Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1945 — Page 12

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Tue YEAR, BEHIND IEWED against postponed hopes of 1944 victory in . Europe, the old year sgems- ‘heavy with disappointment. ut a longer. look reveals plenty to be. thankful for. Com-| with a year ago. the war achigyements have.. been ftemendous. * : : I a : “The Germans were Sven out of Russia, the Baltic, fost of Eastern, Europe and the Balkans, They lost more _ than territory and=en. Most of their puppet gov ernments fell, and Nazi prestige declined elsewhere. oH But the biggest event, of course, was the allied invasion of France—an amphibious undertaking unique ‘in size and ~ guccess in all military.history: The enemy was certain it could not be done, and not a-few allies were doubtful. It ehanged the course of the war. At. least it advanced allied Yictory two or three yedrs; at most it pievented a military stalemate and a compromise’ peace which would have been 4 Sisguised German: victory preparatory to world war 111. s #* » 2 » » IN THE PACIFIC most of our progress has come this . gear, The sweep, which has carried us all the way to Saipan and the Philippines, started in the Marshalls last _ January. Now we have bases for steady bombing of Japan, and to cut the South China sea. lines which have held together her conquest. “Among all world fronts, only in Asia have the allies failed i in-1944. Reconquest of Burma has-been slower than: expected and is still far from complete—through no fault of our superb Gen. Stilwell, now withdrawn, and his valiant . jungle troops. Lord Mouritbatten's long-publicized amibious offensive to retake Rangoon, Singapore and the Dutch Indies was not even attempted. And in China the allies suffered one-of the worst defeats of the war, the -Japs taking all remaining ports and coastal air bases from |. sthich we "had hoped to launch the invasion of Japan. ~ Though the Chinese political and military situations have improved a little i in recent weeks, the crisis continues. 2 s = 2 8 8 ” © ALLIED GAINS on international political fronts this year have not kept pace with the large net military advance. There has been less allied unity; particularly among the _ big three, due chiefly to contintied ‘exclusion of the smaller pations from allied political councils ‘and ‘the Russianritish balance-of-power. policies, This has increased strife liberated countries and disillusionment in England apd the United States. But, despite efforts to scrap the Atlantic Chartér and delays in organizing a permanent international’ “security

achievement. It.is the first step, and a long one, toward | transforming this wartime alliance into’ a post-war united nations body with the will and the power to prevent future aggression. «If our progress next year i$ eqal to that of - 1944, there will be peace in Europe and our consequent concentration against dspam § will png us much closer to final -yictory. ¢

THE YEAR “AHEAD FIVE moriths ago it seemed that the war in Europe might be over today. Four months ago it appeared probable that the turn of 1945 might find us well on the road to ~ péconversion living, toward peacetime existence.” vivo fhresamonths ago it seemed that we should soon be |

able to turn our whole strength against Japan, even though |

Gérmany might not be beaten within the calendar year. |

Two months ago it seemed that once oppresidential elec- | _ tion was over the world could set about with hope and |

Be foundations laid at Dumbarton Oaks. Today we know.that 1945 will be a year of hard tasks and. fatal acfions.® We shall suffer somewhat from the | summer spree of over-confidence and relaxation, but now at | least we know that we- are still fighting bitterly with two desperate enemies whose strength and determination are by jo means exhansied. > : - 8.8 2 2 ” THIS YEAR 1s likely to bring the heaviest casualties | that Americans have suffered in any year of any war. There |% will be bad news of setbacks and delays along with the good ol news of victories. And the bad news will be harder to bear & because final victory may be almost in sight. it will bea year of diligence for all of us here at home. We shall have to guard against impatience and discourage- . ment and war weariness. We shall have to prove to ourgelves and to the men who are fighting the war that we can | take it, stay on the job supply these fighting men’s needs in abundance and hot. cheapen their -sactifices by petty complaints: © : From our government, 1945 will ask a wiser and niore “vigorous world leadership than ever has been required of an * American government. For the President and the military leaders, the year will bring more endless days of imperative decisions. From the mew congress it will demand a selfless, + . partyless patriotism that must % guide sgaingt action fatal to | World peace. : ou 8 : a BUT THIS IS also a year of hope. The first day of 1942 “found the country almost too stunned by the preceding 24 _ days to realize its peril. Two years ago the road from Africa to Berlin and from Guadalcanal to Tokyo seemed endless. Last year the great gamble of D-day lay in the doubtful future. . Great strides can be taken in 1945. We have a superiof | m ai force with superior teadership:—We have the cone : of most of the world's peoples as the guarantors of : fi and fair, dealings. We have the potentialities of greater str gth to throw into the battles for Yistory peace.

