Show e poe s pos po I rv Allies Ponder Possibilities Of Russ Russ Nazi Nazi Peace Treaty treaty Soviet Offensive May Mean Sudden End of War With Germany Stalin Holds High Cards In Diplomatic Game By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator I I Wl U Service Union Trust Building Washington D C CWashington CWashington Washington watches the swift S t march of events across the Russian plains The renewed offensIve more the than half a month before even RusSian people dreamed it was pos pas possible sible has qUickened all nen nerves es For the RussIans it means the pos pas of a sudden peace And whIle Moscow dreams of the end of the war just around the first fast snow covered wound on the battle battlefield battlefield field the Allies are cons dering the pos lb lily of what It means to them For there IS always that haunting memory of a remark of Stalin s In Inthe inthe the back of their m the remark that the destructIon of the Re wehr was as not a condIt on of German surrender as far as the Kremlin IS concerned In addition there IS the realization of the presence of those German divisions dl still sull intact beyond the Alps not to ment on the others stIll nearer Not VI we e are assured that Stalin will make a separate peace WIth Germany but if a peace treaty IS wrItten on the stalwart backs of a VICtOriOUS RussIan army what hat terms can the Allies inSISt upon that Stalin need feel called upon to ap approve approve prove unless hIs own many possIble desiderata are agreed to by Britain and the United States It does not make the task any easier for the gentlemen m in London and W Washington now carefully se selecting what the well dressed diplo diplomat mat should wear In Moscow One thing IS very ery certain no old fash fashioned fashioned regalia v will III be m in style There WIll be no opportunity for the pal pol to te game where one can rIsk a little bluff WIth fair assurance of drawing a wild Joker to four of a kind or color if Russia holds all the cards What RussIa Wants The optimists say that RussIa wants nothing that an honest world cannot afford to offer and IS will ng to give m return all that an honest world need ask for The mists say that even if 1 Britain and America can be converted to full fa th m in such an att tude and intent on Russia s spart spart part how are you going to convert st Russia to are an equal faIth in 11 the attItude and intent ons of the capitalistic natIons Unfortunately Brita n I and the United States have a somewhat pa n ful diplomatic record d in 10 dealing with Germany when Adolf Hitler held h s aces the strongest a r force m the world and a sIzable army We all bowed ed down do at Munich and indeed though It has been forgotten there was some rIvalry for the credit m achieving a peace m in our time that was no peace Howe er with the help of Russia the All es were able to take H tier s aces In the end And so m In certain dIscreet cIrcles it has been suggested that the All ed weakness in the d field as asfar asfar far as things to trade v Ith RussIa are concerned might become a astren strength h if the All ed joint general staff became the negotiators These gentlemen mIght be able to offer what hat Russ a wants most which IS what we e all want security And these gentlemen m se make demands whIch Russia would desire to cons der namely co opera tion operation t Ith compromise refusal of whIch could lead to noth ng better than what Hitler got m in the end And HItler s O mm words spoken when he addressed a meeting of h s sparty sparty party ch and generals re are worthy of note The fuehrer suggested for Germany what Britain and the Un ted States mIght well contribute to with Rus Russia sla sia in addit on to their diplomats and their arm es and naVies The Fuehrer Says The tazi party s struggle for power said H set an example for today s struggle of dest ny of the German people arms alone mean nothing if not backed by the will of men menThe menThe The Germans made a fatal mis take mistake twice m in one generation They failed to count on the will of the AmerIcan people If that will IS made clear today if America s in 10 intention is written clearly that all allmay allmay may see the intent on whIch we pro a less decent peace just ce and se for and all if that will and Intent Is backed by the force we have nothing can resIst it 11 That IS ISI I really the thing which can wm win the peace as it has made the winning of the war poss pass ble whatever credit may Justly go to tb others who have battled our common enemy Visitors to U S The war has brought a great many Englishmen to the Un ted States who otherwise mIght never have known any more of America than the they learned from the movIes Many are h trained specialists others are broadly educated like those on m news newspaper newspaper paper and mad rad o 0 work I have met meta a number especially of the latter group And I am struck by one thing which they comment upon upon- the widespread educatIon m in America Amer AmerIca Ica That IS one thing which wIll make makeup makeup up one of England s Ao o 1 postwar reforms reforms-a real public school tern We In Amer ca underestimate our own schools on the one band and overestimate our literacy on the theother theother other At first the army demanded that thata a man be able to read and write or he ws wis deferred ThIs lost nearly a men to the armed forces forces- four states have 36 per cent or more adult Illiteracy According to latest information 85 illiterates have already been med for army servIce whIch means that they hat ha hae e a been taught to read and v write rite and do simple arithmetic It IS said that there are facia t es for giving the same basIc instructIon to more But that IS by no means the tent extent of army educatIon A statement from the Office of War on the other day said speaking of the serviceman Unless he comes from froma a well to do family h s education educational al ties are m fact rather better m in than out of the servIces That IS probably something that few parents thought of when they wat wa waed ed good by at the staton stat on They d d not real ze that the army and andr r ravy avy are operating the largest adult school m in the world orld One out of ev every every ery ten adults ill in the country 11 out of et e ery 14 able bodied men between 18 and 38 wIll probably be students ill in that school system by the end of thIS year A million bo boys s w Il 11 be m in inthe the on courses the tern s prep schools Nine out of ten of these men will receive advanced traInIng as specialists The Future Much of the on receIved will be carried over as useful m in cIvIlian life for one out of three of every army and navy job Joh IS IdentIcal WIth a I 1 an Job and over two thIrds of the men m the servIce de develop develop skIlls that can be used m in cIvIl cIvIlIan ran Ian Jobs These figures alone I bel eve show that when D Day comes the m II 11 ons ens discharged will not be bea bea a careless riotous lot good for noth nothing nothing ing but to fight As a matter of fact fact the vast majority till III have of 1 they have anything like the feeling I and most of my comrades m the last war had an of 0 er veen n ng desIre to settle do VI to a Job and the bUild mg of a home no more to roam Some of course who had the Itch ng foot wIll have developed chronIc cases but It IS doubtful if those roll rolling mg ing stones would have gathered much moss v the maJority of the men who make up our armed forces who ho want and expect to civilian Jobs the careful class ficat on of sk wh ch chIs chis Is a vital part of the army and navy system IS go ng to work m re erse m getting them Jobs afterward In on for thIS experts are al already already ready rig ng accurate descriptions bons of Jobs wh ch men learn to do doin doin in the service keep ng a ye ve record of the work they do mg add tonal t onal tests t ruch will gIve a clear picture of theIr ach eve ments and talents to the prospective employer They are also preparing to tell the serviceman what Job he heIS heis IS best fitted for and offering help which will better prepare rum him for It ItI itI I doubt If ever before in h story the mil tary has taken on such a lily for fitt ng the boy back into h s natural groove when the fight ng IS over This Is a total war VI ar everybody Is m in It and those who ho have been forced to take over the abnormal duties of fighting are not go ng to be set adrIft I |