WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edwarti C. Wayne
Jap Failure io Overwhelm Australia
Brings Revision of Pacific Timetable;
Anti-War Feeling Grows in Bulgaria
As Government Meets Nazi Demands
4 EDITOR'S NOTE ? When ?pinion* arc exprtt\rd In these column* ther
? re these ef the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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TIMETABLE:
Revised
There had been much talk about
(he Japanese timetable being awry,
but to the man in the street this was
hard to believe, since the Japs had
.swept the East Indies, including
Singapore, but excluding Bataan
and Mamia Say in th?
unbelievably short period since De
cember 7.
However, it had become apparent
that the Japanese plans to enter the
Australian mainland had suffered a
severe setback in the arrival of thou
sands of American troops on the
continent, in the all-out plane
attack on Jap concentrations in is
lands to the north of Australia, and
in the reported reinforcements be
ing received by the Aussies of their
own blooded troops back from north
ern Africa.
These were signs all could read.
The attacks on New Guinea had
been going on far too long in com
parison with tho*? nn other islands
in 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 had
lunded, had become organized. They
had not wanted MacArthur, and
President Quezon to escape to the
mainland.
Nor did they want their enemy to
be holding onto Port Moresby at this
late date, with its airfields and gar
risons awaiting a Jap push over the
almost impassable mountainsides to
the southern part of the island.
Here, it was evident, the Japs
had met serious delay. Many be
lieved the attack on Australia was
to be abandoned, thus setting the
6tage for a real Allied counter
offensive.
The Australians, however, particu
larly General Blarney, who had been
placed in command of the Aussies
under General MacArthur, believe
that "We must arrange our strate
gy on the basis that the Japs are
going to try an invasion."
BULGARS:
Reported on Move
The Bulgarian army had been re
ported on the move to the German
eastern 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 to
Turkey as well as to the bulk of the
Bulgar people, was not without
sharp criticism from within, almost
amounting to revolution.
An anti-war movement had been
gaining in popularity, and when two
divisions were withdrawn from the
Turkish frontier, reportedly to move
against Russia, one radio station
kept broadcasting an appeal to the
KING BORIS
Only a Crrman paten?
people to "rise and emulate brave
Jugoslavia." It callcd for the throw
ing out of King Boris, who was de
scribed as "only a German pawn,"
and "in Berlin with Von Papen."
Cause of all this antagonism
toward active entrance into the war
on Germany's side was the blood
kinship felt by Bulgars, as well as
Jugoslavs, in the me n, for Rus
sians.
It was not considered unlikely that
the government might be over
thrown, and that the army itself
'n'ght rebel against orders sending
them into action "gainsi the Reds.
A possibility was seen that they
might only make a "token" of fight
and surrender rather than meet
?be fate which mutiny would bring.
INDIA:
At Crossroads
While there had been no immedi
ate indication that the Japs were to
make India the supreme objective,
and abandon any idea of an immedi
ate invasion of Australia, the situa
tion in Burma was serious enoush tr>
2!'.*c poignancy to the Tisit of
Sir Stafford Cripps and his offer of
dominion status to India ? after the
war.
The sharp division of opinion in
India placed three men and their
followers in the forefront cf the pic
ture, Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah.
Gandhi, the Mahatma, leader of
more Hindus than any other man,
had been the first to confer with
Cripps, and a two-hour conference
had found the two men willing to
admit that the basis of negotiations
was "satisfactory."
But the handling of Nehru and Jin
nah was a horse of another color.
Despite the fact that Gandhi had
been more than any other man the
leader of resistance to British rule,
Jawaharlal
Nehru
Mohandas K.
Gandhi
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 said
that anything less than a promise of
complete independence would be in
adequate.
"Japan is offering us that," he
said boldly. While he professed no
"love for the aggressor," he said
that British failure to offer independ
ence would leave India 110 recourse
other than to adopt a passive resist
ance to the Japs, which he admitted
would be no practical resistance at
all.
Nehru frankly did not believe the
British could achieve Indian unity,
blaming Jinnah, the Moslem head.
He said that Jinnah was insisting
on a divided freedom for India, and
that while he, Nehru, was willing to
"go along" with any type of free
dom, he doubted that England was
going to accede to Jinnah's de
mands.
Relations were worse at the time
of Cripps' arrival than at any time
in history, Nehru said, talking dark
ly of civil war being "just around
the corner," an eventuality wliich
most observers believed would be
suicidal with Japan knocking at the
nation's eastern borders.
COMMANDOS:
Hit Daring Blow
Britain's commandos, after a lull
of several weeks during which they
doubtless had been "cooking" an
other raid, had descended in full
power on the German-held port of
St. Nazaire, important submarine
and naval base, with dire results.
Chief objective, outside of general
demolition work around the port,
had been the destruction of a huge
dock, the only one on the European
Atlantic coast capable of handling
the 35,000-ton German battleship
Von Tirpitz.
The commandos had attacked St.
Nazaire under cove> of an aerial
bombing raid, using prralr'-ops, de
stroyers, and motor torpedo boats.
The Nazis denied all efficacy of the
raid, but the British just is positive
ly declared it to have be?n a huge
success.
Chief item and most daring in the
raid was the use of an overage U. S.
destroyer as a swiftly moving bomb
to ram the dock. The destroyer had
been loaded with five tons of high
explosive in its bow. fixed with a
time fuse to permit the crew to get
ashore and fight while the ship blew
up
British sources had reported that
this was just what happened. The
vessel rammed the dock and stuck
there, later to blow up and put the
structure out of commission.
The Germans said, however, that
their coastal defense batteries
struck the destroyer and caused her
to blow up before reaching her o!>
jectivo
Mose Knew Not What
Lucy Talked Of, but lion !
Before the court on wife-brought
charges of desertion and non
support. Mose BroA-n meekly ad
mitted his guilt and offered noth
ing in extenuation except that the
lady talked too much.
"That's no excuse for desertion,
Mose," said the Judge. "The law
gives a woman the right to talk all
she wants to."
"Yassuh, Jedge. I knows it
do. Only Lucy she never stop
talkin*. She keep it up stiddy,
mo'nin', noon and night, till I cain't
stan' it no mo'."
"She does? What does she talk
about?" inquired the court.
"Jedge, suh," Moses said, "she
don't say." I
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