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the rest Of the citizens of the United
States. They have learned that it does
not make for world peace, or for the
peace of the United States, for the
American people to shut themselves up,
or attempt to shut themselves up, on
the North American Continent and let
the rest of the world go hang. They
have learned it the hard way.
The Republicans, in great majority,
realize the problems which will con-
front the country and the world at the
close of hostilities will require interna-
tional cooperation in a big way, if
there is to be continued peace. The
Republican National Committee a year
and half ago adopted resolutions
pledgirg, as far as it could, that the
COP would support such cooperation
Last September at Mackinac Island the
Republican Postwar Advisory Council,
composed of members of Congress and
of the Republican National Committee
and all the Republican State Governors,
wrote declaration pledging interna-
tional cola bora ton
t*
With the exception of Gen Macarthur
and former Gov. Stassen of Minnesota
NOW in the Navy, practically all of the
potential Republican nominees for Presi-
dent were members of the Mackinac
conference and subscribed to this dec
laration. Gov. Dewey of New York, who
is not candidate for the presidential
nomination, but who, nevertheless, is
mentioned constantly as possible
nominee, in an interview at Mackinac
Island said he favored military alliance
with Britain-and with Russia and
China-if necessary to keep the peace of
the world after this war has been con-
Guided. The isolationist Chicago Trib-
une Immediately sought to read Gov
Dewey out of the Republican party be-
cause of this statement Gov. Bricker
of Ohio, Gov. Warren of California,
Senator Taft Of Ohio, Representative
Dirksen of Illinois-whose names have
been used in connection with the presi-
dental racial supported the Mackinac
Island declaration
That declaration, while it is not as
specific as some would like it to be, goes
as far or farther than did the Connally
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DIT

Not everything in the immense
evil of war is black and sinful
waste. At least there is some good
in what the doctors have been doing
to meet the casualties of battle The
sulfa drugs, penicillin, the marvels
of blood plasma and remarkable new
surgical techniques are all on the
credit side, constituting by now one
of the more familiar brighter stories
of our time.
Nor is it a story yet completed, for
every day in every major country of
the world, the scientists and labora-
tory technicians are busy trying to
devise and perfect weapons against
pain, pestilence and death, as we'll
as weapons to main and kill.
The latest contribution to this
end is a synthetic chemical COM
pound called DOT, an abbreviation
for dichloro diphenyl trichloroe-
thane. According to information
just revealed by officials, it is being
used now by our armed forces to
combat the menace of body lice,
carriers of the dread typhus fever.
Employed for the first time on
mass scale in our North African
campaign, it has been found to be
effective in the extreme, so powerful
that a single special application of
1t to clothing can provide sure pro-
lection for as long as two months,
even though the clothing is launder-
ed once week during that time. In
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Gould Lincoln

resolution adopted by the Senate and
the Fulbright resolution adopted by
the House, favoring international coll
liberation. 1t had the approval of Mr..
Willkie at the time.
The Willkieites are not doing the Re-
publican party a favor by undertaking
to convince the American people that
many OF the foremost leaders of the
party including the Republican MEM
bers OF Congress, are isolationist in
clined. Mr.. Willkie himself, when he
delivered a speech last fall in St Louis,
said that he would not give blue print
for international cooperation after the
war. His supporters, therefore, can
scarcely expect other presidential pos
sibilities on the Republican side of the
fence to do so.
The Republicans have chance of vic.
tory next fall, if they stick together.
The Willkie supporters say that the adj
vocates of any other possible nominee for
the presidency are disrupting the Re-
publican party. That's very different
thing from urging that Mr.. Willkie is
the best man to elect President, and
the best nominee the party can put for
ward. They are touchy over the stop
Wlllkle" dispatches which have ap-
peared in the press. They forget that
they themselves are seeking to stop"
any other potential nominee For ex-
ample, letter from strong Willkie
supporter, Robert A. Weaver of Cleve-
land, closes with the phrase stop Will
kie and cruelty our Republican party
He virtually says that no other possible
Republican candidate is good enough
TO lead or to win. Whether you are for
Mr.. Wlllkie or not, this sounds rather
foolish, and it is on all fours with the
New Dealers who claim that President
Roosevelt is the indispensable man.
Mr.. Willkie is entitled to fair chance
to win the nomination in the coming
national convention-and so is every
other candidate. The fact he was the
party nominee in 1910 gives him no
special right in the matter-any more
than the nomination of AL Smith by
the Democrats in 1923 gave him a claim
to the 1882 nomination.
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Hopkins Letter

