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- STALIN KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS
isn’t the first time Stalin has made a deal with a Fascist Surely the alliance between Moscow and Berlin, which made it “safe” for Hitler to start this war, is not for-
regime.
TALIN has recognized Badoglio.
surprised many Americans. We
gotten so soon.
ment of this period. judge him as a Red propagandist. alist he operates with ruthless consistency, never missing an opportunity to strengthen Greater Russia.
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the United States.
The trouble with most of our thinking about Stalin is the old assumption that his aim is to communize the world. That was the original Moscow plan—a long time ago. But it didn't work. What with one thing and another, the Kremlin dictator changed. He became more of a Russian nationalist than an international revolutionist. is what Stalin is today—on the record. As long as Americans naively chase the international Red bogey, instead of watching the real growth of Russian national power, they will miss the most important developStalin seems fickle only to those who As a hard-boiled nation=
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JOE EASTMAN’S TESTAMENT
“’T HE country needs you,” President Roosevelt told Joe Eastman last month. The director of the office of defense transportation had offered to resign because the doctors were sending him to a hospital for rest. Now that he is dead we realize even more how greatly he is needed. He was as near the perfect civil servant as a man can be—a rare combination of intelligence, industry, tolerance, integrity and courage. Since his appointment to the interstate commerce commission in 1919, he had been the transportation expert of five Presidents
STALIN, HOWEVER, is not a miracle-worker. only taken advantage of a situation created by Russian military victories and Anglo-American diplomatic default. Even in Italy and French Africa, where we have military power and Stalin has none, he is stronger because he knows what he wants and we can't make up our minds. There is no use cursing Stalin—we should bless him for the largest contribution to allied victory to date. The job of our government is to work as hard for American interests, and for American ideals of a just and lasting peace, as Stalin has been working for his. reiterate that, unless President Roosevelt gets in advance a detail allied agreement on a democratic peace, he will repeat the failure of Woodrow Wilson. The United States has more bargaining power now than later. What is Washington waiting for?
He won and held the esteem of all.
who contributed probably more than any of his generation to a new branch of the federal government. “independent agency,” which combines functions of the older executive, legislative and judicial branches. still largely undeveloped field of administrative law and | practice, he left paths of progress which a pioneer either less hold or less careful could not have established.
He was more than an expert.
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istrative tribunals like the ICC are necessities. Probably we shall have more rather than less. To be successful they must be masters of their own souls, and known to be such, It is the duty of the President to determine their personnel, and of congress to determina by statute the policies which they are to administer: but in the administration of those policies these tribunals must not be under the domina-
tion or influence of either the President or congres anything else than their -ow the facts and the law such a tribunal.
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tion of the Badoglio regime — Britain and the United States still withhold it—Iis part of the pattern. The fact that Italian Communists demand Radoglio’s death and the king's abdication is, naturally of no consequence to the builder of a Russian sphere of influBadoglio and the king are now indebted to Stalin. If that relationship does not pay off for Russia, he can always chuck them—and probably he will in the end. Stalin was first to recognize De Gaulle, so he is in on the ground floor in France.. He is also ahead in his German plang, having set up in Moscow a so-called Free German “committee of captured Nazi generals and others. ] In Jugoslavia he backed a winner—the Moscow-trained Tito, who 4s now belatedly supported. also by Britain and Bulgaria is pro-Russian as always. Rumania is only 26 miles from the advancing ‘Russian armies. They are already deep in Poland. The Baltic states are claimed by Stalin, and are about to be retaken. must come to terms with Moscow or else, Czechoslovakia
25 years of federal service. We are glad he heard those anniversary testimonials before he died. And we are particularly fortunate that, in his humble acknowledgment on that occasion, h
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Mr. Willie's Day By S. Burton Heath
(Editor’s Note: This column was written before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, In the primary a~majority of delegates pledged or favor: to Willkie won out.) :
CONCORD, N.H, March 16.— You turn on your radio and hear the corn-fed accents of Wendell Willkie explaining to a convention of good-roads enthusiasts why wé Americans are afraid of the future. You are certain that you have read that speech before.
teresting people, deliver a speech’ that He knows by heart—and bye and bye, if he is lucky, he gets to
be President.” ,
what a candidate for the presidency really does do in a typical day, I've just gone through one with Wendell Willkie. Here it is in brief outline: Mr. Willkie woke up, on this particular day, in the home of National Committeeman Robert Burroughs, in Manchester. He bathed, shaved, dressed, and was downstairs at 7 o'clock. The only other person around was his host's 8-year-old daughter, who turned on lights and made him at home. : Three personal friends of Mr. Burroughs ¢ame for breakfast. Helen Burroughs, 13, brought a pile of her young friends’ autograph albums and many sheets of paper, each of which Mr. Willkie signed.
