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met H. G. Wells-in 1920, at tea party
In London. He was expressing contempt
for the structure OF the league as an
instrument for the maintenance of
peace. A young woman journalist re-
marked, well, anyhow, it is the begin
ming Of something" Young woman, "
replied Mr.. Wells, You cannot make an
automobile out of the beginnings of q
perambulator."
He was correct You cannot make a
world organization for the maintenance
OF peace without creating for that or
ganization Its own authority and Its own
instruments. That means the enlarge
ment and merging of sovereignties,
which it Is every nations sovereign right
to do. 1t means a form of world state
OF. however. strictly limited powers, and
with whatever necessary checks and
balances.
Are people who have become accus-
toned to having their babies massacred
before their eyes, and who have split out
in four years oceans Of blood and gen.
Grafton Of wealth afraid Of words? What
Is the alternative to world state? It
is the sovereign right Of every nation to
tional policy with or without the Co
operation" of others. and however you
cut the cloth the same pattern emerges.
AS for the widest area Of agreement"
agreement among whom? Among q
lot of politicians? Among governments
assuming that they speak for a people
to whom they have never put the spe-
cific question?
The Pope In his last public statement
said, The peoples of no nation can
easily be held responsible for wars" He
was certainly right, for the people in no
nation have ever been given a chance
to express themselves on this clear-cut
issue put in a clear-cut way.
Whose sovereign rights are involved?
Yours? Mine? 1t has become the SOW
ereign right Of political machines to
make policies bound to lead to war. I
am against that sovereignty. Make a
world organization and delegate to 1t
the power to legislate, adjudicate, and
enforce international law, and I defy
any one to explain how Tom Dick and
Harry. and you and 1 in every or any
country is going to experience a loss Of
sovereignty. The only sovereignties that
will be lost are the sovereignty of for
eign offices and general stats.
The issue that is at stake will not be
decided by the compromises Of timorous
election platforms. It will either be de-
cided In human reason and moral and
intellectual courage, or it will be de-
cided again, and within a generation,
in human blood.
Released By the Bell Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Germony's Oil Famine

1t is military axiom that the
life blood of any modern war ma
chine is oil. This is especially true
of the air force, where only high
octane gasoline and the finest quail
tiles of lubricating oils will do. 1t
Is therefore heartening to hear the
report of General H. H. Arnold dis
closing some highly interesting facts
on oil and other shortages in Ger
many, Our Army intelligence, he
said, has definite information that,
because of our bombing campaign
directed against German oil centers,
the enemy's supply of gas and oil
has been reduced to approximately
80 per cent of normal, and that, as
a result of this acute shortage, both
the LuftWaffe and ground mech
anized forces are being "rationed."
General Arnold indicated a posi-
bility that the Luftwaffe might
never fight effectively again, and he
cited instances where German tanks
have been found abandoned on the
roads, their guns unfired, because
they lacked both fuel and am
munition.
All this raises the pleasing vision
OF the German war machine grind
ing to a final stop through sheer
failure of motive power and lubri-
cants. At the same time, it would
be wishful thinking to expect this
to happen suddenly in the near
future. Ever since the start of the
war Germany's lack of oil has been
stressed as one of its gravest
problems, but those confident pre-
dictions have been constantly
disappointed. This has been due
to a number of causes, among them
being the extraordinary develop
ment of synthetics, the wide
dispersal of cracking plants and
refineries and drastic economies
effected by conversion of vehicles
to wood-burning, "gasogene" or
other substitutes 1t is likewise to
be expected that the foresighted
German high command has boarded
reserves of gas and oil for supreme
emergencies.
Still there seems no reasonable
doubt that the Reich's oil shortage
is becoming cumulative and that
the Allied bombing campaign is
producing notable, even though be-
lated, fruits. Germany is, of course,
waging defensive warfare on all
fronts, which is relatively econom-
ical in the use of oil. But the evi-
dence points clearly to the fact that
:, even defensive warfare requires oil
expenditures that outrun the Reich's
present diminished oil production.
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Allied Gains at Caen
By Maj. Geores Fielding Eliot

The British Canadian capture OF Caen
Is, the fruit Of hard fighting. a careful
combination Of caution and boldness in
tactics and q determination to maintain
the initiative at all costs in order to
be able to take advantage Of opportunity
when that tickle lady turned on her
fleeting smile.
1t is an important gain. 1t will give
the Allies firmly anchored eastern
flank along the estuary Of the River
Orne. We do not yet know what the
effect on the German forces has been;
If any considerable number Of them
are trapped as reports seem to indicate,
north and northeast Of the city, the
value Of the British Canadian success
will be even greater than now appears.
