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SEP RILEY 5551

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE YALTA MILITARY PACT TALIN won most of the Yalta political decisions at the expense of the Atlantic charter, but he agreed to bet-

- ter military co-operation. Despite a net political loss, there

were importan. military gains. Hitler's frantic hope of splitting the Big Three failed. : : Though Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt should not try to dictate the political settlement of Europe, without recognizing the right of review by the united nations organization, they have to make the military decisions. Permanent political solutions cannot be improvised during war, but military strategy has to be decided quickly. And it has to be decided by the Big Three, because they ‘must supply most of the men and materials. :

The chief military weakness, hitherto, has been lack | | Republicans were - ready to believe that President

of co-ordination between Russia and the western allies. While Anglo-American co-operation has béen virtually complete, Stalin had been unwilling to operate on the same basis. : Russia took all the supplies we could send her, but was not ready to share strategy or bases with us. This failure prolonged the war last fall when the Russians— instead of matching Eisenhower's drive from the west with an eastern pincers, along the Warsaw-Berlin road—swung far south into the Balkans for political control.

¥ . BUT AT YALTA, Stalin seems to have made good on three major tests of military co-operation, and perhaps on a fourth. : The first concerns joint staffs. “These meetings,” according to the communique, “have resulted in closer .co-

* ordination of the military effort of the three allies than

ever before. The fullest ‘information has been interchanged. The timing, scope and co-ordination of new and even more powerful blows to be launched by our armies and air forces into the heart of Germany from the east, west, north and south have been fully agreed and planned in . . . We believe that the very close working partnership among the three staffs attained at this conference will result in shortening the war. Meetings of the three “staffs will be continued in the future whenever the need arises.” . Secondly, Stalin withdrew his objection to joint con“trol of the separate Russian zone of occupation in postarmistice Germany. Now “co-ordinated administration and control (of the four separate zones) has been provided for under the plan, through a central control commission con-

sisting of the supreme commanders (of the four powers).”

“THE TWO OTHER TESTS involve Russia's relation-

ship to junker and Jap militarism. Up to this time Stalin has clung to his junker mar-

ghals and generals of the “Free Germany committee,” and

he has also publicly insisted on Germany retaining an army after defeat. in So nothing is more important in the Yalta announce-

ment than Stalin's agreement that the whole German |

military system, as well as Naziism, must be abolished.

Unless that agreement is enforced, Hitler's defeat will be

a junker victory in preparation for world war IIL

Whether Stalin has met the fourth test of allied military co-operation by agreeing to help wipe out Jap militarism after German defeat, of course, is not known. Japan

is not even mentioned in the Yalta communique.

But our guess from the beginning has been that Russia would fight Japan—at the time chosen by Stalin. Not | « as a favor to the United States, but solely in Russia's in-

terest. That is as. it should be.

Jap militarism is an even worse threat to Russia than Moreover, Russia cannot maintain her desired position as an Asiatic and Pacific power without | participating in the victory over Japan and having a voice

to us, because closer.

in the post-war settlement.

The political results of Yalta are disappointing, but the military agreements will speed the defeat of Germany" And those are the first things we

and of Japan probably. are fighting for.

RECOGNIZING VETERANS

WE have been told of an honorably discharged and thrice

decorated soldier who, shortly after returning to e A than those of the United States.

civilian life in his home town, put on his uniform again.

. friend met him on the street and asked him if he had been

called back into the service.

“No,” the soldier said, ‘I put my uniform back on because I got tired of having people ask me why a young man

my age wasn't in the army.” .

That young soldier was issued an honorable discharge Presumably he wore it on And presumably the people | Falls,

pin when he left the service. the lapel of his civilian suit.

ty, 5 cents a copy; deliv |

REFLECTIONS—

By William H. Stoneman

SOMEWHERE ON“ THE. ATLANTIC Oppressed and obsessed py its fear of being “taken to the cleaners” or “being a sucker the mightiest nation in the world is thinking and behaving in some respects like. an international bleacherite. Mental energy, which might be used to clarify the American attitude toward world problems, ‘is being wasted on the enjoyable but "negative sport of screaming about other people's views and politics. Because you can't get anywhere in the big leagues of international affairs unless you keep your eye on the ball, the United States is not scoring. : It is bunting when it should be hitting triples. That is the impression you get as you travel about the United States today—an impression of unconquerable moral, mental and physical power being frit tered away because of emotionalism, prejudice and a very human desire to avoid xesponsibility. At least, it is the impression we personally got in the East and Middlewest during a month's vacation from Europe.

