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Evening star., 1943-02-27
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.


Representative Mas of Mime
sofa does not think we have a great
stake in the war in Europe. He
has said so. He has opposed a
second front. But now he wants
Britain to give us island bases SO
our air forces can maintain free
dom in the world. He does not
want to win the world. He Just
wants to police it.
So do others. Isolationist editors,
who have never said a kind word
for a second front, almost wept
with joy when Mrs. Clare Booth
Luce proposed American domina-
ton OF the airways of the world
They sang, in close harmony, that
she was cooking with gas. They,
too, do not want to win the world.
They just want to have it.
What, on the record, right have
we to talk about policing anything
except Guadalcanal and New
Guinea and parts Of Africa? Why
should the world let us police the
world, or air-dominate the world,
or anything-else the world, unless
and until we free the world?
Smugness on Home Front,
Put me down as one American
who says he detects signs of SNUG
ness on the home front. When we
talk about who gets the airways
and who gets the islands we must
sound like mad things to Stains
men and Chiang's men and Mofft-
gomery's men. I will strike a blow
for international unity by testify
ing I don't believe the world owes
us the world because We have curly
hair.
I simply do not think it is proper
for us to stand on the perimiter of
the big war and tell the world what
we intend to do with it and to it
and for it when it quiets down a
little.
While we are thus escaping to the
future on roller skates, another
major second front debate has
broken out in England.
eve ought to watch these English
debates. They tell us, accurately,
what we will be talking about next
year. England's public discussions
Evening star., 1943-02-27
Antidircraft Guns Become
onk Destroyers in 7winkIinq
Powerful 90s ond 40s Held in Readiness
To Wreck Enemy in Air or on Lund

an open spot in the live oaks, know
ing the target is going to movA across
that spot. But you learn that al
though the COS and the 4Os can shoot
a projectile a long way up into the
sky to blast high-fying, speedy
planes, they are also deadly medicine
against mechanical units. Their
muzzles can be depressed for hori-
zontal fire.
Men Like 37-MM.
At other Army camps where tank
destroyer units are trained the men
swear by the 37-millimeter, one of the
main light weapons for use against
tanks. It is a nasty, clean lined
little gun, weighing around 1000
pounds, and splitting a lot of metal.
But don't get into an argument with
the anti-aircraft men about the rela-
tive merits of the 81 and the 40 nm.
AS you would expect, they hold that
the 40 is far better weapon. Its
an all-purpose gun, too," they say.
TRY to get that 81 into action fast
against air attack. And what do you
do if you have to change a barrel?
Ours can be changed in less than
half minute" Perhaps they think
differently at Camp Hood, the tank
destroyer school, but for the present
the boys at Camp Davis will take the
40-mm. Bofors, the fast-shooting
fellow with the flared gun muzzle,
splitting shell at the rate of about
120 minute.
Concealed under elaborate cam
outage, the slender noses of the COS
and the f1ared muzzles OF the 40s
point questioningly toward an area
of broken country, like hounds nosing
the wind. Crews are on the alert
under the sheltering nets. Spoilers
peer into direction finders.
Target Appears.
Suddenly, half shrouded in brush,
appears tank, or reasonable fac
simile. Target at 80 degrees right"
says spotter. Report when on tar
get" says the lieutenant. The tank
slowly nudges across the landscape,
hundreds of yards away, weaving,
questing like a bird dog, never still.
The gun muzzles follow its course.
Blam, blam. 60 the guns. The half
wrecked automobile, or towed canvas
target totters, or flies into pieces
under the impact of many pounds
of armor-piercing shell. The target
had appeared only momentarily, but
it didn't live long. That's the way
it will happen.
The 90s, with their new charges
and armor- piercing shells, their COM
plete mobility, high rate of fire and
high speed Of tracking the target, are
sudden death to tanks and other
motorized vehicles. The 40s are only
relatively less so in relation to the
smaller projectile. Both will do
plenty of damage.
What happens If an enemy bomb
er flight comes within range of the
combination of American antiair-
craft guns and the boys the gun
ners, half in banter, call "the flash
light cavalry? You'll see some of
the flashlight cavalry at strategic
spots around Washington. Occa.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
The Political Mill
Administration Fire Is Centered on Hoover
As Partisan Strife Rises Over Army Size

