1^1 -SINOC^J^QDN^. lAY^ JUNS 12, 1940 GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY:- Tonight the Nazis j.re hanmirriiig at the almost gates of Paris. They have !■ surrounded — cut the North, on the West, and at the latest report off on An arrny expiert who gave the news from Bar Hi tonight intimated that Hitler’s armies may go right on past!Paris — leave it beleaguered. vhile their spearhead juggernaut rolJ.s around it. ^sjr The Nazi advance is already beyond the point reached by the Uhlans of Von Kluck in Nineteen Fourteen, just before Joffr^ hurled back the invaders at the M.rne. But there is little use holding on to any delusion that t hers can be another such miracle of the ?Jarne. LE*J ^rLlit is aire‘‘^y worthless as a fortification, sey the *,aLis. Indeed, they profess to be astonished that the French did not just evacuate it as the Beleians^^' Brussels. fe^| /iiy repeat on# phrase theyfve been harping on for days, the meaning I oi vvhich is, ”itj®® be your own fault if your beautiful capital is destroyed.” \ German advance divisions are^at Beaumont, a suburb 1 of St. fle+u*, only eleven miles franbattering at the outer » taAvc^t a>\ —■ — fortifications^ Thatfs the latest in a bulletin^hat came In leas thnn an hour'a^v from the French.tide of ther-lines* A A It»s as though an enemy army, driving on New York, wfere already south of Yonkers, or attacking Cnicago had passed Englewood. On their own admission, HitlerTs generals are now crushing down on France with no fewer than a hundred divisions. That means literally,- divisions* - .. Counting Twenty :thousanl - « divisioit* ssk ” The forces of General tteygand, not so long agc^ ' ( a^J rated the fiiiest army in the worldWfighting back inch by inch, against a horde of two million men, five thousand tdnks, jnd only the Germans know how many thou Sana To the west of the now beleaguered capital, an ar my ox twenty thousand British and French were completely cut off* surrounde3tnear the seaside resort of Diep^el^^^^'the cloim in the communique from the German High Command, and there** no denial -from billed sources 1 r\ A But even though Paris is as good as lost, the French y^o krvX-euvv^i and British have-not ye^ lost the war. Military experts ovey her« are pointing out that even though the capital of a x country y.f^T d, do / is captured, tfe does not mean collapse* In Spain, General Franco A failed to capture Madrid rignt up to the last. But he won the war. In Eighteen Twelve, the British took Washington, but America w^on 1 in the end. Paris tonight is a city almost empty excep The French High Command a*iy tney A a r \jg- omand say tnGy!H defend it to tl the end, suburb by suburb, street by street, house by house* Bui if the Nazis decide to sweep around it, Paris will be a besieged cxty^ ^1.th*no ^7/ communications possible- except by air. And even that will be highly improbable i± considering thst the Germans are in overwnelming command of the air. LEAD - 4 The last__ civilians left in Paris, were beirg rushed out tonight under the heavy pall of fog that han^s over the barricades* But all men of military age were forbidden to leave. pressed into service in a last hour attempt at defense. have seea, The defenders of the capital are cut thx^rbe^. off from both and Cherbourg on the west.,fhe Nazi attack ^ A ^ on the Marne to the east has cut rail communications with Nancy. 0*1 In the face of tx.is. General Weygand v,as compelled to A draw his armies back to avoid being caught in a trap. But it was pointed out that the defending armies are still intact, fighting back as they withdraw. A bulletin from Tours repeats that the supreme council of the Allies met somewhere in France. Premier Reynaud, Prime I Minister Winston Churchill, General *veygand, marshal Detain, British War Minister Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff. It was ^he first me eting of the Council since the French Government left Paris What happened at the meeting nobody knows but those who took part "But itrs a fair guess that they are organizing desperate measures to cope with the emergency. The only thing announced was that the LEAD - 5 Allied Ci ief l - took!' decisions1^ of the greatest importance.n The Fiei.cii GoveriL: ent is scattered over a wide stretch O j rranee along tire River Loire. Some departments are carrying or. in tne ancient castles Touraine, others in municipal buildings, Tre staf! of our own Embassy is in the same Chateau Conde where the Duke ana Duchess of Windsor were married three years ago. The staff there is in charge of First Secretary