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Evening star., 1944-12-16
Wants Stadium Delayed
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Let us have a memorial stadium, by
all means-but not now.
friend sent me excerpts from your
paper which prominently displayed and
described the benefits and the senti-
mental values to be derived from such
an edif1ce. Having been resident in
the Capital and environs for ten years,
I have a deep interest in the eventual
completion of this project.
My main reason for saying mot now"
is based on what I've been reading about
the supply problems and the shortage
Of labor. No project, essentially un-
necessary in the prosecution of this
war to a speedy and successful conclu-
sion, should be attempted anywhere
least of all in the Nations Capital, now.
If the stadium is to be considered a
memorial to those who have made the
supreme sacrifice and others making
comparably smaller sacrifices, it will
suffice to have all arrangements made
so that on v day the ground can be
broken and the structure speeded to
completion, thus not depriving the war
effort of one minute of labor or one
item Of material. The diversion of any
of these war essentials that indirectly
might cause the death of one more of
our boys would indeed be irony.
CORPL. F, v. GILBERT.
Aleutians.
Evening star., 1944-12-16
Library Study Courses

Great books, obviously, have mean
ing and value only in the ratio of
their USE 1t follows that any de-
velopment which enhances popular
interest in noble literature must be
regarded with favor. The announce
ment of a gift of forty-five thousand
dollars to the Washington Public
Library to finance a series of study
courses already has met with most
gratifying response. Contributed by
the Educational Fund, incorporated,
Chicago, the money is to be spent
for a practical experiment in adult
education.
AS explained by Miss Clara w.
Herbert, librarian: ''This program of
guided reading and study will be
free, helping the library to fulfill its
function as university of the peo-
ple.' 1t is hoped that, through the
Evening star., 1944-12-16

tion in the liberated territories. Mr..
Roosevelt listened to the arguments, but
could not commit himself to more than
the stock phrase that Poland must trust
the fairness of her big allies.
The same type of conversation took
place during Mr.. Mikolajczyk's last visit
to Premier Stain in Moscow. The Rus
sian Premier emphasized the Importance
of settlement in accordance with his
wishes and suggested an exchange OF
territories whereby Poland would receive
as compensation for Eastern Poland
such parts of Germany as East Prussia.
Pomerania and Silesia. When Mr.. Mi
kolajczyk replied that the areas offered
him consisted of SO per cent German
population and Poland thus would be
confronted with tremendous ''minori-
ties" problem, Premier Stain replied
that this constituted no dif1culty.
The millions of Germans inhabiting
that region. Premier Stain told Mr..
Mikolaj ajczyk, would be deported from
their homes, and added "and I won't let
them go west where they might be
organized and become a threat to us
I shall send them to the east across
the Urals, from where they will never
threaten you"
The IDEAL" involving Poland was made
at Teheran and for while formed
bargaining point between Russia and
Great Britain. Mr.. Churchill had in
formed his Moscow colleague that pub
lie opinion in Great Britain would OPP
pose a deal in which it would become
obvious not only that Poland was to
become a puppet state but also would
i,p fLa If nf
of people.
This fact is so much against the ele-
mentary principles of free will of the
people that no democracy could possibly
accept it. When, however, the interests
of the British Empire became threatened
by the recent developments in Greece
and Italy, Mr.. Churchill decided that
everything should be sacrificed in order
to safeguard these vital interests.
There is little likelihood that the
United States will take hand in the
present situation in which Poland is
doomed to disappear as real sovereign
state. President Roosevelt was party
to the Teheran deal and is not likely
to upset the international political
applicant by opposing decisions taken
by Moscow and London.
Nominally, Poland will remain as in
dependent as Finland, Bulgaria or Iran
A hands-off policy concerning Europe is
the watchword of the administration at
the moment This WatchWord is likely
to be maintained. Any opposition to
Russia's political plans, it is said in high
quarters, might jeopardize our military
victory against Germany. And this we
cannot afford.
Evening star., 1944-12-16

