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Show 'Hirohito Now' Strategy Gains New Proponents New Line of Argument Developed in Favor Of Immediate Action Against Japanese Empire. By BAUKIIAGE iVi'iim Analyst and Commentator. VNU Sorvlie. 1313 II Street. N-W. VVashincton, I). C. Sfirnp week; atfn the story of the re;il purpose of the visit to America of Madame Clmmtf Kai-shek was-t was-t I f J in these columns. Since then it has been confirmed by unofficial fctalcnirnls credited to "Chinese quarters"--that her mission was a show-down tinht for on immediate offensive of-fensive against Japan. In the interim in-terim two things have taken place. Thr Chinese government has-let it be known unofficially that it realizes that America is so occupied elsewhere else-where that a drive on Japan with China as a base cannot be expected at the moment. This would seem to be a retreat. It may be only a demarche, for suddenly, from several sev-eral other quarters including Australian Aus-tralian and Dutch with many American Amer-ican voices echoing in between, the demand for "Hirohito Now" action is being heard. It may be team work. The Chinese course so far is this: Chiang Kai-shek, discouraged because be-cause of the futility of his pleas for additional supplies and help and America's failure to replace certain supposedly unsympathetic American representatives in Chungking, he or- ChUng Kai-shek. dered the Chinese military mission to the United States to come home. At the same time stories appeared to the effect that China felt that she was not being given a position of equality among the United Nations when it came to strategy arid overall over-all planning. Polite Chinete Then the head of the Chinese mission mis-sion was called to the White House and it was explained that if he withdrew with-drew at this moment it would embarrass embar-rass the United States would he please take a nice long trip investigating investi-gating American war-plants until the disturbance blew over. Perhaps he had the promise of more of the products of these plants. But that has not been made public. In any case, the Chinese, noted for their politeness acquiesced. A little later Britain and the United States signed treaties with China relinquishing their extraterritorial rights there. But no sooner had this step been taken than suddenly voices, unofficial to be sure, but fairly strident, began asking h this "Hitler first" strategy was really sound? Couldn't Britain and the United States divide our efforts ef-forts and still conquer? By the time this reaches print there may be similar statements from official sources down under, or from the vitally concerned Dutch, but meanwhile, either self-generated or systematically inspired, continual calls for action in the Far East now are being heard. Of course, this Is not new. There were similar demands which had to be silenced by official utterances from Roosevelt and Duirchill nearly a year ago which, if they had not sufficed slone. seemed effective 'when bolstered by the launching of the American and .British expeditionary expedi-tionary forces in Africa. Air plant' $ Role B.v a change in the face of the waf I refer particularly to the role th airplane is to play. Aircraft is t vital factor in offensive and defensive de-fensive warfare, but it has been demonstrated dem-onstrated that airpower alone doesn't win and hold. This has been proved by the success of Jhe convoys -which-have "gotten throuKh" in the face of terrible onslaughts by the Luftwaffe. Two tilings have served to cut B R I E F S Suppose you lived in Hawaii ifrom a maguztne by that name "The first harrowing niRhts of blackout, when the whole family l:td in the bathroom bath-room ..." Buy War Itonrts Some members of the 'A'.ir Labor board are inclined to i: ;ike decisions deci-sions which they know tin- board can't enforce, with the easy explanation-let the President -settle it TBS A down the airplane's offensive power. First, there is the improvement of anti-aircraft guns and second, increased in-creased experience in anti-aircraft warfare. I talked to a British naval officer who had been aboard two convoys which fought their way to Murmansk and three that weathered the fierce attacks in the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean taking supplies to Malta. He emphasized the fact that green gun crews could not meet the onslaught of the dive bomber. Trained crews could. I talked with an American naval officer who had been through Coral sea and the battles in the Solomons. He said that the anti-aircraft defense de-fense of our most modern warships was such that fighter plane defense was hardly necessary, that time and again it had been proved that this new equipment could raise a wall of Are which rendered air attack by the Japs futile. Now, how does this affect the "Hirohito now" argument? This way: We cannot leave Japan alone until we are quite ready and then expect to finish her off with an overwhelming airforce. As this is written, in spite of the constant and terrific bombing by Allied planes, the Japs have been able to complete and operate