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Evening star., 1942-02-18
This Changing World
Chions's Mission to indio AnxiousIy Watched
As Jops Press British in Burmu

try Is nearing. The men who win
replace them are also working for
capitalism, but do not fear them.
They are proletarians like your
selves" After the British have
been compelled to leave India, the
broadcast said, you will find
these men kind and understand
ing"
Japs Impersonate Russians.
Until it was discovered that the
Moscow short-wave broadcast"
actually emanated from Japan
there was a good deal Of frown-
ing in Washington and London
and questioning of Stains 10y
atty to the United Nations until
the japanese trick was dis
covered.
In the interval, however,
British and imperial forces in
Malaga and finally at Singapore
suffered heavy defeats at the
hands Of the Japs. With every
defeat the spirit of insurrection
grew In India, and the advocates
Of a free India became louder In
their demands.
The British government has
been advised by its friends that
it might be a handsome gesture
to allow the Indians the same
measure of independence it has
conceded to the dominions. But
the political leaders ir London
find 1t difficult to bring them
selves to make such a gesture.
In fact, it is pointed out, it may
be too late to do so. 1t would
look too much like duress II
India were granted full dominion
status after the fall of Singapore.
Signal For India Revolt.
The battle for Burma is going
badly, and unless impressive re-
Inducements are rushed to that
theater of war In the very near
future 1t is conceivable that that
crown colony will suffer the fate
Of Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
Presbyterian Women
To Hold Reception

The guest speaker ut . special
women's fellowship reception at the
Covenant-First Presbyterian Church
at 8 pm. tomorrow will be Mrs.
Ralph E. Weber of New York City,
one Of three women members of the
General Council Of the Presbyte-
rian Church.
Preceding her address, q SYM
postum on Church Women in Ac-
ton Now" will be presented by Mrs.
Wilson Compton, Mrs. James M.
Drysdale, Miss Ethlyn Field john
ston and Mrs. william r. Rhoades,
who as president Of the women's
Federation Of the church, will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1942-02-18

| COHliIlk uiOIc dlAu uloiC CNuci1ts
He, himself, has said that 1t Is vital
to prune every non-defense ex-
penditure to the bone. So have his
fiscal aides, Secretary Of Treasury
Morgenthau and Mariner 8. Eccles,
Federal Reserve chairman. Yet his
attitude toward the members Of Con-
gress who are trying to do exactly
that thing, and are anxious either to
support him in q drive toward this
objective or have him support them.
is the reverse of cooperative. 1t Is,
in fact, hostile to a degree dtmcult to
reconcile with his appeals for ma
tional unity or his previous public
utterances on retrenchment.
Flaws Seen IN Reply.
Reference to those who are press
ing for reduction as glib boys" and
bright boys" Is, to be blunt about
it, cheap. His statement that the
leaders in the fight, whom he hap
pens personally to dislike. are never
specific in their recommendations
is, of course, completely contradicted
by the Byrd committees report,
which his own Secretary Of the
Treasury signed. And his position
that the reduction Of Governmental
costs is the business Of Congress.
and not his, is disingenuous. Mr..
Roosevelt. knows well that no real
reduction by Congress Is likely
without White House support. He
knows that the resistance Of the
entrenched' agencies against any
effort to whittle them down or
abolish them will be hard to over
come.
And certainly he knows that If It
is not overcome then all chance OF
achieving even semblance Of flnan-
ciaI equilibrium will have disap-
peared and the danger Of imitation
will be greatly enhanced. No intelh-
gent person will argue that failure,
whether through lack of presidential
support Of for any other reason, OF
the coming drive to reduce some
where between the billion dollars
advocated by Senator Byrd and the
two billion urged by Secretary Nor
genthau and the Brookings Institu-
ton win not adversely affect the
conduct of the war.
National Credit Endangered.
Certainly the solidity of the ma
tional credit is essential to winning
the war. To a great extent that is
basic. II national credit cracks the
country will be thrown into con-
fusion and our strength will be
sapped. The national credit will
crack, all right, If Federal finances
are permitted to get wholly out of
control And out Of control they
assuredly will get If the movement
Evening star., 1942-02-18

