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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
COP Idea Of Reconversion

Our local Republican leaders that is the centralized group which dominates the party have apparently yet to awaken to the fact that gallant have left Waterbury to fight for new way of life way devoid and free of the cyncism which prevailed for many years prior to Pearl Harbor
 Obviously ignorant of this fact the local COP group leaders is striving to literally use" in uniform as ayoralty candidate in the coming fall electonthe obvious reason being to cash in the sentimental and emotional value of khaki
 Such move is the worst type of cynicsm It is appar eny the Republican eadershpS idea of political reconver sion Back to peacetime with the old trademarks cyni cm and of the general public! Back to the old kets with our over-rpe wares!
 Few things, during this war; local, have appeared so without dignity and respect this sudden the part of these COP politicians It only thing to the intelligent public These leaders behind their times and socially and politically senile in their attitude
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
A HORSE OF NO OTHER COLOR
Christian Science Monitor)

lCnrlStlan science Monltor)
 That thrill of excitement you just noted Is still running through the Great Plains of the West.
 T might have known it." com- ments the old COW hand who now runs 8 dude ranch in New Eangland. Jack London would have "cottoned to it." Owen Mister might have written book about it. o. Henry could have woven it into one of those deceptively simple, lucid sur- prises of his.
 Bill Nye would have drawn a widespread laugh with it. could have even given Mark Twain a chuckle, though he was more of a rivernan, himself.
 Who ''A knows? Some Ynovieland ideaman may yet trump the thing into a full-length Western, with Spike Jones's music, and sort of reconversion angle tackled on for good box-office measure.
 But surprising as it must have been to the average reader, the an- nouncenent that Emperor Hirohito's horse is actually a COW pony from our wild and Woolly West" would even make the fellow who has been learning to ride during his vacation give the hapiess Jap leader a sort of grudging credit.
 However, there is one authority that we would like to hear from. What would David Harum, that authority on horse flesh-and keen judge of human nature-say?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
ROOSEVELT MOVIE
(New Haven Journal-c Courier

(New Haven ournal-Courier)
 A film about President Roosevelt is said to be in the making. As visualized by the author, Richard Sherman, it is less biography than an account of, the late Presidents effect upon the n5ro and heroine. Administration measures which pro- foundly altered history will be pre- sented from these two peoples standpoint, and from time to time MT. Roosevelt's voice will be heard.
 Probably a major movie will come later. Lincoln was filmed 75 years after his death, Wilson about 25, other presidents not at all, at least not in leading roles. The present is too soon for dispassionate ac- count of President Roosevelt, with historic perspective. On this account Robert E. Sherwood. the dramatist, who had been a close friend of the president, declined to write movie, at least for the present.
 More and more the movies are realizing the possibilities of biog- raphy. It is an encouraging de- velopment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06


 a concert given by German musicians. Everybody was little eery for the fraternization ban was still on All officers wore their pistols and helmets. We were new in the pace and everything was very un- certain.
 At length, the musicians arrived There were three of them: Ulrich Grehling violinst, concert pianist named Gerhard Puchelt, and dark and sul- try looking young soprano named Gerda Hammers, later characterized by the panist-spokesman es the leading young soprano of Germany" We naturally all looked at the young woman.
 She wasn't pretty, yet she was certainly far from homey She had square face with dark serious eyes and pretty mouth. She was of medium size with good figure and good looking legs Her dress was black, of good material and semi-forma in style.
 She merely walked through the room to her place in the curve of the grand piano and stood there with her hands folded in front of her. her gaze modestly on the floor like any other concert artist waiting for her accompanst to begin. One couldn't help feel- ing that here was something dramatic in this scene Here were three German artists of the first Con" stellaton, preparing to give a concert that once might have packef Symphony or Carnegie Halls but now with their city, their nation, their futures shambles around them. their audience, couple of dozen officers of conquering Army, wearing loaded pistols in shoulder holsters their combat helmets hard by on the floor.
 The pianist led off with 8 speech ln almost per- feet English. He told who they Werc and then went into an explanation og their music For some reason. De irFiiated me from the frFt and finally found mt4e4 NAnsln9 tQ eet np and smash hlQ Na was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

