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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTAH . ! h w a rr-': v i Definite Foreign Essential to The Issue: Shall Nation Adopt Policy of 4 rarucipaiion in vvonu anairs ur ouan We Aim at Nationalistic Goal? By BAUKIIAGE Veuii Analyst and Commentator. WW Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Today America facet its first real problem at a world power. Italy Ue before us. General Eis enhower, as commander of the Al lied forces of Invasion, suddenly be comes a statesman. He Is a soldier. He can win battles. Now, he is the man ultimately responsible for directing di-recting American world policy. What Is American world policy? Eisenhower Is firm In his decisions, deci-sions, certain In his own procedure, because he is responsible only to his Commander-in-Chief. But who is his Commander-in-Chief? Roosevelt A man who may suddenly leave the scene in the midst of battle, if the American public pub-lic so decrees. And then? Has America any firm foreign policy, iwettered by parti-tan parti-tan political restriction, a clear-marked clear-marked path that a fighting man or any other man can follow? In a fev short weeks from now, a group of busy, hard-pressed men are going to Bit down on Mackinac island is-land and try to write what American Ameri-can foreign policy they think ought to be sponsors! by the Republican party. These men ave to face the question ques-tion of committing the Republican party to definite foreign policy. And paradoxically, by committing their pary to a definite foreign policy, poli-cy, they may free both political parties par-ties of all commitment on foreign policy. For if the Democrats frame simitar resolutions, they can save America from a vicious split one which, if it is not avoided, will crash party lines and can destroy the two-party two-party system, the rock of our democracy. de-mocracy. The issue which America faces Is simple: shall we, as a nation, underwrite under-write a policy which will Implement our participation in world affairs or shall we retire unto ourselves and pursue the nationalistic policy which lays in effect: let the , rest of the world stew In its own juice? Until we took the Philippines, America was able to leave the great and vital problems which should have no political tinge, outside partisan par-tisan politics. We have had other problems which have remained essentially es-sentially non-partisan. The Problem Take labor. A vital question. But has labor ever voted solidly for one ticket or the other? No. The AFL will cast its traditional Republican votes in the coming election as it always al-ways has. Some of the CIO members mem-bers will vote to support the administration. admin-istration. Others will vote as "they darn please. Slavery really a labor question. That did nearly wreck the republic because it was made a partisan lsrue when it was not an issue at all! Many of the influential southerners southern-ers were just as ready to free their slaves as the rabid abolitionists, heated with emotional fervor, failing to grasp the economic significance, were to force them to. Again, onlest a cold, calm discussion discus-sion and understanding of the question ques-tion of foreign policy takes place, we may face another split which, although it need not mean civil war, may mean a horrid dislocation of our whole political system. When we went into World War II after Pearl Harbor, the word "iso-latiorlism,, "iso-latiorlism,, was forgotten. Today it hat come back into our vocabularies vocabula-ries and it being batted about, like other political footballs, by people who really don't understand its implications im-plications and are woefully ignorant of what dissension it may cause. Politicians want to overlook it They can't. This group of Republicans, Repub-licans, headed by Deneen Watson, and a whole flying squadron of Democrats, Dem-ocrats, too, are insistent that they be allowed to "let the people know." They are going to speak their pieces. And the only hope of lifting this discussion out of partisan politics poli-tics It a "settlement out of court," an agreement by both parties on a single foreign policy. Let's get back to that hot and perspiring per-spiring day in Washington late last tnonth when Deneen Watson and his colleagues from this self-appointed Republican organization, the Republican Re-publican "foreign policy association,' associa-tion,' walked across quiet Lafayette park opposite the White House and BRIEFS . . Awards amounting to $1,000,000 vein be given to Chinese inventors for the promotion of science and technology for successful research on products vital to the national defense. de-fense. Corn cannot be used for manufacture manu-facture of distilled spirits and high wines, a recent directive of the War Production board says. mm Policy America presented themselves to Chairman Spangler of the Republican national committee. Result of Session It was some time before the results re-sults of this meeting between Watson Wat-son and his colleagues and Chairman Chair-man Spangler of the Republican national na-tional committee leaked out. Those