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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Letters to The Star
Gibbon and Ruskin Quoted
To Explain Germans
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Five times during the past 100 years
Germany waged aggressive wars on her
neighbors. Now, for the first time since
Napoleon, she is experiencing on her
own soil the meaning of war. The fol-
lowing passage from Gibbons Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire" relating
to the invasion of Germany by the
Roman General Probus 1000 years ago,
has a special relevance to the events of
our own day:
"Probus was fully convinced that
nothing could reconcile the minds of the
barbarians to peace unless they ex-
perienced in their own country the
calamities of war. Germany, exhausted
by the i'll success of the last emigration,
was astonished by his presence . he
even entertained some thoughts of COM
pelling the Germans to relinquish the
exercise Of arms, and to trust their
differences to the justice, their safety to
the power of Rome. To accomplish
these salutary ends the constant resi-
dence of an imperial governor, supported
by numerous army, was indispensably
requisite"
The reference in the last sentence to
the necessity for "the constant residence
of an imperial governor" should be borne
in mind by advocates of soft" peace.
Unfortunately the imperial governor did
not enter into, and remain long, in oc-
cupation. 1t is possible that an UNDER
lying cause of Germany's antisocial at
titude in the community of nations is
the fact that she did not come under the
sway of the Roman Empire. The greater
part of Europe. including Britain, was in
Roman occupation for several centuries,
and, whatever we may think of Roman
imperialism, the peoples under her
dominion learnt at least to know the rule
of law and, thereby, respect for their
neighbors.
What Germanys aggression has
meant for the rest of Europe was we'll
expressed by John Ruskin in "Fors
Clavigera" as long ago as 1874: Blessing
is only for the meek and merciful; and
a German cannot be either; he does not
understand even the meaning of the
words :. when the Germans get COM
mand of Lombardy they lombard
Venice, steal her pictures (Which they
can't understand single touch of, and
entirely ruin the country, morally and
physically, leaving behind them misery,
vice, and intense hatred Of themselves,
wherever their accursed feet have
trodden. They do precisely the same
thing by France-crush her, rob her,
leave her in misery of rage and shame,
and return home, smacking their lips,
and singing TIE Deums.'"
ERIC UNDERWOOD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
The Missing Poles

Sixteen Poles-men whose names
are either unknown or meaningless
to the vast majority of Americans
have been arrested by the Russians
and are awaiting an uncertain fate
This news comes at a time when
the world counts it's dead and miss
ing high in the millions, and in
other circumstances the disappear
ance of sixteen more men might be
brushed aside as of little conse-
quence. But only those who refuse
to face facts will minimize this Incl
dent. 1t is of very great Importance
not because of the individuals in
volved-but because it presents a
critical test of Soviet conduct as
member of the prospective family of
nations.
These missing Poles are adherents
of the Polish government in exile,
which has its headquarters in Lon
don They went underground when
the Nazis invaded Poland and be-
came part of the resistance move
ment. When the Russians drove the
Germans out of Poland they re-
manned underground and appar-
emily supported the futile effort of
the London Poles to prevent the
establishment of the Lublin regime
as the de facto government of
Poland.
After the meeting at Yalta, how
ever, these Poles emerged from hid
ing. They we're advised to do this
by the government in exile, which is
believed to have acted at the request
of the British. They were to par
ticipate in the negotiations looking
toward q broadened, democratic
Polish government, pledged in the
Yalta agreement, and they had
every reason to suppose that their
personal safety was guaranteed by
this agreement. Instead, they were
seized by the Russians and impris-
oned. For month neither the
British government nor our own
Government could obtain any in
formation from the Russians con-
corning them. Then, in an offhand
way, Mr.. Molotov announced at San
Francisco that they were under
arrest.
1t is said that the missing Poles
we're guilty of "diversionist activity"
in the rear of the Red Army. This
accusation, in the setting in which
1t is made, carries little conviction.
Yet it may be justified, and should
not be prejudged. The western world,
denied access to the areas under
Russian control, can only await the
unfolding of such evidence as may
be presented, hoping, meanwhile,
that the case of the missing Poles
will be handled by the Soviet au-
thorities in a manner consistent
with those concepts of justice which
must prevail if there is to be any
kind of satisfactory relationship
among the great powers after this
war ends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Complete Victory
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

