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WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U. P.. Donald M. Nelson, key official in the new Supply Priorities and Allocation Board, meets today with Bernard M, Baruch, head of the old World War Industries Board who advocates “one man with authority” to head the defense program. Nature of the meeting was not

disclosed but it was believed they]

would survey priorities problems in

| the light of Mr, Baruch’s experi-

ences with them in the last war. Mr. Baruch held a long luncheon conference with President Roosevelt yesterday.

Some hours later the Presidents

issued an executive order establishing a new division in the Office of Production Management that .will help spread defense orders among

little factories which are not nowj-

participating, in the rearmament program.

| Sets Up New Division

President Roosevelt tdld newsmen at his press conference today that some versions of Mr. Baruch'’s criticism of the Administration’s production program did not coincide with his conversations with the New York financier. Mr. Roosevelt, however, ‘declined to be specific in his reference to newspaper reports of Mr, Baruch’s characterization of the new superpriorities board as “a faltering step forward.” The executive order, which brings about the second major reorganization in the defense administrative setup within a week, created a Division of Contract Distribution. Mr. Roosevelt named Floyd B. Odlum, Atlas Corp. president, as its director. Previously,” the President established the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board with Vice

| President Henry A. Wallace as its chairman and Mr. Nelson as its ex-

ecutive officers. ‘Faltering Step’ Mr. Baruch has been especially critical of the Administration’s tardiness in taking advantage of the latent productive capacities of small businesses. He told White House correspondents | yesterday that the new supply board represented a “faltering step forward”; that he wasn’t sure the SPAB would be effective because none of its seven members had “final authority"; that the defense program sorely needed “one man with authority” at its head; and that when he testifies before a House committee on the Adminisiration’s price control bill he will “knock the everlasting life out of it.”

More Quiet at Hotel

Shortly afterwards it appeared that Mr. Baruch’s frank statement to. the press had caused some concern among Mr. Roosevelt's associates. At his hotel later, the World War. production chief was less outspoken, Mr. Baruch indicated that he felt the SPAB setup had a little. more merit than he had implied earlier. The new Division of Contract Distribution takes over the functions of the OPM’s Defense Contract Service, which had been headed by Robert L. Mehornay, Kansas City, Mo., dollar-a-year man. The division will have ‘branch of-

-|fices in the 48 states to provide for

more direct contact with . Potential productive sources. |

Yugoslavia’s artillery batteries . » . helped upset Hitler's timetable.

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ment must be somewhat discounted consequently. Like all bullies, the Nazis blubber when the going gets too hard. I quote him at length, Yiwever because his pessimfsm is. not

unique. I have heard the same

sentiments brought from Ger-

many by a score of, reliable informants who have talked with the important men in control at Berlin. In the spring there was deep pessimism in the German capital es fear that America would enter the war, and it was in this mood that Hitler's generals made the final decision to invade Russia in preparation for a long struggle against America. | America’s second crippling blow against the Nazis came in the Balkans in a country called Yugoslavia, thousands of miles from America’s shores. To understand what America did there and how it upset the Nazi timetable and drove Hitler against Stalin is necessary to re-examine the Greek campaign. 2 BEFORE MUSSOLINI invaded Greece, Hitler had carefully’ out= lined to his Axis partner—Italy had not then been occupied as a

subject province—the grand strat- |

egy for winning the Mediterrane= an, the Middle East and Africa. Hitler planned to ‘line up the

French and drive Wavell back on_

Cairo and the Nile, counting on Graziani’s Italian army to serve as one prong of the pincers. Hitler himself- was to provide the other prong by taking over not only Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, ‘but the whole of the Balkans, including Yugoslavia and Turkey. Suez would be plucked like a plum. : Simultaneously revolt in Iraq and a flopover in Iran were expected to complete Britain's collapse in that theater and leave the door open to India. Russia under threat of German invasion ‘could be induced to join Germany and Japan in the dismemberment of India. It was all very grandiose and, for as good a military and diplo-

matic machine as Hitlers’, relatively easy.

8 8 ITALIANS AND GERMANS in

+ Rome talked very freely about

these schemes in. that period. Adopting a manner of “helpful and friendly” intimidation, they explained to me that the "Axis would have bases against the United States and South America along the whole ofthe African coast, Russia and Japan as allies and Russia and Africa as the raw materials reservoirs for war

against America .if the Fifth. Col-

umn did not achieve the .destruction of American morale. Having been promised Greece as part of his loot, Mussolini did the dirty on Hitler. He ‘jumped the gun. Thinking that he had bribed the Greek generals to offer only tokens of resistance, Mussolini attempted the invasion. of Greece with seven Italian divisions fighting in rain and snow-covered mountains against 15 Greek divisions. ; Hitler met Mussolini at Florence for one of their many conferences, but at dawn of the morning Hitler was to arrive, Mussolini started the Greek offensive. The story of that heroic resistance is now i moving and inspiring Thermopylae. And on top of Pog Greek disaster, Wavell, with a mere handful of

hard-fighting freemen destroyed

Graziani’s Fascist horde and Hitler’s pincer prong. Italian morale collapsed completely and irretrievably. Hitler then decided that Mussolini was no fit or trustworthy partner in the dangerous business of looting the world. Hitler moved into Italy, effectively occupying

