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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Picture Clearer Since Meeting in Quebec S., England, Russia Agreed on Fundamental Policies; Observers Optimistic Cooperation. Concerning War, Post-W- U. ar By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WSV Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The ink is now dry on the secret footnotes which appear in the memoranda officially recorded after the long and quiet conversations which took place in the presidential study in the White House when the Allied strategists worked out the end of another chapter in the history of World War II. My own modest notations, scribbled on the backs of envelopes, and on scratch pads, and written in taxicabs, leaning against a White House elm after a press and radio conference, taken down while the President or other officials were speaking, make a clearer pattern. Words and phrases take on new meanings, rough sketches are filled out In revealing detail. The speculation, the criticism, the attacks and the apologies which swirled about the Allied policy toward Russia, for instance, it is plain now was built mostly on half knowledge. While press and public were crying for a tripartite meeting of the representatives of Russia, Britain and the United States, the arrangements for a whole- series of meetings were already being made. It was not until almost the end of the Roosevelt-Churchivisit that we ll learned, first, that the tripartite meetings "on the foreign minister level" had been definitely agreed upon and, second, (which no one then guessed) that a commission was to be formed of representatives of all three powers to discuss the situation arising out of the Allied victories in the Mediterranean in which Russia is so deeply concerned but which, militarily speaking, she has been forced to view from a distance. When we received that news, we were unable to indicate its source. The Darlan Question Another source of bitter controversy which has been allowed to fester was cleared up at the same time. Certain groups in England and America from the very beginning violently objected to the choice of Darlan as the man with whom the Allies dealt in North Africa. There have been two revelations on that score which, had they come earlier, might have cleared the air. One concerns the Russian attitude -- and the Russians certainly ought to lean as far to the left as anyone. It now seems that the Soviet leaders, frankly opposed to Darlan and all he stood for, actually accepted the British and American policy on the basis of an old Russian saying that In matters of military strategy or comparable situations it is sometimes necessary to deal with the devil and his grandmother. A word from the chief of staff revealed in his annual report to the secretary of war is interesting in this connection. He says of the diplomatic preparation before the invasion of Africa: Should an approach be made to a single Frenchman who proved unsympathetic to our purpose, we risked the slaughter cf our soldiers on the beaches of North Africa as well as decisive losses to our shipping , . . unexpectedly, Admiral Jean Darlan, Petains designated successor, and commander-in-chief of all French forces, was found to be in Algiers visiting his sick son when our forces landed. He wa3 taken into protective custody and when it was found that French leaders stood loyal to the Vichy government, a series of conferences immediately followed with the purpose of calling a halt to the French resistance against General Pattons task force in the vicinity of Casablanca." The Background Then, on the morning of November 11, the Germans invaded France and Darlan obligingly rejected the Vichy pseudo-independe- govern- ment and assumed authority in North Africa in the name of Marshal Petain and ordered the French to cease all hostilities. Just what pressure or argument was used in getting Darlan to yield to Allied wishes has never been revealed or what his motives may hava been they may indeed have been prompted by the devil or his grandmother but those who knew the Inside military expediency, did B 11 IEFS not quarrel with his action. Death took Darlan from the picture. It did not end the arguments, but since we know now that the head of the Communist state of Russia was able to swallow Darlan, the squeamishness of some of the critics seems a little far fetched. In the days that followed the recall of the Soviet ambassadors to London and Washington, the outcry over the absence of Stalin at Quebec increased. Roosevelt, Churchill and Secretary Hull were blamed there was the blow-u- p over the charges by a columnist who said Hull was I talked with Secretary Hull about that time. Whatever his feelings may be regarding communism, he Indicated from his remarks to me that Russia was looking sympathetically on the attempts at a joint conference, and a few days later, a feigh British source stated flatly there was no great divergence of views between the Soviets and the Allies. Agreement Both were thoroughly agreed on the necessity of the