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Evening star., 1942-11-07
Red Army Praised by Stowe
For Tenocity and Fortitude
p Hardest Fighting Ally If We Fulfill
Our Obligations, Writer Declares

to represent a completely unnatural
phenomenon. This army is an
aroused fighting entity, strong in its
unshattered self-belief and girded
with the tenacity and silent patience
and remarkable fortitude of the
Russian and Siberian peasants.
What you find in the Russian SOL
dier and officer-once I also found it
notably with the Spaniards and
Greeks and also with the hard-bit-
ten Finns-is character. But it is
character hammered out of a life
time of unremittent toll and out of
long accustomedness to hardship
and uphill struggle. Hitler thought
he could make the Germans into
soldiers who would be harder and
spiritually tougher -fbered than the
Russians. In this he has failed.
Here is a front-zone colonel OF
the Red Army who is typical OF
scores of officers with whom !
have talked. He is a serious-faced
man who chooses his words and
avoids all rhetoric: Russia will be
the last country in the world to
capitulate," he says, factually. 1--WE
shall fight to the last man."
Will Never Be Conquered.
In another zone, a Red Army ma
jor snapped. his jaws together and
then said:
Just one thing. Tell the Amer
leans the Russian people will never
be conquered-never."
The battalion commissar chimed
in with an emphatic nod of his
head:
1--WE want help and we need it.
But If you don't start a second
front, we shall fight on alone-re-
gardless. We shall keep fighting"
Again and again, I have heard
these same declarations from SOL
diers or officers and they were not
spoken as idle words but as express
sion of decision which had already
been made.
When the general says, chit the
Germans" he is voicing the central
philosophy and dominant idea of the
Russian army from top to bottom.
The average Red Army man seems
convinced that all that is needed is
a measurable weakening of the
Nazis' armed forces in the east, the
sudden pressure of two-front war
upon Hitler, and the forward march
of the Russian troops will soon begin
in earnest.
After living with the Red Army,
after seeing it's sinews at close hand,
and feeling its pulse, I do not doubt
for moment that this is possible
or that 1t will happen if a second
front is created within a short time.
The atmosphere and spirit of the
Russian front Is one Of strength,
resolution and confidence. There
is absolutely no underestimation of
the foe nor of the great sacrifices
that must still be made. Yet the
Evening star., 1942-11-07

fact remains that these Russian off,
GERS and men are unbeaten, that
their organization is as intact as
their morale and that they still burn
with the conviction that Nazism
must be crushed and will be crushed
in the end.
In my estimation the only thing
that could shatter or seriously in
jure the offensive spirit of the Rus
sian soldiers would be the failure of
Britain and the United States to
have their forces fighting on Euro
pean soil.
Even after such inexplicable tardi-
ness on the part of Britain and
America, I believe that the Rus
slams would keep fighting and re-
sisting as best they could wherever
they could-but in the meantime
the Russian soldiers and Russian
people would have lost all faith or
friendship for the English-speaking
nations.
Veteran Army of Allied Side.
The reality of the spirit of the
Russian front today is almost a
miracle and certainly it presents
unique opportunity to Britain and
America. For here is the only
great veteran army on the Allied
side with the exception of the
Chinese in the Orient. This great
Russian Army has been thoroughly
tempered in the crucible of war
and at the very least it will i'm
mobilize much more than 100000
Germans troops through the winter
and spring. 1t has bled Hitler's
legions enormously and it will bleed
them more and more. 1t is both
the most powerful and the fight
INCEST ally Britain and the United
States will ever find anywhere in
the world-but the secret Of having
wholehearted ally lies in knowing
how to be an ally.
Even so, any persons in America
or Britain who may still talk de-
featism about the Red Army must
completely miscomprehend what
Evening star., 1942-11-07
I'D Rother Be Right
Election Results Show Voters Actually Followed
Democrats Who Promoted COP Conservatism

