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Show THE IWYSO.N hiy titr I au-- Ata.ossa. I HKONKI E, lAYSON, xli I Washington and IWni.Mil . Abraham Lincoln Were Livitui odav . . . If C(;n.Gcore O waMK Nazi Submarine Menace Is t c. Allies' Chief Problem I " Deveiopin Wliat Would They Say to Tin ir meriea It Filter Second Year of a Treat War? v Said to Boost German Output; Vanishing Luftwaffe Puzzles Unfed TJations Military Observers. Put a tn l v rvh e, :l II H.islMiiiilnu, l I : 'll. 's N w. .Aa&ieJlkj&i, It will I i i 1. 'J .it ,1". t i nuii'k tralian n ii,i Ui cif difir.if1 m a re 'I ah divs later, cent Intel v ir a I lie. iid a n'( t il. v. ho had vlsitt 1 n.aiij fi a,' iimIk a s inilar statement i.j have In aid fi.e sane ireda lian made from dozens of oi'i And the strar.e thing is, it rials Is loudly laitiileil w.th an .i l c omit i s messes N t ng but a of A ustr i If Germ my is not yet stirved of gasoline and liihiu mbs if the Luftwaffe has not ri ally disappeared fiom the tailh, its absence f r m the air rnav have another meaning We know that in spite of the heavy German lnssij m nan and material in Russia, Gel many still has a large and powerful army Possibly over 300 fully eij upped divisions trained ahead Since this piiplixed rue, 1 tried to nr t a concrete answer from various pers. is as to just what lies on the lung, haul road Out of the answers, two obstacles stand out. the submarine and the .story of the "vanishing Luftwaffe " Only recently has it been delhntely revealed that the enemys giealest and most effective For a weapon is the submarine long time, the British permitted only the most general statements regarding the sinking of Allied or even neutral ships by U boats Lately, because it was realized that the people were in ignorance of the extent of this menace, more detailed statements have been made, although still no figures are given out. We know that America is building ships faster than American ships are being sunk. We know that the ' men It is estimated that aside from sold lets engaged in Russia and North Africa, the garrisons in the occupied countries, there must be a sti iking mobile army of a million men und more Of course, thes are estimates but they are not overAnd besides this army estimates there is the vanished Luftwaffe. The assumption is that this great army like the an force is resting, conserving and building up its strength for one of two things: either a long, last stand defense of the borders of the Reich or one more powerful offensive Meanwhile, we know that every day that Japan is allowed to occupy the rich possessions of her stolen empire, she is nearer to the ex- margin between launchings and sinkings is very narrow. And we know that launchings alone do not really balance sinkings hull for hull heraose the enemy sinks loaded ships valuable cargoes are de- ploitation of their resources, the destroyed trained men not easily or velopment of which will make her Immediately replaceable are killed stronger. And every day she is left or at least taken out of action for undisturbed by a major attack, she long periods gaps are left in the is able to increase her fortifications, lost with war effort each cargo. wear down the Chinese and spread When I was in Berlin covering the her "silver bullets" among the less outbreak of the F.uropean war in loyal war lord followers on the 1939, 1 heard a great deal of talk fnnge of Chiung Kal sheks central about Germany's counter-blockadarmy. how the Nazis could fill seas with There are two factors which make There was much talk ttie road ahead a hard one the prestheir of the grant numbers which could ent successful opei ation and the be produced by the Amei lean methrapid replacement of the German od of the assembly line. I had no submarine flotilla and the probabiliidea how much truth there was in ty that Germany is holding back a Then statements those in the powerful army and air force either months that followed, not much was for another telling blow or to deFor a pe- fend Us strongly Ratified terrain. said about the riod when they were operating on our coasts, America was conscious . of their presence but when they Ideologies were driven out of sight of our Put Them on Ice? shores, they were driven out of mind As I go wandering round the town as well. taking a look m every quarter with to apologies Nazi Boasts Largely Confirmed According to military men, theie are at present very ft vv