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| WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne
Jap Failure to Overwhelm AustraliaI Brings Revision of Pacific Timetable;Anti-War Feeling Grows in BulgariaAs Government Meets Nazi Demands
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TIMETABLE:Revised
There had been much talk aboutthe Japanese timetable being awry,but to the man in the street this washard to believe, since the Japs hadswept the East Indies, includingSingapore, but excluding Bataanand Manila Bay fortresses, in theunbelievably short period since De-cember 7.
However, it had become apparentthat the Japanese plans to enter theAustralian mainland had suffered asevere setback in the arrival of thou-sands of American troops on thecontinent, in the all-out planeattack on Jap concentrations in is-lands to the north of Australia, andin the reported reinforcements be-ing received by the Aussies of theirown blooded troops back from north-ern Africa.
These were signs all could read.The attacks on New Guinea hadbeen going on far too long in com-parison with those on other islandsin the Indies without the Japs mov-ing in for the Australian “kill.”
It was inconceivable that the Jap-anese wanted to wait until the Amer-icans and North African troops hadlanded, had become organized. They'had not wanted MacArthur, andPresident Quezon to escape to themainland.
Nor did they want their enemy to:be holding onto Port Moresby at thisdate date, with its airfields and gar-risons awaiting a Jap push over thealmost impassable mountainsides tothe southern part of the island.
Here, it was evident, the Japshad met serious delay. Many be-lieved the attack on Australia wasto be abandoned, thus setting thestage for a real Allied counter-offensive.
The Australians, however, particu-larly General Blarney, who had beenplaced in command of the Aussiesunder General MacArthur, believethat “We must arrange- our strate-gy on the basis that the Japs aregoing to try an invasion.”BULGAKS:Reported on Move
The Bulgarian army had been re-ported on the move to the Germaneastern front, the government hav-ing acceded to the Nazi demands,that it furnish troops for the offen-sive against Russia.
But the move, highly disturbing tojTurkey as well as to the bulk of thejßulgar people, was not withoutsharp criticism from within, almost'amounting to revolution.
An anti-war movement had beengaining in popularity, and when two.divisions were withdrawn from theTurkish frontier, reportedly to moveagainst Russia, one radio stationkept broadcasting an appeal to the
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ipeople to “rise and emulate brave| Jugoslavia.” It called for the throw-jing out at King Boris, who was de-i scribed as “only a German pawn,”land “in Berlin with Von Papen.”
Cause of all this antagonismjtoward active entrance into the waron Germany’s side was the blood'kinship felt by Bulgars, as well as
in the main, for Rus-sians.
It was not considered unlikely thatthe government might be over-thrown, and that the army itselfmight rebel against orders sendingthem into action against the Reds.A possibility was seen that theymight only make a “token” of fight-ing, and surrender rather than meetthe fate which mutiny would bring.
The Jugoslavs, who overturned;their government, only to succumbjto unpreparedness and Croatian de-fections, were still fighting in force,land a Jugoslav guerrilla force of100,000 was reported,about to starta “spring offensive” of jts ownagainst the Nazi army of tecupa-tion.
Chief worrier about the Bulgar.situation was Turkey, who saw inthis move of soldiery the war com-ing every nearer to her borders.
Political circles in Berlin suggest-ed that King Boris might renouncehis old east Thracian aspirations.
INDIA:At Crossroads
While there had been no immedi-ate indication that the Japs were tomake India the supreme objective,and abandon any idea of an immedi-ate invasion of Australia, the situa-tion in Burma was serious enough togive poignancy to the visit ofSir Stafford Cripps and his offer ofdominion status to India—after thewar.
The sharp division of opinion inIndia placed three men and theirfollowers in the forefront of the pic-ture, Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah.Gandhi, the Mahatma, leader ofmore Hindus than any other man,had been the first to confer withCripps, and a two-hour conferencehad found the two men willing toadmit that the basis of negotiationswas “satisfactory.”
