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Evening star., 1942-08-31
HitIer's Mistakes Costly
Allies Declared Fortunate Nozis Delayed
Invasion of Britain, Turned on Russo

then move on the mastery of the
Mediterranean. Russia would hard
ly have made war on the Reich to
dispute Germany's possession of all
Europe to the Russian border.
Circumstantial reports have 1t
that Hitler decided against invasion
for three reasons. He was warned
that it might be a failure which
would cost 200, 1000 to 100000 cas-
ualties. He was convinced that his
bombers would either force Britain
to submission or at least render her
powerless to re-establish a European
land front. His foreign minister,
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, who had
always got the right tip when he
gazed into the crystal ball. assured
him the United States would never
enter the war.
Now suppose Japan had sprung
her surprise blow on Pearl Harbor
coincident with a German invasion
OF Britain. There has been much
talk about the marvellous timing of
Axis operations, but here the Axis
missed an opportunity in timing
which might have changed the fate
OF the world. We should not have
been as prepared in 1910 as We we're
in 1941 to resist Japans advance to
Australia, the Indian border and in
the Aleutians and toward Hawaii,
Had Eye on Russia.
Happily for the Allies Hitler of
the fixed idea never had his covetous
eye off the Russian grain and oil
fields. After the drive through
Yugoslavia and Greece to grab Crete
1t was RuSsia's turn. There his cost
in casualties has been 10 times the
estimated cost in the invasion of
Britain, and he is daily losing more.
Britain has become huge airdrome
and training ground to make that
second front which he had dismissed
in 1910 as out.
Our policy inevitably was to make
Britain secure, then in alliance with
Britain, to make sure that Russia
and China continued in the war.
Through the spring and summer of
l942 the Allies aim must be to check
enemy offensives in the hope we
could take the offensive in the fall,
which Japan is already feeling.
Not until next year shall we be
ready to strike with full power which
will not reach its peak until 1914.
The Axis powers have reached their
peak. War exhaustion, that in
eScapable factor which cannot be
ordered or shouted down, should
| tell on them first
| 1t would be a mistake, however
/ to fool ourselves they will not be
tough fighters on the defensive
We have a long, hard way to 20
before We reach Berlin and Toxic
This war is likely to last more than
four years.
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Evening star., 1942-08-31
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Evening star., 1942-08-31
Composers Already Hit
By Music RECORDING Ban
2! the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Aug. 3l.-Neville
Miller, president of the National
Association of Broadcasters, de-
clared yesterday that composers
were feeling the effects of a ban
on musical recordings ordered a
month ago by James Caesar Petrillo,
president of the AFL American Fed
Grafton of Musicians.
SO far AS can be ascertained, not
line in work completed after the
recording ban went into effect has
been published" Mr.. Miller said.
and such works as have been ac-
cepted are being held back in the
hope that the order will be re-
scinded."
consequently, the composer has
already directly felt the first i'm
pacts of the ban"
Union musicians who looked for
Evening star., 1942-08-31
This Changing World
Heaviest Fighting in War Expected to Stort 500
In All Theoters, Especially in Mediterranean

of parachutists. The United Ma
tons forces in Egypt and the
Near East will have tough fignt'
Whether the aggressive AleXan-
der can surprise the Nazls oy
hitting first is question. 1t ds-
pends on how good an offensive
force he has at his disposal ana
how much strength Nazi Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel has at
the present time.
According to official announce
ments from London and Moscow
a definite agreement has been
reached between Premier joseph
Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill regarding synchroniza-
ton of the military operations of
the United Nations. Even II
Stalingrad has to be abandoned,
the Russian armies will still be
powerful enough to keep busy
more than 100000 men on the
eastern front. Although the
Russians will be severely handi-
capped by loss of their pipe lines
from the Caucasian oil fields and
the loss of their most important
industrial center ~ Stalingrad -
there will still be enough fight
in them to keep the Axis occu-
pied for many months to come.
Dieppe Affair Costly.
Under these circumstances 1t
is wondered whether the NaziS,
who intend to Go most of the
fighting themselves IN the Near
end the Middle East, will have
enough strength to conquer the
Near East. particularly If other
theaters O. operators are opened
up by the Allies this fall. 1t IS
assumed that the Dieppe affair,
Evening star., 1942-08-31
War Cabinet Of Men Who Know Why U. S.
Is Fighting Urged by Dorothy Thompson