they had,
 Mrs. Craig was referring to the enlisted men who were working at listening posts early Sunday morning, Dec T. 194l, caught the sound of approach ing Jap planes and notified the lieutenant in mand, who told them they were dreaming Graciously, Truman told Mrs. Craig that the two men had been rewarded, one having been made lieutenant, and the other sergeant "Yes" shot back Mrs. Craig land the lieutenant who told them to forget it is now a lieutenant colonel"
 Truman mumbled something under his breath to the effect that he didn't know that and turned to receive other questions. But White House assistants said that this reminder of brass hat favoritism inside the Army netted the President the rest of the ing.
 Careful study of the entire Pearl Harbor report is something that ought tobe made by every citizen interested in the protection of his country and the future efficiency of the Army and Navy. Here are three conclusions which are unacceptable from close reading of the Pearl Harbor dccuments 1. The articles of war should be revised immedi- atey and drastically The articles provide plenty of penalties for the little GI Joe's and the Navys sea dogs who swpe helmet, lose rifle, or stay three hours over their leave but the articles of war make provision for penalizng officers who lose half the fleet and fail to protect our most important military outposts.
 g. The Pearl Harbor revelations blast the myth that the brass hats can do no wrong. They point up to the postwar selecting of young strong democratic men, not Wall Street bankers or oldsters living on their past regulations to head up the Army and Navy
 B. The Pearl Harbor disaster emphasizes once again the danger of secret diplomacy President Tru- man blamed the American people in part for Pearl Harbor But if the American people had been fully of the critical military and political situation between 1885 and 1941, things might have been diff ferent.
 But when they saw the Army, Navy and State Departments urging continued shipment of oil and scrap iron to Japan despite general editorial dis approval it is understandable that part of the public little.
 Secretary of State Jimmy ByrneS is being urged to appoint Barry Bingham publisher of the Louis- vile Courier Journal assistant secretary of state
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

Craig, correspondent for various New England papers and the only grandmother who served overseas as a war correspondent.
 Truman was trying to defend Cordell Hull for his part in the Pearl Harbor disaster when Mrs. Craig piped up:
 Can you tell Us, Mir. Presi- dent, have the two privates who actually tipped off their cof11- rnander to the approach of the Jap planes been rewarded?''
 Truman gracioIsly replied that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

up more COn1USeu Lnan WIlEn ne began.
 Experienced officers who have carefully read every word come to the same conclusion. The re- ports settle nothing. And if the line of President Truman is to be followed, nothing is going to be done at this late date about the whole business. Courts-martial go on forever, for every responsi- ble big shot has his alibis and can put the blame on his subord- mates Only vallle of the Pearl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

politics. They were musicians, not party members, they stoutly aver, but yes, it's true that they gave concerts, when Herr Doktor Goebbels ordered. Yes, he and many of the other Nazi big wigs were there, but these con- certs were for the German people. you don't, sir, seem to un- derstand.
 One time in Berlin, a couple dozen of us assembled in a requi- sitioned home that had a good
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON Sept. e-1t escaped the attention of most newsmen but President Truman was thrown off balance during his press conference on Pearl Hsrbor The .anewsman" who nudped him was Mae
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
THE LYRIC URGE

Oh, happy MT. Haberly, who Your simple lyrics sing, Inspired by the pleasant view Of bridals, la.nDs and spring. Of warbling bird and gleaming star And that poetic line I'liat fits the bard's vernacular, Your verses are condign. The tack you follow is what I Exhort them to pursue Who chase the Muse and pass her
 by, That moralistic crew. They think that meters should be
 made To tilt the very earth; They shun the ground where Sprites
 have played; They vaccinate their nlirth; They write their stanzas to an end. To prop severe belief. I'm glad you are not like them,
 friend. Q'm also glad you're brief0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
6.Years Ago

State Highway crews were busy at Hamilton avenue and Pearl Lake road correcting a drainage situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

