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THE NATIONALISTS UNMASKED

organizations in America are seeking profit and

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MAY ing prof power- through appeals to hatred, prejudice, discon- |

~ tent and ignorance. ;

The Nationalists party, headed by former Senator Rob- |

ert E. Reynolds of North Carolina, is attempting to weld the groups to which such organizations appeal into a dominant force in American politics. Eugene Segal, a staff writer for the Scripps-Howard

newspapers, has been investigating these organizations, | He tells what he has dis- |

their plans and their leaders. covered in a series starting in The Times today. Their lures and methods, Mr. Segal finds, bear a star-

power in Germany. Their names, most of them, have a

a menace in the 1920s. » » » »

Ku Klux Klan BEHIND

many cunning schemers. the Nationalists would unite are a great many unsuspect_ing people, who think of themselves as good citizens— who, indeed, have no intent except to be good citizens—but whose real or fancied grievances have made them easy prey for the peddlers of hate. Those who support such movements because they don't know any better are given opportunity to know better through Mr. Segal's articles. Thoughtful readers will realize, we believe, that there are at least two fundamental rules for keeping out of the sort of entanglements he describes: 1. Don’t fall for patriotic-sounding talk which promises or insinuates that “we” are going to trim the liberties _of some race, religion or economic group to suit “our” notion of “Americanism,”

2. Don’t be taken in by arguments that “they’” are get- |

ting too much control over government, and that “we” must therefore organize privately, secretly and underneath government to control it in “our” interest.

BALKAN DYNAMITE : : MPORE trouble is brewing in the Balkans. Greece is the only country there or in all of eastern Europe not under direct or indirect Moscow control. The Communists don’t like that exception. They tried to do something .ahovt it last year, but overplayed their hand and failed.

from more directions. _ a SL Now the Communist-controlled E. A. M. faction charges that the Athens government is conducting a “reign of terror” against it. E. A. M. appealed for international support to correct this alleged condition.

cratic rights. : :

The truth about the present Greek political situation is |

obscure; There is no doubt, however, that unrest is widespread and morale low. This is an inevitable result of the

slow pace of rehabilitation and reconstruction after terrible

ravages of war. There are serious shortages of food, clothing, shelter and medicines.

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BESIDES THE great physical suffering, there are

hatreds and vendettas resulting from thé Red terror of

last year. Under such handicaps, it is perhaps surprising that the present coalition regime has been able to make even slight progress.

But the bad economic situation remains an invitation |

to the Communist minority to make political profit out of the people’s mistory. If it were not for the people's memory of E. A. M. excesses last year and fear of worse terror, the swing to the left probably would be more rapid. As it is, the E. A. M. must depend on outside aid.

Hence the significance of the moves by Bulgaria and |

Yugoslavia, both Moscow satellites. These neighbors want to carve up Greece's northern territory, and at the same time bring Greece into a Red Balkan federation. They charge that they are being attacked by .Greek

bands under orders of the Athens government, which the |

Yugoslav Tito calls “Fascist.” This looks like a propaganda build-up by Tito for another “liberation” action.

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ty, § cents a copy; deliv. | ered by carrier, 30 cents | Brandt Steele. He is the son of Theodore C. Steele, |

{ and departed in long pants. | two pants’ sizes, Brandt discovered that his father

¥ THEM, in other cases, are jail-birds and | thugs, rabble-rousers and labor-baiters, some crackpots and | And in the movements which |

This is a re- | versal of tactics. When E. A. M. was on top it terrorized | the non-Communist majority, and objected to any inter- | national interference to preserve order and protect demo- |

! OUR TOWN—

By Anton Scherrer

THE DREAMY-LOOKING man

with the pipe and ‘the flowing tie)

{ who eats his lunches at the roundtable in the show window of Stegemeier's ‘cafe is | the eminent Hoosier painter who practiced his lovely | art for the better part of 60 years (1868-1926). | Contrary to general belief, the dreamy look in | Brandt Steele's. eyes has nothing to do with inheritance. It's the resuit-of his emotional experiences, | There's not another man in Indianapolis who can | boast the number of his romantic adventures, and | the strange part is that he hasn't told one-tenth of what he knows. In that respect Mr, Steele's fund | of emotional experiences resembles the character of | an iceberg which, more often than not, has seven- | eighths of its bulk hidden under water, = | Brandt Steele’s emotional cxperiences began the day thai. he was born. On that day he looked so good that his father named him Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn in the hope that some day, maybe, he would look like the great Dutch painter.

