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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941
COMMUNISTS AND STRIKES
ARNING that “sharp reaction” will not solve the problem of strikes in defense industries, Rep. John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, Democratic leader of the House, urged Congress yesterday against indicting all labor for the mistakes of a few. He added: “We have got to meet the subversive aims of that small group of Communists who are working in the labor movement.” William Green has charged that a majority of the strikes in the heavy industries have resulted from Communistic influences: but that, from the President of the A. F. of L., might be discounted, as an attempt to discredit the rival C. I. O. Harry Bennett has charged Communist control of C. I. O. unions; but that, from the personnel director of the Ford Motor Co., might be dismissed as an effort to shift attention from the company’s own labor policies. Rep. Martin Dies and others, in and out of Congress,
have made similar charges, and have been denounced as enemies of organized labor. Mr. McCormack’s motives, however, are open to no such | challenges. His friendship for labor is proved by his long | legislative record—and is proved again by his courage in | speaking out as he did yesterday. He was correct in saying that President Roosevelt should condemn unjustified strikes | in defense industries. We hope he was correct in saying | that the President will condemn them—and that labor will | respond patriotically. » y E'RE glad to see this issue of Communist influence | in the labor movement thus brought into the open by | a labor-supporting Congressman who stands high in the Administration. Certainly the proportion of Communists | in the C. I. O. is small. Certainly the great majority of | organized labor's members are loyal to the United States and grateful for all Mr. Roosevelt has done to advance their | cause. But if any one thing has been demonstrated, it is that a few Communists in any movement can exert a trou- | ble-making power beyond all proportion to their numbers. | And there is not the slightest doubt that many Communists | have gone into the C. I. O. movement for the deliberate purpose of making trouble—of creating disunity, slowing | down production and hamstringing defense. | It is typical Communist strategy to promote strikes | in key plants—those which the public would be slow to |
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recognize as important because only a few men seem to be | affected. It is typical Communist strategy to incite violence | when efforts to arrange peaceful settlement of management- | labor controversies show promise of success. Philip Murray hates communism, and John L. Lewis is no Communist. But both these C. I. O. leaders have been far too lenient toward the Communists in their ranks, and | Mr. Lewis in particular seems to suffer from the delusion | that he can use these wreckers to further his own aims, The Communists play only their own game—Soviet Russia's game. They're out to destroy, not to defend, | American institutions. We believe the C. I. 0. must rescue | its great majority of loyal members from Communist influence, and do that now, or see its whole movement discredited.
POST MORTEM
T wouldn't make pleasant reading for him just now, but nevertheless we wish Mussolini would poke around in | his files and dig out a message he received on May 16, 1940, | a few weeks before he took Italy into the war. The message was from Winston: Churchill. It said, “Is it too late to stop a river of blood from flowing | between the British and Italian peoples? “We can, no doubt, inflict grievous injuries upon one another and maul each other cruelly and darken the Mediterranean with our strife. If you so decree, it must be so. But I declare that I have never been the enemy of Italian greatness, nor ever at heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. | “I beg you to believe that it is in no spirit of weakness | or of fear that 1 make this solemn appeal, which will remain | on record. Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must not be ranged against one another in mortal strife. | ‘Hearken to it, I beseech you in all honor and respect, before the dread signal is given. It will never be given by us.”
NEUTRALIZING THE BOOK-BURNERS
VERY time we see a hook banned by the totalitarian censors of Europe, our first impulse is to rush off and get the book and read it. Such an impulse seized us on the word that France (or rather that painful stump of a government which at Vichy, without authority of the people, claims to be “France”), has banned Romain Rolland’s “Jean Christophe.” This book has been acclaimed a masterpiece all over the world, translated into many tongues. Frenchmen were proud of it. Now they cannot even read it. And why may | not Frenchmen read one of their own masterpieces? Be- | cause the Nazis, French and German, think it bad for them.
TOLLS HE American people pay about $76,000,000 a year to
cross rivers, reports the Federal Works Agency. That amount, collected in tolls at 242 bridges, 660 ferries and five | tunnels, would almost pay for the country’s biggest bridge, | the eight-mile San Francisco Bay span. About one-fifth of the toll facilities are publicly owned and will eventually become free as original cost and maintenance charges are paid. But, after more than 150 years of fighting to remove impediments to free movement of the people between the states and within them, 80 per cent of _ bridge and ferry tolls are still collected by private interests.
