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policy of fighting hard ON all
fronts and ending the war as
quickly as We can on the uncom-
promising terms of unconditional
slrrended."
ABOUT QUISLINGS
The Presidents remarks about
Quislings or Lavals apparently was
intended to silence critics who
have been asserting that the North
African government still harbors
men who were associated in the
Vichy regime with the pro-German
Pierre Laval.
:. The world can rest assured
that this total war . g. is not be-
ing carried on for the purpose or
even the remoteSt idea of keeping
the Quislings or Lavals in power
anywhere on this EARTH" he said.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that once the
common foe is expelled from
France, the French people will be
represented by government OF
their own popular choice, and that
ro nation that is free would set
itself up under Fascism, Nazism
or the Japanese war lord form of
government.
Therefore the United Nations
can properly say of these forms of
government two simple words:
never again. he added
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He FEELS LIKE A HEEL

In light of the preliminary report of
the Chamber of Commerce "rumor elm
ic" committee, number of persons in
Ventura and Ojai ought to feel very fool
ish and thoroughly ashamed of them
selves.
We refer to the ones who in recent days
have induStriouSly spread ever-more-lurid
fictions about asserted enormous waste
of food at local army camps.
No doubt a great many of them already
do feel that way. One Ojai business man,
questioned by an army officer about a
version of the tale he admitted passing
on, remarked. You make me feel like a
heel" Otherwise good citizens who gull
libly peddle such stories as have been
flying about very properly should feel
that way.
Where these malicious whispering cam
paignS originate is something else again.
1t already has been ascertained that one
family long known in the community for
its prO-nazi utteranceS helped circulate
one Of the Oiai food waste stories prompt
ly proved to be entirely false. Perhaps
in some such center will be found the
source of the trouble making The COM
mittec and the army authorities should
keep on Investigating
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Capital Talk q
-by-
Peter Edison

Somewhat to its surprise. the
Department of State has a best
seller OH its hands in ita first pub
lication of 1943. the 25-eent, IA.
page. paper-backed thriller titlec
Peace and War-United S t a es
Foreign Policy-1931-l941.'
The initial order was for 250(
copies. That just took care of the
State Department, other interested
government officials and the press
AS it was purely an undocumented
historical introduction to a COM
plete volume of officia papers
which will be out around February
l. State Departments research ano
publications division thought the
demand for this introduction would
be small. But the first edition
was gobbled up overnight, and con-
greSsmen and others began calling
up and asking for so copies or SC
apiece.
A rush order for h second edi-
ton of $4,000 copies had to be
given to the government print
ing Office.l but that's probably
just the beginning. Private pub
fishers are begging for reprint
rights, and the little book may
find its way eventually to the
news stands for display along
side "GhastIy Confessions" and
Murder OmnibOOk." Govern
ment red tape interferes with
this last project a little, for the
government printing office won't
sell on consignment and won't
allow book dealers who will pay
cash i'm advance to make more
then 25 per cent on their sales,
whereas the custom of the trade
is &C per cent commission.
Regardless of those restrictions,
Office of War Information will
bring out a smaller pocket-size
edition with reduced margins to
save paper, and arrangements are
being made to publish the work in
Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and
German at least.
NO WHITE PAPER
Peace and War" has incorrectly
been referred to as an American
White Paper, but that's a mis-
homer. The first edition had q
brown cover and the second ma
roon. Also, since neither of these
editions has any documents, the
publication isn't really entitled to
be referred to as an official pa
per- in the strict Interpretation of
diplomatic jargon.
The complete text will be the
best source book possible on Amer
lean foreign policy in the dreadful
3l-l941 decade. The Peace and
War" introduction pamphlet just
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PLAN FOR RECREATION
{Redding Record)