REFLECTIONS—

Roll Y Y our Own-

‘only 36 years ago.

a th IER hc 3 SR - - im

because of the ‘recent shortage.

shal Von

; leagu umbarton Oaks blueprint is stilk.an | 8, the oifiplete D Pp on the Western front never has been made ‘public, |

but military. authorities here point out there are four U. S. ground armies and one British army. (Which | includes Poles, Czechs, Dutch, Belgians) engaged, and’ suggest the ratio in number of men could not be far from this. The allied airborne arniy is mixed. These authorities estimate that Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Canadian 1st army and | British 2d army are holding 100 to 120 ‘miles of 2] 500-mile line against the Germans, and four U. armies ‘are holding about 300 miles, Units of the 1st French army are presumed to be holding the Te-

’ Voh Rundstedt.”

By Evelyn Peyton Gordon

smoke. hat makes him lucky—today.

“But there. was a day

from ‘Arizona .gazed at an ashtray of-cigare

and shook His auburn hair. Back in 1908

Ashiirst was a young and budding politicia countered the veteran Senator Marcus Aurelius Smith,

That gentleman ‘was much perturbed. In a hotel at the Grand Canyon, in a cently occupied by a lady, butts. théy had been smoked by Alice Roosevelt!

have acquired. the habit. Mr. * Ashurst™ hs he told the story.

sympathetic twinkle in his eyes. “Why-I in those days when even men in our pa

feountry didn't dare to smoke cigarets. It Cigars and a pipe, yes. Ang afew

sidered sissy. cowboys did roll- their own.’

It's Perfectly Correct. ~~

TODAY ' THE GIRL Who ‘cah jy “he considered smart and forward-looking, “for Mrs. Elmer Davis, wife of OWI's chief.

" “When T'm-home I roll own. santly-=light “one from the otter

I used to carry ready-made smokes to parties, it’s good “old Bull Durham all

with .the shortage, the time.

Well, Mrs. Davis doesn't look like a person who She's tiny, . ‘with big, blue eyes She talks briskly

“rolls her -own. and -a. head ‘of curly white hair. and frankly. i Furthermore it's ‘perfectly correct to

rect because the is the arbiter of official e Mr.

during another shortage of ready-made Back in 1911-12 when he was in China,

WORLD -AFFAIRS—

British Criticism By Charles T: Lucey

WASHINGTON, Jan.

: - +four-to-one:

far of a mild nature,

The Lond

THE ACTUAL NUMBERS of allied troop

mainder at the southern end of the allied haps 80 miles or so.

~The spread of -the British and Canadian lines, roughly, is from Arnhem in the north to near Venlo | [er S SURVIVAL north’ of Aachen. The U. S. lines take .up there | F TH EST” and extend to 4 point between Strasbourg and Colmar. 9 E FITTEST

| No Accurate Estimate of Casualties

NO ACCURATE ESTIMATE of comparative cas- |

{ ualties between U, S. and British armies is possible i: patriotic suckers who took rationing | on the basis of figures available here, though if they |in its true meaning and ‘who were for the nation.

follow; the. ratio of men engaged, American casualties |saticfied to live up to the rules and| if congress is going to cost us more | Work, government guarantee of jobs

would: be much heavier, of course, U.S. casualties. from D-day to Dec. 1 on

| man front were 44,143 killed, 189,118 wounded, 24,863 * enthusiasm to build a permanent structure for peace on-| missing—altogether 258,124: ‘The most recent figures | | available from British sources here, extending only | to the. end of August; showed ‘20,795 killed, 63,193 | | wounded and 19,854 missing or taken prisoners. Beginning at the northern énd of the allied line | there is the Canadian 1st army commanded by Gen. H. D. G. Crerar; then the British 2d army under b Lt. Gen. Sir Miles Dempsey, the two armies making

up Gen. Montgomery's 21st army’ group.

