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Show rv lu: ' n:ii rei.MJiidM.ta Jim Relationships of Nations Strain Between FDR and De Gaulle Complicates Com-plicates Postwar Understanding Between Two Great Powers. By BAUKIIAGE Pleivt Analyst and Commentator. IPNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Some yean ago that highly scien-tiflc scien-tiflc organization, the Smithsonian Institution, discussed the possibility of a relationship between sun spots and wars. It was carefully explained that sun spots, which are really great explosions on the sun's Surface, Sur-face, affected the weather on the earth and frequently bad weather in turn affected the dispositions of human hu-man beings and might conceivably conceiva-bly render national leaders less amenable to reason and more likely like-ly to get their countries into trouble. At first glance that seems rather far-fetched but the fact that a clash of personalities can ..yM :r,u affect course of I . I nations today, al most as much as it did when people fought at the whim of a king, has been brought out strikingly striking-ly In Franco-American relations. There Isn't much question that the common interests of France and the United States would President Roosevelt be better served if one Franklin Roosevelt Roose-velt could "get along" better with one Charles De Gaulle. Of course, it Is only fair to say that there are others who don't "get along" with the tall, handsome and aristocratic aris-tocratic French general. gen-eral. It is no secret Gen. De Gaulle that one Josef Stalin, although he highly advantageous arranged a treaty with France, including some even more advantageous private understanding with De Gaulle, had no desire to invite in-vite him to Yalta. But the Roosevelt-De Gaulle differences differ-ences seem to be recurrent and just when everybody thought, after the latter' s visit to Washington when he was understood to have given his colleagues in France the impression that the visit was highly satisfactory satisfac-tory to him, came the answer "I regret" to Roosevelt's "respondez-vous, "respondez-vous, s'il vous plais" and the meeting meet-ing on the President's cruiser off Algiers did not take place. Etiquette Poses Difficult Problem In diplomatic circles it has been carefully explained that De Gaulle could not accept an Invitation from a peregrinating president to call upon him in French territory, which It was explained was a sort of "come down and have a picnic with me in your backyard, I'm too busy to call on you in your parlor." To which American diplomatic circles explained: it wasn't an invitation in-vitation to De Gaulle to come to Algiers, Al-giers, which is French territory, but an invitation to call on the President Presi-dent aboard a U. S. warship, which Is American territory. Peut-etre, was the reply, but the chief of a great power, indeed an empire, cannot be expected to be treated any better than the rulers of such minor domains as Arabia, Egypt or Ethiopia, royal-blooded though they be. (Roosevelt entertained enter-tained the gentlemen earlier.) There the discussion bogged down in mutual chagrin with all but two of the leading French newspa pers (one conservative and one communist) insisting that De Gaulle was right and the apologists for Roosevelt explaining that the President Presi-dent could not undertake what probably prob-ably would have amounted to a visit of state and a triumphal tour of France, when he had a war to win. It was also recalled that one thing Mr. Roosevelt prides himself on avoiding is making the mistakes mis-takes Wilson did. Wilson received a wild ovation in France and Italy BEFORE BE-FORE the peace conference, and suffered the results of a most painful pain-ful reaction afterward. How great a part Roosevelt's failure fail-ure to pay a visit to De Gaulle in Paris played in motivating the general's gen-eral's refusal, or, if it were the chief cause, bow much was personal pique on the part of De Gaulle and how much a feeling that his nation bad been slighted, it is impossible BARBS A farmer in Indiana swapped a two-year-old horse for 15 cartons of cigarettes. Apparently he would rather burn up the carpet than the road. s The Germans have a new rocket that looks like a stove-pipe. Well, they have thrown up everything else but the kitchen sink and the sponge the latter is overdue. kiua nTl hiicu i to say. My own impression garnered gar-nered from conversations with persons thoroughly familiar with the French attitude is that "difficulties" were expected to arise in Franco- American relations the moment it became clear that France was not invited to participate in the counsels coun-sels of the Big Three. It was not expected that the role her armies are able to play would make her eligible to Join the military councils at Yalta but the French were ardent ly desirous of having a place at the general negotiations which made up the second part of the parleys. General Gen-eral De Gaulle was in no mood, when he received the President's invitation, to brook what he consid-ered consid-ered a further slight. It was clear, on the other hand, that the President felt