sometimes the people render q ver-
dict merely by sitting on their
hands and yawning. Indifference to
lame and pedestrian appeals is also
part Of democratic process.
think this election dashes any
hope among Democrats that they
can catch conservative swing by
the tail by astutely going conserva-
tive ahead of it.
That merely damps whatever fire
there may be In an election. The
maximum conservative Democratic
strength that can be elected has
probably already been elected. If
conservatism grows it will grow with
the other party, as voters who once
left the Republican party precisely
because the Democrats were diff
ferent either come back home or
stay home.
Paper Gave the Game Away.
One bitter anti-Roosevelt news
paper gives the game away by chort-
ling: Isn't it wonderful! Now the
Republicans can speak for them
selves instead of having to work
through Tydings and Byrd! Pre-
cisely. If that's the choice, then the
voter with instructive good sense
saves his moral heat, his high en-
tt9,1cio fny. 0fIonr
I admit there are other factors
involved, including shortage of
war victories, and you can list more
OF them for yourself, but I assert
that if you are going to view the
election as a struggle between two
parties, then the fact that the diff
ference between the two parties has
been grayed down, and diminished,
and denied, played its part.
A victory for Republican thinking,
even if it takes place in the heads
of Democratic members of Congress,
will lead to victory for the Re-
publicans sooner or later. One asks
what the score might have been had
the Democratic majorities in House
and Senate praised their own poll
cies once in a while, and defended
them, and boasted bit of their 10
year record, and had shown some
style and, most of all, some differ
ence, and hadn't seemed quite so
ashamed of having led the country
out of the depression and toward
fairer social concepts.
Instead, they convinced the coun-
try that nothing important will
happen on behalf of the little man
for the next few Congresses, and he
heard them the first time. He did
not see much reason for rapture, for
sticking to a party that had stopped
sticking to itself.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The political woods today are
full or reasons-some good and
some bad-why the Republicans
won so many seats In the House
and Senate In Tuesdays elec-
ton.
One of the most naive was ad-
vanced by Vice President WAL
lace, who asserted that millions
Of Democratic voters did not 60
to the polls to vote. If they did
not vote, why didn't they?
Perhaps they were not satisfied
with what has been going on in
Washington. That is something
the New Dealers must determine
for themselves.
Senator Connally of Texas,
Democratic chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, was more realistic. He
told the Senate in no uncertain
terms that large body of the
American people were dissatisfied
with the regulations that have
been imposed on them by the
Government; that the farmers
believed they had been given the
short end of the stick by the
Government, and that many of
the people, including the workers,
did not relish the idea of having
imposed on them a "manpower"
law which would dictate to the
people where they should work
and how.
The Texas Senator, sounding
a note of congressional indepen-
dence, made it clear that the
Democrats in the House and
Senate did not intend to be made
the whipping boy" for the sake
of the Roosevelt administration,
Some Congressional Creations.
The administration, he said,
would have to take the blame
itself for the administration of
the laws passed by Congress and
put into execution by the "bu-
reaucrats" who have taken over
IN Washington. Many of these
bureaus, he said, had been set
up under executive order, al
though he admitted rather rue
fully that Congress had been
responsible for the creation of
many of them.
1t is true that the Democrats
still retain control of both the
Senate and House, despite the
big gains made by the Republic
cans in both. In the House, how
ever, the Democratic lead is a
mere handful OF votes. So far
as the simon pure Dealers are
concerned, control is out of the
window in both the House and
Senate.
The days when the whip could
be cracked and working majorl-
ties obtained for practically any
proposal which the New Dealers
sent to the Capitol are gone.
Only for strictly national de-
fense and war projects can the
administration hope for large
majorities in both houses, when
the Republicans as 'Meils as the
conservative Democrats will 20
along with it.
AS the count stands today, the
Democrats have elected 200 men, ,
bers of the House, the Republic
cans 2o8, the minority parties
4, and there are 3 seats still un-
decided, 2 in California and l in
Pennsylvania. A bare majority
of the House is 218. AS is stands,
Evening star., 1942-11-07

