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Evening star., 1944-08-06

The word Shortage" is hardly
adequate. Two hundred and fifty
tons of paper are available in Rome
at the moment. Publications al
ready licensed here by APB consume
paper at the rate of 800 tons a
month. The board has on it's hands
today applications for permission
to publish 600 periodicals, books and
pamphlets.
No Request for Daily.
The Allies did not really have to
face the issue of the freedom of the
Italian press until we reached Rome.
In Naples, and in other cities and
towns occupied by us. our psyche
logical warfare branch (PWB) had
published its own Italian language
newspaper without competition in
the daily field.
The six recognized political par
ties, each of which was allowed by
APB to bring out its own paper,
were content to publish weekly if
at all No Italian paper had ap-
piled for permission to publish daily.
The Allies came to Rome pre-
pared to do the same thing they
had done in Naples-publish a
Courriere di Roma daily and let it
60 at that. On the first day after
our entry no other paper was pub
lished. On the second day 18 other
papers hit the newSstands.
officials of PWB and APB hur-
riedly met with Maj. Gen. Harry
H. johnson, military commander
of the Rome area, to decide what
to DO about this torrent of CO.
belligerent self-expression. 1t was
decided there was enough paper
on hand to permit six party papers
to publish daily. A Vatican-pro-
tected paper was also license; PWB
still brought out the Courriere di
Roma and, of course, the official
Vatican paper, Osservatore Ro-
mano, was allowed to publish freely
without licensing or censorship of
any kind. Later, three former
underground papers were per-
mitted to resume publication. To
preserve political balance, APB
chose from the underground papers
one sheet representing rightist
opinion, one representing leftist
opinion and one which hewed to
the middle of the road. So that
today there are dozen daily
papers published in Rome.
To what extent does freedom of
the press exist in Italy? That is
not an easy question to answer.
This much can certainly be said
right away: The Italian press is
a great deal freer today than it
was under the Fascists or the Ger
mans
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Public Library
Book Pointers
BY E. B. Mills
Readers Adviser, Georgetown Branch
Washington Public Library.

washington Public Library.
Islands.
Islands speak to the imagination
in a peculiar way. They suggest
escape from the confinements OF
tradition to a fresh existence in a
different world. Novelists always
seem to show islands as special
places, with q spirit and authority
OF their own.
OF all the tales of island cast
aways the first Is still one of the
best. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe" is
|perennially fascinating because OF
all the homely details Of his house.
keeping and food getting in q Carib-
bean wilderness. It might serve as
a handbook for solving the prac-
tical problems Of surviving ship
wreck.
In the 1840s Herman Melville
made q voyage to the South Pacific
in . whaling vessel which touched
at the Marquesas. He left ship
there and was Hospitality cared for
by the natives. His life among these
friendly islanders, unused to Euro
peans, Is told in "Typee." 1t is q
wonderfully detailed picture Of Poly
nesian life, with all its simplicity
and poetry. Melville was sympa-
thetic as well as an intelligent
guest. He was charmed by the in
nate goodness Of his Marquesans
and critical Of their exploitation by
white men.
Another south sea island tale. i,
Victory" one Of Conrad's few love
stories. In which suspense and ter.
ror are woven In dark web tc
make an entralhng story.
These books may be borrowed from
the Public Library at Eighth and x
streets NV. or its branches.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

solid bloc after the war Is over
The defect in this assumption lies in
the fact that the exponents of this
theory, which is admirable wishful
thinking, are inclined to overlook
history, and particularly the history
of Europe, which for hundreds of
years has been nothing but a series
of combinations and international
double crossings.
Less than 40 years after the Ma
poleonic wars the British, the French
and other minor nations turned
against the Russians, who had great
ly assisted in the defeat of Napoleon
One word or gesture from London
could have prevented the defeat OF
France in 1870 and the creation OF
the German empire which has be-
come the cause of two devastating
wars since 1914. France and Great
Britain had been at loggerheads for
centuries before they joined forces
against the rising power of Germany
in 1911. Italy was in the German
Austrian camp until 1915, then
switched to the Allies, resumed her
alliance with Hitler's Germany and
is now seeking to enter the Allied
camp again.
Iran Presents Problem.
In spite of the friendly collabora-
ton which necessity has brought
about between Russia and Great
Britain since 1914, there is no indi-
cation that Russia has given up her
historic desire to expand toward
India and the Middle East. 1t is
now inappropriate to mention such
matters. 1t is pointed out that the
fate OF Iran, the gateway to India
has been satisfactorily settled in
the Teheran declaration made by
Premier Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill. Changing conditions
such as the request of the Arabs to
join the elastic Soviet Union, may
demand a revision of the Soviet
Britain agreement, a change which
no British government will be in
clined to accept voluntarily.
Mr.. Roosevelt's administration and
our Russian and British associates
now believe that the fact that the
Allies will remain fully armed after
the war to form military police
will be the answer to our present
problem. After Germany and Japan
have been defeated and the other
EurOpean nations lie pr0Strate ho
cause OF their losses and hardships,
against whom will America, Great
Britain and Russia direct their pow
erful military machine? Mr.. Hull
answered this question a few weeks
ago by mentioning something about
roaming disturbers Of peace" It
was q very elastic answer.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Peace
Continued From Page C-1.)

