Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1941 — Page 5

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INVASION OF SYRIA

RAISES 5 POINTS

Are British Strong Enough? Will French Fight? Can

Nazis Prevent Conquest? What of Vichy ‘And American Reaction?

By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

WASHINGTON, June 11

.—Regardless of its direct in-

fluence on the outcome of the war, the British and Free French invasion of Syria is expected to provide the answers

- to five questions of the highest importance.

=~ The first is, are the British forces in the Near East strong enough, competent enough and well enough equipped to carry out a successful offensive? So far, it must be remembered, British nd opergtions,

with the single exception of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell’s dash across Libya, have been more marked by courage than

by competence. Syria is garrisoned, not’ by Itallans, but by Frenchmen, assisted by

some German technicians. It remains to be seen whether the campaign against “equals” will be marked by decision and efficiency. Which brings us to the second question: Will French soldiers and officers fight against Free Frenchmen and Englishmen, will they tamely submit, or will they go over to the assailant?

Can Nazis Defend Syria?

The third question is: What can the Germans do to prevent it? None here doubts that if the Germans are able to forestall the invaders, they are almost sure to do 80. If they do not move, the chances are they cannot. The fourth question postulates, however, that the Germans do not wish to interfere in Syria even if they can, because they wish to drive the Vichy Government into open war with the British. If this is the case what will be the reaction, not only of the Vichy

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Quislings but of the French people, to the attack on a French mandated territory whose only “fault” was that of harboring a few hundred “harmless” German technicians and “tourists”? Although an American news agency made much of a story that Gen. Maxime Weygand has nobly refused the co-operation with the Germans urged by Vice Premier Admiral Darlan, most American students of French conditions do not believe this. :

What of American Reaction?

The final question interests Britain as much as any: What will Be the American reaction to what is, after all, a preventive invasion? So many Americans seem to feel that it is up to the British to fight a purely defensive war and scrupulously respect legal . principles, whether Germany does so or not,

that many British are worried. The American Administration clearly sympathizes with the present quick action, as Secretary of State Cordell Hull's second admonition to French Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye shows. But what about the. isolationists, the “appeasers,” the pacifists and the England-haters?

Which Means—

If the British can land in Syria successfully, they may be able to land and establish . themselves at some later date on other coasts held by Germans. If Frenchmen in Syria surrender without fighting to the British and Free French, or actually go over to them, then Gen. Weygand’s army in North Africa may conceivably do the same thing and the Germans will have to move quickly to prevent their enemies from getting the jump on them. If the Germans cannot effect an air invasion except where they control the air, the chances of successful invasion of Britain are small, since the Germans to date have given little evidence of any capacity to control the British air. If Vichy does not react vigorously against the present invasion of Syria in the name of Free France, will Vichy be able to drum up much

red fecling to resist similar invasions in Africa?

And, finally, if the Americans have come to understand that unless Germany is soon stopped no one anywhere will be free, they may condone or even approve other British action that implies temporary curtailment of national independence—which could mean Ireland.

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Bodies of 6 Army Men Are Taken From Wreckage In Wyoming Hills. LYMAN, Wyo., June 11 (U. P.)—

weather for the crash of a Douglas B-18 bomber, in which six Army airmen were killed. Maj. Benner is directing an investigation of the accident. It was dark and raining Sunday when the bomber left Salt Lake City on a routine flight to Chicago. It crashed, probably within an hour after it took off, in the rolling sagebrush covered hills, 20 miles from Lyman and 150 miles from Salt Lake City. The wreck was sighted from the air yesterday, and a party of 35 went to it in a truck. Edwin Syme, a rancher who led the party to the wreck, said it “looked like the plane crashed because of motor trouble.” He said the bomber struck the earth nose first, and the body broke in two. The wings were smashed, but still attached to the fuselage. Part of the tail assembly was wrecked. The bodies of the men were thrown into the plane's nose. They were taken by ambulance to Salt Lake City last night. The victims were: Capt. David N. Motherwell, 35, Gordonsville, Va., pilot; Lieut. Theodore F. Holsteen, Burlington, Iowa; Lieut. Lyman K. Harvey, Lakewood, O.; Lieut. John V. Gallagher, 27, Bayonne, N. J; Staff Sergt. Terrence J. McGurgan, 26, Kenosha, Wis., and Staff Sergt.

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