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De,o From a San Francisco Fog:
Walter Duranty, former N. Y.
Times correspondent in Moscow and
elsewhere, joined our table the other
noon to talk shop. :. . We were de-
pressed, we told Mr.. Duranty, over
our sour luck.
Before Molotov story broke on
all the front pages, we had written
and filed the story exclusive SO hours
earlier.
Nobody" we added, Seems to
know anything about it, although
Ivan Paul of the San Francisco Ex-
aminer (who motored us to the
place. was witness to the fact"
"Oh, WE'LL" said the veteran cor
respondent, "you can't get them
all, you know"
"You don't seem to understand"
we groaned. There's excitement in
getting scoop now and then. Don't
you try to get scoops?"
"No," said Duranty. "I'm in the
erudite part of the profession"
Things I Never Knew Till Now:
After the First World War, Harry
Truman owned haberdashery shop
which failed. He refused to dodge
his debts by resorting to bankruptcy.
-. Truman spent the next IA years
paying off $4,000 worth of haber-
dashery debts.
There is a lot of talk about what
we ought to do to Germany (and
JAPAN for mass-murdering prison.
erS and labor slaves. This pillar
suggests that we let the "things"
whip themselves with memories of
their bestiality-with US just prod
ding the memory. There are evil
dences OF German savagery all
over Europe, so let's preserve them
as monuments. Let future German
generations see them and find out
what kind of blood they are born
with. If they can grow up among
reminders of what it costs to be a
monster, maybe they'll work a little
harder to get back into the human
race.
Hitler's name must be perpetuated
among the Germans. Every platz
and strasse and highway named for
him should continue to wear the
Adolf Hitler tag. Why shouldn't his
name offend German noses the way
it has the noses of other people?
After all, they nourished him, so
they can be stuck with him. His
puss must also be kept public-all
over the billboards, the school books
and calendars. He must always be
referred to as Der Fuehrer, and we
can drop around couple of decades
from now and ask them what they
think of the founder of the master
race.
And that master race should be a
must, too. They must never refer
to themselves as anything else. If
they fail, the penalty will be solo
rendition of the Horst Vessel song,
verse and chorus. The only ex-
cuse for not uttering master race will
be a doctors certificate swearing
the holder got the phrase stuck in
his throat. He'll just have to write
Hell, Hitler" hundred times.
Germany's big day of the future
will be called Der Tag and will be
observed annually, with everybody
compelled by law to participate The
day will begin with breakfasts of
Hitler's pop-off speeches (record-
ings), featuring those denouncing the
rotten democracies and also those
eXcusing the German murderers on
the ground that inferior races de-
served to die. Then there will be
movies, with attendance compul-
sorry, showing the beaten and starved
prisoners of war at Lublin, Made
mex, Treblinka, Mieste, Belsen.
Every German upon reaching his
or her 2lst birthday will be made
to make pilgrimage to Lidice, and
there hear reading of the report
of hangman Heydrich, who muir
dered in vengeance every innocent
child and woman in that Czech vii
lage.
To return to the celebration of Der
Tag, the final exercises of the day
would be a standing vote by the
population on what they think of
the Versailles Treaty of World War
l. And they would be asked if they
had plenty of living room, or had
their patience become exhausted the
way it had so often before 1899.
If any of the Krauts cared to learn
English they would be given lessons
culled from some newspapers in the
U. S. Since these lessons were origi-
nally written to comfort the Nazi
ideal, they would probably be easy
to absorb. The Germans would be
particularly interested in the Amer
lean columns that sneered at report
ed German atrocities as SO much
hogwash.