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ry any more than could the Moscow meeting. | temper the unending demar that he is trying to cushion the shock by predicting it. Any such allied statement must repeat the uncondi-

That is now the only hope of militarist Germany, since total | Nazi victory is no longer possible. Therefore the allies reaffirm from time to time that they will not stop short of complete military defeat of Germany. isnot enough to threaten destruction. Taken) os threats enable Hitler to pose as the only proGermany; they. rally around him even Germans him but fear extinction more. That does not

: ; . 8» FE : S80 THE TIME COMES when it is wise for a winning army to encourage surrender by appealing to the enemy | War n : Je over the heads of their leaders, " NONETHELESS, PUBLISHERS have shown “This classe technique, of undermining enemy loyalty RS fiir Sian) era om nd morale, Was wed eee bo agains Hitler | ta defend tothe death your right to say it—Voltaire. this year by Stalin. It was used by Roosevelt and Churchill : m— ye . against Mussolini. And it was used by the big three Mos- LAPPIRS SaTieL ATE " cow conference last month on Hitler's Austrian satellite. By Lieyd V. South, 3338 N. Minois st. Their Austrian precedent is presumably the one the omy "Big Three will follow when they think the time has come to use this weapon of division in Germany. The significance of that allied statement was not only in the expressed desire for Austrian freedom and independence, but in this kicker: ; : “Austria is reminded, however, that she has a respon-

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(Times readers are invited prosper only when fed by strife.

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sibility, which 3he ‘cannot evade, for participation in the

War at the side of Hitlerite Germany, and that ii the final |"

settlement account will inevitably bé taken of her own _ contribution to her liberation.” : ne we : «0 OBVIOUSLY the German people have a much greater responsibility than the Austrians for the Hitlerite war. They were at once victims and accomplices of the Nazis. If they weye or. are unwilling accomplices, there is not much time left to show it. : To paraphrase the allied declaration on Austria: “In the final settlement account will inevitably be taken of the German peoples -own contribution.” : One of the most important decisions before the allied conference is the precise timing of an honest utlimatum to the German people that they must help force unconditional surrender of German militarism and Hitlerism to __earn their own freedom in a free Europe.

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thrée books sought in a ‘bookstore is immediately. : On the credit side is the fact that re selling more books than ever before. discovered the pleasure of books. books have more than doubled Books that used to be sent back to or tossed into the sixhave a brisk sale. « > i oy What, No Shakespeare? . : ' SHAKESPEARE FREQUENTLY is out of prin here—something no bookseller ever saw happen before. Translations from the Russian and French

classics are in great demand and such British favorites as the Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Vanity

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the bill, which was sponsored on that side of the capitol by ~The press-subsidy bill is sponsored in the house (with a 30-million dollar figure instead of 15) by Rep. Cannon of Missouri, chairman of the appropriations committee, and for Mr. Cannon's views we have at times considerable respect. So we should like to quote Mr. Cannon on the subject of subsidies—not something he said as a boy, but some remarks he made to the house on Nov. 23, 1943. Mr. ‘Cannon has the floor: “The farmers are opposed to subsidies. The people are opposed to subsidies. The congress is opposed to subsidies. The taxpayers and bond buyers are opposed

subsidies. 1 do not even believe the rank and file of the

are for subsidies. The American consumer... ‘mot want alms or government handouts .'..” 4 es, that is the same Cannon who is supporting a for the press—a subsidy which: large ‘segments of gas regard as dangerous, as a potential means of ting political control of the press through the power ® » r ‘ ” # » TO GET BACK to Morgenthau. In'a word, here says: “Inexcusable.”

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