SAN FRANCISCO May THE
Wehrmacht has been destroyed, and the
German war is finished.
We have seen so many German sur
renders by individual armies and local
commanders that we do not yet quite
grasp what the Allied forces, Anglo
American and Russian, have accom-
plished The truth is that Gen. Eisen-
hover and the Russian marshals, in
magnificently co-ordinated efforts, have
succeeded in bringing about complete
victory over Germany far sooner than a
possible at the beginning of this year.
+
In terms of the task remaining before
us In the Pacific, the swift cleanup of
the German war is of immense benefit.
It will be possible for the Allied powers
to bring their full strength to bear
against the Japanese much earlier, and
In much more concentrated force, than
would have been the case had the fight
ing in Europe dragged on through the
summer, even though its scale might
have been considerably reduced.
The very size of the announced Amer
lean Army of Occupation-400,0 900 men
is an index of the reduced scale of our
military effort in Europe. The benefit
will be particularly felt in the matter
of shipping, which is and always has
been the bottleneck of the Pacific war.
Again and again We have seen demon
strated IN the past six years how very
small is the actual amount of fighting
power which can be produced at the
farther end of long overseas line of
communication, in comparison to the
total effort which is exerted at the origi-
mating end of line.
There will of course, be an immediate
period of major strain as we begin the
tremendous shift from Europe to the
Far East For some months conditions,
from the civilian point of view, may
seem even worse than at the height of
the European lighting. This shift is
probably the biggest single military task
that We and our Allies have ever under
taken, and 1t will not be easily or quick
" accomplished. But We have the In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

cate Of peace and Of the freedom
and dignity" Of man-challenged the
United States to a death struggle.
Nowhere. in short, nowhere in all
his plaintive talk. does Count Lutz
Schwerin Won Krosigk give the,
slightest indication of a sense of
German guilt. Not once does he
mention that fact that there would
have been no war if Germany had
not wanted war. Instead, as if as
Stunning that the world has no men,
DRY, he draws a picture of Hitler's
peace-loving Reich standing up val
iantly against the Red Flood" only
to be "menaced" in the rear-"men-
aced" by such countries as Norway
and Britain and France whose
military strength in 1889 was shock
ingly deficient for modern battle.
If the Counts speech were not
reminiscent of the line followed in
Germany after 1918, it could be dis
missed merely as a monumental dis
tortion by stupid man. But it was
precisely that kind of distortion that
Hitler employed so we'll in his climb
to power. The self-pitying Germans
liked it; they came to believe it;
everybody in the world was wrong
but them. And that is the way it
will be again unless we make very
sure this time that they are made
to see history straight-so straight
that it's lessons may cure them
permanently of their taste for
aggression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Pleads for Remembrance

TledQS Tor remembrance
To the Editor of The Star
Seeing is believing. In calling for
competent witnesses to view the Ger
man atrocities camps, our Army generals
realize the danger involved in forgetting.
Have we not already forgotten, or did
we only half believe that the Germans
scientifically exterminated 10000 Polish
Army officers of all grades? These SOL
diers were prisoners of the German
Army that occupied the Smolensk area
in 1910.
What then is surprising about the dis
coveries made by our armies of the ex-
termination and scientific torture camps
throughout Germany?
Our young sons and also OUR daugh-
tiers are seeing war horrors. We there
fore must not shrink from looking at
the moving pictures OF German atroci-
ties, not from morbid curiosity, as has
been suggested. But as lesson to show
us what we ourselves barely have
escaped and as proof to prevent having
it all written of as propaganda at
later date when the bunds again try to
set up operations. Know Your Enemy"
is first line of defense. B. MILAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

