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Evening star., 1945-06-08

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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-09

4 pistols and now She
II eroakS of al, night 10
see this fellow, who thinks of
nothing olse-eNoept dogs
Not until French and AmCri-
can troops actually had Joined
hands with the underground forces
in the nciChhorhood did KcSelmann adj
nit that the path Of glory he'd talked
about was only a dcadcnd street.
His next thought was of escape.
10 doubt il would have been
easy if nc had a different secretary
This one, efficient as always, arrived
at the night moment as nc packed.
KcScImann, she called, come
out with your HANDS up,
Receiving no reply. she entered
his house. a. her heels a pack Of
Maquisards mon q the resistance
movement With American rifles.
Almost paialyzed with fright, the
notary covered in Il corner As She
stood over hlm, G'-eyiovcs taci-
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-09
Guns
G{eL!cVleI
: Duel

- ENEVIEVE IEBRUN, pretty
~ 21.ycarold French girl, who
~ always had been terrified of
firearms, challenged her employer to
a pistol duel and killed him
Renowned for taciturnity, She de
ilVercd a TRADE So eloquent that it's
still being quoted
Considered a Nazi sympathizer,
She now has turned out to be a top
flight heroine OF the resistance.
These startling changes in a girl
they've known since babyhood have
completely baffled her neighbors in
the little Alpine town Of AiguilleS.
Were il not for the high honor In
which she's held today, they'd prob
ably say she's been beWitChed.
Both of Genevieve's outstanding
former characteristics ~ her silence
and almost pathological fear of guns
were derived from her father
While serving in World War I,
ne had been struck by bullet, which
entered his mouth, passed through
the base Of the skull and left him
NoicclcSs- though otherwise sound
The silence, which from then on
flowed from him, filled the home
where GeneVieve was brought up
stilling both her and her mother.
And the remote cause of that silence,
a gun, became for the child a sym
bol of such horror that she could
not bear the sight Of a pistol.
Shipped off at 13 10 the home of
an aunt i'm Lyon, she studied
stcnography and. on her return
20 Aiguilcs a couple of years
later, became secretary and gen
cral assistant 10 Monsieur Etleane
kcsclmann, notary.
A former Alsatian, born OF Ger |
man parents KcSclmann had aC
CURED French nationality Whru
Alsacc-Lorrainc had been Ccdcd
back 10 France in 1919 At the
.imr GcnCVicVe came 10 work for
hm he was 40 years old a fol
lower of Pierre Laval and some
thing OF a power.
GcnCNicVe worked well i'm an
office almost as quiet as her
home, for KcseImann, too, seemed
of taciturn disposition. At least
ne never had much to say until
1910. Then, as loyal Vichyite
and. all at once. one of the top
uoiticos of the district he became
quite a talker.
To the French, Swiss and Italian
citizens who applied TO him for travel
permits and other favorS he spoke
knowingly of Marshal Petain and the
new government.
Working away doggedly at dicta-
ton and bookkeeping, GenevieVe, for
her part, apparently had no political
opinions at all Her aloof silence
remained proof even against her
employers growing interest in her.
Dangerously inflated with his
own Importance. he would tell her
OF his success with women. Gallan-
try alone, he would say, restrained
him from furnishing the few who
had resisted him.
Meanwhile, in conversations
among the townsfolk harsh things
were being said Of Keselmann and
even harsher of his seemingly will
ing secretary.
When ii was noticed that she was
beginning 10 90 out at night the
gossip took on an even sharper edge.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-09

For six months she was away from
home almost every evening, visiting,
il was discovered, Captain Baumgar-
ten, a crack shot, who'd fought with
her father in the other war and now
operated a hunting kennel across the
Swiss border
Obviously" people said, there's
Vichy plot brewing She. the cap
tain and Kcselmann are all in on it.
You can see how much il means TO
her, too, for she never could stand
Illustrated by A. s. PACKER
Evening star., 1945-11-17

