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MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943

END OF MUSSOLINI

HE rat has left the sinking ship. If Mussolini is still alive, he will find no safety. The Italians hate him, the Germans despise him, and probably no neutral country could long protect him. If he seeks sanctuary behind allied lines, which he was too cowardly to face in battle, he will ultimately be tried and convicted.

For nearly 21 years this arch-criminal debauched Italy. He seized power with the connivance of a puppet king. He set up a dictatorship by torturing and murdering democratic opponents, by bribing politicians, businessmen and generals, | by intimidating the clergy, by betraying the people with | false promises and by terrorizing those he could not fool. His proconsuls were gangsters.

He looted the land and waxed fat in corruption. He poisoned the minds of children and polluted a whole generation.

Not content with one country for his cattle pen, he | reached out for empire, picking small and weak states to enslave. He defied the League of Nations, and the great | powers were afraid to challenge him. He described democ- | racy as degeneracy, and won a few adherents even in our country “because he made the trains run on time.”

UT his greatest achievement in infamy was to find a disciple who became his master, and who with him finally pulled the world down upon their heads—and ours. Hitler, with vaster resources and Prussian militarists for partners, was able to conquer most of Europe. The crafty Mussolini waited until France was falling to stab her in the back. and to join in striking England when she was alone.

For another year and more he strutted as the lackey of the super-dictator in Berlin. But he was already a burden on the axis; his military machine was corroded with graft and inefficiency, his people were war-weary and afraid. His guilt was catching up with him,

! and make it necessary for the government to operate

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 26.—I have had several requests to dig out the clips on the old case of Dr. William A. Wirt, the Gary, Ind, superintendent of schools, and give an opinion whether the startling story which he told in 193¢ has been confirmed by the fuller development of the New Deal It has been a tedious job and | I have to report that he was mistaken in that President Roosevelt, the Kerensky of his fears, has not given way to the | Stalin of the plot. But, reviewing officious and unfair treatment which this man received from a committee of the house of representatives and from the press generally I would marvel at the effrontery of New Deal statesmen and New Deal publicists today in resenting the unconventional methods of the Dies committee, if, as a political element in Washington, they had not shown long ago that fairness is not in them. Wirt was stoned in the market place, ridiculed, heckled, sneered at and denied all those rights and privileges which Mrs. Roosevelt, in particular, and many other New Dealers, have bespoken since then for Communists and pro-Communists who were under investigation by Martin Dies,

Wirt Statement Read

IT ALL began when James H. Rand Jr, in the course of routine testimony before the interstate commerce committee of the house, read a statement which Dr. Wirt had sent to him and others, charging that the brain trust was determined to destroy the America of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln and shove the common man back into the dark ages.

The statement said that Wirt had asked some in- | dividuals of this group what their concrete plan was

| for overthrowing the established social order and that |

they said their intention was to thwart “our then evident recovery,” prolong the country’s destitution

industry and commerce. That this control has been achieved to a large extent now may be regarded as only partial vindication of Dr. Wirt because the war greatly accelerated this development and nobody could plainly foresee the war then. Dr. Wirt’s statement also said that one of his New Deal prophets had said: “We believe we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current is =o strong that he cannot turn back or | escape from it, We believe we can keep Mr. Roosevelt | there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin.”

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WELL, AT THAT, the New Dealers, who then had | an extraordinarily brutal and recklessly unethical clique in the press galleries of Washington went to work on Dr Wirt like a mob of pickets on a hornyhanded son of toil. He was threatened with prosecution for perjury, a euphemism for lese majesty, if he failed to prove up. And one New Deal member of | the house committee of five, named to “investigate” | him, uttered, and then withdrew with apologies, a false charge that he had been arrested for pro-Ger-

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The Hoosier Forum

disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WORKERS SENTENCED FOR MINOR INFRACTIONS” By Robert Sutton, 3150 Hovey st.

