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Monday, March 26, 1945

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THE GREEK ANNIVERSARY . hs HE 124th anniversary of the Greek war forAndependence, just observed, had special meaning for Americans. . Since that-war of long ago began with the old American cry, “Liberty or Death,” we have felta deep friendship for the Greeks. In this axis war no-nation was called upon to make greater sacrifices or fought more valiantly -against our common enemies. Though some of her islands are

occupied by the invader, happily most of the land celebrated.

the national anniversary yesterday in freedom. But the neritage of the foreign conqueror is still heavy on the people. It remains in the ruins of nearly 1400 towns, more than 800 completely destroyed: Everywhere there is hunger, destitution and disease. The need for food, clothing and medicine is acute—a need which must be met by allied relief just as-rapidly as ships can be found in this military period of tonnage shortage. In the long run, however, only the Greeks can help themselves. They know this and would not have it otherwise, for they are a proud and self-reliant people. Their future depends on their capacity to bring order out of the fearful chaos left by war.

» » » “ s o THE TEST, of course,” is national unity. Only as all parties and factions work together in this emergency can they achieve the rapid reconstruction so essential to Greek survival as a free nation. A vicious circle, of misery that produces civil strife that produces more misery, must not be permitted. Fortunately, the Greeks seem to have found in the temporary regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, a patriot far enough above party differences to rally the country. Gréece has come a long way since her last anniversary. May the coming year carry her far along the road to a peaceful prosperity. : z

NOTE ON THE FOOD SHORTAGE FROM the Congressional Record:

MR. VORYS of Ohio. After the Hot Springs food con- |

ference I heard one of the American delegates say that he expected that in the next year while we would have enough

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B REFLECTIONS. orci

Precedent By Joe Williams

NEW YORK, March | pI LaGuardia won't like ! ; ew, and along s of War Mobilizer , might conceivably ing crowd to throw their

encourage some of the weight around. So Here's how and why: The curfew is not a product | though ad tedly the.request stems from the second |‘ highestsguthority in Washington. The racing blackout xas' similarly conceived. It isn't a law. either. ~~ Mr, Byes candidly admits he is powerless to enforce the curfew and even FDR, queried on LaGuardiass action with a view to possible reprisals, could do not more than shrug. and ask, in effect, ‘What can we do?” .

| Sanctions Might Be Applied SINCE NEITHER the curfew nor‘the racing black- | out is supported by law there isn't a great deal Wash- | ington can do directly, but indirectly it might be possible to apply sanctions in the form of fuel and other restraints, and in this way achieve the same objective, 1f any racing beliigerent were so inclined he could open his track tomorrow in much the same manner i LaGuardia, moving on his own, extended the curfew { Trom midnight to one o'clock. There would be shocked | protests from Washington but there wouid be no way, no legal way, to force the belligerent to close his | track, for the simple reason there is no law under which the officials can move. y Washington colld do no more than resort to sanctions which would make it unpleasant, if not im- | possible, for the track to operate. And very likely | would do just that. I happen to know this possibility, as a counter measure, has already been discussed in the war mobilizer's office,

Hollywood Ignored Suggestions . I DO NOT BELIEVE you will see any the present ranks of racing leaders who, for the most

break In

part, are resigied to the situation and are agreed to | sweat it out until the blackout is lifted. Nevertheless, vou never can tell when an insurgent may take it into { his noggin to gpen his track and take his chances, come what may. As a matter of fact it was a move of this sort that led directly to the blackout. There would have been no general blackout if the Hollywood track in California hadn't ignored very pointed.suggestions | that Washington wanted no racing out there. This led to a livelv controversy between two important war agencies in Washington, the details of which will make interesting telling when the proper time comes. One overruled the other. # But even if the Hollywood crowd hadn't jumped

the traces there would have been a partial blackqut,.

