The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-23

tWANtN& VI WNk NUkANN4y9AsNNHtAF &AWnA Ably not Wen, some become news paper editors, press association eS~ ecutlves, and radio commentators other1 devote thelr latter years to Nee~lAhce writing, And some have rather thin time,
 or have you ever wondered who ooks after war eorfeSponaen who s wounaede Newspapers and press associations carry special Insurance 'or this. fn the present war not lnly have a number of our Amera~ sAn reporters been wounded, but ,One have been killed In Nctsen, lthers have been taken prisoner,
 There ls today an active oreaAiaa~ Mon which looks after the interests af war correspondents, and Ameri~ san reporters In general who serve n the foreign field, Its name Is Inc overseas Press Club Of America with quarters in the LotoS Club building on West S7th street, Re- sently the ~overSeaSs raised a con- siderable sum for J, D, Powell, bril- liant American journalist who had eeen treated with savage brutality ey the Japs,
 And now tho same overseas Press Club Is starting . permanent fund which 1t hopes win be sufficient to take care Of such problems in the future-aa emergency fund that will he available to foreign cor respondents who are no longer working for either a press assoeia- ton or a newspaper; aS well as those who have reached the twilight days when they no longer can stand the furious pace demanded Of the men who keep us iA touch W, A the rest of the world,
 To launch this fund, United Ar- tistS Is giving the entire proceeds rom the American premiere Of tho new Noel Coward film Tn Which We Serve" tho film described by those who have seen 1t as the most powerful picture to come out of this glohal war,
 War correspondents who have been Nt every front In this war, and others who have taken part la every way since the time Of Rieh- ard Harding Davis, will be at the New York premiere at tho Capitol theater, Wednesday evening, De- oemher 2Sra,
 One of che most fascinating luneheons I have ever attended took place recently, Q luncheon at which e dozen Of these American foreign correspondents sat at tho speakers table, When say that all of them spokeN that may sound rather dead~ ly, For, as we all know, speak, CTS have a way of being long and dull. These, however, were neither long nor dull Each in his brief talk concentrated on one thought,
 Said Otto Tolischus, who was New York Times correspondent in ToSio when the war broke out;
 The Japs will never collapse from the inside; because they don't know how, They may not be the strongest, but they are the tough- est of our enemies, They are really not a people in our sense oi tho word, They are a tribe, a Sav- Iage tribe with varnish of eiviliza- ton, They will have to be con- quered island by island, army by army, man by man.
 vlcter Keen, New York Herald Tribune correspondent who was for many years in China, gave his impression of Chinese resistance to tho Japs;
 T am convinced that the Chinese Iwill resist, no matter how long the Iwar goes on, They have the te- hacity - as Is proved by their fight Ing . war against Japan with . minimum of supply routes or vir- kually none at all, We must keep bur commitments to the Chinese, hnd we will have nothing to worry hbout on the score of their staying ln the fight with every ounce Of ktrength they have got"
 Incidentally, one of the ahlest American war correspondents, w. w. "Bin" Chaplin of International News Service, who has just re- turned by plane from Moscow, feels he same way about Russian re- distance. He says: Against all bdds-and there have been plenty 1.-the men and women of Russia are lighting the kind Of battle the Ger hans simply did not expect. Their grim determination to seurvive-- ind win-is bolstered by an un-