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ty hill. St AO ren x capitals come “reports,” really feelers, as to the time, place, and subjects of discussion. So the allies already have made the conference an effective weapon in the war of Naturally such a meeting fires the world’s imagination, inspiring our friends with hope and our enemies with fear. For its success is generally taken for granted. Chiefs of state are not apt to meet until the way has been carefully And, since the Moscow agreements, it has been no secret that a Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting would follow at the earliest practicable moment. Many assume that the purpose of such a meeting is to decide on the “second front,” the future of Germany, and Russia's eastern frontiers. But isn’t it rather late to begin making decisions about an allied invasion of Western Europe, which would require from six to 12 months’ preparation. Many high officials and officers have indicated that those plans already are close to completion. art As for Germany’s future and the Eastern European frontiers, Secretary Hull says both subjects are for postwar decision. Important as the big three are, they could not dispose finally of those problems without con-. sulting some others among the allies who have a tremen- ~ dous stake. Anyway, would the big three risk the success “of thelr first conference by “picking the hardest problems: to solve at once? As old and experienced negotiators are they not likely to begin with questions on which there is more agreement, or which require immediate attention for victory ? The big three have plenty of immediate policy decigions to make. <

THE DE GAULLE DOUBLE-CROSS HE British and American governments should agree to “no face-saving device whereby Gen. de Gaulle perpetuates his dictatorship of Lebanon by releasing native officials for some sort of puppet role. No such dodge would ~ solve any of the problems which make this an explosive the Syrism-and Ii “bases essential -to the allied war effort, aswell -as the Iraq.oil supply. and. the entire Near East. RG ‘The basic issue is whether de Gaulle can be trusted to keep his word. This is the crux for London and Wash- ~ ington no less than for the Lebanese victims of his past ~ ‘betrayals and for their Arab supporters throughout Africa and the Middle East. De Gaulle must give satisfactory guarantees as to the future, and agree to a native and allied control adequate to insure their observance. This is necessitated by his record of double-cross. To weaken Vichy-Berlin control of Lebanon, de Gaulle’s commanding general in the summer of 1941 pledged Lebanese independence. The British formally underwrote that pledge and British troops were chiefly responsible for freeing that country from the axis. But as soon as .de Gaulle got control he tried to prevent independence, which he finally proclaimed only under severe British, American and native pressure. Even after repeating the earlier freedom pledge, he blocked the elections for many months.

agreements with him he refused, and when the parliament finally voted an end of the French mandate he arrested the government and turned loose his Senegalese troops on the people. The kickback was so severe. that he blamed his delegate general there, M. Helleu, for the terrorism; but Helleu replied that de Gaulle had insisted on the action. ~~ Significantly, de Gaulle at the same time was acting ii bad faith in other matters. He tried to undermine the allied unity achievement at the Moscow conference. He tried to get rid of Gen. Giraud, whom he had already dis- _ honorably maneuvered out of joint authority on the Algiers committee, : ; Obviously, the whole relationship between de Gaull - and the united nations is going from bad to worse. ' Unless 3 he is willing to live up to his independence pledges to the. Lebanese, and to his obligation to co-operate fairly with Britain and the United States, he should no longer expect Anglo-American support. After all, winning the war— which includes liberating France—is our first responsibility to ourselves and to the enslaved people of France. :

. GUIDE'TO POST-WAR JOBS ~~ . senate’s committee on post-war economic policy; in its first preliminary report, stresses the urgent need setting up government machinery to co-ordinate and ise the demobilization and reconversion of industry. Already, the committee points out, 10,000 war conhave been canceled and steps have been taken toward civilian uses for a number of government-owned § the problems thus presented are being attacked thout co-ordination between the military servt any well defined central policy, without any eratior of the impact on the national economy. the war ends, the total of these problems will

joined our side

are betraying.’ *

communism.”

does his wife,

friendly with Hitler. . . didn't so I will, that during that same time the ; PLEAS Communists in - France were doing . sabotage. in-.the. "MOTORISTS, ® war factories, that Communist units in the French army committed treason and quit to the Germans |By a Non-Defense Worker: But Essential, and that in this country, too, they exerted them-| “aisaspelis selves in every possible way to help Hitler and harm Britain and us.’ - bE ut -. his, 2 oth . 7.) ! 5 “The Comniunist partisans in cold fact, are hardly | You do have; you give up in disgust, fighting the Germans,” Miss Mitchell's telegram says, | then drive into: a parking lot. “but are using their world propaganda machine to credit themselves with Serbian victories. The greatest |the mile square looking for a few terror of the Croat partisans is a just punishment feet of space where I could park for the murder of over 600,000 defenseless Serbs, old | Lizzie. Now if people wouldn't park men, women and children. The partisan army con- |50 far from the car in front, then sisting mainly of the identical men who performed |there would be more space for the these mass murders are calling themselves Com- {other fellows. munists to gain the protection of Russia, who sup- : ports and arms them against Mihailovitch whom we{OPerate and conserve during these

