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Evening star., 1945-05-17
A. A. A. S. Centennial

The current number of the Bulletin
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science forecasts a
centennial celebration which the
whole public well may find of in
terest. It happens that the organ
ization which probably is the most
important of its kind in the world
will be one hundred years old in
1948. During that year there is
every reason to believe that it may
be feasible as well as appropriate
for the society to hold a general
meeting of its members in Wash
ington. The program for such a
convention obviously, would include
the presentation of papers by emf
nent authors, the demonstration Of
new discoveries and techniques of
research and the exhibition OF in
ventions and other developments of
applied common sense" One
feature, limited at by DR.. F. r. Mcul-
ton in a report on "the state Of the
association" conceivably might be
the dedication of "a home of it's
own" in the sense of a building put
up for that specific purpose and
serving that long-recognized need.
The Nations Capital certainly is
the proper place for the A. A. A. S.
headquarters. Just as the society
now is sheltered in the Smithsonian
Institution, it should be housed in
the neighborhood of the same in
the century to come. The local COM
munity naturally will wish to do its
share to insure that result. Plans
should be agreed upon as soon as
possible, and the work of contruc-
ton should be begun in plenty of
time to permit Of its completion
three short years hence.
Evening star., 1945-05-17
Truth and Enduring Peace
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

Truth is the most important COM
modify in the world today.
If mankind is to lay the foundation
for structure of enduring peace, the
cornerstone of that foundation must be
truth. Without facts, there can be no
confidence; without confidence, there
can be no peace; but only suspicion,
uncertainty, misunderstanding, friction
and finally another war.
Let us say frankly that for the pres
ent, at any rate, the great unsolved
question is Russia. The western powers
think they know that the Russians
want peace as much as they do. Their
leaders express confidence that the Rus
slams will cooperate in building the new
international organization. The Rus
slams do cooperate to some extent, but
they also keep themselves aloof and
mysterious. This is Soviet government
policy. But it is a policy which does
not make for confidence as between
people and people, or as between gov
ernment and government.
The Russians do not let us know very
much about themselves. They limit the
number of foreign correspondents which
may be accredited to their country, they
censor their dispatches, and they limit
the free access to news sources of such
correspondents as they do admit, and
their freedom of movement It is, for
example, simply unheard of that for
eign correspondent in Moscow should
call on member of the Politbro and
seek an interview from him In the
fashion that British correspondent in
Washington, let us say, might seek an
interview with member of the Amer
ican cabinet.
Nor do the Russians allow their own
people to know much about the peoples
of western countries except through the
medium Of their own controlled press
and radio. The leaders Of the Russian
state apparently still feel that 1t is
better for the Russian people not to be
exposed to western influences.
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No enduring peace can be directed on
such foundation.
Any peace that is to endure must be a
peoples peace, one which has the sup
port of the common man (and woman)
everywhere in the world, which the
people feel Is essential to their interests
and which therefore they will maintain.
It does not matter what words may be
engrossed on parchment at San Fran
cisco and called the charter Of the
United Nations II that charter does not
have throughout the years to come the
support and the confidence OF the
peoples Of the world.
Evening star., 1945-05-17
Letters to The Star
Wants Cooperation for Solution
of Truancy Problem