House Minority Leader Joe"
Martin took Mr.. Mccormack to
task for his criticism of Mr..
Hoover Immediately and, on
Thursday of this week, Repre-
sentative Otter of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, delivered
prepared speech in reply to the
Democratic leader. Mr.. Otter
took particular exception to the
suggestion of Mr.. Mccormack
that Mr.. Hoover's recommended
tions would lead to an "appease-
ment" peace. ''Mr. Hoover did
not speak in terms of appease-
ment. Mr.. Hoover spoke in terms
of victory" Mr.. Otter asserted.
1t is noticeable that Democratic
members of Congress, among
them Senators Bankhead of Ala
bama and Thomas of Oklahoma,
strongly have suggested that the
increase proposed in the armed
forces be given the once over,
so that the army Of agricultural
workers be not depleted Yet
these gentlemen have not been
singled out for attack by admin
istration leaders.
It looks as though an effort
were being made to raise against
the COP the issue of "appease-
ment" for 1914 political purposes.
The Republican Party is not a
party of "appeasement." There
is plenty to be said both for and
against an increase in the armed
forces to 100000 men without
seeking to make partisan politi-
cal ammunition out OF 1t.
This country has set out to
three things-hght the war. be
an arsenal for the United Ma
tions, and feed our Allies and
peoples in the subjugated coun-
tries as we'll as ourselves. All
three are vitality important to VIC
tory and closely inter- related.
Military experts have declared
for an Army over 100000 strong,
and a Navy over 100000. They
give convincing reasons. There is,
according to reliable reports,
coming food shortage due to lack
OF farm labor and farm ma
chinery. And the struggle to
keep the war plants geared to
high production is already under
way.
Certainly, it would be a mistake
to deny the necessary money for
the proposed increases in the
Army and Navy-a way Of keep
ing the personnel down-until
every avenue has been explored
to find the necessary farm and
industrial labor.
The President has asked for a
48-hour work week-and it seems
the least the country can do In
the present emergency. Organized
labor, however, is either not fully
awake to the serious situation
which confronts the American
people as whole or is willfully
taking advantage Of the war
situation to feather its nest.
Demands for continued wage in
ereases - with wages at the
highest level in history-and
threats of general strikes" in
war industries are discouraging
signs.
It looks as though sooner or
later, and probably sooner, the
Congress will be faced with the
necessity of passing a national
service law-which will mean the
conscription Of labor for war
plants as well as for military
service.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

ny SONS AMIN bhOWN.
According to reliable reports re-
ceived from continental Europe,
Adolf Hitler is unlikely to make
public appearance in Germany
unless the battle of Tunisia ends
In his favor-or, failing that,
some other important military
operations are undertaken in the
Balkans to overshadou the news
Of the North African defeat.
A strong underground move
ment has been started in the
Reich-despite the increased ac-
tivities Of the gestapo-which
intends to hold the beloved
Fuehrer" personally responsible
for the disasters at Stalingrad
and in Tunisia.
In view of the fact that Tunisia
has not yet been lost, it is as
sumed in ell-informed WASH
ington and London quarters that
some informed men in the Reich
consider the North African cam
paign as likely to be lost in spite
Of the ability Of Marshal Erwin
Rommel and the reinforcements
sent him in the last three months.
This underground anti-Hitler
movement Is said to be led by a
number of officers who are dis
gusted with the Fuehrer's per-
sonal leadership of the army and
his over-ruling of the plans and
suggestions of the older trained
officers who had devised the plans
for the campaign in Poland and
Western Europe.
Leaders Names Known.
The names of some of these
leaders are known to the United
Nations and comprise a number
of men who have made spectac-
ular headlines in the past.
The rank and file Of the move
ment is said to be composed OF
men who have returned from the
Russian battlefield, members Of
their families and few die
hard opponents Of the regime
who for the sake of convenience
had become supporters Of Nazi-
ism.
How large or how effective this
growing organization Is cannot
be definitely ascertained, but
there is no question that it is
growing in proportion with the
defeats suffered by the German
forces.
It is pointed out in competent
quarters that the anti Hitler
group, which apparently has
gained sufficient power to make
the Fuehrer fear to appear in
public and prefers to remain
somewhere at the 'front.'" we'll
guarded by selected SIS troopers,
is not necessarily favoring peace
at any price.
The group is determined to
fight it out with the Allies to the
bitter end. But 1t is convinced
that while the Nazi military ma
chine had a splendid chance to
win the war Hitler's blunders and
"premonition strategy" have re-
duced the opportunities Of the
German armies.
Look to Goering.
The leaders of this group, pro-.
fessional military men who are
said to look to Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering as the ideal
substitute for Hitler, still believe
that the Reich cannot be de-
feated If opportunities are not
Evening star., 1943-02-27