It is strange that in these war] public |

times, with the American conscous of sabotage and all that it implies, the very men hired to up-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 Letters must be

merits and Institutions of Washington and New York. It happened to be the United States which was the only nation in | this conflict to be honored by a German declaration of war, It was only |after Germany's promise of this | Jeuintation of war against us, to!

words, Japan, that the Oriental empire

Phony Horror By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, July 26.—~The Italians and Germans spurned the pleas of the allies to make yenerated Rome an open city for pe reasons, ; First, they know Rome canno be thoroughly bombed without some injury to religious and cultural shrines, the destruction of which would provide the axis with priceless propaganda material, For that they would sacrifice St, Peter's itself. Second, they are quite aware that they would not respect any given area in the theater of war, whether an open city or not, hence doubtlessly believe others would be as unscrupulous as they. i Paris was declared an open city in September, 1914, The Germans bombed and bombarded her just the same. A hotel in Place Vendome where I was stop= ping was badly damaged in an air raid, yet there was no military objective within miles, Two blocks away, however, was the Louvre, one of the most famous arg museums in the world. Other bombs fell very near Notre Dame, dating back to 1163. On Good Friday, while Catholics were at mass, the German Big Bertha hurled a shell into the Church of St. Gervais, killing and wounding 158 men, women and children. The church dated back to the sixth century, i

Saw Rheims Bombarded

IN LATE 1914, I saw the Germans bombard the cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims, setting on fire the straw on which wounded French soldiers lay, Some were killed. The Rheims cathedral was begun in 1211, Here Clovis was baptized by St. Remigius. Here PopW¥Stephen III met Pippin the Short and Leo IIT mes with Charlemagne. Here Joan of Arc, since canonized, caused Charles VII to be consecrated, The rose window, probably the loveliest specimen in all Christendom, the statue of “The Smiling Ang » and the still more famous “Beau Dieu,” were all badly damaged. The roof and spires were destroyed and the whole marvelous edifice desecrated. The archiepiscopal palace, dating back to the decade of Columbus’ discovery of America, was left in ruins. Americans restored the Rheims cathedral as best they could after the war. Although the French capitol had been declared an open city, the Germans never quit hammering it. Big Bertha kept up a time-table shelling of it throughous the spring and summer of 1918,

Didn't Care What They Hit

THE GUN was approximately 70 miles away, so

| the best the Germans could do was to hit Pari | target seven miles in diameter.

It was good shootin at that, but the point is, they did not care what they

| hit whether it was St. Gervais, Notre Dame, the | Louvre, a tenement house or the open streets. They

were doing it for the effect it might have on French morale—which it stiffened. I saw one shell land in the Monday morning market place of St. Denis, outside the city. It missed Paris entirely, The old gun was wearing out. By & miracle it hurt no one, though the place crowded. The housewives, with market baskets :#n their arms, paid no more attention to it than if had been a giant firecracker. Manila was declared an open city in 1941, bug

MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943 °°

He continued to jut out his jaw and make noises, but | man activity during the last war, ‘hold the law are themselves guilty |

| dared to launch its attack on us.

only the paid applauded, while the Italian people muttered | curses or ignored him to watch the hated Nazi generals and | gestapo who ruled them. So for months Mussolini has been finished in fact. The | African campaigns of defeat have been conducted by the | Germans. If Italy is rid of Il Duce it still suffers his legacy— | the German army of occupation, the Fascist party, degrada- | tion at home and dishonor abroad. » = * » » » LLIED armies are at her gates, but they are not forces | of conquest. They are armies of liberation, and have | been received as such by the people of Sicily. Already the | people of Italy have those allied armies to thank for the | departure of Mussolini. And on the allies Italy is dependent now for a better future. On allied world victory, and on |

When he showed up for his hearing he was not allowed to have counsel. And, although it developed | that one of the New Deal “satellites” who had been |

| present at the dinner party where Wirt said he had | | heard this program discussed, was the Washington |

correspondent for the Soviets news agency, known as Tass, the hearing was so conducted as to indicate |

| Wirt had monopolized the conversation entirely. |

His discourse was a monolog, according to the | testimony of his hostess and his fellow guests and |

none of them had been able to get in a word. | This version the New Deal majority of the com- |

mittee accepted in a division on strict party lines as | j,dges are putting useful, not to say for the Smith-Connally act. though it would have been humanly possible for one necessary, men on the scrap heap | is nothing in the | individual to hold the floor in any company of New when their fines could well be met bill to infringe the just rights o

Dealers, including a correspondent of the Communist | press, for one word in succession to say nothing of one minute or three hours.

