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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
Fighting Shifts From Flanders
As Nazi Air Force Bombs Paris;
Malta Looms as Trouble Spot
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'Sixth Column'
It just had to happerf! K ilh all the
news of "fifth column" activities work-
ing in other lands to aid the German
cause, somebody had to come through
with news of a sixth column. And, it
was Dr. Herbert Gezork, (pictured
above) professor of social ethics at
Andover-Newton theological school in
Boston who reported that within Ger-
many herself there is a group of per-
sons seeking to bring about Hitler's
downfall. He bases his news of this
"sixth column" activity on connections
with the anti-Hitler movement in Ger-
many.
If Italy should move against Great Britain in the Mediterranean she
might very likely direct an attack at the great British naval base at
Malta. Malta has been on a war footing since the beginning of the Eu-
ropean crises. Map at the right shows the relationship of Malta to Italy.
Vulnerable perhaps to bombing attacks it would be a tough nut for Mus-
solini to crack by sea. Top left is a view of the harbor at Valetta with
British man o' war at anchor. Below, one of the big costal guns that ring
Malta is blazing away during gunnery practice.
(SEE ITALIC NOTES.)
II GERMAN WAR:
Flanders Battle
The Dutch-Belgian-Flanders-Artois
battle came virtually to an end, save
for up-moppings and kitty-corner
operations here and there. The
Dutch and Belgian armies had been
surrendered or finished, and the
First, Seventh, and Ninth French
armies were destroyed. Nobody
came out of it with any laurels save
the British navy, which somehow
succeeded in ferrying perhaps two-
thirds of the British army out of
Dunkirk by means of warships,
transports, yachts, barges, and life-
boats—and under heavy aerial fire.
It seemed that the German air
force fell down on this debarkation
operation, for British losses, in re-
treat, were smaller than might have
been expected. Somehow, the allies
secured a temporary air supremacy
in the Dunkirk sector, and the Brit-
ish Spitfire machines showed a
slight superiority to the German
Messerschmitt combat craft. Brit-
ish morale, strangely enough, was
reported as excellent, but French
morale did not appear in quite so
favorable a light. The German gen-
eral headquarters was strangely re-
strained in its moment of triumph.
Lille, fourth city of France and its
"Pittsburgh," was in German
hands, along with Amsterdam, Rot-
terdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend,
Calais, Boulogne, The Hague, Liege,
etc. Would refugee-choked, hyster-
ical Paris be next, wondered the
railbirds?
Even as these railbirds wondered.
Hitler's warbirds came out of the
skies and rained showers of bombs
upon southern France and later
upon Paris itself. In the first at-
tacks about 150 German bombers
swept over the city, dropping their
cargoes of high explosives, setting
many fires, inflicting huge property
losses and killing at least 45 persons
in Paris and its suburbs. The allies
promised to repay Germany bomb
for bomb in the new air offensive
they were launching.
N A M E S
in the news
c Former French Generalissimo
Gamelin was said to have commit-
ted suicide, while General Corap,
chief of the French Ninth army de-
feated at Sedan, was reported as ex-
ecuted. General Bodet of the
French Medical corps got six
months in jail for abandoning his
post in the ill-fated Sedan sector.
Thus did la Republique crack down.
C. General Robert Lee Bullard, dis-
tinguished U. S. army officer and
patriot, was re-elected president .of
the National Security league, which
favors increased preparedness and
is strongly "anti-subversive" in its
hawkeye activities.
ft Proving that American isolation
sentiment was by no means dead,
some 7,000 earnest Catholics prayed
for peace, assembled at St. Patrick's
cathedral in New York. With the
Catholics, members of other faiths-
peace-minded, despite war propa-
ganda—participated. Here were
7,000 anonymous but highly impor-
tant Names in the News.
C Jean Batten, well-known and well-
favored young aviatrix, was exhibit-
ed as an ambulance driver in the
Anglo-French corps, hooked up with
the Gallic army. She looked won-
derful in uniform.
Italic Notes
All private motoring stopped in
Italy, due to government conserva-
tion of gas and oil. Italy has no
native petroleum, iron or coal.
Pro-Italians were jailed in Eng-
land's Mediterranean naval base,
Malta. Possession of this strategic
island is a leading Italian objective.