Wants Cooperation for Solution
of Truancy Problem
To the Editor of The Star:
Is compulsory education up to the age
OF 16 advisable? If so, why are school
ofhcials finding it so difncult to keep
some pupils in school until they legally
may withdraw? If the compulsory ed
ucation law is wise, shouldn't the schools
and the courts work together to enforce
1t? If the law is unwise, why isn't it
repealed and the present farce of try
ing to enforce it abolished?
Technically, all boys and girls either
remain in school until they are 16 or
until they have completed the eighth
grade. Actually, corps of attendance
officers. paid by the taxpayers, is per-
petually kept busy trailing children who
are oblivious to the advantages of free
education. Then, also, all too frequently
these officers are thwarted in their work
by the deliberate evasions of parents
who aid and abet their truant children.
To be specific, may refer to the case
Of boy who for over two years sue
cessfully evaded the concentrated efforts
of the Washington junior high school
in which he was enrolled and of the
attendance officers to keep him in school?
At one time his mother claimed to the
attendance officer that the boy had left
town, when in reality he had lied about
his age and had been working at the
Navy Yard. His name remained on the
rolls until dismissed from there at the
request of the attendance office. Upon
his reluctant re-entry at school, his
attendance was so sketchy that his case
finally was brought up in Juvenile Court.
However, since the boy was now 16, the
judge suggested that the mother plead
mot guilty." whereupon the case was
dismissed.
The case just reviewed Is only one of
many similar cases, and so it Is with
considerable chagrin that school author
tiles must admit their failure to keep
pupils of this type in school. When
these children are not in school they
often are frequenting extremely undesir-
able places and are adding to our
already too long list Of juvenile de-
linquents.
Perhaps our compulsory education law
should be amended or repealed, but as
long as 1t still stands, why can't the
courts work out some swifter and more
effective system of cooperation with
the schools and their attendance OFF,
GERS TO halt the truancy cases that are
fast creating a most serious problem?
CATHERINE E. CROOK.
Evening star., 1945-05-17

report on satisfactory arrangements
for their return.
These delayed adjustments with
the Russians, of course, are in the
hands of ''level" higher than either
the public relations officers or the
supreme command at SHAEF. II the
correspondents in Paris can express
themselves loudly enough, they may
succeed in lifting veil which OBJ
scures more important things than
failure Of the Russians to authorize
visits to Berlin.
Evening star., 1945-05-17
This Changing World
By [onsfonfine Broom

President Truman and Prime Minister
Churchill are now awaiting word from
Premier Stain about the time and the
place for another Big Three meeting.
After the Yalta Conference 1t was ten
tatively agreed that soon after the war
in Europe was ended another final meet
ing OF the leaders of the key powers"
would be necessary in order to establish
the basis for peace conference and to
discuss number of questions pertaining
to territorial changes.
What Premier Stalin's reaction will be
to the suggestion which has been put to
him by the President of the United States
and the Prime Minister of Britain is not
yet known. But 1t is assumed that he
will have no objection to another gath
ering, provided it takes place on Rus
sian soil or somewhere very close to the
Russian borders in the west.
The Russian leader is known to be
opposed to leaving his country and he
made real concession when he agreed
in 1943 to meet the American and Brit
ish representatives at Teheran
He may make similar concession this
time and agree to a gathering some
where either on the eastern coast of the
Adriatic in Yugoslavia, which has been
only little damaged by the war, or pos
sibly somewhere in the Russian military
zone in Germany.
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The Russian leader and his military
and political advisers already have a
priority" position in the international
picture. The question of Russias se-
curity is no longer worrying them. A
security belt" starting roughly from
Petsamo in Finland in the north and
extending through Eastern Europe as
far as the Elbe River, through Czecho-
slovakia, the Adriatic and Turkey, has
been established. The question of Tur-
key and the Dardanelles is still open,
but the pressure which is now being put
on the Ankara government is such that
1t is expected to yield gracefully rather
than get into trouble.
The Turks already have been In
formed that both at Teheran and at
Yalta the Big Three agreed that Russia
must have breathing space" and must
enjoy free passage for her navy and
merchantmen from the Black Sea to
the Mediterranean. In order to main
tain its position the U. S. S. r. must have
more than written agreement gov
erning the future Of the Dardanelles
and the Bosporus. She already has
indicated in a number of recent broad
Evening star., 1945-05-17
Common Denomination
By David Laurence
rom the Baltimore Sun