Right About Propaganda Methods 3 ARR ARC RTE BT eC pe Re 2k Irs VERY mplex, as you see, and Miss Mitchel goes- on to say that the Croats eagerly Joired the :

Tito Approved by Adamic ) ON THE OTHER hand, Louis Adamic, an Ameri‘can writer who was born there, and whose opinion carries a ‘Jot of weight because he is rated as an authority, has approved Tito. : The turn of the war in Jugoslavia thus puts Miss Mitchell on a spot for if we believe the then we have to suspect that this American woman, who certainly showed coursge in the war, is -either deliberately or innocently-helping a faction which is allied with Hitler, which would be pretty bad business and very unlikely, In view of the propaganda that has been spread by the Communists and considering the fact that American soldiers may have to fight in the Balkans, I believe Miss Mitchell's story should be presented as she wired it to me a few days ago from Reno. She says if it is true that small units of Serbian Chetniks, which is the name of Mihailovitch’s people, apparently have collaborated with the Germans; she can understand that because. our office of .war. information. has |. convinced the Serbs that we whole Balkans to Communism.

Openly Joined Our Side

THE SERBS, she says, are sincerely democratic and have been our faithful allies in this war as they were in the last one and points out that they openly

intend “to betray the

while the Communists were still 8he might have added but

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axis: but are now: going -over- to - the partisans .of Comrade Tito because they see Russia winning. * “The reported Chetnik axis collaborators probably [child. Out of the mouth. of fools are partisans disguised to throw odium on the Serbs,” |and babes comes the truth. 1 cershe says. “Our disloyalty to the Serbs and the pub- {tainly must be a fool, for I don’t belicity given to the brazen falsifications of the Com- [lieve in drastic treatment for youth's munist partisans by the Tiflis radio is a black disgrace | misdemeanors. These children to democracy and fs costing us dear as it has un- {should have a helping hand and a questionably long prevented a revolt by the Bulgarians |boost toward helping themselves. and Rumanians who, with the whole Balkans, hate

A NUMBER of letters from disgruntled housewives, who took jobs and then gave them up, makes me wonder if one of the reasons the quitting rate is so high among housewives may be “that they feel they have not been appreciated. "One woman worker who went _‘back to housework complained, “I got small thanks for standing on my feet all day.” ‘ It is easy to see why women

who _riever before have worked outside their homes expect praiseealong with their pay checks,

Spoiled by Husbands

WHEN THEY cooked a good meal their husbanis praised it. If they did something extra, such as making a dress, their husbands told them how smart they were. When they said they were tired, their husbands sympathized and cautioned, “Now take it tomorrow. No need for yoii to kill yourself.” But when they went into the working secretly feeling like heroines answering their country’s call, they found that praise wasn’t dished out | very freely. You were expected to do your job and no one was especially excited if you did it well. _It was so new and different that some of them | evidently couldn't take it. me Maybe it would be worth the boss’ while these days to kid his women workers along the way he

easy fleld,

“You're ‘the best little truck driver in the world” should work just as well as “you're the best little wife in the world.” Women are women no matter | what their jobs.

To the Point—

over helping Uncle Sam. He needs paper.

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

CONSERVE SPACE”

Did you ever try to find a parking place uptown?. My what a time

Last Saturday night I took in all

“The government expects 1s to ¢o-

war days. So motorists, please think and conserve space, ne ! Te = =

GREATEST POSSESSION”

a By Carrell Collins, - Indianapolis rs Why, Mr. Remy, you never werefa

Edison, according to books on the subject, was a problem child, ¥is

That is about the gist of Miss Mitchell's state- | teachers and father must have got ment and T am not sure it clarifies matters but I pass {an awful shock when their propheit along because, whatever the rights and wrongs ot [cies didn't pan gold. He gave the the dispute, she is dead right about the Communist |world a great deal for a lazy, nopropaganda as to both its quality and its methods. [good kid. . .. And we do have to remember that back there when Hitler overran Jugoslavia, the Communists were not |the scrap turned over an outhouse. in the field resisting because Russia was at peace with Germany and Mihailovitch was a hero to us,

We The People

By Ruth Millett

. s - FJ » s { the elected Lebanese government tried to make

A marine today in the middle of

. « « Today the boy is a hero. Another boy who never fitted into the plans of school or the other children today has flve medals, two for save ing his crew when things looked hopeless. Ada zan, & wise woman and good teacher, told me after I was grown, and I quote, “Captain, you were good as long as I could keep you busy.” I looked back and she had made me librarian and I had to be at school early to put the arithmetic and algebra on the board. Yes, I had the energy of 10 kids, but it was directed correctly. I hope to see children and their problesm understood some day. Every child could be saved if the public would demand the right methods. Why do children become criminals? Because they get hurt, hurt 80 badly they are compelled to strike back in some way, therefore they break the law. It is not only underprivileged children but some are

‘| from wealthy homes.

