Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1943 — Page 18

TURKEY AND THE WESTERN FRONT

Y is about to join the war against Germany, ac- , Inonu at Cairo. They probably are premature. Despite Turkey's treaty of alliance with Britain, she has played a cagey game of neutrality from the beginning. This is not as bad as it sounds. As a relatively small country, she has tried to balance her friendship for the allies against the danger of being overrun by German forces. Also she has feared traditional Russian ambitions, Hence her. policy of ‘watchful waiting. Actually, however, this has worked to allied advantage. It has kept Germany out of Turkey, which the allies could not have done by force of arms. And it has won time for

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3 = - ¥ z APART FROM defending herself if Germany attacks, Turkey is not likely to become a full fighting ally until the Big Three can give two guarantees. One is that the allies rwrite her territorial integrity and Middle*East interests. The other is that the allies provide sufticient military strength in the Balkan-Aegean-Turkish area to assure a victorious campaign. Apparently the first guaranteé has been given. The Tehran agreément removed some of Turkey's fears that Russian and Britain intend to divide Iran and the Middle East into so-called spheres-of influence. At'the Inonu-Cairo teeting, Seilin's representative apparently joined Churchill; _ and Roosevelt in guaranteeing Turkish territory. But it is doubtful that the allies at Cairo were able— if, indeed, they tried—to convince Inonu that they are now strong enough to prevent German invasion of Turkey if he declares war on Hitler. Of course the situatidn may be much more favorable within a few months—the allies may then hold Rome and Central Italy, and part of the western Balkans: Russia may have reclaimed the Crimea and the Black sea, and be ready to invade Rumania, and Turkey may have received more allied planes.

PENDING ‘SUCH developments favorable to Turkey's __active participation in the war, the main military question doubtless is whether as a “benevolent non-belligerent” she. should" “provide “allied air bases and transit privileges | through the straits. These are tempting—from such bases ~ the allies could bomb Rumanian oil fields and cover an ‘ Aegean-Salonika invasion of the Balkans; and through the Dardanelles the allies could supply Russia. ‘But premature allied use of Turkish bases and facilities against Germany—like premature allied use of the Siberian bases against Japan—might invite another Singa-

and reverse the course of the war. been a tendency to stress the infportance of southern fronts

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Churchill's weakness in this war, as in the last, has

af thestKpense of a western front. ; a] ~~ But we hope, and believe; that the result of all these | alliegl conferences is to make the southern fronts secondary ‘to decisive air and land blows from the west.

BLUEPRINTS OF THE FUTURE

prints for the post-war world. A blueprint for peace was presented by forward-looking Senator Joseph Ball of Minnesota who addressed a luncheon of the Indiana Post-War Policies Council yesterday. World unity holds the key to future peace, Senator Ball believes, and most thinking Americans will agree with his statement that: “We must set up some form of an international organisation, participated in by all nations, to make war impose.” ’ - A All post-war plans and hopes will come to nothing, how- | ever, if Americahs continue to fight each other after the |

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: not enough. Unity at home—unity of purpose among busi- | ness management, labor, agriculture and governments | ~ the prime essential. With that we can go forward to bet- | ter times than we have ever known, Without that, the na- : tion will go backward to depression, unemployment and | - misery. : y 8 =» . » s

Bn as THERE HAS BEEN no finer blueprint for prosperity than the one drawn by Eric A. Johnston, president of the | . 8, Chamber of Commerce who is here to address the ‘an- | il meeting of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce today. The things that should unite us, Johnston says, | thousandfold greater than the things that divide us. And | Proposes this formula for mapping the “areas of agree- |

“Management, in the spirit of unity, must understand

and lower profit a unit and bigger and bigger volume ; that high wages are important if based on a corgly high level of production; that monopoly is a | y of doing business; that the umbrella of moncpoly ly held up over the heads of those w must remove any acts or policies which restrict production. - Labor organizations must be more democratic, mote socially minded. Labor must A house of those abuses which have crept into

ire must recognize the necessity for concosts and greater efficiency; that an ccon‘an economy of ruin; that a prospérous are essential to absorb the produc-

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nave any right to belong to the guild, because news- |causing accidents.