‘Five Years in Bavaria

| THE HOPE was realized the day the movie people portrayed Rembrandt's life on the screen with Charles Laughton in the leading role. The best the { movie people could do was to make up Mr. Laughton to look like Brandt Steele ; After his memorable christening, Brandt Steele's | emotional experiences began to pile up.’ In 1880, for | instance, his father took him and the wholé family to Germany. They settled in Schliersheim, a cute

tling resemblance to those by which Hitler's Nazis rose to | little Bavarian village six miles out of Munich. All | this territory is now in American hands which is | probably why the submerged story I'm about to tell

' patriotic ring. But behind the names are the same mo- | tives, and in some cases the same men, that made the

came to light the other day. The Steele family stayed five years in Bavaria which is to say that Brandt arrived in knee pants Somewhere between the

had placed him in a Catholic school which, of itself, was quite an experience for a 13-year-old Indianapolis boy brought up in the Protestant faith,

Errand of Mercy THE SCHOOL was in charge of an adorable priest and, in the due course of time, the Indianapolis boy and the priest struck up a friendship the memory of which lights up Mr. Steele's dreamy eyes when he thinks about it today. Pretty soon the priest invited the Indianapolis boy to go-on errands of mercy with him. On one occasion news came that a farmer in a neighboring hamlet had been gored by an angry bull. It was a hurry-up call. The priest put on the vestments of the church and commanded Brandt to dress like an acolyte. They arrived just in time to administer. the last rites. - Heavy of heart, the two then came home. As a matter of fact, they returned to the school house where they discovered that the kids had made the most of their absence. The priest hardly had time to get his class going again when a breathless messenger arrived bearing | a telegram. He was shivering for it was a cold and bitter day. The priest read the message, pulled himself together, and ordered the Kids to get their caps and overcoats. They had a long journey ahead of them, he said.

Children Were Puzzled AFTER THEY were buttoned up, the priest marched the kids through the deep snow to the railway station which was some miles away from the school. Arriving there, the priest huddled his pupils together and told them that when he gave the sign they must all kneel and pray. What's more, they had to keep on praying until he gave the word to step. Up until then the kids were unaware of what it was all about. Le Pressly tho puedled children caw 2 {rain ap~ | proaching. For some reason, it didn’t whistle and it didn't seem to run as fast as German trains were |- Supposed to. When the train slowed down to what { appeared to be nothing more than a crawl, the kids | were dumfounded to see the locomotive and all | the cars draped in black. That's when the priest gave the sigh’ to kneel and pray.

Richard Wagner Funeral Train WHEN HE told the kids to rise, the train was far away, a mere spot on the horizon, It was the funeral

last resting place in Bayreuth. . Since then Mr. Steele has learned that Richard Wagner died in Venice on Feb. 13, 1883. As a matter of fact, he's been collecting memorabilia concerning the event. ‘Thus far he has learned that 5000 telegrams were sent from Venice the day of Wagner's

the parish priest received. Another item to turn up lately was the news that | Wagner's wife, Cosima, in the agony ‘of her grief cut off her lorig blond hair which her husband’ always loved to have her wear loose over her shoulders. The clipped hair, says Mr. Steele (with a faraway dreamy look) was on a red satin cushion | under Richard Wagner's head the day the train | slowed down in Schliersheim. : Mr. Steele appeared on today's program by courtesy of Stegemeier’s cafe.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS— Peace Steps By Henry J. Taylor

people and they know it. “The world cannot—and will

end,” Heinrich Dieckhoff, the former German ambassador to the United States, told me in the German foreign office in Berlin on the eve of Pear] Harbor. This long-headed German, who knows America

