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Evening star., 1944-07-08
The Political Mill
Bv Gould Lincoln

Democrats contend that too many peo-
pie would be opposed to having Mr.
Wallace in such role. In other words,
Mr.. Wallace has failed to build him.
self up successfully with the general
run of the people.
Paradoxically. it is the great farm
States of the Middle West in which Mr..
Wallace appears to be weakest He was
Secretary of Agriculture and as such
the great advocate Of the AAA. with its
benefit payments going to millions Of
farmers. The regimentation which went
along with this system. and more par
ticularly the manner in which prices
of farm stuffs have been held down
during the war-far lower. the farmer
reacted against him
Mr.. Wallaces chief strength, polit-
ically, comes from the CIO backing.
The CIO is 100 per cent for him.
Indeed, it Is insisted in some quarters
the CIO would even rather have
Mr.. Wallace in the White House than
President Roosevelt. So the CIO which
has stepped out SO strongly to run the
campaign for the New Dealers this year
may be expected to 60 to the mat for
Mr.. Wallace. However, if the Wallace
denomination fails to materialize the
C1O would have no way of showing it's
resentment. 1t has no place to 20 in
the presidential contest except to
Roosevelt.
IT the nomination of Mr. Wallace is
not insisted upon by the President then
there is quite crop of would-be vice.
presidential nominees Outstanding
among them is Senator Truman of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the now famous Tru-
man committee, which has done an
effective job in this war He comes, too.
Hom State which is sorely needed by
the Democrats and from a section where
they have too little support.
If the South is to be appeased with
vice presidential nomination, there are
War Mobilization Director Jimmy"
Byrnes of South Carolina. Gov. Brough-
ton OF North Carolina and Speaker Sam
Rayburn OF Texas. Senator Barkley of
Kentucky leader of the Senate. is an
other possibility. And those who hold
the war is the main issue would like
TO see Gen. George c. Marshall. chief
OF staff, as Roosevelt's running mate
Gen. Marshall does not want a presi-
Dental nomination. He would certainly
look with disfavor on a vice presidential
ticket
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Most Democrats regard the presiden-
tial nomination of their party pretty
much as finished business. There are a
few who cling to the idea that Mr..
Roosevelt will decide for one reason or
another he will not run. But they are
few and far between
But most Democrats are by no means
sure who their vice presidential nominee
will be. They are willing to concede
that, If the President should make the
a condition of his own acceptance of
the presidential nomination. the COM
ing Democratic National Convention
will take Mr. Wallace-and make believe
1t likes him
Should the President. however decide
to let the convention pass on the Wal
lace candidacy without any such pres
sure, then these Democrats look for a
very different outcome. The 1910 con-
vention swallowed Mr.. Wallace, after a
fight. because of the Presidents in
sistence. The 1914 convention, it is pre-
dicted, will be more opposed to Mr..
Wallace than was its counterpart four
years ago.
1t all boils down, therefore, to what
the President decides to do about Mr..
Wallace. There are those who point out
that Mr.. Wallace has had four years in
which to build himself up with the
Democratic party and with the country
Indeed, he had eight years before that
as Secretary of Agriculture. These same
gentlemen insist that the President
really owes Mr.. Wallace nothing, except
the friendship which necessarily should
90 to one who has given him loyal sup
port. Mr.. Wallace has not brought
political strength. He halls from Iowa
the heart Of the corn belt Yet it is
that region which fell away from the
Roosevelt slate of States in l94O-in-
cluding Iowa-and Is still far of the
reservation
There are other Democrats who fear
that Mr.. Wallace, instead of bringing
any strength to the ticket this year
would actually lose the President votes
The people will 60 to the polls, they say
far more interested in the vice presi-
Dental nominee who runs with Mr.
Roosevelt this year than ever before
With war to conclude and a world
to reconstruct, not to mention the safe
guarding Of Americas own interests, the
people will have q real stake in any
man who might succeed to the presi-
dency in the next four years. These
Evening star., 1944-07-08
Appeasement in Poetry

