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the east indicates the Nazis are
discounting a major Allied drive
between Narvik and the Spanish
border.
According to reliable reports,
at least three and probably four
German divisions have been
transferred in the last few weeks
from Norway to northern Ger
many, leaving fewer than 10000
men to protect the Norwegian
coast and cope with whatever
revolutionary movement the Nor
Wegian patriots may be able to
start.
1t is true that there are only
four or five places where the
Allies may be able to land in
force. The narrow fjords are not
suitable for receiving more than
a few invasion barges.
Troops In France Depleted.
Places like Narvik. Bergen.
StaVanger and Trondhelm are
protected by strong coastal de-
fences, supported by a number
OF alrports. The bulk of the Nazi
fleet also is on the norwegian
coast.
With this coveragc, it appears
that the Nazi general staff be
Ileves it can cope with any Allied
attempt to disembark a strong
landing force.
Reports from underground
groups in France indicate that in
the last two months the Nazi
army commanded by Field Mar
shall Gerd Won Rundstedt also has
been greatly depleted. At one
time, immediately after the Cas-
ablanca conference. the strength
Of the Nazi forces in France and
the LoWlands was estimated at
42 divisions.
Since that time there have
been continuous Withdrawals.
Troops have been sent to Ger
many and Italy in such numbers
that there are believed to be less
than q divisions In these areas.
Make Net of Fortifications.
Neither has there been no.
ticeable increase of the Lufvaffe.
The Germans are continuing to
construct new airdromes between
the Nazi borders and the Atlantic
coast.
The people OF the subjected
nations are compelled to work
under the orders of Nazi engi-
neers. A complete net OF modern
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But the Dorothy Thompson.
consequences may be quite other
than a snap Judgment would
lead one to think.
The trend to social revolution.
or evolution, existed before the
Soviet Union was founded: in
fact, the Soviet Union was only
a consequence of this tendency.
And in the quarter century which
has passed since the founding of
the Soviet Union nothing has
occurred to abate the drive in
all countries to fundamental So
cial changes.
The entire generation has been
marked by two colossal wars, and
a period between them notable
for its social and economic in
stability. Features of this shaki-
ness have been destruction of
currencies and. with their de-
struction, drastic shifts in classes
and especially a reduction of the
buffer class between upper and
neither levels-the middle class.
Victims of Varied Factors.
Where this middle class has not
suffered from drastic infations,
1t has been reduced by drastic
taxation, by the growth of mo-
nopoIles or cartels, reducing the
influence and power of smaller
independent business. and bv an
almost continual crisis in agricul-
tuEe in all countries.
The generation has seen a
Worldwide depression of the most
oOlorouS proportions, marked by
unemployment on an unprece-
dcnted scale and of unprece-
qented duration.
The generation has also seen
a breakdown Of traditional intel
lectual and spiritual values and
stands. Both the intellectual
and moral integration of west
ern civilization has undergone
a remarkable atomization.
And the most obvious reaction
to all this has been the growth
of the idea of socialism in every
country, in one form Or another,
to one degree or another.
Line of Least Resistance.
In all movements involving
masses Of people, the tendency
is along the line of least re-
sistance. Curiously enough, So
cialism is this line of least re-
sistance, in world dominated
by monopolies and cartels, some
of which have reached the size
and scope of vast international
empires. 1t seems easier to take
them over than to break them
up, and thus we see everywhere
a trend toward state ownership
or state control of them. The
slogan of Specialization is more
easily comprehensive to mass
than the vision Of how to create
a free society.
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valuable time and vast sums of
money had been wasted
The record will further show that
he yielded only when his alternative
contrivances were on the point of
collapse and Congress threatened
compelling legislation.
This curious performance cannot
be adequately explained except by
citing certain personal characteris-
tics on which it is unpleasant and
Improbable to dwell. But the facts
ought to be recorded and under
| stood.
There was, first, the refusal to
provide a single-headcd war pro-
duction board, and the l8 months
delay during which one reorganiza- :
ton followed another until the not
highly satisfactory Donald Nelson
| emerged as chairman.
There was the long refusal to con-
cede that control Of wages and farm
costs had anything to do with the
regulation Of prices until finally the
OPA accepted this obvious and basic
truth and then began to regulate
, from the wrong end.
Finally Creates War Cabinet.
There was the long, hard fight to
secure the appointment of industrial
committees and the fights still being
made to compel the formation of a
firm labor policy and a comprehen-
Sive tax policy. There was-and still
is-the effort to force a realistic ap-
proach in the battle against infla-
ton. which already has been meas
! urably lost because the facts are not
| fully faced. And, finally, there was
the fight for the creation of a war
cabinet along the lines Of the Wilson
war cabinet.
A terribly delayed and partial vic
tory in this has now been achieved
in the creation by presidential
order of the new War Mobilization
Board, headed by James F. Byrnes,
with Secretaries Stimson and Knox
Harry Hopkins, Mr.. Nelson and
Judge Fred M. Vinson as associates.
1t is possible to say of this board
that it should have been named a
year ago. 1t is possible to say that
a better board could have been Sc
lected. And it is possible to say
other things. But the main thing is
that the principle and the need
have been recognized and the board
created.
1t is big step toward the Wilson
setup, which was singularly success
full in the last war and for which
there has been unceasing demand
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Momentum Of Social Evolution Held Too
Greet to Be Checked by Comintern's Death

