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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
DIPLOMATS ON DEFENSIVE

Department of state has been
under terrific criticism from
the kibitizers. Not being in a po-
sition to tell specifically what it
was doing in every situation be-
cause of the close tie-in between
diplomacy and the actual fighting,
the department has still tried to
Justify what it has been doing,
using broad principles and general
tiles. The result so far is that al
most every attempt to explain has
stirred up mere criticism. The IL
point defense of U. S. foreign pol
icy. culled from back speeches anS
declarations, merely put the state
department further on the defen-
| sive.
| The conference with the fresh
men Republican congressman was
another effort of the same kind,
/ but it went sour. 1t can be shown
! that disclosure CT Hull's condolences
at that meeting actually gave aid to
! the enemy.
There you have the key to this
whole business. The department OF
state can't make an open book CT
! everything it is doing in wartime
because practically everything that
it does is a part of military opera
! tionS
! Everycne would like to know all
the answers to all the questions
about Italy, Spain. Germany, the
Balkans. Turkey. Poland. Finland.
/ II YOU will check the criticisms on
all these issues you will find usually
that the critics constitute pres
sure trying to force policy In one
direction - for recogni iCn OF De-
Gaule or Tito, kick in the pants
for Franco or Badoglio, telline
Grsat Britain what it should do
about .rdia G. the Jews in Pales-
tine. tt ing Soviet Russia how far
ii should go into Poland.
QUESTIONS ARE
TRANSFERABLE NOW
How can those things be answer
ed now? How can the location OF
every boundary. the formation c.
every government, be determined
at this stage of the war? The De-
partment of State can't answer
these questions and neither can
anyone else.
Foreign policy, except en- the
broadest of principles as re-Stated
in the last Hull speech, has always
been a matter of expediency, and
in war the actors. the scenes and
the cituations change fast. No other
nation has a minutely detailed for
! eigr policy set down in black and
white. Why should we? A change
in the political complexion OF tie
! United States this fall might call
for a change in U. S. foreign pol
icy Why get the country out on
an International limb? Change Is
possible in other countries, too
Such changes could conceivably
cause changes in u. S. foreign
policy.
Viewed from these angles the
writing of a specific foreign policy
for every country, underground
! movement. outlaw government or
absentee political faction is i'm
possible. That, however, is hard
bill of goods to sell. Secretary Hull's
speech will therefore be criticized
bv the kibitZers for weeks as cffer-
inf nothing new.
II doesn't. But how could it and
what of it?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOiioUinQ colt
oriais are presented cs interesting spin
inns r0iced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

1t is difficult to adjust yourself after
YOU return home After the sacrifices
that have been made, you feel that peo-
pie ought to be more serious about the
war.--Comdr. Donald j. Macdonald.
Navy's most decorated officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
by
Peter
Edison

Ycu don't have TO go beyond
the second sentence of Secretary
of State Cordell Hull's latest speech
on foreign policy TO find what
started much of the recent contro-
versv on this subject. Foreign pol
lev. said the secretary. isn't
mysterious game played by diplo-
mats in foreign offices all over
! the world.
But many of the self-appointed
experts who are daily kibitzers on
the international situation, for
eign affairs are as simple as a
game of bridge, and they criticize
| every play. Great Britain, Soviet
Russia. China and the Uni e d
| States make up the table. The
stakes are Germany. Great Brit
ain is vulnerable and China has
| scattered strength. The United
States opens the bidding tfor sur
render of Italyp with a few clubs.
but the Soviet has great strength
in spades and wins the bid.
Early in the play. Great Britain
and the United States, as part
ners. disclose that they have
strength in the King )of italy, and
Ace Badcglio, and the kibitzers all
yell. What business have these
partners bidding such cards in
their hands? Then when the Sow
let quietly trumps both ace and
king (by recognition the kibitzers
veil still more loudly, wanting to
know why the partners didn't
think of trumping their own high
cards. From the dismay of the
kibitzers, hand, game, rubber. mat
ch-the whole darn war has been
lost by bad playing OF the diplc-
matte game.
But great grief Is this just
bridge? 1t most decidedly isn't.
This is war. and it's played for
keeps.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