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y they would find themselves out of jobs and even compelled to walk a picket line in the company of a mob

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Editorial Workers Outnumbered

THE GUILD had started as an editorial union, but the newspaper people were inexperienced and 00 trustful for their own good and the first thing they knew the Commies had moved them into the C.1.0, and enlarged the eligibility so that the editorial workers were hopelessly outnumbered in their own union and bound to abide by the votes of other classes of employees, many of them in lines calling for no

Partisans Set Up New Regime APTER RUSSIA entered the conflict in the sum« mer of 194, a new group of guerrillas sprung up in Jugoslavia. They were led by Gen. Josip Brozovich, known to the Communist 1d as Tito, He had been with the Bolsheviks in Russia and with the Loyalists in Spain. He called his followers Par. Louis Adamic, author of “My Native Lahd,” is one of the best informed observers in this country on things Balkan. He was born in Jugoslavi§ and is a staunch supporter of Tito and the Partisans. In a wire to me from Chicago, he says these develope ments are of a “wide and profound importance,” adde ing that they “amount practically to the creation of a new government and dropping the exile regime,

skill at all Heywood Broun was red hot in his Communist phase at that time and it was clear that he was going over to the Evening Post. The real reporters, writers and copyreaders of the World-Telegram, with the exception of a few red hots, wanted to go on with their jobs and they easily saw through the plot to use them against their will. Naturally, there Was very

g ow he Hoosier Forum "I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“London dispatches,” Mr. Adamic said, “imply that the developments might bé a rash move on the = part of the Partisan leadership. But on the basis . of a rather thorough knowledge of Ribar, Tito and other leaders, 1 am convinced the new government was created only after an okay from the big powers. .° purposeful i

bitter féeling, which was constantly inflamed by the PE : ; ». | “PEDESTRIANS 4 { the official n of the id's savage nastiness o e Sige oe ion NT VE A g ARE PRI COO NY oR WLM IRR ee It seems unfair and unjust that

“Rpeanwhite the Daily Worker wages to the faithful Bolos on its own staff but there was never any talk of organizing a strike against the [the pedestrians don’t have a chance Worker, even when a movie reviewer was fired 10r [for their lives when crossing at refusing to change his professional opinion of “Gone !proper intersections in Indianapol's. With the Wind” to conform to the party line. The | I believe the fault is due to traffic majority of the editorial newspaper people of the | regulations, ; World-Telegram realized that there was a plan afoot | First, the pedestrian should be to make them go without pay for weeks, possibly (allowed to walk With green light months, and mess around in the streets under Com- until he either reaches center cf munist orders: and they got sore and fought the street or completes crossing street. Commies every step of the wiy even though the Reds Second, the driver making a right would drag meetings along until all hours of the {turn should wait until all pedesmorning and try to out-last them and spring a snap- |trians cross first.

voté after the opposition had gone home. : Sued, the same should apply to eft turn. ; racious Lady Business Fourth, drivers making right and | - That Gracious y : left turns should not honk at pedes-

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paper work is not her principal occupation. More- | All drivers are-compelled to do over, on joining, she was given a special concession (this in all other cities, so why not relieving her from the obligations to strike or picket, Indianapolis? : which are two of the most painful obligations of { P. 8. Today I saw a car from union membership. She horned in (and on the side California. The driver was so conof the Reds at that) and this naturally made it pretty {fused with traffic regulations, he hard for real American newspaper people and their [couldnt drive. No doubt “he was wives to go for that Gracious Lady business, which is (glad when he drove out of this city. always offered as the whole answer to any critieisr of . 8.» any wrong she does. We just felt that this was our own («A LOT OF US . affair and that she ought to mind hér own business C00 and I have told her so in print from time to time. HAVE SOLED 0 r “ ate. This is known as insulting the First Lady of thé Land, ye : tton ws The newspaper people finally licked the Commu- | A few weeks ago Gen. Pa aw nists on the Strike thing, but that doesn’t alter the (one of our greatest present y fact that when the fight was on and things were heroes. Millions of good Americans he Gracious Lady of the White (probably including R. A. DSi freely commended . . . old “Blood

and Guts.” ", . . When- the stay-at-home-war-win-ners learned of Gen. Patton's un-called-for —abuse of two. of his privates, a lot of us were ready to condemn him to a Jap prison camp. me of us, at the moment, felt thati we would usé a gun on auy army. officer who would. treat our boy as did Gen. Patton, but even then nor since, until we read R. A. Ds epistle, have we heard or read of: many who would condemn (Gen. Eisenhower because of his judgment in trying to handle a bad, deplorable situation in a manner that would cause the least friction in the army

office on the side of a lot of sneaking conspirators who didn't give a damn how much the real éditorial worker suffered if they could put over their plot and { promote “their own ambitions. :

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‘We The People By Ruth Millett

IT WAS EVIDENT to everyone on the dining car that the grayhaired woman, wearing expensive

