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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD The Liberating Yanks Again Enter Paris Oft I'GD'RjjuflD Imperial Hopes May Linger Bui Where Will Nazis Flee? Spirit May Be Nurtured in Foreign Haven to Break Forth Again; Few Countries DRCW PEAhSDN f k ur Willing to Offer Foe Refuge. 'I v gt By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Returning to the capital after a week in the wilds while Hitlers mad dream of empire was melting, it is hard to adjust the ear, caressed by the whisper of mountain brooks and to sighs of the wind in the pines, the staccato click of the news-ticke- Natures sounds are organ-soundrising, falling, not sharp and metallic even the crack of the lightning merges Into Its obligato of thunder. of" Today as 1 pulled the first sheet text from the teletype with its continuously exciting recital of the end of an epoch it occurred to me that of epochs, like the manifestations nature, have no sudden ends, they may seem to disappear like a river which plunges under ground. But they are bound to appear again. Today we have evidence that the two forces which have sprung from two opposing elements in Germany, as I reported in an earlier column, are attempting like the lost rivers to seek a course below the surface. The Prussian military caste, purged as it has been and soon doubtless to be stripped of its one source of Income, the great estates of East and West Prussia, will surely try to continue its existence In refugee colonies. This Is not a new pheof deThe followers nomenon. throned kings have done this In the past. Where and how will this group seek to keep alive the will to achieve such a goal? Time is not the essence of what they believe to be their contract with destiny. They can wait generations, centuries. All they need is space, space in which, undisturbed, they can propagate their kind and their faith. And as the thinned ranks of German Junkerdom (only a tiny percentage of the German people) desperately plan their future an even more desperate group, at the other end of the social spectrum, plans theirs. The Nazis have demonstrated that it was not Germany as a nation or Germans as a people in whom they were interested, but both as a means to the creation of a great, brutal, sweeping movement-follow- ers of an idol and an ideology. The fanatical Nazi spirit will try to hide and live and rise again. Where, in all the world, can these two movements find asylum? Not in Germanys neighbor states where hatreds have been sown which will take a century to cure. It is highly probable that the republican elements in Spain will gam the ascendancy and give short shrift to the former friends of Franco. Sweden surely, having maintained neutrality in this war, is too wise to harbor either group. Turkey perhaps. Where else might a German go and face least resentment? It is natural to answer with the name of the nation which was least willing s to join in a solid combine Argentina. s, 3 anti-Axi- Foreign Spirits Grow In Latin Instability I It is a mystery to me, said a man who has spent many years in how Latin - America, Vargas (president of Brazil) or anyone else could keep the elements in the south satisfied as long as he has. Of course it has been done, he went on, the nation has been held together by a dictatorship and because the money has been pouring in from the United States. W'hen it is the ambition of most Brazilians to get a government job, and 60 per cent at a time manage to do it, its natural you have to change governments pretty often to give the other 40 per cent a chance. Of course this cynical comment must be taken with a grain of salt. But there is some truth in the allegation. One of the things which kept the Third Republic of France together as long as it was, was the method of giving out government jobs which worked for stability and continuity. Tlie person who had the right to sell a certain amount of tobacco was not permitted to use a shop or restaurant which he himself ran, in which to sell it. So he had to give a cut to the r where the goods were sold. The could not eni loy any one of his cafe-owne- cafe-own- B R I E F S Of course it is not the quality of n govinstability of ernments in itself which disrupts . , x i i? own family to handle the sales there were other complicated regulations the result of which was that three or four families were benefit-tin- g by the single government r 4 g 51 Ji i .vvvvWi r-- W t : Jr" teller Tv'1 y.yiocoevWV Latin-America- our statesmen, but the fact that such instability makes foreign influence easier to achieve. We know what a foothold Germany had obtained in South America, and maps have been discovered showing the territory Hitler expected to control which placed all of South America up to and into southern Brazil under German domination. The power of Argentinian influence on the other South American countries was strikingly revealed in the recent move which caused the resignation of Foreign Minister Aranha of Brazil as a protest States policy. against his Just as in 1919, when Gen. John J. Pershing led the victory parade past the Arc de