! was put to it to get through January
and February on our rations. I'll have to
save back this month in order to get
through Nav and June.-Mrs. Henriet-
ia Nesbitt, White House housekeeper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Every lesson of modern warfare points
to one inescapable conclusion-maste
of the skies is prerequisite to the lnva-
sion of Furope.-Maj.-Gen Frank y. u.
Hunter, 1st Air Force.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

All the automobiles in the United
States could run on methane, the marsh
gas obtained from natural gas petrol
cum refining and coal processing-Dr.
Gustav Egloff, oil industry chemist.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23
WARTIME POEMS

Now and then of this glOba
real gems poetry by out on the front or
friene or relative believe merit pubica
tion.-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-23

California's southernmost limit
is north of Florida's northernmost
border.
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"Now why not on Thanksgiving Day?'
This leads right up dead-end street.
II il isn't done, why isn't it? If it is a
GOOD idea, then let's do it. 1t is a clear
victory to retreat from a conversation
like that without promising to hang
stockings and have Thanksgiving tree.
Emotional honesty, | think, is one
of MIR. Van Dykes most appealing
characteristics He is not the only sales
man know who feels in his heart that
customers should wiring his hand IN
,ratitude. but he is the only one who
laws so. At times, he rings the bell, tells
the prospective customer what to say.
and sells one broken rubber band for $50,
(which, though fortunately imaginary.
1houid provide fair margin of profit.
The buyer, who has just admitted ne
was worried stiff about his rubber-band
supply, is now expected to thank Mr..
Van Dyke fervently. You wanted a
rubber band, didn't you? Well. who sold
it to you?
An Angel? Maybe
An ADULT is regarded as pretty
picturesque character if there is single
naradox in his career - if he is a
CAPITALIST who believes in union labor.
or parson who sins. But child of four
makes a most volatile adult look dull
and practicable Four seems to be
cross between two and az. After fighting
bitterly against having his nose blotted,
Mr.. Van Dyke will display manners
that make his elders seem callow and
thoughtless. When you conclude he is
backward for four. you will find him in
courtly conversation with some de-
lighted grandmother he has stopped to
inquire about her husbands neuritis.
You had been thinking he ought to be
in a cradle still. This is my very good
friend, Mrs. JONES'" he says, and you
decide he ought to be in Congress.
Mr.. Van Dyke is half-breed 1870 half
angel, half Inca. There are periods (of
perhaps 80 minutes) when he is so good
you despair of raising him. You wonder
humbly if you are equal to moulding
nature so sensitive These worries turn
out to be ill-founded. That delicate
blossom has turned to granite, and you
couldn't mould him with tire wrench.
Where he was responsive to frown
or glance, he would not bulge an
inch now for a cavalry charge. That
is Mr.. Van Dyke at his simplest: sweet.
gentle. barbarous, unreasonable, kind,
sympathetic. brilliant, blockheaded, and
the best citizen in town when not steal
ing the neighbours tulips.
Silly Old Customs!
BY ADULT standards, MIR. Van Dyke
is quite a guy. He is, for instance.
thoroughly tolerant. Neither race, creed
nor color makes the slightest impression
on him. He does the right thing large
percentage of the time, and almost
always speaks the truth, but would not
pretend that these odd customs are not
a lot of trouble When lie is indicated.
he will try it. in tentative sort OF way,
but will stand ready to tell the truth
upon request. Nevertheless. he thinks
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it is dirty trick to demand it. have
thought the same thing in many similar
circumstances.
was impressed the other day, with
the formula he found for showing me
an old book. Here is book" he said
heartily, you have never seen for
long time" And am always impressed
with the fine independence he shows on
points where older persons might yield
to public opinion and convention. No
fear of ridicule keeps Van from singing
his favorite song, Holy Night" in mid
summer. And no siavish desire to
conform to custom makes him
change his favorite line: ''Christ,
the Sailor, is BORN
Later on, he may learn that man is
expected to pretend he likes to hear
what others have to say, however
tedious. As everyone knows, that can
ruin good conversation, and Mr.. Van
Dyke doesn't propose to put up with it.
II he engages you in discussion. he
is likely to have your part all planned
for you. He'll tell you when to speak
and what to think. The result is con-
versation at its best, clear track and
very few interruptions from the listener.
AS he rattles along. we notice good
many handy words that are not in the
convention-bound dictionary. "Birk,"
for instance, meaning the stuff that
grows on the outside of birch trees, and
'propular," meaning probably popular.
as in the sentence, "She is my most
propular friend"
Quics-Cha Artist
older friends of mine spend good
deal of time and energy concealing their
emotions, and good deal more worry
ing about their character Van has the
edge on them in both respects. If he
loves you dearly at Sos for bringing
him pair of high boots, he recognizes
that this is passing infatuation, and
may threaten to kick you with the same
boots, and with the same sincerity, at
CHS. Like older persons, he sometimes
does or says things of which he is
thoroughly ashamed. He gets into a
Jam from which there is no exit. The
only real solution would be to be some
body else. That is the solution he
adopts. Stepping into the nearest bath
p room, he puts the bad boy down the
bathtub drain. In three seconds fiat. he
is out again, square with everybody. 1t
is feeling that would cost 500. no
doubt, if obtained from your neigh
borhood psychoanaiyst.
have met my share of Interesting
People, and anyone who wants my share
can have it. In the time it takes to
discover how ordinary they are, MIR.
Van Dyke can quickly destroy every
conclusion you may have reached about
him. For instance. | had pegged him
as lad who was not much interested IN
wild life, only to learn that he is the very
Florence Nightingale OF chilly earth
worms. His intention, it seems, was to dig
I'D all the worms in the neighborhood and
bring them inside for the winter, MIR.
Van Dyke at his noblest!
The End
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-15

