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Friday Afternoon, May 1 1943 YOUR THE DAILY DEMOCRAT, TALLAHASSEE. FLORIDA WHERE THE DAWN COMES UP LIKE THUNDER fhe Visit to Buchenwald WESTBROOK PEGLER Fair Enough The American people have been accused if reacting coldly or indifferently to stories if atrocities, even of atrocities against their iwn countrymen. This is not wholly true, it seems to us, there is an explanation the measure of truth the accusation contains. First of all, it might be recalled that the SAN FRANaSCO'Testerday is yesterday," he said, "but today is today and tomorrow is tomorrow," a three-ply platitude which might send us off to an inauspicious start unless I hurry to explain that Roger Lapham, the mayor of San Francisco, and a capitalist who licked the rowdy unioneers at the polls, was expressing a willingness to forget the past and a hope for the future. atrocities of Hitler's Nazis were tactics.

After all. Russia Is. or S5 i 1 Zf my pnost Americans against the Third Reich in the days of peace, even when they were Lignorant or incredulous of the sinister Nazi Tplan for world conquest. It was Hitler's rblack heart as revealed through pogroms bind concentration camps that first roused Jour indignation against him. As for American coldness and indifference, yt is likely that numbness would be a better description.

We are all familiar with the fact and sight of death. We know how it omes on the battlefield. I But death by slow starvation and unspeakable torture we cannot visualize, even rthough trustworthy reports and photographic evidence of the result is before us. from other peoples of the earth. Surely the middle-aged civilian German, even after 12 years of Hitler, has been reluctant to believe the bestiality of his own kind and kin.

He may have had to turn his head to avoid the evidence before Ms eyes, and yet he might well persist in his disbelief especially since the American invasion of his homeland, when the urge for fawning innocence has been upon him. It was this German, hi3 wife and young children and friends, to the number of 1200, who were made to journey from their hores in Weimar, hallowed city of German culture, to the infamous Nazi concentration camp at nearby Buchenwald. There they were made to look and smell and retch and faint at the evidence of the incredible, subhuman deeds of their "master race." Enough of the dead, dying and maimed remained there to convince the most stubborn "patriot" among them that there was not much use in lying any more. We cannot expect a miracle from the visit to Buchenwald. But the tortured and forgotten there have not died without purpose if enough Germans can be brought to see the place of their pain and ignominy.

It is a profound pity that every German cannot be made to see Buchenwald as the "Americans found it. But at least those who did can never again extol the German race with the same conviction, however fiercely they may try to forget By James Thrasher, NEA Editorial Writer. for can we. visualize or imagine lelty that decrees it. PsTtn tnv ronrtinn ss incredible stofv af- incredible story of atrocity is brought us.

Our indignation becomes impotent and intellectual. We are reluctant to credit such Jdeeds to members of the human race. And, confronted with unassailable proof, we re-Saaain stunned and a little incredulous. 5 In that we are probably not too different P(ublic) O(pinion) welcome letterv Km? 'em reasonably short. Sign your real mam ami also pen nam if you wish.

DEWITT MACKENZIE "Yesterday" was a very bad; time in San Francisco, a beautiful and highly civilized city which had been selected by the communist revolutionaries and a reckless of old-line American leg-break- ers as the victim of their ambition. As a ship-owner In a large way of business, he had fought the revolution in the violent phase of the New Deal's experiment In the use of mob action to achieve political purposes. These uproars included a brief general strike in which Americans who wanted to work didn't dare, and a rule was laid down by the experimental black shirts of a mischievous regime that a certain few restaurants might remain open but only for the convenience of union members. They were complicated by the hangover from the Tom Mooney case and other old controversies, crimes and economic wrongs and by the dishonesty of arbiters commissioned by the government to settle matters impartially in favor of the unions. They included a strike of 100 days along the waterfront In which communist leaders refused to arbitrate lest peace deprive them of that anxiety, privation and excitement which are the traditional prerequisite of revolution.

