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Evening star., 1946-10-16

The present condition of Greece is
grinly reminiscent OF Spain in the sum-
mer Of 1885, when after the revolt OF the
army garrisons under Generalissimo
Francisco Franco the country soon be-
came the testing ground for World War
II, with Russia supporting the Loyalists
and Italy and Germany supporting the
Insurgents.
Britain, France and the United States
adopted policy of non-intervention
which left the field to the two extreme
elements-communism on one side and
fascism on the other. Although fascism
triumphed and remains in power in
Spain today, the forces which brought
about that victory-Italy and Germany
went down in bitter defeat because
they took encouragement from it and
believed they could duplicate their Span
ish victory on worldwide scale.
The Greek situation is not unlike the
Spanish situation of 1886, with Russia
and her satellites Oh one side not only
melting but actually supporting and
pursuing policy of civil war in Greece,
and Britain and the United States
throwing their tremendous moral sup
port on the side of the existing Greek
government, recently re-established ac-
cording to popular will after the chaos
of the war
It was not through thoughtless caprice
or whimsy that the United States last
week served notice at Paris that it would
enter whole -heartedly into military
measures decided on by the United Ma
tions to defend Greece against aggres-
sion.
That aggression is already in progress,
and the fact that the Greek government
forces have for the present repulsed and
broken up the insurgent Leftist bands in
Central Macedonia is not to be taken
as an end to this encroachment on
Greek sovereignty and independence.
Behind the organized Greek insurgents
is the strength of two neighboring states
--Yugoslavia and Bulgaria-both of
which have designs on Greek territory.
And behind them lies the strong hand Of
Soviet Russia
The Greek insurgents are not fighting
on with Their own strength They are
being replen shed from Greece's neigh
bors in way which recalls the Leftist
revolt in Iran and the Communist
struggle against the established govern
ment of China. In Iran, it is to be re-
membered, the Russians had their way
in Azerbaijan and refused to withdraw
from the country until they did. In
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Unscrambling Reich Finances
By Raym ond MoIey

value by obligations to be issued by
new National Mortgage Institution"
All currency notes are to be replaced by
new notes issued by the institution at
10 per cent of face value. The new
Mortgage Institution would then hold
as backing for its obligations a mort
gage on real property held by private
and corporate business. The interest
on the new bonds would be paid out of
the receipts of the institution.
x *
Provision is also made in the plan
for lndemnifying those who have been
ruined by the Nazis There are hun
dreds of thousands of such dispos-
sessed who have returned and who will
return to their native communities
The basic strength of the new regime
would be in the three-quarters of the
land still held by former owners and
the half of the houses still intact ana
occupied by former residents.
A vast amount of property, however,
will never go back to former owners.
They are dead, and in many cases there
will be no living and legitimate claim
ants. Provision for the disposition OF
such property will have to be made.
The broad idea behind the whole plan
is not new. 1t is based upon the pro-
visions adopted in 1923 at the end OF
the great imitation, when the famous
"Rentenmark" was created. At that
time, the new currency was based on a
per cent mortgage of real estate and
other corporate property. Under the
proposed plan, SO per cent of such prop
erty would be used as basis.
This plan might we'll provide the ele-
ments OF a stable standard of value.
But it's success would require some
agreement among the Allies for the uni
fication of Germany And that agree
ment, of course, still remains to be
reached.
tReleased BY Associated Newspapers, Incl
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Autumn

And hare you seen him running through
the hills,
Touching each shrub and tree and
blade OF grass?
Leaping from cliffs and peaks to sos'l-
do1DsillS?
Daubing the n,eadoa1 as his Winged
feet pass?
And haze you heard him singing tn the
hedge?
or humn,ing sleepy tunes beside the
pond?
Calling his honkers ,oith their throuty
pledge
That summer neper ceases there be-
yo7ld?
He sleeps the Ianguorous day in lone
lneSS,
Then 1pith shout goes rushing up the
sky,
SplusEing his reds and bro,Dns pith
carelessness,
And laughing at the moments gliding
By.
But hare you seen him tearing bits OF
spring
TO scarlet shreds and toss them, n,ur-
>muring3 CULLEN JONES.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Frunco-Siumese Accord?

