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Evening star., 1941-12-29

chamber the day after Christmas,
In that speech Mr. Churchill really
lifted the Nation. But that was not
all he did. Certainly, in a few days
he has managed to convey IN
Washington two exceedingly useful
impressions. One is that the fight
ahead of us is exceedingly grim;
that there will be bad news before
there is good news. Nevertheless,
the ultimate and complete defeat
of the enemy is something about
which there is no doubt whatever.
| The other idea is that the cost OF
victory in money, lives and time
depends altogether upon the way
the Job is managed.
IF we manage 1t WELL declared
this indomitable man at his first
press conference, I'VE shall do 1t
in half the time"
That. of course, was not said IN
criticism but merely as a plain
statement of obvious fact 1t would
be we'll If these Churchillian words
should soak into the minds directing
our own national effort, which quite
clearly is not being managed well
at all
It may be that We have made no
more mistakes than the British in
the same length of time. 1t may
be that in the early days they made
even bigger blunders than We. But
that is not the point. The point is
that the stage has been reached
where we must at least cease
making ma jor mistakes-because
mistakes now will take their toll
in American lives and prolong a
very bloody war, even though they
do not threaten the ultimate out
come.
Urged to Profit by Others Errors.
What We ought to do, of course,
/ is TO profit by the British mistakes
not repeat them. England and Cam
ada have been in this war nearly
| a year and a half: we have been in
/ it Just three weeks. In such vital
matters as price control. civilian
defense. labor policy, priorities, and
production problems generally, they
floundered around for months but
have Strengthened out now-made
their mistakes and corrected most
| of them.
1t would seem the part Of wisdom
for us to profit by their experience,
not disregard it. Particularly, 1t
would seem that the presence in
Washington of Lord Beaverbrook
and the accompanying experts pro-
vides an opportunity for survey
of what they have done which We
can profitably avoid or profitably
adopt
At least it would be such an op-
portunity if there were in our Gov
ernment some one with authority
enough and capacity enough to get
at the facts and operate along
these lines. Unfortunately, there
Evening star., 1941-12-29
{. |. 0. Publication Urges
Price Control Measure

Adequate price-control legislation
and elimination of wage-control pro-
posals before Congress was urged
in today's issue of the Economic
outlook, monthly publication of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions.
The Outlook predicted that 2,500.-
600 workers will be displaced from
their jobs through dislocations in
the shift of industry to all-out war
production. 1t said that food costs
have gone up 208 per cent between
August, 1889, and November, 1941.
Rising costs of living, the maga-
zine continued, are wiping out recent
wage increases and the trend can
only result in new hardships for
the 1ow-income group" In con-
trast, Federal Reserve Board figures
were quoted to show a 1922 per cent
increase in profits between the first
three quarters of 194l and the cor
responding period of 1910.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

by ONSIAN line bhONN.
AS time goes on and we fail TO
hear Of any spectacular naval
engagements in the South Pa
ciflc and receive instead reports
that japanese transport fleets
escorted by warships are met
only by the fire of shore bat
teries on LuZon Island, We need
not fear that the Navy is not on
the job.
II is true that the Asiatic
Fleet under Admiral Thomas C.
Hart has been active only spo-
radically against japanese trans
ports or small warships when
ever it has heen able to do so
without jeopardizing its fighting
strength. These sinkirgs were
the work OF American subma-
rines, and none of the heavier
units has been engaged in real
action yet.
The Navy high command nat
urally is silent, and will remain
SO until the time is ripe to an
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This Changing World
American Navy Is Unlikely to Strike
Until TeIIino Blow Can Be Delivered

