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British White Paper !
Stresses Peace Only
After Nazi Defeat
Publicity on Treatment
In Camps Regarded as
Final Proof of Aims
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK,
Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
LONDON, Oct. 31.—The British
government has given eloquent evi
dence of its determination to abolish
a regime reminiscent “of the dark
est ages in the history of man,” in
Its publication yesterday of a re
markable document describing the
reign of terror existing in Nazi con
centration camps. Those familiar
with the British mind and the work
ings of the British government can
only interpret the publicity given to
the treatment of Jews, Bible students
and political prisoners in the con
centration camps as final, incontro
vertible proof that thi£ government
is profoundly convinced that the
Nazi regime in Germany and all that
it means must be eliminated for al
ways.
The description of life in these
camps may come as an unpleasant
surprise to many wishful thinkers
of all countries who had persisted in
believing that the good the Nazis
had done overbalanced the evil, and
maybe there will be some who read
the British white paper, “Germany,
1938-9,” as clever but perjured Brit
ish propaganda. There are a suffi
cient number of neutrals w:ho have
interviewed victims in these camps—
and your correspondent is one of
them—to know that the facts pre
sented of the inhuman, brutal treat
ment meted out at Buchenwald,
Dachau and Sachsonhausen are not
exaggerated. American consular au
thorities in Germany doubtless have
sent similar reports to Washington.
All Peace Offers Doomed.
Without underestimating the Brit
ish ability in the propaganda game,
although the general governmental
muddle in this aspect of the prose
cution of the war surpasses all
others, it clearly shows that no peace
offers made by Fuehrer Adolf Hit
ler, or any one connected with the
Nazi regime, have the slightest
chance of acceptance. The British
government has set its course to the
creating of a better Europe and the
first essential is the defeat of Ger
many. Only when that is nearer
achievement can Great Britain and
France draw up more precise peace
aims.
Lilt l^ain 11CI ~
aid, today predicts that Maj. Clem
ent R. Attlee, parliamentary leader
of the Labor party, will next week
define his party's war aims in an ef
fort to satisfy public demand here
and abroad for the British objec
tives. before Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain is able to do so. It
seems highly unlikely that Maj. Att
lee will, in fact, do more than broad
ly outline Labor's policy, stressing
the necessity for social justice at
home while fighting for it abroad,
unless he has changed his mind
since last week when he explained
the reasons why detailed war aims
are impossible to be defined now.
Threat of Communism.
The view of the British govern
ment toward the peace that will be
established at the end of the war—
the allies winning—might be stated
as follows:
The constantly changing situation
In Europe makes impossible any
drawing of new frontiers, however
roughly, until the outcome of the
war is more apparent. If the war
drags out over years the chance that
an exhausted Germany will be bol
shevized is of the greatest import,
while the extent to which Russian
expansion will go is not yet evident.
It may be necessary yet for the al
lies to fight another war afterward
against Communism.
But the broad aims are the estab
lishment of a decent, honorable gov
ernment in Germany, real European
collective security, and the widest
development of all colonial territor
ies for the benefit of all nations,
not excluding the United States.
This time it is most unlikely that
Britain will co-operate in any efforts
to keep Germany weak and impov
erished, althought doubt as to the
German people's ability to choose
wise leaders or to continue as a na
tion for a long period without am
bitions to dominate the world must
have entered the minds of Britain's
leaders.
euirais uue 10 Be included.
There are many here who advo
cate dividing Germany into a Cath
olic country and Prussia, and some
sort of plan along these lines is
bound to present itself at any peace
conference. But it is almost as
sumed that neutrals will be in
cluded in any peace conference this
time.
Moreover it is generally believed
that the big man of any peace con
ference will be Foreign Secretary
Viscount Halifax, who has been
shown up as a real leader of the
broadest possible vision, although
momentarily in the background.
As discontent with the present
handling of the war is increasing
daily a change of government here
is inevitable sooner or later, and
Lord Halifax and Winston Chur
chill, first lord of the admiralty,
stand out as the leaders of the new
government. Churchill is not young,
but Lord Halifax is, according to
British standards, and the world is
likely to hear much more of him
before many months.
