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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
Let's Look Twice
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSEREs

2--As wards of the state under this
"cradle-to-grave" security measure your pri-
vate life will be invaded by swarm of de
tectives" "overseers" and authorized puddlers
in your most intimate affairs
The man or woman with the badge from
Security headquarters will knock at your
door whenever he or she likes.
These inspectors will constitute the
GESTAPO Of the welfare state.
3-Do you know that such measures As
the Wagner-M -Dingell social security"
measure, If 1t ever becomes law, will spawn
a raft of blackmailers, snoopers and title
tattle neighbors who will threaten to expose"
you if you should seek to hide any little de-
tail Of your life or that of your wife and
children?
OVERALL cradle-to-grave forcible "se-
~ curity' is, in a word, ANTI-AMERICAN
in spirit and in execution it will be RUSSO
GERMAN.
Besides, Mr.. and Mrs Citizen half or
more of your income will be taken in the
shape of taxes to support the multiple activi-
ties of this law.
The other half will be under the eyes of
inspectors, and your safe-deposit boxes will
be practically public knowledge.
These social security" measures, such as
the Wagner Murray -Dingell bill. are really
designed to condition" us all for communism,
for can you conceive Of q Red Who does not
back Senator Wagner on this bill?
So our citizens had better look twice at
this measure and all measures that promise
to keep them.
And all of us had best memorize and act
on this
Not what does q law GIVE me, but what
does II TAKE AWAY from me-"
The Wagner-Murray-Di Dingell measure gives
you a LEASH and takes away your SELF
DIRECTING MANHOOD.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
BY BENITO MUSSOLINI
Dntributed Exclusively by Inter
national News Special Service
World Copyright and All Right. Reserved
CHAPTER V

CHAPTER V
DONE INS)-When the deci-
~ sion OF the Duce (to call a
meeting of the Fascist Grand
Council became known, the ten
sion in Fascist circles ran high.
Every one asked himself:
what will the grand council
decide: VIII IL be peace or con-
tinued war;"
A spirit of war-wearineSs and
capitulation was gaining among
the weakminded. This spirit was
continually reinforced by news
from the front.
On Wednesday July 81, 1943)
at noon. ScorZa (Fasclst party
secretary presented me with an
order of the day which Grandi
veteran Italian diplomaD and
others were presenting 10 the
grand council the mex day.
Mussolini read II and returned
il. He said it was inadmissible.
II was cowardly and vile. On
that occasion, ScorZa spoke am
biguouSly of something very
sensational" which might take
place.
In the afternoon. Mussolini
received Grandi. who presented
a report on the committee of
non intervention in the Spanish
civil war. He did not refer TO
the events then shaping up.
THURSDAY and Friday there
Twas much coming and going
at party headquarters in the
Piazza Colonna. AT this time
Grandi proposed that the grand
council meetings end.
MusSolini said that for good
or i'll the date had been fixed
and the invitations made The
situation must be cleared. Nerv-
Gus tension was growing.
On the afternoon of July "a,
Rome became pale.
Cities, like men, have face
and it reflects general thought.
The cars which took members
of the grand council to ethe
meeting were driven into the
courtyard Musketeers were dis
pensed from duty on that occa-
sion.
The meeting was called for 5
p. m. instead of the usual 10
p. m. All members wore their
blackshirt uniforms. The meet
ing opened punctually when
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Mussolini ordered Scorza 70 call
the roll. Every one was present.
MCSSOLINI began the report
A'A from a doSsier in front Of
him, full of documents. He said:
THE war has reached an ex-
tremely critical phase. The
real war began with the loss ~
Pantelleris. At present, all
official and unofficial. cIsndes-
tine and otherwise, forces hos
tile To the regime are concen-
trating their efforts.
There are symptoms NJ de-
moralizatiOn even among the
Fascists, especially among the
bourgeois elements who see their
positions endangered.
II am certainly the most
detested, or rather most hated
man in Italy. which Is perfectly
logical on the part Of the igno-
rant masses, In view of their
sufferings.'
ED. Mussolini put the
above paragraph In italicsD
Let II be said, once and for
all, that I never asked for COM
msnd Of the armed forces. This
was given To me on June, 1910,
nv the king, on his own inlti-
stive. The action came about
because Of Marshall Badoglio.
SuERE'S a letter by Badog-
IL lio. protocol No. 1912,
addressed to Duce:
After the last War Ws first
realized the necsssdy for a
single command Of oil the armed
forces and the post Of general
chief Of the general staff was
created.
His activities Wsrs defined
only for psaestims. IL is essen
hai now to decide What ms
duties shall be. in wartime.
"Bsdoglio preferred = Ger
man-type solution Of this prob
lem, since then he would retain
his post as general. chief OF the
general stah, with its most
important functions. His letter
concluded:
"'T have aiways eonsidered Il
my duty to speak frankly to you,
Dues. IL 10 certainly not Uonity
that hos made me take this step.
but a justihobis Wish TO protect
the name I won for myssif Uith
saeri6ess in the World Wu,
Lybia, and Ethiopia
"H there 10 one thing am
proud Of IL is that I ai0ays
served faithfully and wifh un-
limited devotion to you, Dues.
I'm a letter circulated four
days before the declaration OF
war, Badogiio told all COM
manders, governors Of colonies
and foreign ministers, what the
Duce's specific functions would
he az q commander In chief.
"This letter ended with in
structions for absolute devotion
and obedience to Duce, intimate
fusion OF thought and action on
the part NJ every one, In ac-
cordance with Fascist custom
and Fascist spirit
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
knowledge Test
BY DR.. SABINA CONNOLLY