even Toxic, it IS believed In
Washington, feels that this lack
of activity of the associated
navies may be ominouS.
The japanese Navy had prob
ably the best intelligence service
in the Pacific. and in the United
States itself. While these agents
have now ceased TO function, the
imperial intelligence knows that
the United States Navy has not
been put out Of action not by the
widest stretch of imagination.
Japanese admirals are well ac-
quainted with the personalities
of American Navy commanders
and the quality of naval person.
mel. They are not given to un-
derrating the American Navy;
hence. they wonder what is hap
pening to the Asiatic fleet.
HoRed for Pursuit.
The ia Hnese high command
apparently hoped that after the
raid against Pearl Harbor the
unscathed units Of the Pacific
Fleet would rush to pursue the
few airplane carriers. cruisers
and destroyers which comprised
the raiding detachment.
A few people in Washington
think this should have been done
in order to obtain headline vic
tory by sinking some Of the Jap
anese warbhips and avenglng
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the last war, If we had took common
measures for our safety, this renewal
Of the curse need never have fallen
upon us. Do we not owe 1t to our
selves, to our children, to tormented
mankind, to make sure that these
catastrophies do not engulf us for
the third time? Five or six
years ago, it would have been easy,
without shedding a drop of blood,
for the United States and Great
Britain to have insisted on the full
fillment of the disarmament clauses
of the treaties which Germany
signed after the Great War =.
The chance has departed; it Is gone.
Prodigious hammer strokes have
been needed to bring us together
today"
Who was to blame? The same
forces of isolation which fought
Woodrow Wilson and rendered null
and void the plan of world organi-
zation which he and others hoped
to see established with American
might behind 1t as a means Of keep
ing peace.
These same influences for 40 years
have kept America from being pre-
pared and that's the true meaning
of the plight of American troops in
the Philippines and the fact that
we do not have an adequate sized
Navy or air force today.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

Pearl Harbor. But those who are
responsible for the conduct of the
war refused to play into the
hands of the Japs and no at
tempt was made to pursue the
raiding squadron with main
forces of the fleet at Pearl
Harbor.
Nor has the Navy made any
real attempts to interfere with
japanese transports and their
conveys after the ill-advised
action of Admiral Sir Tom
Phillips. who commanded the
battleship Prince of Wales and
battle cruiser Repulse on their
fateful trip of the coast Of
Malaya early in the Pacific war.
Feeling of Assurance.
While no one here knows where
and when the American Navy may
strike, there is a feeling of as
surance in responsible Washing
ton quarters which indicate that
the Navy will not rush headlong
into some spectacular action
which might make the headlines
for a few days but will not bring
the one result the Navy seeks:
Decisive victory over the COM
bined japanese land, sea and air
forces.
It seems beyond doubt now that
nothing will happen until the
commander in chief of the naval
forces give the go signal. And
it is equally beyond doubt that
whenever that time comes-it
may be weeks or 1t may be
months-the American Navy will
go into action with such complete
preparation that whatever losses
may be suffered will be compen-
stated for by a decisive victory.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Lodge Will Celebrate
'OId-Timers' Niqht'

Annual "old-timers' night will
be celebrated by Columbia Lodge
No. ia. International Association of
Machinists, Saturday night at the
Willard Hotel. Speakers will in
clude Rear Admiral George T. Pet
tengill. commandant of the WASH
ington Navy Yard; H. w. Brown,
Evening star., 1941-12-29