Then comes the 9th U. 8, army: commanded. hy.

Lt. Gen. William. H, Simpson,” the 1st U.

commanded by “Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, and | the 3d U. S. army commanded by Lt. Gen. George | Gen. Omar

S. ‘Patton—the thrée ‘making up Lt. Bradley's 12th army group.

Then, moving ‘southward, is the 6th army group |

commanded by Lt. Gen. Jacob ‘IL. Devers, cluding Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's and the French ‘1st army.

|4° British and Canadian Divisions

BROKEN, DOWN as to divisions, the

cent information is that the British and Canadians have 10 infantry and four armored divisions in the Americans have seven armored divisions

line; 25 infantry aivisions. comparable in all cases. War production officials shy away from mate as to what pfepartion of supplies goin whole Western front battle are coming fro and from the United States. The London Evening News military w

it was agreed widely that Gen. Eisenhower ‘is the

ideal man for supreme commander, but tha he is “carrying should be divided. that in th? North African campaign; the r

the land battle was left to Field Marshal Alexander, But, he said, on Sept. 1 “Eisenhower descended from the supreme perch and took Gvér the personal control of the land

operating under Gen, Eisenhower.

fightinig without, so -far as"I am aware, any of his other responsibilities. »

This writer said Field Marshal Montgoiiety told him shortly before the German counter-offensive that

Jt will require the. greatest military skil Gen.-Bisenhower, it was stiould pick his best subordinate to rum

WASHINGTON, Jan, 1.—Henry A. Ashurst doesn't No stant in line for him in the hope of a measly pack: when the former senator

they: found 10 cigaret And Senator, Smith was very much. afraid

‘Since that time not only Alice Roosevelt’ Longworth, but millions "of oihet women

“yes, times #nd customs pave sanged. " sighed There was a

I smoke inces= ve for years.

Summerlin didn't ‘take to rolling cigarets He picked it up |

ish ‘criticism of the supreme allied command under Gen. Eiserthower as a result of the German coun-ter-offensive drew attention here to the composition ©f allied armies on the Western front—U. outnumber Bfitish troops about

The British press criticism, so

, British. opposition in world war I 0. appointment of Marshal Foch as supreme allied commander. ( Daily Mail observed that Field Mardstedt’s counter-attack had showiradefect in the allied command organization and suggestedthat A changes are desirable they must be made. In the “London Evening News, Sir Douglas Brownrigg, a retired lieutenant-general, proposed that Field Marshal Sir Harold R: L. G. Aléxander be named executive commander of Western front land forces" Under Gen. Eisenhower.

Four U, S. Ground Armies Orarafing

Size of the divisions is not | |

He pointed out’

battle or take Alexander’ again _as his deputy.

butts ren, Mr. n, he en-_

room re-

That. was

remember nt of the was con-

r own 5 instance,

Now

roll your

+ WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.~This New Year's day truly - ushers in- a year of decision. On many battlefronts all over the world—on-the home front. ' It is a year that will test the - ~mettle of the American people. It will very likely be the toughest year of the war. It will see the last long pull; béfore .utlimate: victory. Nerves will be raw, tempers 1 short, and patience will be a real : virtue. . Ratience and forbearance will’ be needed. The yer starts off inauspiciously, which may be | Just as well, for it provides a sober mote of réalism which’ is often most healthy,

Belt Must Be Tightened

i RARY set-back on the German miithey Z L{xont, follows some discouraging signs on the European political} front in the by-play of power politics

“because of the lag in the war.

a single “bomb ha§ been dropped—who, i an aire plane sounds. ove head, merely look up curiously to see what it is, and do not have fo scurry away to a | hole somewhere to avoid what it may drop and what thousands and thowsands of planes have dropped ceaselessly on people ‘elsewhere in the world. "Trivial, too, wien sons and brothers and friends

own—the' chief of protocol of ‘the state department,. | George T. -Summerlin, does and if he does its cor-

tiquet.

