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Evening star., 1945-05-06

T WENT over to Wally's Wagon No. 2 last night to
i talk to my partner Jake Bulls.
Jake" say to him. Il hear they're turnin' the
Army camp out here into Dislocation Center"
you probably mean Separation Center" Jake
replies But maybe you're right. Anyway they're
payin' EN- off an releasin' em as they come back"
"What're you doin' about the Veteran Problem?"
ask or Jake.
"Huh?" Jake looks up. startled like. Veteran
Problem? Never knew there was one"
Amt you been hearin' all this stuff about how
the boys will have to be treated when they get out?"
"Aw nuts" says Jake. That kinda stuff is just a
cyclone in the coffee You been strainin' your
mind reodin again, bet"
''HolD on" stop him. 'You mean to tell me you
can get along with all of em? You amt run into none
of this psychonewrckets whatever they're sup
posed to have?"
WELL" says Jake Some is little nervous, some
is happy an gay an some is grouchy But treat
'em all the same an it works.
"Wally, if there's thing practically everybody
likes it is to hand out adeice So what do do? just
take look at guy with MISUNDERSTANDING
button an ask hin, for some advice - any
thing under the
"Wally," Jake goes on, changin' the subject, II
want your advice on the meat shortage this summer"
So tell him what thought An l come away
with warm an friendly feelin' toward OF Jake,
an the conclusion that he is a smart guy.
BY golly he is smart! -WAllY B0RM
Evening star., 1945-05-06

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including recipes for many more Pride n Joy
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Evening star., 1945-09-13

tol Hill is Slator Vandenberg, Repub-
lican. OF MiGgan. 1t was his sugges-
ton recentlyhat in dealing with unem-
ployment instance payments, Congress
provide moH to extend those pay
ments to 26 .eks, rather than attempt
to force eac State to S25-a-week
unemploymer benefit payment. Many
OF the State;provide payments for
much shorteroeriod, and Mr.. Vanden-
bergs idea, Nich is sound. is that it
would be beer to take care of the
unemployed it'll they can be provided
with jobs, eveif the period is extended
beyond 26 wesS
This. hover. is just a sample of
work being me by Republicans in
Congress. VIII the COP needs to put
before the vors is a program which
gives promise,f sound conditions for
worker and nnager in the postwar
period-with Sh legislative measures
as appear necsary
Mr., Brownies editorial likenS the
Republican Naonal Committee to the
sales organizasn of a great industry
whose duty it to promote acceptance
VI tiAC pi odOSUA lllc Gig lllS UG-
partment Cthe .publicans in Congress- :.
The COP hasprovided that the ma
tional committt and it's chairman shall
90 an all-the -.ar-'round job. with
million dollars spend. AS the weeks
have gone by full-tme, working
organization HI been built up. And
now, as Mr.. Bwnell says, the COM
mittee stands rtiy to do a selling job,
through its resech, publicity and radio
divisions. But. must have something
to SELL
The tax andspend and elect idea,
which did a lotor the Democrats be-
fore the war, Is a certain drawback
at present - be taxes are falling
heavily on a grit mass of the people.
With the war yer, the Government
spending will, attest, put money direct
ly into the poets of comparatively
few workers. Stthe clamor goes up
for tax reductie with especial en-
phasis, on redung taxes on small
incomes. Whethi much can be done
along these lineand still enable the
Government to ntinue spending re-
mains to be see 1t may, of course.
continue deficit ending-the kind of
thing which it id in the Roosevelt
administration bore the United States
entered the war But that does not
seem good enolh as permanent
policy.
Evening star., 1945-09-13

but also for being guilty Of inherent
ly reprehensible conduct. If that
estimate be correct, 1t is a hopeful
augury, indicating the existence OF
a body of public opinion which
reprobates past policies in principle
and is thus capable OF working sin
cerely for a constructive future. In
this connection, it is interesting to
note that Prince Konoye himself
unqualifiedly condemns all the Japa-
nese militariSts.
However, until we know just who
these unnamed critics are and what
they signify. it would seem unwise
to build too much upon them. We
know that such critics existed be-
fore the war, many of them paying
with their lives for their opposition
to the warlords and their henchmen.
Yet this opposition proved vain and
seemingly did not awaken much
popular response among the docile,
well disciplined masses.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Silly and Reckless