lived since June, 1910, under the
Vichy dictatorship. BY an over
wheming majority they decided
they didn't like this dictatorship
and wished to join democratic
France, as represented in the
leadership of Gen. De Gaulle.
This is the most important
thing about the incident: 1t was
revolt against Fascism by
people.
They revolted for our side.
Vice Admiral Muselier and Gen.
De Gaulle are fighting our war
on the high seas. in Libya, and
have offered us bases in French
Equatorial Africa. They have
received assistance from the
United States. They have grant,
ed us their bases in the Southern
Pacific, which may soon be the
only route by which we can reach
Malaga and the Indian Ocean.
They are our allies in the war
against Japan, who was given
the first leg-up for the attack on
us by the Vichy government, who
allowed the japanese to land in
Ere,rh In6o-Chioa
Now, Gen. De Gaulle and Vice
Admiral Muselier are Frenchmen.
Unless guilty of treason to France
they had a perfect right to land
on French territory. The people
of France have no means of de-
Gliding about them, for they have
been deprived of any vote in
Vichy France. and elsewhere
France is occupied by Nazis.
Vice Admiral Muselier restored
the suffrage to the people of St.
Pierre and Miquelon and it
turned out that they want to
join us in war against the Axis.
Gesture Is Important.
st. Pierre and Miquelon are
very small. but the symbolic i'm
portance Of the gesture is not
small at all. 1t is the first time
since the fall of France that
Frenchmen on their own soil
have been able to behave as free
men and exercise right Of
choice about a government and
policy. Just this right to the
four freedoms is what this war
is supposed to be about, accord
ing to the President of the United
States and Mr.. Winston Church.
i'll.
Point 3 of the Atlantic charter
demands "the right of all peoples
to choose the government under
which they will live"
This incident, flashed across
the world, was something to
have cheered up the anti-Fascist
masses of the people all over the
earth.
But what did happen? Some
thing rather terrible happened.
The State Department inter-
vened, and, God help US, inter-
vened against our allies and
against the anti-Fascists.
This little revolution inter-
fered with negotiations they were
having with Gen. Robert, the
Evening star., 1941-12-29
u S. Intervention in St. Pierre and Miquelon
Called Example Of How to Lose War

and with larger negotiations with
Petain. So we gave notice to the
world that anti-Fascist revolu-
tions must be suppressed.
That is the way the people
everywhere will interpret what
we did, and the repercussions of
freedom loving, anti Quisling
people in every single occupied
country will be awful, And every
speech made about the four free
doms will have an absolutely hol-
low ring, for there stand ST. Pierre
and Miquelon and the stern COM
-mand of Washington telling them
to go back to Vichy and FaScism.
Cited as Way to Lose War.
Now, to cap everything, Wash
ington is trying to protect the
ST. Pierre -Miquelon radio against
possible inimical use by Vichy. by
American and Canadian super
vision, while 1t makes French
people subject to Vichy.
This is a pattern of a way
to lose this war. Certain
striped pants in the State De-
partment have been ca
lamity to the United States for
a long time.
They have been wrong with
an almost perfect record. They
were wrong about Spain, Italy.
Russia and Japan. and made
their own contribution to Pearl
Harbor.
They live in world where it
is difficult to develop any larger
political sense-a world of for
NAL negotiations carried on
with other members of that
world, as far removed as the
moon from the revolutionary
forces that are determining the
outcome of history.
From long careers In this now
antiquated world, they delude
themselves that they are makers
of policy instead Of hired men
Of the people. They are the
American examples of the "old
school-tie" mentality.
And they can cost us the great
est asset We have-the revolu-
tionary spirit for freedom among
the masses of the people OF the
world.
Petain's Status Analyzed.
They think by deprivlng the
peoples of St. Pierre and Mi
quelon of the rights of free men
they are preventing Petain from
giving away the French fleet
and bases In Africa. The only
thing that prevent Petaifl from
doing this are % that he is a
French patriot, 90 the fear that
we will win the war, and 80 a
fear of the reaction Of the peo-
pie of France. So We tell the
people of France symbolically
that II they revolt against COL
laborationism. the influence of
the American Government will
be used against them.
1t is unfortunate that Gen.
de Gaulle's move was made with
out our knowledge. 1t should
be remembered Gen. de Gaulle
holds large parts of the French
Empire. Are we going to de-
man they all be handed to
Vichy? And is 1t wise to insult
ones certain friends and yield
rather to gentlemanly black
mail? Above all, Is 1t decent to
undo the vote Of people?
Unless we remember that We
are fighting a peoples war, the
words of the President and Mr..
Churchill will be undone by
these men, whose one little ges-
ture. unless Immediately re-
pudiated. will have helped the
forces of Fascism everywhere
on earth.
(Released BY the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Germans Attack Group
Toustinq Roosevelt
RY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUERNAVACA. Mexico. Dec. 20.
Ten or II men described by police
as Germans attacked a group OF
Chileans and Mexicans last night
as they we're toasting Presidents
Roosevelt and Avila Camacho. in
flicting a scalp wound on the Chill
can Consul General.
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Declares War on BuIouriu

WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
Dec. 90 LP).-The government of
New Zealand announced today it
had declared war on Bulgaria as
of December IS.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

late as five years
years ago had
begun to work
together to en-
force peace
that S the CON-
ment of Prime
NJ / n ! S t e r
Churchill.
But t h ere S
one man VINO
on Arm / S t ic e
Day Novem-
Der II, 1923-in
his are " G ii
tt,4
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cent d e m o.
era tic revolu-
ton without
violence.
ic e A d =
niral Emile
M u s e ! ! e r
of the Free
French fleet
ldllQeQ OH JIle
islands a n d
called for a
pl c b j S CT t e
a m o n e the
Fl S h c I m c II
IL. Ia L, a Il q
Evening star., 1941-12-29

purpose of the
visit Of M r.
Churchill a n d
the numerous
technical aides
and experts who
came with him.
it is possible that
o [ h er benefits
may flow.
One, of course,
is the spiritual
eX al t a tion of
that great and
inspiring speech
IN tho c O N q I o
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HE opinions OF the rers this page their not
necessarily Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort giue sides of questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

counterparts Of
h oW to h old
your fork, which
spoon to use and
when to use It.
and " h o leads
whom into the
smoking room.
Mars, the God
of War, is host
to the world
these DAYS and
he is no stickler
for clique tie.
You don't make
his "400n nv
Evening star., 1941-12-29
.ChurchiII's
Talk Called
Wilson Echo
Presidents FutefuI
Warning in 1923
Is Recalled
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

If only the Navy had had half
hours warning at Pearl Harbor is
the cry of Secretary Knox
If only Britain and America as
Evening star., 1941-12-29
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

Over the Christmas holidays an
anti-FasciSt revolution occurred
in the little French islands Of
ST. Pierre and Miquelon-a de-
Evening star., 1941-12-29
McLemore
Suggests U. S. Stop
Wogine Nice War
Rv HENRY McLEMORE.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla. Uncle
Sam. let's take the likes Of Emily
Post off the general staff.
Please, let's forget the military
Evening star., 1941-12-29
By FRANK r. KENT.

Apart from the immense advan-
tages of co-ordinated effort and
agreed-upon strategy against the
Axis powers, which is the main
Evening star., 1941-12-29

international president of the ma
chinists, and N. P. Alias, president
Of Lodge No. A.
Evening star., 1941-12-29

American people issued warning,
which if needed might have pre-
vented the second World War. The
birthday anniversary of that man
the wartime President of the United
States-was yesterday. No official
observance of the day was noted
and though a Democratic admins
tration is in power and though 1t
has become the custom to honor ma
tionally the memory of great Presi-
dents. no such homage has been
paid Woodrow Wilson. Is he being
forgotten so soon by the American
people?
The man may be forgotten but
from the pages of history will never
be erased the indelible words which
he uttered in what proved to be
his final speech. 1t came over the
radio from his home and lasted but
q few minutes. In it he was evi-
IDENTIFY referring to the action Of
the isolationists in the United
States Senate who had forced the
defeat of American participation in
the League of Nations, and at one
time he used the word "cowardly," q"
which did not appear in the printed
copies of his speech the next day.
But in the books that subsequently
appeared. the full text was pre-
sented and it is worth reproducing
now because it predicts the reason
for the second World War in
phrases that his countrymen chose
tn ignore
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Wilson Is Quoted.

