Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1940, Page 24

GALLAUDET EXERCISES—Dr. Percival Hall, president THE SUNDAY 0 S— of Gallaudet College, is shown interpret- ing in sign language the address delivered by Col. Albert W. Atwood (right) to graduates of the school yesterday. —Star Staft Photo. Gallaudet College How Nazis Will Use Victory ‘Is Main Question for Eliot Awards Diplomas To 32 Students Interest in Work Urged On Graduates by Col. Albert W. Atwood ‘The love of work, development of friendship and the molding of in- dividual character were urged on 32 students receiving diplomas at Gallaudet College yesterday. From a rostrum banked with flowers and palms in the college chapel, Col. Albert W. Atwood, writer, told graduates from the in- stitution for the deaf that they were going into a world where ‘“civiliza- tion itself is in torment,” but that life will continue because young peo- ple “have a capacity for meeting the present and the future which older people utterly lack.” Col. Atwood's address followed conferring of degrees on the candi- dates by Dr. Percival Hall, president of the institution, on recommenda- tion of Dean Irving S. Fusfeld and Profs. Harley D. Drake, Percival Hall, jr., and Sam B. Craig. Student Speaks. William Rogers of Graybull, Wyo., 8 member of the graduating class, spoke on “A Degree and More,” em- phasizing that students received “something of much greater value” from the institution in development of character than the degree they received. Harold Domich, Ely, Minn, another graduate. told how he grew “morose and sullen” on becoming deaf, but found a place in society when he began studying to overcome the handicap. Col. Atwood, whose address was interpreted by Dr. Hall, said that work underlies the higher values of character and faith, furnishing a foundation on which the latter may be built. “Do not forget, young men and ‘women, that unless you take an en- thusiastic*interest in your work, be it exalted or humble, * * * you are unlikely to develop the volitional powers which are what enable you to make decisions or choices and exercise resolutions, all of which is at the bottom of character itself,” he said. The Rev. J. Stanley Light of Bos- ton, a graduate of the college, pro- nounced the invocation and bene- diction. List of Candidates. Candidates for the degrees were: Bachelor of arts —John J. Blind, Robert G. Clingenpeel, Laura Beatrice Davies, Thomas J. Dillon, Mr. Domich, Marjorie S. Forehand, | Clanton E. Hess, Earl W. Jones, Leo Latz, Robert D. Lewis, Rex Lowman, Frances E. May, Mr. Rogers and Marvin Wolach. Bachelor of science—Leon Auer- bach, Donald R. Berke, Nellie F.| Brannan, Rose L. Coriale, C. Lyon Dickson, John L. Henji, Estle H. Henson, Florence M. Hunter, Thelma. L. McMennamy, Richard M. Phil- lips, John M. Tubergen, jr. and Hertha Zola. Master of arts in the normal department—Helen L. Carter, Cy- rus L. Gover, Kenneth F. Huff, Raw- son K. Moore, Ann E. Reid and Thomas S. Shuttee. Porfuguese Celebration To Open With Te Deum The Most Rev. Amleto G. Cicog- nani, apostolic delegate, will sing | Te Deum in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at Catholic University at 4 p.m. today signaling the beginning of the six- month period during which Portu- gal celebrates the 800th anniversary of its founding and the 300th an- niversary of the restoration of its political independence. The Rev. Jose M. Bettencourt d’Avila of New Bedford, Mass., will preach the sermon. The Rev. Fran- cis Reini and the Rev. Thomas But- ler, students at the Sulpician Semi- nary, will be deacon and subdeacon, respectively. The Rev. Willlam J. Lallou will be master of ceremonies and the Rev. Walter J. Schmitz as- sistant master of ceremonies. A Portuguese exhibition in con- nection with the observance will be displayed at the university library. Dutch Indies Exports To U. S. Increasing By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 1.—The export trade of the Netherlands Indies to the United States has grown so rap- idly since the war began that addi- tional ships are now needed, E. C. Zimmerman, trade commissioner for the Dutch possessions, said today. The increased traffic has been chiefly in rubber and tin, he said. ] The first phase of the German | offensive in the west is drawing to | an end with the evacuation of a | | great part of the armies of Fland- | ers through the Port of Dunkerque and adjacent points. | | With the first effects of the Ger- | man surprise tactics now gone, the | fighting qualities of the French and British troops are thus, under that | most severe test of modern war— |a withdrawal in face of a superior | enemy—being convincingly demon- | strated, and the effect on the morale | | of the Allied nations is almost that of a victory. | This may well prove a more important gain, in the end, than ‘the material gains made by the Germans. Just such a lift was needed to offset the crushing blows | | delivered by seemingly irresistible | German forces; a week ago it was }being said by many who ought to, | have known better that “nothing | could stop them,” and something like despair was spreading not galy in the Allied countries, but around { the world. Now, as the splendidly earned | grand Cross of the Legion of Honor | goes to Vice Admiral Abrill, as | Viscount Gort returns to England with the last of his troops to re- ceive the honors due to one of the most magnificent feats of arms in {all the distinguished history of the | | British Army, as the French rear guards fight their way in their turn to the sea, scorning all thought of | surrender, we may pause to assess | the state of affairs which has been brought about by the German ad- | vance and to examine what moves | may next be expected. { ® Three Nazi Objectives. As I said a few days ago, the | German plan was a modified Schlieffen plan—that it, it depended on a strong right wing which was | to strike the decisive blow, but it | began with a break-through of the Allied center, a rolling up of the Allied left wing, which was then to be destroyed by the hammer blow of the main German