Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1941 — Page 3
Mussolini Denies Axis Is Worried Over American Entry, Hints Japan and Spain Will Fight; Italy
Occupies All of Greece.
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ROME, June 10.—Premier Benito Mussolini charged today that American intervention in the war would bring an “authoritarian regime” to the United States, would not give Britain victory and would only result in extending the
length of the war.
11 Duce warned that Japan would “not be indifferent” to American entry into the conflict and predicted that Tokyo would prove loyal to her Shligsuions under the three-power
-military pact. Mussolini told the cheering Fascist Chamber of Corporations on the first anniversary
of Italy’s entrance into the
war that American intervegtion would “spread the war to other continents but will not alter the final decisions.” “There is one overseas state” Il Duce said, “which is counting upon entering (the war). It must be known that American intervention does not excessively disturb us. “An . actual declaration of war
would not modify the present sit-|
tation which is of de facto if not of de jure war.” Mussolini asserted that conquest of Crete gives the Axis good bases for attacking Egypt as a “gigantic step toward final victory” and promised that Italy “will march and fight with the Germans and will- win together.” He revealed Italian casualties in Albania to have been 13,502 dead, 38,768 wounded and admitted loss of 17 convoyed steamers and three torpedo boats en route to Albania. Italy’s dividend for the blood ghed in Albania, he said, was German recognition that Greece forms part of Italy’s Mediterranean “living space.” Mussolini said that Hitler had agreed to Italian occupation of all Greece, including Athens, Despite the great distances involved, he asserted, Japan will help
Mussolini said that the authoritarian regime which war would bring to the United States “would be inferior to ours.” “The Roman dictator Sulla,” he said *to the laughing chamber, “seems most amateurish compared with Delano Roosevelt.” “Japan is loyal and would not be indifferent to United States aggression against the Axis, Japan knows her future also is at stake.” He hinted that not only Japan but Spain as well would join the Axis in war against the United States and Britain if America entered the conflict. “we do not solicit Spanish action,” he said, “but Spain knows who her friends are. “Even if the war should last longer than is expected, . Britain cannot win and America cannot save Britain.” He warned Italy's enemies not to count upon internal revolution to crack Italy’s front. “Those who hope for our internal front to crash hope for the impossible. The enemy is tenacious but we are more tenacious. Il Duce concluded his address with a peroration that: “The Axis will win! I firmly believe that in this battle between gold and blood, God has chosen blood. “We will win!”
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on Father's Day
Oh, Mr. Benchley, just a minute! Because you're the perfect Pappy (we've seen your newest Paramount short, The Forgotten Man, now showing at the CIRCLE Theater.—Advt.) What does a husband want for Father's Day? What do you want? Unsnarl the gift problem
for us, Mr. B!
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the store. shilly-shallying."”
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"A word of advice about pipes. A neighbor of mine was missing four days before his wife thought to look in the basement. Out of consideration for wives, most men hide somewhere when they smoke their old pipes.
P.S. In recent issues of The Satur-
For his star performance in this picture Benchley was named “Typical American Father” by the National Father's Day Council.
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Army machine-gunners keep the road open to North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, Cal., after “President Roosevelt, in a history making proclamation, ordered the Army to seize strike-bound plant when riots prevented resumption of work on $200,000,000 pl ane orders. :
BRITISH AT LAST HIT FIRST BLOW
Long-Suffering Public Gets ~ Surprise When Hitler Is Out-Maneuvered.
By JOHN T. WHITAKER
Co; ot 1941, by The Indianapolis Bi imes pyright, hoes y po.
0 Daily New LISBON, June “10 —As Hitler Sd Mussolini prepared to exploit their victory in Crete and the treachery of Vichy, to assure their potential allies that victory is just around phe corner, the British, to the surprise of its | long-suffering public, has taken the initiative and acted first for the first time in this war. This aspect of the invasion of Syria overshadows: the sorry spectacle of two former Allies now finding themselves at war. The ultimate reaction of the Nazi-con-trolled, but not Nazi-intended, continent depends upon the issue of the struggle now under way. Great Britain will he applauded if she wins, reviled if she loses, in Syria. Informed quarters knew Saturday night that Hitler planned to issue a press statement Monday and Mussolini address the Fascist Grand Council today. Some observers profess to believe that the British even stepped up their invasion of Syria by one day because they had anticipated those two propaganda efforts. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, as a devout Catholic, preferred to launch the attack on Monday, rather than Sunday morning, but ‘he and Gen. Georges Catroux, Free French leader in the Near East, agreed to give the two dictators a surprise, these quarters believe.