with an anti-Republican slant wove the words dropped into a threatened threat-ened split In the Republican party, a drive to nominate Wendell Willkie for president. To the person who tried to be objective, ob-jective, it was neither. Mr. Spangler has one job to keep the party together, to eschew any favoritism for any policy or any person. per-son. Naturally, these persistent persons per-sons who called upon him were presenting pre-senting a problem. I believe It was that fact rather than what his critics said that indicated there was a leaning lean-ing toward the "status quo" attitude, atti-tude, the desire to remain a purveyor pur-veyor of platitudes and follow the tide rather than to face it This Issue full participation In world affairs versus a return to nationalism na-tionalism or isolationism, if you will Is, according to our most earnest non-partisans, the most important issue which has faced the public and should not be a political football. Briefly, what the men with their sleeves rolled up at Mackinac in September have to face is this: shall we, good Republicans, come out frankly for world-co-operation or dodge the issue? What the Watson association de mands is more than that and some thing the Republican national committee com-mittee must face: wjll the party officially offi-cially get behind a nation-wide cam-paign cam-paign to "educate" the people on the International issue? Unfortunately, personalities do get mixed up in these things and Wendell Wen-dell Willkie has become the symbol of the international view. That is why it is essential, if the party is to take the issue out of partisan politics and disassociate it from any of the Individuals aspiring for the Republican candidacy, that they must go on record. The Monroe Doctrine Walter Lippmann hat written a book called "American Foreign Policy" Pol-icy" and the point he makes is this: until 1900, politics did stop at the water's edge. We had a foreign policy (or thought we did) which was the Monroe Doctrine. According Accord-ing to Lippmann, we were living under a delusion. Namely, that we had under the Monroe Doctrine declared de-clared our whole policy America for Americans (period) which implied, im-plied, of course, that the rest of the world could do what it pleased to long as it kept oft our grass. We believed that we could enforce en-force that policy ourselves. That was not correct. We were really depending on the British fleet to enforce en-force it It happened to be to British Brit-ish advantage to agree, to there was no trouble. Then we mixed in world affairs, found we had to fight our own battles, bat-tles, and did it took over Hawaii, the Philippines. But we didn't provide pro-vide the means to hold them. And so, disagreeing on the various steps necessary to carry out our foreign policy, we failed to provide the means to do so Britain was busy elsewhere, and one morning we lost the Philippines and came within an eyelash of losing Hawaii. ' And so we now face the necessity of framing a new foreign policy which must include the willingness to provide security for our own shores and those other contiguous chores (South America and Canada) which might be used by an enemy against us. Or we have to take part In prophylactic measures to stop the danger to our security in advance. That issue once clarified by the two political parties will leave us free for a good, old-fashioned free-for-all political campaign, and if the best man wins, or the worst man wins, his policies can't affect the international welfare of the cation. Failure of both parties to clearly set forth their views on foreign policy poli-cy may well create a third party movement which could wreck the two-party system, the rock on which our Republic is founded. .by Bauhhage The season when the largest supplies sup-plies of poultry are on the market will probably begin in September and October. Christmas packages may be mailed to American soldiers overseas over-seas without a request from the soldier, from September 15 to Octo-ber Octo-ber 15, the war department has announced. f -4ii 1 U.' WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Southwest Pacific Campaigns Unfold With Decisive Victories Against Japs; Allied Chiefs. Confer for Sixth Time; WPB: 'Essential Civilian Goods Only (EDITOR'S NOTE I When opinion! are expressed In theee eolarooa. th J are thoae f Western Newipaper Lnion'a newi analyate and not neeeuarilr ! Ibia aewapaper.i Released by Weatern Newipaper Union. . iU Si Sj.Afalifci i i- IS 4e From left to right, MaJ. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery and Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton study a huge map of Sicily at the royal palace in Palermo, the island's No. 1 metropolis on the shore of the Tyrrhenian sea, which was captured by American doughboys. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: 'Victory Sure The Allies' Solomons and New Guinea campaign unfolded in a vic-torious vic-torious pattern: r 'itfr"tsT Munda iay , .',v fV stormed. Allied troops beat their through the thick jungle foliage fo-liage toward Sala- 4 maua. The big guns of Amer- t'a flaot Vieit- 4 -ti. - , tered at the en- Gen. MacArthur supply line. Ranging Rang-ing U. S. airmen gave heartened ground troops assistance as-sistance by machine gunning and bombing the Nips in low level attacks. From his headquarters In the Southwest Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur declared: "The margin was close, but it was conclusive. i "Although for many reasons our victories may have lacked in glamorous glam-orous focus, they have been decisive de-cisive in the final result in the Pacific. "I make no predictions as to the time and detail, but. Japan, on the Pacific fronts, has exhausted the fullest resources of the concentrated concentrat-ed attack of which she was capable." SICILY: Few Left After one month of fighting, three German divisions stood behind in Sicily for a suicidal rearguard action against the overwhelming air and ground superiority of the Allies. As the campaign neared its finale, the Rome radio announced that all Italian Ital-ian troops had been pulled out of the embattled island. With the bulk of the Allies' 10 divisions divi-sions bearing down through the sloping valley below Mt. Etna to encompass the last two important communication lines running north and south, and with fleets of bombers bomb-ers pulverizing Important Axis concentration con-centration centers, the ring around the enemy was drawn tighter. Hewn into the rugged country, German strongholds put up a bitter, last-ditch fight against the advancing advanc-ing Allies, machine-gunning and throwing mortar fire at Allied troops picking their way slowly up the open, craggy hills. Wherever they fell back, the Germans were dynamiting dyna-miting the hill or mountain sides to block off the roads. DADS' DRAFT: Congress May Act Congressional action to settle the controversial question of the induction induc-tion of fathers loomed with the announcement an-nouncement of Representative Andrew An-drew J. May that he would introduce intro-duce a bill prohibiting the drafting of dads when the legislators reconvene recon-vene September 14. Importance of the development lay in the fact that May is chairman of the military affairs committee, on which the house relies for Judgment in army matters. May said that with 10 million men already under arms and with 80.000 18-year-olds being be-ing inducted each month, the army is of sufficient size. HIGHLIGHTS . RUSSIAN OIL: Pay rates of Russian Rus-sian oil field and refinery workers have been raised to stimulate production, pro-duction, says a dispatch from Moscow. Mos-cow. Basic wages will now be rated rat-ed on nine levels, two new ones for specialists having been added. Commentators Com-mentators believe that the new oil industry scale is the first step toward greater recognition of experienced, valuable workers. I I TT - I 'jaw WMf HOME FRONT: Essential Goods Only Limited supplies of carbon and alloy al-loy steel, copper and aluminum preclude pre-clude the possibility of an increase in less essential civilian goods, the War Production board announoed. To keep production schedules geared to available supplies, WPB said, it was necessary to reduce requests of the military, civilian, lend-lease and other claimant agencies agen-cies by 13 per cent for the third quar ter. The services demands for carbon steel were pared by 9 per cent, and all others' requests by 17 per cent. Because of manpower shortages, the situation in copper is particularly tight, it was reported. At the present time, the govern ment is conducting a survey to de termine the inventory of civilian goods, and it is expected that any future requests for critical material for such goods would be considered on the basis of available supplies. ALLIED CHIEFS: Important Meet With world events moving In a swift and momentous current, stoop- shouldered, twinkle-eyed Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain bridged the Atlantic to ar- I W rive on the North t American conti- v' nent for his sixth meeting with President Frank- lh - f lin D. Roosevelt As the two lead- f K'. ers sat down at wjuwam the same table Winston Churchill for the most important of their conferences con-ferences to date, Sicily lay beaten, Mussolini had given way to a military mili-tary government in Italy, rumors were rife that the army was assuming assum-ing direction in Germany, and Japan was making an effort to bring Russia Rus-sia and the Nazis together in Europe with a sacrifice of some of her own territory in Manchuria or Siberia. The urgency of opening another front in Europe, of extending operations opera-tions in the Pacific where General MacArthur's army was pushing the Japs from their island strongholds, were among the military questions under intense consideration. RUSSIA: Drive on Kharkov With Orel and Belgorod at their backs, Russia's surging armies closed In on the once-great industrial indus-trial metropolis of Kharkov. All along the southern front, German troops fell back before the long, powerful arms of Red pincers could firmly entrap and destroy them. Once known as the "Pittsburgh" of Russia, Kharkov, like Stalingrad, lay in ruins, a gaunt ghost of the once-busy industrial center