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" THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1942
With confidence in our »rmed
forces — with the unbounding de
terminati«n of our people—we will
gain the inevitable triumph — so
help us God.
—Reosevelt’n War Message
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the proMeu*
tion of the war to complete vie
tory._ ___
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
“Say unto the king and to the queen,
Humble yourselves”.
Jeremiah 13; 18
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Takes A Long Time
Secretary Knox, discussing offensive plans
at his most recent press conference, and an
swering a reporter’ question obviously con
cerning the date of greater operations in the
Pacific, said what applies with equal force
to Germany and Japan. ‘‘I can’t tell you,”
he said, “except that it takes an awfully long
while to get ready for any sizable movement.”
We have seen Hitler waste long June days
without launching a new major offensive
against the Russians. While it is possible
that fear of Allied invasions in Europe keep
him in a state of indicision, and may account
to some extent for his postponement of the
anticipated drive in Russia, it is known that
he has brought up new powerful tanks and
is putting reserves into position for it. But
he too has learned, since his first sweep in
France, that it takes a long time to prepare
for a “sizable movement.”
And we have seen the Japanese make a
gesture against Chungking which seemed to
have all the earmarks of a major offensive,
only to peter out under the counter-thrusts
of the American Air Force operating with
Chiang Kai-shek’s army. Japan may have
been inspired with the thought that it could
take Chungking with a secondary attack force,
or it may be that the whole operation was a
feint to distrait attention from a greater of
fensive being organized — perhaps against
Russia in Siberia. If this last idea is the true
explanation of the ineffectual attack on Chung
king, it is obvious in the Orient as on the
Eastern front that the Japanese also, after
their initial drive, are finding that it takes
much time to prepare for a major thrust,
since the Allies have increased their striking
power in the Far East.
The “ifs” in all this theorizing are insur
mountable. Only Berlin and Tokyo know why
summer blows of great magnitude are being
delayed. But the Allies are benfited by them
in a big way.
With American war production hitting on
all six and transport on both the Atlantic
and the Pacific gaining in security, every day
gained for delivery of equipment and the
moving of*armed forces to the major battle
areas improves the Allies’ chances of short
ening the war.
The awfully long while mentioned by Sec
retary Knox as necessary in organizing any
aizable movement is as apparent in enemy
camps as in our own, and considering our
greater resources and production, will inevit
ably place the enemy under a greater handi
cap than us.
-V--—
On Wrong Track
The excuse offered by opponents of the
National Youth Administration is that it costs
too much to operate and that there is great
need for economy in governmental expendi
tnes. They would do well to weigh the cost
against the benefits. The NYA for years has
enabled thousands of foot-loose youngsters of
both sexes to become earners in useful ccupa
tions and particularly during the war period
has it equipped young men and young women
for exacting tasks in war industries.
If ghe members of Congress who are deter-,
mined to legislate the NYA out of existence'
really wish to effect economies in government
and cut off at least a part of the financial
waste government is continually guilty of,
they will direct their attention to reducing
both the number of unnecessary government
bureaus and the staffs of others, all of which
are tremendously overmanned.
The NYA still has a work to do. Let it
continue to do it.
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Start Project Now
After twenty-three years of negotiations the
City of Wilmington at last holds title to the
Marine Hospital site, and six months after
hostilities cease may convert it, in conjunction
with the Robert Strange playground adjoining,
into a recreation center such as no other
city in the Southeast possesses, if a clear vision
of the opportunity guides those with the proj
ect in charge. As long as the war continues,
and until its readjustments for peace-time
activities are made, the War department will
have need of the plot. The City Council has
done wisely in leasing it to the Army for
that period.
Meantime, acquisition of the property pro
vides incentive to proceed with the master
plan of development. Once this is drafted
and specifications drawn up, there would seem
to be no good reason why work should not
start on the northern sector — the Robert
Strange playground, so it might become an
attractive play center instead of an eyesore.
This done, the program could be extended to
the hospital property when the Army moved
off. By this means, the project would be
well advanced when the war is over, with
only a part instead of the whole job to be
done.
The city has broadly and we believe wisely
envisioned an armory as the central building
of the reservation which will not only house
local miiitia organizations but provide an ade
quate hall for conventions, concerts, and even
indoor competitive athletic contests. The bal
ance of the property would be landscaped
with courts and diamonds provided for sports
events. Such a program could well make
Wilmington the recreational and cultural mec
ca of the North Carolina seaboard. As a bus
iness asset, it could not be topped. Its cultural
and athletic advantages would be unrivaled.