L, 1ol lily pdIU, dlH LOT Tree
society, and my teachers are JET
ferson, Veblen, Henry George
and Thoreau, rather than. Marx
and Engels, but this personal
opinion does not prejudice OBJ
servation of the situation in the
world.
In any case the social problem,
particularly the problems of
maintained employment, security
against exceptional hazards and
old age, together with the prob
lem of the prevention of war,
engage a generation which has
suffered unprecedented collapses
and is swiftly losing every
framework of reference.
Stain Cannot Check 1t.
Such a social, intellectual and
moral condition is revolutionary.
The demand for solutions"
presses against every dam.
Now, if this be true, it is child
ish to think that the dissolution
of the Comintern, or of any
other organization, will halt the
flow of revolutionary streams.
And 1t is childish to believe that
the ukase of a single man, named
Stain, will call off the latent or
open rebellions that brew in
many quarters, everywhere.
Even if old Marx were still
alive and should burn his own
books and enter a monastery, he
could not undo the mental de-
Velopments of three generations.
What the dissolution of the
Comintern actually does is to re-
move the leadership from a
Worldwide organization, and, at
the same time, to remove GER
tain curb on it. 1t isolates Rus
sia from the Communists and re-
turns them to their own countries.
1nasmuch as the international
Communist party has been, since
Stain, wholly concerned with the
protection of the Soviet Union,
1t has not been exploiting every
revolutionary possibility in each
country. 1t has given up oppo-
sltlon to governments or to pre-
Valllng economic systems, when
ever the Soviet Union demanded
lt-and the Soviet Union often
has demanded it. 1t told the
French Communist party to be
good boys after the signing of the
French-Russian treaty of alli-
ance was broken at Munich.
Lost Good Leaders.
Also. the Comintern, for Is
years, has kept the socialist and
labor movements split. In Ger
many, the Communist party in
the later years of the Weimar
republic, and with Hitler staring
them in the face, continued to
brand the moderate socialists as
Enemy Number One The dis
solution of the Comintern. in the
longer run. may result in coali-
tion Of socialist forces.
Also, the leadership OF the
Comlntern, far removed in Mos
COW and with strictly dictatorial
powers, often acted clumsilv and
foolishly, and the party constant
ly lost its superior leaders. Cut
loose and free, new and more
competent leaders may arise.
The dissolution of the Comm
tern shakes up and temporarily
disorients radical movements in
all countries. But at the same
time it removes the strongest OBJ
stacle to new start on the part
OF these radical movements. 1t
is therefore much too early to
predict an age of social peace-to
be handed us by the good will of
Stain.
tPelea sed bv The Roll cv,dico4o ,,,
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The Great Game of Politics
Byrnes, With Theoretically Sweeping Powers,
Must Have Presidential Backing or Fail

