W.. s, CHILE The Government of the Republic of ^hile has broken diplomatic relations with Hitler and Mussolin President Rios of Chile signed the d ecree ' A When the State Department was advised, Secretary Hull remarked that it was an important contribution to the security of the continent. ^Hull went so far as to issue a formal statement, in which he said further:- ’’The Government of Chile has taken a step which once more confirms the identity of the ideals and aspirations of the Chilean people with those of free people everywhere in this great struggle.” Then he added: ”1 know that I express the feelings of my fellow citizens in extending the heartiest good wishes to the government and people of a fnenaly country. " - t ID r The Deonle of London un’erwent a new kind of dazi raid today. It was of course in retaliation for the heavy bombint; of Berlin on Satuday and Sunday. This one was a dive bombing and machine-gunning attack.. ^ot on a big scale, and the chief casualties were people in the streets. At least twenty children were killed in one school in the London area. Accordinf to eyewitness accounts, this was deliberate on the part of the Nazi fliers. The total casualties are not known yet. The raiders were driven off by pursuit planes of the Royal Air Force, assisted by American fliers. It was the first time our pla'nes had taken part in any _ MP 7 i olanes were shot down, and such action. Eleven Nazi plan- i -Pi rhts all over the southeast coast and. t.here were over London itself. pntirely without military purpose The raid was entir y 'vhose orincipal , a nuisance attacK „nj or military effect, ■ i v-i VI in- of school children. vo 9 , nit was the Kim- — —- AFRICA From Africa, the official news tonight is not so s r'c c ts r u r. r . But^ the unofficial reports are ^ wi exciting^ F'or example, Radio .Morocco broadcast that tie Axis generals were already trying to remove their troops from Tripoli by sea. \That appears not altogether unplausible, since it is a fact that the advance guard of British General Montgomery’s Eighth Army was within thirty miles of Tripoli. In fact, the London Star claimed to have intercepted Axis reports that advance units of the Eighth Army were already in the outskirts of Tripoli and that the suburbs of the city were in flames. On that, the Allied high command had nothing to say. A French force from French Eouatoi^al Africa has reached the vicinity 01 the coast and is fighting on the left flank of the British Eighth Army. Radio Morocco reported later that part of AFRICA - 2 Ronusel 1 s Afrika Korps was on the run towards Tunisia, ■I escaping westward out of Tripoli. I * Axis radios reported that British and American parachute troopers were landing behind the retreating Axis troops. Their object to* blow up roads and A bridges and hinder the German and Italian retreat toward Tunisia. According,to Badio ^aris, which is 11 n Nazi-controlled, these actions were neutralized. Our own high command says nothing about such parachute movements. Evidently the Nazi generals are doing their utmost to keep the door into Tunisia open, a door for the escape of the remnants of Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps. A German tank columnon the move in the southwestern part of Tunisia, thirty miles to the southwest of Tunis^ M was brought to a halt by French troops, backed up by Allied planes. Meanwhile, AFRICA - ? ______ British division is try ing to get control of a line of hills : rom which the highway can be dominated by artillery. The British Admiralty made a welcome announcement. King Georgefs men-o-war have sunk thirteen Axis ships in the central Mediterranean during the past three days, yen of them were ships of '• — I, i different sizes, and were sunk off the coast of Tunis. Another large enemy supply ship was torpedoed by a British undersea boat off the coast of Sici ±3 • jiost of the sinkings were accomplished by submarines of the British Navy. PEYROUTQN There «t^re loud repercussions to the j appointment of Marcel Peyrouton, as Governor-General j of Algeria. s-.m ^ L u Lliu H ij A &r±CjL Pu>■' im *j'"T^ member of Parliament asked Foreign Secretary Edeh whether he knew that Peyrouton*s appointment had caused great disquiet thro ugho ut Britain? Eden replied: "I should like to see that on paper,” meaning that he required advance notice of that | question. A spokesman for the Fighting French ih London declared that Peyrouton*s appointment will shock the . French people perhaps more than the Barlan deal. A London newspaper remarked that the people of the United States are insufficiently iniorraed about I North Africa because their own censorship preventS them from learning the facts. The question of the North African censorship should be cleared up, sa.ic the Londor PEY-ROUTON - 2 * i News Chronicle. Secretary Hull was asked about the Peyrouton affair. He replied that it would be much better for people to pay attention to military news rather than political developments in Africa. (^Another explanation heard in Washington was that the American authorities had accepted the appointment of Peyrouton only after it had appeared vital to the military campaign.