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-With confidence in our armed forces—with
the unbounding determination of our people—
we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help
ns God.
Roosevelt’s War Message.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1945.
TOP O’MORNING
Are they praying for us at home?
Are they meeting together for prayer?
Or going on still in the usual way
' As they did when I was there.
We thank them for all their money
We thank them for all their care.
But Oh, just tell them dear mother
We are needing so much their prayer!—
From a Soldier’s Letter.
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Right Of Congress Alone
The Star-News agrees with former Presi
dent Hoover that the San Francisco Charter
should be ratified by the Senate but that
“Congress should never part with its powers
to declare war.”
No individual, certainly not a member of
the Security Council alone, should be vested
with the right to plunge the nation into
war. That right is hte constitutional responsi
bility of Congress. It should never be taken
away.
This does not mean, however, that the Unit
ed States member of the Security Council
should not have power to order special police
duty for any branch or unit of the nation’s se
curity forces in emergency.
A chief of police does not have to ask
permission from the city government to call
out 'nis reserves for riot duty. The right is
inherent in his office. By the same token our
Security Council member need not ask per
mission to call out the troops or air force
of fleet to suppress an incipient war move.
But if the flare-up threatened actual and
devastating war, so that the entire armed
forces of the nation would be needed, and a
declaration of war alone could meet the emer
gency, then the President should still go be
fore Congress, state the case, and ask its sup
port in making that declaration.
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Norwegians Plenty Sore '
Some seventy-odd days have passed since
the German surrender and no German troops
have been removed from Norway- Their pres
ence is proving a trial for the Norwegianpeo
ple who suffered so greatly during the Ger
man occupation and w&o are still unrelieved
of many of the burdens they were compelled
to shoulder by their persecutors. We read in
, an Onslo dispatch:
“A sort point is the fact that the over
■ ■ whelming mass of green-clad Germans are
enjoying themselves lolling in water, bashing
in the sun on the beaches, and lovely moun
‘ tain lakes, and strolling aimlessly about the
beautiful country-side, while Norway itself is
j faced with a desperate shortage of manpower
to avert a grave fuel shortage next winter.”
Another sore point is the filth left by the
Germans. The same dispatch adds:
“This correspondent visited the debris-lit
tered filth-encrusted Gestapo prison and tor
ture chambers at Victoria Terasse, where, the
Germans had made last minute efforts to de
stroy as much as possible the evidence of
their crimes.
“Victoria Terasse proved to be only one
example of the disgraceful manner in-which
the Germans carried on during the last weeks
or months before peace.
"The stately Furulund Villa, near Oslo,
which served as a Gestapo bastion and com
munications center during the last months of
occupation, was still unbelievably filthy after
days of Norwegian effort to clean it up.
"It is the same story with schools, hospit
als, and other public buildings which the Ger
mans used' for military purposes.
"Days oi sweeping, scrubbing, and painting
were required before the quarters approach
ed a livable American standard. The Same is
true at the Trondheim in the British zone.
Hotel Britannia in that city, before the war
Norway’s most charming place, looked like a
pigpty when this correspondent visited it. Ev
en the glass dome and the tops of the high
walls were splotched with filth.”
We read further that some five thousand
Germans are concentrated in a rail-junction
town under a fourteen-man police guard, anc
fAOe thousand are in Trondheim vicinity, a!
many as the total population of that city
In the Orkla valley the natives are outnum
uered by well-fed Germans who neither J:or
nor sew but spend their time desporting ir
the sun.
Naturally the Norwegians are plenty sore
and asking what Is to be done to rid thou
‘ land of the surrendered enemy.
The Highway Hearing
Sometime before he died President Roose
velt developed a master plan for a super
highway network to connect all sections cl j
the United States, in the building of which |
jobs would be provided for tens of thousands :
of returning veterans. Because President
Roosevelt was not familiar with conditions
in all regions and obviously prepared his map
without consulting persons in close touch with
regional conditions and needs, ,his final draft
was far from adequate.
When Mr. Roosevelt’s map was first dis
tributed.the Star-News pointed out that North
Carolina’s entire coastal region was not rep
resented, nor was there provision for feeder
highways from the coast to the interior. Gov
ernments of communities in the excluded ter
ritory and the state’s delegation in Congress
were urged to call the attention of authorities
with the great project in charge to the over
sight and ask that the map be revised to in
clude the coastal area and connect it with
the heavy industry territory to the northwest
and west.
