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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
German Air Blitz on Island of Crete
Results in 'Defense to Death’ Fighting;
U. S. Attitude Toward France Changes
As Vichy-Berlin Strengthen Relations
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Will He Be Surprised!
“Nice garden, old man, but
What do these labels ‘Wait and See’
imean?”
i “Oh, I just forgot what I planted
Tharel”
Well Rounded Out
“Jim's going to marry Miss Flighty.
She can ride, suim, sing, dance, drive a
racing car, and pilot an airplane."
“They ought to get on fine. Old Jim’s
guile a food hand at cooking.”
Good Grief!
Speaker—Now, ladies and gen-
tlemen, I want to tax your mem-
ory. '
Voice in the Audience—Heavens,
has it come to that?
In Japan you can tell if a girl
la married or single by her hair.
Here you can't always tell if it's
■ girl.
Taking No Chance
“People living together for '
long time get to look alike.”
“Here’s your ring. I daren’t
risk it.”
V. S. Railway Mileage
Figures compiled recently by
the Association of American Rail-
roads indicate that the railway
mileage of the United States is ap-
proximately 10 times that of Great
{Britain; 6 times that of France;
6% times that of Germany; 5
times that of Russia; 5V4 times
!that of India; 12 times that of
Japan; 21 times that of Italy; and
37 times that of China.
U. S. railway mileage is greater
than that in all South America,
Asia, Africa, and Australia com-
bined.
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Iron Hat Instead
Of Mortar Board
Crowns Beauty
a time" was in 1921 when the pretty
American girl from Syracuse
turned in her thesis for her doctorate
of letters, at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Her subject was "The Moral Ideas
in the Theater of Alexander Dumas
the Younger.” The cheers were re-
sounding and international.
Miss Bonney previously had
romped through the University of
California and had taken her mas-
ter’s degree at Harvard. European
bureaus of American newspapers
rushed girl reporters to Paris to
extoll her beauty and her intelli-
gence. She did not disappoint them.
All the garlands of the Groves of
Academe were hers, to say nothing
of her flair for clothes. The least
the girls could figure for her was
the presidency of an American col-
lege.
Today is today, and In the
years In between Adolf Hitler
baa brought abont drastic revi-
sion of “moral ideas" in France
and elsewhere. And in these
years, Miss Bonney has had a
ringside seat at the apocalypse.
Just now the Vichy government
awards her the Croix de Gnerre
for "bravery and devotion” In
evacuating refugees dnring the
German Invasion of last year.
She needed no identification here,
as she had already gained fame, not
as an intellectual but as a photog-
rapher whose closeups of chaos are
official records in the Library of
Congress and in the French ar-
chives. Last December, she re-
ceived a grant from the Carnegie
foundation to return to France and
continue her pictorial record of the
war.
The hair-pin turn in her career
came just at the time women
were discarding hair-pins. In
Paris, she sold a story to an
American newspaper. They
cabled for a picture. She had
trouble in getting it and decided
to pnt an end to such difficulties.
With her sister Louise and her
mother, in America, as partners
she organized “Bonney ft Co.,”
operating the “International
Picture bureau. ” Lacking an
important picture, she bought a
camera and started shooting.
Her pictures were even a bigger
success than her thesis. Baron
Mannerheim let her get into the
thick of the fighting in Finland
and awarded her the White
Rose of Finland.
Witty, dark-haired and vivacioui
•he made friends and frequently
was a click or two ahead of her
rivals in some new and unheralded
belch out of hell. She brought back
to the Library of Congress 200 pic-
tures of the blitzkrieg.
Items I Never Knew , . .
•Til Now
(Dill which you knew all along)
Rob’t Sherwood’s line play,
"There ShaU Be No Night," won
the Pulitzer Prize, which should
have happened a year ago. This is
regarded as highly encouraging to
the theater In general—having the
Pulitzers only one year behind the
parade.
Billy Gilbert has named his
tate “Gezunt Heights.”
NEW YORK.—One of the U. 8. navy’s new torpedo boats (foreground)
and a coast guard cutter are shown cutting through the water of the Hud-
son river during recent maneuvers. These 55-mile-per-hour craft are
equipped with torpedo lubes and depth bombs to battle larger destroyers
and submarines.
CRETE:
An Air Test
The big island
f OUIS B. Mayer, motion pic-
•—* ture executive, the highest paid
American with his salary of $697,047
In 1940, came a longer way up than
L. B. Mayer Came g*"-g
Up All the Way —from the
From Sea Bottom to
fact. At the age of 14, he wore
a diving suit, salvaging iron from
sunken ships at New Brunswick.
His family had brought him at the
age of three from Minsk, Russia,
where, like George M. Cohan, he
had been born on the Fourth of
July—in 1885.