One "night during the long waterfront strike, Lapham went down to speak to the strikers as representative of the waterfront employers. They had invited the enemy to send one of their number to state their side of the case. Mr. Lapham was not the only one who was willing to face them but there were others in the group who said it would do no good be cause anyone who old appear would be driven from the plat form. "They booed me once or twice," he said, "but I figured that, hav ing Invited me, they would have to let me speak my piece, and they did, too.

They policed their own meeting and gave me a very courteous hearing, and a big hand." Mr Lapham did have a hidden ace. He was welcomed by John Dore, the mayor of Seattle, an old Harvard class-mate who had known him as a member of the freshman debating team and one who could handle himself well in controversy. Dore was attorney for Dave Beck, of Seattle, the agent of old Dan Tobin, president of the International Union of the Teamsters. So the atmos phere was not entirely bitter and Lapham came off with honor for his courage in confronting a crowd aroused to dangerous possibilities and for the reasonable dignity of his presentation. Mrs Lapham went with him.

Since then, under the pressure of the war, the communists have moderated their revolutionary (adlied OF LIFE Posted DENVER, tP) A large and belligerent dog apparently regarded a fire hydrant his personal property last night and almost delayed firemen fighting a residential blaze. Fire fighters had to use an emergency tank on a truck until Fireman Charles Robinson could shoo away the snarling dog with a wrench. what turned the inhuman been written in Italy by Italian and Spanish, writers. There have only been a few of but nothing of like quality has been produced in France or Germany or even In England. Dr Nichols Murray Butler, president Columbia U.

Production on the home front is just as much a military operation as fighting along the Rhine. Sen Alben Barkley, of Kentucky. Take anything from the enemy that you can. His front lines depend oh what the rear areas can send him. So the more you can take away from him, the more you wiH be doing for your coun try.

German sabotage pamphlet dis-tributed in path of Allies on Western Front. It is a matter of. a short time before the rise or fan of our na tion will be decided. Tokyo broadcast. We are aH going to have tre mendous problems to solve but as parts of the whole we must recognize that we are natural Al lies, and as Allies without a treaty we must trust each other in essentials and keep our common sense dry.

Sir Gerald Campbell, British minister to the S. If there ever was a group deserving a serviceman's sympathy it's these poor suffering characters whose lives have been suddenly uprooted, who have been forced to make one of the most dramatic readjustments of the decade. Sgt Charles Avedon, editor Army newspaper Midpacifican, on the curfew. SIDE GLANCES was. In it.

too and, although Russia was not fighting Japan and the Pacific war therefore has not been an Immediate concern of the communists, American public opinion could be alienated by wanton strikes and too obvious interference with loading and shipping. There are so many sons, brothers, fathers and husbands of Americans fighting out there. Meanwhile, Roger Lapham was drafted for service in Washington on the National Defense Mediation Board, the War Labor Board and the Labor Management Conference and a letter from Franklin Roosevelt acknowledging his fine work was a po tent endorsement and an offset to the ancient hatred of the boss unioneers when, in November, 1943, he ran as a non-partisan for mayor. As an employer, he had stood by his principles In the long and complex hearings and had come to know and respect many of the union representatives. Of John Lewis he has said that the president of the United Mine workers is the shrewdest bargainer on either side.

Nowadays when he has business with the boss communist of the Pacific Coast he is not Just coldly polite but humanly affable, looking hopefully to tomorrow and gov ernment under law and an end to mob violence deliberately con trived by a few. The change in San Francisco is apparent to the naked eye and to the nerves. The city still is highly unionized, to be sure, but in Lapham's vote of 91,000 against 58,000 for his nearest opponent in a field of four principal can didates whose total aggregate was 125,000, he received the vote of confidence and hope of many men and women who carried union cards. The city had learned to know and trust the fairness of a mayor who attended the first Plattsburg camp in 1917, fought with the 305th infantry In France and, then, at 59, and, with no need of the job nor any political ambition, offered to give a great wer port a reconstruction admin istration in time of another great war. And the union leaders or bosses have learned by expert ence that his word is good and that he carried over to his office no old grudges but only a desire to make tomorrow a better time than yesterday.