one of the principal members of the
United Nations, Russia.
Last March 81, our distinguished
Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, felt
that the time had come to clarity
all the diplomatic activities of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and himself over a
two-year period. He issued a IT.
point statement in which he gave
some thought to the Atlantic Char
ter at the end of his long expose to
the people of the United States. He
gave a resume of the basic prin-
ciples of the charter but the word
"victors or defeated" which had
been so carefully mentioned in
the Roosevelt Churchill declaration
three years earlier were not in
cluded.
Referring to the Axis and satellite
nations, Mr.. Hull said that they must
give convincing proof that they
have repudiated and abandoned the
monstrous philosophy Of superior
race and conquest by force and have
embraced Loyalty the basic principles
of peaceful progress" The thought
is admirable. If the decision of
whether and when these nations have
given convincing proof of their re-
pudiation of the totalitarian philos-
ophies is placed in the hands of the
American Government, fair deci-
sion can be expected. But in the
light of the history of Europe, where
nations have been fighting for CEN
turies for territorial aggrandizement
and strategic frontiers" it is hard
to believe that the nation which is
down will have chance to rise
again unless policy of rebalance of
power requires that such a nation
should be reinforced. Such a policy
is adopted, history tells us, only
when a new combination of forces is
necessary in preparation for another
war.
Former Foes Aided Reich.
Italy, and later Japan, which
helped to defeat Germany in 1918.
also helped the Reich later in every
conceivable way to get back on its
feet as a strong military power.
In time of war it is difficult to
replace emotion by cold reasoning.
At present various peace schemes
have the great fault Of being the
result of emotion rather than con-
crete thinking.
Because some 80 nations are
bound together to defeat the Ger
mans, 1t is taken for granted that
they will continue to remain as q
Evening star., 1944-08-06
The History of Rome Hanks
BY Joseph Stanley PenneH.
(ChdrleSnScribner'S SonS.l

As she read this novel the reviewer
got the impression that Joseph
Stanley Pennell, invoking with some
success the spirit of the late Thomas
Uook Homeward, AngeD Wolf, had
been struck by a swinging corner
of the descending genius mantle
and brought precipitately to his
knees, in which posture, gazing
raptly upward, he saw a small
though choice constellation as a
sort of after vision. The brightest
of the heavenly bodies seems to
have borne the name of Stephen
(Red Badge of Courage) Crane, the
next that of Ernest (four-letter
word) Hemingway and the last John
(turgidchurning) Dos Passos. Ap-
parently then, without moving from
this reverential posture, Mr.. Pen
nell took out his tablets and wrote.
No one can say that his guiding
spirits are not notable ones, no one
can object to an attitude of wor-
ship before genius. But one can say
that the geniuses themselves did
not write In such q position. That
is the chief difference between their
work and that Of their obvious
devotee.
The novel is long one given
over mostly to accounts of fighting
in the Civil War, saltily told by
ancient survivors to q nebulous
young man Of modern times who is
In quest of the truth about his an
|cestors. One grandfather and d
great uncle fought for the North,
the other grandfather for the South
and the nebulous youth hunts up
their companions In arms and lis
tens while the old men shake out
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Best Sellers
FICTION.

Strange Fruit, by Lillian
Smith.
The Robe, by Lloyd c. Doug
las.
The Razor's Edge, by w.
Somerset Vaughan.
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by
Betty Smith.
A Bell for Adano, by John
Hersey.
NONFICTION.
The Time for Decision, by
Sumner Welles.
Watching the World, by Ray
mond Clapper.
Yankee From Olympus, by
Catherine Drinker Bowen.
I Never Left Home, by Bob
Hope.
Ten Years in Japan, by Jo-
seph c. Grew.
Evening star., 1944-08-06

will not 60 to war among them
selves.
What Mr.. Lippmann says, in
short, is that we can have peace il
the nations want it and that the
community organization of the
world would be q convenient one
The "if" should never be forgotten.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
By Mary.Car, y Roberts.

