Show weekly news analysis nazi long range guns and Bout bombers bers blast coast of england by W ito 9 er shaw EDITORS NOTE when opinions are r expressed is in these columns they are those of the news analyst nod and not necessarily of this thi s newspaper THE WAR long range long range german guns posted in france along the channel shore banged away at england not so many miles away these were the famous big berthas beathas of song and story but they failed at first to prove much they shot at ship convoys but their bore wore out quickly and they were clumsy and expensive in the last war the famous german paris gun was a waste of time and these promised to be the same their objective of course was to cut across the channel and close it tight as a drum this maneuver failed to worry the increasingly cheerful british in their first air attack on berlin british bombers swooped out of a night sky directly over ove r the heart of the city were driven off by antiaircraft fire and dropped their explosives plo on the cites outskirts the german aerial losses losse s had been terrific well over 1000 planes and maybe many more of them the land invasion threat appeared to be out for dictators cannot risk the chance of a bloody setback or repulse especially one of so spectacular a nature it seemed that the so quick acting germans were just a bit puzzled about what to do next they continued to tighten their blockade of the british isles by land and sea and air the british banged back by bombing the heinkel messer schmitt junkers and dornier airplane works and the zeppelin works on lake constance where the famous mercedes benz air motors are manufactured other big industrial plants in the Ger germanics manies got it too and german nerves like those of the americans are nowhere near as good as stolid britannic neurology it began to look like a much longer war which did not help winkles chances for the presidency any italics the italians continued to bully the greeks in quest of greek naval bases to use against england in the eastern mediterranean greece was tied to turkey russia and england in one way or another and all three of them expressed interest and sympathy would the war spread still further the critics wondered would greece turn into an italic finland meanwhile the italians took british Soma liland on the red sea in an effort to cut the ocean route between england and her treasure house of india the british garrison got away by flight and skill as it had done already at nar vik dunkirk and elsewhere they said it was another moral victory tor for the bellmen Bull men all england had had in Soma liland was some south africans the local camel corps partly mechanized partly earn cam belled partly horsed hor sed and a section of the ubiquitous royal air force the R A F as usual gave a good account of itself not so the cam el laries the italians in africa look so good either a although they were in there fighting and making the usual big noise so the critics declared en masse chamberlain old chamberlain was on the way out in politics and so were duff cooper the stylish propaganda expert sir kingsley wood the budget maker and cockney herbert morrison the economic big shot lloyd george who won the last war was on his way in they said lord halifax a chamberlain partner the one armed foreign minister was fading away and the laborite hugh dalton was scheduled for his ticklish job 0 v alt X 1 f el 1 pictured above is the united states representation on the joint cana dian american defense board now meeting in ottawa and working out preliminary steps in planning hemisphere defense measures this photo was taken as the board met with president roosevelt before proceeding to canada members of the group reading left to right are back row capt harry W hill col joseph T capt forrest P sherman gen stanley D embick john D hickerson front mayor fiorello II 11 la guardia of new york city chairman of the board and president roosevelt Koo sevelt seated gesture the british got out of Shang shanghai hal in north china lock stock and barrel it was a great triumph for the japanese and a hard blow to john Q bull british stockholders felt a lot worse about the international settlement in faraway cathay than about the lost channel islands of jersey and guernsey and the italian capture of Soma liland on the near eastern red hed sea what was left of the british army garrison in shanghai about 1300 men was moved down to hongtong Hong kong CAMPAIGN squabbles willkie found that his ardent supporters consisted of two groups the independent willkie clubs and the dissident willkie democrats his Is less ardent supporters were a good deal more basic they consisted of the republican party regulars in and out of congress the regulars were grumbling like napoleons old guard before moscow willkie himself is an ex democrat and very independent of the regulars in his ways and habits he is dis inclined to lean on the old guard although the old guard begs to be leaned against old Guardi sti complained that the candidate was too casual about consulting and obeying them then again many of the 0 G are isolation minded while the independents and democratic refugees are inclined like willkie himself to be interventionists despite all the hoosier getup willkie definitely they said has an eastern outlook and maybe he has some of the regulars too thought that their man willkie was too new cealish De alish he did not denounce many of the roosevelt reforms but adopted them in principle he merely promised to improve the administration of what the regulars thought was a racket in fact the new dealers said that willkie was substantially their man too this made the regulars the 0 G huffier than ever F D bonaparte F D roosevelt bonaparte found himself in the same position as napoleon in the decisive year 1815 bonaparte Bonapart 6 proper had then served two terms and he wanted a third one his first term had lasted for 14 years then came elba his second term lasted days then came waterloo but the point was this bonaparte like roosevelt depended on the proletariat as against the economic royalists and bourbons the french proletariat hated the napoleonic conscription like poison and many american ans dislike the prospect of conscription too but regardless of their anti conscript attitude the french plebs rallied round napoleon because they feared the bourbons would repeal all the napoleonic social reforms the american plebs against conscription though they may be have the same attitude they fear that it if the bourbons recapture the white house even though they would scrap conscription they might also scrap the roosevelt reformation hence the man in