forces sweep- ing through Belgium. The objec- tives were three: 3 1. The destruction of a great part of the Allied armies—that is, the Belgian Army, the British expedi- tionary force and the French 1st, 7th and 9th Armies. This has been only partially achieved. The Belgian Army is out for the present, save for scattered detachments (as far as is now known); the French 9th Army appears to have been broken up and lost, but a good part of the |7th Army and two divisions and perhaps even more of the 1st have gotten clear or at least still have a chance to get clear; and the Brit- | ish expeditionary force has in great part been saved. The Allied losses in material have been very great, in personnel heavy but not so great in proportion. The Germans have paid heavily for this gain. 2. The driving of a wedge between the British and French. This has been successfully accomplished, in that communication by the shortest and easiest route, across the Strait of Dover, has been interrupted, and the next best, from Southampton to Le Havre, has been made precari- ous. But communications between the two countries by more westerly ports has not been threatened, and mutual support can still be given, though the difficulties of doing so | have been greatly increased. 3. The possession of the Belgian coast and of the French Channel coast down to the mouth of the Somme. This has been gained, and it gives the Germans important ad- vantages—the ability to blockade the Strait of Dover, which means that the North Sea becomes ir ef- fect a German lake denied to mer- chant shipping and that great ports such as London, Hull, the Tyne and Leith are under blockade, as well as a close approach to the vital centers of England for German aircraft and a possible stepping stone for the much-heralded invasion of Great Britain. Choice: Britain or France? The Germans are now in a posi- tion where they may attack either of their opponents separately, pro- vided they do so at once before mutual support can be organized on the new lines imposed by the German progress. Will their choice be Britdin or France? Let us assume that we are in Hit- ler's headquarters, where two staff officers, one favoring each course are presenting their views. The one favoring an immediate attack on France might state his case thus: “If we go after Britain now we leave the French on our flank. They are consolidating a strong defensive | inal line. position along the Somme and the Aisne Rivers. In the gap between these river thi hold the formi- W] Immediate Assault Against France Found On Analysis Better Than Blow at Britain By MAJ. GEORGE F. ELIOT. +dable heights of the Chemin de Dames and the forest of St. Gobain. About the only practicable route for a break-through is that down the valley of the Oise in the direction of Neyon-Compeigne, and this is none %0 promising if we give them too much time. Just at the moment they are deprived of the services of 3 out of their 10 (or perhaps 11) armies, and of the British, save for | a few new British divisions hastily rushed to the Somme front. With this reduced force they are now holding a line which is slightly over 10 per cent longer than their orig- They must also think of the possibility of an Italian attack in the south. “Obviously, the moment to strike the French is now, while they are laboring under these difficulties and while they have not yet had time to organize in front and in depth a truly formidable defensive position on a line of considerable natural strength; before great reinforce- ments can reach them from Britain and Africa; before the genius of | Weygand has had its opportunity to breathe new life and energy into every sector and every unit, and be- | fore the British and French have had time to concert plans for air co- operation between them under the new circumstances, remembering that the French air force is much weaker still than the British. More- over, if we now attack the French we can perhaps hope for Italian co- operation, while the Italians can do nothing to aid us against Britain save by creating a diversion in the Mediterranean. British Busy at Home. “The British, meanwhile, can do very little to injure us in our at- tack on the French. They have no | means of striking us in flank save from the air. They can send troops to aid the French, but they do not have many fully trained troops and it will take some time to reorganize the B. E. F. and fill up its depleted ranks. Meanwhile, the blockade of the Dover Strait will be forcing them to relocate their whole system of supply and distribution, which with a few well-directed air attacks will keep them busy at home. “If, on the other hand, we now endeavor to contain the French, while concentrating our main effort against Great Britain, we allow the first military genius of the age time to organize in full security the means for our destruction. We can then expect the French defensive Pposition to become a springboad for a great counterattack, which will be launched against us, we may be sure, at a moment when we are locked in a death grapple with the British, and the result may be dis- astrous. Moreover, we have no as- surance that we can successfully in- vade England. We can carry out air attacks, but air attacks alone do not, on the basis of experience, promise to be decisive. “We can drop parachute troops, but again these are useful only if promptly backed up by other forces. We can endeavor to drive our way across the Strait of Dover and estab- lish a bridgehead on English soil, but this is an operation of doubt- ful outcome, to put it mildly, and the surprise tactics which we used on the Meuse no longer possess the value of surprise. We may do the English much damage, but unless we can gain a decision quickly we shall pay a heavy price for it, Our Objective must remain the destruc- tion of our most dangerous enemy, and that is still the French Army. Once that is gone, we can deal with the English—by mere blockade and air attack until they are worn out, if need be.” ® Case for Attack on England. To which, the officer favoring at- tack on English