destruction of Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism, and it was revealed that Marshal Stalin was rising In prestige with the army and that the Soviet army was rising In prestige with the Russian people until It was already on a level with the communist party Itself. This seemed to indicate, as Captain Rickenbacker said when he returned from Russia, that the Ideologies of the policies and the capitalist nations were growing nearer. Today, as Washington looks back on this last visit of Prime Minister Churchill, there is a feeling that not only are Britain and the United States closer in both their war and their post-wa- r aims, but that the possibility of bringing the Soviets into the circle is greater. One reason for this is that certain problems on which there has been disagreement have been met and thrashed out successfully between Roosevelt and Churchill and the way is open to a much more extended discussion with Stalins representatives. Meanwhile, the position of Secretary Hull, within the administration, has been greatly strengthened as one after another, he has taken over the functions of all agencies which have any dealings whatsoever with foreign countries. He has placed the question frankly before the President who had to choose between his secretary of state and those who opposed him inside and outside of the state department. Hulls Position Secretary Hulls position is this: the policies which I have sponsored and insisted upon have justified themselves. Either my department must have full authority in the field of foreign relations or I will hand in my portfolio. The President faces, first, a congress which has had time to think over its position, has heard the complaints and received the advice of Its constituents. It returns determined to imprint its will on national policy, foreign and domestic. Its texture Is and has been for some time strongly away from tile new-depolicies, strongly toward the conservative side. Secretary Hull probably stands higher, has more friends, and can exert more Influence with congress than any member of the cabinet The President needs a congress which will stand behind him if he Is to carry out the plans for further conduct of the war and the winning of tire peace according to methods he believes it Is necessary to employ. And, of course, there is the fourth term ahead, for continuance In is essential, the Presidents friends believe, if he Is to mold the post-wa- r world. . Secretary Hull is his anchor tc windward. This is due to his political influence and also because he and what he symbolizes both at home and abroad, have become inextricably bound up in world negotiations. And for the President, there is but one objective now that is, to be the peacemaker as he was the war leader. AH else choice of counsellors, domestic policies, must dovetail Into that purpose. . . . by Bauhhage It is estimated that enough waste fats are salvaged In army camps within the continental U. S. to make 1,500,000 pounds of dynamite each month, and still leave a residue of rendered grease for soap stock. Christmas gifts to naval and marine personnel overseas should be sent between September 15 and November 1, Japanese occupation authorities who still haven't succeeded in pacifying the Philippines have decided to send out roving teams of public speakers in an attempt to explain Japans true mission to misguided Filipinos, Manila radio disclosed. Bus lines In Washington. D. C., and Los Angeles, C.ihf , are running their "help wanted" ads on buses 4 See Here, Private Hargrove! Marion Hararove OFFICE fcy THE STORY SO FAR: Private Marion Hargrove, late ol the editorial staff oi the Charlotte N. C.) News, has been Inducted into the army, classified as a cook and has spent a large share ol bis spare moments on KP duty. He has taken time out. however, to advise prospective doughboys to paint the town red before Induction and ence in the army to keep an open mind as the first three weeks are the hardest. His constant assignment to KP is the despair ol his sergeant who believes Hargrove will never learn to be a crack soldier. His last experience was a rifle Inspection In which he fared badly. Now be begins a new episode concerning advancement in rank. CHAPTER IV Selectee Joseph G. Gantt, late of Liberty, South Carolina, came out for reveille this morning with a grin you could have used for a foot rule. He held both his arms against the front of his shirt in a queqrly strained posture and blushed happily every time someone looked at him. The heats got the boy, I told Gene Shumate. Looks like the best ones always go first. That aint the heat, said Cookie. He seems to have a cramp in his arms. We looked at Gantts arms again. Citizen-Soldi- Then, for the first time, we noticed two shining stripes on each sleeve. Citizen-SoldiGantt was a corporal now! Heavens to Betsy, we shouted in unison for his benefit. Is that punk a corporal? Corporal Gantt acknowledged the tribute by joyfully changing his color to a holiday According to the sergeant, the guard is instructed to give the halt order three times and then