Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1943 — Page 10

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the Sardinia victory will heal some of the “Jtaly’s pride, and inspire her populace to that of the Nazi invader which Eisenhower "requests. There is plenty of evidence, especially in Milan * and the industrial areas of the north, that the people can and will carry on guerrilla warfare behind the German lines

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by a» .» : a oo APART from the psychological effects of the Sardinian © victory, its military importance is obvious: * It probably eliminates Spain as a tool for axis counter"attack when Hitler in desperation is forced to strike back at allied encirclement. It, and adjoining Corsica; provide the stepping stones for allied invasion of France up the Rhone valley, and of "northern Italy through the great port of Genoa and the La Spezia naval base. ; Immediately, it gives the allies much needed fighter- * plane bases for the three-fold purpose of protecting bombers on southern France and northern Italy raids, of covering Gen. Clark's ground troops in the coming battles for central ~ Italy and Rome, and of making leapfrog landings on the enemy’s exposed western flank. : The battle for Italy has become much more important than seemed probable a month ago. Hitler has made it so, by withdrawing many planes from the Russian front and some ground troops from northern Europe. : In electing to make Italy a major and perhaps decisive battlefield, Hitler's hand apparently has been forced by political developments. His satellites, especially in the Bal-

a 8 0» p f u 8 sm - 4 "THOUGH Italy is less easy for Hitler to defend than the Balkans or western Europe—because it has only bottle- ~ neck supply lines in the north and it is exposed to sea attack on two long coasts—its German defenders have certain military advantages. Their hill positions extend the length of the land and in most places dominate the landing beaches and allied lines of advance. Their defensive positions get _ better and their supply lines shorten as they withdraw northward, ~~ : ; - To offset those enemy advantages, the allies must make fullest use of their sea and air superiority. - | The allies almost lost the bloody battle of Salerno in its early stages because they lacked bases near enough to ~ use their preponderant sea and air power. That close experi- ~ ence is the best proof of the future value of Sardinia, with its harbors and airfields only 125 miles from the coast of

central Italy and the short road to Rome.

. BARUCH ON MANPOWER WITH the President failing to discuss manpower prob3 lems, it is fortunate that the Baruch-Hancock report

~on that subject was finally released for publication, through |,

__ the intercession of Senator Vandenberg. : 2 : The report reveals that over-optimism is by no means

It points out that there has been no clearly defined man- . power program; that the conflicting actions and inactions ~ of various government agencies, competing for “empires of . power,” have added to the confusion: that cost-plus con- ¢ tracts, where the government foots the bill, have encour . aged contractors to hoard and waste labor; that, of primary and immediate importance, unless we achieve more efficient ~ use of manpower, “we will fall short of the present air-

military need for aircraft is greatest.” That is quite perti- , in the matter of taking advantage of Hitler's failure

put a roof over Fortress Europa. EL. . = i ® » = i ie to > understand why War Mobilization Director ~Byrnes kept the Baruch-Hancock report in a pigeon-hole F nearly a month. He apparently wanted to keep the Tt a secret, although he had announced a program deed to carry. out the réport’s recommendation that a | of labor priorities be established to allocate manHancock. Yeport the basis of which is reli home solving manpower prob- | important a milestone on the home front as the

the Far Eastern front, the Italians:

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OUR OWN standard concept of democracy is some= what more specific than the broad definition, being reinforced by the Bill of ments, but Mr.

novelties which he calls intellectual | democracy.

that might seem 0 4tiractive ‘to a majority at a given moment but t have the effect of abolishing democracy - altogether. Te In California only a few years ago they had a close call and a severe fright in a referendum on a long and complicated proposition called ham 'n’ eggs, was put forward by a small group of adventurous demagogs and promoters and all was taken up and indorsed by the C. I. O. under Communist domination and by the more candid Communists. Disguised as

The Communists and many discouraged and needy

of government, cried “Democracy! Majority rule!” in defense of the proposal and there was no denying that they were on good ground. If the majority voted to do these things in a regular election, that their right in a pure democracy. If they voted to open the vaults of all the banks at high noon on certain day and toss the money up for grabs roofs, that would be the people’s. will.

Middle Class Frightened #

THE BIG business intefests and the home owners and farm owners and more conservative citizens of the middle class were really frightened and don't let anyone tell you they weren't. Money was raised somewhere and a strong counter-propaganda was started to get out the vote of the apathetic element to save representative, popular government and the economic systm of capitalism in California and, on election day ham 'n’ eggs was defeated by no more than 3 2 or thereabouts, a very close call

would have won; 80 you might say

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|We the People

By Ruth Millet

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Americans who deeply believe they loved our form [a

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“KNOW ALL ABOUT WORLD EXCEPT OUR PART OF IT” By W. H. Brennan, 470 8. Meridian st. The G. O:. P. of St. Louis, Mo. seems to be looking up excuses for getting off the Willkie truck to look up a new bandwagon. “One World” is too much on the order of “Mein Kampf,” the people are not looking for a one-man ruler.

The Hoosi 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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Tyndall went to Daniels’ office, not on one but on several occasions and besought Daniels to obtain for him the organized support for mayor. Daniels, who knew Tyndall and his capacities , , . persistently refused to so use his influence. . . . Out of consideration for their personal relationship Daniels did tell Tyndall that he would endeavor to get

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executive vice president. Then Mr. Batt, alrea functioning in a similar field, took over that assigs Both the British and American governments hay been pleased at his performance according to 8

Production Effort Saved AN EXAMPLE is the supplying of trucks to

would be changed. All of which keeps Mr. However, he found the time to head the munity chest drive within WPB and hasn't His home is at Wyncote, Pa, and 8. K. F. in Philadelphia. A Republican, Mr, Batt belongs f the -old stalwart: Union League club of He could never qualify for a stuffed-shirt cartoon a clubman, however, For he is :

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