^ Peyrouton was appointed because General Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa, insisted. Our own General Eisenhower backed^ Giraud. xra.* Some facts in favor of Peyrouton were mentioned Aires, he wa in Vfashington n. When he was Vichy Ambassador to Buenos s most friendly and helpful to the American Embassy in Argentina rgentina, also to other American interests point in his favor is that actually he hates Laval and wmis once ordered ^aval^s. G06-I^''PVF'NrTTC irVETfTEOOT~r Again A -tLt i n =: p .t/T i rtTr—sz!ze r.^, comes irom a Russia. The Red Army reports not one but three separate and distinct successes. One of them is in the Caucasus, fi another on the central front, arid the third further north. The most dramatic sounding of all is the recapture of Nevinnomissk in the north-central Caucasus. The name itself,^^ mean much to us;but; u „ fifty miles southeast of one of the host i.port.nt railway junctions in the h** Caucasus, «a*l controls the lines ~tc that run to the hig -aihop oilfields,and^the coast of the Black Sea. ■ m i LEAD - 2 U 12 f only victory the Russis.n high command reports from the Caucasus. Another jf S&hiufrtLX army, driving south from has retaken an important place not far from Salsk, also a vital railway junction. —a—sfr-Qrtr— d-i st-a-n-^-e—rre^th—o-f—th^—--- A explained that this is apparently part of a mopping up job. The Red Armies are beginning to consolidate the ooints they have won back from the Nazis in the Caucasus. The capture of Nevinnomissk puts that southern; arm^closer to Rostov. The Moscow high command further explains that the northern border of the Manych River and canal has been cleared of German troops along its whole length. The Nazis had a fairly strong line there. The Russian announcement indicates that it has collapsed, »hich cleans that a »ide are. of flat Steppe-land is no» open to the advancing Russians. So much for the Caucasus. - LEAD /? In the center, the Red Armies driving towards tem^Ukraine, have by-passed Rostov at a point a hundred | and thirty-five miles to the north. They have beaten at down the ^a:en~aTd.dri'OTi the garrison Ostrogozhsk, tl fifty miles to the south of Voronezh^ forty miles above Voroshilovgrad, the big industrial city in the heart of the Donets River basin. They also claim to have retaken Belovodsk, west of the lin^runnir& north and south through Rostov. All in all, the Soviet high command claims to have retaken f iveAt:ffi^TJt:^Fn^ nlaces . The successes in the Ukraine, if they are confirmed, A mean hte2*? the Red Armies in the Donets basin will be in a position to sweep in behind Rostov and cut off s33 the Nazi legions, both n thp Stalingrad area and in the Caucasus. They also •apparently .are consolidating their victories on the LEAD - 4 Voronezh front. And tightening both arms of a pincers drive which may, with luck, end in the retaking of the great industrial center of Kharkov. Furthermore, the armies in the north are reported to have achieved another advance. They have forced the Nazis out of a key position southwest of Leningrad. ^Th is, according to Moscow, alter a battle fought twenty below zero and over a battlefield clouded with the smoke from burning peat Moscow reports the Leningrad battle is growing in ferocity.^ LEND-LEASE Not so long a o we heard complaints from vloscov-- that the Soviets were not getting the helpjffrom / } irhvy^pTTI-Ari-.eri—ngtl-g*r-];,,,i uuj.- t . L t,. B /1 fas made today by Lend-bease the United States o Administrator ■ tettinius. Up to the beginning of this year, said Stettinius, the United States had sent a lionTs she re to Russia, more than to Britain or any other of our allies. Approximately two thousand, six hundred airplanes went to Stalin, that is up to January, Nineteen Forty-Three; more than three thousand, two hundred tanks ; .eighty-one thousand trucks, jeeps and other motor vehicles. Stettinius added these words: "We have not yet been able to send as much as we snould li^ce or as much as the Soviet needs, and part of what we have sent has been lost on the way. In addition to help from us, the United LEND-LEASE 2 Kingdom sent the Russians more than twenty-six hundred tanks and two thousand planes. Stettinius announced further that our shipments of food to the Soviets are increasing fast. V-e have begun to send them provisions in greater quantities than to the United Kingdom." And he explained: "As the Soviet armies take the offensive, a