The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-20
Rv WEsTBROOK PEGLER


NEW YORK.-The reason why I have not
offered Mr.. Hull any advice on foreign policy
lately is that 1 think the old gentleman has
been handed one Godawful mess which can
not be solved in consistency with the war
aims which we have professed in general
terms I know it is an unpleasant thought to
dwell upon, but I still think Mr.. Stain will
try to set himself up as head on the
Continent certainly in eastern Europe and
down through the Balkans, and 1 just can't
see our people fighting him about that after
Hitler is demolished. This countrys objective
then will be Japan and Stain will be able
10 do about he pleases in the west. There
is nothing in his past performances to assure
us that he will turn 10 and help lick the Japs
although he has as much interest in such a
victory as anyone else considering that vic
torious or an undefeated Japan would remain
at best nuisance and probably a serious
when he knows that the United States and
Britain have got to do it for serious reasons
of their own?
I don't believe we will be able to restore
brave little Finland, as we used to call her
before she became an aggressor, or Poland,
either, and I am afraid our people are going
to be pretty sick and tired of the Italians and
the French in very short time because they
will be seeing them at their worst; snarling,
chiseling and settling old grudges by the fir
ing squad. Already, in Italy, having
truck with the communists in an attempt to
reconcile the very elements that produced
fascism in the first place. The Catholic church
and the Catholic people, the individuals, in
Italy and everywhere else will not, and our
own Protestants and other Red-haters will not
assent to any new system, call it whatever
you like which puts the communists in power
or in position to acquire power in Italy and
certainly would no tn he
patriotic Frenchmen who are, after all, the
majority, to give the communists any say in
the establishment of the new nation, consd-
ering that the French communists stabbed
their own countrymen in the back just as
surely Mussolini did. Our people will not
forget that the communists in the French
army quit and that the French nation was
shooting communist saboteurs in their air.
plane plants, when they could catch them
right up to the final disaster. But now De
Gaulle has acknowledged the communists as
Frenchmen instead of holding them to be the
traitors that they were. To ask h real
Frenchmen to submit to this would be like
asking the Americans to accept Earl Browder
and some of the other friends of own
Henry Wallace in a new government of the
United States. You know what the American
people would do in that case.
From all accounts, the opinion of the Amer
lean soldier the subject of the Arab is that
he smells bad and likes to smell that way,
and doesn't want to wear pants or battle and
ought to be let to be as he wants to be. And
anyone who wants to see first-class row in
this country need only go out to the people
with a serious proposition that Americans
must pledge themselves to fight to protect
free and Independent Palestine.
I think we were unnecessarily kind to the
italians and should have been, not harsh or
brutal, but certainly strict and victorious be-
cause they were fixing to be pretty nasty
conquerors in the event that they had won.
Now they have neither self-respect nor re-
spect for and are just lightweight burden
on our shipping and our police forces. MIR.
Hull probably paid too much attention to the
yammering of the radio liberals of the East
ern Seaboard when he should have been lis
tening to the silence of the rest of the country
4 which was plain permission to treat them
f reasonably rough and to establish, for the
. duration of the war in Europe, a boss-gov-
eminent to make them mind
Anyway, our foreign policy as the war pro-
crosses toward victory will be subject to the
l influence of internal politics. which
7 may take turn, and to costs IN compel
ing with world of cheap labor. Who is go
ing to pay the enormous cost OF operating all
those fine cargo steamboats, of ours all over
l the world with time and half for serving
/ the shippers sandwich and coffee when other
: nations of that brave new world are using
breech-clout sailors who eat rice in squat
and are paid off in tin money?
Well this isn't very constructive, Is II! 6u'