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Evening star., 1944-01-21

been seriously challenged. For like
the rest Of the free world. the Brit
ish realize that he Is truly great,
without themselves being quite able
to define the many traits and talents
that combine to make him so. And
although he himself would be the
first to say that no mortal is indis-
pensable, they are aware that with
out him England would be a much
poorer land. Indeed, the United
Nations as a whole would be much
poorer. SO that the cheers greeting
him on his return do not come from
his own countrymen alone. All the
Allied peoples rejoice to know that
he is back in the fight, fully recov-
cred and as well equipped as ever
to lend that unique spark which
is himself-to the common struggle
against evil.
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lsIleS the politicians who are insistino
upon making him the candidate. They
are quite certaln-and probably they
are rlght-that no issue of bad faith
can oe made against him either in the
convention or IN the campaign on this
score AS to Gen. Sherman's historic
statement, II Is, they say, absurd to use
thaC as yardstick. Gen. Sherman was
III tne Army. He was neither nublic
man nor party man. His position was
entlreiy different from that of Gov
DeWey. II the latter had taken anv
sucn attltude, he would have assumed
llfs.' mat ne was going to be nominated
ana second, that he is a bigger man
tnan his party-both of them assumn-
'iofs ne was not entitled to make
for another thing, it is argued M
pubic and party man is justified in re-
tuslng presidential nomination which
comes to him without effort upon his
part and as result of a real marty DO
mand. Certainly, if he did that this
year ne would close the door of oppor-
eunlty for other years. Naturally he
wants TO be President of the United
states. Who in his position wouldn't?
When he declared that he would serve
MS fuil term as Governor and would not
be candidate for any other Office. he
meant 1t. At the time he had no
thought that there would be anything
approaching a genuine draft" in which
there would be no connivance on his
part. Perhaps there will not be such
a draft, but if there is, certainly he
would have to yield and there could be
no question of bad faith or lack of sim
cerity. AL he has to do is to keep his
word about not being a candidate, re-
fusing to enter any primary or take any
action that justly could be construed
as promoting his candidacy or conniv-
ing in the draft"
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sidetracked its Communist ideologies at
least temporarily, has embraced with
fervor the nationalist ideals of Peter
and Catherine the Great OF q Russian
empire with outlets to the warm waters
of the Indian Ocean and the Mediter-
ranean.
Moreover, the restoration of Russia'S
frontiers to their pre-World War status
to take in portions of Finland. the
Baltic States, Poland and Rumania is
considered automatic in Moscow. So
strongly do the Russians feel that their
1914 boundary lines must be given back
that they already have included them in
the Soviet. constitution which SUPER
cedes the Atlantic Charter and any
other diplomatic undertaking signed as
a member of the United Nations.
Finally there is the United States
which desires no territorial gains.
In order to maintain the unity of the
United Nations political front the
American Government has gone a long
way Because we believe that victory in
Europe is within our reach and that q
combined attack against the Nazis from
the east and west would break the Ger
man resistance this year, our diplomats
have tried to smooth over many of the
political difficulties which have cropped
up since the Germans offensive power
began to crumble.
But as the European members of the
United Nations realized that victory was
IN sight they began to worry about
their political futures. Russia, which
has lost many more men than all the
other allies put together, felt that her
sacrifices must be rewarded and claimed
territories to which she felt she was
historically entitled. She began to
stake her claims on the old principle
that possession is nine points of the law.
The old quarrels have given a new
hope to the NaZis. Herr Joseph Goeh-
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Is clear of German troops, then for the
first time in more than two years it will /
be possible for the Russians to operate
freely and in full strength between
Leningrad and Moscow Leningrad, in
stead of being semi-isolated, will become
a powerful supporting base for an offen-$
sive front. The Oranienebaum-Peterho !;
position, behind the German flank, will
be linked up with Leningrad and cer-$
tainly will compel the Germans to with &
draw at least as far back as Narva. *
Farther south, meanwhile, the loss of !
Novgorod imperils the southern bastiona
OF Lake linen, the fortress of Staraya !
Russia. This position now can be at
tackled from the west side of the lake ass
well as directly in front. On the whole.S 5
the Russians we'll may hope that the
Germans cannot defend any longer the
line Of the south railway out Of Lenin-
grad, but that they must retire to the .
line Narva Pskov Polotskor perhaps
even farther to the rear.