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“well—even -she hadn't been able adjust herself to the inconveniences occasioned by the war, : -* Wouldn't it have been a pity if someone, not know-

had | after being wounded

but dowdy clothes, didn't know that there was 4 war on. 5 She kept the over-worked waiters jumping to get her first one thing and then another, and when

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and on thé home front. . ‘A lot of us have “cooled off” and are ready to let Gen. Patton ¢ontinue . . . under the leadership of Gen. Eisenhower, :

she found the soup too peppery for’ a 5 ‘and ) re ior | Mrs. GW. 8. certainly expresses Just want to thank you for the n't been spanked in years, but| a or salvagéd nylon plastic which is withe § Der taste sent word of her di oy sentiments: 1 only wish I could swell article in your paper of the 3d | seemid Jo be whet Khey hebded milk of ssiViged nylon nose Wis AM A Waiching her. you were sure Convey my feelings irr so few words. ‘about me. 1 didn't Rave jSny ides] of We dum's hate trouble with them : Pepe oe : Praise be to thee. i that my mother would have my more. : : s Hopeful = : & -th wx a : > : . ‘ 7 | mothe, instead of Sh oe ans wast| Mr. R."A. D. evidently has not|thoughts put in the paper, but, since| Dome on. Jo} parses of eet Manufacturges, H "willing to take the inconvenience of wartime travel [undergone the’ “cooling off” period. [she did, and since you were so nite agers rid brush, and| BUT THE MAKERS of musical instruments with a smile. 7: . ~ |He: would have Gen. Ei aff about DENURE Ih tive as the switch Ee oe . ; es on Business 1sn8 | "And then it _happened—the little human incident | Gén. Patton ang the entire staff put to | you. : the like the makers of music, live - | tint suddenly changed the picture. m Ineldent | the guard. house, “busted” be-| I have been getfing The Times|0ld-time woodshed and when you| always going to be this bad, thes Aqure, and people cause he (Gen. Eisenhower) used his! recently, and believe me, I certiinly|do leis hear #bout it. And “’téen-| a5 well as their progeny will af want to buy on : The True Story Comes Out head as he thought best. . .. ldo enjoy it, as do the other fel-|ager” you may not be a child, but| the installment plan while taking lessons on Strings, A 19-YEAR-OLD GIRL, wife of a soldier just ide Gl B alb ith 2 iE should be treated as such. The -Jull in bysiness has, in a way, given the shipped overseas, who was going back to mother for Si e Llances— y Galbra ~w ; eo. . | makers of musical instruments a chance to reflect on the duration with a 5-weeks-old baby arms, : et iis : a - seems | “YOUNG PEOPLE ARE “| théir sins of the past. The musical instrument ine asked the Sider woman if she would i Sain NE & TE TOMORROW'S CITIZENS” dustry, in short, is about to adopt a code of fair trade | while her mother ate. i : = ary : : > E It must have been her pride in being able sk b 7 ! | the baby from crying that loosened the AE 1. tongue. For while she held the child :

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hope they keep coming, for I would really be lost without it, now that I have started getting them. :

it is a little cooler right now than it Has been in the past, but, I guéss we couldn't expect it to stay warm forever like it was here about three or four months ago. I am still just fine. in fact, I don't think I could be feeling much better, but I sure do miss the old home town, and I'm

Dutch, the Norwegians, Belgians, French and the rest? s The implications, as he says, have “wide and profound importance.” “If he has interpreted them cor rectly, they will shake the structure of the united’ nations to its foundations. The new regime clearly aims to overthrow the present legitimate government, And it aims to present a fait accompli to the

the things that I used to when they reach Belgrade—a regime already ; once more for the swell| and functioning—leaving King Peter out in the cold, article, and keep_up with the 'good| Jf this could happen in Jugoslavia, if could work. I certainly will be looking] pen elsewhere. And it probably would if the forward to reading The Times again | had the okay of “the great powers.” ~~ = in good old Indianapolis one of these|. . days. Good luck, and best wishes. i Hallie. 9 sams eco: [IN Washington ‘teen-agers. My two girls, one 15 2 ia = the other almost 17, go out to shows WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. «I and ball games two nights each may please you considerably, as a week. 1 expéct them home not sign of the time, to know that the later than 11, and they are usually musical instrument industry is hothe a little after 10. Wonderful, about to reform. This has noth. you say! Well, maybe so in this|® ing in particular to do with the v day and age, but it wasn't always| ' war, and this is purely & like that. matter of relief from weightier, They used to come in at 12 and doublé-domed discoursés on the

sometimes 1 o'clock and I did noth-

The musical instrument busis ness, in fact, couldn't be deader, have left to sell are reconditioned, second-hand = things J

father when he came jn from work and he went up and gave them

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