On a table In his office there is a counting device on which the numerals are changed every morning. A few days ago it read "days gone, 481: days to go, His first term will be his last. He made that vow when he was a candidate and though the low subterfuge of a draft might be Invoked by a people sick of picket lines and street fighting, Mayor Lapham, delighted that he did commit himself, Insists with a juvenile grin that a man can't break a promise, Today and Tomorrow only until the principal belligerents agree that Germany and Japan have been made safe members of the international community. There is another regional arrangement, worked out at Mexico City, for the defense of the American republics. The question has now been raised whether it too should be made independent of the Security Council.

There Is a strong desire among many of the Latin-American republics to do this. But the United States cannot agree to that. This looks like an illogical attitude and calls for careful and 4 patient explanation. Why should the Security Council have authority over enforcement action under the Act of Chaptilte-pec and not over enforcement action under the pacts which are to police Germany and Japan? There is no contradiction If we remember that we are talking about military securitj The arrangements which bind Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and the states bordering on Germany, are true security arrangements in that these nations can in fact police Germany. They are moreover, provisional in that they will be liquidated In due time.

The Act of Chapultepec, on the other hand, is not true and full security arrangement In that the Western IIemlsi.her cannot be defended successfully by the states Continued on Page Eleven The War Today it would be unsafe to leave hlra at large. But that's not his only asset. He xau one of those chiefly responsible for the organization of the Reich for war. He also created the luftwaffe, which blazed trails of destruction and terror across Europe and played such a great part In Hitler's early conquests. aoering exercised great Influence with Hitler throughout most of the dictatorship.

Take for Illustration tht Munich conference, which came close to precipitating war. I saw Goering In action there and it was generally understood that his restraining influence had much to do with keeping the lid from blowing off completely. That wasn't because he was motivated by any good impulse but because he agreed with Mussolini, who wanted Germany to postpone the launching of war inasmuch as Italy wasn't yet prepared. Well, Ooering's infectious grin and his glib tongue won't save him In Allied high court. Indeed one wonders whether there's anyone, left who still believes enough in Hitlerism to step forward as witness in its defense.

War Correspondence something was wrong and with th? quick perception of childhood caught up their mothers' fright and uncertainty. One Czech mother who saw this crowded field of anxious German women wasn't very sympathetic. "It is bad that any children have to cry," she said. "But if some children must cry it Is the tum of German children. They will be hungry at most for only a few hours.

But our Czech chil dren have had to do without prop er food for six years. There were oranges for German children in Czechoslovakia, but none for Czech children. Now it is our turn to feed oranges to our babies." Q'saiiJA's How do Filipinos pronounce Bataan? A Bah-tah-ahn, pronouncing each as an About how much oil can Borneo produce? A Nearly 9.000,000 tons was one prewar year's output. What does the Industry of Okinawa include? A Sugar cane processing, silk weaving, making lacquerware and Panama-type hats. What is a klub? A A Red Army canteen, coun terpart of our USO and Red Cross canteens.

Editor, The Democrat: jj It might be well for Mr A UMc who so graciously bestowed all those uncalled for remarks on our good old Tallahassee, to hurry Kback to that smoky and dirty he came from. Because he has a chance to get a breath of Ifresh air in Tallahassee, he should nrnud. I love Tallahassee so 'well that it is going to be my fu ture home. So be a eood neighbor j'and an appreciative citizen, will jyou. Mr A Mc? Tallahassee is what you and the rest of us who live here make cl- it.

Let's make it instead, of break it. Kurt Kippers i Editor, The Democrat: A letter I sent you commenting on your sports page and paper In general has cauesd quite an amount of emotional comment in reply. Now if you will allow me I have something In reply also. I feel as if I was slapped down and then given a. lift by a friend meaning, of course, Mr Mc-Michen.