Germ rn planes on lie R os an front I heaid a reient esti note of one seventh is many as a year ago There are not many Germ in planes over Alriea the Allies have at least achieved parity In air power. Where is the German Luftwaffe? Its presence darkened the skies of Europe onee has It really van- v ished? Been used up? Worn out? The factories whith turn out replacements all destroyed by Allied bombers? Is its necessary fuel and lirhrte ation exhausted Some people 1 E E S The Swedish Labor fediiat.on re- ports that the number ot s'l.kes, and workers involved, during 1942 wns the loweit ever recorded Only 34 strikes, with some 1,922 wnikers in volved, were repi r'ed The nuruU'r of lost working davs totaied 94 Oliu Only Free times before m the h,s turj of Sweden's labor, have there been a less number of wot king da,' lust through sti ,kes I vened with an di my officer, an official, who knows that ten am and also what it produces, a newspaper philosopher and a radical all of them look at the situation on the shores of the Mediterranean a little differently The official explains that the politics dre very important -- ttie rad.cal, happy over the success against all Fascists, but infuriated over using them even to help defeat themselves, shouts "We should have shot Harlan the dav after he solved his purpose" Well," remarks the official, "someThe army body did. didnt they officer calls the whole controversy a backyard row that will bo forgotten as ground dues up and the Allies get a few victmies But tile eoriospondeot philosopher paused to analyze He said "You have heard that one thing th it gieai'v improved the morale m the Hus, an army was making the officers .xiqreme and mg Uie authority of the comwhich were missars originally You know plated at heir elbows tl e Russian officers could make no move without the okav of the commissar und yet the officer was responsible if anything went wrong Now, the off. cor has the final word f the fotmer n any commissars who had m htary ti .lining have become office i s hard-heade- K Reilly d by lidukliase Feed gum supplies are 12 per coi t larger, hay supplies ate 9 per cent and supplies of gram aid :i per animal on fauns are : ' (' s c ger than they were this l n e t ar lr,,r i w v . j Hi' ' n ( id ie 1h i ' L' 'll civ ,1 ans will probably j, o t butter thdii ever a,.se peanut butler is h gh vc (i lf j Item and fat- - to '.t - SNAPPY F, ri the lie looked on. ir f to the pi in mine and 0 tr t enjm merit of mv on n me f t l'"bo-- e d v . 'e i B re but cun :n t s own was dissc ,'ti ar. i n sn it v n .0 v Dt '' When tl e war ti cr.its among them Stej t on A Hong las, steadfaslv si.; pm'ed the Pri but ( t;H rs vioiontlv oppi m to a war winch they deilariJ h a from the election of a Riuo-licaIt was tins group Piesident who brought into oistetiee the Knights of the Golden Cue le, tl p secret organization of tl,e Cop; who criticized tie conduit of the war, hoped to gam control of the government and make some sort of compromise place with the South Even within his own arty Lincoln had enemies who tried to thwart his efforts to save the Union. One faction induced congress to create a Committee on the Conduct of the War which was almost as damaging to the war effort as the activities 0f the Copperheads. Stormy as was the political situation when the second year of the war began, the military situation was more encouraging In the West Fort Henry had fallen, "Unconditional Surrender" Grant had taken Fort Donelson, and Farragut had captured New Orleans. But in the East, then regarded as the most important theater of war, a military genius named Robert E. Lee was threatening Washington and another military genius named "Stonewall" Jackson was outmaneuvering and outfighting every Union commander sent against him in the Shenandoah valley. McClellan Fails. In March, General McClellan, the Union commander, had begun his Peninsular campaign "which for numbers engaged and losses suf- of a hang they suredly we shall hang separately If Uie Revolution failed, one of the first candidates for the hangmans the rope would be that arch-rebeof the commandei year of the Revolution began George Washington found himself commander-in-ihie- f of what was little better than To tne mema "rabb'e m arms bers of the Continental congress he had declared "Lest some unlucky event should happen, unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembeied, by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with