Five Minutes Late at Capital
AT 9, Messrs. Willkie, Burroughs and Lem Jones, press secretary, started in Mr. Burroughs’ car, ate tended by a state trooper in another car, for Concord, the state capital. They arrived here at 9:50, five minutes late. The lobby of the Eagle hotel was jam-packed with politicians, good-roads men, and others. The candidale shook some hands in the lobby, went up one flight to the gubernatorial suite, and at once had newspictures taken with Mr. Burroughs-and State Chairman Harold K. Davidson. Then local and Boston reporters dropped in to ask a few questions, Meanwhile ex-Senator George Moses, a certain delegate who has not declared himself, dropped in for a pre-arranged chat. He couldn't be kept waiting. Mr. Willkie and he went into another room. : The Willkie-pledged candidates had been waiting for a visit scheduled for 9:45. The reporter left and the candidates went in. They were followed, in relays, by unpledged candidates, mostly pro-Willkie. One was Joseph Moore, editor of the Hanover Gazette. He was worrying lest defeat of most Willkiepledged candidates by political big shots might be misinterpreted by outsiders as a Willkie defeat, even though the men who would win would be 2 to 1, or better, pro-Willkie. The reporters were called in and the peculiarities of the situation, due to the unique New Hampshire law, were explained and discussed.
Broadcasts After Hurried Luncheon
AT 1:30, Mr. Willkie had to go on the air with the talk that was all most listeners knew of his day’s program. Lunch must be eaten first. So he rushed down and got through the luncheon and speech, hur=ried to the door and shook hands with every diner before going to his room for an hour of theoretical rest. ® At 3:30, there was a real press conference with some 30 editors and reporters. He gave a little talk and was asked questions. For example: Will you express your views on our relations with Russia? Why do you want to be elected President? What are your convictions? At 4:15—a quarter of an hour late—the press conference was broken up hurriedly to dash across the street to the statehouse for a public reception in the council chambers. En route, Governor Blood, an Ayrshire fancier, sidetracked Mr. Willkie for a few minutes talk “off the cuff” to the state Ayrshire Breeders association. * The corridor outside: the council chamber was packed with waiting men, women and children. Mr. Willkie stood and shook hands with each and said a word or’'two to many. By the time he was through, schoolgirls flocked in with what looked like scores of papers to be autographed.
Quite a Few Incidentals Omitted
AT 5:30, Mr. Willkie dashed back to.the hotel, washed up, changed to a clean shirt, and went to Governor Blood’s home for a quiet dinner of 10 persons, all vitally interested in politics and sure to talk little else.
At 8 o'clock, Mr. Willkie addressed a Red Cross rally while Jones packed their bags so that they could dash for Nashua, stop at the home of City Chairman Tony Guertin to meet a few of the boys and girls, and then go on to Lowell, Mass., to take the 12:07 train back to New York. I've left out quite a few incidentals. Perhaps enough has been included to give a little idea of one typical day of several each week in the life of a barnstorming presidential candidate. That speech you tuned in, if you did, probably was the softest snap of the 17 hours of Wendell Willkie’s day in Manchester, Concord and Nashua.
Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His column will be resumed when he returns.
We The People
By Ruth Millett
ELDON ROARK, who writes an entertaining column in the Memphis Press-Scimitar, told the other day about a rare kind of husband he had run across. This man said to his wife, after the two had decided to buy a house, “You go ahead and buy one and fix it up like you want it, Just tell me when to move in.” The wife did just that, spending $10,000 in cash for the house and $3000 for the furniture—none of which the husband ever saw. On reading that’ story I first thought: “What a lucky woman, just to go out and buy the house and furniture she wanted without going to all the trouble of persuading her husband the house was a gem and that ua green carpet was the only possible ‘floor covering for the living room, even though the husband fancied a wine-colored one.” That was my first thought. Then, from a working knowledge of men, I decided that this wife is in for a lot of trouble.
t's Her Responsibility ;
IF THE roof on that house ever leaks, her husband—unless he is too-perfect to be true—is going to
out about the roof before you bought the place.” And if the dining-room chairs start falling apart, they'll be “your blankety-blank chairs” won't they, ladies? So it looks like a bad bargain from where I sit. I believe wives are better off who get the houses and furniture they want in the time-honored custom—by persuading their men through subtle flattery and ‘devious meens that they actually help: in their selection. 3 hg ? : Of course, that is work. Hard work if the man has his mind set on a leather davenport instead of
her way in the end, and even makes the man. forget he ever mentioned a leather ‘davenport. And then, if -the choice proves to be a mistake, it is no more
her faut than his. They picked it out together,
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The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“JUST A LITTLE BASKETBALL-CONSCIOUS”
By Pfe. Victor W. McGinnis, Army of the United States It is said out here in Indiana by the natives of this wonderful prairie land that the best basketball in the nation is played within Hoosierland borders. They will buttonhole an out-of-statesman at any and every opportunity and in profuse fashion declare that the best basketball players are to be found in Indiana. They claim that this is natural since Indiana also has the best coaches of the cage sport in the | country. I used to disagree, 1I|
any place. You can’t win. Out here all male babies cut their teeth on a deflated basketball bladder. It is an accepted stage in their | development. The bladder is left] in the boy's crib at all times and finally when his lungs have developed to the point where he can blow up the bladder, his folks shove!
