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structive conservative, seeking objec-
tiyes well within reasonable range
and not attempting to deceive any
body regarding the feasibility Of
utopias attained without effort or
price. As Governor General of
Puerto Rico and OF the Philippines
he earned the compliments Of au-
thorities competent to Judge the
fruitful efficiency Of his effort.
So, too, in the Army, whether as
mere lieutenant or as q brigadier
general, Theodore Junior deserved
and received the commendation of
superiors qualified to appraise him
accurately and without regard for
his connections. He never was "just
another Roosevelt" His complete
contempt for personal danger" was
a legend with the troops he led as
well as among his fellow ofIicers. He
was in the Meuse- -Argonne drive in
1918 and took part in the invasions
OF Sicily, Italy and France in the
present war. It was inevitable that
he should be wounded repeatedly
and something Of 4 miracle that
finally he died what curiously is
termed "a natural death" on the
f1ghting front in Normandy. He had
his much-loved volume Of Shake
speare with him at the end and in
1t was the line: He is a soldier fit
to- stand by Caesar"
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On the Record
By Dorothy Thombson

This Is the first OF ttDo articles by
Miss Thompson discussing the DO
hticdl effect Of the Russian advance
across Poland. The second Diu ap-
pear Monday.
Within . fortnight or 50. we may
expect TO learn that Russian troops
are on the soil Of that part Of Poland
which Is uncontested, and that the
Russian war will be won in this terri
tory-as the Anglo American war
against Germany will be won in France.
In the case Of Poland this fact car
ries with 1t great political consequences.
The liberation Of Poland will be, In
effect. the liberation Of Europe, and
viii open the gates to the heart of
Germany. In the situation the con-
tinued deadlock In relations between
the Russian government and the Polish
government-in-exile In London must
reach an immediate solution. II any
solution Is ever to be formed For It
Is obvious that the Soviet government
Is In q position to all but dictate terms
to Poland.
What do they want to dictate-if
anything?
The frontier demands of the soviets
are well known. They have announced
them openly but even In this question
1t Is not generally known whether COM
promises are not possible.
The more delicate question, however,
is the political one. Do the soviets
favor genuinely independent Poland?
Is their object a sovietized Poland?
WHAT type OF government will they
recoR6lDe? Who will choose the MEM
bers~of. that government-the Soviet
Union? Have the Soviets not already
set up q provisional government in the
Union Of Polish Patriots In Moscow?
AH+
Two men went to Moscow to ask Just
such questions and obtained clear and
definite answers to them. One Of them,
Father Orlemsnski has been unable to
speak because of the discipline Of his
church, though that this chapter is not
yet closed is revealed by the report that
he will 60 to the Vatican
But the companion of his mission to
Moscow, Prof. Oscar Lange Of Chicago
also knows the answers, and II he has
not spoken 1t Is obvious that he has
chosen to carry his information to Polish
and American diplomatic headquarters
rather than risk being accused Of making
propaganda. It is known, for instance
that he had q prolonged conversation
with the Polish Prime Minister, Stanis-
law Mikola jczyk. when the latter was
recently in the United States and that
the Prime Minister was greatly i'm
pressed.
But time Is running short. The sensa- :
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This Changing World
By Cessfssslss DroaeS

