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TUESDAY, Avo 10, 1943

IF HITLER FALLS.

THE most interesting thing about the report that Hitler has been pushed aside in favor of Goering. and army “and navy chiefs is its German source. Berlin censors passed the report that “powers of enormous magnitude” had been - ‘given Goering; and German spokesmen in Spain added that Marshal Keitel, chief of the high command, and Adm. ‘Doenitz, naval chief, were the remaining members of the militaty triumvirate, with Hitler a temporary facade. If true, it would not be surprising. This newspaper often has pointed |to the possibility that the Prussian militarists, who made Hitler in the first place, would ditch

him when he ceas

to serve their purpose. Hitler may

have been deprived f power after his abortive Kursk offen-

sive last month. or even months.

In any event, he could be shorn of power, or killed, and neither the German people nor the allies would know about it until the new dictatorship wanted it known.

HIS current report is not an official announcement. It

“is merely inspired by ‘Beflin

officials and cleared by

the official censorship. Why? "This is the usual technique used for government feelers or trial balloons.

Pending full ‘and accurate information, the world can |

only assume that the real powers in Berlin—whoever they are—want to get public reaction, with as little shock as possible, to a shift in dictatorship which has occurred or which may occur suddenly sometime in the future. The fact that Goering’s name is used seems to indicate that his faction of the Nazi party is working with, and is necessary to, the generals for a while longer. Certainly the man-officially designated by Hitler as his successor in event of death, and jointly responsible with Hitler for “Nazi crimes, is not good final bait for a compromise peace

offensive.

© If and when Hitler is replaced by the German mili‘tarists, presumably they will try to win the peace. That they cannot now win the war is fairly clear. The best they can hope for is a military stalemate long

enough to weary and divide the allies.

If that should

happen, the German rulers would count on getting much better than the “unconditional surrender” terms which are open to them now.

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UT if they are preparing for an eventual compromise peace offensive, this will involve more than disposing of Hitler as a scapegoat.” It will also necessitate vigorous German military action to put them in a better bargaining

position.

Thus a shift in German distatorship probably

would result in a temporary stiffening in the war, as has been the case in Italy. ' Doubtless the German generals could fight a harder war if they got rid of Hitler's intuition, which has been so costly to them in Russia. Also the German generals, unlike

Hitler, would be free to witlidraw from Russia for the twin |

purpose of shortening their over-all defense line and of attempting to buy a separate peace with Stalin. The net of all this is that the allies have come to a most critical period in the war. | The very allied military victories, which have shaken Hitler's power and his generals’ hope of world: conquest, have produced a crisis of desperation in which the enemy will use every military and diplomatic device b trick us out of a real allied victory. The allies. will win only if they stick together in forcing uneonditional surrender, regardless of what regimes sit in Rome and Berlin; and only if they stick together in making and enforcing a just peace. | Remember, the rat is most dangerous when Sorhered

ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE

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[FOREIGNERS and American expatriates used to take delight, and probably still do, in picturing the typical

American as'a prosaic, unimaginative fellow with a single- Ee

minded ‘interest in the almighty dollar.

That is a lot of nonsense, and we can prove it.

This

country is awash with romanticism, its imaginativeness «+ knows no limits, and ‘your typical American will swap a dollar for a cock-and-bull story any day in the week.

Call the first witness:

Mr. Stephen Weinberg.

. Mr. Weinberg unfortunately can’t bé present personally, on account. of a little jam he is infor showing some of the boys in New: York how to dodge the draft by faking feeble-mindedriess. But his record will speak for him. It was Mr. ‘Weinberg who, years ago, attached himself Princess Fatima of Afghanistan and, posing as a naval officer, presented the lady to President Iiarding and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. The G-men eventu-

ally Jugged him for it.

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ut that was ust one little epliode out of Mr. Weinberg’s

ho slink, a long career, interrupted with rest- |.

The customers—those allegedly un-

tic hy 1 tiehtsted Yankees—ate it up and footed

The fact is, the typical American goes around with his

in the clouds just aching to be played for a sucker. mbe: Barnum?, And Ponzi? And Coster-Musica? And

swallowed the men-from-Mars stuff when tic ow the zadio? To say 1

" Wditor, in U.S. Service |

$4 a year; adjoining . states, 75 cents a month; |

r he may still retain power for weeks.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

vessels, especially on ships manned by the Communist union. However, the Cominunists promptly raised the devil and talked big about the fair name of their organization, and Frank Knox, not wanting to admit