The Hoosier Forum

are fighting somewhere, knee-déép in snow and mud and slushy swamps. Risse i Yet such trivialities - do affect peo

accustomed

But we can't afford to give in to them, to let. little things make us impatient over the big th the paramount things.

cigarets: I wholly dis with what you say, but will defend to the death r right to say it.—Voltaire. ¥ 7 “PHYSICAL FITNESS (Times readers are invited | It would, in other words, de] IS PURCHASABLE® . Ho express... their views .in --[PEive them of a-knowledge of the : aT weapons they may have to use in’ §By. An American. Patriot, Greencastle these columns, religious con- {their own self-preservation in event The argyment for peacetime con- troversies excluded. Because [of World War No. 3 which, I rescription which has most logic in . . i ‘‘gret to. say, is. among the realm of my-opihion is that it would give us of the volume received, lef: 1 C0" lq distinct possibilities, a chance to correct health defi-] ters should be limited to:250 Congenital pagifists will, of course, | | ciencies in our youth and make our| ards, 1 etters must be [laud the stand of the Federal Counlcitizenry. physically fit.. Certainly . 1 —Brite citizenry. physically fi signed. Opinions sat. forth cil. These are the self- -same groups

the large number of rejections for physical reasons gives us nothing | to be proud of. I do not think that peacetinie conscription will.do this, however. In the first place, the bills so far] offered call for training of *‘those physically able,” in the same language as the present draft act; and unless a most liberal interpretation were giveh, as is being given Tecently, many with minor. defects {would be refused service and their {defects would go unremedied. In {the second place it is folly to as- quite a jolt, but we still don't. besume that one year -of good food! |lieve “that here. in America greed | good exercise, ‘and good medical 8nd. injustice pay a premium, and | treatfitent is going to overcome the We will. ‘save our voided aoints| fll effects of 17. years of poor food, ragainst the day we might forget to| poor habits, and poog_ medical care. | be there first, :if and when more If we are really serious about this| are issued. matter of having a nation physically| ‘It's survival of the fittest, and the] fit, ‘let us expand our publi¢ and] fittest: are those whq have nd reprivate heajth programs that good Bard for. the public or. their next medical care may be available to door neighbor. The OPA rewards levery child from infancy up; let us| these people, while those that play | ladd to our nutritional programs andthe game according to the rules are lextend the system of free: public, punished. The next chance that | sehoot lunéhes and the like; and let comes up for hoarding be careful us use our school buildings, play=-¥o! don’t get stepped on. { grounds, and with added recrea-| a 8 =u tional facilities give our youngsters | “ALLOWANCES ARE wholesome. and’ decent habits. BEING INCREASED” PHysical fitness is purchasable. It can be bought if the American peo-| 2’ J C- Indianapolis Clerical allowances for congress-

ple. will pay-for, it.. But chronic], are- being increased by $3000

diseases and the results df long-| " kihg th t of each ite malnutrition and neglect can-| J Ee a 8 wos a t i {not be corrected by twelve months, tone would pot mind {His cost Hf

in an a a i i n rmy camp. Americans had been receiving their

‘here are those of the writers, * and publication in no way impfies agreement with those opinions by The-Times.— The. Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manu< scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

S. troops

recdlled

us and our confidence has received

s engaged |

line, per- |

‘consideration for the White House

2 * money's worth. However, from 1929 to 1939, the ‘average income of 75 per cent of the adult population was hwy C. & Vilidanupilh less than one quarter that of the | congressional salaries and about one | Go ahead—laugh! You with your tenth of the cost per congressman. shelves groaning with ‘eanned goods. | Certainly this does not reflect the | | You can well afford to ‘laugh at us/type of governmental service best

Jt is my considered opinion that |

[buy as we needed. We were content| |money, the money be devoted to] with our share of what was avail-| {the further education of COngress= | able to us. {men in the facts of economic life. | We don't blame yo now that wel Therefore funds should.besprovided {know the tactics of those who de-| for courses given by some Wash-| livered that “shot in the dark” on| ington educational institution in a | Srna night. We only. wish we|subject that should be ‘most dear! had been as smart, {to congressmen, political economy, You who have voided our share] jor:as we call it economics. v hoarding can stick your head out | WN RL {of your hoard of stock with con-|f«y WONDER WHY tempt on your face ’for those who | no deal with’ the black market type. jWE HESITATE We are not looking for. sympathy By W. BR. F., Indianapolis and it is more a matter of prin-| It is. observed that the "Federal| ciple than a can of peaches, but | Council of Churches of Christ in| {please .-don’t judge us "to hastily | America again runs true to form {for our stupidity, as we may at soma|in that, as was to be expected, | future date, join your ranks. lit opposes compulsory military | 2

the Ger- |

8... army

and In-1 of course you greatly outnumber training for our youth. th army | : : 8 Side -Glances=By Galbraith most re- | ¢ Bp

and

any esti- | g into the | m Britain | riter. said t the load

unning of

shedding

1 to beat | suggested, the land

THE question rated

. , These aré respon bilities as well as resources. To use-

ed effort by all of us-—from President and general to fe and school boy. What Americans do iri the next