Brandt Steele]

train bearing the body of Richard Wagner to its

death. Included in the pile, no doubt, was the one |

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The Table Ts All Set!

| POLITICAL SCENE—

Half-A-Loaf 1

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, July 16—The half-a-loaf treatment of the fair

"| employment practtce committee

Hoosi oosler Forum “SENATOR CAPEHART ! HAS YET TO LEARN” | By A Gold Star Mother, Indianapolis { I read with sincere interest the | {recent statement by our -distin-| |guished Senator Capehart (Peace | {Rumor Homer) in regard tothe

{type of material stored by the war!

department at the Indiana state, here are those of the writers, fairgrounds. {

| n 3 in. 05 W It would seem that a man in and publication "ho way

Senator Capehart's position would | implies agreement with those familiarize himself with facts be-| Opinions The Times. The fore making public statements. The! Times assumes no responsi senator, being new, and unaccus-| bility for the return of manutomed to the press, ‘doesn’t realize] scripts and cannot enter corperhaps the publicity that is given respondence regarding them.) his slightest word. He has yet to learn that there is quite a difference between the sacred portals of the senate and. a!trye facts. factory for manufacturing juke-| boxes for taverns.

(Times readers are invited to express their, views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let. ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth

have been, “war-weary planes”| american boys. stored at the state fairgrounds. The! The voting public types of material stored here are gomer, not fiction. replacement parts that are shipped; Pa direct to the battlefronts. “LET'S HAVE BOTH Another type of material has been | sings OF QUESTION” brought here recently for the pur- | pose of disposal. This is not “war[weary junk,” but new, unused ma-| | terial of which the government has

By Jesse R. Johnson, 1036 N. Illinois st.

ernment. like Senator Capehart has no objection to a move-that will be quite a substantial saving to the government. Does Mr. Capehart take into consideration the fact that.several hun{dred people are gainfully employed (here, doing a very vital job in the] {war effort? Is he aware that many lof them are wives and mothers of are dissatisfied. ? : men at our fighting front? - Would {our senator like to give some pub-| {licity to the “fact that the em-|to do lik |ployees here oversubscribed their nine out o {quota in the 7th war loan by several 10, thousand dollars? |sengers are dissatisfied. Indiana is a patriotic state wi many boys at the battlefront. Indi-| lana farmers are doing a large share |it all up when he said we

lin speeding victory by their vast enough laws as it is, just more en- |

(production of live stock and grains. | forcement. Many farmers worked “around the|

lclock” this spring to plant their any place, at any time, and give, | him and the public a few facts as | 1f Parmer John Doe had a son the taxicab driver sees them. Let's NEW YORK, July 16.—Time is Istranded on an island somewhere have both side of the question; I the greatest asset of the German awaiting parts for his plane, I am don’t. want either one of my two sure Farmer Doe would appreciate | boys to come back from overseas [the work of the employees at the and belong to any organization that not—hate us and hate us without | fairgrounds to speed those parts to may -spread hatred among their

| crops.

his son’s plane in distress. Farmer |fellowmen.

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

death: your right to say it.”

Doe will gladly relinquish the state fair for the duration if he knows the

Now is hardly the time to make 1a political football of a war depart- ‘any person in Soviet Russia or in “For the information of our Junior {rent instaliation that is playing «the countries where she has set up senator, there are not, and never yital part in saving the. lives’ of

likes facts,

‘of July 12 that the 1ith district | cates, bars only those who refuse:

a surplus. This will eventually be|Americdn Legion is on the loose |, pay taxes to support the govern-| the sold to private industry by the 80V-| again, and through its representa- |ment like the great majority do. Surely a businessman ive; Mr. Ralph Gregg, national | ljudge advocate, is sponsoring an-| he party in power and none were | {other campaign of regimentation