Greece an Example of Trend

DURING THIS period Greece was a popular subject of conversation .and the treatment accorded it was symptomatic. Every American we talked to, irrespective of party

acted improperly in Greece. Almost all liberals and leftwingers we met felt that the British had barged into Greece to defend reaction. ¥ Big businessmen were impressed by the belief that the British had been granted control over Greece and Italy as parts of a Mediterranean “sphere of influence.”

Roosevelt had played Santa Claus. This sentiment was aggravated by the fact that Washington was either silent or noncommittal. The implication was that the British ‘had acted independently. What nobody could deny, and what seemed lo be the most serious feature of the situation, was that the American government could have demanded and se-

chose, provided that it was able to decide what it wanted. at ;

had not pressed for its acceptance. was nobody’s fault but our own.

Britain Now No. | Whipping Boy

THE AMERICAN reaction to the Greek «crisis furnished proof of a fact which is already accepted in Berlin, Tokyo and London—namely, that Britain has noy become firmly established as-No. 2 whipping boy for American public opinion, The general belief that the United States had | been “had” in the Mediterranean brought the Anglophobia to a new pitch of popularity and served to revive all the old beefs about the “damned British.” When the London Weekly Economist and other organs showed resentment against the outbursts of anti-British feeling in the United States, it was generally agreed that they were “talking out of turn” and “asking for trouble,” which indeed they were. In general, the attitude of American civilians toward the British is similar to that of American soldiers in Europe.

Some are ready to agree that “the British have guts, you can’t deny it.” : . . : Some will even go so far as to say that Britain's stand in 1940 and 1941 saved Europe. A tiny minority is full of admiration for the British and firmly believes that the United States and Britain must work as a unit in the post-war world.

Unproductive and: Unpleasant

4d "BUT THE general impression of Americans seems to be that everything the British do is either stupid or sharp,-that they are not pulling their weight in the war, and that the empire, is finished. : _ Qddly enough, Prime Minister Churchill and Field Marshal Sir Bernard. L. Montgomery are held in deep respect, even by those who think that Churchill, is outsmarting Roosevelt and those who feel that “Monty” is patronizing. A cold examination of this whole situation may lead to the conclusion that the American people are incapable of 'likirig the British #nd working closely

| mental reasons.

| the people's nerves cool off. The point is that, as matters | Americans are spending a lot of energy .on a proposition which is as unproductive as it is unpleasant,

(Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.)

| WORLD AFFAIRS—

By William Philip Simms

(Continued From Page One)

agreements, including the

. .» ending Dec. 31, 1945 . . . therefore, that . when

with Japan advisable, Moscow wil

sacred than her pact with War saw.

like Germany, is forced to surrender unconditionally and her war machine dismantled, she will continu to block Russia’s access to the Pacific. Contrary to the popular impression,

phenomenal rate.

Muscle Shoals, Wilson and

combined.

who asked him why he wasn't in uniform had no idea of .

what the pin signified, if they saw it at all.

So perhaps it is time that all of us started taking notice. The, discharge pin is plastic, and the insigne is a goldplated eagle within a circle, with the wings extending

beyond the circle’s edge. :

These pins are given to all honorably discharged men and women when they leave the service. . They should be worn by the. thovsands who have already returned to civilian

life, and by the millions who will follow them.

ho ‘And they ought to be recognized by all who see them. ey are proud distinctions, and they should earn their rers special consideration and freedom from hard looks

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invited to the Big Three Yalta conferrepjesented, by Ed Flynn.

Empire Faces Japan

power, she bottles up Siberia. churia, now a puppet of Nippon.

Russia but now is Japanese.

Asia. So ntake no mistake about it:

however, is another story. Russia will

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Keep Eye On Ball

or position, accepted the view that the British had |

cured any solution of the Greek situation which it |

It looked as though we either. did not have a policy differing from that of Britain, or, if we did have; we | That, obviously, |

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The Hoosier Forum |

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“LET'S LEARN ALL THE FACTS FIRST”

By Guilty, Indianapolis What is all the fuss about just

{who should be the most privileged,

as to who should do their shopping | on Monday nights. Let's analyze this a little. Just what is meant by | war workers? Let's see if we can't]

{look at it this way.