The appeal apparently has been dormant,
if not actually forgotten. For the State Hign
way Commission, which announces a hearing
on the highway plan at its offices in Raleigh
on Wednesday, says that the cities indicated
along the original route will be represented
and that Raleigh, which is overlooked will
have a representative present to show why
it should be included. No reference is made
to a Wilmington delegation.
Because this hearing is liable to settle all
highway routes in the state the Star-News
repeats is appeal that the City Council and
the County Commission attend the session,
together with all citizens with the best in
terests of southeastern North Carolina at
heart and present Wilmington's claim to serv
ice by the :'nter-area highway system which is
to have such an important part in the post
war national development program.
Unless this is done and appeal made with
sufficient pressure to assure its adoption, Wil
mington will find itself cut off from the agri
cultural and industrial areas of the ihterior for
the underdeveloped, circuitous roads that
have been in service for years. And all the j
time Wilmington will have the best nort j
through which the products of the interior can j
move to coastal or foreign markets.
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John Q. Due For New Deal
The Senate’s approval of tax revision un
der which corporations will have an improved
chance to reconvert to peacetime production
is a welcome step in the right direction.
But what the American people generally want
the Congress to do is to cut the federal waste
that has characterized the war period so that
revision downward of income taxes may be
made.
The public, no less than corporations, needs
a chance to reconvert to peacetime living,
and unless there is a considerable reduction
in income taxes, the process is going to be a
sacrificial rite.
For some years the public has been led
like a lamb to the slaughter. The time has
come to give relief from the tax burden wh'ch
is so largely the result of governmental
extravagance.
Old John Q. is due for a new deal.
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Hitler’s Whereabouts
Argentina doesn’t fancy reports that Hitler
and his lady love are basking under the Pata
gonian sun, and being imaginative as well
as outwardly repentant, comes across with a
story that they are happily enshrined in the
Antarctic.
Buenos Aires dispatch quotes the news
paper Critica of that city as saying they are in
“Queen Maud Land’’ on the Antarctic conti
nent “where a new Berchtesgaden is likely
to have been built” during a German expedi
tion to that section in 1938 and 1939.
Not to be outdone in the guessing match on
Hitler’s whereabouts, the Russians now claim
he and his girl friend are in Palestine.
Why not Hollywood?
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m A 1 • i •_
iuu mmmiuus
Ambition, often, is a dangerous thing
Caesar, you remember, was ambitious, and
look what they did to him.
Now, its Leopold of Belgium Leopold wanted
to go home and be king again. But the Belgians
could not forget that he surrendered the Bel
gian Army to the Germans and accepted the
hospitality of the Nazis while his people were
being subjected to torture and their land de
spoiled'.
So the Belgian Senate, following the lead of
the Chamber of Deputies, voted to exile him
and ’continue the regency under Prince
Charles. As this legislative action is the legal
procedure set up for such cases, Leopold is an
outcast, and while he probably will have a
place to lay his head it will not be in the
imperial palace, nor will his head ever be
heavy with the weight of the crown.
If Leopold had not been ambitious he would
have abdicated and his future lot been better.
Look at what the British did for King Edward
when he abdicated. He'll never lack a soft
berth.
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Too Bad
In view of the extra-curricular activities of
Elliott Roosevelt while his father was in the
White House which Westbrook Pegler has
revealed, it is to be regretted that the caustic
columnist was not following unsavory trails
during the Harding administration, and was
1 as ardent a democrat then as be is a repub
lican now.
At Potsdam
By ANNE O’HARE McCORMICK
Mr. Truman and Mr. Churchill spent their
'irst day in Berlin surveying the ruins. The
soviet 'leader was there all the time, though
hey did not know it, and while there is no
•eport of his poking about in the wreckage of
fitter’s Chancellery, it is hard to believe
hat he could resist the temptation to view the
remains of the huge mausoleum in which bis
arch-enemy is supposed to have met his death.
There are moments when the drama of our
times seems to focus on a single scene. The
meeting at Potsdam is one of those moments.
We can hardly take in the sense of what is
aappening until it is spelled out :'n a picture
ike this. The picture of three men walking
in a graveyard. They are men who hold in
their hands most of the power in the world,
and the graveyard they gaze on is Germany,
only a little while ago a stronghold it took their
combined force to storm.
The background is in a way more striking
than anything in the picture. For the human
’igures wandering in the debris are so dulled
and beaten that they take no interest in the
meeting that is to decide their fate.