reading of the most important books,
greater understanding of modern
problems may be developed and
fundamental issues seen in the light
Of history and through the minds
of the worlds greatest thinkers" !"
Such a purpose certainly deserves
the support of philanthropy. 1t also
surely will be accepted with COM
mensurate enthusiasm by it's bene-
flciaries. In the event of the first
seven courses proving successful,
others will be arranged. The expert
ment thus would become, in effect,
another cultural institution of dem
onStrated worth in the Nations s
Capital, still sponsored and directed
by the Public Library yet gradually
attaining an integral existence of
its own.
Let it be mentioned again that
applicants for admission to the
courses need not be troubled about
lack of formal educational expert
ence. The project is exempt from the
traditional limitation of scholarship
to scholars. 1t Is intended to serve
the people as a whole community,
not merely a portion of them arbi-
trarily separated from the rest. In
that respect as well as in the prep
aratiop of tho m a ariol for Sf,,dv II
Is distinctively a social enterprise.
Evening star., 1944-12-16
The Political Mill
Bv Gould Lincoln

to the State Department team and to
the country in the coming postwar
period.
Several members of the team have had
long experience in the State Depart
ment. The first of these is Joseph c.
Grew, new Undersecretary and former
Ambassador to Japan. If there is one
thing most Americans believe it is that
this country must be increasingly on
it's guard in the Pacific, after the close
of this war Mr.. Crews knowledge of
the Far East and its problems fits him
for the post to which he has now been
assigned Another veteran of the State
Department is James c. Dunn, one Of
the newly appointed Assistant Secre-
taries Mr. Dunn was right-hand man
of former Secretary Hull and director
in the department, of the Office of
European Affairs. He has been assigned
to have charge of all countries except
the Americas-Nelson A. Rockefeller
will have those.
1t Is increasingly apparent that the
American public is becoming more and
more interested in what happens to
the peoples of the world outside of the
UnlteQ states. Mr. Dunn, IN MS dp-
pearance before the Senate committee,
put it clearly when he said: Our Sc
curity and welfare will be best served
by having in other countries liberal
governments which will be dedicated,
as we are, to improving the standards
of living of their peoples and to Great
ing the atmosphere and conditions con-
ducive to the preservation of peace and
security"
The State Department, working under
the President, has big job ahead The
influence Of the United States in the
world today is tremendous. 1t must be
used constructively and firmly. There
is no blinking the fact that this influ-
ence is due to the material strength of
the United States as well as to the ideals
of liberty which the American people
hold. After the World War this country
was also in position of great strength
and influence. 1t failed to exert this
influence, however, and gradually with
drew into its own shell If the country
again fails to take its proper part in
world affairs-so much the worse for
the world and for America.
Evening star., 1944-12-16
Thought for the Future

AS in the First World War, but to
much greater extent, American
power is the decisive factor in this
war. Had 1t not been put in the
balance against Hitler's Germany,
Allied fortunes today would almost
certainly be dark to the point of
disaster. Accordingly, twenty-five
years from now, if there are then
some aggressors plotting to dominate
the world, the lesson taught twice
by the United States since 1917 will
loom very large in their calculations.
This is the point made in an address
the other day by Joseph C. Grew, our
last Ambassador to Japan, and it is
a point that must figure largely in
our plans for achieving long-t term
security in the years ahead. AS Mr..
Grew expresses it, we have demon
Strated, on two different occasions
within a single generation, that our
military potential-as long as it Is
given a chance to be activated and
mobilized-is greater than that of
any other country, so that future
Hitlers, before they strike at anybody
else, will want to crush us and not
give us what we have always needed
in other emergencies-time" The
thought is worth keeping in mind
In this age of planes that fly as fast
as sound and of rockets that travel
three or four times faster than
sound, we cannot afford to place
much reliance on the heaving oceans
between us and the continents of
Asia and Europe.
Nxa ~.
Evening star., 1944-12-16
Still Up in the Air

