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FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1943

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

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NORTH AFRICA (By Wireless).—There is one % important American in Africa who has been mentioned very little. That is William E. Stevenson, head

f of the American Red Cross over here,

Stevenson organized and ran the vast Red Cross setup in England. Then, starting from scratch, he built the now immense Red Cross system in Atrica. Stevenson's job is unromartic but it is more vital than many a general's. A good portion of the morale of the army in Africa depends on his decisions. His employees run into the thousands. He spends millions of dollars a year. His daily headaches, though less important, are as numerous 8s Gen. Eisenhower's. Until a year and a half ago he had never dreamed of organizing anything bigger than a committee meeting and had never thought twice about the Red Cross. Stevenson has been successful because he is smart and because he is honest, in the deepest meaning of the word. He wants nothing for his future out of the Red Cross nor out of the army nor out of Africa or England or Italy or anywhere else. He is ' simply serving for the duration and serving with e 1is whole being. When it's all over he will go back to the head of an outstanding young law {irm in New York City.

Tall, Handsome and Athletic

STEVENSON 1S TALL, He is a minister's son. but A the two paths taken by so He neither turned pious nor wound up as a perfectly normal, Numorous and capable. He was born in Chicago. but due to his [ather’s he also lived in New York, Baltimore and Princeton. Bill's father wound up as president of Princeton Theological seminary, so it was Princeton where Bill went to school, after piepping at Andover. It amuses him that he recently— while faraway overseas and in no position to assume any duties—was elected a trustee of Andover, which he left 25 years ago.

handsome and athletic. didn't follow either of many ministers cons, went to the dogs. He well-balanced fellow,

| By Ernie Pyle

Stevenson {s now 42. He was just old enough to get into the marine corps at the tail end of the last]

war, and served a few months in the states. He] graduated from Princeton in 1922, then went on to! Oxford as a Rhodes scholar ud studied law for three years there. He was American champion in the 440-yard dash in 1921 and took the British championship for the same distance in 1923. Then in ‘24 he went to the; Oiympics at Paris and ran on the 1600-meter relay team that set a new world record. There is one sirange feat he is proud of. In ‘21 he won the quarter miie for a Princeton-Cornell team | competing against Oxford and Cambridge. Then he] went abroad, and in '25 he won the quarter mile for) the Oxford-Cambridge team against Princeton-Cor-| nell. That's what is known in some circles as working both sides of the ocean.

Returned to New York | IN 1926 STEVENSON returned to New York. His| first job was as assistant to District Attorney Buckner. | Bill went into the prohibition branch, because it| paid $1000 a year more, and he needed the thousand to get married on. Buckner practiced what he enforced ebout prohibition, and insisted that his men do likewise. Before long Stevenson went into the law firm of John W. Davis. He stayed there till 1931, when he’ formed his own partnership with Eli Whitney Debevoise. They were successful from the beginning. Our entrance into the war caught Bill Stevenson in that same shadowy borderline stage of life that caught me. He was too old for combat duty and too voung not to want to have a finger in the pie. He could have gone to Washington and donned a soldier suit with oak leaves on his shoulders and sat at al nice desk, but that somehow seemed ridiculous to him. He waited. After a while he heard that the Red Cross needed a man to go to En~'-—d, { He knew nothing about the Red Cross wut thought! his law experience and three years of school in| England might come in handy. And it was a chance | to get across the water and into the heart of things. | He got the job and here he is.

(MORE TOMORROW)

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

A CITY HOSPITAL ambulance, staffed by Dr. Jay Bhu:slev, made a run the other day to a house where a youthful admirer of Superman had jumped out a second story window and attempted to fly like Superman. The ambulance crew arrived to find the lad in the house, apparently only slightly bruised, and asking for his Superman book so he could see what he had done wrong. ... Some of the I. U. medical students who were inducted into the army for parttime military training last weekend got in a jam with the military police Tuesday evening. The sergeant in charge of their training ordered them to wear fatigue uniform while attending to their studies, so they wore the uniforms back from the fort to the medical center. It seems vou're not supposed to wear Jatigue uniforms on the street, so the military police ook the boys down to the jugeroo and threw them in. It took a lot of wirepulling by an army officer to get them free again. Now the hospital authorities have notified the fort officials that they won't have the medic: wearing fatigue uniforms while caring for It's not sanitary, they say. We don't know how it will come out,

