Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1943 — Page 20

ang was unprecedented and historic, a cabinet officer ad-|

dressing a joint session—of course by invitation. ~ ©" The reception was an enthusiastic, bipartisan tribute fo a great statesman for his spectacular success at the Moscow four-power conference, which accepted the Amerfcan policy for post-war world organization. What Mr. Hull said was, in large part, inevitably a : yepetition of the Moscow texts and of his two amplifying statements to the press earlier this week. ge ‘However, he did give special emphasis jo a major] aspect which has not been sufficiently understood or fully | . appreciated. Many forget that, on the eve of the conference, Prime Minister Churchill was urging an AngloAmerican post-war alliance, and that British and Russian post-war European policy was based upon the existing . . Anglo-Russian alliance. Instead of such ‘an un-American "system of alliances, Mr. Hull insisted on a truly interna- = tional and democratic organization. fp ff ff . = . YESTERDAY: - in aioting to congress the provision "in the Moscow agreement for a general international organ- * {zation, and the self-denying ordinance regarding separate - use of troops, he said: ~~ *] should like to lay particular stress: on this provision of the declaration: The principle of sovereign equality of

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couldn't buy feed for the same or sell the at any price and was offered only 10 cents for his boar and the sows, which he aptly described “producing equipment.”

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that way when I bought A. T. and T. and a few other. little trifies. The minute the word got around Wall Street that Pegler was buying something, the big

not 80 pigs, thank goodness, but 50, no less, making perfect hogs of themselves for, unlike Mr. Van Riper's man, my feed-monger still contrives to get me some. However, the problem is the same. If I don’t feed them, ‘they starve and the humane society will burn

And, although they would yield even now a little meat, though much less than by all that is right they presently should, I can’t butcher and peddle them because that; I-am- told; would be a black market opera tion,

No Such Abundance

MEANWHILE, however, there is no such abundance of pork and ham in the stores and restaurants on the east coast as would justify this indifference to || Mr. Van Riper's pigs and mine, and, I understand, many thousands of othérs. The New York restaurants today are serving the most miserable make-shifts of dough and gravy in the guise of spaghetti and patty

-all-peace-loving states, irrespective of size-and strength; as partners in a future system of general security will be the foundation stone upon which the future international prganization will be constructed. The adoption of . this | principle was particularly welcome to us. ... As the pro-| ‘wisions of the four-power declaration are carried into effect, | | there no longer will be need for spheres of influence, for | | alliances, for balance of power or any other of the special _ arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, ‘the | nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests.”

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| ALSO HE-EMPHASIZED the nonpartisan nature of | Sha ovmheiming. congressional. support. of the. resolutions |.

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‘tion of sovereign nations, andthe necessity -of “united | national support for such a program. His Monday press statement favored similar platform | declarations by the Republican and Democratic parties in| the 1944 campaign. {

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By coincidence, yesterday while Mr. Hull was address- | ing congress, a Republican national committeeman, Clarence Budington Kelland, in a Harrisburg (Pa) speech was - advocating “identical foreign relations planks” in the two | major party platforms next year, |

Why not? Certainly foreign policy should be above party.

a BERLIN propagandists are playing up the Nazi recapture | : of Lera island in the Dodecanese group in the Aegean. It is their first victory in some time, and much needed to stiffen home morale weakened by allied bombing of German cities and Nazi retreats on the Russian front. - But Hitler's desperate need for a morale-builder is not In itself enough to account for his concentration in the Aegan of air forces required in Germany, Italy -and * Russia. There are also excellent military and political " yeasons why he was willing to pay such a high | price for a “distant island no larger than Manhattan. The Dodecanese islands are the Aegean gateway to ~ the Balkans and the historic Salonika-Vardar valley in- - _ vasion route. The allies could use the island bases of Cos, = “Léro and Samos to outflank Rhodes, Crete and Greece, and ; to remove any German threat to the Near East. But with tthe loss of Lero, following the fall of Cos, the allies are ~ now isolated on Samos in a difficult position. . » x . » J POLITICALLY, THE Balkans are the weakest wall of the Nazi European fortress. Jugoslavia and Greece are in guerrilla revolt, Rumania is ready to run and Bulgaria | is really pro-Russian. With an allied air offensive aperat- | ~ ing from Italian bases on the west, with Russian armies | sweeping forward from the east and the Red navy ready to take the Black sea when the Crimea falls, the Balkans politically probably could not stand a simultaneous. third allied attack iam the south. So Hitler had to hold his ‘Aegean lie. This became even more important for Hitler when the «British conversations in Cairo, following the Mosw conference, foreshadowed a move by Turkey——either n attack by Turkey through Bulgaria or the grantin os

bases and eventual passage privileges tH¥5iij to the allies.