The bill by Chairman Randolph of
the House District Committee to
establish the boundary line between
the District and Virginia seems
destined to die with this Congress.
Its revival will be attempted next
year, but that faces the usual diff
Guilty of obtaining the consent, all
over again, of the Virginia LegiSla-
ture. Both Virginia and Congress
must agree on this legislation and it
came as something of surprise that
1t was Congress, rather than Vir-
ginia, which blocked the bill this
year. For it had unusual support
from Federal as well as District of
Columbia authorities. Its passage
was regarded as important and was
sought by the Department of Justice
because of the confused jurisdiction
in mo mans land" across the river,
which this bill would clarity.
One reason for the bills failure
this session was Senator McCarran's
feeling that more should be done
than merely establish the existing
high-Water mark on the Virginia
shore as the new boundary Devel-
opment of Federal = owned areas
across the river has created problems
other than legal jurisdiction. Sena-
tor McCarran wanted to apply Dis
trict laws and regulations to these
areas. Something of the sort even
tually will have to be done, accom-
panied by provisions for meeting the
added expense to the District govern
ment. In the matter of public trans
portation alone, it is an absurdity
that so many different agencies are
involved in public regulation of fares,
etc, with none of them possessing
the complete authority necessary for
really adequate regulation. Police
and fire protection, health and sani-
tation, water supply and many other
functions of government exercised
in the District of Columbia eventu-
ally must be extended to the areas
developed, but not yet recognized, as
extensions of the Federal city.
Perhaps the next Congress will
couple, with a renewed attempt to
define the boundary line, a needed
policy in relation to the adequate
government of it's expensive prop
critics across the river in Virginia.
Senator McCarran has said he does
not intend to reintroduce his own
proposed legislation. But some sub
stitute for his idea eventually will be
found necessary.
Evening star., 1944-12-16

The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee and Senators not members OF the
committee had an opportunity this week
to look over the new State Department
team" headed by Secretary Of State
Edward R. Stettinius, jr. The team stood
the scrutiny well. Dire predictions OF
what would be the results OF public
hearings on the appointments OF Mr.
Stettinius' assistants turned out to be
exaggerated Opposition had been di-
rected particularly toward William l..
CLAYTON, a millionaire cotton merchant
and for the last four years in the Gov
ernment service, and Archibald Mac
Leish, poet and librarian of Congress.
Both showed themselves well able to
meet their critics.
The liberals" were cunning particu-
larly for Mr. Clayton; the conserva-
tives for Mr. MacLeish, who had been
accused of radical, if not communistic,
leanings. Mr. Clayton was picked by the
President and Mr.. Stettinius to have
charge of foreign economic affairs; Mr..
MacLeish to have charge of public and
cultural relations, new post in the de-
partment.
Mr.. MacLeish declared his personal
TO democracy. Mr.. Clayton was equally
emphatic in his denunciation of the
cartel system and his support OF freer
international trade. Mr.. MacLeish was
questioned about the meaning of some
of his poetry. Instead of trying to ex-
plain to the Senators the exact meaning
Of the verse quoted to him, he rocked
them back on their heels with story
of Robert Browning. Not" said Mr..
MacLeish, that I wish to compare my
self to Mr.. Browning. However, at one
time when friend called on Mr.. Brown
ing and asked him to explain passage
in one of his poems, he replied: God
and 1 knew what I meant when wrote
that; now only God knows And so the
incident passed so far as Mr.. MacLeish
was concerned.
Despite the feeling of some OF the
liberals that something had been put
over on them when the President ap-
pointed Mr. Clayton an Assistant Sec
retary of State, Mr.. Clayton's wide ex-
perience in business. and especially
foreign business, should prove an asset
Evening star., 1944-12-16
1orget, Tokyo
rom the Montreal Star