II the scheduled grand jury in
vestigation of the So-called Hopkins
letter results in a prompt DISPOSE
ton OF this grossly exaggerated
issue, the Department of Justice and
the grand jurors will be entitled to
vote Of public appreciation.
That this letter. purporting to
record Harry Hopkins as predicting
that Wendell Willkie would be the
presidential candidate of the Re-
publican party. should have kicked
up such row is an impressive COM
mentary on the explosive quality
Of our domestic politics. Mr..
Hopkins has branded the letter a
forgery. But suppose it were genu-
lne-suppose he did believe that Mr..
Willkie was going to be the COP
candidate and that he had written a
letter to this effect. Is that an issue
to shake the Republic in the midst
of the greatest war in history? After
all, there are other people who think
the same thing, and If it had not
been for the "buildup" which the
incident has received, it is quite pos
sible that millions of Americans
would be relatively unexcited by
Mr.. Hopkins winter book selection.
The official announcement says
that the matter is being presented to
the grand jury under a section of
the District code which makes it
criminal offense to publish forgery.
with intent to injure another per-
son. Thus, if the letter is held to be
a forgery, one rather puzzling point
will be cleared up. We will at least
know who has been injured-Mr.
Hopkins or Mr.. Willkie. And, pre-
sumably, we will also have an end
to the whole absurd business.
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Ambitious Invasion

1t ,Das an alien thought and get he
That in some other era he had been
Along this shore, 1Dhere coUes Dere
ocean-b blue;
He felt sharp prickles lift his ta,Dny
skin.
Strange palms ,uere leaning on the
tropic skies
And yet he knew them better than an
elm:
He squinted through their tronds NTH
practiced eyes
And felt his SunbroWn hands itch for q
helm
There 1Das no Day of knowing, none at
all,
What strain of blood had brought hin,
no,o to this
Strange anchorage in stranger port o.
call,
Caught between Scylla-mind and
heart Charybdis.
His mind insisted that his heart was
DrOng
And that he Oas confined by pasture
And get his heart remembered sailor
song
And set clipper-course against the
stars
And he Das filled Nth sudden JOY to be
In this strange place, home ,Delcomed
by the sea!
ANOBEL ARMOUR.
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Maj. George Fielding Eliot

for the Germans may result from their
having chung to the Dnieper east and
west of Cherkassy too long The loss
of the better part of 10 divisions re-
ported in this area would not be de-
cisive; but it would represent the most
serious German defeat on the battlefield
since the failure of the Kursk offensive
last summer. and it certainly would
weaken gravely Won Mannstein at the
precise moment when he can least afford
any drain on his fighting strength.
The German situation on the Russian
front is definitely deteriorating Time
and again the German high command
has found means to patch up it's crum-
bling front, now here, now there; but
it has cost them something each time.
Their resources are not unlimited; they
cannot forever go on feeding in reserves
or switching divisions from one part OF
the front to another Sooner or later
they must take a radical decision-the
decision limited at by German military
commentators who now suggest that the
Germans may withdraw altogether from
Russia, that Russian territory will not
be held for prestige purposes" alone
though good deal of it has been held
too long and at too great price, and II
not for prestige purposes then it can
only be because the closer approach of
the Russian armies to the German
frontier would be too disastrous from
the point of view of maintaining Ger
man civilian morale. The Russians are
pressing hard, they are preventing the
Germans from reaping net gain in
augmented reserves from their Russian
Withdrawals. The German high COM
mand is having decisions forced upon It
which it should have taken months ago
while it still had some freedom OF action.
Now 1t may be too late.
Copyright. 1914. n. Y. Tribune. YnsD
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Mr.. Willkie did take the lead in the
drive to break the Republican party
loose from its isolationist moorings
which existed since the days of Harding.
incidentally. the Democrats. after the
Harding landslide in 1920, which was
interpreted as popular mandate
against the entry of the United States
into the League of Nations, were Just
about as isolationist as were the Re-
publicans-until the Second World War
burst forth IN 1899. Mr.. Willkie cour-
ageously took his stand in support of
increased national defense measures
and in favor of foreign policy which
sought to aid the Allied nations fight
ing the Axis powers. He did it when a
lot of other Republicans were hanging
back. Certainly to him belongs the
credit of fighting day in and day out
to make the COP more internationally
minded.
The course of events, however, more
than anything else or any one person.
forced the hands of the Republican
party on this issue. After the Japa-
nese attack on Pearl Harbor. all the
Republicans in Congress voted for war.
1solationism, as a practical thing, was
in the ash can. Republicans and Re-
publican leaders are no more dumb than
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-08

aid to Mr.. Hoover only he Is quail
lied to tell. They were companion
able in the highest degree. She
sailed with him for China the day
after their marriage in 1898. The
Boxer rebellion, the siege of Tient-
sin, experiences on the frontiers of
China and Australia, relief enter
prises in Europe during and after
the First World War, a long strug-
gle with economic dislocation, two
bitter political campaigns - these
were but incidents in their career
together. Mrs. Hoover will be re-
membered in relation to the history
of her time. Her particular me-
mortal in Washington is the "wom-
ems porch" of Washington Cattle
dral, the first stone of which she
set in 1881.
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Mr.. Grafton Draws
A Critics Fire.
To the Editor of The Sta