(Copyright. IPS!), Chicago Daily News. Inc.
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Boston Police
Have Halloween
Headache Early
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Oct. 31.—Police Com
missioner Joseph E. Timilty had
that before-hand headache today
which goes with throwing a big
party, but he hoped his second an
nual spook festival for 100,000
Boston kids would ease the usual
morning-after-Halloween headaches.
Between buying great gobs of good
things to eat, arranging for enter
tainment and trying to fix his1
schedule so as to attend every one i
of the 52 police parties to be given \
In the city tonight, Mr. Timilty
commented that the normal Hal
loween damage in Boston, estimated
at $50,000. was cut in half when
40,000 children showed up at 15
police stations for the first experi
mental party last year.
With facilities for keeping the
city's small fry off the streets almost
tripled this year, Mr. Timilty ex
pressed hope that damage would be
almost negligible tonight.
♦
SURREY, ENGLAND.—LLOYD GEORGE TAKES IT EASY—
David Lloyd George, 77, who played a leading role in the 1914-18
war, is taking it easier in this one. He is shown cautiously
climbing over a stile on his 400-acre farm near Churt, Surrey,
while A. Norman (left), secretary of the Surrey War Agriculture
Committee, waits to advise him on the crops best suited to the
government’s food production scheme. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Neutrality
__(Contirmed From First Page.)
mg more man me sovereign rignt
to transact our own affairs as a free
people. It is to undo a thing that
should never have been done. To
fail would be to invite the scorn
of the world.”
Bankhead Denies “Gag.”
Earlier Speaker Bankhead joined
in denying that the proposed pro
gram is a "gag rule.”
“I do not think that there is any
possible ground for legitimate criti
cism of the rule in that regard.”
Meanwhile Majority Leader Ray
burn made known that he would
ask the House to meet at 11 a.m.
tomorrow, an hour earlier than
usual. A night session is not ex
pected today, but the hour of ad
journment tomorrow has not been
decided. The House may reach the
crucial vote on the arms embargo
by tomorrow evening.
Fish Sees Chance for Upset.
Representative Boland of Penn
sylvania, the Democratic whip, an
nounced today that on the basis of
a more than half completed poll of
Democratic members he was certain
no major change would be made in
the Senate measure. But Repre- j
sentative Fish said there was a
chance that administration plans
could be upset.
Under the procedure approved by
the Rules Committee after a stormy
hearing yesterday, the House would
vote on setting up a Senate-House
conference committee which would
seek a compromise between:
1. The Senate bill repealing the
embargo on the sale to belligerents
of arms, ammunition and imple
ments of war.
2. A bill passed by the House last
summer retaining the embargo on
arms and ammunition but permit
ting sale of implements of war.
Some members interpret the latter
as authorizing the sale of planes.
Both Back Lash-and-Larry. ’
Both measures would restrict
American shipping by establishing
“cash-and-carry” trade with war
ring nations.
The Rules Committee, Chairman
Sabath said, did not take a record
vote yesterday on the parliamen
tary procedure which it recom
mended to the House. At one point
in the committee discussion. Repre
sentative Sabath said the Germans
would not have captured the Ameri
can freighter City of Flint if the
Senate bill had been on the statute
books.
Representative Cok replied:
“The seizure of the City of Flint
has been seized upon by those con
ducting the campaign to stimulate
a war spirit. Nothing has been
said about the seizure of 26 of our
ships by Great Britain.”
Mr. Cox supported the adminis
tration procedure, although com
menting that he was “not at all
happy about it,” because amend
ments to the bill would not be per
mitted.
Conferees Selected.
During the day Speaker Bankhead
announced that the House repre
sentatives on the Conference Com
mittee would be Chairman Bloom of
the Foreign Affairs Committee and
Representatives Luther A. Johnson,
Democrat, of Texas: Kee, Democrat,
of West Virginia: Fish and Eaton,
Republicans, of New Jersey, top
ranking members of the committee.