Triomphe on Bastille Day, a new generation of Yanks have entered the city of Paris. Behind General Pershing is 1st Lieut, YV. J. Cunningham, bearing the Generals standard, followed by MaJ. Gen. James G. Harbord, chief of staff. A. E. F.f and on the grey horse, Gen. George C. Marshall, present chief of staff, who was then Colonel Marshall, aide to General Pershing. Insert shows the first U. S. flag brought Into Paris by the liberating Yanks in World War II. The U. S. troopers carried the flag through the streets. Allies Passing World War I Old Battlegrounds NuH.fe" national campaign is underway to get employed high school students to go back to school. i Cabled From rery askei Somewhet, In Dutch New By George Lait News (International Col. David War Corsp( W. provide Smce J cows ectors junr 1 of the The t lers. ,t Gu:nec I Hutchison mander of one of the wings of ,ed them. Gen. George Kennys bomber ;d out bis in the New Guinea interior t pi tically route to his home in Madison ed the cot on leave, told me of a new ed with th tickets nique evolved on the spur c ors. moment by one of his night pilots. The technique, howeit Cl not recommended too highly t peat performances. This night er took off to attack Jap bon arry tight which were raiding Wake j le caught fi gunners and i, it him Tria light crews could hear his e; Bed t a gunTh purring in the sky. Suddenly, ward. the radio they heard the pilots I am coming into searchlight! tn a Calhoun DUMBARTON OAKS Petes sake shoot this Secretary Hulls message to the my tail The fighter pilot t liked back jpening Dumbarton Oaks peace par- Into the searchlights beams . X dse ley had whole paragraphs parallel- Jap bomber close behind. The rough the argle. ing Woodrow Wilsons statement of aircraft crews shot off the Jap piyee cust January 16, 1920, on the eve of the url first League of Nations council a big treasure hunt : irry pickei meeting. . . . It is our task here, onTheres at Lae, British New Guinea' served all Hull said, to help lay the foundaajar. I tions upon which, after victory, for Guinea gold, but for 200 of b Scotch somebody whiskey prewar peace, freedom and a growing prosthere by Manager Bums, oi F nft y a mi perity may be built for generations to come. . . . Twenty-fou- r years Company, before the Jap inw 5ea7-seis now in England fa sullen ago, Wilson said: It will bring the Burns, who God, intends the RAF, a as returning afte of into Nations being League war to dig up his cache. The Y, n Brand living force devoted to the task of entrenc You got a assisting the peoples of all countries with everything from Dor tools to bulldozers, meanwhile In their desire for peace, prosripping up the jungle, hoping tc reEJig yoi perity and happines. him to the swag. The cattle . Anti-aircra- ft I i d 1 iord-T- d Enemy Broadcasters Without a Country t, The time grows shorter until Lord Hawhaw, Mr. Kaltenbach, Mr. Best, Miss Drexel, et al, take their places at the microphones of the Berlin radio to spread their futile propaganda over the ether for the last time. Here are three reminiscences: When I was broadcasting from Berlin for the NBC at the beginning of the war in 1933, there was only one of the staff of the German broadcasting station there who was provocatively Nazi. He was a tall, handsome blond, much given to riding boots and golf clubs. He had studied in England and his English seemed perfect to me. He was an announcer who read the news beamed on England. Then came the British declaration of war against Germany. There was naturally considerable excitement in the studio. It was not until going home that I missed my blond friend. No one seemed to know where he was. Then I heard the story. It seemed that when war was declared all enemy aliens were interned. The Gestapo, much to the surprise of his colleagues, picked up my blond anglophobe, explaining they had known all along that he was a British agent. Later he was brought back and forced to continue reading news bulletins in English. Number two in my gallery 1 never saw he is the man who Best mouths Nazi platitudes in a southern accent. But I understand the accent is all that is left of the man he is or was an American newspaperman who got into one of those European social impasses. A woman, of course, and an older and more determined one. He finally found his escape in drugs. That was an easy case for the Nazis. Now we come to exhibit number three: Constance Drexel. That name will be remembered by magazine and newspaper readers of some two decades ago It is a pseudonym chosen because, 1 imagine, her real one would not have sounded as pleasant In Philadelphia where she .worked on a newspaper. She had interviewed the Queen of Spain and other notables in her day (that dates her), but had started going to seed when she called on me hoping for an assignment from the syndicate for which I worked in the middle 20s. She still had some of her youthful good looks and knew how to make the most of them. The next time I ran across her was in the Potsdammer station in Beilin, shortly after the war started. I was returning from Switzerland and my office had told me Constance Drexel would appear on one