AppCdSCIIICIll Ill L OelIY
To the Editor of The Star:
The following lines, dedicated to Laurs
X. Pollock, respectfully are submitted
as small token of appreciation OF hel
tenderly humane plea for the Japanes.
beetle published in your issue of July 3
POPILLIA JAPONICA.
Please be kind to the Jap bug;
He isn't very strong
Take one look at his lovely mug.
You'll know he can't do wrong.
just rest your eyes on his lacy wings
OF iridescent green's
And you will know the love he brings
To your treasured Victory beans.
He Is TojOs secret weapon,
BY Hirohito blest;
Be sure to make him welcome
And give him of your best.
Peach and plum and apple
Are all the same to him:
Be sure you have them ready
To meet his slightest whim.
Yes please, be kind to Jappy
And let him have your coat,
And thus you'll make him happy
And you will be the goat.
HENRY MosTYN.
Riverdale, Md.
Evening star., 1944-07-08

attempt to escape. II Won Rundstedt
became convinced that from the mill
tary point Of view Germany could not
nope to obtain even 4 stalemate, 1t Is
possible that he has been toying with
the idea Of a deal with the Anglo
Saxons," preferring that to seeing the
German Armies decimated
Usually wen-informed quarters here
pointed out that from the strictly mill
tary view the strategy adopted by Won
Rundstedt was logical. He knew as well
as the Allied commanders that q land
Ing could not be prevented by the de-
Tense forces. The overwhelming air and
naval superiority of the Allies guar
anteed the initial success. But he felt
that the real battle for the mainten-
ance Of the beachheads would start only
after the Allies had shown where they
would concentrate their main forces.
Only few days before the Russians
began their offensive the German gen.
eral stan is said to have concurred in
Won Rundstedts strategy and to have
ordered large reinforcements trans
ferred to the west from the northern
sections OF the eastern front. According
to ofdcial reports some of the divisions
already are in line Others are said to
be arriving as fast as the rail and high
way transportation can get them there.
4 +
We knew that the German "anti-in-
vasion" forces consisted of some 60
divisions before June 6. In spite of the
heavy losses suffered in the last four
weeks, the Germans probably still have
at least so divisions ready for action.
More than half this number is believed
to- be in the area south of Cherbourg
and in the Caen and LIE Havre sectors
If the Germans are capable of trans
ferring this month and next month at
least 20 or 80 more divisions from east
to west they may have a chance to bog
down our offensive, temporarily at least
Consequently, American and British
military observers see nothing wrong
with Won Rundstedt's strategic concen-
ton.
But Hitler may be worried lest there
Is something wrong with his field mar
shal's political conception.
Evening star., 1944-07-08
Ambassadors New Title
From the New York Herald Tribune

In the list of Royal birthday honors
announced by King George VI, Viscount
Halifax, British Ambassador at WASH
ington. is created an earl It is a we'll
deserved recognition by his government
OF Lord Halifax's difficult years of serv-
Ice here since l941, when he succeeded
the late Marques of Lothian. In his
first coming to the capital, Lord Halifax
brought with him unpopular memories
OF the fatal and disastrous appeasement
policy of the Chamberlain government,
in which he served as Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs. But this was soon
overshadowed and forgotten in his
straightforward and open discussion of
every wartime problem of Anglo Amer
ican relations. Too, Britain's tall and
kindly Ambassador has become liked in
this country because he has proved him.
self uncompromising in his deeply seri-
Gus outlook on the evils embodied in the
essential doctrines of that Naziism which
he had once believed could be fought
by compromise.
Evening star., 1944-07-08

adjustments on both sides which will
permit the resumption of cordial rela-
tlons between Moscow and the Polish
government. In order that this shall
be so. however, it would seem essential
Tor all Poles to understand that Britain
and the United States cannot be ex-
pected to dictate to the Soviet govern
ment the exact terms of the settlement.
provisional or otherwise, which may be
reached between Poland and Russia.
The essential thing seems to be that
political relations between the two
governments shall be resumed. In order
to achieve this. the Poles undoubtedly
will have to make some changes in their
government, eliminating from places of
authority few men who are strongly
opposed to Russia and who could not.
therefore, be expected to co-operate
wholeheartedly in a policy which calls
for close relations with Russia.
military agreement should follow
the resumption of political relations.
The crucial questions of frontiers can
be left for adjustment after the war.
with temporary agreements as to local
civil administration filling in the gap
as the Soviet armies begin to penetrate
territory whose political future NAV be
subject of discussion.
1t hardly can be doubted that Russo
Polish unity of action on the battlefield
against the common foe will resolve
many of the jealousies and ancient
grudges which now separate the two
peoples, and that extremists on both
sides will become fewer and of less in
huence under these conditions. There
are, of course, differences of opinion
among Poles as to the future policy of
Poland, just as there are differences of
opinion among other peoples including
our own; but the basic fact which no
Pole can escape Is that his country lies
between two much more powerful states,
Russia and Germany.
The Germans he knows he cannot
trust; he knows them for savage and
murderous enemies. The Russians, of
old, were also oppressors of parts of
Poland, but the Russians Of today live
under different auspices. The great
hope of Poland for the future seems to
lie In closer and more trustful relations
with the Soviet Union; and Poles who
realize this truth and act upon 1t need
have little fear that Britons and Ameri-
cans will not realize that the essential
independence and preservation Of the
Polish nation is . necessary pillar Of the
new world order.
...4 tcopyrisht. ie443
Evening star., 1944-07-08
German Resistance