What appears to be the effective
preliminary step to settlement of
the rift between France and Siam
(Thailand has been taken by the
Siamese government in an an
nouncement that it has decided to
return to French sovereignty the
four disputed areas on the borders
between Siam and the French colony
of Indo-China.
These were the districts which
were ceded to Siam by the French
Vichy regime in 1941 under COM
bined pressure from Japan, then in
effective occupation of Indo-C China,
and Hitler Germany, which domi-
mated France itself. The motive was,
of course, to gain the favor of the
Siamese government and people for
inclusion within Japan's East Asia
'co-prosperity sphere" and the use
of Siam as base for Japanese at
tacks on British Malaga and Burma,
then being planned The efficacy of
the action was due to Siamese con-
viction that this would right an old
wrong; because those districts had
been ceded by Siam to the expand
ing French Empire in 1907 under
diplomatic pressure backed by the
implied threat of forcible action
which Siam could not possibly resist.
The frontier changes made by the
Vichy government were disavoWed
by the postwar government estab-
lished in France under the head
ship of General Charles de Gaulle,
as having been made under duress
by regime in itself illegal In accord
ance with this policy, the new
colonial administration set up in
Indo-C China announced the existence
of a technical "state of war" between
the colony and Siam. The conse-
quent tension has produced frontier
incidents" involving fighting and
some bloodshed.
Last July, the Siamese govern
ment appealed to the United Nations
Security Council to mediate the dis
pute, accusing the French of wanton
aggression, but the French govern
ment blocked such action, counter
ing with the proposal that the dis
pute be placed before the Interna-
tional Court of Justice at the Hague.
Concurrently, the French govern
ment let it be known that it did not
favor admission of Siam to the
United Nations while Franco
Siamese relations remained un-
settled.
Since France, as a member of the
big Five" was obviously able to
veto Siamese aspirations, the
Siamese government has now bowed
to the inevitable by offering to
satisfy French determination to re-
cover the frontier status before 1941.
To be sure, its decision has aroused
considerable opposition in Siam it
self, notably among the inhabitants
of the disputed frontier districts,
and the governments decision must
be ratified by the Siamese Parlia-
ment- to be legally binding. How
ever, it will be surprising if such
ratification is not obtained.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Even Hjalmar Schacht, erstwhile
financial wizard, was dumfounded
when he learned, while in prison, of the
financial wreckage left by Hitler. For
as the Fuehrer's end approached, he
cut the dykes of imitation.
When the Nazis started their prepara-
tions for war, the German debt was at
the low figure of about Az billion in
prewar American dollars. The NaZis
finally raised this debt to 160 billion
in preWar American dollars.
The currency in circulation at the
beginning of Germanys war prepara-
ton was little less than az billion
in prewar American dollars. After Hit
ler's end, this had risen to $50 ,000, ,O0O,-
000
In some occupation zones, that part
of the money which was in banks was
frozen. The Allies, moreover, fixed
prices at the level reached at Hitlers
death. The money not in the banks
flowed into incredible black markets.
The situation was and still is untenable.
Those whose money is frozen in banks
are helpless. The money at large sup
ports only limited enterprises which can
provide work and goods.
The whole wealth of Germany was
never over $50 billion in prewar Amer
ican dollars 1t is certainly not
over half that now. The national in
come was, in Germanys best years, a
little over $25 600, 100000 It's burden of
debt, including reparations due, is four
times the national wealth.
Last spring, group Of American
experts worked out plan for the re-
organization of German finances The
plan has recently been published, but
it has not, apparently, been accepted by
the British. 1t provides. in the first
place, that all monetary claims, public
and private, shall be wiped out and
replaced at 10 per cent Of their face
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Experts Confounded

