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Evening star., 1945-06-27
Our German Policy

The temperance of the German
Communist party as legal political
organization in Soviet-occupied Ger
many sharpens the contrast between
Russian and Anglo-American policy
toward the Reich and its people.
From all indications the Russians
have made distinction between
what they regard as Nazi war crimi-
nails and the German people. The
latter have been almost sympathetic
cally treated. Soviet soldiers are not
forbidden to associate with them.
And now it appears that the German
Communists, at least, are to be per-
mitted to function as a political
agency.
All of this is in marked contrast
to the situation which prevails in the
American and British zones. We have
the much discussed ban on frater-
nization-a ban which is widely hon.
ored in the breach, according to most
reports. We do not permit the Ger
mans to engage in any political ac-
tivity. They cannot publish any
newspapers. In practical effect, we
have erected. or have tried to erect,
wall between our men and the peo-
pie of Germany. despite the fact
that American and British officers
must enlist the assistance of many
Germans in administering the coun-
try. These American and British
officials ought to be free to probe
the mental attitudes of the Germans
in order to exercise the utmost dis
elimination in selecting those who
will be chosen for governmental
functions. But with the bans now
in effect 1t is difficult if not impos-
sible to do this.
The least effective of the bans is
that intended to keep American
troops from fraternizing with Ger
man civilians. In a dispatch to the
New York Times. Drew Middleton
says that during seven-day tour
of the British and American zones
he did not meet single officer who
did not believe that the ban was
practically unenforceable and who
did not urge that it be abandoned.
From his own observations, the ban
is being so widely flouted that it has
become something Of a ioke with
potentially harmful consequences to
Army discipline In other matters
Similarly, twelve general officers
who have just returned to this coun-
try. including General Devers, Gen.
eral McNarney and Lieutenant Cen
eral Simpson, agreed that the ban
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treaty Of mutual friendship and nom
aggression.
The Turkish diplomats were left by
the Moscow Foreign Once to worry
until the softening-u up process took
some effect. Then the Turkish govern
ment received the conditions under
which matters could be arranged" :"
In the meantime, the Turks became
aware Of the presence of strong and
well-equipped Red forces in Georgia
and Armenia and on the Thracian bor-
der about $50 miles from Istanbul.
In view of the overwhelming mill
tary superiority Of the Red army, there
is little likelihood of an armed con-
fiict resulting from the differences of
opinion" between the two countries.
During the early stages of the San
Francisco Conference, some Of the
Turkish delegates indicated that their
country would do everything in its power
to safeguard its sovereign rights over
territories which have been in her
possession for many generations. Most
OF the foreign diplomats, however, be-
lieve that while Turkey will resist
automatically as long as she can, her
military position is such that a clash
o1 dTHS NuSt DC FuicQ out.
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The whole matter is expected to be
taken up at the forthcoming meeting
of the Big Three where Russia will be
in good diplomatic position. Accord
ing to officials present at the Crimea
Conference, President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill agreed that
the question of the straits should be
settled soon.
But there is no indication that Pre-
mier Stain brought up the matter of
Ardahan and Kars, which it is be-
lieved, developed only after the meet
Ing was ended.
The forthcoming Tripartite Confer
ence will be a preliminary to a peace
conference to settle the boundaries of
Europe. The Turkish Russian problem,
matter involving two eace-loving"
countries which are members of the
United Nations family, will also have
to be raised. The overall American for
eign policy does not favor territorial
expansion at the expense of an ally.
Most diplomats in Washington believe,
however, that Turkey will be persuaded
to yield in order not to disturb the
good understanding among the Big
Three in whose hands the preserva-
ton Of the world peace has been placed
by the San Francisco charter.
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pay the economic, the political and
the social price Of 1t. Meanwhile,
the younger generations of the
Dutch, the Belgian, the French and
the Polish people may be compen-
sated for what they have lost. II
Europe ever is to be healthy as well
as peaceful, something along that
line will have to be attempted-and
successfully performed. That is the
purpose of the UNRRA organization,
now at last really going into action.
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BioIoqicuI Price

