davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1944-03-02

selring can't do it this time, then we
must face up sternly to the alternative,
which is to get out of Southern and
Central Italy altogether before we lose
10 divisions the same way that we lost
the 9Th Army at Stalingrad and Won
Arnim's lads in Tunisia-by fighting at
the end of long and precarious line
Of communications"
Those who hold this view will 20 on
to say:
We've done well so far; chiefly be-
cause We have used the best troops we
have, and also because we've been lucky.
But we have no more troops to spare.
and luck is tickle. If the weather turns
fine and stays that way; If the enemy
lands behind our front again; if his
8th Army manages to advance in force
along the Adriatic Coast, and then
turns west from Pescaro toward Avez-
zano; If the Casino Front breaks-and
there's no assurance it can hold for
ever-in any of those cases we're in
trouble, and In case of q combination
of any two of them, we're sunk"
These ideas may not be governing
the present policy Of the chiefs of the
Wehrmacht; but you can be very sure
they are being presented, and that
every day that passes without q Ger
man success at Anzio, the case of those
who present them grows stronger and
wins more support.
(copyright 1914. N. =. Tribune. Inc.)
Evening star., 1944-03-02

Roosevelt's Red Army Day congratula-
tions Premier Stain inserted signifi-
cant sentence. II am strongly convinced
that the time is near when the armed
forces of the Soviet Union together with
the armies of the United States and
Great Britain on the basis of the agree
ment reached at Moscow and Teheran
will lead to the final defeat of our COM
mon enemy, Hitlerite Germany.
In diplomatic quarters which are spe-
cializing in reading between the lines,
it is emphasized that the insertion of
the words ''on the basis Of the agree
ments reached at Moscow and Teheran"
was significant. The Soviet Premier's
message served the dual purpose OF
thanking Mr. Roosevelt for his kind
wishes and also to remind America and
Britain that the Teheran agreements
providing for a major attack on Western
Europe must be fulfilled without delay.
Another communication from Moscow
to London has not received any pub
Evening star., 1944-03-02

have kept our air forces wholly or par
TALLY out of business all during the
month of February. Since our air
superiority is one of the chief factors
in the plans of our generals this has
meant serious dislocation of those plans.
Now, of course, no one can predict
the weather, and we may be in for
tough spring in Italy all the way
through, but the meteorological tables
based on the experience of so years
show for the month of March an aver
age Of % per cent fewer rainy days It
usually rains harder in March, but it
rains an average of only seven days
instead Of nine as in February. If
break in the weather does come, and
endures, we shall be able to get the full
benefit of our air power, and that will
make great deal of difference.
Second, the German necessities else-
where. Troops have been Withdrawn
from Yugoslavia for Italy and Marshal
Tito is having field day apparently in
direct consequence. That hardly can
be permitted to continue. It may have
had direct effect on Bulgaria's ap.
parent desire to get out Of the war.
Unless the Germans are prepared to
cut their losses and get out Of the
Evening star., 1944-03-02
DIR. PAUL HANLY FURFEY
Catholic University of America.
Volunteers Held Restricted

To the Editor Of The Star:
There has been much discussion lately
on Should women be drafted into serv-
1ce?" 1t has been stated that there are
not enough woman volunteers, making
compulsory draft necessary.
But it seems to me they are not tap
ping this volunteer source to its full ca
pacity. The restrictions are too rigid.
For instance, there are appeals con-
stantly over the radio for girls to volun-
teer for training as nurses. Why, If
there is such urgent need for the work,
should there be the requirement that
applicants be high school graduates?
This must cut down the possible num-
Der who would be anxious to volunteer.
Many fine, healthy level-headed girls
with good minds never have had the
opportunity to complete high school,
Many eighth-grade girls have good
brains, can read, write a good hand, are
capable of taking the training and would
make wonderful nurses.
l personally have employed about a
dozen nurses who were all good and
three were exceptional in their line. I
know none of them had had a high
school education. But they had been
trained to care for the sick day and
night LILLIAN L. MOSES.
Kenwood, Md.
Evening star., 1944-03-02
Paper Saver Protests