What we need, most of all, is more
room: room to deploy large forces, room
to establish depots of supplies, room to
establish air fields, room to carry out
systematic reliefs of tired units, above
all room to maneuver. We are cramped,
in our present shallow bridgehead, even
with the comparatively small number of
troops we are now using. And we are
not secure, not by any means. We have
succeeded 50 far because Of the continu-
Gus and successful efforts Of our air
force to isolate the battlefields. Those
efforts have been badly impeded by the
weather, but they have been successful
In sufflcient degree to prevent the Ger
mans from bringing to bear against us
sufficient ground strength to push us
back. They could not break through the
British Canadian defensive shield In the
Caen sector. and they could not prevent
the American of1ensive-wing from tax
ing Cherbourg behind the protection Of
that shield.
Now We have our port. and we have
our consolidation on the defensive flank,
the one the Germans can get at most
easily. Our next task u to deepen our
bridsehead. The Americans over on the
west have been trying to do that, under
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Ladies Is as Ladies Does


To the Editor Of The Star:
This morning I was told something
that has shocked me greatly. am writ
ing to you IN hopes that you might be
able to help many girls in my position.
have been a member Of the Marine
Corps Women's Reserve since February
20, 1943. This is my problem. This very
morning q marine told me that when a
girl puts on uniform she is no longer
lady. My question Is "Why?" We
realize that there are a certain number
Of bad in every organization. Remem-
Der when there was a great smear
campaign against the Government
girls?" I do remember, as Warrington
has been my home town since I was
but year old. Now, instead OF the
Government girls" it is the girls in
uniform. l myself know some bad girls.
They are very, very few. yet If one girl
steps out OF line we all must suffer
Would 1t ever be possible for you to ask
the public in some way why we girls in
uniform are no longer ladies?
I do know that the girls are ladies.
A great many smoke and take a drink,
but then they did this long before put
ting on their uniforms and see no
harm in it if not carried too far. I, for
one, do not drink, smoke or swear and
have been waiting over two years for
my fiance to return from the Pacific.
This marine told me that when q
girl in uniform is promoted and becomes
q sergeant that she should be treated
the same as any man. That is, that the
men should be permitted to curse in
front Of them. And the language they
use! Ny own brothers do not use such
language in front of me and have
asked them to be very careful in front
Of other girls.
Please. sir. ask the public why we
girls cannot be even considered as
ladies'"
I would like to thank you In advance
for any help you might be able to give
me. This would not only help me alone
but all girls in uniform. 1t is getting so
bad now that We are very ashamed to
show our faces outside of the barracks,
and those who live on subsistence re-
main in their living quarters
A LADY MARINE.
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very great terrain difficulties (mostly
caused by floods and waterways) for
some days AS they advance, the going
will become easier-certainly once they
are past Lessay. The pressure on st. Lo
increases. and the possession of that
center will give added security to this
flank. But we shall not be really secure,
firmly established and able to prepare to
seek strategic obiectives. until we have
possession of the whole OF what we
may call the Normandy Peninsula
the triangle lying between Cherbourg,
Avranches and Caen.
xAH
The capture of Caen is a big step
forward: the capture of La Haye du
Puts is lesser step: but they are only
steps. If opportunity continues to smile
In the Caen area Gen. Dempsey's and
British Amy may be able to do such
damage to the enemy as will give us .
real chance to improve our positions to
the southwest.
In any case, 1t would seem highly
probable that our next major move after
exploiting our gains at Caen will be
some sort of advance from the center
Of the present front, where our bridge
head Is fairly deep, and where We can
strike either southeast in the general
direction of Falaise with view to fur
ther cutting up the German forces in
the Caen area, or southwest behind
st. Lo and Periers to cut OF the Ger
mans still opposing the American ad-
vance on the west.
The gaining Of more room for maneu-
yer and supply, Of a secure foothold
from which to set ourselves for major
effort is our immediate purpose. OF
course, the greater the damage We can
do to the enemy In the process, the
more quickly we can get our fghting
room and the better use We can make
Of 1t when We get 1t. At the moment
our holdings are too small to justify
the taking OF risks which our COM
manders might quite readily assume II
they were more securely emplaced.
(copyrisht 1914. New York Tribune Ins)
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This Changing World
By Consfassjxs Bro,rs

Vice President Wallace has just re-
turned to this country from q visit to
China, where he played the role Of tonic
giver to Qeneralissimo Chang Kai-shek,
leader Of the Chinese armies and presi-
dent Of the republic which for seven
long years has waged q brave battle
against the Japanese.
II the Vice President-who accord
ing to news dispatches from Chungking,
played well the part OF good will am
oassador-were to drop down to Mexico
and carry with him, not nice words,
but actually his bottle OF milk for
everybody, he would be the most well
come person the United States has
ever sent across the Rio Orande.
