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Evening star., 1944-12-17
The Strategy of Relief

The dovetalllng of military, politi-
cal and economic factors in the
European war picture is emphasized
by the arrival in America of British
mission headed by Richard Law,
minister of state in the Churchill
cabinet. The purpose of this mission
Is clearly indicated by the fact that
1t Is made up almost exclusively of
top-hight shipping and supply ex-
perts. But, unlike previous confer
ences on such matters, the problems
involved do not primarily concern
the maintenance of Allied armies in
Europe. The discussions will hinge
on new phase of logistics which is
coming acutely to the fore. This is
how the civilian populations of Euro
pean lands liberated from German
domination can be carried through
this crucial winter without gravely
handicapping the needs of Allied
armies engaged in supreme struggle
on the Western and Italian Fronts.
The prime reason why Europe's
civilian supply problem threatens to
claim priority in consideration is
the success of German defensive
strategy. 1t is generally acknowl-
edged by official spokesmen both
here and in Britain that the Allied
high command thought a successful
invasion of Western Europe would
bring about the end of organized
German resistance by the end of the
current year. The invasion itself was
a grand success But there were
several unlooked-for complications.
First, the Germans upset our mill
tary supply schedule by garrisoning
or destroying nearly all the ports of
France and the Low Countries. Sec
ondly, German demolition of bridges,
railroads and highways. coupled with
our own bombings, temporarily dis
rupted the communications systems
Of the liberated regions to an un-
precedented degree. This, in turn,
slowed down our offensive until the
Germans were able to rally on their
own borders and organize a defen-
sive campaign into the winter, when
climatic conditions largely nullify
our air and ground mechanical su-
periority, thus prolonging the war in
its greatest intensity, presumably
well into next year.
To be sure, the military necessities
of our armies are being reasonably
met by the logistic miracles wrought
by our transportation services. But
this leaves virtually nothing over for
the civilian populations, whose con-
dition is temporarily worse than it
was under German rule. AS winter
deepens. hunger, cold and other pri-
vations are reducing whole popula-
tions to a desperation which largely
accounts for revolutionary unrest
and, might conceivably bring about
chaotic explosions before spring. To
avert such a catastrophe, with its
dire military as well as political
consequences. the Allied experts on
logistics are gathering to see how far
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Final Action Stage

Associated Press Correspondent
Wes Gallagher reports complaints
over shortage in some of the sec
tors along the western front of
trained infantry requirements. He
attributes to some of the command
ers at the front the assertion that
the shortage is due to short sighted
and optimistic planning in Wash
ington, which led to heavy commit
ments for the Pacific theater =
in the belief that the European war
would be over this year."
Some of the commanders at the
front may feel that way. No doubt
there are shortages in infantry re-
placements in some sectors which
are not being filled as quickly as the
men on the spot know they should
be. But it is doubtful if the records
will sustain belief that such short
ages are due to commitments for
the Pacific or lack of planning.
There is an unceasing demand
now for infantrymen, who suffer the
highest casualties and who consti-
tute the most vitality important ele-
ment at this stage of the war in
beating the Germans. That was
foreseen long ago. There are those
among his admirers who believe that
one of General Marshalrs greatest
accomplishments has been his abil-
ity to establish a workable system
of infantry replacement. Without
that system it would be impossible
to maintain the steadily increasing
pressure along the long line of the
western front, under which the en-
emy eventually must crack.
Announcement by Lieutenant Cen
eral Ben Lear last week of the trans
fer of some $4,000 men from the
service and air forces and special
lied units, such as antiaircraft, to
the infantry, is merely one of many
comparable steps which have been
under way in this direction for
months. Ever since the Italian
landings the accent has been on
the infantry. The result has been
represented in Washington as salts
factory, insofar as the availability
OF infantry replacement personnel is
concerned. Getting them to the
right spot at the right time and
keeping them supplied will never
cease to be difficult problem and
will never be solved to every local
commanders satisfaction.
General Lear reminded us the
other day that "the final action of
all wars is infantry-that is, ground
force action-and until that action
has been prosecuted to it's fullest
@' the decision is never final" We
are probably in the final action"
stage of the war in Europe now,
though it may drag out for many
bloody months. Every yard of ad-
vance is being bought with the lives
OF infantrymen.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

