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Five Titans Led The ‘People’s War’ V/vjild't Worst Disaster Was Clash Between Te :pers, Ideals Of Leaders By WILLIAM GLOVER AP Features Writer Thio iu.i ceen a personalized war in Europe. Through the long years leading to the struggle and the bloody .3 of battle, the destiny of all i has rested in the hands d:aen leaders of nations. n:nt figures — Roose - i ll. Stalin, Hitler and :e "men of the hour,” by royal blood, v -Is World War II has : uggle of entire peoples, probably will ponder ,t of the leaders’ per upon' events. Each . too, has displayed to r .d degree the national char a:.c is tics of his state or its form cf government. The Sinister and the Reey First of the dictators was stri dent, pompous, braggart Musso lini. Bb stature shrank as that of his pupil, sinister Adolf Hitler, Increased. Thwarted, overweening in ambition, fanatical, brutal, the Fuehrer played upon the ingrain ed militarism of his people, still stinging from defeat. United Hattons leadership for the European conflict was in the hands of a trio of different stamp. Churchill, “the rosy little man,” a master of rhetoric, looks like John Bull and clinched fame by carrying the torch for the British Empire through the dark days of 1M0-’4L Russia's fate was en trusted to Joseph Stalin, inscrut able master player in the interna tional poker game of diplomacy, who gained time by siding with the Nads at first, who let the world think Russia could not fight victoriously, and who drew Hitler onto a battlefield of death. The United States was led by Roosevelt, a phrasemaker himself, a master of timing and a leader so popular he could ask and get for the first time In history a third presidential term. He not only helped a peace-loving, complacent country reach war tempo, but in sisted on being in fact the military Dreams « i « of a happier day Of a day when he and all soldier s can return to their homes and their loved ones... of the day when aH strife in the world will be over. These men who have fought and defeated the eaemy in Europe know that this day is soon at hand but are determined to finish the fight to the end. May this day be soon. Shelby Hotel CLEM WILTSEE, Manog.r i L_U; head of the nation, as well as the political. The Might Have Been What has been the effect of these personalities on events? At Munich Hitler pulled a gun on the Allied Leaders of 1938, Chamberlain and Daladier. They quailed, and Mussolini who had been called in to play the role of interlocutor, decided history by putting his chips with Hitler, whom he had bluffed in similar fashion on the matter of Austria’s freedom in 1934. Churchill would scarcely have been bluffed that way. Stalin, ignored at Munich, show ed his disappointment. No one REMEMBER the mmh in * • • Sataan ... £in$apcte... JAPAN MUST PAY! # The civilized world has been horrified by the outrages committed by the Japanese against the women in the lands that they have ove» run. History has no parallel to the atrocities of which they have been guilty on so large a scale. Let no victory on any other front, lessen our zeal to avenge tfie honor of these helpless women who have been the victims of Che bestial Japanese! * Rather, let the full weight of our righteous wrath deal them^Bfcwr from which they shall never recover to repeat their evil deeds. Maxwell - Morris & Kennedy / trusted the U.S.S.R., he must have thought, and the deed must have played a part in the later Russian policy, shifting and enigmatic as it seemed to the outside world. II Duce, wehn the showdown came in September, 1939, showed his inherent weakness by pulling aside as a non-belligerent, then found outlet for his braggadocio in May, 1940, by jumping on France when he thought the battle was over. His action resulted in Roose velt’s tide-changing ‘‘stab in the back” speech one day later. The Atlantic Charter Personalities were transcendent when in 1941 the Anglo-American leaders held the first of their get togethers and drew up the Atlan tic Charter. With it, generalized as it was, the two astute leaders silenced many skeptics of Allied war motives. The later meetings of the lead ers proved how their dominating beliefs and characteristics belit tled the minor currents in the stream of conflict. In the later days of the war, as the psyches of Roosevelt, Chur chill and Stalin came into per manent dominance over the tot tering personalities of Mussolini and Hitler, individual differences again shaped events. Hitler, the egotist and mystic, during the day of German vic tories, sowed the dragon’s teeth of suspicion and contempt among the professional Prussian mili tarists. He spurned them, recalled them, dismissed them and cajoled them until Oven the homefront suspected the omnipotence of the Reich’s man-god. Mussolini, when war over whelmed Italy, found the years m 4 Who Made P eace After World War I WOODROW WILSON United States of strutting and imperiousness could not make up for the fact that his regime was termite-eaten. The two who had trusted no one except a tiny inner circle found even the circle did not trust them. These five (for it is still too ear ly to judge the ultimate personal element in the Pacific) were products of the times in which they came to power, but more than that the deeds which followed were products of the men. Perilous Pinball SPOKANE, Wash. —OP)— When her husband operating a pinball machine won $4, a soldier’s wife tried her luck, hit the jackpot and fainted. She was revived at emer gency hospital. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Great Britain I New Plastic Skins A Pig WILMINGTON, Del.—{IP)—'Tough bristles can now be removed from pigs In a simple stripping opera tion, the Hercules Powder Com pany reports — and the result is more and better pork products. The pork carcass is coated with a resin chemical. When the plas tic suit is scraped off, the pig is minus hairs. The removed plastic is remelt ed and used again. Sign Of The Times MEMPHIS, Tenn.—(IP)—'This sign appeared in the pharmacist's win dow: “delivery boy wanted — please!” VITTORIO ORLANDO Italy No Doubt It's Listed As Clean Getaway KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —OP)— Th vice squad automobile stopped am detectives dashed into the hous of a raid. A thief sped away with the po lice car. Blocks away the aut | crashed into a pole at an inter : section. One detective, searching the ca for his last clean shirt, learne the thief took it with him on hi getaway. Unkindest Fire LATHAM, Kas.— UP)—Latham fire truck caught fire and the onl thing that the firemen could sal j vage was a large whistle. 'M ^ GEORGES CLEMENCEAU F ranee Just Like Grandma Used To Bake 5 RYE, Colo.— (fl>) —John Robin, i signal corps officer now In the : Solomons, recently was interview ing a young medical officer, he - related in a letter. j Robin and the medical officer - were discussing cake. The young M ! medic said the best coffee cake r1 maker in the world was a woman 1 in Tulsa, Okla. 5 She turned out to be Robin's grandmother. Coffee grounds and tea leaves will clean short-napped rugs if s sprinkled by handsful over the rug V to be cleaned, allow to remain for - 15 minutes and brushed off with 1 a stiff bristled brush.
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