For our neishboring country Il in the
throes OF = serious food shortage, which,
unless remedied In the near future, may
have political repercussions which ma
turally would be felt In our own country.
1t appears that there is more cash
money In Mexico today than ever in It's
history. The race tracks are crowded;
the night clubs are doing roaring bvsi-
ness, and the hotels are packed with Wis
itors. There is plenty of champagne and
French perfumes and silk and nylon
stockings.
But milk, butter, vegetables, meat and
the other necessities are scarce, and
only those with the ability to buy
caviar can obtain them. The rank
and file OF Mexico's great population is
unable to obtain these "luxuries" La
Dor. as always, is cheap, and the small
income Of the working classes is not
sufIicient.
Unrest is spreading throughout the
republic, and only last week end all
business establishments with the ex-
ception of drug stores and government
buildings in the border town of Ma
tamoros were closed as q result OF q
"do-nothing" strike as agriculture
business and labor protested the Mexi-
can cotton price-freeze policy. Resi-
dents Of the town asserted the price
fixed by the government for cotton in
that area was lower than for other
sections Of the country.
The expectation of food products to
the United States last year and this
year has been one of the contributing
causes OF the rising dissension. The
influx Of cash from America, was, Of
course, welcome, but when thousands
of tourists from this country entered
Mexico and drove up the price of even
ordinary classes Of food, the result was
hot so welcome
Every effort Is now being made by
both Washington and Mexico City to
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discourage the tourist trade and to hold
travel down to essential trips. With
the money derived from the sale Of
products to the United States, or from
the spending Of the visitors, or even
from repatriated investments formerly
held abroad, Mexico has had to turn
around and buy cattle from Guatemala
and especially Nicaragua. Cereals have
to be brought In from - far away Is
Argentina, and even Canada has at
tempted to help the situation by fur
nishtng some grain.
Last winter the Mexican government
drafted elaborate plans for the exporta.
tion OF 800, 100000 pesos (about &c., ,000-
00O worth OF foodstu6s, but the plans
fell through because Of transportation
dimculties, according to Finance Minis
ter Francisco Suarez. who Is head Of the
Mexican delegation to the Breton
Woods monetary conference. suarez
was In charge Of Mexico's problems Of
trade, exchange and the standard Of
living last winter.
With the crisis rapidly approaching 4
climax. 1t is significant that Mexican
Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and
American Secretary Of Agriculture
Wickard have been paying visits to the
capitals Of their respective neighbor
countries. Each Of them made the trip
with only one thought In mind-im-
provement Of a situation which could
become something serious.
Mexico has suffered from civil war
and insurrection since achieving its
independence from Spain early in the
10Th Century, and any revolution against
the regime of President Avila Camacho
at this time would be highly undesir-
able. Mexico City could stage a pretty
tumultuous demonstration at the drop
of the hat against Avila Camacho,
Suarez, or even the United States, be-
cause the public blames this country for
It's high prices and the resultant dis
organization and hardships
Since the middle Of March the ex-
port permits formerly required for the
sale of goods out of the United States
were abolished for a number of
countries, but Mexico preferred to 60
on with rather close control exercised
by the American and Mexican govern
ments, over the actual exports of this
country to Mexico. This system is
managed in Mexico by Villa Michel, who
came to Washington with Foreign Min
lister Padilla last week to see what could
be done about the food supplies which
could be spared from the United States,
because it is food-not words-that the
MexicanS want most.
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Questions Mr.. Mellett
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Lowell Mellett, in his column in The
Star OF July 6, stated: IT don't believe
those OF us who keep harping on the
subject Of leadership are misjudging the
country's state of mind" The people,
he contended, are "disregarding the
tparty) platform" and focusing their
thoughts on the man nominated. And
by the people Of America, am not re-
ferring merely to the Walter Lippmanns
and other serious students of public af-
fairs" he explained. II am referring to
the great mass of us who instinctively
recognize the need for strong, compe-
tent leadership In these desperate
times
But here in Washington, the seat of
the Federal Government, where the
great majority Of people are directly Or
indirectly dependent on the Government
payrolls-and many of them owe their
jobs to continuation OF the incumbent
administration in office-the appear
ance of President Roosevelt upon the
screen In the local theaterS, for instance.
draws but polite applause-if any at ALL
Does Mr.. Mellett deduce from this
fact that the people Of Washington
transient and/or native-do not find in
Mr. Roosevelt the strong, competent
leadership" needed 'in these desperate
times?"
PHILIP LIGHTFOOT WORMELEY w.
Appreciation for Editorial
To the Editor Of The Star:
Will you please let me make some
what belated expression of appreciation
of your editorial entitled Bishop Flint"
in The Star for June IS?
am sure that many Methodists in
Washington read it with keen apprecia-
ton.
