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...Philco dealers. First time up, Inside Stuffer Williams aired the "plan Gamelin," under which "the major amphitheatre of war is to be far removed from the Western Front." He masterminded a possible Italian tie-up with the Allies, with a thrust at the Russian oil fields at Baku by Weygand's French, British and possibly Turkish Army, from Syria. Quick action was being urged, said he. because "the present situation in the unpredictable Balkans, and particularly in Rumania, will permit no delay." By Wednesday night, he could see this campaign advancing right to Rumania, "a natural battlefield for open...
...country that started invading the Balkans. "While Turkey is doing all she can to prevent the war from spreading, no one can be sure that this can be avoided," he added. The Premier's point of view was underlined by a visit to Ankara of General Maxime Weygand, chief of the big French and Arab Army assembled in nearby Syria...
While heretofore the Allies have been left to wonder where the Nazis would strike next, last week the shoe was on the other foot. French papers have been toying with the notion of using General Weygand's Army-plus a Turkish Army-on a "Caucasian front"-i. e., in a campaign directed at Russia's rich oil fields. Krasnaya Zvezda, newsorgan of the Soviet Union's Commissariat of Defense, observed: "The scale of war preparations of the Anglo-French bloc in the Near East . . . leads us to think that we are not faced there by a mere...
...third Army stands in French-mandated Syria and Lebanon, based on Beirut. This force is the one put together by France's fox-smart General Maxime Weygand. It consists of at least 150,000 men, mostly Colonials and Legionnaires, and its job, besides guarding against a Moslem uprising, is to go to Turkey's (or Rumania's) aid if needed...
Past Italy almost every day sail French supply ships for Syria. Premier Daladier has taken off the retired list and sent to Syria famed General Maxime Weygand, who in 1920 helped the Poles to crush the Red Army offensive against Warsaw. Under General Weygand in Syria today is a French Army of some 20 divisions, with which he may help Turkey or Rumania as he once helped Poland. But the Italian Navy and Air Force could harry the flow of French munitions, troops and supplies for Syria-not that the Italian people would wish these cut off. Presumably, M. Andr...