Show - - s - i Sunday Morning It V:be November'14 1943 gnkr 5 France Likely to Join 'Big Three' in London British Optimistic Over War Constantine Arthur Gaeth Brown By D C — WASHLNGTON France is likely to be given in the future a place on the big three committee in London General De Gaulle's statement that his country would not recog- eluding the army And now General Giraud has been ousted completely and GenerEil De Gaulle is the actual leader and unquestionably the future head of liberated France The erratic French general has shown more political acumen than both the state department and the foreign office have given him credit for He achieved his aims merely by going over—bag and baggage--t- o Russia He is convinced that any European power playing along with Moscow will in the end be on the winning side And the Russian government accepted General De Gaulle's advances with enthusiasm because it recognizes that in any future set-u- p of Europe France will play an Important role Militarily a n d economically France is weak and exhausted The defeats have made her a fourth-rat- e world power But she does continue to have an Intellectual prestige over the bulk of Europe which the misfortunes of war cannot obliterate because it is centuries old Russia must have France on her side to obtain a beginning over Europe Stalin recognized this when he gave the Free French movement complete nize any arrangements with the axis unless a French representative sits on that committee is riot an empty threat 41 the last two years GenrarDe Gaulle has ler-nethat 100 king as a political man means What he says and shows an unyielding attitude he will succeed eventually His own experiences with the British and Amerfcan governments as well as with the groups hostile to him in north Africa have demonstrated this amply Only last May General De Gaulle was merely tolerated in Algiers General Giraud was Our favorite He was invited to Washington where honors and receptions were showered on him while General De Gaulle Ignored by the allies stayed be hind Finds Positions Revemed Soon after General Giraud returned to Africa he discovered that General De Gaulle had taken control of everything in d U I By highest French officials including many De Gaul lists that the empire will continue to exist only if France after the war gives Britain the right to have air and naval bases in north Africa and some of its key colonies such as Madagascar The French hated the thought but at one time there appeared no other v:ay out The argument put forward to the French leaders that the future security of France depended to a large extent on the British and hence the British should be given air and naval bases for the defense of France seemed logical Mt since Russia obviously has emerged as the strongest nation in Europe and Moscow is prepared to become the champion of France without any material quid pro quo the French have now embarked on an all-opolicy of unrestricted cooperation with Russia While not particularly palatable to the United States and Britain it is pointed out that the additiön of France to the big three committee would be of enormous help to Russia and it Is fully expected that before the start of the meetings in London France will have a representative on that committee diplomatic recognition 18 rnonths ago White Washington and London have recognited the Algiers committee merely as an administrative body Russia has sent a ambassador to General De Gaulle with a staff of some 80 persons Although he owes his political existence to the British government which created the Free French movement in 1940 General De Gaulle turned toward because he was conthe vinced that Russia would be the dominating power in Europe and only through close collaboration with the soviet could France's empire be saved The preservation of the empire is of more interest to the average Frenchman today than the political form of government of postwar France The crimes of previous French governments together with a period of starvation and privation led most observers to believe that the Russian form of government would be most appealing to the bulk of the French Must Aid British Ever since the allies entered north Africa however there has been a strong feeling among the full-fledg- at three-year-o- 1 is now Armistice day 1943 history The global war continues but there is a new wave of enthusiasm developing A letter which just reached me from London states that "there is coneiderable optimism in the British capital just now that the war in Europe is much nearer its end than most people thought This seems to be based on pretty good reports that the German home front is very near to cracking that the German public is now asking openly why the war should go on when Germany no longer has any chance to win" It is pretty obvious that ut ld - By Edgar A Movirer friends or the friends of gandage" and the partly benevolent Mafia are springing up again The original popularity n "liberaof the tors" has almost completely disappeared In many spots American soldiers have to be heavily armed to protect them against popular resentment induced by their "protection" of the former oppressors Tho A M G big shots like Francis Lord Rennell of Rodd are reported to be associating almost exclusively with the beneficiaries of fascism Meanwhile despite our clumsy conceptions and practice history takes its inexorable course The Italians like the north Africans are gradually making their will effective The king of Italy like Dar Ian is an object -of public aversion Badoglio like- Giraud is unable to impose his will Sound antifascists De Gaulle in north Africa in Italy Sforza Omodeo Croce perhaps Colonial Pacciardi tomorrow are assuming the power we ought to have placed spontaneously in their hands and