The current mood of the Nazi
hierarchy is we'll stated by DR..
Goebbels in his latest weekly Das
Reich article. The German people,"
he writes, "are ready for anything.
A nation becomes most dangerous
when it has burnt its boats and has
nothing more to lose. For us, this
is no longer war that may end in
victory or defeat. 1t is a war at
the end of which there will be for
us either no world at all or a new
world"
To the extent that he is speaking
for himself, for Hitler, for Goering,
for Himmler, for Nazidom in gen.
eral, Shrill little DR.. Goebbels is not
exaggerating, for it is literally true
that there will be no world for them
when the war ends. They have left
no bridges behind them, no boats,
and unless they can manage some
how to find refuge, defeat for
them will almost certainly mean
personal extinction - death - the
grave. Accordingly, as events close
in upon them more and more, they
can be counted upon to defend
themselves with deadly violence,
lashing out dangerously in the man
ner of trapped animals desperately
trying to save their skins.
1t may be doubted, however, that
the German people as a whole, or
the ranks of the German armed
forces as whole, will act in quite
that way. When DR.. Goebbels sug-
gests otherwise, when he suggests
that the Reich will either win or
go down fighting to the last man,
he is wishful. Undoubtedly he and
the rest of Nazi offlcialdom would
like to see the entire country hold
out with them. for that would delay
their own downfall But the av-
erage citizen of Germany, the
average soldier of Germany, is
human being who wants to live and
whose fear of defeat is not so acute
or so personal as the fear felt by
the Fuehrer and all the sub
fuehrers who must answer to the
world for their crimes.
When the worst comes for the
Nazis, when Allied power strikes the
final decisive blows, Hitler, Goering.
Himmler, Goebbels and company
may try to keep on fighting, but it
appears unlikely that the German
people or the masses of the army
will. The mood of the prisoners al
ready captured in Normandy, with
minority exceptions, does not seem
to be the mood of their desperate
leaders in Berlin. The men in the
ranks, and presumably the bulk of
the Reich's citizens, apparently have
sense enough to realize that the
world will not be at an end for them
when our armies triumph, and more
than few of them indicate that
despite DR.. Goebbels they are not
ready for anything" or willing to
fight to the death for a lost cause.
In the First World War, once 1t
Evening star., 1944-07-08
The B-29s and Henoyono