He sold his Iron in Boston,
saved $600 and bought a tumble-
down theater at Haverhill,
Mass., in the early days of the
custard pie dynasty of the
movies, In 1914, be got the New
England rights for "The Birth
of a Nation.” That routed him
to Hollywood, the presidency of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and a
long, fast run-around on the
grand circuit of movie high
finance.
He registers vitality in ever*
move and gesture—never taking
anything calmly or in his stride. He
mixes sentiment and business, stick-
ing to a lowly paid employee like
an heirloom, but firing an assistant
mogul at the drop of a hat.
n OBERT BREENAN, Eire’s min-
IX. fstcr to Washington, who is
negotiating for food and arms from
the United States, used to be a writer
for American pulp magazines. He
has been incarcerated in British
jails in Dublin, Cork, Dartmoor and
Gloucester. He was one of six men
who were sentenced to execution,
In the war against the Black and
Tans, but as the others were being
led out to be shot, he was, for some
mysterious reason, given his liber-
ty. In 1920, De VaJera made him
undersecretary of the foreign office
of Crete, which
Prime Minister Churchill said would
be defended “to the death” by an
army composed of General Frey-
berg and New Zealand, British and
Greek troops under his command
suddenly became the center of the
war when a dramatic and unexpect-
ed invasion of the island was made
by air-borne Nazi troops.
There were some early reports
that the Germans were coming also
in normal transports, but there was
little doubt that the air test was pre-
eminent, and that the world was wit-
nessing the first large-scale such en-
deavor since the days of the inva-
sion of Norway, and of the Low
Countries, particularly Holland.
Britain reported that the first 1,500
soldiers who landed in chutes were
wearing the New Zealand uniform,
and coldly announced that "they
could expect to be shot.” All of
them, it was quickly reported, were
either killed or rounded up rapidly.
Germany as promptly retorted
that if any of the parachutists were
treated as spies and shot, Germany
would reply "ten to one” in kind.
But the British and Greeks didn't
have long to wait or long to con-
template what to do with the first
1,500.
By the second morning of the in-
vasion the British radio was re-
porting that the Nazi invasion force
was 7,000, and on the second after-
noon hiked this figure to 11,500.
This brought the German force to
at least one full division, and a good
way into the second division. And
the British quickly estimated that
this figure meant that the Germans
had from 2,000 to 3,000 airplanes on
duty in southern Greece.
The usual silence and mystery as
to what actually was transpiring im-
mediately was clamped down by the
British ministry of information,
which contented itself with issuing
such generalities as "the situation
is in hand," leaving it up to the
Germans to give the world what in-
formation could be gleaned.
The German claims, as usual,
were broad, the Nazis asserting that
many important points had been
captured, and that many British
planes had been destroyed “on the
ground.”
British sources seemed willing to
admit that the Germans had utter
mastery of the air, but General
Freyberg said that every hilltop had
Its sentinel in Crete, that an elabo-
rate method of signaling had been
worked out, and that even those
parachutists who arrived at night
were promptly spotted, reported and
given action from the ground forces.
Neutral observers, however, point-
ed out that in order to effect large-
scale landing of troops who were
not parachutists, the Germans must
have obtained at least temporary
control of landing fields, or must be
using emergency fields.
British reports told of many trans-
port planes shot down with their
cargoes of men, both on the island
and into the waters surrounding it.
However, they also told of huge,
unwieldy transport planes towing
numbers of gliders loaded with men
and munitions, a mode of transpor-
tation not reported in wide-scale use
before.
How large the force on Crete was
remained a military secret of the
Greeks and the British, though there
was considerable figuring done by
those who had followed the course
of the invasion of Greece. The Brit-
ish claimed that most of its army in
Greece had been taken back to
Egypt, there to rejoin the army of
the Nile, and to be rearmed from
new supplies, part of which had
come from the United States.
While it was known that some
forces got into Crete, and that the
Greeks salvaged considerable por-
tions of one of its armies, the quan-
tity was largely a matter of guess-
work.
Most of the troops who got back
to Egypt were Australians and Brit-
ish, hence most observers believed
there was probably about one divi-
sion of New Zealanders in Crete,
and possibly the same number of
British, and perhaps two or three
times that number of Greeks.
British dispatches admitted prac-
tically complete control of the air
by the Germans over Crete, and
hence it was considered still more
likely that the Germans, who had
no particular need of Crete, might
be trying the attack to test out in
actual warfare what the parachut-
ists could do when well-supported
from aloft
This is General B. C. Frey■
berg, a New Zealander, who
was in charge of the Greek•
British defense of the island
of Crete when the Nazi forces
first loosed their air blitz
against that stronghold. When
the British were forced to
withdraw their air force his
duty became a gigantic task.