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Black George’
By Ludwell Denny
That's the Name the Turks Gave To Fiercest Chief of the Serbs Who Was Chosen to Lead Holy Rebellion
(Second in a Series)
ASHINGTON, April 4—“Of course, he is a Karageorgevich.” That is the way the simple Jugoslav peasants explain their boy king, Peter II, who has overthrown the regency and defied Hitler. “Paul forgot he is a Karageorgevich, forgot the mountains,” they say of the Oxfordized Prince regent who made the abortive deal with the Nazis. The translation of Karageorge is Black George. That means “fighter”—in any European language, for the Jugoslav is famous as the fightingest man of them all. The original Black George, first of the dynasty, came by his fighting blood naturally. His people originally were , from the Black Mountain (Monfenegro). For 500 years, from generation to generation, they had defended their grim peaks from the Turkish invaders and hever been conquered. The worst insult these primitive warriors could hurl at a man was— “May he die in bed like a woman.” Black George was the name the Turks gave to the fiercest chief of the ruthless bands that darted down from the Serbian hills to harry the oppressor a century and half ago. This Slavic peasant Robin Hood was not so much beloved as respected by his fellows.
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ITH his own hands he killed a hundred, hot counting those he dispatched in formal wars. But this bandit chieftain never killed for money, only for what he considered justice and freedom. And his rough mountain code was applied to family and friends as well as foes. He killed his father for being afraid. He hanged his brother for rape. And he almost killed his mother for an injustice. Black George was picked to lead the Serbian rebellion in 1804. The village chiefs had been invited to a party by the Turks, and promptly slaughtered. When the remaining bands gathered secretly in the mountains, they called on Black George to command the vandetta. He accepted only after they agreed that he could kill any man who was disloyal. To expand the bands into a guerrilla army, he rallied the hungriest and most terrorized peasants. With these he wiped out almost all of the Turkish
| mercenaries and officials.
When the Sultan refused to grant Serbian auton-
omy, Black George turned the rebellion into a war for | With the military experience gained | the Austrian war | trained vir- |
independence. years before as a volunteer in against Turkey, he now mobilized tually all of Serbian manhood in a
and national army.
Then for seven years he was victorious over larger
and better equipped Turkish armies
The end of this “George Washington of Serbia” | was less heroic, and is glossed over in the patriotic
legend. Finally, like Napoleon and others, he cracked up—inside. Because of some physical or other malady, the fearless one seemed to lose command of himself and others. At last he lost his nerve, and fled to Austria, A few years later he summoned courage to return,
| knowing he could expect no mercy from his successor | and enemy, the corrupt Milosh Obrenovich, | had him murdered in his bed, and sent his head to
Milosh
the Sultan. * UT the headless body of Black George marched ! on in the mountains. For 80 vears the Kara-
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| georgevich-Obrenovich roval feud continued. until at | the turn of this century the last of Milosh's line was
removed from the throne by murder So the throne which the boy Peter has just ascended, to defy Hitler, is as fierce as it is bloody. Of his eight predecessors, three were exiled, and four were assassinated—including his father, Alexander, |
| who was killed with the French foreign minister by |
terrorists. (The man who arranged that assassination is still sheltered in Italy by Mussolini.) All of them were dictators, except the boy-king’ grandfather, the enlightened and liberal Peter I. Peter II, at 17, is hardly a ruler vet, though the anti-Axis army and church powers have enthroned him. But he is more than a puppet to the simple | peasants and mountainers, To them he is the blood of Black George. He is Peter Karageorgevich, And the magic of that fighting name has won them freedom from foreign rule in
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NEXT: Hatred for the Germans.
(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)
Business By John T. Flynn | New Parity Bill and Lease-Lend Food |
Section Promise Boon to Farmer 1 T is a little difficult to estimate precisely the aid | to the farmer in dollars and cents during the last | eight years. It has been many billions. But crop par- | ity payments, loans and subsidies under soil con- | servation schemes, etc., seem to run to about $2,500.000,000. This fact and figure is reported in order to measure the probable size and value of the aid which is proposed this year. It seems that the war been a great disappointment to the farmer. In the last war, Europe, Asia and Africa rushed
here with orders for wheat, corn | The prices of these |
and hogs. and other farm products soared, and presently the farmer found himself living in a real price paradise. But this has not happened this
time. And so the farmer sees the war develop a
great market for steel, iren, guns, ete., without any | | corresponding benefit
to himself. However his kindly Government is not blind to his misfortune. There are plenty of good men ani
| true in Washington who will see to it that the farm-
er gets his share. For instance, the President has allocated Lease-Lend Bill $1,250.000,000 to buy of all sorts to send to Britain.