Was Britain Hoodwinked?
Not the least remarkable aspect of the Syrian incident is the statement by Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, chief of state ih Vichy, that there ‘are no Germans in Syria—a statement which follows by only a few months his solemn promise that Germany would not jockey France into war against her former ally. While Vichy circles knew Marshal Petain to be infirm as well as aged, they’ thought that he would carry out his threat, several times uttered in private, to take an airplane to Morocco rather than sacrifice the dignity and honor of France. Every Government with the semblance of an intelligence service agrees that the Germans already have no less than 4000 men and somewhere between 100 and 200 airplanes in Syria. These figures can be checked in several ‘quarters. They must be known to the French Deuxieme Bureau, unless it is completely controlled by the Germans, and if they are not known to Marshal Petain, it is because that old warrior is as easily handled by Hitler as was Paul von Hindenburg. Marshal Petain’s statement was invalidated even by Viovanni Ansaldo. That official but scarcely discreet spokesman for ‘Italy announced by radio that “the British will find that the Axis have taken their precautions in Syria, »
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‘British Lost 15,
LONDON, June 10 (U. P.).—Prime
ter Winston Churchill today placed Imperial losses in the unsuccessful defense of Crete at 15,000 men killed, wounded, taken prisoner or missing. Churchill 8 ported that May ‘was the “best month” thus far in the Battle of the Atlantic in' which he said the British were maintaining their position strongly. He reported that British war-making Capacity has been increased by a 50 per cent rise in the output of guns and heavy tanks in the first quarter of 1941 compared with the last quarter of 1940. Churchill’s statement in Commons revealed that Britain lost almost half the forces defending the Greek island in the bitter battle against the Nazi air-borne attack. - The Admiralty yesterday revealed that 17,0000 men were evacuated from Crete, placing the size of the total defense force at 32,000 men. Replying to Nazi propaganda that Britain is fighting “to the last Anzac,” Churchill said that of the 90,000 troops killed since the start of the war, 85,000. were British and only 5000 were from the dominions and colonies.
17,000 Nazis Dead
The cost of the Crete campaign to Germany was placed by Churchill at 5000 troops drowned, 12,000 killed or wounded, 185 fighter and bomber planes and 250 troop carriers destroyed. In addition fo :the loss of Imperial troops, the Crete action cost ‘Britain 10 warships—four cruisers and six destroyers—sunk, as well as many others, including two battleships, damaged in the Nazi air attacks. Churchill said that Britain is and has been pouring arms into the Middle Eastern sector at risk of considerable | danger; to the home front. i Defense of Crete, he declared in reply to critics, was undertaken
upon a decision by ilitary experts that with 25,000 to troops and the aid of the hi Navy there
was a good chanc destroy the enemy as he landed.”
Denies ‘Regret’
“Our Army was to hold off the air-borne attacks and the Navy was to be on guard against sea-borne attacks. “Suppose we had never gone into Greece. Suppose we never had defended Crete. Where would the Germans be now? Might they not at this early stage of the campaign of 1941 already be masters of Syria and Iraq and preparing themselves for an advance to Persia?” Churchill declared that the Battle of Crete should not be a matter of regret. ) “I think that it will be found that this somber and ferocious battle was a battle well worth fighting,” he said, “and it will play an extremely important part of the defense of the Nile Valley through the present year.” The Prime Minister claimed that it would have been a mistake to build many airfields in Crete be-
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Robert, Martha Dux St. Vincent's. ; Ohatles E., Loretta Lindner, at 86. Vin-
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Don't Regret Fight," Churchill;
cause of the lack of anti-aircraft guns, and he revealed that great numbers of British anti-aircraft weapons had been diverted for mounting on ships to protect them against air attack in the Atlantic. Churchill said that from the moment the British landed in Crete last autumn they started construction of defenses at the naval station at Suda Bay and launched a program to develop an airdrome nearby.