The armed forces have to have arms and equpment. They get it from the men and women working | in the war factories. The people]

who work in these war factories get

theirs from the so-called civilian | industries, their clothing, food, etc. Now. these people that work at making clothing, food, etc, many| of them work six days a week and| some of them long hours. They | are the ones that put the items in| the stores for the war workers and | themselves, Now, as I understand it, the Monday night opening of the stores was an idea that would help in the war effort for all. ‘I have been in

|the stores on Monday nights, and

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| with Britain for historical, economic and tempera- the hour. |

fullest extent on all the existing | Pol-] this: Who gives these ‘large cor-

ish-Soviet pact of non-aggression

There is no reason to believe, Soviet interests in the Far East make war

regard its pact with Tokyo as more

Russia's stakes in the Western Pacific are materially greater even Unless Japan,

Siberia 1s one of the richest parts of the globe. Its mining y manufacturing and agriculture are growing at a

The AMBara river, flowing out of Lake Baikal— so Soviet officials said when I visited that region— alone would provide more waterpower than Niagara | Boulder dams

THIS VAST EMPIRE, considerably larger than the United States, faces the Pacific, or rather the seas between the mainland and Japan's island chain. Yet at present it has only dfie fairly good port— Vladivostok. As long™as Japan remains a first-class

Russia also is vitally interested in Manchuria. The Chinese eastern short-cut between Chita, on the trans-Siberian, and Vladivostok crosses ManRussia built the Chinese Eastern railway but Japan cheated her out of it when Russia was weak. The warm water port; Port Arthur, on the Yellow sea, once belonged to

~ These are fust some of Russia's interests in East \ Russia intends td sit at the- peace table when Japan is liquidated. This- means she must come into the war. Whena ; . . Eertainly -do_ her own timing and neither the Soviet-Jap pact fick’ any pressure which: we might try to bring on b

1been paid in

to save my souk I can't tell a war ‘ker from anyone else, except the ones with a uniform on. Let's get it in. our heads that because we See a woman on the bus or streetcar, dressed without slacks, that she isn't a war worker. Let's not be too hasty about judg-| ing others. Maybe this woman with her baby just came from or is going| to the doctor and it wag he that set

Let us all learn the facts first. It

: { there will a large number who The current surge of Anglophobia, on the other tsiife will prevent a lot of headaches, | will not have received this dun by | hand, may be “eliminated as things quiet down and |gply the truth can free us. { 7 {

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: ” now stand, the | DOES TREASURY RELISH.

A LAST-MINUTE RUSH?”

By F. H. B., Indianapolis / I am writing this article fot the attention of the bureau ofsinternal revenue , . . and also to find out how many other people are affected in the same way-as L As 1 read it, the folder issued

| 7 8aYs h Jap-Russ War Seen [am ms hae fumed

his emplbyees with a statement, giving” the amount said employee hag received: in wages-and-- the amount of withholding tax that has for the preceding year, Now, what I want to know 1s | porations. that employ us the permission to extend the date for our receipt ‘or these. forms from the

| treasurer's. office instead of mailin

Side Glances = By Galbraith

(Times readers are invited “CONSISTENCY, THOU to express their views in [ART A JEWEL” these columns, religious con. “ |By Clara Cheadle, 620 Division st. troversies excluded. Because of the. volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

our youth against spanking, vexing, profanity, work, etc. Recently they were for drafting them into the hellishness of war at the age of 17. Consistency; thou art a jewel. A blueprint of the Japanese attack accumulated dust while our congressmen were too busy with petty arguments to read it. Will we never learn? with less meddling our homes and schools could handle most of our youth problems far better than our politicians would do. Where [they fail we grant the state authority. They are elected and paid lfor intelligent service. Are they {accepting the challenge or merely | passing the buck? 3 Clean house at home first!