shoot rookies from the back counties, he said, had been known to go like this: Halt halt (You can believe it halt! or leave it; I never question what the sergeant says.) There was one rookie guard, he said, who halted him, questioned him and allowed him to pass. After he had gone several steps, the sentry again shouted, Halt! Sergeant Taylor came back and wantKa-PO- ed to know politely, of course how come. My orders, said the say to holler Half three guard, times and then shoot Youre just on your second halt now! The other popular expression Is call that goes g the up the line to the guardhouse when a guard takes a prisoner or meets any case not covered by Instruction (General Order No. 9). If the guard is on the seventh post he sings out, Corporal of the guard! Post number seven! The guard on the sixth post picks up the cry and it goes down the line like that Theres the story about the officer of tlie day who questioned a new sentry, as officers of the day frequently do in order to test the' sentries. "Suppose, the OD asked, that you shouted halt, three times and I kept going, what would you do? was The apparently guard stumped by the question. Finally he answered, Sir, Id call the corporal of the guard. The officer of the day gloated. Aha! he said. "So youd call the corporal of the guard, would you? And just why would you call the corporal of the guard?" This time the answer was prompt and decisive and correct. To haul away your dead body, sir! Heroes are born, not made. come-a-runnin- Theres one job here that Is nothing but goldbricking in itself. Thats the latrine orderly detail. You go to work after lunch and spend the rest of .the afternoon watching the fire in the water heater and feeding it regularly every two hours. The next morning you sweep and ,mop the washroom and spend the rest of the time until lunch watching the fire again. All in all, you lead a lazy, carefree existence. somewhere There was a slip-uyesterday. I was latrine orderly Ileavens to Betsy, we shouted Instead of a KP. It was probably In unison for his benefit. Is that the mess sergeants idea. The boys started out after lunch punk a corporal?" for an afternoon of drilling in the red. The grin widened until his warm Carolina sunshine and learnears hung perilously on the brink of ing to drive trucks across ditches. An hour later, I decided to take his lips. It took him half the mornat the boiler. When ing to sober his spirits to working a casual look furnace-rooI opened the door, a conditions. brownish smoke blast of Corporal Gantt has been in the struck me strong I lay to the Army exactly four months. He had there for several ground. minutes, tapping been an acting corporal for three while my forehead thoughtfully, weeks before he got his stripes. Heaven grant him strength for more smoke poured out. When It still hadnt slackened aftthe ordeal ahead. er five minutes, I crawled under The term buck private was exthe layer of smoke to the boiler. plained to us this afternoon. It re- There the sickening vapor was, fers to the Old Army Game, passpouring nonchalantly through clinks ing the buck." The sergeant Is first in the door. called on the carpet for a mistake Dont come telling me about it," in his platoon. The sergeant seeks Ma said Sergeant Davidson. out the corporal and gives him a Take out the pipes and clean them. dressing-dowThe corporal passes All of them. the buck by scalding the ears of the I had to see the top sergeant to private. The private doesnt even get my instructions. When I rehave a mule to kick, so he cant pass to Sergeant Davidson I was turned the buck any farther. He keeps it happy again. That makes him a buck private. Ma, I told him, the top kick The Army, I find, has many subtle says for you to supervise the job. to volInto the ways trap unwary The sergeant was furious with rage unteering for work. First there was and frustration. I grabbed a screwthe sergeant over at the Reception driver and he grabbed Private DowCenter who came through the recrener, who had a black mark by his ation hall one afternoon calling for name for not wearing his identificaPrivate Smith. Four men an- tion The three of us started swered. All four were put to work work.tag. picking up cigarette stubs. First, put out the fire In the boiler. On the call, Anybody in here Shake it down, throw ashes on it. know how to handle a truck? dont It still burns. Shake it down more, speak up. The last three were seen throw sand on it. Still burns. Close later pushing a hand truck up the the bottom door, shake it down battery street to haul rifle racks. more, throw ashes and sand on It, Corporal Henry Ussery is to date Curse It After too long, it dies. the most dangerous conscriptor. This The man who devised the system week he came into the squadroom for connecting an indoor boiler and to ask if anyone was good at shortan outdoor chimney should be hand. Three citizen-soldieadmitparched with his own pipes and ted that they were. stuffed with oily soot. - Unscrew a pipe, lift it gently, coax Report to the kitchen, the corporal laughed. The mess sergeant It from its socket Easy