the street is for roosevelt bonaparte DEAD R I 1 P they died like flies the big shots did sir oliver lodge of england was one of them he was the great scientist mental telepathist and spiritualist he was 89 and much beloved by everybody in all al countries then there was leon trotsky or comrade braunstein he was the organizer of the red army the brilliant author the mortal foe of stalin hitler churchill and others he was pick axed by a good friend down mexico way everybody blamed it on stalin and his dread secret gestapo but this was really rather unlikely trotsky was no longer of enough importance to pester and stalin is no fool or time waster there was also the notable max that died he was new york cites best known lawyer though not its best loved legalist senator wagner of new york indicated that he was such a philanthropist and humanitarian but many people shook their heads all agreed he was brilliant smart and able to the humph degree degre e lord lord strickland also died he was the famous british governor of the malta naval base himself half maltese but a big social up and up in the british isles and in the colonies strickland was a catholic but he fought the pope for four years then suddenly collapsed and apologized most abjectly that was in 1932 he was also count della delia catena and baron Siz ergh troublesome malta is a quasi dominion and mussolini means to get it before hes through WHAT THEN if and how people began to wonder whether russia might eventually enter the war on the british imperial side critics thought it may be likely if the war dragged on long enough and it might stalin fears hitler and mussolini in the balkans and wants to keep his rich ukrainian province the no 2 russian federal state but if the soviets helped england whither america it became a moot question for strong american business groups hated the communism of russia while even stronger religious groups hated the soviet atheism would these people operate cooperate co with an england that boasted a red red ally that was the point or if russia became an english ally would we start to pamper the american communists who would also be the allies of mr churchill spain too then again it appeared extremely probable that general francos spain might go in on the german side what then franco is the idol of the ruling class in spanish america because he saved the spanish church and crushed the spanish reds if our state department started t to razz franco the ally of hitler the south americans would be infuriated then what would mould happen to secretary hulls good neighbor policy franco is also a special favorite of the vatican if franco joined the germans what effect would that have on the american faithful would they not become increasingly isolationist they would still dislike hitler of course but they could hardly help but admire the great spanish crusader of 1936 39 the conqueror of moscow in barcelona the whole subject was worth detailed american pondering from washington to wala wala and yonkers POLAND tyranny there was more german tyranny in conquered poland the iron military heel was crushing down old polish customs and ways of life there came a new decree of an unheard of nature it rocked the steppes the tows towns the it was this every taxicab driver in warsaw and cracow chacow polands bolands Po lands no 1 and no 2 cities must shave at least every other day the edict declared that it was just as important for cabdrivers to curry themselves as for these cabbies tabbies to curry and groom the good old dobbins here was an example of the usual combination german oppression and german cleanliness BIG bomber the biggest airplane ever built is nearly finished it will be the property of the army air corps the douglas air factory near santa monica calif has been at work on it for four years the whole project is astonishing this giant plane can fly from new york to europe back to new york again and then out to california all nonstop non stop it will have haie four 2000 horsepower engines a wi wing n 9 spread of feet and feet long ENGLAND scandals it was charged abst most vigorously in the parliament at london that rich horsemen were sending their valuable live stock out of england while there was not enough ship space for refugee children this appeared to be only too true one tory aristo sent along 12 horses they said at per head for transportation por tation A heavy argument ensued sue d between parliament and the horsemen with the parliamentarians taking the viewpoint that even english slum children were preferable to the blue blooded equine thor meanwhile another scandal blew up in parliament this c concerned 0 the treatment of an antinazi anti ti nazi exiles in england the easygoing easy going chamberlain government treated these anfor dunate people very well but the tumultuous churchill government reversed the process it began befanto be ganto to intern the antinazi anti nazi processo prof esso writers sometimes pu putting eting t tha 6 the same concentration camps with elih the nazis themselves but the worst was this many many of 0 these anti nazis jews and gentiles were shipped off to canadian jails where treatment is far harsher than in kindly england but though the victims were sent to canada the criminal dossiers were left behind in england hence the victims had no way to sue for release they were forgotten men it was all too horrible liberal englishmen of humane convictions were declaring that churchill had turned canada into a howling russian siberia SHOES SHOE S in la france la france nationalized nationalize d a av shoes in the I 1 ll 11 IZ s done this way oui oui th the re pub lique standardized and streamlined its totalitarian footwear it was to be a standard shoe manufactured in eight sizes and it will be the only one permitted on the market this will cut industrial production costs lower retail prices and speed up production it will cut out all the foot fripperies a la pari sienne bienne of yesteryear yester year DOWN argentine way president roberto ortiz of the argentine resigned the presidency ol of south americas no I 1 pure white republic his health has been very poor also there was a savage senatorial investigation ot 0 government land purchases for a local aerial base senor ortiz thought the investigation vesti gation reflected on him in one way or another he decided to present himself for reelection election re to test and defend his public record ortiz is a good man the argentine senate and chamber of deputies were to meet in joint session to vindicate or oust their president by ballot political wiseacres wise acres were sure that ortiz would get his vote of confidence |