ering and the boy is forced outside and told to practice four hours a} day. That is merely a beginner's course. Later the boy is expected to lengthen his practice periods to six and eight hours. At the age of three an Indiana
with the best of ’em. By the time he has reached the sixth grade, Hoosiers will tell you (and make you believe it) that the boy could make most college teams with the exception of Indiana College quintets. “A cager really has to have the stuff to make our college teams,” they will tell you. Once while standing by and patiently swallowing the sentences fed me by a rabid advocate of Hoosier basketball superiority, I ventured the statement, “We play basketball in Nebraska, too.” “Yeah,” was his reply, “I saw your University team once . . . kid stuff.” Now I have pride, but how you gonna argue with guys like that? They feed and drink on basketball talk out here apd personally I believe that they're soused to the gills most of the time. But you wouldn't dare tell them that, you know. Besides, outside of this one defect, they're plenty swell people. Big time college basketball in Hoosierland suffered a severe jolt this season. And I have noticed that the fans out here have one pet argument used in explaining a defeat. Whenever an Indiana collegiate five loses to a “foreign” quintet, they will tell you that the opponents were stocked with In-
don't any more. It doesn't get you |:
diana high school players. Other- | wise, leouldn't, have won. Many times,
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the opponents wouldn't,
I'll admit, they are right.
nomens with another soldier, and after we had talked about the weather, blonds, brunettes, redheads, Persian cats and other things, animate and inanimate, we said to each other “see yuh again” and he moved on. After he had
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Politics and war, that seems to be the most practical thing to write about at this time. Some people are already voicing their opinions on the coming election, so here is mine. Roosevelt will be a candidate and also will be elected for a fourth term which will be a closer race than before because the Republican party seems to be on the march once again. So, that eliminates “Windy” Willkie. He elected Roosevelt the last time and seems to be going good now. You so-cdlled politicians understand why, too. There has been
gossip and common rumors that MacArthur will be a candidate’ for the presidency which is out of the question. He is a good general ruling a few fighting men, but that is entirely different than governing
[130,000,000 citizens of every race, the bladder inside the leather cov-| The other day, I exchanged cog- color and creed. So, I think that
eliminates Douglas MacArthur. That leaves but one honest to goodness Republican to oppose Roosevelt. He is Thomas Dewey. He will run a close race, but will not win because Roosevelt is too
Reflections
By John W. Hillman
‘was a generation in American life that knew and loved Joe Lincoln and agreed with a news-
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of Joe Lincoln were of all ages and stations, for they
Hole in an era when the seafaring glories of its past were fading into a reminiscent glow, when the great characters who had salled the clipper ships through all the seven seas had anchored down in snug haven with their wisdom and their memories.
same spot in mid-Cape, where, on a clear day, one can see the Pilgrim monument on land's‘ end at Provincetown you can watch at night the lights of the New. York boat entering the canal at Sand where the Cape begins. But within these few miles circling out into Atlantic is a & | finite beauty and distinction, | cranberry bogs, pungen fishing -boats, lobster and blueberry bushes, gardens and white cottages ness of villages and farms. The sea is in the air, and it is a land of color. Nowhere in | there a rose so red as the Dorothy Perkins that on the gates and doorways of the Cape. It is a I that is unique through years of isolation, unique in landscape, unique in architecture, unique in customs and unique in its people. Even its cats have six toes.
Made Nation Conscious of Cape Cod
THIS WAS the land of which Joe Lincoln wrote and of which he made a nation conscious. For Joe Lincoln knew the Cape, as only a native could know this section where thé outlander is familiar but alien. He knew the perfume of the great salt meadows, knew Long Pond and shining Scargo Lake; the windy bluffs at Truro; he knew and white spired churches; he knew Barnstable and svelte Hyannis; he knew surge and thunder of the surf along the knew the king's highways and sandy And he knew the people, who are the salt of New England—and Cape Cod. He brought the breath of the sea and bayberry and pine into his books. And he the Cape Cod people with understanding and sincerity. Though his plots may have been conventional, he had a genius for character portrayal and humor that
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“Say, are you from Indiana?” ! He replied in similar tones, “No, | Ohio.” The question was superflu- | ous. I, of course, knew that he wasn't from Indiana since a Hoosier never talks about women ‘during basketball season. “Round ball,” as Bo McMillin calls the sport, is the one and only subject of all conversation. Strangers in this state might desire to know why I allowed the soldier to reach the next block before I ask him where he was from. Strangers, in time, will discover such behavior is just a matter of safety, One should never bring up the subject of basketball to a native Hoosier. To bring up the subject of basketball means that you will not only miss chow, but you will never reach the sublime quiet | of your bed before the Hoosier! drops from exhaustion around 4:00 the next morning. But, as I stated above, Hoosiers are swell people, Just a little bas ketball-conscious, that's all.