|.certainly: a sharp curtailment, for protest was piling

on protest against racing, in Washington, -ggainst |

the staggering crowds and the equally staggering betting totals. closed and others more fortunately located "were to be restricted as to length of meetings. You'd be surprised, but official Washington is“"most sensitive to | letter writers and I'm reliably told that literally thou-

of the due processes of faw. It is simply a request, |

All tracks in industrial areas were to be |

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“IS IT A PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATION?” | By R. Irving, Indianapolis Is the Communist party a pa- | triotic orgahization? ~~ 1 | So says Elmer Johnson (presi-] dent, Indiana Communist Political | association, Board of Trade build-|

ing) in his letter to the Forum of |

| sands of letter tumbled into Washington protesting {March 22.

| against the continuance of racing . during the war. |

Possibly he hasn't read much]

Hoosier

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” “WILL CAUSE A |FESTERING SORE” By Edward W. Kellogg, Indianapolis Although it may be futile to res|urrect any of the questions which

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies 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 &greement with those opinions by The Times. The

from Germany seéts to me of questionable wisdom. I cannot blame those who have suffered for want{ing any kind of compensation they

BEHIND THE: FRQNTowe..... Supply Trai By Thomas L. Stokes DEAUVILLE, France, March_26 =A special’ train seryice for high i privrity supplies for the armies at the front operates now from Cher= bourg, with a 36-hour schedule from shipside to front-line depots. It is a through train for the front in France and Belgium, via Paris. It hauls freight cars, each carrying up to 20 tons “of vital items. It must be unloaded within 13 hours. At Cherbourg it is loaded ‘directly from Liberty and Victory ships, without the intermediate stop. = unloading of the docks and then reloading om the train, as formerly. ~ The train is operated by the 728th railway vate

talion, commanded by an experienced railroad man, Col. Carl D.~ Love of Louisville, Ky.

Railroading Not Always De Luxe + THIS IS what might be called a de luxe train of its kind. But railroading in the Normandy area was not always de luxe, far irom it. In the battle for this area the railroads were bombed, tangled, twisted. Roliing stock was destroyed. The military railway service, commanded by Brig. Gen. Clarence L. Burpee of Jacksonville, Fla., plunged headlong into the job, It meant not only repairing tracks, yards and telephone lines, but rebuilding bridges, signal houses, railway stations and the like. But while all this was going on, the trains had to move. They did move—but how. Perhaps every American hoy is born with the ambition to be a railroad erngineer—at least’ those of my generation were. Some of them had a chance over here in those early days for the invasion. Some day somebody may write a companion piece to “Casey Jones” about

been a curtain salesman, as one of them had .been, or

The, five-man crew got a handful of K rations, jumped on the train, and away they went, knowing vaguely which way. they were headed, but nol knowing exactly how to stop. It was sort of a case of: “Coming— ready or not.”

They Drove With a Prayer THERE, WAS cne crew which started for one place and landed somewhere else, quite an adventure. The amateur engineers drove ahead through blackouts, into midnight . blackness, with no organized signal system. They plunged headlong into tunnels, not knowing whether they. had been mined, They drove with head stuck oul of the cab, with a prayer. A sharp lookout was necessary, for sometimes the track ended suddenly, and sometimes the bridge that was supposed to be there was not. Cigarets, burning pieces of newspaper were makeshift signals. Occasionally they were bombed. Their orders { were to get tpfdugh, somehqw. They chopped up | brecken crossties for fuel, or they stopped and scoured { the countryside for wood, or hauled furniture from

| brigades among French farmers to bring it fro a lake or stream 7

the G. I. at the throttle, the G. I. who may have ? *

a soda jerker, or an amusement park ticket-taker,

{were supposedly settled at Yalta, bombed-out houses slong the way. For water, they | the proposal to take East Prussia Worked many angles, getting it sometimes from local | ire departments; sometimes from creeks. sometimes from shell craters, sometimes by organizing bucket

PATR costume Db: dance—an urday nigk

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ings Gener The pat Mrs, Thoma yette; Dr. an and Mesdan

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Myers, C. B. B. Griffith, Ford Kaufm: Burke Ball a Shields.