‘and -subjugating the country,

though as a man of political gen=ius, the Fuehrer kept Mussolini on as’a kind of gauleiter. ~ . 8 8

Hitler Planned Anew

SINCE. NEITHER Britain nor |

America could attack him, Hite

‘ler’s ‘situation, while ‘annoying,

‘was in" ho way perilous." . He took up the same plans - with patience. He placed a division ‘of

1500 German divebombers around.

the Straits of Sicily. He moved two Panzer divisions to Libya. The planes took a toll of British ships; the Panzer divisions reconquered Cyrenaica and re-established the Nazi prong for the ultimate pincers movement. Then Hitler went to work on the Balkan pincers. After Ruma. nia and Hungary,” then Bulgaria went into the Nazi camp. Hitler

_ turned the pressure on the Yugo-

slavs and their statesmen traveled

-to ‘Berlin. With. Yugoslavia lining

up for Hitler, Turkey had to come into the German system or, badly ‘armed as. she was, face a twoweek blitz war. Time pressed, however, because Hitler had to get through Turkey and organize a drive through Syria and Palestine to Egypt before the weather turned in Libya

- and Cyrenaica. In a few weeks the would

Timetable Is Upset IT WAS IN this moment that Yugoslavia upset Hitler's time-

“table. Col. William J. Donovan, a

emissary of President

special Roosevelt; Arthur Bliss Lane, the

American minister, and Col. For-

| tier, the American military at-

tache, talked with Yugoslav politicilans. They could promise vis-

{ tually nothing.

It was reasonable to assume that America would ship arms to Yugoslavia—provided Yugoslavia resisted long enough for the arms

to reach that distant country in

time. The Yugoslavs made their own decision. They preferred to die on their feet as free men rather than to live on their knees as Nazi serfs. They gambled that ultimately America, not Germany, would win the war. They gambled that in

. the event of American victory Yugoslavia would be resurrected.

Yugoslavia was | destroyed and the Germans were particularly ruthless, bombing town after town and turning machine guns on

: , Beasent men, women: and chil-

| ler’s timetable. Turkey stiffened

and Hitler could not take that country, Syria and Palestine before the weather in Libya. Hitler had a fling at Crete, but

~ that operation, even while it was

in progress, became an effort to

‘secure his flank as he invaded

stone to-

Nazis Bombard, § Metropolis; .Red Counter-Attacks Admitted. |

"BERLIN, Sept.-5 - (. P. y ler man heavy artillery is shelling Len-

|ingrad, the High Command said to-

day, although it was admitted that

‘the Nazis were meeting fierce re-

sistance before the former Cszarist capital and as a result of counterattacks elsewhere on, the Eastern Front. The communique said the encirclement ‘of Leningrad, the birthplace of the Bolshevik revolution and one of Russia's greatest war industry centers, was: proceeding. The communique, issued “from

| Hitler's headquarters, was the first

in recent days that had not been

were. proceeding satisfactorily.

Admit Lines Pierced German sources in Berlin how-

fever had acknowledged during the

period of high cornmand silence that strong Russian counter-attacks led by. tanks had been in progress and sometimes had cut through the German lines before they were crushed. It was emphasized that thé Russian army defending Leningrad was a strong one and was fighting in long-prepared positions. Newspapers, lacking specific information, devoted their + main headlines today to Finnish claims u advances in the Karelian Peninsula,. Will Nazis Go ‘All-Out’? German reports were most conservative as regards the attack on Leningrad and the siege of Odessa. An informant said it was not yet clear to what extent the German

out” to capture the city. “We have no desire to incur unnecessary losses ourselves,” the informant said, “and we may refuse to make short work of Leningrad by destroying it because it i useful to us.” Informants said ‘there was no hurry about taking Odessa be-' cause it had been Slriogs destroyed.

NINGRAD oe HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 5 (U.P). —Artist James Montgomery Flagg today named the four interna-.

tional beauties who he ‘believes

best represent the four “H's that distinguish democracies from totalitarian ‘nations.” His ‘selec tions, after studying 700 photos: Actress Loretta Young for happiness.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek of China for humanity. Senora. Getulio Vargas of Brazil for honor. ‘Duchess of Kent for hope.

VATICAN CITY, Sept. § (0 BS ~The Vatican announced: -to that Pope Pius will Zossive ) C. Taylof, President ‘Roo personal emissary, Srimedigtel his arrival here next week.’ It was believed here that | Taylor will stay in Rome only few days and. then return to United States. /This view taken despite contrary reports fr

the United States that Mr. Ta; ‘will remain at the Vatican inde nitely. A Vatican sources thought Taylor will bring a personal .

|sage from Mr. Roosevelt.

limited to saying that operations

command was “willing to go all|

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