He said:
The anniversary of Armistice
Day should stir us to great exalta-
ton of spirit because of the proud
recollection that it was our day, a
day above those early days of that
never to = be forgotten November
which lifted the world to the high
levels of vision and achievement
upon which the Great War for de-
mocracy and right was fought and
won: although the stimulating
memories Of that happy time of tri-
umph are forever marred and en-
bittered for us by the shameful fact
that when the victory was won
won, be it remembered-chiefy by
the indomitable spirit and ungrudg-
Ing sacrifices Of our own incom-
parable soldiers-we turned our
backs upon our associates and re-
fused to bear any responsible part
In the administration of peace, or
the firm and permanent establish
ment of the results of the war
won at so terrible cost of life and
treasure-and withdrew into a sui
len and selfish isolation which is
deeply ignoble because manifestly
cowardly and dishonorable.
This must always be source of
deep modification to us and we shall
inevitably be forced by the moral
obligation of freedom and honor to
retrieve that fatal error and assume
once more the role of courage, self
respect and helpfulness which every
true American must wish to regard
as our natural part in the affairs OF
the world.
THAT We should have thus done
great wrong to civilization at one OF
the most critical turning points in
the history of the world is the more
to be deplored because every anxious
year that has followed has made
the exceeding need for such services
as we might have rendered more
and more evident and more and
more pressing, as demoralizing cir
cumstances which we might have
controlled have gone from bad to
worse.
And now, as if to furnish a sort
of sinister climax. France and Italy
between them have made waste
paper of the treaty of Versailles and
the whole field of international re-
lationship is in perilous confusion.
The affairs of the world can be set
straight only by the flrmest ex-
hibition of the will to lead and
make the right prevail"
Echo From Churchill
But there was fateful echo of
that speech last week. Prime Min
lister Churchill was saying to an
applauding Congress:
Evening star., 1941-12-29
Echo From Churchill.

But there was a fateful echo of
that speech last week. Prime Min
lister Churchill was saying to an
applauding Congress:
IF we had stuck together after
La gaceta., 1941-02-11
Sc SUICIDE o MATARON
AL GENERAL KRTvITSKY

Washington, Feb. 11.-En
la habitaci6n que ocupaba en-
un hotel local, la policia ems
contr6 aver el cadaver del ge-
neral Water G. Krivitsky. ties
tigo que fue ante ell comite de
Dies. I'm juez Investigator O.
pima que ell hombre Sc suicide;
pero ell abogado del general,
restdente en- New York, opina
que Sc trata de un crimen de
/ Ia OGPU. Dej6 ell hombre una
nota en- la que pide a Luis
Waldman, de New York. cui
de de Su esposa y SUI hijo. I'm.
disparo de revolver por la ca
beza lie produjo la muerte.
Encontr6 la policia un pasa-
porte a nombre de Samuel
Ginsberg, ell verdadero NOM
bre de Krivitsky, Las notas de-
jadas por ell hombre CONQUER
dan, en- la escritura, con la fir
ma en- ell libro del hotel.
La gaceta., 1941-02-11
LA DE LOS
TURISTAS DE LA LATA

s. inici6 la Convention de los
TurlStas de la Lata y va sc han
inscripto, en- Tampa, mas de 900
"trailerS".
AnGche celebraron los turis-
tas un bale, en- ell Coliseo de la
nuevoS miembroS.
La gran Marcia en- el Coliseo
fue presidida por ell comandante
H. 0. Curley, de Ohio, un Off
.cial retirado del ej6rcito.
Esta noche, en- ell taatro levan-
tado en- una tienda, presenta-
ran Ell espectaculo "Noche en- la
Habana".
FL jueves Sc verificara EN- ell
Coliseo un bale de San Valen-
tin.
En- la tarde del viernes, entire
la l Y las 5, los "traileristas"
pres-ntaran una function para la
cual invitan al publico.
La gaceta., 1941-02-11
Cheers Amis Social Chi