it means. Maybe I know what
it means better than you do
the fall of Singapore.
Just the same I can't stand
the cackling: Who's calling
whom names? Is this war in the
Far East the fault of the British?
We talked a year and a half.
The British supported us in the
Far East, not we the British. Do
you remember Pearl Harbor?
Were we so hot at Pearl Harbor?
Listen, brothers: This is a
war against Japan and Nazi Ger
many. Get this straight: The
British are our allies.
The Lady and Her Cat.
I read all the interviews with
the American citizens who came
from Penang. The British didn't
evacuate the Americans properly.
The British didn't have anti-air-
craft guns. The British didn't
this and the British didn't that.
The lady with the Siamese cat
had plenty to say, as I remember.
Listen, sister, you got home all
right, didn't you-you and the
SiameSe cat? Ever occur to you
to offer one prayer of gratitude
to God? If you weren't properly
protected, what have you ever
done to protect anybody else?
Listen, sister, you get busy and
join the afraid precaution serv-
ice. Get busy. There's a lot to
do right here. And if things
don't go well right here whom
will you blame-the British?
The British didn't have to have
a war with Japan and they didn't
have to have a war with Hitler.
Do you know that? They could
have tossed the continent to the
winds and made a deal with both
our enemies-against us. A mill
tary deal, a financial deal. trade
deal. All they had to do was go.
Nazi. All they had to do was
agree about spheres of influence
in the western Hemisphere and
the East. Hitler's still moaning
that they didn't do it.
20 Million Anglo SaxonS
Did you ever look at the map?
There are 70-odd million Anglo
Saxon members of the English
speaking world outside the United
States and they are scattered
from Lands End to hell and gone.
Not quite two years ago they had
the Germans at the Channel and
there weren't any anti-aircraft
guns in Britain, either. Forty
seven million people on a little
island and they could starve in
a fortnight. And for a year and
a half they held the world at
bay alone. That doesn't make
any impression on you? Fifty
thousand of them died-right in
Evening star., 1942-02-18
Letters Given TO Library
Shed Light on Jackson

New light is shed on the admin
istration of Andrew Jackson by ma
terial presented to the Library of
Congress by Mrs. Pauline Wilcox
Burke of Washington, it was an
nounced today by Archibald Mac
Leish, Librarian of Congress.
Mrs. Burke donated lis items, in
cluding a number Of letters written
by President Jackson. She inherited
the material from her grandmother,
Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
On the Record
Singapore Criticism Recalls That We
Weren't So Hot at Pearl Horbor, Either

England. I can't remember that
anybody whimpered.
When the King Of Belgium
made a separate peace, Paul Rey-
maud cried, Treason" Churchill
said. I'VE reserve judgment"
Did you ever read Lincoln's
second inaugural address? Take
a look at it again. THE judg-
ments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether"
Listen to the Vichyites in New
York. Britain let us down."
Not one mumbling word from
Britain about the France that
handed over everything to Hitler.
Not a word. Only faith in France
when eyen France didn't have
any.
Work of Centuries.
You'd think to listen to some
Of you that you want Britain to
lose. Careful, careful, be quiet
and pray.
1t took Britons and Hollanders,
Frenchmen and Americans hun
dreds of years to open this globe
for white men. Japan, since
Perry, is 88 years old. And in a
few weeks hundreds of years may
be swept into the ashcan, and
the Japs have a straight open
line from India to Suez.
You don't think much of the
British Empire? No?
Well, brother, if Britain goes,
write f1niS over western civiliza-
ton. Or do you think perhaps
that America can carry it alone?
You don't know what England
means, my friend. England Is
very tired, and England is old.
Yet, though it slay me, I tell you
this: England Is the last refuge
of the civilized soul. Pray for
England. I say England. Eng
land, SO proud, and England who
knows humility.
Again, Pearl Harbor.
Have you heard the British say
a word against the Americansp
Did they crow over Pearl Harbor?
Did they rush into print to talk
of our smugness and COM
placency?
Did you ever have an English
man or an Englishwoman for a
friend? Did that friend ever let
you down?
In the hour of her greatest
distress, her greatest disaster, I,
an American, write these lines to
England. And I say to England:
In spite of Singapore I sing with
you: Land of Hope and Glory,
Mother of the Free" And I sing
with you: "There'l Always Be an
England, and England Will Be
Free" And I ask you so sing with
me the great songs of America:
Sweet Land of Liberty" and
Columbia, the Gem Of the
Ocean" and Mine Eyes Have
Seen the Glory" Songs written
in the worlds greatest language
the great language of resistance.
Through the Perilous Fight.
There's q line in THE Star
Spangled Banner: STARS
Through the Perilous Fight"
There are stars, England.
And don't believe the lady
with the Siamese cat Is America.
America knows where she Is
going-and she knows who's
going with her. Holland and Nor
way and Russia, China and
India. Yes. India.
And by and by the whole round
globe.
And with you, Great Britain.
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Evening star., 1942-02-18
Strike Ends in Coost
Department Stores
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ia
six-month strike at A. F. L. retail
clerks, elevator operators and jan
itors against three major San Fran
cisco department stores has ended.
Wage demands are to be nego-
tiated for 80 days and then will
be arbitrated If an agreement can
not be reached. The retail clerks
struck for a fiat "a a week increase.
Their scales ranged from SIG to $40
weekly.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
Rigo Gatherings Banned
To Combat Typhus