The contrast between this apathy and the
:xcitement of the crowded streets when An
:hony Eden and Sir John Simon visited Ser
in in 1936 or when Chamberlain was cheered
n Godesberg in 1938 measures the depth of
German defeat. But also it serves to throw
nto high relief the new figure in this confer
ence. The spotlight this time is not on the
Russian Generalissimo whose armies are in
possession of the palaces of the former Kaisers
and the headquarters of the elite of the old
Reichswehr. It is not on the British leader
vho must keep one ear cocked for the electoral
rerdict that will decide his role and Britain's
lost-war DOliev The kev figure ic the Amori.
.an whose name was as unknown throughout
he world a few months ago as it is today to
he cowed inhabitants of Berlin.
The only conversations we shall hear while
the conference is in session are imaginary con
versation. And though as the meeting proceeds
issues will be argued out that affect the lives
of states *nd populations, for decades to come,
the most piquant of these unreported talks was
the colloquy over the luncheon table yester
3ay when Stalin and Truman sounded each
other out. This was not a full-dress conference
or one of those fabulous official banquets the
Russians stage to honor and bemuse their
guests. It was probably the first time Stalin
;vcr sat down to a meal of liver and on'ons
with the head of another Government.And it is
unlikely that matters of high import were dis
:usses at this first meeting. The Soviet chief
tain was undoubtedly genial and jovial; per
haps he tried out on the new President the
rather Rabelaisian jokes President Roosevelt
used to quote to his intimates. Mr. Truman
may have displayed his own brand of home
ly Midwestern humor. Certainly the two men
were sizing one another up, Stalin warily,
with sharp eyes that miss nothing; Truman
openly, with the shrewd scrutiny of the Mis
sourian who is not over-impressed by poten
tates, royal or proletarian.
Yet the two might well have been impressed,
might even have been nervous, for great is
sues depend on whether they ‘‘get along” or
not. They speak for the two greatest powers
on earth, and while it is. of course, absurd
to assume that their personal relations are
all-important or that they can decide national
policies by themselves, the fact that such
power stands behind their words gives their
exchanges extraordinary influence. In the next
few days, or weeks, these two men, neither
of whom has had much intercourse with hte
outside world or long international experience,
will set the pattern of the peace.
In these decisions Mr. Truman will be the
key factor. This is only another wav of sav
ing that the United States is in position to
give direction to world policy. In this enter
prise Mr. Truman is in some respects more
representative of emerging America than Mr.
Roosevelt was. He typif'es the forwardlooking
mind of the Middle West, the region in which
national policy is made and broken, and he
mixes with a Rooseveltian and Wilsonian re
cognition of the necessity of international co
operation a little of that native suspicion of
foreigners which Stalin should understand, be
cause it is the leit motif of Soviet poliqy.
Mr. Truman inclines to put special empha
sis on the economic background of political
problems, and every observer of the world to
day knows that unless the elementary eo
nomic needs of the liberated peoples take prio
rity over every other question there is no pros
pect of peace. Whether Stalin gives the same
weight to economic factors is a question. Will
he favor any modification of the closed eco
nomy in Russia itself, or even in the Soviet
zone of occupation? This is a matter of the
first importance to European recovery. It is
Iso a matter in which the Unuited States can
exert great powers of persuasion, and since
Russia has as much reason as we to act to
prevent chaos in the dangerous passage from
war to peace, there is ground for hope that
Stalin will agree with the President on what
things come first. Obviously political settle
ments will have no reality unless the desperate
needs of the next twelve months are first
provided for. The first test of the collaboration
of the President and the Soviet leader and
of the competence and responsibility of the
Big Three will be on their ability to work
together in th's field.—New York Times.
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Editorial Comment
THE HIGHEST DECORATION
A visitor at the home of Eugene O’Neill
was told by the playwright: “Come with me
for a moment. I want to show you some
thing of which lam very proud.’ He led the
guest to the dresser in his bedroom and
started rummaging through the drawers.
O’Neill pushed aside the Pulitzer Prize medal
he won for “Anna Christie”; he pushed aside
the second Pulitzer Prize medal he won for
“E'eyond the Horizon.” He tossed aside the
Nobel Prize parchment, found another docu
ment and held it up. “Here. This is it,” said
O’Neill, and displayed his ablebodied seaman’s
certificate.—Leonard Lyons, in the Philadel
phia Record.