"Children don't get into these troubles
if they have something creative and con-
structive to do in their spare time" Sic
bert Stephens, superintendent of Redding
elementary schools, told the Redding
Lions club.
He urged the planning, during the war,
of recreational facilities to be built in
the period Of adjustment after the war
when it is expected that public works
programs will be needed to provide en-
ployment. Such things as swimming
pools at the schools and auditoriums
suited to athletic contests and supervis-
ed games were included in his sugges-
tions.
The community by all means should
be planning ahead on such matters, and
should discuss them now so thoroughly
that when the time comes there will be
a thoroughly workout plan and readi-
ness to spend the necessary money to
provide recreation.
In the meantime, it seems to us, the
community must find 4 way to meet the
immediate problem Of worthwhile spare
time activity for youngsters. The present
wave of juvenile delinquency is nothing
unique. Every community is having a
similar problem, and the same thing has
come up during every war.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 13. tUPl-A great
/ German army in the DonetS BASIN
faced the prospect of being trapped
today as Russian forces threatened
to break the two bolts that hold
together the Axis defense line-RoS-
toX and Kharkov.
In London, military observers
said the whole southern Russian
front is crumbling and Axis troops
are now in full retreat" 1t was
unlikely, the observers said, that
he Germans even would be able
to make a stand along the line OF
the Dnieper river
The Russians were last reported
to be only 18 miles away from
Kharkov, the Soviet republics fourth
city and center point OF the south
ern front defense line. Nort.2ast
of Rostov the Red army had smash
ed through Axis defenSeS and was
pouring down toward the city from
both the northeast and north.
EXPECT SHOWDOWN
The London observers said event
ually they expected a showdown in
the Russian advance because 1t Is
impossible for an army to continue
at that rate without taking a
breath" There is no indication that
the Germans have had time to for
tify the Dnieper line, it was said
and as of now it was impossible tC
| forecast how far west the Germans
will be forced to retreat before max
/ ing a StandJ
Suddenly intensifying the drive
on KharkoV, RuSsia'S fourth city
from the southeast, where last they
had been reported less than 19 miles
away after taking Chuguyev, Rec
army tanks ripped through the
German defense line to capture two
big inhabited places, the noon COM
munique reported.
In another sector of the same
Chuguyey area, an encircled Ger
man force was wiped out after two
days of fighting. All survivors were
made prisoner and the Russians
captured II field guns and many
machine guns, automatic rifles anc
rifles, the communique said.
SEVER RAIL LINE
Between Kharkoy and RoStOV
where by taking KraSnoarmeiskoye
30 miles east of the Dnieper river
the Russians had severed almost the
last railroad means of escape fol
the Germans in the Donets Basin
they captured at the bayonet poin
a series of fortified German posi-
tions despite savage resistance in
GLIDING several counterattacks which
cost the enemy 300 killed and three
tanks destroyed.
A shock troop unit captured ar
inhabited locality in the same area
the noon communique reported, i'll
ing about 1000 Germans and dis
abling II tanks.
The Russians driving on RoSto'
from northeast and north advanced
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FR Promises Bombing Of
Jupun i'm Nation Report

/ WASHINGTON. Feb. 13-tUPl-
Friends and enemies throughout
/ the world today heard President
Roosevelt'S promise to bomb Japan
this year. to wage great often
sives against the Axis in both Asia
and Europe, and eventually to send
powerful Allied armies marching
triumphantly through the streets
of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo.
All available Short-wave stations
began broadcasting his radio ad-
dress shortly after he delivered it
to the annual dinner of the White
House correspondents association
last night. The rebroadcasts in
more than 20 languages will con-
tinue throughout the weekend as
a message of cheer to friends CT
the United Nations in subjugated
countries and as a harbinger of
doom to the Axis.
SPEECH CONFIDENT
The Presidents address was vi
brant with confidence and pitched
or the theme of absolute victory
after unconditional surrender of
the Axis 1t gristled with fighting
phrases:
Important actions will be taken
in the skies over China-and over
Japan itself =.
Our prime purpose in this bat
tie of Tunisia is to drive our enc
mics into the sea
The pressure on Germany and
Italy will be constant and unre-
lenting -.
The enemy must be hit hard
from so many directions that he
never knows which is bow and
which is his stern"
REPORT TO NATION
The speech was the Presidents
i report to the nation on his Casa
Blanca conference with Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill since eX-
panded to global significance by
subsequent. discussions among
/ United Nations leaders.
The Casa Blanca meeting Mr..
Roosevelt said, produced plenty of
newsstand it will be bad news
for the Germans and Italians-and
the Japanese
The Presidents revelation of pow
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Axis CrunbIin9
On Russ Front

to occupy several inhabited local
tiles in overnight and morning
fighting after taking the important
railroad town of Shakhty, 40 miles
north-northeast of the city, and
Kriyyanskaya, 20 miles to the north
east, in yesterdays lighting.
The capture of Rostov was brought
measurably nearer when the Rus
slams drove through the German
defenSes west of the DonetS river
in the northeast-R -Rostov zone.
The enemy had tried to make a
stand on the west bank of the Do
nets, at a point about 10 miles
northeast of RoStoI the noon com
muniquc reported. Thrown from the
river by Russian shock troops, the
Germans hastily organized new po-
SitionS.
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laps Continuing
HeadIong Flight
After HeavyLoss

