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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne War Action Shifted to Balkan States As Hitler Moves Toward Dardanelles; British Forces Sweep On in Africa; Churchill Plea: Send ‘Tools, Not Men’ 7 ^ ] GENERAL Eject Protesting Women From U. S. Capitol Historic Meeting HUGH s - L s O johnson kf Jayr: Vaiud r«»iurw J » N lS -r n Washington, D. C. W ashington, D. C. WINDOW DRESSING ENGLAND'S POSITION The lease-lend bill, as it passed IMPROVES the house am ended, carries a lot of ( K D I T O K 'S N O T E — W hen o p in io n * a r e e « p r e * » e d In th e s e c o lu m n *, th e y L ittle by little the British position m eaningless window-dressing but it a re those of th e new s a n a ly s t and not n e c e s s a rily of th is n e w s p a p e r .) has im proved. G allant G reek vic _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (R e le a s e d by W e s te rn N e w s p a p e r V»«™» ■ --------- m eets one principal objection of tories, the trium phant m arch of those whose only real opposition was out of the other side of their mouth. B ritish forces across North Africa, A P P E A L: King Boris, who had ridiculed the the d aring of the royal navy in the because, in its original form , it a l m ost com pletely transferred the G erm an arm y, was silen t M editerranean, all have helped to Hut Not for Men power of the purse from the con balance ti:e scales of war. Winston Churchill in an address Across the Waters gress to the President. In addition, A dm iral L eahy's sea- to the em pire, but phrased also for It has been said th at no such On the other side of the M editer dog diplom acy in Vichy is reported U. S. consumption, said the British ranean, in Africa, the B ritish were to have had som e effect upon Gen power was intended or would ever did not need Am erican arm ies—this sweeping the Italian troops before e ra l Weygand, to whom he has be used. So—well, why grant it? j year, next y e ar or ever as fa r as he them. It appeared as though the prom ised A m erican gasoline and The good faith of the adm inistration could foresee. But England does rival arm ies would hold securely the oil; while the passage of the lease- in disclaim ing any such wide pur- ' need munitions, he said. “Give us opposite shores of the g re at inland lend bill is found to have trem en pose or intent was pretty well evi the tools, we’ll finish the job,” he denced by p erm itting the amend- sea. dous reverberations throughout all appealed. I m ent lim iting the value of certain M arshall G raziani and his F a sc ist E urope. There was indication that the tools defense articles to be disposed of legions were re tre atin g so fa st th at F u rth erm o re, prelim inary reports were arriving. In January U. S. B ritish arm ies had chased them out indicate th at the trip of Wendell 1 “ procured from funds heretofore ap factories had a quota of 700 w ar of virtually all of Libya and were Willkie had a stirring effect, not propriated shall not exceed $1,300,- planes and at m idmonth expecta faced with the question of pursuit only upon B ritish m orale, but upon 000,000.” tions were that the quota would not Of course, th ere is no lim it on fu G erm any. The fa ct th at the son of be m et by 30 per cent. But this ture appropriations, but as to them a G erm an sent an anti-Hitler m es was an error. Survey showed 1,000 congress still keeps the “ power of sage to the G erm an people is bound planes were produced. If half of the purse.” The im portant point is to percolate beneath the surface. them went to England, as the P re si I th at without th a t am endm ent, the G erm any cannot forget that it was dent prom ised, England was getting total field in which this authority A m erican entrance into the World could have been executed m ight w hat it needed. The amounts will w ar which finally turned the tide have exceeded $50,000,000,000. What About 500 m em bers of the M others Crusade of Am erica went to Increase. and defeated the kaiser. And th at W ashington to oppose the pending lend-lease bill. C arrying Am erican But Adolf Hitler was carrying out is it now? is why the Willkie visit plus the hi’ th rea t to “torpedo” Am erican As to a rticle s “ procured from flags, they chanted “ kill the bill, not m y son." They were ejected by lease-lend bill a re so im portant. help to B ritain. The planes a re be funds heretofore appropriated” — Capitol police for creating a disturbance in the senate cham bers. Photo Both indicate an A m erican people ing flown to England, via Iceland. guns, planes, ships and the like— shows police rem oving the leaders. united reg ard less of politics. G erm an bom bers raided Iceland and clearly it is 1.3 billions of dollars of Second B attle of M arne. bombed the airfield there. Iceland value. But how about th at gold H itler’s position today is not un hoard of billions for exam ple? Was is 1,000 m iles from the closest G er like th at of G erm any after the th at procured “from funds hereto- j m an air base. In four m ore hours B attle of the M arne in World War fore a p p ro p riated ?” the sw astika-em blem ed craft could I. In the first B attle of the M arne A sim ilar objection probably ap reach the North Am erican continent. G erm an troops cam e within 14 m iles plies to o ther com m odities which Senate Goes On of P aris, could have taken the city , w ere not “procured from funds had they not stopped to consoli heretofore appropriated” —a field , In Washington the house passed date their forces. But not knowing too com plex to discuss in this lim it- I the lease-lend bill for aid to B ritain. w hat lay ahead, they waited for re ed space. I am inform ed by som e ' The senate began discussion with inforcem ents, giving G eneral Joffre congressm en in charge of the the expectation that talk would not tim e to send his "taxicab a rm y ” legislation, th a t the 1.3 billions is a 1 cease before the end of F ebruary. from P aris. “ If this keeps up,” said Senator i lim itation designed to cover all G erm an defeat at the M arne these things and if it does not, it ! Glass, “ the G erm ans will be here ADMIRAL DARLAN turned back the tide of the w ar in will be m ade to do so. before we get done debating.” Marshal Petain was bowing. If th at is done, it would deflate | 1914, and by the tim e the G erm an Home from a survey of war-torn Britain cam e Wendell Willkie to ap- into F rench Tunis. There Gen. Max- arm y had come back for the sec 75 per cent of the valid objection I ime Weygand waited with 450,000 ond Battle of the M arne in 1915, the to this bill. It is hard to see why I French troops. Which way he would Allies had mobilixed sufficient it should not be done. The obscur ity as to the tru e effect of the lim i swing was not clear. But in Vichy strength to stop them. Sim ilarly, H itler's forces last tation in this re g ard is very real I aged M arshal Petain was bowing to the instructions of the Fascist- sum m er probably could have taken and this is no tim e for obscurities. * • • minded Adm iral D arlan and it was E ngland had they pushed im m edi NEW ANGLE ON LEASE-LEND believed P ierre L aval m ight soon ately across the channel to the dis Mr. A rthur K rock’s column in the return from P a ris to take over the organized B ritish Isles after the fall helm of governm ent. Spain’s Gen of F rance. But uncertain of what New York T im es recently was m ore eral Franco was en route through lay ahead, H itler waited, and with im portant than Mr. W iilkie's testi- ! southern Europe for a conference typical G erm an efficiency consoli m ony on the sam e day, even though Here is a view of the wrecked baggage and m ail c a rs of the Canadian with P rem ier Mussolini. It was said dated his position on the Continent. it will not receive onc-tenth the pub N ational railroad passenger train , which struck a freight train som e dis licity. This gave the B ritish ju st enough tance e a s t of T ernton, Ontario. The engineer and firem an of the passenger Mussolini would m ake a suprem e ef Arthur, who ra re ly w rites until he train w ere killed, and 15 passengers w ere bruised.—Soundphoto. fort to get Spain into the w ar on the tim e to hold back a Nazi invasion side of the Axis and perm it an a t last Septem ber in the first "B attle has sifted out the possibilities of e r ror, cried “ unclean" of the provi of the M arne,” 1940 version. tack on G ibraltar. In eastern Africa, the Italians Soon will come the Second Battle sion of the lease-lend bill which te r also were losing fast. Hemmed in of the 1941 M arne—the second a t m inates the e x traordinary powers it on all sides by B ritish troops and tem pt to invade England. Into that gran ts the P resident if and when Ethiopian w arriors they knew not second attem pt H itler is going to congress shall pass a concurrent put m ore than ever before. He m ay resolution quashing them . He says which way to retreat. that, according to constitutional M eanwhile B ritish bom bers raid succeed. But on the other hand, law yers, this provision "w as w rit in the B ritish a re in a fa r stronger ed Italy. They dropped 300 tons of w ater on the atm osphere." In other bombs and naval shells upon Genoa position now to w ithstand invasion, WINSTON CHURCHILL words, it is a deceptive fake—splen where Winston Churchill said a Nazi and if they do w ithstand it, sooner didly null. *. . . Not thia year, next year, or ever.” arm y was preparing to em bark for or la te r the w ar will veer tow ard This is a very serious m atter. The them . p ear before the senators. He said Africa. • • • question is not too technical from The spring cam paign had begun. B ritain can halt an invasion. But he the legalistic angle for lay discus $30 PENSIONS urged that the U. S. send them more The cen tral point is this: ' Mrs. Roosevelt’s recent statem ent sion. destroyers. He said five to ten a OH-G A Y -P A Y -O O : in a pension m agazine, favoring a W ithout a congressional delegation month