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The Crow’s Nest
By William L. Baker
(Sitka Sentinel)
If you want to know how dear
ly Hitler holds the love of Ben
ito Mussolini, you have only to
ponder today’s reports that he
has sent several detachments of
his troops to Italy to take charge
of the Roman war campaign.
Wlii ther this report is strictly
true or not does not so much
matter, because other dispatches
leaking through the censorship
that blankets most of Europe
have told previously about bick
ering and discontent among It
alian soldiers.
Some of them can h? believed.
Certainly the general prediction
back in June when Rome joined
the war — that she would soon
tire of the seige and find it too
costly for the possible gains — is
beginning to come true. And Mr.
King-Emperor^God Hitler is go
ing to have his hands full direct
ing and feeding two major arm
ies. no matter how much resert
he and Mussolini can swallow in
Egypt, Morocco or the near east.
Germany is taking over the It
alian military activity because
she doesn't trust the Fascists to
qSiq oat? Xaqj, ■Suiiqgy anuijuoo
4y tempermental Latins and tho
they had the glories of war drill
ed into them for year by II Duce
the comparatively small Ethio
_war brought grumbling all over
Italy.
The aid given to rebel Franco
of Spain, also brought shortages
in Italy and when Mussolini pull
ed out of the Spanish fiasco with
nothing but thanks — Germany
got the coal and iron and quick
silver from Franco —the public
growled but took it.
Now a third venture into war
the most dangerous and costly
venture of all is beginning to ne
bound also. American corres
pondents with the Italian army
have reported the lowest morale
they had seen in decades. Food is
f- rce a>*d poor, quipment only
f r. military direction mediocre.
Already Marshal Graziani has
set word from Egypt that he
h d to have more tanks and
more men to stand off the attack
1 - > British. Increasing candor in
R man war communiques has
laid the groundwork for today’s
m ve — the nazifying of Italy’s
armies. The high command has
1 _ i admitting more and more
that British power has been tak
ing huge tolls in Italian shipping.
T e failure to convince Spain
th.it she should go after Gibral
tar and the failure of Mussolini
to bring the Japanese fleet into
the Medit rranean to break the
Br'tish blockade probbalv dealt
t'^p Italian morale a terrific blow.
Germany wanted no Caporetto in
this war, so she acted.
II rnction shows only too clear
ly that Italy has been an unwill
ing :ail on the Hitler kite, that
the Rome-Berlin axis was an ag
reement of a strong and a week
p iwer and that the strong would
ab.- rb the weak when the time
can- . Despite Berlin’s prediction
that the world would be divided
into great empires, into which
Italy would have her portion, the
prospect is that Rome will be
t re ouppet under Berlin and
that Germany will hr:nee con
tr■ • 1 the midd'e Mediterranean a;
she admitted that she will “for
ever control" Norwy and Den
mark.
Before ever Mussolini d^clar
td war on France observers h"d
shewn that her poverty would
■keep Italy from b?itr» o' <t"ra;
assistance to any aliy. She has
only three strategic war mater
ials in any quantity, her factories
are subject to imports for their
raw materials, she lacks gold I
and for ign exchange to buy j
from her neighbors, and the lit- {
tie petroleum she obtains in Al-j
bania probably will go into Hit
ler’s tank divisions instead of in
to Italan war uses. So short has
be entlaly on fuel through the
years that her factories had to
be built in the foothills so water
power would turn the wheels.
When Britain stopped her im
ports of German coal last spring
Italy holed loudly but now that
she's at war,the blockade stops
many other things than coal to
keep her factories busy. She’s
getting hungury.
Lightning war. liye lightning,
never strikes twice in the same
place. A “master race’’ that sets
out to dominate a world must al
ways find an inferior race to sug
jugati?, and if it can't be found
across a 20-mile channel, it will
be found elsewhere and placed in
chains. This is the credo of the
dynamic nazi party, and it is be
ing adopted by Italy this fall and
apparently by Japan, who up un
til now has thought little good
of a Germany that would make
alliances with red Russia.
Most observers have felt that
Germany would use this winter,
as she did the last one, to capital
ize her gains of the summer. Last
fall’s campaigns gave her Dan
zig, Poland and the Polish corri
dor, which she Germanized in
quick order during the winter.
Last May and Jun: gave her Den
mark, Norway, the lowlands and
France. She is now hauling away
all tangible and movable wealth
from France, leaving that once
proud and prosperous nation in
poverty.
Admittedly faced with stale
mate in the west this winter, the
xi-ich must find some smalller
neighbors to pick to pieces, some
new alliances to make, some fur
ther political gains to accom
plish. Whch way she will turn is
not apparent, but there are indie
ative signs.