that such rotten conditions exist, although his in-

who serve the guns on merchant speak for publication and the logs, information, . have been impounded for on the ground that they might information with which he or future position of certain is nonsense because it would enemy to know that a ship identified nameless made a voyage to Australia months ago, . No Sympathy for Communists - MEANTIME, THE navy, the coast guard and the army have been getting tough with drunks, jumpers and instibordinates and.Knox apparently sires to clean up the situation and hush up the story until the war is over. Knox, of course, has no sympathy for Communists but it is no credit to him that such things could and did happen, and it is a fact that the administration has favored the Communist unioneers of the sea consistently for years. As an example of the kind of things that Mr. Knox is suppressing I cite herewith from a report of & voyage by the S. 8. nameless. At a port in Africa, the captain went ashore and got confidential orders to sail early the next morning. He immediately returned to his ship and cancelled all liberty; but was unable to tell his crew the reason. In the first place, he could have been sent to prison for revealing secret information and, moreover, some drunk in the company could have blabbed it all over the waterfront and some might have jumped ship.

Left Lights Shewing

BUT ONE of the AB’s demanded an explanation and mustered the crew to urge them to demand one. After the vessel shoved off the ensign in command of the navy gun detail noticed that several of the civilian sailors were not careful to black out at night and cautioned two AB'’s, who were tireless troublemakers all the way, that light was showing from their portholes at night. These two, who mocked and ridiculed the navy gunners when they were preparing to fire on a suspicious vessel, gave the ensign nothing but back talk so, as a precaution, the master ordered that thereafter the main switch controlling the lights in their section of the ship was to be pulled every evening. The water cooler in the crew’s mess went on the blink and two of the three chief hecklers in the crew beefed loudly, although plenty of ice water was provided from milk cans chilled in the refrigerator. One morning an officer reportd to the captain that one of the hell-raisers, standing two hour tricks at the wheel,” had steered five degrees off course for 20 minutes on one trick and for 15 minutes on another. The sailor said he must have dozed off, although he had not been working any extra hours,

Trouble Over Cold Water

THE NEXT day one of the trio tried to give orders to one of the officers, claiming that he was speaking as a delegate for the rest of the men. An investigation was made and the men denied that they had |™ authorized him to do this in their name: A week later three sailors demanded that the master show them a list of the stores he was buying in the next port. He told them he was giving orders, not taking ‘them, and sent them away but that night one of the delegates ordered the chief steward to let him see the list. The captain then told the crew that he would lay charges of usurpation with the consul in the next port. This worried the crew and they sent a delegation to tell ‘the master that on several occasions one of the trio had pretended to speak for them without their knowledge. They also told him that two of the group had been threatening them. Well, things went along like that until they were almost home when one of the hecklers got into a fight with another sailor and they went ashore to settle it whereupon another of the trouble makers followed along to help his comrade. The crew then petitioned the skipper not to let the two bad actors return, saying they would not. guarantee that these men would live to see their home port. That night several memsbers of the crew were beaten up ashore by these two so the captain paid off the pair and left them behind. The reporteadded that one of the trio was an exconvict on parole. ’

“Under Cover”

There is undoubtedly a place in the history of today for an authentic account of subversive activities in America. “Under Cover” by John Roy Carlson (E. P. Dutton & Co.), billed as “the inside story of America’s Quislings,” is not quite it. Launched with a build-up that already begins to. look more than a a fjffle phoney—the author hiding in anonymous fear of death, the alleged attempts at suppression, the coming “senate investigation” and all the old familiar tricks of pressagentry—the: book tells of four years’ study of Fascist movements in the United States. The publishers advertise the name of “John Roy Carlson” as a adopted to protect the writer against reprisals from. his subjects if they know who he is. Yet the most cursory reading of the book itself would identify him beyond any question to the very men from whom he is said to be in danger. Actually the book isn't bad enough to need that kind of clap-trap.

Visited With Pelley HE DESCRIBES himself as a naturalized American of Greek birth and Armenian parentage, was known to quisling-dom as “George Pagnanelll” To obtain his material he spent something more than four years working in Pascist-Nazi circles, attempted

nasi, 4 THE | DRA®Y

(By Peter Edson

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 10; There’s a motley collection of lications in the United States consciously or not still follo the Nazi line and as yet u » . by any indictments, withdrawal of~ mailing privileges or restrictions: of any kind. Most pretentious of the lot is. a magazine called “Destiny,” pubs lished at Haverhill, Mass. It is’ edited by Howard B. Rand as organ of the . AtgloSan Federation. Until William J. Cameron, the voice of Henry Ford's day evening hour, was openly associated with the

* | federation,

og Soaps the. fact that “Destiny” includes the British

: British for years and to that it has added a

line of anti-communism, blaming the Communists for

Lar Si the, recent race riots and anti-semitism.