No Hitler Explanation
“The man must be a perfect fool,” said ‘Churchill, “who thinks we have large quantities of anti-aircraft guns lying about unused at present. Churchill defended his refusal to make a detailed statement on the Crete campaign and criti¢ized those who wished him to speak in detail following every British military operation. “I have not heard that Hitler had to attend the Reichstag,” said Mr. Churchill, marck on her disastrous cruise when, after waiting a few weeks, she might have gone out accompanied by the Tirpitz. “I have not heard any statement from Mussolini for having lost twothirds of his empire and having left 200,000 prisoners in our hands.”
AIR CHURCH PASTOR TALKS AT WOODRUFF
Dr. Percy B. Crawford of Philadelphia, pastor of the Young People’s Church of the Air which is broadcast over the Mutual System each Sunday, will speak at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow in the Woodruff Place Baptist Church. With Dr. Crawford will be the vocal and brass quartets which also appear on his radio program. Mra Crawford will accompany them. Tomorrow’s program is sponsored by Dr. Carleton W. Atwater, Dr. L. C. Trent, of the Woodruff Church, the B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist Church and young people of all denominations in the oity.
STATE AUTO DEALERS ON OUTING THURSDAY
The Automobile Dealers’ Association of Indiana, Inc. will hold its annual summer outing Thursday at the Ulen Country Club, Lebanon. Between three and four hundred are expected. In the past this event has been an entirely social one. This time, however, because of the emergency there will be several hours of discussion on:these things which are causing both the public and auto dealers some concern: Gasless Sundays, conservation of rubber, and metal priorities. J. O. Munn, editor of “Dealers Tell Me”,in Automotive: News, will speak following the noon luncheon. A permanent trophy will be
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Bureau INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; occasional thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tomorrow. 4:15 Sunset ......
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VICHY CONCEDES
Allies Now 18 Miles From |:
Damascus, Land Troops Near Beirut. By UNITED PRESS
The French Government at Vichy tonight admitted that Allied troops
on the shore of Lebanon
capital. A new column was said to be knifiing its way up the Euphrates River, presumably toward Aleppo in northern Syria. In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Commons that
meeting little resistance. A dispatch: from ‘Harold Peters, United Press staff correspondent at Beirut, said, however, that heavy fightin 8) was _in' progress between the Lita River and Saida, 22 miles south of Beirut. = Reinforcements Reported
Saida is the Biblical city of Sidon;
-1the northernmost city visited by]
Christ. Peters also reported that the French were holding well in the, mountains southwest of Damascus, protecting Soueida, capital of the Jebel Druz area. ‘He said that air reinforcements had arrived from North Africa. Some quarters believed ° that French resistance would crumble within a brief period after the Allied troops enter Damascus. and Beirut. Diplomats in Ankara heard unconfirmed reports that the Allied columns already had reached Damascus. ; Rome said that Axis airports would be put to the use of the French if Vichy wanted to send air reinforcements to Syria. Beirut said that the British had bombed a suburban train, killing twelve persons. Henry T. Gorrell, United Press staff correspondent, with the Allied troops, revealed in a dispatch that only slight resistance had been encountered in two small towns by his column. He said the Arab population greeted the occupying troops with enthusiasm. There were many reports of large-scale desertions of French troops and Arab tribes to the Allied
“when he sent the Bis-|Side
TORPEDO U. S. SHIP IN SOUTH ATLANTIC
(Continued from Page One)
cargo, including motor truck parts. The Robin Moor was commanded by Capt. Edward Myers of Baltimore. All crew members but one were Americans. Ben Cohn, an empioyee of Loew's, Inc, Mrs. Cohn, and R. W. McCullough and his 2-year-old son; en route to the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, were the American passengers. Mrs. McCullough, a Dutch subject, and three British passengers also were aboard. If the report that the vessel was sunk by a German torpedo is true, important repercussions were inevitable. If was recalled that German Grand Admiral Raeder on May 25 warned this country against convoying and against extending patrol activities in the Atlantic. German official sources have announced intentions to sink any American vessel carrying implements of war to the British forces in Africa and the Near East through the Red Sea route. The Robin Moor was built in 1919 and formerly was the Exmoor of the American Export Lines. It has a cruising speed of 19 knots.