in Turkey. it the allies are not sitting on their hands. Having

a} to spread his European forces thinner to \ ro Dodecanese, the allies are preparing to hit him from several directions. Berlin's celebration may

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149,862 persons have been placed in jobs States employment service. This is a

above 1000 ot mi "silver linings in the manpower e figures reflect one of them. It has Show most of industry and

per cent, and in some states the

and hash and a waiter in one of Child’s places let out |.a howl the other night when I made a bashful request for a ham sandwich. He said they had not sold & ham sandwich in months and months, Yet pork on the hoof is all over the place and perhaps we will have to lure it down into the swamp and shoot it, if we can get the ammunition. But everybody is og to be smarter next year. | Everybody is going to give up pigs and raise feed instead and sell it to—

| Who Is Going to Buy

-T CAN'T exactly figure out who is going to buy all that féed that all the smart people are going to raise

fo eat ft; and as for cattle, didn't you read ges Ua gAy where He Morgenthau is selling off d of registered Jerseys. ald Holsteins because

["going Into apples, instead? ‘The rural New Yorker had an editorial on this, chiding Mr. Morgenthau because, it said, this ‘means that he will be out of food production for 10 years but | he is practically obliged to make some change because | under his own regulations a farm is not a farm but a

| clever little scheme having the color of legality if the

farmer doesn’t sincerely try to make money. He can't tell himself he is really trying if he continues a venture in which, what with the price of labor and feed, he knows he can't win, Those midwestern downtown farmers certainly were right—worse luck about those sows giving jackpots. But 36 do mice. Why didn't I think of mice?

We The People

By Ruth Millett

YOU COULD make a pretty good history of war on.the home front just by cutting out and pasting in a scrap book the screwball _ Stories that occasionally come along to brighten up newspapers. - Just offhand, I can remember : . few such stories that would help to describe civilian life during the WAr years, Li There was that story about the -'wonian who, In her advertisement for a maid; offered to let the girl wear her mink coat on the maids day off. That ought to point up the wartime “servant problem” as well as anything. ,

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Forgot About Money AND THEN there was the divorce case in which

‘the big fight wasn’t over alimony, but over how the

canned produce of the Victory garden should be divided. That ought to show how money lost a lot of its importance when it had to be accompanied

Lby ration stamps to buy food.

And that more recent story about the two girls who had a knife duel over a man—not a war hero or a movie glamour boy, but a man living with his wife and two children and earning his living by such prosaic means as driving a bus. That ought to show how serious the shortage of eligible men had become by the fall of 1943.

less tragic side of war on the home front if you would just cut out such small news items and paste them in a scrap book for posterity. What do you think of the idea? Well, then go ‘ahead. It's your for free. I'm afraid I'm not going to get around to it,

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of hikes Apparently has a job designing overcoats "NOW. * + * YOU CAN hardly blame the north wind for whistling. "It's going south where it's warm. . * .. » A WRITER raises the question, “How will men of the future look?” It all depends on how the women dress. * ® ITS THE CHESTNUT, not the early bird, that 1s getting Whe worm sgh vow. ®" SATURDAY NIGHT celehrators in & Stupor usually are_just hipnotized. ee

IT'S NOT ONLY the world that is so full of & number of things. Doctors found 14 ‘needles in an Iowa man's stomach. | : - . -.

I SUPPOSE I should have known better for it was |

interests knocked it lopsided. Now, here I am with |

me down. The more I do feed them, the more I lose. | -

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=] ihe bag,” ~observed one,

| required to make a league of nations work. theless, I am equally convinced that there is present

The Tioosier Forum

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

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“READERS ENTITLED T0 HEAR OTHER SIDE” - By Joo Saunders, po College ave.

rare bit of Washington inspired propaganda anent the. Giraud-de-Gaulle feud, in the form of a tearJerking phillippic written by one William Phillip Simms. In this effort to aid the administration's “smear de Gaulle” campaign, Mr. Simms carefully ignores some facts that are essential to even a superficial understanding of this rather unsavory affair, Now that Gen. Henrl Giraud ‘has

| .next year instead of pigs because there will be no pigs (been removed from his position as

co-chairman of the. National Com-

such removal,” Mr. Simms appears

- Your -issue- of Nov. 13 carried a

ty mittee of Prench Litcrutiod, in spite. 3 the determined -¢Morts of both] for American participation in an effective-world® organiza | por Morgenthau said, dairying didn’t pay them, ar Churchill and Roosevelt to prevent!