which turned out steel and armament for the Red armies. Occupied by the Germans early in the war, it was recaptured by Russia, only to be lost this spring. After the capture of Orel, the Reds secured use of a rail line running south from Moscow through Belgorod Belgo-rod to a point about 30 miles west of Kharkov. This gives them better communication in their rear. . . in the tceek's news COFFEE PI ASTip. Thousands of articles, from viui. to p.ane wings, can be made of to air- new Argeu Guimaraes. new consul Rrni1 TV- . . says Dr. from "c new suosiance, the experimental stage, is still in called caiente." The consul belie a great new market will be neves that opened iur conee, one of Brazil- crops. principal J SOMEBODY ELSE PAYS! This Is one time the woman doesn't pay and pay! An unemployed 39-year-old Texan Tex-an wrote the war department's office of dependency benefits, asking ask-ing if he could apply for a family allowance on the basis of bis wife's service as a WAC. From the looks of things, the gent will have to get a Job after all, for the army's answer left no room for doubt or argument: It was a very positive "NO!" Beginning September 1, when the WACs officially become a part of the army, they may apply for family allowances for dependent children, mothers, fathers, brothers, broth-ers, sisters and other specified relatives but not for husbands! NORMANDIE: Right Side Up With high tide in, the great hull of the former French luxury liner, Normandie, heaved gently and came to rest at a 49 degree angle in the New York dock, where she had capsized' cap-sized' 18 months ago after a disastrous disas-trous fire. Within the huge hull, 50.000 gallons gal-lons of water still remained, half of the 100,000 gallons which had filled the hold when 95 pumps first began emptying the stricken vessel. To President Roosevelt, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York gave major ma-jor credit for the salvage job, declaring declar-ing that the President as an amateur ama-teur seaman offered a suggestion for the most efficient concentration of the pumps for drawing the water. At the time the Normandie, renamed re-named the USS Lafayette, fell over on her side to come to rest at a 79 degree angle, the navy was completing com-pleting work on her reconstruction as a troopship, with the cost estimated esti-mated at $20,000,000. Salvage operations op-erations already have exceeded $3,000,000 and an additional $750,000 will be required for refitting the hull. When originally built, the Normandie cost $59,000,000. MEAT: Sees More Supplies Beef production will rise 20 per cent in the last half of 1943 and pork output will increase 10 per cent, Wesley Hardenbergh, president of the American Meat institute, estimated. esti-mated. As a whole, there should be a 17 per cent boost in meat supply. During the fiscal year which began be-gan last July 1, meat consumption should total 14 billion, 700 million pounds, Hardenbergh said. Two out of every three pounds will be available avail-able to civilians. During the first seven months of 1943, the department of agriculture announced that 35,324,248 hogs had been slaughtered against 30,812,661 in the same period last year; 5,827,659 cattle had been butchered against 6,805,660; and 11,379,504 sheep and lambs had been killed against 10,-917,738. 10,-917,738. AGRICULTURE: Income Soars Farm income for the first half of 1943 totaled $8,202,000,000 against $6,215,000,000 last year, the department depart-ment of agriculture reported. Marketing Mar-keting of a large part of the record crops of last year contributed to the big upturn, the department said. Cash receipts from crops during the first half of 1943 topped last year's seceipts by 45 per cent, while income from livestock and livestock products showed a Simper cent increase. in-crease. Of the total income in the first half, government payments accounted account-ed for $400,000,000. This compared with last year's payments of $431,-000,000. $431,-000,000. Farmers on Own Declaring "This country is too broad, too far flung, too varied in its production to have the work f done by direc-' fives in Washing-1 ton," War Food Administrator Marvin Jones fV" f called upon the jV ih farmers and 1 s stockmen of 1 f f America for a I -! voluntary effort to reach the nation's na-tion's food goals, Marvin Jones Previously. Jones had announced that the government plans no 1944 crop controls, except on tobacco, no acreage allotments, no marketing quotas and no benefit payments for compliance with controL In the hands of state, county and community commu-nity organizations will lie the do. velopment of the production prc- gram, Jones said. "While we may not have as m-eat a choice of foods as we have been accustomed to heretofore," Jones said. "I have no doubt that th ri. vilian population of this country will have a sufficient amount of good, wholesome food." TAX REPORTS: In an effort to simDlifv federal ta reports, the treasury has undertaken a special study of tax laws. Officials stated that reports may not be required re-quired of some classes of taxpayers, if the burden of paper work can be reduced without