Show VA W PLOT ON HITLER those whose business it Is to study the iatric intricate a te problem of german politics have now come to the conclusion that if 11 it been for the july 20 putsch against hitler we might have been saved six months or so of fighting the attempt on hillers Hit lers life gave him the excuse to clean out every in military min man not in sympathy with the war and his military leaders since ines then have lacked the courage to suggest an armistice even though they knew the war was hopeless here Is the inside story of what happened the hitler plot had been cleverly arranged by the british they had been working for months with a small secret segment of antl diftler officers inside the german army actually their pipelines into germany had been laid even before the war started weeks and weeks of the most minute planning had gone into the plot however as in anything as dangerous as an attempt to assassinate sas sinate the worlds chief madman something went wrong at the last minute A high up german officer on the general staff had agreed to place a briefcase containing a time bomb alongside Hit hillers nitle lers rB chair during a meeting n g of the general staff lie he d did i 4 so but either hitler moved away or else did not sit where expected at any rate when the bomb went off it killed several officers but hitler was only wounded in the hand band by a bomb fragment that incident however touched off the bloodiest blood purge in history neutral sources estimate that german officers and other high up officials suspected of antl anti hitler bias were killed any german gelman leader who had bad grown cool re garding the war or was slightly critical of hitler was included in the last war it was the german general staff who demanded of the kaiser that he sue for peace as early as september 29 1918 the german civilian government resisted in this war it was expected that the professional military caste would see the futility of further fighting and also sue for peace after the normandy invasion last june but as a result resul of the july purge the military leaders who survived dared not brave hillers Hit lers wrath POSTWAR conscription although no final decision has been made by personally undersecretary of war bob patterson and several other white house advisers are urging him to press for immediate congressional action on a postwar compulsory military training law covering all men 18 to 28 20 patterson and some of the army brass hats want roosevelt to jam the conscription bill through congress before the war Is over they are using the line with that passage of a peacetime conscription bill by congress now will be further evidence to the united nations that this country will maintain a sizable military force to help keep the peace congressional leaders so far are against immediate consideration feel have their hands full fall in the next few months getting more urgent postwar measures through capitol hill such as jobs without starting up a terrific controversy over conscription note the white house Is being deluged with mail against postwar conscription most of the public seems to be against it CATITA CAPITAL C CHAFF fl di the german people have been ordered to kill lall chickens chicken in order to save feed di A secret report has been circulated among top officials showing that as ol of february 1 the manpower situation was excellent manpower commissioner mcnutt has told the senate military affairs committee privately the same thing senator chandler 0 of kentucky quoting g vi vice ce chairman william batt of the that we have already out produced our enemies and our allies representative charles la follette liberal indiana republican and a close friend of wendell L willkie Will kle never had met his son philip willkie Will kle until his recent trip to london where lieutenant willkie was stationed A few days later la follette bumped into philip accidentally in new york and a few days after that willkie arrived in washington and was a guest at la Fol lettes home 91 the norwegian embassy has protested to lo 10 louis als B mayor mayer against metro goldwyn mayers plan to screen victoria by nove novelist it st knut haesun who turned quisling the norwegians Norwegia ns dont want any book by any quisling featured in hollywood three weeks have now passed and the norwegian embassy Is wondering why louis B mayer has not replied fl L the california veterans of foreign wars wan have requested roosevelt to drop deportation proceedings against west coast labor leader harry bridges |