Mes, Sir; Yes, Sirvee

WHEN DICK LEWIS, The Times drama critic, reported out at Ft. Harrison Wednesday for his physical examination as a V. O. C. candidate, the lieutenant in charge recognized him, He had seen Dick's picture in his column. “Oh,” said the lieutenant, “you're the drama critic on The Times who

Yugoslav Unity

WASHINGTON. July 2.—Evidence is accumulating that the united nations will find it harder to prevent new wars from breaking out in post-war Europe than to win the present conflict. Before me is a telegram, signed by the Serbian national defense council of America, bitterly denouncing the Yugoslav government-in-exile and calling on King Peter II to dismiss his Croat ministers and proclaim himself King of the Serbs alone, as was his grandfather, Peter I On Monday, the anniversary of Kossovo, greatest of Serbian holidays, King Peter broadcast from London, announcing “a real, popular commonwealth of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” as soon as Yugoslavia is liberated. The exact form he said, “will be decided by the real people in the liberated father-

it would take, representatives of the land.” But this does not please all Yugoslavs. The message from the Serb organization mentioned above declares that the whole idea of Yugoslavia, “a Versailles experiment,” was a mistake from the beginning. Unity cannot be derived from “similarity of blood itself,” it says, but only from “identity of traditions and ideals,”

which the Croats and Serbs do not share.

Council Charges Croats

THE CROATS, the council charges, “for centuries were the subjects of Austria or Hungary” and have “autocratic, Germanic traditions. They have always fought, as today, on the side of those overlords against the democratic nations.” The council states that it was Croatia which forced Yugoslavia to sign the axis pact of March, 1941; that the Serbs alone carried out the subsequent coup d'etat repudiating the pact. and that while Croatia joined the axis. Serbians, led by Gen. Draja Mihailovich, have been fighting valiantly on the side of the allies ever

since.

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursdav.—My day yesterday Was pretty well filled with appointments and a number of people came to lunch and to dinner. After dinner we saw a film, “World of Plenty.” sent over by the British information service and in addition, a short film of a trip from Alaska to the states made some time ago by “Slim” Williams and his dog team. You may have seen “Slim” williams at the Chicago fair after he made this trip. He still feels that the route he foliowed is a better winter and summer road than the one picked out. by the army engineers, but he is very proud of the fact a road has been built. He has a firm belief that some day Alaska will mean a great deal to the United States. This morning I came back to New York city to =e Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. and wn go on to Hyce Park, where T am expecting several guests for the week-end at my cottage. Last Sunday in an Ohio village, a “little peace conference” was held. Yellow Springs, O., decided that if peace was to come in the future, it would

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i doesn't like movies. Well, you'll find plenty of movies | in the army.” Dick sighed: “Oh, God!” The officer snapped back: “What you mean is, ‘Oh, God, sir!” . For the first time, probably, in the history of the] state, cars are showing up with license plates running up above a million. ‘The reason is simple. With 1942] plates still in use, many higher numbers have had to | be issued to take care of new car sales and resales of | old cars. . P. 8. We forgot to tell you that Dick] passed the exam and is on his way.

Around the Town

ELMER TAFLINGER, the artist, has been having lots of visitors at his garden just north of the Propylaeum, on Delaware st. He finally has discovered the reason. His rose-colored zinnias are bloom-| ing, just in front of his tomato plants, and from some

angles it appears he has a garden full of ripe toma- | toes. It's merely an illusion, he says, explaining that | the nearest ripe tomato is in the garden of Tim | Delehanty, at 13th and Penn. . . . It will be a week: or so before the federal reserve bank reports on how many war bonds were sold in Marion county during | June by the Boy and Girl Scouts and the Camp Fire | Girls. But we'll bet they went over their goal of four | and a half millions. . . . Old Inside is just a bit| ashamed of the way people are failing to volunteer to help in mailing out food ration books. They're | staying away in great droves. Why not go down and help out some morning, afternoon or evening? You can work an hour or all day. Monday would be a good dav to help. It's a holiday, but the boys over in| Africa and the Solomons aren't having any picnics. | The books are being mailed on the third floor of the Century building—36 S. Penn.

By Wm. Philip Simms

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XVII—CHANCES FOR SECOND FRONT IN ITALY CAPOMAZZA once remarked to Reynolds, “Italian

babies are born with old eyes.

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It was just a catch phrase,

but it struck us as being extremely {rue and it explained much in the Italian character which was difficult for for-

eigners to understand.