opposition that would cut adrift
our whole foreign policy, and
deepen the internal cleavages in
the midst of a terrific crisis,
severing us from our allies. and
prohteering on chaos to establish
their own political and reaction
ary principles.
They are exploiting and abus-
ing the slogan of unity.
And the wish for unity leads
even the Government to close it's
eyes.
For the administration idea
of unity is to allow both wars to
go on and try to strike bal
ance. But no leadership can con-
duct this war on tightrope.
Now this fact affects the con-
duct of the war at every point
and in every experimentation in
stance, in the Justice Depart
ment. 1t makes it impossible for
that department to clean up the
Fascist elements inside America.
1t drives us to the tolerance of
Vichy agents, Finnish informa-
ton bureaus, Fascist Ukranian
groups, White Russian conspira-
tors, Hungarian propagandists
who are playing both sides of the
war, and monarchiSt reaction
aries who want nothing less than
genuine anti-Fascist revolutions
in Europe.
Nelson's Problem Affected.
1t makes it impossible for us to
clean up our native Fascists, if
they are high enough up. 1t
makes it difficult for Donald Mel
son to break the resistance of
certain industrialists who want
to preserve their markets and
their connections whichever way
the war turns out, and impos-
sible for him to enforce his order
to establish management labor
boards in every factory, as the
British have most effectively
done, for increasing and improv-
ing our war production.
And it makes it impossible
really to educate our Army to
know what they are fighting for.
And so we see that the secret
theater of war is not restricted
to the short-wave broadcasts to
our enemies. but is an internal
theater as well where there is a
spiritual and psychological con-
fusion.
And this is, in my opinion, the
root trouble that is preventing
clear and effective organization.
Russians Have Clear Attitude.
There are minor wars where
such things matter little. But
this is not such a war. We are
fighting not only armies, but an
international Fascist conspiracy.
We certainly learned from
France that you cannot defeat
Fascist armies unless you also.
inside your own country, defeat
the conspiracy.
The heroic Russian resistance
is neither due to Communism nor
to Russian nationalism. It is due
to the fact that the real nature
of this war is clear in the minds
of the Russian leaders and the
Russian nation.
And Britain would have folded
up If Mr.. Churchill had not seen
that there was clear connection
between Sir Oswald Mosley and
the way the war would be waged.
Thus, it is true that we need
fighting war cabinet to stream
line our effort. But we need it
built, from the top to the bot
tom, of men who know with
complete clarity why they are
fighting this war.
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Evening star., 1942-08-31
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Heavy fighting on land, sea
and in the air-the heaviest this
war has yet seen--is expected to
start before long in all thea
ters of operations.
The purely defensive activities
of the United Nations forces are
coming to an end, The shores of
the Mediterranean from Asia
Minor to the Atlantic are ex-
pected to be the scenes of the
most bitter battles yet fought in
this war.
Despite the optimistic reports
from Russia, it is feared in many
responsible quarters here that
Evening star., 1942-08-31