spiration of victory over Germany, the
spur of the knowledge that victory over
Japan will mean the final end Of all the
bloodshed and the horror, to uphft us
and urge us on. And the Japanese may
gloomily examine what happened to the
Germans as some indication of what
their own fate may be if they continue
to pursue their present policy of resist
ance to the bitter end.
Why did the Germans collapse so
suddenly and SO completely? Almost
every competent observer expected them
to put up long hard fight in an interior
position. That was the view expressed
by most of our military leaders, includ-
ing Gen. Eisenhower himself Yet there
can be no doubt that this strategy, and
the Russian strategy, was directed to-
ward making such withdrawal to interior
lines of defense as difficult as possible,
and the working out of this strategy
was successful beyond all hopes.
The truth is that the German armies
were destroyed before they could with
draw, in very large part; they were de-
stroyed because the German High Com
mand did not withdraw in time, because
the Germans would not give up the at
tempt to hold extended frontier lines
while there was opportunity to do So
whether at Hilter's order or otherwise,
VIC shall have to find out. They would
not fall back until they were driven
back and when they were driven back
they were so closely and fiercely pursued
that they were cut to pieces in the open
back into the interior stronghold, and
they were not enough to make any pro-
tracted defense of it.
Moreover the cumulative effect of
these tremendous and concentric blows
shattered more than the German armies
themselves. 1t shattered the German
will to continue the battle.
The Third Reich is dead. The DESC
lation that is Germany remains as
Adolph Hitler's request to the German
people whom he led downward into the
pit Of hell.
tcopyrisht, 1s4B.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Talking About War

Oscar Wilde, in his famous PAM
phlet entitled The Soul of Man
Under Socialism" argued that one
of the benefits of his proposed eman-
cipation of the human race from
''the profit system" would be that
people thus made free could abstain
from talking about money. A SIM
liar WEAKNESS of considerable num-
bers of men and women with regard
to war is manifest today. The gen.
erality of citizens, including those in
uniform, appear to be looking for
ward to peace as time and an oc-
casion for ceasing to think about
what General William Tecumseh
Sherman allegedly called He'll.
Veterans of the conflict especially
are tired of discussing the slaughter.
One of the professional military
correspondents, back in Washington
for brief furlough recently, de-
clared: I'm fed up with seeing
young fellows murdered" The pub
lie at large has the same reaction.
Doubtless that is why whole au-
diences sit completely silent while
motion pictures of German atroc-
tiles are shown. They knew long
ago the horror of blood lust let
loose among barbarians.
But there are limits to the ca
pacity of the mind to learn and of
the heart to feel. No mother who
has had a telegram from the Ad-
jutant Generals Office needs to be
taught how to hate the Nazis; no
young wife who has received an
engraved sympathy card from Gen
eral George c. Marshall requires to
be instructed in how to weep over
the crimes of the Japs. The little
girl who was summoned from the
schoolroom to be informed that her
Daddy was forever gone expressed a
natural instinct when she cried:
Don't tell me anything more!
Please, I don't want to have to re-
member it always!"
And yet humanity must remem-
Der, If only that the purpose of this
Second World War may be fulfilled.
1t has been fought, 1t is being fought
not merely for living generations,
but likewise for generations that
will not be born for another hun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Hill Rumble
Business Chiefs Urging Military
To Submit Now, Says Observer
By David Laurence,

A rambling climb above our roots and
lanes,
Less than flicker as the s,Ddllo,ps fy,
And one may see, as NTH sorcerer's
eye,
Hespertdes no prisoned gaze attuirs.
The hills roll far around, In nanny
chains,
The circling arms OF distance rnulttpty,
Fu,o1,-broton or maple green, beneath
sky
OF cornfosoer blue. or gray with hooded
rains.
There all Is gentleness and toy and
peace,
And one may hear, as by sorns heshiess
sense,
The silence roiceful NTH the eio.
OF ages, and OF some dtpine rsledse;;
And, tDkile the shouts OF nten and mar.
kets cease,
Stand face to face NTH time and per.
ntdnence.
STANTON A. CoBLENTz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Dates Hitler's Death in 1913