an airbase at Buna, the nearest Jap outpost to Guadalcanal. And further, the Allies, in spite of mass raids, devastating to ordinary buildings, have not been able to destroy de-stroy the German submarine bases and submarine plants. Navy and Land Troopt We must therefore depend on our navies and our land troops for the final destruction of Japan. And, it Is argued, every day that Japan has to increase her fortifications, every day that she has to exploit the raw materials of her conquered territory, the harder it will be to beat her. It is further argued that Germany cannot be absolutely beate"n without terrific losses on our side, once she retreats within her own borders, a tight area, and can operate on a consolidated con-solidated and shortened front. She can be starved out. Therefore the argument is: Continue to move in through the rim of occupied countries coun-tries until an iron blockade is formed about the Reich, but meanwhile begin be-gin an all-out offensive in the Far East; first, with the capture ol enough of Burma to get an inlet to China, then, perhaps through the rest of Burma or Thailand move into China, re-arm, reinforce her. send in our own troops and attack Japan with China as a base. If that is not done now Japan may be able to isolate China, may be able with silver bullets to win some of her provinces to puppet independence and completely paralyze that valuable valu-able ally and block off entrance through her territory, so it is argued by the "Hirohito now" advocates. War-Weary Europe The argument presented by the same proponents against waiting until un-til we have finished "Hitler first" is two-fold: When Germany finally falls it will leave Europe and its people, especially its fighting manpower, so war-weary that it will be hard tc interest them in a war half way around the world. We may get less help than we need for the job. Second, the process of reaching into Japan island by island, is a slow process as' we have found at Guadalcanal and on New Guinea. The northern half of New Guinea, a long-held Japanese stronghold, will be harder to conquer than the part now won back by MacArthur's men. We know that the Japs will not surrender. sur-render. We know that in some places, like the Netherlands Indies, where a large part of the population is at best indi(Tereri the Japs can live off the land. It would mean fighting every inch of the way against "no surrender" troops while the main Japanese armies were moving into China, fortifying for-tifying the gateways to the continent. Those are some of the arguments we may expect to hear frequently these days. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Kai-shek, when she recovers, may find it easier, .to be. insistent- upon -aid than her husband's unsuccessful military mil-itary men in Washington were. Meanwhile the going in Tunisia is tough and the military men are inclined in-clined to say, "one field, well tilled" is enough of a job for them at present.'' by Baukhage Educators are fighting to keep a few Df the 200 colleges whh the army and navy wants to take over 1 fur military training, for normal 1 higher education. 1 liuy War Bonds Thirty million people will make out income taxes this earhv i dreds of thousands of farmers ' among a great many who have nev-er nev-er made out a tax return. i WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS New United Nations Attacks Predicted As Leaders Determine Grand Strategy ; Frenchmen Reach IWilitary Accord'; 'Push Germans Out of Russia': Stalin I EDITOR'S NOTE : Whin pinion ar xpreMtd In their rolumnn, they thM ( Wealern Newppr Union'! nswo analyst! ant But ceiaurlly ol this nwpaper. Released by Western .it 41 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT "The President, Prime Minister and the combinrd tafjt having completed their plans for the offensive campaigns of 1943, have now separated in order to put them into active and concerted execution." Offlci.il communique at Casablanca. STRATEGY: On a High Plane When the initial surprise of one of the war's greatest stories the Roosevelt Churchill "unconditional surrender" meeting at Casablanca in French Morocco had died away, the world waited expectantly tor the carrying out of the principles of grand strategy laid down by Allied military leaders. The Roosevelt-Churchill rendezvous rendez-vous was the definite tip-off of big things to cdme. The Allied leaders made it clear that their countries would dig to the bottom of their resourcesif re-sourcesif necessary in order to carry out the extermination of Axis war power as quickly as possible. From a gleaming white villa near Casablanca came the great news. But only after complete secrecy had officially ended. Correspondents regarded re-garded the meeting as one of the best kept secrets of all time. Virtually Virtu-ally the entire war staffs of both nations participated in the dramatic 10-day discussions which ended with a press conference. But the presidential presi-dential air voyage was shrouded in such secrecy that even some cabinet cabi-net members did not know Mr. Roosevelt was out of town. No one doubted but