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Evening star., 1942-02-20
The Great Game of Politics
u S. Hardly in Position to Criticize Britain
When We Consider Pearl Horbor and Normondie

when we consider Pearl Harbor, the
Normandie and what has been going
on-and Is going on-in Washington,
we are hardly in position to allot
blame for negligence or stupidity. If
there had been no Pearl Harbor dis
aster there would have been no Sing
apore disaster. If there had been no
Pearl Harbor disaster, the whole
United Nations strategy in the Pa
cific would have been very different
and the whole outlook far brighter
now. Under the circumstances, it
does not lie well in the mouths OF
Americans to belittle the British ef-
fort In the Pacific. For the failure
Of that effort our own lack of alert
ness Is at least partially responsible.
Pleasing to the Axis.
A final reason is that such criti-
cal comment is directly in line with
the enemy propaganda. Nothing
could please the Axis powers better
than TO spread the idea in this coun-
try that the British are incompetent
and negligent and disposed to pass
the ball" to U.S. And then, to spread
among the British the idea that in
the black hour Of their defeat, they
are being found fault with by their
American ally. 1t is exactly the sort
of feeling which the Germans tried
to create between the French and
the British after the fall of France.
It is a wicked and shocking thing
that thoughts such as these, so help
full to the enemy, should be promul-
gated by ourselves.
The British have been in this war
going on three years. We have been
in less than three months. The
truth is that at Singapore they
made a great and gallant fight
against literally overwhelming odds.
If mistakes were made, If there was
lack of foresight, if there was
negligence, there is no lack of criti-
cism in England. A storm has de-
scended upon Mr.. Churchill in the
last few days. But, let the British
criticize the British. 1t is the last
thing we should do. The thing for
us to do is to concentrate our criti-
cism upon our own shortcoming,
which are many, glaring and griev-
GUS.
Let's Cut 1t Out.
Nor should criticism of these be
discouraged by the Presidents press
conference act, In which he angrily
seeks to make it appear that all
criticism is based on lies, or inspired
by a fictitious "Cliveden Set" or
comes from people who do not
know what they are talking about" !"
That the answer to all criticism
is to abuse the critics and find some
secondhand phrase with which to
smear those who dissent unfortu-
nately has become a fixed White
House policy. 1t hasn't stopped the
criticism and it should not. Criti-
cism of our own mistakes is, as
Woodrow Wilson declared, more es-
sential in a time of war than in a
time of peace. That kind of criti-
cism is as good for us as British
criticism is good for the British.
But for us to criticize or complain
of a stanch and courageous ally,
without whom we would not have a
friend in the world, can neither be
| justified nor excused. 1t is worse
than silly. Let's cut it out.
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Evening star., 1942-02-20
Cripps Once Ousted by Party
Because He Was Too Radical

the man. and Cripps. the represent
ative of the Imperial Crown.
Only after the sudden attack on
Russia by Britain's enemy did the
value Of the groundwork Of friend
ship he had built up become ap-
parent.
At home again with his wife, son,
three daughters and two adopted
sons, Sir Stafford clings strongly
to his belief that cooperation with
Russia is the key to victory in
peace as well as in war.
Perhaps the war has taught us
to be less opinionated about the vir-
tues Of our own political system
and more tolerant of what we con-
slider defects Of Others" he wrote
recently.
IF this is so, we may hope to
concentrate on the possibilities of
useful constructive common action
in the future rather than on fears
and suspicious of possible rivalries." ."
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Chrisfian-Je Jewish Group
To Broadcast TODAY

The Washington Round Table Of
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews was to sponsor a
broadcast over Station WRC from
1890 to 12:45 pm. today as part of
annual brotherhood week which
ends on Sunday, Washington birth
day anniversary.
Speakers were listed as former
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C.
Roper. representing Protestants;
Alfred A. McGarraghy, representing
Catholics, and Milton w. King, the
Jewish faith.
Observance of brotherhood week
began last Sunday with issuance Of
a declaration of fundamental re-
ligious beliefs by 13 leading clergy
men Of the three faiths in Wash
ington. The same statement was
issued in hundreds of other cities
and towns throughout the country.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Jurist's Report Praises
New Rent-ConfroI Law