But the handling of Nehru and Jin-nah was a horse of another color.Despite the fact that Gandhi hadbeen more than any other man theleader of resistance to British rule,
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he was regarded as more reason-able, more desirous of defending In-dia than the other leaders.
Nehru, the congress chieftain, pri-or to talking with Cripps had saidthat anything less than a promise ofcomplete independence would be in-adequate.
“Japan is offering us that,” hesaid boldly. While he professed no“love for the aggressor,” he saidthat British failure to offer independ-ence would leave India no recourseother than to adopt a passive resist-ance to the Japs, which he admittedwould be no practical resistance atall.
Nehru frankly did not believe theBritish could achieve Indian unity,blaming Jinnah, the Moslem head.He said that Jinnah was insistingon a divided freedom for India, andthat while he, Nehru, was willing to"go along” with any type of free-dom, he doubted that England wasgoing to accede to Jinnah’s de-mands.
Relations, were worse at the timeof Cripps’ arrival than at any timein history, Nehru said, talking dark-ly of civil war being “just aroundthe corner,” an eventuality whichmost observers believed would besuicidal with Japan knocking at thenation’s eastern borders.
COMMANDOS:Hit Daring Blow
Britain’s commandos, after a lullof several weeks during which theydoubtless had been “cooking” an-other raid, had descended in fullpower on the German-held port ofSt. Nazaire, important submarineand naval base, with dire results.
Chief objective, outside of generaldemolition work around the port,had been the destruction of a hugedock, the only one on the EuropeanAtlantic coast capable of handlingthe 39,000-ton German battleshipVon Tirpitz.
The commandos had attacked St.Nazaire under cover of an aerialbombing raid, using paratroops, de-stroyers, and motor torpedo boats.The Nazis denied all efficacy of theraid, but the British just as positive-ly declared it to have been a hugesuccess.
Chief item and most daring in theraid was the use of an overage U. S.destroyer as a swiftly moving bombto ram the dock. The destroyer hadbeen loaded with five tons of highexplosive in its bow, fixed with atime fuse to permit the crew to getashore and fight while the ship blewup.
British sources had reported thatthis was just what happened. Thevessel rammed the dock and stuckthere, later to blow up and put thestructure out of commission.
The Germans said, however, thattheir coastal defense batteriesstruck the destroyer and caused herto blow up before reaching her ob-jective.
The Germans, however, admittedthat many of the raiders got ashore,but claimed they were all killed orcaptured. The British said there“were some casualties,” but that theobjectives were carried out, andthat many members of the raidingforces returned in safety to England,
It was all part of the British springoffensive, which included practicallynon-stop raids against Germany andoccupied France.
The U. S. destroyer found at herend a place in history along with theVindictive and the blockships of Zee-brugge fame. v "
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MANUEL L. QUEZONRelief not long in coming.
Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, pick-ing up where General MacArthurleft off, was continuing the Bataancampaign, and Corregidor had with-stood the heaviest bombing attacksof the war.
The guns of Corregidor and hersister fortresses had hammeredaway at flights of Jap bombers,dropping four one day, two the next,with others “probably downed ordamaged.’’
President Quezon, on his arrivalwith his family and cabinet in Aus-tralia, predicted that the iron standof Wainwright’s men soon would re-ceive its reward, and that relieffor the Philippine garrison would“not be long in coming.”
The Filipino president had beenvariously reported as killed, dead ofdisease, and murdered on orders ofGeneral MacArthur. Actually, hehad never left MacArthur’s head-quarters, and had flown to Australiato take his stand there again.
AMERICANS:Cupid ‘Down Under*
Most interesting while the Amer-ican troops were training in Aus-tralia, becoming acclimated, and“meeting the people” was the floodof romance sweeping over the con-tinent.
Literally scores of marriages werebeing performed, causing all sortsof reactions.
Some of the Aussie clergy de-plored these “marriages in haste,”and one cleric had the bad taste tosay the “Americans came here tofight, not to get married.”
The Australian public met theromances with whoops of joy, andthe press was definitely on the sideof young love.