will be necessary to keep the In the U. S. $30-a-month federal pension, tips off of its own w ar powers, the P re si sealanes open. A cham berm aid in a second class w hat the P resident has up his sleeve dent could not possibly exercise W ashington hotel opened a guest's on broadening the Social Security them . Such a delegation can be S PR IN G : m ade, within flexible constitutional room and found a m an spraw led act. In the Balkans D uring the 1940 cam paign and in lim its, by a m ajority vote in both over the bed in a pool of blood. She Spring and Adolf Hitler cam e to called police. They found a pistol his annual m essage to congress, he houses. As m atters now stand, the the Balkans The fuehrer’s great in the m an 's hands and notes in Rus advocated a revision of the law by very wide proposed powers of the criticism of World w ar tactics was sian. G erm an and French, signed which a flat federal pension would • lease-lend bill could obtain such a I m ajority vote. They could not con th at G erm any perm itted itself to Sam ual Ginsberg. A certificate ot be substituted for the existing state- become involved on two fronts at the suicide was issued and police pre contributory system . Also he pro ceivably obtain a two-thirds m ajor- 1 ity vote. sam e tim e. He has always avoided pared to w rite off the case after no posed enlarging the scope of the law But if they a re once granted, ac tifying a New York law yer who was and adding m edical features. He this. gave no details, but here is w hat cording to Mr. K rock’s legal advis W hether his m ovem ent into Bul nam ed in the dead m a n 's notes. ers, they could never be retaken by garia and tow ard the D ardanelles But it w asn't th at easy. The hotel he is planning: (1) A federal annuity for all congress over the opposition of the w as an indication th at he did not guest was identified as Gen. W alter intend to move against England im G. Krivitsky, form er high ranking "senior citizens” over 65, w ithout a executive except by a two-thirds m ajority. m ediately was not clear. But it authority in the Soviet secret serv "m ean s te s t" ; in o ther words, re Mr. K rock's reason is th at the seem ed app aren t th a t G erm any's ice. An early Com m unist, G eneral gardless of th eir financial condition. (2) In states w here a la rg e r pen President, under the Constitution is, next cam paign would be toward the Krivitsky had taken p a rt in m any by his veto and approving power, secret negotiations. Once he was sion already is paid, as in C alifor M editerranean. a p a rt of the law -m aking m achinery, F or m onths hundreds of thousands chief of the Com m unist p a rty ’s se nia, which pays $40 m onthly (half from the state and half from the th at while a concurrent resolution : of G erm an troops have been moved c ret police in w estern Europe. of both houses does not require the G eneral Krivitsky had incurred governm ent), the difference be Into R um ania. The revolution that action of the President, yet, if It j ousted King C arol put Nazis in con the displeasure of the Stalin regime. tween $30 and the la rg e r sum would "contains a legislative proposition” This trol of the g overnm ent These na When his associates went before be m ade up by the state. it does require full presidential ac tive Naxis quickly put them selves the firing squad he fled to America. would apply only to C alifornia, the tion under the Constitution. A G erm an anti-aircraft gun and its crew a re shown som ewhere in under order of G erm any. Rum anian Here in a series of m agaxine a rti only sta te paying m ore than $30. Concurrent resolutions usually occupied F ra n c e. One gunner is having his hair cut by a battery m ate: The next closest is Colorado with oilfields and railroads becam e sub cles he began to expose what he govern only the business of congress the others a re taking it easy around the gun position. In the background said were the plans of the Com mu $29.68. Twenty-one others pay $20 je c t to their direction. with no application in the general m ay be seen an anti-tank gun In position, and, in the foreground, rifles F irs t news of the infiltration of nist Internationale for world revolu or slightly m ore. and helm ets laid out in readiness—for what? (3) E xtend unem ploym ent insur statutory sense. The point of view I He foretold the agreem ent G erm an soldiers into R um ania came tion. of Mr. K rock's a dvisers is that, J in a speech by Winston Churchill. th at la te r was signed by Stalin and ance to groups not now covered, since repealing a law is as m uch a i Sofia denied it. but within 24 hours Hitler, he said the A m erican Com such as seam en and farm w orkers. legislative action in the general j (4) A nation-wide p ro g ram of neu tral sources m ade It known that m unist p arty was under orders from j statutory sense as enacting a law, ' thousands of G erm an soldiers in Moscow, he nam ed som e of their m edical and hospital service for no concurrent resolution