Incredible as 1t may seem, Ger
many may have won the Axis war
biologically speaking. A dispatch
to the Montreal Star quotes Major
Abraham Gelperin, formerly en-
ployed in the Cincinnati Health De-
partment and now medical officer
with the American occupation forces
at Bremen, to the effect that several
decades hence Europe may be "a
continent of physical incompetents
among whom the Germans alone
will stride in the full flush of health
and normal development"
The explanation, according to
Major Gelperin, is to be found in
the fact that the Nazis exploited
all their neighbors for five years to
the physical profit of the Herren-
volk. German children today in
consequence, he declared, "look the
way we like to see kids look" while
"the children of Holland and Bel
gium and France and Poland-our
Allies-don't look that way"
But perhaps Major Gelperin does
not take into account the immediate
future of the conquered and broken
Reich. Possibly history is about to
repeat. The German people did not
starve so much during the First
World War as they did after it
Even If generous allowance be
made for the charity of the victori-
Gus Allies, there is little likelihood
that the Herrenvolk will be as well
fed in defeat as they were when
they dominated Europe from the
Channel Isles to Stalingrad. The
biological price of the hideous Nazi
experiment will be paid by the same
children who, as adults, also will
Evening star., 1945-06-27
Dissension in OPA

The prevailing controversy within
the local Office of Price Admins
tration Is not calculated to inspire
public confidence in an agency
which, in the last analysis. must
look to the public for the success of
its program.
At the moment the local OPA is
engaged in cracking down" on Dis
trict concerns said to have violated
the rationing regulations. But Hear
ing Commissioner Clifford r. Snider,
who serves In the role of trial judge,
is not cooperating to the satisfac-
tion of Enforcement Attorney Carl
W. Berueffy, who functions as a pros
ecutor, and the latter has threat
ened to appeal every case in which
Mr.. Snider imposes a penalty less
than a ninety-day suspension.
That, on it's face. is a remarkable
attitude for any prosecuting officer
to take. 1t is the function of the
commissioner to hear the evidence
from both sides and then determine
what punishment, If any, should be
imposed. Most certainly 1t Is not
the function Of the prosecutor to
bring the complaint and then, in
effect, to attempt to tell the Judge
what his finding must be and what
penalty must be imposed. Under
OPA practice the prosecutor has
right OF appeal. But 1t is one thing
to exercise that right in individual
cases, and quite another to employ
it or threaten to employ 1t in a man
ner seemingly designed to coerce
the hearing commissioner.
1t is conceivable that Mr.. Snider
has been unduly lenient, although
the evidence presented to him dur
ing the past two days hardly tends
to support this conclusion. But even
If excessive leniency be assumed,
there is certainly no remedy to be
found In public statements by Mr..
Berueffy which necessarily must
shake the confidence of the people
in either the hearing commissioner
or the enforcement attorney.
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must and will be relaxed in the near

must and will be relaxed in the near
future.
More important than the frater-
nization ban. however. which orig
inally was intended to safeguard the
troops while the invasion of Ger
many was under way. Is the rather
obvious inference that even now
there is no settled Anglo American
policy with respect to Germany. The
Russians seem to have decided what
they want to do, and they are doing
1t. But the indications are that the
western Allies are still marking time
while trying to get their bearings.
Evening star., 1945-06-27
German War Potential
By Maj. Georse FieIdine Eliot