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 18.-An
order published in the Deutsche
Zeitung in Ostland showed today
that German authorities in former
Latvia have banned all gatherings
and assemblies in the Riga area, to
fight the spread of typhus.
The order was signed by commits
SionerS in the area.
Evening star., 1942-02-18

nappcu 10 DC d
husband myself
and wherever I
go I make it a
point to feel the
pulses Of hus-
bands; put an
ear to the ground
of husbands, so
to speak. The
C h a es are,
there isn't a man
in the United
States who has a
better knowledge
Evening star., 1942-02-18

the show in
s in 6 apore
W a S no t so
good. Yes, I
k n o W about
the compla-
cency yes,
I know they
didn't follow
q S or Ched
earth policy.
Y e S you
ca It feel
worse about
1t than I did.
T know what
Evening star., 1942-02-18

of the present
war it is neces-
sary to develop
q pers p e C t j v e
both of time and
emphasis. Presi-
d ent Roosevelt
rightly says the
most important
l e S S on for the
public to learn
today is geogra-
ply. Distances
and the time
needed to ira
verse them by
Evening star., 1942-02-18

In Gathering
Warning Against
Overpessimistic
View Is Sounded
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Just as 1t is possible to be too
complacent about the war situation,
It is possible to be overpessimistic
and disspirited.
To understand the far-1ung nature
Evening star., 1942-02-18

with W h ich h he
treated the very
serious question
Of Governmental
economy. On the
contrary, It may
safely be said
that he cont1d-
buted no little to
the rising anger
q g ain S t waste
nd incompe-
tence at WASH
in 6 t on, mani
fe S t q tions s Of
which are be-
Evening star., 1942-02-18
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON,

All right all right yes.
I read Cecil Brown. and so did
Goebbels. He's quoting him all
over the place. Yes, I know
Evening star., 1942-02-18

81 HE opinions OF the aortters this ou
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort to ope all sides Of questions
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1942-02-18
BY FRANK r. KENT.

The President did not help ma
tional morale at his recent press
conference by the unpleasant COM
bination of turbulence and banter
Evening star., 1942-02-18
War in Retrospect

Dy SIC k1ocoSAnsCa Acuo-
One Year Ago Today.
Large Australian force arrives
at Singapore and head imme-
diately for stations in Malaga.
Two Years Ago Today.
Firms report 18th Russian
Division Is wiped out northeast
of Lake Ladoga; Russians claim
advance toward Finnish city Of
Viipuri.
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today.
Anti-submarine net is placed
across narrows of New York
harbor.
Evening star., 1942-02-18
.McLenore
All Is Not Well, AIos!
With Husbands
By HENRY McLEMORE.

SAN FRANCISCO-Husbands In
this town are very upset. As a
matter Of fact, they are alarmed.
happen to know this because ]
Evening star., 1942-05-01
By Radio to The Star.

By Radio to The Star.
KUIBYSHEV, May l.-While It
may mean something. or it may
mean nothing, 1t should be put on
record that the attitude of Japanese
diplomats toward the Soviet govern
ment since the arrival Of the new
Ambassador, Naotake Sato, is most
cordial
Despite foreign reports OF possible
Jap designs on the Maritime Prov
ince this spring, there is no outward
indication here that the Japanese
are trying to pick a quarrel with the
Soviet Union at this time.
On the contrary, according to in
formation from reliable neutral
sources, Sato and the members of his
staff are missing no opportunity to
affirm that Japan's relations toward
Russia are based on the neutrality
pact of 1941 The Japanese here
seem to be trying to create the i'm
preston that their policy vis-a-vis
the Soviet Union is independent of
German policy and that they regard
the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Un-
ion as diplomatic and military
blunder.
As Americans we'll know, what
Jap diplomats say is not always what
Jap militarists think. But this much
may be regarded as automatic, that
Evening star., 1942-05-01

