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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, VICTORY IN EUROPE! Of Security Conference Heed of Public Will to Build Effective Barrier Against Future Wars Marks Deliberations From Past Parleys. .AT By BAUKHAGE Trust Building, and the tempo Washington, D. C. CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO. The extent to which deliberations of the United Nations conference on international organization will be a success ean now be readily predicted. All we need is a who will solve for "x" the 'd unknown. The proposition is simple: let m equal one molotov, s equal one stettinius, e equal one eden. The equation reads: m over s plus e equals x Solve for x, the unknown power of the will of the people. We have a certain amount of corollary data to help us. In 1815 there was a meeting called the Congress of Vienna. It was fabulously attended by kings, princes, a czar and an emperor as well as the ministers and diplomats who ran Europe at the time. It convened for very definite purposes, including the checking for all time certain dangerous tendencies which were beginning to make themselves felt. One matter which had really brought about the conference was the defeat Unfortuof Napoleon Bonaparte. nately there was a sudden reappearance of that gentleman, who broke his bonds of servitude at Elba, to play a short but fearsome return engagement. This threat of the return of an upstart dictator who managed to provide himself with a crown based on no more divine right than was supplied by his legions caused the congress its jitters but didn't interfere with the frolicsome tenor of its ways. It had been a decade of headaches for crowned heads. There was the French revolution, quashed by that time, it is true, but a dangerous threat to the ermine. There was the strange government which would have no traffic with kings at all which seemed to be prospering across the seas in the wilds of America. And then this highly irreverent attitude toward the divine right of kings. It was all very important to the delegates at Vienna but like the soldier on guard here at the conference building in San Francisco it was confusing, so they let George do it Thousands of 'Souls' Traded at Congress And so at Vienna with all the pro- tocol and deference In the world, Talleyrand took over. He let the congress dance. He ran it, divided up the spoils; traded so many thousand "souls" for so many thousand others, for thus he referred to the various sections of Europe's population he was playing with. He called them souls but he didn't even consider them human beings with human rights. They had nothing to say about it and they said it, silently. A year less than a century later who there arose another war-lor- d had forgotten nothing and learned nothing concerning European dictatorships. One of the best Jobs of wrecking civilization up to that time was achieved by Kaiser Wilhelm and the world had to get together again to see what could be done about it gain. They met in Paris in 1919. This time the twilight of the kings had become so thick that scepters were decidedly out, but considerable change had taken place In the intervening century. At the Congress of Vienna there was not a single constitutional government, except that of Britain, represented. There was no freedom of the press, and no public opinion. At Paris the Allied press was hardly free of its wartime censorship but managed to stir up considerable excitement and the government-controlle- d French papers made plenty of trouble for Wilson. The people were conscious of their desires but still not entirely vocal. The conference was soon tossed from the delegates to smaller and smaller groups and finally reached "The Big Three" Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau, and the greatest of these as a negotiator, was Clemenceau. He had more opposition than Talleyrand, perhaps, but he certainly was do less successful. Then came the interlude BARBS The weather was so fine for most that the natives almost lost that Important word "unusual" froTi their vocabularies. of the eonferenA wide-mouth- jar. Iced coffee is a real treat if a Notes of an Innocent Bystander: of ice cream is added to it dip The beginning of the gigantic Radio's coverage Wireless: The before serving. as "World known just aces. struggle Is all Eleven hard and bitter months after General Dwight D. War II' is generally set as Septem- of the San Franclsconfab the The news analysts are turning Eisenhower's armies smashed through the ramparts of "For- ber 1. 1939, the Light blues, grays and greens the German of their minds inside out and will tress Europe" to set foot upon French soil, Germany's once armies rolled into day give an effect of coolness Poland. Two days pockets probpeace perplexing and space in a room. proud wehrmacht, weakened after six years of the bloodiest later France and England declared presenting They admirable clarity. with lems war in history, bowed the knee unconditionally to the Allied war on Germany. are driving home the issues which Wash egg beaters with cold waPolish flattened tactics powers. American home. ter Blitzkrieg will affect immediately after using. Wash Offered to Russia as well as the U. S. and Britain after resistance in less than a month. . . . Nothing every more soothing than the graters with hot water. deearlier futile efforts to split the Allies by approaching the Then began the half year of "phoney Nazi shortwavers' Maginot line. In the scription of Vermlny's dying gasps. alone, Germany's surrender took place at war" atof the A vacuum cleaner with an extra 1940 German troops over. . . Commentator Baukhage's adroit school- - spring in Eisenhower's world in- Anglo-America- screw-to- p ed General headquarters