we should not forget that Russia, new
as ner government is and revolutionary
as IL aims to be, still has as its An.
nounced aim the protection of the veal
against the strong. Dictatorial as II is
ene RUSSIAN government still insists
tnat present dictatorship is but a sten
on tne road to ultimate freedom for the
Individual. Freedom means a lirnita-
tlon on the powers of government. Such
a limitation implies the acceptance of
the rule OF law, with courts to decide
wherein justice lies. Let US not jump
zoo quickly to the conclusion that M
common denominator can be found be-
tween western justice and Russian JUS
Evening star., 1945-05-17
England and the Jews
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is to be hoped that Dorothy Thomp-
sons articles on the situation in Pales-
tine will reach a large audience. The
public is uninformed on the subject
which is one of great international i'm
portance. Miss Thompson has been to
Palestine to see things for herself and
rightly appreciates that: 1T is the sue
cess Of the Palestinian colonization
project" under British rule that creates
an issue today"
AS Miss Thompson says, Palestine "is
administered as British crown colony
and is without government of it's own"
If it had a democratic system, there is
no doubt that, with the Arabs in
majority, things would be difficult for
the Jews. Many authorities, indeed,
hold that no Jews would have been adj
mitted and that those who are there
would be thrown out. The colonial
Office system is supported wholeheartedly
by all the British dominions; it largely
has been responsible for Palestines
prosperity, financed, as it is, by British
capital.
The extent to which Jews have been
admitted under British rule Is not gen.
orally appreciated. In 1922 the Jewish
population was $4,000. In 1914 it was
over 100000. In 1922 the Arabs num-
bered $4,000. In 1914 about 1000 900.
In other words the Jewish population
has increased more than seven times.
The Arab much less than doubled.
England was, and is. bound to hold the
balance level as between the Arabs and
the Jews. To upset the Arabs is to upset
the whole Moslem world throughout the
Near and Middle East-in North Africa,
Syria, Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Malaga and
India. To have done this during the war
would have been to risk losing the war.
No power has been more generous in
its treatment of the Jewish population
than England. Eighty years ago she
had Jewish Prime Minister DisraelD.
Jews hold, and have held, high positions
IN all walks of life. A Jew Gord Read
ing) has been Viceroy of India, Ambassa-
dor to the United States and chief
justice. Jews are, and have been, mem
bers of the House of Lords and House
of Commons, justices of the high court,
generals and governors of colonies.
There is no bar of any kind, social or
political, against them in any part of
the British Commonwealth and Empire.
The British government is the only
government in the world which has
voted funds for Jewish relief.
ERIC UNDERWOOD.
Evening star., 1945-05-17

When people are urged to plant
more Victory gardens, they may
think they are being kidded; but
the facts are plain enough to any,
body who reads the papers. Unless
America raises enough food to feed
large part of Europe as well as the
whole United States, there is sure to
be real trouble on both sides Of the
Atlantic next winter.
Evening star., 1945-05-17

Horace Walpole in 1774 said that
when Voltaire died it would be
goodnight" for Europe. If either
were alive today, they would be
amazed at how much punishment
Europe can take-and has taken
without altogether perishing.
Evening star., 1945-05-17

OF It's operations must be curtailed.
That is as 1t should be. The special
significance seen by some people in
the Russian reductions seems great
ly exaggerated.
Evening star., 1945-05-17

Our Constitution worked because the
people made it their Constitution, and
made it work because 1t was theirs. It
will be the same with the charter of
San Francisco. 1t will be the same with
the network of peace treaties which will
bring this war to an end. It will be the
same with the whole structure OF, organ
ized peace which we are trying to build.
1t must rest on confidence between
people and people, or it will not endure.
And there can be no confidence without
knowledge, without truth.
That is why it is so important that
President Truman has overruled plans
which would have barred American and
other newspapers and periodicals from
free circulation in Germany. That is
why action should be taken to support
the complaints of American and British
correspondents attached to SHAEF that
they are not allowed to 60 to Berlin, to
Warsaw, to Prague and to Vienna.
No opportunity should be lost for
tmpressing on the Russians the need for
more news, for more facts, for more
truth about what is happening in the
world, and in all these matters the
western powers must be careful to set
the Russians good example
Perhaps no more important mission
ever went out from this country than
the mission of American editors, under
the Craftsmanship of Wilbur Forrest of
the Herald Tribune, which visited the
capitals of all the friendly nations of the
world in the hope of getting general
support for freedom of news" clause
in the peace treaties.
Those who hope for an enduring
peace must never allow this essential
element in such peace to be forgot
ten.
The breaking down of the wall which
the Russians have erected around their
country and the region occupied by
Russian forces is one Of the first neces-
stiles of the immediate future. That
wall can be broken down only bit by
bit as the Russian government becomes
convinced that it is to the interest of
Russia and the Russian people that it
should cease to exist. The longer it re-
mains standing the more difhcult be-
comes the work of cooperating with
Russia in the building of the interna-
tional security organization and the
other tasks of securing the peace Of the
world. The longer 1t remains standing.
the greater the danger that the world
will split into two camps, at first sus-
picious Of each other, then antagonistic
and finally hostile.
tcopyrishs. is4s3
Evening star., 1945-05-17

