Show weekly Wee EBy news analysis trouble loonis looms between greece italy british lose Soma liland by abby roger shaw EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of or the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper GREECE and italy germany grabbed czechoslovakia austria denmark norway luxemburg belgium holland and parts ot of poland and france russia grabbed estonia latvia lithuania lighuani a and parts of poland finland and rumania italy grabbed ethiopia pounced on republican spain and swallowed albania italy was on the move again this time against greece poor greece had done nothing but shiver since the war began its dictator W PRESIDENT METAXAS neither pro british nor pro german general metaxas was neither pro british nor pro german he was just plain pro metaxas but albania and greece have a common borderline there was an insignificant incident over the greek handling of an albanian bandit albania always is bandit infested the kept italian press went into a roar and demanded satisfaction just as reds said the finns threatened russia so the fascists said the ferocious insidious greeks were threatening the modern roman empire of signor mussolini tough with the greek bases in italian hands it would be very tough for england in the eastern mediterranean region the british fleet thereabouts is based on alexandria egypt and much of it might have to be withdrawn that would help the italian threat to egypt and its suez canal with the italian legions advancing out of north african libya italy in greece would also annoy asia minor turkey and british palestine where john bulls battleships get their fuel oil at haifa the bulgarians Bulga rians also claim a piece of greek territory which they lost after the last world world war everybody conceded it was a bad bad year for the little fellows as a greek warship was sunk in port by an unknown submarine COLONIES first loss britain lost the first of her colonial possessions in the current war to italy as two divisions of crack troops about men succeeded in driving out 1200 tommies commies from barbera Ber bera capital of british so calil malil matiland ma liland and loss of the african colony itself worrying great britain a great deal for Soma liland has never added materially to the wealth of the empire but what did concern the british high command was that with this loss 01 01 territory italy had gained ground in her attempt to wrest control of the suez canal and thus sever british empire communications for the british there was only one ray of light in their abandonment of Soma liland as in the retreat at dunkirk the troops left laft the battlefield fighting a furious rear guard action destroying everything that could not be saved and forcing italy to pay as dear a price as possible for her victory 11 II GERMAN WAR aviation the aerial warfare over england continued with a bang the german flying losses were considerably heavier than the british for a reason the germans were taking the offensive and had to encounter antiaircraft fire as well as the defending british planes but the german air supremacy was something like 3 to 1 and air marshal goering was reckoning on a certain given expenditure of men and machines to achieve certain given results the german pilots were very young some of them 15 or 18 years old actually they dive bombed and fought like madmen fanatical furious the royal air force pilots were a different type older more experienced many of them soldiers of fortune or old time professionals A high percentage were irish canadian or american types that make better flyers than the native english said the military men the germans had two disadvantages the british regulars were far better man for man than the german kids and the british planes were far better ship for ship than the german crates the german aircraft were slapped together by mass production and at any given time about 60 per cent of them were in the repair shop the british machines more carefully constructed ted sent only 25 per cent to the shops at any given time but the germans had trained pilots while the british had less than the catch there was this pilots can only fly two days per week and keep in decent shape hence you need three pilots per plane the germans have this ratio the british do not the german losses were exceedingly heavy but that was exactly what goering expected and arranged for and his idea was to gradually exterminate the royal air force by a steady policy of military attrition whether any country could actually be subjugated from the air remained to be seen goering thought so churchill did not the germans had developed a so called flying pencil which was in reality a new dornier bomber it could rise fast in an unusually steep ascent while it could swoop down to a few yards from the ground when it appeared to suddenly stand still in the air while it stood still it dropped its eggs so the story went this flying pencil seemed to worry the irish canadian and american hearties of the royal air corps considerably many of them had fought as adventurers in spain but the poor spaniards never had anything like that they grumbled meanwhile switzerland protested vigorously to london as the R A F kept soaring over neutral swiss terri territory tory on its way to egging turin and milan the industrial centers of north italy where flat fiat and isotta manufacture their aerial goods WILLKIE talkie talkie A challenge to president roosevelt to meet him in a series of platform debates on the issues of the 1940 campaign highlighted the acceptance cep tance speech of republican presidential ident ial candidate wendell willkie as he addressed an elwood indiana crowd of between and persons the G 0 P standard bearer in selective military service conscription and came out for material aid to great britain in that count rys struggle against nazi germany willkie charged that the present administration had tailed failed in its program of economic rehabilitation and has been courting war by dabbling in foreign politics even his st ernest critics were forced to admit however that was none of the appeaser in the man behind such words as these we must not shirk the necessity of preparing our sons to take care of themselves in case the defense of america leads to war and again we must face a brutal perhaps a terrible fact our way of life is in competition with hillers Hit lers way of life I 1 promise to outdistance hitler in any contest he chooses in 1940 or after and I 1 promise that when we beat him we shall beat him on our own terms in our own american way republicans hailed the speech as a masterpiece and saw in it the beginning of a campaign that would definitely result in victory for their candidate democrats saw in the speech an endorsement of many of the reforms the new deal has been X ez WENDELL L WILLKIE 1 I accept this picture was taken during mr Will kies elwood ind speech advocating and