the little red white-glove- d "nom-de-guerre- ." blue-prin- blue-prin- meta-physici- st Baukhage ran Norway and Denmark, forcing delivery packs a wallop. His recent long cord may be used to collect the fluffy seeds of dandelions in out the British. Early in May the radio report of FDR's interment campaign that frightened the entire landed in the Congressional Record. your lawn. world opened. Holland, Belgium and . . . Rita A quick and easy way to clean then France itself capitulated by the with ChollyHayworth's McCarthy kept the chuck- windows is to take a paper towel middle of June. Italy came in on les . . . Talk rolling at a swift pace. Germany's side. The British expedi- about crimson faces. A current best- and rub over the windows on a deforce tionary barely escaped seller moans that America is skid- damp day. struction at Dunkerque. ding into "collectivism." The tome's author appeared on the Chi. Round saw the 1940, September, Table and was asked to give a clear massed air attacks on Britain definition of "collectivism." He by which Hitler hoped for a I g Molotov Lives Up To His Name First, to evaluate the "m" in our equation, it is necessary to take a look which goes back to Paris 1919 and even reveals faint images of Vienna, 1815. There is no question that "m" (standing for Molotov) was the conference at San Francisco in the early period, at least, but there was a vast difference between his operations and those of Clemenceau. Clemenceau could and did unloose a bag of traditional diplomatic tricks on Lloyd George and Wilson and soon proved that his gallic hands were quicker than two eyes. pairs of anglo-saxo- n Clemenceau wanted security for France and elimination of Germany as a competitor in world industry. Molotov wants securityy'for Russia, elimination of any danger of political competition from the "capitalistic" countries. But he wears no gloves, kid or otherwise. This, perhaps, is not because he, personally, is inept in the amenities of diplomatic relations, but rather because he is under orders, with no latitude of compromise whatever unless Stalin grants it And Russia, an outlaw among nations after the Bolshevik revolution, has only begun to take its first faltering steps beyond the pale of its own prejudices and preoccupations. And the bear steps furtively, blinded by suspicion, hypersensitive because of past doubts and fears. By the second day of the conference Molotov had deeply grieved the Latin Americans. When the suave and persuasive Ezequil Padilla, Mexican foreign minister, in urging the election of Secretary Stettinius as president of the conference remarked that it was merely following diplomatic procedure and courtesy to elect the representative of the country playing host to the conference, Molotov is said to have replied that he hoped no one was trying to give him lessons in diplomatic procedure and as for courtesy this was not a tea party. Molotov is the commissar's It is an old communist custom to take pseudonyms, e.g. "Stalin," man of steeL" Molotov means "hammer." And that is what the benevolent-lookin- g gentleman from Moscow wields, not the rapier of the diplomatist Thus, when he "controlled" the conference, he did it as a man swinging a hammer might the rest had to get out of the way. But hammer swinging is not always successful. The rapier wielders in the case I mentioned quickly circumvented the Issue of the conference presidency by obtaining an agreement that there would be four presidedents as the hammer-swinge- r manded but their powers would all be delegated to Mr. Stettinius to conduct the business of the conference. Today's Talleyrand has much to learn in the school of soft gloves. And so we come to the delta, the strength bt the spirit of the people. As I write these lines within the building where the committee meetings take place, the fate of the conference has not been settled but I am assuming it is about to conclude, having achieved its job which was t merely to complete a for world organization. Its later effects cannot yet be assayed. But I can say at this point with absolute t assurance that if the is not produced the peoples of the various representatives will figuratively fall upon their delegates and tear them limb from limb. If the blueprint is produced and if the organization operates effectively and successfully the credit goes to the demos the "absent voters" at San Francisco, who had no vote at Vienna and didn't know how to use what they had at Paris. And so the task of our mathematician becomes the task of the He must discover the power of the spirit of the people. h ns 4.J These are the men Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin and Chnrehill, who were responsible in directing the victory against Germany. Truman, committed to tho Roosevelt foreign relation policies, together with Stalin and Churchill, will direct the United Nations in plans (or world's peace. house in Reims, France, at 2:41 a. m., May 7, with Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith accepting Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl's capitulation. Later the surrender was ratified at Russian headquarters in battered Berlin, with Marshal Gregory Zhukov participating for the Reds. Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz's order to German troops to cease firing came as a sort of since the bulk of the Nazis forces already had laid down their arms in the face of the Allied avalanche. April 29, 1,000,000 Nazis surrendered in northern Italy and western Austria; May 4, another 1,000,-00-0 gave up in Holland and Denmark, and on May 5, 400,000 quit in southern Germany. anti-clim- As the German officers formally admitted defeat, neither they nor the beaten country's new ministers entertained any illusions as to the character of the Allied terms, with Foreign Minister Count Ludwig Schwenn Von Kro-sig- k telling the people: ". . . . Nobody must deceive himself on the harshness of the terms. . . . Nobody must have any doubt that heavy sacrifices will be demanded from us in all spheres of life. . . ." Thus did the European war come to its end six years after the mighty German army, striking at the unprepared western powers, rolled through Poland; levelled the lowlands and France, and then turned back to the east again to challenge giant Russia. As the Germans capitulated, behind them lay the remnants of a once army, which, like Napoleon's, underestimated the vast steppes of Russia, and then found the U. S. and Britain gathering force behind its back; behind them lay Germany's blackened cities and shattered railway lines, pulverized by Allied aerial attacks; and behind them in the ruins of Berlin reportedly lay Adolf Hitler's dead body. naBecause of the ture of the formal surrender, and Uso because of the premature announcement of the capitulation days before, some of the edge had been removed from the great event, with the result that the nation. accepted ax stiff-necke- d ic 1 V GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER "Man of the Hour." the news with restraint. As Germany's fall was substantiated, people looked to the east, where the Japs still remain to be defeated and the entire resources of the navy and well over 6.000,000 troops may be needed to assure victory. With America scheduled to take over the occupation of central and western Germany and western Austria In accordance with Allied plans to maintain strict supervision over the country until a thoroughly democratic administration can be established, U. S. military authorities figure on the detention of 400.000 Yanks in Europe. The first big break that signalized Germany's disintegration was the U. S. 1st A PROCLAMATION Here is a partial text of President Truman's victory proclamation: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and have imprisoned longer the bodies and broken the lives of millions npon millions of free-bomen. "Much remains to be done. The victory won in the west must now be won in the east. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. "For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have won and for its proraaee to people everywhere who Join ns in the love of freedom. It is fitting that we as a nation give thanks to Almighty God, who has strengthened ns and given us the victory. Now, therefore, I Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Sunday, May 13, 1945, to be a day of prayer. "I call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory." HARRY S. TRUMAN. rn quick victory. The RAF held oft the Nazi bombers until winter, when weather brought a slackening of attacks. That autumn of 1940 was probably the period of gravest peril to civilization in many centuries. Britain almost succumbed. During the spring of 1941 Nazi troops smashed into the Balkans to aid the Italians, Invading Yugoslavia and Greece. Bulgaria joined the Axis voluntarily. Germany controlled all of continental Europe excepting Russia by the middle of the. year. Without warning on June 22, Nazi armies crossed the Russian border in a tremendous drive. As alarmed America prepared for defense, Japan attacked without warning at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian islands and the U. S. was immediately at war with both Japan and Germany. American maBy mid-194rines stopped the Japs on Guadalcanal. In Africa the British halted the drive on the Sues canal and counterattacked successfully. The Russians epic defense of Stalingrad stalled the German thrust into the Caucasus. The tide had turned. In the fall American and British troops uanded in northern Africa. The great Russian counteroffen-siv- c began in February of 1943. It when rolled fiercely until mid-Julthe retreating Nazis stiffened and brought it to a standstill in central Poland. Meanwhile the air offensive from the British Isles was battering German cities and ports, preparatory to the invasion. June 6, 1944, was the big day the invasion of western Europe from England. After landing on the coast of France, American and British troops battled inland. Almost all France was under Allied control by November, 1944. Advance tank units were attacking on the German border by December. A substantial 2, German counterof fensive checked as the year ended. army's surprise capture of the Ludendorff bridge spanning the Rhine below Cologne, permitting Lt Gen. Courtney Hodges to build up OFFICIAL WOKI) When the real V-most U. S. citizens confirmation of the Day came, got absolute It wasn't entirely western hospinews before tality we found, when the taxi doors flew open when we were ready to starting victory celebrations. They get out they were automatically remembered the false reports of controlled by the driver. Perhaps Saturday, April 28. that had swept some of the fares haj left too In- over the nation only to be climaxed by a White House denial of the peace formally in the past. rumor. Pres. Harry S. Truman said All hign in shortages was renrhed at that time that he had been in contact with General Eisenhower and when a San Francisco restaurant that there was "no foundation" ran out of orange juice. for the ptare report. was On March 2 the American Ninth army reached the Rhine river. Withtwo weeks this great natural depowerful bridgehead immediately in below the vital Ruhr district and on fense line was crossed. Racing Elbe rivthe edge of the rolling plains lead- tank30corps smashed to theand halted miles from Berlin, er, ing eastward to Berlin. RusAs the 1st army's bold move threw to await junction with the signal event took place the German command off balance, sians. This