Gated, and the world forgot to re-
member that to some one he wasn't
a king, but an eldest son in whom all
her hopes were wrapped,
A duke is killed, and the world
runs its headlines, needless that to
some one he wasn't duke, but a
baby boy, beginning to grow up.
That some one"-the lonely Lady
of Buckingham Palace-is DoWager
Queen Mary of England.
What a gallant lady!
The Union Jack is no stauncher
symbol of the Empires undying re-
fusal to bend to adversely than the
Dowager Queen. The world has
made fun of her hats, but never OF
her heart.
She has taken each blow as brave
ly as any British man O. war ever
took the pounding of heavy sea.
The death of her husband, George
v, may have broken her heart, but
never her poiSe and calm.
The adication of Edward found
her the most dignified and under
standing of all those intimately con-
cerned with the Empire shaking
event. She was the closest to it of
all, yet she managed to keep herself
the farthest away. No one will ever
know just what Edwards abdication
meant to her, but it isn't hard to
guess. A mother is mother, be
she in ermine or rags. From his
cradle she had planned Edwards
life for the day he would succeed
his father.
We were in Nassau, far out
post Of the empire, on the day the
abdication proclamation was read
| by Sir Bede Clifford, Governor Gen.
eral. His audience was composed
| largely of barefooted, straw-hatted
natives, many with fruit and chick
ems in their arms, who didn't know
what he was doing. but that he
did it in full dress. He arrived in a
Rolls Royce, Union Jacks flying
from the tenders. His own dress was
complete down to the white gloves
and plume.
To the tapping of the waves on
the beach he read the proclama-
ton, slowly and with feeling. The
natives shuff1ed off. The local troops.
numbering so or so, disbanded Sir
Bede drove back to the Governors
| Mansion on the hill
| We went to Dirty Dicks for a
drink.
A native waitress hummed, Mama
Don't Want No Rice, No Peas, No
Coconut Oil" We tried to cheer
her up.
Don't feel so badly about your
King" we said.
1T amt him that's got me feel
ing so blue" Big Mary said. 81 was
thinking about his mother. Her
heart must be busting"
Now the Duke of Kent is gone,
killed in action in an airplane. One
story from London tells all one ever
need know of what that crash meant
to the DoWager Queen.
Her own loss was communicated
to her by King George VI, who
telephoned that her baby son" had
been killed.
Not that the Duke had been
killed; not that the fifth in line for
the throne had been killed, but that
her baby son" was gone.
"She lived like a Queen" Maybe
that phrase does suit the Great
Lady of England, after all. She has
lived like a Queen, and is living
like a Queen, come all the blows
there are.
Distributed by MeNausht Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1942-08-31
Duchess of Kent Attends
Memorial for Husband
Py the Associated Press.

Py the AsSociated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-The Duchess
of Kent, heavily yelled, attended
memorial service yesterday for her
husband at the little parish church
of Iver near which the Kents lived.
The Duke was killed last week in
a plane crash in North Scotland
while bound for Iceland on mil
itary mission.
The church was crowded with
villagers. The service originally was
planned for Saturday when the
funeral of the Duke was held. 1t
was postponed at the request of the
Duchess so she could attend.
Evening star., 1942-08-31

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Evening star., 1942-08-31

ward to making recordings for all
or part of their compensation have
been deprived of this source, Mr..
Miller added. He said the "detri-
mental effect upon the art of music
and upon radio will be increasingly
evident"
The ban was ordered on grounds
that recordings were causing un-
employment among union musicians
because they served as substi-
tute for live" music.
Evening star., 1942-08-31

Stalingrad may have to be evacu-
ated. The losses suffered by the
Axis in the last 10 days of the
campaign in the Don-Volga area
have been heavy both in men and
war material. From that point of
view alone, the Allies are grateful
to the Russians for the resistance
they have offered to the Nazi
forces.
In the meantime the Axis is
known to have been Fastening
its preparations for major Of
fensive in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean. American strategists
consider Egypt and the adjacent
territories of vital Importance. No
effort is being spared to defend
that region with everything the
United Nations have at their dis
posal. 1t has been repeatedly an
nounced from London and Cairo
that heavy reinforcements are
reaching that theater of opera
tions.
Allies Face Tough Fight.
The armies at the disposal Of
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander are
better than two months ago. but
they are Heterogeneous lot
Americans, British, New Zea-
landers, Australians, South Afri-
cans, Indians, Poles, Yugoslavs,
Moroccans, some Malgaches from
Indo-China, Arabs, Fighting
French and the remnants of the
Foreign Legion which served in
1889 in Gen. Maxine Weygand's
army of the Levant. To make a
homogeneous army out of all these
elements requires more time than
the British commander in chief
has now to spare. There is no
question that these troops will
fight. But they are more diff
cult to handle than a uniform
American-Brit force would be-.
The Germans are expected to
strike with more violence than
ever before and it is possible that
they may attack in several places
at once in the Mediterranean
area. They have land-based
planes and a substantial number
Evening star., 1942-08-31
New Conudiun Chief
Of Newsprint Named

BN the Associated Press
OTTAWA, Aug. 3l-R. L. Weldon.
49, of Montreal, president of Bath
urst Power & Paper Co., and its SUBJ
salaries, has been appointed news
print administrator to succeed
Charles Vining of Montreal it was
announced last night.
Mr.. Vining has been named chair
man of the governments newly
created War Information Board.
Evening star., 1942-08-31
McLemore-
Hard Blows Token
By Dowoeer Queen
By HENRY McLEMORE.