To the Editor Of The STAR
must confess that I find the line of
reasoning which Samuel Grafton pur-
sues in The Star of January 6 rather
confusing.
He begins: well. fellows we have
reached the point where the American
isolationist press has gone about for
idealism"
He ends: II will match my idealism
against any mans, but I also prefer to
take my idealism straight On the score
Of saving small nations, will kick along
with Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt,
who heard Poland's cry for help the
first time"
1 would like to remind Mr. Grafton
that hearing cry for help and needing
it are two entirely different things.
Furthermore, if I may I would like
to ask him where Messrs. Churchill and
Roosevelt were when Ethiopia, Austria,
Czechoslovakia and, of course little Fin
land. cried out in vain for succor.
Those who prefer to take their
"idealism straight" must-or certainly
should-face the fact that Poland is
still crying for help. True, the threat
to her sovereignty is from different"
source this time, but her plaintive cry
is still audible
PHILIP LIGHTFOOT WORMELEY w.
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now regard that picture as exaggerated.
Reliable reports from realistic UNDER
ground leaders say the French people
have been so starved out and brow
beaten by the Nazis and the Laval gov
eminent that there is little punch left
in them. While there is more potential
fight in them than in the Italians, they
would not at present be more helpful
than the Italians have been to us.
u X
The rank and file of the population,
which has suffered increasingly acute
famine since l94l, is lackadaisical and
does not care who is fighting whom and
why. Until adequate food supplies can
be taken into France to revive physically
its inhabitants, they will not have
enough strength to contribute much to
the Allied cause.
There are, however, about 10000
members of the underground There
is no unity in the movement, but there
is every indication that as soon as the
Allies enter France the factional fights
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Nazi Disaster Hinted

and can be followed up in great strength,
it may effect complete separation of the
German southern armies from the re-
mainder of the German forces on the
Russian front, and push those southern
armies back against the Rumanian
frontier. This would, in the end, almost
certainly involve withdrawal by the
Germans to the Carpathians; it would
let the Russians into Rumania, and
down to the mouths of the Danube; it
would bring Russian armies to the
frontier of Bulgaria.
The strategic and political possibilities
are tremendous, but we should not dis
count them too far in advance Much
depends on the Russian ability to follow
through, on the one hand, to keep their
troops rolling onward and the supply
columns rolling on behind them. On the
other hand, much depends on the avail
ability of German reserves, and there is
now even some speculation on the Ger
mans making great switch from north
to south-that is, withdrawing in the
north clear to the Dvina or the Niemen,
and using the troops thus saved as re-
serves for the southern front. A move
ment like this would take weeks, but,
once again, these great military opera
tions move slowly
On somewhat smaller scale, we must
take note of the situation now develop
ing south of the Dnieper between Kiev
and Kremenchug. Here, the Russians
are squeezing the Germans on both
TANKS, and the steady development east
ward and southeastward of the Russian
pressure from Byelaya Tserkov has been
Joined by sudden resumption of the
Russian offensive against Kirovograd
and toward Krivoi Rog. It is quite pos
sible that the Russians are taking pris-
oners in this sector and q nasty reverse
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Constantine Br01Un

But the results are far from satisfactory.
The photographs give an overall picture
which enables specialists to draw useful
deductions, but the real information SO
useful to the invasion planners about
underground Notifications, underground
supporting points, hangers and whatever
new inventions the Germans may have
produced cannot be obtained.
While the Allies confined their OPERA
lions in 1912 and 1943 to Commando
raids, the Germans were not sufficiently
we'll prepared to put down a French
instruction at once Since, however,
the Gestapo and Nazi military counter
espionage have taken such drastic
measures that this danger to the security
of their troops has been eliminated
Premier Laval Is cooperating whole
heartedly with the Nazis in Southern
France. He knows that a successful
Allied invasion means death. Even if
he managed to escape to Germany, he
knows that his name is on the list Of
traitors to be executed whenever he is
found. Hence, his enthusiastic co-opera-
ton with the Gestapo
number of members of LavaTs
official family recently were discovered
to be friends of the French under
ground. While outwardly they were
heiling Hitler and Laval they assisted,
to the best of their ability, the members
of the underground movement regard
less of their political Affiliations. Most
OF them have been now uncovered by
the Nazis and have been eliminated
The underground leaders have pledged
themselves to do their utmost to help
the Allies when the invasion begins, but
they have warned us not to count too
heavily on the efficiency of their support
either as actual participants in battle
or as valuable information agents
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numbers, these are the first signs of real
German catastrophe. They are only
suggestions as yet. They are not fully
confirmed. But they are not inconsist-
ent with the facts as we know them.
The Russian thrust to the westward,
along the southern borders of the Pripet
Marshes, is now menacing the rail juno
ton of Sarny. If it reaches Sarny, it
will cut the only north-south railway
line which now provides effective con-
nection between the German armies of
the center and those of the south The
Russian penetration between these two
army groups will then assume critical,
almost decisive character. There are,
however, signs of stiffening German re-
sistance in this area; also along the
German bolt" positions protecting the
Lwow-Ymerinka Odessa Railway. This
westward penetration remains of the
keenest strategical interest. If 1t de-
velops into full-fedged breakthrough,
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Mrs. Hoover