that? 1t can also be used to manufac-
ture poison gas? Oh. yes, of course but
we'll keep a careful watch on the Ger
man owners to make sure they don't
do anything like that. And anyway, you
know, you have to leave the Germans
some industry or their standard Of liv-
ing will 60 down and they will become
fostering sore on the European body
polite.
It is this fostering sore" argument
with which this writer is particularly
and most thoroughly fed up. Why
shouldn't the German standard of liv-
ing be lower than that of Germanys
neighbors? Since when has it been
considered m obligation of civilized
society to see to 1t that criminal, in
the custody Of the law. must enjoy every
privilege. every luxury and every article
of Lucullian diet which may be avail
able to the law-abiding members of the
community
The facts are that the Germans can
manage to live by maintaining light
industries pottery, toys, textiles, etc),
plus the export of coal and potash, plus
a greatly expanded agriculture. They
won't live we'll Their heavy industry
and their shipping were the cream
on their milk pitcher. But SKINNED
milk must satisfy them for a time.
They've had their years of slaves and
loot. Now the time has come when first
priorities must 60 to their victims,
whom they hoped so to weaken and
reduce that Germany would be the
permanent over-lord Of Europe even If
this war should be lost.
Above all, we cannot-we dare not
leave in Germany the elements Of q
war industry which might some day be
used for war of revenge. 1t Is all
very well to say that we will maintain
strict watch. That is fine, for now. But
the day may come when we will grow
tired Of watching, and weary of the
expense, and overconndent; when our
hearts win be touched by the whines
Of the Germans, who know so well how
to conceal evil purposes under the
guise of self-pity, as they have proven
in the past: even when there will arise
among us those who will see in re-
vival Of German industry only an OPP
portunity for profit for themselves, and
SO will seek to influence Us in that
direction.
It will be better, far better, II now,
while the crimes Of Germany are fresh
in our memories, we take steps to de-
prive the Germans OF every single part
of their war machine, and leave them
in such state that they will be too
busy trying to earn q meager snbsist-
ence to have any time to spend on
planning and preparing new wars.
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This Changing World
Bv Constantine Brovn

Dispatches from Ankara, confirming
previous reports that Russia had asked
certain territorial concessions from Tur-
key as a price for the establishment
Of friendly relations, were received in
Washington at time when President
Truman was congratulating the repre-
sentatiyes Of so peace-loving l.ations
for the successful completion Of the
world security charter
According to these dispatches the So
Wet Ambassador at Ankara, Sergei Vino
gradoff, informed the Turkish govern
ment that the conclusion of a new
treaty was dependen. on Turkeys will
ingness to return to Russia the regions
of Ardahan and Kars and granting the
U. S. S. r. privileged position in the ad-
ministration Of the straits leading from
the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
The Ardahan area and the Kars
plateau are strategically important to
any nation which wishes to control the
northeastern sections OF the Middle
East.
When Kemal Ataturk organized the
Free Turkey movement after the World
War the Communist government in
Moscow supported him with mercy and
available war material in his struggle
against the British and the Greeks
Moreover. the newly created Soviet
government in 1921 ceded to Turkey the
Kars area, which had been allotted to
Russia by the treaty of Berlin after the
Russian Turkish War Of 1877.
Kemal, who had benefited by Russia s
friendly attitude in his fight against
the Allies, kept cordial relations with
Moscow for some time, but Stunned the
Moscow ideologies. Their treaty of
friendship and non-aggl ession was re-
nounced by the Russians within few
weeks after the Crimea Conference,
when the Russian foreign ONCE informed
the Ankara government that it had be-
come obsolete and no longer corre-
sponded with the new world situation.
A virulent anti Turkish campaign was
launched by the Moscow press and
broadcasting stations. Turkey was de-
nounced as a country infested with Nazi
spies and harboring Fascist views and
ideologies The meaning OF this soft
ening-up" campaign was fully under
stood in Ankara as we'll as in WASH
ington and London. 1t paved the way
for demands for territorial concessions,
both in Asiatic and European Turkey,
as price for the signing Of another
Evening star., 1945-06-27