that further important developments would stem from the meeting. One of the most widespread predictions is that the North Africa-Mediterranean area will soon be organized into a separate sepa-rate theater of operations. Thus far the United States forces in that area have been part of the European theater. the-ater. Separation of Africa and the Mediterranean Basin from the European Euro-pean theater might well be an important im-portant factor in the Allied offensive campaigns of the year. Frenchmen Meet One of the most important achievements of the conference was the bringing about of a meeting between be-tween Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen. Henri Giraud. Those leaders of the Fighting French and French Africa announced that they were In complete agreement regarding the liberation of their homeland. But it was regrettably clear that any merging of the two movements or any political alliance between them was far from being realized. Offensives Will Tell While the decisions made by military mili-tary leaders are secret, observers indicated that concrete results would become apparent with new Allied offensives this spring. The basic questions settled appeared ap-peared to be these: 1. The first great effort must be to drive the Axis entirely from North Africa and free the Mediterranean supply line. 2. If he has not been chosen already, al-ready, a supreme Allied commander command-er in Europe will be named. 3. The anti-submarine warfare and air war agairlst Europe will be stepped up. 4. Europe will be invaded in one of three ways: Across the Mediterranean, Mediterra-nean, a frontal attack on the channel chan-nel coast, or a conquest of Norway. 5. Aid to Russia and China will he stepped up as much- as possible. Of Immediate interest to the United Unit-ed Nations is- the naming of a supreme su-preme military commander. The name of Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of stall of the American army, is most frequently mentioned. Many observers believed he had already been decided upon to head the command. com-mand. II I G II LIGHTS SAVING: Maintenance of the Of flee of Price Administration has cost each American only i)0 cents during dur-ing the past year, but has saved each citizen $IK(J during the same period. Chester K. Hayes, of the Chicago regional ollice of the OPA. said. On. of his .fxanmlca:. coiuuim.. its are paying only seven cents, a pound for sugar whereas they paid li en, l.s diir.iiu Die hist war. Newspaper 1' ion. V" 0 PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL RALLYING CRY: For Russians "I declare my appreciation to the command and to the gallant troops. Forward to the routing of the German Ger-man invaders and their expulsion over the boundaries of our motherland." mother-land." So declared Josef Stalin In an order of the day broadcast by the Moscow radio His words, urging the Russians to throw the Nazis out of their country, became the rallying cry of the Red army as it pushed forward in the big offensives aimed at Kursk, Kharkov and Rostov. After the fall of these strategic points there were still miles of hard battling ahead, but for the first time since the Nazis started their invasion of Russia there were definite signs that Stalin's Sta-lin's plea was not idle thinking. For everywhere along the far-flung far-flung front from Leningrad to the Caucasus the Reds added momentum momen-tum to their drive. Russian military quarters estimated that 40 per cent of the Axis effectives had been knocked out by the Red winter of fensive. At the same time diplomatic circles cir-cles revealed that United Nations air and tea supply lines to Russia were getting much better protection protec-tion than a few months ago because losses on these routes have dropped sharply. One recent U. S. convoy was reported to have reached Russia Rus-sia without loss of a single ship. It was indicated that close U. S.British S.-British - Russian co-operation was making this possible. FARM PICTURE: Incentive Plan Under terms of the new "incentive" "incen-tive" program as announced by Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Claude Wick-ard. Wick-ard. U. S. producers stand to pick up an extra 100 million dollars in subsidy payments to be awarded for meeting or exceeding greatly expanded farm production goals. Applicable to soybeans, grain sorghums, sor-ghums, peanuts, sweet potatoes, flax and dried peas, the program would pay growers of these crops extra benefits for each acre on which they exceed 90 per cent of their goal up to 110 per cent of that goal. These are products which are badly needed in the war effort to meet deficiencies in vegetable oils and proteins for animal feeding and human hu-man consumption. Wickard stated further that added add-ed labor and materials will have to be available to farmers if they are to meet the goals of the program. 