IT WAS EXPECTED
(Raleigh News and Observer)
Nearly all the great and near-great either
are descended from Tar Heel ancestors or
have relatives in the State. And now James
MacClamrock is authority for the statement
that General Ike Eisenhower has relatives in
North Carolina, in Stanly, Lee and Cabarrus
counties. Writing to The State, he says- “In
North Carol na his relatives have Anglicized the
name and spell it Isenhour.”
Ike fought like a Tar Heel and we are glad
to claim kin.—Raleigh News and Observer.
A PROBLEM
WLhat you 1°/bout a fellow who once
iJ,brS"G=“ ecS,,ri:“““'»* j°k
DISMAL LOOKING PLACE, AIN’T IT?
WITH THE AEF
Nazi Rumors-And Fact
By DON WHI1EHEAD
(Substituting for Kenneth L.
Dixon)
FRANKFURT. — Iff)— Communi
cations in Germany are in a cha
otic condition but grapevine is
spreading a great many rumors
which military government offi
cers beieve are inspired by Nazis
and Nazi sympathizers.
“The wilder the rumor the fast
er it spreads,” said Lt. Col. R. K.
Phelps of Saginaw, Mich., com
mander of the Frankfurt military
government detachment.
Here are a few of the rumors
and comment by the military gov
ernment:
“Marriage will b e forbidden
among Germans for a period of
five years.” No such regulation is
being considered.
“Any woman who gives birth to
more than a certain number of
children, variously three or four,
must pay a penalty of 1,000
Reichsmarks.” This is almost too
ridiculous to bother denying and
has no basis in fact, but it seems
the Germans will believe any
thing.
“German universities will not be
permitted to open for many
years.” Plans are being consid
ered to open universities as soon
as teaching -staffs test books
can be de-Nazified.
A Herman Goering is well treat
ed by Americans because he was
a traitor to ijrermaii.y anu &duu
taged the Luftwaffe. There will be
a trial but it will be only for
show.” Here is the old line of ‘‘we
were betrayed but not defeated”
that gave Nazism its start. The
best answer will be what happens
to Goering.
‘ Rudolph Hess is and will con
tinue to be well treated because
he was a traitor to Germany.”
The answer to that is the same
as for Goering—wait and see.
“Military government officers at
Hanau and other United States
army officers are in the pay of
the Russian government. These of
ficers grant only small rations to
the German people in order to
produce discontent so that the peo
ple will be driven to communism.”
Their rations are smaller be
cause the Germans no longer can
rob other countries of food, trans
portation has broken down, and
there is not enough food on farms
to feed the people as they are
accustomed to being fed. The Ger
mans haven’t begun to feel the
hunger they forced on other peo
ples, but they will unless they pro
duce more of their own food.
“A military government officer
at Hanau permits agitators to con
tinue their actions because it ben
efits communism.” Investigators
found this was the result of ob
jection to individuals who were
with their rights of free speech
as guaranteed by military govern
II1CI11. t'lutiauiauuuo. utimano, uu
used to free speech, interpret
every utterance that is not sup
pressed as having government
support.
“American soldiers in Frankfurt
have been ordered to enter apart
ments of Germans for the purpose
of throwing out furniture and
burning it.” All furniture removed
from German homes is inventoried
and held for the owners.
“American soldiers at control
points on highways permit travel
ers to proceed in directions away
from their homes without passes
but refuse to allow them to re
turn home. The soldiers were or
dered to do this to confuse the
Germans and cause discontent.”
Investigation of this rumor failed
to uncover any instance in which
the practice occurred. Certainly
no such order over was issued.
“German soldiers released from
American prisoner of war camps
are forced to swear that they will
not reveal mistreatment which
they received.” Coming from peo
ple who are past masters at mis
treatment—as photos of Dachau
and many other camps so amply
prove—this is a little hard to take.
“Hereafter only paper money
bearing a bank’s stamp will be
honored.” This rumor backfired to
the benefit of the military govern
ment since it resulted in an in
crease in bank deposits. There is
no basis for it.
25,000 Airmen, 750 Planes To Remain
On Continent As Aerial Police Force
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LONDON, July 21— (P)—Approxi
mately 25,000 men and more than
750 aircraf. in seven U. S. heavy
bomber groups and three fighter
groups have been ordered moved
to the continent as ^art of the Al
lied occupational air force to police
Germany, U. S. Strategic Air
Force headquarters announced to
day.
Throughout the war all U. S.
Eighth Airforce planes were based
in England.
The British Air Ministry recent
ly announced that more than 90,
000 RAF airmen and ground crew
men would assist in the air polic
ing of Germany. The number of U
S. Ninth Airforce personnel to re
main in the occupational airforce
has not yet been announced. Their
units will likely bring the total
strength of the Allied air police
force to around 150,000 men.