One American commanding of-ficer forbade his soldiers to getmarried, and drew down on himselfhowls of rage from the rank andfile, and a reprimand from his su-periors.
The war department in Washing-ton capped this climax by issuinga statement that any American sol-dier had a perfect right to get mar-ried as long as he did his duty asa soldier, and obeyed the commandsof his superiors—and was free toget married.
And that, after all, turned out tobe the only major worry of thosewho watched Cupid’s darts flyingright and left in Australia—the fearthat some enthusiastic lovers mightforget that they had wives at home.
RUBBER-OIL:German Patents
Congressmen had been lookingwith a wary and angry eye at theStandard Oil group which, it hadbeen publicly charged, had posses-sion of a superior rubber-oil formu-la, and had been negotiating with it,and turning its patents over to aGerman concern even after Decem-ber 7.
For a time things had looked mostserious, with Senator Truman say-ing: "It looks like treason and I’mgoing to give the Standard officialsa chance to show why it isn’t,” butthis feature of the case simmereddown a couple of days later whenhe said he was “willing to let by-gones be bygones.”
But the aftermath was that Stand-ard and its process for making rub-ber out of oil was on the spot, andits every move was being watched.Truman said he didn’t like the looksof the deal whereby the governmentwas constructing plants for makingaviation gasoline.
“It looks as though the big com-panies are freezing out the littleones, and that they will makeenough profit out of their contractsto pay for the government build-ings,” he said.
Another aftermath of the congres-sional probe into conditions sur-rounding the rubber-making dealswith German firms was that Tru-man said in the future no foreignpacts of any sort might be madewithout government scrutiny and ap-proval.
Congress didn’t want to be caughtnapping again.
OFFENSIVE:The oft-repeated question “where
will Hitler’s spring offensive strike”had been sufficiently answered bydispatches from Moscow.
Activity was definitely on the lullin North Africa.
Activity across the channel waslargely from England to Germany,with the Nazis on the defensive.
But on the Russian front, both atMurmansk and all along the whole2,000-mile line, the Reds themselveswere admitting widely increasedGerman activity. _ _
lURNAL. RISING SUN, MD.
Kathleen Norris Says:This Woman Should Not Wed Faultless Man
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Jay, my former sweetheart, has a lovely daughter, who is a pupil in the schoolwhere / teach. So l have seen Jay again once or twice. He has all his old charm andhigh spirits.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
ONE of the most awkwardquestions that youth canask age is the one a girl
named Vera asks me this morn-ing. Vera’s letter comes from aGeorgia town; she evidently be-longs to a somewhat prominentfamily, for she was given fouryears at an expensive Pennsyl-vania college, and also tells methat she has had two visits inCalifornia “where Mother andDad usually go every winter.”
Vera’s problem is this: When shewas 19 she had a love affair, en-tirely unknown to the family, andextremely serious. For three monthsshe and her sweetheart were pas-sionate lovers, then Vera’s feelingwaned, and she had an uncomforta-ble time extricating herself fromJay’s still exacting devotion.
“Don’t think I didn’t pay for myearly foolishness,” writes Vera. “Idid, when it came time to try tobreak engagements with Jay, to cutdown on letters and meetings, tomake him see that I was through.The day he came to me and saidthat he realized at last that it wasall over, and would trouble me nomore, was actually one of the hap-piest of my life.
“Two years later, when I wasglorying in college days, Jay mar-ried, and I felt nothing but utterrelief. Novels for generations havetalked of the shame and danger oflove affairs, but my real difficultyand tragedy, instead of being that oftrying to hold my lover, was that ofgetting rid of him.
Fell in Love Again.“I am now 27. Last year I met a
man whose fineness, dignity, intelli-gence made me feel that he was setapart from the ordinary run of men.We are deeply in love and were tohave been married this June. Rob-ert is a church member, indeed oncestudied for orders, and has an al-most fanatic sense of honor.