Whatever can be done now to start upon
it ought to be undertaken.
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Message To Congressmen
John C. Wessell made an able plea for the
Red Cross Sanitorium before the Kiwanis club
yesterday, setting forth its present situation
as a result of bomber base contruction prac
tically at it door, and what seems to offer
the most likely means of relief—aid from our
congressional delegation.
He explained that Senators Bailey and Rey
nolds and Representative Clark have been
asked to help secure compensation from the
government for the site, with which money
another location might be bought and with
additional financial assistance from the city
and the county (this being essentially a joint
institution) new buildings erected and the
service of the sanitorium continued.
He urged the Kiwanis club to send mes
sages to these members of congress endorsing
the proposal and soliciting their best offices
in its behalf. Naturally this action was taken
by unanimous vote. But there is something
the public can do to supplement the Kiwanis
club and all other organizations participating
in the effort. It is to send letters to Messers.
Bailey, Reynolds and Clark in great volume,
so that when they present the sanitorium’s
case to the War department they will have
such a mass of evidence of public support
that the Army must consent to give the sani
torium a square deal—something it is not
getting now.
It had been hoped that the Army would
take over the sanitorium as a nucleus for
the bomber base hospital, but the proposal
was rejected on the score that it was not large
enough or adequately equipped. The Army
was well within its rights in so deciding. But
in view of the fact that the sanitorium has
been despoiled by the Army of all that made
it a refuge for victims of tuberculosis it is
only fair and just to expect the Army to make
reparation at least to the extent of paying a
fair price for the property. The unfortunates
who have contracted tuberculosis and whose
only hope of ever returning to normal activ
ities lies in the sanitorium and its proved
efficiency, deserve this much consideration.
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Tuesday Blackout
From a front porch observation post on a
well-traveled street the surprise blackout of
Tuesday night worked out with smoothness
and dispatch, save for one grave and one
minor mistake, both obviously due to mis
understanding of the regulations.
The serious blunder came when a man,
possibly a warden, stationed himself at the
curb and commanded passing auto drivers
to put out their headlights when the blue
signal sounded. Under the rules traffic is
permitted to move under dimmed light dur
ing the blue signal period, and need not stop
or turn off lights until the red, or second
audible, signal is given.
The minor infraction—minor only because
the moon was bright—was noted when a public
bus continued on its run with all lights out
during the red period. The regulations spe
cifically state that all traffic must draw up
at the nearest vacant curb and remain sta
tionary throughout the total blackout period.
But neither of these errors compares with
the failure to give the all-clear signal as soon
as the test blackout ended. It is reported in
the press that the radio flash did not come
until sixteen minutes after the actual all
clear.
If the local defense and protection staff
needed excuse to set up its own method of
announcing the all-clear, this new evidence
that the official method is a flop surely pro
vides it. A single blast on the sirens, follow
ing the second blue signal, would do away
with the confusion that has accompanied every
blackout since the radio flash was instituted.
Other communities have not hesitated to
reinstate a siren blast for the radio. Wil
mington could do the same with advantage
tc its residents.
Fair Enough
•
(Editor's Note.—The Star end the News accepts no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Peeler
and often disagree with them as much as many of
his readers. His articles serve the rood purpose of
making people think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
CHICAGO.—Possibly someone will say that
I exaggerated or drew on my imagination in
writing of the dangerous alliance between the
present national government of the United
States and the criminal underworld of the
union rackets. Is this only my interpretation
or can I prove it?
I can prove up.
Let us take the case of Joseph Newell
known as Buck Newell, of St. Louis, a gang
ster who was killed in a cheap family shoot
ing on June 2. The homicide case needn’t
interest us. Newell was just a murderous
thug, who abused his own family among others.
Newell was the boss of local 513 of the
operating engineers, a St. Louis racket and
a subsidary of the national racket whose pres
ident is William E. Maloney, a dese-dose-and
dem gorilla with home and headquarters m
Chicago, and an admired friend of William
Green. Maloney is a dominant figure in the
unspeakably corrupt AFL organization in Chi
cago which is a political, moral and financial
subsidary of Ud Kelly's Chicago chapter of
the party of humanity with which Harold
Ickes and Harry Hopkins bargained so ear
nestly in 1940 to put over President Roose
velt’s nomination for the third term.