Gen. Esenhower's Monday forecast Of
Kong and bitter fighting before fnal
victory should serve a suf8cient warn.
Ing to the people Of this country asainst
counting an early triumph althoueh
there was deeply optimistic tone ex.
pressed In broadcast made the next
day by Gen. Eisenhower's ground force
commander In France, Gen. Mont
gomery.
The American general pointed out
tnat the Germans, with their backs to
the wall, win fight back harder than
ever. Gen. Montgomery asserted that
our gains Tin Normandy have been
dennite and concrete !. We have given
the Germans . tremendous pounding.
We are firm and secure"
There y no doubt that the Allies have
made an excellent showing thus far Ia
the INVASION. A beachhead has been
establshed and more than 5000 Ger
mans nave been taken prisoner and
countless other Thousands have been
Klued. But 1t must not be overlooked
tnat Hitler and his chieftains fully
realize that their doom is sealed II they
are unable to halt the Allies before the
interior Of France ID reached.
Events since D-day have shown pretty
clearly that Htler-by placing his chief
strategist, Marshal Rommel, In France
WAS determined to stop US at all costs.
=
Thus Tar our high command has out
maneuvered and outguessed Rommel.
When the invading forces hit the
beaches In strength in other sectors the
German desert fox" shifted troops to
meet the occasion. but he always left
the pick Of his men at Caen, where he
faced Gen. Montgomery, his bitter rival
OF battles In North Africa. To the west
OF Caen, where the Americans were
nght1ng, Rommel concentrated his sec
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ondary forces, consistine largely Of
OSechs. poles, Russians and French.
They were good troops, but not his best.
Warrington military observers ray
this may partly explain why the Dritish
and Canadians have had such q dif3,c,ilt
time around CAen. Although large re.
inforcements have reached Gen. Mont
gonery, he has not yet been able TO push
the Nazis down into the open country
below the inland port, where he believes
he viii have q better chance In tank
lighting. Rommel's use Of II crack divi.
sions in the sector II proof enough that
ne feels he cannot AFFORD breakthrough
there.
One indication Of the struggle We may
expect u found In reports from the 'front.'
that the Germans have opened the
foodgates at Cabours, Z resort town
some - miles northeast Of Caen, flood.
Ing areas along the coast toward Le
Havre It =. recalled that hoodwaters
released In the Carentan sector shortly
after D-day proved one Of the greatest
obstacles In our drive inland.
Naturally, neither Gen. Eisenhower
nor Gen. Montgomery has given the
slightest indication Of what can be ex.
pected In the way Of ofYenstves In the
next three weeks. However, 4 glance At
the map OF Normandy would indicate
that the Americans driving southward
along q 4S-mile front below La Haye,
at the west end. and In the st. Lo sector.
on the east end. are aiming at eventual
juncture with the British and Cana
dians somewhere south OF Caen.
Such juncture in the open country
would be the signal for an all-out drive
against Rommel and not the local"
actions Is military experts have been
describing the YarAsenf mara fiAns
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theory, to be more feasible-if the Ger
mans are willing to take great, even
desperate risks. But perhaps this is the
moment for desperate German risks.
1t. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, the military
commentator of the Nazi radio, said in
broadcast on Tuesday that the Western
front Is now the most decisive of all.
On wednesday the London Daily Mail
printed . report from French under
ground sources to the effect that the
supreme staff of the Wehrmacht, headed
by Field Marshal Keitel, has been trans
ferred to France. There have been re-
peated rumors that Hitler himself has
taken over the high command in the
west, that the appointment Of Field
Marshal Won Kluge to that post is a
mere blind. The military expert of the
London Daily Herald, Maj E. w. Shep-
herd. says that If the Keitel report is
true 1t may indicate that the Germans
have decided to try for decisive success
in the west.
This Is entirely possible. It would
mean the concentration in France of
considerable numbers Of German troops
obtained partly by withdrawing troops
from other areas, probably Norway,
Denmark and the Balkans among others
and partly by further weakening the
defense Of other parts of France bv
ordering the defensive divisions to
Normandy.
It would certainly mean throwing in
what Is left Of the Luftwafie to do or
Ole, Tor such Z concentration of Ger.
man ground forces could not proceed
without air support In far greater meas
ure than has been available 30 far. 70
use the Luftwaffe in this fashion would
virtually strip al Western Germany Of
air defense. except by means OF anti
aircraft artillery-but that is 4 risk
which the Germans may think Justified.
1t would mean the intensified applica-
ton Of the most ruthless meaulres
against the French civil population IN
order to reduce the peril of underground
attacks on railways and other essential
Installations. And 1t might well mean
the long-expected suicide attack on
Allied cross-Channel communications by
every surface warship and submarine
leit IN the German Navy, without re-
gard for losses.
Even so, even II all this were done.
the Germans would not have 4 yery
bright chance Of decisive success. The
chances would be that they would
emerge from the battle completely de-
prived OF al air and sea power, and
with 10 severe . loss Of mobile troops.
armor and motor transport Is to leave
tAe Germany Army unable to defend
anything west Of the Rhine.
4 scsosfisAA ieAlJ
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German Desperation
By Maj. George Fieldinf Eliot