German musicians, they insist, gave concerts flor the German people" They try to say that music is stateless and art universal that artists live in sphere unbeholden to politics and unidentifabe with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

The Army has cut in half its canned fruit and vegetable orders from the 1945 pack. They're really cutting down; we wouldn't be sur- pr:sed, any day now, to read where they'd reduced K-rations to J or even I.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

The FBI is holding a Nazi spy in Florida. Apparently someone forgot to tell him that there's a peace on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-Anyone who has the time and takes the trouble to read the 400 pages of Army and Navy Pearl Harbor inveStgation will come
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
Waterbury Of The Past
25.Years Ago

Local Democrats were holding two conventions to elect delegates to State and probate conventions.
 Blame for a fire at the Fred T. Ley Company was being laid to young boys.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

New uniforms and equipment were being expected by Company 2, Na- hen& Guards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

A passport no longer is required from any United States citizen who wishes to travel in any of the Americas. All he needs is the de- sire to go, the money to pay his way, and magic carpet to make the trip on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
I5.Years Ago

Several fishing teams from the city were readying plans for a con- test at Candlewood Lake.
 A stove explosion on Beacon street, which damaged a kitchen In the house, was requiring the atten- ton of the fire department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

MT. Haberly's book of brief lyrics is easier to assess He favorS stars, birds, lambs, bridals and spring. From a review of Silent Fame and Other Poems" by Loyd Haberly in The New York Times Book Review.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

John L. Lewis and William Green have come out for higher wages and shorter hours for labor. It takes courage to make such stand in the face of such opposition from their loyal constituents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

A bird that whistles at pretty girls and says, Hello, darling" arrived in New York from Bermuda Tues day. It must seem funny to him to drive an automobile instead of 8 bicycle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

The black market has quit the poultry business at last. Now you can get genuine, pre-war bird al- most anywhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06

A helpful hint says that medi- cine chest makes a good place for storing herbs and seasonings. The average husband will resent this suggestion, however; he thinks the little woman should add nothing until she first makes room in it for his razor blade.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Man is here to learn to do the will of God,
and he will never be right until he puts God
first DR.. Charles F. Taylor.
Can't Slacken Now

If the fighting ends in Europe before the
Seventh War bond campaign gets under way
there is danger that the American people
will slack off in their customary support of
these money raising efforts and fail to reach
the national quota.
This could be catastrophe. There can be
no just Withholding of private capital from
the national war effort Until the war is &C.
tually concluded, and that cannot come to
pass until the last Japanese under arms has
been exterminated.
The war in Europe is about to degenerate
into guerrilla fighting but the war in the
Pacific is growing more intense daily. The
investment of private capital in the tools that
will ultimately bring victory over the Japa-
nese cannot be cut. Instead, if anything, it
must be increased
This increase could be provided by higher
income and other federal taxes. More nui-
sance levies could be decreed. Congress could
find a dozen ways to raise the necessary
funds How much better it will be for the
people at large to buy war bonds in greater
number and higher denominations than in the
six previous campaigns.
War bonds are an investment. They earn
good interest They mature quickly in com.
parison with the run of bond issues. The in
weston receives his capital, plus about per
cent earnings, in ten years or Whereabouts.
And the probability is that the money invest.
ed in war bonds will be a god-send in a
decade for nine out of ten investors
If the money has to be raised by taxes,
the taxpayer will get nothing back save
that the country will be saved from the bar.
barians.
1t is common sense to buy bonds. 1t would
be perilous to stop buying them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analrs.