President Truman is perfectly
right in describing as perfectly
silly" the suggestion that the United
States ought not to make any loans
to Britain because it would thereby
be financing the spread of socialism
under the Attlee Labor government.
When this idea was first voiced, some
days ago, its absurdity seemed self
evident, but apparently it gained
enough currency in Congress to re-
quire the sort of trea tment the Pres
ident has now accorded it.
The reasoning behind it, of course,
is preposterous on many grounds. 1t
is prepoSterous, for instance, be-
cause reasonable financial ar
rangement with the British-wheth-
er or not helpful to the Labor party's
programs essential to their recov-
cry. 1t is preposterous, too, because
they have been our best customers
in the past. and not to help them
recover would be to hit at our own
trade. 1t is preposterous, further,
because probably the surest way to
undermine their private enterprise
would be for us to refuse to join
them in an effort to solve their ex-
tremely difficult economic situation
"a situation brought about by their
all-out prosecution of the war.
Moreover. apart from its prepos-
terousness, the idea is a bit on the
arrogant side. The overwhelming
majority of Britons-the same Brit
ons who united as one to defend
liberty against the tyranny OF the
Axis-elected the Attlee government
because that is what they wanted
as free men. In the circumstances,
the small minority of Americans
who would satisfy their distaste for
the Labor party by refusing to lend
Britain money suggest a course
which, besides being perfectly
silly" would amount to a kind of
reckless interference in the internal
affairs of a great and friendly ma
ton. The President has done we'll
to speak out on this subject.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
This Chansing World
BY Consfafine Bropn

them protection in the American En-
bassy as political refugees. Before the
State Department made a decision, the
matter was settled. Michael appointed
Groza as Prime Minister. thus comply
ing with the demands of Comrade vi
khinsky whom he had intended to
esist.
The American and British govern
tents were annoyed at this unilateral
alton of the u. S. S. r. They made no
iSle Of the nonfulfillment of the Yalta
ateement because of considerations OF
military expediency
tow that the war is over. Washing
tot and London are determined to live
upto their pledges for the restoration
OF democracy in all the countries which
haf been either Hitler's satellites or
wei overrun by the Axis forces and
thfase of Romana is typical.
*x
1te Russians are, however, indignant
andfustrated because of the "unjus-
tlf1et Intervention of the Anglo Sax,
ons. ll1estia, whose editorials reflect 100
per cen the policies of the government,
denounes the Intervention of the Amer
lcan-Brish representatives as having
been unertaken not only without CO.
ordinatia with their Soviet colleague
in the Aied Control Commission, but
also witbut his knowledge. After de-
Tending he Groza regime, as truly
democrat government, the Russian Of
fetal nespaper goes on TO say that
America and Britain took unilateral
action an announces emphatically that
ho
lie oplnlo firmly adhere to the prin-
ciple of onintervention in the inner
affairs ofRomania, which is an inde-
pendent Wereign state"
The Aerican and British govern
ments reft this theory of the Russian
governmet. At the London conference
OF foreign ministers it will be pointed
out that ussia completely disregarded
the priiple of noninterference in
Romania ahen it caused the govern
ment OF On. Radescu, which had been
accepted / the Big Three, to be kicked
out and rdaced by 100 per cent Rus
sian pupp. Moreover, the American
and Britisi foreign ministers will en-
phasize tht Romania is neither inde-
pendent n sovereign. There is an
armistice .tween the Allies and the
Romanians This means that hostili-
ties have ased. But until a formal
peace Is siaed with all the Allies we
are still at NJ with that country, which
has accepts unconditional surrender.
So long ashat situation exists, Amer
lea and Brain have legitimate right
to demand hat Romania fulfill what
ever requesMe may make of her. This
thesis is beR refuted by the U. S. S. r.
and is likelIto cause serious friction in
London.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
that is likewise a minor considera-

that is likewise a minor considera-
ton.
The chief political stakes are CO.
lonial. Italy's North African colony
of Libya is the richest and best
developed Italian colony, whose loss
would be most acutely felt. The Do
decanese Islands, including Rhodes,
off the Turkish coast of Asia Minor,
are strongly claimed by Greece be-
cause of their predominantly Greek
population, though their strategic
Importance as keys to the Aegean
complicates their disposal. Whether
these italian colonies are to be par
celed out among the victors most
interested, or are to be placed under
some sort of international mandate,
is an alternative whose decision may
foreshadoW the lines along which
the disposition of the japanese CO.
lonial empire will be made.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
The POlitiCalMill
BY Gould Lincoln