For some time now. this column has
been pointing out the accumulating
signs which indicate that the Germans
possess no central strategic reserve,
which means that they can reinforce
any threatened front only by robbing
some other front. This strategy becomes
bankrupt as soon as all fronts are
threatened.
We now have further signs that the
central reserve is nonexistent.
First was the scraping up of three
divisions to reinforce Italy-one from
Belgium, one from Denmark and one
from the Balkans. ....
Then we find two German armored
divisions in Normandy which quite re-
Gently had been in Russia AS Gen Sir
Douglas Brownrigg points out in BIC
broadcast, Hitler would hardly have sent
armored troops all the way from Russia
known Russian attack was imminent,
If he had possessed a central reserve. He
is, as the general observes, 'robbing
Peter to pay Paul"
Finally we must take note of the
terrible disruption of the whole Ger
man eastern front by the massive Rus
sian penetration of its center, which the
Germans have been unable to check, but
which has cost them more than 100 900
prisoners and certainly close to twice
that number Of casualties in killed and
wounded. The returns are not all in on
this operation yet, but there has been
no sign of any German countereffort.
Again we see that the Germans have
no central reserve.
Yet We must continue to ask ourselves:
What is the German high command
going to do now?"
The Germans must do something. II
they continue to allow the war on every
front to 60 by default, the end is GER
tain.
Moreover the very inner spirit Of
German military doctrine calls for de-
cisive action in all circumstances. The
Germans have not yet in this war been
willing permanently to abandon the In
itiative on any front. Therefore we may
anticipate that they will try to regain
the initiative now at least on one Of
the several fronts with which they must
simultaneously deal.
They may try to regain the initiative
against Russia but the weight Of num-
bers seems 80 erushingly against them
as to render that idea almost out of the
question. To regain the initiative in
italy might be possible, but 1t would be
Of little decisive benefit In France,
however, where the Allied ground forces
are - yet limited la numbers and
efemped Ter roam, the reeaining e9 the
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Embittered Ruce Relations
By David Laurence .

From the New York SUM-
Mr. Willkie believes that the Negro
will not be satisfied with the Councils
OF patience and the assurances of kindly
men" that in some distant day they will
obtain the full right guaranteed them
BY the Constitution. Their leaders, he
suggests, are alert and educated and
sophisticated" This Is true enough. and
there Is little doubt that the Negroes, as
a pressure group, will show greater re-
sourcefulness and greater ingenuity in
the years Immediately ahead Of us than
they have ever shown before. That II
q prospect we must face. still, as the
Negroes master political methods, as
they grow In capitalization. they should
also gain in wisdom and understanding.
Because, If anything is certain in this
muddled world. 1t is that embittered race
relations are . destructive force,
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RetOrt to Wren

Retort to Wren
To the Editor Of The Star:
If no one gives a continental" about
the opinion of E. K. Goldsborough and
myself as Wren" stated in a recent
letter to The Star. then why did Wren"
make the great sacrifice OF violating his
or her nonwriting habit publicly to
discuss the matter
But then, why should such a question
be asked Wren? Consistency never
has been a policy Of New Dealers. Their
policy mainly has been ridicule and
.subterfuge. In the coming election,
however, neither ridicule nor subterfuge
Is going to save them. The young and
hard-hitting Gov. Dewey Is going to
assist the weary, old Eagle back to his
Hyde Park eyrie. The "Wrens" will mi.
crate to parts unknown.
]. j. SPERRY.
Woodstock, Va.
Evening star., 1944-07-14
BostiIIe Day, 1914