Mr. Fish protested during the
Rules Committee's session that the
legislation would be written by a
"packed” group of conferees. Rep
resentative Cox objected to so strong
a word and suggested that it had
just happened that the majority of
those who ordinarily would be ap
pointed conferees favored the ad
ministration's bill.
Cafes Protest Curfew
In protest against an order com
pelling them to close at 9:30 o'clock
each evening, cafe proprietors of
Brussels, Belgium, held a demon
stration in the streets.
Automobile operating during
blackouts in England must be
painted white.
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House Member's Mother Dies
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Oct. 31 UP).
—Mrs. Constance Monkiewicz, 60,
mother of Representative Boleslaus
J. Monkiewicz, Republican, of
Connecticut, died last night at the
New Britain General Hospital.
Rumania Held Ready
To Make 'Offer' in
Bulgarian Dispute
Privileges, Not Cession
Of Dobruja, Believed
King Carol's Plan
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Oct. 31.—Reliable
sources reported today King Carol
is prepared to offer Bulgaria a
“psychological settlement” in her
territorial dispute with Rumania
over Dobruja.
Vasile Stoica, Rumanian Ambas
sador to Turkey, was said to be on
his way to Sofia, Bulgarian capital,
with the offer.
Diplomatic circles said the pro
posal assures new privileges for
Bulgarian-speaking inhabitants of
Dobruja, but held the view any
actual cession of territory at this
time will peril Rumania’s existence
as a nation.
Rumanian possession of Dobruja
was confirmed in the World War
settlement. Recent reports have
indicated Soviet Russia is prepared
to back Bulgaria's claims to the
territory.
Despite the precarious diplomatic
situation, Rumania has been ex
periencing a war boom by selling
food and supplies to neutrals and
belligerents.
Agents clamored for sea - going
freighters to take 100,000 tons of
grain to Italy and another 100,000
tons to England. River boats and
railroad cars for shipment of 300,
000 tons of grain contracted by the
Reich were at a premium.
Although market reports were
sketchy, authoritative sources said
one grain deal with Germany wai
completed at almost twice the world
market quotation.
Italy, Turkey and Greece were re
ported contesting with Germany for
a share of Rumania's oil.
The government took steps to pre
vent internal prices from skyrocket
ing. Industrialists were ordered to
report their raw material needs for
a year in advance, so there would
be no excuse for a price boost on
claims of shortages.
The War in Europe—Day by Day
Mussolini's Housecleaning Seen as Move to End Threat
To Own Power and to Solidify Neutral Position
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,
Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer.
The explanation of Premier Mus
solini's sensational shake-up of the
Fascist leadership lies to my mind
in two reasons which, if this view
is correct, must rank among the
major developments of the European
crisis. They are:
1. II Duce has done a vigorous
piece of housecleaning to get rid of
a definite challenge to his supreme
and absolute leadership.
2. He has at the same time appar
ently consolidated his position of
“neutrality” in the present war—a
position whieh was endangered by
pro-Nazi tendencies among some of
his important lieutenants.
This realignment of forces, which
assumes the nature of a purge, is
not the result of a new situation
being suddenly created. It has been
boiling for a considerable period.
Test of Brute Strength.
lI»nAn *__At_
Lt. Gen. Achille Starace, who now
has been relieved of his powerful
post as secretary of the Fascist
party "at his own request,” is cred
ited with nursing personal ambi
tions.
It has been common talk in Ital
ian political circles that Gen.
Starace had strong hopes of step
ping into Mussolini’s shoes when
the big chief stepped out of them,
and was consolidating a position
calculated to lead ultimately to ele
vation.
The position of chief of general
staff of the Fascist militia to which
Gen. Starace has been shifted isn't
regarded as comparing in impor
tance to the secretaryship of the
party.
Two top men who are credited
with being pro-Nazi and to have
been pressing for Italian interven
tion in the war on the side of Ger
many, have been assigned to new
jobs. These are Starace and Dino
Alfieri, minister of propaganda, who
has been assigned to an unnamed
ambassadorial post.