Robert Murphy. Ambassador Bullitt is not with them, be says hefs going to stay in Paris no matter what hajpens. Herefs a still later bulletin, sent in by the German wirelss from Berlin. The I.azis rave crossed the Marne at Chateau Thierry a name of -rave histroic imoort to all Americans They cross ed the river in rubber rafts after ho rs of preliminary bombardment by dive bombers and heavy artillery. Later still the French admitted that "masses of enemy" had crossed the Marne forty miles east of Paris. Meanwhile, what of the Italians? What are Mussolini’s armies up to? We don’t know. A strange but dramatic silence covers the operations of the Fascist forces. British and French heavy planes have been bombing Turin and Milan particular.ly the big factories at Turin. And British planes continue tueii icuds on an Italian naval base in Libya and claim to have bagged an Italian battleship, but one of ancient vintage, as well as less important warships. The R.A.F. also bombed Massawa, Mussolini’s port on the Red Sea. LEAD - 6 There v.as plenty of tension in old Egypt today. The kingdom on the Nile, the land of the did Pharaohs, is in a mighty ticklish situation. In fact, the Egyptian Prime Minister, Ali Maher Pasha, told his Chamber of Deputies that their is one of the most delicate in history. He told them A th^t,after they had gone through a long debate and ended it v.ith a resolution to break off diplomatic relations v*itk Fascist Ital} . That v,as coupled with the request to the Government of King Farouk to do all in its power to help what they called ’’the democracies fignting for liberty and justice.” No^ Egypt was one of the countries that Duce Mussolini tried to reassure last Monday. He told the descendants of the Ptolemies, mentioning their country specifically by name, that he did not want to drag them into it. But he added that it vrould depend upon their own actxons. Since then there have been air raids on Libya. British planes dropped their loads of bombs on the coast of Cyrenaica. JET That’s right next door to Egypt, Big league Fasci ,tl ln Rome grew suspicious that those British bombs might EGYPT _ 2 have been operating from air bases in Egypt. The Fascist! say theyTre investigating, and if they find out that this is th» fact, A t at will make a different story of Mussolinifs assurances to the Egyptians. The last word from Egypt is that the issue of lending i± aid to France and Britain will now be up to young King Farouk, and setting forth at any moment there may be a statement from him^fc*&&£h^ in ronncfc the exact position of the Egyptian Government. We stili have to hear from Rome what the Fascist war lords have to say about that resolution in the Egyptian Parliament. .iQB COW There was a somewhat ironic situation in Moscow today. Two Ambassadors arrived in the Soviet capital. Sir Stafford Cripps from England, and Erik LaBonne from France. At the same time, almost on the same hour, came Augusto Rosso from Rome. Rosso is no newcomer, he has just been on what is called diplomatically tfa vacation”, during the long period when Mussolini and Stalin were frowning at each other. It was Rosso who got the big reception, because the staffs of both the Italian and the German embassies turned out with hurrahs to welcome the Italian envoy A back. IA The tension in the Balkans grew tighter today. The best eyidence of that was •■■btti from Bucharest, a new order issued by King Carol’s Government. All Rumanian ships are ordered home at once. That means Rumanian vessels not only in the Mediterranean but in the Black Sea. Then there’s a bit of Rumanian news from the diplomatic front. For three years the relations between Moscow and Bucharest have been more or less of,icy politeness, more icy than polite. But today it is reported that King Carol is ta about to send a new minister to* Moscow and that Stalin is to send an envoy of ttlm to Bucharest. All of which complicates the picture and oils the machinery of the conjecture factories. <z£tr~^ti2<L o±-l£jty ^e-ex^i ___ ^ >. pe = v-e.u 1 t €b i-'re from Japanl It concerns particularly southeastern Asia, But a spokesman in Tokyo describes it as symptom o: the^peaceful intentions of the Mikadofs Government. ai.nouncement was made first in the House of Commons m the x>pit ish Parliament. Tne Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs told the Commons tnat agreements have been signed at Singapore • ‘.erecy nritain, Freince and Japan agree to respect the integrity of the ancient Kingdom of Thailand, better known to us as the Kingdom of Siam. And a dispatch