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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 1941

UKRAINE TRAP

SET, SAY NAZIS

Bankers

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Explosions Close in Near

And Far East: Rumanian Oil Line Severed.

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be prepared for an explosion if events pressed Tokyo's “patience” too far.

Turkey Geils Assurances Simultaneously all exports from Japanese-occupied Indo-China except those to Japan were prohibited without explanation. The Japanese press emphasized the concentration of Nipponese troops on the Thailand

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borders by renewing vigorous warn-

ings to Bangkok that Japan would not “tolerate” Thailand's acceptance of British-American guarantees of

aid. In the Near East, both Britain and Russia sought to stabilize Turkish neutrality by renewing their

pledges to aid the Turks against}

aggression and by promising to respect the Turkish control of the Dardanelles.

The action followed British

pressure on Iran to oust German ; agents and recent reports of Ger- j

man troop movements in the Bul-

garian region and suggestions that i

the Nazis might seek against the Russian Caucasian sector by way of Turkey and Iran. The British-Russian move was said to have been received cordially in Ankara.

APPENDECTOMY FOR TWINS

TYLER, Tex. (U.P.).—Truly alike are Imogene and Norma Jean Steele, 9-year-oid twin daughters. Recently, Imogene had an emergency appendectomy. Two days | Jater, Norma Jean underwent an emergency appendectomy.

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BUILDING OF TANKS

IS ‘JUST STARTING’

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P). —The Army expects to have 1000 of the new 26-ton medium tanks by January, although tests of a new model may temporarily delay production, it was revealed today. Maj. Gen. C. C. Wesson, Chief of Army ordnance, told the Senate Appropriations Committee in executive session that production of the tanks is “just getting under way,” but the output will be large. His testimony was released by the committee.

The committee approved a decrease of $1,234.000.000 in the House-

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approved $8063,000.000 supplemental defense bill—one of the largest cuts in the history of Congressional apThe decrease, it was learned. would prevent the Army from ordering 6100 light and me-

dium tanks for a reserve pool.

The cut was made in the face of a warning by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson that tanks would be necessary in ‘greatly increased quantities” if the United States enters the war.

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What Mein Kampf Means to America—

Hitler's Poison Bait--Drive Of Hate Against Russia

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to a considerable share of their power and their profits. But it is as subordinates and even as slaves. »

” 5 Nazis Make Own Rules

WHAT MAKES it worse, under the Nazi regime, both for the present generation of “business as usual” and the coming generation. is the supremacy of a political leadership that has such a total grip on the country that it makes its own economic rules. However, the one fact that Hitler keeps to the fore is that the antithesis to Naziism, which Communism, is equally opposed to live-and-let-live, and equally undemocratic. All through Mein Kampf. Hitler drives a wedge into the democratic ranks by raising the issue of Communism. Thus he misleads vast numbers of Americans who detest the Russian ideology. Since Russia is the real enemy to them, they are half-reconciled to Hitler's possible triumph in Europe. Others are less clear about this, but they think it a waste of time to discuss Hitler's view of life or his war aims or his mission. They simply want to arm America to the teeth and “avoid the difficulties of Europe.” They hold we can escape war by boycotting it. What the democrat has to be firm about, in reading Mein Kampf, is to keep both Naziism and Communism in the democratic perspective. Both these ideologies discard democracy. » =

Hitler Fears Democracy

MOREOVER. HITLER has infinitely more to fear from democracy than from Communism. He

3 despises the Russians, but even

more evidently, he has to assault,

: | break down and destroy the sys- | tem of good will which is the ulti-

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business, as though it had to be shelved by any means. Hence Hitler (and Mussolini) looked good. But there was an infidel ity to democratic processes in Hitler’s action that should have been evident. Mein Kampf gave ample novice of it. Of course, in view of the social cleavage on which Marx insisted, Hitler had to throw out the Marxists to achieve race solidarity. But on what basis? On the basis of a race mastery and race hatred,

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has already been exhibited in his awn words. Americans knew perfectly well that such race prejudices would be the destruction of American democracy, but many ignored this, because of the poisoned bait that Hitler offered to them. He was the prize anti-Marxist, and American businessmen, dishonest-

ly evading the fact he was also |

the prize anti-democrat, clasped him by the hand.