II Duce thus has achieved two
ends with one operation. He has '
got rid of some ambitions which
probably were becoming embar
rassing, and he has eliminated the
strongest elements advocating war
for Germany.
There is a grim fascination in
watching the test of brute strength
between England and Germany as
the Britons try to tighten their
blockade into a complete strangle
hold about the fiercely resisting
Reich. On success or failure of the
blockade may depend the outcome
of the European upheaval.
Unfortunately, if a blockade is
successful it means hunger for
civilians. The approach of starva
tion was the immediate cause of
Germany’s collapse in the last war.
It took the English Navy two
years to squeeze Germany badly. By
the winter of 1916, however, the
fatherland and Austria were suffer
ing terrible distress, and it was only
the German victory over Rumania
and the occupation of the Ukraine
which saved the situation tem
porarily. Vast stores of grain then
became available to the hungry
Teutons, and they hung on for an
other two years.
snoriage oi rood and nothing.
When we got into Germany just
after the cease-fire there was a
shocking shortage of both food and
clothing—a lack of most everything,
for that matter. Fats were almost
unheard of, and because of this
there were many people who hadn't
seen soap for years. A cake of soap
was literally worth more than a
handful of money, and was some
times used for barter trade.
Apropos of this situation was an
experience I had in Cologne. Dur
ing a conference with war corre
spondents the burgomaster, a
haughty person, demanded why the
allies weren't rushing food and
clothing to Germany.
Acting as spokesman, I told him
the allies were too busy feeding the
starving among their own people
who had been rendered homeless
by German devastation.
“That isn’t true," he flared.
“I'm telling you, Mr. Burgomas
ter," I replied with asperity, "that
I've recently come from the zone
where long lines of refugees were
tramping along the roads, and many
of them were dying by the wayside.”
My colleagues burst into applause.
The burgomaster flushed crimson
and started to retort, but his sec
retary whispered in his ear, and he
held his peace.
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Hitler Film Banned
By New York Censors
Br tbs Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Oct. 31—“Hitler
Beast of Berlin,” a Hollywood movie,
was rejected yesterday by the New
York State movie censors.
Irwin Esmond, director of the re
viewing board, said the film was
turned down because it was found
to be “inhuman, sacrilegious and
tended to Incite to crime.”
Henry Rathner, the producer’s
representative, declared the decision
was a violation of constitutional
rights and said, “We’ll fight this to
the highest court.”
Fire Kibitzer Arrested
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31 (/?).—
Former Policeman William C. Dill
more was arrested on a disorderly
conduct charge after firemen com
plained of being hampered by his
“kibitzing” at a blaze.
They said he criticized their work
and threatened to send in another
alarm. A magistrate dismissed Dill
more with a warning.
Attempt to Kill Gen. Ugaki
3 Months Ago Revealed
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SHANGHA*, Oct. 31.—Tokio po
lice finally lifted the ban on new*
of the recent abortive attempt to
assassinate the Japanese Army's
most outstanding liberal, Gen. Ka
suchige Ugaki. The police said a
20-year-old member of the "League
for Thorough Completion of the
Sacred War" boarded Gen. Ugaki's
tram, intending to stab the general,
but was unable to accomplish his
purpose because of a heavy guard.
Although the event occurred three
months ago, before the inaugura
tion of the present cabinet, it gives
an idea of the perils besetting
Premier Gen. Nobuyuki Abe and his
colleagues.
Rightest elements, inside the army
and out, are doing their utmost to
undermine the Abe cabinet because
of its alleged weakness of policy. It
is common knowledge that Gen.
Ugaki is a close friend and unofficial
adviser of Gen. Abe.
Hotheads are putting obstacles In
the way of improvement of Japa
nese relations with the Occident by
venting an outcry every time the
government displays signs of will
ingness to make concessions to the
Western powers. This Rightist
crowd, which has considerable sup
port, favors the complete expulsion
of British and American influence
in China at any sacrifice.
(Copyright, lh.'h). Chicago Daily News. Inc.)
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