“Where “Destiny” gets in its subtle punch is fa arguing that Jews are not Israelites, that the Anglo«

"| saxons‘are the true Israel and God's chosen people.

«| the ‘Mothers, Mobilize for America,” headed by

In“these ways, it does a job of preaching race hatred that is hard to beat. . “Women’s Voice,” a publication which made.its first appearance this spring, is the organ ot Va I'S Lyrl Van Hyning and Mrs. Grace Keefe of Chicago,

J} This is an anti-international bankers, anti-jew, antie

. ‘| communist .organization which was active before

Pearl Harbor,” then went underground for over a year; to emerge with new backing from some aa source to-preach the doctrine that “the interna :

| bankers must not be permitted to take part at the

peace conference. None but Christians should pars : ticipate.” - 4

Demand Negotiated Peace »

. BUT THE BIG line of the “Mothers” is & demand that congress enter “immediately into conferences for a negotiated peace which “our enemies’ have been

\ |'proposing since October, 1939.” The paper, “Women’s

The Hoosier Forum

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

“SOCIALISM WOULD STOP NECESSITY TO DIVIDE”

By Mrs. Laura A. Allen, 634 x. Hamilton ave.

Mr. Maddox don’t know what

socialism is any more than a rabbit.

Under socialism every man would

what he works for. He wouldn't build fine homes then have to go down a side street to a hovel. He wouldn’t make shoes, then lef his children go barefoot. He would not build refrigerators, radios, washing machines, electric sweepers, and then let his family do without. He wouldn’t build autos, then walk. Under socialism, he would have plenty of food, clothing and shelter. And when he got too old to work, he wouldn't be sent to the poorhouse to die. He would get an adequate pension. When he works all day, why should he only receive one-fifth of what he earns and the other fellow who don’t work get four-fifths in profit. Some people say they don’t want socialism, because they don’t want to divide up. God knows we have been dividing all our lives. Socialism would stop dividing. » » » “PEOPLE BELIEVE WHAT THEY WANT TO BELIEVE” By Marvin R. Burnworth, Indianapolis - Mr. Maddox, why do you continue to harp on a subject of which you know so little, a subject which, after many requests, you have failed to define,- viz, socialism and communism? You quoted Westbrook Pegler in your last article. Allow me to quote from him also. I ‘have before me an article written by him’ Dec. 9, 1941. Quote, “and his (Roosevelt's) promises that American boys would not be sent to a foreign war were campaign trickery to get himself re-elected. But, we may thank him for it now and be glad because he

which otherwise would have been lost.” Again I quote from the same ar-

work for what he gets, and get|

tricked us into a great advantage

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

ticle, “If my own occasional reminders of this drew thousands of

these letters, the president must have taken ‘a terrific lambasting from people, most of whom now will graciously admit at last that he was right all the time. A better fighter to conduct this war could not be found and inasmuch as the war is everything to us now, his re-election, by whatever means, was a gift from fortune.” Believe it or not, this was written by your idol. It must have been written when his conscience was hurting him for the nasty things he had said about him. I do not remember his saying anything in favor of the president since then. As a rule people believe things they want to believe and disbeljeve the things. they want to disbelieve, regardless of facts. I think it. is high time that you made some definite statements concerning the subjects about which you write.- You have invited questions, yet you refuse to answer them. You accuse the New Deal of trying to make our government a socialist or ‘communist government. This administration has adopted some socialistic principles. If this is why you are so opposed to this administration, then you are opposed to social security, old-age pensions, bank depositors’ 'insurance, unemployment insurance, home owners’ loan ‘and ‘everything else that has been inaugurated for the good of the less fortunate citizens of our eountry. "If you are not opposed fo these

Side Glances—By Galbraith

, FHA erder them to march forth to slaugh-

things, then why are "you crying? You are worried about a third term and a fourth term. Is it‘because you are against the wishes of the majority of the voters of this country or is it because you are afraid that Mr. Roosovelt will’ win? Were you as bitter. against a third term when Teddy Roosevelt: -was running? Was it alright for Ulysses S. Grant to-run for a third term? If you had it in your power to immediately make /it'a law of ‘the land, effective at once, that nopresident could serve more than two terms, would you do it? The best man the: Republicans have for candidate for president-will not likely be nominated. Mr. Willkie has said what he: is in favor of. The other candidates :for the past several years have done nothing but lambast Mr. Roosevelt. Why don’t they say what they would do if they were elected? It is the easiest thing on earth to find fault with the.things others do, but it is very different to -always be able to suggest someuunig i i # » » » “WE PRAY FOR PEACE, BUT PROVIDE WAR CAUSES” By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis Since there has been a lot of propaganda for world peace, and: much thought on ways to end wars and aggression, I now wish to offer some’ realistic, constructive, and if adopted and used, very effective

means to reduce war -to a minimum!