Bankhead has introduced a bill, and the Senate Agricultural Committee has reported it favorably, to pour another biilion onto the farms. The bill provides for parity loans on cotton, wheat, tobacco,
rice and 85 per cent of parity on corn. u n
HAT this means, in plain figures, is about this:
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The Department of Agriculture must aetermine | the price at which, let us say, wheat would sell to |
be at parity with all other products. Having ascer-
tained that, the farmer can take any wheat he can- | not sell to the Government and get a loan on it to | Of | course he must agree to the crop reductien provisions i of the progran. |
the extent of 100 per cent of the parity price.
Cotton now is good for a loan of 9 cents. But if this bill passes it will be good for a loan of at least 14 or 15 cents. - The estimated cost of this is a billion dollars. So here is $2.500,000,000 for the farmers. There is the $1,250,000,000 in the Lease-Lend Bill to make purchases outright and give them to Britain, and there is the billion in the Bankhead Act—if it passes. So. you can see that everything looks rosy for the farmer—zaiong with the rest of us—if this measure goes through. »
So They Say—
IS IT TO BE THE tragic jeopardy of democracy that if it would go to war it must adopt the very systems which we abhor?—Herbert Hoover, former
President.
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WE ARE HAUNTED by the greatest unfinished task of civilization, which is to create a just and peaceful international order. — Attorney General Robert Jackson.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941
NEVER EVEN TOUCHED
Brother, Just Try to Turn Your Head!
| gang up on him, | turn about, to take care of him while Ww | our business in peace.”
| and governments possible—the original
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
URGES WOMEN UNITE AGAINST WARS By Edna G. Groskin
i | In reference t{o the editorial “Think Hard and Think Fast’| (based on Mr, Hoover's address at!
(Times readers are invited their in columns, religious conMake
to express Views
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of 1940. He failed
| doesn't like pay many times as much as | brother gets when, if the latter
to state what| is alarming.
Gen. Johnson Says—
Only a Few Offenders in Labor And Management Can Be Blamed For Stoppages in Defense Plants
ASHINGTON, April 4—“We draft men for military service and make them serve for less than a dollar a day. Why shouldn't we draft labor in defense industries when some of them get ten times as much?” That has a superficial logic. Especially since become total, industrial production is as important as military effort and civilians are sometimes as much exposed to attack as soldiers and thus far have suffered as many casualties. The answer goes deep into the beginnings of our race. Nobody knows exactly how society and or=ganized governments started but the evidence is strong that when our most remote ancestors, probably recently descended from trees, began living in groups in caves and some husky Neanderthalian raider from neighboring cliffs came over the hill to carry off skins and ladies, an early, hairy village Hampden may have ub-glubbed somewhat as follows: “That big bum can get away with that just so long as each of us does his own hunting and has to go to work every day. But he can't if we Let's leave some of us, turn-and-80 about
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the wav nappened. It made states “social comIt conferred great benefits but it also imposed a great responsibility. For how could any early Piltdowner live under the peace of that pact for vears and then on the single day that the hostiles came over the hill not do his trick at guard duty? That is the principle of the selective draft. It is almost impossible to apply it to labor. Under the true theory of conscription no man is either taken or deferred from military service on any theory that it is to his advantage. The whole idea in modern war is that those are taken who can best serve the national interest by marching with the colors and those are deferred who can contribute better by remaining on their civilian jobs—either because that best supports dependent people or best serves the interest of war-time production. The rub comes when a man deferred because he is said to be an “essential man in an industry essential to defense” refuses to work at that job because he his soldier “struck” on his job, in certain ummary
pact.”
he would either go to a penitentiary or, circumstances, face a firing squad or even execution by his commanding officer. Truth is that there is less of a labor front than really appears. The ma jority of workers are not slackers. Yet the record Many of these strikes were at key-points
S problem on the
great
strike
the total net profits were or what| where stoppages of production of component ma-
dividends were ‘paid.
| terials really “delayed final output by multiples of
I do not have the exact figures,| 1,000,000 man days.
but, as I am a steel worker, I have I doj
taken notice of such things.
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HERE is a consistency about
” these stoppages at
New Haven), that article asked
| "How should we dethrone hate when | {1b takes a seat at the peace table?”
