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‘GERMANY DELIBERATELY PROVOKED WAR--MUSSOLINI GUILTY OF SHAMEFUL COWARDICE'

The Indianapolis Times today begins publication of the intimate SPLIT DECISION IKE RIDES ‘HERO \ REE F; 9, ian and revealing diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Fascist Ifaly's foreign minister from 1936 to 1943. Ciano was OF HI COURT © one of the builders of the axis. The diary, with which Ciano's wife, ¢ 1 + of Edda Mussolini, tried futilely to buy his life, begins Jan. 1, 1939, and SAVES BRIDGES | | ) \Wi LL () B BACK’ Sian continues until shortly before Ciano's execution at Mussolin? s orders | )

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PTIST (Copyright, 1045, for The Indianapolis Times) : 5. of W. Wash (All rights reserved for all countries, including right of translation.) Was Communist. 1CK S he was about to die Count Galeazzo Ciano wrote a bitter charge that | WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P). JOSE » .|—The supreme court decided today i Buivios Germany deliberately provoked war in Europe in 1939 and dragged EE ru Sy naa Wg a Italy to disaster. labor leader, is not a Communist, OL Nineteen days before Ciano was shot to death for high treason, he | 11 canceled the governments deh. rd. & 56th 45-10:45 A. ML,

portation order which would have sent him back to his native Australia as an undesirable alien.

wrote a final 10- -page entry in his diary, It is an amazing document. » i . s =» # nu = )

ITALY'S FATEFUL alliance with Cotnens was born in a moment of rage on

STREET Mussolini's part, Ciano wrote. In a Sosy decision, Se Soul URCH He recounted Nazi Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop’s casual assertion that the [declared that the deportatio man Ave.

was based on a misconstruction of the statute regarding affiliation with Communist groups. : It said, too, that the head of the powerful Longshoremen’s and Ware-

tor Germans wanted war, and told of a cynical bet of an Italian painting against a collec- > tion of antique arms that Great Britain and France would remain neutral, S. Youth shit | The Germans treated the Italians as “slaves, not partners,” Ciano wrote, who were informed only of the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union half an hour after the borders

: housemen’s Union (C. I. O.) had rs Go By" had been crossed. been given “an unfair hearing on SIOF * x =» the question of his membership in covery 144, the Communist party.” sor, CIANO WAS writing | os > oh 5 Sela a) Ge ; all 2 ’ Justice Frank Murphy, who vol HURCH fr om Cell 27 of the Verona with the majority, said the decision 21) Jail on Dec. 23, 1943. held far-reaching significance for . D., Pastor The special tribunal be- 330,00 other aliens In te Trttet . JH , ; States, many of them driven from » fore which he was tried did their homelands in search of freenot meet until Jan. 8, 1944, dom and tolerance. ; 5 Grant but Ciano said that judg- Bridges Still an Alien Winister ment already had been The Bridges ruling climaxed al AY" assed b his father-in- long series of hearings over the Visitors | Baa Miroir ep he deportation proceedings started ’

against Bridges eight years ago. Bridges, who has remained. an alien since comimg to this country in 1920, turned to the federal courts after = Attorney General ; ] ; Prancis ‘Biddle on May 28, 1942, : ; a ie

ordered that he be sent back to Upon Bis arrival at the National airport in Washington, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower waves {o the crowds gathered at. fhe stseet alrport “

bis native land. welcome home the conquering hero. At the et are the general's wife and Gen. Georte Marshal, who were among the first to greet him, Biddle held that Bridges, head of

accused of ‘‘shameful cowardice” in his relations with the Germans, : { Ciano and four others

were executed Jan. 11. The revealing closing entry in Ciano’'s own handwriting and