There is no way of knowing the
trend of philosophy acquired by his
clan over the years, or to what in
ner strength and convictions it's
members owe their calm" Wilder
continued. "The results, however,
are little short of awe-inspiring."
Wilder described the wartime
conditions under which the Pull
man porter has to work as squeez-
ing through cars where every
available inch of space is put to
use; on runs when his call buzzer
whines continually, the buttons
pushed by passengers who want
to know how late the train is, or
whether it will be possible for him
to hop off at the next stop and
purchase a few magazines, this
dusky white-coated servitor dis
plays a remarkable fortitude. He
doesn't even seem to perspire as
mortals do. The berths in his car are
made as neatly as ever. His ability
to find odd corners for that extra
and usually unnecessary piece of
luggage is as uncanny as before.
Passengers who, finding the
smoking rooms crowded, smoke in
the Pullmans and scatter ashes and
twisted butts on the floor, receive
no more than mild glance of dis
approval as he bends to sweep up
the mess" the white newspaper
man observed. Babies cry, bits of
sandwiches and paper find their
way to the green-carpeted space
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-15
ERECTION OF WAR MONUMENT
TO PULLMAN p0RTERS

NEW YORK, Dec. Is (ANP)-
The Pullman porters are among
the war workers who should be
memoralized, according to an arti-
Gle written by Robert Wilder, trav-
ell editor of the New York Sun.
Wilder was impressed by the eff
ficiency of the Pullman porter dur
ing a 1000 mile vacation trip.
Baggage departments may dis
play confusion and uncertainty
now and then," he said. "Redcap
porters look down their noses or
ignore completely the plaintive re-
quests for some one to carry bags );
food and dining car service may be
below the standard set by Amer
ican railroads, and coaches, past
their prime, pressed into use, but
rising above this confusion the
Pullman porter remains serene,
unhurried and remarkably effici-
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-15

built near the center of the city, then
we should face the problem realis-
tically. Those people should be as
sured adequate housing near their
places of employment"
Taylor said that "the saving of
100000 a year as a dominating fac
tor in the selection of this site can
not be compared with the loss and
confusion and human suffering
caused by the uprooting of hum
dreds of Negro families hemmed in
by restrictive covenants"
Further confirmation that the
commission had submitted its pro-
posal to the mayor without submit
ting a proposal for re-housing the
Negro families came from Merrill
c. Meigs, white, chairman of the
aero commission.
''The commission doesn't know a
thing about housing" he admitted,
and added that a couple of years
would be needed to find suitable
housing, for the families now liv-
ing in the area before it can be razed
for the airport project.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-15

