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Show Views of the Press Today we are committed. In- ' sofar as the president can commit com-mit us by word, to the defeat of the axis at all costs whut-ever whut-ever those costs may be at home or abroad. If the American people are given facts, nnd if the Inescapable higic of those facts points to wur, the people will not shrink from that conclusion. con-clusion. But the people have a right to reach their own conclusion, con-clusion, and to know that they are making the decision. The danger is that the decision between be-tween aid to Britain and total commitment to a British victory vic-tory between peace and war is being made for the people, and that the people do not realize that it is being made. Minneapolis Star Journal. Traffic deaths in Indianapolis last year numbered 85, compared com-pared with 57 In 1939. In Kansfi City the 1940 traffic death toll was 22, 10 less than the year before. Kansas City has a larger population than Indianapolis. India-napolis. But it has officials resolved to stop the loss of life In automobile crashes. They were confident that the number num-ber of pedestrian ordinarily run down and fatally hurt could be reduced. Kansas City did what any other city can do. It saved life and property because be-cause there was the closest possible pos-sible cooperation between the police department and the courts. The law was enforced and the accident rate was reduced. re-duced. India nit pol is News. If a Trlsis of some sort is not rapidly approaching in the Balkans it is for no fault of the Balkan rumor factories, which have suddenly gone to work with a prolific energy surprising even for that whispering whis-pering gallery of Europe. Reading Read-ing the reports from Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, one can believe almost anything, from the wild improbability of an imminent Russo-Gcrman clash over the independence of Bulgaria down through all the gradations of sensationalism to the humdrum conclusion- that Herr Hitler is merely making a few mysterious gestures for tho benefit of his hard-pressed boy friend in Rome. The truth obviously ob-viously depends upon calculations calcula-tions for which the data are not available to the outside world. But the more one tries to make scire ort of the situation the more difficult is it to see how Herr Hitler can conjure any spectacular results from it. New York Herald Tribune. |