Cheers AmiS Social Club
En- reciente junta celebrada
por los componentes de la sim
patica organization social Cheers
Amis, en- su casa club, 1902 de
North Albany, Sc hicieron pla-
mes para las pr6ximas fiestas.
La Srta. Mary Joe Valdes, Sc
cretaria del Club, fue tambian
nominada para Tesorera del
Club, va que la Tesorera en- fun
clones, Srta. Lola Garcia, renun
clio con motive del pr6ximo via
je que hara a Cuba.
Para ell Is del presente mes a.
nuncian un valentine Party"
Para los preparativos del mismo
fueron designados la Srta. Del
tina Dfaz y ell joven Gregorio
Martinez. La fiestecita tendra
efecto en- la Residential de la Sc
norita Diaz, en- la calle de Cor
della.
La Srta. Palmira Martinez le
ofreoi6 I'm Party de Despedi-
rda" a la Srta. Lola Garcia, en- su
Residential de-, 3031 de la Gale
Spruce, con motive de su proxi-
mo viaje,
Los asistentes fueron cortes =
mente atendidos por la propia
Srta. Martinez y su sonora ma
ma.
Sc hallaban presentes: Srtas.
Maria Ana Callea, Mary Joe Val
La gaceta., 1941-02-11
De La Verbend

he La HefOeHU
lei pasado sabado dimOs a CO.
nocer algunos de los nombreS de
los artistas que habian sidO con-
tratados en- Cuba para el pr6xi-
mo festival LA Verbena del
Tabaco', pero hoy con los deta-
Hes completes, ofrecidos por el
ST.. Joe Glamour, ell Presidente,
con gusto los damos a la publ.
cidad.
Los contratados en- Cuba son
LA exquisite cantante Sofia Al
varez, estrella del "Marcus
Show, que con gran eXito ha
actuado en- distintos teatros lie
Ia Habana, la simpatica Rosario
Ndnez, conocida por "Lan An
dalucita", cantante de genera
espanol; ell aplaudido duo Las
Adelitas'', integrado por Consle
10 Solarzanano c Hilda Ma. Her
nandez, y ell simpatiquisimo y
notable imitador Wilfredo Che
Waller.
En- la ciudad de Miami tam
bien c~ontrataron a Ia pareja de
rumba, conocida international
mente, Raul Y Eva.
Ell Sr. Glamour nos inform6
que les habia sido impossible el
contratar los servicios de la or
questa Xavier Cugat', debido
a que tenia firmado un contrato
con una compania de c~igarrillos
Aprovechamos la OCCASION pa
ra darle la bienvenida al Sr,
Glamour como a sus compare
ros Severino Quintanilla y Al
Chiaramonte y felicitarlos por
su actuaci6n.
La gaceta., 1941-02-11

h.JoS d. les esposos Monroe,
James,, Marcia, Phyllis, Donna
y Helen; Bert Brown y Harvey
Barger, este ultimo de Clear
water.
Al ser alcanzado por un auto
m6vil que guiaba Jimmy San
Martin, de "a amos, sufri6 lesio-
mes en- un pie ell nino George
Clay, de 10 amos. San Martin
fu& detenido bajo la acuSacion
de guar con descuido.
La gaceta., 1941-02-11
No habrG matinee

No hG6TG matinee
Segdn nos informa ell joven
Samuel Rosales, reporter de la
Secci6n de Recreo del Centre Es
panel, 81 pr6ximo domingo no ha
bra matinee. MOtiva esta sus :
pension un acto de confraterni-
dad hacia la Sociedad Centre AS
turiano, que celebra csc dia un
almuerzo y baile como merecido
homemade a la nueva Directiva,
que tomara possession.
Asfmismo nos dijo que tam =
bien habfa permitido que la or
questa "Don Francisco" sea usa-
da en- el bale que Sc efectuara
despues del almuerzo.
Aplaudimos la conducta de la
Secci6n de Recreo del Centre
Espanol, como deferencia hacia