Give yosrseR ONE for each NJ the first
five auestions and FIyp for tn, last sue.-
tior. soore. $40, brilliant; "a, brirht;
80 average; OBJ, dali
THE Canadian Northwest was
once called: (a) Hubert'S
Land; tb) Luperts Land: tcJ
Rupert's S Land.
"A scalene triangle has: (a)
none of the sides equal; Cb)
all of the sides equal; (c)
two Of the sides equal.
3--If you walk kilometer,
have you covered (a) one
mile; thl one-half mile; (c)
one and one-half miles.
4-Was the girl who told the
tales Of "A Thousand and
One Nights" named: ta
Balkis, tb) Scheherazade;
tcD Jezebel. ~
5--Brine contains: (a) sugar:
tb) salt, (c) spice.
Sin what month is:
ca Patriots Dsy ~ October
tbl ST Swithin Day go November
tel FlsG Day tti July
"a Nsvy Dsy ~ APRIL
tsl AL Souls Day ca June
Answers on opposite page
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
And Now Let's Get Started

INDICATIONS today are that the
City of Detroit will proceed with
arrangements to acquire the so called
Wyoming Eight Mile site for an ade-
quate, up-to date airport.
The tiresome and confusing con-
troversy concerning a proper loca-
tion is not yet quite ended.
Unless the several contending
factions succumb to prevailing hu-
midity we still may look for some
pickering and protests and charges
and countercharges of bad planning.
But Mayor Jeffries and his ad-
visors apparently have made up
their minds they have been suffi-
ciently lenient to all of the quarrel
ing parties. They seem finally, after
long and ultra patient consideration
of the many sites championed by this
or that group, determined the Wyo-
ming site is the best available one.
WE AGREE with this stand.
w We suggest only that they
stand pat and get to work promptly
on that site.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25