of my periods and I was to edit her script. She showed it to me as we rode to my hotel. I read it. It was innocuous. She looked no younger but better fed. Said she was in Europe doing some syndicate articles. She made a broadcast which I did not hear and I never saw her again never heard of her until I had returned to America and caught a broadcast of hers over the shortwave from Berlin extolling the vntues of INDIAN TYPHOON When Amb. William Phillips famous letter advising Roosevelt that India was a U. S. problem leaked Into print, the British government sent instructions to all British suls in this country to inspire letters to editors, plus editorials in tjie local press. One man in New York alone wrote 76 letters to different newspapers. . . . Later, British consuls sent copies of editorials, etc., to the British Embassy, with accompanying notes, showing what a good job they had done. In the Embassy, Jossleyn Hennessy, British public relations man for India, left off the accompanying notes, sent the Map showing general direction of the twin drives of the U. S. Third army toward German territory. Th editorials to Sir Olaf Caroe in New arrows drive through the battlefields of World War I, where the fathers of present-da- y doughboys wrote a Delhi, so Sir Olaf could see what a brilliant page of American military history. The column driving from Troyes (1) Is believed to be beaded food job Hennessy had been doing. for Luxembourg, The push that drove across the Marne from the Seine (2) might yet spring a surprise and Sir Olaf then sent them to London. flank the rocket coast (3) from which the Germans launch their robots. Except in case of complete cob Sir Olaf also cabled London that lapse, the going is expected to become tougher as Allies enter German territory. He had been able to keep the Phillips letter out of India so far, but under existing conditions it was lure to be smuggled in, in which case it would be published by the (ndian press and there was nothing he could do to stop it. By 'existing conditions, Caroe meant h subversion on the part of (ndian officials who smuggle news into India despite censorship. Once BARRIER jiside India, the. British cant prevent publication in Indian ... 22,-00- 0 d of York representative Truk Remains a Tough Target of the I jpidnt the doc idt erty asked Th re wai re Brand Bart has There wai before nee aid a she ire. if tha The cowrr m and lai ire of tl isire him. Fellow s i a ro in hinder e ry die :e bullet v hat had end of thi art had t Te six-mon- th ... F ! Raising Old Glory , ... anti-Britis- 1 big-wig- merry-go-roun- f A merry-go-roun- t' ! (SEAPLANE f VV ii iXAl BASE) m dublon y tItwl Jv a- -- . j J: Truk atoll still remains a formidable Jap central Facific bastion. This photo was taken from one of the Seventh AAF Liberators attacking the air bases on Eten, Faram and Moen, and the naval and seaover Truk is plane .bases on Dublon island. The 25 miles of bomb-ru- n one of the most hazardous of any in the Central Facific. After a Robot Bomb Struck Tev ( Shy Guam Natives two-fiste- MERRY-GO-ROUN- There were 4,756 convictions for violation of the selective service act in the fiscal year ending June 30. 19 44. Thi re have been a total of Chnstmas mail month for all 10,872 such convictions since the seivice pet sonnet oceiseas will be draft law went into effect in Orto-be- the 30 day period between Septem1940. ber 15 and October 15. m, Some New Guinea points real Broadway flavor these In one day I bumped into Maj Schechter, former bigshot at t Sgt George McLemore, t sports columnist, now a combat respondent; Lieut. Jack Miley sports writer, still of approxim. the same tonnage as the k cruiser on which he is sen Lieut. Larry Jones, whose L operates Gertners restaurant York., and who is in charge largest GI messes in the south Pacific; Lew Parker and Jai Heller, night club performers r taining troops; Jack Davis, ' tralian Consolidated Press, whoc over for a gander a war; Capt. Jack Cross, Westche county journalist (husband of ers model Betty Riddell) andC vo'ver. Dick Krolick, also a journalist - wed the habitue of East 45th streets far was in Pen and Pencil bar; Eddie D iticed, he lngs son. Jack, war correspor a The for a Chicago newspaper; Dour, e room, Corrigan, ferry ies had (Wrongway) planes for the Fifth air force, mebody CoL Merian Cooper (hes gone tc on man, on leave to visit his wife, sder the 1 former Dorothy Jordon of Terry hel movies) who produced Char Give me and Long Vo; ordered. Grass, Home; Alfred Vanderbilt, The hart with his brother, George, is gi' Why, Mr. WASHINGTON PERSONALITIES the Japs hell as commanders Breath-takin- g Bob Gros, California boats. The ni lecturer, has the faculty of coming cidy. to the nations capital every year Phil La Follette, former Gow "You dor and interviewing more s per of Wisconsin, has just been tank, Br, hour than anyone else in the U.S.A. ufcw ain't Hell be gc He has just finished one of his moted to full colonel :wn on leave. . home soon breathless trips and sizes up perApparent Emily Coote of Boston's Back formers on the Washington d tferent Baronet widow-oand first the rd passed as