There Is considerable food for thought
in the reports reaching this country as
to Germany's present industrial status.
On Friday. Bernard M. Baruch told
the Senate Military Affairs Committee
that to establish - sure peace" the
victorious Allies must break once and
for all Germany's dominance Of Eu-
rope. Her war-making potential must
be eliminated: many of her plants and
factories shifted east and west to
friendly countries; all other heavy IN
dustry destroyed; the Junkers' estates
broken up; her exports and imports
strictly controlled; German assets and
business organizations all over the world
routed out"
Now comes Leo r. Crowley, foreign
economic administrator, to warn us
that If left alone now. Germany could
be better prepared for another war five
years hence than was Hitler's Ger
many in 1899.
Allied air attacks, he pointed out,
targets. They could not hit everything.
ALLIED bombing drastically curtailed
the production of aircraft. Its effect on
German war production for 1946 and
1947 and few years after that will
probably be tremendous. But it didn't
eliminate Germany's industrial war po-
tential, and its effect on Germany's pro-
ductive capacity could almost surely be
discounted by the Germans before many
years have passed unless we take steps
to prevent that from happening. The
size of the existing German industrial
plant is still tremendous. All Of 1t Is
geared for total war. All of 1t is still
part Of huge modern industrial ma
chine which was organized and used for
war"
Surely no one can rise to assert that
this huge modern war plant ought to
be left In German hands, or even that
it ought to be preserved under condi-
tions which will permit it to relapse
into eventual German CONTROL. That is
just matter of plain common sense,
q matter Of self f-preservation for those
peoples who have suffered so much to
take this plant away from the Ger
mans and prevent its further use for the
enslavement of the world. This Is not
q matter Of arguing hard peace or soft
peace. 1t is just matter OF seeing to
it that those who died to save us from
German cruelty and German chains
shall not have died In vain.
It Is not selective process with which
We are faced. There is too much tend
ency to split hairs: To say, let us de-
stroy this factory which was used to
make airplanes. but let us preserve the
factory across the road which was used
70 manufacture dys-studs. WHATS
Evening star., 1945-06-27
One Had to Stoy

The sky ,ods cold the night you ue,,t
GD1y,
And overhead the stars were sparks
OF frost,
Our hearts tDere chilled, ne had no
words to say,
The Uind ,oent ,ohtmpsrino. lonely
and lost,
! too ,pds lonely. I toho had to stag.
! say no bloodshed. heard no roar Of
guns
For / had ground to plant w!th sing.
ing seed,
Water to carSy to the chicken runs,
Chores against my deep and urgent
TO hasten the slo,p passtmg OF laegard
suns.
I sap only ,peH- -knoton hills n nsornsno
gray,
While you saw death upon an island
shore,
I counted starless nights and learned to
And bled for spery single ,cound yos
bore,
And tcors each scar, I, sho had to stav.
ALMA ROBSON HIdBEE.
Evening star., 1945-06-27
This and That
BIZ Charles L. TraceneU.


What to do with unwanted kittens?
Drowning, the old solution, like 50
many old solutions Is not good enough.
1t is not civilized. 1t never was.
A far better solution Is to raise them
to 6 weeks Of age, and then try to give
them away
ANY sort Of life, one may think, is
better than death, especially among
animals
Pet stores usually are willing to take
such kittens, building up good will by
giving them away.
Such disposition is far better,
friends of animals will think, than snuf-
fing out their lives with water.
Drowning Is always a sad thing.
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There is q great deal of interest in
watching kittens grow up.
And a great deal Of fun, too.
Even monkeys provide no more hilari-
GUS fun for the family than three or
four good lively kittens
From the age Of weeks to about 4
months family of kittens will provide
more amusement than the proverbial
barrel of monkeys.
The best time to enjoy them is in
the evening.
If they are brought up from the base
ment, and turned loose in the living
room, the show they will put on is
worth seeing, II you like cats.
II you don't like cats, that is q diff
ferent matter
The davenport is the chosen center of
activity.
1t should be said at the start that
the animals will not harm this noble
piece of furniture.
1t Is only when cats are grown that
they play havoc with overstuffed furni-
ture
Who can blame them? Who, that
is, who likes cats?
To understand cats, wise man has
said, one must be cat himself
The cat claws were divinely made to
sink into overstuffed furniture
One sinking in, and habit is estab-
lished for life.
But kittens are different.
Their whole interest, as of all young
things, is movement.
They chase each other over and
around the davenport.
They dive over the ends, and come
up over the back
They scoot along underneath on their
backs, dragging themselves along with
their paws. This may seem contradic-
ton of the statement that they are not
interested in clawing, but at their age
the claws do not amount to much.
This under-sofa activity is one Of the
most comical things any animal does.
It is possible for lively kitten to 60
as fast on its back in this way as it
might do on its feet.
Usually the act is repeated for good
measure, but no kitten does It more than
a few times. After all, they find the
feet better for traction. This is one of
their earliest wisdoms.
Even the family cat hater has been
known to soften bit toward the. antics
of kitten circus on the home grounds
If a three-ringed circus is lively, 30
are three or four kittens turned loose
at evening.
Every living thing seems louder and
livelier on hot night, and kittens are
no exception.
No matter what the urge, the best
and most rewarding thing is to keep q
bunch of kittens at least until they are
6 weeks old, and then give them away
There y enough killing II the world
Evening star., 1945-06-27
A Joint Committee Needed