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date of Jan. 31 to whenever it pleases them? As I interpret it the law says not later than Jan, 31. It seems there are a lot of us who have not, as yet, received #: = 2 these statements, nor can we get “THERE MUST BE any information when they will be SOMETHING WRONG” distributed. These firms were well By RB. Moore, C. C. M., Island X ~

informed on _this in advance. : Now the bn ; Have just read, with a great deal

| v department will tiot accept our own word on of interest, the accoun what’ we earned and we have 10 pienhart case in your paper. al tus report 18 the oatiy 50. 14 sn happens®that I served with that they can in turn sen a . id dun. y 8 Mr. Dienhart for a period of about Now, explain who is’ going to be 18 months overseas, in one of the

ing the giant issue is:"

Nbw our legislators would protect |

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POUMCAL SCENE=, |Post:War Jobs

|By Thomas L. Stokes ne

Congress and the coufitry recently - i

have become conscious of the big problem involved in the vast array of war plants built by the governe ment, their ultimate disposal and the part they can play in our

post-war industrial structure—for . |

good or for ill, * iia The problem and its ramificas tions have been dramatized ‘in } % gerieral terms in the Jesse Jones . - Henry Wallace controversy. affecte lending agencies, in which a major

Who shall control policy in disposing of the 020

plants owned by the government through the De« fense Plant Corp., one of these agencies?

It has been dramatized concretely in the rivalry

for ownership of two western steel plants, the $100,« 000,000 Fontana, Cal, plant of Henry Kaiser, and the $200,000,000 Geneva plant at Provo, Utah,

U. 8. Steel lately has signified it has its eyes on

both those plants in a proposed full-fledged expansion to the West coast.

for development of an independent western steel ine

Mr. Kaiser also wants the plants dustry,

We Must Have More Jobs

THESE ARE only two of the many plants ine volved. We've got to have several million more. jobs after the war than before it if we are fo reach the goal set both by the government and by leaders of prie vate industry, Before the war, there were some 46,000,000 persons employed. The post-war figure is being fixed bee tween 56,000,000 and 60,000,000, so that from 10 to 14 million more jobs will be required. Everybody who wants to work has had a job dure ing the war. Millions of workers have jobs in the multitude of war plants built by the government, These war plants could continue to provide jobs if properly utilized in post-war-industry. : Among those who believe that these war plants can and should be so- utilized is Senator O'Mahoney (D, Wyo.). Furthermore, he proposes to do some= thing about it.” 4 Through the Wyoming senator's alertness, a check was provided both by congress and by the justice department on disposal of these government plants, to see that it is inthe public interest, through amendments that he sponsored in the surplus.prope

Would Guard Against Monopoly

BUT THE senator proposes to go further. . H# wants to formulate a policy in advance to assure most effective use of these plants.

He wants to guard against building up monopoly 1

through their sale,

of monopoly.

_ He is calling together everybody concerned with } disposal of government plants—the surplus property board, Defense Plant Corp. the justice department } which has charge of anti-trust law enforcement, and |

the present operators, to discuss the whole problem in public hearings.

“I think these war plants should be used. We |

must find out how best they can bé used,” he sald.

IN WASHINGTON— Lend-Lease By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 —Lende lease is up in congress for its

of opposition from the Repub= so far.

John Vorys (R:. O.), a member of; the house foreign , affairs coms! mittee, which is holding hearings! on the bill to extend lend-lease| until June 30, 1946. i

«+4 Rep. Vorys said he wants to}

caught in. the rysh at the treas- toughest spots on the face of the urer's office Mgafch 15. No doubt globe. I was present when he was

] F " in- | discharge from the navy. Mal a Ta eo After reading your account of Mr. theée before March, we will have | Hershey's ruling on his case, I am th make a personal trip to the|8t 2 loss to find words to describe g. | my feelings. Cs will bel I. as well as some 13 million r others now in the service, had be- ¢ ‘lieved that we were to be protected n as far as our jobs were con-

How many man-hours lost by people in all plants ove the country? And how many 0 these employers will yell their} heads off when you ask for a half day or day- off to go pay up? I claim it is unfair- to tell the people they have to meet the dead- return—if we do. line. on taxes. when the employers |

cerned, and now the first'case of its kind apparently shows all of us just what to expect when we de

The explanation given by Mr. can set. their own deadline and let Hershey certainly seems to me to

see -lend-lease continued as a military measure in| | any theater as long as there is fighting going onj i

injured. the injury leading to his| there hut no longer. i fighting stops, § and is considering presenting such an amendment

He wants lend-lease to stop when

| to the law. He does not believe that this country should furnish food under lend-lease to Europe when only the war against Japan remains, i | ’ | Wants Data on Commitments

HE 18 urging his colleagues on the foreign affairs committee to go slow “until we receive adequate information on the commitments made by the | President at the Big Three meeting.” . . “The thing the people of this country don’t | realize about this simple little bill to extend. the | lend-lease law for another year is that it does much re than that,” he said.

