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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27

White enameled de luxe fiber body
a.. F.. notified black enamel lid. Has
hundreds of tiny breathing holes to
keep away stale odors. Holds large
family wash.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
Cyclone Toll Heavy

MEXICO CITY, Sept, 26 tlNSl
Continued cyclones batterlng
Oaxaca and YuCatan Mexico, to-
day cost many lives and tens OF
millions of dollars in damage
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-27
Ask immigration Ban

WASHINGTON. Sept. 26 tINSl
Complete ''blackout" of immi-
grafton into the United States for
10 years after the war was de-
manded today by Jean A. Brun-
ner, newly elected VIEW COM
mander in chief.
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ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1944-10-16

popular one and probably would not
be given consideration. This sug-
gests that he still holds to his opin-
ion, and, since General Hershey has
a legal responsibility for replacing
veterans in their old jobs or finding
new ones for them, Governor Dewey
would seem to be in a better posi-
ton than before to argue that the
director of selective service has
doubt concerning the availability of
jobs for returning veterans. The
Hershey statement affords no basis
for imputing this same attitude to
the Roosevelt administration, but
the Republicans, if they care to do
so, can cite the letter as some evi-
dence in support of the claim that
the Selective service director, a
presidential appointee, who will
have much to do with placing vet
Grams in jobs, is not at all optimistic
that the jobs will be available.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
The Hershey Letter

In publlShlng the text of Major
General Hershey's letter to the
President, the White House cam
paign strategists presumably felt
that it would be of some political
advantage in Mr.. Roosevelt's bid for
re-election. 1t seems quite possible,
however, that the letter, if it has
any effect, may do more harm than
good to the Democratic cause.
For one thing, its publication by
the White House serves to direct
public attention again to General
Hershey's statement that it would
be about as cheap to keep men in
the Army as to set up an agency to
take care of them after they are
demobilized. The effect of the let
ter is to confirm, not to deny, the
statement. Furthermore, there is
nothing new in the letter that tends
to soften the implications of this
now famous remark.
The director of selective service
comedies that he was merely stat
ing his own opinion with respect to
the matter of demobilization, con-
corning which he has no response
bility. And he states also that he
is a Republican. But both of these
facts had already been established,
and it is hard to see how their re-
iteration by General Hershey can
be of any beneht to the Democratic
.ticket.
/ What is interesting is the fact
that General Hershey not only ad-
mits, in effect, that he made the
statement, but he also comedies he
knew that his slopinion was not q
i 3
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Who Is He?
From the Fl Dorado (Kansas) Times

From the II Dorado (Kansas) Times
He was born of wealthy parents.
He showed no scholastic aptitude.
He early identified himself with the
Democratic party.
He was almost a consistent failure In
business enterprises.
He devoted most of his adult life
to politics.
He governed an important political
subdivision
He was later elevated to the highest
Office in the land.
He used this Office to make vast social
experiments.
He tampered with the calendar.
He instituted purges against those
who opposed him.
He packed the law bodies with men
who would do his bidding.
The Senate deliberated but he drew
the most important powers into his own
hands.
He spent unprecedented funds of
public money for personal schemes and
purposes.
His popularity established him as a
personal dictator and with that came
the end of the Republic.
He was: Julius Caesar.
Authorities: Encyclopedia Britannica.
National Encyclopedia, Vests Ancient
History.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
End of q Legend

On The strength of an official Ber-
lin announcement, there seems no
reason to doubt any longer that
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is
dead. Apparently the original rumor
was true-that some time in August
he suffered mortal head injuries
when Allied strafing planes drove
his staff car off the road near Liva-
rot, France.
He was a semi-legendary charac-
ter, widely regarded as one of the
greatest generals of the war, the
dashing Desert Fox" who came
within a hairs breadth of smashing
through to Suez for a possible juno
ture with the Japanese that would
have given the Axis virtual mastery
of the entire Eastern Hemisphere.
But there is question whether he
actually was quite so brilliant and
formidable as he once seemed. Never
member of the Prussian military
aristocracy and at one time a
Strong-arm man for Hitler, he did
not have the full confidence or re-
spect of all the commanders of equal
rank in Germany. His Afrika Korps,
to be sure, brought him his days of
glory, but these passed like a flash
in the pan as soon as General
Montgomery-now Marshal Mont
gomery-took charge of the British
Eighth Army at Ell Alamein.
Ell Alamein was Rommel's high
water mark. There he reached the
peak of his fame, but there, too,
two years ago almost to the day, his
decline began. The "Fox" who once
was the pursuer now became the
pursued, with the Bible reading,
colorful little Monty" his Nemesis.
Thereafter, day after day for $50
days, he was in fight, retreating
1,430 miles from his point OF farthest
advance all the way back to Gabes,
until the hour came in Tunisia when
the remnants of his once proud
forces were destroyed--a loss esti-
mated at nearly 100000 men. From
then on this favorite of the Fuehrer
dwelt in the shade, emerging only
occasionally in positions of rumored
leadership that won him no new dis
tinction,
Perhaps Rommel'S generalship
was as superb as some saN but it
appears not to have been good
enough to survive the immense de-
feat that pvercame It. History and
Evening star., 1944-10-16
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

