L.T. - SUNOCO. V.liDaESrAY. APK.L 7?. 1Q41. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: One gallant bit of news emerges tonight from the day's record of disaster in Greece:- the English and the Anzacs --- - (K cdhunF are still fighting. They're battling on to the bitter end A 4 though the Greek armies of Epirus and Macedonia made their unconditional surrender^and lef^ the British in a sorry position. >v ftcf?nsolatlt3rr‘fan otheririse total disa-atej^. At a mountain villa overlooking the seaport of Salonika, there was a meeting of high general officers this afternoon. That mountain villa is the headquarters of Field Marshal Sigmund von List, Hitler's man in command of tfee Balkan blitzkrieg. Brilliantly uniformed Italian and German generals were strutting their stuff as the Greek Commander, General Tsolakoglu^ ; igned the capitulation. The Nazi and Fascist officers couldn't LEAD - 2 J resist the occasion to make speeches, in which th^ praised the valor of the Greeks. Behind their empty words was OL cu A" the^ $r-ira- fact that three hundred thousand of the defenders of Greek soil had surrendered unconditionally. They were the-^en of the armies that had fought such a brilliant campaign in ----- hi j^Xr Albania ^so long as they were^facing the Italians.alone^ (VJt But when the Germans came ilong, the Greeks had to fight aajt t) * (T^V) ftxotxv enormous tanks that tore through mountains which everybody -&oe^ said could not be approached by such hugh vehicles, The- ^ y fighting Greeks also had to withstand overwhelming fatigue. having been constantly in the field for six months. Some of-- then were so exhausted they could hardly walk. JL- The completness of the disaster is admitted even A in the dispatches from England. As long ago as M0nday, London was obviously realizing that the retreat upon Thermopylae was the beginning of the end. But now the blitzkrieg juggernaut has crashed through Thermopylae. And although the British line still holds, the question now is how much of the British LEAD - 3 expeditionary force can be saved? The British line is now. standing again at-the full power of the German army. The decision Nazis are crowing that the jawBilciBM has already been won ^ A throughout Greece. And the spokesman in Berlin added that it is no longer appropriate to speak of another coming Dunkirk for the British in Greece, it is already, he said in uroeress. from Greece. However, it is believed that such a figure is larger than the total number of troops that the English sent to Italian radio claimed that the Ayis forces are Greece. The same now only sixty miles from Athens. The German report is that the N^zi troops are moving faster than the ne.\s. and of course the worst of that disaster is its The big enigma is, what effect will it possible consequences have upon the Turks? Will they comt to terms with Hitler, and give him access to the great oil fields of Iraq. And, supposting they should try to resist, how much better i equipped Lk/iD - 4 is the Turkish army than^|hat Greeks? How could thgr withstand the onslaught ,<of those huge tanks?-- ^ ------------ - Another bit of consolation comes in a dispatch from Cairo. British Middle East headquarters reported that the A Australian troops in Libya are attacking, taking the initiative away from the Axis forces BOMBARDMENT An American newspaper man describes the British fleet* s attack on Tripoli as the greatest naval attack in the war. That correspondent stood on the deck of a British — warship and watched theNavy throv.-EB* more than a thousand tons of steel and high explosive on that Nazi and Fascist base, One of the greatest A concentrations of gun power ever tix turned on a single target. The American saw the shells exploding after vhich vast sheets of flames shot up from Tripoli. Evidently tha* British attack caught the Nazis and Italians off their guard. First of all, from four o'clock till nearly five, a squadron of British bombing airplanes had been pounding Tripoli. Then in the early morning light, the battleships, cruisers and destroyers glided silendly into the harbor. Six enemy vessels were foundered by direct hits from shells of the British. Then the railroad freight yards and power Plants burst into flames. One wmxxxi British warship found an underground oil depot with its axxmxam armor-piercing shells^ > ,, * cn-iPf'e The fxanaes from the some of which weighed a ton apiece, ihe 1^3 ^ BOMbAhDMENT - 2 were so vivid as to blind the eye of