After Buck Newell’s death it was disclosed
that he had been indicted on three counts by
the local grand jury at Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
where recently, work was stopped for five
days on the new oil pipe-line that Mr. Ickes
is building with public funds, meaning your
taxes and mine, to relieve the shortage of
fuel oil and gasoline on the eastern seaboard.
Many live* are at stake on this project be
cause millions of Americans in the east have
just lived through one very bad winter with
insufficient fuel and are facing a similar
shortage next winter.
This, incidentally, is not the first time a
union racket has tied up work on this vital
pipe-line. There was a similar stoppage last
spring, occasioned by no disputes between
employer and employee but only by the de
termination of a racket licensed by President
Roosevelt’s government to collect dues from
countryside workers who were earning a few
dollars on a public project.
One of the indictments against Newell we
can throw out as being of no interest to us.
It charged him with carryin’-on with a girl
friend when he took to the road to beat up
a few working stiffs. But the other two in
dictments charged him, first, with smashing
up the dining room of a hotel in Cape Girar
deau and throwing crockery all over the place,
in assaulting a couple of pipe-line workers
with intent to extend to them the benefits of
the new deal’s benevolent labor policy, and,
second, with starting a riot in the railroad
yards at Illmo, Mo., with the same intent.
In each case he had a mob of St. Louis
underworld bums with him. Work on the
pipe-line stopped for five days.
This was the third war project that this
protege of the new deal party had tied up
within two years under the license and priv
ilege extended to him by the national gov
ernment. But it will be observed that it was
not the federal Department of Justice which
indicted him for obstructing the pipe-line. The
only trouble the federal Department of Jus
tice ever gave him was a S500 fine back in
1937 for conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. This conviction did not impair his
eligibility to operate as a defender of labor’s
gains and thus, in time of war, this bum
could stop work on the pipe-line without mo
lestation by any federal agency. It is no vio
lation of the new deal party’s concept of law
and the people’s interest to impede the war
effort if you are a licensed racketeer duly
accredited by the party’s criminal subsidiary.
Brother Newell never was a workman and
he always was a bum, a rum-pot, saloonkeep
er, gambler, muscle man and thief. Neverthe
less, or perhaps we should say for this reason,
brother Maloney, of the Chicago chapter od
the party of humanity, let him have his head
to picket the governor of Missouri, Forrest
C. Donnell, at Jefferson City, because Don
nell sent a detachment of the state guard to
protect the workers and expedite the job.
A further fact pertinent to the corrupt re
lationship between the party of humanity and
the criminal underworld is the recent indict
ment in New York City by the county grand
jury, not the federal, of Rum-dum Joe Fay
of the Jersey City or Frank Hague chaptei
of the party of humanity. Jersey City’s rep
resentation in the U. S. Congress is Mrs.
Mary Norton, a female equivalent of the old
fashioned Honest John of precinct politics, who
is chairman of the House committee on labor.
Because Mrs. Norton is known for her stal
wart devotion to the party’s alliance with the
umoneers, the other congressmen nowadays
invariably send to other committees bills
which would place union racketeers under
decent legal restraints.
Fay is a member of Frank Hague’s muscle,
and Hague is the one who elects Mrs. Norton
to Congress.
Fay was indicted in New York on a charge
of extorting more than a million dollars from
contractors and workers on the Delaware aque
duct. This job was largely financed by fed
eral money and if you were naive, you might
wonder why the federal Department of Jus
tice did not indict him, especially consider
ing the facts that the case has reeked for
years that that Fay’s operations crossed state
lines. But you are not naive so you bow to
the fact that Fay runs to fires with the Jersey
City auxiliary of the party which governs the
United States.
Brother Fay is a vice president of brother
Maloney’s union, which is by and large the
most evil band of extortioners and' gangsters
that the U. S. A. has been victim of since
the heyday of A1 Capone and, for that mat
ter, some of the old Capone mob are hench
men of the Maloney-Fay racket today.
To be sure, in the bootleg days we did
have some rude mobs of killers but not even
in Harding’s time could the national govern
ment be accused of conniving with the racke
teers, much less of flagrant affiliation with
them, and of refusing to proceed against them
or to let Congress do so.