(Times reacers are invited to express. their. views in. these columns, religious con“troversies excluded. Because’ of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi» bility for the return-of manu.-

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greatly alarmed lest the péople of ed % the state aepartinent, i France be completely crushed under then turned over to the army, which a de Gaulle “steam roller”—if, as| also was tag busy to ‘offer lavish {and when they are liberated by the entertainment. * Previously planned allied armies. Mr. Simms further rece . both in Washington and complains that de Gaulle’s action in i, York, were quickly canceled and elbowing Giraud off the committee, the unsung general was hustled off

Yes, you could make a pretty good history of the :

THE MAN who thinks up the shapes and colors |

ow 20 300 Ear” ale» is sar 7 +1t IS quite a problem! 1

is resented in official circles as a “direct slap” at both Britain and America. Perhaps it would be relevant to inquire, who started this slapping bout in the first place? For reasons never explained to the public in either Britain or America, the premier and the president long ago decided to use Gen. Giraud as a puppet manager of Free French affairs—a decision that did not set well with a big majority of thé Frenchmen involved. In order to create for their political stooge an aura of importance and prestige that was sorely lacking, it was arranged to broaden the general's perspective by having him travel to the - western hemi. sphere and be paraded about as the man of the hour, the coming deliver er of France—and all that stuff. On his way to this country the general was to visit the island of Martinique, wrest the “government

of that Vichy controlled outpust|:

from Admiral Robert and then pros ceed to Washington in the role of a conquering hero. But Admiral Robert was not impressed by the scheme and promptly appealed to the French committee in Algiers to send one Henri Etienne Hoppenot to take over as governor of Martinique. Conse-

ton a few days later, but without the crown and minus the halo. The big buildup turned out to be a complete flop; and after a rather unenthusiastic reception at the White House, the general was shunt-

Side Glances—By Galbraith iy

to Canada with as little fanfare as possible. At Ottawa, he refused to read the ghost written speech that had been prepared for him, and instead, delivered a caustic protest against the Anglo-American treatment of the Free French. While Giraud was still in Washington, the president announced that the French committee would not be recognized as being the legitimate government of France, and would be dealt with only as a makeshift to expedite military activities; but this policy was effective only for a few months, when the Kremlin let it be known that such recognition must be forthcoming—and it was so, inasmuch as the inscrutable Stalin was in a position to demand respect for his wishes. Now Gen. de Gaulle is in the saddle, while the unfortunate Giraud finds himself without portfolio—and it is only naturakthat Messrs. Churchill and - Roosevelt should feel a trifle irked at being Lou | by the crafty de Gaulle.

that Gen. Giraud is the very ultimate in all that is noble and holy, and that de Gaulle is only a designing ‘politician. Heaven forbid that either Churchill or Roosevelt should ever have any truck with a

quently, Giraud arrived in Washing-| politician!

British and American policy, says Mr. a ays committee ‘as “trustee” of French interests until the invaders have: been driven out and the French people have had opportunity to

Mr. Simms would have us believe|

{as you do the bureau of buildings

feathers! Obviously - the AngloAmerican program is to see that} whatever post-war government is set

“right people. ”» To be acceptable, sich government must be run by old school bankers, industrialists and politicians, and de Gaulle's crime lies in the fact that his support comes from the commonality, which, incidentally, ‘mans the French underground-—the only group that is in a position to render any substantial aid to the allied armies when they invade French soil. As evidence that these things are true, witness the Anglo: Amiekicts ungling. in. J 1y,, wher: _milihua effort: FLL 2 ea or T peded by official temporizing with|. Badoglio, which gave the Germans! time to occupy and fortify ‘most of that country—all for. the sake of perpetuating the House of Savoy and the “little moronic king.” Ta

no lustre to his reputation as an independent news commentator when he seeks to befog an issue that is so patently transparent. » - » + P. 8.—Since The Times in a leading editorial . . . “Rule or Ruin"— has joined the anvil chorus in the administration's farce comedy designed to justify its indefensible French policy by making Gen. de Gaulle the goat, the inclosed contribution may not be particularly palatable. I am fully aware, also, that the piece is longer than most articles printed in the Forum; and while I have no desire to grab space just because it doesn’t cost anything, .I do feel that your readers are entitled to hear at least a little of the other side. I feel that the administration deserves to be criticized when it seeks to obscure a piece of | foreign policy that it does not dare;

least, been no more devious than its own. . J # . “WHY CAN'T WE DO AS WE LIKE?

