Evening star., 1941-11-01


dare take the risk. Suppose some
one did take me for Mrs. Roosevelt!
Before I could say John-rabbit I
would be addressing a youth move
ment in Seattle, inspecting rustic
furniture in Albany, opening Mayor
La Guardia's mail in New York,
speaking before the salmon Gamers
in Oregon, riding horseback IN
Hyde Park and inviting Alexander
Woollcott for a week end.
That sort of schedule would kill
me. After all, I'm not youngster
any more and I'm of the male or
weaker sex.
So ! settled on continental dis
guise for my dangerous task in the
Nations Capital COR is it William
Green's Capital?). You know, a
rich refugee, who was forced to flee
to America with nothing left but
| bundle of cash, "a hours a day
of spare time, and a patronlzlng
attitude toward this country.
| Rich refugees have entree any,
where. I have found that out.
Poor souls. It tears a mans heart
| to watch them forlornly doing the
Conga in the smarter night clubs.
choking on sWeetbreads under bell
and partridge under sweetbreads
under bell, and driven to the COM
pany of four lovely blonds who have
nothing but mink to wear. And with
nothing to talk about but how stu
pidly this country is acting and how
niggardly it is in sending money
to their countries across the sea.
But to get back to my mission and
my disguise. I am wearing dou-
ble-breasted supercilious air, top
coat of finely woven smugneSs and
matching accessories spun from an
attitude of We'll, this country is
pretty nice, but it's not like home.
you know"
This is my miSSion-a peek at the
Nazi map President Roosevelt men
| toned in his Navy Day speech.
You know, the one that was drawn
up in the dark hours of the night
at the Chancellery in Berlin. and
which makes a complete mess Of
South America and the Panama
Canal.
The President has refused to pub
lish this map. He feels that 1t would
destroy sources of future informa-
ton.
I'm a helluva fellow to disagree
with the President. but in this in
stance I can't help but feel he is
dead wrong. If complete protection
of the agents who procured the
map is his aim, he shouldn't have
mentioned the possession Of it at
all. BY speaking of it in world
broadcast he has tipped his mitt,
and the ferrets at the Wilhelmstrasse
must already have started on the
provided the leak.
~
In the second place, the profound
impression that publication of the
map would make on the American
public would be worth the loss of
Berlin source of information. Put
that map In the papers with sup
porting documents that proved it
was genuine down to the last shad-
ing of ink and the President would
never again have to worry about
having the country behind him in
his war effort. Americans are a
very funny people, but they don't
| like outside characters being funny
with them. Show them, in black
and white, that outsiders have a
definite, set plan for making them
unhappy and Willie. aged 10, will
| get down his BIB gun and grandpa,
| aged SO, will work his rocker over to
a window from which to point his
f1intlock.
Thirdly. the publication of the
map (always with unquestionable
proof that it was drawn under Hit
ler's supervision) would make large
and delightful fools of the German
propaganda ministry. Since the
President mentioned the map Herr
Goebbels' gang has called him liar.
Why not shut them up?
That's why am in Washington,
wearing the disguise of rich refu-
gee. I aim to see that map, even
if have to shinny up the wall to
the White House study. Some one
who is apart from the Government.
some outsider. should look at it with
his own eyes, feel 1t with his own
fingers, and bring back q report to
the people.
Boy, my gumshoes.
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