sufficient supply of food is as vital as planes and tanks." SUBMARINES However good the news from Russia, Africa and □r~ outlook the Pacific, itefcgg- Ax —aat#—'frrrrri is ominous. i&~ the submarine front. t^TTrzrr>i^r:r^T <*—'+~n 1 rTRi:p:::::Trgocrs^. Cast week, (3. t>ug EkmexlDc vis the Nazis were building xm s^j-w^r-p-t~rrgs twice as fast as we 'can sink them. Today % from L o ndorT\ that, come Spring, Hitler will A have from five hundred to seven hundred big modern to attack the far flung Allied supply lines. Elme^Davis announced today that the U-boats have been sinking more Allied shipping in the Atlantic this month than in the corresponding number of days in December. The submarine situation, he sai;., ^ill for a long time to come. The American remain serious xo<. ^ - pe 0 !>le, he added, should be .ad, ...re ho. serious IhlM M T?d,"ard J. Fltf.nn of the Bronx had his dav in * court today. He appeared before the Foreign Relations ^ Committee of the Senate and denied all the charges a-ainst him. He had not, he declared, ever represented any Japanese business man; he had not bribed a foreman ! of the grand jury by promising him a federal job; he had never put a notorious gangster on the public i! payroll. Neither had he ever invested Nev/ York City • ' ; funds in a firm in rhich he had any interest. But subseauently Flynn —oW-i^red—c.uimt A- /v that he had made the gangster, Dutch Schultz,a deputy sheriff. This, declared Flynn, was a traditional gesture of friendliness to the beer and numbers f racketeer. ^But Schultz never received any salary from the county and his badge was taken away alter six months. That was because Bronx County abolished the system of appointing honorary deputy sheriffs.^ FLYNN - 2 s for inva^tment of^lunds, hx^admitt as Ne/tf York /diamberlsrin he he a put theXTity^ money/into mortgages that wep'e sold by "the Statp/Title d Mortgage be Chamber la irv-"^ hat hia^law f irm/4epres>^fted th. Comp/(ny as g^enera 1 c^Tunse 1. /Much o ^X l he mop^y » he / admitted? was J^ost whe^i real estate vXiues cr He then went into the matter of which so much had been made, those Belgian paving blocks. Flynn described it as a scandal trumped up for political purposes. He said that for one thing, the oaving block job was done while he was traveling. The p** blocks, he explained, were old ones which had been t torn up when New York streets were repaved. Theur utmost value g-fhe declared, was &bout dfhty dollars for the whole lot. . FLYNN - 3 ’«o-pk—4 id t-^ie job-, h^—-gtdrde-4-, —th-en—oft t-h^ c4-iy- pA^P-Q 11T p h ^d_ paid t h-e»--4ii m s e 1 f%-=* Th^ c o S±s.n f -44? e jf whole* job wa-g no hundred- f i^ty dol I’g^ and—he hfl ’'“tliy - h ecrnrrTt^—to -^e^-e As for his personal qualifications for a diplomatic job, Flynn told the €enators/vt4f8Pt^ir futferT ■^-rt-e—- an ^ d tto a-t, e d _ p hti o n ck j^rr^j* he himself r e w up in cultured atmosphere. He went to garcthsa Fordham and graduated from be Law School; has practiced r o 1 p rl v' law for thirty years. He also said he haa traveled^ abroad. hood -uovae4f^-^^rofleT^’ he. added, " an^ Trill Trnli >i -y Vnnwlodgo of -bha Onited HLntrn irith g-ft-y q i\*» He wants to go to Australia, he said, because he wants to do something in the war effort and thinks he can do a good job there. FLYNN - L The State Department considers Flynn well equipped for the post of Minister to Australia. So said an Assistant Secretary of State who appeared before the Committee. Flyntty *Seeta&yf h»e> Fn t e 11 i r c g d u o a t len r e x r- r- n r o ^ r ^ Y'or'k Vropl,dls C ©4cmi s vi i crrrw COAL The striking coal miners received a peremptory message from the heads of their Union today. "Go back to v/ork or be expelled from the Union," was the g’ist of a telegram sent to all Pennsylvania locals by the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America That was after six locals voted to continue their strike in spite of a direct order from the President. John L. Lewis, 'F t ^ l itl on of the United Mine . . . Workers, had promised tfe* Roosevelt that his Union A would do everything it could to put an end to the strike. The Secretary-Treasurer of the Union sent a similar telegram to the White House. Jtet u w ----- ----- /p . i^^rr^even a threat A of expulsion from the Union'will when ?t directed to twelve thousand miners. If the, are turned out of the Onion, of oourse, they lose their jobs. But then ..hat? 'that .'ill the nine COAL - 2 h operators do to pet out the coal without those twelve thousand men? C-szni£L-tr- ffl inxom a j L s rrrs—e^- the Army y-w-urr?"- tr^ seize th President’s order, titeirAmm A ta—rtv^fca .. _____ ____ Wi**terf*wp3' ‘ n-mry | hree thousand miners in the Pennsylvania district^voted to go back to work. 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