Beneficial results of the Districts
emergency rent control law were
cited yesterday by Judge Nathan
Cayton in Municipal Court in re-
porting on the work of the landlord
and tenant branch of the court Tor
the month of January.
Judge Cayton declared the month
zone of the most important in the
history of the Municipal Court, be-
cause it marked the first time since
the first World War that the tri-
bunal has functioned under an
emergency rent control law.
In the report he praised CO.
operation of landlords with the
court.
From the very first court day
of the month when the new law took
effect we noticed its beneficial re-
suits" he said. There were SO
contested trials during the month,
most of them involving construction
of the new law" he continued.
Several" the jurist added, involved
the claim that landlords had at
tempted to exact higher rents than
the frozen rates fixed by law. Others
we're based on the landlords claim
that some obligation of the tenant
had been violated by the tenant.
In still others rooming and boarding
houses were involved" the report
said.
In a summary of the work of the
landlord and tenant branch for the
month, Judge Cayton revealed there
were 4,337 cases on assignment, 80
per cent based on charges of nom
payment of rent. Other statistics
in the report show there were 3,o99
judgments for possession in connec-
ton with which TIC tenants asked
for and received stays of execution
or extension of time to pay rent.
while 633 writs of restitution
were issued, it is most encouraging
to note that only 81 were executed" ,"
meaning less than one-half of l
per cent of those who we're sued
during the month were actually
evicted," Judge Cayton said.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Macarthur and the Dutch. by GoIIont Stond,
Write History for World to Remember

Out OF such hopeless but heroic
battles a new heroism is born;
they become part of the sagas
that go on throughout history re-
creating nations. Thus, the de-
fense of Warsaw was hopeless.
and, from any logical standpoint,
silly. But the defense of Warsaw
proved for unborn generations Of
Poles that Poland Is a nation. A
few thousand people died In order
that unborn millions should
remember.
Macarthur knows this. am
sure, watching that struggle, that
he counts on perishing himself
rather than to surrender. think
he would say that no one man is
indispensable: what is always in
dispensable in great and tragic
moments is the supreme example.
MacArthur's stand is justifying
something; it is justifying the
Americans in the Philippines
defending Filipinos whom we
were prepared to set free. Thus
Macarthur makes history.
History by Dutch, Too.
I think the Dutch are going to
make history, too. They will fight
in Sumatra, but the showdown
will come in Java, Boreno, the
Celebes and Sumatra could not,
or cannot, be held. All activities
there are delaying actions. But
there is no smugness or COM
placency about the Dutch. A peo-
pie who will blockade their own
passionate1y beloved land, occu-
pied by the Germans, are not
going to relinquish the Indies,
where they have governed in an
exemplary maner-not without
fight equal to Macarthur They
are prepared. They are, above all,
prepared in their minds.
AS long as the Philippines and
Java hold, the battle of the In
dian Ocean and the Far East is
not lost. The weakness Is air.
craft; over and over again, air.
craft.
What resources of aircraft we
have with which we can REIN
force the Philippines and Java
are not known to me. But what is
certain is that for Macarthur and
Java we should be audacious and
take riskS-risks equal to their
own. And if the workers in air.
craft factories really knew how
much of the future of their chill
dren and their children's children
hung upon their day-to-day eff
forts, they would perform mir
acles.
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Evening star., 1942-02-20
Teachers Union 10 Hear
Norwegian Lecturer

DR.. Sigmund Skard. writer, lee
turer and scholar, and former IL
brarian Of the Royal Academy Of
Trondheim, Norway, who remained
there after the Nazi invasion and
later escaped here, will be guest
speaker at the dinner meeting of
the Washington Teachers Union at
7 o'clock tonight at the Admiral
Club, 1640 Rhode Island avenue NV.
DR.. Skard will tell how Norway
still fights.
When the Germans invaded his
country in April. 1910, DR.. Skard was
at his post at Trondheim. Several
weeks later he undertook to bring
his small twin daughters out of the
war zone. He made three-day trip
on skis over mountains to Sweden
and rejoined his wife and her newly
born twin sons in Stockholm. He Is
now conSultant on Scandinavian
culture at the Library OF Congress.
Evening star., 1942-02-20