The Democratic party. as represented
by President Truman, head of the
Democratic administration, and by Post
master General Hannegan, chairman
of the Democratic National Committee,
is going to the mat in the congressional
elections next year on strictly New
Deal platform
If there has been any doubt as to
whether the change in Democratic
Presidents would swing the party away
from the left" it has been settled, first
by Mr. Trumans message to Congress,
outlining typically New Deal program,
and second by statements made by
Chairman Hannegan supporting that
program and assailing the Republicans
as reactionaries
The Democrats are not moving to the
right" or even to right of center"
Their program-which has plenty of
good objectives- another
era Of tax and tax. spend and spend
and elect and elect"-the sequence of
events which the Democrats found to
work so well under the leadership of
the late President Roosevelt and
which was put into words-so it was
reported at the time-by Harry Hop
kins.
The Republicans necessarily find
themselves in a position where they
must work out an affirmative program
of their own to offer the people as an
alternative to the New Deal program.
Republican National Chairman Her.
bert Brownell, jr., in an editorial in the,
newly born Republican News, said
definitely: The formulation of an af-
f1rmative Republican legislative program
is considered the No. l problem for our
party" House Minority Leader Martin
has set the ball rolling with meeting
of the House Republicans this week to
consider what shall 60 into such a pro-
gram. Individual members suggestions
will be turned over to the steering COM
mittee for consideration The Senate
Republicans will have their part, also,
in the writing of program-if one can
be written. in the light of divergence of
opinion among the Republicans them
selves
The Republicans have advanced con-
structive ideas and have forced their
adoption in Congress, though usually
the Democratic leadership has first kid
naped the idea and brought it forth
as its own. One of the most construc-
tive and resourceful legislators on Capt.
Evening star., 1945-09-13
Jupon's War Criminals

Some recent news items from
Tokyo open interesting vistas of
speculation on the japanese atti-
tude toward the leaders responsible
for the aggressive policies and &C
tions which led to the war that has
brought Japan to complete disaster.
Those leaders are, of course, classi-
fable as 'war criminals" under the
thesis, novel in international law,
that those who plan and execute an
aggressive war are as guilty as indi-
viduals who commit specific acts
against enemy soldiers or civilians
in violation of international conven-
tionS.
One of these items is that two
persons described as Japanese in
tellectuals" are preparing their own
list of war criminals, including on
it Hideki TOTO, japanese Premier
when Pearl Harbor was attacked,
who has since attempted suicide and
admitted his responsibility. Anoth-
er news item quotes a source close
to the government" as making the
startling" suggestion that "the
Allies should announce their war
criminals list soon, so that the
japanese people can consider
and perhaps add some addi-
tional names" Again, two close
supporters" of the present Premier
Higashi-Kuni are said to propose the
indictment of Prince Konoye, Vice
Premier in the present government,
and Foreign Minister Shigemitsu,
who signed the articles of capitula-
ton, because of their imperialistic
pasts.
How should these reports, similar
in tenor, be regarded? Taken at full
face value, they would seem to indi-
cate tendency in certain upper
class japanese circles to condemn
the architects of their country's dis
aster, not merely for having failed
Evening star., 1945-09-13

number of minor incidents have be-
clouded Russo-American relations, which,
appeared to run so smoothly during the
Potsdam Conference. ~
Gen. Dean, the American military
representative at Moscow, has made Of
ficial representations to the Russian
high command in connection with the
reported detention of the crews of three
American planes which were compelled
to make forced landings in the Soviet
zone in Manchuria.
The incident is inconsequential in
itself, except for the fact that the Rus
sian high command still gives the i'm
preston that 1t does not consider Allied
officers as such. While Russian mill
tary representatives are being given
utmost freedom in the United States.
no such reciprocity Is yet being granted
by Moscow.
The Russian military zones are still
hermetically sealed to American off,
GERS. In the past, before Russia de-
clared war on Japan, the internment
of American officers who were compelled
occasionally to land in Siberia was ex-
planned by Moscow's desire to observe
strictly all the neutrality laws. This
~ r. II
But the main tension among Russia
America and Britain is caused by the
differences of view on the situation in
the Balkans.
The Western democracies intend to
live up to their pledges to restore de-
mocracy in the countries which have
been under Nazi domination Wash
ington and London made themselves
unmistakably clear on this matter
when they forced the Sofia govern
ment to postpone the elections which
were to be run by Russian sponsored
government. Later, in simultaneous
statements by Secretary of State Byrnes
and Foreign Secretary Bevin, they in
formed the Romanians that they did
not consider the Groza government as
representative of the country and de-
manded, at the request of King Michael,
Grozas resignation and the holding Of
genuinely free elections.
Moscow was not able to oppose the
American British requests in Bulgaria,
but seems determined to prevent the
same thing from happening in Romania.
Under pressure from Moscow, King
Michael was compelled to withdraw his
demand that lGroza resign. In some
diplomatic quarters it is believed that
he once more may ask refuge in the
American Embassy. Last spring, his
mother, Queen Dowager Helen, called
secretly on the NAmerican military rep
resentative in Bucharest, Gen. van
Courtland Skyler, and informed him
her life and that of the King had been
threatened. She asked Skyler to give
Evening star., 1945-09-13
The Road BaCt
BY Raym ond NJ oley

