Show weekly beekly news analysis key rz A albanian abanian cities fall in greek drive murray heads CIO by edward edwar C layne EDITORS NOTE when opinions tie re expressed in ia these columns they are re those of cl the sews news analyst and not cot necessarily of this newspaper BACK DOOR war in reverse events on the albanian and nearby fronts gave military experts what they considered proof that the grand british plan of conducting the war from now on will be to knock out italy first then turn attention to germany hence europe was treated to a war in reverse although england was contin continuing uina bombing raids against military objectives on ge german r and occupied european bases including norway chief attention was focused on italy both on the continent and in africa to full reports on the taranto affair were added the fall of koritza accomplished with british air aid and further greek successes were accompanied by word that british rials were fighting side by side with greeks in the snowy and mountainous terrain of the albanian frontier mussolini after denying all british and greek claims of victory two days later was the first to announce to the world the fall of koritza and that a major defeat had met italian arms gen john metaxas handsome greek leader was hailed as the savior of the nation from the italian menace and the numbers of prisoners taken were succinctly summed up as too many to handle MONKEY WRENCH in diplomacy germanys germanas Germ anys diplomatic maneuvers usually believed forerunner to huge military operations continued to be watched closely in half a dozen capitals and wonder was expressed STALIN monkey wrench th again whether perhaps soviet russia might throw a monkey wrench into the proceedings again balkan resistance to axis domination showed signs of crumbling with hungary first to give in to nazi demands and rumania showing final collapse though it was pointed out that the latter was already in nazi hands at this moment russia stepped in with two moves the significant character of which was evident but the meaning of which was not at olce ascertainable russia recalled Schwarz kev mos cows ambassador to the reich and replaced him with another commissar russia sent a warning to her little slavic neighbor bulgaria to be slow aud and careful about joining fully in the axis plans tass issued a flat denial publicly that russia had had any hand in Hun garys joining the axis these three moves were projected on the diplomatic screen tor for what they were worth speculators wondering mostly about the monkey wrench angle dictator josef stalin has a record of throwing monkey wrenches into international affairs they cant forget the famous treaty of tilsit in the napoleonic war and many are still betting that in the last analysis russia will prove the turning point in the upset of the axis hopes if they are to be upset TURKEY again to fore declaration of martial law by turkey throughout all the european part of her n nation brought her again to the fore as a major factor in developments on the southeastern front of the world war the turks expressed their own attitude as follows if the germans are to aid italy against greece russia will not be willing to sit idle however even it if russia gives her consent turkey will defend herself bulgaria must be kept aloof from this newest move so turkey joining russia in the warning to bulgaria evidenced that she was on the threshold of entrance into the war on the anti axis side the counter diplomatic move was coming from von who was believed ready to offer turkey a huge slice of frances syrian territory if she would agree to remain aloof while the germans go down through the balkans and knock out greece S 0 S i S 0 stress strikes sabotage 1 the defense front in the united states moved into the second of the phases that always have confronted this nation in times of industrial stress after a series of incidents that were widely interpreted as sabotage strikes broke out in key industries dus tries in widely separated sections of the country leading squabbles involved the aluminum company of america a plant employing workers and NAMES in the news ralph W barnes foreign correspondent spon dent of the new york herald tribune was found dead in the wreckage of a british bomber which crashed and burned near danilov grad cornelius vanderbilt whitney pan american airways board chairman was elected president of the american arbitration association which has amicably settled business disputes out of court and is expected to aid in preventing defense fe nse bottlenecks mrs matilda AZ atida IV wilson of rochester mich was appointed lieutenant governor by gov luren D dickinson former lieutenant governor serving out the term of a deceased governor to force a supreme court test of his authority to make the appointment joseph E davies former ambassador to belgium and to the soviet union was named to head a committee in charge of the inaugural ceremonies january 20 when mr roosevelt starts his third term meanwhile mr davies resigned his position as assistant secretary of state winthrop rockefeller son of john D rockefeller jr donated blood to be offered for treatment of british war wounded by the american red cross bell tolling ernest hemingway heard the wedding bells toll for Q him author wed martha gellhorn st louis magazine writer they met in finland during the war the aircraft corporation