The anticipated physical conts'.
of Russian and Allied patroi.
somewhere south of Red ArnS
penetrated Berlin probably n.;i,
have more political than mjlitar4
significance.
1t would afford United Natio,,
leadership opportunity to proclain
the end of organized resistanre III
Germany, virtually outlawing do
hard last ISLANDERS everywhere
That would strip every Germs
taken in arms thereafter of tSa
protection guaranteed him as
prisoner of war under the Cenera
conventions. 1t could 60 far IA
stimulate civilian resistance IN
Germany to the senseless Na7i
attempt to enforce virtual suicide
as nation rather than surrender
I'm a military sense the junctio,
between Russian and Allied forces
splitting Germany apart from east
to west was an accomplished fart
from the moment American troons
crossed ethe Elbe and Red Armv
forces surged out of their long
static Oder-Neisse lines. Tner
meeting somewhere between Be-.
lin and Dresden was foregons
conclusion. The fading Whrmacbt
could do nothing to prevent it.
The mopping-up campaign after
the meeting will run from South
to north to sweep all coastal Ger.
many clear of Nazi remnants, and
from north to south to clean u
the boosted Nazi national redoubt
in the Bavarian Alps.
At some moment General Eisen.
hnoWer will find it necessary to
split his vast forces into two great
Army groups, the one north bound
and the other southbound through
Germany. So will the Russians and
aside from the closing scenes Of
the siege of Berlin, it is sou~>Srd
where the American Third and
Seventh Armies are sweeping to.
ward Munich and Bertchesgaden
that prime military interest arises,
The American front reaches
from the upper Danube crossings
to the Third Army spanning Of
the Naab west of threatened Pill
sen. And it does far more than
threaten to overrun the boosted re.
doubt before Nazi higher-up re-
fugees can reach it. 1t is keyed in
with the Allied break-through in
Italy where Nazi troops are des.
perately seeking escape across the
Pc valley into the Italian and Ba-
varian Alps.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
Bring Him Back Alive

The situation in Germany becomes more
confused as the Allies and the Russians con-
tinue to advance The German armies are
beaten Hitler himself has acknowledge it.
The disorganzation of Germanys serried
ranks, the mounting hordes of Allied cap
.tives, the weakening defense in all quar-
tiers, confirm it. The presence of Russian
troops in Berlin. the impending junction of
Russian and American forces south of the
Capital, the steady march of Pattons Third
Army into Czechoslovakia against minor re-
sistance, further indicate that Germany's
fighting days as a major power are over
Yet there has sprung up such hatred in
Germany to combine with the fanaticsm of
the Nazis that any cessation in the fighting
is not to be thought Of As someone wisely
said some time ago the war is overall but
the fighting.
Among rumors current when this was writ.
ten is one saying Hitler is in'Berlin organizing
4 last stand by such troops as he can muster
and group of volunteers including women
This contradicts previous rumors that he
would lead a suicide force in the mountains
of southern Germany and serves to suggest
that the little Austrian who threw the world
into turmoil and combat is az elusive as a
barnyard flea and as hard to locate.
If, however, this latest rumor is correct.
if he is indeed in Berlin shouting for volun-
teers to die with him in a last desperate
charge or behind some barrier in a street,
his capture alive would DO more we believe,
Germany than any other single happening.
Announcement that their fuehrer was in cap.
tivity would create such despair among Ger
mans generally that even isolated resistance
would subside and an actual VE-Day might
be celebrated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
The Literary Guidepost

Our Indebtedness to our Rlcharo'
sons is too deep to express
This colorful and flamofou'
tale of extraordinary adventure
has a lot of interesting informs
ton. Guerrillas had to organ'@e'
Richardson was with KangeleoGs
the valiant Filipino leader OnIA
supplies reached them by suoiha,
rine, thew made equipment, oilea
crude, without which they ccu..
have accomplished nothing asaIls'
japanese guns and armor'
They ran incredible dangers.
day after day they were one luLnp
ahead of the enemy; some OF 'hen
friends and comrades were causm
and suffered fortunes the dlsCl.p
ton of which makes your p-oOu
run cold
But other passages make your
blood run hot. Richardson Tell !"
love. He didn't spend every il .s,
ute saving his neck; before u.
adventure is over he's trying
save it not only for his county
but also Tor his family. u,.
Little Star of Mexico by u"
Eel Hope (Humphries; s2-ol'
A florid tale Of love ana VI
trigue in Mexico, this has a helJ'
villain and a beautiful sN'
enough in theory for any novel,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
WASHINGTON CALLING
by
MARQUIS CH1LDS