times against religious tyranny, some
times against the power Of the owners
OF the land, and sometimes against the
overwhelming strength of monied in
terests"
1t is against the power Of land owners
and of monied interests that the Labor
government is now waging its battle.
There is and always will be scope for
enterprise" Mr.. Attlee said. But wher
big business gets too powerful so that
it becomes monopolistic, we hold it Is
not safe to leave it In private hands.
Further we believe, as do most people in
Britain, that one must plan the econom-
ic activities OF the country If we are to
assure the common man a fair deal"
The only difference-and it is a wide
one-between such ideas and those pro-
mulgated by the New Dealers in this
country is the naturalization of in
dustry. And some of the New Dealers
would go for that in big way If they
thought the time were ripe In this
country.
The British wish to borrow from the
United States sum of money variously
estimated from three to five billion
dollars. In the negotiations now on it
has been reported that the Truman ad-
ministration has suggested the loan be
no more than $3,500, 900 900 and that it
bear 2 per cent interest, all payable over
SIS year period. The British govern
ment, which would like a loan without
interest," has advanced a proposal that
$4,000 900 900 be loaned at per cent
and that another 50 1000 900 900 be loaned
without interest
To the ordinary citizens of the United
States, loans to foreign governments
under existing conditions, with taxes
at an all time high and a government
debt approaching $500, 900 900 900, are
not regarded with enthusiasm even to
our good friends. They are rendered
more unpopular because Of what hap
pened to loans made by this country
after the first world war These are
the reasons members of Congress are
hesitating over lending big sums to
Britain and to Russia. They have not
been kept informed regarding the loan
negotiations-as they were over the
progress of negotiations for an inter-
national peace agency. If the admini-
stration is wise it will rectify this error
before it transmits to Congress any loan
proposal. Members of Congress realize
these loans are vitality needed, but they
want to be assured they will be repaid
Evening star., 1945-11-17

as special investigator for President
Truman, charges that France is
paralyzing the Councils activity in
order to compel the other three to
disrupt Germany's economic unity
by splitting of the Rhineland, Saar
and Ruhr, and placing them under
French control. The other Allies
insist that this could turn what is
left of Germany into a permanent
slum, the breeding place of chronic
starvation, disease and violent un-
rest. Meanwhile, the deadlock con-
sequent upon French vetoes is pre-
cipating an immediate state of chaos
throughout the Reich.
However, the present situation is
not wholly due to Frances action.
The Russians have likewise been OBJ
structive in some ways, especially on
the revamping of German industry,
while all four of the powers have
their special viewpoints and policies,
certain of which are at variance and
have not been harmonized. The up
shot is that the Potsdam agreement
is, in the words of Mr.. Price, likely
to become mere piece of paper"
From this sad record, one lesson
would seem to emerge. Nothing
remotely like the Allied Control
Council should be duplicated in ia
pan, though this is just what the
Russians are urging. On this point
there should be no compromise.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
DeudIocked in Germany

Byron Prices alarming disclosures
OF conditions in Germany and the
reasons therefore confirm other au-
thoritative statements of top-rank-
ing American officials that gigan-
tic disaster impends which can have
the most deplorable and far-reach-
ing consequences.
The worst of the matter is that
the present crisis was, to a large
extent, avoidable. 1t has arisen in
great part because the program for
German occupation drawn up last
summer at Potsdam during the tri-
partite conference between the ex-
ecutive heads of America, Britain
and Russia has not been effectively
carried out. The Potsdam agreement
on Germany clearly envisaged its
treatment as "a single economic
unit" albeit the country was divided
into zones of military occupation.
Despite vehement protests, France
was not present at Potsdam, but it
was subsequently admitted to the
occupation and zone was assigned
to 1t, after the De Gaulle govern
ment had formally adhered to the
terms of the Potsdam agreement.
This made four parties to the ar
rangement.
The basic cause of the troubles
which have arisen is the unanimity
principle adopted for the Allied Con-
troll Council set up to administer
Germany. This gives any one Of the
four the right to veto any proposal
and thus to block anything 1t sees
u. Mr.. Price, who spent two months
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Collective Bargaining
By Ray,n ond MoIey

viii collective bargaining take place If
no cut Is conceded by the union? And
does the employer have to suggest a
big cut in order to provide the opportu-
nifty for mutual concessions?
President Truman adds to the defini-
tions the condition that collective bar
gaining be "in good faith" The unions
would interpret good faith" to mean
that the employer put in evidence q
revelation Of the company;s income
How Is this to be interpreted by the
governments representative? The COM
petitive angle is involved here, especially
in matters Of cost. And to reveal these
facts to the union would, no doubt, re-
veal them to competitors. To require
universal publication of operating re-
suits you'd be to propose something new
in this country and great protest
would result. For one thing, it would
greatly accelerate mergers, because
every effort to make costs uniform pro-
NOTES mergers. This runs squarely
counter to the eternal efforts of Gov
eminent to keep businesses from getting
too big.
Senator Murray proposes that Con-
gress amend the tax laws so that any
company which fails to bargain ''in
good faith" be denied the benefit Of tax
fefunds. Considering Senator Murray's
loose use Of language in his full-em-
ployment bill, he would probably permit
Government administrators to form
their own definition Of good faith"
Then, with collective bargaining pro-
ceeding under q threat from the Gov
ernment, what becomes Of Secretary
Schwellenbachis requirement that col
lective bargaining proceed freely?
(Released by The Associated Newspapers, Incl
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Russian Suspicion
From the London Sunday Chronicle.