their memories. Chapters Of the
young mans own reflections consti.
tute breaks In the veterans tales,
the reflections having to do mostly
with the physiological aspects Of
amours In which he has been en-
gagged. We are given to understand
that his concern about his grand
fathers derives from his determine
ton to know himself in relation to
his sources, as part Of the stream Of
time, with reality and without illu-
sion. But he is nothing at all in
the novel; II he was intended for
q device on which to hang the war
stories he does not come OF even
as that.
One can only say OF the work that
one feels In it the impact Of great
models. They seem to have been
sincerely studied and well under
stood. But they have been merely
repeated. The great resounding
booms Of Thomas Wolfe, the lucid
artistry in action painting of Crane,
the childish but spiritually defiant
dirtiness Of Hemingway, the tireless
churning Of DosPassos-Mr. Pennell
reproduces these to the life. But
he does not make life. He conveys
the conviction Of other men. He
does not convey any Of his own.
Out on q Limbo
By Claire MacMurray. (Lip-
pincott)
Readers who laughed their way
through And Beat Him When He
Sneezes" will be glad to renew ac-
quaintance with its principal char
acters, Dave, Stu and Dick. Tho
boys are older now, but they're Just
as funny as ever.
Claire MacMurray is a columnist
for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and
much of "Out On Limbo" was first
published in that newspaper. The
book Is a collection of sketches of
family life, with emphasis on the
activities of Dave, Stu and Dick.
But there are plenty Of adults in
the volume, too, and some Of them
are every bit as funny as the boys.
"Out On Limbo" may not be the
years funniest book, but 1t will do
until funnier one comes along.
And the illustrations, by Alice
Harvey, are in perfect harmony with
the text. PHILIP H. LOVE.
The Hunted
| By Albert Guerard. (KnoptJ
In this sometimes faltering, some =
times dramatic psychological novel
Mr.. Guerard tells the story of
Claire, an attractive girl with a
pitiful inferiority complex. Claire
was brought up in an orphanage,
and was working as a waitress in
a two-purpose grill when, she met
a college professor from a nearby
New England town.
The girl and the man need each
other-she to escape from her en-
vironment, he to be admired by one
whom he considers his inferior. Un-
fortunately she tries to keep her past
a secret. He is jealous, suspicious
and ultimately unfaithful. Claire,
condemned to keep the secret, be-
gins to get a hunted feeling.
That feeling is matched by q
man hunt with the two story threads
rising to a crisis when Claire at
tempts to help the hunted man es-
cape.
The author is skillful in holding
a microscope up to human emotions,
although this skill sometimes be-
trays him into writing set pieces
which interfere with the movement
of the story
MIRIAM GUTENBERG.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
Sumner
Welles'
THE TIME
for
DECISION

il tSmsltaos5ly acclaimed b,
press, radio, tie public A5 "tbs
ngbt book at The rigbt time"
Evening star., 1944-08-06

only 81 miles from East Prussia it.
self. Another Red Army which had
captured Kaunas, capital of Lithu-
ania, threatened an advance into
East Prussia and German reserves
were rushed hurriedly to stem this
advance.
The push toward Warsaw made
considerable progress at Che start
of the week and by Tuesday under
a heavy umbrella of planes Russian
and Polish troops were penetrating
the suburbs of Praga, close by War
saw.
Great fires and heavy explosions
within Warsaw gave rise to reports
that the Nazis were demolishing the
city preparatory to abandoning it
but later in the week it was SAID
that Polish underground army
within the capital had suddenly
sprung into action and was engag-
ing the enemy. Before ammuni-
tion began to run low, the patriots
were said to have seized the power
plant, water works, radio station
and the largest Office building in
the city. The present status of this
campaign is not clear.
With the entire front from the
Balkans to the Baltic flaming with
action, the Reds drove the Nazis
back into Beskiden Pass which
leads into Carpatho- Ukraine, the
prewar CZechoslovakian province
annexed by Hungary at the start OF
the war.
BY Wednesday, in the Baltic
fighting, the Russians had thrust
clear across to the coast of the
Baltic Sea about 80 miles below
Riga, capital of Latvia. Thursday
Russian shells began falling on the
soil of East Prussia as the advance
armored forces drove to within 3
miles of the border which yesterdays
Evening star., 1944-08-06
The Road to Foreign Policy
By Hugh Gibson. Doubleday,
DOrdn.)

