The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-15
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
(Ben syndicate-wNU Service

1.-TWO pamphlets came to my
desk this morning, from
i the Writers Anti-War bu-
reau for Anti-War Mobilization.
If your interior economy, like
mine, has been in something or
a culver of irrepressible terror
over the war news of late, over
the horrors that pour in upon US
from the telephone, radio, movie
news, press, the two treatises
together forms a fine tonic for
today's excitement and hyste-
ria; the frantic boast and fool
ish word of Germany and Italy
are affecting US all, and we are
already looking skyward to see
the parachute troops darkening
our free skies.
victorious Germany, this ar
ticle reminds us, won't be much
better off than a defeated
France and England. Famine
is staring all Europe in the face
now, victors and vanquished
alike.
Policing Task Tremendous.
The complete picture of Hitler's
policing job would look like this, ac-
cording to the pamphlet. Forty-two
million Frenchmen, forty-six million
British; seventeen million Belgians
and Dutch; plus Norwegians, Poles,
Danes, Czechs, Austrians and Lux
embourgers will bring the total to
over one hundred fifty million per-
sons.
Most of these" the essay states,
"are more bitterly opposed to Hit
Ter than we are-they have more
reason to be. Furthermore, inside
Germany itself all is not well {.
With this threatening mass of hatred
around him, Hitler would probably
think more than twice before he
looked around for more enemies"
Friends Now, Foes Later.
The article goes on to sketch the
situation of completely triumphant
Germany, holding a very shaky
truce with Russia, it is true, for
Stain is none too comfortable a
neighbor, and holding with Italy one
of those compacts which, as we've
all seen in the last disgraceful
weeks, is all ready to be transferred
to any new winner, as soon as that
winner is declared.
But suppose all that settled, and
the European peoples, one hundred
and fifty million strong, meekly
herded into line; then we are to
imagine Hitler turning toward us.
His dead buried, the crippled activi-
ties of a dozen nations mended and
shakily busy once more, the inev-
liable famine of the awful winter of
1940-41 somehow survived, and the
dictators themselves still alive
which is always big assumption
then they're ready for us. The plan
would be to establish great mill
tary base IN one of the Central
American countries. But hundreds
of thousands of men must be landed
there before a gun can be fred, lines
of communication opened, and guns,
tanks, ammunition, hospitals, COM
missary, the tremendous stats of
engineers and mechanics made
available. Raw country must be
opened, and the complete co-opera-
ton of the entire invaded country as
sured. And what would we be do
ing?
Odds in Our Favor.
Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, chief
of staff, line of communications, A..
E. F., says that we have only FIVE
ports in the United States at which
enemy forces could disembark. All
the while he was getting ashore his
lighters, barges, piers, cranes, spe-
cial equipment, we would be right
in our own country, with inexhausti-
BILE supplies at our backs. Military
experts maintain, says this author
ity, that our navy and airplanes
could stop Hitler long before he got
anywhere near our shores.
Obviously, an invading army,
especially across one of the great
oceans, is at disadvantage. That's