From the Montreal Star.
Goering, in all his elephantine splen-
dor, assured the Germans they would
never know what it was like to be
bombed. But the herrenvolk did find
out to their continuing misery. The
Japs, flushed with the heady wine of
easy early victories, were confident the
war would never be brought to the home
islands. Now, however, the barbarians of
the East realize that they, tooyare about
to feel the full fury of the wrath ther
have brought upon themselves. Thra
times within week the mightiest bomb.
ers the war has yet produced have
droned across thousands of miles of sea
to dump their lethal cargoes on Tokyo.
And these attacks are little mere than
famlliarization raids for an assault, in
the words of Gen. Arnold, ito destro.
the heart and the nerve cehters OF
JapapS war machine
Evening star., 1944-12-16
Across White Silence

Across tohite, glistening silence ,Dhere
the shadows
OF Woodland trees lie purple, long, and
thin
Are pathways made by little feet that
hurried
To frozen berry, bud. From chinquapin
From hazel clump, and nearby farmers
The timid rabbit, squirrel, and cautious
Carried the precious kernel, and sweet
morSel
To the ,oarn1 darkness OF a lenty house.
Across the stretching miles of snoU, no
trGcingS
Reueal the pathway that my heart has
gone
On journeys past the cold, bleak hour Of
midnight
Up to the golden swinging doors OF
dn,Dn,
Reueal not hoD it carried back the
dreams
OF you. my dear, nor hotD their bright
trarnnth CLEANS.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1944-12-16
This Changing World
BY Constantine Brown

Prime Minister Churchill's speech In
Commons In Which he abandoned the
exiled Polish government was received
with something OF shock in Washing
ton. It recalled the historical address
Of Lord Palmerston, Queen Victoria's
Foreign Secretary, who In an outburst Of
frankness said, Britain has no eternal
enmities, no eternal friendships; only
eternal interests"
Mr. Churchill asserted that Poland,
for whose territorial integrity and sover-
eighty Great Britain entered what has
become the most devastating war known
in history, would have no alternative but
to accept Russia's demands for a western
frontier along the CurZon Line.
The British Prime Minister placed his
own Interpretation on the Atlantic
Charter which he and President Roose-
welt drafted and presented to the world
three months before Pearl Harbor by
stating that "our British principle has
been enunciated that all territorial
changes must await the conference at
the peace table after victory has been
won but to that there Is an exception in
principle. That exception Is changes
mutually agreed. That must not be
forgotten"
Mr.. Churchill did not mention where
in the charter or in any other document
known to the public this exception has
been made This drastic revision of the
charter is probably included in one of
the understandings which are still top
secret in the personal files of the Prime
Minister himself
The hard-f1ghting Prime Minister may
now be making another attempt to ap-
pease Russia, politically, SO that Britain
may get out Of the present tight situa-
ton and obtain the unreserved approval
from Moscow to keep under her protec-
ton Greece and the other Mediterra-
mean territories which are important to
the British lines of communication with
the Far East.
The question of Poland is far more
complex than appears In Mr.. Churchill S
momentous speech. The territorial
changes demanded by Russia are of only
relative Importance. What has been
they would be allowed to maintain their
sovereignty When the former Polish
Premier, Wladislaw Mikolajczyk, visited
President Roosevelt last summer, he
made this point very clear.
In his private conversations at the
White House he insisted that the trans
fer of Eastern Polish territories to Russia
should be done by legitimate and fully
recognized Polish government after free
elections had taken place. He also de-
manded that a Polish administration
representing the government in exile
and the underground forces. which are
a government in themselves, should be
allowed to become the civil administra-
Evening star., 1944-12-16
Adventures of Mr.. Griffis