5 SW st ious ing the way and setting a MO | us sweat it out as the precious be pointing y | “It” will extend until June 30, 1949, the period

days. get. fewer. Does the treasury precedent for every and any ems department relish this last minute ployer to close the door in the face] of the returning vet. Can you im- | If they don't, I suggest they had agine the feelings of the average on these man in the service who has had a

tax paying rush on March 15?

hetter put some fines

firms that are holding us up with|firm belief that his job would be last minute reports, who have no|waiting for him, to suddenly find when he does return it will be to |try and get. hig'old job back—or

one's interest at heart but their own. — - find a new one?

| this.

lives in their own way, | what they are fighting for.

| these boys have.

| months after the war {s over?

apple business.

thing wrong somewhere.

DAILY THOUGHTS

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and In the remnant

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) Bon sas eA sevioR. we."Y. M. AF U8 FAT. BFF “gah “Thy mercy set me free, - yy To a Whilst in the confidence of pray'r . "Imagine her ‘olin ma this dress fits me wonderfully—I could tell oe : y her look they she meant I've gained weight!"

It seems that this law, as well as the discharge for men over 42 years of age, is so full of loopholes that the whole thing is a farce. Far better to promise us nothing at all, {than to have even one instance like

These boys out here on Island X | ask nothing more than to finish up |the war and get home to their old jobs and a chance to live their own That is

Home is a word that means much more to them than to anyone who {has never been tinder the conditions

Is it. possible that these same boys will be on every street corner, sellling apples and shoe strings, six

1f the Dienhart case is a forecast |of what is to happen to the rest of us, we certainly shall be in the I know this decision is not. that of Mr. Average American, but there must be some-

whom the Lord shall call'=~Joel

Lt carrying out. lend-lease contracts,

“As it is now, without any extension the President can make commitments to supply food and materials to our allies in Europe which will: be binding up | until June 30, 1948. Further extension will make | it it possible for our government to be obligated until June 30, 1949.” 3 Rep. Vorys concedes that his colleagues “don't seem to be as excited about the matter as 1.”

made aware that the extension of the lend-lease law. for another year also means adding anothex

lease contracts can be fulfilled.”

Viewed as Benefits to U. S.

CHAIRMAN SOL BLOOM foreign affairs committee says that his Ohio cols league is “needlessly worried” about the three-yeal period for carrying out lend-lease contracts.

That is so we will have three years in which tc get back what we can under reverse lend-lease. “And as-for the President making commitments running several years ahead, he cannot do thal unless money is appropriated. And appropriations for lend-lease must be anything elsé.” Chairman Bloom said he believed there will be

tension.

have it." Rep. Charles Halleck (R. Ind.) said he believed

the law should be extended because it is now a p of nattonal and international policy.

".| “But our boys probably will ask a good man

questions about how it is being used,” he sald.

1 i. as Ti ; So They Say— AVERAGE ABILITY level of veferans who hav entered the’ university recently is close to that o other entering students.—Dr, Edward 8. Jones, dea: of men, U. of Buffalo. ots -. . . 1 STILL wince whén I think of the saw Hitler. : Such lies, such hysteria, ruthlessness —Col. Gen. Janos Voroes, Hu

defense minister By, Ap) MLE

such

He wants to see that ‘they are fot closed down : and taken out of production to foster the purposes

third extension and the rumbling § licans this time are rather feeble

Chief opponent to date is. Rep. |

“But,” he said, “I think the people Should be §

year anto-the three-year period during which lénds J

(D. N.Y) of theft

“That,” said Chairman Bloom, “is for our benefit |}

passed by congress just like

little opposition in congress to the lend-lease exs

“Most of us” he said, “feel that it is better td} havé it and not need it than to need it and noi

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