Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-28
BY PAUL MALLON

he be granted sale conduct
through Italy came upon Musso-
lini from that source.
IT SEEMS the British, French
Il and other anti-AXiS nations
have had men already lodged
on the neutral ground of Vatican
City since the start of the war.
There was no necessity for the
extreme measure of arranging
safe passage for them.
The natural implication of
this event is that a new peace
plan is in the making. But the
detached tone assumed by Wash
ington officials also makes it
quite plain that peace is not
seriously considered, even as a
remote possibility here.
Semi-offieial Washington says
the Vatican conferences concern
the handling of Jewish refugees,
now being prosecuted by Laval.
and any peace phase of the con-
ference must therefore be vague
and -inconSequential. although
the Vatican will get from Mr..
Taylor an understanding of our
war aims.
OTHER small feathers from
~ that dove, however. can be
seen floating down in European
air.
A Nazi general broadcast this
week their tongues all work on
strings from Hitler,s headquar--
terst that the Russian soldier
was an excellent fighting man
and implied victory over the
Russian spirit could not be ex-
pected (up to then, the NaZis
had been calling their enemies
savages and promised extinc-
ton
Also. a Moscow newspaper
turned on British and American
statesmen this week for the first
time since our aid started.
While Mr.. Willkie was cooling
his heels a few days waiting to
see Stain, this newspaper tthe
Red press, unlike ours. also
works on official strings) ac-
cused conservatives in the Brit
ish and American governments
of desiring TO see the Commu-
nists fall. and said this is why
the second front had been de-
layed.
THESE sudden. if still feeble,
Il wisps of news are interest
ing, but appear 10 be more in
the nature of diplomatic sound
outs than sincere peace fioaters.
No doubt exists Hitler and
MusSolini want a peace based on
our existing unfavorable military
situation. Won Ribbentrop is
supposed to be working on it
But any separate peace by
Moscow could only mean eXtinc-
ton of the Russian Communist
state in the end tlook at
France). Moscow may be draw
ing the NaZis out on that SUBJ
ject, but cannot be planning
suicide.
We are in the same boat as
the Russians. You cannot make
peace with an enemy who chal-
lenges your national civilization.
Peace can come for us only
through victory or defeat.
DILL GREEN and Phil Muir
- ray have been fraternizing
like two long-lost cousins. but
don't hold your breath until that
peace arrives either.
The peculiar makeup Of the
peace committee is causing labor
wisemen to lay heavy odds that
Go and AFL will be apart for
a long time 10 come. Not
single representative Of a union
in competition is on the COM
mittee.
The AFL committee is made
up of Harry Bates of the brick
layers. Dan Tobin OF the team
sters. and Bill Hutchinson of the
carpenters. all in the building
trades, and all free of Go COM
petition since the effort of John
Lewis brother to invade that
field.
On the Go side are Philip
Murray, president; r. j. Thomas
of the auto workers. Julius En-
spak OF the electrical workers.
whose unions are equally safe
from AFL competition.
Absent from the peace COM
mittee are the aircraft work.
ers. machinists, moulders, sheet
metal workers and the smaller
lines in which jurisdictional
competition is most active,
Anyway. the committee will
not meet until November l,
after the conventions. and il il
finds a formula for iuriSdictional
DISPUTES. these will have 10 be
ratified nv the other unions in
both major bodies before peace
can be effected.
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