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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
New United Nations Attacks Predicted
As Leaders Determine Grand Strategy;
Frenchmen Reach ‘Military Agreement;
Germans Out of Russia: Stalin
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STRATEGY:
On a High Plane
RALLYING CRY:
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When the initial surprise of one of
the war’s greatest stories — the
Roosevelt - Churchill “unconditional
surrender” meeting at Casablanca
in French Morocco—had died away,
the world waited expectantly for the
carrying out *f the principles of
grand strategy laid down by Allied
military leaders.
The Roosevelt-Chutchill render-
vous was the definite tip-off of big
things to come. The Allied leaders
made it clear that their countries
would dig to the bottom of their re-
sources—if necessary—in order to
carry out the extermination of Axis
war power as quickly as possible.
From a gleaming white villa near
Casablanca came the great nows.
But only after complete secrecy had
officially ended. Correspondents re-
garded the meeting as one of the
best kept secrets of all time. Virtu-
ally the entire war staffs of both
nations participated in the dramatic
10-day discussions which ended with
a press conference. But the presi-
"'•wage was shrouded in
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—, —mu terra nean area
will soon be organized into a sepa-
rate theater of operations. Thus far
the United States forces in that area
have been part of the European the-
ater. Separation of Africa and the
Mediterranean Basin from the Euro-
pean theater might well be an im-
portant factor in the Allied offensive
campaigns of the year.
For Russians
“1 declare my appreciation to the
Forward to the routing of the Ger-
man invaders and their expu sion
over the boundaries of our mother-
land.” So declared Josef Stalin in
an order of the day broadcast by
the Moscow radio.
His words, urging the Russians to
throw the Nazis out of their country,
became the rallying cry of the Red
army as it pushed forward in the
big offensives aimed at Kursx,
Kharkov and Rostov. After the fall
of these strategic points there were
still miles of hard battling ahead,
but for the first time since the Nazis
started their invasion of ton
there were definite signs that ota*
lin’s plea was not idle thinking.
For everywhere along the far-
flung front—from Leningrad to the
Caucasus—the Reds added momen-
tum to their drive. Russian military
quarters estimated that 40 per cent
of the Axis effectives had been
knocked c t by the Red winter of-
fensive -^
....... -- routes have dropped
sharply. One recent U. S. convoy
was reported to have reached Rus-
sia without loss of a single ship.
It was indicated that close U. S.-
British - Russian co-operation
making this possible.
FARM PICTURE:
Incentive Plan
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RATIONING:
Limit Set
With the beginni
but a few weeks a«,(
Price Administration
five-can-per-pcrson 11
amount of canned
fruits which t hous
have on hand, without penal
the be",inning of the pomt s|
This was a drastic cut fr
eight to ten cans which, it hi
viously been expected would!
lowed.
When the plan get* unde
perr ins who have more than!
lowable limits will have coup?
out of their canned goods!
book up to the point value
goods held in excess. This
based on one eight-point couj
each can over five per hoi|
member.
Excluded from the count
cans per person w»S be call
taining less than eight ounce
ARGUMENT:
Gets an Airing
For weeks Washington has Sports
of unannounced d^erences <f opin
ion between Rubber Admini|tratoT
William Jeffers and othifcr fovern
ment and military official^ over pn
orities for the synthetic quooer pro-
gram Finally the depute was
brought into the open wfien Jeffers,
in a Baltimore addr**8|
at army and navy ex
^Congress decided to investigate his
charges and Donald Nelson, war pro
duction chief, admitted the fact that
a tift in government ranks had re-
sulted over this issue. Most Wash-
ington sources knew that President
Roosevelt would be required to step
in as arbiter in the dispute.
The quarrel centers around steel
priorities for synthetic rubber
plants. Army and navy officials be-
lieve that these plant# should be
built only in direct re
military needs of stee (
duction of such items Bj
gasoline, airplanes,
and merchant ships
tended that the prod
could be worked out
with one another and
pering progress in his
ber program.
LEND-LEASE:
Extension Sought
Congress is alread
extension of the
to
COUNTY TIMES
Don’t Be Shocked—It’s Horsemeat—and So Tender!
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ficial government approved stamp is applied to cuts of horsemeat at the Linden plant. ___
Battered Malta Still Stands—Stronger Than Ever
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Frenchmen Meet
One of the most important
achievements of the conference was
the bringing about of a meeting be-
tween Gen. Charles de Gaulle and
Gen. Henri Giraud. Those leaders
of the Fighting French and French
Africa announced that they were in
complete agreement regarding the
liberation of their homeland. But it
was regrettably clear that any
merging of the two movements or
any political alliance between them
was far from being realized.
Offensives Will Tell
While the decisions made by mili-
tary leaders are secret, observers
indicated that concrete results
would become apparent with new
Allied offensives this spring.
The basic questions settled ap-
peared to be these:
1. The first great effort must be
to drive the Axis entirely from North
Africa and free the Mediterranean
supply line.
2. It he has not been chosen al-
ready, a supreme Allied command-
er in Europe will be named.
