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Show GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: United Feature WNU Service RELIEF FOR FINLAND HERE are some hard-boiled hard-boiled thoughts, that are sure to get a barrage of dead cats. The writer has accordingly accord-ingly retired to the bombproof bomb-proof shelter of a hospital. The futile defense of Finland Fin-land was as fine a chapter as there is in either military or political polit-ical history, skill, valor, loyalty and fortitude all were there at their highest and best everything that is meant by the motto of West Point, "Duty, Honor, Country." This column insisted from the beginning be-ginning that it was hopeless and that Finland would have been wiser to have accepted Russia's earlier and milder demands. A glance at the map will show that the natural defenses of her front yard were in the hands of Finland. Resistance was hopeless because Finland could not overcome the mass of Russian power even though, as this column also pointed out before the fighting began, that power was mushy brave but stupid soldiers, bad equipment, bad transport, trans-port, bad staff, bad officers, yet, without help, Finland couldn't hold. Help as a practical matter was impossible. im-possible. It was impossible from "7 here is still much suffering in our own country . . ,n the allies for both political and military mil-itary reasons. It was impossible from us by reason of sheer physical factors. Now voices of several great journalists jour-nalists are raised to say that, since we did not rush in with force of arms to save Finland, we should now open the federal treasury to rebuild her ruins. That would be both Christian and kind. But, in doing all these noble things that cost billions, we must cut our coat to suit our cloth. There are many other acts of charity and mercy that we could do if we had the dough. There is still much suffering suf-fering in our own country that we haven't cured and can't cure for lack of funds. There are many similar good works abroad. If we have a duty to rebuild Finland, we have a like duty to rebuild shattered Poland and shattered China. That would cost more, but these bleeding hearts seem to think the deed so worthy that we should not count cost. The great 'generosity of some of them has already strained our debt and taxing power to a limit that has paralyzed the return of prosperity and weakened our defense. Yet that seems not to check the urge to find other occasions and "obligations" "obliga-tions" to pour out more of our declining de-clining wealth. That suggests a great solution. Let those whose generosity so burns their bleeding hearts raise the necessary nec-essary millions by voluntary contributions con-tributions from those of like minds. 'SMEAR HOOVER' CAMPAIGN Attorney General Jackson is standing loyally by his associate, Chief G-Man Hoover. He issued an order the effect of which is to prevent pre-vent wire tapping in criminal cases by any federal bureau. In doing so he made it clear that Mr. Hoover opposed and forbade wire-tapping in FBI, until ordered by a former attorney general to use that method in extreme cases. Yet, in view of the tow-row kicked up by Senator Norris' indictment of FBI, and the proposed senate resolution reso-lution for an investigation of wiretapping, wire-tapping, this order may look like a retirement under fire in the very obvious "smear Hoover" campaign that is going on. Neither in Senator Norris' letter nor in the senate resolution, was there any intimation whatever or any complaint by anybody of any FBI invasion of civil rights. Mr. Hoover has continuously protested pro-tested and prevented wire-tapping. It is well known throughout FBI, that it is worth any agent's job to tap a wire in any case not specifically specif-ically authorized by the chief himself him-self and that has never been done except where a human life was at stake or at the climax of the cleanup clean-up of some Dillinger-like bandit or racketeering gang. That doesn't mean that plenty of wires have not been tapped by other departments of federal government. |