{and hatred against taxicab drivers, [ telling our city council in no uncer- | vote, and they vote “Ja,” like they

ltain terms just what they expect of |did in Hitler's Germany, with a {them—then has the effrontery and {gall to ‘make the statement that

f 10,-but just two out of | yes just one in 10 of my pas- |8oes on inside Russia—that is their | It is all |business. But we do object when th Mr. Gregg's; if he fails, it's/mine. they force it on others. Part of

Mr. R. C. (Bud) Dauss summed Finland . . . have (people of Latvia, Lithuania and

I am willing to meet Mr. Gregg| Communist

| “COUNTRY’S RECORD

{ WHITE AS SNOW” | By James BR. Meitzler, Attica i | Pro-Russian Earl D. Woskins| 'says, “I am first, last and always | an American.” He then proceeds to t whitewash Russia's totalitarian

| Communist government by blacken4ing England and his own country. England abolished child marriages, widow burning and religious murder in ‘India. She increased their food supply by irrigation projects but their breeding like flies causes famines. Their dirty habits cause plagues. Their caste system is their own. Ghandi, Nehur and Allab Jinniha, with millions of their followers, are cursing England and voting against her, but none are liquidated. But

Quisling puppe¥ gcvernments who whispers against Uncle Joes dictatorship is purged immediately. | In America we have the right to curse our government and use it/ {and nome but one actless Chicago | {school teacher who lost her job suf-| |fers for it. Anyone can vote in

I see in The Indianapolis Times America for whom or what he |

Ipleases. The poll tax, in a’ few|

Twenty-two million voted against

shot or deported. Only 4,000,000 of |

Russia's 180,000,000 are allowed to]

pistol to their head. . . . Here the worker can quit his job

|nine out of 10 taxicab passengers and go where he pleases. Our

{strikes fn wartime are a scandal. In |

|" 1 challenge that statement to this Communist Russia he works where |

lextent: T will post $100, Mr. Gregg he is told to work. If he idles he ewise, if he can prove, not is fined; if he leaves he. is shot. |

Now we do not object to what |

and all of the free| {Estonia have been subjected by | Russia. governments have] been set up in Rumania, Bulgaria, | Hungary; Yugoslavia, Austria and] Poland. Turkey, Tran and Iraq are! threatened. When we whip the) Japs they will seize Mongolia, Man- | churia and Korea. Mr Hoskins, compared to Com- | munist Russia, your country’s record | is white as snow, ~ ” »

Side Glances=By Galbraith

.|“NO MORE OF THIS

MONKEY BUSINESS” By Charles E. Geiger, New Palestine

by congress’ leaves an aftermath of problems disturbing both to the dig Democratic party, as regards its political future, and to the country, as it affects the post-war period. i Pilibustering tactics of a southern Democratie j minority were responsible for slashing in half funds § for this agency, which was created by the late Presi- § dent Roosevelt to keep down discriminations in ems § ployment on account of race, creed, color or religion, Congress finally voted FEPC $250,000 for its next § fiscal year, after a long, bitter fight, and under such conditions that its future status is doubtful and § unsettled, : | The budget bureau had recommended $558,000, § which was reduced in a first compromise to $446,000, § the amount the agency had last year, and then to § $250,000,

Truman Urged Full Amount

THE FIGHT put up by the southern wing of the Democratic party accentuates again the schism within its ranks which widens rather than narrows as j time passes. President Truman not only had recom- § mended the full amount approved by the budget} bureau, but he urged creation by congress of a per- § manent fair employment practices commission to} take the place of this war-created agency, which has § only persuasive powers. EE | This illustrates the gap between the ‘Southerners, on the one hand, and the President and the New Deal § and progressive wing of the party, on the other. | The increasing political danger to the Démocratie party is that it may find slipping away from it certain necessary components to victory at the polls. Among these are the Negroes, a powerful balance of power in big urban centers in the East and industrial Mid west, as well as other minorities and progressive forces, including labor. The Southern wing of the party has demonstrated that it can operate effectively in congress to hams string or block measures, such as FEPC, no matter how loudly the President and New Dealers may shout § for them.