The English suspended Italian pa-
pers read by the Italian-speaking
Maltese. A minority of Maltese
talk the ancient Carthaginian tongue
of Hannibal and his elephants.
Mussolini said he was too busy to
see U. S. Ambassador Phillips, who
was toting a message from Roose-
velt. Mussolini also broke off a ship-
ping deal with the English, in the
matter of illegal contraband control,
which put the shivers into London.
Italian journalists left Paris.
D. of C. AND—
White Housings
President Roosevelt made another
request for money. This time it
was for more than a billion, for the
army, navy and civilian train-
ing program, coupled with a fear
that all continents may become in-
volved in the II German war (he
did not mention Germany by name).
Roosevelt asked for specific author-
ity to call up the national guard and
army reservists—if and when need-
ed to "safeguard" and "defend."
And Roosevelt asked for a corps of
dollar-a-year men, to expedite na-
tional defense preparations. Also,
there came a request for a million
dollars, to expand the navy depart-
ment and munitions buildings in the
capital. Talkative young Elliott
Roosevelt assailed so-called fifth
columns in Mexico. Elliott is a ra-
dio executive.
War department plans called for
immediate orders to get 2,800
planes, 1,700 tanks, 500 heavy artil-
lery units, and big consignments of
anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. j
The senate voted, 55-4, for a new
alien control resolution, already
passed * by
the house,
The immi-
gration - nat-
uralization
bureau
would be
transferred
from the de- i
partment of
labor to the I
department !
of justice. I
Senators j
Norris and |
Wheeler, lib-
erals opposed to the transfer, as-
sailed J. Edgar Hoover and the G-
men, while Wheeler censured the
current American "hysteria."
Archibald Macleash, "radical" li-
brarian of the Congressional library
at Washington, said that the II Ger-
man war was not a revolt of the
masses. He said that, instead, it
was the revolt of a gang.
$65,000,000:
Battleship '
The $65,000,000 battleship, Wash-
ington, was launched at the Phila-
delphia navy yard. It is a 35,000-
tonner—1,600 tons bigger than any
American battleship now in opera-
tion. The Washington is our first
new capital ship in 19 years. It is
750 feet long. Fifteen-year-old Vir-
ginia Marshall of Spokane, great-
great-great-granddaughter of Chief
Justice John Marshall, was the
Washingtonian christener. The boat
was named after her home state.
U. S. REDS:
Don't Love Nazis
The American Communist party,
in the last six months, has sent
$5,000 to German reds, to help them
in their underground struggle
against Hitler. This fact was an-
nounced at the C. P.'s national con-
vention in New York, which gather-
ing appeared to be unabashed by
the Russo-German pact of last
August. (This anti-Hitlerism, how-
ever, did not make things any eas-
ier for the Finns early in the year.)
There were visiting reds at New
York from Mexico, Chile, Haiti, Ice-
land, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. A
Mexican delegate condemned Con-
gressman Martin Dies and his com-
mittee. The convention opposed
participation in the national advi-
sory defense commission "and any
subordinate boards."
ANTI-ROOSEVELT:
Wendell Willkie
Senator Wheeler
On Campaign
Wendell Willkie said, out in Den-
ver, "I'd love to go to the people
against that fel-
low." "That fel-
low" meant
Roosevelt. To get
rid of Roosevelt,
Willkie felt, was
the only way to
unite the nation
against the totali-
tarian threat.
Willkie was
equally hard on
Hitler. He called
the Fuehrer a
"m a d m a n."
Planes and guns, said Willkie, are
not built by emotional appeals over
the radio. "We have confused liberty
with license," added the Repub-
licans' dusky equine.
But Candidate Dewey, in New
York, characterized certain of
Roosevelt's defense measures as
"progress in the right direction."
He added, in sorrow, that much re-
mained to be done. Dewey had not
yet selected a nominator (for him-
self), to boost him at the Republi-
cans' Philadelphia convention this
month. Dewey, on the whole, tends
to be more kid-glove and velvetine
than the rugged quipster, Willkie.
Liberals, for some reason, much pre-
fer western Wendell to the "O. A."
