Show weekly news analysis surrender by belgium marks new phase in the world war by roger shaw EDITORS NOTE when opinions ar are e expressed in these columns they are those of the news analyst ans and not necessarily rily of this newspaper THE WAR belgian surrender probably one of the most epochal days in history occurred when king leopold of belgium ordered his troops to lay down arms and surrender how long would france and britain continue to wage war was the question immediately raised the whole wars outcome was thus thrown into the balance the mechanized motorized and kir air geared german army continued its alts channel sweep in a wheeling semicircle semi circle which began at cambrai and Bap baraume bapaume aume and took in at the channel mouth of the somme river and then coastal boulogne and calais calais is exactly across from english dover and only 20 miles distant boulogne was ras napoleons headquarters when he be tried to invade england in 1805 german flyers came more and more to dominate the channel making the work of english troop transports exceedingly difficult for reinforcements from england or re to england were bombed mercilessly from the air as at least half a million allied troops appeared caught in a horrible steel trap of nazi manufacturer at the other end st f the channel drive the germans german s were in antwerp leaving the allies only the channel ports of dunkirk french and ostend belgian paris pro tern tem had been left neglected for the germans were said to be considering a separate peace with france a peace some frenchmen were reported as not unwilling to accept V COLUMN lit in england while sir anthony edens anti parachute sharpies sharples shar pies had increased to half a million game keepers unemployed flaming youths and colonel blimps scotland yard cracked down on the so called english fifth column sir oswald mosley world war flyer at 18 and son inlaw in law of the late foreign minister lord curzon had headed the brit opposed the II 11 german war five yard detectives took him in the yard also grabbed off archibald ramsay eton conservative a and ad aristocratic member of parliament and john beckett a former M P who loves a roughhouse parliament passed a tough treachery bill but the irish republican army merely smiled this dangerous secret society has been actively anti british and definitely fifth columnar the I 1 R A made england feel that ireland might be I 1 i a base for german invasion of the britannic midriff even though Ir elands pre mier de valera vigorously orous ly opposes the bomber bhays al so it was expected that the new english 41 dictatorship would launch out against ME the english communists british labor premier appeared especially de valera enthusiastic 0 over v e r Chur chills mailed fist in a kid glove nevertheless Chur chills niece and moslems Mo present wife are sisters PUTTE RINGS on potomac the senate appropriated nearly two billions for the war department by 74 0 also it appropriated nearly a billion and a half for the navy department by 78 to 0 secretary of the treasury talked with a hundred representatives of the count rys aviation plants but it seem to amount to much the navy department then clapped on a VW 3 WIN w f 71 Y x 1 A strange refugee problem has arisen in paris france because of the current war while thousands of parisians Pari have fled to outlying sectors to avoid possible bombing raids by the germans still other thousands of refugees have bo ben n pouring into the city from all over france holland and belgium as in the world war of oe 1914 18 the french government is providing food and shelter for these people in the above photo a family of belgians sad faced is being fed in a paris center 48 43 hour week in its naval yards and hired additional civilian workers chairman dies of the dies committee shuddered over the fifth column at work in the united states dies primarily assailed russia and the communists whom apparently he still dislikes more than germany roosevelt is inclined to prefer russia but for once he said something nice about dies co roosevelt had asked congress to approve the transfer of the immigration natural service from the labor department part ment to the department of justice in order to deal with fifth columnar extremists roosevelt said that a coalition re publico demo cabinet was simply cockeyed cock eyed but he had talked to landon and knox last time republican candidates and landon asked him to give up third termite aspirations which carpers said led to a roosevelt republican deadlock and the cockeyed cock eyed verdict weather prophets predicted an unusually dirty presidential campaign for 1940 and some people accused roosevelt of exploiting the european war to promote third AND IN FRANCE more trouble french premier reynaud indulged in caustic criticism of his own army an unusual thing in wartime and one important french general an army head was captured allegedly in a tank as he took a firsthand look at the front lines this general had been captured too in the 1 I german war his staff it was believed had been taken along with him but reynaud no soldier himself made fight talks and stressed his solidarity with the english meanwhile it turned out that the allied plane production had sunk to 1000 per month to the german a shrinkage of 25 per cent at a bad time german airplanes claimed to have bombed and sunk six more british transports in the channel though three hospital ships filled with british wounded succeeded in getting through the merciless nazi barrage PROVE ANYTHING by statistics paris germans lost 1000 planes in two weeks london germans lost 1500 planes in two weeks berlin allies lost 2100 planes in two weeks at rotterdam in hapless holland the allies said civilians perished but the germans said the allies said only of berlins automobiles were still running paris said the germans had lost men in their dutch french offensive but berlin said the german loss then was about london said eight british hurricane planes completely routed 35 german junkers planes of the 35 germans 37 were reported as shot down or riddled and again six hurricanes took on 20 messer in return the modest germans merely claimed they seen an enemy plane in a week resignation approved james H R cromwell married doris duke the heiress roosevelt made him minister to the canadians your correspondent rode up to canada with him recently in the montreal plane ultra ally he 9 got ot a warm w arm reception over the border the 13 S state department proved less warm cromwell resigned to run for the new jersey roosevelt wished cromwell well