‘Torpedoed,” Captain Tells United Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 10 (U. P.).—The captain of the steamer Osorio, which picked up 11 survivors of the United States steamer Robin Moor, sent a radio message to the United Press today saying
pedoed.
VANDY ASKS DEFERMENT RIDGEWOOD, N. J., June 10 (U. P.) —Johnny Vander Meer, 27-year-old Cincinnati pitching ace, has submitted his ' Selective Service questionnaire to his local board and asked deferment from military service on dependency grounds, it was announced here 4oday,
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had pressed forward to within 18 miles of Damascus and| had succeeded in making coastal
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today’s dispatches indicate is
t |to be accomplished, should [the Allies in a stronger and
defensible position in the "Nes East.
It would mean British ‘contro the entire Near East over wide area
|bordered on the north by Turk
on the east by Iran (Persia), the south by Arabia and an: west by the Mediterranean. area contains the Mosul oil phi and pipe lines to the sea, as as naval bases and strategic fields. It is made up of the Le states, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Palestine. fo It would give the British an
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Off the picket line around the North American Aviation Corp. plant at Inglewood, Cal., goes this picket, with soldiers doing the “escorting.”
JAPAN PONDERS ACTION IN INDIES
Early Decision Will Reflect Tokyo's Intentions Regarding U. S.
By A. T. STEELE
Copyrisht 1941, by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc
SHANGHAL June 10 —Japan is expected to make a new move this week to deal with the dilemma created by the refusal of the Dutch Bast Indies to accept Japan’s “final” economic proposals. - For the past two days high Japanese officials, including cabinet members and Army and Navy representatives, have been deliberating the steps to be taken. The decision, when reached, will be of considerable interest to Americans, for it should provide the clue to Japan's real attitude toward the United States. * There are several lines of action open to the Japanese. 1. They ‘could make another “final” effort to bring the Dutch to terms by broaching a compromise plan, with a demand for a yes or no answer. 2. They could withdraw their delegation from Batavia as a gesture of displeasure at, the Dutch attitude and maintain contact through their consular officials on the spot. 3. They could sever diplomatic relations completely with the Indies. Observers believe that for the present the Japanese may be satis fled with one or both of the first two alternatives. Neither would involve serious risk of war. But either, or both, would intensify to a high degree the tension and unceray hanging over the South Pacific This tension is advantageous to Japan, for it worries the Dutch and British and keeps the American fleet rooted at Hawaii—Japan’s
from the southern shoulder | of e border of Libya. Be: he proximity of Sy bases to Cyprus, it would make defense . of that strategic is much easier.
400,000 Square Miles to Defend
The drawback is the further tension of Gen. Wavell’s line in East. The British Empire trot and their Allies would be spre over a front—from Libya to Tur —1200 miles long and about miles wide at its deepest Point, ith an area of more than 400,000 s miles (not including the interiors Egypt and East Africa). PEIN If Syria is taken, a strong air land force will have to be : : tained there to insure that it not re-taken by the enemy, in same fashion that Gen. Wa spectacular gains in Libya Ww
ously against a possible flank tack or another Germanuprising. Two Purposes Possible
Hitler’s ‘inactivity in the case Syria is suggestive of some d 5 laid strategy. Two motives present themselves: 1. To spread out the Brit forces so that there can be -lési chance of an effective concent: tion at whatever point he chooses for his next blow. ¥| 2. To occupy the British with new armed foe in the form of French forces in Syria, and to d France closer to the point of 2 action against the British elsew! The “elsewhere” would be Nort Africa. 5 : The diversion of British tre into the Levant weakens the fense which the British can put Egypt against the Axis drive fi Libya towards the Suez Canal. Military strategy points to a paign by Hitler to take Suez Alexandria from the west and dr the British fleet out of the Es Mediterranean. The entire East would then be at his mere)
ITALIANS CLAIM NINE! ‘ENEMY’ SHIPS SU
ROME, June 10 (U. P.). — Italian High Command said . that Italian submarines operat in the Atlantic Ocean attacked “important” convoy and sank 1 steamers totaling 63,000 tons. The communique did not s the nationality of the- ships merely. describing the formation which they sailed as “an import:
good turn for the Axis.
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