does it says hes shorthanded on dishwash- Careful there. When you have it ers. almost out, inhale for your sigh of fc relief. Crash! The whole network "One of the most solemn and re- of pipes bounces off the floor scatsponsible trusts of a soldier, Ser- tering ashes and soot over half the geant Curly" Taylor said today, battery area. After half an hour of scrubbing is his guard duty. Sergeant Taylor, who has been In the Army for and wiping the interior regions of nineteen years and probably knows all the pipes, theyre ready to go more about guard duty than any up again. All but one of them are man in Fort Bragg, is teaching us In place and the last one is ready to be fitted. Careful there! Easy, about guard duty now. The soldier is called to this duty now! Watch out! Catch it! CRASH! The boys come in from the drill about once a month. For a twenty, four-hou- r period, he is on two hours, field at 4:30 and head for the showand off four hours, and he walks ers. There is no hot water. Get a load of that Hargrove, his post in a military manner, fume, In an unnecessarily nasty they the and guarding peace possessions He gets a job where all and safety of a part of the post. manner. He is responsible only to a corporal he has to do is throw a shovel of of the guard, a sergeant of the coal on the fire every two hours. guard, an officer of the day, and And then when we come in, there aint no hot water. There aint even his commanding officer. The guard, or sentry, is known no fire. Throw the bum out. ka chiefly to the reading and movie-goin- g I grinned weakly as I reported to public by two expressions, Halt, who goes there? and "Corthe supply sergeant for work. "You poral of the guard! Post number must be that nme Sergeant Thomas three! The former, Seigeant Tay- W. Israel Ive heard so many nice lor said w.th his best poker-facthings about" has given the Army considerable No, little man, ho said. Im the nice Sergeant Israel you've been worry at times. p rs Im running your loud mouth about who gives always the nice sergeant and you the wrong clothing sizes hides your laundry and does all tellthose awful things youve been me. about ing So help me, sergeant, I protested. I never named thee but to to praise. Somebodys been trying me. mind against , Man About Town: poison your I am also the nice sergeant, he One af our fightingest Generals was divorced quietly while serving said, "who is going to let you earn off abroad . . . Mrs. F.D.R. probably your seventy cents today. Take your fatigue blouse, my man, and will tour the world . It's another prepare to sweat. Today we make son for the Douglas (Wrong Way) Sunny progress. We are going to unpack Corrigans In Texas . . rifles. Ainsworth (Mrs. No. 7) cost $75,000, It seems to me that when the which is about par for the course manufacturer prepares to pack a . . . Donald Nelsons next stop will box of Army rifles, his cruel streak be England . . . Ambassador Stand-le- y comes out at its worst. From the told chums that he couldnt look of the rifles, he has his stand another Russian Winter! . , daughter prepare a com- The State Departments next victim, Lehpound of molasses, pitch, and used insiders insist, will be motor oil the gooier the better. He man . , . Gen. MacArthur told some slings each gun into the resulting of his staff: "I would rather be the mess, sloshes it around for a while, man who marched into Tokyo than and then lays it neatly into the box. be a defeated candidate! You use a swab about the size of a tablecloth to wipe the grease from B. Baruchs "mysterious disapthe rifle. When youre halfway pearance from the Capital worried through the first rifle, you have to his friends. The reason he left suduse the gun to wipe the grease from denly: Nurse Higgins, who takes the cloth. When you have finished, care of him, was stricken and he you need a large coal shovel to rushed her to a New York hospital . . . Prosecutor O. John Rogge of wipe the grease off yourself. There is nothing so conducive to the Dept, of Justice (he knocked out itching as the inability to scratch. the Huey Long machine) will soon throw his Sunday punch at Berlin. Just when the molasses-pitch-axl- e grease mixture covers your hand to The story will amaze the nation. the point where you cant see the Averell Harrimans chief aide, outlines of the fingers, that left nostril starts tingling. At first it itches Philip Reed, delivered a speech at only a little and you decide to suf- a private luncheon the other day-ho- sted fer it. So you dont wipe your hands by Jesse Jones In Washington . . . Mr. Reed explained why the on the seat of your trousers. Instead you pick up another rifle and U. S. had to produce more than your hand sinks to the elbow In ever! . . . Because, he said, Britthe goo which wraps it. This is the ain has too large an army to prostage where your nose gets peevish duce arms. If we do not produce and impatient and decides to itch in more England "will have to reduce . . . Grover her armed forces! earnest. genius, says a Finally, you decide to give In. You Loening, the plane 25 to 40 improvewipe your hands an operation which plane that hasnt takes a good three or four minutes ments per month is obsolete . . . lawyer was for satisfactory results. You lift Fritz Kuhns your hand to scratch your nose, only just appointed to an important comto find that your nose isnt itching mittee of the N. Y. Bar Assn. any more. