Show weekly news analysis fundamental strategy e gy of war undergoes major A iterations alterations esy by roger shaw EDITORS NOTE when opinions Ds these columns they ar are e expressed in are those of the news analyst ind and not necessarily of this newspaper GERMAN WAR strate strategy ff it is about time that we examined the fundamental strategy of the german war at this point for the whole situation has changed in england in germany and in the united states the german aim was a simple one it was to attack england by land sea and air without wasting much time or effort in other theaters of war which were trifling anyway italy was expected to take malta and spain was expected to enter tl the war and take gibraltar with the possibility that japan might take hongtong Hong kong but all these were side issues as compared with the basic battle of britain here the preliminary german air bombardment proved highly effective and english portsmouth and welsh cardiff were believed already to be gutted edward VIII duke of windsor was called a fifth columnist by some englishmen and hailed as the next monarch by others churchill plan the english war plan was this to hold out like a besieged fortress if possible for two or three months then late fall would put an end to german operations against the island fortress at this point the english would swing into offensive action in the following way by an intensified sea blockade that would bring famine to the entire continent of europe there have been crop shortages and failures on the continent and another war winter might bring untold horrors to the dutch belgians french norse danes etc and even to the germans this was exactly what winston churchill was counting on there was one hitch in this plan what food there was on the continent would go 1 to 19 the german army 2 to the german home folks and 3 to the dutch belgians french etc etc thereby chereb y the british would make the dutch and french suffer for hillers Hit lers wron wrong g doings but this was only the b beginning e of the repercussions it was expected that this plan the churchill plan they called it would have the following astounding effect in the united states it would turn the isolationists into interventionists and the interventionists into isola zionists the reason for this was as follows the humane isolationists could not stand the continental starvation and would want to intervene NAMES A M E S in ibi the news I 1 new york cites mayor laguardia strongly advocated universal military service president manuel quezon of the philippines told american high com missioner francis sayre woodrow wilsons Wil sons son in law we must do our own thinking and learn lessons from contemporary history or bust claude dornier jr son of ger banys outstanding aircraft designer was in new york and planned to enter an american university in the autumn dornier bombers were being massed for the battle of britain all metal monoplanes mono planes gen eugene famous near eastern french army was reported at last ready for final disbandment under the direction of an italian war mission tel hauser succeeded gen max when the latter went to france to wind up the war and help reorganize the government burton on trent is in england it got ot its name in the news too its I 1 N W 0 0 C av 0 V 0 Q 7 w NI I 1 SUPPLY LINES 1 Z 01 40 10 to ka 71 41 1 V 1 I 1 1 TACK ON lon JI r 16 L 6 A aws ar roc K ON EA F R A nt C r this map graphically shows the many points of attack on the british isles open to hillers Hit lers air raiders to break the british blockade and feed the starving french dutch and belgians with american foodstuffs of which we would have a surplus this would make the iso take an interventionist position meanwhile the intervention ests would cry hands oh off the british blockade and would want the continent to stew in its own juice which would turn them into isola zionists this then was the keynote to the european war situation as a whole meanwhile hitler I 1 liberated the belgian war prisoners and sent them home having long since done the same by the norwegian and dutch soldier captives the french were expected to be next on the parole list not so the tough and ready poles of whom there were more than a million in german military hands CAMPAIGN up warming the 1940 presidential campaign race was busy up warming it was in fact getting warmer and warmer the third term attempt by mr roosevelt brought forth many dire predictions from newspaper editorial writers one excellent quip went the rounds A lady said to a gent local doctor had his car stolen when he complained to the police they fined him 20 this was for not securing your car during the hours of darkness they were afraid a german had driven off with the crate kid konoye japanese prince whose son was captain of the princeton goll golf team came in as a semi totalitarian nipponese boss after the semi liberal admiral donais bunch gave up the game the nippon kid once went to a fancy dress party all gotten up like hitler adolphus I 1 and he looked simply awful they told him so and he just laughed president karl kari of latvia quit office as a result of the phoney pro russian elections premier willi took over his job latvia voted for a soviet federal status along with little lithuania and latvia the lithuanian president anton already had fled to germany but a third terms un precedent ed to which the gent replied so was general first term some thoughtful students of political science believed that the third term phenomenon was a pale american reflection of totalitarian dictatorships tor ships abroad just as our civil war of 1861 was a pale reflection of civil 1848 in europe henry wallace was put up as democratic vice president in order to match the republican mcnary for both were agricultural experts experts of the very first water the choice of wallace brought out that this new dealer was an ex republican and mr roosevelt had passed over a number of regulation machine democrats wallace ickes stimson knox hopkins miss perkins none of them had had a democratic background but then of course the ex demo crat willkie had only been a republican for but two scant years hoover too was a former democrat while it was expected that al smith would continue to take a walk it looked as though the old party divisions were breaking down all along the line and the terms new deal and old guard were increasingly taking the place of the