3. The anti-submarine warfare and
air war against Europe will be
stepped up.
4. Europe will be invaded in one of
three ways: Across the Mediterra-
nean, a frontal attack on the chan-
nel coast, or a conquest of Norway.
5. Aid to Russia and China will
be stepped up as much as possible.
Of immediate interest to the Unit-
ed Nations is the naming of a su-
preme military commander. The
name of Gen. George C. Marshall,
chief of staff of the American army,
is most frequently mentioned. Many
observers believed he had already
been decided upon to head the com-
mand.
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Under terms of the new “incen-
tive” program as announced by Sec-
retary of Agriculture Claude Wick-
ard, U. S. producers stand to pick
up an extra 100 million dollars in
subsidy payments to be awarded
for meeting or exceeding greatly
expanded farm production goals.
Applicable to soybeans, grain sor-
ghums, peanuts, sweet potatoes, flax
and dried peas, the program would
pay growers of these crops extra
benefits for each acre on which they
exceed 90 per cent of their goal-
up to 110 per cent of that gbal.
These are products which are badly
needed in the war effort to meet
deficiencies in vegetable oils and
proteins for animal feeding and hu-
man consumption.
Wickard stated further that add-
ed labor and materials will have to
be available to farmers if they are
to meet the goals of the program.
*Land, Army*
As a means to this end Secretary
Wickard and Manpower Commis-
sioner Paul V. McNutt released
their plans for the mobilization of a
volunteer land army of 3% million
farm workers. These would be gath-
ered from ranks of women, the un-
employed, clerks, and nonwar work-
ers from cities and towns.
Aimed at relieving the expected
farm manpower crisis, which ex-
perts predict will reach its peak in
mid-summer, this land army would
be gathered by the joint activities
extension agents of the department
of agriculture and by the field of-
fices of the War Manpower com-
mission.
More than 12 million farm work-
ers will be needed at the height of
the farm season, said Wickard. He
pointed out that the total farm la-
bor force in December, 1942. was
8,900,000.
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by another year- „
This early action has
insure an uninterrupt
materials between the
and Mir Siting Alii
Though ■ ‘re t/f
bur-ts exfl ^
*nen it was first introdul^ a*°
United States was not at * “
there evolved one of the
legislative battles of histor
passage of the measure put1
idea in motion.
Representative Sol Bloom
duced the new measure ju
day after Edward R. Stettin!
lend-lease administrator, repo
congress on how the eight billii
lar distribution of aid was m
our Allies under terms of tin
gram from,March 11, 1941,
end of 1942.
DRAFT:
In Reverse
A Heartening promise that
the war the army will do it
most “to see that no man is
tered out of military ranks in
breadline” has been made to
offer^Md'Ja^sUU *tron*h^ in ** Mediterranean, took everything the Axis had to-
the most bombed place in the world. iE,e’ Shown at ri*ht ls a recent picture of Malta,
Making Every Minute Count in Libya ‘Mr. Five by Five’
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ROBERT P. PATTERSON
"Draft system in reverse."
Cliff Dwellers on Guadalcanal Island
HIGHLIGHTS
in the week's news
SAVING: Maintenance of the Of-
fice of Price Administration has cost
each American only 90 cents dur-
ing the past year, but has saved
each citizen $180 during the same
period, Chester K. Hayes, of the
Chicago regional office of the OPA,
said. One of his examples: consum-
ers are paying only seven cents a
pound for sugar whereas they paid
25 cent* during the last war.
TRANSPORTATION: Joseph B.
Eastman, director of defense trans-
poitation, has called upon taxicab
and bus companies to prepare plans
immediately for mileage curtail-
ment in case of emergency. He
has requested operators of 10 or
more vehicles to submit three plans-
For elimination of 10, 20 and 30 per
oent of all presently operated vehi-
cle miles.
nation by Undersecretary of \
Robert P. Patterson.
Speaking in Chicago, Pattersor
advocated a post-war selective serv-
ice system “in reverse” to functioa
as a job placement agency. He ex-
plained that war department rec-
ords catalog each man according to
occupation and the demobilization
plan would be to inform men about
to leave the army of job opportuni-
ties in their own fields.
W
After a national search, Clay Wo-
mack, 50-year-old defense worker,
has turned up as Mr. Five by Five.
He is five feet tall, and just five
feet around the waist. He is pic-
tured with singer-actress Grace
McDonald.
REVOLT:
That France’s spark of independ-
ence has not been extinguished com-
pletely by the cold brutality of Nazi-
ism was proved when angry French-
men fortified their homes in the old
port district of Marseilles, firing
on German soldiers who ordered
them to evacuate the district. Ger-
man authorities had ordered the
evacuation apparently as a defense
measure against possible invasion
from North Africa. The move was
made after Nazi officials brought up
tanks, field guns and infantry.
Puss Listens In
'cause quarters'in awSfwooSS af STSSh!
A iiUie alley eat entered the hear-
ing roam where the senate interstate
commerce committee was holding
hearings on the American Federa-
tion of Music’s ban on music. Sena-
tor Ernest McFarland of Arizona Is
shown netting It.
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