The baseball experts" who figured
that the 1947 World Series would be
an anticlimax to the National
League playoff between the Car
dinals and the Dodgers are a dis
credited lot today. Their predictions
were as phoney as those long odds
which backed the Boston Red Sox
to beat the ST.. Louis Cards for the
world championship.
The outcome of the series was not
the only upset to upset the experts.
There was the failure of the much
discussed Ted Williams to live up to
his reputation as long-distance
slugger. Teds final chance to over
come the jinx which kept him from
getting anything better than single
came to him in the hair-raising
eighth inning, when he went to bat
with one man on base and two men
out. He popped out. They will be
talking and writing about Ted Will
liams for long time to come. And
there was that twenty-hit barrage
unloosed by the Cardinals in tying
the World Series record for most
hits per game. There was also the
three-game victory achievement of
the little -publicized st. Louis pitcher,
Brecheen. Even those who feared
that weather would interfere with
the late-season series were wrong.
Clinging to the sports spotlight
after football already had sought to
claim the stage, baseball has bowed
out in a manner beatting the great
American pastime. Football now can
have full sway, which means an
other fertile field for the inevitable
and incorrigible experts. Already
they are at work. Now take the
Redskins-but, experts or no experts,
most of us would rather see the
Redskins take the Boston Yanks
next Sunday.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

AS women will do, in line or out,
they talked. and what they were
heard to say by a snooping reporter
bodies no good for the Democrats,
whom they held responsible for their
food and other problems.
The conclusive answer to the
meaning of this business will not
come until the election. Meanwhile,
however, the Republicans are in a
much better position than the DEM
ocrats to do little premature vote
counting.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

In Japan the baseball umpire is
regarded as having a touch of divine
authority and players lift their caps
when approaching him. American
players sometimes do the same;
then throw them in the dust and
lump on them.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

on the farm are entitled to the same
privileges as workers in the city.
Upon the solution of this problem
depends the future welfare of both
rural and urban grOupS.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

The girl in dungarees who paints
her lips as she goes along is matched
by the boy with shirttail out who
strolls the street combing head of
hair that is in dire need of trim.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Many Americans, Democrats and
Republicans alike, could almost for
give the blurbs of the radio an
nouncers if these would but omit
the phrase, my friends"
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Electronic stoves have been in
vented that cook steaks thoroughly
in twenty seconds. They are
expected to save lot of time if the
day ever comes when it will take
less than twenty mine weeks to find
the steak and get it on the stove.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Perhaps as good an example as
any of the old phrase, Biting the
hand that feeds you" is found in
the recent conduct of Yugoslavia.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Inconsistent Attitudes

From the Los Angeles Times:
Winter is season when you keep
the house as hot as it was in summer
when you kicked about it.
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Blames 'Satraps' Again

Blames 'Satraps' Again
To the Editor of The Star:
Strikes! Who wants them and keeps
them going? An easier question would
be: Who doesn't want them and suffers
all their inconvenience? The answer,
of course, is the general and unorgan-
lied public. Obviously, the administra-
ton doesn't want strikes. They will
not help elect Democratic Congress.
The housewife doesn't want strikes She.
too, well knows that they and labor
gains" spell higher costs Of living.
Labor? Does union labor want strikes?
There is every reason to believe the
rank and file of organized labor would
be glad to 60 back to work tomorrow.
Who, then, keeps strikes going2 The
little subbosses, the political satraps
of organized labor who, for the first
time, have seen their names in the
papers, and who have by reason of their
unchallenged power, rule with iron
hand their subordinates. \
WILBUR H. CLOSE.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

In the United States every boy
has a chance to be President, but
Mr.. Truman probably wishes every
President had chance to be a boy.
Evening star., 1946-10-16

It has been revealed that meat is
served in Sing Sing five days week.
Who said crime doesn't pay?
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Mr.. Gervasi Explains


To the Editor Of The Star:
If YOU find it necessary to use our
name again in connection with la affaire
Hipplehouser, I trust you will make it
clear that neither Mrs. Gervasi nor I
were at home at the time. We were to
be exact in the mountains in West Vir-
ginia on holiday and what happened
at 2715 Dumbarton avenue occurred
without our knowledge. We are in a
sense victims of the housing shortage.
Mr.. Hipplehouser, an old friend, needed
a place to stay and offered ours. This
is not said in criticism of any one con-
cerned, although we do find it somewhat
annoying that the woman in the case
seems to know 50 much about our living
habits, in view of the fact that we
hardly know her socially. Ny wife
hasn't met her at all.
FRANK CERVAST
Evening star., 1946-10-16

