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
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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
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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.