he had sound, practical reasons for omitting any visit to Paris before the San Francisco Fran-cisco meeting. He also felt there were sound, practical reasons for a conversation with De Gaulle. He said there were a number of points that had to be cleared up which required re-quired French action before the United Nations meeting could be held. Indeed, I imagine, he felt that he was showing especial regard to France when he offered to review the accomplishments at Yalta personally per-sonally for De Gaulle. FDR Comments On Prima Donnas That is supposed to account for the extemporaneous remarks he inserted in-serted in his report to congress about "prima donnas." Those remarks, which were universally uni-versally interpreted as applying to De Gaulle, came as a distinct shock and immediately afterward Senator Brewster publicly labeled them "injudicious." "in-judicious." I was following the text of the official offi-cial release in the house radio gal lery as the President spoke and had noted the many departures which he tossed off as familiar asides and which helped to give his talk the intimate note he desired, But I was startled at what he said following the text as it dealt with an agreement with Yugoslavia. He read the sentence, "We hope that it is in the process of fulfillment" and then he looked up and with just a touch of what verged on sarcasm in his voice, remarked "But it is not only that, but in some other places we have to remember there are a great number of prima donnas in the world, all who wish to be heard. Before anything will be done, we may have a little delay, while we listen to more prima donnas." That startled me as I said but I must say I did not at first think he could mean De Gaulle. That seemed impossible. However, as otb ers mentioned it, I began to take It for granted, for I knew that until the procedure of voting as agreed upon at Yalta was approved by France the agreement could not be announced. There were other things upon which France had to be consulted con-sulted in advance of the meeting, as welL The French ambassador who was seated in the diplomatic gallery showed no sign whatever that he was affected by the words and later he is said to have told a friend that it was hardly likely that the prima donna reference could have been meant to apply to France since the President had completed his com ment on what disposition of French interests had been made and had moved on to another topic, Yugo slavia. That, of course, is a good alibi, And it is necessary that there be an alibi for I am convinced that had there been even unofficial ad' mission that the President was hitting at De Gaulle a really diffl. cult situation would arise. It is known that although many people consider the general what the French call "difficile." the French do not call De Gaulle that and his friends and admirers are warm in their loyalty and would Instant ly resent any unfavorable comment on his conduct No serious camcuities are ex pected to arise between the United States and France but some of their common troubles in the past show that there is much difference between be-tween foreign relations, bolster them with protocol as you will, and personal relations, after all. by Baukhage Ceiling prices on strawberries will be the same as last year. Which means, we hope, that short cake will be no shorter. One of the causes of increase In illness among workers is described as due to mental strain of new workers who haven't been employed for a long time. Work has always been the curse of the leisure classes. In I -WEEKLY NEWS Report German Peace Bids as Allies Press Attacks on Reich; Act to Assure Civilian Supply Released by Western - - - - . I EDITOR'S NOTE! When opinion are expressed In these lOlMinl, they ,B0" , Vestern Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily sf this newspaper.) UC MV GERMANY 'fx? ' ft Jf, X' 4 Indicating the modern network of been moving military supplies east the Adolf Hitler superhighway near lines extensive road system in territory. EUROPE: Rebuff Nazis Amid a flurry of talk that high German groups had sounded the U. S. and Britain out on peace possibilities. pos-sibilities. Allied armies maintained their heavy pressure against Nazi lines in both the east and west. According to one report, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower rebuffed Field Marshal von Rundstedt's approach for an armistice, under which the latter offered to pull German armies beyond the Rhine,' where they have been forced, and disarm them. Published in Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet, the other report dealt with German overtures to a British official for an armistice for preserv ing the Reich as a bulwark against the "Bolshevik menace." To include the retention of the Nazis in office and the evacuation of occupied ter ritory, the offer also was flatly re jected, it was said. Even as the reports came through, Germany rocked under the tremor of continued heavy aerial assaults. aimed at Nazi Industrial installa tions, communication lines feeding 'Town Buster' Latest Bomb To Britain's famed "blockbuster" "blockbust-er" and "earthquake" bombs has been added another, the 11-ton "town buster," developed to penetrate to the underground factories fac-tories the Germans established to avoid bombardment. Carried by Britain's four-en-gined Lancasters, the "town buster" measures 25H feet in length and almost four feet in diameter. di-ameter. Upon releasing the heavy load, the huge planes have bounced up as high as 500 feet from relief of the weight. Packing a tremendous wallop in itself, the "town buster" supplements the six-ton "earthquake" "earth-quake" bomb, which sank the German battleship, Tirpitz, and penetrated 15-foot-thick concrete roofs of U-boat pens. their armies and troop concentrations concentra-tions massed to meet Allied attacks in both east and west. In the east, Russia grouped the bulk of her manpower for the grand assault on Berlin, heavily defended by an extended network of pillboxes, pill-boxes, tank traps and infantry obstacles, ob-stacles, which could be flooded. As the Russians built up their forces beyond the Oder for the smash on the German capital, other Red forces were on the move in both Upper Silesia and Hungary, in an effort to pry open the roads to the rich industrial districts of Czecholovakia and Austria, feeding the Nazi wehrmacht In the west, German war production produc-tion was seriously threatened as U. S. and British armies closed on both the Ruhr and Saar valleys. Not only was the Ruhr menaced by the U. S. 9th and British 2nd armies from the west, but Lt Gen. Courtney Court-ney Hodges U. S. 1st moved up from its Remagen bridgehead to threaten it from the south. The U. S. 3rd and 7th armies also were applying a vise on the Saar valley, with the 3rd pressing in from the north and east, and the 7th squeezing ahead from the south. Taking full advantage of their extensive ex-tensive road system and short supply lines, the Germans fought viciously to hold both all-important regions. SERVE G.I. All over Europe the transportation corps military railway services are hauling 50.000 tons a month of meats, fresh vegetables and dairy products literally bringing "fillets in his foxhole" to G.I. Joe. Reefer cars make it possible to deliver good food in good condition. Months before the invasion, at erection depots in different parts of England, men of the railway shop battalions labored to -construct the reefer cars from prefabricated sections sec-tions sent over from the States. THE LEIII SUN, LEIH, UTAH ANALYSIS Newspaper Union. roads over which the Germans have of the Rhine, this aerial photo shows U. S. 1st army bridgehead. Map out FOOD: Probe Supply Following hard upon War Mobile zer Byrnes' formation of a special group to review all demands for non- military exports to protect essential civilian ci-vilian supplies in this country, senate war investigating committee announced an-nounced the conduct of an inquiry into the food situation Currently marked by the growing scarcity of meat. James F. Byrnes Revelation of the senate committee's commit-tee's probe followed demands of mid-western mid-western senators for rectification of government food policies, which, they declared, discouraged fatten ing of cattle because of failure to bring prices and feed costs in line with production, and failed to place agriculture on a par with war to dustry. Just before the congressional storm broke, Byrnes proclaimed the organization of a special group to determine, that Europe's demands for relief Wd rehabilitation would not interfere with U. S. civilian needs, and even to review past commitments in the same light Following Byrnes' action, capital circles buzzed with talk that the Tirn- tp 3 -j had approached him for help in al- locating the shrinking food supply during 1945, with prospects of from 20 to 25 per cent less meat, 10 to 15 per cent less vegetable oils and fats, and 10 per cent less sugar. Meanwhile, it was revealed, lend- lease purchases in recent weeks have been severely reduced be cause of the growing meat shortage. Although the government has been receiving larger allocations than for merly, it was pointed out, still the drop in slaughtering has reduced the volume available over last year, and practically only military demands are being satisfied. As a result, lend-lease meat ton nage has been slashed almost 80 per cent in the last two months, with pork purchases in one week down about 84 per cent from last year, canned meats 86 per cent, and oiner products from 83 to 97 per cent PACIFIC: Air Lashings With 1nrn .nr.n TT C Umk... ' ' ... lung 4 augc W. W. UUlitUCIS based within flying distance of Japan as a result of the recent conquest con-quest of outlying Islands in bloody but valuable fighting, the enemy's great inaustriai cities nave more and more been feeling the lash of heavy bombardment Carried on even as General Mac- Arthur's forces in the Philippines tightened their grip on the sprawl ing archipelago guarding the inner China sea lane, and as begrimed marines finished off a stubborn foe on Iwo Jima, the B-29 raids on such Jap centers as Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka are designed to cut down fac tory production and impair the flow of supply to the enemy's armies. Meanwhile, General MacArthur's forces moved toward the climactic battle with the bulk of the enemy cornered on northeastern Luzon, and additional American landings to the south secured the sea pas sage through the Philippines to Manila. CRIME Release of the FBI's annual crime reports bulletin for 1944 reflects a general upward trend in crime during the year. Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover said. He added that arrests of boys and girls 17 years of age totaled more than for any other group. Arrests of boys under 18 were 18.8 per cent greater in 1944 than In 1941, the last peacetime year. and arrests of girls under 21 showed a 134 per cent gain over the same period. 'YALTA: Test Agreement First put to the test In Poland, the Big Three's Yalta agreement to act jointly in the settlement of troubled trou-bled political affairs of countries was tabbed for a second trial in tne case of Romania, where the Rades-cu Rades-cu government reportedly had been j i w.. Tfnpntin on1 renlnred iUi tCU vut UJ iUUfltwn . . 4 nrr.tr a tpri rpffime by a Communist-dominated regime. At the time the Radescu govern ment left office, with Radescu himself him-self seeking sanctuary in the British embassy in Bucharest because of fear of communist assassination, the Russians contended that the regime had failed to take proper action against pro-fascist ' elements still present in the country and threatening threat-ening the Red army's supply lines. Called at the instance of the U. S., the Big Three parley on Romania could look to its settlement of the Polish probjem as a precedent, with democratic elements being brought into a new regime along with the communists to furnish a more representative pattern of government. gov-ernment. FARM LABOR: At Low With total farm employment esti mated at 8,400,000 persons, farm operators op-erators will start the important spring planting season with the lowest low-est seasonal level of workers in 21 years, the U. S. department of agri culture reported. Of the 8,400,000 persons, USDA reported, 6,894,000 are family members, mem-bers, of whom a great number are women or elder folk. Because of the presence of the latter, it was said, total operating efficiency has been cut somewhat since the advancing years have impaired the efforts of many of the older people. As the spring planting season ap proached, with excessive moisture retarding work in many sections, farmers were promised some manpower man-power relief by the employment of 30,000 German war prisoners during the year. Despite the worker shortage, short-age, farmers are being asked to match 1944's record production. Butcher 01' Dobbin Already evident before January 3, when race tracks were closed, there has been a decided rise in the sale of dressed horse carcasses as the meat situation grows increasingly critical, packers re vealed. Although sold for human consump tion in Milwaukee. Wis.: ISoston. Mass.: Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Mich and some New Jersey cities, it is not permissible per-missible in Chicago, III., where, oddly enough, sales to retailers have doubled since the beef famine. In explaining the phenomenon of how sales to retailers could double if the latter could not resell the product to consumers, one packers' representative declared that butchers didn't know whether the buyers were eoine to eat the horse meat themselves or feed it to tneir pets. SHOES: - O dltt Uutput With most of the cattle hide sched uled to meet greatly increased army demands, allocation of leather for production of civilian shoes during April, May and June may be trimmed down to about 10 to 15 per cent of present allotments, further affecting the future supply of men's and children's footwear. In an effort to meet the overall civilian requirement of 350,000,000 shoes for the year, it was said, government gov-ernment officials are hoping to increase in-crease the production of fabric footwear, foot-wear, despite the tight situation in worsted materials needed. Against the 100,000,000 fabric shoes manufactured manu-factured last year, 50,000,000 more may be produced in 1945. Beyond the postponement of the validation of the next shoe stamp until sometime next summer instead of May 1 as originally scheduled, no change in footwear rationing is contemplated as a result of the new cattle hide allocation, OPA said. HOLLYWOOD STRIKE: I J f Complex Scenario Closure of American movie houses was threatened as the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Em-ployees, AFL, considered exertion of pressure on picture producers in its fight to obtain recognition as bargaining agent for some 70 studio set decorators in Hollywood. In vying for control of the 70 workers, the IATSE bucked another AFL affiliate, the painters' union, which had been accepted as the employees' em-ployees' bargaining agent by the War Labor board. Standing In the middle of the entanglement en-tanglement were the picture producers pro-ducers themselves, what with the IATSE not only threatening to pull its workers out of the Hollywood studios but also to stop the showing of movies throughout