British Demanding Full Explanation on Hore-Belisha – 2-3
Hore-Belisha Fall Linked to Tactics – 3-4
Nazis View Shifts as Sharpening War – 4-5
The International Situation – 5
Incidents in European Conflict – 6
Soviet Scores Allied Aid to Finns As Ruse to Embroil Scandinavia – 7-8
Soviet Gain Small in 38 Days of War – 8-9
22 Russian Planes Reported downed – 10
Soviet Held Rival of Reich in Baltic – 11
Force to Defend Dutch Neutrality – 12
Census Man Has 26 Questions Ready for 132,000,000 in April – 13
Nazis Forbid Jews in Poland to Move – 13
Palestine Called Polish Jews’ Hope – 15
Trapper in Bronx Ensnared by Law – 16
News of the Week in Review
Additional Bylines not in Thread Header: C.L. Sulzberger, G.E.R. Gedye, Harold Denny, C. Brooks Peters, James B. Reston, Hugh Smith
How the Theatre of War May Spread in Europe and Asia (Map) – 19
Factors are Forming to End War Deadlock – 20-21
Allies Watch Far-Flung Arc – 22-23
Rumania Weighs Her Might – 24
Russians Anxious to Appease Japan – 25
Why the Russian Army Has Bogged in Finland – 27-28
Hitler’s Men Who Run Reich – 29-30
A Fair Nazi Back in England – 30-31
Keeping Neutral a Strain to Eire – 31
"British Demanding Full Explanation on Hore-Belisha – 2-3 " Apparently, reasons for Hore-Belisha's dismissal are not certain, even today:
"In January 1940, Hore-Belisha was dismissed from the War Office in a shock move that many did not understand at the time. "Once again, he was accused of having dragged Britain into the war in order to protect Jewish people on mainland Europe, and was considered a warmonger who did not have Britain's interests at heart.
"By 1940, his relations with Lord Gort, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, had deteriorated such that neither man had confidence in the other. Gort and other generals disliked Hore-Belisha's showmanship, but their main disagreements had stemmed from differences of opinion (the Pillbox affair) concerning the defence of France along the border with Belgium. Hore-Belisha was unpopular amongst his fellow ministers, with meetings of the War Cabinet said to be regularly tense and loud....
"...Due to the sensitive nature of the disagreements, many MPs and political commentators were bewildered as to why the dismissal had taken place, and Hore-Belisha's formal statement to the Commons left them little wiser.
"A common belief was that Hore-Belisha's bold reforms at the War Office had been opposed by the established military commanders, often caricatured as Colonel Blimps, and that they had forced his resignation.
"Others claimed that Hore-Belisha had been dismissed due to anti-semitism, or even due to pressure by the Royal Family upon Chamberlain because of Hore-Belisha's previous support for Edward VIII during the abdication crisis, although the offer of alternative office and Hore-Belisha's original appointment argue against this."
Another take on Hore-Belisha:
"Why the Russian Army Has Bogged in Finland – 27-28"
"Front-line Finnish officers and men consider that on the basis of performance thus far a Finn is worth ten Russians and they estimate, probably with exaggeration, that casualties have been in the ratio of twenty Russians to one Finn...."
In fact, Soviet troop losses were about five for every one Finn killed.
In aircraft it was 10-to-one, and in tanks over 100 Soviet tanks for every Finnish tank destroyed.
That five-to-one against Finland compares to the Soviets' overall victorious war record against Germany of three-to-one.
On the Western Front in 1940 the ratio was approx. three French, Brits & other allies killed for every German.
The Western Front in 1944-45 saw roughly three Axis troops killed for every two of the allies.
The Germans lost about 10 soldiers killed on the Eastern Front for every one killed by the allies after D-Day in 1944.