To the Editor OF The STAR
It is my firm belief that Hitler has
been dead for long time-in fact since
February, 1913, when, it will be remem-
bered, there was an all-day German
mourning with funeral marches on the
Nazi radio, and all German business
establishments were ordered to close for
four-day holiday in memory "of the
brave German heroes who had died
for the fatherland' at Stalingrad."
OF course, many German heroes"
had "gallantly" died for "the father
land" prior to that time, without any
such memorial demonstrations.
just prior to that time also, it will
be remembered, Hitler failed to show
up for his usual annual message to
his followers.
OF course, only history will tell when
der fuerher" actually died, but 1t Is
my opinion that he died in February.
1913. M. M. Il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

dred or five hundred years. To re-
fuse to talk about it, write about it,
picture 1t would be to refuse to try
to understand it. Something of the
sort happened in 1918 and 1919.
Books written by the survivors OF
the contest of the period then
closing were sold out as publishers
remainders' at five or ten cents
copy. People desired to forget.
Their WEAKNESS influenced political
and economic developments, pro-
duced an isolation" which had
deleterious effect Perhaps it was
out of that psychological and spirit
ual slump" that the repetition of
Armageddon grew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
Crisis Over Trieste

The fierce rioting which took place
last Friday in Rome between pa
triotic students demonstrating for
the retention of Trieste and Com
munists seeking to break up the
demonstration is a significant indi-
cation of mounting tension over the
postwar territorial settlement of the
Adriatic region. That is a particu-
larly ticklish problem because, while
it primarily involves Italy and
Yugoslavia, it likewise concerns the
larger interests of Britain and the
Soviet Union.
The rivalry between Italian and
Slav all the way down the east coast
of the Adriatic Sea is an old story.
This rivalry is due primarily to
topography. Nature bounded the
Adriatic on the east by a mountain
wall rising almost sheer from the
sea, cutting off the narrow littoral
and it's outlying islands from the
hinterland. Since Roman times the
Adriatic Basin has been basically
Latin in faith and culture, but with
the fall of the Roman Empire Slav
tribes colonized the Balkan hinter-
land and even reached the sea at
many points. During the Middle
Ages those coastal Slavs were super
flcially Italianized under the rule of
Venice, but with the awakening of
national feeling in the nineteenth
century they reasserted their ma
tional consciousness, and with the
fall of the Hapsburg empire in
World War I they sought to carry
the whole eastern shore into the
new state of Yugoslavia. That at
tempt was strongly resisted by Italy,
then one of the victorious Allies, and
the upshot was a compromise
whereby Italy received the entire
Istrian Peninsula, including the port
of Trieste, together with certain
islands and the small continental
enclave of lara, the rest of the Dali
matian coast going to the new state
of Yugoslavia.
The ethnographically irreconcil-
able nature of the problem is we'll
illustrated by the situation in Istria.
Trieste and the narrow coastline is
inhabited chiefly by people who
speak and feel themselves to be
Italian. But on the very crest of the
overhanging mountains the villages
are Slav, and the interior of the
peninsula is mainly Slavonic. The
provisional regime in Yugoslavia,
headed by Marshal Tito, has boldly
staked out a claim to all of Istria
and the Italian enclaves in Dali
malta, seemingly with the sympathy
of Moscow. But all Italians except
the Communists passionately cling
to the retention of those debated
territories, and their severance from
Italy unquestionably would produce
a major crisis in Italian politics.
This Britain seeks to avoid, and the
occupation of Trieste by New Zea-
land troops of the British Eighth
Army indicates that London does not
intend to let Tito occupy Istria.
That British action has, in turn,
drawn angry recriminations from
Belgrade. Obviously, situation is
which needs careful
diplomatic handling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07
History and the Germans