No large-scale movement of bom
ber groups has yet begun, the Air
force announcement said, but three
fighter units already are occupying
their new bases in Germany. They
are the 55th, 355th and 357th Mus
tang groups.
Seven heavy bomber groups—All
Flying fortress units — are de
signated to remain in the European
theater the 92nd, 94th, 96th, 100th.
305th, 306th and 384th.
It was officially reported that ap
proximately 55 per cent of the V
E day total of 200,000 Eighth Air
force personnel has already been
redeployed to the United States.
The following 20 bomb groups
have completed movement to the
United States: 44th, 91st, 93rd,
351st, 381st, 389th, 392d, 398;h, 401st,
445th, 446th, 448th, 453d, 457th, 585th
466th, 467th, 482d, 489th, and 491st.
Fourteen other bomber groups
which have completed movement
of aircraft and air crews, but
whose ground personnel are still
in Entr'«nH i+in<r shipment
home, are: the 34th, 95th, 303d
379th, 385th, 388th, 390th, 447th
452d, 486th, 487th, 490th, 492d and
493d.
The following 12 fighter units are
still in England: the 4th, 20-h, 56th.
78th, 339th, 352d, 353d, 356th, 3359th.
361st, 464th and 471 st.
Most of the groups chosen to re
main. as Part of the police force
are veteran outfits, several of
which engaged in the first daylight
attacks on Germany nearly three
years aeo.
Maverick Visions Grand
Flag-Raising Geremony
WASHINGTON, July 21. —(U.R)— :
Maury Maverick, former Texas ;
Congressman, said Ioday he would '•
like to see the American flag he
started on a tour of Axis capitals ]
caome back home for a grand '
flag-raising ceremony after Japan '
has been defeated and the peace
treaties have been ratified.
Such a gesture, he said, would
symbolize the triumph of freedom
and liberty under legislative gov
ment. .
The flag, is the one that flew j
over the U. S. capitol when Con
gress declared war on Germany,
Japn and Italy. Since the it has
been raised by victorious U. S.
troops in two of the three Axis cap
itals—in Rome on July 4, 1944, and
in Berlin yesterday in the presence ]
of President Truman.
Ope day it will be raised over
Tokyo.
Maverick obtained the flag by
exercising his prerogative as a Con
gressman to take a capitol flag 1
if they get another to replace it.
The flag flew over the capitol
building Dec. 8. 8, 1941, while Pres
dent Roosevelt addressed Congres
tnd asked for a declaration of war
igainst Japan. Maverick had i*
aken down to be marked for his
lossession and raised again on
Jec. 11, when the U. &. declared
var on Germany and Italy.
Maverick recalled that he was,
ick in the hospital at that time.
‘'But I knew that flag was going
o be the most famous in the his
ory of the world,” he said, “so
had a couple of my assistants
o come down early Dec. 8 and
nake sure no one else took it.”
He kept the flag for 2-1-2 years,
hen sent it to the late President
loosevelt with a suggestion that
t be. known as ‘‘The Flag of Li
leration” and be flown at U. S.
leadquarters in England and later
n Paris and Berlin.
The flag did not reach Europe
n time to be carried from England
o Normandy. But Gen. George
:. Marshall, chief of staff, sent
t to Gen. Dwiight D. Eisenhower,
supreme allied commander. Eisen
lower sent it to Lt. Gen. Jacob
Devers, Mediterranean comman
der, who had it flown in Rome
jn July 4, 1944, and then preserved
‘or the day when it could move
)n to Berlin and Tokyo
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SCHOOLS ARE STRUCK
LONDON— (j<P) —Although many
London public schools are making
^reparations to return from their
vartime homes in the country,
nany may have to remain where
hey are indefinitely because of
he acute shortage of school build
ngs.