Ned Russell, of the United Press,
was given a 3-week vacation in Dub-
lin, and came back with a story
which shows the extreme eagerness
and the extreme euds to which the
Irish Free State is going to pre-
serve its neutrality. The Irish navy
(consisting of two torpedo motor-
boats) was ordered out on maneu-
vers, and their instructions read:
"You will proceed from the harbor
to sea, where you will meet and
engage either the Hood or the
Scharnhorst . . ."
MISCELLANY:
LONDON: The first direct plea
for the United States to enter the
war as an active participant came
from the News-Chronicle, which
said:
“We want you in this war fighting
on our side, not to save us from de-
feat but to help us to victory—
quickly.”
PHILADELPHIA: The Academy
of Music refused the rental of its
hall for the purpose of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh to make a speech.
VICHY:
A Turning Point
The flop of Vichy strongly into the
Nazi encampment proved likely to
prove a turning-point as to Ameri-
ca’s entry into the war. For one
thing. It flopped one popular poll on
convoys from a minority to a ma-
jority, and the administration in
Washington, which had been ac-
cused in some quarters of watching
these polls before acting, promptly
announced that the convoy question
has practically been settled.
President Roosevelt, It was said,
does not like the word convoys, and
is more in favor of the navy taking
over portions of the Atlantic and Pa-
cific, even as far as the Red Sea,
for instance, and helping to create
protective lanes through which aid*
to-Britain ships could move safely.
This is the method American ship-
ping experts have liked from the
start, but it was significant that
America’s course was charted along
these lines the day after the polls
reported 52 per cent in favor of con-
voying and 41 per cent opposed and
the other 7 per cent “undecided."
Public attention then turned to
Vichy, and Secretary Hull warned
France that she would have to give
this country a plain and honest
statement of Just what her collabo-
ration with Germany would consist
of before France could hope to re-
store Franco-American relations to
a state of amity.
This attitude was indeed a far cry
from the days of 1917 and 1918, and
the time when the first doughboys
landed in France with “Lafayette,
we’re here” as their slogan.
Hull’s strong declaration came at
the same time when it was an-
nounced that a British flotilla was
hovering about the ports of Mar-
tinique where the French aircraft
carrier Bearn and other vessels
were bottled up. There was some
disquiet over the report that these
ships had been out at sea, but the
British reported they were "simply
on maneuvers.”
But if they were poised for an at-
tempt to run the British blockade,
it was likely that there would be
either fighting or scuttling or both in
the South Atlantic, well within our
"sphere of influence."
Mr. Hull's message to Vichy
showed plainly that the state de-
partment has utterly lost faith in
verbal pledges transmitted by the
French envoy to this country, Gas-
ton Henry-Haye.
The report that Ambassador Lea-
hy would be recalled gained In stat-
ure, and writers on the continent or
recently returned from there be-
lieved that possibly this action,
which could not fail to get across to
the body of the French people, might
sway them to take a firmer stand
toward Germany.
PLANES:
And Months
Statistical proof that thousands of
planes, like Rome, can’t be built in
a day was given by Admiral Tow-
ers, who reported to Secretary of
Navy Knox that in the past 10
months the navy has gained 1,304
planes of all types.
The navy now has 3,476 planes of
all types, including trainers, and
this compared with the British esti-
mate that Germany was operating
about 2,000 to 3,000 planes In the
Battle of Crete alone, not" counting
those in use in other theaters of the
war.
It also was significant that Ad-
miral Towers’ report to Mr. Knox
was that the navy already is ex-
periencing a shortage of pilots,
which compared with Germany’s
reported 100,000 pilots trained be-
fore the war started. In fact, it was
this pilot training program which
first called the attention of the world
to Germany’s rebirth as a military
power in spite of the restrictive ef-
forts of the Treaty of Versailles.
Of the 1,304 planes which the navy
has added to her forces, only about
600 of them are combat types, Ad-
miral Towers revealed.
The goal of 50,000 fighting planes
for the American army and navy
combined was, therefore, envisioned
as far in the future, Admiral Towers
revealing that not until January,
1942, will the existing shortage of
pilots be relieved. Not until then will
the number of pilots begin to catch
up with the number of planes.
DRAFT:
A New Plan
Pennsylvania called out in excess
of 18,000 young men in the draft,
trying out what was called a "new
plan" aimed to "give the selectee a
break.”
The plan was this. The 18,000
were to be called out, and immedi-
ately given a searching examina-
tion along all lines, including their
final medical examination by the
army doctors.
Then they were to be returned to
their homes and jobs, those who
were eligible to army life being
placed on call in from 10 to 30 days,
and the rest of them to return to
their normal jobs, secure in the
knowledge that they would not be
called.
This was aimed to remove much
of the uncertainty which grew out of
the previous method of selective
service picking. Dr. William
Mather Lewis, selective service di-
rector of Pennsylvania, said he was
advised that if the experiment
proved a success there, it would be
applied to the entire nation.