ger and impoverishment," Stain
said. Human reserves are running
out. Oil is running out. Raw ma
terials are running out"
Points Out Sabotage Results.
Recognition by the people of the
inevitability of Germany's defeat"
sabotage and guerrilla warfare were
said to have weakened the Nazi rear
while Hitlerian purges, battle cas-
ualties and restriction of reinforce
ments seriously affected the invad-
ing troops.
The German army" Stain said,
"is an army of medieval darkness,
called upon to destroy European
culture in order to institute the
slave-driven culture of German
bankers and barons."
He said the German FaSciSts had
been represented as nationalists de-
Tending the integrity of Germany
from attacks, as Socialists seeking
to defend the interests of the work
ing people, as the bearers of Euro
pean culture.
OF each idea he said: This, of
course, is lie"
The peoples of all freedom -lov-
| ing countries are looking to the
Soviet Union as a force which Is
capable of saving the world from
the Hitlerite plague" Stain went on
More and More Aid.
Among these freedom loving
countries the first place is occupied
by Britain and the United States OF
| America, with whom we are con-
nected by ties of unity and friend
ship, and who are giving our coun-
try more and more military assist
ance against the Fascist invaders" :"
Soviet thrusts upset the Germans
hope to use winter for a respite,
forced them to expend reserves
meant for spring and summer op-
erations and shattered that idle
talk about the invincibility of the
German Army" Stain said
The Premier declared Red Army
troops had become "fiercer and more
merciless" as a result of German
treatment Of military prisoners and
civilians and reported disappearance
Of the complacency and lack Of
responsibility with regard to the
enemy which was found among the
men in the first month of the war"
Spare No Bullets, He Says.
Stain issued five-point memo
randum charging all fighting men
to master their weapons and stra-
tegic duties and urged euerrillas in
occupied territories to spare no bull
lets against the invaders"
He praised the working people
for turning the holiday into a day
of labor to increase the output Of
munitions and food saying this
means that the front and rear form
united and inseparable military
! front"
The mass demonstrations which
have marked the last "a years of
Russian celebration of May Day
were Cancelled
Nevertheless, every city, town and
village arranged for display of red
banners, revolutionary slogans
which now emphasize the necessity
of everything for the front'-and
huge portraits Of Lenin, Stain and
other Bolshevist leaders
Evening star., 1942-05-01
Hitler Tries to Keep Duce
In Line, London Contends

LONDON. May l (P.-Informed
British sources said today the pur-
pose Of the Salzburg conference of
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
obviously was to keep the Italian
premier in line with the Axis.
Hitler must keep both ends of
the Axis moving in the same direc-
ton" one said, land to do this he
must give Mussolini a pep talk"
He added that Hitler doubtless
feels the need to explain his Sunday
speech first-hand-for it needs some
explaining to the Italian people"
AT the same time" he said, there
is no good reason to hope that Italy
can be jacked out of the war now.
What can Italians do with the Ges-
tapo holding clubs over their heads?"
Others here pointed out that big
developments usually had followed
meetings of the dictators.
The meeting at Brenner Pass
March %, 1910, was followed by the
invasion Of Norway within three
weeks.
The meeting October IL. 1910, was
followed within three weeks by the
Italian invasion of Greece.
Another meeting June 7, 1941, was
followed in IS days by the German
invasion of Soviet Russia.
Other meetings of Mussolini and
Hitler were at Munich June %. 1910,
to discuss the French armistice; at
Florence November 2, 1910, to dis
cusS the Italian Greek war and at
Berchtesgaden January Is, 194l.
Evening star., 1942-05-01

addition to Gen. Keitel included
Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kressel-
ring of the air force, Gen. Alfred
Jodl and the German military at
tache in Rome, 1t. Gen. Won Rim
telen.
Gen. Kresselring recently was
reported to have assumed COM
mand of German air units in
Sicily which have been batter
ing the British Mediterranean
stronghold of Malta)
Italian military men present in
cluded the military attaches at the
Berlin Embassy-Gen. Efisio Marras
and Brig. Gen. Gandin.
Telegram to Hitler.
Mussolini sent this telegram tc
Hitler after leaving Salzburg:
Upon returning to Italy woulc
like to express to you, Fuehrer, how
I welcomed the opportunity of hav-
ing such a reaching exchange
of views on political and military
problems at the present historical
tuncture.
THE complete agreement of views
which we also obtained at this
meeting on all questions examined
was for me a special satisfaction
and further sure sign Of the VIC
tory of our arms.
simultaneously with my cordial
thanks for the hospitable reception
which will remain an unforgettable
memory on my return to Italy,
send you, Fuehrer, my comradely
and friendly greetings"
Evening star., 1942-05-01
WheatIeY " Arranges
Anniversary Celebration