ART DEPT.:
On P. P. Rubens
Hitler's Vienna paper, on the 300th
anniversary of Rubens' death, said
that Flemish artist was a "German-
ic pagan" who painted Christian
sagas with a fleshly relish. This
seemed fairly obvious to art critics,
some of whom call him the Falstaff
of the Palette. Rubens liked to de-
pict "mountains of flesh," said the
Vienna journal. Rubens, too, added
the paper, was fond of "Christian
Venuses" and "Nazarene wres-
tlers." He was "without the blinds
of churchly virtue, and fearless in
the face of nature." It will be re-
membered that many of Rubens'
themes were religious.
BILLY PHELPS:
And the 1,400
Prof. Billy Ptielps of Yale, book-
man of renown, said he'd rather
lose the war with the allies than
win with Hitler. Billy said Hitler
had Ranged "Athens into Sparta."
But some 1,400 Yale students
thought otherwise. They signed a pe-
tition asking that America's isolation
continue. They were of draft age!
COUP IN CANADA:
*Mosley of Montreal'
The Canadian mounted police,
turning into a local Gestapo or
OGPU, seized eight members of the
National Unity party in Montreal,
the British empire's great French
city. Most important of the victims
was Adrien Arcand, French Cana-
dian Fascist leader, important in
Quebec provincial politics, and op-
posed to the war. There were simul-
taneous coups in at least three oth-
er Canadian cities including Ottawa,
Toronto and Windsor.
Springtime Is Season of Joy
And Zest for Wild Creatures
With Nature in Her Gayest Mood, Animals
Enjoy Their Own Games and Frolics.
CPRINGTIME in the wilds is
^ playtime. The majority of our
mammals have their young in the
early months of the year, and in
April and May it is possible to
watch the most delightful games
among the puppies of the fields.
Badger, fox and otter cubs are
very playful little creatures. The
otter and badger appear to have
a certain amount of method in
their games, but fox cubs simply
romp among themselves in a wild
abandon.
On a sloping sand cliff near my
home seven fox cubs came out of
a large hole; on the ledge just
outside they played with a round
stone, pushing it with their feet,
tossing it in the air and allowing
it to run down the slope.
When tired of this they played
a game which resembled "Follow
the Leader." One would run for-
ward, dodge and leap over all
kinds of imaginary obstacles, and
the others would follow in its
tracks; then all would roll togeth-
er in a rough and tumble, in which
their small teeth would tug at the
fur of their companions.
Bouncing Badgers.
Young badgers are among the
most amusing cubs to watch at
play. With their bold black and
white markings they are quaint-
looking little creatures, and rath-
er clumsy, but there is no doubt
that they thoroughly enjoy life, and
their play is exuberant and stren-
uous.
First they poke their noses in
the ground, searching for hidden
grubs; then, without any warning,
all stiffen their fur, making it
stand upright, and now they look
twice their size. With their short
legs also stiffened they bounce
round one another like footballs,
then leap in, grip a mouthful of
fur, and roll over and over. They
break apart, and again play the
bouncing game, and just as sud-
denly as they started to play they
cease, and the next moment all
are diligently searching for more
food.
Fun in the Water.
Many young otters are born at
an awkward time, that is at the
beginning of winter, but they are
hardy little creatures and appear
to be able to stand any amount of
cold. Otters, more than any other
wild creatures, show us that they
thoroughly enjoy life; a plentiful
supply of food makes them con-
tented, and both parents and young
play the most delightful games.
What appeared to be a large
brown ball was floating gently
down stream, hardly making a
Wise and Otherwise
THE hardest tumble a man
can take is to fall over his
own bluff..
Consistency is a jewel which pawn-
brokers refuse to recognize.
We should be kind to poor
old worn-out horses. There
are some men who put their
shirts on them.
Intelligence test (for eirl):
Can she refuse a kiss without
being deprived of it?
No, a grass widow is not a
woman whose husband died of
hay fever.
Some girls are called gold
diggers, but they are faithful
to the last fiver.
ripple as it swept along. Suddenly
the ball seemed to burst open with
a loud splash, and four excited ot-
ters with their bright, eager eyes
well above the water, started
swimming round one another. One
leaped right out of the stream and
over its companions to dive on the
other side, and as they floated
along this acrobat made circles
around them, those below trying to
grip it as it passed over. Then
they all joined up again, and
seemed to be having a struggle as
to which could pull the others un-
der the surface, a sort of spirited
ducking game.
They continue to play until all
are tired. Then the parents lead
their young off to a well-hidden
lair, where they all sleep until
hunger and high spirits call again.
—Oliver G. Pike in London Tit-
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