Footnote to Nuremberg
To the Editor of The Star:
Under the tutelage of Bloody Joe
Stain, the United States has learned
new kind of military chivalry and
craftsmanship, winners kill losers"
Any trial is mockery when judge
and jury all are enemies of the &C
cused and satisfy the blood lust OF the
public mob, filled with hate by propa-
ganda
The only fair court would be one
which had had no part in the war and
put all countries in the war, both win
ners and losers, on trial
c. N WALLACE
Evening star., 1946-10-16
To. Help West Virginia Voters
Cn tts of Ia

FRANK GERVAsI.
To. Help West virginia Voters
To the Editor of The Star:
An article by Francis P. Douglas
published in your edition OF October II
in regard to Offices to help voters states
that voters from West Virginia have
the advantage of an Office here to help
them, in the Bond Building and main
tanned by the West Virginia Nonparti-
san Committee" No mention is made of
our Office.
This Office is the only official one for
the purpose of assisting Republican
voters. EDWIN H. HILL,
West Virginia Republican State Com
mittee Absent Voters Bureau. 1910
H street NV.
Cites Kermit Roosevelt's Article
To the Editor of The Star:
At last a properly qualified American
has said with regard to Palestine what
every traditionally, qualified American
should have been thinking out loud for
some time.
Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Theo-
dore, is the man. During the war he
saw service as soldier and civilian in
Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Trans
jordania, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
Every American jealous for the good
name of America among all nations and
races as an apostle of democracy, fair
play and justice will be grateful for
what he says in the leading article in
Harper's magazine for October under
the title, 1.-THE Arabs Live There, Too"
The article should be read as a whole,
but here is the conclusion of it:
ITO support the Zionist program in its
present form (as we seem inclined to
do) will inevitably lead to tragedy on
the same scale as that the Jews have
suffered in Europe during the last de-
cade. Only by taking account of Arab
as we'll as Jewish rights can we reach
solution that will work-and that
will be in line with our American ira
ditions of justice and democracy.
Arab rights must be recognized"
Need I add that I have stood firmly
for fair play for the Jews throughout
my life, as many of my Jewish friends
1~u>r,o NKEDrED - J0IJNCTNN
Evening star., 1946-10-16
Letters to The Star
Lament for Two Old Oaks
Soon to BE Felled

To the Editor Of The Star:
Two magnificent but foolish oak trees
grow outside my window here in
Arlington.
Lulled by the fiattery of man. they
quite seriously believe themselves SYM
bols of sturdiness and longevity. AL
ready they are Haunting their new fall
f1nery, and to the squirrels at work
on the seasons harvest of acorns their
attitude is downright patronizing.
They have hardly noticed that the
old lane beneath their branches has
a new sign, North Vermont street, and
that to the southwest a row Of brick
apartment houses is rising from the
yellow wounds in the hillside. Indeed,
these vain oaks have given no more
than passing attention to the men with
surveyors instruments who have paused
in their shade Why should they? A
few humans mean little to trees which
have sheltered generations
These silly oaks soon will come crash
know why. Who is to tell them their
roots would have caused crack or two
in the pavement scheduled for this
spur of North Vermont street? And
how are they to know that a drunken
or near-sighted motorist might one day
crash into them, if they were allowed
to stand? OF course, even such a
driver would find it difficult to pick up
enough speed in two short blocks to
make great oaks invisible, particularly
when the stop sign at Lee highway
would require full stop anyway.
However, modern highway engineer
ing is a stern disciplinarian-even on
two-block long side street. The mag
nificent oaks must 60 on the altar of
progress.
Perhaps one day tree-shaded Arling-
ton will achieve the highway engineers
goal that has been reached in beautiful
Cicero, ILL.,, lovely place-no trees
at all. MAUD MARTIN JONES.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01
Lecture By Fr. Bonn Is Scheduled. .
Opening Event For
 Catholic Book Week