DEETS PICKETT,
Research Secretary, Board of Tenn
perance, The Methodist Church.
Two Correspondents Criticized
To the Editor of The Star:
I don't often write to newspapers,
but have seen the names Of Edmund
| K. Goldsborough and j. j. Sperry in
your paper almost every day and I
wonder why they do it.
They seem pitiful to me in their re-
peated harangues against our President.
They have the right to express opinions
and all that freedom of press means,
but these two men haven't the gumption
to see that no one gives continental
what they think.
And nobody cares what / think.
But they predict n Dewey morning"
on November Z, 1914.
As they and mean nothing in pre-
diction, I predict:
Z. K. q. and ]. J. 8. will be all wet"
on November Z. 1914. and 30 will be
Dewey" WREN.
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Letters to The Star
Dewey and Churchill Judged for
Oratorical Skill
To the Editor of The star:

To the Editor of The star:
Oratory Is something more than fine
speaking or mellinuous rhetoric. It u
the art. Of persuasion by oral speech.
Paraphrasing Paul's famous letter to the
Corinthians, 1t truly can be said that II
q man speak with the tongues Of men
and of angels and hath not logic, 1t
profiteth nothing. Therefore, the ac-
ceptanoe speech Of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey cannot be considered rs . speci-
men Of oratory.
Mr.. Dewey began by declaring that
he was In favor Of the speedy and sue
cessful ending of the war and an early
return OF our soldier and sailor boys.
We hope there was no one In the Chi
cago Stadium who was not already per-
suaded on this point before the candi-
date began his speech. II there were
any such, they should have been taken
into custody as alien enemies. Then
the Governor expressed the hope that
upon their return our fighting men
would find jobs at proper wage. So
hope we all, Republicans or Democrats.
Mr.. Dewey advertised his opposition to
one-man government and 1t is fair to
assume that all his hearers were Of like
mind.
When Winston Churchill was a few
years younger than Mr.. Dewey is now
and member of Campbell Banner
mans cabinet, he was in the habit of
making prettily constructed speeches
which failed to bring his hearers to his
way OF thinking Commenting upon
these speeches Lord Balfour remarked
that: Winston fires heavy but hardly
mobile guns of argument" The whole
world knows how persuasive or oratori-
cal Mr.. Churchills speeches are today.
Mr.. Dewey in his early middle age Of
AZ years should profit by the Churchill
example. HYACINTHE RINGROSE.
New York.
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Guards Chapel

The Guards Chapel was an unpre-
tending little place Of worship, rel
atively unimportant building. Only
the frankly indiscriminate charac-
ter Of robot bombing can be cited to
explain why 1t should have been
blasted to bits on q Sunday morning
when just a few people-about two
hundred ofiicers and men Of the
brigade so dearly loved by A. A.
Mines Christopher Robin-were
available to be killed or injured at
prayer within its walls.
Visitors from America in the old
days before the war went to the tiny
military church through Birdcage
Walk, shadowed passageway
named from an aviary long ago
maintained on the south side of St.
James Park by the Stuart sover-
eigns. Storey's gate was at the east
end, the Wellington Barracks, built
in 1884 and called for the Victor of
Waterloo, whose assassination Ma
poleon Bonaparte at Saint Helena
so ardently desired, at the west. The
interior of the chapel was recon-
structed under the management of
G. E. Street in 1877. It was simple,
plain and suited to the needs of the
troops on duty at Buckingham
Palace
Probably Christopher Robins
Alice was married under the roof
through which the bomb came Sun
day morning-that is, if indeed she
did wed the anonymous Guardsman
who, perhaps in anticipation, told
her "a soldiers life is terrible hard"
The period Of Mr.. Milne has been
pretty thoroughly mangled, but it
never will be replaced completely by
any other period so long as it is
gratefully remembered. Meanwhile,
the Chapel of the Household Bri-
gade is Just another sacrifice paid
out for eventual victory and peace.
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bulk Of the enemy still stands before
our British, Canadian and American
armies and the crucial part of the
struggle-the effort to scatter the
Nazis and cut them to pieces-there-
fore remains to be fought in France.
It il almost certain. in the circum-
stances, that the bitterest and blood
lest battles are yet to come, a fact
that should dampen any tendency to
be overoptimistic or to feel that the
war is already as good as won.
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Certain relief from the heat NAV
be had by thinking about how cold
1t probably will be next January.
But there is no comfort in con-
slderlng how much it will cost to
keep tolerably warm in midwinter.
What's wanted is little sweet rea-
Sonableness on the part of those
who fix up the annual quotas of
different sorts of weather.