"Mussolini, nevertheless, did
not direct military opera tions
except one time. In the alb
sence OF Cavaliero, (chief of
staff he took his place.
That was on June Is. 1942.
Tho occasion arose on an air
and naval battle In the waters
around Pantelleris. That this
victory belongs to Mussolini
was recognized by officers OF
the Seventh Naval Division, and
Adm. Riccardi. chief OF the
naval general star.
This was the battle In which
Britain felt for the hrst time
the fangs Of the Roman she
wolf.
HTN OCTOBER, I942 Musso-
L lini was III and thought Of
relinquishing the supreme com
mand. But he didn't wish to
leave the helm while the storm
was raging.
He wanted 10 wait for the
day Of sunshine which IL still
awaited.
The question Of aid given VA
by the Germans has been dis
cussed In some quarters. Well.
We must recognize that Ger
many came forward generously
and In = spirit OF solidarity.
German supplies and raw
materials during 1910. I94I,
1912 and the hrst half Of I94s
included 10000, 900 tons Of coal.
2.5O0,0O0 tons OF metals, 20
tons Of rubber, 220 tons Of air
craft gasoline, AL tons af para
I'm, plus smaller quantities OF
nickel and other essential
metals.
AFTER the massive bomba I'd
ments Of Milan. Genoa and
Turin, In October. I942, we
asked the fuehrer for anti
aircraft help.
German cannon In Italy by
April I, 1943. were no less than
1900. Defeatists are therefore
false who said that the Ger
mans gave us insufficient help.
~ MOTHER argument Of tho
"a capitulationists Is that
this war isn't popular. Well,
NO war IL ever popular. The
Italian people were dragged
into the war In 1914 by q
minority OF three cities.
The country was divided
with D'Annunyio (poet) and
Mussolini creating an interven-
ZIONIST movement. This division
didn't end even after Csporetto
disastrous italian defeaD.
Frankly, the last war looks
to US less popular than the
present one. The fact Of tho
matter is that no war is ever
popular at Its inception. II the
war goes badly, Its unpopuIarity
Increases.
Tho Ethiopian war didn't
become popular until the FIRST
victories. We mustn't be infiu-
enced by psychological oscilla-
tions Of the masses. Even when
they arc wild oscillations, As at
present.
The mass Of the people are
disciplined and that IL the all
important thing. This war IL
the party's war. Wars are
always the wars Of the men
who declared them.
To-day II IL Mussolini's war.
This IL the moment to
tighten ranks, face our re-
sponslbiIities. In 1911 we lost
some territory and NO one
spoke Of surfendering. On the
contrary, men spoke of carry
ing on the government from
Sicily n necessary.
To-day should prove that ~
u IL Inevitable, we could well
govern Italy from the Po
Valley"
The discussion then began
with Marshal De Bono defend
ing the army from accusations
of sabotaging the war.
world Copyright. 1915. King Features
tCcnorrow: The grand coun-
-HIm a.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
WESTBROOK
PEGLER
Enough
Enough

GEORGE SPELVIN, AmertD
" can. has been thinking
over and has come out of his
trance with a suggestion which
he believes to be practical and
original and very patriotic.
Mr.. Spelvin has come 10 the
decision that II would simplify
matters beautifully il the na-
tional government would just
collect all his pay, direct and
then remit to him as much as
the treasury thinks he deserves.
He is tired of keeping jots on
odd pieces of paper and figuring
out the returns at income tax
time and he is always afraid
when one of those envelopes
comes from the collector OF
internal revenue that he has en-
tered some numerals in the
wrong column and will get a
fine of $4,000 and 10 years in
prison. or both, on multiple
charges of fraud and perjury.
THEN, in addition to the time
L and study which he puts in
on the original returns. ne has
had to 60 down there with all
his books and papers regularly
every year to talk to the guy
who reviews his return for two
years before and who wants TO
know. on Spelvin's oath, whether
his ancient, bed-ridden grand
father, whom he supports. is
really incapable Of self-support
by reason OF infirmity or is
Just stalling and whether this
deduction OF AO0 for the old
gentleman's keep isn't actually
a gyp, depriving some deserving
Armenian or Chinaman OF his
pint Of milk a day or some con-
tinental Communist refugee ~
deserved raise in pay from
the owl.
Mr.. Spefvin is tired and licked
and he figures that it is alreadm
conceded that his pay belon
first to Old Sam and that he is
entitled to only as much as Sam
wants him TO have.
He can't pay his rent, he can't
pay the doctor or the grocery
bill, he can't buy anything for
his ever-loying war department.
or a slab OF gin fo- Saturday
night until he has first paid Old
Sam his share, and any time he
wants 10 take it all. all Sam
has 10 do is hoist the tax rates
up IN 100 per cent and help
himself
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
ChennauIt'S Last Service