‘. = w ~ | bearing his signature follow: i weelul | ongEhSrenen § o> ¥ A 'H | M LS 6 I k Bs ee meetin nn: 300) HOOSIERS ~ "Hello, Mamie," Says Gen. Ike: | i , ber of the t party which I took the precaution of putting taught. overthfow oRthe U. §. gov- le M | k 1 5. S A Ki § them in safety before the Ger- ernment .by “force ang violence.” ON WAY HOME I ves rs. e econ I gi VATION | mans by base treachery had The supreme court viewed the Church. made me a prisoner. entire proceedings upon Bridges’ By GWEN MORGAN, United Press Staff Correspondent “It was not my intention, while bid for freedom through.a writ of | WASHINGTON, June 18.—Gen, Ike, grinning ear to ear, today : | I was composing these hasty habeas corpus. Combat Men of of 86th Due threw his arms around Mrs. Ike and almost cracked a few ribs. ar World Leaders G.l’s ¢ You ; Jotes, to Teisase Jem lub. " Only Co-operated » H T “Hello, Mamie! he said and, holding her face, gave her a 15-second E t P Pe was . hed wr HI ie Before the high court, counsel ere lomorrow. Holl Twos se co L Xpec ermanent ace. Ln b " | i i " ” smiled the era facts which could have been use- [or Bridges pest be Hi wb By VICTOR PETERSON On, Tm so ‘happy Yo see you!" Mrs. Tke said. By JOSEPH L. MYLER :S | ful to me in the future, ory A ayiate. AH Times Staff Writer Bearing a fairly distinguishable] _ United Press Staff Correspondent . 8 8» @ Workers Indust | CAMP KILMER, N, J., June smudge of lipstick, the general WASHINGTON, - June 18.—Gen. p Rooms IF THE Lord had granted me | § ; wo" : | riers Industrial Union. It won't be long now, folks. "POISE DEATH BLOW ‘turned to Mrs. Ike's parents, Mr, Dwight D. Bisenhower rode down ll a quiet old age, what excellent 4 a le. | The government claimed congress . 4 § material for an autobiography! “£8 % 'had provided for the classification | Mothers and dad, wives and Best} and Mrs. John Sheldon Doud of [the street of heroes today in pere dios. Rooms ll The notes are not, therefore, part b t «+ [of aliens and that this function was | 8irls of some 300 fighting Hoosiers| AT OKINAWA JAPS Denver ang San Antonio. ie haps the greatest home-coming re eh Edifice ff of a book, but the raw material | not up to the courts. It contended of the 86th (Black Hawk) division) Do you remember me?” Mrs. |ception ever given a conquering State Life | from which a book could have the evidence was “overwhelming” in| can expect their personal heroes! tL —— Dud owes hero by this capital. ' y p , Wash. St | been composed. support of Biddle's findings against late tomo . . : ‘ Min!" he cried, and embraced | a rch Edifice | “Perhaps the real merit of these | i _ ” Bridges. | a oe tom Ca teriny. 3k Air Raid Fires Rage in her. Then he shook hands with his | I was. "Esulower day" lor diaries is to be found in this The parting handshake of Foreign Ministers Count Ciano (left) | Justice William O. Douglas deliv- | 2 Grvigien I = uy 4 Nippon Cities. Wiles a: dignified-looking father (oT Eysody from President Truman oh Edifice y Shejoton Tom and In he absolute | und Joachim von Ribbentrop at Salzburg in August, 1935. “Well Rib- | ered the majority opinion for him-| manhattan, with the distinction of | Mrs. Ike meanwhile was looking| or "h0—in the words of Secs e . ’ ant?” R lied: “We |S€lf and Justices Stanley Reed, | being t st t division to. PEARL HARBOR. June 19 (U.! tary of War Henry L. Stimson—it roapect Events are photographed with- bento; what do you want?” Ciano asked. Ribbentrop replied: “We | Wiley B. Rutledge Hugo L. Black | eing the first comba vision around for her boy—blond Lt. John | want war,

f out retouching, and the impres- # sions reported are the first ones.

# the most genuine,

without influence of cuiticism or the wisdom

of future years.

“I was accustomed to jot down the salient happenings day by.day: f hour by héur. Perhaps at times

i repetitions or contradictions may b be found, just as very often life f repeats and contradicts itself.