country for quite while is the
present outbreak of anti-British
feeling following the fall of Singa-
pore. A wave of criticism has arisen.
From inside the administration as
well as outside it has been intolerant
and unrestrained. 1t has washed
over from Washington into the
country at large and in one form
or another has found its way into a
considerable section of the press.
Nor have the radio commentators
abstajned.
Aside from the manifest unfair
ness, if there is a better way to give
aid and comfort to the enemy it is
not easy to point it out. The COM
ment has ranged all the way from
accusations of military stupidity to
the particularly offensive and, un-
founded allegation that the British
want us to do their fighting for
them.
Just as Wrong Now.
Some of the criticism concerning
the competency of the British COM
mand comes from the same swivel
chair War Department strategists
who in June, 1910, after France fell,
spread the cheerful view that Eng
land could not possibly hold out
three months. 1t will also be re-
called that last July these same
gentlemen were emphatic and un-
animous in their view that beyond
any question at all Russia would
crumple up within three weeks
under the German attack.
They were wrong then and they
probably are just as wrong now. Al
any rate, there seem very clear and
convincing reasons why this criti-
cism, whether under cover or in the
open, is not only unjustifled, but
exceedingly unwise, indiscreet and
damaging to the common cause One
is that-at least, to the average mlnC
it is presumptuous and absurd fol
people, whether in the War Depart
ment or out, who sit 5000 miles from
England and 5000 miles from the
scene of the Pacific battle, to pro-
nounce judgment in the matter Of
British military strategy and opera.
ton. 1t is obviously impossible, al
such distance, for even the most
expert outsider to see the whole pic
ture, to know all the difficulties, to
pass judgment upon the decisions
that had to be made.
A second reason is that, ever
though the British mistakes of omis-
sion and commission have been gross
Evening star., 1942-02-20
McCundIish Offers Bill
To Delay Annexutions
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 20.-Dele-
gate Robert j. McCandlish, jr., of
Fairfax County introduced a bill
in the General Assembly today to
prohibit institution of annexation
proceedings in counties adjoining
the National Capital until 80 days
after the next session of the legis-
lature.
His bill cited the extensive build
ing in the metropolitan area and
said annexation would result in
confusion as to rates of taxation,
issuance of building permits and
other regulations.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
BY the Associated Press.

Sir Stafford Cripps, new figure in
Britain's war Cabinet, Is a scion
of aristocracy who once was ousted
from membership in the British
Labor party because he was con-
sidered too radical.
The recently retired Ambassador
to Russia and long time advocate
of cooperation with the Soviet
Union was reported to have earned
100000 a year in legal practice
only to give 1t up in the sos be-
cause he grew tired of taking large
sums of money from one capitalist
to give it to another capitalist"
Now Lord Privy Seal and leader
Of the Commons, where he will be
Prime Minister Churchill's neuten-
ant, Sir Stafford once was called
"the most dangerous revolutionary
in England"
He is the youngest son Of the first
Lord Parmoor and was reared in
the traditional "old school tie" at
moSphere, but this man who re-
Gently declared for full political
collaboration among Britain, United
States and Soviet Russia has shown
scant regard for precedent.
Is Known as Squire.
Tall, bespectacIed, SO, he appears
in public in the conventional black
coat and gray-striped trousers of
the barrister-but to his farmer
neighbors he is known as Squire, "
recognition of his knowledge of
agriculture demonstrated in the
field.
Science was his first interest after
his education at Winchester College
and University College, London, but
he left the laboratories of PHYSICIST
Sir William Ramsay for a legal
career.
In World War I he drove an
ambulance in France, but officials
drafted" him, because of his
scientific knowledge, as manager of
a government explosive factory in
England.
BY the time he was Al, in 1890
he had been elected a master of the
bench of the Middle Temple, named
solicitor general in the Labor gov
ernment, and knighted by King
GeorgeV
AS Labor member of Parliament,
he was gadf1y critic of the Con-
servative policy of appeasement. But
he was as ready a critic of his own
party leaders when he considered
them over-cautious. leading to his
expulsion by the Laborites in 1899
for efforts to consolidate all progress
siye elements in a united front
against FaScism.
From the advent Of Adolf Hitler
to power in Germany in 1898, he
began warning his country that war
is inevitable"
Early and late. even after the
Russian-German nonaggression pact
of 1899, he urged close relations with
Russia as essential to the survival
of both Britain and the Soviet
Union.
His pleas rejected, Sir Stafford
set out on tour which took him
during the winter of l939-40 to
India, China, Japan and the United
States. His chance to go to Moscow
on a trade mission came in the
spring of 1910. and when Russia
refused to admit him without
diplomatic standing, he was named
Ambassador.
Lonely Mission at First.
For months it was lonely mis-,
sion between two nations scarcely
on speaking terms. Soviet authori
ties, who liked him personally
drew a sharn line hetween Crinns
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Fairfax Scouts Plan
Court Tomorrow
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch 10 I ne star.
FAIRFAX, Va, Feb. 20-The
Fairfax County Executive Commit
tee, Boy Scouts of America, will hold
the February court of honor" at
7:30 pm. tomorrow in the Fairfax
Elementary School.
Advancement awards will be pre-
sented, and DR.. j. G. Townsend of
the National Institute of Health
will lecture on the Pacific Northwest
and Alaska. The talk will be illus
trated by motion pictures made by
DR.. Townsend while serving as ships
physician on the Coast Guard Cut
ter Bear.
Evening star., 1942-02-20