Goering calls Hitler narrow and
ignorant" Adolf, were he around,
might retaliate by describing Her
mann as wide and ignorant"
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30


caster circled in the vicinity of Vendume /
y looked down, watching for the signal
and suddenly there it was three red Ian
terms and white one, with the white flash m
ing code letter. .
The reception committee seems to be ~
waiting" the pilot said, and added jocularly:
Last stop-cverybody off,
didn't feel in much of a joking mood
After months Of hoping praying and train.
ing, was about 10 return TO my native
Country-to return in most unconventional
manner for a most unconventional purpose.
! was to be an espionage agent and a sabotcur-
a spy, in plain lanEuage-and the Germans were
known TO have very unpleasant ways of dealing
with spies. ! felt in the lining of my coat for the
poison capsule 1t was there.
Let's 60 l said, wanting suddenly TO get it
over with quickly. The plane over the signal
lights now, and stepped out into nothing At the
proper moment / pulled the ripcord, just we
had been taught to do in the training camp in
England when they made us hike run, crawl,
wrese, jab, parachute and do lot of things
that are not so easy for man my age.
Before l got out of France, with my job done
and the poison capsule still in my coat lining I
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30

for us for four consecutive nights Quietly and
effectively they collected our equipment as IT
foatcd down under other parachuteS.
Days later as l sat in the Paris sun idly max.
ing brush strokes my canvas while, out Of the
corner Of my eye, I watched German engineers
fUTtfyng the left bank OF the Seine l malvecd
that il had all been so easy.
One Of the reasons that everything went
10 SIaaG1Elylppa tAt infinite care Win which
al preparations had been made. My clothes,
me for example had been made in London by
French tailor in the best French style. My
shirts, socks, underclothes. handkerchiefs
were all perfect copies OF similar articles
made in France. Everything / carried was
either French accurate imitation. Even
my razor blades, which made in Eng
land, stamped MADE in France"
khARTHA, who looked like n delicate golden
II flower but was actually hard, brittle cos
mopolte, speaking five languages, had set up
her radio set in the home OF Auguste, a farmer
in the village Of Maisons Sous Crozant. He was
reluctant at first, but readily aSsentcd when
Martha told him that she had been sent by
Louis. They had escaped together from Ger.r
man concentration camp in 1910 "a.
was visiting the farm twice week givingnS
Martha messages TO send, receiving instructions
from London and taking advantage of the train
trips TO deliver explosives where they could be
used most effectively. That was a risky business
December no. I915
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30
From +he Moment he Parachuted Into
Fronee, Life Was Anything bur Boresome
for +he Artist Who Become U. s.
Secret Agent

I knew the order in which they would follow
me, those five other agents with whom / had
taken off from an arfcld near London two hours
before. First would come Martha, the erStwhilc
American newspaper correspondent who was 10
be my radio operator, and then Louis. Charles and
Pierre, the three French underground workers
whom Martha had smuggled out Of France some
months before and last of all Odete, the pert
little French girl whom Martha didn't like.
That was the order in which we reached the
ground to be welcomed with hushcd words and
occasional pat on the back by the peasants Of
the resistance movement who had been waiting
Illustrated by SEYMOUR BALL
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30

was mighty grateful for that training tough as it
seemed at the time. When you're strolling through
Paris, supposedly making sketches but actually
mapping fortifications an air of Incidence is the
main thing. But when you've just planted nest
Of explosives on railroad track and running
for your life, good wind is mighty important
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30

