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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-07

And this is just a sample Of
l89 pages of good reading. Busch
is a former staff member of
Time magazine and is now a Life
war correspondent in the Paci-
fic.
You wouldn't think il TO read
about him in the first of the
book by Nelson c. Nye, but Wild
Horse Shorty is a -tootin'
gent of the wild west, one fit 10
take his place with the best of
the fictional heroes of the pur-
pie range.
Wild Horse is the top kick in
the book published by Macmil-
Ian (Sl.75), and one of the first
westerns to hit the stands in a
long time. Plot is built around
Shorty who, at first, is put
right in your class of firSt-grade
imbeciles. But as the book pro-
crosses, he amt so dumb as he
seems and he winds up by win
ming a race with his nondescript
boss against the blue-blooded
palominos of his chief rival, a
gent who is the chief obstacle in
Shorty's path toward winning
the love of Baisy, a gal who
proves to be a false 'un, Rose,
the hash singer, is the final love
light in Shorty's eyes-and it's
a purity good romance, even
though it sounds rather impe-
cuniary at the start.
Poems From the Desert"
(Harpers: S1.75), is a volume Of
war verse by men who know
whereof they speak-members
of the British Eighth Army. The
foreWord, by Gen. Sir Barnard
Montgomery, tells us that 26 of
the 81 poems which make up
the volume were winners in a
poetry contest conducted by the
Eighth Army's Education Off
cer-closing time Feb.28, 1943,
at the very time the desert fore
es were swinging their knock
out blow on Rommel. The 9th
poem flew literally out of no.
where. 1t was on a scrap of pa
per which fluttered into a slit
trench during the battle Of Ell
Agheila. A remarkable collec-
ton of tender, yet sinewy poems
by some Of the toughest fighting
men on earth.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-09-07

Nevil Shute's latest novel,
Pastoral" civilian Morrow:
$3.50, is warm and simple
love story between Flight Lieu
tenant Peter Marshall Of the R.
A. F. and Section Officer Ger
vase Robertson w. A. A. F., both
stationed at the same bomber
command, Hartley Magma.
Gervase Robertson is 81,
pretty and lonely in her new
post at Hartley. Marshall is %,
boyish pilot of a five-man We'll
lington bomber who has 55 mis-
sions over Germany to his cred
it. Both are restrained by UNI
written codes which prevent the
mixing of officers in any way
/, but business.
But business, the grim bust
ness of preparing for raids on
Maitland, doesn't take all their
time and certainly cannot pre-
vent human, vibrant emotions of
youth to run their course.
Gervase and Peter are soon
bicycling and fishing togther,
although they must of necessity
leave the post Independently
to obviate any petty criticism
and desultory talk on the part OF
their fellow officers.
All that doesn't do their bios
soming romance any good, and
in the age-old manner of OBJ
stacle- bestrewn romantic paths,
Peter and Gervase come to the
Nfork in the road and part.
Flight Lieutenant Marshall
becomes listless and sloppy in
his flying, sharp hammered with
his loyal crew. Section Officer
Robertson gets a taste Of sleep
less nights and Nightmares deal
ing with Peters death over Ger
many. -
How the two make up their
differences-while Peter is in
his flax riddled plane over Ger
many and Gervase is in the con-
troll tower at Hartley - is a
thrill.
The story is as simple as that,
but what makes it swell reading
is the way it's told. Adding to
the pleasant, tender story are
the word pictures of the English
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Air Power Limitations