I've seen the work of the courts with the young. The child is never right nor truthful. I've watched them hammer away at one question

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until my head would ache, so. what about the child? I'd gladly help a child to find its true worth. First, instead of throwing the book at them, I'd try to find out what they were interested in and win their complete confidence without bringing up their transgressions. Then when they trusted-me I am confident they would play the game and tell all the facts of their own accord, Not every child likes school— remember Edison—-but every child, yes, every man and woman, has a golden dreanmi, the one thing they would love to do. Now why can't we help them with that dream? Give them the one oiitlet for their pent-up emotions. Then if the dream falls through, does not materialize, they will be adjusted to take up life and probably do the world a lot of good. Their talents and energy will be directed into channels where they will not be harmful but constructive. Yes, we Americans are a humane people, we save our pigs, cows, goats, dogs, cats and horses, and make them better, We donate to funds to insure them a home and kindness but there is no money to save a soul of a girl or boy who has stepped from the straight and narrow. Every night people- in the Forum want to see justice for dumb animals, but dd you ever hear them want to help the modern youth? I love animals, but what about chil. dren? Well; I for one love them What if these fighters today had not been given a chand, where

would Americans be? Birth control |-

has cut our population down, but at least in the name of common decency we can see the children

Side Glances—By Galbraith :

like a keg of beer, dregs on the top and bottom but sound in the center.

brought into this world have a I conclusion, I'll 'say we have taxes for even orchestras, but why bother with the future generations of John Q. Publics? Wake up, you Hoosiers, for the children we have are our greatest possession, so let's see they get the same square deal that dogs and cats get. -» "8 “PEOPLE ARE CORE OF THIS DEMOCRACY”

By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, B. B. 6, Box 04

publican and Democratic parties are

TE SNE iE dol ;gruvelr Y expected to pay more rut By

when I asked him the price It was Just the same as I paid before.

A NATIONALLY-KNOWN political figure

this writer:

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“The Oumansky statement hit ¥

a 3 Nor was Oumansky alone in his role of wet blane ket. Izvestia, mouthpiece of the Kremlin, announced

stand is that by sticking to her claims for the time i being, she will be able to yield at the peace table ©

—. | In exchangé for some quid pro quo yet to be revealed. © ~.On or near the Soviet frontiers are some 10 little

countries aggregating approximately 100,000,000 - ine’ i

habitants, U. S. Wants Simple Justice

RUSSIA HAS TWO alternatives. She can | her small neighbors in whole or in part, dictate

foreign and domestic policies of the remainder and’

hold them all in check by force, or she can win § their friendship, confidence and collaboration, :

"Officially, Washington has paid no attention to | what Oumansky, Izvestia and other sources are say- = ing. And, of course, it won't. But that dobs net I

mean that Washington is indifferent to such proe ©

nouncements. Washington knows that neither So= viet newspapers, nor Soviet ‘envoys, ever speak oul

of turn,

It is widely hoped, therefore, that at their forthe Stalin

at Test some of the doubts which in the past few days have beset well-wishers here. For American plans for participation in future peace guarantees are all based, not on: the domination of the weak

~1-once read in my history the Re-| "vo sorong, but on simple justice.

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I said, “I thought prices had gone| 4

up.” “Well,” he said, “I could get|. ‘more for my gravel, but in war}

times it's un-American, I don’t want

any more.” - This man votes Re-| |

publican for he's on the board. Last week another good citizen was here hunting. He told of having some extra boxes of shells and right away was offered 10 times more than he paid. “Listen, boys,” he said, “I don't want any more than I paid, I'm an American.” He's a. Democrat. I was glad to hear him say that. It still shows the center of the population is good. We are Americans in the center comprising threefourths of the population, Some of our officials are the foam. That's not good to drink. . .. nh We still vote by ballot. We the people are the very core of this democracy, let's keep it sound. : J . 8 “POLICEWOMEN HELPING OUT DURING WAR" By Mrs. D. F. K., Indianapolis ar Well, well, R. A. R., you ‘feel sorry for Chief Beeker, and I feel sorry for you. You compare women with 12-year-old boys. You call them green, and say other nasty things. In fact, if you're a man, your wife must have been forced to work in

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ministration—all intended the citizens what the war

home front is all about—one

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the next day. No press conferences were called to 3

explain the directive, give its background, its

of operation or the reason for its issuance, The 5 was that they story got short play way back inside in i most papers, usually with a headline such as “Judge t

Vinson Sets Oelling on Live Cattle.”

This was exactly"the opposite of the idea OPA wanted to create. OPA's public information office got busy and tried to rush through a six-page ine terpretation and explanation to make the directive

understandable and give it some sense, but this effort got tangled in red tape and was held up for two

weeks,

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