4 | ing these notes had not

“If the opportunity for expandbeen | taken away suddenly, I should § have wished from other documents and personal recollections to amplify the chronicle of cer. tain days which have had unique | and dramatic influence on the history of the world. an “WITH GREATER detail, I should have liked to have fixed responsibility, both of men and gov-

must detest, but cannot ignore, | 80,000,000 Germans brutally | brought together in the heart of Europe, ” ” 5 “THE DECISION to cement the alliance was taken suddenly by Mussolini while I was in Milan with Von Ribbentrop. “Some American newspapers had reported that the Lombard metropolis received the German foreign minister with hostility, and that this was proof of Mussolini’s diminished personal prestige. He was in a rage. “By telephone I received orders to accept the German demands | for an alliance, which I had left |

and had thought of so leaving for much longer.

| and Frank Murphy.

The associations which Harry Bridges had with various Com-

“The ‘Pact of Steel’ was born. |Munist groups seem to indicate no | more than co-operative measures to

The decision that was to have such evil influence on- the entire life and future of the Italian people was due exclusively to a dictator's spiteful reaction to the irresponsible and worthless statements of some foreign journalists. 5 » n “THE ALLIANCE had a clause | that for three or four years neither Italy nor Germany would raise questions that might disturb | European peace. f “Instead, and without our knowledge, Germany advanced its

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{attain objectives which were wholly | legitimate,” Douglas said.

Wanted Government Overthrow

Concerning Bridges’ relationship | {with the Marine Workers Industrial |

Union, the majority said:

“It must be remembered that the [Marine Workers Industrial Unio

| was not a sham or pretense. It was

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a genuine union. It was found to (have, and we assume it did have, {the illegitimate . objective of overthrowing the government by force.

“But it also had the objective of

in suspense for more than a year | (Continued on Page 9 —Column 3) improving the lot of its members |

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in the normal trade union sense.” “One who co-operated with it in|

refurn from Europe for Fedepley |

ment to the Pacific war. The Hoosiers will make the trip back to Indiana ‘aboard a 21-car troop train leaving here at 7:30 B. m. (Indianapolis Time). Besides

them from Indianapolis — will be | several hunudred from Kentucky and Tennessee. They're due to arrive at Camp Atterbury about 3:30 p. m. tomorrow. They'll detrain at! 'Edinbugg and receive their 30-day! i furlough papers shortly thereafter Nat the camp. Plenty of Pep

It will be a long, hot and tiring trip, but for these men of the 86th,

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town and the natural exuberance of youth will put them in Indianapolis | iwith more pep than most of us| {have after a walk around Monu-

| Okinawa today and lunged forward in a frontal

| promised a quick end to the 80- dave) old campaign.

| Meanwhile B-29's turned four 5

| cities intq a living hell. Four Afnerican divisions advanced in a co-ordinated offensive agaihst | crumbling opposition from 3000 { beaten enemy troops on Okinawa.

|Late battle reports said Individual.

(groups of Japanese soldiers were

{a death pocket of less than seven | square miles.

Move for Mop-Up Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's

assault against iso-| the’ 300 Hoosiers—more than 50 of lated pockets of resistance Saati

the anticipation of the old. hom 'ilosing contact with one another in | c 0 e e- |

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INDIANA FARMERS PRAY FOR SUNSHINE

Bleak Foracast Follows Damaging Storm. '«

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Indiana farmers were praying for | sunshine today following a week-

P.) —Tenth army troops encircled | sheldon Doud Eisenhower 22 years {was “a proud day for America.” | disorganized thirst-crazed Japanese |

| troops on the southeastern coast of

In an address before congress bid after his arrival, Gen. Eisenhower said the combat soldier of this war expects the world’s leaders “to preserve the peace he is winning.” ‘Problems Must Be Met’ { The 54-year-old Texas-born Kane san declared that “the problems ‘of peace can and must be met.” The grief of those who mourn for | the dead, he said, “can be relieved