DR.. Mordecai w. johnson, presi-
dent of Howard University, will
make the anniversary address at
the Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. c. A.,
90l Rhode Island avenue NV, at
pm. Sunday. This branch OF the
"Y' was organized in 1907.
The schedule for the anniversary
celebration follows: Tomorrow, pub
lie affairs luncheon, presenting a
panel. Youth Faces the Postwar
World; Monday, church fellowship
night at 8 pm, with DR.. Jesse w
Lewis. head of the department OF
economics at Howard. as speaker
Tuesday, birthday party at 7:3O
pm; Wednesday. international
Night" with Mrs. Crystal Byrd Fau-
set as speaker; Thursday, National
Music Week Celebration; Friday
salute TO the United Service Organ
izations, dedicated to the men ir
uniform and defense workers in the
community.
Mrs. j. Hayden johnson is chair.
man and Mrs. Cleo M. J. Key CO.
chairman OF the anniversary cele.
bration. Mrs. Julia West Hamil.
ton is president Of the branch ane
Dorothy l.. Height general secretary
Evening star., 1942-05-01
Police Investigate Charge
Of Assault Attempt

Police today we're investigating
the case of a 43-year- -old Govern
ment worker who at first reported
that she had been criminally at
tackled in a taxicab at 2:30 am. in
the 100 block Of Randolph street
NV, but later changed her story to
say a colored man only attempted
to attack her. Detective Sergt. Roy
Blick, head of the Vice Squad, said
the woman refused to be examined
when taken to Gallinger Hospital.
Forty-four colored men and two
colored women, arrested by police in
a barroom near the scene In an at
tempt to locate the alleged assail-
ant, were being held at Nos. l and 2
police precinct stations.
This was one of the largest mass
arrests in the history OF the Police
Department, 1t was said. Inspector
Richard H. Mansfield. chief Of de-
tectives, said the IS persons would
be placed in a police lineup at Z
o'clock tonight.
Sergt. Blick quoted the woman as
saying she was moving from down.
town hotel to the 1700 block OF
Sixteenth street NV. last night, and
after getting in a taxicab she dis
covered she had no cash to pay the
fare and asked the driver If he
could get SIS check cashed. She
said he took the check and stopped
in the 100 block of Randolph street.
A few moments after the driver had
left another colored man came along,
got In the taxi and attacked her,
Sergt. Blick said she told him.
Sergt. Blick said that during the
struggle, the auto horn was blown
several times and neighbors COM
planned to police by telephone about
the noise. Police responded and
found the woman in the cab only
partly clad.
Sergt. Blick was summoned and
he ordered raid on the nearby
barroom. The SIS check was found
there, he said, and two of the men
answer the description given by the
woman of the cab driver and her
asSailant.
Evening star., 1942-05-01
Shrine Of Free Press
To Be Dedicated by
Publishers Group
Historic Nj. Vernon, N. T.,
Church Scene Of Colonial
Stond for independence
Rs the Associated Press.

Rs the Associated Press.
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y. May L.
Historic st. Paul's Church. where an
American made his first stand for
the free press in 1893. will be re-
dedicated Sunday as the American
shrine of the freedom OF the press
and the Bill of Rights.
1t was on the village green of st.
Paul's founded in 1865 and recently
restored TO Its Colonial beauty. that
John Peter Zenger, a German immi-
grant. precipitated the struggle for
unfettered newspapers.
Zenger covered the controversial
election of the New York Assembly
in 1893. but his newspaper refused
to print the story. Undaunted. Zen
ger started a newspaper OF his own
to publish the election facts. The
English Crown Governor, William
Cosby, filed a libel suit against him.
Subsequently, Zenger was acquitted.
and thus the legal principles and
legal basis of a free press in Amer
lea were established.
Although Zenger spent months
in Jail on the Governors charge, his
newspaper continued to function
despite armed action to destroy
equipment, which had to be moved
frequently.
The American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association, the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, the
Inland Daily Press, the National
Editorial Association and the South
ern Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton has approved John Peter
Zenger memorial building on the
church grounds. Publishers through
out the Nation donated funds.
Speakers at the ceremony will in
clude Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the
New York Times, Thomas j. Wat
son, president of international Busi-
ness Machines; Basil O'Connor.
president of the National Infantile
Paralysis Foundation. and Mess
more Kendall, New York attorney.
Many other press representatives
are expected to attend.
President Roosevelt's mother, the
late Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt,
was active until her death in help
ing restore the ediflce.