CONCERT.
Soldiers Home Band Symphony
Orchestra, Stanley Hall, $50 O'Clock
this afternoon.
DANCES.
Signal Corps. Wardman Park Ho-
tel, 10 o'clock tonight.
Texas State Society, Mayflower
Hotel, 9 o'clock tonight.
Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and @ streets NV, 9 o'clock
tonight.
Capital Hiking Club, Asby Gap
(Va) and Trico Fire Tower, meet at
Greyhound Bus Terminal, Twelfth
and New York avenue NV, 8 am
tomorrow.
MEETINGS.
Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity
Wardman Park Hotel, Z o'clock to-
night
Philosophical Society of Washing
ton, Cosmos Club, 8:15 O'Clock to-
night.
RECREATION.
Home Away From Home" library
games, music, radio-phonograph
Walsh Club for War Workers, 152;
Twenty-second street NV, begin
ming at 5 o'clock this afternoon
Free dance for Government night
workers from 10 o'clock tonight un-
til am. tomorrow
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The
ater, Madison place and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. Tonight: g.
O'Clock, Madrillon Orchestra; $3.50
O'Clock. Kurt Hetzel; 9:30-10 o'clock
KaploWitz Accordionettes; 10-10:4s
o'clock, Phil Hayden dancers.
Officers Club of the United Ma.
tions, Burlington Hotel, 1920 Yer.
mont avenue NV, 10 am. unit
1870 pm. today.
officers dance. refreshments, host
esses, Mount Pleasant Congrega
tional Church, 1410 Columbia roat
NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Masonic Service Center, Thir
! bCSIllll oOi CCG anu ISCW dFSllut
NV, dancing, $50 O'Clock tonight
Dancing, Arlington Recreation
Center, Tenth and North Irvin
streets (Va), 8 o'clock tonight.
Games, refreshments, hostesses
Salvation Army USO Club, COG
street NV, 9 am. until midnigh
today.
Dancing class, refreshments. host
esses, NCCS, Mems Club (USO), 81
Tenth street NV, beginning at
o'clock this afternoon.
Dinner, indoor recreation, or
gan music, Reformation Luthera
Church, 212 East Capitol street, 5:3
O'Clock this afternoon.
supper Thomas Circl
Club, 1926 Massachusetts, avenu
NV. $50 o'clock tonight.
Dinner, dancing, Fellowshi
House of Covenant-First Presbyter.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

oy uoOLD
Partisan political strife over
the size of the Army and the
Navy can be as harmful to the
war effort as to the general
morale of the people. Yet it is
in the making.
Administration leaders and sup
porters are centering their fire
on former President Herbert
Hoover, He appeared before the
Manpower Subcommittee OF the
Senate Appropriations Com
mittee three weeks ago and
warned that by bringing into
the armed forces a total of H.
100000 men in 1943 and 1914 the
vital function of food production
and of munition production
might be thrown out of gear.
Time, he said, was working on
the side of the United Nations.
A week later House Majority
Leader Mccormack assailed the
statement OF Mr.. Hoover. With
out characterizing Mr.. Hoover as
an "appeaser," Mr.. Mccormack
said that if Mr.. Hoover's advice
were followed the result might be
negotiated peace without
complete victory.
If that Is what former Presi-
dent Hoover stands for" Mr..
Mccormack said on the House
floor, why does he not say So
frankly state to the American
people that he stands for
negotiated peace instead of using
deceptive words to hide his true
thoughts"
And later in his speech he
asked If Mr.. Hoover were now in
the White House, would he adopt
the policy of using time as an
ally.
IF you did," Mr.. Mccormack
continued, you would probably
go down in history as President
who meant to do the right thing,
but who was unable to grasp and
meet the problems of our country
IN war, just the same as YOU
failed to grasp, understand and
meet the problems Of the eco
nomic war Of 1929 to 1888"
Mr.. Hoover in his statement of
February 8, gave his views i'm
personally. He made no attack
on any member of the admins
tration. However, Mr.. McCor-
mack and other Democrats have
slashed at Mr.. Hoover personally.
He is the last Republican Presi-
dent to hold Office and still a
highly respected figure in the
COP.
One of the most recent attacks
upon Mr.. Hoover came from SEN
ator Greene, Democrat, of Rhode
Island, member of the subcom-
m:ttee which heard Mr.. Hoover,
Senator Greene was defending in
a radio address the proposal to
increase the armed forces to H.
100000 men. Mr.. Hoover, he said,
had given advice similar to that
during his recent appearance be-
fore the Senate Committee Sin a
memorandum to Col. House in
1917 (Mr. Hoover was Food Ad-
ministrator during the last war;.
Senator Greene said that ''Mr.
Hoover apparently has learned
very little about warfare in the
intervening period of q quarter
of a century" He added that il
Mr.. Hoover's advice had been fol-
lowed then, the Allies would have
been defeated in 1918, and If it
was followed now the United Ma
tions will suffer defeat"
Evening star., 1943-02-27
Plane Recognition
| Drilled in Crews of
| Antiuircroft Guns