draft has been favorable - and un-
thoughtful. How many publicists have
analyzed, in detail, what it is before &C
cepting it as a whole? The man in the
street with his mind concentrated on
the great objective is careless of detail.
But it Is basic principles, plus details,
that determine the strength of the
structure. The President has called for
the establishment without further de-
lay of the peace organization based on
the Dumbarton Oaks conferences.
Why the haste? We don't need this
plan for winning the war and we don't
even need it for the peace to be con-
cluded with Germany-for that is spe-
cifically, and significantly exempted.
What We need Is time to think
-
The President said, Like the Consti-
tuition Of the United States itself - .
the Charter of the United Nations must
not be static. but adapted to changing
conditions of progress
Certainly. But one must know in what
direction one is progressing. The Con-
stitution of the United States was not
adopted from one moment to another
but discussed, debated, and amended, in
CulNC1lblOil UciOlc liie lOT
years. But, its basic premise was sound,
namely that the organization must have
independent means of law creation and
enforcement.
II the Dumbarton Oaks draft would
point in that direction, it would be the
right step. But it points exactly away
from that direction. And it will not
find anybody of intellect, anywhere in
the world, to support it as the au-
thors of the Federalist were able i'm
mortally to support the American Con-
Stitution.
The Dumbarton Oaks draft is the
ratification and perpetuation of an
existing power structure. That struc-
ture would exist without it, and the
draft adds nothing to it-not even the
pledge of the great powers to abandon
for themselves aggressive war. not even
definition of aggression-and not even
the guarantee to protect the integrity or
even the existence of the smaller ma
tions.
1t should make us thoughtful that
Switzerland, the only country in the
world whose Constitution forbids ag-
gresSive wars, wants to stay out of the
organization and even doesn't want its
headquarters on Swiss soil
No judgment could be more spontane-
GUS and severe
released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
Evening star., 1944-10-16
leuros Exhibition

AAC iOdA CAlAlUAglUA VI WOlh Nd VI
Alphonse Legros belonging to
George Matthew Adams, now cur
rent at the National Gallery of
Art, should attract the general pub
lie as we'll as connoisseurs. It hap
pens that etching, as distinct from
painting in oils and modelling in
clay, is a naturally conservative
medium of esthetic expression. If
there ever have been radical etch-
ers, they did not get very far. The
instruments and the materials used
by such a master as Legros consti-
tute law of sort, comprise a
limitation to the ascertainable truth
which cannot be defied successfully.
His portrait of Cardinal Manning,
reproduced in The Star yesterday,
proves the point. 1t Is as faithful as
photography.
But it does not follow that etch-
ing is mechanical. On the con-
trary, it demands of the artist
greater contribution of himself than
any other modern process of rep
reSentation. An etcher of distinc-
tion must be at once compellingly
devoted to his subject and COM
pletely in control of himself. He
must project his mind and his
emotions, yet govern them rigidly.
That, perhaps, is the principal rea-
son why etchers are few and the
classic works of even the most
notably competent of them not
many. Legros, born in 1887, lived
nearly three-quarters of a century
and was tireless in his labors dur
ing most of that time, yet the num-
ber of his achievements is relatively
small. Frank Bliss assembled fifteen
hundred examples for the Boston
Public Library. The next largest
collection of Legros pictures" is
that Of Mr.. Adams, from which
the National Gallery showing was
chosen.
Any average visitor to the exhibi-
ton will find himself well rewarded.
None of the forty-two etchings dis
played requires to be explained.
Legros experimental in different
methods, but his technique always
Is pure and his manner reverent.
The individuals he portrayed are
not traduced. Neither is humanity
at large degraded by his delinea-
ton of it. Rather, the effect of his
endeavors is to elevate the race. To
understand his integrity it is help
ful to remember that he was a
teacher at South Kensington and
at University College, London. A
self-portrait Of Legros justifiably is
shown with his studies of celebrated
contemporaries.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
This Changing World
By Constantine Rroscn