the remaining Allied forces in the on April 27. Far to the south, Ameriwest soon poured over the Rhine, can and Russian armies were roaroff southlast formidable water barrier guard-I- n ing through Austria to seal resistance Organized the heart of the reich. While Brit- ern Germany. ish and Canadian troops struck out crumbled as German soldiers gave In enormous numbers. against eastern Holland and the up North sea ports, the U. S. 9th army set about reducing the Ruhr valley while one wing of the 1st Joined in the attack and another kept step with Lt. Gen. George Patton's famed armored columns dashing eastward across the reich. Meanwhile, the U. S. 7th and the French 1st armies have won a war, but there drove into the Nazis' mythical re- Is We still another one to win. Before doubt in the Bavarian Alps. As the American ' and British we can win the war against Japan, is the gigantie problem of suparmies slashed through the German thereand moving the troops from the positions and turned to their rear- ply to Pacific. ward to isolate the enemy into sep- European theater the The army estimates that 5,000,000 arate pockets, the whole enemy's foot soldiers will be needed to defront lost its coherence, contributOur entire navy and ing to the disintegration of Nazi re- feat Japan.will be required. Some air forces sistance. With whole groups of German men will be released from service the individuals will be determined troops entrapped without hope of their defense va- on total service, overseas service, reinforcement, and number of deried, with the majority of the old- combat service The bulk of the army will er, more practical men giving up pendents.released. upon being cornered while younger not be Divisions will be regrouped to fanatics carried on in the face of bring them up to combat strength. overwhelming odds. Meanwhile, the Russians had It will take several months to ordrawn up along the banks of the Oder ganize troops, crate and pack river from the Baltic clear down equipment before the units are to Silesia, while still other Red ready to sail against Japan. armies thrust eastward through Some divisions will be lucky. They Czechoslovakia and Austria. Once will be routed through the United the Russians opened their all-oatStates, while others will sail through tack on Berlin, in the face of the the Panama canal direct to a PacifNazi collapse In the west, the giant ic port. Those landed In the United States will be given some leave. pincer was near its close. About Fonr Months. Twice taken to war in 25 years and twice defeated, with nothing to The divisions that sail direct to the show but the anguish and suffer- Pacific will arrive about five months ing of conflict, the mass of the Ger- after V-Day. It will take weeks man people in American and British after landing to check all equipoccupied territory accepted uncon- ment, for additional shipping to be ditional surrender with a stolidity available to bring necessary war that masked their inner feelings. material. Training for a new type East of the Elbe river where the of warfare must be undertaken. Reds stood guard, however, the Japan has 6.000,000 troops which populace tread in apprehension have not yet met combat from over fear of reprisal for the Nazis' our forces. They are calling up an devastation of Russia in four years additional million. They will be of bitter warfare. Previously, many ready for us. She can rtise another of the people had tried to escape 2,000,000 when necessary. The to the west, oril lo he turned back. have aU had youth training. Japs Face Allied Power Kft-- ; 2 E Some of the foreign delegates to the San Francisco conference thought they had got Into the wrong pew. Looking at all the moving picture cameras around the place, they thought they were In Hollywood. Parsley will keep fresh for a week or ten days if stored in a TO VICTORY blah-by-bla- of the creased so that it provided another world war which called for another international gathering within 26 years; came San Francisco, another "Big Three" and the growing but still the unknown 'x," the power of the people. by LED ALLIES ' News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union THESE EVENTS Germany Forced to Capitulate After Six Years of Fighting; Allies Face Big Job in Pacific People Deciding Factor Thursday, May 17, 1945 ' E SoCVfsr- )- flunked the query. Memos for a Scrapbook: In a literary weekly John Mason Brown has embroidered a delightful bit of literary lace: "Praise has never made anyone unhappy. We like it I Solksiy I 1 even when we do not believe it. We of it only when it is bestowed too long on other people. It is music we do not object to having played offstage. Although it may shame our consciences and insult our minds, it does no damage to our tire ears." Between the Book Ends: reporter Ira Wolfert has captured the sordid tragedy, flaming courage and shining hopes of the current struggle via "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" (Simon & Schuster). This slam-ban- g chronicle of Lt I. D. Richardson's exploits creates a spiritual glow. . . . Most timely is A. E. Kahn and Michael Sayers' "The Plot Against the Peace" (Dial Press). Here are the names of the fascist Top-flig- ht and their battle strategy. . . . Morris L. Ernst's "The Best Is Yet" offers a sizzling series peace-wrecke- rs of essays. His most crushing haymakers land on the few presstitutes In our midst. Such "journalists" can cover their depravity with lofty rhetoric, but they can't hide their shame. A. Quotation Marksmanship: Ward: Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it with. . . . R. C. Sherrif: The telephone began calling out like a spoiled child, and he hurried off to soothe it. . . . 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