~
1t long has been obvious that the Ger
mans could not hope to maintain their
forward positions around Leningrad II
they had to retire in the south and
center; the retirement in the south is
IN progress, that in the center may begin
at any moment as the central line Of
fortresses starts to crumble The corre- /.
spending withdrawal in the north Is
therefore logically to be expected, and
once again we are confronted with the
ever-recurrent question as to whether
the Germans can once again manage to
get out Of an untenable position without
losing more troops than they can afford
to lose.
tcopyrisht. 1914, New York Tribune. Ine.>
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aoie oar 70 his nomination. To the
ordinary man, he would seem to have
eliminated himself from consideration
True. he did not say, as did Gen. Sher-
man. that IF nominated, will not
accept; If elected I will not serve" but
what he did say was certainly clear-cut
and unequivocal. Moreover, there is
little doubt that at the time he was
sincere. Therefore, it is interesting to
note that neither the politicians of his
own party nor those of the Democratic
party consider him under any moral
oollgation to live up to the full meaning
OF his declaration On the contrary
tney never thought he would, if things
took, as they have, a strong turn in
his direction.
Politicians are funny that way and
the reasoning by which his friends now
Justify his probable nomination and.
which, 1t Is held his rivals and foes
ultimately will accept. has, at least, a
certain plausibility. Certainly II cat
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Broken Nests
No flowers make soeet the bouoh. a.

No fo,Oers make sDeet the bouoh, and
no bird sings,
Stripped of their leapes the secret
t,Dtgs stand bare;
A squirrel, cold-hunched, hits no,D
Uhere fedgling ,0ings
Stretched In first flight throuoh
beckoning sun-,oarmed air.
Though songs are mute, and cold this
broken nest,
The tiny architect, with leaf and
thong,
Who built this cup shaped to his
rounded breast,
Will come again to sing his trilhno
song.
Another, yet another spring wiu urge
The trees to bud. Though eager winos
,Dhtch stDept
The storm dark skies In one heart.
breaking surge
LIE 0roEen empty nest, iDhere
chill roots slept,
NeW grass tDtl 0rotD above edrths
aching scars
A cloak for him Uhoss ptnos once
touched the stars.
IVY LINDsLEY.
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Ludendorff's subsequent successful offen-
sive. Now the situation between Ger
many and Russia is reversed, but the
influence which a separate peace could
have upon the fate of the western
Allies is even more tremendous.
The Russians remember the Allied in
tervention against the Soviet regime.
started on the basis of keeping Russian
supplies, paid as fndemnities under the
punitive treaty. from reaching the Ger
mans, but continued into 1921, long after
German defeat, with British, Americans,
French Japanese, Poles and, for time.
Czech legionnaires, all supporting the
white" armies of Kolchak, Judenich.
Dennikin and Wrangel with men, money
and equipment, and fighting from
Vladivistok to Murmansk and Odessa.
Especially the Russians remember the
emergence Of Poland as the "bulwark
against Bolshevism"; the demands laid
down by the Poles-including the West
ern Ukraine, and the occupation of
Smolensk as a guarantee-the attack
OF the Poles. which put them in Kiev,
Evening star., 1944-01-21
Constantine BrO1Vn

bels and his propagandists have had q
happy time In the last few weeks. They
were much more concerned over the
MOSCOW and Teheran agreements than
they admitted. Like 80 many American
diplomats including Secretary of State
Hull, they believed that whatever dirty
laundry had to be washed, 1t would be
washed after the Nazis had been crushed
and an armistice signed.
The Russian-Polish controversy with
its inevitable effect on the American
people and this weeks warnings to the
British pacifists" were mamma from
heaven to the Nazi propagandists They
no longer needed to invent stories and
attempt by skillful intrigues to create
suspicion in the ranks Of the United
Nations. All they had to do was to re-
produce the newspaper articles and
radio broadcasts from the various
United Nations capitals.
Diplomats who hold a practical view
point are still at loss to understand
why these questions have been brought
into the limelight at time when we
are only few months away from the
most crucial and risky military opera
tions of the war.
The American and the British strate-
gists who are making preparations for
the invasion of Europe hoped that heavy
Allied losses would be averted II the
morale Of the Nazi soldiers was lowered
by their belief in the indivisible unity
OF the Allies. They might have given
up had they not heard OF so many
squabbles among their enemies.