{only by the faith that all this shall

not happen again.” The modest little man whom | Anglo-American armies whipped | the Nazi wehrmacht's best, went be {fore congress after a parade pass {crowds of hundreds of thousands | along the avenue which has rever. { berated in the past to the names of

o 5 | ment circle. |Tth division on the eastern flank | = oor SIVere: indie ang’ dowhoar. Grant, Sherman, Dewey, and ernments, but this unfortunately Edda Tried fo Use Diary | promoting its legitimate objectives| The Hoosiers joyfully touched closed in a trap on decimated Jap- re w a wnpo Pershing was impossible, even though there | certainly could nos. by that fact American soil as they stepped from |anese remnants fighting along the| Cloudy weather tonight and to- | Met by Bombers come to mind in these last hours /alone be said to sponsor or Approve (three grey transports yesterday. | const, and moved in for a-mop-up. morrow with little change in| Gen. “Ike” flew home with 58 S so many details I should not want To Save Husband’ S Life of its general or unlawful objectives. | They smiled as they came down the | Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd's | (temperature was the forecast for other returning warriors in four | ignored by those who tomorrow | “But unless he also joined if that |gang planks shouldering barracks|6th marine division and Maj. Gen. | the local residents. engined skymasters which were es- ~ | Will analyze and assess the events Times Foreign Service overall program, he would not be | bags weighing better than 70 pounds. [Pedra Del Valle's 1st marine di-| Farmers now are waiting for the corted on the last 50 miles of their LE that bave occurred, BERN, Switzerland, June 18.—It can now be disclosed how the | ‘affiliated’ with the Communist| “It would be easier totin' this bag, vision, now fighting abreast on the | grounds to dry s0 they can finish trip to the national airport by a "i 4119 “The Italian tragedy had its be- diary of Count Cano, with its sensational revelations of axis diplo-

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tion. Finally, at dawn on Jan. Soviet military tribunal.: TIMES INDEX 10, 1044, Ciano himself, fell vic- Gen. Bronislaw Okulicki, leader + tim to Nazi wrath. of the Polish home army, was LA] “. . “-. " Ld \ k egmers ee i TWENTY HOURS before his amore oo ry a Setendatty iness .... 6|Movies death, a strange scene occurred at charges. Three others pleaded ver Somic ., 16 [Obituaries ... 5| the Swiss frontier village of Now er in part, to the charges and >» M. Srossword ... 15|Fred Perkins 10| 822ano, in’ Tessin. ; the 16th, - identified ' as Zbigniew 5 David Diets, ® Radio ... 15 Aided by & priest, a shabbily. Stypulkowski, declared himself in-| i Is ... 10 Ration Dates 8 dressed, blackveiled old lady with nocent. HH ‘Edson . 10 Mra. Roosevelt 9| immense, haggard eyes, had en- © ported indictmen § C H a 10 Wm Roosevelt 10 tered Switzerland stating her life . ®ac Te We 4 la SEER « BY ne . oi * (Continued on “Page 3 «Column 3 t Osgood a es" 13| (Continued on Page 7—Column §)| is - ie were 9 n's News 11} : ; . > i

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ginning in August, 1939. On my own initiative I went then to Salzburg (Hitler's headquarters) and found myself suddenly face to face with the cold, cynical German determination to provoke conflict. “The allia te (with the Germans) had been signed in May I had always opposed it, and had contrived that persistent German

| offers would be long delayed and

| thus ineffective. There was no reason whatsoever, in my opinion, to be bound life and death to the ) destiny of- "Nazi Germany. “Instead, I had favored a policy of collaboration, for in our h geographical situation we can and

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macy, was saved by Ciano’s wife from falling into Nazi hands. For six months, her lips were sealed; sealed by discretion for this little neutral country, encircled by powerful Nazi armies, and sealed, too, because of many gestapo agerts in Switzerland. :

The gestapo tried at all costs to get the Ciano diary and its compromising revelations. The Nazis offered 100,000,000 gold lire, payable in Switzerland, for it. They even tried to barters-the life of Ciano against his precious documents, but: the diary escaped them, Everyone in Italy connected with the Ciano diary was tortured, killed or had to flee. Edda Ciano risked her life and put thé final touch to her already bad reputa-

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15 OF 16 POLES

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U. S. Soil Brings Joy to Hometown Boys Back From Europe

ENTER GUILTY PLEA |

Charged With | Planning. to|

Attack Red Army.

MOSCOW, June 18 (U. P.).—Fif{teen of 16 Polish underground leaders charged with terroristic acts against the Red army pleaded guilty today to all or part of the charges when they went on trial before a