A tidal wave Of political palaver has
come from advocates of the $25 unem-
ployment pay. Congressional debate
will no doubt add to the confusion, but
the ultimate congressional decision may
clarity the matter in part. A little
clarification may be in order now.
Let's get straight the fact that this
payment is not to set up new indus
trial order nor is it to set up new rights
for any one. The payment is an emer-
gency measure. It's purpose is to soften
the hardships encountered by workers
who went into war work. Many of those
workers moved from their homes to new
places of employment. Many have
families. Many were poor and in debt
when the war started. Forget the high
pay received in war work and what
they did with it. The point now Is what
should be done to help them in an
emergency.
1t would seem that the best thing for
most of them to do is to 60 back to their
former States and communities. If any
of them are to be burden on any State,
1t ought to be on that State where they
lived before the war. Under the Amer
ican system of government each State
AAeo Pauioly iScPOAAcApAAty AOl Vic
social problems in its borders. If 1t
cannot solve those problems, 1t ought
to ask the Federal Government to help.
Surely, the responsibility is not trans
ferred to the State where war needs
called them to work. When State
like California proved to be the best
place to make ships or airplanes in a
national emergency, 1t did not then
deserve to be saddled with the problems
of poverty and incompetence and mis-
fortune which had their basic origin
in many other States.
Hence, the problem Is to use all the
power of the Federal Government to
achieve redistribution of the abnormal
populations occasioned by war. In
short, to get people back to the States
In which they lived In 1910. How can
this best be done?
It certainly cannot be done by sys-
Evening star., 1945-09-13
The Italian Settlement

1t is significant that the first item
on the agenda of the Council of
Foreign Ministers in London is that
of Italy, because the Italian prob
lem is at once acutely pressing and
highly complex More than Italy
itself is involved. There is also
considerable colonial empire, rang
ing from North Africa and the East
ern Mediterranean to the Red Sea
and East Africa, to be disposed of.
In addition there are reparation
claims of several Allied nations to
be considered, together with Italian
economic conditions and capacities.
1t is not too much to say that if the
italian problem, which impinges on
SO many others, can be satisfactorily
solved, or at least sanely compro-
missed, the groundwork will have
been laid for that general settlement
of Europe and the Near East which
is so vitality necessary for postwar
peace and stability.
Regarding Italy itself, the politi-
cal aspect is dominated by frontier
questions, whereof the most impor-
tant is that with Yugoslavia. At the
close of World War Italy acquired
certain territories from the former
Austro Hungarian empire which
were partially inhabited by Yugo-
slavs. Now the Yugoslav regime
headed by Marshal Tito lays claim
to all these territories, including
those predominantly Italian. The
chief prize in dispute is the City of
Trieste, the chief port at the head
of the Adriatic. Since Trieste's chief
commercial Importance is as outlet
for the trade of all South Central
Europe, there is good case for its
being made a "free city" under in
ternational control.
The other frontier questions are
less thorny. France seeks minor
rectifications of the border estab-
lished in 1851, but there appears nc
valid reason for disturbing the long
standing status and France may be
raising these claims as bargaining
points for other matters. Austria
entertains a slim hope of regaining
German-speaking South Tyrol, but
Evening star., 1945-09-13

tenn which pSychogically or financially
induces people totay where they are.
A regular stipenepaid weekly at an
ONCE where theS people are now. is
an excellent way, get them to stay.
Moving, in such system, means that
they must take tltrouble to find the
new place of payrnt and all the con-
ditions involved ilqualifying for pay
ment there.
There are certaiequities which nom
native workers ca expect from the
State where they i've worked two or
three years. In nst cases, they have
paid State taxes. cluding unemploy-
ment taxes. Thimoney might we'll
be given back to lem If they move.
But that is deta
A further fact that living costs
may be lower in heir native State.
They would be beflted, in that re-
spect, by remigrati(
All in all. it wod seem that a fiat
sum-a sort Of serance payment
paid by the Feddl Government to
those workers who we moved from one
State to another fowar work would be
most falr al, Toune 1t would also in
duce more raistr1htion of the popula-
ton, which i, i,needd. That sum should
be less than $3.50. 1t might even be
graduated in accodance with the dis
tances those Eorks Is travelled to get q
war job.
Essentially wha ever plan the Fed
eral Covernlent adopts should be q
fair effort tdestor, things as they were
before the VI emergency. Under such
a plan, disess would be eliminated
among the 1provident or unfortunate.
Also, the pkident people who saved
some of the1unusual income would be
restored to leir former habitat vastly
better OF TIN they were before. And
the more kenturous, who want to
take their cnnces IN their new home,
could start eir adventure with vastly
more than tlse of our forefathers who
attempted slklar adventures.
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