The Italians are an extremely old and disillusioned race which has already lived through every known phase

of human development, and disappointments.

including triumphs, decadence, They passed their most decadent

period soon after they reached the peak of their Renais-

sance development.

Now they have returned to and prefer the simple life. They work hard, go to bed early, drink very little, smoke very little, come home for dinner, go to church on Sunday mornings, and take a stroll in the park on Sunday after-

noons.

But because Italians prefer the simple life does not

mean they are simple-minded. historically over-sophisticated and ultracynical. of living under various conquerors of one

hundred years

they are Fourteen

On the contrary,

race or another has rubbed away much of their idealism.

Such fighting words as American blood,

which so stir

“liberty” and “democracy,” leave Italians unmoved.

They are inclined to look out first and foremost for their

own skins and worry about normal principles afterward. Now they are not going toc spill their blood for liberty and democracy unless they see a 75 per cent chance of material success. They have become political opportunists, Exhortations from America and Britain that the Italians should overthrow the Fascist yoke in order to achieve freedom and independence fall upon skeptical ears. They want to know just what they are sure of. specifically in refurn. They are bargaining horse dealers. We believe.

however, that the

! great mass of discontented Ital-

ians, despite the lethargy of their political passions, would rise up if Anglo-American troops (with accent on the American) should make a landing in force, but really in force, in an all-out invasion attempt. ” ” ”

Our Propaganda Poor

WHY NOT make our second front in Italy? If the attempt

| were timed to the psychological

moment, it would be sensationally successful. and the conquest of the peninsula would probably be achieved within a few weeks with the help of the local population. The advantages of invading Italy rather than some other point in Europe are many. For one thing, many parts of the long Italian coastline are not nearly so heavily fortified as the Ger-man-occupied coast of France, the low countries, and Norway.

| It would mean landing in a coun-

“The name Yugoslavia, as denoting a state, is now | a complete myth,” the telegram continues. “Yugo-| slavia must not and never will be restablished, since| it could be of advantage only to the Croats and to| Germany to revive it, thus replanting a seed-bed of | trouble in the Balkans.” | Continuing, the council alleges that “because of their unexampled treachery and the murder of more | than half a million defenseless Serb residents of | Croatia, the Croats now see themselves faced with! ruin unless they can hide these crimes and deceive allied public opinion.” It asserts that the Croats] dominate the government-in-exile and that Croat) propaganda in this and other allied countries alto-! gether ignores the Serbs. Therefore . .

Assume Serbian Rule

“WE, AMERICAN SERBS. the only large body of people of Serb blood outside of Serbia, regretfully see ourselves forced to announce that we no longer recog-; nize the Yugosiav government-in-exile as representing the Serbs of Serbia, and that we, the Serbian na-| tional defense council of America, founded in 1914, take upon ourselves the responsibility of representing, here the fighting Serbs, our relatives.’ | Ordinarily all this would be no business of Amer-. icans. But now, it serves flaming notice on every one | of the united nations that, short of a quasi-miracle, | Yugoslavia and the Balkans will explode with dis-| astrous consequences to all concerned unless something is done soon about the whole post-war setup. The council's message expressed hope that “a new, and much larger grouping of states will arise in the, Balkans, each politically independent,” and that] within this new Balkan federation “hatred and thoughts of revenge will die away in constructive col- | laboration.” Similar political high explosives are scattered alll over Europe—in France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hun-| gary, Rumania, Italy and elsewhere. Only by allied statesmanship of the highest caliber, working according to a master plan carefully thought out in ad-| vance, can disaster be prevented. |

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By Eleanor Roosevelt. |

have to begin in small communities now. People| would have to know what kind of a town they wanted, what kind of improvements they thought were neces- | sary and how to bring these improvements about in| the interest of social betterment. Only by doing this! could they be brought to understand what world con- | ditions we were working for. So they are making their experiment and I hope that the idea will spread to other communities. I was very much disiressed to read in the paper the other day that Greenwich House settlement, where Mrs. Mary Simkhovitch has carried on for such a long while her remarkable neighborhood activities, is in really serious financial difficulties. Mrs. Simkhovitch writes me now that a local citizens committee is being formed which will tackle the financial problem. The community should learn that the existence of Greenwich House depends on its worth to the community in dollars and cents as well as in human | interest. These neighbors will have to appeal for | outside help, and many of the people who have been! interested in Greenwich House in the past will want! to ccntinue their contributions, I hope. There is much artistic talent in that neighborhood and I have heard of many a young musician who got his a start on the Greenwich House platform,

| the second front, | sirable to change American propa-

try where the population was friendly; where there is even a strong possibility of an army revolt in favor of the invaders if the political ground is correctly prapared in advance. Once Italy was in Anglo-Ameri-can hands, the French and Yugoslavs would probably facilitate our entrance into their countries and thus would begin the reconquest of Europe. If Italy should be chosen for it would be de-

| ganda beamed on Italy, somewhat before the attack is launched. We frankly don't think the present angle is a good one either for Italy or for the occupied European countries. Without chang-

| ing our ideals or goals in any way,

we can present them differently. One thing that we think America should do is to lay more emphasis on the role of America and Britiain — but particularly