Purgee Confesses

ONE OF the witnesses, a woman bureaucrat, even | described the Tass agency of the Soviet as one that

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| This, too, was merrily accepted without challenge,

‘of sabotage of manpower. |

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sentencing defense workers for iit = flan io. i 2 yh ~ timidation. Perhaps it was. Al | policeman, discovering a burglar

h heir skills are very) : farm when thei 3 * | breaking and entering, and arrest-

It is a bit premature for the appearance of German apologists. The topic selected for the German apologist to be here on Aug. 5 is: “Should European nations retain

would correspond to the AP for the Communist press.

much needed in defense factories. |

We are told by the press and radio not to be idle—that everyone ought to get into active service, either in the armed forces or in| some manner contribute to the war effort. At the same time, these

in weekly payments, That poem written by a marine in the South Pacific comes to mind and might well be quoted here:

| “And if our lines should form and

break, | Because of things you failed to make,

ing said burglar, would no doubt |their pre-war boundaries?” The be accused of corecion and intimi- | permitting of such a talk is all the dation bv the committee of burglar more criminal at this time, since it} organization of America. fosters the belief that the war is| vanNuys is in bad odor with this | Practically at an end. As the speakC. I. O. gentleman because he voted |X to come here may well know, this There | elief has caused a steady decline

Smith-Connally in production at American war ¢ plants for the last three successive any honest workman any move months and a steadily rising wave | than there is anything in the laws | °F optimisn Hy the Vorde of | against murder and theft that My ot ee] fringes the rights of any honest! p “ ’ person. It depends on whose ox is | Tuesday, July 20, “Will bring about red {the cruel and unnecessary deaths rE lof many thousands of Americans in

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THIRD WORLD WARS NOW!”

That Prince Zu Lowenstein is un-

the Japs only redoubled their attacks upon it. The oldest and finest Catholic church in the Philippine islands, Santo Domingo, built in 1590, was bombed and burned. So today the tears of the axis are crocodile teé:s and their expressions of horror are phony. Their une scrupulous use of sacred altars for war purposes made the bombing of Rome necessary. The real regret that this had to be comes first and foremost from allied countries whose reverence for things religious is too well known to require proof,

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 26. = Milton Junction, Wis., ex-groce boy who has never been abro has emerged today as one of the

that alone, can a broken Italy find strength and decency I'he extra tank of ship or plane

and honor again as a useful member in the family of nations. | although Tass, of course, is a subsidized news-propa- |For which we waited, all in vain, |BY Tom Ireland, care of Company A, Re. Welcome among the Nazis in Ger-

\ most powerful figures in the world | ganda bureau with a distinct, though changeable edi- | Ang the supplies that never came. | «Toot conten Ft. Benjamin Harrison many should not make him welcome

to control U. S. international big

But Italy must earn that right. It is not enough that | | Announcement is made Mussolini is gone. So long as the Germans are there, so | long as the Fascist party operates openly or secretly, so | long as there is a king and another military dictator waging | war against the democracies, the Italian people are com- | pounding the crimes Mussolini perpetrated with their | suffrance.

The Italian people must insist on immediate cessation | of the Fascist-axis war by demanding unconditional surrender to the allies. If the Germans block them, they must dispose of the Germans. The king and the new military dictator, Badoglio, say: “The war continues.” The answer of the Italian people should be revolt. And let Hitler's other satellites take heed. For their | days are numbered. They will fall, as Hitler will fall. And all of them know it. Everywhere in Europe today the en- | slaved pepoles lift themselves in new hope. Mussolini was a | symbol. His passing is a symbol too.

SENSIBLE AGREEMENT

POLICE CHIEF CLIFFORD BEEKER'S decision to end | the needless deadlock over prosecution of criminals and his agreement to give full city police co-operation to county | legal agencies deserves the whole-hearted commendation | of this community. This new understanding can lead only to more effective law enforcement, which is one of the major objectives of the city administration. | It never should have become an issue at all. State laws very definitely prescribe the manner in which persons accused of crime shall be arrested, charged, and prosecuted. Ostensibly this deadlock arose out of disagreement over | application of these state laws. Actually the individuals who were urging tricky ways to evade those laws were merely attempting to use Chief Beeker and his whole department as pawns to promote their own private fight with a rival political faction—and showing no consideration whatever for the welfare of Chief Beeker, or his superior, Mayor Tyndall. It is encouraging to note that Chief Beeker, undoubtedly with the approval of Mayor Tyndall, does not propose to let the city’s police department be used in that manner. In that he is entirely right. Aside from a handful of professional politicians, very few citizens of Indianapolis really care very much about the war over power and jobs that js going on here between rival factions of the Republican party. But every good citizen of Indianapolis is very deeply concerned in the continued efficient operation of the police

department. It belongs to the whole city—not just to a political faction.

