Show GENERAL 1 HUGH S JOHNSON fw vau salk RELIEF FOR FINLAND ERE are some hard boiled HERE thoughts that are sure to get a barrage of dead cats the writer has accordingly retired to the bombproof bomb proof shelter of a hospital the futile defense of finland was as fine a chapter as there is in either military or political 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 that it was hopeless and that finland would have been wiser to have accepted dussias Rus sias earlier and milder demands A glance at the map will wil I 1 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 bad staff bad officers yet without help finland hold help as a practical matter was impossible it was impossible from W 7 n ea N there is 13 still much suffering in our own country the allies for both political and military reasons it was impossible from us by reason of sheer physical factors now voices of several great journalists are raised to say that since w we e did not rush in with force of arms to save finland we should now open the federal ti 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 in our own country that we cured and cant cure for lack of funds there are many similar good works abr abroad 0 ad if we have a duty to rebuild finland we have a like duty to rebuild shattered poland and shattered china that tha would cost more but these bleeding 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 deb t 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 to pour out more of our declining wealth that suggests a great solution let those whose gene generosity rosity so burns their bleeding he hearts a arts raise the necessary millions by voluntary contributions from those of like minds SMEAR 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 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 for an investigation of wire tapping this order may look like a retirement under fire in the very obvious smear hoover campaign that I 1 is S 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 |