To the Editor Of The Star:
Last autumn every one on my street
received printed notice from the air.
raid warden, saying that the second
Saturday in each month would be paper
collection day in the. Northwest, and
urging us to save and put the trash
out on the designated day.
My household and six others, across
the street and on either side of us,
have been doing this. BY 8 am. on
January 8, for instance, our sidewalks
were heaped with piles Of newspapers
and magazines tied in bundles They
were all still there at 8 pm. when we
finally gave up hope of collection and
every one dragged the bundles back into
the Easements, and put them all out
again the following Monday. After re-
peated phone calls, the Salvage Com
mittee reused itself to come for the
stuff.
On February IL the same households
again decorated the sidewalks with
carefully bundled paper. My family had
combed the house from cellar to attic,
and we had three mounds of bundles
each three feet high, including several
years OF slick paper magazines. Putting
this stuff out is not childs play, as we
have no street outlet from the cellar.
Bundles have to be carried up the back
steps to the kitchen, through the entire
first floor and down flight of steps to
the sidewalk. At pm. February IL all
the other houses replaced their trash in
their Easements, but we left ours out.
Moving 500 pounds of paper back and
forth is an improbable way to spend
week end. We had called the Salvage
Committee several times, but it dfont
seem interested, yet it was the day
it had set for our section So on Mon
day morning we called the nearest
public school; late in the afternoon,
when rain had begun to soak through
the mound, boy with a small cart
arrived, and took away one bundle. BY
nightfall the paper was a sodden mass,
I could cite further futile time-con-
suming paper work. Last year we saved
up mountain of newspapers, called
the Salvage Committee and other agen-
cies in vain. AS the stuff was becoming
a fire hazard, we had to pay the trash
man to haul it away:
So you can understand why I'm get
ting fed up with the yammering of the
Salvage Committee. Let them pick up
or shut up!
COOPERATIVE BUT ANNOYED
HOUSEHOLDER,
Evening star., 1944-03-02
Gould Lincoln

was appointed by Secretary Wickard OF
the Department of Agriculture, under
whom the REA is administered, and Mr..
Slattery has remained as merely a
figurehead.
Mr.. 4Slatterys appointment is for a
1O-year term, of which he has served
about half He has longtime record
as a progressive public official, in this
administration and dating back to the
days of Theodore Roosevelt. He has
shown himself honest and able. The
first move to get him out of his present
Office was initiated by the National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
when Mr.. Slattery refused to indorse a
cooperative insurance program under
taken by the association.
Charges have been made and testi-
mony taken to the effect that the in
Surance program was intended to make
money for it's promoters and to make
use of the REA and its Nationwide CO.
operatives as political organization.
John M. Carmody, member of the
Maritime Commission, administrator OF
the REA before Mr. Slattery, resigned
that office when the REA was put under
the Department of Agriculture. 1t was
originally an independent Government
Office.
Mr.. Daniels was called before the Sem
ate committee to say whether he was
acting on instruction of the President
when he sought to get rid of Mr. Slat-
terry. He declined to say, right of the
bat, whether he had asked Mr.. Slattery
to resign, or to answer any other ques-
tions along that line.
Members of the Senate committee in
sisted that Mr.. Daniels recalcitrance
raises one Of the most serious questions
ever to come before Congress.
Evening star., 1944-03-02
Powers of Congress

The Importance of the issue pre-
sented by the refusal of one of the
Presidents confidential assistants 10
testify before Senate subcommit-
tee transcends any questions which
may be directly involved in the DO
ltical ramifications of the Rural
Electrification Administration.
Harry Slattery, REA administra-
tor, had told the subcommittee that
he was called to the White House
early this month and asked by Jona-
than Daniels. one of the Presidents
administrative assistants. to sign a
letter OF resignation. Mr.. Daniels
was then called by the subcommit-
tee and asked to state whether this
was true. He refused to answer on
the grounds that his relations with
the President are of a confidential
nature" and that his testimony
would mot serve the public inter-
est"
Without access to the facts, there
is no way to Judge the merits of the
REA controversy. Nor is it feasible
for the layman to attempt an ap-
praisal of the substance of Mr.. Dam
lels' legal position, although it ap-
pears to have more than d nominal
validity. Putting strictly legal con-
siderations aside, however, there is
reason to be concerned at some of
the implications of this matter. The
REA and its officials are supported
by the taxpayers. If this agency
and any of its officials are involved
In political activities, why would a
full disclosure of the facts be con-
trary to the public interest? Is it not
more likely that the truth would be
a service rather than a disservice?
Entirely aside from any particu-
lar case, the theory that public Off
ficials can conceal their official ac-
tivities behind self-made deter
mination as to what serves and
what does not serve the public in
terest is a dangerous one. A pri-
vate citizen has no such protection,
and 1t does not seem that a public
Official should be able to assert it.
Where military security in time of
war is involved, the case is different,
OF course. But it is not claimed that
there is any question of military Sc
curity here. This controversy is a
political one, and while it may be
suspected that the investigators, or
some of them, would not be averse
to embarrassing the administration,
there should be no fear of this if
the administration has not been in
volved in any impropriety.
AS matters stand, the subcommit-
tee has directed its counsel to ascer-
tain whether it has legal authority
to invoke contempt proceedings
against any one who refuses to an
Swer questions pertinent to the in
vestigation. If, upon further study,
1t is believed that Congress has this
power, then it would seem to be de-
cidedly in the public interest to put
1t to the test in the courts.
Evening star., 1944-03-02
This Changing World