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will give the I was doing fairly weU this morncoin she gets from Zanuck (for the ing, even when you take the itch film on Wilsons life) to various war into consideration, until the mess . . Several French polit charities to stroll by. sergeant happened icals, who escaped to the U. S., are he little Hello, man, sings gaily, living in Washington and New York with a horrible gleam in his eyes, with their mistresses, who were adYouve not been around to see me mitted via courtesy diplomatic passfor a long time. Arent mad, are ports. three-year-o- ld ex-Go- you? I look at my hands, at the rifle, at the old shoe, and at the mess sergeant I hold my tongue. Health is wealth. We miss you terribly in the kitcheven when you go en, he coos, griping around that my food is the worst in the Army. I just saw the first sergeant and I asked him to let you be a KP just as soon as he can spare you. Oh, were going to do wonders to that kitchenware, you and I. He pats me on the forehead with ominous tenderness and departs. Paul Robeson, despite the erratum, sings at camps and naval bases for the men. It was said he couldnt get official permission. Not so . . . The Army is sending fan mail to desk men asking them to state why they shouldnt be replaced by a WAC A diplomatic incident is festering because the daughter of a Mexican consul was refused service in ... The newsprint shortage is this acute: One gazette which requested 990 tons got 19 . . . F.D.R. Jr. had another miraculous escape. Only officer saved in a recent bombing, which killed six officers out of the ships seven . . . Labor is getting support In high places In the fight to resist drafting of labor . , . Our govt tipped Moscow that Hitler would Invade Russia six months before. Missing the date by one week . . . Gen. Marshalls reappointment was deserved. At 20,000 ft over the Atlantic, he effected one of the greatest orders in military history. com-plele- ly of the various op. . Since when The sergeant yelled out of the window at me, so I dropped my broom and went upstairs. satisfying eretta revivals . are you paying, Bub? Five paces away, he turns for a parting shot "Blabbermouth! he snorts. I suppose hes good to his mother, You Dont See From a Bus: The place downtown that tattoos your Social Secur-it- y number on your chest or arms . . The real American Indian, long braids, blue trousers, red silk shirt-carr- ying a cane on 42nd Street near 5th . . , The new dating spot for uniformed lads and their gals Father Duffys statue on The sergeant closed his eyes and slowly shook his head. Oxford isnt a sore thumb to the platoon like you are," he groaned. "Oxford got a bright red stripe to wear around his sleeve." Oxfords no fireman," I told him "Youre dem right he aint." said the sergeant. Starting with today. Oxford and Zuber and Roff and Maciejewski and Pappas and s sre acting corporalsl I knew there must be a moral to all this, so I waited for him to go Mittal-akako- on. 'Now, why couldn't you have been one of those six boys?" he asked. (TO BE CONTINUED) riles rvpv writer. IS Addin. 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"If he gave him what he gave me when I got called up, it has four letters, starts with an h and ends with an L" EQUIPS., SNAPPY FACT AB0C1 RUBBE If authorities prove to but tires ! f rect, post-w75,000 or more miles f w ice. 5uper-toug- h rayon, nyl or improved cotton will help to make this age possible. ar ,c' Army raincoats formerly Ing 40 per cent crude rubbers ore made almost entirely of a1 thetic resin and rial. Crude rubber content boots ond overshoes has beet about 40 per cent. armored divisk on the road has 13,488 b" In use, not counting and reservo supplies- A complete Sights Sight-Seein- g ... Broadway near 47th The quotes from Nazi leaders in Radio Citys This Is the Enemy exhibit. So fantastic they seem made up, but are real . . . The wolves who loiter around the 5th Avenue Library lions waiting for the lambs . . . The Greenwich Village cafeteria with tables reserved for Village eccentrics-- so that others may enjoy the nightly show they put on The trees In Washington Square lovely which once served as gallows. ... Die FBI Is working on the case Herbert Moy, born in New York who now broadcasts for the Japs in Shanghai. He left here In 1932 . Patricia Lockridge, popular Girl EInler Davis, will shelve CW I job to join the staff of the Womans Home Companion A1 most 40 per cent of the men 'who are shot down are saved by your nylon hosiery parachutes, girls Wlien inner clrclcr. want to discuss the President (without eavesdrop, 'pers getting hep) they call him Mr BIGoodfic ADD YOUR BIT! . of R0 AV P Turn In your scrap Iron ,n: rags and waste fats to Pft ' that needed part f or gun plane, ship or anunl"' |