''Crltics of the Chaos" will be the subject of a lecture by the Rev. John L. Bonn, S,J., author ard lecturer, Sunday night at e.l5, at the Water bury Catholic High School. Father Bonn's talk will mark the opening of National Book Week in Water bury, Nov. S-e. The Rev. Lawrence E, Skelly, chaplain at St. Mary's Hospital, chairman of the local ob- servance, will introduce Father Bonn.
 Father Bonn, Q former local resi- dent, is the author of "So Falls the Elm Tree" And Down the Days" and has contributed poetry and prose to leading Catholic and secu- lar periodicals, He is professor of literature at Boston College, Chest- nut Hill, Mass, and director of drama at the college.
 St. Margarets choir, directed by John l.. Bonn, organist and choir master, father of Father Bonn, will present program of capella and accompanied numbers to include Ave verum" by Bruno O. Klein; "Panis Angelicus," by Baini; 70 Sal- utaris" by Carnevali; Ave Maria, by Werlich, and Spring Will Re- turn With You" by Geoffrey O'iara Soloists are Mrs. Robert McKier- nan, Joseph G, Connor and Joseph Mulcahy.
 The choir group includes: the Misses Margaret Harrigan, Con- stance Linskey, Ethel Greenwood Leatrice Gerardi, Gloria Basilica Mrs. Robert McKiernan, Mrs. John Delaney, the Misses Mary Real Nancy Delaney, Vera Czarasty
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01
Ry THO TURNER

New York, Nov. i-CUp)-Tney'vs cnanged the rules 'Sn halloween. New Yorks small fry put on theil costumes and false faces last nRiht rang doorbells and said;
 Trick or treatp"
 Housewives paid off. Their garb: age cans sat undlsturbed on curb. ingS this morning.
 Halloween lea6, in hamlet and city, was the victim of shortages reluctant ghosts and people whC had lost their sense of humor. police sergeant said 1t was the re. suit of indoor plumbing and pro. gressive education.
 Across the nation:
 SANTA BARBARA, CAL.-Mer. chants offered a prize for the best soaped windows. Mothers, desperats over keeping their families in soap were indignant.
 DETROTT-Harry Houdini, dead these l7 years, failed to show up at a birthday party given by l3 brother magicians.
 The magicians, seated in lS chairs around a table lighted by twin candles, asked Houdini to manifest himself by moving a page in a book placed with his picture and his stage-handcuffs on a l4th chair. Houdini was unmoved. So was the book,
 As the lights were turned on, Karrell Fox, magic shop owner who arranged the seance, asked in an excited voice:
 Did anyone else see the cover of that book wiggle?"
 No, said the others.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01
Kennedy Att0cks LGxity in Politics

Providence, R. r, Nov. l.- (up)--Joseph r. Kennedy for mer ambassador Co Britain, believes American businessmen should take Q more active in- terest In politics for their own benefit and the benefit of the country.
 Americans, he told the Provi- dence Chamber of Commerce last night have become SpeclalA in everything with little un- derStandlng or desire for under standing of basic issues.
 Few people even know the names of the candidates for public office, he said, and you can't have the kind of results you want unless you take greater interest in public af- fairs"
 z why does Russia have to fight usp" he asked in response to @ question. "All she has to do is sit back and watch us make monkeys out of ourselves"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01

This weeks exchange between Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridge port and the Non-Partisan Poli- tical Committee of the Connecti-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01

that she had seen him on the high- way. Soon after the search began, the nelghbor's inongrel returned home. David and Brownie could not be found.
 Led by Police Chief Herbert s. Berglund an organized search be- gan. The posse was swelled by townspeople and Boy Scouts while Joseph Haskell, pilot of a private plane, zoomed over the area for several hours.
 Rhode Island State Police brought bloodhound into the search early today but 1t was unable to pick up the child's scent.
 Even as police prepared to drag two small ponds in the area the boys mother, Mrs. Lennart Hilmer, collapsed and was placed under a doctors care.
 Had Wandered Twice
 Police said the child had twice wandered from home yesterday.
 Soon after breakfast he disap- peared and his father found him about three hours later, standing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01

near a hardware store ln lhs NotlA Easton 'shopplng center some tWo miles from his house.
 The boy was brought home. had his lunch and was let out Co play in his yard. It was while playing that he disappeared for a second time.
 When last seen David was weaf- ing a blue short-sleeved jersey and green overalls.
 The search was centered in a sparsely-settled area comprising about six square miles. It is @ re- zion of blueberry bushes, bogs and small ponds with an occasional stand of hardwoods.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-01

wASHINGTON-The capital was quieit with only 30 false alarms.