are grudgingly allowed to perform the tasks we should have begged them to undertake for us Gradually they weed out reports Shocking seeping back from occupied Italy through the censorship are gradually revealing that the Pritish and American authorities have' committed all the errors there that they did in north Africa and with much 'the Same Unfortunate effects As in north Africa so in Italy We came to terms with the people who had been shcioting at us and allowed them to remain in power These people capitulated only When they no longer had the 31ea113 of fighting so thet their surrender brought us exactly nothing Instead of throwing the lot Into the ashcan- and seeking a new administration composed exclusively of friendly antifascists we helped the (bombing the centers of revolt in northern Italy for instance) The who remained in power with our approval maintained most or all of the old abuses Instead of being summarily done away with by their victims they continued to exploit their victims People arriving from Sicily insist that the former prefects who after 1936 were complete lackeys of the regime have maintained the Imprisonment of a number of antifascists It is furthermore affirmed that these fascists in authority are profiteering in food and that a black market exists to the detriment of the poor As a result "noble bri erty Then just as in north Africa our promises of future freedom and democracy utterly fail to compensate for our failure to reestablish both immediately Opposition to the United States disbelief in professed American ideals flourish where our armies go Resentments like lies have long legs and may well pursue US for years to the detriment of international comity The shocking thing is our leaders do not seem to understand what they are doing Because they stubbornly seek or conservative solutions of situations that can only be radically resolved (see Yugoslavia and Greece) they are unable to canalize and thereby minimize the amount of necessary violence Because they have adopted a completely cock Anglo-America- - "ex"-fascis- ts anti-fasci- st "ex"-fascis- ts their enemies who by some eyed system of allowing military men the last word in political affairs of which they are generally lib- -n- ignorant they are going forward from blunder to blunder The existing system has twice proved itself harmful and ultimately unworkable Tardily it has been announced that A M G will not be allowed to carry its obtuse methods into other But the friendly countries French national committee of Algiers has yet to receive the promise that its agents will be asked to reestablish civilian government in reconquered France There is always the threat of Interference or postponement by some misled military mind distrustful of democratic processes and more fearful of "disorder" of injustice than ' True the Moscow declaration regarding Italy insists that the present "misgovernment" should be made "more democratic" and that fascism must be extirpated (always subject to the convenience of the commander in chief) It appears that fascists are finally being removed from offices in Naples This is good but it is not enough The world's future faith in America the saving of valuable time and more valuable American lives require a change In the system: No more Darlans and Victor manueies but Instead radically antifascist administrations from the moment the first united nations' soldier steps ashore or crosses the frontier When will Washington learn? Press Alliance Inc on-violent" Narrow Escape For Navy Men DEER LODGE Mont (P)— Strange fish attacked the rub ber boat upon which Robert C Flock and other navy men were paddling in the south seas after their plane was forced down They fought them off with their paddles Flock said in a letter to his mother and finally reached an island Natives told them the fish were barracudas and would have ripped them to pieces if they had succeeded in sinking the boat co- incidence that remains dark to our master minds happen to be ours The antifascist political prisoners in north Africa are released while General Bergeret goes behind the bars Yet since this occurs late and ungraciously it does not bring us popularity It does not convince the people that we are their t tic -- -they Iiimm- ler is no longer able to prevent such talk In Germany In other words such a large percentage of the population is talking about it that not all of them can possibly be put in concentration camps or executed or otherwise subdued There is the strong impression in London that the allies will not need to open a major second front in western Europe and that by next spring everything will be In readiness for an all-oeffort againtt the Japanese It is believed too that when such action in the Pacific is possible the Japanese too will be beaten considerably more quickly than has previously been considered likely Six to Nine Months Winston Churchill's speech on optimistic Tuesday while less predicted victory in Europe some time in 1944 with hard costly fighting ahead Swash sources expect the Germans to be able to hold out from six to nine months longer Many observers are basing their optimistic opinions on precedents established in the last war However there are some new developments that must be considered in 1943 Germany never was- under such autocratic rule even in the days of the it kaiser Revolt is much more and the general food and raw material supplies of the reich are not as low as they were in 1918 Too the Germans are beset with a tremendous fear they have never had before—the fear of extermination They know they are universally hated German propaganda has proclaimed the' superiority of the GerMan Nordics and the inferiority of " the They were to become the labor slaves of the nazi's Every German knows about