% % of Xmas
Seal Sales Re
main In Alaska
In answer to many inquiries re
ceived as to the expenditure of
Christmas S al Sale funds, Jam
es McHaughton, Treasurer of the
Alaska Tuberculosis Association
issued the following statement:
"95% of the money rais'd is
retained by the Alaska Associa
tion for the control of the disease
in th. Territory. Th-Jk emaining
5% is paid to the I\ ..onal As
sociation for its nation-wide cam
paign. During the past four years
we have contributed $15,000 to
the Tuberculin Testing and x-ray
Clinics held in the schools of Al
aska. These clinics have taken
8.000 x-rays and given 10,000 tu
berculin tests during this thru?.
This has accounted for the major
portion of the available funds.”
"The remainder is spent each
year for heath education, coop
erating with Federal and Terri
torial agenc: s, we have distrib
uted more than 30,000 pamphlets
on tuberculosis. Motion pictures
on tubercu’osis have b°en shown
wherever power is available and
talks on tuberculosis control
have been giv.n to all interested
groups.”
"I feel,” he continued “that it
is particularly important that the
people of Alaska know that so
lorge a portion of the funds are
retained at home and used for
‘he control of tuberculosis in th
Territory,”
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The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON. Nov. —It has
not leaked out yet, but the State
Department went pretty far in
pressuring the Vichy govern
ment to surrender the 93 plants
which the U. S. Navy once sold
to France and which are now
rusting away at Martinique. The
State Department even threaten
ed to sever diplomatic relations
if the French were too stiff-neck
ed about these airplanes.
Sumner Welles has had several
talks with Ambassador Henri
Haye regarding Martinique, and
at one time when Welles asked
that the planes be returned to
the United States, the French
Ambassador actually replied:
“I’m afraid it might get us into
trouble with Berlin.”
In other words Vichy is taking
orders from Berlin almost every
step of the way.
Meanwhile the agreement nego
tiated by Marshal Petain and Hit
lor is cloaked, in the strictest
secrecy. Some of the main points
have leaked out however and if
these leaks ar,? correct, France
and Germany agree to cooperate
for the peace of Europe. Since
Great Britain is now the only
country disturbing “the peace of
Europe”—at Past in the eyes of
the Nazis — this means that
France will cooperate with Ger
many in forcing Britain into
peace.
Th s is the formula by which !
France justifies the leasing to
Germany of her naval bases and
airfields around the Mediterran
ean. This means Nazi control of
Syria, all-important in the Nazi
drive from the Balkans to Suez;
and Dakar, which is all-import-1
ant in disruptng British shipping
lines around the tip end of Af
rica to Australia, India and the |
Far East.
■
! WHAT HAPPENED AT DAKAR
French military circles have
now brought back the inside
story of the British fiasco at
Dakar when G neral de Gaulle
tried to land but had to turn
back.
The British had secured secret
a surances from the French fleet i
that the three cruisers which j
they let through the Straits of,
Gibraltar into th; Atlantic would
cooperate with the Briish when
the British were ready to take i
over the important naval base at;
Dakar.
However, the French Navy is1
traditionally anti-British, inclin
ed to be pro-fascist. The French
Army on the other hand, is vig
orously pro-British. And the
French Navy double-crossed
them.
So when General de Gaulle ap
peared with British warships
just off the Dakar naval base,
th French officers, instead of giv
ing "up to their advance pledg
es opened fire. Simultaneously,
French co onial troops came rush
ing down to the beach, virtual
ly holding out their hands to the
British to send landing parties
ashore.
The British did not know the
attitud of the French Army. All1
they knew was that the anti-,
British French naval officers had
opened fire. The British had no:
way of knowing that their land-,
ing parties might not be fired on!
also. So de Gaulle and his ill- !
fated mission sailed for home.
NOTE — Admiral Robert, j
French commander of naval fore
es at Martinique, is absolutely op
posed to any surrender to the'
United States.
He is sitting tight and con
tends that it will take a keg of
dynamite to blast him from his
position in the French W:st |
Indies.
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It’s All Over
Says Doris Of
Marriage
LOS ANGELES. Nov. — Doris
Duke Cromwell, heiress to tobac
co millions, says her marriage to
James Cromwell, former minis
ter to Canada is over, but she has
no plans for a divorce.
“I will live separated from my
husband,” sh,; told reporters as
she boarded a liner for Honolu-1
lu. 'Yes, it’s permanent. I’m go-;
ing home to Hawaii for an in-1
definite stay.
As for his defeat in the New
Jersey senatorial race, she said,
“It’s a pity he lost. He worked
very hard for it.”
CANDIDATE'S FAMILY —Seldom seen are daughter
and mother of James H. R. Cromwell, husband of Doris Duke,
who's campaigning for U. S. senator from N. J. They are Mrs.
E. Stotesbury and Christine, seen at Spring Lake, N. J.
FROM THE PHILIPPINE S—American beauties might
look to their laurels, now that pretty Beatrice (left) and Concep
tion Roces have come to Washington to visit a brother. Their
father is Marcos Roces. prominent Philippine publisher.
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