Lefty. A telegram was sent last week by
Foreign Commissar Molotov to Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and is reported
to have contained significant sentence
which In effect said that the present
cordial relations between Britain and
Russia must be maintained In the post
war era, but should the carrying out Of
the Teheran agreements be delayed the
Moscow government will have to recon-
slider the entire situation and British
Soviet relations might suffer.
Press dispatches from Moscow, passed
by the strict Russian censorship, say
"the second-front issue-which most
British and Americans had thought
finally settled at Teheran-is now being
revived here" The dispatches add that
some Russians feel that the opening Of
the second front apparently has been
delayed. American correspondents who
have to watch their Ps and Qs say the
second-front talk is not on any official
plane, but is something the British and
the Americans encounter in their daily
contact with ordinary Russians. OBJ
servers here read the dispatches with
interest and saw in them an indication
that the verbal offensive for an early
second front has been resumed by
Moscow and that this time it will be
even more earnest than formerly.
Russian spokesmen insisting on an
invasion of Western Europe have always
appeared to ignore the tremendous diff
ficulties confronting the American and
British armies in any operation across
the Channel. There was good deal of
pressure to open up the offensive against
Europe in the summer of 1912 and 1943.
It has been difficult for the American
and British military men to convince
the Russians that crossing the Channel
is not like crossing the Don or the
Evening star., 1944-03-02
In All Humility

You must be busy aUith so many prayers,
Rising in ,Daues of faith from earth
to You,
And Uith young men aUlao climb the
Golden Stairs,
War-tnttered, but 1Dith Da1or shinino
through;
So 1o,o ,oiH not trouble You too much.
But there is this that must SURELY
sag:
Giue me the aoisdom to combine touch
OF tdther-loUe, for my small SON each
day,
With ALL the mother-loU I aDiu bestoD.
The boy is tatherIess and he lDiu be
Hard-pressed to span the coming years
and grolO
Four-square and fne-and haping
only me.
You haze Son and You can understand
Hoa0 small boys need fathers guild
ing hand!
Evening star., 1944-03-02
BodIey Anniversary

Exactly four centuries ago today
there was born in the City of Exeter
in Western England that man who
Immortality is famous as Sir Thomas
Bodley, founder of the great
Bodleian Library at Oxford Uni
versity. Concerning him, Edmund
Lodge in his Portraits" says:
1t is proud reflection for the
lovers of literature that the name of
this eminent person should scarcely
be known but as that of one of it's
most Jealous cultivators; that Europe
should ring, as it ever will, with the
fame of that prodigious treasure
which owes to his learning, his dill
gence and his munificence, and that
it should be nearly forgotten, even in
his own country, that he was other
wise distinguished Such is the tri-
umph of immutable principle over
f1eeting habit; of wisdom over cum
ming of the judgment over the
passions.
The point thus expressed is we'll
taken. "Sir Thomas was a states
man Of the first order in merit, If
not in place." His father, an
adherent of the reformed faith"
was driven abroad by persecution
in Bloody" Mary's time, with the
result that the boy was put to school
at Geneva, studying Hebrew under
Chevalier, Greek under Beroald and
Constantine and divinity under Beza
and Calvin. Such influences were
bound to be dynamic. When the
youth returned from the Continent
he brought back with him a wealth
of culture not to be had at home.
Most particularly, he was endowed
with an Unsuitable thirst for all the
knowledge to be obtained wherever
he might be. He was Z fellow at
Evening star., 1944-03-02
japanese Air Power