the persecution of the concentration camps the plundering of the resources of those people Germans see millions of foreign workers in the third reich For ali that there will be retaliation that Germans know must be inevitable That persecution has not been kept hidden from the people Life or Death Struggle There is tremendous hatred of the Germans in every occupied country and the nazis know they are not safe—that Germans left behind in satellite or occu British-America- ut Repeats African Errors in Italy S pied countries after an Allied victory may suffer the death So penalty or be assassinated long as the Germans are fighting beyond the borders of their own reich they will be in danger will lack even the common protection Germans can give eacbother inside Germany The nazis have been driving home the message that this is "the life and death" struggle that either Germany must win or there will be no Germany The German people have been fed on the brutality of the bolsheviks and the desire to exploit of the British and Americans not tArow themselves They at the enemy's mercy until there Is no other possible escape Even if the Germans anticipate Anglo - American mercy n troops are not within marching distance of the third reich There is no organized protection in arty occupied country None of the countries except Italy has yet broken away All these factors indicate that while the Germans might lose their nerve and their home front could crack quickly there are so many deterrents even in the face of the present discouragement that the Germans appear destined to fight on until their backs are up against their own borders Then however the collapse may come quickly' If that is the development then the war in Europe should reach a climax the middle of next summer by with the collapse of Germany following before the next winter Depends on 'Russia The of Russia however isstrength an unknown factor and may speed the final decision n forces landed in the west would not become a deciding factor for several months but the reichswehr is in the most critical position of its history in western Russia The Berlin radio has announced that the Germans are retreating along the arterial highway run- ning west of Kiev to the border The impression conveyed is that they may soon be forced out of Russia proper The Germans are already faced with retreat into Rumania and Poland as quickly as they can extricate their men Generals Vatutin and Tolbukhin are striking from Kiev on the north and across the Dnieper river in the south Once again they are in a position to trap a half million nazis The Germans averted the trap at Krivoi Rog where they have held for weeks and succeeded in pulling back from Dnepropetrovsk but now another pincers is forming behind them The nazis are growing weaker and where they resisted successfully before they may lose this time Vatutin's army is closing at a pace against Korosten Zhitomir and Vinnitsa on the most important railroad line that the Germans still can use to extricate themselves If those Russians are not halted the nazis may be trapped before Anglo-America- fig-lim- - "Jew-Slays- so-call- they can reach the Dniester river defense line on the old Rumanian frontier While German positions are not yet hopeless they are deteriorating rapidly Inner Nazi Defenses Private Czech sources have reported that the nazis do have an inner defense line around their German population Tens of thousands of Slovaks have been employed Ao build defenses in the Carpathian mountains The inner German defense positions are mounted along the 1941 German-Russia- n border in Poland and run to the Carpathians then along mountainous northern Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to the Austrian and Swiss Alps over into eastern France and western Germany to the Albert canal in Belgium and then along the Dutch and Danish coast to southern Norway The odds are against the Germans surrendering until they have been forced to abandon some of those defenses The British also are using political pressure to strengthen the allied position in Europe Just as Portugal was 'induced" into making concessions to the allies so the Turks now are under pressure Concessions from them would save a hundred thousand men in the Balkans The Turks need to ingratiate themselves with the British and Americans to insure their position Tbere is a growing congres-: sional opinion in the United State § that something ought to be done about General Franco True' he excused his recent congratulatory message to the Japanese puppet government in the Philippines as not constituting Spanish recognition but the whole matter was out of taste and lndicates definitely where interests lie ' Spanlsh falangist We need not deceive ourselves The Hispanidad which the Spaniards have organized as a cultural council is an attempt now backfiring to revive Spanish imperialism and create world contacts The Philippines once were Spanish possessions Politically Franco is no different from Hitler or Mussolini His policies have been similar and only a ruined Spain and limited power have kept Franco from following the nazi lead and becoming a more powerful tool in the general axis program Until now the existing Spanish government may have retained its favorable position because of American condonation but soon the expediency of war should have played its part and then we will be compelled to face the true situation in Spain as we did in Vichy France just ' Veteran Remembers HARRISONBURG Va CIP)-- -o soldiers from Harrisonburg now overseas will receive three-poun- d fruit cakes tor Christmas as a present from a veteran of World war I The veteran who gave the order to a bakery asked to remain anonyEighty-tw- mou S 4 1 At "z "Z - 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