From the London sunday Chronicle.
Russian suspicious of the Western
World are legacy from the years when
Russia stood alone, with her own
strength untried. But there is no such
isolation today, unless Russia imposes
it on herself. Marshal Stain, in an
interview the other day, asked that
Russia should be judged effectively.
know us and judge. us as we are" he
said. But 1t is not easy to know
country that still, from long established
habits, shuts itself off in many ways
from the rest of the world. And it is as
difficult to persuade the Russians to un-
derstand us. Certainly there is basis
Of understanding. There are the At
lantic Charter, the Charter of the Unit
ed Nations, and our 20-years' Alliance.
If we could agree then, we can agree
now. We have fought together and won
the war together, and now we must
live and do business together. It would
be a calamitous tragedy If the high
opinion that Russia has won by her
feats Of arms and her sacrifices in the
common cause were vitiated by her
own refusal to trust her friends.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
The Heort-Witherinq Years

Oh, soon shall iDdke from this dream
OF heart -,Dithering years.
The sharp edge OF time is only the SEM
blance OF truth.
My days are too bitter to be any more
than a spell, an enchantment,
trick OF the gods.
shall ir0ke to discover, unchanged,
the used-to-be boy, the dream
lost land.
I shall ind myself trudgin1 q road I
remember,
A boy trudging home from the vi1lace.
store.
(The time: Speet October, the samac.
red season.
oh, I shall come home a. " nothing had
happened
And open the door
Do,Dn the hail. from the kitchen, rn
hear
A hunintn1, q song:
And uoace sriu c6u me, my dear,
What kept you 20 long7"
BRANsoN BLAKk
Evening star., 1945-11-17
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

British Prime Minister Attlee's frank
statement to Congress regarding the
new Labor government in England was
an effort to convince the Legislators
that individual freedom, and free en-
terprise within limits, can run along
with planned economy. To those men,
bers of Congress who support the ad-
ministration's full employment bill such
suggestion can scarcely be regarded
as surprising. The full employment
bill, promising every man and woman
a job, and putting the Government back
OF the promise, Is certainly planned
economy, no matter what its friends
may call it.
What Mr.. Attlee was telling the Con-
gress and this country, however, was
that the new British government, with
its aims and desires for the British
people, Is not antagonistic in any shape
or form to the United States and its
economic ideas; that there should be
room in the world for diversity of ideas
and different governments. "It would
be a dull world if we were all alike" he
said.
With negotiations now in progress for
a loan by this country to Britain, 1t is
not unfair to Mr.. Attlee to believe that
his purpose In describing to Congress
the Labor governments aims was to
dispel as far as possible all suspicion
that the money obtained from this
country would be used to attack or
break down in any way Americas own
economic ideas.
In the opinion Of one influential Re-
publican Senator who has pronounced
ideas on economic and financial mat
tiers, Mr.. Attlee made a favorable i'm
preston and did his cause no harm
This, however, was not the unanimous
view of members of Congress, some of
whom fatty criticized Mr.. Attlee's prop
.osition that the Labor governments
kind Of planned economy, including the
naturalization Of some of the indus
tries Of Britain, could run along with
freedom. They saw in the Labor gov
ernments' proposals a move toward
socialism, intended to destroy the free
dom of individual enterprise.
F*+
In support of his contention that the
Labor party is not out to destroy free
dom, Mr.. Attlee insisted that the Labor
party is "in the tradition of freedom
loving movements which have always
existed in our country" He added that
sometimes the battle for freedom has
had to be fought against kings. some
Evening star., 1945-11-17
This Changing World
By Constantine BrOwn

Reports from 1t. Gen. Albert G. Wede-
meyer, commander Of American forces
in Chino, show that the repeated at
tacks by Chinese Communists on Amer
ican forces are both provocative and
premeditated. The recent attack on
Mai. Gen. Dewitt Pecks train may re-
suit now in the first physical reprisal
on the Yenan guerrillas.
Gen. Wedemeyer has informed the
Yenan headquarters that, in keeping
with our policy to remain in China until
all the Japanese have been disarmed
and repatriated, he is responsible for
the lives of the men under his COM
mand. And while the United States
forces in China have been ordered not
to become involved in the conflict be-
tween the central government and the
Communist forces, immediate reprisals
will follow any wanton attack on Amer
lean soldiers or interference with them.
Gen. Wedemeyer had the opportunity
to express his views clearly to Gen. Mao
Tse-tung, Communist leader, early in
September when the latter arrived In
Chungking to begin discussions for q
reconciliation between the Kuomintang
and the Communists.
ceived the news that one Of his Of
ficers, a Capt. Birch, who was former
missionary, had been killed few days
after the Japanese surrendered while
he and four American soldiers were re-
turning from a mission they had sue
cessfully completed behind Japanese
lines. The tall, blond, blue-eyed Birch.
who at one time was Gen. Doolittle's
interpreter, was one Of the most popu-
lar officers in the China theater.
Gk
Gen. Mao disclaimed responsibility,
but when it was proved to him con-
clusively that the Americans had been
attacked in an area under Communist
control, he apologized and explained
that his men were under the impress
sion that the five Americans were Japa-
nese in disguise. 1t was more difficult
for Gen. Mao to explain why, after the
mistake had been discovered. the sur
vivors were still kept prisoners.
Gen. Wedemeyer warned the Yenan
leader that any further attacks on
American lives and property would be
dealt with drastically by the Americans.
This drew formal promise on the part
Of Gen. Mao that the most stringent
orders would be issued to the forces in
the field to treat the Americans as
friends.
In the last three weeks, however, the
number of incidents has increased. No
lives, 1t Is hoped, were lost, but there
have been some casualties.
The Chinese Communists have fred
repeatedly on bafges and automobiles
occupied by Americans although the
Evening star., 1945-11-17