Russia Is and must ignore all that
have reported as factually as pos
sible in these and previous pages
The other day Ilya Ehrenburg
quoted to me a few lines from the
Russian poet, Tuchev, and they
seem to explain why almost the
whole world was so fantastically
wrong in June, 1941, about both the
Red Army and the capacity for
resistance of the Russian empire
Tuchev wrote:
"One cannot understand Russia
with the head,
"One cannot measure her with a
yardstick,
'One can only believe in Russia. "
Today and for a long time to
come, the wise man will believe in
Russias Red Army. 1t Is still heads
up. And it's still the greatest and
the hardest fighting ally that either
America or Britain will ever have
in this war-if we fulfill our highly
important part of great and very
grave obligation.
Copyright, 1912. by Chicago
Daily News Inc)
Evening star., 1942-11-07
Story Of Man Rejecting Himself
For Job Is Told Once Too Often

The rumor concerning the Bureau
of Economic Warfare official who
wrote himself a letter saying he
was unqualified for his post was a
good story until some one discovered
the same story was being told about
two other men-one an Army officer
and the other an official in the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce.
In each of the three cases, the
story follows the same pattern, The
Star learned today. 1t goes some
thing like this:
A New York bank vice president
was hired for an important post in
BEW upon recommendation of his
bank president. He came to WASH
ington and appeared to be an ex-
cellent man for the job. Several
weeks later, while on a short visit
home, he received a letter from
Evening star., 1942-11-07
fLast OF a Series.)
By LELAND STOWE,

Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE
RZHEV FRONT.-"Will you take
Rzhev?"
This was in log cabin emerg-
ency hospital where Ivan the Terri
BILE, my personal candidate for the
wars most unpredictable chauffeur,
contrived to. land us for the night.
I was talking with Red Army
soldier-big, blond Ivan Kondratyev,
from Novosibirsk, in western Siberia.
Ivan had had one leg and one arm
pretty thoroughly perforated by a
German mine two days previously.
He tossed back his yellow mop of
hair and laughed loudly.
"Rzhev!" exclaimed Ivan from
Novosibrisk. "Well take back every
thing the Fascists have-everything.
Wait until this winter bites into the
Germans and we bite, too. Fritz
will forget everything-even his
wife"
Ivan now had all his comrades
laughing with him. They we're all
strong young faces with plenty of
fight in them. They didn't look
a bit nearer being licked than any
American soldiers or sailors or air
men you'll see in any camp in the
United States today-yet they were
just out of a very bloody mixup
in the front trenches and they had
been fighting on the receiving end
of the worlds most devastating
battle line for Is months without a
breathing SPELL When Ivan said,
We'll take back everything the
Fascists have" he said it as If that
was as certain as subzero weather
in the Russian winter. This is the
spirit Of the Russian wounded in
the front zone.
Reds Long to Strike Offensively.
Judging by my observations in
half dozen different sectors of the
Rzhev front, it seems quite definite
that this is also the spirit of the
Red Army as whole. It's an army
that longs to strike extensively. It's
officers are convinced that if the Sec
ond front will come soon, thereby
forcing Hitler to transfer consider
able land and air forces to Western
Europe-then the hour for the Rus
sian Army's offensive will strike and
that hour, that opportunity, is the
chief thing the Russian soldier to-
day waits for and lives for.
In nine days Of travels up and
down this front, I have never met
either one Russian soldier or officer,
or commissar who had the easily
discernible shadows of doubt and de-
featism In his face. Among these
several millions In the Red Army
there must be some discouraged
souls, but my experience would in
dicate that If so, they are so rare as
Evening star., 1942-11-07

BEW. 1t informed him that he had
been found unqualified. The letter
was signed by himself.
A check with the BEW disclosed
no New York bank vice president
employed there. James B. Hassel-
man, chief of BEW's information
division, decided to do some further
checking,
First, he heard from a Civil Serv-
ice Commission official a similar
story, only this time having to do
with member of the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Then Mr.. Hasselman came across
publication of the American Ex-
porter, which recounted the same
yarn-only it concerned an Army
major. The stories were identical,
except for the fact the third story
had the major a personnel expert
for New York bank.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
Prominent D. G. Chemist
Honored in New York