GEN. MACARTHURS HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Feb. 13.
(UP)-Japanese troops are contin-
uing their flight from the Wau
area of northern New Guinea after
suffering a humiliating and damag-
ing defeat in a tWo-Week battle
with Australian infantrymen, it was
announced today.
About 1000 of 5000 enemy troops
who had tried to capture Wau and
with it an important Allied air base
were dead in the jungle; the re-
mainder were making their way
along twisting trails toward Mubo,
on the coast IL miles southwest of
the large Japanese base of Sala-
maua.
Announcing this success in five
words of his COMMUNICATIVE
enemy continues his withdrawal
Gen. Douglas Macarthur reported
also the death of 225 additional Jap
anese in the north New Guinea
area.
MANY STARVE
Of these 1876 were killed b. Allied
combat patrols and 80 were found
dead in the Kumusi-908 river zones
down the coast from Mubo. Among
the dead were some who had StarV-
ed. They were stragglerS from the
Coma Mission area, where part of
the japanese Papuan army was de-
stroyed before the climactic battles
of Buna and Sanananda.
Part of the 1875 killed were Strag-
glerS in the Kumusi-Opi zone, the
others were mopped up in the Wall
Mubo stretch.
Gen. MacArthur'S communiquc
announced that an Allied heavy
bombing plane had bombed Jap
aneSe 6000-ton transport off Cape
Orford, on the south coast of New
Britain island northeast of New
Guinea, leaving it badly crippled
and stationary.
A single Flying Fortress ranged
for three hours over Rabaul, in
New Britain, biggest Japanese base
in the New Guinea-Solomons thea
ter, before dawn yesterday, shower
ing explosive and incendiary bombs
which started fires at the Rapopo
airdrome.
A heavy bomber attacked the rum
way at the Cape Gloucester air.
drome in northwestern New Britain
and another bombed the Ubili area,
in the same zone, starting fires.
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Landon Asks Both
Parties 10 Unite

OMAHA, Ncb,, Feb. l3.--(UP)--
All M. Landon, Republican pres-
dental candidate in 1886, last night
urged real" Democrats to unite,
with Republicans in opposing the
"Nazi branch of the New Deal"
which he said threatened Ito lead
us where Hitler led his people
AT last he said, the practical
progressives and the real liberals of
the Democratic party are awake to
the fact that by use of Trojan
horse methods a small but domi-
nant group of Nazi new dealers
who seek to establish here what
Hitler described in his early days
as the national socialistic state.
have seized control of their party"
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Rep. Tells Plan
ToPay0ffD Debt

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-(UP)-
Representative wright Patman,
Democrat, Texas, told the House
ways and means committee today
that the government could pay off
a national debt of 100000, 900 600
IN 40 years if it adopts a plan for
eliminating interest payments on
large part of the credit used for
financing the war.
He proposed that. the Treasury
Department deliver non-interest
b gearing, non-negotiatble govern
ment securities TO the IL Federal
Reserve banks in return for credit
in the amount of the certificates.
In this way he added, the
government can pay each year 2hs
per cent TO the Federal Reserve
banks on these bonds or certificates
and in 40 years the entire debt Will
be liquidated. Under the present
plan our government can pay 2k
per cent each year for 40 years as
interest and none Of the principal
Of the debt will be paid and all OF
IL viii be siill owinG ~ai thu end oi
40 years.
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nounced, One Allied plane was
missing.
Reports reaching London said
the biggest German concentration
now was in the Tunis-B s-Bizerte area,
and that many Italians formerly
in the area had been sent south.
POWERFUL FORMATIONS
The Germans said the Eighth
army had powerful formations
drawn up against them in Lower
Tunisia. A German official news
agency dispatch. broadcast by
radio Berlin. said the British
Seventh Tank division, the Fourth
Light Tank brigade, the 22nd
Tank brigade and the Seventh Brit
ish Rifle division were south of
the coastal road.
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Editorials and Comment

