The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-29
Observations
Rzymowski Visit
Called For
Delicate Handling

The United States had 10 steer a
narrow diplomatic course during
the recent visit OF Polish Foreign
Minister Wincenty Rzymowski. He
was 10 the peculiar position OF be-
ing a White House guest without
ever seeing President Truman.
An official guest OF this country.
he stayed at Blair-Lee House, Of
fetal White House visitors cottage
across the street from the execu-
tive mansion. Ordinarily. he would
have at feast conferred with the
President, but.
Back OF the situation lies the fact
that Rzymowski represents only
the Polish provisional government.
created as a result OF a compro-
mise with the Soviet Union. That
provisional government Is ION pro-
baton until establishment of a
freely-elected one next year.
To have been received at the
White House might have been In
terpreteG in Poland as indicating
United States approval Of his pres
ent regime. II might also have set
a precedent for future visits from
the foreign ministers OF the still
suspect provisional democratic"
Balkan governments. Undoubted.
ly it would have stirred up violent
protest from politically-strong Pol
ish-American elements who disap-
prove % the present Polish regime.
DIPLOMATIC OBSERVERS look
for the Spanish government OF Gen.
eralissimo Francisco Franco TO con-
tinue its shift toward center, with
possible restoration OF the mon
archy If view.
The transition is expected to be
gradual, and no sudden uprising
against Franco is expected. The
generalissimo is reported anxious
TO ease himself more and more into
the background and to turn over
the reins OF the Madrid government
to other hands.
Franco is DESTROYS OF letting the
world forget that he won the
civil war almost a decade ago with
the Intervention OF the late Duce
Benito Mussolini and Fushrer Adolf
Hitler, these observers believe.
The Falangists are still the
strongest power behind Franco,
controlling the army. The army Is
loyal to Franco because II is now
better-uniformed, armed and fed
than at any time IN its history.
IN THE DAYS WHEN vAUDE-
VILE was in its glory, there was
a popular star whose best laugh
line was, Everybody wants to get
into the act" He used It often to
squash hecklers and turn the
laugh upon them whenever his
lines were interrupted.
That vaudeville star might well
use his favorite gag at congression-
al hearings on the atomic bomb.
Everybody and his brother have
been coming forward to say what
must be done with the great force
OF nature unleashed for the first
time at Alamogordo. N. M, and
thereafter over Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Japan.
Even Secretary OF the Interior
Harold Ickes has entered the ato-
mic drama, along with Maury Hav-
erick, chief of the smaller war
plants corporation.
They specialized in condemning
scientists who have opposed the
presence OF government officials
on the board of the proposed ma
tonal scientific foundation for re-
search in the atomic era. Many
others testified. hour after hour.
The old vaudevillan's slogan still
holds true. Everybody wants TO
get into the act"
MOUNT SURIBACHI on TWO
JIMA, familiar to millions of Am
orleans, has undergone a facial
treatment, according to Under-sec-
Rotary OF the Navy Artemus Gates.
ut does not resemble the spot |
that a great many people have
seen," Gates says. "They have
unfortunately cut down Mt. Surf
bachi a bit" There is move
underway in Congress to make the
historic battle island a national
monument, with approval of Secre-
tary Of Navy James Forrestal who
"woulc like to see II done"