Parties Fo AMONG and Mrs, Ru Nashville, wk Mr. and Mrs Earl Beyers. are Messrs, Dixon, Edmu Elmer T: Conners and Attorney Ge Richard T. . and Cpl. Rol Pauw univer: dance. Mrs. Ru Billings, will the 88 volun! entertain a | their escorts. Mrs. Pollock

Schreiner THE HO the scene Sa Nicholson, se machinist's r Memorial Ba is the daugh! groom's pare The bid tendant was and carried aviation mac! Bland, harpi reception wa home in Per Visitors in AMONG Petersburg, | Bolyard, Jace ton, H. H. Es horn, George

Some lives were lost in collisions, and there were Haught, Car And a great many of these letters came from men

food, we would not be able to have the luxury of having the

if lately in the works of Lenin, Stalin,{ Times assumes no responsi- {can collect, but real recompense is| some bad ones. Once a train carrying high’ octane McMillan, . grain after it had been transferred into beef and meat, but | = = etc. Or it may be that he isn't| bility for the return of manu- | posinle a Sieh penulijes as are | gas bumped headlong oto another, i an eartn- Also, Me i ; . : . | . . . iter at . .| scripts and cannot enter cor- |€Xacted should be weig in terms | shattering explosion that rocked the whole country- Harold .E. D we would have to go on something:like peasant diet, eating Washington Had Still Another Aim [famifiar with the Bins of Commun respondence regarding them) |of their ultimate results, rather than! side, in a jam that developed betweén Rambouillet son, Ida M. cereals ourselves, and forego what he called the luxury of | IN PLANNING to curtail and, ultimately, in clos- |ism as summarized in Report 2290, SpOnGents regaromg nem, \a primitive sense of justice. Our and Maintenon. It was hit-and-miss railroading. A Ralph Neum 1 : 3 : 3 g / : eating meat. In the statement made by War Food Admin- | ing racing, Washington had still another aim, namely, |U. S. house of representatives: «WHY DOES SHE |immediate objective. is to render, respectable engineer Would never have permitted it. H. Trankey

Another Epic of Boys at the Wheel

{ with its paper space. She is too self-

; . { > . . Claire : ’ x : it into more sensible and solid channels. The theory |religion. Destruction’ of private By a Times Reader, Indianapolis who, hav ! . § : the gentleman knows whether he means we will not starv ¢ | was, and is, that if the people couldn't bet, couldn't |property and inheritance. Promo-! If I had the jealousy, envy and ae sre thelr lesson, THERE'S ANOTHER epic of she boys. at ihe wheel Notes Ab but we will get enough cereals, or whether he means we will | buy cars and assorted ies they woul . : hatred that Mrs. j kson ® 2. peace. —the truck drivers. Trucks are not used out of the . : | ous S ana ass luxuries they wouid be forced |{ion of class hatred. Revolution- a G. .B. Jackso Such measures as taking coal atid wh th le of ti SEVERA have:-the tvpe of balanced diet to which we are a tomed ? | to put their money in banks or increase their invest- | of South Bend has in her heart, I 4 ports any more on anyw Te ncap lng sca’e 0: 11038 ype ol ; EA OI Liner in" wir Bonds ary propaganda through the Com- |g, ery would not want to advertise on and. transferring to ravaged early days, now that_the raliroads are in order and been pledgec x . > Sn : Ww . - JE : ) j iy 1 ¢ vertise | i . of § 3 is : ; is a pledge : MR. AUGUST H. ANDRESEN. I may Say to the €€N- | Tmis, rather than fuel conservation, was the tain /munist International, stirring up it. If she does not like Mrs. Roose- les hige BUS > Boye | pipelines are available. for. carrying gasoline. - But Fe of B tleman that we do have a certain school of thought in some | idea behind the curfew, so clumsily presented by the” Communit activities in . foreign’|velt’s writings, why does she read fumbers. of young inhi they were the sole reliance for a Hime. Willams, Ec of these agencies, which maintains that instead of feeding | war mobilizer. You conserve fuel in’ winter, not sum- {countries is order to cause strikes, them? ; a ‘work ‘abroad, would “be “g wel To follow the Be, they improvised the famoug The Pleiades: corn, hay, wheat, barley and oats to livestock so that we | TT, A Survey disserhat 45 per cent of the spend- riots, sabotage, bloodshed ahd “civil (“ZRF eighth grade stuff” soundsiiiorc SPUR, WUC be “pEPAra-| Red Ball, highwax:sub-et Normandy. Everitually it and Basbars » Ys 2 y- and 0 livestock so that we ing in night clubs is done after midnight. Hence, |war. |good to me. My favorite writers for other ther sie ny Ving aspects, stretched 500 miles, going and coming, with one-way and Hazel-H can eat beef, poultry and dairy products, that they should | the midnight limit. | “Destruction of all forms of rep- |The Times are Ernie Pyle.and Mrs.|po oy to ng ™ rally Sach Wy, SAYIN 3) Js Desk Dearly Tw ; feed this corn, hay, wheat and harley directly to the people | Generally speaking, there has been no egtreme out- | resentative, or democratic govern Roosevelt. MO Germans WOhout purged} Suppiles, mosily food asd gasoline, Jeom Nor. Officers d in that il ; 1 f : | ery against LaGuardia’s defiance of the. curfew. I |ment: including civil liberties, such| I don't see why Mrs. Jackson resent t Bot to perpetual| mandy alone. It was dangerous work with the gaso- The group w an in that way we will save a lot of money and a lot of | 5p, reasonably sure the public attitude would be quite |as freedom of speech, of the press, |should tell The Times What to do Jou ment. ut to take a large line as at Coutances, for instance, where a convoy will be the a y @ different i } imi { - of 2000-gallon ‘truc ad te go through a flamin time and work. It sounds fantastic. : erent if the tracks attempted a similar defiance. erritory that. is Important to their| of 13 2000-gall k§ had to go through a flaming