loss of revenue. No matter what results from th investigation, however, there will be no immediate chance in reeiilatinne officials pointed out Approximate ly io mimon income tax payers will have to file an estimate of 1943 in Portrait of a Man With a Hammer: Things that still burn me up and knock me cold: The G-Men lost the decision against all those Nazi saboteur accomplices in Chicago . . . The high courts held that the FBI didn't "arraign them properly" . . . In time of war yet! . . , The G-Men, it seems, must no longer try to learn from a spy the names of his confederates . . . Until his arrest is announcedl They must "arraign him" immediately, let the newspaper news-paper men announce the fact and tip off his confederates to take it on the lam. Add delicious reading: Going back over the files to read the boasts and threats of Virginio Gayda the Italian Ital-ian Goebbels . . It is mental dessert des-sert ... Just as good as the speeches of Nazilationists ... If you throw a brick through a grocer's window to steal a loaf of bread you get your name in the papers ... If you're arrested by the Dep't of Justice as a Hitler agent, however, newspapers mustn't mention your name . . . If you attack Hitler agents in and out of Congress you get panned (by name) in the Cong. Record. Badoglio, who never fought Fascism, Fas-cism, is getting better treatment from America than De Gaulle, who never stopped fighting it . . . Among other things we can't get excited about is how the war affects the stock market. At last Goering has a good reason to wear all those chest medals . . . They're bullet-proof . . . Germany has admitted that it torpedoed the Robin Moor. Look back at the files. The obstructionists blamed it on Britain and everybody except Germany Ger-many . , . Th6se of us who said it was Hitler were called warmongers , . . Add bond slogans: Digging into your jeans to buy more bonds is better than digging a foxhole . . . Swell novelty song: "Hitler's Letter to Mussolini" (with Benito's reply on the other side). A reporter named Allan Chase didn't like the looks of Franco's gov't in Spain ... So he went into the Latin-American countries to learn more about it. He found out . . . You'll find it in his new book, "Flanage," and he offers data to move your eyebrows to your hair line ... Chase is no punch-puller . . . Names, names, dates and places .' . . You'll be surprised whom you meet in his pages ... A one-time household name movie gal star, for instance . . . Another person mentioned still sits pretty in high gov't office. Memory Dep't: Remember the Americans who screamed that Fascism Fas-cism was invincible? Remember how they urged you to appease the Axis because the urgers insisted insist-ed we were too weak to fight back? . . . Remember the names they called Americans who urged that something be done to stop the spread of hate here? . , . Remember how they described Fascism as the "wave of the future"? . . . And now that wave of the future is a small swamp of the past In 1930 Gen. Smedley Butler (winner (win-ner of two Cong. Medals) publicly criticized Mussolini . . . After the story broke about II Dunce's motor car crushing a child ... In the hit-and-run manner . . . That's what Gen. Butler called him a hit-and- runner ... In a speech at the Contemporary Club, Philly . . . Mussolini protested via the Italian Embassy ... As a result, the Navy ordered a court-martial but later rescinded it Manhattan Morals: The men in uniform and their lady friends carrying car-rying on In the doorways of Fifth Avenue shops in the dimout ... The blind magazine mendicant, holding an arm load of heavy mags at the Roxy stagedoor, waiting for the chorines to buy . . . Sign In a midtown cafe: "Dishwasher wanted: want-ed: Will pay Lockheed wages I " . . . Funniest sight in (own: The camel in the park zoo with its Summer haircut ... The uppity 5th Avenue buses which have an official name, if you please "Motor Coaches." Emf! . . . The seedy character Gong, black beard and hair down to his shoulders) who is known as Hairless Hair-less Harry . . . The 52nd Street (Swing Alley) victory garden scarecrow. scare-crow. It looks better than most sight club patrons . . . The gambler who feeds hundreds of pigeons in that lot nearby every day because he thinks it's lucky. , Have laff: Laval warns the French people that the Allies want to set up a dictatorship in France ... Mussolini flopped, and suddenly Laval comes out with a sour notice for dictatorship. Now ft Is Colynmist Sam Grafton who is scolded for referring to the King of Italy as "that moronic little king" ... But why? . . . The moronic mo-ronic little king says the war is to be continued and His Royal Low-sess Low-sess signed the Declaration of War against the U. S.l Are Cr:-. I(" A self Is T flowed wiZfWf, v"iuuig at up, sei d direction mn ve tt wnoiesome ljf. t,pnar OOOUlB.,,. . as as CoQtIn:'-SSUreScepar isespeclaUySJ nofW!?..M tability. rni,, N vegetables, namel, h '1 "Is sprouts. ,lnmtf and onions. T Don't Crowa In storing extra i "v. men mto ,man or hnnl. 1 ula" eoEi : uecause the arch th. 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