Not many Americans have ever
heard of Stanton Griffis. Fifty-seven
years old, bespectacled and rather
bald, he is not what one would call
the glamorous celebrity type. He has
led quiet life for the most part.
making a considerable but relatively
unpublicized success of himself as
an investment banker and as an
executive in several corporations.
Yet Paramount Pictures-one of the
companies whose business he has
guided could probably make a
highly suspenSeful movie out of a
mission he undertook last spring as
agent extraordinary for our Foreign
Economic Administration.
AS revealed for the first time by
the New York Herald Tribune, the
adventures of Mr.. Griffis land the
movie might well go by that title,
with somebody like Humphrey Bo-
CART or Walter Pidgeon in the leading
role) began with the failure of diplo-
matte negotiations to effect a reduc-
ton in the shipment of vital ball
bearings from Sweden to the Nazis.
The FEA thereupon asked Mr.. Griffs
to see what he could do through
direct contact with Swedish steel
manufacturers, and although the
assignment was hazardous one he
did not hesitate to accept it. Secrecy
was imperative, and the mode of
transportation had to be very special,
and so British Mosquito bomber
was called to do the trick.
But since a Mosquito is roomy
enough for only two seats-for the
pilot and copilot-Mr. Griff1s had to
stretch out horizontally in the bomb
bay, and in that position, strapped
down, with his head facing the tail
of the ship, he was transported to
Stockholm over some of the most
dangerous of enemy areas at a speed
of more than 800 miles an hour
Then, after arriving numb and half
frozen, he was active in his task for
about month, during which time
as in cloak-and-dagger melodrama
"a mysterious figure kept constantly
on his trail while anonymous notes
repeatedly threatened him with
death. But he persisted, and last
June-on the 13th-he returned to
England, strapped again in the bomb
bay and altogether successful in his
mission. The Herald-Tribune &C
count declares that the Nazis would
have sacrificed several squadrons of
planes to have foiled him, and we
can readily believe in that. for what
he did constituted one of the great
economic coups of the war, depriving
Germany of at least 81 per cent of
high-grade Swedish bearings an
Evening star., 1944-12-16

indispensable, supercritical item in
any military machine.
Thus, in effect, this quiet and un-
spectacular man did a job whose
damage to Hitler's war-making
capacity may be likened to the work
OF thousands of Allied bombers ham
mering away at Nazi industry in
prolonged offensive. There probably
are other Mr. Grifflses, all relatively
obscure figures, rendering much the
same kind of confidential service in
behalf of our country, but it is
enough to know about this particular
one-a gentleman who is certainly
something of a heroic make us
proud to be Americans.
Evening star., 1944-12-16
Hopeful Signs
By Mai. George Fielding Eliot

Probably, however, this lengthy single
track line could not supply the Japanese
armies in the south under combat condi-
tions 1t could help, but much of its
available capacity must be absorbed in
supplying the troops along its route in
China which are necessary to guard it
against interruption by Chinese guer-
rilla forces. Furthermore, the numbers
Of locomotives and cars which are avail
able are limited. And there Is always
the menace of air attack which cannot
cut the line permanently but which is a
source of constant interruption and
delay.
But the Japanese get another advan-
tage If they can open this great trunk
line from Singapore to their northern
ports. They can bring northward over
it supplies of Malayan iron, tin and
rubber and even oil from the Dutch
islands, which are badly needed by jap
anese industry. Moreover, they can use
troops from any of the southern regions
which they consider to have become a
military liability.
AS for the fighting in Southern China,
the direct rail line will be great ad-
vantage and it will be even greater if
the Japanese can now extend their
gains to the capture Of that part of the
Hankow- Canton railway which is not
yet in their possession. Should this
prove possible-and it seems certain to
be among the japanese objectives of the
immediate future-the coastal region of
China south of the Yangtze River will
be definitely cut off from the western
region around Chungking and Running,
where the strength of Chang Kai-shek's
government is chiefly centered. The
major seaports of this coast are already
in Japanese hands. 1t will be very diff
ficult for the Chinese who hold the
hinterland to gather any considerable
fighting strength to oppose the extension
of japanese inland communications to
link up the seaports with the railway,
but If the Japanese can do this they
will become virtual masters Of the entire
region.
copyright. 1944)