if you don't tend the field during grow
ing season.
Thank goodness there was still good
growth of ability and brains perSisting
despite the artificial hardships placed up
on the crop.
Unless we miss our guess by wide
margin, the pendulum is starting to swing
back and the people with the majority of
votes, will realize that, after all, success
full national effort can result not from
stunting, but only from stimulating the
DEVELOPMENT of ability to its limit
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crful offensives being mounted
AGAINST Japan brought cheer to
China, whose armies and peoples
have been resisting the japanese
fer nearly six years.
over JAPAN ITSELF
Great and decisive actions
against the japanese will be taken
to drive the invader from the soil
OF China" Mr.. Roosevelt said. I'M
portant actions will be taken in
the skies over China-and over
Japan itself.
sThCre are many roads which
lead right to Tokyo. We shall neg
let mono of them
The President and other guests,
high government officials and
members of the American Society
Of Newspaper Editors, paid for
their own dinners - $3.50 each -
since proceefS of the function
went to the National Foundation
for Infantile PARALYSIS, a cause
close to Mr.. Roosevelt's heart.
The diners wore business suits
and partook of a plain meal of
bean soup, boiled founder. roast
chicken with potatoes and peas,
a green salad and fig pudding.
There was no coffee, sugar or but
ter
COMPARISON SPEECH
The Presidents speech was a
companion to Churchill's report to
the House of Commons earlier
in the week and it breathed the
same spirit of aggressive optimism.
It was not without its somber note,
however
The President advised the A.
erican people-parents wives,
sweethearts-to prepare themselves
fer heavy American casualties In
the battle of Tunisia.
we must face that fact now,
ne said, with the same calm cour-
age as our men are facing 1t on
the battlefield itself.
Observers saw the promise OF
more aid to China in the Presl-
dents declaration that our policy
toward our japanese enemies Is
nrecisely the same as our policy
toward our Nazi enemies; 1t Is a
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-by--
Peter Edison

sums it all up in somewhat Official
but absolutely accurate language.
| You will look in vain for any m
dication of authorship of Peace
and War" That's intentional. The
booklet is a Department of State
publication and though it was Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull's idea
TO issue this introduction separate
! ly and he guided its preparation,
credit for the work is given to the
department as whole.
AS a matter of fact, practically
every head Of every division in the
State Department read proof and
made suggestions or alterations to
insure that this would be a fool,
proof job, with no chance of an
error and no possibility of kick
back from some foreign propagan-
da agency.
MAN WHO DID THE WORK
Research, first drafting, edit
ing and final preparation of
peace and War" were, however,
the work of Carlton Savage. one
of the younger cOunselOrs of the
department. He has been work
ing OH peace and War" since
last spring.
Savage came TO Washington in
1926 from Salem, Ore. He had
been principal of high school
and secretary and business man
ager of the state normal school,
but, filled with the idcaliSm of
the Coolidge era of peace, he
threw it all up and came to the
capital to get any kind of a job
he could find TO play even
minor part in maintaining that
glorious tradition. AS a prOtege q
of Senator Charles l.. McNary, y
also of Salem, Savage, in 1927,
finally did get minor research
job in the State Department, and
went on from there. 4.
In the piping times of peace,'
Savage made a special study of
neutrality before the first World
War and d ted a three-volume
State Department publication on
that subject. When the present
war broke out in Europe, Savage
was naturally the historical author
ity on us. neutrality, SO he was
advanced to more important draft
ing assignments.
Savage is decidedly the Oregon
type of State Department career
man, in distinction to the Groton-
Harvard type. And he is one of
Secretary Hulls more regular COM
panions when the tall statesman
from the hills of Tennessee takes
an hour or so of summer after
noon to play croquet.
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CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

| most definitely do not regard the
threat of invasion Of the United King
dom as oyer.-Lieut.-G Andrew c. l..
McNaughton commander in chief Of
Canadian forces.
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Allies Poise for
Battle Of Africa