THE SPANISH PRETENDER E cannot believe that -the United States government, even indirectly, will support Don Juan's efforts to restore the Spanish monarchy. But Britain may. Presumed

| encouraged,’

i open siigphipeton would move swiftly and harshly to | See

support from Britain and the Vatican is about all the pre- |

I'm a racing nut, but I found myself* developing a revulsion against. the. swirling mobs at the tracks and the completely insane manner in which they threw | their mone ME Nay. I, believe, too, that if any traék, LaGuardia’s action, should attempt to

that it is immediately closed. Furthermore, I believe the public reaction would be almost,

entirel favorable. . r rely

lof assembly, and trial by jury. “The ultimate and final objective

tis by..means.of ‘world revolution to

|union of Soviet Socialist Repub-

[establish the dictatorship of the so-| called proletariat into one# world

|lics with the capital at Moscow.”

Do the foregoing objectives sound | like American patriotism?

{ Roosevelt

ish a person to care—too full of food supply, but little else, and that

hatred If Mrs. Jackson wishes tp Visit her sister, why doesn’t’ she go. Mrs. |

tory for centuries, will seem like a pure “grab’s and cause a festering : ; sore Ror generations—much lik is not keeping. her from sero territories of 8 Ir lo ra Ye vina, whose seizure by AusI Sob! Very muen 3 3h Wishes tria produced the feud that finally to adhere so strictly to the wis es precipitated war I.

going. Herzi

has been undisputed German terri-|

Boznia and?

town to get gas to Gen. Patton. | They made that flaming highway without a miss, a iracle. Ei oontis apatites ato amt gn Their schedule called for 22 out of 24 hours opera|gtion, with only (wo hours for maintenance. One driver would sleep’ while the other was at the wheel, | though often one driver would carry the cargo | through.