In thls-a demand reflected in Con-
gress by the recent introduction of
a decentralization bill, which, If
enacted, would have compelled the
President to name a similar board. !
His announcement will halt action
on the bill, though, its authors state,
hearings will be held and the meas
ure will not be withdrawn.
Notwithstanding all this, the Pres
ldent deserves credit for at last
taking the step on the verge of
which he has been so many times,
and the country generally will well
come 1t as a sensible move.
Perhaps it would have been more
reassuring if the two outstanding
men IN the country-B. M. Baruch
and Herbert Hoover-who were on
the old Wilson board, and whose
experience and capacity are gen.
orally conceded. were on this one.
AS the New York Times declares,
the setup is all right, but the situa-
ton calls for our first and not our
second team. This is clearly not the
country's first team There are
some weak sisters in the line. But
probably the personnel is about the
best that could be hoped for under
the circumstances, and it ought to
improve conditions, diminish clashes
and confusion.
Depends on Backing.
Apparently, the President has con-
ferred full power on Mr.. Byrnes.
He can direct "all agencies and de-
partmentS' as well as compel CO.
ordination. And all agencies and
departments are required to accept
his directives.
This sounds complete. 1t sounds
as if Mr.. Byrnes could do anything
he wants. But it is not quite as
good as it sounds, because it all
depends on how strongly the Presi-
dent stands behind him.
The same authority was given
Mr.. Byrnes as economic stabilizer.
yet he found himself forced against
his judgment to yield to the labor
pressure eXerted through the White
House and restore to the War Labor
Board its power to adjust wages.
With the authority he now has,
Mr.. Byrnes ought to accomplish a
good deal He is able, astute and
rleht-minded. But the first time
any head Of an agency or depart
ment Is able to go over his head
to the President and thus secure
a modification or release from any
Of Mr.. Byrnes' "directives." then
Mr.. Byrnes is ruined. And his
board is just one more agency.
There is reason to believe that Mr.,
Byrnes is aware of this funda-
mental fart
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Zone Wordens Required
To Attend Course

All zone wardens of the Air-Raid
Warden Service will be given a re-
fresher course in duties and respon-
sibilities at pm. tomorrow at the
Garnett Patterson Junior High
School auditorium.
Sergt. John Ryan, OF the Metro
politan Police Department will con-
duct the course. All wardens and
fire watchers must attend the meet
ing, it was announced, and no one
will be excused unless he is working
or i'll
Evening star., 1943-05-31
This Changing World
Movement Of German Troops to East Indicates
Nuzis Discount Allied Invasion From North

Notifications is being constructed
to complement those which have
been erected since the fall of 1910.
But for the time being there
are insufficient troops in that
area to man them. Of course,
should there be a real invasion
threat, the Nazis probably will be
able to amass, in a very short
time, the necessary aviation.
From all available reports, the
movement of the Nazi forces
eastward is continuing. Travellers
who have returned from the
Reich confirm this fact.
The Allies intelligence services
today are better informed about
what is going on in the Reich
than in Russia. This IS only ma
tural since Germany has many
neutral neighhors and, in spite
of the strict control of news and
passenger traffic between the
Reich and the outside world, it
is impossible for the Gestapo to
stop all leakageS. Russia is COM
pletely isolated and the front
lines are far from any except
enemy territory,
Nazis Likely Know Move.
Il is probable that the Nazi
high command on the eastern
front knows more than Russias
Allies and associates do. This
situation was somewhat irksome
at one time when the American
and British general staffs were
anxious to learn the exact
strength of the Red armies so
they could make their plans ac-
cordingly.
Now, the whole matter is less
important since a renewal Of
large-scale operations is expected
on the eastern front almost any
day. The support being given to
the Russian armies is guided by
requests made from Moscow.
The reports of the shifting Of
the Nazi forces to the east are
interpreted to mean that the
Nazis intend to hit the Soviet
forces with every ounce of
strength they possess. They also
indicate there are no longer
sufficient frst-line troops in the
Reich to permit the high COM
mand to keep a strong covering
force in the west and begin a
powerful offensive in the east.
Leave South Italy to Italians.
The prospective Allied offensive
in the Mediterranean seems to
cause little concern to the Ger
mans. 1t appears that the bulk
of the Nazi forces in Southern
Italy are being withdrawn to the
north and heavy fortifcation
work is progressing along the Po
River.
According to indications, the
Berlin high command wishes to
leave the burden of defending
Southern Italy to the Italians in
the belief that they would fight
better in the defense Of their
homeland than they have fought
heretofore AS a concession to
Mussolini all Italian troops who
had been sent to Russia last year
have returned and Mussolini no
longer will be compelled to aid
Hitler with Italian divisions.
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practically no
job to do. Idle
hands not only
make for mis-
chief but they
have raised mis-
chief with these
poor soldiers I'm
talking about.
They are the
o-pilots of the
Flying For
treSSeS on the
raids over Ger
many and Oc-
cupied Europe.
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A. J. Groesbeck Ill;
Ex-Michigun Governor
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 31.-Alex J.
Groesbeck, three time Republican
Governor OF Michigan from 1921
to 1920, was disclosed today to be
gravely Ill of pronounced pneu-
monia. He was patient in Provi-
dence Hospital, where he was taken
after collapsing as he was leaving
his law office.
A decline in temperature had
made his condition somewhat i'm
proved today, hospital attendants
said,
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worried than
they actually
are concern
ing an Allied
summer Of
fensive. VAR
ious stories to
the contrary
are regarded
n e re a S a
p + o p aganda
smoke screen.
M o V ennent
of Ge m a n
troops fro m
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of a President
who, disregard
ing advice and
urging, refused
to adopt the
tested devices
with which the
first World War
was successfully
conducted until,
one after the
other. he was
forced to en-
brace them. BY
t h en-, m a n y
months of In
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toSASdi Wi
nination Of
a n evolving
policy and Of
the historical
events.
The Comm
t e IN h a d
ceased to be a
useful instru-
m e n t or
Russian pow
er, and there
fore was dis
solved.
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director of war
m o b i i z a t ioll
some one with
out b u S / n e S S
training or pro-
d u c t 10 n back
grounds?
This question
will be a s ke d
more frequently
outside of than
inside of WASH
| n e t on. T h e
. o p ul ar view
that it takes a
lnllSi11ncSn,an "a
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HE opinions OF the Ders this page oun not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions
Stars effort to giUe all sides of questions OF its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1943-05-31
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