torial policy, directed by the Moscow government and | the AP has no editorial policy at all. ! In the end, the New Dealers cast three votes against | the two Republicans to forget the whole matter. Wirt, | meanwhile, had been torn apart and beaten over the |

| head with the bloody ends of his own arms and legs. |

Mrs. Roosevelt, who was then enjoying the idolatry | of her own circlé of lady journalists, some of whom |

| used to sit at her feet during her press conferences, | | had joined in the raillery by reciting a parody on |

“Little Orphan Annie” in which a black Russian bear | carried off President Roosevelt. | Dr. Wirt died in 1940 and on his death John O'Connor, of New York, an ex-congressman of the original | New Deal, who had been beaten in the historic purge, | issued a statement entitled confession is good for the soul. In this he declared that as a member of the New Deal majority of the Wirt committee he had joined with the other two New Dealers to give Wirt | the works and prevent the two Republicans from con- | ducting a fair investigation of the charges,

We the People

By Ruth Millett

Will you then come and take the blame? For we, not you, will pay the cost! Of battles you, not we, have lost.”

Do the municipal court judges forget to take this into consideration before depriving a man of his livelihood and the country of his work needed so greatly at this time? | u & | | “IT DEPENDS ON WHOSE | OX IS GORED”

By James R. Meitzter, Attica Guy D. Sallee damns Senator VanNuys for his alleged friendship for Paul McNutt. McNutt is in bad with Sallee because he called out the troops when the C. I. O. was organizing Terre Haute and vicinity. . . « It was the best act of his! career. | Sallee calls it coercion and in-

« « + that {in Indianapolis at this time. It was a certain Prince Hubertus Friedrich us Wie ie UH reat o | America in a letter to the New Yor Zu Lowenstein is to broadcast from "Times as recently as May 27 last in the stage of the Murat theater OVer which he said that the result of | WISH in this city on the program |splitting Germany back into its 18th | of America’s Town Meeting of the century sovereign dwarf states | Air on Aug. 5. A special dispatch “would inevitably be neo-fascist to the New York Times under date plotting everywhere, permanent un- | of May 20 last describes this speak- rest and, whatever repressive meas- | ers as “among those opposing the ures are used, the third world war.” reduced unity of Germany that a! We can thank the prince in pass- |

| federated reith would bring.” | It seems highly improper that a! {German apologist should be wel- | comed to the outstandingly loyal American city of Indianapolis at the (very moment that reports of our boys’ deaths at the hands of Ger{mans are coming in from overseas 'and in view of the brazen threat over the Berlin radio Tuesday, July

ing—and, by the way, German | princes are still as thick as flies—|

(for leading us to the obvious com- |

mon-sense conclusion. Since the] treaty of Versailles was a conspicuously inadequate remedy to avoid German world war II in not splitting Germany up into numerous small parts, let us profit by bloody and costly experience not only to

split Germany up this time into many parts, but to attend to the complete and permanent annexa-

20, by Paul Schmidt, German for. eign office spokesman, of the near future bombing of the cultural mon.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

tion of those split-up parts to Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Poland, France and other nations that Germany has so wantonly and

ONE THING that the war |

wives ought to be prepared for is | the posibility that their husbands | may not want to step right back |

into the jobs they left when they | entered the service. |

Many men, who weren't too !

crazy about the jobs and the line |

of work they had stumbled into |

or prepared themselves for will | “find” themselves during the war, | Either they will develop an absorbing interest in some specialty the army or |

| navy has taught them, or they will have had time |

to sit down and figure out what they want to take | up when they start civilian life over again. A wife will ruin such a man if she is bound and determined that the job he had before the war is plenty good enough for him. Or if she takes the attitude that she can't leave her home town, her friends, and her family—and that he is duty-bound to get a job where she won't have to be transplanted. So it will be up to wives to keep an open mind on the kind of work their husbands do after the war is over and on where they will live. A wife will, if she realizes that being given a chance to start anew may be the very best thing for her husband and their marriage.

