The Ely miner., 1943-03-18
NO RUSSIAN HURRAHS


over their leaders.
NO RUSSIAN HURRAHS
American observers in Russia re-
port that the public is not throwing
its red cap in the air over current
military successes. The reaction is
not much different, in fact, from the
reaction to losses.
''The mood of the Russian peo-
ple," says one report, ''hasn't
changed much since last summer
when they were being driven back
to the Volga. Nor has it changed
much from the years Of peace"
It is explained that Russians have
become accustomed to turnult and
personal danger. For Is years they
have lived in an atmosphere of revo-
luton, purges, and starvation. War
has brought no sudden shock to them
as to us.
Even in the face of the terrific
losses Russia has suffered In this
war, the losses forced upon Russia
by her own government ten years
ago remain almost unsurpassed.
When the Soviet government was
imposing on the people, the unwel-
come system of collective farming,
farmers were denied seed for plant
ing, and vast number of people,
estimated between two and five mil
lion, starved to death.
The Russians are stolid, taking de-
feat or victory in their stride.
SPANISH DAGGER AT q. S. BACK
Here is the lowdown on the visit
of FRANCOIS special representative,
ex-Spanish Foreign Minister Beigbe-
der, to this country.
FRANCOIS regular representative,
Ambassador Juan Cardenas, has
been sending him what he wanted to
hear, rather than the truth about
the way the American people have
put their hearts into the war. Car
denas has emphasized the clash of
personalities and ineficiency of war
production which get into the head
lines but is not the general rule
When U. S. officials learned of
this, they conceived the idea of
bringing a special Franco envoy to
the U. S. A. to get the real picture.
Actually it was the war department,
not the state department, which
hatched the inspiration and which is
taking him on a tour of war plants
and army posts to drink in the real
spirit of the war effort.
Note: Many high-up officials here
believe Franco is an opportunist
who, regardless of pledges, will
jump whichever way he sees the war
is going in the spring. He could,
if he wished, plunge a dagger into
the back of U. S. forces in North
Africa. Beigbeder has a background
of friendship for the United States.
CAPITAL CHAFF
q It is said of Woodrow Wilson
that he was a professor surrounded
by politicians, and that FDR is a
politician surrounded by professors.
q It is said of Madame Chang Kai-
shek's huge reception that it out
caviared the Baruch party for Mrs.
Harry Hopkins.
q Captain Eddie Rickenhacker is
making it clear to friends that he
has no presidential ambitions de-
spite the fact that Gerald K. Smith
is hurrahing for him. Incidentally
most people don't know it, but Rick
enbacker saw the handwriting on
the wall as far as isolation is con-
cerned and resigned from the Amer
lea First committee on January Is,
1941, nearly one year before Pearl
Harbor.
q Senator Nye of North Dakota, long
time critic of Harry Hopkins, met
Mrs. Hopkins at the hospital where
she is nurses aid and where Mrs.
Nye was convalescing. Quipped
Nye, tugging at the collar of Mrs.
Hopkins uniform: ST don't see any
Iend-lease emeralds."
q It is Herbert Hoover's opinion that
U. S. troops viii come back from
this war more rugged individualists
than ever and we viii go back to
our old era of rugged individualism
He bases this on the fact that SOL
diers today are getting intensive
specialist training.