sight and unwdUering loyalty TO the
cause zoe share.
IL think IL is time for us 10 re.
member that We olOe China an i'm.
prense debt"
The campaign being conducted in
the United States against Chang
Kai shek and the Chungking gov
ernment is indeed persistent and
malicious, and most sinister.
1t is a COMMUNIST campaign,
in behalf of the puppet government
Soviet Russia has already. established
in some of the richest provinces of
China, and with the ultimate purpose
of bringing China ENTIRELY under
the domination of Moscow.
Chang Kai-shek has been person.
ally villified in this campaign, be-
cause he wants a FREE China.
The Chinese armies commanded
by him have been disparaged and OBJ
structed by the campaign, because
they have fought for free China.
THIS Communist campaign of Will.
fication and disparagement in the
United States is not interested in
free China, any more than it's adher-
ents are interested in a democratic
America.
1t is the same vicious campaign
that has been carried on in turn
against a free Poland, and free
Yugoslavia, and free Romania, and
the free Baltic republics-solely in
the cause and interest of Soviet Rus
sian imperialism and WORLD COM.
MUNISM.
The early strategy of this commu-
nistic campaign was to persuade or
compel Chang Kai shek to YIELD
to the communication of China.
Having failed in that, the strategy
now is to DESTROY him-as Com.
munists always try to destroy any
man any form of government and
any free nation or people that stands
athwart the imperialistic path of
Bolshevik conquest.
Gen. Chennault has served China
in many vital ways in his active
military career-but in no way more
vital than this service of understand.
ing and appreciation performed at
the close of his career.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25

MAJ. GEN CLAIRE l.. CHEN
4'A NAULT, who gave the long
promised American aid to China It's
most effective form for many years
and its ONLY real substance in the
early years of the war, has resigned
as air force commander in that thea
ter and announced his retirement
from the army
It is our best measure of the
changed and improved war situation
in China that Gen. Chennault is able
to take this step, which he has de
layed so long at great personal
sacrifice, without the disastrous con
sequences which would have been
inevitable at any earlier time.
There was time when the re-
moval of Gen. Chennault from the
Chinese theater would have consti
tuted almost complete abandonment
of China by the United States, and
almost inevitable disaster and ruin
for the Chinese people.
The services he performed for
China when she was virtually alone
in the Pacific war, and the veritable
miracles he performed in connection
with those services, have given him
an honored and immortal name
throughout the Orient
THE Fourteenth u S. Air Force in
u China which will now carry on
without him would never have
EXISTED without the groundwork
he laid for it-and the Chinese peo-
pie will never forget this fact, nor
will the American people.
1t is typical of Gen. Chennault
that in leaving he has performed one
last service for China-which may
prove to be the greatest of all his
many services to the nation he loved
and served so well.
He made the announcement of
his retirement an occasion to say
that he is deeply shocked by the per-
sistent and malicious campaign of
criticism against Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek "by irresponsible
persons at home"
IL have been rUitness of eight
years of wor in China" he said,
"and haze the deepest admiration
for the generalissin,o's courage, fore
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
War.Weariness Grips Italy
iii Duce'S Own Story

EDITORS NOTE-Disastrous
military defeats in North Africa
and Sicily. coupled with the un-
precedented bombing Of Rome.
precipitated the crisis whieh ex-
psiled Benito Mussoiini from his
dietatorship. Here is his per-
sonai account of that story.
translated from Mussoiinis own
typescript. He refers TO himself
IN the third person. This is the
fifth IN a series.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
HOME FRONT JOBS

Here's how those on the Home Front do their bit in
this 1S9th week Of the against Japan:
1-NsULATE YOUR HOME Now-to use less fuel
winter.
2-CAN ALL SURPLUS VEGETABLES from your Victory
Garden. MN w.
ny 3-UsE YOUR TRAINING HELP HosPITALIZED
sERNICEMEN recovering Veterans Administration hospi-
tails you registered graduate Write TO Medical
Director. Veterans Administration, Washington. d, C.
4-sPEND YOUR VACATION HELPING FARMERS get
maximum food production
5-RETURN TO WORK ON THE RAILROADS. Your help
needed to troops and supplies TO the West Coast Apply
At the local United States Employment Service office
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25