There probably will be much rhet-
oric printed and spoken today about
France and the historical and SYM
bolical meaning of July IA. But the
bare facts are eloquent enough. On
this date, 155 years ago, Frenchmen
stormed the hated Bastille and freed
themselves. The act was merely an
episode in a revolution, but In the
calendar Of French events it holds
Z foremost place for what 1t signifies
the end of an ancient tyranny and
the beginning OF a republic governed
in the spirit Of liberty, equality and
fraternity.
In the 155 years that have since
passed, France, one Of the most
civilized Of nations, has known both
shame and glory, torment and high
happiness. It has lived through the
First Republic, the First Empire of
the first Napoleon, the Restoration
OF the Bourbons, the Second Repub-
lie, the Second Empire Of the later
Napoleon, and, finally, the Third Re-
public, which went down when Pc
tain surrendered in 1910, declaring
that liberty, equality and fraternity
had ceased being fit things for
Frenchmen. More than once since
the revolution, the shadow Of the
Bastille has thus returned to hang
darkly over this land, but never so
darkly as in the past four years.
France, in fact, since 1910, has in
itself been vast Bastille, but on this
July IA, just as on July IA, 1889, the
walls Of the prison house are being
stormed, this time by our Allied
armies striking from the outside and
by Frenchmen themselves rising up
In the interior. Deliverance Is in
sight. The operations of the Cana
dian, British and American forces
in Normandy and the heroic work of
the underground make it certain
that tyranny once again is going to
be swept away and that the people
of France, in the not-too-distant
future, will be able to rebuild their
country into q great Fourth Repub-
lie.
The clear promise of BaStille Day,
1914, is that on Bastille Day a year
from now the whole of France will
be free Of the oppressor. And it is
more than promise; it is a chai-
lenge as well. It is challenge to
Frenchmen to profit from their pre-
war mistakes-from the factional
political divisions, from the class
strife, from the irresponsible abuse
OF liberty and power by intrenched
wealth and labor groups alike, from
all those tragic excesses that did so
much to weaken and paralyze the
Third Republic and make it ripe for
Hitler's plucking.
It would be presumptuous, of
course, to lecture the French people
on this score, particularly because
democracy elsewhere-not least of
all ours-has had trouble Of the same
sort in It's own house. It would be
presumptuous, too, because this
land. which has so enriched our
civilization and which has endured
so much so long and so valiantly,
will surely know what to do when its
liberty Is restored. It will be great
and free again, because greatness
and freedom become its people and
because that Is the kind of France
the world must have If the next
peace is to be good and lasting.
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such IN offer could have been made
BY Mr.. 0andhi ahows how much
water has flowed under the bridge OF
time since the Mahatrna and his
Consress Party turned down the
Cripps offer and stood pat on de-
mands for immediate control Of
India, with seditious nonc6-operation
as the alternative. That was In the
fateful spring Of 1s42, the time when
a japanese invasion of India, per-
haps In conjunction with a German
descent through the Middle East,
appeared distinctly possible. The
Congress Party then put pressure on
hard-pressed Britain, while leaving
the door open for a nonviolent solu-
ton OF its relations with potential
japanese invaders. Today, Japan is
on the defensive, its desperate try at
1ndia's border has collapsed and its
ultimate defeat is evident.
As Mr.. Dooley once suggested that
our Supreme Court follows the elec-
ton returns, 50 Mr.. 0andhi and his
Congress Party obviously have been
scanning the war communicates.
Another straw in the wind, follow
Ing on the bid to Jinnah. is the
Mahatma's pledge to Britain not to
renew his campaign Of civil dis
obedience during the war, but to
give active help to the Allies in
stead. In fact, he has so modified
his past position that he suggests
the attainment Of Indian freedom
through Nationalist government,
permanently tied to the British EN-
pire through q viceroy.
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Voice of Destruction