At the same time President Roose-
velt put into being the OCD, or Of-
fice of Civilian Defense, with Mayor
Fiorello LaGuardia of New York its
head, working without salary, as will
all of his Intermediaries.
Also plans for the home guard
were worked out at Washington,
this group to function entirely sep-
arately from the O.CD, which would
ostensibly have a membership of
millions of American men, women
and even children.
One of the first tests of the United
States against possible war was an
entirely complete blackout of the
Hawaiian islands, where even the
isolated hamlets were darkened,
and planes of the American army
and navy flew overhead to inspect
the situation and to see how com-
plete it was.
James Gleason plans his sixteenth
newspaper managing editor on the
screen in the soon-due "Affection-
ately Yours.” (That’s either a rec-
ord or a rut!)
At Fort Williams, there is a Pri-
vate William Williams, who comes
from Williams Street, Williamson,
W. Va. (Or, to put it briefly, where
there’s a Williams, there’s a Wil-
liams.)
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A discussion was in progress
about democracy, and one of the |
group seemed to think his ancestry
entitled him to a dogmatic view on
everything. "I think," he smirked,
"that the argument on America
should end with my views. After all
—my ancestors came over on the
Mayflower” ... “You’re lucky," was
soprano Genevieve Rowe’s com-
ment, "after all, the immigration
laws are a bit stricter now.”
The America First outfit claims j
in its ads that it hasn’t wealthy
backers ... A few months ago
that group was asked for a list of
its backers, but refused to give it.
Finally they gave a partial list—
which included many wealthy ffien
and women . . . Why have they |
such short memories?
WiTmwAY,
HEMRy MILL
FOUND A MTTEK WAV
for spun warm.
HE INVENTED THE
FIRST TynWRTTBR.
According to Wilfred J. Funk, the
average pet dog has a vocabulary
of 60 words. (That’s the number of |
words it understands.)
In the new book, "Men and Poll- I
tics,” the author says: “Germany
has no unemployment. But nel- |
ther has a prison.”
According to the Open Book,
whether a black cat following is
bad luck depends on whether you’re {
a man or a mouse.
You can tell the difference be-
tween a Nazi and a British plane
by their sounds. Nazi bombers
sound like this: “Voom, voom,
voom. Vooma-doom-voom” . ,
British planes sound like: “Yowzer-
yowzeryowzeryowzer” . . . Or so
returning correspondents are telling
the Stork Clubbers, at any rate.
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Swift Report
Report, that which no evil thing
of any kind is more swift, in-
creases with travel and gains
strength by its progress.—Vergil.
When It was rumored Marshal I
Goering might receive an Austrian
Knighthood, Punch suggested his |
new title be: "Sir Cumference.”
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Memos of a , , .
Girl Friday:
Dear W. W.: After two months of
trailing Jan Valtin, Steve Birming-
ham (the Dies Committee sleith)
caught up with him in the parking
lot opposite The Algonk and served
him with a summons . . . Jimmy
Walker evened things with certain
Hollywood people (formerly of
Broadway) at the Jack Benny af-
fair. Jimmy called to the spotlight
man and said: “Please turn off
the light so I can see the people
who couldn't see me the last four
years."
Stimulating III Will
Preparation for war is a con-
stant stimulus to suspicion and ill
will.—James Monroe.
The Nat’l Defense Organization is
sponsoring R. H. Markham's excit-
ing reply to Anne Lindbergh’s book.
He calls his: "The Wave of the
Past." Be sure and read!
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LABOR:
The general handling of the strike
situation rapidly by the Defense
Mediation board continued, though
widely criticized in certain quarters
as being achieved at a price which
eventually would make this nation
a prey to inflation and rapidly soar-
ing prices.
However, there was a shipyard
strike on the West coast which
seemed for a time to defy settle-
ment, although the much larger coal
and motors strikes were well in
hand.
Just got a button reading: "I’m
a Copperhead.” It is the emblem of
a West coast outfit whose meetings
are attended regularly by most Bund
members out there. The head of it
is the chairman at the Save America
First meetings in L. A. . . . Quentin
Reynolds sent a cable to friends
saying: “The Saturday blitz and the
arrival of Hess took Londoners’
minds of! the warl”—Your Girl Fri-
day.
MERCHANTS
Private Papers . . .
Of a Cub Reporter:
Jimmy Dorsey kept the gagging
going when he relayed the one about
the same dictators who were argu-
ing over the division of spoils . . .
Hitler, of course, was conceding
nothing to his very Junior Axis part-
ner In crime . . . Finally, Benito
could stand the humiliation no long-
er, and he blurted: "Listen, Hitler.
Where would you be today if it
weren't for my help?” . . . Hiller
retorted: “In Londonl"
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