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WHAT THEY SAY
IN SWITZERLAND:
<1) No Drive In We>t
<2) Nazis to Bomb Britain
13) Blockade A Question
By Charles S. Foltz, Jr.
AP Feature Service
BERN—The greatest collection
of foreign observers—official and
unofficial—that little Switzerland
has even seen is busily watching
the straws blown about in the
winds of the war.
One legation has 14 officers
helping its military attache in
Bern. They’ve shown only a polute
interest in Switzerland’s little
army.
Another has more than 20 peo
ple in the office of the legation’s!
press attache. Few of them spend
much time reading the Swbss
press.
Representatives of Allied and
German commercial interests
.have increased their -tail.-, at the
very time when Swiss industry
is fighting valiantly to keep its
head above water.
All the official and semi-official
representatives of government,;
along with a host of people who
know their employers wouldn't
lift a finger to help them official
ly, are watching the war.
Their opinions frequently dif
fer and even more frequently are
guesses, but they’re listened to
back in a score of world capitals.
What they report means much to
decisions taken thore.
Watching a war is far too big
a job to tackle single-handed. A1
most all these observers have
their friends or people they be
lieve are frienc^; with whom they
exchange information. So things
get around.
That Big Spring Push
On the Western Front
Few really believe that such a
push will come at ad. Reasons:
(1) Neither the Allied com
mand nor Germany is willing to I
pay the cost in men and morale
for a drive against the powerful
West Wall or the Maginot Line.
(2) Both see advantage in let
ting the other fellow sit- in the
trenches with nothing to do.
The Germans believe the
TVenehman is an excellent soldier
if his country is invaded, but
hasn’t the patience to sit in a
trench and wait without grousing
about the government.
The Germans believe the Eng
lish need a lot of prodding—but
in their homes, not in France. |
The Allies believe German ec-!
tonomy will crack under the Al-j
lied blockade.
(3) Invasion of the three west
ern neutrals would bring not on-'
ly possible action by more pow
erful neutrals (Italy in the event
of an invasion of Switzerland)
but military headaches.
Switzerland’s little army, num
erically stronger and better equip
ped than the Finns’, defends a
-mall northeast, southwest cor
ner between the Alps and the
Jura—which is strategically not
a comfortable spi t for any army
to be caught in.
For Germany the Swiss "side
door" leads only to a well-fort
ifiecJ French Jura or into the
Rhine Valley—far from German
bases. For the Allies the same
“side door" leads to the same old
Rhine to be crossed again—and
then they’re only in the Black
Forest.
Once through Belgium either
invader would face an extension
of the “enemy's" line —not to,
mention Belgium’s ofns lines and
the revamped Belgian army.
Of those who do believe the
push may come this spring on
land across the Western Front,
most see the Allies as the attack
ers, driven to such an offensive
by Germany's submarine and air.
successes.
That Air Armada Attack—
Many believe that England is
in for an aerial attack from Ger
man this spring. German propag
andists call Bn'ain “the perfect
target.” Many a military man be
lieves they’re right and that it’s
“this spring or never" for Mar
shal Goering’s airmen.
By next fall, say these sources
the Allied plane production, aug
mented by supplies from Amer
ica, will be close on the heels of
the German turnout.
A few observers think Ger
many might try to grab the Neth
erlands as a base for such at
tacks by air, but others think
Holland’s bonds with Belgium
and her weapon to water are po
tent enough to keep the Germans
out.
Almost all agree that Paris has
little to fear from the air and
that the Germans will continue
to let the Frenchmen sit idle in
trenches and at anti-aircraft guns
wondering about the war and
about German propaganda.
That Blockade—
If Germany can turn out sub
marines and man them faster
than the Allies can sink them,
observers in Switzerland say,
Britain may be the one to worry
about a blockade.
They don’t believe Germany
can turn out big submarines at
that pace, but they’d still like
to know whether the Germans
are turning out “pocket subs,"
and. if so, how effective they are.
LABOR CONCILIATOR MAY
BE STATIONED IN ALASKA
BY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
WASHINGTON, March 25 —
lhe appointment of a labor con
ciliator to be stationed in Alaska
•vas held out by Gov. E. H Gruen
mg before the House appropria
tions committee as the means of
helping Alaskans to solve labor
emplov-ment problems.
In testimony made public to
day Alaska's chief executive said
lhe chief problem has been dis
.•rimination against Alaskan
>>.• rkers by employers and un
ions and said the explanation
was that their headquarters were
ii Seattle or San Francisco.
He said he is now' discussing
with the Navy department such
discrimination at the Navy bases
a Sitka and Kodiak and said con
: act rs had contracted with 30
or more crafts in the A F of L
providing for the first man in
each craft to be foreman and
supervisors must come from the
states.
After Governor Gruenir.g’s
te.-tim .ny regarding importation
of Bristol Bay fishermen from
the states, members of the com
mil tee expressed surprise that
such conditions exist.
Rep. Frank B. Keefe. Repub
lican from Wisconsin, said he be
lieve these problems should be
settled by legislative action.
J >hn Steelman, director of the
conciliation service ir. the Labor
de; .i4.merit, said last year the
dep ment sent a conciliator to
Alaska on four different and “ra
tii r expensive time-consuming
trip.'.”
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Having previously visited in Rome and Berlin, United States under
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Lebrun of France as he arrived in Paris to obtain the case of
France for President Roosevelt. (Picture radioed to New York).
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