from Singapore relates that one clause who in this treaty provides that if anyone cf-the powerssign it becomes involved in w^r against any third power, none of the otners will assist that third power. That’s the diplomatic jargon. It would seem to mean in a left-handed way that Japan promis es to lend no help to Germany or Italy against Britain and France. The news was confirmed in Tokyo with the announcement tnat it will be good for five years / Obviously, that Singapore tream> mus. be a cig relief to Britain and France. For one thing, it means that Singapore wi — 2 L JtuM cl ^I lA Au&l '£^/_A^ be safe from Japanese attack e' riotnln^ fear from the men of Nippon^the In fact, the Foreign Under-Secretary sale as much to the House of Commons. And it is D.iiy reasonable to assume that Britain made concessions to obtain t..ose assurances from Japan and that the tension between London and xokyo, thau has lasted so long, over ttie Tientsin situation, nas now been dissolved. U.L:. - BEhLIij Hii.^trTs irien expressed themselves today about our Amer:.can reactions to MussoliniTs entry into the T/tar. It was ^ ^' icial expression but a statement by an authorized Nazi spokesman, presumably somebody in the Propaganda Ministry. That spokesman declared that the press of the United States has become a battlefield for rumors and agitation. Then he admitted that ail this was being censored out of German newspapers. "This unpleasant development is being XKkjmLalioniiiyx. intentionally withheld from the German public." And the reason / A he gives is that America should be left to decide its own internal affairs and solve its own problems,* it should be left alone to decide the question of in what form it wants to hold its presidential elections. But, he added, "it is high time that Americans should get used to the idea of America for Anericans, and Europe for Europeans." \YAb.-iIi\GTON ^ur -Liner, th# V.ASi-Ii.GTON, is safe at Galway, in ixjtiSLx V> A A EirCF| Sciie and full oi excitement. f4aturall3r, ^yerybody was fnldt- f f • -t£^ j Anar] ^^talk^about MieAnarrow escape ^they had frora---^ German submarine. Berlin today acknowledges tirat ‘it was a Nazi undersea boat that came witnin tea minutes of torpedoing the WASHINGTON. The Nazis sx^ialw claim that they had not been notified of the course that the WASHINGTON was to sail from Lisbon. The commanding officer of the U-boat mistook her, he said, for a Greek ship which had been overhauled previously, had been ordered to sail on a certain course, but had not obeyed orders. The chief excitement in Congress tod^y wss not over defense, cut over an advertisement. It was that full paLe *Ad" entit led "Itop Hitler N: t .”, signed by a long list of professional men and women of so-called literal attitude, headed ty William Alien r.hite, the old sage of Emporia, Eansas. Tnat full page "Ad", as you perna.s know, was written by the celebrated playwright. Bob Sherwood. It aroused a particular fury in Senator Rush Holt of Virginia. He called Bill TTnite and his committee/ a bunch of fifth column war mongers, objected that a_l of them were over the maximum draft age, and then added that "any man who calls on American boys to go over there and fight without being wiiliiu. to go ever tc fight himself is a cowardly traitor to his country Then up jumped Senator D. Y.'orth Clara of Idaho, cryirc that the advertisement was English propaganda Then Senator Y.heeler of Montana leapt into the dialogue and announced that "all the senaters know that every possible Bove is being made to lead us the road to •. ar." ic eeles d: will not support £ny c naii.- for President, no matter who he is, who is goin^ to lead us down that road.” T^en he said further that he did not want to break with either the Democratic Party or the administration but if he does, it will be because the Democratic Party has become a war party. *&r, frcz Kiaeteen Fifteen tc Nir i+jtzeer. Lighteen, they ran of t:.£c ritcon event of the turf world though in what wos *—r~ f v CS"le/\ CUr"ai^€d CDr-ii1:iC)C account of the Ter.r was run not^ at Ipson Downs tut at Newmarket, and of course there was r.Oc toe usua~ crowd of na^f a iLiiiion people which usually tnrongs to Ipson. ;ne the favorite. * a /? rl_L — ^r'^t tne favorite^^day. He finished third, and the Jne Hundred and Sixty-First Derby was won by a horse naned Font L^veque, a ran* out sicer# o*ned: by ? i »« g ucrunugi The horse who ran second, was owned by that fanous religious potentate from Hindustan, the Ag£ *ho is so holy to his followers that even his oath water is sacred.