The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-05
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The Daily Worker,
the voice of the international communist con-
spiracy, has justified the murder Of five un-
armed American Army flyers by Joseph Broz,
the Croatian communist, known as Marshal
Tito. In a Washington dispatch, published on
Aug. 81, under the head: "Jugoslav Crisis
Was Made in U. S. A" The Worker said:
1.-The u. S. State Department ignored repeat
ed Jugoslav complaints concerning unauthor-
lied flights over Yugoslav territory until two
of those planes were shot down. This fact,
which sheds new light on who is responsible
and Yugoslavia. was learned by the Daily
Worker today"
The American planes were flying on peace
full errands over a country which, by decision
of the late President Roosevelt, was delivered
from captivity under Hitler to captivity under
Stain.
In submission to the communist conspiracy,
directed from Moscow, the United States had
abandoned General Drazha Mikhailovich, the
commander of the Chetniks, who had set up
the original counter-attack against the Nazis.
Because Mikhailovich was no less hostile to
the Red terror than to Hitler's brown bolshe-
vism, the communists in Moscow and the
United States arranged for Tito's return to
Jugoslavia. With American arms and by the
aid of American soldiers, Tito ultimately be.
came Josef Stalin's governor and subdictator.
ne HdQ StuQleQ DOlSIeVlk CTedCnerV as a
science in Russia and had soldiered with the
communists in Spain.
Howard Fast, a writer Cor many commu-
mist publications, published a booklet in 1914,
called The Incredible Tito" in which he
boosted that the money to finance Tito's re.
turn to Jugoslavia was provided by the Joint
Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee Of the United
States
Some Americans who contributed money
and prestige to this committee may have be-
lieved that they were guilty OF no more SIMS.
ter act than the name of the committee i'm
piled. Some Americans pictured refugees as
gaunt and hunted Jews in flight from Hitler,
and the communists here again, as in many
past performances, exploited with ruthless
cynicism the humane instincts Of gullible
victims.
lnnocently or knowingly, those who gave
money to tie Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com
mlttee did finance the rise Of Tito against the
patriot, Mikhailovich. Mikhailovich found him.
self fighting both the Nazis and Tito's parti-
sans and was alleged to have "colIaborated'
with German and Italian officers in the later
stages OF his resistance in order to obtain
weapons for the fight against Moscow. This
may nave been true because, by that time
Stain, through Tito, had become a more
dangerous enemy of Jugoslavia than Hitler
and Mussollni. A few weeks ago, notwithstand-
ing the fact that he had rescued many Ameri.
can flyers who fell into Jugoslavia fighting
the Nazis, and notwithstanding his record of
cooperation with the Americans and British.
Mikhailovich was tried by Tito's bolshevik
regime and shot as a patriotic enemv of his
traltorous ccuntryman, Tito.
The United States would not or could no,
save Mlknailovich from the firing squad of
the dictator who,a short time later, shot down
IVe friendly American aviators on a harm
less errand who had lost their way. Here
was a historic desertion of friend by the
American government.
Fast, who wrote The Incredible Tito" is
inc author OF historical distortion done in the
form OF a novel, paraphrasing the life Of John
feter Altgeld, once governor of Illinois.
Altgeld was a radical in his time but no un-
mltlgated hero. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
praised the book, apparently in ignorance O.
both Altgeld's real story but aware of Fast's
political background.
Louis Adamlc, a naturalized immigrant
from Jugoslavia, mentioned forty times in the
olllclal report OF the Dies Committee on IN
american Activities, revealed himself as an
intellectual but distinctly n~on-combatant parti-
san OF Tito in his new dodger entitled Dinner
at the White House"
Inc Roosevelts were entertaining Winston
Churchill on an official war mission and. with
the curious courtesy for which they were
hoteo' confronted him at dinner with this
WAOoC pOllCleS nave thrown him
INTO the company of the communists in the
United States. Adamic, in common with the
communists, opposed the British plan to take
tne balKan route to Germany in the invasion
Oh europe, a course which Churchill designed
10 trusf1ate Stalin's program of imnerial
domination. Roosevelt was persuaded and
Adamlc's fellow travellers won their wav
The five young Americans died for that poll
cy, possibly only the first American dead in
d war BETWEEN Russia's Red fascism and
western civilization. At any rate, they were
slaughtered without a chance to fight when
they lost their way and flew over Jugoslavia.
Ihe enemy who killed them, instead of guild
ing them to a safe landing according to Gus
tom among friendly nations, was Marshal Tito
the hero of Howard Fast and Louis Adamic.
Incidentally, Adamic admits that he refused
an invitation to fight for the United States
when invasion of the Balkans was being con-
sidered. But, like Charlie Chaplin, he fear
lessly denounced Hitler and shook his fist
at him.
In Dinner at the White House." Adamic
writes that Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary, Miss
Thompson, said that people who criticized
Mrs. Roosevelt "simply don't know what
they're talking about. Westbrook Pegler, for
instance.
II said it was too bad Pegler had stopped
writing about sports,'' Adamic wrote.
Browne, Bioff, Scalise, Fay, Bove, Gailmor,
Morgenthau, Elliott and Jimmy Roosevelt ana
the communist traitors of a dozen unions Will