japanese diplomats have the same
mentality as gold brick salesmen They
60 out to sell their wares on q forlorn
hope that they may find buyer even
among their shrewdest prospects"
According to the latest reports the
Japanese Ambassador In Moscow has
been trying to sell the Kremlin the idea
OF peace with Germany, at Russia's
own terms, on the basis Of a renewal
OF Berlin -Moscow-Tokyo axis.
The Japanese Ambassador is said to
argue that Russia has already achieved
the maximum in Europe. 1t has di-
rectly or indirectly under its control
those sections OF that continent in which
the USsR is principally interested.
Tokyo assumes that Russia Is not par
ticularly anxious to annex portions Of
the Reich since, in the mind of the
japanese. an actual cooperation based
on friendship with the Reich would be
more remunerative
At the same time, the Japanese diplo-
mats contend that sooner or later there
Is bound to be a clash between Russia
and Great Britain, and Tokyo's betting
is that in such an eventuality the United
States will not be on the Soviet side.
~
With these arguments in hand, the
representatives of Hirohito are throw
ing out trial balloons to the Kremlin
suggesting that the maintenance of
Germany friendly to the USSR would
be to the advantage of Russia whose ex-
pansionist plans must stretch in the
future to the Middle East, India and
Western China.
The reports dealing with the JAP
anese activity in Moscow say Germany
is now definitely of" the Western
powers. The adamant attitude of the
United States toward the Reich and
what the Japanese term the British
inspired attempt on Hitler's life have
removed the last vestiges OF desire
on the part of the Nazi government
and of the German people to come to
terms with the "Anglo-Saxons, the
ENJOYS say. The Japanese Ambassador
in Berlin, who is described by his Mos
COW colleague as being in close contact
with Hitler and Himmler, reports that
the Fuehrer would now give his right
Evening star., 1944-10-16

There was table set out under
tree and the March hare and the halter
were having tea at it; a dormouse was
sitting between them fast asleep, and
the other two were using it as cushion,
resting their elbows on 1t, and talking
over its head.
Very uncomfortable for the dor
mouse thought Alice, only as it's asleep
! suppose it doesn't mind.
THE table was a large one, but the
three were all crowded together at one
corner of it. NO room! No room! they
cried out =. There's plenty of roomr
said Alice Indignantly.
Have some more wine the March
hare said in an ecouraging tone.
".I don't see any wine said Alice.
There isn't any, said the March
hare.
"I didn't know it was your table.
said Alice. It's laid out for a great
many more than three
Take some more tea the March
hare said earnestly.
1--WE had nothing yet, said Alice, so I
can't take any more.
You mean you can't take less said
the halter, it's very easy to take more
than nothing"
1t would seem that the sleeping DOR
mouse at Dumbarton Oaks is the peoples,
who will only awaken when a spot of
hot tea-or hot future warts dropped
on their nose. And it is necessary to
invoke the skeptical, critical, and forth
right spirit of Alice whom even wonder
land could not deceive.
Dumbarton Oaks, like the mad tea
party, was laid out for a great many
more than three with China in some
what the role of Alice.
The wine of peace was offered-but
there wasn't any; and the tea Of security
was offered to those who have not had
any. with the admonition that it is al
ways easier to have more than nothing.
Now, it is that spirit of more than
nothing" of anything is better than
nothing at ALL" which constitutes the
greatest danger for the peoples of the
world. The peoples of the world want a
world organization of nations and peo-
Piles for peace. The danger is that they
will again mistake illusion for reality
put their trust in that illusion. and one
fine day find out that the beginning of
the wrong thing is not the beginning of
the right thing and that nothing added
to nothing equals nothing.
The reception of the Dumbarton Oaks
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Hands orr Policy

LAC 1dCU I1Cpl0Cllt 1tOOoC-
welt is not participating in the cur
rent Stain Churchill talks at Mos
cow tends to confirm the impression,
which has been gaining strength
since the three-way Teheran confer
ence last year, that this Government
has adopted what amounts to a
"hands-off" policy toward contro-
versial questions in Eastern Europe.
Our policy seems to be to make
it known that we would like to see
Poland and the Balkan countries
have independent governments of
their own choice, but not to take
any responsibility in the matter.
Thus, it is left to Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stain to take
positive measures for settling the
delicate Polish question and pre-
Sumably to resolve between them
any conflicting views about the Bal
kans. Mr.. Roosevelt keeps informed
of what is going on, but he pointed
out at recent news conference that
it would be silly to assume that Mr..
Churchill was speaking to Stain on
behalf of the United States as well
as Great Britain in view of the
recent Roosevelt Churchill confer
ence at Quebec.
The President and his advisers
apparently are proceeding on the
sound conviction that the American
public, while anxious to see small
nations everywhere get fair treat
ment. is not sufficiently interested
in what happens in Eastern Europe
to support the maintenance of the
force in that part of the world that
would be required to give our influ-
ence real weight. Thus our SYM
pathy for the Polish governments
efforts to stay free of outright So
Wet domination-Mr. Roosevelt ex-
pressed 1t more automatically last
week by saying the objective was
establishment of Poland as a
strong" and representative ma
tion"-can have little more sub
stance than a pious hope. Further
more, we acquiesce in Russia taking
the lead in reorganization of Ro-
mania, while Great Britain plays
the dominant Allied role in Greek
affairs. 1t is.-significant that there
is no mention of American partici-
patton in the British campaign
driving the Germans out of Greece.
We must realize that as a result
of this policy of staying in the
background while Russia and great
Britain exercise a positive influence
in Eastern European affairs, the
settlements reached probably will
not be entirely to our liking. Real
ism also requires recognition of the
fact that there is not much we can
do or are willing to do about it now.
Evening star., 1944-10-16

