FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT SAYS RUSSIA IS BIGGEST WINNER IN EUROPE'S WAR
Fleming, Robert H.
Foreign Correspondent Says Russia is Biggest Winner in Europe's War Lehrbas Predicts Battles Will Be Economic From Now On By ROBERT H. FLEMING EUROPE'S present war will prob-ablv produce little...
...Not only could they bomb the Poles to destroy their morale, but they knew everything the Poles were doing, while the Poles were blind and could not observe German activities...
...I happened to know the American consul, so I called him and asked him to get me any Information he could I then ran up the street, saw the bullet-riddled car and bodies of two men who had attacked Calinescu, and hurried back to the hotel...
...He had no mechanized equipment with which to meet the German army—and the German army is a very good army...
...Smigly-Rydz had no conception of modernized mechanical warfare...
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...W. Va.....1 Kenneth Dawkins, Groveland, Mass 1 PASS THIS PAPER ON...
...Lehrbas minimized the effort with which his major news stories were obtained...
...Berkeley, Cal......1 Dr...
...They told me there'd be one available shortly, however, so I sat down in the lobby to rest, While I was sitting there, a big Englishman walked In and said 'Do you know what they've done to us now?' I asked him what he meant and he told me the premier had just been assassinated...
...One was stopped at the border because he had forgotten his passport...
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...I waited a while and llnolly the phone rang, saying Copenhagen, Denmark was on the wire...
...It just happened that the German planes came over while I was talking to Bucharest...
...Scandinavian nations face the same future, he forecast...
...He said he considered such reports "planted" or "wishful thinking...
...He discussed his reporting achievements modestly and emphasized that his predictions might be proven untrue by rapid changes in European chains of events...
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...he said...
...1. "I am telephoning this story with a gas mask in one hand and the telephone in the other," that story declared...
...Fourth, Poland's army was unprepared...
...Lehrba returned to th university campus, which he left in 1917 to join the American army in the World war, to address journalism and political science students...
...1, but Germany struck as mobilization was to start and many of the men never reached their regiments...
...One which gave him widespread recognition was the first actual report of the bombing of Warsaw when the Germans attacked Poland Sept...
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...So well planned was the first attack that the Germans wiped out air llelds, bridges, rail stations and utilities, as well a* destroying half of Poland's 900 planes...
...Meanwhile my two competitors had gotten the story and both jumped in taxicabs to race for the Bulgarian border, so that they could evade the censorship they knew would be imposed...
...The Balkan nations will not become a battleground, he predicted, but instead will remain neutral, doing business where they can gain wealth safely...
...The Germans captured over 700,000 Polish soldiers in their attacks...
...The Poles' first line of defense had no support from reserves and once this line was broken, the Germans poured through Poland until their forces met...
...There the censorship is purely 'responsibility' censorship...
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...Every word that comes out of Britain, France and Russia is strictly censored," he declared...
...All subscriptions whether for a 10-week trial or for a year, count equally...
...7 Wayne Snider...
...He is now in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press, but expects to return to Europe after the political conventions of the early summer...
...Th's week's list follows: Carl Thomason, Casper...
...These were the factors that ended what had been the Polish republic after 19 days of fighting...
...The Polish command thought they could fight the war with rifles and machine guns, but they found how wrong they were...
...It was the last available long distance wire out of Rumania...
...Second, the German mechanized forces poured in from four directions...
...You must remember that nothing is sent from those countries which a censor is not willing to have sent...
...They had expected a peace settlement but instead they got bombs...
...Foreign Correspondent Says Russia is Biggest Winner in Europe's War Lehrbas Predicts Battles Will Be Economic From Now On By ROBERT H. FLEMING EUROPE'S present war will prob-ablv produce little actual combat but will resolve itself Into economic and political strife in which Russia will gain mosf, Lloyd A. Lehrbas, Associated Press foreign staff here in Madison last week...
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...Lehrbas began his foreign correspondence covering the Sino-Japanese war, and then gained fame for his reports on the German advance into Poland and the assassination of Rumanian Prime Minister Armand Cal-inescu, with his stories appearing regularly in The Capital Times...
...Lehrbas, discussing the German invasion of Poland, gave five reasons for the ease with which the Nazis conquered that nation...
...Actually I was sitting in an easy chair and was very comfortable...
...The consul called buck to say the premier had been shot and I immediately put in telephone calls to all the Associated Press oil ices in Europe, hoping to find one wire not closed by the censors...
...and so Germany dominated the air...
...Asked where actual fighting would next break out, Lehrbas declared: "I don't think it's going to break out...
...He also made light of his exclusive report of the assassination of Calin-escu...
...The foreign correspondent said he had been talking to the Bucharest office of the Associated Press when the German bombers appeared...
...Stalin and Russia will gain the mast, I think, for hasn't Russia been the only one to gain thus far...
...He spoke for an hour on his experiences in Poland and Rumania and following his lecture voiced his views on European conditions of the past, present, and future...
...Honor Roll THE PROGRESSIVE in its "Honor Roll" column prints the names of persons who have sent in one or more new subscriptions to this publication...
...First was the Poles did not know the war was coming until the German bombing began...
...A correspondent must submit copies of each story to the government and be responsible for each one...
...I arrived in Bucharest at 11 o'clock in the morning, went to the best hotel to rest, and was told that they had no rooms...
...I think the battle will be economic now, with each side trying to enrich itself at the expense of the other...
...Penalty for violating the 'responsibility' censorship is ouster from the country...
...He warned his student listeners to remember present censorship methods in European news centers...
...Captured 700.000 "Thirdly, the Poles insisted on attempting to defend the Polish corridor, despite advice from French and ' BritHh military attaches that the ' man power needed for this was prohibitive...
...This had been called for Sept...
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...That left Poland with 450 planes against Germany's 4.000...
...In three days the Polish force was wiped out...
...It actually numbered a million men, but a second million was needed...
...I dictated one paragraph of my story and then the censor cut that wire...
...They then spread the attack and wiped out the scattered Polish fight-ing forces...
...But there is no actual censorship on reports from Germany and Italy...
...The other paid $10 to be rowed across the river, only Cb be arrested and Jailed when he landed...
...My one paragraph was the only story out of Rumania for some hours...
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...Neither Hitler nor Mussolini is in danger of losing their positions, he declared...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