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18 gover ; : all highway ended its glorious éareer f : : 1 Mr. Johnson, the words of St. ©f the government. If she or I ~~ The Red Ba ; in 2 tender has. We say “presumed” because neither Britain | ie (23:28) aptly apply to Were just half the person that Mrs. ju» in mid-November last year. It is littered with the Sol 1; ind nor the Vatican is officially committed, and either or both | wv——em-—w WORLD AFFAIRS— you: “You also outwardly appear Roosevelt is, we would be “going|"t1 IS TIME THAT JEeNG of unsing DetOey Wore Vian halt of tems “Immortal \ mdy well hesitate to give the ex-prince the kind of help vB righteous unto men, but within you Some.” If I am correctly informed, SOMETHING WAS DONE” Negroes; = Mesdames : fiia= To Ea 3 are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” | Mrs: Roosevelt's trips -are mostly gy war worker, indianapolis liam J, Moo required to resurrect such a completely discredited royalty. nN t {business And if they were not—| IN WASHINGTON— land are co- ’ i : + of Qui e rea 8 a. bso what? The newspapers, I see, are be- A a Don Juan's manifesto, from the safety of Switzerland, at; ginning to print a“few 1 Members of : ; : ; x : : “OPTIMISM IS I imagine Mrs. Jackson is a Re- | B'DTIN8 10 print a*iew lines on this . ate: Mesdam called on Dictator Franco to resign and prepare the way By Wm Philip Simms BEING OUTNUMBERED" [ publican, and I am wondering if she [00d shortage. It is time that some- R Zl WwW Th ai B . ‘ . | . ) MB { Publican, an : or o e for him. - It contained the usual trappings used by most . “il : knows why. hes was gous Bos it. a 10 ar — illo : 7 J J By An Optimist, i i e meal cases jes 3 would-be dictators or pretenders to defunct thrones—the WASHINGTON, March 26...What |PY An Optimist, In lanaps te | 4 8. 4 I Our Eroceries Collins, Having read daily of the numerous

customary bleeding heart for the people's rights and tempt- | ing pledges of constitutional government. It appears that |

is it like to be run over by German army in full retreat? American war correspondents have

the

criticisms taking place regarding > the various subjects, I often. wonder

are empty, they tell us the meat is all going to our armed forces. None of us begrudges our beysany-

“WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE OUR SON 18”

‘By Peter Edson

| WASHINGTON, March 26.—Lib-

Also, Mesd DeSautels, /

done a great b.3 b lied | By Mrs. C. 0. Carnes, Ellettsville | thing they need, but it makes our i iG d tor t nard 8S. Ear! , ; ‘i = g 0 sc wi vst . . : ' \ the weak young man. who would be king has no personal amdings in France amd the advance of our aehtiecl/Ust What the ratio of pessimists| I first wish to thank Mr. Nuss-|. oq poi vo read fh the PRPS] Sen ad Th hr A Ie A. Clison, interest Iv fish desir rovid chy | > ur-fighting= rin baum-for-the space—in your .paper| oe 5 | Saipan an e 0 ar Hickman, J. nterest, only an unselfish desire to provide a monarchy | men to and beyond the Rhine. But we have heard [15 to those of optimists. What sub- about ‘our prisoner-of-war son’s| Where England and Russia are pil-| jands has given U. 8. Pacific forces bach. Emme without which Spain. will perish in prolonged civil war. | less about what it meant to be a Ffénchman living | ject can be quite debatable and glasses. ing up huge stockpiles of our food, | not only good B-29 bases for bomb- Kennedy. 2 2 » 2% 3» . '} behind the German lines during those historic days. | timely. : Now, since the Germans marched | "oo" our Tapoaras at home are ing Japan, but also good bases for bombarding ‘the Others ari FEW WILL DOUBT that unhappy Spain is ripe for | I have just received a leiter from a distinguished | * Judging from the rate with which our boys out before the Russians|027e: NO chickens, no potatoes, and| japanese people with Japanese language radio broad- Kirby, J. B

revolt against its present dictator. Few will question the

French engineer who went through it all.

comments are being expressed so

could take over Oflag 64 camp, we |. 56 they are going to take 55 per

| casts and plane-dropped leaflets and newspapers tell-

braico, Clif]