which the ad-
ninistration it.
self does not wish
to be made pub
lie, are possible
in pending legis-
lation.
Legislation not
confined to the
war era nor con-
fined merely to
Government de-
p a r t m e n t S
or agencies con-
cerned with the
nnndn1nt Of thu
Evening star., 1942-02-20

tion's foreign
policy, TO con-
S / d e r anything
said in defense
of or In praise Of
the British as
un American
a n d to reply
with such words
as "Anglophile." "
Nevertheless, 1t
is necessary to
say that about
the m os t un-
worthy develop
m ont IL, thic
Evening star., 1942-02-20

t n e d r a I I e e
should not only
be put in la,
but should be
handed a gun
and uniform on
the spot, given at
least a sergeant's
stripes and told
to fare forth
a g al st tn e
enemy without
further ado.
ere's tn e
question:
Evening star., 1942-02-20

the East. With
it a blow is de-
livered to the
prestige of the
British and to
the prestige of
the white man
throughout the
whole of Asia
1t will have re-
percussions in
India, in all
the Indies and
in China. BY
one of those
enormous IRON
Evening star., 1942-02-20

HE opinions OF the rters this page their not
necessarily Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort gue all sides OF questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-02-20
McLennore-
On the Technique
Of Upper Berths
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

DALLAS, Tex.-In classifying the
new draftees and reclassifying the
old ones. one question should be
asked point blank. -
If the answer is in the Affirmative,
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Astor Gets Naval Post

NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (P).-Vincent
Astof, millionaire sportsman and
close friend of President Roosevelt.
is on duty as a full commander In
the Third Naval District, officials
said yesterday.
His duties are a secret.
Evening star., 1942-02-20

being used to convert the American
democracy into totalitarian system
under the guise of benevolence and
the so-called public interest.
(Reproduction Rights Reserved).
Evening star., 1942-02-20
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

The fall of Singapore and the
manner of its fall will have re-
percussions beyond even the loss
of Britain's strongest outpost in
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Danger Seen
In Bill for
Secrecy
Provides Means
For Hiding Scandal
And Incompetence
Nv DAVID LAWRENCE,

Secrecy that can cover up incom-
petence and scandal in a govern
ment, and stiff penalties for any,
body who divulges information
Evening star., 1942-02-20
BY FRANK r. KENT.

Unfortunately, 1t is still the Gus
tom OF certain bitter and preju-
diced people who, before Pearl
Harbor, opposed the administra-
Evening star., 1942-02-20
Lonely Mission at First.

Lonely MISSION at First.
For months it was a lonely mis-
sion between two nations scarcely
on speaking terms. Soviet authori-
ties, who liked him personally,
drew a sharp line between Cripps,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-06
BY PETER EDISON

American business men have
until July /, 1943, to familiarize
themselves with the War Pro-
duction Boards new GIMP, or
Controlled Materials Plan, just
announced by WPB Chairman
Donald M. Nelson, to manage
the distribution of raw mater
ials to essential industries.
GIMP isn't anything for the
average soldier, citizen or house
wife to worry about, for 1t may
never touch him directly. Indi-
rectly, If GIMP works, 1t offers
the most assurance there has
been thus far that within eight
months and thereafter there will
be no more plant shutdowns for
lack of raw materials, and the
civilian economy will know
where 1t gets off.
In the words of Leon Hender-
son, 1T remains to be seen
whether GIMP is the last plan to
solve the troublesome materials
problem, or just the latest"
In the words of Ferdinand
Eberstadt, the new WPB vice
chairman on Program Determi-
nation, IF GIMP isn't the last
plan, it must be somewhere near
the last plan because human pa.
thence is limited.
Every businessman who has
ever wrestled with a priorities
application form will second
that.
MEETING OF MANY MINDS
Eberstadt, the ex-investment
banker, and Ernest H. Kanzler,
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Danger" He plays a brutal Nazi
officer.