Words From Top Lose Vitality IN FIGHTING other types of progressive “legis= § ation supported by labor and other allies of the Democratic party, the Southerners have been able { to draw to their support a substantial number of § conservative Republicans. i This is not lost on those progressive forces which went along with the late President Roosevelt—in-§ dicated, for example, by the wait-and-see attitude § ;aken by C. I. O. on President Truman. Words from the top are losing their vitality in view of what hap« pens in congress. uo The stock answer of Democrats when such danger signals are discussed is that labor and other progrese sive forces which Mr. Roosevelt attracted to the party “have nowhere else to go” This is true if G. O. P. standpatism is predominant in the Repube fican party, as it- seems to be for the time in cone gress. But, if the progressives in the Republican party should get the upper hand, then this might not hold true. How persuasive an appéal could be made is § shown, for Instance, in the eloquent advocacy of § FEPC by Senator Wayne Morse (Ore), who is rising to an outstanding place among Republican progres= & sives, both on domestic and international issues.

Points to Pitfalls Ahead

HE IS one of a nucleus which is becoming more potent in congress and gaining recognition among | Republican progressives outside. . ] In his speech ‘on FEPC, one of the most effective yi in congress this session because of its logic, its mod=- # eration and its*exemplification of the best liberal democratic tradition; Senses Mose: potted to the pitfalls to true democracy in the post-war period. ‘This, he explained, will require constant watche fulness. He urged the necessity of FEPC to check on the threat to the democratic tradition in discrime inations in employment, saying, “You cannot have political democracy without economic democracy.” = | He spoke from his’ experience on the war labor | board, where he made a distinguished record His experience showed prevalence of a double standard of Wages in many cases, depending on the color of skin. “We are going to lose the war in a very real sense,” he said, “if, as an aftermath, we become engulfed H

in a-wave of bigotry, prejudice and hatred which do H

violence to those great principles of democratic Sovernment which differentiates our government from others.”

IN WASHINGTON—

Meet Leo

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 186. Whenever anyone has a question which no one else can answer about the new United Nations organization, the call goes out” for Leo. That happened the very first foreign relations committee. hearings, prior to ratie fication of the U. N. O. charter. i

day of the senate {

The show opened with Ex-Secretary of State {

Edward ‘R. Stettinius Jr. reading a 20-page state- | ment which took an hour and told no one present | anything he shouldn't have known two weeks ago, |

That was the kick-off, but then it was Leo's turn, §

Leo had to carry the ball and do a lot of fancy open=

| Leo is an old hand at that. He has, in fact, been @§

state department quarterback for four long years, all §

| field running through all those senate tackles, but

through this international football game to win the @§

peace.

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ence. If President: Truman and Prime Minister Churchill can ‘persuade Generalissimo Stalin to call off his Balkan

‘boys, there need not be another explosion in that area now. |

A DIFFICULT JOB WELL DONE

OST Americans are prepared to join enthusiastically |

“now 1 seconding the statement that the women’s-army corps has made an outstanding contribution to the victory already gained, as well as to the victory still to’ be gained, in the global war, This attitude has not always prevailed. More than a _ little skepticism existed when the organization was in the formative stages. More than a few people didn’t like the idea of trying to make soldiers out of women. Ridicule was not uncommon. The WAC—or the WAAC, as officially designated originally—definitely was in the position of having to prove-its value: : Most people are now ready to agree that the organization has done just that. It has proved itself very much worthwhile. | ganization has come from “hard-bitten” army men whe, in many cases, made no secret of prejudice at the outset.

If~the WAC has proved itself—as we think it has— |

then no one can deny that a large share of the credit for

whatever the corps may be, and for what it has done, must

go to Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, who resigned as WAC director after having been in command since the earliest organizanal stages. Anyone prepared lo say—as nearly “all iericans do say—that the WAG has done a splendid job, 8 says, at the same time, that Col. Hobby likeidly; the dificult task assigned

we will :

—— Here is another job for the Big Three Potsdam confer- well, was forecasting Germany's only hope after the |

United States came into the war. He was mindful | of a basic fact of life: People do not maintain in- | dignation indefinitely. ; in time, and perhaps a short time, who will re- | member Lidice? or the rape of Warsaw? or Rotter- | dam, Lwow; Belsen, Buchenwald and Glattback? As the years go on, indignation diminishes.