might reply: “Much that my comrade urges is very true, but already the French Army under the command of Gen. Weygand has had more than a week to consolidate its position along the formidable line it has taken up. We e e el ool LS —_— for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs betweeh 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. STAR, WASHINGTO might find it none too easy to over- come it ‘swiftly. We might, indeed, be drawn into a long war of posi- tion along a fluctuating front; our surprise tactics have lost some of their keen edge, and the results of the Flanders fighting make me none too confident that we can break through the Oise gap or any other place in the French line with re- sults which will bring us quickly into Paris or achieve the further destruction of large parts of the French Army. If we are thus held fighting in France through the sum- mer, we have lost the war, for our supplies are inadequate for a long- continued offensive. : “Once the initiative passes to Weygand, & man who knows well how to use it, we shall be driven back from position to position and shall be forced in the end to ask for peace. As for the air situation, our present superiority is going to be progressively .and proportionately reduced by American deliveries and increased Allied output. As for the Italians, I for one have little faith that they can force the heavily fortified passes of the Alps, or con- tain on that front any decisive num- bers of French troops. “But the worst thing we can do, I think, is to give the British time to recover from their present shock and to gather and organize their LOWEST PRICES IN FRIGIDAIRE HISTORY D. C, JUNE 2, 1940—PART ONE. strength. - To us, time is of the firsc importance. We are now in a posi- tion to deliver a telling blow against the British, and we must do it quickly before the French can counterattack, which they probably cannot do ‘immediately. There are, as my friend says, few fi trained troops in Great Britain, British air force has suffered severe losses. We can smash our way into an Eng- land disorganized by blockade, ha- rassed by air raids, unpreparde for a strong defense, and make peace in London, if we do it now. If we wait, a golden opportunity will have slipped through our hands.” Italy May Decide Issue. Faced by these arguments—and we may be certein that just such arguments have been made—what will the German decision be? The Italian decision may be the turn- ing point; if Italy will now come in with full force against France, Ger- many may decide to attack Prance first in the hope of putting her out by a great pincers movement from north and south. If Italy still hesitates, Germany may decide that an attack on England would be the most dramatic means of convincing Italy that her hour has come. An attack on England might have certain ancillary aspects which must be taken into account. Thus the blockade of the eastern ports at the Strait of Dover, supplemented by operations between Norway and Scotland, might be extended partly to the western ports by intensive submarine activities based on Nor- way or even based on Ireland—for what time could be more favorable for an attempt to seize at least a part of lrel.lndk perhaps aided by fifth columnists,” for use as a sub- marine base? The regular Irish forces number only about 6,000 officers and men, and the reserves and volunteers add perhaps another 23,000; the only mechanization con- sists of six armored car squadrons, and the air force has barely 100 effective planes. An invasion of Scotland from Norway, carried out by a small but carefully organized and fully equip- ped force, might also prove a useful diversion. But it is true that all this would be a desperate gamble, that it might turn out badly and that the French would meanwhile be gathering their power for an assault on the German flank+and rear, the time and place of which would be selected by a man who makes few mistakes in such matters. Attack on France Best Choice. Thus, when all is said and done, the attack on the French seems the better choice of the two. Cer- tainly something must be done with- New 1949 THE AVERAGE \/ —_— OPERATING COST OF 1940 Eoa9222 REFRIGERATORS leS' COST REFRIGERATION MA! PEPCO LOW RATES POSSIBLE 8 NO_MON armies of PFlanders) is that much pure gain for the French and British. The Germans must reor- ganize, consolidate, replace, refit and—choose, The most venture- some gamble they could take is, of course, to attack both their enemies at once; this would seem ruled out, save for the over-confidence which may now beset their counsels, the over-confidence as a result of initial successes which has before upset the ./ best-laid German plans. Finally, we must not rule out the possibility of a diplomatic offensive, an offer of peace on German terms, perhaps comparatively reasonable terms for the West as the price of a free hand in the East. Such an offer might be made with the threat of Italian intervention behind it, it might be made to both Allies to- gether, or to either separately. It might even gain Spanish support— and it must be remembered that in Spain there is a well-commanded and war-hardened army of excellent quality, a condition which has not hitherto prevailed in Spain since the 17th century. U-boats operat- ing from - Spanish harbors would With threaten not only the Mediters ranean but the cape routes. All of which s to say, that the Germans have definitely won the first round of this war and it re- mains to be seen what use they are going to make of a victory upon which they must capitalize quickly or not at all. (Copyright, 1940, New York Tribune, Ine.) Two-mn Catches Self and Fish By the Associated Press. PAIRBANKS, Alaska. — Walter Hansen was fishing with a line rigged with two hooks. A big rain- bow trout took one portion of the tackle. Hansen jerked on the line 80 hard the empty fly whizzed up- ward and landed in his mouth and the hook went into his lip. Hansen fell in the creek, but got S Ssh before he disentangled the fly from his mouth. 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