One of the real services which the
current ACKNOWLEDGEMENT conference
might perform would be to clarity some
of the terms now commonly accepted
in labor disputes. Two Of these terms
seem to have SO obvious q meaning that
no one questions them. They are "col-
lective bargaining" and "jurisdictional
strikes" The administration, as well
as the generality of the people of the
country, is for the first and against the
second.
But it is quite clear that people think
OF many different things when they use
these words.
Let's take look today at the first
Of these phrases.
Benjamin F. Fairless, president of
the United States Steel Corp, and
are engaged in seeking definition
Secretary said in letter to Mr.. Fair
less:
when q company and its employees
collectively bargain they sit around .
table In spirit Of good will and discuss
freely and frankly the positions OF the
respective parties.ss But Mr.. SchWellen-
bach almost Immediately finds 1t neces-
sary to fill in the generality of his de-
finition by saying, "The Government Is
not insisting upon any agreement from
your corporation as to q wage increase.
All the Government asks is that In the
presence Of one Of its representatives
you attempt to collectively bargain with
your employees"
In short, there can be collective bar
gaining without the yielding OF q wage
increase, but the Government must, by
presence Of its representative, determine
that collective bargaining actually takes
place. But, how IS the Government COM
ciliator to Judge whether collective bar
gaining takes placer Are mutual con-
cessions essential? II 50, then wages
60 up with each successive negotiation.
or to put It the other way: Suppose
business conditions are bad and the
company wants to bargain for = cut.
Evening star., 1945-11-17

American nag was prominently dis
played. In some cases the usual apollo
gies were made and the explanation
offered that 1t was difncult for the
Yenan commanders to determine
whether the men were friends or foes.
In other instances no explanations were
given at all.
The increased frequency Of attacks
on American forces by Chinese Com
munists Is believed to represent def
mite policy Of terrorism. The Yenan
leaders are aware that 80 long as the
American forces remain on the Asiatic
mainland and American ships continue
to transport central government forces
to territories such as Manchuria, their
chances Of supplanting Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek and taking over China
are slim.
They are also fully aware Of system
attic campaign which is being waged
by their friends in the United States
to withdraw all troops and support from
the Chungking government This CAM
paign has yielded no positive results
80 far, because Of the American govern
ment's determination to live up to its
pledges to the central government.
But they believed that when the
American public hears that American
soldiers are being killed the "get out
OF China" campaign, instigated and pro-
NOTED by the supporters Of the Chinese
Communists in this country, may get
sufficient popular support to compel the
administration to change It's present
stand.
This policy involves no particular
risks for the Yenan leaders. It may
cause loss of life to many guerrillas,
but life Is about the cheapest thing
in China.
Gen. Wedemeyer returned to his COM
mand late in October, after extensive
talks with President Truman, the Joint
Chiefs Of STAFF and policy trainers In
the State Department. His instructions
are said to be very clear: Keep the
American forces in China until the last
Japanese units have been disarmed and
fulfill all commitments which the Ameri-
can Government has undertaken, direct
ly and in the name Of the other Allies,
to the central government, which alone
Is recognized by all the United Nations.
Gen. Wedemeyer has been given
completely free hand to take whatever
measures he considers necessary to pro-
tect his forces while putting into effect
the policies of this government.
He has already warned the Chinese
dissidents that American forces must
not be interfered with, and that any
repetition Of the mistakes" which have
caused us casualties will be dealt with
In military manner.
Evening star., 1945-11-17
Not Only the Bomb

Because of its cataclysmic nature
and the fact that it is made up of
the basic energy OF the universe IAN
energy which from the beginning of
time had been safely locked away
from man until now-the atomic
bomb completely overshadows all
other weapons. Yet. such is the
genius Of this age. and such is the
Jekyll-and-Hyde character Of that
genius, that nations probably have
at their disposal potentially II not