Has it ever occurred to you that almost
all of the prosecutions of union criminals,
even though they could have been charged
with federal offenses, have been state prose
cutions? Have you noticed that in all but a
very few cases, the new deal’s Department
of Justice has let them strictly alone?
This alliance between a governing party,
indeed a government, of the United States
and predatory criminals of the foulest kind
is something absolutely new in American his
HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE TAKE IT?_
Raymond Clapper Says:
Labor Pa rty Decision
Vital To British Life
I By RAYMOND CLAPPER
LONDON.—(by wireless)—Great
Britain’s future course is bound
to be influenced to no small degree
by decisions to be made at the
British Lahcr Party’s conference
this week
The Labor Party will vote to con
tinue the political truce which nas
prevailed during the wa»\ But the
policies of the Labor Party must
be assimihfed partially by Church
ills national government, as he in
dicated was happening in his radio
address on postwar social secu-ity
several weeks ago. Churchill is
believed to have selected Anthony
Eden as his heir, but the Labor
Party’s leadership will have a deep
influence on British policy.
The party is expected this week
to select as its treasurer Herbert
Morrison, the Home Minister. The
treasurer is the party’s most im
portant official, controlling enor
mous funds and party patronage.
In America a counle of years ago
people expected that Labor Min
ister Ernest Bevin would be the
big labor man of the future in
Britain. Morrison is now assum
ing that prospective status. He is
a Socialist who built a strong po
litical machine in London some
years ago and rode into party
leadership and into the government
through that.
I saw Morrison when I was here
two years ago, when he was re
organizing home air-raid protection
and setting up the fire-watching
system. His handling of affairs on
the home front has strengthened
his position. Now his influence in
the government is likely to expand
ii the Labor Party elevates him
to treasurer.
Morrison is inclined to give a
stronger flavor of socialization to
the party program than some oth
ers who are primarily trade-union
ists. Yet he is not a doctrinarie
intellectual but a hardheaded,
working-class Socialist.
Morrison insists on placing war
and postwar questions ahead of
internal questions. He says home
affairs have been wrecked twice
in the last generation by interna
tional explosions. He says Britain’s
hme life is at the mercy of great
unchained forces in the interna
tional sphere which will continue
to wreck domestic plans so long
as they remain uncontrolled. Only
after the Labor Party has faced
this, and determined to throw all
its weight on the side of sanity and
generosity in the world sphere, can
the party devote itself usefully to
questions of home policy, in his
judgment.
Morrison is not obsessed by a
narrow conception of social securi
ty, which some reduce to a for
mula of bigger and better doles.
He conceives of social security as
meaning full employment—secure
and productive jobs. He believes
Britain must get away from pri
vate monopoly restrictions on pro
duction and trade, a n d achieve
more socialization in industdy—
though not complete socialization,
aS believes many industries
would be better left under the. spur
01 free competition.
The Labor Party’s executive
committee is reporting to the con
ference a program calling for dis
j,he Axis> and for mainte
ance of peace by the four big
they can establish a
wonlridp°iutlCal authority” which
would be the armed guardian of
international peace, also an agency
r consultation and decision on
great issues arising among nations.
„tT^e • r.eport calls f°r numerous
other international agencies close
iy associated with the central' au
thority, including an International
Labor Office concerned with stan
dards of living, and others con
cerned with the supply and price
of primary commodities, and the
investment of surplus capital to
heal social and economic plague
spots.
These are long-term propositions
but for the immediate postwar
course the Labor Party executive
committee would lean heavily on
close teamwork among the four
chief Allied powers. It adds this
warning:
“The British government for its
part must turn a deaf ear to vest
ed interests whose claim would
conflict with the needs of interna
tional co-operation.”
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Civilian Defense
Timetable
BASIC TRAINING COURSES
New Hanover High school room
107 at 8 P. M.
FIRE DEFENSE A
Monday, June 28 and every two
weeks thereafter.
GENERAL COURSE
Tuesday, June 29 and every two
weeks thereafter.
GAS DEFENSE B
Wednesday, June 30 and every
two weeks thereafter.
FIRST AID—CONTINUED
For the benefit of persons who
have had 10 hours of First Aid and
wish to complete a 20 hour course,
a class will begin in room 106 at
High school on Tuesday, June 22
and continue on June 24. June 29,
July 1 and July 2. v Mrs. Bishop
Willis, instructor.
NEGRO
Fire Defense A
At U. S. O. building, 9th and
Nixon streets, Thursday night,
June 17th, beginning at 8:30 P. M.
