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Show Washington, D. C. JAPANESE BLOW-UP? Don't be surprised if there is a )low-up brewing in Japan not un-ike un-ike that which nearly bumped off At. Hitler recently. This columnist las reason to believe that things are leething inside Japan right now and hat the die is cast against the Tascist military clique at the top. It was groups of young Fascist fficers who shot Tokyo's leading noderates back in the days when t was not yet definitely decided hat Japan should conquer Asia, low the moderates are able to say 'I told you so," and are beginning 0 get the upper hand. The Emperor probably will not be 1 victim of the revolutionary tur-noiL tur-noiL for two reasons: (1) He is a noderate himself, never did go as 'ar as the cut-throat young Fascists, vas kept more or less a palace irisoner by them; (2) he is better uarded than any other man in the vorld. High walls, moats, trained, rusted bodyguards surround him. tfot even his personal tailor is per-nitted per-nitted to touch him. Unrest inside Japan has not had time to be communicated to Jap troops at the front, nor is it likely to affect outside war areas much. The Jap soldier away from home can be counted on to fight to the very end, because be-cause he cannot come home unless un-less he is victorious. The code of Bushido does not permit it. The big thing to watch, when and if things inside Japan reach the boiling point, is the Jap fleet. Its officers will be faced with the alternative, under the code, of all committing suicide or sailing into the enemy, no matter mat-ter what the odds against them, and fighting it out. HOOVER'S CHILDREN Bachelor J. Edgar Hoover, who las jailed more esperate criminals han any man in history, has a se-:ret se-:ret weakness which not . many eople know about. He likes chil-iren. chil-iren. On many an afternoon you will find a group of boys going hrough FBI headquarters, getting joints on crime detection. If he is lot too busy. Hoover himself will lake time to say hello. Hoover has spent much time itudying children, feels that a aealthy younger generation is the jest insurance against crime, once sven, wrote a magazine ( article, "Ji Had a Son." Here is some of the advice he jave: "If I had a son, I'd probably se frightened. I've never feared :riminals, but if I were a husband nd father I might be afraid. So nuch would depend on me. "If I had a son, I'd do one thing. I'd tell him the truth. I'd never let lim catch me in a lie. And in return I'd insist that he tell the truth. . . . When children go astray it isn't the fault of the children but of their parents. ... A spoiled boy grows into a spoiled man. ... I'd try to De a pal to my boy. ... I'd encourage encour-age him to join the Boy Scouts and boys' clubs, but before he joined I'd make it a point of getting acquainted with the leader of the Iroop. ... I'd have my son go to church. What's more, I'd go with aim. , . . But above everything else, I'd try to understand my son. For if I didn't I'd be a failure as a dad." STALIN-CHURCHILL CORDIALITY Those who have watched the diplomatic dip-lomatic wheels go round from the close-up inside, report that Stalin and Churchill are now getting along famously. This is important because it was not the case at Teheran, where Roosevelt and Stalin did the getting along and Churchill didn't. That was when the present Second Front in France was the topic of considerable consider-able argument and when Churchill, bidding farewell to Stalin, said: "Well, goodbye, Marshal. I'll see you in Berlin." "Yes," replied Stalin; "I in a tank and you in a Pullman car." Churchill's friends point out that at Teheran he was in the early stages of a very severe illness and definitely not himself. Since then, Churchill seems to have got over any complexes regarding re-garding Stalin, and Stalin takes a like position toward Churchill. There has been complete teamwork between the two for some time. Both British and American diplomats diplo-mats also pay tribute to the cooperation co-operation of the Russians in recent months on most subjects, even including Poland. The general view In diplomatic circles is that Stalin has been reasonable regarding Poland. Po-land. MERRY-GO-ROUND C While big Georgia textile operator opera-tor Scott Russell advises Senator George's committee on reconversion, reconver-sion, Eastman Kodak executive Marion B. Folsom advises Congressman Congress-man Colmer's house committee on postwar planning. C. Bargains to be picked up from surplus property disposer Will Clayton: Clay-ton: $5,000,000 of RFC-owned machine ma-chine tools, to be sold at junk prices; 10,000 airplanes to be sold at not more than 65 cents on the dollar. |