: He lives at Baix, a little village on the right |freely, I'd say optimism is being/do not know where our son is ay So of our butter. _for lend-lease. ing them the real facts of life denied them by their Mattingly, L . accuracy of Don Juan’s charge. that: | bank of the Rhone, between Montelimar and Va- |outnumbered considerably by pes- | all. | Why not send.some margarine—are| war lords. M. Meyer, P “The regime established by Gen. Franc 0,'modeled on | lence. Behind it rise the Sevennes mountains. Across | simism. Please ask through your paper if Shey better than we are, we use it.| Radio Saipan; known to the Japs as “Voice of McMurtry, J the totalitarian svster £ th 3 Ware trary the river is the Drome and the foothills of the Alps. | With all the situations today be- any of the boys who have been re- V hy do we have to send our food | America,” is now ‘making direct broadcasts to the MCcElligot, 7 e totalitarian system 0. : e axis po ers—so con rary | The country is much like the mountainous region |ing somewhat alarming, I should! turned home from that camp know that is needed so badly here at| Jap people eight hours a day, but the schedule will C. Otte, Gec to the character and traditions of the Spanish peoples—is | of the Upper Rhine. ‘Thus the only practicable roads [think it would be advantageous to!anything about Lt. Paul N. Carnes, | ome all over the world? Just be- be around the clock in the near future. Operated van and W. fundamentally inconsistent with conditions prevailing in | 8long which the Nazis could retreat from the Medi- hear some views having a brighter son of the Rev. and Mrs, C, ©.{Cduse some big-hearted politician| jointly by office of war information, army and navy ——— the world . salt of th oe flit Motaguds terranean were along this narrow defile. outlook. Carnes. Ellettsville, Ind. {promised it to them. psychological warfare divisions, this Japanese-lan- Named e worl as a resu to t é p! esent conflict. Moreover, the | Baix straddles-the highway along the right bank. | ——: —— I am a defense worker and I} guage Voice of America is unique. Mi foreign policy of that regime is compromising Spain’s future | “The family are all well,” my friend writes. “It Sid By G Ib . h speak for my fellow workers. You| There have been short wave broadcasts to Japan t in Ben position in world reconstruction.” l is needless to say, however, that we endured the | O1C€ G ances == y albrait a {can't produce for victory on an| from San Francisco since the early days of the war. vis EH | Boche occupation not without considerable suffering, 2. {empty stomach. Our plant cafeteria Later a relay station was established at Honolulu for awh But many will doubt that Don Juan, who once was | moral and material. The Boches took everything they | | has been giving us a steady diet of-| rebroadcasts, but the audience of these two stations Sioud pox Franco's friend and who may pull off a deal with the dic-| could lay their hands on in France and we in Baix liver and onions and brains—we are has been restricted since short wave receivers are the Women

tator, is the answer to the prayers of the enslaved Spanish people. If the Spaniards want to revive thé hated mon-| archy they have given no sign, despite recurring royalist plots and propaganda. The Spanish people bave the inalienable right to choose | their own govérnment—so long as it‘is not an aggressor— | without foreign, interference.. That is an American principle. We hope it will be a united nations, policy.

A JARRING NOTE AVY SECRETARY FORRESTAL'S proposal of a peace"time merger of all overseas communication firms in one |

| emptied.

| stampede up the valley of the Rhone.

were no exception. Our house was completely Our principal article of diet was black

bread made of just a modicum of flour mixed

with other ingredients such as rutabagas.

' Columns Passed for Nine Days

“WHEN THE: BRITISH and Americans landed

at Toulon and’ thereabouts, the Boches began their |

The columns passed continuously for nine days. elements arrived at Baix on the morning of Aug. 22 and it was not until the night of Aug. 30 that the rear guard disappeared up the road foward Lyons.

The advance |

“Sections of these columns remained at Baix from 24 to 48 hours, scouring the village and surrounding |

country for what they could find.