between the seats, passengers want
luncheon served where they sit, and
paper cups and ice water are al
ways running out. Through this
disorder and man-made confusion
the Pullman porter moves with ma
jestic aplomb, doing his job not
only we'll but better than anyone
has a right to expect.
Watching him over a couple of
thousand miles," Wilder concluded,
1--WE both envied and marveled at
the inner spring of confidence
from which he draws his strength.
When we get around to war monu-
ments something should be done
about the pullman porter"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1944-12-15
$4,000 To Be Made Homeless
By Airport Plan

CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-(ANP)-
No rehousing program is reported
to have been outlined last week for
the proposed airport plan here
which is destined to deprive $4,000
Negro families of their homes. The
airport proposal, one of three sub
mitted to Mayor Edward ]. Kelly
by the Chicago Aero commission,
drew heated criticism from Negro
leaders on the south side in suggest
ing the razing Of a SO per cent Negro
area without providing homes for
the ousted Negro families.
The airport proposal in question
is said to include the area described
by the report where 99.7 per cent of
the buildings were built before 1919
and 1877 per cent are without "pri-
vate toilets and baths" This site is
said to be especially favored by the
CO1IlIIIlSSIOll UCSduSC 1t 10 IiiO ol1IS
one Of the three plans that will show
an annual profit and is said to rep
resent at least 100000 annual
saving on the new airport.
Among the angry south side Ne
gro leaders who rose to challenge
4ba ooro am, m ono nronocal
were Robert R. Taylor, chairman of
the Chicago Housing authority, and
Oscar C. Brown, manager of the
Altgold apartments and president
Of the local NAACP.
"It is inconceivable that no plans
would be made for housing these
people who would be ousted,"
Brown remarked. eff the needs of
Chicago require that an airport be
Evening star., 1944-05-25
7erracino Becomes Ghost 7 own
In Wake of Victorious Yunks

for inhabitants of embattled towns,
had withdrawn to the hills. In a
day or two they will be struggling
back, forlorn and hungry, but yes
terday the place was deserted.
Down the main streets, marching
under guard to our rear, came a
group of prisoners, swinging in per-
feet order. They looked tired. red
eyed, unshaven. Up the street,
heading the other way, came a unit
OF our infantry-tired, red-eyed, un-
shaven. They had marched a long
way In the last two weeks.
Scores of people trudged through
the, town and out into the country
filing through the dust between
fiowered fields. They went in single
flle, 6 feet apart on both sides oil
the road. They did not look at the
scenery and they did not speak
The towns big church, which
they passed without a flicker of in
terest, had been badly damaged by
she'll fire. The floor was Uttered
with plaster from the battered arch
OF the ceiling. Fine white dust OBJ
scured the colorful decoration of
the altar and the shrines in the
nave and covered what was left of
the peWs with a snoWhke film, giv-
ing the whole place deadly albino
pallor.
Like all Italian towns through
which the war has passed, Terracina
lies exhausted. You feel, walking
through its streets, that it has been
beaten, drained of all vitality, and
that 1t will take q long time to
recuperate.
Evening star., 1944-05-25
BY NEWBOLD MOVES, Jr.,
Star War CorreSnondent

TERRACINA, Italy, May 25.-
Pic. Leonard C. Drzewicki OF
Amsterdam, N. Y, wearing a
pink rose in the top buttonhole
of his fatigue uniform, was on
the alert for a counterattack,
but none came.
All day he and the other four
memters of his combat engineer
security party stood guard with
their machine guns by the roadside
on the forward edge of this town
which fell early yesterday to Ameri-
can troops of the 5th Army. But
Terracina was more quiet today
than many a town farther to the
rear. AS night came on, not one
enemy shell had been heard and not
one enemy plane had been sighted
Other members of Pfc. Drzewickis S
battalion were cleaning up-clear-
ing the streets of the rubble of
blasted buildings, probing the
ground for mines and poking into
odd corners in search of BOBBY
traps, Again it appears that the
Germans have pulled out in a hurry
If it had not been for the engi-
neers and for light tanks and
armored reconnaissance cars dash
ing through on their way up the
coast to establish contact with Field
Marshal Kesselring's retreating 10th
Army. Terracina would have been
coast ghost town yesterday
afternoon. The Italian populace,
following the established proeedure
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Corrigan, Suspended
By Navy, Volunteers
Truman Testimony
Commander Says
Firm Lost Because
He Entered Service
BY the Associated Press.