". JAPANESE NEWS

mburn. the Jos or the sod. braid,

Wil have profound effeet on ‘the Shape; of Ew

By the Datly Matt centered on whether the allied armies Were working ““with the So-ordinateq precision vital to modern Wartare, » me ——————————————

«To The Point— ":.

fully and wisely is a “Job that calls-for conscious, in- | } ney admits that mor¢ than “70 Jap generals have been killeg: since. May.

_|ing up a ‘couple for “billing and coo-

For this is & year of decision.

Big Decision for Folks at Home >

- WE AT. HOME need not worry about, the military. decision, eXehpt to. see that the fighting men get everything, they need for the final push in Europe and the Pacific. There are’ a, few among us who know about such things and can speak with authority, but that does not apply to the rank and file.

that Have long worked for a disarmed U, S. A, They really seem

decision. Io That is the big decision for folks on the home

never to learn. front, -We can win it or lose it this year, Or rather As for Japan, I wonder why we| congress, which represents us, can. = hesitate to gas them. Talk ahout| There's one thing for us. to remember. - Congress

a humane war against Japan is absurd. Japan, in peace and war, has no moral code. She has made of war little less than legalizeti murder. . Why show such eonsideration for the palace of -Hirohito? Do you suppose the Japs would show such

is supposed to represent the American people. This congress was elected on a mandate to put the United States in an international orgamization to keep the peace hereafter. There is no doubt about that. Both party platforms indorsed it. Both-candidates for the presidency advoeated it, and strongly. Congress - got jumpy and nervous, before 1t- left, about episodes in Belgium, in Italy, in Greece, in Poland—and natiirally so. Congress still will be jumpy and nervous when {it gets back this week. It looked as if Great Britain and Russia were fixing things up among themselves along: the -old sphere-of-influence lines, contrary to what we had read into numerous declarations, including the Atlantic Chartér—and fix-

if they had the gas in sufficient quantities? I do not! Hirohito is No. 1 sewer rat and we do well to 50 regard him. We don't want any more sneak

{attacks ‘and we had better. waken | ing them up in advance: of the creation of an inter--up. One of these. fine days we may |

| national organization platined to handle just such . see something we were not looking | matters, around the fable, wildy. everybody. included. ;

for—provided that 1s, we give Japan | (time enough to get the gas supply - Let Our Allies Know How People Feel

she needs. v » ” “SYSTEM OPERATES IN HUGE CYCLE By. D. .G. G., Indianapolis Orchids to Senators Murray of Montana, Revercomb of West Vir- | ginia and Truman of Missouri. The economic system operates in| a huge cycle. . The first. thought can't have everything exactly as we Want it, that {of the “have -nots” ‘is for - food; | Europe is full of problems that can't be adjusted

over these devélopments, for 1t showed we knew what this war is all about. It- would be good for President Roosevelt, and perhaps. the senate, to let our allies know how our people feel. It would be good, at” the same time, ‘to let our allies know that we, intend to co-operate with them this time in an international organzation, | that we intend to play the game.

then the sorely needed . necessities | { to suit evfrybody, for they have ‘been so long in °

which they ‘have been doing. with~0l rejudices. But we out for so long. This starts: oe the waking a invoive ged peel %. ball of prosperity (a very small| id help and ‘accept . responsibility. and use our ball at first), which gradually rolls | influence, so that we can get as near Justice as on, giving. those who were a little | ‘Possible. etter of the opportunity to medige/ For all these things, we can hold congress to n some long-desired luxuries, there- | account, for. they are the representatives of ine by creating employment in their | le. aad thus bringing a’ “better | This is the decision we can make at home and, 9 i of living all the way along | ;» the end. it comes back to the decision our soldiers . ine. . | are making on the battle fronts, -for. that is what Sif Brjssle employment cannot be | | they are fighting about—in Belgium and Germany or all capable and willing 10 | 51.4 in the Pacific, knee-deép in show and mud and” Slushy swamps.