The Son Of God, our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, indicated what
infallibly is necessary for that free
dom which men seek We find His
teaching in the 32d verse of the 9th
chapter in the Gospel according to st.
John: "You shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free" 1t is
His promise to those who continue in
His word, and who live as His dis
ciples. 1t likewise Is His warning to
those who might cast freedom away.
Freedom, in It's full sense, involves
the ability to live as q man should
live. Physical freedom or liberty ex-
lists where there is no bodily restraint,
where man can move and act as he
pleases. The man on the street Is
physically free because he can 20
where he wants to 60 and do what he
chooses to do. A man in prison or
in concentration camp has not this
physical freedom. The horrors of op-
preston are found where this freedom
unjustly is taken away from men.
A man is morally free to do any
thing consonant with the activity OF
good man. He is not morally free
to murder or to lie, because prevari-
cation and unjust killing are per-
versions Of human nature A man is
free to be good man. He can lie
and steal, but only in the sense that
watch cSn be used to drive a tack into
wall The man who sins is a bad
man. When We speak of the freedom
of the children of God, it is this
moral liberty that We mean. Only
the man who sincerely is desirous of
serving God will find that what he
wants to do actually is the thing that
1t is good for him to do.
Freedom cannot exist with oppres-
sion. Unfortunately, however, there
Is kind of oppression more deadly
and more dangerous than any which
mere physical tyranny can devise.
That is the oppression from which,
as our Lord has told us, only the
truth can set us free. We must love
and seek the truth, and we must ut
terly despire error, if we are to have
that freedom which our Lord wants
us to possess.
God gave us minds so that we could
know ourselves and the world about
us and recognize the facts of His
existence, His rights and His good
Evening star., 1944-12-17
The Leup to Mindoro

The implications OF General Mac
Arthur's leap from Leyte to Mindoro
are literally breathtaking. In order
to reach its objective, the immense
convoy had to steam for two days
and three nights some 600 miles
through narrow waters In a maze of
islands dotted with japanese air.
fields and naval bases. And Min
doro itself lies at the very back door
of Manila, on Luzon Island, the
heart of Japanese power in the
Philippines.
How so challenging a risk could
be taken becomes clear from Gen.
eral MacArthur's own dispatches.
In the first place, the invasion of
Mindoro was preceded and accom-
panied by a tremendous deployment
of our air strength, blasting null
titude of Japanese airf1elds from
Luzon to Mindanao, destroying hun
dreds of enemy planes and hence
reducing to minimum aerial at
tacks on our convoy and landing
forces. Even more significant is
General MacArthur's disclosure that
on nearly all the islands in the Gen.
trail Philippines by-passed by our
convoy organized Filipino guerrillas
had launched local offensives, which
in some cases had driven the Japa-
nese garrisonS to few coastal
strongholds. Lastly, though the
convoy was promptly spotted by
japanese air reconnaissance, it's OBJ
Jective was so carefully screened
that their high command had no
idea where the blow would fall and
apparently guessed wrong as to its
destination, because the landing
places on Southern Mindoro were
thinly held and the landings were
made almost unopposed.
The logical deduction from all this
is that japanese strength in the
Philippines is much less than had
been generally believed. Stubborn
Japanese resistance on Leyte and
reckless acceptance of losses in at
tempts at reinforcement there had
led to the surmise that General
Yamashita had ample reserves, pre-
sumably funneled in from Formosa,
the China coast and Japan itself,
to make supreme effort to halt our
Philippine progress. But it now
looks as though the Leyte campaign,
which has already cost Yamashita
more than 10000 casualties, was
made possible only by draining all
neighboring garrisons below the
danger point. Otherwise, the sue
cess of those guerrilla offensives
would be inexplicable.
OF course, desperate reactions
from the main Japanese force on
Luzon can be anticipated, but the
Mindoro landing, plus the guerrilla
offensives elsewhere, has already
doomed the japanese troops on
Leyte, isolated their stronghold on
Mindanao, cut the Philippines in
half and opened a window on the
China Sea, whence our air and sea
power can threaten Japan's vital
waterway to the Dutch Indies and
Malaya. The, rapid cracking of
Japan's fabric of southern empire
appears to be distinct possibility.
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lie or in the colonies. Premier Ger
brandy thinks the interim period
will last at least two years. II that
trying transition epoch can be sur
mounted without civil strife it will
prove another instance of the re-
straint and farsighted reasonable
ness for which the Dutch people
have been proverbial.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

A nineteen-year-old steer has
been sold to meat packing house.
From now on, nineteen million
housewives, every time they buy
tough cut, will claim it came from
that one animal.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Their Freedoms
From the Halifax Herald

from the Halifax Herald.
Some one has listed the four free
doms which man should assure to his
animal friends. They are freedom from
hunger, freedom from thirst, freedom
from neglect and freedom from exposure.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

1t is suggested that the United
States and Latin American nations
swap teachers. Most of them al
ready wish they could swap pupils.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

Mr.. Henry Morgenthau, after con-
sultation with Army, Navy and OPA,
announces that there will be no
shortage of taxes next year.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

Wanted-good safe spot for Japa-
nese fleet. Apply Navy Department,
Tokyo.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

Away back in B. C. man used to
roam the country and hunt in packs
Now he wanders around in cigar
stores and hunts for packs.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

Practically all Hitler's satellite
nations have now dropped out of
his share -the-war pool.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Just Kddin'?

