Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1941 — Page 6

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AID TO BRITAIN T00 LATE, BERLIN SAYS

Hitler Believes He Can Win Before U. S. Can Furnish Decisive Help; Fears Possible Involvement if American Convoys Attacked.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, April 30.—Berlin is reported to have concluded that American aid to Britain can no longer arrive in time materially to alter the course of the war this summer, convoys or no convoys. The Nazis, according to the same European sources, are elated. Having cleaned up fhe Balkans, they expect no further opposition anywhere on the continent. Thus they figure they have May, June, July, August, September and October—six of the year's best fighting months—in which to tackle Suez, Gibraltar and the British Isles, or to move in some other direction should occa-

sion arise. Hitler, therefore, is said to be convinced that he can win the war betore winter intervenes — especially since his agents in this country have told him that devisive aid to Britain cannot possibly arrive before 1942, Germany’s chief worry over convoys, it is said, is due to her fear that they might involve her in war with the United States. If the United States declared war, as a result of a clash between American warships and German raiders, the Nazis would have a new and dangerous conflict on their hands, regardless of what happened thereafter to the British Isles. So many observers here believe that for the time being, at any rate, the Nazis may back away from any situation which might entail shooting it out with American warships. They might reason that it would be better to withdraw and allow limited quantities of munitions to reach Britain than to provoke hostilities with the United States.

Not Pressed for Time

Furthermore, the Nazis might feel that they are no longer quite so pressed for time as they threatened to be 30 days ago when the Balkans were in an uproar and the Italian situation was causing them sleepless nights. As it is, according to all accounts, the Nazis are cockier than they lave ever been. They think they see daylight ahead. The British have been expelled from the continent. They have been pushed back on defensive positions in Egypt and Iraq. Suez and Gibraltar are menaced. Italy has been rescued from her perilous position and put on a shelf out of harm’s way. The oil regions of the Middle East are within striking distance. The Dardanelles are now under control from the Nazi position in Greece and the Aegean Sea, while Russia —which has fought war after war over these straits—seems afraid to lift her voice lest Hitler turn and grab the Caucasus and the Ukraine.

Britain Is Only Bloc

All this, and summer has not even begun. Only Britain, the Nazis contend, now stands in their way of a clean sweep in Europe, and only aid from the United States can save Britain. And that aid must all traverse the U-boat and dive-bomb-er infested Atlantic before reaching the place where it will begin to do some good. The American picture, therefore, j= increasingly to Hitler's liking, while the British are anxious. With them the question of convoys is beginning to lose some of its point. They are not criticising, of course, for they are not in a position to do so, but they are greatly disappointed. “Even armed convoys won’t help,” some are saying in effect, “if the munitions are not p.'oduced. Unless guns and planes and ships and tanks are manufactured, the problem of getting them across the Atlantic is academic.”

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Merit examinations for the positions of junior clerk stenographers end junior clerk typists were announced today by the Indiana Bureau of Personnel. The examinations, to be held late in May, will be for positions in the Welfare and Health Departments and the Employment Security Division. The deadline for filing applicavions is May 17, the salary range is $85 to $110 a month. Applications may be obtained by writing to the Bureau, 141 S. Meridian St. Applicants must be citizens, residents of Indiana one year, graduates of an accredited high school and must have successfully completed a course in stenography or typing. Applications also will be accepted from pupils who will graduate from high school this year, but these will not be considered for employment until after graduation.

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By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941, by The Indlanapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, April 30.—Raids on Plymouth—long after life there had become intolerable—have served to focus attention on the British Government’s failure to evacuate that port city and also to emphasize a whole series of muddles for which the press today holds Government inaction or indecision responsible. While a mass public funeral was being held at Plymouth for the victims of last week’s three mighty Nazi raids, the opposition press demanded action for relief of the city’s home-

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