German morale at the front and at
home would have been seriously dam
aged had the Allies given the appear
ance OF complete unity for a few months
longer. Both reciprocal recriminations
and suspicion from quarters from which
they were the least expected might
be translated into a sitter opposition to
our invasion and much heavier toll Of
American and British lives.
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AuCAuy tIlc dIHlo OF CleSe 0atlOnS are
divergent.
Some of the smaller countries want
to preserve the status quo of 1899,
although there is justifiable room for
many changes. This matter, however,
was taken care of in the Atlantic
Charter when it was provided that the
charters signatories respect the right
Of all peoples to choose the form OF gov
ernment under which they will live"
II, for instance, some Of the peoples
forming the Yugoslav kingdom wish to
break away from the union established
after the World War they will be free
to do so.
Britain has far-flung empire and
her people are interested vitally in pre-
serving 1t. The Atlantic Charter does
not cover Asia. Hence some of the
ideals expressed in that document by
Prime Minister Churchill in the name
Of the British government may not
apply to Britain's interests in China or
India.
Then there is Russia, which, having
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President Medina

The people as well as the Govern
ment Of the United States have
welcomed to Washington General
Isaias Medina Angarita, the distin-
guished soldier-P President of Vene-
zuela. He is no stranger. On the con-
trary, he visited President Roosevelt
in 1910 when he was Minister of War
and Navy in the cabinet of his prede-
cessor, Eleazar Lopez Contreras.
Born at San Cristobal in Tachira
in 1897, he was educated at the mill
tary academy of his country and
became an instructor there while
yet but a youth, The reputation he
developed as a teacher of modern
military tactics led to his appoint
ment to a commission to bring the
army of Venezuela up to date. He
won the respect and affection of
Older officers and the devotion of the
rank and file coincidentally. Much
OF his success traces back to his
natural friendliness and good humor.
At Caracas his democratic manners
are legend. 1t is said that he keeps
his door open day and night and
always is ready to talk with any
caller, however humble. He has
Travelled in Europe and repeatedly
throughout the Western Hemisphere,
is well-read in history and the social
sciences. is fond of sport. likes music,
enjoys life and wants everybody else
to share his pleasure.
President-General Medina repre-
sents nation OF approximately four
million people. occupying an area
considered to embrace more than
three hundred and fifty thousand
square miles. Under the constitu-
ton of 1886. Venezuela is a progress
sive republic. 1t broke with the Axis
powers in December. 1941, and is an
ally of the forces of freedom in their
struggle for a world exempt from
greed and aggression.
Evening star., 1944-01-21
This and That
By Charles E. TraceueU.

Probably the boldest squirrel in
America may be found in Chevy Chase,
Md, garden almost any day.
This bushy tailed rodent specializes
in batting cats
He defleS them
Not only is he not afraid of them.
but he goes out of his way to show
them how powerless they are in face
of him.
He fears them not, and rubs it in by
tantalizing them at all hours of the
day.
So far, five cats have tried to capture
him, all without success
This is the more remarkable. in that
he is always within reaching distance! /!
These daily proceedings have to be
seen to be appreciated, but we will give
the best description we can.
The bouts take place at a wooden bird
feeding station in the yard.
This feeder is made of slabs of wood
with the bark on The center part,
which holds the Seed is followed Sec
ton of tree trunk. To each side are
small porches, into which the seed feeds
The entire affair is covered with slabs
of wood, making a roof
Y 4
This feeding station is placed on q
stand about two f'et high -
Usually there are four or five squirrels
in the yard, but the bold one is the
only specimen to stick it out when
house cat comes up in an inquiring
manner.
He is not large squirrel.
What he does is done solely out of
boldness of mind.
When he is seated in one side of the
station, a cat can come up, and, rearing
up on its hind legs actually touch him.
AS soon as this happens, he darts with
lightning speed to the other porch.
There he remains intent on finding a
sunflower seed in the general mixture.
The cat seems unable to believe his
own eyes.
He looks up at the squirrel, but that
baby pays not the slightest attention
to him.
The climax of the act comes when
the squirrel turns his back.
This is usually the signal for another
attack in all warlike operations, whether
of man or animals.
The moment the rodent feels the ap-
proach Of the cat paws, he slides around
behind the seed container to the porch
he had vacated
Any one seeing the operation for the
first time thinks that the squirrel is
caught.