thought mr willkie wanted only a change in personnel not policy to carry such reforms at any rate it marked the real beginning of what looks like the hardest fought presidential contest thus far in the twentieth century THE LEAGUE left the league of nations was bundled out of geneva some time back and went to france from there it moved on to portugal where it thought of staying but the spaniards and germans may yet invade portugal so the ghost went west just jus t like in the movie the economic and financial sections of the league secretariat pounced on princeton university which was always strongly anti league in feeling even though woodrow wilson was a former Princeton Prin lan president but the latest was this the excellent international labor office of the league selected mcgill university at montreal canada for its hideaway the yankee john winant formerly the able and progressive governor of new hampshire is director of the labor office he thanked mcgill by wire DEFENSE first round when it came to mobilizing the national guard for a year of training the house followed the example of the senate the house finally voted for the callup by a landslide of to 33 the senate vote was 71 to 7 there are national guardsmen guardsman Guards men they are to get the works for 12 months and can be sent anywhere in the western hemisphere or the philippine islands which is a long way away from the western hemisphere youngsters under 18 were to be discharged from the guard at once and married guards men were permitted to resign within three weeks mr roosevelt who had a goodly share of the american press against him in his campaign for a third term had none the less won the first round in his campaign for a general mobilization his program called for no less than the second round was the much contested burke wadsworth conscription bill which would callup men between the ages of 21 and 31 they too would get a years training it if the bill went through it was opposed by a complete cross section ranging from experienced military critics and regular officers to the womans comans christian temperance union and many patriotic isolationists apparently to speed things up war secretary stimson had said england might not last a month naval secretary knox said england might not hold out for 60 days chrysler meanwhile the chrysler corporation got to erect a mass production tank factory and pay for mass production tanks the plant was to be set up in the detroit area and was to start production within 13 months the tanks produced will be medium 25 bonners about men will be employed some observers thought the proposed plant was too near the canadian border unless the canadian border was to be obliterated sad news but later came sad news for the house of chrysler its head walter P chrysler sr died of a cerebral hemorrhage after an illness of more than two years sixty five years old the automobile manufacturer who started his career as an apprentice machinist at seven cents an hour was reported to be the most insured man in the world in 1931 it was said he had taken out in insurance policies chrysler had not taken an active role in business affairs since 1938 LUXEMBURG no more luxemburg is known to americans by the melodious strains of the waltzing count of luxemburg it was a tiny grand duchy wedged between germany and france and BLESSINGS of warfare one english farmer blessed i good old war and especially ft sy s y blitzkrieg features this agriculturist had two chickens killed by a german aerial bomb but he had a romantic and patriotic neighbor she wanted those chickens to have them stuffed as war souvenirs she paid the farmer 10 pounds for one of them and 5 pounds for the other this totaled just in american money the pound is now worth about in your uncle sams ma zuma belgium it got invaded in 1914 and again in 1940 neither time did it fight it is rich in iron and in iron iron works the Luxem bourgeois royal family cousins of the soso so so Haps burgs fled to this country not long ago before the last war li axem was independent but in custons custo nr union with germany after 1918 it went into customs union with belgium instead now it has been re annexed to germany along with the little belgian districts of eu pen and malmede Mal medy which the belgians fians had grabbed from germany in 1919 neighboring alsace lor raine german from 1870 to 1918 has also been re incorporated in the german reich meanwhile america is filled with swarms of royal Luxem bourgeois children mr Roosevel thas sent the U S S trenton after them NIGHT nightclubs CLUBS in n y big news from the modern babylon all the new york n nightclub people were to be fingerprinted and high time too this included the capitalists their sub profiteers the glamour girls comedians doormen waiters hat checks kewpie dolls and cigars and cigarettes the reason for this drastic step seemed to be that nightclubs and robberies were said the police closely connected they printed the ritziest ritz iest in the game as well as the more sordid types some of the nightclub bers liked the idea but oth ers raised a big yowl N A M E S in the news NELSON rockefeller 41 al C nelson rockefeller son ot of john D jr got a government job at 1 per year mr roosevelt appointed him coordinator co ot of commercial and cultural relations among the american republics for the council of national defense in addition the young man will be chairman of the interdepartmental departmental inter committee on inter american affairs young rockefeller is interested in a hotel at caracas venezuela flair clair marshal goering got himself the very newest of new uniforms it is diff different erent from all else a silver gray ensemble his baton is extra size with a big apple at tl tip C bruce lockhart the smart rascal who wrote the smart british agent was appointed british ambassador bas to czechoslovakia that is czechoslovakia in england prince roger Star hemberg who used to be one of hillers Hit lers hearties once owned 30 castles in austria he fled to france then to england and joined the french army in england 41 queen elizabeth of england told caroline haslett aslett II president of the british womans comans engineering society 1 I think the work is so interesting that I 1 should like to take a course in engineering myself and what is more I 1 really believe I 1 could manage the work the little queen is scotch and virtually all british engineers are the same 41 the name of a very well kno know luxury liner of tons was t 1 I v transylvania out of glasgow a was sunk by a german submarine 30 lost safe your correspondent took it to cuba in happier days 49 the french guillotine expert is Alonsi monsieur cur paris but hes in paris under the german occupation so the petain vichy government sent to algeria for another guillotine hea droller he arrived in good shape his name is monsieur algiers he got to work at once and chopped up a young criminal |