One of the curious inconsistencies
OF congressional committee govern
ment of the District of Columbia Is
the sharp division of responsibility
between the appropriations and leg
islative committees 1t will be re-
moved some day by creation of a
Joint committee on the District, ex-
ercising the combined powers OF in
itiating appropriations as well as
legislation. That has been urged in
the past. Recent events indicate
how serious is the need for it now.
Within the space of few weeks
Congress undoubtedly will be enact
ing legislation which will increase
the cost of municipal salaries, &C
cording to tentative estimates, by
perhaps as much as $6,000,000-
which happens to be the size of the
existing Federal lump-sum payment.
The lump sum. in other words, will
about cover the increases. leaving
the local taxpayer responsible for
everything else, burden which he
Is incapable of assuming.
OF the various salary bills, the
only one which has received close
study by the local budgeting author
tiles and the Commissioners is the
teachers pay bill. The other bills,
for increases to firemen and police
men, classified and other civil en-
ployes, originated in legislative COM
mittees, which are not concerned
with the District budget, and repre-
sent an effort to make municipal
salaries conform with Federal pay
scales.
Whether or not these increases
are merited is not the point. Un-
doubtedly they are But here we
have the picture of local budgeting
authorities, the Federal Budget Bu-
reau and the appropriations COM
mittees of Congress working for
about nine months out of every
year to perfect a local appropriation
bill based on available local reve-
nues. And in a matter of weeks the
legislative committees approve bills
which, based on no relationship be-
tween local revenue income and out
90, create substantial new obliga-
lions for the local taxpayer without
providing for any method of meet
Ing them.
On the other hand, the appropria-
tions committees are conscious of
many fiscal inequities in the appor-
tionment of local expenses between
the District and the National Gov
ernment which are removable only
by legislation. The current, and
sound, policy is against legislation
on appropriation bills. The correc-
ton of a condition with which the
appropriations committees are most
familiar, in other words, rests wholly
with the legislative committees.
The logical method of appropriat-
ing and legislating for the District,
through establishment of a joint
committee on the District of Colum-
bia, combining legislative and ap-
propriative functions, has been ar
gued in the past. 1t would make for
better legislation, better appropriat-
ing. 1t would avoid much waste of
time from duplication of effort,
as at present. 1t would centralize
responsibility in keeping with the
exclusive control by Congress of the
District. And it would avoid a pol
icy which now leaves the local tax
payer, along with the budgeting au-
thorities, at the mercy of two COM
mittees with conflicting aims and
with no method of reconciling them.
Evening star., 1945-06-27
Welcome to London!
BY David Laurence
From the London Daily Express.

FROM the London Daily Express.
There is one further precedent act
by Roosevelt that the British people
hope his successor will follow. The late
President was the first ever to quit
the shores Of America on q foreign
visit In time of war. 1t was hoped that
his next trip abroad would be to Britain
II President Truman is able to keep
that appointment he will enable the
British people to express In welcome one
OF the deepest-felt emotions Of the
war-praise for our American Allies,
tribute to that fine, young, vigorous
Nation that has achieved so much.
Evening star., 1945-06-27

Do not always be too sure after an
informal gathering that it is a case
of your eloquence having held the
group spellbound. Sometimes 1t is
just the courtesy and forbearance
Of your host and fellow guests.
Evening star., 1945-06-27
Good Prescription

From the correctionville tKansas) News
Some people count imaginary sheep
as a cure for insomnia Another good
method is to imagine you are In church,
sitting with the choir and facing the
sudtanoo.