Five cats have found however, that
this is not so.
4 X
At times the bold squirrel leaps play
fully to the roof, and sits there barking
at the enemy.
The squirrel bark is literally that, a
harsh, grating noise somewhat re-
sembling the ordinary tones of the dog.
1t is made, usually, when the animal
is angry, either at other animals or man.
After time the squirrel twists down
into one of the porches, and there pro-
ceeds to eat as calmly as if nothing
had happened
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to the ground between the legs OF the
stand.
Now the inquiring cat thinks he has
him-but so far he has always been
| fooled, for with great speed the squirrel
takes Oh through the fence, relying on
the wires to slow the progress of the
| enemy.
The unnecessary risks taken by this
squirrel lead those who watch him daily
to wonder II he Is, after all, really dar.
ing, or simply foolish.
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Frank K. Kent

Nothing more than that can reason.
aoiy be expected of him. To do any,
tnlne more would be foolish; to do any,
tning less would be insincere. That Is
me argument, and most politicians
VnlnK 1t sound one It is further point-
90 out that Woodrow Wilson became a
candidate for a second term in 1o16 al-
though at his insistence a one-tern,
plank had been put in the 1919 nlatforn,
.n we" OF that precedent, it is held
MI. DeWey hardly could be indicted be-
cause ne regarded call from his party
10 take the presidential nomination as
huill1ylng his early statement of his
purpose to serve out his full term, Par
ucularly, 1t is held, the charge of in
sincerity could not be made against him
py the Democrats, whose candidate
Mr. Roosevelt, had engineered and d.
rected his own draft" in 1910 and
again, feigning reluctance, repeated
this performance in 1914.
That is the defense. It satisfies The
pontlclans and it is likely it will satisfy
Iiie people. In any event, it does seem
Gear tnat II Mr.. Roosevelt is again
nominated, the issue of insincerity is
the last one his partisans would want
10 raise. Mr.. Dewey, through his
friends, has let it be known that if the
convention nominates him he will ac-
cept, but that he will not raise a finger
70 get the nomination. To some ex-
tent this is conniving in the draft. Ger
talnly. it is not Gen. Sherman stuff but
tnat Is too much to expect. 1t may not
be 100 per cent sincere but in any event,
1t does not approach in insincerity the
phoniness OF the 1910 Roosevelt draft,
nor the false pretense of what is now
being done to insure his fourth norni-
nation
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UaChVOHc Oh INe ScIu0du defensive
'front.'.
% Southwest, to Pskov and Dvinsk.
05) West, to Narva and Tallinn.
In addition, there are two secondary
lines, one between the east and south
east lines and one between the south
east and south lines. OF these second
ary lines, the first runs to Moscow via
Kirishi. the second to Novgorod.
~
The Germans have thrust in great
salient south and east of Leningrad,
establishing themselves athwart all of
these railways except the east line, and
cutting OF Leningrad from all direct
rail communications save that which
precariously moves by the east line I'M
der very dinicult conditions The Ger
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Dorothy Thompson

putting out peace feelers to both the
nglo-Amerlcans and the Russians.
Natlons never surrender "uncondition-
ally. They feel around to find out
What Internationally means. The
russians know this, so the purpose of
tne article must be primarily to issue
warning to the Allies, and bring pres
sure on the Polish question.
t*
But the appearance of the article in
Pravda is disturbing, for such publica-
ton communicates suspicious of the
British to the Russian people. Pravda
has 100000 circulation and it's articles
are copied by the provincial press 81
al Russia, which yesterday was cele
brating the unity of Teheran. is warned
that the British may be up to sk,IlI.
duggery
The Russian armies are sweepinq tn.
Germans out of Russia and in THEW
]ubllance are no doubt all set to follow,
right through. But suppose that stain
should become convinced that history
Teheran or no Teheran-were going tn
repeat itself in the Gordon sanitaire"
idea. Then he would again want IN
free his hands and prepare the Russian
people for a possible change of policy
otnerWlse, why should this trial balloon
oe SO widely publicized inside Russia?