By K1RKE ... siMPsov 1
Associated Press NPWs ! I
Attention remained cl' "al« I
used on the ChureniU-s-ab > I
tar. conversation..- in p0^‘c'Tt» ■
ae week end despite * I
leagre official word fro- I
hree conference as -n • '"‘I I
r progress of its deUb^r*'1 I
Such tntimations as Qb ! 1
he press, however onl- , :i ■
.eighten expectation on 4!edt«|
1 the Atlantic that debI
teighten expectation on -h ' s|‘ I
f the Atlantic that
erring the'duratio ■
nth Japan would be r-aX I
The titanic Anglo-Amsrica ii
tir attack on Japan that com * I
inabated throughout the
lightened that expectation
ifter city, both coastal aju?!
erior, in Japan was withered
tomb blasts ui tr;cc! I
»y naval guns. Thor- was i ii
ective reaction by the foe 0f, I
tort except for a hornet’s ■ '. ' I
intiaircraft fire stirred up b- ’■
■ier planes which located and st I
acked hide-out Japanese wa-crtl
it the mouth of Tokyo bay. "’i
In.._
' * ‘Km g
Enemy warships had lain
nactive to conceal then- presei ;|
at the main Japan naval base" :
hat area, Yokosuka, throne •*
aeated air raids on Tokyo and y'. tb
cohama. They ignored evet Ik,
looming of Allied naval guns
)ff shore on the opposite ■ -
he entrance to Tokyo bay
he fact that they were
:rom air and attacked touched »
.heir ack ack batteries at lay "
The essent al fact of the week,
outside of what undisclosed v
standings may have begun to ta.s
shape in Big Three discussion SS
was that for a week or mnf;
American and British warcrat: oE
all categories including the v
modern and powerful battleshipiH
afloat, roamed up and down •’.(
Japanese Pacific coast unci.,.}
enged by sea or air. Nowhere ddf
even coastal batteries open itp ,.
though battleships, cruisers i |
ighter surface craft more thel
mce were in easy range of ev 1
shore mounted field guns. Only -A \
vast combined carter fleets rti i|
mained far out at sea to laur.:;(El
their air flotillas and receive
again to be fueled and armed tttpj
fi’-r+VhOT’ o+forlrc
There is no parallel in his—
for such bold inshore naval opt:;
tions against a maritime pov.e:. 3
Prior to the naval battles ofg|
Philippine sea Japan certa::; I
still rated as third naval pc'.wji
in the world, surpassed only yl
Britain and the United States. A:| I
er Pearl Harbor she undoubted; m
stood second in sea power aim |
yet today she is incapable oi y |
fending her own shore line cry
from naval as well as air am.. s
The long or even short ra r j
effect of that fact on the Japa—_
public will to continue the uscy.B
fight is yet to be assessed. Ill
effect on Russo-Japanese rolatieB
already strained by Moscow d ! j
nunciation of the otherwise ;J :
perpetuating Russo - Japanes®
peace pact is also yet to a
learned.
It should not be overlooked fell
before the Big Three finally bcmS
their talks in Germany press i:fl
vices from American correspor.c y
ents accompanying President T:.
man reflected their expectation)I
developments relating to the ;
with Japan. They stressed parties
larly, whether on information ;|
belief, that both Mr. Truman a
Mr. Churchill were primarily cc:|
cerned with ways and means )®
cutting the casualty cost of uli
mate victory over Japan and iw®
Tkely to seek Russian partic;- 1
tion as the most effective way £'
insuring that result.
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COMMUNISTS PLAN
PARTY RE-BiRTI
NEW YORK. July 21. - ^'j|
Delegates to the New York
Communist Political Asso
convention were reported by ■
leaders today to be stf0r;U;l
favor of re-establishing a - ■
munist party in the United fl
The two-day convention,
opened today, is closed to |
press. Dr. Bella V. Dodd, a'; j
president of the State. As> • • ■
told reporters after tne l
sion:
“There is no doubt m in.
that we will go back in tjfl
munist party system ana ■
tempt to get back on the ». ■
Gilbert Green. ^ .
added that there w I
that an overwhelming m
the 1.000 delegates “ M
against the Browdei p
uphold the Foster-Duclos P
Earl Browder, natim- .. ■
president, led the “
culminated in disso 1
Communist party, an •b,;|l
of the CPA in its place’
1944. ,ere
Browder's policies > posis-’B
at the time by Wilha; ■ pa.:-i
chairman of the ^0!?‘been -s!B
and more recently h ., by Jafl
eled “opportunist error*
ques Duclos, leac.!- .. ; .1
munist and a kr r;ir<:.or>B
former Communis. ‘ a p<M
The state convention.
liminary to a sPecJa sday,
vention set for n< . con^rH
day and Satim a- '
changes in the Con s; 1(*
cal line” and in the n»» ^ j
ership. Green f:,|a .';ed i° ^ ,wj
convention was exfi oW(jer.
Foster in place of f
Try using paf rlk®or^fon-tl»e'c0J I
salt and pePPf ^
for a new and d
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