Only through and by the concerted action of women, women of all the nations of the world, seated at that peace table, can vicious hate be eradicated. Women must voice their hate for war and resolve to save the lives of the children of the future. Women know the value of life far more than men, and they must speak; they must denounce this waste of human life, of homes, of property and resolve to wipe war from the earth. Had the women of Germany done this their own sons and the sons of other women would
| know steel showed sizable profits for | ; ‘ : the year of 1940. | weak links in fhe production chain that looks
Who wants to go back to 1929? | almost satanic. What this situation seems to need : rey ; Whe wen] | draft of labor—no smearing of the whole loyal Companies were taking profits way | 1S not dra 3 > g P “| labor movement—but some tough stuff on labor lead-
{in excess to a just profit on invesi- | or g Tone per ves SO Cl ment. This was not the only cause! ership in the particular arbitrary instances so clearly
Th | revealed by the record. Fo ue Nop ps Recalcitrant industry should be disciplined only in
chicks bought for children to use ot BAS . . | those few flagrant spots—where it is necessary-—and as pets endure a wretched existence Pych prof dking vere gain De by the ample war-powers to choke it to death by in the few days they usually sur-| le roe epression wou commandeering and withholding priorities, trans= (vive. Delicate as the petals of har Cols ’ f the things that! portation and supplies. Arbitrary and ruthless strikes, rose, they are subjected from the ries oe SPS fuse x Sings i only in those few flagrant instances where it 1s neces= moment of hatching to rude han-| oo have more wo i g vino sary, should IR Sspended during Coolingon Bo lous dling, improper heat or cold, im- want to outlaw strikes. which is) expended in fair public hearings to expose
proper food or lack of food and WR coe . Issues, motives and actors. water, rough transportation, squeez- the only way that labor has of de- | And then, where and if Government boards find
ing. When the fad was at its WOISt| fending Its rights. Some strikes are | actions and attitudes subversive of the public interest thev were covered with dyes. probably called without just cause. j, defense, the instigators and participants should | Let us hope that this Easter cele-| Pub when strikes are outlawed, we Jase all claim to deferment in the draft and, if neces- | will again be where we were in 1929 sayy, as in the World War I, be permanently excluded
your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must
be igned.)
passed, and this is an appeal to parents and dealers to stop it. Baby
[now be living normal, sane lives, |
has
in his commodities | Most of this will find | its way to the farm. But this is not enough. Senator |
foolish and barbaric custom. With Easter candies and toys so attrac-
but women were silent who should have spoken. German women must be reached and, if need be, taught that war is inglorious. It seems promoting animal misery incredible that any woman has to brating the Resurrection. be shown that a child is not meant | . . Re > » @ to be sacrificed in a battlefield. Fs bial . Women are conservative by na-| SUGGESTS LETTERS TO ture, often economical and sensible] CONGRESS ON STRIKES in small matters. Let them now at po mareld Noble last save that most precious of all : their belongings—the lives of their| 10 people sons, grandsons and great-great-grandsons by forcing a place for 4 themselves at that peace table and Strikes. denouncing war as brutal and in-| The following is suggested as a sane. (front page box. What good will it do Germany to! “If you feel strongly about
in cele-
of the country are
the
leave a trail of blood and broken |current deluge of strikes, why not What can it mean to any tell your representatives in Wash- ed behind the President's avowed
| declaration to save England. And if
homes? nation to tear down what it takes ington—that is the American way.’
years to build? Women are the|
” breeders of soldiers; let them breed RE iy for a worthier and a higher cause! DEFENDS WAGES PAID
Let them work for a warless world TO STEEL WORKERS lin which the young can live to be By Raymond D. Lasley, 1431 Prospect St. 70 (which, alas! Hitler seems 10] pa never written the Forum bethink unnecessary), though we no- fore, but 1 now think I should. tice how well his own life is guarded. We all know that labor has made | some wonderful gains in the last | few years. These gains are likely (to be lost if public opinion swings laway as it has in the last few weeks. { Why is public opinion going against Reports from various sections of labor and tinions? the country indicate that the fad| Just such people as Frank Lee, for live chicks and rabbits in Easter who wrote a letter in yesterday's decorations is passing. land communities, unger board orders and appeals by humane | of opinion. |organizations, have banned the] "practice. But the fad has
Side Glances=By Galbraith
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'FROWNS ON GIFTS OF LIVE CHICKS FOR EASTER
| By Smiley Fowler, Greensburg, Ind.
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| | COPR, 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T.M. REC. U.S. PAT. OFF.
"Just let him play around that desk for a few doesn't tip over I'll buy it."
minutes—if it
bration will mark the end of one
Probably his figures are correct as far as they go in comparing U. S. entirely| Steel's vearly reports of 1929 to that| FAVORS CONVOYS FOR
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and early 30's.
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tively made, there is no excuse for, PREDICTS USE OF
CONVOYS BY U. S. By Rita Hession Of course we are going to convoy.
