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Show I 1 lli Hitler's Scheme From indisputable diplomatic sources your reporter learns that the Nazis hope to win, with their fifth and sixth columns, what they could not win on the battlefields. If the Russian campaign fails. Hitler Hit-ler is to be deposed and the Ger- V man General Staff will pose as the savior of the world from Bolshevism. Bol-shevism. There is only one rub-Hitler rub-Hitler is planning it all to save himself him-self from the allied armies and the armies of Germany. The only thing Hitler has to offer the civilized world is his death. The only people more double crossed than the conquered are the appeas-ers. appeas-ers. The only people more brutally treated than captured civilians are the German industrialists, who gave Hitler his first money. Hitler believes he can bribe American Amer-ican business men with their own bank deposits and the American people with the deeds to their own ' homes. The American answer will be with American scrap-iron not on Nazi scraps of paper. Hitler's offer will be seventh heaven for the sixth column. But American business will not be fooled by Hitler's profits in dollars. The United States Constitution Con-stitution has paid too many dividends divi-dends in peace and dignity. MacAr-thur, MacAr-thur, Stilwell, O'Hare, Wheless and Bulkeley are building a firm foundation foun-dation for peace with a wall for Hitler's back. Scrambled Eggs: The picture of wrecked Rotterdam, Rotter-dam, in the Times mag. is something some-thing the United Nations must re-member re-member to bring to the treaty table. It's a convicter. An unarmed town, destroyed to show how tough the Nazzys are. And a good argument for a deal that will keep them from ever getting tough again . . . Washington Wash-ington correspondents have a phrase for colleagues who will square social so-cial obligations by plugging their hosts' angle in their sheets: "They can be bought for a canape." Lots of Congressmen would be jumpier than they already are if they knew their letters were being shown around. These are the soreheads sore-heads who are being goody-goody in public but as Bund-loving as ever '' in private. It's the old racket of trading their faces for a few votes . . . It's going to be very interesting to see what the dailies, that; have been warning there won't be any elections, will do about sponsoring candidates. They have a choice of admitting they have been lying or skipping all mention of the balloting. Which isn't a very smart limb to get yourself out on, Bud. Archibald MacLeish, in an interview, inter-view, discussed his hecklers, who have grown since he took over the Office of Facts and Figures. "The criticism most often expressed against me," he said, "is the fact , that I am a poet. Not that I am a bad poet. Simply to call a man a poet is, apparently, to throw a bad gg at him" ... He might have oeen answering a small-timer, who columned a crud about winning the war with poetry, "sock 'em with a sonnet." That's the crackerbarre) style of satire, the easiest kind to write. It appeals to the dopes by ridiculing education very small time. An editorial writer keeps repeating repeat-ing that we should win the war as quickly as possible, because peace is better than war ... Do you have to have brains to figure that out? . . . How come nobody ever gives medals to critics for going to so many dull shows all season? This one was so dull both the Critics Circle and Pulitzer Committee agreed no show was worth a prize . . . This gives you an idea how temporary fame is. If DiMaggio doesn't get a hit one day they boo him . . . Whatever happened to those people who said they had proof Hitler was dead? . . . Here's one to make you dizzier: "Blithe Spirit," the play, is barred from Army camps. Too . risgay, they said ... So what happens? hap-pens? . . . "Blithe Spirit" gives a performance for you'd never guess . . . West Pointers! Italy has celebrated the sixth anniversary an-niversary of its empire which has ceased to exist. A lost people clinging cling-ing to a lost dream ... It takes great men to look big in defeat. Willkie, who missed the Presidency, Presiden-cy, and O'Dwyer, who ran second for mayor, are still good men for those offices . . . Did you hear why that New Yorker writer was rejected for military service? The doctors found out he had a brain murmur. Sad to read about Graham Mc-Namee's Mc-Namee's death. He pioneered a lot of things on the networks. He was the first to get all het up about his subject. He had the kind of pipes that could convey excitement, as too -many of his mockers haven't. He also was one of the few laughing m. c.'s who got away with it. The usual giggling feeder is an ear torturer. tor-turer. The straight man who laughed at the act's sallies never hit the big time. He was a sensation sensa-tion at Loew's Wichita but never played the Palace. |