What was over- |

| tired of it. If you complain to the | management, they say they can't | get any meat, they are shipping it |all away. Seven thousand porkers | received at the stock yards yesterday, 8000 the day before—and no meat. : it 1s-up to our congressman to get squarely behind this food shortage investigation and find out where focd Is going and how much. of it is rotting in the storage houses. n » ” “WHY SHOULD SOME GIVE AND GIVE?”

closely licensed by the Jap government,

Reaches Five Million Sets

ESTABLISHMENT of radio Saipan, however, gives the psychological warfare units a chance to go on the Lair with medium wave broadcasts capable of reaching the five million sets known to be in existence on the

tivating. That. U. 8. broadcasts get through is demonstrated by Jap efforts to jam the wave. Whenever that happens, radio Saipan immediately shifts to another fre quency and keeps going. It's a great game. Buf atmospheric conditions are such that the radio Saipaz signal is stronger than the Japanese home stations and therefore hard to blanket. : Voice of America as broadcast from Saipan fa

Japapese islands, and that is an audience worth cul"

Phillips uni

’ : | By a Soldier's Wife, Indianapolis ica | company under government control would be startling at | oO Ye are Diaked by Be ext, One wonders if Mr. Ginsberg's use a SaseHion TIOgTai Jom Jusords Whose . . 3 ih ks ~ @ as £ LS. u 8 ne women w " scrip s are written in ew ork, ashing n, an any time. But, coming on the heels of Secretary of State! ana children and most of the old people took to Slaves" of he possible. labor drats Francisco or Honolulu, translated into Japanese, then : -«Stettinius’ brave resolution on. press freedom at the Cha-| the mountains when they heard the Boches were Wouldns Io raid a bit MOR NaBd: putn plates tor: Spent 10 Sal Iie f Ti it falls ri Ia 1 tr A Etec] coming, only some 80 of us. remained behind - to somely. than those: “forced” its mif—y Put on paters ior shipment io daipan. . u ec conierence, 1t 1alls as 1 ly jarr . ve FE i fas : role * p he Haan li 3 d 8 a8 3 yar 4 al y jarring in | try to save what we could by our presence. itary HAR SR Ti Straight News Has Proved Best : e proposa 18 mal e in the In Leres of comprehensive- | “Of those who ‘stayed, 17 were executed by ‘the alata alive and healthy. Why THE FIRST big objective has been to build up the ness, efficiency, reliability and security. That government Denar Twice 1 ough my time had come and should some give and give while credibility of Voice of America. Straight news and a p > control would improve any of those, except perhaps the | I'Still do not know how I managed to escape. Even others fide the gravy train? I say little commentary has proved to be the best vehicle. : last is debatabie to- the least.” . # | 80. the entire region was sacked«nd merely in our put ‘em to work : | Giving the Japanese people the news which they have f » 18 debalabie say he leas - | own small community 16 houses and farms: were : ; good n to know about or suspect; but which has ‘. The press and radio, along with almost ali other civilian | burned to the ground. They took my automobile, DAILY THOUGHTS been: withheld from them or distorted by the Jap: - activities, have cheerfully submitted to wartime restrictions | ™Y horse and my wagons and carts. : . | government has proved pretty effective, for yeasons of Becuri ty Most of the" restrictions were | During those nine days we neither ate nor slept, Then the angel that talked There is no direct attack on the Japanese emperor :

necessary, of course. But gome suppression and secrecy | . has been needless and irksome. In peacetime; it would be insufferable. Lk an ~~ Government control in ‘international news communi- | is an invitation to government censorship. We hope |

the proposal deep,

", Hast the Germans are with us

but, at the same time, I must say that we had very: |

little appetite.

“But now the nightmare is over with and France

can begin to look-.forward towebuilding. At present, | :

Wwe are still pretty much as the Boches left-us, of course, because there is no -transportation. Food and other essentials are still extremely: scarce but, thanks to. the allies, we havé been liberated no more,” -

and at | "Twelve years old and | can't go to a boy-gfrl partyl. I'm glad they [of all our evils, fear~John Armney ~~ ere fighting this wart ree the world of tryantsl’* strong“ Goa

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as an‘individual. All the blame for what is happening to the Japanese people i§ heaped on the“Jap war lords who have so grossly deceived and misled the Jap people into a losing war. tay ~The thought is put ‘over that the Jap people shouldn't continue to be suckers for this betrayal by their own rulers. The contrast between what the war

lords said they were going to do and what they have to do is emphasized wherever possible.