The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-08-27
Rv JACK STINNETT

By JAGk 0IlNNE4I
 WASHINGTON-O of the Hol-I sywood movie producers has grab bed off the title Appointment In Berlin" The picture may smell toI high heaven, or 1t may be another of those perennial Hollywood mas terpieces" which is here this week, gone to the neighborhoods tomor-. TOW. l wouldn't know.
 But l do know that the company s press department was on it's pro motional toes. They went out and got all the wartime commentators who would answer their query to guess when the Allied Nations would hold their appointments in. Berlin.
 John Dos Passes called the date, August 1944; Upton Sinclair picked Washington's Birthday next; Wall ter Duranty says "the end of the. year.; Clark Lee and Lowell Thom-I as say before October 31, 1944"; Je1se Stuart thinks the Allied Ma, tions armies will spend Christmas 1944, in Berlin; Corey Ford agrees with Jesse Stuart.
 Hendrix Willem van Loon is the most insistent optimist. He'll take "even money that the Nazis will be pleading for peace come late autumn. Fannie Hurst is probably next in line with her forecast that we'll ring out the old and ring in the new there when this year is torn off the calendar
 Officials Not Guessing
 The list is more extensive than that, but the sampling gives you fair idea.
 Noticeably absent from the list are any names that could possibly be identified with Washington, or the armed forces. For any one whose horizon is bounded by the view from the top of the Washing ton monument, that's easy to under stand A few incautious souls here have made predictions about when the war will end and immediately have been slapped down by political and military commentators.
 A good example avoiding the mention of any names-is that pre- diction of the Navy recently that they were preparing for a war to last until 1949.
 No sooner had they said it than the Washington pundits excused their leng-sightedness on the grounds that they were merely lay ing the foundation for greater de- mands on the U. s. treasury. When, few days later, the President shifted a few billions from the Ar my appropriations to the Navy, the pundits said: 'Yah-yah, I told you so."
 It's considered a certainty here that any capital predictions about | when the war will end will be col ored by wishful thinking-and sell fish thinking at that.
 The truth of the matter is that the Nazls are now getting their backs turned to the wall, but mo- body in the government or out really knows just how long they can hold out that way; that Allied Nations successes are so far ahead Of the most optimistic timetables that we are now prepared to take full advantage of them; and that the conclusive battles of this war must be pincers movement be- tween the Russian offensive on the eastern front and a decisive con- victory on the southern and still unopened western fronts.
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 G. o. P.s'
 It could well be that the future of the Republican party, so far as l944 is concerned, will be determin- ed at Mackinac Island in the first week in September.
 There on September 6 and the Republican Postwar Advisory Coun- cil of 49 will meet to lay down the C. o. P. principles for postwar fore Ign policy and all matters which will effect the home front, come peace.
 On that nub of vacation land which juts out between Lakes Hur- on and Michigan, 22 Republican governors, five Senators, IS Con gressmen and a handful of party leaders probably will write the Re- publican platform for 1914. The meeting is sponsored by the Repub- lican National committee and will be attended by virtually all poten- tial G. o. P. candidates.
 The Mackinac Island delegates al- ready are roaring mad. President Roosevelt stole their thunder in his firncida oha@