be largely that of British Prime Min
lister Churchill after conferences with
President Roosevelt in which the lat
ter's viewpoint has not always proved
persuasive.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Churchill
told the world in May. 1913, that It
was worth while trying the expert
ment" of attempting to knock out an
enemy by air power provided other
measures were not excluded. But this
sort of approach may have delayed or
upset our own manpower plans. Ger
tainly there were military men of ex-
perience who shook their heads when
Mr. Churchill made that speech They
pointed out that air power can do great
things. but they feared i. could not
alone knock out an enemy. Since that
time air power has had ample oppor-
tunity to demonstrate its effectiveness,
though the air enthusiasts always in
sist they never have enough air power
Conceivably no commander ever has
enough of everything he would like to
have.
The world, however, is witnessing
many evidences of the inability of air
power to prove decisive. The Casino
case is an example. Also it now is ad-
mitted by an Raj spokesman in Lon
don dispatches that, with all the bomb
ing that has been done on Berlin al
ready, so out of 103 priority indus
trial targets in Berlin remain "un-
touched" and that Is more are "only
damaged" leaving % targets that &C
tually have been demolished The rs
targets now have been turned over to
the American air forces to destroy by
daylight precision bombing.
There has been unquestionably to
date great achievement by air power,
and nobody is disparaging its use. But
it may well be asked whether the over
emphasis or disproportion in manpower
utilized for air has not interfered with
the proper development of large in
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Gould Lincoln

solidly against Mr.. Willkie and in favor
Of other candidates.
Mr.. Stassen has supported foreign
policies similar to those advanced by
Mr.. Willkie. AS between the two men,
however, Mr.. Stassen will get the votes
OF the isolationists and near-isolation-
lists. First, because these people figure
that Mr.. Willkie has let them down.
Second. because they feel they can
strike at Mr.. Willkie, who has chance
for the presidential nomination,
through Mr.. Stassen. who has COM
paratively little chance.
The Nebraska primary results are
not binding upon the delegates sent
to the national conventions There
exists a certain moral obligation upon
the delegates to vote for the victors-
but it is not an obligation that is always
carried out. So Mr. Willkie may win
in the preference primary and still
not get the votes of the majority of
the Nebraska delegation-15 in number.
Indeed, one slate of delegates has an
nounced 1t will not be guided by the
results of the primary. This is the
slate that may vote for Gov. Griswold
on the first ballot as "favorite son"
candidate. At bottom this State is
anti-Willkie. Some of its members
are for Gov. Bricker.
A second slate is known as the Stas-
sen slate. This slate, however, has
announced 1t will support-for a while
at least-the victor in the preference
primary. At heart those delegate can
didates are known to be for other can
didates than Mr.. Willkie-most of them
for Gov. Dewey. Several delegate can
didates are running independently, and
some of them are for Mr.. Willkie and
have so stated.
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as one OF the second-string or even dark
horse candidates for the Republican
presidential nomination. If Mr.. Willkie
does not defeat Mr.. Stassen in this
Statewide Nebraska primary he will lose
a lot OF prestige. And if Willkie defeat
here should follow a defeat in Wiscon-
sin, the Willkie candidacy would be
ditched, to all intents and purposes.
The Nebraska primary falls on April IL.
just one week after the primary in
Wisconsin. What happens in the latter
State may have an important psychology
ical effect on the Nebraska vote.
Although Mr.. Stassen is not one of
the f1rst-hight presidential possibilities
this year, his candidacy in Nebraska
provides rallying post for all the anti
Willkie Republicans. some of whom
favor Gov Dewey of New York, Gov.
Bricker of Ohio, or Gen. Macarthur,
commanding general in the South Pa
cif1c. II the supporters of these can
didates should rally effectively back of
Mr.. Stassen. the odds would certainly
be heavy against Willkie. In some
measure this coalition of the anti
Willkie, pro-other candidates may hap
pen. 1t is what the Willkie supporters
fear most
X
In this State % per cent of the
voting population is of German Amer
lean descent. No charge of disloyalty
lies against this group in these war
times. But in the main this group
supported Mr.. Willkie in 1910 against
Mr.. Roosevelt, because it believed that
there would be less chance of this
country's involvement in the war abroad
under Willkie regime. Today, I am
told, even by the Willkie managers
that this Rroup has turned almost
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Constantine BrO1Vn