DR.. Harrison E. Howe, editor OF
the journal of Industrial and Engi-
neering Chemistry, received the
Chemistry Industry Medal at a joint
meeting of the New York section OF
the American Chemical Society and
the American Institute Of Chemical
Engineers at the Chemists Club in
New York last night. :.
DR.. Howe, for many years promi-
nent In washington scientific life, Is
now chairman of the Advisory Com
mittee OF the chemical section OF
the. War Production Board and OF
the division of research extension OF
the National Research Council.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
Nelson Names Whitney
As Special ConsuItunt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Donald M. Nelson, chairman of
the War Production Board, yester-
day appointed H. Leroy Whitney as
technical consultant to advise him
on special problems and projects.
Mr.. Whitney has been with the
WPB's iron and steel branch. Mr..
Nelson said Mr.. Whitney had advo-
Gated balanced expansion in the
steel industry and had been largely
responsible for much of the ex-
panion during the last years in
alloy steels, in which he specialized.
Mr.. Whitney was chief engineer
Of the fabricated products division
Of M. w. Kellogg Co.. Jersey City,
N. j., until his retirement in 1898
Evening star., 1942-11-07
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
A more sober note, somewhat
different from the exuberant
play given to the Allied victory
in Egypt against the Axis forces
under Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel, is struck in competent
military quarters In Washington.
There is no question that the
British 9Th Army led by 1t. Gen.
B. L. Montgomery has obtained
q signal success. The Axis rear
guard, reputedly comprised mostly
of Italians, has been smashed.
Its losses in tanks and planes
have been as heavy as the
British official communiques an
nounced, but in Washington
quarters, which are dealing pro-
fessionally rather than emotion
ally with the developments in
North Africa, 1t is pointed out
that the Allied offensive had been
fully expected by the enemy and
there is a strong suggestion that
the main body OF the German
army was Withdrawn before the
attack toward Tobruk or even
farther west.
The main indication that this
theory may be correct is the fact
that fewer than $4,000 men have
been captured by the British in
the 13 days of intensive battle.
The Rommel forces had been
estimated before the offensive
began at between 10000 and
175,000 men.
Water Supply Halted Nazis.
Lines of supply present the
main difficulty of the armies
fighting desert warfare. The
farther the lines are extended
the greater the difficulty of pro-
viding the fighting forces with
supplies. 1t is estimated that
200 trucks are needed to supply
water for one division alone.
An army composed of, say,
four divisions-the minimum re-
quired for continued large-scale
operations - would need 300
trucks to carry water. Then, of
course, ammunition, food and all
kinds of other supplies are
needed. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that 5000 trucks are needed
daily to serve fighting forces.
So long as the British are fight
ing close to their base in Egypt,
this is no great handicap. But
when the lines extend farther in
the desert-about 500 miles from
the principal bases, for instance
supplies become major prob
lem in fighting a lightning war.
1t was the water supply problem
which prevented Marshal Rom
mel from exploiting his last sum-
mer's success when he came dan
gerously close to Alexandria.
Seesaw Battle in Desert.
Desert warfare is tricky busi-
ness. Since September, 1910,
when the Italians defeated the
British in North Africa, the des-
ert changed hands repeatedly.
The italian success was followed
by a defeat at the hands of the
British in December of the same
year. Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell
pushed back the Italian Field
Marshal Rodolfo GRAHAM, took
100000 prisoners and occupied the
important Bengasi base in Feb
ruary, 1941. The following April
Evening star., 1942-11-07
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