at work on government orders totaling strike fever spread to baltimore where 2000 city workers went out demanding more money and pay for overtime most serious public employees plo strike in cites history the aluminum strike was over companas comp anys refusal to discharge one employee who owed 12 back C 1 I 0 union dues the shutdown also a C L I 1 0 matter was blamed by U S attorney general jack jackson son on reds workers were demanding rai raises ses of 50 to 75 cents an hour in in pay back of these scenes of labor st stress ress stood the dies committee probing and publishing charging the nazis with responsibility tor for much and the soviet agents with the rest of it all jackson whipped back at dies stating he felt that the dies group N A 4 ROBERT JACKSON lie he blamed the reds was accomplishing nothing but breaking down the public confidence in the ability of the G men to solve crime and keep order and safety in the nation the C 1 I 0 closed its convention by electing philip murray to john L lewis post lewis thus carrying out his step down promise of the presidential campaign the C 1 I 0 then announced it would attempt to organize the ford motor plant and in the same breath asked governmental ern mental investigation of any affiliations the company might have wl with th nazi interests DIPLOMATS in and out two diplomatic travels caught public attention one returning from europe to the united states lord lothian and the other leaving the united states for france new ambassador bas to vichy retired rear admiral leahy leahy taking bullitts post after it was reportedly offered to and declined by general pershing was said to have been sent to france with friendly words from the white house and offers of american aid to the destitute in occupied france during the winter it was not clear how this country planned to get the food to france in the face of britaina Brit ains final decision to continue a total food blockade word of which was being brought back to this nation by lothian the british ambassador after a visit to his homeland to check up on war progress and britaina Brit ains war needs was to ask this country for still stronger war aid watchers figured that much of what lothian wants for his country will be unobtainable until congress is in position to extend huge credits to london As the ambassador asked for wider aid to britain president roosevelt announced ardys newest and biggest bombers were earmarked for britain in a trade for airplane motors also in process of manufacture these bombers with mile range fully loaded with tons of bombs will be used at once in sharpening the attack on german objectives british war leaders said NIPPON SPLIT japs divided wilfred fleisher american newspaper man returned from tokyo and once free of censorship issued a report rt that japan faces serious dissension at home and predicted suicides wic ides assassinations and revolutionary outbreaks in nippon he saw little hope however that japan will return to a moderate policy saying the chief split is between two factions both extremists the the liberals are in hiding and la belled traitors said fleisher he reported the astounding spectacle of 17 men on trial for plotting to assassinate viscount salto saito walking out of the supreme court and issuing a statement that they refused to listen to the prosecutors address because he had not first stated which political side he was on the two factions he said were these imperialists who want the emperor to retain his godlike god like status and to see japan move forward to dominate surrounding lands totalitarians who hope that some leader will emerge to become a european type dictator to carry out similar empire aims both sides fleisher said were anxious for japan to reach a pact with russia future of the nation largely depends on the outcome of the european war a nazi victory practically meaning that japan will become totalitarian while a victory for the british allies might result in chaos and collapse fleisher intimated TWO MORE destroyers w aeto 4 W Ns CHARLES EDISON an honor for his father down at kearney N J they launched two more destroyers for uncle sams navy the two new ones were called the edison and the ericsson names that dovetailed nicely the pair were named after thomas alva edison the greatest of inventors and john ericsson who invented the famous monitor warship in the civil war the monitor it will be remembered defeated the merrimac in the first battle between ironclads iron in the history of the world tom Edi sons son charles is gov arnor elect of new jersey his mother sponsored the edison destroyer A great great grand niece of old ericsson sponsored the sister ship mrs ruth the architect of the monitor was born in sweden where they yet forgotten him french these were two of the new american destroyers england had obtained some 50 of the old ones and was asking for more like oliver twist meanwhile france still had 50 60 destroyers and also 50 60 submarines and big ones at that but one french battleship was out of the picture it was reported from madrid that a big of the paris class was sitting at gibraltar over this frenchman flew the white naval ensign of the british fleet and on board there was a crew of typical limies just how it got there un 1 der foreign control nobody seemed fj quite to know but everybody admitted this paris classmate class mate was a valuable sea prize |