Ever since the end of the Teheran
conference there have been indications
that the British cabinet might be re-
shuffled before the end of the summer
and possibly earlier. Mr.. Churchill has
attempted to follow the traditional line
OF Britain's centuries-old foreign policy.
But considerations necessitated by the
prosecution of the war have compelled
him to make certain commitments
which may conflict with Britains ball
ance-of-power theories. Under these
circumstances, 1t is considered possible
by many observers that Mr.. Churchill
may consider passing the hand to some
one who is not SO involved.
The rumorS revolving around Foreign
Secretary Eden are necessarily tied up
with the more important possibility
that Mr.. Churchill himself may resign.
An important meeting of Prime Min
listers of Great Britain, Australia, Cam
ada, New Zealand and South Africa
will be held next month in London
under the craftsmanship of the veteran
South African statesman, Premier Mar
shall Jan Christian SHUTS.
The problem of the British Empire
as whole will be discussed at length.
The views of Marshal SHUTS, one Of
Mr.. Churchill's closest friends, regard
ing the balance of power and the po-
sition of the empire in the world are
well known He follows to a great ex-
tent the traditional lines of Britain's
Elizabethan policies.
The forthcoming conference will
thrash out political world problems
along imperial lines, and observers be-
lieve that the question of whether Mr..
Churchill will stay at the helm of the
government or accept an honorable
temporary retirement will be decided
at that time.
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1t will not help the war effort as
whole if public opinion becomes over
excited whenever our arms suffer
reverse, and begins demanding generals
to cruelty after the fashion of the
ancient Carthaginians This is not to
say that our generals, or any generals,
should be beyond the ultimate reach
of public criticism; but it is rare that
the public has sufficient information at
its disposal during actual progress of
campaign to make just estimate of
the qualities displayed by commanding
officers
In this particular matter of Casino,
moreover, the American people are
themselves in great measure responsible
for the temporary shock and disillu-
sionment from which they are now suf-
fering. Wishful thinking-tne desire to
find get-rich-quick road to victory
had led many Of u to nourish the COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
Political Weather Vunes

Inc outcome OF two elections to
be held today-one in New York
and the other in Oklahoma-may be
expected to play an important part
in shaping President Roosevelt's
fourth-term decision.
In New York the members of the
American Labor party will settle
a bitter intraparty fight between
the extreme left-Wing faction
headed by Sidney Hillman and the
leftish right wing" led by David
Dubinsky. The control of the party
machinery in the State will be at
stake in the primary balloting and
the result, whatever it may be, seems
destined to injure President Roose-
velt's chances in New York if he de-
cides to seek a fourth term.
The Dubinsky faction has been
charging, openly and loudly, that
the Hillman wing is dominated by
the Communists. If the left wing
wins the primary, Dubinsky spokes-
men say, their Communicating
nomination would prove a bears
hug and the kiss of death to any
national candidate who accepted it,"
This may be overdrawing the pic
ture, but it is certainly true that
the President, if he decides to seek
reelection, cannot possibly benefit
from this internal row in the party
which may hold the balance of
power in New York next November,
and, in all proba bility, it will hurt
him.
The Hillman faction, needless to
say. SCOTS at the charge of Com
munist domination. 1t is unde-
niably true, however. that men of
strong Communist sympathies hold
influential positions in the left wing,
and it is being theoretically and en-
Enthusiastically supported by the
Communist Daily Worker. The ex-
pectation seems to be that Mr.. Hill
mans candidates will win decisively
in today's primary, and that would
give them undisputed control Of the
ALP. But whether this. in the long
run, might not prove harmful to
the Go Political Action Committee,
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stand in the path of real victory and
which concern the United Nations as
much as anything else.
The British leaders encourage had
limited earlier last week that Mr.
Churchill might attempt to clarity and
discuss the Atlantic Charter and inter-
Allied diplomatic relations. There must
have been strong reasons why the Brit
ish Prime Minister failed to do so.
4
The rumor that Mr.. Eden may resign
is connected with Mr.. Churchill's failure
to touch on international political mat
tiers.
Two successors to the important post
OF Foreign Secretary are being men
toned. One is the British Ambassador
to the United States, Lord Halifax, who
retains his cabinet rank, and the other
is the Minister of Colonies, Lord Gran
borne.
1t Is questionable whether the British
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-03-28
which Mr.. Hillnan heads, is very
much of an open question.