In the preceding two columns
I have attempted to trace the
history of the Comintern and
show that Stains action is the
Evening star., 1943-05-31
Africans Like War Films

War pictures and authentic por-
trayals of life in other countries are
now very popular ir Angola, Africa.
and movie fans there are asking
that more be shown.
Evening star., 1943-05-31
By FRANK r. KENT.

When students of the future re-
view the Washington war effort a
battling record will be revealed.
It will show the strange picture
Evening star., 1943-05-31

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
Usually well-informed circles
in the United States and Britain
believe the Germans, for reasons
of their own, want to appear more
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20 Report 10 Navy, 4
To Marine Corps Today

TWenty-four District men who
were inducted into the naval forces
on May 25 will report for active
duty in the Navy and Marine Corps
tomorrow. Twenty men will go to
the Navy, while the rest will report
to the Marine Corps.
The list of those reporting in
cludeS:
Navy.
Holden. Charles F. Iofin, Glen 2.
Knott. joseph NJ. McAlWec. r B
CheW, RobFrt f. Mahonev. Stanley L,
DAVIS Paul P. Garrison, Carl J
Salnato. Bruno Hockman. Orvile c.
Anderson. Ernest z MCGunn. w F
PfreundSChuh, F j. Newbrouch D S
Hilton, James V. Dove. Clinton F
Berb2 KOS, y. P Brown. Richard A.
HOWderSheIl, r. L. Strippen, Albert
Marine CorpS.
GallaGher, John A. Denton. Cha ries V.
HaGgertv. John J, Woolard Robert N.
Evening star., 1943-05-31
Byrnes Has
Abilities
For Post
Knows Science of
Government, Prime
Necessity in Job
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

With all the men of capacity and
experience to choose from in this
Nation Of 13o,O00,oOO persons, why
did President Roosevelt select as
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McLemore-
Pity the Poor
Fortress Co-PiIot
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

ny IIL.NIN 4INLL4VIONLs
A BOMBER BASE SOMEWHERE
IN ENGLAND-Just about the
tougest job in this theater of war
is being done by men who have
Evening star., 1943-12-09
- - esz:WITH ID. c.
FIGHTING MEM :