The eighth bitter year of war has
just begun for the Chinese, but it
has begun propitiously. Almost
simultaneously the siege of Heng-
yang has been at least temporarily
broken and the B-29s, our Super
Fortresses, have struck again at the
Japanese hOmeland-for the second
time in less than a month.
Geographically these two impor-
tant events are widely separated but
they are pieces OF single military
pattern nonetheless-a pattern of
offensive action designed to frus-
trate and pound the enemy every
where, by sea, by air and on the
ground, in the areas he has occupied
on the ASiatic mainland, in all the
islands he has taken in the Pacific,
and in Japan proper.
The reported Chinese comeback
apparently affects not only the vital
rail junction of Hengyang. Accord
ing to an official Chungking spokes-
man, it changes the picture through
out the whole of Human Province
and delays, if it does. not prevent,
Japan's seizure of the l000-mile
Peiping Hankow Canton railway,
thus splitting China in two, a deadly
prospect which seemed very near
just a few days ago.
Meanwhile, announced only a few
hours after the report on Hengyang,
the news OF the latest B-29 attack
on the japanese homeland dovetails
brightly with the improved situation
in China. BY striking at Omura,
YaWata and Sasebo-two of the
enemy's key arms centers and one
OF his great naval bases-our Super
Fortresses have, in effect, struck
at his war-making potential and to
that extent have lessened his
chances to realize his aims in the
Chinese theater, the more so be-
cause he must reckon with ever-in-
CIeaSlng DlOWS OF the same sort and
divert good part of his strength in
an effort to counter them.
The change at Hengyang and the
B-29 action by no means end the
danger in China. AS President
Roosevelt declared yesterday, the
outlook there is still a disturbing
one, but as he also said, the
Japanese position, looked at in the
large, is dependent on extremely
extended and vulnerable lines of
communications and is therefore
strategically weak. Considering the
potentialities of our Super Fortress,
the new show of strength by the
Chinese, and the smashing advances
OF General MacArthur's and Admiral
Nimitz's forces in the Southwest and
Central Pacific, the picture as a
whole gives no comfort to the TOTO
war machine.
Evening star., 1944-07-08
Wall and Vine
tOn Seeing a Georgian House

(On Seeing a Georgian House
Being Torn Down.
Notp stands one tDall of oil the four.
Eddies of air replace the door.
No element Is shut apay by the black
space
Where ,DindotDs once were eyes In q
quiet face.
NotD stands one tDdH and on that
Ddu
The 10y climbs as it has climbed each
spring before
From ,Dinter's brotDn the DdH of leaves
Builded this green before the other ,palls
tDent dotDn.
No,D stands one Wall /. A.. color OF fpory
and bone,
The meeting place OF Leaf and stone.
But Nth tomorroW's sun this last de-
tense may fan
In that dark hour there tpill be SOUND
Where leat and stone cry out,
Where toy, iDith shout of bright, TIT.
umphant green,
Spnrns the brick-dNst that smokes alons
the ground.
There tpiH be 10y there, rootless and free,
Leaning at last upon the Hping ART
SARA VAN ALSTYNE ALLEN.
Evening star., 1944-07-08
This Changing World
By ConsfaNsins Bro,rn

The dramatic dismissal Of German
Marshal Karl Won Runstedt from the
position OF commander in chief Of the
anti-invasion forces Is regarded in many
well-informed Washington quarters as
much more significant than Is generally
admitted.
According to these observers, Marshal
Rundstedt was ousted not because of
his failure to prevent the Allies from
establishing beachhead In Normandy
but because Hitler and his associates
were fearful that the old Junker NAV
become another Badoglio and arrange
surrender with the Allies on the pat
tern Of the one the Italian field marshal
arranged last September.
How much truth there is in this con-
lecture is dtnhcult to say. Whether
Won Rundstedt has made any direct
approaches to the Allies through his
agents IN Spain or directly across the
INES Is equally impossible to learn.
Won Rundstedt is as patriotic as any
general OF the old German Army and
would not consider himself a traitor
to his country If he betrayed Hitler, who
was commonly described in the aristo-
cratic German military encourage as the
little Austrian upstart" There is a
precedent for such changes of views
regarding Hitler and the Nazis. 1t. Gen.
Walter Won Seydlitz, the second In COM
mand of the defeated armies at stalin-
grad. and number of other German
omcers of good birth" have organized
IN Moscow the Free Germany Commit
tee IN an attempt to save the Reich at
the expense Of Hitler and his gang.
But while Won Seydlitz looks to Rus
sia as the savior of the territorial in
tegrity Of the Reich. Won Rundstedt
Is anti-Russian and Is believed to con-
slider Germany's chances of survival as
more adequate If acceptable terms"
were arranged with the United States
and Great Britain.
The situation of November, 1913 can
not be repeated. Won Hindenburg then
was able to obtain an armistice after
the Kaiser and the rest Of the imperial
family fled to Holland. Hitler cannot
flee anywhere and is unlikely even to
Evening star., 1944-07-08
RussO-Polish Amity Vital
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