The great blows struck recently
by our naval and air forces at Truk
and in the Marianas spectacularly
confirm that it is mistake to think
OF surface fleets and carrier planes
as being in all cases at serious dis
advantage when they move against
hostile shores in the teeth of land
based aircraft.
At Truk 201 Japanese planes were
destroyed and % ships sunk, 6 prob
ably sunk and II damaged, at a cost
to ourselves of II aircraft lost and
one warship moderately damaged.
In the Marianas the score was 1875
Japanese planes destroyed and II
ships sunk or disabled, as against
six of our own planes lost and not
single surface unit even damaged.
These figures constitute an i'm
preSsive answer to all those extreme
aviation enthusiasts who not long
ago were dogmatically asserting that
the land-based plane had so revolu-
honized warfare as to make surface
navies, including aircraft carriers,
as vulnerable as sitting ducks and
therefore not worth the price of
construction. If anything, recent
events in the Pacific, climaxed by the
attacks on Truk and the Marianas,
tend to suggest that under the con-
ditions obtaining there, the contrary
Is more nearly true, for in small
island positions especially, the land
based plane-restricted to a limited
and stationary take-off area-seems
to face heavy odds against a strong
attacking naval force built around
highly maneuverable floating air
fields.
Moreover, apart from blasting the
theory of the land planes superior
ity, Pacific developments indicate a
marked decline in Japanese air
power. The quality, according to Sec
retary Knox, shows some improve
ment but that is offset by the fact
that losses already sustained have
created a real deficiency, so that at
such places as Rabaul our bombers
are now meeting no fighter resist
ance whatever. There Is evidence,
too, that the enemy's pilots are in
Evening star., 1944-03-02
Letters to The Star
Quotes Statement by the Pope
on Aerial Warfare
Ts the Editor Of The Star:

Ts the Editor of The Star:
The recent statement of Lord Lang,
the former Archbishop of Canterbury, to
the House of Lords protesting against
the large-scale bombing of German
cities, has provoked considerable COM
ment. 1t therefore may be timely to
point out that Pope Plus XII has stated
the Catholic position very clearly and
on number of different occasions. Pos
sibly the most Illuminating of these
statements occurred in his Christmas
broadcast on December "a, 1912 in which
he spoke with pity of: MANY thousands
OF noncombatantS, women, children,
sick and aged, from whom aerial war
fare-whose horrors we have from the
beginning frequently denounced--has,
without discrimination or through in
adequate precautions, taken life, goods,
health, home, charitable refuge, or house
of prayer"
1t is noteworthy that the Pope does
not condemn aerial bombing in itself as
a technique of warfare. Nor is his criti-
ciSm based on the fact that in the pre-
clsion bombing of military objective
certain number of civilians may lose
their lives. What he does denounce is
the slaughter of noncombatants and the
destruction OF homes, churches, chari-
table institutions and the like which
comes about in either of two ways: ID
by bombing without discrimination,
that is, presumably, the wholesale de-
struction of a whole area without dis
eliminating between military and nom
military objectives, and (2) by bombing
with inadequate precautions" which
apparently means the bombing of a
military objective without reasonable at
tention to such precision of aim as
would reduce as far as possible casual
ties among noncombatants.
1t seems to me that this clear and
reasonable statement of Pope Plus on
matter "of extreme current importance
has received far less attention than it
deserves. I hope you will do what you
can to bring it to the attention of YOUR
readers.
DIR. PAUL HANLY FURFEY.
Catholic University of America.
Evening star., 1944-03-02

tlmidation and blackmail' to prevent all
the facts from coming out about the
FEC.
So seriously do the members of the
Senate committee regard the recalci-
trance of Mr.. Daniels that they have in
Structed the counsel, Carroll Beedy, for
mer Representative from Maine, to pre-
pare brief setting forth the law, with a
view to prosecuting Mr.. Daniels for con-
tempt of the Senate. Mr.. Daniels is
son of Josephus Daniels, former Am
bassador and Secretary of the Navy. Mr..
Daniels refused to answer when asked to
affirm or deny testimony given the COM
mittee by Harry Slattery, REA admins
TRAITOR, to the effect that Mr. Daniels had
sought to obtain Mr.. Slattery's resigna-
ton and had suggested to Mr.. Slat-
terry he would be given another post If
he would quit-and so put an end to the
inquiry.
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Evening star., 1944-03-02