Comdr. John D. Corrigan,
appearing before the Truman
Committee today shortly after
being suspended from duty with
the Navy Bureau of Ordnance,
testified that the engineer
ing firm of Corrigan, Os-
burne g. Wells, Inc, had lost
business as a result of his as
signment with the Navy.
Comdr. Corrigan waived his right
to refuse to testify after being in
formed of an impending grand jury
investigation.
The committee is investigating an
assertion by Chairman Truman that
many firms producing ordnance ma
terials retained the firm, of which
Comdr. Corrigan had been a men,
ber. to study their production prob
lens.
A Navy spokesman earlier in the
day announced that Comdr. Cor
rigan had been suspended pending
outcome of the committees inquiry
as well as one undertaken by the
Navy.
AS Comdr. Corrigan took the
stand Committee Counsel Hugh Full
ton told him he did not have to
testify.
I'VE have been informed by the
Justice Department, Mr.. Fulton said
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Defense Fights 10 Bal
Letter, Crux Of U. 5.
Sedition Charges
Justice Eicher Reserves
Decision on Introduction
Of German Document
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Defense counsel in the mass
sedition trial made a furious
legal attack in District Court
today on the first of series of
documents through which the
Government hopes to lay the
foundation for its charge that
the defendants conspired with
Nazi leaders to incite mutiny in
the armed forces.
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher
reserved ruling until all counsel
were heard.
On the courts ruling hinged an
important phase of the whole theory
OF the prosecution.
The document under legal scru-
tiny was letter purportedly writ
ten by Nazi official in Germany
in 1888 to Hans Strauss of Detroit
then leader of the Friends of New
Germany, which later became the
German American Bund. The Gov
ernment has described the Bund as
the spearhead of Nazi plot to over
throw the Government
The letter gave instructions tc
the German American organizat ton
OF Hitler partisans for "promotional'
work in this country.
Justice Eicher indicated he would
pass on the admissibility of the letter
this afternoon.
Earlier the jury was kept out
of the courtroom while Justice
Eicher settled a dispute between
two defendants represented by one
attorney and a dispute between
another defendant and his lawyer.
In the absence of the jury. James
j. Laughlin, representing Edward
James Smythe and Robert Noble
told the court that friction had de-
veloped between the two defendants
making it increasingly difficult fol
him to defend both.
At the same time, Smythe offered
Evening star., 1944-05-25
Nuzis Withdrawn From Coast
Below Anzio, Germans Say
Berlin Reports New Allied Landing Behind
Lines and Claims AnnihIotion of Forces

union of the 5th Army forces in the
beachhead and Terracina sectors.
This withdrawal of roughly 1c
miles inward from the coast was. the
strongest possible evidence of the
power behind the Allied thrust on
the main front as well as of the
vigor of the newly launched drive
out OF the beachhead in the Velletri-
Cisterna area.
The German dispatch said, "All
attempts by the invasion troops to
interfere with the execution" of the
withdrawal according to plan, by
means of artillery fire and attacks
by fast mobile units were thwarted. -
Berlin also acknowledged that
German lines were withdrawn to
the Melfa sector" of the Liri Valley
last evening after declaring that
particularly heavy" fighting oc-
CURED near Pontecorvo and Piedi-
monte, two strongholds on the island
end of the original Hitler Line.
(Allied headquarters an
nounced this morning that
Pontecorvo had been occupied.
Polish forces had been in Piedi-
monte, north of the Via Cassilina,
for several days.
DNB said the Allies attacked
throughout yesterday in the
Pontecorvo-P Piedimonte areas with
massed formations of tanks and
powerful aircraft support" adding
"Out of some 300 tanks more than
so were destroyed by antitank and
close range weapons"