaw hard on the left side of the face and the whole party P including onlookers landed in an upper police sta station tion critics suggested blackouts for N Y subways for world peace A swiss lady journalist and a german movie magnate were condemned to death at paris for espionage in in the case mory erler france uses the firing squad germany the axe THAT 40 ELECTION nomination notes tom dewey dashing wunderkind Wunder kind of manhattan appeared to talk himself into indigestion out west and was laid up pro tern tem he lost some republican convention delegates too massachusetts primary voters plumped for an deci decision sion instead of for tommy in florida a stop dewey campaign began elliott roosevelt described as talkative said his father might not run for a third term the father of the son said nothing boss green of the A F of L accused boss lewis of the C 1 I 0 of presidential aspirations on a third ticket third term ver versus s us third ticket new yorks mayor laguardia was rumored to be considering himself either as a republican or as a democratic vice president there was too a lot of talk about a farley garner or garner farley ticket and a lot of wishful thinking about roose belts being tired to his friends who are many roosevelt did not seem tired at all but rep tinkham of massachusetts chu declared that another term of Roose roosevelt veli and hull would surely rep tinkham mean war for the united states meanwhile third terms aside the presidents mother became ill from food poisoning on her way to the worlds fair and had to be treated in a local drugstore for two hours SEEING RED protection clarence hathaway editor of new yorks community daily worker was convicted of criminal libel after a trial of three weeks he faced a maximum penalty of a year in the concentration camp like his party chief earl browder who got into trouble over phoney passports and the americo nazi chieftain fritz kuhn whose followers uncle sam protected hathaway 46 years old is younger than browder purge ol of burgers the dies comal committee atee itself a of burgers pu faced a purge at the hands of hostile new dealers who do not care for martin dies or his works obstruction non co operation and smearing had failed to wreck the dies machine and the C 1 I 0 joined in the fight against dies critics declared it a battle royal between red balters and pro pinks the committee has consisted of five democrats and two re ans texas dies in the texas saddle as chairman POTOMAC PICKINGS labovitis Lab not only is there a dies committee there is also a smith committee and its purpose is to investigate the heavily slammed around national labor relations board the so called Smithson ians went to work with a will and discovered that the well known harry bridges CALL THE G MEN 1 notes the president of the professionally peaceful carnegie institute sam church showed himself as the wars no I 1 belligerent he announced that fifty reeking rich pitts burghers had offered a million dollar lar prize for the of adolf hitler hitler must be alive and he must be taken by the end of may pacific new yorkers appeared to be astonished by churchs churche boner and some allied sympathizers counter offered rewards for the of churchill or chamberlain apparently parent ly they thought old england could get along better without the pair this however was debatable and while a few americans talked glibly about like bad ILL jt tie de boys and girls another 7 aa y americans were killed in autom au bile accidents in the first three th ree months of unpleasant 1940 from australia much debated president of the international long shores mans union ever apparently in hot water had been in the genial habit of consulting with the labor board when he took steps it also turned out that certain labor board members helped the C 1 I 0 organize the steel industry back in 1936 the supreme court held that a group of seven little steel corporations po rations had no standing in the courts justice black wrote the decision and justice that mean old man as usual dissented U S commerce chamber former vice president charlie dawes you remember his pipes told the chamber that our next president would have to fight not germans but a huge army of government spenders wasters basters wa and patron age padding politicos to save america from chaos and ruination the chamber adopted a program to keep the country out of war and to arm it faster on a pay as you go basis twenty two other points were also espoused by the nationwide nation wide busness minded gathering at its annual meeting U S aviation general arnold top kick of the U S army air corps said in a talk that our flyers had learned several tricks from the european mess the general listed them germa german type leak proof gas tanks are es f sent ial military planes must be well v A GENERAL ARNOLD his is boys learned a few tricks armored like tanks or armored cars bigger machine guns must be used as antiaircraft anti aircraft bigger guns must be installed in air aircraft crali bombers for defensive safety must be equipped with guns in the tall tail bombers must go farther at a hop american legionnaires listened to the general with rapt attention released by western newspaper union |