America—in this war. To the long-suffering people in the axisoccupied countries, the phrase “united nations” calls up, however unjustly, a picture of countryless governments whose members, after fleeing their homelands, are comfortably sitting around in London or America, planning to return to power when America and Britain win the war for them, Anti-fascism in Italy, we know, do not take these “ghost governments’ seriously, and a revolt in their favor is unthinkable. But they would revolt, we believe, in the name of America and Britain, who represent tangible and real fighting forces.

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Our Attitude Liked

ALTHOUGH AMERICANS at home may not realize it, America is the one major power in the world today with a reputation for trying always to be both just and humane, The worst Europeans can say for us is that we sometimes take wrong attitudes and make a mess of things because we do not understand the overseas problems involved, and this is sometimes a fair criticism. But despite the abuse that has been heaped on America by the controlled axis press of various countries, European people in general give America credit for at least trying to do the right thing. This is a precious reputation which should be exploited, and its effectiveness should not be diminished by our giving too much prominence to the war roles of exiled governments. We think the American publicists also should go warily in the importance and support they give to personalities in the exiled governments. Several rulers and leaders who are today being lionized by the American public are far from being considered heroes at home. The attitude of the people of the occupied countries toward their overseas governments is bound to be affected by human nature. These people are enduring terrible oppression and privation and are inclined, therefore, to resent that their leaders were able to escape and that they were left behind.

Their preferred leaders are the ones on the spot, leading subversive movements against their conquerors and sharing the hardships of their fellow citizens. Americans should realize that when the war is over these leaders will be difficult to brush aside

‘Ghosts’ or ‘Haley Over’

Following is one of a series of articles specially prepared by two recreational experts and authors to suggest fun and relaxation at home for travel- restricted Americans.

By MARY BREEN and ARTHUR LAWSON Times Special Writers HAVING TURNED your backvard into vacationland, soon you'll find that the neighborhood gang likes to gather there. Add a little extra fun and hilarity to your vacation days with some good lusty group games in which young and

| old can join.

In the cool of the evening, nothing is better than hide-and-seek, kick-the-wicket, red light or prisoner’s base. All four have the advantage of giving a player the chance to pace himself. If Pop fags out more quickly than his children, he can look alert while taking it easy and no one will know the difference.

Prisoner's base is an old favorite. You will need a bit more space than you probably will find in a backyard that has already been made smaller by a victory garden and chicken coop. But there is little traffic these days, and it moves slowly. So, you can play in the street and recapture the thrills of your youth. Mark a line across the street

With = pises of Shalky, Mitty foot

away draw another line. Be-

tween these two lines is “No Man's Land.” Pick teams. Line up each team behind its own

line and venture into No Man's Land in search of prisoners. The most recent player to leave his baseline is “fresh” on the others and may capture any less “fresh” enemy that he can catch. Prisoners are kept at the baseline of the enemy until some member of their team manages to elude guards and free his teammates by tagging them. This is a really great game. The whole neighborhood will play it and argue late into the night about who is “fresh” on whom: and the fathers and big boys will be playing after the little ones reluctantly go to bed. If you still have any strength the following night, you might suggest Haley Over, Duck on the Rock, Three Deep or Leap Frog. In playing Leap Frog be very careful not to hurt any smaller player. When playing Duck on the Rock you might give the little shavers a shorter base line or other advantage so that they can compete on an even footing with their parents. Don't suggest this, though, for a son or daughter who is boy or girl scout size. They would resent it. If you are an organizer you might work up a neighborhood Olympic. Include only the sim-

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were timed io the psychoiogicul moment, it would be sensationally successful,

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would be taken within a few weeks, with the help of the local population.”

