Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
PeeIer
DEPORTERs in France tell of


PEPORTERS in France tell OF
the execution of French
women and men who were
deemed TO have elaborated
with the Nazis and of women
shorn as a mark of disgrace.
There runs through the dis
patches strong suggestion that
the Communists now are sitting
as judges of patriotism 10
country which they themselves
betrayed the days the
phony war and on down TO the
fall
In the Herald Tribune, John
Chabot S m h. writing from
Marseille. says the French forces
of the interior. after Seizing a
town, install a local government
consisting of the council OF lib
Grafton or men named by the
council.
The council he says, includes
a representative from each of
the SIX principal political groups,
including the Communist.
THAT the c ON munists in
France. as here, fight des-
perately for c6famumsm, no man
Will deny.
Like the NaziS. they are
political fanatics and as cruel,
wanton, devious and treacher-
Gus.
They have so much in COM
mon that not long ago, before
the war. some American writers
who had studied history in proc
ess IN Germany were calling the
NaziS brown Bolshevlks
But II Is fact, nevertheless,
that they were traitors Ia France
and would have opened the gates
from the inside 10 let the Nazis
IN without a fight. gust as the
Communists N the United States
did all they could 10 keep this
country unarmed and helpless
until June 1871
President Roosevelt. himself,
fatty accused the American
Communists of this when he
sent regiment OF tho regular
army 10 InClewodd, Cal, 10
drive Their terroristS from tho
gates of one OF our most I'M
portan, airplane factories 50
that the Americans could get
to their Jobs
Elmer DAVIS Of the Owl said
that IN tho absence Of more
exact information he would re-
gard As a Communist any one
who opposed our rearmlnG pro-
gram prior 10 HltlerS attack
on Russia bur changed over
night when the BerAn-Moscow
alliance broke
TO REFRESH our memory of
L the conduct Of tho AmerI-
can Communists during that
time We may refer 10 the files
of some Of tho house organs Of
the Go unions which were then
and remain today Communist
fronts, controlled by clever and
interchangeable Communist MI
noriueS. The Daily Worker IS
another reliable reference
The Communists IN France
were worse than useless IN the
French army facing the Ger
mans
They not only wouldn't fight
the NaliS hu, they made more
CHASTITY the desperate position Of
those Frenchmen who did fight
and many OF whom died '
They were saboteurs IN me
factories and ports and collabo-
ratloniStS IN far more deadly
and tragic ways while there was
sun chance Of survival than
those who. during the long
dark night since tho fail lost
hope of rcScuc and simply subs
mitted.
ERENCH politics has been so
L horribly corrupt and con-
fused that even before the war
few Americans had the conf
dence IN their judgment 10
boast that they understood
But undoubtedly there were
ROyaliStS and FasciStS Of vary
ing degrees who saw tho sltua-
ton as a choice between faScism
and communism and after the
collapse. went fast or collabora-
ZIONIST
But there was one certainty
during all that time down 70 the
collapse.
The Communists were active,
aggressive traitors who stabbed
their own country in tho back
iuSt a. surely as NuSSolni did.
and only after tho foul decd
was done and Tho NazlS were IN.
suddenly turned patriots be-
cause Russia their spiritual
homeland. was in danger
Their purpose was not 70 res
cue France but 10 help Russia
by harassing tho Nalis IN
France.
That such people should now
he able 10 hound and condemn
and execute others. even though