Danger" He plays a brutal Nazi
officer.
Sid Luft, the Douglas test pi-
lot who gets around, has gotten
around to Lynn Bari, estranged
wife of August Walter Kane.
Promised and hoped for: Paul
NUM- playing DR.. Sun Yat-sen
in a film biography of China's
greatest hero. Lana Turner's
next picture will be a film ver-
sion of the Broadway play, "The
Outward Room" James Craig
probably will be her leading
man.
Add wacky celluloid gags:
That camel in The Road to Mo-
rocco which turns to the audi
eace and says in Katharine Hep
burns voice, This is a wacky
picture, isn't it," Title of
the new Rosalind Russell-Fred
MacMurray picture has been
changed from Stand BY To
Die" to Flight For Freedom
Producer Dave Hampstead still
prefers the original title, but
studio sales experts and theater
owners claim a film with refer
ence to death in the title is
death to the box office.
Other day a young Los An
geles gasoline station attendant,
Craig Woods, signed a seven
year acting contract at Column
bia studio. Next day he was dis
covered back at his station,
pumping gas. Il thought you
were in the movies?" said a sur
prised friend. "Oh, sure" re-
piled Craig, but w got kind of
busy today, and besides ! don't
report for work until next
week." ,
Now it's Hedy Lamar and
Myrna Logs ex, Arthur Horn
blow, Jr. Overheard by
Shirley Deane in Hollywood
late spot: First hat check girl:
Gee, l feel so sorry for those
boys in uniform that l can't even
accept a tip" Second hatcheck
girl: Yeah, I'll be so darned
glad when this war is over so we
can start clipping them all
alike"
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The enemy hopes to win be-
fore we can get going. He lashes
his enslaved workers for more
production. We appeal to free
labor and we believe that free
labor will win. So hurry, keep
ahead of those schedules. -
Brig Gen. Raymond F. Fowler,
chief of u. S. Army Engineers
supply.
I came back (from England)
very much encouraged by what
! saw, and / was particularly
filled with admiration for the
women of England.-Treasury
Secretary Henry Morgenthau,
Jr.
To America the world looks
for leadership. Let us not be
fearful or shackled by the past.
Under Gods guidance let us
dart to launch out into the deep
and 60 forward with courage
and with wisdom and with faith.
Francis B. Sayre, former Phil
ippines high commissioner.
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4 2
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oi..ing East, ram trumped
the opening lead, then cashed
the ace of hearts and led anoth-
err. South would not oblige by
leading another spade or a club,
but exited with a diamond. The
ace went up, and now came the
beautiful play. Ben led the
queen of spades from dummy
and ruffed out the king. His OBJ
ject was, if possible, to force
South to stop the spades instead
or North.
Fain then led all his trumps,
saving in dummy the king of
diamonds, ten of spades, and one
club. When he led his last dia-
mond to the king, South could
not hold both his club stopper
and the jack of spades. This
squeeze gave Fain his contract.
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. BARBS

If you insist on having words,
pick on Webster.
With the shortage Of small
change, lot of little piggies
really are going to market.
An Oklahoma man claims to
have carved q whole sentence on
a grain of rice. Or was it a GER
cal story?
The little boy who saves old
magazines probably will grow
up and be cto fist.
The government is finding lots
of ways to put the ration in du-
ration.
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BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Corresponde nj

Exclusively yours: Charles
Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck
we're discussing, between scenes
Of Flesh and Fantasy" what
they mutually consider the fool
hardness Of trying to be decep-
tive about ones own age. I'm
over 40 and / can see no reason
for attempting to conceal it,"
said Boyer. "And l have a def
mite theory on the subject of
women's ages" said Miss Stan
wyck. II make no effort to min
imize my mid-thirties. It's my
conviction that if you're 35 and
you intimate that you're 30, no
one will believe you. But if you
are 35 and insist on it, you're
sure to draw a sincere compli-