The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30
Observations
Postwar Conference
Has Capital on Edge.
Signs of Progress
BY Helen Essary

Washington-All outward signs
pint to good progress in the post
TAR security conferences now be.
be- conducted at the Dumbarton
AXIS estate in Washington.
Capital big-wiss are keeping
heir fingers crossed, however.
oping that nothing happens TO
um up the works.
There was intense agitation in
International circles last week
hen Governor Dewey's views on
postwar organization were made
nown. II was feared that the
russian mission, always sensitive
b American public opinion, might
bike offense at what at first
lance appeared to be, Dewey's
eep disfayor with the Soviet
kace organization proposal.
However. Secretary of State
tulps reply and invitation 10 the
&OP presidential candidate to dis
nss foreign policy smoothed the
homentarily troubled waters.
The conference of "technicians"
till has a long row 10 hoe. but
opes run high in Washington that
he formula finally achieved will
epresent the unanimous views
all the big Four" nations and
Fill be acceptable to smaller mem.
ers of the Allied nations.
According 10 well-founded re-
orts in the nations capital, War
dobilizer James F. Byrnes, who
as been referred to as the as
istant president, will seek TO
rop out OF public life after the
lection this fall. Byrnes wants
b resume his private law practice.
News reports of mass suicides
~ Japanese civilians on Saipan
| re causing considerable specula-
lon among Washington military
Ibservers on what the fate of ia
ans eighty million citizens will
se-if and when-the Americans
ecide to invade the homeland.
Correspondents have reported
he wave OF traditional hara-kiri
committed by Jap soldiers cornered
IN Saipan by our Marines. That
Was expected. But they didn't
|nticipate the hundreds. and pos
|ibly thousands, OF civilian sui
|ides.
Reports told how Jap warriors in
repairing to kill themselves made
ure they took as many civilian
ives as possible before they died.
hey told about men, women and
.hiidren diving from sheer cliffs
nto the sea, OF women combing
heir black hair before plunging
nto the surf, OF families riddled
y Jap bullets.
There was one temperate. con-
lidered observation on this sub
ect to which experts attach much
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Admiral
hester W. Nimitz that the Japs
Gay give up to prevent an Amer
can invasion.
With high.ranking military and
leaders worried over
he wave OF optimism sweeping
he country because OF favorable
var news and a drop in <ey NUM-
ions programs, the following story
els how "GI jog feels about 1t
IL:
An unidentified soldier In France
Who got fed up" hearing over
he radio and in letters from home
What an easy job the Allies are
,aving with the Germans, finally
wrote home and told his family
I understand the Germans have
practically given up. | wish some
me would tell that to the Krauts
Town the road who are giving US
iell day and night
II looks now as though an i'm
patient Congress, eager 10 get back
o the political races, may not be
,ble to recess from before Labor
Day until after the November cleo
ion-there is too much recover
sion stuff to clean up.
Both the House and Senate find
snarled over postwar
designed to facilitate
from war to peace. II
they are unable TO clear their
iecks before Sept. 4. Congress will
Do forced to return for perhaps
several weeks In September be-
lore cleaning up.
The Clio political action commit.
zee is reaping a variety Of results
In its exploration Of untried terri
tory. The latest Is the aEewea
OF the American Fedora
hon of Labor.
The AFL teamed up with the
CIO and the railway brotherhoods
In an effort to jam the Kilgore-
Murray.Truman rehabilitation bill
through the Senate. This formid-
able phalanx of labor was soundly
defeated when the Senate vote
was taken. Later the AFL blamed
a A