Prom the et. Louis Post Dispatch.
It's becoming downright surprising
how many Of the Axis murderers didn't
really mean It.
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Freedom in Truth

By the VERY Req. Joseph Clifford Fenton, S. r. D.,
Associate Professor OF Fundamental Theology of
the School OF Sacred Theology Catholic Upersity of
Evening star., 1944-12-17

The Greeks may have a word for
1t, but very few others understand
what Is now going on In Greece.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

our supply plans can be revised
without too greatly impairing cur
military effort. The dilemma is a
grim one, but 1t must be resolutely
faced,
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Member of the Associated Press.

Entered at the Post ONCE, Washington. d. c..
as second-class mail matter
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Locol Court Vacancies

SUNDAY, December II, 1874
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MCNutt-ovo unovaCenje naSi|uje Ustav

Radni nedostatci nisu razlog "a
prisiljavanje; oni SUI izgovor. Raz-
log je kapitalizam i kapitalistic-
ka potreba "a jacu kontrolu mad
radnicima. Velika Sc kampanja
sprema "a kresanje najamnice
posle rata. Kako bi sc to moglo
uciniti bolje nego "ukanaljiva-
MEM" radnika obesposlenih cd
''cutback" "a, ukanaljivanjem u
poslove placajuci nizu najamnicu
i u civilne radove?
Razlog je, mi ponavljamo, ka-
pitalizam. Rat iii mir, kapitali-
zam znaci vecu regementaciju,
ne MANU-. On neizbezno vodi u
industrijalno kmetstvo pod in
dustrijalni feudalni rezim. l da
bl Sc oval korak preobratio, da bi
sc americki radnici kretali ma
pred prema vecoj slobodi, "a
istinu, potpunoj slobodi, oni mo-
raju organizovati svoju politicku
ekonomsku moe da ucine kraj
kapitalistickoj vladavini. Oni Sc
moraju ujediniti da izgrade So
cijalisticki svet mira, slobode i
izobilja "a sve. Vasa jasna duz-
most jeste da ubrzate tai dan!
weekly People, 8. julia 1944.)
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VAzNE VESTI:
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je Predsednik skinut sa poloza-
ia. Predsednik owe republike bio
je jos cd 1881, general Jorge
Ubico, koji je prisiljen da dade
ostavku j upravu je privremeno
zauzela military Junta".
Do promene je doslo nakon sto
je Predsednik pokusao ma %. ju-
ma da suspenduje neka ustavna
prava, medju kojima SUI i slobo-
da stampe. Ovo je izazvalo de-
monstracije studenata, koji su Sc
sudarii sa policijom, a posle su
i'm Sc pridruzile zene u demons
traciji Is. juna. zeleznicarski
radnici izidjose ma strajk u obli-
orotesta i tako je ma poslet-
u Predsednik bio prisiljen da
dade "ostavku".
Ma celu privremene- "Militar-
ne Junte" nalaze Sc general, Ed
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tenn potpln1o slobodnog i dobro-
voljnog rada." PROTEST. protiv
"Nacionalne Sluzbe" bill SUI glas-
nj mnogobrojni, a kongresmani
suocavaju izbore 7. novembra.
Debata Sc nije vodila predhod-
no izdavanju McNutt-ove odred-
be. Sve je bio priredjeno pozadi
scene. McNutt je dobio radniske
fekere u w. M. c. odboru uprav-
ne radne politike da ga podupru.
On je dobio glasnu potporu Will
liam Greena opreznu potporu
Philip Murraya. Sve sto je on
imao da uradi, jeste da ida ma
redbu - ma vrlo slican nacin i
Hitler izdaje naredbu. On je bio
siguran u poslodavce da su uz
MEGA. Ako Sc ijedan cd njih po-
kaze ne-saradjivajuci, w. M. c.
ina diva sredstva prisiljavanja:
Ona moze njih kazniti saljuci sve
radnicke svedodzbe raspolaganja
(odmrznuti iii, tako da recemo) /,
iii ona moze da i'm odrekne "sla-
ii" radnike il u. S. E. S.
Sta da Sc radi.
Sta radnici mogu o tome uci-
niti?' Pojedinacno oni mogu, ma