Although it may be wrong to condemn any

| people as a whole, it is equally wrong to consider the

| German peoplé as though their peculiarities were not | a constant threat to peace.

pean history.

From the 12th century days of Adolf of Holstein |

| and Heinrich the Lion, ‘Teéutonic expansionism has | been spreading German influence farther and farther. Frederick William 1, father of Frederick the Great,

the overlord and an exaltation of the state,

Shocking to Germans? No FREDERICK WILLIAM himself set the example for the Teutons°when his son tried to visit- England

Then he stood the child in front of an executioner's

Some of the most lavish praise for the or-{ pack’ and forced him to stare while thé boy's best

friend was decapitated before his eyes for. attempting to help him go. i Shocking to the German people? .Oh, no. For’ nearly an hour the royal father bowed to the cheers of the assembled crowd. = Consistent as the acts are, how preposterous it

view our enemy in this narrow sense! That is a

| dangerous, conception of Europe in-general and the |

| Germans in particular:

ria of the German problem. ~~ Unless we take a different attitude towards the German people than toward Europeans as a whole.

not pursue or maintain the steps which are

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German expansionism | | has been thé most persistent single quality in Euro- |

struck upon the idea of making Prussia a second | Sparta. The basis was an infatuation with duty to |

against his wishes. He caught the boy at shipside.d)

is to attribute this war to the Nazis alone and to | |

As we get rid of the Nazis we shall not have got |

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"Don't fail fo mail your. mother and sister this. item about civilian -. trgvel being stopped, well before the time they usually ..

pays their annual visit!”

it-who hides behind the pseudonym of The Watchman has again appeared in print with a diatribe of cut-and-dried, ready-made-to-order |

anti-Russian propaganda. { To a trained observer it is so,

.| Obvious that this party has neither |

intelligence nor originality but simply quotes the propaganda al-! This is the type of vicious war mongering that starts a conflagration of war and hatred and after | these war-mongers have started the | fires of war they usually hide be- | hind. some profitable war contract | where they can make plenty of | money. I challenge this party to prove that they know anything about Russia, or for that matter, any other country, including the U. 8. A. It so happens that IT am an exservice man who has served over-’ seas and I resent this kind of war | propaganda. It is the work of a certain clique and I know who they are. Let's have no more of this monkey business, 3 @

DAILY THOUGHT

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ranks as-an-assistant secretary of state. The reason

he doesn't hold that title is probably because he was [f

born in Russia. Even though he has lived *in the United States for 40 of his 52 years and been an American citizen for 34 years, there was some doubt

about getting the senate to ratify the appointment ||

of a Russian-born gent to the “little cabinet.” {

No one doubts Leo's loyalty to the United States I

and everyone recognizes his ability. Respect for

~Leo's-technical knowledge as historian and economist.

is tremendous, and growing all the time. He will probably go with Stettinius to wherever the United Nations: organization sets up shop. He has a great | future ahead of him in international relations. He knows the ‘answers. : ¢ He will never win any prizes in a handsome man contest, but once you see him, you never forget him,

weighs around 150. He used to weigh nearly 200, He is still round. .

In On Every Play Yi

A QUIRK in the ¢orners of his mouth and a merry twinkle in his eyes: make him look as though he ha just put a thumbtack upside-down on the seat of the secretary of state's chair, then walked off and left it. He is that puckish in appearance, but really the soul ° of dignity and oh so very, very shy. ; Pasvolsky has been in on every play of the world peace organization game since early in 1941, when Cordell Hull set him up as “chief.of division of specidl research” to begin planning how to prevent another By July of 1044 an American plan. for a world, security organization had been drawn ups With similar British, Chinese and Russian plans, it became the basis for Dumbarton Oaks discussions last fall,

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the senators turn to Leo 107 She detated explanation;