the beholder,#©* A A 7F* moment. As the fleet steamed out of Tripoli harbor, a heavy pall of smoke and fog hung over^ ana sheets of xi flame could be seen leaping ntil today, seven sovereigns have become fugitives A as a result oi the Nazi-Fascist tne 860011,3 of Greece today becam* the eighth. With career of conquest. King George his entire government ---- vjx-ceee T?ec. ,T^ da A ueat ^he at Crete, the island home of one of tte earliest . ., . % civilizations^imown. to mankinds British troops have been fortifying it for months, even before the expeditionary force was landed on the Grecian mainland. The Allies believe that theyHj# entrenched in Crete strongly enough to dominate the eastern end of the Mediterranean. That to be seen whether it is-wirshfttT thinking* Late tonight, the Greek radio was heard in New York, broadcasting a promise that this war will finally be woni, that no one must lose courage, and that Greece will rise again. Meanwhile, the Nazis are moving in on islands close to the Dardanelles. Yesterday it was reported, though not confirmed, oiicit they had seized the historic isle of Samothrace, quite close to the territorial waters of Turkey. Today the official Turkish radio reports from Istanbul that they*v©, also occupied the Greek A ^ island of Lemnos. PL£,X)UTH At home the British had the added burden of last nightf bombardment of Plymouth, the second consecutive night of it. For hours Hitlerfs raiders poured a rain of explosive and fire bombs on that seaport in the southwest, the city fx from which the MAYFLOWER sailed for Massachusetts. It presented today a picture of destruction and desolation almost unbelieveable. In one section reporters could see literally nothing left but smoking ruins. Refugees were streaming from the city in all directions. Convoys of trucks and lorries brought food to the homeless. Thousands of these were wandering the streets, some of them ih their nightclothes, bathrobes and slippers, wandering aimlessly, stunned by the horror of what had happened to them. PLACES The British House of Lords today heard a report from Viscount Beaverbrook, Winston Churchill’s Minister of Aircraft Production. Beaverbrook told of the contributions made to Britain’s airplane supply from America. He said he already had received immense American deliveries, and has gotten from us — already — nearly one thousand assembled American and Canadian aircraft. Then he added that they are fine machines, ready to fly; ready to fight. The American aircraft engine, he s aid, is as good as any in the world KNOX . ne British 77ill soon be getting twenty more warships from us - not bi^ones,^-but ones. hews comes from Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox^-C%r Navy is delivering Twenty dUe_ small fast torpedo boats. Some tof them already haen pd in British hands. t Knox announced also that the Navy is preparing to o< * pool its resources with those of the Canadians* As part of the A arrangement, the Canadian shipyards will take over the business of building small boats for the British, thus leaving our yards for the larger work. AXIS SHIPS Ihose foreign ships inAmerican ports — what*s to be done with them? The government of Uruguay has propesed that all the twenty-one republics in this hemisphere should come to an agreement establish and stick to a uniform policy. Diplomats representing ten of our neighbor republics had a conference at the State Department today with Under-Secretary Sumner Welles. There is a bill Before Congress giving the President authority to take over all foreign ships. And it is thought in Washington that if any uniform plan is decided upon for all the twenty-one American republics, perhaps it will follow the pattern of that bill. Critics of Uncle Sam1s army have been alleging that its hig:1. officers were not up on modern warfare. However Lieutenant Colonel Wilson of the General staff tell us that the blitzkrieg tactics of HitlerT s army are simply what has been taught at our army vollege at Leavenworth, Kansas, for the last nine years. Blitzkrieg combat tactics, he says, have been planned at Fort Leavenworth and were tested out by the Army before t ie Nazi blitzkrieg astonished the world in Poland in Nineteen Thirty-Nine. TAFT A new idea for hustling up the defense program comes from Sprier or Taft of O^io. he has introduced a bill to establish an . t ier government agency, a V\ar Resources Administration. v Hfs ^‘e&^woul(i fe# to have that administration