As for the two ladles who were so quick to slap my face, they remind me of the great southern hospitality I have noticed missing around this section of the south. We GIs really notice it is missing, too. In stating her opinion of my mental horizons, one lady must be reminded that if all people who love sports and a good sports page have confined mental horizons there surely must be plenty of people in this great nation in "uch a condition as I. May I remind her also, on behalf of other sports readers, that 1 person making such a statement fails to consider any one the one she is concerned at the time of the unfound-1 narrow-minded statement. My first letter was not meant a start a feud, i only wanted to comment on your paper, and not he local citizens, but seems as though some of them felt as if hey were included in it.

My opinion hasn't changed and von't as long as I continue to see 'he Democrat cpme out without "ie changes for the better. Sincerely, Sgt Frank Devore, Camp Gordon Johnston. Most of the books of In the last 20 years have The Daily Democrat Tallahassee Florid. Established 1914 Friday, May 11, 1945 Newspaper Endorsing ana Supporting, he Principles of the Democratic Part mied Week Dan Afternoon. Except Saturday from US So Adn St Bj HE CAPITAL CTT PUBLISHING CO Telephone.

AU Department MS IfNRt WRE.VN PuDllghei IKOBGS ANDERSON Manaelne, Sdltoa BANTA Ad Dtrectot entered to TaHanaswe. Florida oai OHiee at Second Claae Mall Matter. National Advertising Representative THFIS SIMPSON INC. Atlanta Detroit Chicago New Hot MEMBEB Of THS ASSOCIATED PHESS The Aaenclated Pre la eTCHijdvely titled to the uk for republication of all nm dispatcher accredited tt not othwrwue accredited Uila paoet and BJw the 'oca) new puOlxhed therein All right for remihltratlon peda) ajupatchaa Parttt ara also reserved. WALTER LIPPMANN Aaaoctated Preaa War Analyit The Allies have had a great stroke of luck In getting their hands on Relchsmarshal Hermann Goering, because the fat and outwardly amiable ex-deputy fuehrer is one of the most dangerous Nazis left alive and it's good to hear from responsible sources in London that he soon will be tried as a war criminal.

We safely can award the gorgeously uniformed and bemedaled Goering second place on the list of men to be feared. He is outranked only by Franz von Pa pen, the unmatched Prussian plotter of two world conflicts, whom the Allies also have in custody along with a large and growing log of Axis war-mongers. There's a third Hitlerite whom the world wants even more than Goering and Von Papen not because of his power as a leader but because of his barbarities. That is Himmler the hangman who, as head of the terrible Gestapo, has carried out massacres and tortures which have few parallels in history. Himmler is in hiding, but the globe isn't big enough to conceal him from Justice.

Another bad HAL BOYLE Br Aatociated Praaa) PILSEN, Czechoslovakia Two years ago this week, thousands of Field Marshal Rommel's famed Af rika Korps troops rode the dusty trail to defeat and a vast war prisoner's camp in the wheat fields outside Bizerte. They came in proud and arrogant, still very much a fighting army and unconvinced that they were beaten. They had backtracked 1,400 miles from El Ala-mein in one of the superb marches of military history. But at last the British and American forces had pushed them to the sea. That sea was controlled by Allied ships.

With their supply lines cut and no way for them to get food and ammunition, the Nazis had to yield. Africa was lost. But these young Nazis hardened by desert marches and still in top physical condition regarded Africa as only a small gamble. "What is Africa to us?" they asked when you talked to them. "We still have Europe.

We shall always have It. You will never be able to break "Into Europe through our fuehrer's west wall." When one lanky American ventured suggest that not only Europe would be invaded but that Germany herself would be fought through and occupied. Rommel's tan-clad desert warriors laughed at him in complete incredulity. "No Allied soldier ever will set food in the fatherland," one said positively. "It Is Impossible unthinkable.

You do not know the power of our army." That was two years ago. The finale to their boast has been written. There is no corner of their beautiful "fatherland" that Is not under Allied control. It was a far different German column that marched from Prague actor little Joe Goebbels the propaganda minister died In the battle of Berlin about the time that Hitler was reported dead by Nazi authorities. A lot of folk have come to look on the strutting reichsmarshal as an opera bouffe character, but that's underestimating him badly.

