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The War
In Europe
THE WAR IN EUROPE
As 1940 gets underway, the war
in Europe, after four months of
fighting, presents two very active
scenes of important operations and
two rather inactive, but none-the
less, vital sectors.
Finland Stand? Off Russia
As the new year began, the
“news” of the war was the surpris
ing success of less than 4,000,000
Finns in withstanding the slowly
developing isttack of 180.000,000
Russians. Any idea that Finland
would prove an easy prey to the
Soviet war machine has been dis
pelled. Military strategists say that
Russia has maide ail the mistakes
of the campaign while the Finns
have utilized their strength in the
best possible fashion.
Early Russian successes in the
North, around Petsamc, have been
followed by the loss of more than
half the territory seized. In the
center, the Soviet drive across the
“waist” of Finland has been
thwarted and the Red army thrown
back about two-thirds of the dis
tance it advanced. In! this Sector,
the Finns have actually invaded
Russian territory. In the South,
where the decisive battle will be
fought, the Russians have had no
success in the dirvs along the. Kare
lian Peninsula and the Mannar
heim defense line has hardly beeni
threatened.
The Finnish successes should not
blind observers to the fact that
Russia will win the fight by sheer
weight of its mass. With enormous
human land material reserves, the
Red army will gradually crush the
Finnish resistance.
Finns Must Receive Help
There is the possibility that sub
stantial iaid' in men amid material
wall be forthcoming. Neither Swe
den or Norwav can be unconcerned
over the triumph of Russia. Great
Britain and France have promised
assistance to Finland, and supplies
are beginning to move. Germany,
however, bears watching in this
connection. While the Allied na
tions have been nourishing the be
lief that Hitler fears the advance
of Russia along the Baltic, the
probability is that Hitler, if possi
be, will seek to take advantage of
the Russian attack upon Finland
and may attempt to seize Denmark
and the southern parts of Norway
and Sweden.
If outside assistance to Finland
takes the form of substantial vol
unteers, the dispatch of trained
soldiers from Great Britain and
France and, the delivery of material,
the possibility exists that the battle
in Finland will become one of the
decisive phases of the present
struggle in Europe.
Navies To Decide The War
The second active area of present
warfare is in the North Sea, the
adjacent waters and the trade
routes of the world. It may be hard
for the reader to visualize the situ
ation, but, nevertheless, the pres
ent war will be won or lost in this
area. Bitter naval fighting con
tinues unreported 1 except when
some spectacular feat breaks
through the veil of censorship
which clouds the activities of aerial
and naval units.
One should 1 understand that the
essential strategy of Great Britain
and France, in the present war, is
to strangle Germany economically
through a naval blockade. Mean-
While, along the Maginot Line, the
two nations will mass an army,
capable of withstanding a desperate
German attack, which they are
practically certain will come when
the pressure of the blockade com
pels Germany to risk everything
upon a main offensive.
Germany Tries Her Ony Defense
Germany’s effort to whittle down
the British Fleet is the only defense
available to her. With submarines,
planes and mines, the German
strategists hope to break the block
ade of Germany and, eventually, to
reverse it by cutting down the sea
trade of Great Britain, upon which
the fate of the Empire depends.
It should not be forgotten that
the success of the British naval
blockade depends upon the strength
of the British surface fleet and l that
this, ultimately, depends upon the
strength of the Blritish battle line.
The Allied naval superiority in
capital ships is ample, but if Ger
man naval warfare can sink seven
or eight capital ships, the situa
tion will not be so good for the
Allies, especially when one takes
into consideration the threat which
.will come from Italy’s six capital
ships. Consequently, it is not too
much to say that the battleships
of Great Britain stand between
Hitler and the domination of Eu
rope.
Naval Losses Not Dangerous
Up >to the beginning of 1940. the
naval losses of the Allies had been
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A Letter From
Our Congressman
Washington, D. C., Jan. 6, 1940.
My Dear Constituents:
We arrived here in time to an
swer the roll call at the opening of
the Third Session of the Seventy-
Sixth Congress at neon Wednesday,
January 3rd. The gathering of the
members in the Hall of the House
Biter a long recess is a very inter
esting occasion, as they greet each
other to' genuine fellowship and
regard, moving all over the Hall,
disregarding even the aisle which
separates the Democrats from the
Republicans. One is impressed with
the punctualitv of the huge mem
bership, all answering to their
names except a very few who are
ill, or have passed on from this
mortal world since cur last meet
ing to answer the celestial roll call
where no party lines or worldly is
sues divide.
Death has reduce® our ranks by
ten since we last met, four Demo
crats, Thomas S. McMillan! of the
First South Carolina District, Wil
liam I. SiroVich, of the Fourteenth
,New York, John A. Martin, of the
Third Colorado, and William A.
Ashbrook of the Seventeenth Ohio;
five Republicans, Bert Lord, of the
Thirty-fourth New York District,
J. Will Taylor, of the Second Ten
nessee, Carl E. JMapes of tit? Fifth
Michigan, George H. Heinke, of the
First Nebraska, and Wallace E.
Pierce, of the Thirty-first New
York; and the Resident Commis
sioner from Puerto Rico, Mr. San
tiago Iglesias, who sat with our
badly, also passed away. Represent
ative Heinke of Nebraska, was
killed in an auto accident while on
his way to attend this session, and
Representative Pierce, of New York,
died of a heart attack on our open
ing day, Wednesday. Successors to
three of these have already been
sworn in—Mrs. Clara G. McMillan,
for her deceased husband, Repre
sentative McMillan of South Caro
lina, Edwin A. Hall for Represen
tative Lord of New York, and Boli
var Pagan for the Puerto Rican
Resident Commissioner, Iglesias.
One other agency of our govern
ment has suffered recently by the
death of three of its leaders, and
this is the United States Forestry
heavy but not dangerous. They in
clude one battleship, one aircraft
carrier, an armed merchantman, a
submarine, three destroyers, two
mine sweepers and six converted
trawlers of small tonnage. In addi
tion., one battleship, a battle cruise
an aircraft carrier, one heavy
cruiser, five light cruisers, three
destroyers and two submarines
have been damaged. If these are
the full list of the losses, and they
are beieved to be substantially cor
rect, British sea power is not im
paired.
The two inactive sectors of the
present struggle includes the Magi
not Line where immense armies
face each other passively, and the
home front in Germany, subject to
the increasing rigors of the block-
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At two o’clock, the Cabinet
Members .and Senators filed in, and
then the President came and de
livered to the joint Assembly his
message on “The State of the
Union.” It will go down in histcry
as one of his best. It was a plea
for harmony, peace and coopera
tion, proposed no new laws or pro
grams, asked for an extension of
the Trade Agreement Act which
expires this year, and asked for a
practical study of National Defense,
and that Congress levy sufficient
additional taxes to meet the emer
gency spending for Nation'al De
fense, as future generations will
have their own bill for sanfe.
The message was greeted with
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by press and public iwbs the most
favorable of any I have heard.
Thursday he sent us the Budget
message. It. too, was favorably re
ceived, and contains many econ
omies. I have not space to discuss
it this week, but will do so in my
next letter.
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If a man has fought for his coun
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in his favor, for him, ever after
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It is as much one’s duty to live
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