AS the Russian armies advanced into
former Polish territory, with the pros
pect that great areas of Poland soon
may be liberated, 1t becomes of the
first importance to the cause of the
United Nations that there should be
not only close but cordial and confident
cooperation between the Polish under
ground and the Soviet armed forces.
This is of course political problem
first, and military problem afterward.
1t requires that there should be a
Polish government recognized by Mos
COW, so that political authorities can
come to an agreement and provide for
military cooperation. Otherwise mill
tary cooperation as far as the Poles
are concerned are in practice left to the
judgment of local underground chiefs,
and the results may prove very far
from satisfactory. Indeed, the results
actually may be dangerous: they may
provide incidents" which will make the
possibility of political adjustments more
remote.
1t should be obvious to all concerned,
to Poles as we'll as Russians, and to
Britons and Americans, too. that a
restoration of satisfactory Polish
Russian relations is now the primary
order of the day. This is of vital i'm
portance now because of the exigent
nature of the military situation; but 1t
is likewise Of vital Importance for the
future that there be inter-Allied unity
in peace as well as war, upon which the
hopes OF humanity are founded and
without which those hopes may never
be realized.
One of the last public utterances Of
Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, former Prime
Minister of Poland, who did SO much
to improve Polish Russian relations, was
in these words: "The Germans have
been for ages the common implacable
enemy Of both Poles and Russians. The
Polish nation wants to continue its
friendly relations with Soviet Russia
and to base them on an alliance di-
rected against Germany"
The untimely death of Gen. Sikorski
in an airplane accident, just year ago
on July 4, interrupted the hopeful
work which he was accomplishing in
the direction of forging closer links
between the two great Slav nations and
since his death those links have to some
extent broken apart.
But the recent visit of the present
Polish Prime Minister, Mr. Mikolaiczyk,
to the White House seemed to be sur
rounded with an atmosphere of hope
for better things to come, and 1t does
not seem impossible that there can be
Evening star., 1944-07-08
Germany Changes Generals

FROM every angle, the replace
ment of Field Marshal Karl Won
Rundstedt by Field Marshal Won
kluge as supreme commander of
the German armies in Western
Europe is an event of deep sig
niflcance.' Generalissimos are not
changed at the height of a crucial
campaign without compelling rea-
sons for so doing There would seem
to be at least three valid explana-
tions for the move.
The. reason officially given is i'll
health, and this may be the true
one. Won RundStedt is 68 years old
and has filled important commands
since the start of the war. Five
years of continuous strain, cul-
minating in the tremendous respon-
sibility of stemming the Allied in
vasion, might well have been too
much for man of his age. The
fact that no previous reports of his
physical condition have come out
means little, because it would be an
important military secret. The per-
sonality of any high commander is
a major factor in the strategic pic
ture, subject to constant scrutiny
by the enemy. Thus the Allied high
command must have an extensive
dossier on the new German COM
mander, Won Kluge. And from what
is generally known, he differs so
markedly from his predecessor that
this difference, in itself, suggests
that something more than i'll health
may have motivated the change.
Won Kluge is noted as an expert
on defensive strategy, his chief
laurels having been gained through
his handling of holding actions and
wide retirements on the eastern
front. The German general staff
often switches commanders when
the strategic situation changes from
offense to defense, or vice versa.
The original German command
team in the west was flexible, all
round commander in chief in the
person of Won Rundstedt, paired
with Rommel. an ardent exponent
of the offensive. This suggests that
an all-out counterstroke to the
Allied invasion was tentatively con-
templated by the German high
command as soon as Eisenhower had
sufficiently shown his hand or had
made mistakes. But. in the month
which has elapsed since D-day, the
Russians have launched their tre-
mendous offensive that seems to be
carrying all before it. This raises
the interesting query whether the
German high command may not be
faced with the necessity of going on
a strict defensive in the west, di-
verting most of it's ultimate strategic
reserve pool eastward in order to
avoid a crowning disaster on the
eastern front. Won Kluge might
we'll be the best man to fill the
difficult role of selling space for
time in the west and taking no rash
chances.
Another explanation has been
suggested, political in character.
Won Rundstedt is known to be a
thoroughgoing Prussian aristocrat
and old army man, lukewarm or
Evening star., 1944-07-08

even hostile to Hitler and his up
start Nazis. Such q man might be
dangerous to party control Of Ger
many at SO critical q time. Won
Kluge is reputed to be more "un-
political" and essentially a specialist
with no strong opinions outside
his professional fleld. Teamed as
he seemingly is with Rommel, an
ardent Nazi general, the political
balance should swing toward the
party while the strategic balance
could be even better maintained.