follows: of one now is in Ireland, charge ce oar. Wendell Willkie The thinking-est- , the Red Cross outfits in An invei largest of on the guttiest guy tralia, caring for the wants ad been f politically unastute. arrived WACs. . . E'e' Jghed si British Ambassador Lord Halifax cently knows body Corp. Lew Ayres irk to the Worst dressed, but one of the as a chaplain assistant serving Somebo most charming. His sleeves were that Hollandia, but few know patched with red thread, he had Sgt. Frankie Darro is a dispecs loot me n said, on almost threadbare gabardine pharmacist at one of New Terrys d pants. big hospitals. He is the former fad. Donald Nelson Determined that star who specialized in Roan, small industry shall have a chance roles. or you The muzzle of a German gus to reconvert wc now, before the armakes an ideal socket for the flag mistice. ooundri a kicr man staff as American soldiers raise Capt. Lanny Ross has been Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson Old Glory over the battered cita- . The best 'ord sh solely responsible for shephe. balanced. Pacific del of St. Malo, It was here thal fash cr around the southwest Secretary of the Navy Forrestal such as J the German Mad Colonel held ou .j Quick, likable, expounds this phi- the bigshot entertainers La" d' doinj Carol for 11 days after St. Malo fell. losophy: Administration consists 95 Benny, Bob Hope, La Calhoun per cent of smoothing out human Martha Tilton, Jerry Colonna, ven look, frictions. The secret of American Adler and Gary Cooper. . in tie man of the biggest successes success is driving, restless energy Guinea, who, wiseacres thou k med. that makes you have ulcers. would be a flop, was Judith A- "f get it Secretary of War Stimson-T- he nse. rson, who presented Shakespeare most arbitrary. Small Business Administrator the GIs, and they loved it. - c0 He$ him. let Vanatte, INS daredevil flymg Maury Maverlck-T- he most d Esst Far the with magai spondent and dynamic. of a cr H pushei Jim Farley The most realistic force, tells the story unfit political analyst, the most bluntly sergeant who, physically transferred further was and disarmingly frank. fighting, to In general, Gros found army post office censorship ned Washing- sume duties ordinarily assigi ton taking the war in Us 'J ck stride; th officialdom much more settled down women. The disgruntled, di'g comm with than last year; less excitement less sergeant reported to his to even ing ofifierr, Sir, 1 have come hysteria, more efficiency. f ble. WAC1 place a D Senator Hiram Johnson, who rarely appear on the senate floor any more, still occasionally attends night bastbaU games at Grifflih . other ball fans are Senators Chandler of Kentucky, Walsh of New Jersey, Stewart of Tenncs, see, and Mead of New York all frequent at the ball park. C John L. Lewis faces the greatest rebellion against him in when the United Mine Workersyears hold their annual convention In Cincinnati. , The army buys enough baseball equipment every year to outfit 50 000 baseball teams and 100,000 softball teams; the navy enougU for more than 11,000 baseball teams and Softball teams. r, nt cat While Walter Winchell i, the bis his column will be conduct I of them guest columnists. ;e,edtobe s by Kaukhage A Washington, D. C. AND FDR Most important college of amateur physicians anywhere in the world, 200 strong, now approximately meets Tuesdays and Fridays at the White House. . . . These are newsmen assigned to cover the President. They assemble, make careful scrutiny, write lengthy analyses of the Presidents complexion, nervousness, every facial expression; try to interpret these in relation to his health. . . . Actually the Presi-idelooks thinner, not too well tanned, but calm and fit, though he shows obvious sign of wearying at the scores of questions thrown at him during press tussles. . . . FDR still knows how to turn charm on and off, calls newsmen by their first names, teases them about "dope stories. . . . Since his return from the Alaska trip, Roosevelt is seeing more people than in the last six months, is growing more aware of domestic issues. NEWSMEN STOR7 of Sbei sta-diu- I j -.-M Air raid . ... . t. watdins and colunteers bring out casualties from the a bloik of flats strui k by a Get man robot bomb in South Engruins land. Fart of the building Is still blazing In background. Recent figures released s' id tint 17,000 homes are destroed ccery 24 hours by the fhing Lamb ,. lae total number of causeJ by robots is not of C.ven. A bare-foote- d old ladv perks over the shoulders of other Chamaroo natives on Guam after the U. S. mi- tcol 0V(, most of the Island and the naliccs joined the Yans. Jack Benny got plenty st J laughs from General MacArt GIs with his crack: I am timer in these Pacific Island used to spend weekends at lina . . . . Lt. Cmdr. George who used to coach the CtK Bears professional football and is now serving as recre-and welfare officer for the fleet, is accompanying Bob party on Its tour of the south' a Pacific area and secs that the er boys get their share of the tainment. trg th, tmntry Lfe t y faded dowla J sor tstih i ing t 8 Was 5 to e hid f a mt tut ! fanch |