2 » os “ROOSEVELT WILL BE ELECTED”
By William H. Warren, Indianapolis, It has been about four months since I have written to the Hoosier Forum, so here goes once more.
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boy can execute the “fast break” reached the next block, I bellowed: backing, and he is too smart to be
defeated. The majority of people that are against Roosevelt really don't know why. You hear talk that he will become a dictator, phooey! Some say he promised that our boys wouldn't fight on foreign soil Where would the Japs be if we weren't fighting on foreign soil? And where would you and I be? Again, you hear some people saying it is unconstitutional. It is not; and if the people want him and elect him for a fourth term, fifth term or even a sixth term, I hope God will give him strength to carry on to be as good a President as he has been the last 12 years. He was elected when the whole country was on the verge of starvation, going to soup kitchens, begging, borrowing or stealing. We have not been doing that since he has been in office, and I don’t think we ever will unless we lose the war which I don't think we are losing.any sleep worry ing about that. : In time of war, a crisis, a torn-up world, a man like Roosevelt is the only man to be President. He 1s smart, militarily and otherwise, He is a God-fearing working and striving for an enduring peace and a better world for all. So, why not let well enough alone? Another President might mean better times, but remember it could be a lot worse. Let's all remember Pearl Harbor, 1941, and the Republican President, 1928-32. » ” t 4 “TAFT INDORSEMENT DOES NO GOOD” By Pvt. Fred Korotkin, Army of the United States : Senator Robert A. Taft on March 11 stated in Indianapolis that Bricker .is the best bet for Republican candidate for presidential nomination. Maybe so. However, Senator Taft’s indorsement does no good to Bricker's cause, but harms it instead. The personality-less Senator Taft has been so infinitely wrong right
(along that he would help Bricker
much more by making no public remarks in Bricker’'s favor. When Taft indorses Bricker publicly, Bricker loses admirers and potential
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“HATS OFF FOR COBB ENCONIUM”
By George Maxwell, 450 N. Senate st. Hats off to John W. Hillman for his enconium on Irvin Cobb in your Saturday’s paper. Cobb could scatcely have exceeded that himself.
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It's Nonsense By Maj. Al Williams
NEW YORK, March 16.—Nonsense concerning dramatics in aviation is far more disturbing to thousands of anxious parents than anything Goebbels has spewed forth.
Lurid, exaggerated stories are injuring morale of the home front, Here's an example, taken from one of the nation's leading magazines: “Sweat rolled down his (pilot's) face as he snapped back to full consciousness after the long dive.” Think of it, telling the parents that their sons are subjected to such dreadful physical stresses and strains in an ordinary dive bombing attack. Sweat might roll down the facé of any pilot diving into enemy anti-aircraft gunfire, but imagine anyone
man that E+ Writing that a normal pilot would lose any part of
consciousness after or during a jong dive. The youngsters who know better will laugh at such nonsense.
Strongest Built Planes in World
HERE ARE the facts known to millions ot young Americans in and out of our air forces: Our fighting ships and dive bombers are designed to withstand 10,000-foot dives. ‘They are tested to withstand such structural strains and the “pull-out” at the bottom of any dive with the bombs still attached. They are the strongest built planes in the world. ; With the structural capacity established beyond question, all mental hazards of the men who fly them are eliminated on this point. Nowg this stuff about “snapping back to full consciousness after the long dive—.” Even at my age I stand my fighter right on its nose and let her roar straight down. : Of course, there's a slight black-out of eyesight for a few seconds during the pull-out. But fighter and dive bomber pilots know all about it and dismiss it. Losing consciousness? Why, a man’s mind and sensés are more alert in a circumstances.
So They Say—
‘THE JAPS are able to replace their as we destroy them. They will probably be maintain this production for some time. But lieve the Japanese naval air force at its peak —Pacific Fleet Cmdr. Adm. : Nimitz, ° ¢ * * » WE MUST open a “third front” against juvenile crime here at home, which, unchecked, may a serious era of adult lawlessness in the future undermine that security we are now fighting to protect.—FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. v ¢ . ‘e * he
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