the country and the rival painters union already on strike because of the picture producers' pro-ducers' hesitancy fa recognizing their group. WORLD AGRICULTURE Aireaay accepted by 18 cmmw.. adoption of the constitution of the Food and Agriculture or?ariK. of the United Nations neared. The purposes of FAO are to im prove agricultural production and distribution, raise the levels of nutrition nu-trition and standards of living, and better the conditions of rural populations. popu-lations. An important part of the work of FAO will be to aid nations in adapting their -vuinuc (O changing world conditions. IH Things I Never Knew Ti Mwr That Uncle Sam lost 10,500 sol-dlers, sol-dlers, aailors and marines in 1944 not by Jap or Nazi bullets, but by accidents in the U. 8. . . . Th when soldiers and sailors actually take heed of their superiors' accident acci-dent warnings, the accident rate In camps drops 60 This column Is dedicated to saving the life of anilnr. marine or BUII1V ' worker In the war effort and the statistics prove that it prooaoty . . . Every life lost to this country is one less fighter against Hitler. Tour country needs your life to protect Its own. . . . This is the breakdown of yonr chances of living liv-ing this year: n,. sn nnn noo Americans have been injured In home-front acci dents since the war sianea. . . . Work accidents last year caused the loss of 900,000 man-years of labor, and more workers were killed OFF the Job than on the job za.uuu to 18,000. That drinking on the part of either the driver or the pedestrian Is involved in-volved in one out of every five fatal traffic accidents, and that, even in wartime, one or both drivers in fatal accidents violate a law in two out of every three cases. That about 7,000 persons were drowned in the United States last year. . . . Smokers cause nearly a fifth of all fires in the U. S. A. . . . Accidents kill one out of three school-age children who die. . . . Three out of five fatal traffic accidents acci-dents occur at night . . . Nearly 2,000 persons were killed to grade crossing accidents last year. (So, Look, Listen and LIvel) That thousands of hunters will be maimed this year and nearly 1,000 will be killed in hunting accidents unless the hunter is extra careful. . . . 17,000 people in farm families were killed by accidents last year and only mining, construction, transportation trans-portation and public ntilities are more dangerous industries than agriculture. ag-riculture. . . . About 80,000 hospital beds are occupied today by persons who have suffered accidents. (This is roughly 10 of all beds, and the pity of it is that accident cases usually usu-ally require the immediate attention of several doctors and nurses, as well as the use of anesthesia appara tus, operating rooms and hospital beds. And this at a time when they're talking about drafting nurses!) That Benjamin Franklin was one of the first safety advocates In America. Remember? He said "Haste makes waste" and "Carelessness "Care-lessness does more harm than want of knowledge." That the Chicago fire of 1871. the Johnstown flood of 1889, the Galveston tidal wave of 1900, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the sinking of the Titanio In 1912, the Boston night club fire in 1942, and all the other major disasters since 1865 have killed less than 25,000 Americans. (And yet day-by-day accidents killed 94,000 in 1944 alone!) That accident figures prove the safest people in the U. S. are little girls between the ages of 5 and 14. . . . There is an accidental death in the U. S. every 5 minutes and an Injury every 3 seconds! . . . Accidents Acci-dents are the fifth cause of 'deaths in the U. S. ... And cost $141 per year per family in America. That the Seaford Nylon plant of E. L duPont de Nemours & Company Com-pany has the best no-injury record In American industry, having gone nearly 17,000,000 man-hours without a single lost time Injury to one of its employees. (And at the last report, re-port, the record was still running.) That even if more than 700 000 women drivers were involved in traffic accidents in 1941, there Is no conclusive evidence that women are more reckless than men when it comes to driving automobiles A speed violation is a factor in about of an fatal traffic accidents. . Approximately 4 of drivers involved in fatal accidents are hit and run drivers! (The rats!) That communications Is the safest industry and mining the most dangerous. ... One person per-son in 14 will have an accident fa the Unite,, states to toe 1944 pattern prevails. . Nearly 10,000 pedestrians are dlnfficaccldentsy'iy- (And walking h so easy.) That peanuts, coins, medals, mar-bles mar-bles and such simple things can be XrryyLr0- objects yi!::Trr0e:z sucked Into the lungs.... FaDs were toe greatest single cause of dental deaths in 1943. the last for which figures arevailabfe Z number killed by fall, ta ia 5rnsdso,ae" by fans are 25 year, of age or ove-two ove-two out of three personf k by fafls are 63 years or older. Brewer's Salvage of brewer's yeast i. to carryover into peace every barrel of br . 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