We have here a brisk and read
able criticism of the traditional Or
ganization of our Foreign Service by
a veteran diplomat. Mr.. Gibson has
taken it somewhat to heart that any
and all calamities of an interna-
tional nature should be blamed on
the members Of his profession and
has set out to enlighten the public
on some of the handicaps under
which the career diplomat labors in
the present organization. He runs
through an imposing list of follies
and ends by making suggestions as
to q better mechanism which would
still carry out the constitutional aim
of keeping foreign policy balanced
between the President and the Sem
ate. He writes wittily and is we'll
worth reading in these particular
times.
Evening star., 1944-08-06
The Boards Basic History o1
The United Stotes
Bv Charles A. and Maru r

By Charles A. and Mdry r.
Beard. (NeD Home LbraryJ
The big news about this book
would seem to be that it is an en-
tirely new piece of writing. 1t
could have been assembled out of
the already finished works of its
distinguished authors, but it was
not.
1t is history of our country done
in terms Of the public movements
which have been determinants in
our development. 1t Is not a his
tory of political parties, or Presi-
dents, or wars, or personalities. 1t
is not primarily a history of eco
nomics or of movements of peoples
or Of cultural growth. 1t is the
story Of our Nation in terms of all
these. Though it is called a basic
history, it is something more ad-
vanced than that. 1t clearly pre-
supposes a fairly broad acquaint-
ance with our country's story on the
part of the reader. --.--~ .s.,z-
There is very little editorializine
in the volume, very little express
sion of opinion. The work ha.
gathered a huge body Of facts from
broad bases and presented them ir
related form. Even in dealing with
the present period, when facts art
confused and incomplete, the au.
thors have avoided going into ex.
preston of personal views. They
simply point out that nine years OF
the New Deal did not suffice to enc
unemployment or even substantial
ly lessen its volume, that the close
of the present war will bring about
domestic problems vastly more
complicated and that, in the dark
outlook which prevails as far as
leadership is concerned, two totali-
tartan doctrines-Fascism and Com
munism-either of which is aimed
at the destruction of American civil
liberties and constitutional govern
ment, are being increasingly advo-
Gated. The various movements
combating these tendencies, they
conclude, are healthful, from the
American point Of view.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-01-07

seno kareivio balsas. - AS jau pasenau ir
gal proto truputi nustojau, delto nepyk,
kunigaiksti, ant names
: Be- tokiQ ilgu prisitaikinimu, = ne
kantriai istare Arsusis. = Sakyk staciai
- OF, saulele sviesioji = trauke Gu
das. = 1spuole is piles mes susiremsim
beveik SUI visa Algimanto kariuomene, ir
kad paverzti is jos maista turesim ia per-
galet. Argi tai mes CALM pada1yt? Bet
tegul galetume, tai Wis nemaza ir musu zu-
tu. Kokia laime musu butq toliau? Ar
mes galetume pc sitokiam susiremimui
manyti apie prasimuSima per Sudavis-
kius, kadt tbegti Dainava? - Ilgokai to-
kiu budltS senis destinejo, prirodydamas
jog jeigu eiti is piles tai reikia eiti tiktai
wien prasimusti per Sudaviskius.
Veltu Arsusis stengesi sutremti Gu
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-01-07

Taupymas elektros yra gal but
lengviausias dalykas kurio is mu-
su prasoma paaukoti.
Neprasoma uzgesinti sviesas rel
kalingas musu saugumui arba pa
togiam matymui, arba lautis var
tojus reguliarius padarbus virimo,
kepimo, saldymo, valymo, mazgoji-
mo ar prosijimo-tiktai taupymo
elektros kuria mes gal aikvojame
bereikalingai.
Ca pridetas pavekslas rodo kaip
viena Selma gall taupyti elektra
sutraukiant arti kedes prie vienos
geros sight-saving lempos ir nau-
dojantis jos sviesa savo darbui.
Tas gal reikalaus pertvarkyti ju-
su baldus kamlbaryje, ir tikrai rel
kalinga bus gera sight-saving lem
pa tam tikslui.
Prisitaikius dirbit, siuti ir skai-
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-01-07
AKRON, OHIO