In any case, it is meat for the Ger.
mans. Let the slightest wedge omen
and their agents will widen it They
are in desperate straits. Their onlv
hope to avoid defeat is to split the Al,
lies. ' '''e al
Russia Is not wise to take this means
OF pushing her objective. Two can plav
the same game. There are anti-Soviet
forces and even pro-German in both
Britain and America. The tactics of
tne Pravda article will not decrease
their number but increase them, One
can bring on, through fear, exactly what
one fears "a'
tReleased by the Bell Syndicate, Ine1
Evening star., 1944-01-21
As the Red Army Neurs

In the days when he used to pride
himself on winning "the greatest
victories of all times" Hitler never
failed to remind the German people
of how far away the enemy was be-
ing kept from the borders of their
country. Little more than a year
ago, while he was still holding the
Red Army at Stalingrad, he was able
to boast that the distance between
the battle front and Berlin was a
full 1,400 miles. Since then. how
ever, the picture has changed. Now
Allied forces are slowly but surely
advancing northward through Italy,
and other Allied forces are preparing
to open new fronts elsewhere in Eu-
rope, and at one point-in Poland
the Russians are within 600 miles of
the Reich capital.
Perhaps of all the changes, this
change of distance between Berlin
and the Red Army-the change from
l,400 miles to 600-worries the Ger
man people most, filling them with a
fear that grows every time they read
Of new withdrawal by the Nazi
forces in the east. For the Germans
have peculiar dread of the Rus
slams. Under Hitler and Goebbels,
they have been indoctrinated for
years with this dread. In school
room and movie house, over the ra-
dio and through the press, through
every conceivable propaganda me-
dium, they have been told that the
Soviet Union is land teeming with
'Bolshevik barbarianS" and swamp
humans" But this vicious carica-
ture, which huge numbers of them
accept as reality, is not the only rea-
son why the citizens of the Reich
are afraid of the Russian people as
of no other people on the face of the
earth. There is, in addition, the
sense of guilt.
And this sense must run very deep
The German home front has not
been told everything, to be sure, but
1t has been told enough to realize
that the Nazis in Russia, when they
were riding high, let loose terror
never before seen in the modern
world. Every city standing in their
way they destroyed. With fire and
sword they committed crimes against
the Russian people too enormous to
be described-too enormous even to
be imagined, except by those who
saw them and still managed to es-
cape alive. This much the German
home front is aware of, and to the
extent of its awareness, it must feel
its conscience burdened, and coupling
this with the Nazi caricature of Rus
sian character and civilization, it
must conjure up nightmare visions
of how the avenging Red Army will
punish it when the borders of Ger
many are crossed.
Today Hitler no longer boasts Of
the distance between Berlin and the
enemy. Today-as in his New Year
proclamation-he can only say that
Germany "has not lost one square
kilometer of its SOIL" How different
that sounds from his earlier claims
about pushing forward in all direc-
tions! And how poorly it must con-
sole the German people! Only about
a year ago, the Wehrmacht stood at
Stalingrad, 1,400 miles from the
Reich capital; now it falls back in
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Blames Public for Complaints
Against Taxi Drivers.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Much has been in the papers recently
unfavorable to the taxi drivers. Some
one should take their part and let it be
known how they are treated by at least
a part Of the public. which might ac-
count in part for their seeming unwilI-
ingness to stop for some would be pas
sengers.
Only yesterday my son, who drives A
taxi, picked up man somewhere in the
Mount Pleasant section, who was in
hurry to catch train. My son got him
to Union Station on time only to be
handed $50 bill. That man knew be-
fore he started that taxi driver would
not have $50 change, so he asked my son
to give him his name and address and
he would send him the money, to which
my son replied that his name and ad-
dress already were scattered all over
town for that same purpose, and that
he never has received dime of payment
from any of those thus in his debt, So
he got no pay for the long haul,
He says also that there Is q woman in
the upper Northwest section who has
been in his cab two or three times and
always hands him $50 bill, knowing he
cannot change it-a trick to get free
ride. He frequently sees her in the
mornings standing on a certain corner
trying to hail cab. Does he stop for
her? He does not. He knows she is
carrying $50 note so as to get free
ride to her work.
II one cab driver has such experiences,
OF course others do also. Can they be
blamed for not stopping when they
think 1t Is not to their interest to do so?
You see. they learn from experience to
read people" on sight
Many other experiences could be re-
lated, but think this is sufiicient to
give an idea Of what the drivers have
to put up with from the public. A taxi
drivers life is not an easy one in this