'Land Army' As a means to this end Secretary Wickard and Manpower Commissioner Commis-sioner Paul V. McNutt released their plans for the mobilization of a volunteer land army of 3Vi million farm workers. These would be gathered gath-ered from ranks of women, the unemployed, un-employed, clerks, and nonwar workers work-ers from cities and .towns. Aimed at relieving the expected farm manpower crisis, which experts ex-perts predict will reach its peak in tntd-summer; thls'land arrfty would be gathered by the Joint activities extension agent of the department of agriculture and by the field offices of-fices of th War Manpower commission. com-mission. More than 12 million farm workers work-ers will be needed at the height of the farm season, said Wickard. He pointed out that the total farm labor la-bor force In December, 1942, was 8.900.000. in the week's newt TRANSPORTATION; Joseph B. Eastman, director of defense transportation, trans-portation, has called upon taxicab and bus companies to prepare plans immediately for mileage curtailment curtail-ment in case of emergency. He has requested ' operators of 10 or -iiiurti vehicles to submit three plans: For elimination of t0,'20 and 30 per cent of all presently operated vehicle vehi-cle miles. RATIONING: Limit Set With the beginning of rationing but a few weeks away the Office of Price Administration established a flve-can-per-person limit as the amount of canned vegetables -and fruits which' householders might have on hand, without penalty, at the beginning of the point system. This was a drastic cut from the eight to ten cans which it had previously pre-viously been expected would be allowed. al-lowed. When the plan gets under way, persons who have more than the allowable al-lowable limits will have coupons torn out of their canned goods ration book up to the point value of the goods held in excess. This will be based on one eight-point coupon for each can over five per household member. Excluded from the count of five cans per person will be cans containing con-taining less than eight ounces. ARGUMENT: Gets an Airing For weeks Washington has reports of unannounced differences of opinion opin-ion between Rubber Administrator William Jeffers and other government govern-ment and military officials over priorities pri-orities for the synthetic rubber program. pro-gram. Finally the dispute was brought into the open when Jeffers, in a Baltimore address, lashed out at army and navy expediters in war plants. i Congress decided to investigate his charges and Donald Nelson, war pro-ducton pro-ducton chief, admitted the fact that a tift in government ranks had resulted re-sulted over this issue. Most Washington Wash-ington sources knew that President Roosevelt would be required to step in as arbiter in the dispute. The quarrel centers around steel priorities for synthetic rubber plants. Army and navy officials believe be-lieve that these plants should be built only in direct relation to the military needs of steel for the production pro-duction of such items as high-octane gasoline, airplanes, escort vessels and merchant ships. Jeffers contended con-tended that the production efforts could be worked out in conjunction with one another and without hampering ham-pering progress in his synthetic rubber rub-ber program. LEND-LEASE: Extension Sought Congress is already considering the extension of the lend-lease act by another year to June 30. 1944. This early action has been taken to insure ar. uninterrupted flow of war materials between the United States and our fighting Allies. Though there are some verbal outbursts out-bursts expected on the role of Harry Hopkins in the program, even Republican Re-publican minority leaders in congress con-gress predict approval of an extension exten-sion for the plan. Two years ago when it was first introduced the United States was not at war and there evolved one of the greatest legislative battles of history over passage of the measure putting the idea in motion. Representative Sol Bloom introduced intro-duced the new measure just one day after Edward R. Stettinius Jr., lend-lease administrator, reported to congress on how the eight billion dollar dol-lar distribution of aid was made to our Allies under terms of the program pro-gram from March 11, 1941, to the end of 1942. DRAFT: In Reverse A heartening promise that aftei the war the army will da its utmost ut-most "to see that no man is mustered mus-tered out of military ranks into a breadline" has been made to the At ROBERT P. PATTERSON "Draft system in reverse." nation by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson. Speaking in Chicago, Patterson advocated a post-war selective service serv-ice system "in reverse" to function as a job, placement agency. He explained ex-plained that war department records rec-ords catalog each man according tc occupation and the demobilization plan would be to inform men about to leave the army of job opportunities opportuni-ties in their own fields. REVOLT: That France's spark of independ-enc independ-enc has not been extinguished completely com-pletely by the, cold brutality of Nazi-Ism Nazi-Ism was prove wncfTahgry' Frenchmen French-men fortified their homes in the old port district yf Marseilles, firing on German soldiers who ordered them to evacuate the district. German Ger-man authorities had ordered th evacuation apparently as a defenst measure Rgalnst possible Invasion from North Africa. The move was made after Nazi officials brought up tanks, field guns and infantry. i 'As w v m Li 1 1 i.Mi.