LONDON, Feb. 13-(UPp-Brit-
ish forces were reported today to
have hurled back a major German
tank thrust in the Ousselitia VAL
ley of North Central Tunisia, while
TO the southeast the British Eighth
Army and the Nazi Afrika Kor1s
spared with armored patrols and
artillery.
A spokesman at the Allied North
African headquarters disclosed that
the Germans launched a strong at
tack in the Ousseltia Valley We'd
nesday night but the British, who
with American forces had rein
forced the light French lines i'll
that sector, dug i'll on the slopes
and repelled them.
SNOW HELPS AXIS
Dispatches cautioned, however.
that snow and rain were working
fol the enemys favor against the
Allies and there were signs that
the Germans were seeking to
broaden the southern end of the
Afrika Korps escape corridor to
the north.
The Allied spokesman said con-
siderable enemy activity had. been
noted east and south of Gafsa
Allied base 10 miles west of the
Gulf of GabeS. This was the first
disclosure that Nazi forces were
south of GabeS and SO far inland
An Allied communique said AL
lied forces had seized many prison.
erS in patrol operations, including
So Italians captured by native
Spahi cavalrymen in the Pont Du
Fahs area. This indicated that the
Germans might be substituting
Italian holding forces for their own
seasoned forces in that particular
sector.
LITTLE ACTIVITY
The only air activity in Tunisia
was a raid by American Boston
bombers on enemy objectiveS in
the Sened area i'll the southeast
and limited fighter sweeps by the
RAF
Cairo dispatches said that the
Eighth army's patrols were fighting
enemy armored cars inland from
the South Tunisian coast while
British and Axis artillerymen fired
away at each other on the coastal
sector.
Col. Gen. Jurgen Won Arnim, in
charge of the northern Tunisian
front for the Axis, was reported in
dispatches from Algiers, via Mad
rid, to be forcing thousands OF
native workers to throw up forti-
fications, especially battery pos
itions and shelters, in the TuniS-
Bizerte area.
BRINGS IN EXPERTS
Arnim had flown experts from
Germany to direct operations, the
dispatches said, and they we're re-
ported working the natives unre-
lentingly, day and night, through
rain and snow.
An especially strong line of forts
were being constructed 10 miles
from Tunis and Bizerte against
the coming Allied offensive the
dispatches said.
The weather was also restricting
air operations, especially on the
Eighth Army's side of the front.
One enemy bomber was shot down
west of BcnRha2i. Iibya. Yesterday.
! The Middle Eastern Command an
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| buy War Bonds all the time and |
don't need Hedy Lamar to kiss me either.
In fact, she would have to buy a S25, 900
bond before would even consider kissing
her.-TituS IIaffa, Chicago business man.
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| got SO close to one Zero fighter that
could see his face under his red cap
Nip looked mighty worried as my bullets
had set his wings afire.-U. S. Air Force
lieutenant, after Jap raid on Darwin.
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THE SEARCH FOR
EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY

Rudyard kipllng wrote poem called
Tommy in which he pictured tn? pub
lie disdain for the British soldier in peace
time, but how he was heroically treated
"When the guns begin to shoot.
We cannot help but be Impressed by
the similarity with the New Deals public
disdain for men of exceptional ability in
peace-time civilian life, but their evident
need Of and search for, men of just such
exceptional ability when the country is
fighting for its life.
The eight peace years of New DealiSm
were characterized more by this war
upon individual development and effort
to bring all people toward a common
economic level than by any other phase of
its ideology 1t hated those who rose up
the ladder; it tried to turn the people
against them, and created a conflict OF
class warfare which left this nation deep
ly Scared.
But when the country is up against
sudden death and destruction, this same
administration searches out the very men
whom it condemned. True, at first the
search appeared reluctant, as if those in
power hated to acknowledge the error of
their philosophy But as time has slip
ped along, the need for more and more
good men has become wildly apparent.
1t can be clearly seen in the armed
forces, in government, in the domestic
scene, which at times looks pretty dark to
many of US. How often we have been i'm
pressed with the fact that you can't, in
time Of need, reap a bounteous harvest,
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Afrika korps FIees From the Priest

No, not a gypsy
caravan. this is
a British gun
ere W chasing
G. er m a n $ on
the frican
desert. On a
General Grant
C n a s ST s is
mounted { h e
"Pfiest.' a 105-
nj m. howitzer,
W h c n h a S
played an I'M
portant part in
British desert
victories.
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1t would be a refreshing novelty if
some Of the officials, when they come be-
fore us would vary the precedents a
little by telling US not so much of the APP
preparations which they think they must
have, but the appropriations they think
they can do without.-Rep. Louis Lud
low of Indiana.