No item taught in antiair-
craft is more important than
aircraft recognition. Posters
showing pictures taken from all
angles show the worlds air.
planes with recognition symbols.
From ceilings hang plastic
models. Officers and men
familiarize themselves with all
planes likely to be seen In
friendly or combat areas.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
This Changing World
Hitler Reported as Unlikely to Appear Again
Unless Bottle Of Tunisio Ends in His Favor

thrown away by personal hit
and-miss strategy.
This group, which Is thriving
while the Nazt forces are being
pushed back, accuses Hitler Of
having failed to support Rommel
when he had an opportunity to
strike at the British in Egypt.
They also criticize the Fuehrer
for having concentrated on Rus
sia when his advisers were advis-
ing that only a defensive front
should be established after the
Germans failed to break the
Soviet armies in 194l. Their
propaganda among the soldiers
at the front and the people back
home is that Hitler thought his
speeches could defeat the Rus
slams and that he shelved all
those experienced military men
who led the German armies to
victory because they saw the
writing on the wall and spoke
plainly.
The fact that the German
armies are moving westward and
hope to maintain themselves on
the Dnieper line is being used
as a powerful talking point with
the forces on the eastern front
because this had been the plans
OF men like Fieldmarshals Won
Brauchitsch and Keitel a year
ago.
The arguments of this military
anti-Hitler group are being lis
tened to by the Nazis soldiers who
have never put much heart into
their fight in Russia. The rank
and file of the German Army has
never been sold" by the propa-
ganda machine for an all-out
campaign in Russia.
Soldiers Bitter.
The German soldiers and off,
GERS knew they could not hope
to conquer and keep Russia. The
country, furthermore, offered
none Of the pleasant surround
ings the soldiers found when they
occupied countries in Western
Europe. There never was any
security behind the front.
The guerrillas always were
lurking somewhere ready to stab
soldiers In the back or cut their
throats when they were resting.
There was no pleasant conab-
Grafton from the fifth columnists
and Nazi-sympathizers as was
the case in France and the other
regions in Western Europe.
Neither was the climate to the,
taste of the Nazi armies; it was
bitterly cold in the winter and
scorchingly hot in the summer.
Nobody from divisional COM
mander to buck private could see
the end of the campaign in the
vastness of the Russian steppes.
Hence, the Russian campaign
after the fall of 1941 never has
been popular with the officers
and men Of the German forces.
The recent defeats have made
it look like a catastrophe. And
Hitler, who in the past took for
himself all the glory for the Nazi
victories, is now being blamed ex-
clusively for the misfortunes Of
the Wehrmacht. .t Ier
Accoring to available reports,
unless he can give his men a VIC
tory somewhere in the near fu-
ture, it may be that the Fueher
will share the fate Of all unsuc-
cesSful dictators.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
(Sirth In Series.)
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.

BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.
Does England really desire a set
tlement of the Indian crisis or is
she playing the factions against each
other in the hope of postponing the
granting of independence and
thereby retaining her hold on this
vast subcontinent?
Inevitably we come up against
this question even though we ac-
cept the widely held belief that the
British-1ndia controversy could be
settled II the government would take
the initiative. It's a matter of con-
slant comment among both Indians
and neutral observers. AS a matter
of fact, one generally hears it in the
form of fiat accusation rather than
query.
Well, what's the answer? India
maintains that Prime Minister
Churchill himself gave the reply in
speech at the London Lord
Mayors banquet last November
when he declared:
Il have not become the Kings
first Minister in order to preside
over liquidation of the British En-
pire"
That was natural" from the
Indian standpoint, and it has be-
come one of the most quoted state
ments in current history. But when
you make it apply specifically to
India, you are trying to read Mr..
Churchill's mind, for he didn't men
ton India at all. It's circumstantial
evidence.
Present Policy Important.
Now, of course, you can hang a
man on circumstantial evidence, and
the Indians produce lot of it to
substantiate their claim that Eng
land has been pursuing a policy OF
divide and rule" AS matter of
fact, I've had a Government official
tell me that this was the policy fol-
lowed.
Still, my investigations in India
convinced me that we shall come
closer to the truth by further eX-
animation. Here it's important to
note that we are not concerned with
whether the government pursued a
divide and rule" policy in years
past, but what its present policy
is. I've examined a lot of informed
witnesses in the government camp
and the position was this when I
left India just before Mohandas K.
Gandhi began his hunger strike:
The government of India had no
intention whatever of reopening the
question of Indian independence
during the war. You can put an ex-
clamation point after that. The
grounds given for this stand in
cluded these:
l. The various Indian political
factions were so embroiled among
themselves that there was no re-
sponsible body to which power could
be entrusted.
2. The country was being plagued
by destruction of property and
bloodshed, which the government
attributed to the influence of Ind n
leaders, then in prison.
3. Some Indian leaders had been
demanding immediate control of
agencies vital to the direction of the
war, despite their total inexperience
in such things.
4. 1t would be dangerous to the
Allied war effort to attempt to
transfer power under such circum-
stances.
Indians Sorry at Cripps Failure.
The government was wholly unim-
pressed by an apparent change of
heart on the part of the Indian
leaders. The Indians had come to
regret deeply the collapse of the
Cripps negotiations over dominion
status last summer. 1t was clear to
me that they were sorry for them
selves and were prepared to make
concessions if the case could be re-
Evening star., 1943-02-27

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Evening star., 1943-02-27

USOD, 901 Rhode Island avenue
NV, 8 o'clock tonight
Dancing, games. refreshments.
Lichtman Leisure Lodge, 1889 U
street NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
sWar workers welcome.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
India Produces Suour

Several million tons Of gur low
grade unreflned sugar, was produced
in India last year.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
BroziI Nut Crop Is Bio

Brazil nuts gathered in the AM
azon Valley of Brazil last year
weighed over So, soc, 900 pounds.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1943-06-12
DEFEAT THE FILIBUsTER

Passage by the House of the Antpoll tax bill is moth
ing to be jubiant about. That expected Some sup
porters of the legislation inclined see encourage
ment in the fact that the vote two to favor
the BILL They appear have forgotten that the House
last passed the antpol tax bill by vote of exactly
three to 1t is to be noted that the both sides
was larger this than last year. and that although the
affirmative vote is increased the increase in the negative
vote is much larger IT, believe the vote this
year shows greater popular understanding of the vc
effect of the poll tax also shows that the opposition
has been aroused Perhaps there some basis
qualification in the fact that chairman of the Steering
Committee Representative George H. Bender of Ohio
points out "the Republicans stood almost to for the
passage Of the measure. Many of them did not stand
up and be counted for it last year.
The real battle will be in the Senate where both anti
poll tax and anti-ynchng legislation has been defeated
by fbusters Senator Bibo already has announced his
determination to talk the bill to DEATH No doubt he will
be aided by senators from all of the potax states
The only way to conquer the buster to pledge every
Northern and Western senator to vote for cloure-the
shutting Off of debatea procedure we'll established in
American parliamentary practice and generally recog-
nlzed as conforming to democratic principles
Write or telegraph senator's and get their pledge
to support the antpo tax bill by voting for cloure and
by voting for the anti-poll tax bill.
Don be fooled! The anti-poll tax bill is not for the
exclusive benefit of coored people in the South Such
talk is part of the clever opposition to the measure AS
matter of fact for every two colored citizens disfran-
chsed by the tax three white citizens are also thereby
DISTINGUISHED The cearinen of the antipol tax legis
aton to extend democracy millions of voeess citi
zens in Southern States