will start’ ‘the ball rolling and fit {is a well-known fact that no per- Sa

son will rémain on a government- IN WASHINGTON—

{made project if he or she can ob-| *

tain remunerative employment ih . I | Miscellany

| private friustes, “YET THEY WANT . : By | Pefer Edson i

US TO WORK” By Arthur J. Faust, 953 N. Pennsylvania st. I am not only writing this for my friend and myself, but for hundreds of other fellows in the same fix. We would be only too glad to igo to work in an essential industry but we "would have to wait two weeks or more to draw our first pay nd we do not. know anyone in town’ that would stake until we got that first pay. Overseas they need planes, guns and ammunition but we haven't that stake so we cannot go to work making these items for war. These tactories should be able to fix a fellowsup until he got situated but yn I guess they won't, yet they want IT ISNT ‘OFTEN that a rich man wil us to work for them. ” ” ”

“IN SYMPATHY WITH THE POLICEMAN” § By a Reader, Indianapolis “| secretary of state, I see, that Mayor Tyndall" in-

structed Clifford Beeker to. reduce the rank of a policeman for break-

of Mrs. neatest tricks of the week in help~ ~

before lunch.

will L. Clayton did just that*in making his state- | ment before the senate foreign relations committee,

of my family and I own approximately ‘40

ing on abus, iid s the e 0 omy estima, th FE ip ow ah 1 Job in the “little cabinet.” : ful as tw le billing andi. : 0 ate ry 2 hm an Somervell "Does Some Infiltrating | - married or single. They. should be taught a lesson, 1 doubt if the mayor would approve of his-son doing the same thing. I sympathize with ‘the policeman and corgratulate him ‘his ferve in breaking up. such an em-

investigating committee’s forthcoming report. “What report?” asked Somervel in surprise.

Ay,

barrassing scene. 1 know the pas- 1 ure = preparation. "The result was that proofs were , fur : sengers in anoratniment. have en. ished the army service force and .a was put joyea ‘ = [to work “to check them. Issuance

DAILY THOUGHTS it won't look anything like the original “version.

And He cried unto the "Lord, LB and the Lord shewed him a tree, ‘which when he-had cast into the waters, the waters were: Yhade , sweet.—Exodus 15:25.

Under whose feet’ cet (subjected. to; His!

Brace), . . sit mature, | tottine, motion. time d place. 2s

his alleged Fascist and firoator. Clark of of Mito

charge that, he sympathies, *

pie

ng, | But of the 8 party last night they | had ol...

om pg 0 10p 9 hos gn ihe

by Great Brithin and Russia in trying to cope with - . | some practical\situations that broke open in Advance on

But we do have something to do with the Peace

It would be. good for us to realize; too, that ‘we

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1~One Franklin D, Rbosevelt's

ing to solve the servant problem was inadvertently shown to Washington newspaper women . when the first lady conducted them on a tour of the White House that ~ .included the kitchen. It was just In the butlers pantry were: plates of food. Fried chicken and a joint of veal for the help, consisting of 33 garvants, | The: frst family was having stuffed green peppers.

put. and tell you how much he’s worth, ‘but

which was investigting his fitness to be an assistant ,

“The capital, -srplus. and undivided profits of Anderson-Clayton & Co. is now a little over 50 million: dolldrs;” read Mr. Clayton, “of leh members per cent.” . i oN It figures out to 20 million net, and. re explains héw Mr. Clayton can afford to take 8 $10,000-a-year

Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell and Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan were at lunch the other day when the ‘senator happened to. mention the war

Ferguson told him it was a report on drmy surplus ? property. The general hadn't even known it was in

!| held up over & week and when it finally comes out,

< STRANGEST’ ASPECT of the foreign relations committee's deliberations on the state department nominations was the importance. of the Spanish | revolution in the proceedings. While Senator Murray - of Montana was trying to pump James C. Dunn-on neo sympathies, Sen- 2 “MacLeish on the tag. sini and , ouii-Prango | i

IT WAS good and proper for us to get stirred we 5

ought to, sit” in” With European nations to counsel,

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