WILLIAMS FIELD, Ariz-Avia-
ton Cadet George c. Hossick. son
of Mrs. Lillian Hossick, 2807 Sixth
street NE, has been commissioned
a second lieutenant in the air
forces on graduation from this
field.
CAMP LEE, Va.-Corpl. Myles M.
Nuremberg of 5420 Third street NV.
has been promoted to sergeant here,
where he is clerk. Before entering
the service in December, 1912, he
was employed by the National La
Dor Relations Board. He is a grad
uate of Boston and George WASH
lngton Universities.
LOWRY FIELD, Colo.-Pvt. Fred
erick Leroy Bates, 18. of 4618 Eli
colt street NV. recently was grad
uated from the Armament School
here.
GREAT LAKES, Ill - Franklin
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H. Sonnabend, 20, of 5729 Sherrier
place NV. won recognition as
qualified striker" for the rate of
quartermaster. third class, at recent
graduation exercises of the Service
School here at the Naval Training
Station.
NEW YORK, N. Y.-Aviation Ca
diets William j. Malloy, 20, son of
Mrs. Helen L. Malloy, 1904 S street
Sc, and Donald NJ Swingle, 81, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis M. SWingle,
923 Farragut street NV, are at
tending the college of engineering
at New York University, where they
are studying meteorolcgy. Cadet
Malloy was attending Catholic Uni
versity when he entered the service
in March.
Cadet Swingle, whose wife lives.at
1920 Wheeler road Sc, studied at
Wilson Teachers College before en-
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Glen Hospital by the air raid war
dens Of the Randle Highlands area
at Kramer Junior High School, @
street, between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets Sc, at 7:45 pm.
tomorrow, 1t was announced today
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713 Bourday avenue, Silver Spring,
Md, has been graduated from the
flexible gunnery school here at Tyn-
dali Field and promoted to sergeant.
STUTTGART FIELD, Ark.-John
Fulton Ligon, jr., formerly asso-
ciated with John Ligon, Inc, 342l
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Connecticut ave-
nue., has been
commissioned a
second lieuten-
ant in the air
forces on grad
uation from this
field. He enter
ed the service in
February. 1t .
Lyon, who at
tended George
Washington and
B e n j a m / n
Franklin Uni
versities, W a S
granted 10 days
leave upon grad
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tering the Army in January. His
father is in the Naval Reserve at
Corpus Christi. Tex, and his brother
Kenneth is Merchant Marine cadet
at Kings Point, Long Island, N. Y.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex-When
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0cCOllu LII. e. w .
S. Hull, Marine
Corps, was grad
uated recently
from this Naval
Air Trai n / n &
Center, it was
his father, 1t.
E. S. Hull, Navy,
formerly associ-
ated with K. S.
w a ! e S g. Co.
in Washington,
who pinned on
his gold wings.
L A r E D o
r r ED Tex
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Davis, 2517 Park place Sc, recently
completed a course at the Army Air
Forces Flexible Gunnery School
here, and received his aerial gum
ner's wings.
PANAMA CITY, Fla.-Robert A.
Mygatt, son of Mrs. Martha Mygatt,
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by Deputy Warden Arthur F. An
holt.
With chief air raid warden Will
liam H. Mileham as mastf
monies. the show will include Slim
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Raid Wordens Plan Show
For Wounded Soldiers

A variety show will be presented
for wounded soldiers from Forest
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the Boys Club Band, a minstrel
show by the Holy Name Society of
st. Francis Church, Bob Hendricks,
The singing warden, and air raid
messenger, Kid Mccarthy, who
will play the electric xylophone.
Evening star., 1943-12-09

F ST. NV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-21
Chinese Bishop
ToBeGuestHere

Bishop Paul Yu-pin, Roman
Catholic vicar apostolic Of Nan
King. China. win be honor guest
al a luncheon in the. Detroit
Leland Hotel next Wednesday.
The bishop. master Of more
than half a dozen languages. is
Chairman of the Manchurian relief
committee. head OF the Catholic
medical service in China. director
of Catholic relief IN Free China
and Catholic co-chairTnan Of the
China Interrclieious Association
seeking cooperation among Cath
olics. ProtestantS MOslemS and
BuddhistS IN China
Among those taking part in The
luncheon program VIII be Federal
Judge Ernest a. O Bric1 Catholic
co-charman al the Detroit Round
Table Of Catholics Jews and Prot
eStants: Rabbi Leon Fran Of
Temple Israel pr T T. Brum
haugh. DctroIt Council OF
Churches. and Andrew W Colt
schal. National Conference OF
Christians and Jews
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-21
Detroit Made Trucks
Playing Big Role

That's where the trucks with
the cranes come in. Two Of them
came UP to take the Fort away,
and Jim stood there actually
with tears in his eyes. The trucks
backed up. swung their giant
HOSTS around, and picked up the
proud, wounded lady and sci her
down gently on the trailer TO be
moved back TO the repair base
Then The giant Federal crane
trucks moved off They had been
made Just a stones throw from
where Jim was born, on Detroits
west side Somehow he felt kind
of proud Of that and he Couldn' {
keep back a smile.
Tonight Jim is in that same
Fort over Sicily
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-21
Jim Was in Drive
Across North Africa

Know what those cranes are
for, Johnny? Well. do you re-
member Jim II never did know his
last name). the kid over near LIv-
ernolS who used TO make faces at
your sister until you chased him
down the tracks one day and he
stumbled in the cInderS and got
his hands all scratched up so they
were bleeding?
Well this Jim is on the other
side of the Atlantic now IN a
FLYING Fort. He was in Mont
cunery's drive across the North
African desert You remember
that FLYING Fort-the boys got into
the air AZ Tohruk.,cven while the