We shouldn't let his eccentricities and penchant for personal adornment fool us, nor yet that boyish grin which the people of Germany have found so captivating. Apropos of Goerlng's ability to handle people I saw him give a typical demonstration with a hupe audience In the Berlin sports palace one night while the crowd was waiting for Hitler to appear for an address. When the relchsmarshal entered the vast hall the assemblage gave him an ovation, yelling "Hermann. Hermann." although not a mother's son would have dreamed of calling the fuehrer Hermann bandied wise-cracks with' members of the audience for a quarter of an hour and they loved it. Several times he tried to sit down they called him back.

Yes, Goering how to handle the German people and to Pilsen after the windup of the last major fighting in Europe. Women and children were in this long line. Whole German families uprooted by the fear of Russian and Czech retribution were walking back to the Reich, bringing their Nazi ideals and culture with them. They were moving back with their beaten army to the old frontiers through which they burst almost six years ago with their cries for more "Lebemstraum." Some German farm families traveled in old horse-drawn carts with canvas tops like the "forty-niners." But for most of the soldiers and their camp followers it was a foot hike. Some took off their shoes and walked bare-footed down the long highway.

They were dirty, dusty, tired and dispirited. Only among the young, pampered SS troops who rode In their own vehicles were the signs of the old Nazi jaunti-ness. And by the time these men reached American front line posts and had surrendered their weapons, most of them had lost their cockiness. An SS man without his guns looks pretty much like the next fellow. In one field were some 5,000 German women with their children.

They were washing their aching feet in a small stream, stretching out wearily for naps under the blazing May sun or merely sitting on the grass staring blankly in tired Indecision. Some had collapsed from the heat of the 56-mile march and were being treated under an open tent by American medics. From all parts of the field came the querulous cries of fretful babies and children. They were German children crying for food and attention children who knew Toreign Entanglement CHICAGO, WV-In felony court, Police Sgt Joseph Ponfckl of Polish descent, explained to Judge Gibson Gorman that he was called to war plant to halt an argument between two employes, Ignatz Chablch and John Bor-man, both of Russian descent The argument was over the Russia Poland border dispute. Chabich defended his alleged assault on Bonn an by explaining to Judge Gorman "I hit him with the soft end of an Iron pipe." Judge Gorman set May 22 for a hearing on an application for Chabich's probation on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.

Butter Bargain CHICAGO, The 64 pounds of butter which fell off a passing truck in front of Mrs Mary Law-risuk's dry goods store disappeared like magic. Women carted the butter Into the store and about 50 other women followed to see what was go ing to happen. Someone produced a knife and started dividing the high-point product amon? the housewives. After the roll had dwindled to about 10 pounds, the knife wielder said "the rest belongs to me," wrapped It up and went home. By GAILBEAITI1 Iff J- i V.

A. e-it Copyrieht. 1945. New York Tribune. Ine.

SAN FRANCISCO The Big Five having reached agreement among themselves on amendments, the consultation with the other nations has benn. The first question, and one of the most interesting and Important, arises out of what appears to be, though it is not in fact, a contradiction in the United States position in regard to regional arrangements for the use of force. We have proposed an amendment to the Dumbarton Oaks text, which is really a clarification rather than a change, under which specific pacta directed against the renewal of German or Japanese aggression go into effect without the approval of the Security Council. This covers bi-Iateral pacts such as the Anglo-Sovist and the Franco-Soviet: it would cover a pact such as Senator Vandenberg proposed in his celebrated speech of last January; it covers our whole rights to enforce the surrender terms now imposed on Germany and those which will be Imposed on Japan. The purpose of all this Is to make sure that action against a renewal of German and Japanese aggression will be prompt and effective, that it shall not be stalled by the veto of nations which have no direct power and no immediate responsibility in policing the enemy states.

It is a special arrangement and it Is provisional, that is to say It is -to last i What is a Talsho in Japanf A An admiral, What three types of rocket charges does the Navy use? A Incendiary, smoke, high ex plosive. "Every time I hint about how lovely the new spring outfits are, Dad starts reading the war news out loudl".