NEW YORK.-"Sne lived like
queen"
To the lonely Old Lady of Buck
inQham Palace that must indeed be
a mocking phrase.
1t belongs to the story books.
where everything always turns out
ali right. Almost nothing has
turned out all right for her.
Few women, even those who dwell
in novels, have been asked to bear
the sorrows, cares and disappoint-
Evening star., 1942-08-31

mentS that nave
been hers for the
past few years.
A king died,
and the world
org OF to re-
member, in the
pomp and trap
pings I h a t go
with a king s
death, that to
som e one he
wasn't a king but
a husband and a
lover.
Evening star., 1942-08-31

b y t h e British
a n d French
declarations O f
war.
Our Civil War
lasted four years,
the First World
w a r t hree e
months longer.
The view has
b c e n expressed
that four years
are the limit of
endurance i n
modern war. BY
Evening star., 1942-08-31
Child Smothered to Death

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 (P) The
deep hole that he and playmate
dug In beach sand became the grave
of 9-year-old Harold Helms vester-
day. The boy smothered to death
when the sides of the 6-foot- deep
e. aHation collapsed and buried him.
Evening star., 1942-08-31

10 SJaTt UuG III
January, I943,
to pay his taxes
on a pay-aS-
you-go basis.
But the Treas
llry ooesn t want
to lose the reve-
hue Of a single
y e a r - e S p e.
Cially these big
revenue years
and it doesn't
look with favor,
therefore on the
nnrnSnncfi1,o lac
Evening star., 1942-08-31

10 wa glng ef-
fective psy-
c h o log ic al
warfare, and
pointed out
that the Office
of War Infor-
nation is en-
tru S t e d to
plan a STRAIT
egy without
having a pol
icy.
But there
are more pro-
found rea SONS
Evening star., 1942-08-31
Simple Method of Transition.


This plan might be applied par
ticularly to persons above 40 years
OF age.
1t might also be contended that
there would be difficulties of ad-
ministration to carry for 20 years
the notes of so many taxpayers. One
way out would be for the plan to
be modified so that all taxes below
$1,000 be Cancelled for every one, and
that the deferment over the 20-year
period apply only to taxes above
$1,000. This would mean a big re-
duction in the total number Of notes
to be carried.
The Importance of getting every
taxpayer on a current basis is SO
great and the dangers of imposing
stiff Withholding tax next year
are also so farreaching that the
plan of deferring-but not cancel
ing 1912 taxes-might afford a
simple method of transition. with
out any substantial loss of revenue
to the Government.
From the practical standpoint the
payment of one-twentieth of the
1912 tax bill next year along with
the regular l943 taxes would not be
hardship to any one, and the
Treasury would not lose any sub
stantial amount of revenue as has
been argued against the Ruml plan.
The Treasury experts have con-
tended that every taxpayer ought
to have set aside a portion of his
1912 income in anticipation of taxes
due in l943, but human nature
doesn't work that way-or rather
people have not been taught to do
it in that manner since the income
tax first came into effect in 1913
Most of 1942s income will have been
spent by December, 1912, and as for
the millions of men in uniform, how
are they going to earn enough in
l943 with which to pay 1912 taxes?
The 20-year deferment plan would
help the servicemen of all classes
or income brackets.
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Evening star., 1942-08-31

THE opinions OF the arttes this page their not
necessarily The Stars opinions presented
Stars effort to giue all sides of questions interest its
readers although opinions among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1942-08-31
Note Plan
Urged for
1912 Taxes
20-Yeor Payment
Would Prevent
Loss Of Revenue
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