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‘The Middle Road’

DEMOCRACY is not a dogma. It is an equilibrium of dogmas. It is that strange thing. a faith that does not kill for its faith. What it has to fight for, as against the aggression of Das Kapital and Mein Kampf, is a stage of civilization in which tolerange must be agreed to. Democracy has to steer between the rocks of privilege and the whirlpools of the underprivileged. It can give the wheel to neither one absolutism nor the other. This equilibrium is, if you like, artificial, but only when such an equilibrium is struck can ordi-

| nary people allow their develop-

ment to expand. The higher achievements of mankind depend on live-and-let-live, just as the richest fruits of the earth depend on sun and serenity. But democracy is merely an equilibrium. When this has been lost, when the balance has been overthrown by ambition or distress or stupidity or viciousness, our securities are forfeited. Mein Kampf and Das Kapital are both intransigent protests against the democratic process. The impulses behind Mein Kampf are shockingly powerful. They are also ruthless. But the democrat has to probe these impulses, however uncongenial the job, in the light of his particular faith. Democracy, properly understood, does not propose a goal. It proposes a process, a method of achieving civil existence accorde ing to rules mutually agreed on. What it has to note in Mein Kampf, therefore, is the inexorable purpose behind Hitler's ruthlessness—namely, to root out both the persons and the principles from which the democratic method springs.

Tomorrow: HITLER'S CREED. Copyright, 1941. bv Francis Hackett: Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

demanding African concessions for

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DARLAN IS GIVEN MILITARY REINS

There’s No Question as To His Desire for Taking Sides With Nazis.

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candor under such circumstances is not high but its interest in the French colonies in Africa, meanwhile, was unconcealed. The Berlin correspondent of the Journal of Geneva said that the Nazi officials were ‘studying measures for the defense of the French Empire” and that it was expected there that French naval and air forces would “doubtlessly” play a decisive role in any move by the British against Morocco or Algeria.

Weygand Disagrees

Berlin also feels, the correspondent added, that the United States might send an ultimatum to France

Anglo-Saxon troops. If this report were officially inspired, as are most of the reports from the Reich, it carries the most ominous overtones for it might well be the pretext for Nazi action. La Suisse suggests today that it might even be carried out within the terms of the armistice which gives joint German-Italian commissions the right to determine if empire defenses are sufficient. One of Germany's concerns, however, remains Gen. Maxime Weygand, Vichy’s North African com-mander-in-chief, who, the Frankfurter Zeitung reported from Vichy, was not in complete agreement with certain members of the French Cabinet and who left by airplane for Africa before Monday's Cabinet session was completed.

Petain Admits Unrest

Among French circles Gen. Weygand is said, on his last previous visit, to have warned Chief of State Petain flatly that there would be revolt in Africa should the Germans undertake its defense. Whether Marshal Petain has now convinced Gen. Weygand that French interests require such submission, is not known. Gen. Weygand, at any rate, finds himself suddenly much subordinated officially to Darlan, about whose policy there is no doubt. The only question seems to be, if he can control Gen. Weygand in fact. The internal problems, the

| demonstrations and unrest, and {the dissatisfaction with Darlan and

be a comet somehow impounded in, a curious meteorological formation.