in the larger field of activity US DEFENSE billions the critics went to work on roose belts plan for airplanes and an extra appropriation of a billion dollars how much would airplanes really cost and how many men would it take to staff them and operate them the experts began to figure they discovered that at the price england and france pay for aircraft planes would cost at least six billions the american aviation professionals backed up this astonishing sum then our air chief put it at seven billions but this was not all it takes thirty men per plane to keep it properly conditioned and piloted hence it would take men to run our plane aerial armada these plus the force of regulars now talked about would make for an army of over 2000 1 men mostly air force and there came the rub for A 10 an army of minimum would w mean nothing less J LA ti than universal costly conscription but charles A asked the critics lindbergh roosevelt know that a mere billion dollars would buy and equip comparatively few airplanes meanwhile americas three best N NAMES A M E S in tle the news rev dr william lindsay youn young 1 president of park college missouri was chosen moderator of the general assembly of the presbyterian church in the united states this election took 00 k place at the presbyterian general assembly held at rochester N Y there were six candidates simultaneously aaron copland was elected president of the american composers alliance in new york city said mayor laguardia of new york the only way to escape international ter national complications is to get off the earth and we are not ready for that and the mayor said other things not calculated to help him with new yorks italian and nationalist voters then he be joined the committee for the defense of america through aid to the allies A negro with the unusual name of alfonso jansen got maybe an even more unusual sentence in new york he slapped the face of susie hall and the judge asked her for a suitable penalty susie said send jansen back to africa for 1000 years the judge replied that he hed d think it over alfred duff cooper recently an english propagandist in the united states and now the official english propaganda minister said that english and french defeats had done more for the cause of the allies than eight months of propaganda duff cooper has been a special student of that tricky french diplomat 11 de talleyrand and sir samuel hoare air minister in the chamberlain cabinet till churchill fired him to please british labor was named for a propaganda mission to spain in an effort to detach dictator franco from dictator mussolini mao tse tung tun 47 famous head of the mysterious chinese communist party and arch baiter of the japanese invaders was reported dead of tuberculosis after a spectacular career josephus daniels U S dor to mexico city said that mexico would not be pro german today as it was back in 1917 he added that all 21 pan american republics would stick together if any one of them was attacked by europe americo mexican relations relation related mr daniels were never better in 1794 france was in desperate derpera te plight against england she put in a five man dictatorship called th the directory in 1940 england was in equally desperate plight against germany she too put in a five man dictatorship far more stringent than the directory ever thought of being the english dictatorship consisted of two conservatives chamberlain and halifax two laborites labovites Lab orites greenwood and attlee and one stormy petrel the hon winston churchill their object was to out hitler hitler sidney hillman was for his lucky thirteenth term as pi president resident of the amalgamated clothing workers of america which has more than a quarter million members the union is largely anticommunist endorses democracy and supports roosevelt for that third term leon trotsky no 2 hero of the russian revolution was machine gunned at in mexico city by 20 assassins sas sins who fired shots trotsky and his wife rolled under their beds and miraculously escaped to the sorrow of some and the delight of others trotsky blamed the incident on organization but the raiders spoke spanish mussolini was quoted as saying that allied offers to italy were too little and too late meanwhile premier jim fraser of new zealand introduced a dictatorship on the english churchill model for that loyal british dominion new zealand probably is the most socialistic spot not counting brutalized nazi germany in the world today practical military critics lindbergh our no 1 ace and general smedley butler of the ma vr rines expressed the belief that ohp 1 united states was quite safe and M ets deavo red to allay current hysteria most evident in the U S on the eastern seaboard RELIGION the lutherans Luth erans americas third biggest protestant denomination is that of martin luther with well over adherents he rents but more than 50 per cent of the worlds lutherans Luth erans are now under nazi rule it was divulged this includes germany proper and germany improper germany improper takes in the lutherans Luth erans of norway denmark slovakia and poland holland is calvinist belgium is catholic FORE LN DS the british government kicked the women and children out of gi br altar that firm imperialist rock at the western gate of the mediterranean the liner president roosevelt got off for ireland to pick up stranded american refugees from england the state department warned the belligerent powers to let it alone the sister liner president harding sold to belgium had recently been bombed to the bottom by german flyers elegant baldpate bald pate franz von rin bin telen chief saboteur in america in the I 1 german war was responsible for the famous black tom explosion in 1916 he like the nazis went over to the english and worked with them against hitler now under storm and stress england fears him and so they jailed him he was the lion of the london literary set cabled an observer germany transferred its bank balances in the U S perhaps to the credit of swedish banks so said stockholm financial circles harvard blitzko blitzkrieg aed t MIR CRAW YOU MAY aie TO FIGHT FOR EMPI E 4 VE att TAKE your 31 ONCE avas 0 aw As a history instructor paul 1 D rf E cram of harvard university at cambridge mass lectured to his class that america should enter the ivar or become a second rate power the student above marched arched in in protest against V U S intervention the youth called himself and a companion not pictured members of the harvard committee for the recognition tion of classroom generals released by western newspaper union |