“Meanwhile Jay’s wife has died,and he had a lovely daughter of five,who is one of the pupils in theschool where I teach. So that Ihave seen him again once or twice.He is much developed from the im-pulsive boy I knew eight years ago,with all his old charm and highspirits.
“As Robert’s wife I would havewealth, position, and the compan-ionship of a man who is bound someday to be conspicuously successfulin his profession. Jay is just onebusiness man among many. But Jaywants to marry me, and Robert feelsthat it might be right.
“Perhaps the path I should takeseems smooth and obvious to you,but I can assure you I am harassedand undecided to the point of almostgoing out of my mind. It has neverseemed to me possible that anywoman could be in any doubt aboutwhich man she wants, but the cir-cumstances here are peculiar, thanksto my little-girl folly, and I reallydon’t know what to do. Robert sayshe will leave it entirely to my con-science, and that he knows I willdecide rightly, and yet—while thatmay make you smile with the ideathat he wouldn’t mind getting out ofit entirely himself, I know that, at36, he has never cared for any wom-an but me, and would be deeplystricken at losing me.
Robert Worries.“His brother tells me he cannot
sleep nights for worrying over thisthing; the brother doesn’t know allthe circumstances. Robert has hadthe old house completely modern-ized; he has talked to me of ourlife together as though it were adream too precious ever to be real-
A NEW PROBLEMHere it a problem Kathleen
Norris has not recently discussed.The “Vera" of this letter cannotchoose between two men. Theone, her former sweetheart, cangive her charm, a spirited senseof humor and a love that has ma-tured into deep devotion. Theother, a solid, successful man of36, can give her wealth and posi-tion, but her life with him wouldprobably be very dull. He hasalready told her that if she feelsit is her “duty” to marry the oth-er man she is, of course, free todo so. But Vera believes that los-ing her would break his heart.What should she do?
ized, and if I decide to marry Jayit may embitter him for life.
“A hundred times he has said tome, ‘Oh, why, why, why, does ithave to be this way? Why you, of allwomen?’ Of course that is what myown heart echoes. But twice lately,Robert has used the expression, ‘ifyou feel you must pay the debt.’ Willyou tell me what you think andhelp one more distracted woman topeace?”
Judging from your letter, Vera,I would say that life with Robertmight be a rather rigid affair. Itseems plain that this self-controlledconscientious man is having the sortof battle between the spirit and theflesh that comes only to religiouspersons. He is in love with you, andit is his first love, and so overwhelm-ing and painful.
Robert undoubtedly thinks thatJay has a claim upon you, that youpledged him wifehood when youyielded to him in that early affair.And that nagging conviction willgrow stronger after marriage, whenthe first wild glamour dies and hediscovers that you are human, andcan make mistakes and be trouble-some and disappointing like any oth-er wife.
So I wouldn’t marry Robert if Iwere you. If the more easy-going,cheerful Jay is sympathetic to you,and you can imagine yourself asmaking a good mother to his childand working out a happy normal lifefor yourself as his wife, then whynot tell Robert once and for all thatyou see the justice of his attitudeand that you have determined tomake the only reparation in yourpower for your youthful mistake.This will make him feel heroic andthat you both are committed to thedutiful and self-sacrificing course.
Success Rests With Vera.But if your decision meets with
violent opposition from Robert, andhe implores you to forget the pastand go on with him into a morehonorable future, then of course youmight relent and accept the moredistinguished destiny. A faultlesshusband is a fearful and wonderfulthing, so be sure that you are re-luctantly talked over, if you decideto be talked over. It might be thatin the future you will be glad to re-mind him that your decision wasmade to marry Jay, when Robertpersuaded you otherwise.
With either man, the success orfailure of the marriage rests withyou. With Jay you probably wouldhave cheerful companionship, morelaughter, more of the unexpectedthan with Robert. But with Robertyou would have wealth, position, thepower a young wife with both canwield, and the knowledge verymuch to your credit—that you didnot conceal anything from him andthat he contracted this marriagewith his eyes open to your earlyhistory.
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