It Wasn't Mars

The officer of the Astronomical] Society suggested later that if it was not Mars, which would have been the only large planet in that posi- | tion in the sky, it might be an| exploding star. “If it’s that,” he said, “you'll soon | be getting news flashes on it.” { Persons who either had poor eye- | sight or bad dispositions, said it was | just the moon and what was all the| shouting about? One person who| saw it said it had stripes up and| down. Some one else said it might | be some of the meteor showers, due | last night, but delayed. People bombarded the office of Emsley W. Johnson Sr, the president of the Indiana Astronomical Society, but the answer was that Mr. Johnson was not in the City.

something weird about the thing]

his telescope. Gets New Audience

it progressed a whole new batch | of people, seeing it for the first time as the course changed, called the usual places and asked the usual] question. As it began to move. the officer of the Astronomical Society called and said that it could not be a] celestial body. “It's either going too fast or too| slow,” he said. “If it was a planet, it wouldn't move as fast as it is,| and if it were a meteor or a comet, it would move a great deal faster.” of and

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[the policy of collaboration were |plainly and pointedly referred to by Marshal Petain last night. Police power will be doubled, he said, 'political parties dissolved, assem- | blies of all kinds forbidden. | The “national revolution” which lhe proclaimed last October, admitted the Marshal, had not be- | come reality Only one thing could have prevented it and that is the fapathy and opposition of the | French people themselves and even {of government officials who, Petain | said, often did not carry out orders | adequately. The Marshal's statements are interesting substantiation of the estimates of a responsible French official that 80 per cent of the people in the Unoccupied Zone oppose collaboration and that in the Occupied Zone, this group of nonconformists runs as high as 95 per cent of the population. For the most part they seem to be without positive’ leadership and Marshal Petain’s suppression of political parties is one effort to assure that it does not develop. The French police are being assisted in their protetcive activities by large detachments of German experts at this work, said to number more than 1000 in Lyons alone, French censorship has not under- | taken to conceal evidence of the people's sympathies. In contrast to Marshal Petain’s admission of Darlan’'s unpopularity, the Frankfurter Zeitung reported from Vichy that

| revolt should there be one. was the {object of “special applause” by the people who gathered in front of the Hotel du Pare, where the conversations were held.

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About that time it hove into view | the | Weather Bureau and flight officials | accident occurred. She was not inThey observed it| jured.

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with a theodolite, which is an in-| strument especially designed to watch weather balloons in their

courses and thus determine the ve-

locity of the winds aloft. Here’s the Situation

They were confused by what they saw, but said it appeared to be|

seven white balloons tied to a stick that was from five to seven feet] long. It was floating about 5000 feet] high, and at that time making about 12 miles an hour 10 degrees off due south. They said the bal-| loons probably were a foot or a foot and a half in diameter and | were filled either or hydrogen. They said that al-

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airmen of the nation were warned of their presence. And so, still unexplained in full,

nation’s largest City not on navigable water nevertheless the first aerial Lochness.

‘CRASH KILLS WOMAN,

DAUGHTER UNHURT

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Aug. 13 (U. P.).—Mrs, Flora Swisher, 59, Williamsport, Ind, was Killed late yesterday when she lost control of her automobile on Highway 55 one mile west of here. Miss Madge Swisher, her daughter, was asleep in the car when the

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Administration ‘Startled’ by 203-202 Vote; Senate Action Waited,

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Rayburn declared the measure approved. Although Administration leaders had anticipated a close vote, they were startled by the final outcome. They had been led to expect a wider margin when they mustered a 215-to-190 vote against a recommital motion by Rep. Forest Harness (R. Ind) a few moments

with helium earlier.

The galleries were more crowded an they have been since the momentous debate on the Lend-Lease Bill. Administration leaders warned

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The 182 Democrats who voted for Dassage were joined by 21 Repub|licans. Opposed were 133 Republi= |cans, 65 Democrats, three Progres-

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Rep. William H. Larrabee, Demo= crat, was the only member of the Indiana House delegation voting for ithe draft extension. House modifications of the legislation included a provision requiring the Secretary of War to discharge draftees for whom continued service would create a hardship, unless their dismissal would adversely affect national defense. The Sen= ate resolution made the discharge discretionary. The House also added a provision which would permit draftees to de= duct the 18 months extended service from their 10-year terms as Army reserves.

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