Give yssrseB 10 fer Zach correct snswer
throaGh questies nH no each for the rs-
naininr tee esestlsns Any trofs ss "
higher II exeeilent.
What is the value of the fol-
lowing Roman numerals D.
c, L and NJ?
Which OF the two following
songs was composed by Je-
rome Kern: "a Can't Help
Lovin' Dat Man" or. tbl L
Got Rhythm"
3-True or false: "a To forge
metal is 10 make IL without
impurities. fb) A balalaiks is
a musical instrument.
<-Between them two famous
passenger liners have trans
ported approximately 1000
600 troops in World War II
Can you identify these ships ?
5-Utility beef is obtained from
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25


THE cleverest thing about the
Breton Woods scheme is
the painless dentistry employed
by It's slick promoters oin
pulling the back teeth of the
American taxpayers.
1t is highly probable that il
this viclously unsound alien
raid on the already depleted
resources of this country had
included in the enacting clause
a provision appropristing the
sum of S5,925, 100000 directly
from the treasury of the United
States 10 put il into opera
ton, the constituent-conscious
statesmen of the House, and
nervous Nellies of the Senate,
would have SHE'D at il like
scared horse.
The international shcksters
who have slipped over on Con-
gress this sugar coated pill
were entirely too cunning 10
put the ultimate price tag on 1t.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25

no THOSE among us who are in favor
- of this -paternalistic, initiative destroying
Wagner-Murray- -Dingell measure know that:
lit will require the expansion of our
already top-heavy bureaucratic government to
colossal proportions
1t will require no less than 100000
additional men and women to administer the
provisions of this law. This will become
giant political machine to add to our other
bureaucratic political machines.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25


TNHE law lays IL down that
l. George Spelvin doesn't work
for himself and his family, but
primarily for Sam and the
Roosians and the English and
Eyetalians and the Greeks.
Some years, when Sam is feeh
ing generous. he takes a little
less than he takes other years,
but always the principle is there
that he IS entitled TO as much as
he wants OF George Spelvin's
earnings, up 70 the total amount.
and George is coming around %
the notion that he would be
happier il Sam should take Il
all and put him on the dole.
That way. Mr.. Spelvin figures,
the government would save an
awful lot Of storage space for
old tax returns and Old Sam
wouldn't need all those thou
sands OF people in Washington
and scattered all over the cotn-
try 10 go picking through the
returns looking for a mislaid
nickle.
And he figures he would have
more energy TO do better work
and maybe earn more money
for Sam If he could dive into
the hay at night. conk right OF
10 sleep without having 10 d
any figuring or worrying abo(
where the money is coming from.
BECAUSE Sam hasn't been
- absolutely fair in letting Mr..
Spelvin believe that he gets So
and so much a week just be-
cause that is what they give
him at the pay window when
what he really gets is that much
minus the income tax.
This being so. George for
years has overspent unthink-
ingly. really spending Sans
money. and then. at tax time,
he has been in the devils own
fx scraping up his owingS and
IT always gives him the jumps
and costs him a lot OF sleep.
As George Spelvin sees IN,
there Is Just one creditor. one
obligation, that comes before
old Sam.
That is the union that has q
closed shop where he works.
The church. the family, the
hfe insurance. the mortgage
and all come after Sam takes
his cut, but the union comes
before all OF them, because IL
he doesn't pay the union then
he can't work and il he can't
work he can't make a dollar
for Sam or any one else.
Sam recognizes this priority
and bows 10 IL, too.
II the union says he is In
wrong for irreverence to the
international secretary treas
urer or for paying his income
taxes with money that should
go for union dues and assess
ments. and runs him of the job
for that, why old Sam Just says
that is democracy and maybe
something about Dumbarton
Oaks and Teheran.
So Spelvin gets fired and
earns no more dough and Sam
loses his tax and the ArmenS
ans and Cinnamon, the English
men, Eyetalians and the Greeks
and the Communist refugees in
the owl may suffer but there
is nothing anybody can do about
il unless you wreck our WON
derful democracy.
The way George figures u
now, Sam ought TO quit adding
and sparring around and get
realistic and take all the law
allows, which is all there is,
after union dues, and let him
work all the time for the state
instead of just three days out
of Ave and feed him and stable
him like a good old horse.
Ha,.rt.As -. ~. r..s..<.