ravno, da odreknu ma koji posao
koji Sc ostvaruje u snizenje STAN
darda njihove najamnice, i da
suoce alternative. Ali nj jedan
veliki broj neorganizovanih rad
nika ne moze Sc ocekivati da IL
drze dugo pod takvim prisilja-
vanjem.
Sta mogu radnici o tome uci-
niti? Svi radnici, ne samo oni
koji traze poslove, trebaju da
protestuju j da uzdignu i svoje
drugove radnike da protestuju.
Oni trebaju da protestuju u nil
hovim junijama da raskrinka-
vaju fekersku najnoviju izdaju.
Oni trebaju da protestuju sa pis-
NINA kroz stampu, raskrinkava-
juci "prvenstvena odasiljanja
poslova' "a sto one jesu - plan
da Sc dovedu radnici u potpuni-
je podjarmljenje kapitalu.
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inflacija it'd, po svetu mogla bi
ne samo naneti ma milijarde do
lara kvara u trgovini, nego bi
jos mogla pogorsati sveopstu 81
tuaciju tako gurnuti svet pro-
letersku revoluciju. A to nasa
svetska kapitalisticka gospoda ne
zele videti zato Sc vec sada pri-
premaju, i ako kazu da ne mogu
resiti problem.
Ma kraju krajeva, oni ipak ne
&c resiti problem. Mega ce re-
siti svetska radnicka klasa oslo
badjajuci Sc svih svetskih para
zita koji je do kostiju pojedose.
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scrao rndnicka klnsn bez iciie pomoci
Ona je to staniu uciniti, samo ako Sc
klasno prosveti organizuje. kako uci
Sociialisticka Radnicka Partija.
Da il &c ova promena biti ''zestoka"
"krvava". to ce poglavito zavisisti Cd
kapitalisticke klase, ne Cd radnicke
klase Radnicka klasa &c pokusati da
izvrsi ovu promenu ma ustavan. miran
j civiizovani nacin. Bila ona nirna iii
"l,rvava", ali ona ne moze biti "postepe-
ma; ona mora biti nagla. + S.
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uardo Villagran Aria, Buena-
ventura Pineda i Federico Pom
ce. Owl obecase da &c Sc ustzvna
prava povratiti da &c Sc sszva-
ii "Narodna Skupstina" da liza
bere "Aktujuceg Predsedniks,.
Interesantno je primetiti, h
ko je Predsednik Ubico "oprav-
davao" njegovo suspendovanje
ustavnih prava. On reee da 81
e.. nacisticko-fasisticki elemeH
tt pokusali da ometaju vladu u
odrzanju reda tako bitnog "a ko-
operaciju sa Ujedinjenim Nac,-
jama". da bi sprecio tai "fass
zam", Ubico je to poceo da cini
putem uvadjanja fasizma, odba-
cujuci ustav pribegavajuci dix
taturi.
Kako ii kapitalistieki interesi
iskrivljivaju sve ma svetu- Oni
nastoje da crno prikazu belirn,
a helo crnim, vec kako to NINA
najbolje imponira. Kapitalizam
ne polazi cd istine iii logike, ca
sve 'ttumaci" sa gledista kapita-
listickih materijalnih interesa-
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SocijalistickO ResetO
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isticke klase nienih politickih usta
nova "a zajednicku 'pregradnju''. niie
nista drugo nego obnanjivati radnike,
koji su pozvati da vrse drustvenu "pre-
gradnju'.
Razume Sc ne dodje Ii do drustve
ne = osnovne>- promene. nego ostane
Ii dale kaptalizam, rat je neizbezan.
Ovu druStvenu promenu ina da izvrsi'
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trebao da bude $4,000, 100000, cd
kojeg da bude udeo Sjedinjenih
Drzava $2,40o, 900. 900, ukljucuju-
ci i $600,O00.000 zlatu. Ako bi
kasnije, nakon rata, jos neke ma
CHE pristupile, koje Sc sada sma-
ira "neprijateljskim'', tai bi fond
morao biti oko $10,0 100000, u
kojem bi udeo Sjedinjenih Dr.
zava bio $3,OOO,OOO.OOO.
Kako sami kazu, konferenciia
najverovatnije nece dovrsiti svoj
posao pa ipak SUI je sazvali. Ia
sto? Zato sto Sc kapitalistick
klasa Amerike icelog sveta pla-
81 da je nebi mir" zatekao ne
pripravnom. Monetarna anarhiia,
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ARNOLD PETERSEN.
National Secretary.

