The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-23


L. Hoffman, Of its staff of mental
specialists, reports to the Ameri-
can Psychopathological association
that the institutions simply
swamped with nuttiness cases.
concentrating in the District OF
Columbia from every direction.
They're folk with peace schemes
or with plans for postwar read
1ustment-a better world and all
that kind of stuff Most OF 'em
streak it directly for the White
House, where they're well-mean-
ing, but lot of 'em are so OBJ
streperous that restraints unavoid-
able for 'em. st. Elizabeths mas
TO take care of 'em until they can
be redistributed. Back home, may
be a fair proportion Of them return
to normally.
A stable party of Axis diplo-
mats and newspapermen here,
previously informed in the United
States, was exchanged in neutral
Lisbon the other day, for a similar
party of Americans, caught and
mterned in Germany and Italy.
Hopeful Signs
In Lisbon our newspapermen
were able, for the first time in
months. to file dispatches to the
Y. s. A. They were darned en-
couraging. They reported the Ger
mans and Italians as well fed-up
with the war, and the summary
obviously jazzed our spirits up ma
terially. as indicated, not only by
newspaper stuff, but also by our
latest joint Army and Navy re-
port. Hitherto we've been warned
repeatedly against anticipating too
early an end to the pending con-
fict. This latest dope referred
quite hopefully to the possibility
Of United Nations victory by the
erd Of the current year.
Winston Churchill's English tone
Of voice was ditto.
One Of the news correspondents
we recovered, by exchange, was
Louis p. Lochner. Louis, an Amer
lean citizen, born here, was Of
German, though Americanly natur-
allied parentage. German was his
childhood's household language. He
told me all this when / was a cor
respondent with the Ford peace
expedition and he was Henry's sec
rotary. Since then he's spent 20
years in Berlin. When HE says
that Herr Hitler's on the slide. 1
believe him.
Another authority I'd gamble on
Is Clarke H. Kawakami. Clarke
wasn't exchanged at Lisbon. He
was caught in this country. as
American correspondent of Domei,
the Jap news agency, directly after
the Pearl Harbor raid.
His father was K. X. Kawakami,
100 per cent Jap, whom / knew
years ago. His wife was an Ameri-
can, though, and Clarke was born
here. I'm acquainted with him,
and II that boy isn't true-blue
Yankee I'm a Hottentot. The last
/ knew about him officially, he was
trying to break into the U. S.
Army. and they wouldn't admit
him, because Of his name COM
plexion and so per cent Of his an
cestry. Now. though, he's cracked
into print, as a war commentator
and I'm no judge If he isn't anti
Axis. Moreover, he's enlightening,
from the standpoint of Jap psy-
chology.
Beer In Spain
Our folk temporarily in Lisbon
relay the news that adjoining
Spain is dispensing beer again.
The Spaniards like beer. as l
know because I've lived there and
like the brew. It's supposed 10
be a wine country, but it's pro-
beer also. It's release indicates
Spanish war notifications.
Turkey likes us.
discovered that a generation
ago, visiting Constantinople, when
it still was the Turks capital.
Ambassador Lawrence Steinhsrdt
says so yet. at Ankara.
Wen, these are only little odds
and ends.