hand to patch up his "misunderstand-
ing" with Stain.
In the opinion OF Tokyo, Russia has
reached saturation point as far as her
expansion in Europe is concerned and
any further sacrifice Of manpower would
not yield proportionate results. The
participation Of Russian forces in the
occupation of Berlin would necessitate a
costly military operation through the
German eastern Notifications and would
be Of great value to the British and
the Americans but not to Russia, the
Japanese contend
Prime Minister Churchilrs stand on
the Polish question is being used by
the Japanese diplomatsyas an indication
that the Western Allies OF the USSR
are seeking to undermine Russias as
pirations even in the area which had
been conceded to her as an exclusive
zone OF influence at Teheran.
On the other hand, the Japs say.
change Of policy to an intimate co-opera-
ton with the chastised Hitler and with
the japanese Empire might change the
whole political and military picture in
the world practically overnight. The
totalltarlan 1deolOgleS which the jap
anese emphasize will never be accepted by
the capitalistic minded United States
and Great Britain could be enforced on
the world only if the old Berlin Moscow
Tokyo axis were renewed
This is not the first time, according to
these conversant with the Japanese
diplomacy, that Tokyo has attempted to
repair the fences between Germany and
Russia In order to save the Greater
Asia policies of the Tokyo rulers.
So far as it is known here the Russian
government has turned down all the
suggestions presented by the japanese
But they see no harm in having Prime
Minister Churchill and the advisers who
accompanied him to Moscow become ac-
quainted with the japanese intrigues." ,"
The British leader is in the Soviet capi-
tai to have frank talk with his Russian
colleague about Britain's interests in the
Adriatic, the Eastern Mediterranean and
also to straighten out the Polish situa-
tion which has given him serious head
aches with his own parliament.
Evening star., 1944-10-16

The campaign in Italy continues along
familiar lines: The Germans are able
temporarily to check an Allied advance
at one point only at the price of giving
way at another point
Now the Germans have for the time
being contrived to stall a promising
Allied thrust toward Bologna along the
main Florence-Bologna road, but they
have paid the price of being unable to
prevent an advance toward Cessna on
the Adrfatic side of the Peninsula.
The Allied High Command in Italy
when, at the very moment of triumph
the break through and beyond Rimini-
the worst weather of the season sud-
denly closed in, with torrential rains
turning the whole low-lying Adriatic
Shorthand into quagmire and low-lying
clouds preventing any air support at all.
Had this not happened, it is entirely
possible that the German armies in
Italy would now be either in course of
destruction or providing they have
sufncient motor transport to render
them mobile, which is uncertain) in
full retreat for the Alpine passes.
y
But the weather gave the Germans
chance to dig in along the rivers and
canals which form close network
of waterlines west and northwest of
Rimini, and progress in that sector has
since been painfully slow and costly.
This is situation which will, however,
be immensely improved by just a few
days of good weather; the German de-
fensive positions are based on two or
three fortified canals, and an Allied
penetration to Cessna might very well
mark a sharp downward turn in Ger
man fortunes.
The whole German defensive strategy
in Italy is, as has previously been
pointed out in these articles, based on
their ability to shift troops swiftly from
one point of danger to another, and on
Allied inability to bring the full force
at Gen. Alexander,s disposal to bear
against any one sector of the German
position because of the mountain defiles
which are his only means of approach.
The turning of the German flank by
way of Rimini was therefore the most
promising procedure which Gen. Alex
ander could adopt, and Marshal Kes-
selring must have heaved sigh of
shuddering relief when the weather
played the Allied commander what Gen.
Sir Walter Kirke, writing from London,
very properly calls "a scurvy trick"
Yet the process of German defense at
one point and then another against the
steady pressure Of superior Allied power