Mrs Herbert Hoover is not for
gotten in Washington. News of her
sudden death already has stirred
remembrance of her activities in the
days when her husband was food
administrator, then Secretary of
Commerce and finally President.
Many anecdotes are told in illustra-
ton of the beauty of her character.
She was one of the most notably
generous of women. Her life was
self1ess. 1t was part of her nature
to be wholly devoted to others. The
skill with which she concealed her
services is legend. Her tactful-
ness has been proverbial. She was
a hostess with an instinct for max
ing every guest at home.
The same gracious charm dis
tinguished Mrs. Hoover in her meet
ing with strangers. She especially
loved small children and spared
herself nothing in their behalf
Cultural matters always interested
her. She was a liberal scholar in
the true meaning of that phrase,
we'll acquainted with science and
philosophy and competent to make
her own contribution to the adj
vancement of learning. Her share
In the translation of the works of
Georg Agricola, "the father of min
eralogy," has been acknowledged.
The War Library at Leland STAN
ford owes much to her help.
How precious was her constant
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Letters to The Star
Says Poles Should Greet
Russians As Liberators.

RucSAdhS AS AADCNAtOISs
To the Editor OF The Star:
Now that the Soviet armies have
crossed the 1899 Polish border once
again, earnestly hope and pray that
our Polish friends will curb their we'll
known impetuosity and give discretion q
chance to do something for Poland.
Stain is not an unreasonable man,
nor the Soviet a neighbor- devouring
monster. In 1910 they offered the Firms
two and one-haf times as much terri
tory as they asked Finland to cede to
the District of Leningrad The ill-ad-
vised Firms refused this generous set
tlement and chose to make war
The so-called eastern frontier of
Poland is not an clinical border 1t
was established by the Poles under Mar
shall Pilsudsky, after he and General
Weygand defeated the Red Army of
Marshal Tukhachevsky at the gates of
Warsaw, during the unsettled days fol-
lowing the Peace of Versailles.
The Poles themselves know that the
population OF the disputed provinces is
composed OF White Russians, Ukrain-
ians, Ruthenians and Lithuanians. The
u. S. S. r. also has not forgotten this
fact.
Now that the liberators are in full
pursuit of the common enemy, any I'M
pleasantness on the part of the Polish
underground toward the advancing
armies will bring dire consequences to
the Poles alone, hampering the Russians
but little, benefiting only the arch
enemy, Hitler.
have been great admirer of the
Polish people. I hope, therefore, that
will not be taken amiss by Polish read
ers when I say again that: Half loaf
is better than no loaf" especially when
the other half is not rightfully yours.
hope and pray that wiser heads will
prevail in their councils and that instead
of perhaps heroic but certainly suicidal
resistance, they will greet the liberators
as liberators L. DE KOZAN.
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High School Education Urged
For Boys to Be Drafted.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
With all the men who receive defer
ment from the draft for various rea-
sons, it seems to me very important
reason for deferment for 18-year- olds
with six months or less of high school to
finish, to be allowed to graduate My
son will soon turn ID with six months to
graduation. I do not yet know what
will happen in his case, but do know
that some boys in his classes have been
called for induction in January
Did 1t ever occur to any one that after
practically growing up over night"
these boys, on their return, will not be
in any frame of mind to want to finish
six months of high school? Or that in
order to obtain any kind of job, at least
high school diploma is a necessary re-
quirement; or that graduates quota
of credits is necessity for any higher
education?
Instead of only planning on how to
give the discharged servicemen employ
ment, think it would be we'll worth
while to figure on their eligibility and
capability of filling positions-if not
even allowed to complete high school
education. H. L. H.