Inere was time when Nazi prop
aganda was poised, sure of itself, an
expertly balanced pattern OF care
fully planned lies. But events have
had an upsetting effect on DR..
Goebbels and his minions. They
grope now. They stumble. Where
once they spoke with what they
called "ice-cold calmness," they cur
rently screech and rant and fever
ishly contradict themselves.
On one day Hitler's flying bomb is
wiping England of the face of the
earth, but on the next everybody Is
advised against thinking such wish
ful thoughts. Similarly, British,
American and Russian forces are
suddenly being hurled back every
where, and just as suddenly the
German people-whose heads must
be whirling a little-are told that
the Wehrmacht is making big with
drawals. It is all very confusing,
and the only way to explain 1t is
that it reflects confusion in the Nazi
mind-and not only confusion but
measure Of desperation and hysteria
as well.
Consider, for instance, this excerpt
from a Nazi radio broadcast Just
heard in London: "All now is at
stake. The Russian flood surging
against our eastern frontier threat
ems to spill over our holy German
land. No wonder terror grips the
hearts Of many Of our peope. This
holy war must now become b really
total war. Before the peril cSn reach
the heart Of our beloved country, we
will turn this continent into mael-
strom Of destruction where only one
cry is ,heard-the cry for blood" It
is-toosmuch to believe that this Is
some supersubtle propaganda trick,
the thing seems simpler thsn that
plausible bit OF hysterical reaction
on the part Of those who have good
reason to be afraid and who want
the German masses to keep on Tight
ing out of sheer fright.
Nor is it something to be laughed
off. For in the hands of an enemy
as was shown by the Japanese on
Saipan - hysteria and desperation
can be powerful weapons. They can
mean resistance of an almost insane
sort, and that in turn must mean
bitterer and bloodier battles. It is
worth noting, moreover, that the
kind Of talk now being heard on the
German radio faithfully echoes a
grim thought once expressed by Hit
ler to Hermann Rauschning-name-
ly, that If he. Hitler, ever became
convinced that his defeat was in
evitable, he would drag at least half
Of Europe down to destruction with
him.
This was said long before 1899, but
it is still pertinent. It sums up the
Nazi rule-o ruin, Gotterdammerung
mentality, and that mentality, when
desperate or hysterical, can be ex-
tremely dangerous, like a madman
on the loose with an ak. Although
the news from all the battlefronts is
good, we shall be wise, therefore, If
we give ear to President Roosevelt's
warning that the most terrible
phase of the war" remains to be
fought before the final victory is won.
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Appreciates Mr.. Wallace


Often read in the news and hear
over the radio that many people are OPP
posed to Henry A. wallace as Vice
President. Why7 He seems to be dis
liked, but never have heard . reason.
The people Of one State say Mr..
Wallace is opposed to 4 tradition Of
their State. What Is the tradition? Is
the tradition Of one State set up for
an idol Of all the other States. The
other States may want progress.
I have learned that Mr.. Wallace u
an honest. hard-working man and hu-
manly kind. Am I mistaken
A long time ago there lived Z very
great man who was the only perfect
man that ever lived. H said, "Thsy
AAted ~ Witheut 0 eeuDe.s IAN
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Urges Post for Mr.. Hoover

To the Editor Of The Star:
Hugh Barclay Rich. In his remarks
directed At irresponsible columnists, is
undoubtedly worth hearkening to. Her
bert Hoover stands high, as q man of
science, rs q man imbued with q high
sense Of Christian charity, as . world
traveller. Scholar economist. student Of
the classics, friend Of popes and kings, as
the worthy head Of family. He is as
American as the white steps of Baltimore
and like them kindly symbol to the
way home. Would 1t not be the Chris
tian thing to offer him 4 post in tha
reconstruction cf - world strife-torn
and hunsering3
HOOVER DEMOCRAT
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Likes Editorial on Fourth Term

Likes Editorial on Fourth Term
To the Editor Of The Star:
May congratulate you on the edi-
torial on the subject Of President Roose-
velts letter accepting q fourth-term
nomination for the presidency? 1t Is the
clearest, most dispassionate and un-
biased appraisal Of President Roosevelt's
political philosophy that have read.
No wonder The Star Is considered by
Its readers as representing progressive
journalism.
Incidentally, the President in his let
ter again has shown proof that he is the
most astute politician and statesman in
his generation.
TEDDY DE NOLASCO,