What has given the Ruml plan
to skip year OF income taxes its
greatest momentum IN Congress is
the desire to enable the taxpayer
Evening star., 1942-08-31
BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

The war enters its fourth year to-
morrow. 1t was September /, 1899,
that the German attack on Poland
began, This was met two days later
Evening star., 1942-08-31
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In preceding articles entitled,
The Secret Theater of the War
| have pleaded for a clariflcation
of our war aims as a prerequisite
Evening star., 1942-08-31

Yet the withholding tax proposed
by the Treasury would constitute
severe hardship next year and pos
sibly mean a deternGnt in pay
ments anyway if not a forfeiting of
taxes because of the inability of
many taxpayers to find the money
to pay two years taxes in one.
There is plan which could meet
the objectives of both sides. 1t
would not mea;. a l>ss of revenue
to the Treasury. II would not mean
windfall for ary wealthy taxpay-
ers, and it wouldn t, at the same
time, work hardship on a vast num-
Der of taxpayers. 1t would be SIM
pie to calculate and operate.
The plan which is under consid-
Grafton on Capitol Hill would pro-
vide that 1912 taxes be figured on
December 81 next, and that every
taxpayer would give the Govern
ment a note payable in 20 years. so
that in l943 only per cent of the
taxes due would become payable.
This does not mean a 5 per cent
tax on income, but per cent of
the amount cue.
No Loss of Revenue.
Thus II taxpayer owed the Gov
ernment $4,000 for his 1912 taxes.
he would be obliged to pay only
$500 on that amount during 1913,
plus, of course, his 1943 taxes, which
could be made payable at the source
or by the month in accordance with
the Treasurys suggestions.
The advantage of the plan is that
the revenue remains intact, and if
any taxpayer wants to pay his 1912
obligation sooner than in 20 years,
he could be given a discount for
every annual installment that he
meets in advance, the total perhaps
not to exceed one fourth of the 1912
tax bill.
1t might be argued that the Gov
ernment needs the cash, and that
by spreading the 1912 payment over
20 years the cash wouldn't be i'm
mediately available for war pur-
poses. But note covering a tax
obligation is as good as money in
the eyes Of the Treasury, because
by law it has the right to collect out
of mans property or income before
payments are made to any other
creditors.
If the Treasury wished to raise
cash it could put up the $4,000, ,000,-
000-due from 1912 taxes-in tax
payer notes as collateral and bor-
row at the banks for any part of
this sum it chooses, perhaps up to
IS per cent of the principal due.
1t may be asked what would hap
pen II the taxpayers died within the
next 20 years. The tax would be as
sessed against his estate just the
same, and if he had no money left
the Government would lose. To
avoid this loss it might be possible
to cover any such loss by providing
a group insurance plan to be re-
quired of the taxpayer amounting
to tiny sum as premium per thou
sand dollars.
Evening star., 1942-08-31

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WHERE'S ALL THE
PAPER GOING?

In general, the answer is this:
for every S billion dollars spent
for Lend-Lease and War Pro-
gram needs, a million tons of
pulp and paper are required.
Here are some of the paper
needs, a considerable proportion
of which must be supplied by
papers in the best manufacturing
class:
1,725,000 tons of cotton fibre
content writing paper.
100000 tons of grades of 9TH
er acknowledgements paper, in
cluding blue print and drawing
papers, chart papers, and other
special papers.
100000 tons of paper board.
100000 tons Of news print.
100000 tons of wrapping.
2,825,000 tons of book paper.
Paper used for actual war
needs includes:
"A million tons of paper for
shell castings.
5000 tons of paper for army
laundries.
$4,000 tons of paper for steel
strip mills.
1000 tons of target paper.
In 1910, ID 100000 tons of pap
er rolled off the paper machines
of the country. In 1941, 16,0OO,-
900 tons of paper will have been
made. AS close as the experts
can estimate, War, Military and
Civilian requirements are now at
the rate of 24,5O0,0O0 tons per
year, which is 100000 tons
over any previous record of pro-
duction.
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