SPECIAL MEETING
A meeting of all personnel war
dens Thursday night, June 17 at
8 P. M., in the Control Room.
LETTER BOX
The editor does not necessarily
endorse any article appearing in
this department. They represent the
views of the individual readers.
Correspondents are warned that
all communications must contain
the correct name and address for
our records, though the letter may
be signed as the writer sees tft.
The Star-News reserves the right
to alter any text that for any rea
son is objectionable. Letters on
controversial subjects will not be
published.
BUSINESS OPENING
To the Editor:
Several hundred horses and
mules have been purchased in the
South Eastern counties in the past
two years. Many are becoming
useless for lack of shoes. There
are only three horse shoers. relicts
of bygone days, in New Hanover
county.
To avoid loss to individuals and
a serious economic loss to the
community action should be tak
en to establish a few farriers here.
Any competent horse shoer can
earn $10 a day at his trade.
This subject is worthy of the
attention of the Chamber of Com
merce or other agencies, humane
or otherwise. Letters from in
dividuals to the Departments of
Agriculture at Raleigh and Wash
ington and to Congressman Clark
may help.
A Citizen,
Wilmington. N. C.,
June 15, 1943.
-V
Daily Prayet
For An Awareness Of God
“Behold, the heaven and the
heaven of heavens cannot contain
Thee.” O Jehovah; yet Thou con
descendest to dwell in houses dedi
cated to Thy worship, and in the
hearts of all who love Thee. Awed
by Thy great greatness, and sensi
ble of our sinfulness, yet we lift
up hands of supplication to Thee,
pleading that Thou wilt baptize us
with a fresh consciousness of Thy
Father nature. We would cast all
our care upon Thee, for Thou bar
est for us. Make Thy self to us,
as we here humbly pray, a living,
bright reality; closer to us than
breathing, nearer than hands or
feet. Our need beyond all other
needs, in this time of war and of
world travail, is for a more vivid
knowledge of Thee, whom to know
aright is life eternal. Press Thy
self upon us, by day and by night,
that behind all events we may
The Literary Guidepost
By JOHN SELBY
“An Autobiography,” by Frank
Lloyd Wright (Duell, Solan and
Pearce S4.50).
The new, amplified, Frank Lloyd
Wright “An Autobiography” has
been lying about for two or three
weeks, unopened. This was be
cause the book is heavy and print
ed in an out-size that makes read
ing it difficult, and also because
of a mental attitude on the part
of the author. Mr. Wright is al
ways right, and this assumption
is remarkably wearing.
Nobody doubts that Mr. Wright
.has contributed much to architec
ture, although I and some others
have not always liked the look of
his contributions, and sometimes
have resented the extraordinary
darkness of some of his interiors.
He told the Soviet architects, not
so long ago, that the vertical line
was vertigo to humanity; that the
line of the future was horizontal.
This may be true, but at the same
time Mr. Wright switched his
host3 about the ankles for their
most recent creations, and seems
a little surprised when they de
®° riS^- ahead building
What basically is disturbing is
the peculiarity of a certain type
cf genius which blinds him to the
outside world. Mr Wright simply
ignores the first World War — I
cculd find no mention of it at all.
Similarly, the depression was to
him. so far as his book shows,
merely a personal annoyance. He
was furious at some of his work
men because they demanded cash,
and quit him for relief. The
broader social aspect of the bad
years seems to have escaped him
cleanly.
An even stranger statement
comes later, when Mr. Wright
says that Japan always has ador
ed the “motherland.” meaning
China. His remarks about the mat
foundation upon which he built his
famous Tokyo hotel do not contain
the fact that this construction was
already familiar in other parts of
the world, incidentally.
Mr. Wright makes himself ap
pear a prima donna. He is not
only the center of his movement,
but for practical purposes, he is
all of it. For him the work of
hundreds of contemporaries does
not, on the evidence of his book,
exist at all except as something
a+ which to lift an evebrow.
Interpreting
The War
By GLENN BABB
Premier General Tojo, jn v
war review before Parliament ■/ '
ierday, did his best to gi0~S!‘ ;,es'
the unsightly patches in
recent war record and current ? *
look. However, it is doubtful -i ’
er his speech, despite its vhow"
distortion of the military s t 3-.?
did much to raise the spir”5 ;
his compatriots.
