The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-08-01

worthy tNal tne
various representatives the United
States government has sent re-
Gently to Soviet headquarters all
have returned with the most favor
able accounts OF their converse
tons with Josef Stain. He was
represented as a ferocious old Mus
covite bear not so long ago-an
OGPU kind OF a character whom
1t was at least disagreeable IL not
downright dangerous to associate
with. Today he's described as amia-
bic and kindly as well as seemingly
perfectly reliable.
OF course the explanations sim
pie enough. Whereas previously
tied up with the Nazis, the Rus
SLAMS are fighting on our side at
present and doing ii very credit
ably considering their unprepared-
ness for having Herr Hitler sud
denly turn against EN-. True. they
shouldn't have been caught of
base, as they were. Still. it's recog-
nized as highly desirable TO let by
cones be bygones as Of the current
Iuncture.
Miscalculation
Furthermore, we and politico-
socio-economic folk like US miscal-
culated those Communists for quite
awhile.
They considered government a
bad thing and some kinds OF 1t
ARE. Under czarism, they had one
of the bad kinds. Rebelling against
it, they undoubtedly overdid mat
ters in wiping it out. They needn't
have been as homicidal as they
were with Nicholas Romanov and
all the members Of his family. 1t
wasn't a principle Of Communism,
though. A small group Of fanatics
pulled It off. Communism. by in
tention, is an industrial sort OF
a thing, not altogether different
from labor unionism, though an
enormously exaggerated form Of it,
certainly.
Okey. 1t unpopularized itself ini-
tally Investigators like Represen-
tatives Ham Fish and Martin Dies
went on its trail before any other
ism" was available.
Then along came Fascism. For
bit, Fascism wasn't considered so
awful. Signor Mussolini was spoken
OF for spell as. perhaps, fairly
competent workingmans friend
and reorganizer. 1t was Adolf who,
breaking into the situation later,
absorbed Benito and tore genuine
hades loose.
Japan isn't totalitarian yet. All
it's grabbing a. is an imperial.
rather than a totalitarian oppor-
tunity.
Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini
surely don't see II, as TO the Japs.
The Japs'll hop them as soon as
they'll hop any white race as soon
as they think the right times come.
Investigators Fish and Dies don't
see Il, either.
Argentina's government doesn't
see it yet. It's had neutrality COM
pick for years ! don't think Chile's
got IL. II has that temporary bug,
but II appears to me to be wearing
of. Otherwise we New Worldlings
are middling solid.
In Generalissimo Francisco Fran
co, Spain has a fuehrer or duce, To-
cally known as caudillo, who
aligns with the totalitarians, but
he's webbing.
Well, as pro-wartime, this isn't
so fierce.
But as post-wartime?
Can Russia be hooked into the
ultimate world?
Coordination
It's big enough to be necessary.
There's hope in Washington to
the effect mat Moscow and the de-
.mocracies can coordinate.
It's imaginable that they can
do il.
They can DO il, so far as concern
the United States, the British, the
miscellaneous little European coun-
tries, the Free French, the Italians,
perhaps the civilized German ele-
ment. the Chinese and the Latin