republican alican and democratic tags the loss of jim farley the political genius who managed the party machinery for roosevelt was a heavy blow to many of the democrats more of it while a good many democrats were muttering about the III term wallace and farley willkie stressed his own humble origin and inferred artfully that Roosevel ts path had been a lot softer willkie said furthermore ther more that he was making no sacrifice but that he really wanted to run which wais certainly obvious to almost anybody he continued to play his rough and rugged heman he man role while roosevelt kept sounding the foreign affairs gong and talking about all sorts of grave national perils the london newspapers were delighted with these two and know which to prefer the german press preferred willkie because they like roosevelt any less OIL OIL OIL petroleum large shipments of oil have been going through to spain from american texas and also from south american venezuela and colombia something like 2 million barrels had been sent from the united states in eight months of the war was hitler getting much of it probably they thought in washington some in fact believed that germany had been getting far more oil from america than from russia from another angle it looked as if spain which was demanding gibraltar from england might go into the war on the axis side in which case germany would get more and more of the oil spain has an estimated barrels in stock a pretty nice nest egg new dealers and brain trustees were having cat nip eions british sources said they counted on the germans running short of oil by the spring of 1941 a heavy blow to an air minded and mechanized motorized army FL FLYING YING atlantic II 11 the civil aeronautics board at washington gave permission for export p ort airlines inc to start a transatlantic service in competition with pan american airways the new service was to be operated between new york and lisbon nd was set to start at a near date the export outfit announced that its planes and ships would be coordinated co nothing succeeds like competition said the aviation critics and they pointed out as proof that roosevelt had liberalized the republican party HITLER TALKS endlessly hillers Hit lers speech came over the radio translated into an extreme ultra english accent it must have been lord haw haw putting it across it went on endlessly hitler said he want to d destroy the british empire he said he shrank at the destruction which hung over england and suggested an honorable peace hitler reviewed his conquests his methods and his diplomatic wrangles with chamberlain and deladier Da ladier he said he spoke not as a victor but as a rationalist anxious 1 ous to terminate futile misery some 31 pacific coast radio stations cut oft off his speech because it was trying to justify his crimes against civilization itself hitler also made goering something brand new in the staid history of the prussian army a A an n Emp emphatic batic no WE 77 1 W X g aa 0 I 1 to adolf hillers Hit lers last chance peace offer prime Bli minister churchill of england sounded the expected no long an enemy of hitler churchill has been particularly obnoxious to the fuehrer even when churchill was iras just a private citizen hitler singled hirn him out for oratorical attack see hitler talks marshal of greater germany and gave him the grand cross of the iron cross goering besig designed ne d hi him ini p self a new different extra t uniform the only one of its kina in all german official officialdom dorn hitler also created nine new field marshals and two new field marshals general and 17 new colonel generals german military grades run different from the american ANGLO SHIFT turnabouts Turn while hitler was promoting all those glamour boy generals and airmen and scattering decorations to the four winds england was kicking various people upstairs an ar looking gentleman named gen sir alan F brooke recently general officer in charge of the southern command became commander in chief of the home forces he took the place of ge bekk sir edmund ironside it was oliven oliva ironsides that founded the british regular army sir ironside a huge hulking fellow who once commanded gibraltar was kicked into being a field general viscount gort former commander of the ill fated british expeditionary force in france and flanders had the same experience he became inspector general of forces for training previously gort had received the sacred order ot of the bath which evoked considerable criticism but gort everybody admitted was a good organizer brooke had commanded the II 11 corps of the british expeditionary force vitamin B simultaneous with the military turnabouts turn england went in for a new kind of white bread it was rich in vitamin B and calcium salt to help overcome the wartime strain of nerves and physical fatigue it was a revolution in nutrition the scientific food ministry was enthusiastic about it and it might turn out to be a real boon to medicine and to humanity in general the british public began to buy it up and gulp it down BURMA ROAD so silly the burma road controversy took the silliest turn on record that road carried war supplies to chiang kai shek and his armies the british foreign office closed it on the heated demand of japan then secretary hull protested that the burma road was necessary for world IL 3 trade and international commerce hull is an old free trader at this point part of the british parliament supported hull against their own foreign office with cries of no appeasement pea china infuriated threatened england with dire threats germany of course took the side of japan thereby hitler took the side of the british foreign office against hull and chiang kai shek it was anglo germany plus japan versus the U S A meanwhile england was trying to negotiate the finish to the jap chinese contest but apparently our own state department was opposed to appeasement in the orient all this hit a new low in foreign relations TO REMEMBER please note jr JS last october secretary wallace made an announcement in san francisco mr wallace said that wartime conditions and considerations of national safety made a third term necessary last october the white house was reported much annoyed by the utterance of mr wallace and now mr wallace has announced that he is ready and willing to take any part in the campaign requested by the president released by western newspaper unions |