can repeal uniform , but w earing civilian over followers in the U. S. arm y , low-income groups. Roosevelt will subm it his recom a law except subject to veto. coats. w ere passing the border into and navy. It is a strong point and one never | Since then he has appeared be- ■ m endations in a special m essage to ! decided by the courts, but it cer- B ulgaria. Then cam e sw arm s of Naxl tran sp o rt planes with p a ra fore the Dies com m ittee with addi congress som etim e this m onth. He j ta inly would be a strange result if chute troops. B ulgarian railroads tional revelations. But he told close alread y has had several p riv ate dis ! congress can, in part, suspend the friends th at his life w as in danger. J cussions with Sen. Sheridan Downey suddenly restricted civilian traffic. Constitution by a m ajo rity vote, but Bulgaria had depended upon Rus He traveled under cover and hid of California. No. 1 Townsendite on c a n 't restore it by less than a two- C apitol Hill, and Sen. Jim m y his wife and young son in isolated sia for protection. It was a false thirds m ajority, »hen the Constitu hope Moscow sent an envoy to tell areas. Ju st a week before his death Byrnes, astute South C arolina legis tion itself provides that an am end- ' lative adviser. he told friends that the m ost d re ad B ulgar m inisters not to expect them 1 m ent m ay not even be proposed ex- to fight. B ulgaria and Turkey, who ed killer of the R ussian secret police, i Personally, Downey favors a pen j cept by a two-thirds m ajority ra ti sion of $60 a fte r 60, but realizes the OGPU (pronounced Oh-Gay- had spoken big but not mobilised fied by three-fourths of the states. th eir troops, suddenly began to talk Pay-OO) had arriv e d in Am erica. th at he has no chance at this tim e. The contrary view is th at when- • • • , ever congress grants an extraordi- CAPITAL CHAFF A verage taxes in the United • nary power, it can condition w hat it the news S tates a re $96 75 per person, of grants. It can put a tim e lim it on which $40.10 goes to the federal gov I it and thus work its repeal without Death—During his 30 years in the ern m en t and $56.65 to sta te and lo ! any legislation whatever. C sar -P rofessional football has It can m ake it depend on any con- becom e big business. L ast year the U. S. senate, Reed Smoot, leader cal governm ents. The governm ent now has the 1 tingency it likes, such as some ad N ational league played 58 gam es to In the Mormon church, rose from m inistrative finding of fact or future alm ost 1,500.000 people. Now the an obscure m em ber to teiider of the g re atest force of sleuths in all its conditions of tim e, tide and weath- league, m odeled a fte r big-tim e base Republican m ajority. He was de history: a total of 10.200 divided | er. If those conditions do not oc- j ball, has taken a nother step toward feated in 1933 in the D em ocratic am ong the FBI, S ecret Service, I cur. it does not speak. It speaks The navy and w ar departm ent employee«, from the office boy to the stability. E lm er Layden. one of sweep. The co-author of the Smoot- P ostal Inspection, Internal Revenue se c re tary , h a v r to show identification badges carrying their picture before ' while they continue. I t becom es N otre D am e's "F o u r H orsem en" Hawley tariff a ct died far from his b ureau and Narcotics division, to silent when they cease—regardless they ean en ter th r departm ents. This new ruling Is now in effect. Photo back in 1824, has been nam ed boss native Utah, while on a visit to re la say nothing of Harold Ickes' and ‘ of presidential veto power and witn shows S ecretary of the Navy Frank Knox showing his badge to guard on of the league, with pow ers like Kene tives In Florida. He was 79 years Paul A ppelby's sleuths In the in i no new vote. doty a t en tran ce to navy departm ent. old. terior and agriculture departm ents. saw L andis has in baseball. Two Killed, 15 H urt in Rail Wreck ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Knox-Knox, Who Goes There? This picture was sent to New York via radio and to Chicago via sound- photo, and shows the historic m eet ing of Mussolini, right, and Gen. j Francisco Franco, near Italy ’s fron tier. F ranco was accom panied by his foreign m inister, Ramon Suner. To Be Spain's King? Don Juan, 27 years of age, prince of the A ustrias, who m ay becom e king of Spain. His father, form er King Alfonso XIII, has renounced all right In favor of his son. | One-Man Stretcher This new type of stretch er, Invent ed by an A ustralian, is being dem onstrated on the beach a t Sydney, A ustralia. It is designed for use in bombed buildings by one-man res cue expeditions. The stre tc h e r's straps and footrest will hold a pa tient firmly, even when tilted a t a sharp angle as shown here. Anti-Tank ‘Cocktail’ HIGHLIGHTS . . . An A ustralian soldier exam ines two anti-tank bom bs, taken from Italians at B ardia. Libya. The bom bs a re m ade of gasoline-filled bottles attached to hand grenades.