run by one head. cyy\jL. to be appointed by the President| plus an advisory council. T e Job oi this administration would be to formulate policies A for the mobilization of our resources for war J LiA. -^.Taft has had this idea^ under his hat for some time ^ /\ but he has held up the introduction of his bill in order to see how well the Office of Production Management would get along. When he perceived tha^ Government is creating a lot of new ii 111 . i I A ^ ^ '*-£) <y\A. -* , agencies, such as price control. Taft introduced his bill sq as-4» combine and coordinate the work of all the various aggrrcn?g«s. COLLEGES There appears to be an epidemic of anti-war demonstrations in American colleges. Ostensibly they are demonstrations in favor of peace. But some three hundred and of such rallies are being sponsored by the American Youth Congress, which has been quite openly stigmatized as bsxzzg Red at heart, organized by Bolsheviks and directed from Moscow. The American Youth Congress is boasting that it will have a turn-out of half a million undergraduates at its rallies. Then there’s another outfit calling itself the Youth Committee Against War, which is boasting that it controls fchx two hundred thousand young people at some hundred and twenty-five colleges. However, the so-called peace advocates aren’t going to have it all their own way. There1s also a third group called Ltar members will pay no attention to thos« peace rallies except perhaps picket them, A A the Student Defenders of Democracy, mmmm VON Vr'ERhA Our government seems to be a bit annoyed over the flight of Baron Franz Von Werra, the German war aviator. Nor is the fifteen thousand dollar bond which the Nazi Baron forfeited looked upon as adequate recompense for his jumping bail. When it became known thqt the Nazi Baron had run away• the German Consul General in New $4ork took it as a juke. He chuckled audibly and visibly to reporters while he commented on the offense committed by his national. But Attorney General Robert Jackson calls it a flagrant abuse of neutral hospitality, and he nas now :iven orders that henceforth no escaping prisoner of war should be admitted into the United States. If caught at the border, they're to be turned back with whatever force may be necessary. On top of Attorney General Jackson’s order, the State Department has started an investigation, and it is rumored that the incident may result in our government asking for the rdcall of at least one foreign official in this country, maybe more. COAL Another Senator t«-becoming exasperated over the deadlock m the coal business. Senator Tru:nan of Missouri says that if the strUe isn't over by Friday morning, his committee, the special committee investigating defense, will begin investigating thrt dispute between the operators and the union. ~***\Truman declared that his committee was entirely in a£ reement with the proposal by^President Roosevelt that those miners and operators who have already come to terms, should get back to work at once and that those who have not reached an agreement should also get back to work, with a proviso that any agreement ultimately reached should work backwards. Truman hxx A sent his warning in tei grams to John L. Lewis, President of the Miners, and the Presidents of both the Northern and Southern coal operators conference. At the White House, Presidential Secretary Steve Early said^that Mr. Roosevel^ had wanted to take a short vacation at V arm Springs, Georgia, but had been obliged to put it off until tha% coal dispute is disposed of. TAXES Taxes, taxesl Uncel Sam’s Treasury officials seem to have one set of ideas, while revenue experts of the Joint Senate and Htause Congressional Committee have another. Here’s a convenient k income figure — three thousand dollars. At present a married couple with such an income must pay thirty-one dollars a year, providing they are not putting a lot of expenses in their report. Under the taxation scheme of the Treasury, that same couple would have to pay a hundred and fifty-two dollars next year. The Congressional Committee experts would have them pay only ninety-seven dollars. Aside from this, there’s going to be a long list of luxury and nouisance taxes. Cigarettes will cost more, your new car, your theatre tickets, movies also, soft drinks, candy, fur coats, clocks, taxe s even saxaphones. As for the Demon n um^on John Barleycorn are to be raised fifty percent. A:d now Hugh, what have *ou to cheer us up