‘Square Pegs' Readjust

MANY MEN who marry early in life get stuck in dull jobs and never get out, just because they find | themselves with a wife to support. But the war has yanked many of those men out of their misfit jobs and now that the break has been | made they will have chance to fina themselves. | They will, that : t have wives who are afraid for

"The trouble is, these modern dames earn as much as | do! When you were young, girls like mom were glad to get dates for street car rides and sodas, but | have to throw a party!"

so ruthlessly despoiled. Let's fight out both the second and the third German world wars with Germany right now » = » “DON'T CONFUSE Y. M.

AND Y. W. CADETTES"

By Pearl Schmidt, Colonel of the ¥. M. C. | A. Cadettes, Indianapolis, {

I mailed a check to the Cigaret| Fund which was a contribution from the cadettes of the Y. M. C. A. Service club, but in the listing Tues day, it said Y. W, ©. A. Cadettes. In the writeup the article said, “And the cadettes at the Y. M. C A. Service club who entertain service men at home donated $25 for 10,000 cigarets.” I do not know who wrote this up but I feel there is a need for me to correct it. July 15 when Y. M. ©. A. cadettes worked at the OPA mailing center their picture appeared saying they were Y. W. OC. A. cadettes, The Y¥. M. C. A. has a service club where the girls entertain the soldiers, dancing, playing ping-pong, ete. in the service room in the Y. M. GC. A. Not in their homes. Dances are given regularly at the YY. M. C. A. The ¥Y. M. C. A: cadeties should be given credit for that they do, so please do not contuse the Y. M. C. A and Y. W. C. A. cadettes.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Receive my instruction, and . not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.—Proverbs 8:10.

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business. He is Leo T. Crowley, white thatched, 53-year-old, fivee foot - ten, 190 - pound bachelor, utilities president and political fixer who has just been made di« rector of the government's new OEW, or office of economic warfare. Crowley hag been in Canada, but never over-seas. Yet, today, the organizations dealing in foreign business which he controls include an international bank, a trust holding all alien investments in the United States, three corporations having wartime monopolies for the development and purchase of 1 materials overseas, the foreign business of three oth government corporations, the control of all U, S, imports and exports, and he heads up the country's biggest bank insurance business besides. His responsibilities run into the multi-billions of dollars, making the Rockefellers and the Morgans look like pikers by comparison. Yet he never ran for political office and works for the government without pay, taking his compensation from his private busie ness job as president of the Standard Gas & Elece tric Co. of Chicago, from which he has leave of absence to work for Uncle Sam. rt

Leads a Quiet Life

HE LEADS a relatively quiet life. He lives in the Mayflower hotel apartments in downtown Washinge ton, gets to work by 9 and usually quits on time, which is 4:30 or 5. Often he takes some of his dew partment heads back to the hotel with him for supe per, then a session of gin rummy and chewing th§ fat over some of their problems. Crowley also chews cigars—half a dozen of thgm a day—but he seldom lights up because of a sinus infection and doctor's orders, which also make him a teetotaler. } Crowley's pals in Washington include, principal, the men he works with, He prides himself on being a great picker of men. He has had to discharge only two In the nine years he has been in Washington, Crowley is a great delegator of authority to stbore dinates. John K. McKee of the federal reserve board is a particular crony, and so is Jesse Jones, from whose RFC, ironically enough, Crowley is taking over the export-import bank, rubber reserve corporation, pe troleum development corporation, U. S. commercial company and the foreign programs in defense plang corporation, defense supplies corporation and metals reserve corporation. Crowley frequently takes - day morning breakfast in the Jones apartment at te Shoreham, and they talk things over there,

Last One Went to Prison

DIVORCING ALL these government companies from the reconstruction finance corporation and passing them over to Crowley's new office of economic warfare may take weeks or months. When the separation is made, it appears now that Secretary Jones will have lost only one prize portfolio —that of the export-import bank, For the rest, Jones is the winner and the laugh may be on Crowley, fe all these other foreign operations involve secret time deals, such as preclusive buying, which escape being the subject of congressional in tions when the war is over. | Crowley should have enough of a headache in his $7 billion job as alien property custodian. The man who had that job in the last war went to prison for it. Crowley hopes to avoid that, may in fact let that Job go when he has it organized and starts selling off the seized properties this fall. CR TR

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