which Mr.. Hillnan heads, is very
much of an open question.
The Oklahoma battle involves the
selection of a Representative from
the second congressional district to
I'LL the seat in the House vacated by
the resignation of Jack Nichols, a
Democrat. In 1910 Mr.. Nichols won
by 10000 votes, but in 1912 his mar
gin was cut to 385 votes. Hence, q
Republican victory today seems not
improbable, and the Democratic
high command attached enough i'm
portance to the contest to send
Majority Leader Barley to Oklaho-
ma to speak in behalf of the Demo-
cratic candidate. Because of this, a
decisive Republican victory would be
hailed by the COP as further evil
dence of a strong trend away from
the administration, and might easily
be an influential factor in the de-
cision which Mr. Roosevelt will have
to make before his party's conven-
ton meets next summer.
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Army, or about ] SOC, 900 men. Not all
of these obviously are available for use
in the coming invasion Of the European
continent.
Yet it is the infantry which must
deliver the final blow. 1t is true we
have had to devote a large part of
our Army to supply services and large
part to air forces and ground crews
and maintenance units, and there is
little doubt that if We could save even
more air force personnel we could use
them effectively. But there Is such
thing as a disproportionate development
OF military strength. and it well may be
wondered whether the desperate efforts
in recent weeks to step up the draft
are not in part at least due to miscal-
culation as to the number of men that
would be needed for infantry uses.
Perhaps "miscalculation' is the wrong
word, because 1t implies that the gen.
erals in command of our own armies
know in advance the vicissitudes of air
warfare and global strategy The re-
sponsibility for the dispersal of the
Allied armies over the world is said to
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Lesson of Casino
Maj. George Fielding Eliot

forting illusion that this was war of
machines and not of men.
We entertained high hopes that it
could be won by the British and the
Russians, with America furnishing the
tools. More recently we have been CEN
tering our hopes on the possibility of
winning with air power. We were un-
willing to accept the grim implications
of the basic truth that wars are still won
in the mud and that tank and airplane,
self-propelled gun and rocket battery are
all just members of team whose final
infantryman should be able to crawl
stay there.
So when We are suddenly brought
face to face with the fact that you
cannot shell or bomb enemy infantry
out of deep shelters, some of us are
likely to be very much upset-not SO
much because of the facts in the case,
but because it makes us sore to have
our cherished illusions kicked over.
On the whole, the most ill-tempered
and abusive correspondence which this
writer has received during the past
four and half years has been from
gentlemen who were firmly convinced
that this war could be won by air.
planes alone, and bitterly resented even
the mildest suggestions to the contrary.
The capacity of the human mind
to refuse to believe what it does not
want to believe, even in the face Of
the most conclusive evidence, is truly
incredible. 1t was this capacity which
permitted the British, the French and
American peoples to sit idly by and
watch the building up Of great Ger
man and Japanese war machines while
assuring themselves that no real coun-
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ton Of the underlying attitude Of
the European masses toward his
new order"-an attitude of rebel
lion, despite the facade of diplo-
matte agreements worked out by
Joachim Won Ribbentrop with the
junior partners of the Axis. More
over. by their action, the people of
Yugoslavia unquestionably forced the
Nazis to revise the timetable for the
attack on Russia. and they have
been a constant thorn in Hitler's
side ever since.
Originally this thorn was small.
Indeed, after while some elements
in General Mihailovich's Chetnik
forces began to cooperate with the
enemy, even to the point of fighting
the growth of new Yugoslav re-
sistance group-the PartiSans, led by
the still somewhat mysterious Mar
shall Tito. But the thorn was a
hardy one. and far from being cut
away, flourished to such a degree
that it has come to occupy the full
time attention of at least IA Nazi
divisions. Tito's well-organiZed and
well-armed guerrilla bands today
number about 25O,OOO men. They
are a threat of the first magnitude
to Hitler in the Balkans. and they
hold an area which may yet play an
exceedingly important role in the
overall Allied war effort.
In any event, what the people of
Yugoslavia did three years ago, their
refusal to ally themselves with the
Nazis in the slaughter of Greece, is
paying really valuable dividends
now. AS much as anything else,
this single fact eloquently DEM
onstrates that men and nations
serve themselves and freedom best
when they hold fast to honor and
courage even when the odds against
them seem overwhelming or when
realism" suggests a pusillanimous
course.
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Vindicotion for the PUG