AICer III naQ lOSL the last war, Ger-
many was quick to play upon the
sympathy and forgetfulness of the
victors, and it may try to do the
same thing again, a good start in
that direction having been made al
ready in speech just delivered by
Count Lutz Schwerin Won Krosigk,
the new foreign minister" in the
new German government"
From the hearts of tortured wives
and mothers" says the Count, there
rises a prayer to heaven that the
world may be preserved from the
frightful terrors of another war"
Then, with sweet piety and an air of
deeply injured innocence, he speaks
of how Germany could have saved
Europe from Bolshevism had her
rear not been menaced," and he de-
clares that his countrymen never
wanted anything but peace and
"just social order which respects the
freedom and dignity of man" and
that they honestly believe" that
they contributed to such an order in
1888 when they began to solve their
unemployment problem.
To read the speech one would i'm
agine that Germany under Hitler
was the most peace-loving nation in
the world. Nowhere in it does the
Count explain that the Nazi solution
for unemployment was to put every
body to work making war weapons.
Nowhere in it does he suggest that
the "thousand-year' Reich promoted
the freedom and dignity" of man
by violently depressing all individual
liberties and establishing the black
est tyranny ever to afflict our west
ern civilization. Nowhere in it does
he bother to note that it was not
the Bolsheviks but the Germans who
reoccupied the Rhineland. that it
was not the Bolsheviks but the Ger
mans who gobbled up Austria; that
it was net the Bolsheviks but the
Germans who seized Czechoslovakia;
that it WIS not the Bolsheviks but
the Germans who attacked Poland,
grabbed Denmark and Norway. raw
aged Belgium and the Netherlands,
smashed France, tried to destroy
Britain, launched a surprise dawn
assault on Russia. the home of Boil
shevism, and at last-in partnership
!. with Japan, that other great advo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

Among the bores about which
something ought to be done are the
bus takers tossing technical jar
CONS to and fro until their fellow
passengers are as intoxicated as the
New Haven commuter who, having
sat between two pairs of fanatics
all the way home from New York,
greeted his wife with a remark about
"a superheterodyne forward pass"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

When the perverse ideas which
made World War Two are traced to
their sources, the notion of oppor-
tunistic expediency will be found
among them. The novelist Balzac
was a man Of distinguished char
acter, yet even he could write:
There are no principles, there are
only events; there are no laws, there
are only circumstances"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

Henley the poet believed: "Fate's
a fiddler, life's dance" but he lived
too soon to witness the tragic litter
bugging of the years beginning with
1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

That 50 in the Presidents name
gradually is coming to mean Some
body far more important than even
he expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-07

Germany's choice of military
strategy against the United Ma
tons seems to be confined to de-
cisions on which prisoners to tor
ture first. and how.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-12-06
. COTTON SLASH
By MRS. MYRTLE DeGOOD

Edwin DeGoQd was a Tuesday
evening supper guest at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Groome.
Mrs. Inez Weisheimer and Mr..
and Mrs. Lone Engle, of Columbus,
called on Mrs. Capitola Fogle, Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Groome
were Sunday guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Jones, near
PhariSburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Allen and son,
Jerry, of MarySville, were Mon
day evening supper guests at the
home of L. F. DeGood and family
Mrs. Hazel Owens and daugh-
ters, Bernice and Mabel, were
shoppers in Columbus, Friday OF
the past week.
Johnny Ritchie has been on the
sick list the past week. He is suf,
fering with acute appendicitis.
Mrs. Matte Warrick and son
Rodney, of near Raymond, called
at the F. c. Groome home, Mon,
day evening.
Bill Mcbride of the u. S. Navy
spent the past week with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Downing
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-12-06
Milford Center Section

Mr.. and Mrs. George Parthemer
and grandfather, Mr. Elmer
Coughenour When Charles went
overseas his daughter was only 3
months old and when he landed in
the u. S. A. ne called his wife by
phone and she put their daughter
up to the phone and let her talk
to her daddy. Talk about thrills, I"
Charles said, that was the biggest
thrill l ever had, talking to my
daughter for the first time"
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Conover
and children, of Springfield, were
guests several days of the latter's
mother, Mrs. Mary Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Spain spent
Sunday with their daughter and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester
Smith and their two childen, OF
Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Lee and
daughters, of Woodstock, spent
several days last week with the
latter's mother and sister, Mrs
Goldie Holt and Jean.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Miller are
the prowd parents of a baby son
born in Grant hospital, Columbus
This is heir No. 2
Mrs. Carl Daum was shopping in
Springfield, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Prince made
la business trip to Springfield
Tuesday.
The Irwin Methodist church haC
several newcomers last Sunday
Were you there? If not, make your
plans to attend Sabbath school
next Sunday at 10 am.
Miss Grace Moran, of Cincinnati
is visiting her parents and sister
Mr.. Charles f. Moran and daugh
ter, Charlene. Miss Moran has re
Gently been promoted to assistant
head dietitian at the Jewish hos
pital, in Cincinnati.