Milwaukee, Wis, July oil.
Gravel, July l2.)
Winona, Wis, July 13.
Minneapolis, MIMI, July 14-16.
st. Paul, Mimi, July II.
| Gravel, July 49,
Duluth Alborn. Mimi. July 1920.
Gravel, July 2l-27.)
| Spokane, Wash. July $3.50.
Gravel, July 81 1August 1.)
Seattle. Wash. August %.
Everett, Wash, August 6.
Tacoma, Wash. August 10.
! Grays Harbor Aberdeen, Wash. August
10-11.
Longview, Wash, August 1914.
Portland, Ore, Vancouver, Wash, Au
gust 15-17.
! (Travel. August 1929
| (Rest day, August 22.)
| Bay Area, Calf, August 1927.
| Gravel. August 2s-29.r
Los Angeles, Calf. August 3o-Septem
Der T.
| (Travel, September 5-9)
| Denver, Colo, and rest, September 10-11
(Travel. September 12-13)
Kansas City, Mo-, September IA.
Des Moines. Iowa, September Is.
Clinton. Iowa, September 16.
Travel, September ID
St Louis area {Southern Illinois,, Sep
tember 1921.
(Travel, September 22.)
indianapolis, Ind, September 1924.
Fl. WAYNE. Ind. September 25.
Detroit. Mich, September $3.50.
(Travel. October 1.)
Cleveland. Ohio. October 2-3.
Erie, Pa, October i.
jamestown -Olean. \. Y. October Sc.
Buffalo. y. Y. October III.
Rochester. n. Y, October II.
Rest, October 13.)
Syracuse. \. V, October Ii.
Schenectady, \. Y. October Is.
(Travel, October Is.
Sprinfield. Mass. October 1919.
Boston, Waltham. Mass, October 20-23.
LYNN, Mass. October "a.
New Haven, Conn, October %.
Bridgeport, Conn, October 26-27.
South Norwalk, Conn, October %.
! Paterson or Newark, n j., October %.
Philadelphia, Pa, October 80 No. ,mber
9.
New York. n. Y, November 34,
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drugim predelima." Rekord rat
ne proizvodnje stoji kao opiplji-
vi dokaz da SUI in oni dobili, i do
bill SUI III bez prisiljavanja, obic-
no pruzajuci podstrek takav
kao sto kapitalisti nastoje da oni
moraju imati pre- nego sto &c oni
"saradjivati."
Povisiuanje najdmnice - Ill
prisiljavanje.
Kaze Sc da postoji danas or
,, biljan nedostatak radnika u liv-
nicama i kovackim industrijama
Tu su diva razloga "a to. Jedan je
da su livnice paklene = jane "a
rad u NINA, narcotic u letnim
mesecima kada visoka tempera-
tura, pomesana sa dimom utuce
cak jake Jude. Drugi razlog je
u tomu sto je najamnica niska
Situacija bi, naravno, mogla bi-
ii ispravljena dizanjem najam-
nice. Oval metod nije nikada
promasio da privuce radnike cak
nj ma tako teske i nepovoljne
poslove, kao sto je rad u ivnica-
ma. Ali povisivanje najamnice je
protiv administracijske politike
il razloga sto je to protiv kapi-
talistickih interesa. Otuda prisi-
ljavanje.
ProkrijumcariH radno
unovacenje.
Plutokratija nije mogla dobiti
National Service Act" zakono-
davstvom; oni Sc moraju zado-
voljiti sa radnim unovacivanjem
putem indirekcije, ii. po Egzeku-
tivnoj Odredbi. Da je Kongres
debatovao o predmetu prisilnog
rada, neizbezno bi predlagaci pri-
silnog rada sudarili Sc naglavice
sa Ustavnom zabranom nepri-
voljne sluzbe, sa Trinaestim Do
datkom, koji je Vrhovni Sud Sic
dinjenih Drzava proglasio da je
namenien 'ne samo da Sc dekon
ca ropstvo nego da Sc odrzi sis
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Candidates Are ON Tour
Itinerary of E. A. Teichert
S. L. P. Candidate for President
of the u. S.
of the u. S.

A country wide itinerary has been
worked out for our Presidential cand;
date, beginning from Pittsburgh June
"a and terminating in New York No
vember 4. The first dozen Sections or so
have been notified and furnished with
the necessary details. Others will be
similarly notified in due course. Comrade
Teichert will be accompanied on this
tour by National Organizer John p.
Quinn, the two comrades travelling by
car. Members and svmpathizers are
urged to give unstinted support to eff
forts being exerted to make these meet
ings outstandingly successful.
The itinerary follows-all dates be-
yond July 90 being for the present
tentative.