He had to tell them about r
appearance of a new air powf-‘‘"
China, partly American, j?.:3
Chinese, and warn them tha?V
must expect their homeland - ?
raided. He had to admit that ;•?,
Allied attacks—counteroffer; •? ,
he called them—were in the rr-.
ing. That is another way 0f ,3*’
ing that Japan has been thrown"^
the defensive. It is interest?’-1
speculate on how that afirri? ?
vdll affect a people whose err--?
asm for war has been fed 7-?
years on promises of world cr.
quest.
The premier-war minister shed
almost no light on the military V*.
uation but his selection and en’
phasis of his subject matter gSy»
some striking indications of" the
current trend of his regime’s thi-v.
ing and planning. The speech show
ed that a major part of its hopes
for victory—or at least a stale,
mate that would permit the re'er
tion of a considerable share of fte
war booty—rests upon the vast up.
dertaking which Tojo called "ft,
reconstruction of greater East
Asia.”
This has two phases, the effort
to convert the resources of the
conquered lands to Japan’s war
purposes and the political cam
paign to win the support of the
populations of those lands for Ja
pan’s new Asiatic order Much
has been said and written about
the former. Tojo said yesterday
that ‘‘the vast resources of that
region (greater East Asial are
rapidly being converted into our
fighting ponver."’ Many Allied au
thorities have been preaching that
one of the greatest perils facing
the United Nations is the possibili
ty' that Japan, if given time enough
will so use the great wealth in
rubber, tin, oil, iron and other vi
tal materials which she won in
the first six months of the Pa
cific war to make herself impre?
nable.
But perhaps that is the less dan
gerous half of the Japanese pro
gram. There are definite limits to
Japan’s capacity to achieve that
program. She lacks shipping and
all those materials must be car
ried back to her homeland indus
trial centers for processing. She
lacks trained, intelligent techni
cians and skilled manpower. Al
though it is obvious that she is
making Herculean efforts to ex
pand war production—the current
Diet session is largely concerned
with that problem — the chances
I are that the economic - industrial
phase of the greater East Asia
program will fall far short of its
goals.
The failure of the political pro
gram can not be taken ior granted.
The Japanese are working mighti
ly to line up other Asiatic races
in a common front against the Oc
cidental peoroies. by terror, com
pulsion. persuasion, bribery. Tok
yo's propaganda insists that such
solidarity is becoming a reality.
Tojo ck ‘ oted a great part of is
speech to this theme.
He promised the Philippines
dependence” before the end of tbs
year. He repeated a previous
pledge of freedom to Burma. He
declared that the puppet state of
Manchukuo and Nanking CTa
■ were freely and mightily supper -t
! Japan. Similarly he paid h.s re
spects to the people of Thailand,
; Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies,
i In all these lands, he insisted, a
! pan has been welcomed as ■
liberator. He promised India. MiP
in shaking off the yoke of B
A few hours after Tojo spoke u
Tokyo radio was filling tne a|
with alleged messages of super
from Filipino. Burmese. Chinese
and other leaders. ,
Now this picture is obvious •
blatant propaganda. But we
too little of the real situation _
side the conquered lands to as-- -
that it is entirely untrue. _
undoubtedly has been some man
ure of collaboration with ,:ie 1
nese. There were consider^
groups in each country v, • ^
hated their European ruIeIf •.
tlioroughly that they were •
to welcome the Japanese. ■
the conquerors have been a 1
enlist corrupt, ambit
ricious natives as their age
Any success the ;
achieve in this program tj
to make history in the T -
East Asia just that nv.itm ■ ••
for the Allies. And one t
sisting the Japanese is t.je,...
ness of the United Nat
mulating and announcing : i ,
tentions respecting that pn
world.
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As Others Say ft
PERFECTLY SAFE BET ,
Some Washington repf.’s •...
great numbers of letter?.
of them anonymous, be::-- ■cl£.,.
ed by government office • > Fg ...
ing aganst American and ,
bombings of German cine.-. ,f
a safe bet the writers neve ....
any letters protesting ^
German bombings of Ei
Holland and Poland. — L:,‘
Observed.
SHE WANTS TO KNOW
A fair Victory Gardener — ,
carried on alcne. except - .
hour of aimless hoeing
mate, asks: “Why do they '
farm husbandry?”—Detroit
ever find Thee, the living G -‘£._
omnipotent Ruler of events •
—W.T.E.