Akrone darbai zymiai pakilo
sio karo metu. Dirbtuvese dar-
bininku skaicius pasidvigubino
nuo 1910 metu, vienoje tiktai
Goodyear Aircraft Corp. dirb-
tuveje dirba per 10000 darbi-
ninku.
Skaiciuojama kad sioje sri
tyje truksta dar apie 5000
darbininku tik karo darbams.
Del stokos darbininku Akrono
sriciai valdzia tue tarpu ne
duoda nauju karo reikmenu
kontraktu.
Paciame Akrone tik karo
darbuose dirba virs 100000
darbininku.
Neziurint desimciu tukstan-
ciu jaunoliu isejimo j kariuo-
meme, Akronas padaugejo 20
nuosimciais gyventoju skai-
cium del karo darbu. Mieste
priskaitoma apie 100000 gy-
ventoju. 1910 metals buvo
apie 244,OOO. Summit apskri-
tyje dabar skaitoma apie 40O,-
600 gyventoju.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-01-07

tyti prie vienos geros lempos, rel
kia neuzmirsti uzgesinti lempas XII
tose vietose kur jos nevartojamos,
ar sklepe, ar virtuveje ar meigame
kambaryje Kadangi Clevelando SRI
tyje elektros jiegos nestokuoja, tai
prasoma taupyti elektra sutaupy-
mui kritisku karui reikalingu me-
dziagu kurios reikalingos elektros
gamybai, kaip tai anglis ir metalai
ir darbo jiega, ka suatupydami mes
prisidesim prie karo pastangu pa
stumeiimo.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-01-07
ID [ r v 4

da veltu jis rode jog tokiu budu padarys
jie sau he mazai bereikalingo ir sunkaus
dalbo, mes padave dabar Gardina Algi-
manto rankas, paskui lures atgal init.
Viskas vienok nuejo perniek. Nors pyk-
damas, o turejo jisai sutikti SUI seno kar-
civic zodziais. Bet sutikes nuleido jisai ir
galva. 10 galvoje aiskiai blykstelejo min
It's jog syki Algimantui atiduotas Gardi-
mas daugiau jam negrys. Gala ir pikta
jam pasidare, taip pikta jog net asaros
pasirode alSyse. Pakiles jisai nubrauke
asaras nepatemytinai Kittens ir liepe rem
etis is piles.
Prasidejo trusas. Ka tiktai galejo,
Gudai krove j kisenius, kiSo anciun, ant
zirgu dejo, ko negalejo SUI savim nestis de-
gino, kase zeme, arba mete upe per pi-
lies siena. (Bus daugiau
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1944-01-07

''Dirvai" issiraSyti nereikia
laukti pradzios metu-idekit
laiska 81 dabar ir "Dirva'
lankys jus istisa pusmeti.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-09-07

ARE DAILY UNLESS OTHERWIsE SCHEDULED

UNLESS OTHERWISE SCHEDULl
9:0O-Gabriel Heater
9:30-Human Adventure (Monday
only
9:30-American Forum of the All
(Tues. only
9:3O-First Nighter (Wed. only
9:30-Starlight Serenade (Thurs
only
9:3C-Double or Nothing (Fri
only
1O:0O-Henry Gladstone (Mon. ant
Thurs. only
10:00-Royal Arch Gunnison (Wed
and Sat. only
10:00-McDaniels VS.. zanelli (Fri
day, Sept. 81
11:05-Sports Parade
11:20-Freedom House Sign Of
SATURDAY
With the following exceptions,
Saturdays programs follow the
weekday schedule.
Mornings
10:3O-Marty and Rangerettes
11:0O-News Roundup
11:30-Saddle Pals
Afternoons
12:45-Red Cross Reporter
1:15-Sunday School Lesson
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Nights
5:30-Army Service Forces
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McDaniels-ZaneIii Bout

MutuaPs fireside fight fans will
hear a top-notch boxing contest
every Friday night GO p. M, EWT)
on Gillette's Cavalcade of Sports, be-
ginning Friday, September 8, when
Jimmy McDaniels trades blows with
Ralph Zanelli in 10-round welter-
weight bout
McDaniels, one of the most prom
Using of the younger fighters, earned
his right to another bout in Madison
Square Garden by his knockout of
Aaron Perry in the third round of
their August 18 fight. Zanelli,
known as Ralph the Ripper" has
arrived at his first garden bout
through recent victories over Fritzie
Zivic and Izzi Jannozzo.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-09-07

Opportunity" Friday, September 8
$3.50 to 8 D. m, EWT) over the
Mutual network and WEI.
Born in Voss. Norway, in 1898,
Rockne came to America when he
was five. His interest in football,
which began on the Chicago streets
in his youth, followed him to Notre
Dame where he played on the vars
ity team from 1910 to 1913, serving
as captain of the eleven in his senior
year.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-09-07

Quizmaster John Reed King cuts the
fifth notch in his best friend, the die
tionary, as the long-run quiz 'Dou-
BILE Or Nothing" (heard Fridays, $50
to 10 p. M, EWT), starts its fifth
year and rings mp its 2O8th broad
cast over the Mutual Broadcasting
System, Friday, Sept. 29th.