{ora Taxpayer, Indianapolis ‘Why does a person buying his} home on payments and paying his taxes on a home, also on furniture, have to pay for a rooming house| ,¢ license in order to rent'a few rooms? The government begs us to help house war workers and just as soon

sends out an inspector; charges you inapeotion: fee $3, Homise fie 4. total

| force it.

up In France is made up Jot the

‘Mr. Simms can hardly be ignorant] of these facts, and it surely adds!

particularly iminvitation. They regard people are behind American maintain a just and lasting peace. helming passage of the Fulbright lg: Conresolutions was convincing enough they agree, t the approval of Mr. Hull's mission to Moscow was even more so because of its obvious spontaneity. Nevertheless, some of the shrewdest envoys here are cautioning against taking Américan participation in the post-war setup for granted. "vs not yet in

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Favor Participation SAID HE:

~ “Unquestionably both congress and people” ‘now

favor American participation in the maintenance of peace—even if force is required. I am corivinced they are prepared to bear their full share of the sacrifices Never-

what I call a ‘potential majority,’ and a big one at that, who will turn isolationist unless the Rrtheming peace is. ‘just. “The - American people are notoriously sentimental. They are for the ‘underdog.’ Nothing riles them more than to see a big fellow jump on a little fellow. They are on the side of the weak as against the strong. “That is why all of your resolutions insist on a ‘just’ peace and specify that future international collaboration shall be between ‘peace-loving’ nations, Americans want nothing to-do “witty -aggressars or

those who use their superior power to. enforce -their..

will on the weak.

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Beware of 'Raw Deal

" “MARK MY WORD. If in the opinion of the American people, the little countries of Europe get a raw deal after the war, they will refuse to help en-

retraces frontiers to suit itself, the American people

will not send’ their sons overseas to die in defense of ~

them. If gross injustice is done to populations as a whole, Americans will-not collaborate. with others to make the injustices permanent, “That is why I say there is a ‘potential’ majority in America in favor of isolation . , . if. The very same sentiment which now leads them toward world collaboration to forestall aggression and maintain a just peace, would stampede them in the opposite direction if convinced the peace is not just. “Here, in my opinion, is to be found the secret of Secretary Hull's tremendous hold on the American people. He is%o genuinely one of them. They feel they can trust him not to sell the small and the weak down the river. They are for the Moscow ‘pacts because he helped make them, “If the rest of the world want the United States in the the diplomatist concluded,

xemember all this at he peace table,’

SE EARS >

Front Page okie

WE WOULDN'T KNOW about

; at least, like to sit down to= ~ gether after the presses start roll-

interesting and quite often eccentric doings of other newspapérmen. Over the years this custom has built a fabulous and fascinat-

rarely taught at the better colleges of journalism. Many an aging newspaperman has planned, some« time, to write down all this and thus preserve it for posterity, and a few of them have—notably Gene Fowler and Henry L. Mencken—though, of course, no one man nor no one book could tell the whole legend. 4 This week Robert. L. Casey, veteran War correspondent: for The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, now in London, has added his own recollections of a long and varied newspaper career with a book destined to stand with the best of a brilliant field. This is no tale of Casey atthe battles—though probably no man living has attended more battles in person than Bob Casey. It is a lot of tales, of a lot of newspapermen over a lot of years.

Writes as He Talks

FOWLER WROTE about Denver, Mencken about - 1e| Baltimore. This is the saga of Chicago. The Chicago

newspaper legend is by fio means unknown, especially since “The Front Page,” on stage and screen, convinced many a theatergoer that newspapers are produced in a madhouse. Mr. Casey's “Such Interesting People” draws no picture of begiamn, but it is in the same rollicking tempo. “All -his tales, undoubtedly, are wa though of ~ course, they add up to no recognizable portrayal | of. the prossfc routine and frequently dull business of journalism. Bob Casey, himself one of the most “interesting people American journalism has produced, writes just as he talks, in a colorful, always entertaining style. Here is a book that is almost the equivalent of a leisurely evening with Casey himself in an easy chair by the fireside—a book of anecdotes and mellow recollections, of sparkling humor and occasionally of high adventure. -W. In

Just What We Need

[By E. M. Pooley

F WASHINGTON, Nov, 19.—We are deeply indebted

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post-war set-up as badly as they.say they do,” “they would do:well to |

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