-,1TtilM-Mj Scourging the Scourge By Don W. Gudaknnst, M. D. UedicsJ Dittctot. Kstioatl FeuBittiom lor latMntile Putljtit, WALTER W1NCHELL hi retutaei horn a tear el iuty outside tbo V. S. tnd will noea return writing ai col-uon col-uon u usumI. The outlook in the battle atalnst Infantile paralysis, like the outlook In the war against the enemies of democracy, is encouraging. The fight goes on. propelled by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and by the dollars and dimes of a fighting people who celebrate cele-brate the birthday of the President by dancing so that others may walk. No cure has been found, but the Sister Kenny treatments, taught to doctors and nurses all over the land by the famous Australian nurse, here since 1940, alleviate suffering and reduce re-duce crippling after-effects. It must be emphasized, the Kenny method-is method-is NOT a cure, though it restores about 80 per cent to normal life and the other 20 per cent are generally gen-erally helped. It takes one nurse and two assistants assist-ants to treat 10 patients with the Kenny method. The nurse can learn her part in a week, but it takes the physiotherapist months to. master the art of teaching paralyzed muscles mus-cles to work again. The cotton rats used in polio virus research come from southeastern United States. After trying to breed them in captivity, scientists discovered discov-ered they would not mate unless they smell ed alike. So they were sprayed with creosote and all raised families. fami-lies. Poliomyelitis, polio or Infantile paralysis whatever you call it is an old disease. A picture carved on a tomb in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and mummies from the Land of the Pharaohs prove it. Many persons have had poliomyelitis, poliomye-litis, recovered and never knew they had it. They are carriers. It is estimated there are 50 to 1.000 "carriers" "car-riers" to every victim. "Carriers" become nauseated but, fortunately for them, the virus centers in the digestive system instead of in the spinal cord nerves. Poliomyelitis is taken from the Greek "polios" meaning "gray," plus "myllos" meaning marrow." plus "itis." Victims call one another an-other "polios." Each year there are in the United States an average of 8,000 to 10,000 victims of this disease. Many become be-come cripples beyond cure. The greatest epidemic in this country was in 1918 over 27,000 reported cases. ' Many children, badly crippled, were not discovered until later. Many died without the true cause of their death being known. These cases were In the East, near New York, Philadelphia, Boston and New Haven cities where there are excellent ex-cellent doctors and plenty of hospitals. hos-pitals. Maybe you are one of many people who think all of the dimes and dollars dol-lars go to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation;- They do not Half of the-money goes to the counties which contributed for local relief; the other half is retained by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. It is used when an epidemic strikes and for research to try to find the cause, the preventive and cure of the disease. Infantile paralysis strikes the rich and the poor alike. Epidemics are not always near great medical centers. cen-ters. The first cases discovered by Nurse Kenny were children In families fami-lies who lived 10 miles from any neighbor or telephones, telegraph and Improved roads. It' was over 200 miles to the nearest doctor and hospital. This was 30 years ago. In 1942 there were two places in the United States that were hard hit; one was thickly settled, fairly wealthy New Jersey, with plenty of doctors, nurses and hospitals; the other was Arkansas, where there was but one hospital in all the State willing to admit any case of infantile paralysis in Its acute stage. This hospital could not begin to care for the 100 children who applied for treatment the first few weeks. That is where the National Foundation Foun-dation for Infantile Paralysis came into the picture. It had money. It knew where to secure nurses trained in the Kenny method. Of that htm- i dred and more patients almost all have now gone home restored to health. Of the rest, all but a Very few will soon be walking, their condition con-dition good. It costs about $1,800 to keep one child in a hospital for a year, under the Kenny treatment But that one year' may mean freedom to that child for a lifetime. At a dime apiece 18,000 people have contributed contribut-ed to treat, that child. Throughout the country there are now 2.494 local Chapters of the National Na-tional Foundation for Infanjila Paralysis. Paral-ysis. They cover 2,894 of the nation's na-tion's 3,050 counties. If you were stricken tomorrow, regardless of race, creed, ug;, color, one of these" units would help you. I. T - 4 fart HKINZ TABI.ETg HEINZ DRUG S' St. ,nd n- . 8" c.1,; it? 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