WASHIN Non next
Wednesday the delegations of 46
United Nations will meet in San
Francisco to agree on a world Sc
curity organization, using as a
framework the plan worked out by
the Big -Four at Dumbarton Oaks.
It is hard to exaggerate the i'm
portance of this meeting. 1t may
we'll mean the difference between
the destruction of our civilization
and its preservation.
Not long ago at the British Com
me r,wealth Conference in London,
the veteran Gen. Jan Christian
SHUTS, who will head the South
African delegation to San Francis
CO, made speech that escaped
general notice. This venerable SOL
der who has been through three
wars said:
If San Francisco fails, then l
see nothing but stark disaster be-
fore mankind. This war has
warned us what the new forms
of war mean. 1t is not any more
what we learned at school or from
history books. -.
Scientific discoveries have
been made in this war which have
not yet been embodied in war
weapons, have not yet material
lied in a munitions program-dis-
coveries which, if any war were
to take place in future. would
make this calamity seem small in
comparison; would multiply this
calamity tenfold, or one hundred
fold, and might mean the end of
the human race"
Those are strong words from an
elder statesman. We have had
hints from time to time of weap-
ons of far greater destructiveness
than anything used thus far. The
Germans have repeatedly threat
ened to unleash an atomic weapon.
Those of Us who have seen total
destruction in Germany's cities
know that it is not an idle threat.
We have the means for pulling
down the whole structure over our
heads, and not alone in Europe
and Asia. It can happen here.
With this realization, the con-
clave at San Francisco takes on
an added solemnity. It may be,
as many have said. the last
chance.
Above all we must be patient,
both public and press-and partic-
ularly the press. The State De-
partment is now talking in terms
of four to six weeks for the dura-
ton of the conference.
Delegates from the smaller ma
tons believe it will last consider
ably longer-eight to ten weeks,
at least. Examining the way in
which the conference will proceed,
it becomes obvious that it may
be prolonged through many weeks
of discussion.
In the ceremonial beginning,
Secretary Of State Stettinius will
preside as temporary chairman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24
BY w. G. ROGERS
III W. Us hVvJENS
american Guerrilla In the Phil
ippines," by Ira Wolfert Simon T.
SchuSter: S2.75)

american Guerrilla In the Phil
ippines," by Ira Wolfert Simon L.
schuster; s2.75).
The thing most people bring back
from the Pacific, it seems, is not
souvenirs, medals, services tripes
or wounds, but books. There have
been Shelley Mydans' George
Tweed, Joseph St. John and the
APPS Russell Brines just in the last
few months.
Now there's 1t. lift David
Richardson, who tells his story to
Ira Wolfert COT fuckers People
fame) who tells it to us. And it's
worth telling, and SO extremely
well told that it becomes almost
as thrilling to the reader as it
must have been to Richardson.
Men like Richardson, a PIT
boatman who stayed in and near
Leyte after the American surren-
der in 1912 until Macarthur re-
turned last October, provide con-
vincing proof of the fundamental
error made by Axis chiefs in going
to war; they believed we were
too soft to fight. They thought the
have no." powers did have the
grit, the have" powers did not.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-24

Then the conference must elect its
own officers and. more important,
the four commissions which will
thresh out the terms to be pre-
scented to, the full conference.
These commissions will consider
separate phases of the security
plan. One commission, for exam.
pie, will take Up the question of
voting in the security organiza-
ton. If Russia persists in seeking
three votes, the commission would
have to study the demand and
then make recommendations to
the full conference.
On this matter of voting there
seems to be a great deal of mis-
understanding. Each delegation at
the. conference, regardless of the
size or the power of the nation
it represents, will have one vote
in the conference.
This means that Liberia and the
Philippines will vote in equality
with the United States, Britain and
Russia. The nations that do not
approve the charter as finally
agreed upon by majority of the
delegations are, of course, free 10
decline to sign. If one of the Big
Three-say, Russia, for example
refused to sign and thereby stayed
outside the organization, it would
be equivalent to failure.
The other delegations must, it
seems to me, give patient consid-
Grafton to Russia's position. One
reason the Russians want a dele
cation for Poland is beca,.se thew