So, let's get to the root cause of war at once and eliminate, «in

all nations, the power to force: pép- |

ple: to fight—compulsory military service laws! I've got something here, folks! You needn't ook any further for the cause” of wars of aggression! The power to draft men and women, against their will, regiment them,

ter and destruction of their fellow men—that, my friends, is the mainspring and fountainhead of militarism, dictatorship and war! : How well we all know that the great majority of the people of all nations do not want to fight! Yés, “we hate war,” but we provide our leaders with legal power to compel us to make war!!! Don’t we? So, if | we want world peace the get it is to abolish compulsory mili~ tary service in all nations! That will reduce war to a minimum} It will} kill dictatorship! It will abolish despotism! It will promote peace! That remedy is simple, ‘effective

and easy fo apply. So, when this]:

war is over, why not kill the war

germ—the draft law? Without com- | °

pulsory military law, Hitler, Mussocould not have with war mad-

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“| Voice,” lists the name of no editor, but announces

that at its offices at Room 500, 537 8. Dearborn st,

-| Chicago, open house is held every Thursday afternoon, | Elizabeth .Dilling. literature is distributed there, even

though Mrs. Dilling herself is under indictment Yor sedition.

life is the American Women Against Communism, | Inc.; of New York, which has had great success with a color leaflet showing how the Stars and Stripes ill

‘| gradually be changed to an international ‘I'which there will be only the yellow star of

The first step, according to this leaflet, is

5 replacement of the 48 white stars by one white star

‘and the inclusion of this one-star-and-stripes flag ‘with’ the emblems of all the’ other natoins, including those of Japan, Italy and Germany to make a United Nations of the World flag. Next step is supposedly the flag of Union Now. The stripes of the stars-and-stripes remain, but in place of the blue field appears the union jack of ihe British Empire, and in the center of the union ‘appears a single, yellow gold star of David. i -Lstep is the ‘disappearance of both stars and stripes and. emergence of just one big yellow gold star of David, the emblem of the Jews, on a white field, ‘as [the flag of the United States of the World,

Church ‘Organization Denounced

IF THIS ISN'T enough for you, this same 16 et contains: a violent denunciation of the eral Council of Churches of Christ in America, de up of nearly all the Protestant church organizations in the ‘United States, which ‘is: blasted because the :coumcil is ‘on ‘record as favoring some. form of eventual world government to maintain peace, > ay One of the leading lights in the American = ‘Against Communism movement is Mrs. A. Cressy :Morrison, .intimate ‘friend of Elizabeth Dilling and a “marcher” with her to Washington to protest ‘against lend-lease, Mrs. Morrison also backed Allen Zol’s “Patriots of \America” movement. In..the same company with all these relatively unknowns are the old-timers: . The Rev. Gerald K. Smith: with his “The Cross and the Flag,” now trying to rally his own and the Coughlinite fol ohio American First party. And Joe TE d Christian Front, now trying to rally se ‘men. th} his’ new *Rensuuetion Plan,” is anofhed one,

he nlite the , third in a series of four articles,

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Avg 10 Should Senator Frederick Vast: Nuys fail to secure the in ment of John K. Jennings, A ANS

Region III, it will be a LE jor patronage defeat for the D ocratic senator from Indiana. He has been making a effort for several years to

ternal revenue collector at Indians apolis Although Mr. Smith is an original VanNuys selection,” the senator has done all in "his power have him replaced. Fe Fitting Mr. Jennings, former Indiana WPA diss istthtor, in as head'of the OPA regional office... a Cleveland means that Birkett L. Williams, Republican must be ousted.

Bowles’ May Object ;

A WEALTHY, retired advertising man and necticut Republican, it may be that Mr. Bo ‘not take kindly to ousting Mr. williams and in Mr. Jennings, just because the latter is a De Senators VanNuys, however. can point to erally acknowledged fact that Mr. Jennings ‘from a few questionable French Lick expense made a fair record as WPA administrator and try to keep the agency alive for the sake of Should Senator VanNuys: decide to seek

term—a matter he likely will discuss while

ons, Rand's organization has been anti :

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