Washington little realized then how soon "some unlucky event should happen nor what a long succession of such misfortunes would devil aim for the next six years But he must hrtve had a foreshadowing of tiiern, for, within a week after he assumed command of the army, he was writing to his friend, Richard Henry Lee: "We are in an exceed ingly dangerous situation. We have but about sixteen thousand effective men in all this department, whereas, by the accounts which I received from even the first officers in command, 1 had no doubt of finding between eighteen and twenty thousand: out of these are only fourteen thousand fit for duty The smallness of his army was, however, only one of his many problems. Not only were the soldiers poorly armed, poorly clothed and poorly fed, but there was a shocking Men accepted lack of discipline. bounties to enlist, then deserted immediately. Low Morale. Morale among the officers was not much better, for in their attitude toward each other they reflected all the jealousies and suspicions which had pi evented unity of the English colonies in the struggle with the French and Indians. Washington had to face not onlv wholesale desertions and furious mutinies among the private soldiers, hut also the most exquisitely embarrassing feuds among his officers with threats of wholesale resignations, writes his biographer, Rupert Hughes. "His prudence, fairness and devotion to the government were It tested to the last degree seemed to him, and it seems to the later inspector of the records, that at this time Washington was almost the only man in America who had a sense of national entity and national duty. Hie rest talked of liberty, and indignation at tv rants, but their interests were almost altogether individual, municipal, or provincial." Such was the situation as the year 177t opened Up in Canada Benedict Arnold's forces had settled down to their fruitless siege of Quebec Washington's siege of Boston seemed equally futile until early in March when he occupied Dorchester Heights Then on M Patrick's day Lord Howe evacuated the city and Washington and h.s motley army marched in. It was a victory for the Patriot cause, of ci utse, but it was far from or How e's at my vv as still decisiv c intact and there wvs no telling where it would strike next Washington guessed correctly th.it it Win second l, rebels-tn-arm- That dar ger seemed perilously near soon after Washington had his troops drawn up on parade and the Declaration of Independence read to them. Up the bay came a British armada 400 transports and 32 000 soldiers, convoyed by 10 battleships and 20 frigates, manned by more than 10,000 sailors. A little later they were joined by 10,000 Hessian mercenaries Against this aggregation of British might Washington had a motley horde of not more than 20,000 men, many of them unfit for service or unwilling to fight because congress had failed to pay them or even to provide them with enough clothing, arms and food. A Series of Disasters. Then followed the series of disasters which was to make the "Year of Independence one of the blackest years in the whole struggle for liberty. In August General Putnam's army was cut to pieces at the Battle of Long Island and narrowly escaped capture. In September Washington was driven out of New York and his army retreated to Harlem Heights in panic rcut. In October he was defeated at the Battle of White Plains. In November the British captured Fort Washington, one of the chief defenses of the Hudson, and forced the Ameri- - ..." have acquued data in the last few days that have convinced me that we will have to expunge the word ideology fiom the bright lexicon of war, if we are going to win 1 have obseived three places where the ideologies have gotten in und doin' mole d image than a buffalo moth in an overstuffed sofa Of course m Ninth Afnea it may be the chm ite or the lamy season - ideologies have done some of their I have conmost devastating wolk Now we learn how gieat their depredations aie on the shipping lanes wheie tiny conveige in the eastern Atlantic, confirming to some degiee the Gentian boasts which are sounding again. It is stated by British naval observers that the Germans are pre fabricating the subs, making the pails in factones scattered all over Uie Reich and assembling them in great urdet gi omul caverns hewn out of the rock or coveted wuth concrete on the shores of the Bay of