IL ENRY L. LAUSSUCQ, who describes here
his thrilling adventures a secret agent
and saboteur in France TO help pave the way for
j. Day, the only civilian among II members
OF the Office Of Strategic Services decorated
Gently for heroism and meritorious service The
63-year old French-born Pittsburgh artist was
awarded the Silver Star
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-30
BY HENRY L. LAUssUCQ

IT WAS about a. m. when the big British Ian
caster circled in the vicinity of Vendumc /
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
Wake Defenders Sank 10 Ships
Killed 800, Devereux Says
Jap Put Losses Higher;
o6 of American
Garrison Killed

By the 4 ssociated rress.
ABOARD THE U. S. S. PANA-
MINT, Ominato Anchorage,
Japan, Sept. 15.-James P. S.
Devereux, still wearing the
gold leaves of a Marine major,
sat down today and for the first
time told the story of the gal
liant defense of Wake Island by
a handful of Marines, soldiers
and Navy personnel.
The slight, soft-voiced 42-year old
Marylander estimated that the de-
tenders sank 10 japanese ships and
killed 3.700 attackers before they
bowed to overwhelming odds De-
cember %, 1941.
Maj. Devereux said he heard later
in prison camp that the Japanese
officer on Wake had put the losses
at II ships, % planes and $500
Japanese.
The Marine, whose promotion to
lieutenant colonel is pending, dis
claimed any knowledge of the FAM
Gus message attributed to him
send us more Japs"- the
Japanese first attacked Wake. He
said as far as he knew no such mes
sage ever was sent, and besides
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
Finland Names Envoy
oU.S., Radio Reports
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-K. T. Jutila
was named Finnish envoy to Wash
ington today, according to a Fin
nish radio report. The broadcast
added that Siguard Won Nummers
was appointed Legation Counselor;
Hangar Smedslund, commercial at
tache, and Olav I. Motif, Legation
Secretary.
Appointment of Finnish Min
lister to the United States ends
a break in the relations of the two
nations that occurred more than a
year ago.
On June 81, 1914, the State De-
partment requested that the then
Finnish Minister, Hjalmar Procope,
leave the country "for actions inim-
ical to the United States He had
been one of the most popular menu
bers of the diplomatic corps with
Washington society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
owl Says Europe Needs
10 Million Tons Of Food
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Liberated Europe needs 10000, O0C
to 100000 tons of food imports in
the next year, the Office of War In
formation said last night.
This much food must be imported
the report said, ''if millions of peo-
pie now suffering from malnutri-
ton and hunger are to be enabled
to assume their responsibilities ir
rebuilding their homelands."
The report, based on information
provided by various Government
agencies, said more than 5000 ,00C
persons in liberated areas now are
living on diets far below prewal
levels.
A United States Government com.
mittee on foreign good shipment.
estimates liberated Europe will re.
quire the following imports by tn,
end of this year:
Fats and oils, 100000 tons; sugar
100000 tons; milk, 10000 tons
wheat, 100000 tons; meat, poultr,
and cheese, $4,000 tons. These fig.
ures do not include import needs b,
Italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
Broadcaster Claims
Suzuki, laps Last
Premier, Is Found
War Leader Reported
Fleeing From Wrath
Of Jop Nationals
p. the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IS
Jack Mahon, Mutual Broadcast
ing System correspondent in
Tokyo, said in a broadcast to-
night he had found Japan's last
wartime Premier, Admiral Kan
taro Suzuki, whom the broad
caster described as a man moving
from place to place in hiding to
escape the wrath of japanese
blaming him for the end of
the war.
Mr.. Mahon said Suzuki's home had
been burned by indignant japanese.
The broadcaster quoted another
source as saying the japanese even
plotted to install a new emperor
after Hirohito and Suzuki met to
discuss an end of the conflict.
Mr.. Mahon's report on the inter-
view included these angles:
The day Japan surrendered,
Suzuki fled in kimono up a back
alley. He feared the wrath of re-
turning military officers.
The Emperor and Suzuki were
against the war with the United
States fsom the beginning. Suzuki
said Hirohito had to approve the
attack on Pearl Harbor-but did not
order it.
It was Suzuki so the admiral
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