Inc basic issue in the OPA'S case
against the Washington Gas Light
Company and the Public Utilities
Commission was expressed as fol-
lows by Justice Roberts in delivering
the Supreme Courts opinion yester-
day: I'VE are asked then to
infer from general expression of
congressional policy, the limitation
of existing powers conferred by law
on regulatory commissions through
out the Nation. both State and Fed
eral, and the endowment of a diff
ferent agency the OPA) with new
and superior rights and powers.
This we are unable to do"
Had the court decided the other
way, the powers of the District Pub
lie Utilities Commission, as of every
other regulatory agency in the
country, would have been subordi-
mated to new powers inferred as
having been assigned by Congress
to the OPA in rate regulation. The
result, to say the least, would have
been chaotic. What brought this
case into court was the OPA's per-
siStent attempt to substitute for the
Public Utilities Commissions rules
new rules Of its own making. Had
it been successful a new rate-mak-
ing agency would have been super
imposed on utility regulating bodies
throughout the country, writing it's
own law as it went along.
AS 1t is, the Supreme Court opinion
comes as complete vindication of
the position maintained by Chair
man Flanagan and Colonel Kutz of
the District Public Utilities Com
mission. They refused. as a matter
of principle and in the face of ex-
traordinary pressure from the OPA
attorney and the minority member
of the commission. to change the
rules in the middle of the game and
to scrap the sliding scale arrange
ment because it produced an in
crease instead of a decrease in gas
rates. A man less Jealous than
Chairman Flanagan in protecting
the public interest by preserving
the integrity of the Public Utilities
Commission might have been swayed
by some of the tall talk to which
he was subjected He was not.
The Supreme Court finds that
there was full and fair hearing,
although the OPA alleged it to be
arbitrary and Illegal AS for the
subject on which the OPA was "espe-
cially competent to enlighten the
commission" (the inflationary eff
feet of a rate increase) the court
found that "no evidence was ten
dered by the petitioners, in response
to repeated invitations by the COM
mission"
The beneficial result of this de-
cision, as far as the Public Utilities
Commission is concerned. is that it
increases public respect for a COM
mission which refuses to be STAN
peded into a position which it be-
lieves to be unfair, while knowing it
will be popular.
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appropriations were required. To
have believed otherwise would have
meant great inconvenience, the burden
of heavy taxation, and the necessity
for taking decisive and indeed drastic
action, even to the extent Of going
to war"
just so with this matter of machine
war. We have been kidding ourselves
and now we have to wake up and
realize that this war, like every war
in the past, is going to be won on the
ground and that infantry will be the
decisive arm, and that in the final
and decisive battles, that infantry will
be very largely American infantry, and
that large number Of these Amer
lean infantrymen are going to get
killed. Some of us have been saying
that for some time; if Casino has
Jared the rest of us into realization
Of that fact. 1t will have served
useful Psychological purpose even
though for the moment it is military
setback.
{CopyriRht 1o44)
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Spring Comes to Newry

Your father is the tallest man
To ,0alE the roads of NeaDry.
His shout can droWn the thunder
In the storm that SDeepS the far.
His legs can strdddle bitches
And his blo1D is like the fury
OF seUen giants battering
The gates of Haitian.
And, oh, his eyes are bluer
Than the bluest foDers OF NeWry,
His heart is soft as silken doUn
Beneath the duckling's 1Uing.
And I defy strong men and true,
Tt1elDe men on any jury,
To find a loDer like him
Or heart like his to sing.
The stout and tender strength OF hin,
The t1Uinkle to his talking,
AllanGlt, can't you see him
Bringing bogtDood for the fame?
Some say that he's in Heauen,
But It's NetDry roads he's 1Dalking.
In spring the roads of Netory
And Heaven are the same.
CLARA HYDE.