Biscay in France Therein lies a clear and simple explanation of the Allies' greatest problem, the chief obstacle on the "long, hard nurd." The second obstacle may be a fancied one but it Is real m tire minds of many The unknown is usually mine terrible than the known and perhaps this one is at least partly a myth but no realist can afford to underestimate the enemy's potentialities Those who believe this "obstacle" exists, say it is hidden behind the mystery of ' the anislung I.uft waffe " P Wan-Kve- tar sutussfullv t is n ade my in the iimiii gasoil! e and sn.o e ( ij n ,s been icti .111 f'o'M the Musop oil i in w oht s dev eh ed lit Ids in R bet'Aien lie enumei of victoties mlutvid and ttie pred ictinri uf the Ion, haul road fl Vvhnt w We kri, a that Gei u ar hub'c adv in is fa ( till e if s', lithe' ic We ki.o.v th it oils "but' stands I Newspuptr through two (tier conflicts. their re prospects was debating r,f viftory as they entered the Continent.' ctgrexs fiom the Mother counindepender st tend uar nf those conflicts try and on he mirnoital Fourth of - the War for American InJuly it to( k the decisive step Up to this tir ch pt tid nee and the War Be-tWashington had been leading a hg t for the rights of him( n the States? as Englishself and h:s If George Washington and men. Now Itcompatriots e congress had given Abraham Lincoln were alive him someth g else to fight for. They today, what message would called it L hertv the king of England called .t Treason Witty old they pive to the embattled Ben Frankl.u had told his fellows 1943? America of that rru'! together or aswho h ren A Ly W i '.tern o German Advances In Synthetic Gas ill 05 j think tli.it tins at hast to a large degree, is true. Hut that explanation does not seem ri asonalile. C. I) fit r a ir " nf t .( Aus- uincu ''HIS month, which finds America tM'itnfl the second vtar of the pit ate st war in her hi !"t, al-- finds her hnnoimj.; apam the memory of her twe i latest sonsmen Bv B.U KHAGF, Inutml unit ( nrnini nlutor t, ns nf V the I KIAIO SCOTT WAINON Hilt istti ij U Ucf.nsV ag unst col,... t0n' direct 101 5 in folder. V to' f.w S "i Frc-Fcliric- By 1 Clcl T.o.q.l guard Meanwhile, outsine of Quebec, Arnold's aimv was rottmg away with cold, hunger ard .smallpox ,r J bv the middle of June ds shattered remnants had been chased cut of Canada Thus endi d in fuiluie the expedit on upon when Washington had counted so nun h the add, turn of the Canadums to the Patriot cause. While this was taking place, the min rnmenl of the jpiijic. In the i pen) ile and for the people, shall not from the eaith . . per-iv- cans to evacuate Fort Lee, the othThe last month of this dismal second year of the war found him retreating across New Jersey and, although, lus splendid victory at Tieiitoii on Christmas night somewhat the gloom, there was still nuu v a discouragement and many a uo'eat ahead of him before the next v.ar should bring the turning point of the war at Saratoga But de i ite tiie seemingly impossible n.i .te of his task and the mountu i 's difficulties which he overcuit the record is clear that George V ishington never lost his com age j cl his belief in the rightness o! th- cause for which he was If m this second year ef fighting our grr struggle Amei ica suffers sevete t arses and at the end of ,t vuto'i may still seem far away. then n s George Washington's low An c draw new courage fiom a ence in a letter he wrote er i -- I fel-an- to ' h t acriA h pies-- he y i . i n.i w u i n my owi ther during the retreat It was an cx-- . Jersey his unshaken faith that e once more lixed among peaceable enjoyment if " e and House Divided. second year of fi'e War e States was m t so dark m Lincoln as 17?fi had e v VU-'- Bctwei for Abi been Washington, there a reverse m SB2 th.. t caused a lesser soul to n would 1 h ' Not only was he the head despai, Washington and Lincoln Sj ak to 1 heir "Tne time i now nedr at hand which must probably do'errmne whether An means are to be Free- men. or Slaves, whether fiO.v ate have any jioperty they can call their owr. whet! er their Hi uses an haul? ate to he j dinged '.d de- stioved, a d t1 ev cot ' g ed to a state if w : etc heitne'S lum wl ch no turn an efforts will trbab'v ue- Ever t'lim Tie f.i'e of unknown w dt ; e'vl i.vder C nt n.i.lu ns w ill on tiie Courage and Conduct of tins -i '.'" satrvst; e Boned. purHl tie for ro-u- ,, ? factoring. 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