It would be foolish for the Amer-| ican people to pay for the material. !
impatient with the slowing up of manufacture it and fail to see that the national defense program by it reaches its destination.
We appropriated $7,000.000,000 to pay for the material, didn't we? We passed the Lend-Lease Bill to prove to the world that we are unit-
it is necessary to convoy in order to achieve this we’ll do it. Of course. convoying means shooting and
shooting means war, but nobody is| J
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(going to let that stand in the way. |
The country as a whole is apa-| §
thetic toward the defense effort. More than 80 per cent of the people,
and willful of them. What hetter or quicker means is there to get this recalcitrant 80 per cent to change
(to stay out of war. This is stubborn |
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|according to the Gallup poll, want |
| their misguided thinking than to! {have a couple of our ships sunk? |
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Some cities Forum (Monday, March 31), are the paper), heaith| cause of 90 per cent of the change|grder),
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We have a tremendous navy (
vast production facilities (on strike). What are we waiting for?
» » on *O0DS TO AID BRITAIN By S. Bernard Fleischaker
Convoys, the use of American war-
on | thousands of aeroplanes (on
from all employment in plants working on national defense. Ga after and get the malefactors, whether in management or labor, but don't smear great groups of loyal, willing citizens in either group.
Fditor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those
of The Indianapolis Times,
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
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HAT is Amercia? Any schoolboy can tell it «is a nation composed of 48 united states. Ordinarly the definition would be correct, but these are not ordinary times. Therefore the men and women living in the middle of the country are beginning to feel as if they dwelt in an alien land. I am one of them, And how I wish those who guide the destinies of the nation, and the correspondents who report their activities, would come out and see us sometime, Washington and New York datelines fill the newspapers— Washington predominating. That city, of course, is our seat of gov= ernment, which is an apt name, because Washington is the place where people sit down and figure out what the rest of us must do and say. Wouldn't it make more sense if some of these columnists could leave the Capital and the sea= port cities occasionally and visit the folks who will have to pay all these appropriation bills. Why must we always be reading what the politicians say and the
| politicians never have to read what we say? Does | Washington run us, or do we run Washington?
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| ships to protect British cargo ves- |
sels, and the complete utilization of
| the American merchant marine to ‘assure that Britain receives the supplies which we are now authorizing are crying needs of the moment.
If we are going to spend billions on munitions and if we believe that
Britain is fighting our war, then we should make all possible effort to assure that John Bull, not Davey Jones, receives these munitions.
APPRECIATION By ANNA E. YOUNG
Can I feel that a day is a failure
Because the sun somehow hide, Can 1 feel that a night is ruined By no stars—at eventide. When I've known many beautiful days Born with a radiant light at dawn, Many lovely scenes of the twilight ‘When nights’ starry crown was on. My memory must outshine the dimness »
does |
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And make up to me—if oppresseq |
Let me enjoy today as I find 1t And class it—along with the best.
DAILY THOUGHT
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.—Matthew 9:22.
EVERY believer is God's miracle.
—Bailey.
Right now, of course, Washington runs us in a big way. We take our orders, our propaganda, our opinions and our ideas from there, It's a swell ex= ample of the tail wagging the dog. And higher and higher mounts the hysterical nonsense coming out of our Capital city. Tt often sounds as if everybody were going crazy, or at least were scared completely out of their wits, If this is still a government of the people, why isn't somebody speaking for the people? And why, if we really want a unified nation, isn't some effort made to consult the millions of American citizens i who don’t get to Washington once in ga lifetime, The rural merchant, the small-town plumber, the New Mexico rancher, the Indianapolis home maker, read, hear and heed Pegler, Clapper, Johnson, Krock, Lawrence, Lippmann, Kaltenbotn and Swing, but Who listens to them? Yet they also are Americans. Their brand of partiotism built this country, and will eventually have to save it. Let's not forget, gentlemen, that cracker barrel opinion is valuable, too.
Questions and Answers
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Q—When and where was Mel Allen born? Did he
| attend college? How long has he been in'radio?
A—Born in Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 14, 1913, Allen got an A. B. degree from the University of Alabama, an LL. B. degree from Columbia University. He started radio work in 1935, broadcasting football games. Q—Which is the oldest bank in the world? A—The Bank of ‘St. George in Genoa, Italy, which was established in 1407. Q—If an American sailor married a Chinese wome an, would she become a citizen of the United States? A—No. Q—What is a litotes in speech? A—An understatement, to avoid criticism or ine crease the effect, as “a citizen of no mean city,” meaning an illustrious city. a.