For four years, most Congressional
leaders of the Democratic party
have been working overtime to make
their party indistinguishable from
the Republican. The results showed
up Tuesday. When there Is little to
choose, Americans will take their
conservatism from the COP.
The great mass of co1flmnittee
chairmen in both Houses have been
nuzzling the Republicans. and work.
ing closely with the Republicans,
and. in effect, indorsing Republican
policy for the last two sessions.
So 1t is a little wrong to say that
in a number of congressional and
other elections the people have
turned away from the Democratic
party. Actually they have followed
it, toward the Republican party.
The Democrats in the bipartisan
anti Roosevelt bloc have taken the
most complicated political position
ever seen or heard of in this country.
It is the desire of the Byrds and
Tydingses to follow the policy of the
other party and yet have the people
vote against that other party in
elections. The leading congression-
al Democrats want to go Republican,
but have the country stay Demo-
cratic. That is cute as a bugs ear,
but 1t just can't work.
| Their Seats Are Safe.
1t could be said that some Of the
Southern Democrats, OF the anti
Roosevelt, or Cox g. Smith variety,
have played a rather mean trick on
their Northern and other Demo-
cratic colleagues.
Their seats are safe. Protected
partly by poor election laws, they
can afford to go ideologically Re
publican. They will stay in Office,
whether the Democratic party loses
its glamour or not. The Northern,
midwest and Western Democrats
enjoy no such privileges. They still
need something to sell. When the
party becomes an anti-Roosevelt
party, and its glamour goes, and the
great days of the New Deal end,
these other Democrats pay the price.
1t is not that the people consci-
ously decide: There's not much diff
ference between the parties any
more, and so we might as we'll vote
Republican. 1t is, rather, that the
people lose interest in the election.
They either don't vote (almost TO-
1000 fewer voted in this election
than last) or else they do vote, but
don't talk about it eagerly with
friends, in barroom or living room.
Boredom is a way Of voting, too.
Evening star., 1942-11-07
This Changing World
Chief importance Of Allied Victory in Egypt Lies
In Removed Of Threot of Two-Front Attuck

the Italians retook Bengasi only
to lose it to the British once
more in December, 1941.
But the difficulties of keeping
the armies supplied made this
last British victory useless. Mar
shall Rommel came on the scene
as the commander Of Axis forces
in the area and last January he
opened his aerial and tank Of
fensive against the British. There
was a seesaw battle which ended
in June, with the loss of Tobruk
by the British and the penetra-
ton Of the Egyptian border by
the Axis forces.
And now Marshal Romme1 is
being pushed back vigorously by
the Allies. It would, however,
leave us open to possible disap-
pointment If we shouted COM
plete victory" too strongly at this
time. There are still difficult
days ahead for the brilliantly
fighting imperial forces. The
farther they advance in the
desert the more difficult their
task is going to be, regardless of
how excellent their troops are
and what air superiority the
Allies possess.
Importance Lies Elsewhere.
These facts are pointed out In
Washington not to disparage the
effort of the Allies but merely to
bring more sober note in the
analysis of the general situation.
The overwhelming importance
of Gen. Montgomery's offensive
lies, however, In another field.
The Nazi offensive in Russia is
coming to an end. Within the
next few weeks the Axis forces on
the eastern front will take their
winter quarters in the lines of
Notifications known as the East
Wall. The Germans cannot re-
main static. There were many
definite indications that they
planned to start a blitz against
the Middle East with a pincers
movement against the Suez
Canal from Marshal Rommel's
old positions and presumably
with new attack from the Gre
clan Islands in the AEGEAN Sea.
Had Marshal Rommel main
tained his threat to the Suez
Canal from his previous positions
between the Qattara depression
and Ell Alamein the Allied situa-
ton would have been very diff
cult. They would have been
faced with a two-front attack
from two equally powerful ar
mics. But with Marshal Rommel
standing good chance of being
chased out of Egypt and of pos
sibly losing Tobruk he will be at
a safe distance from the Suez
Canal and the Allies will be In a
much better position to counter
any move Hitler may have in
mind in the Middle East, the i'm
portant source of supply for his
oil-hungry armies.
From that angle alone, the
J. Allied victory in Egypt is OF over
whelming strategic Importance.
1t gives us the necessary breath
ing spell to prepare ourselves
more easily for whatever opera
tions the high command may
have in mind for the future and
it looks as II 1t has definitely
stopped Hitler's drive for Oil.
Evening star., 1942-11-07

6 ! 3 II ! I l c ance.
Thus, Vice Pres
Id e n t Wallace
e vi d e n tly be-
lieves that the
Nation still sup
ports the New
Deal, but that
many millions of
voters just didn't
60 to the polls.
The Vice Pres
tdent endeavored
also to charac-
terize the Re-