triflcat1on AdmlnlS-
tration, has been de-
fed by Jonathan w.
Daniels, one of Pres
ident Roosevelt's ad-
ministrative assist
ants, who declined
to answer questions.
Minority members
of the House select
committee investi-
eating the Federal
c o m m u n C ations
Commission h ave
charged that the ad-
m i n / S t r alton has
used coercion, in
Evening star., 1944-03-02

Merton College by 1854. During the
next decade he rose to be proctor
and university orator. In 1915 he
began "a slow and inquisitive Jour-
ney through France, Germany and
Italy" in quest of "the increase of
(his) experience in the managing of
affairs" Queen Elizabeth appointed
him gentleman usher" in 1888
and sent him to Denmark in 1886.
For her interest he visited the Ger
man Protestant princes and Henry
OF Navarro. Subsequently he was
Resident Minister at The Hague
until 1897.
Meanwhile, Sir Thomas was &C
cumulating personal library out
of which gradually developed his
noble design" for the enrichment
OF Oxford. Lodge explains
Sensible |" :" that the life as
well as the wealth of any individual
must fall far short of the accom-
plishment of the plan he had laid,
1lc opdiSu Iio pains III ulVOklIlB tIle
aid Of the rich and the learned, and
obtained vast contributions in money
as well as in books. Even before
the end of the year 1899, the Bodleian
Library had become, with the excep-
ton Of the Vatican, perhaps the first
public collection in Europe, and very
soon after stood wholly unrivaled.
King James I gave the project
assistance, opening the royal libra
ries to Sir Thomas; and "the fashion
set by the monarch was eagerly
followed by his courtiers." The cor
nerstone of the new building was
laid with great formalities" on July
10, 1910. Bodley himself died Janu-
ary %, 1912. He is buried in Merton
Chapel. His wealth is a continuing
foundation for the benefit of the
institution for which he is celebrated.
Evening star., 1944-03-02

southern part of the Balkan Peninsula
altogether they must keep open their
lines Of communication and must act
drastically in the matter of Bulgaria.
Moreover, they need troops for a
counterattack in the Lutsk region, where
they have fine opportunity, but where
a weak effort to cash in on that oppor-
tunity has been heavily beaten back.
Yet unless they do something about
this the Russians will presently deprive
them Of the opportunity just as quickly
as Gen. Vatutin can get his supply
system rolling again. The Germans
probably have been counting on short
ening their line in North Russia and
using the troops thus saved for the
south-but it does not now seem that
they will be able to do this quickly
enough.
Third, the Allied plans are moving
ahead. It is difficult to suppose that
Gems. Wilson and Alexander are not
making fresh moves, preparing to- re-
assert their initiative. The opportu-
nifty before them is, on the map, a
very great one. They need to put in
fresh divisions, which means ships and
perhaps landing craft There doubt
less have been delays-maybe there will
be more delays. But the next Allied
move In the game is coming, the Ger
mans know it, and they must either
win now, or must put In more resources
of their own to counter 1t. They cer-
tainly will be reluctant to do that.
Therefore, one may very reasonably
assume that in the inner circle Of the
high command in Berlin, as the brass
hats gather about the map-strewn ta-
BILE, there will be those who will be
presenting this view Of the italian situ-
alton:
-
1--WE have given Kesselring every man
and gun and tank that we can spare.
We have even risked the Luftwaffe in
unequal fight to help him. We have
put In secret weapons. We have tried
In every way open to us to carry out
the Fuehrer's injunction to wipe out
this pestuent beachhead. But Il Kes-
Evening star., 1944-03-02

a conspiracy not to tell each other the
facts of life.
1 do not believe there are many
major figures in American public life
capable of standing up and telling the
truth about Yugoslavia, for example,
as Mr.. Churchill did it. He said plain
ly that the Partisans are "in"; that
the Communists organized them, but
that the movement is now national
movement, and larger than the Com
munists; that Mikhailovitch is, if not
a traitor at least a condoner of deals
which his officers have made with the
enemy.
y X X X
At no point did Mr.. Churchill feel