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Exiles Are Helpful

FOLLOWING the example of the exiled allied governments, non-Fascist Italians in North and South America have held some meetings and have endeavored to set up a sort of committee to work for a liberated Italy. It is obvious that such a movement, if organized on a sound basis, might prove most useful to the American government as forming a liaison body between America and potential revolutionaries in Italy. Organizing this anti-Fascist Italian movement on a sound basis, however, does not inean setting up a puppet Italian government which will be ready to move into Italy with American troops. The setting up of such a postwar Italian government to be imposed upon Italy by her conquerors is not going to encourage our Italian fifth columnists in Italy to work for us. They will not revolt if they think they will not be allowed to choose their own rulers. There is also, of course, the possibility that Mussolini himself will want to break away from Germany, taking the whole nation with him. Such a course seems outside the realm of political probabilities, however, because himself

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pro-German policy and has since insisted that it be followed with 100 per cent thoroughness. He has risked everything on a single throw of the dice, and to retract would mean admitting that he had made a gigantic error in judgment that has cost Italy tens of thousands of lives and threatens to ruin her economically. He could never turn such a diplomatic somersault and hope to continue as dictator of Italy.

Odds in Our Favor

THE PEOPLE in Italy today are against him. They are anxious to overthrow him. They accuse him of two grave crimes: First, he crushed democracy in Italy, and second, he lined up Italy with Nazi Germany. The Italian people are right, and we should encourage them to revolt at the opportune time and join our side, but not with the inducement of complete forgiveness. As Secretary of State Hull has said, democracy is something that must be worked for and struggled for. But one thing is clear in this confused situation: The Italian people have more to hope for by coming over to the side of America and Britain than they have by continuing their alliance with Germany, and many of them realize it.

We had formulated all these ideas aboard the Drottningholm, and it was as well we did, for we had little time for rumination after we ® artived In America! We

had been away from the United States long enough to have forgotten the whirlwind pace of these shores. After three weeks the whirlwind died down and we had a chance to look about us. We were surprised to see practically no changes in the American wav of living since we had left New York six years before. The war effort had not cost us the liberty that the axis press had always said it would. We found that America at war was much the same as it was at peace. We were shocked at first at the lightness of attitude that many people took toward the grim fu=ture in store for this country, but we have since concluded that too much grimness would be theatrical, We believe that if the Ameri« can people just carry on as they are now doing, adapting themselves to every new sacrifice that must be borne, there is no need to worry about the outcome of the war. If we hold to our ideals of liberty and democracy, we believe that the greatest fifth column in the history of the world will rise up to revolt against their masters in Europe and welcome our invasion. America is bound to wi if it just remains American,

(THE END)

(Copyright, 1943, by Reynolds and Eleanor Packard: published at Oxford university; distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Are Great Games for Home Vacations

plest competitions — Horseshoes, mumbly peg, ring toss—games the

children and their parents can play with comparative equality. Or, if vour front yard can stand it, play volley ball in the ring tennis court. Any fairly large rubber ball will do for this game; one slightly smaller than a basketball being the best size. Change

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time you play so that the rivalry does not develop into a neighborhood feud. If you can tear yourself away from these rough-and-tumble games it is always best to play something quiet just before the children go to bed. They will have their own favorites. But these games will be extra fun if mother and father join in. It is having the family together that makes vacationtime such a wonderful experience. Our warmest memories of summer nights are those in which the whole family and all the children in the neighborhood gathered on the front steps to play What's Your Trade? What o'Clock Is it? and I Went to the Grocery Store.

Let Johnny and Betsy tell you their 1943 versions, You will find the old games streamlined a little in vocabulary and tempo, but this will only add more spice to them.

One of the very best of these is T am Going on a Picnic. You can't play this with very small children, but they will probably be in bed, anyway, or busy with their own fantasies. Any number can play.

things on a picnic, but it is the way the game goes. The second player takes something beginning with “B”—bacon, for instance. The third player might take catnip. This is very simple so far— but each player must remember everything mentioned previously. The fifth player might say: “I am going on a picnic and will take an archduke, some hacon, catnip, a date and an elephant.” If you have a lot of friends this game becomes very complicated. Vary this with Ghosts, Twenty Questions, and all the others. The soft summer evening will drift into night before you realize it and you will be going to bed to get the kind of rest and recupera~ tion you hardly dreamed was possible from a ‘modern vacation.

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Anyone can start | Pocahontas, will install Mrs, Linda

by announcing that he is going La Plant, 1445 Fletcher ave, as Poca

on a picnic and will take along | something that begins with the letter “A”—an arrow or archduke

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