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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1944 THE NEWBERRY SUN Home Demonstration Column By ETHEL L. COUNTS Waste paper is now the number one need, but don’t forget that tin, fats, and scrap metal are also prime needs. The supply of these still falls short of military and other essential needs. Fats are still on the Government strategic and crit ical list. When the “Big Push” starts, our salvage needs will dou ble over night. Let’s be ready for it. Let’s get this horrible war over and our boys back home. •Members of Home Demonstration clubs are arranging schedules for helping with surgical dressings. Fill up your car and come in either Tuesday morning or afternoon. You will have a good time as well as do a good deed. Let’s make a record that we will be proud of. Because canned fruits and vege tables, kept too long, lose consider able nutritive valm. as well as ap petizing color, flavor and even tex ture, wise housewives are now using up supplies on hand from last sea- In general canned foods should SAYS EFFICIENT EXPERT WAS FASCIST By Dorothy Thompson This is the finale of a long story, which had its origin in the pre-war period of appeasement and of Fas cist plottings between Hitler’s Reich and France and Britain The Bedeaux story takes on par- ticulr interest, however, because it involved the former king of England, I Edward the Eighth, now Duke of ' Windsor. Charles Bedeaux was a naturalized American citizen, born in France. In this country he made a fortune, and with it he retufrned to Europe, al though he kept up his connections in American industrial circles. For Bedeaux belonged among those men—big business men of interna tional connections, who before this war and during it, have played the German game. Sometimes they have been both business men an dpoliti- cians—but usually they have been men who did jobs for pro-Nazi poli ticians. In situations where normal diplo matic channeLs of communication with the Nazis were politically un wise, these men did the job—across dinner tables and through social connections. They are enormously son that a scandal developed around the person of the King, that had far greater roots in these political con nections than in the fact that Mrs. Simipson was an American, a divor cee, and unacceptable to the Church of England. Behind the scenes, what was both ering the British Foreign Office and all informed circles, was not these purely personal matters, but the King’s connections, through Mrs. 1 Simpson, to German Nazi circles. When the King abdicated, in Dec ember, 1936, under all these suspic ions, Mrs. Simpson, in the following March, took refuge in the handsome house of Bedeaux. and in that house in the following June, the great ro-, mance was consummated in a wed-. ding. During this time the King had gone to Austria—to the castle of Baron Eugene Rothschild, near Vi enna. Since the Rothschilds were a prominent Jewish family, this seem ed to alibi the former King’s Nazi connections. Actually, the Duke of Windsor invited himself to the Rothschilds “to stay a few days” be kept no longer than from one l rich men, who often have houses in canning season to another. In using up canned vegetables this spring special care in seasoning and serv ing will make them more tempting and attractive. Food sepcialists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture suggest the following ways to serve many countries, and enjoy almost the privileges of citizens in many countries. Thus Charles Bedeaux had a cas tle or chateau near Tours, in France, and in 1937 he secured a home in Berchtesgaden in the shadow of Hit- snap beans. Cook chopped bacon in ! ler’s famous “Eagle’s Nest.” And a frying pan with chopped young onions, green tips included. Add the beans and heat together. Serve beans in white sauce with hard cooked eggs or cheese added. (Civil ian supplies of cheese are more plentiful this spring.) Home-made chili sauce is good on canned beans. Cook a finely chopped onion in a lit tle fat or drippings until it is ten der and yellow. Add chili sauce, then beans. Heat together. Several seasning seeds are good with beans —celery, dill or even mustard seed. the plan that the Duke should fol low his trip around Nazi Germany with an investigation into labor conditions in the United States, a popular protest prevented the trip. When France fell in 1940, Bede aux remained in his house at Tours, which was in the unoccupied zone. And now, according to reports from Miami, he became a mediator be tween Vichy and the Germans—just as Axel Wennergren, the leading Swedish industrialist now living in Nassau and also another intimate friend of the Duke of Windsor, was a mediator between Goering and the Chamberlain government, according to his own statements. Bedeaux’s old friend, Abetz, was now Nazi ambassador to France, which Bedeaux’s machinations had helped to bring under the Nazi heel. In July, 1941, Bedeaux went to North Africa, on German business. It concerned the protection against bombing of important economic properties in North Arfica and in the Persian Gulf. For two months after Pearl Har bor, Bedeaux was kept under house under pledges of the greatest sec- j arrest by the Vichy government and recy—even the servants must not , then released—to continue his re know who he was. But instead of I lationship with Vichy and German staying a few days, he stayed seven i officials. He managed to have im- months—until his wedding. jportant files from his Amsterdam Shortly after the wedding, the j office transferred to Paris through Duke aid Duchess went to Germany | the inteivention of German officials on a tour arranged for by Robert | and turned over to his brother Gas- Ley, the Nazi chief of the Labor j ton, who was a French citizen, front—a trip which horrified his } In the summer of 1942, shortly be- former Austrian host, as well as the i fore the Anglo-American invasion HOW TO MAKE AND KEEP OUR HOMES CHRISTIAN By PAUL STEWART Pastor First Baptist Church, Pelzer. To make our homes Christian its members must be Christian. Its members cannot be Christians with out Christ. The Christian home must have Christ for its head and the Bible fdr its cornerstone. Each member is to look to Christ for his leadership and benediction. Too, there must be love and consideration for each other. In Christian homes where love abounds for God and each other there in genuine happi ness. One of the g'reat needs of America is the revival of the Christian home. We need homes in our nation in which there will be found some of the authority and rugged living that made America a prosperous Christian nation. We need homes where Christ is enshrined in the hearts of each member. As goes the home, so goes the church, school, and state. Every thing that is good in the church or society is first planted and tended, shielded and nurtured, in good homes. The greatest) asset to the church country, nation, and world is the making and maintaining a Christian home. The home holds the place of unpar alleled importance in the structure of the world. It has a task to perform that reaches into every phase of the life of man. The degree to which the Spirit of Christ is embodied in the homes determine the degree to which the spirit if regnant in society. In making happy Christian homes there must be love for and fellow ship with God and the members of the home. Christ must be supreme; and certainly there must be genuine love between husband and wife and between parents and children. There are many things that help to build and maintain a wholesome happy Christian home. But we want to mention only a few practical things that are very important. They aire: 1. Daily personal Bible reading and prayer. Daily family worship. 2. Regular public worship. Regu lar work in the various activites of their church. 3. Witnessing for Christ by word of mouth and a good life. Adopt the teaching of the Bible to evelry day life. 4. Honoring the Lord with sub stance—Tithing. 5. As far as possible be given to hospitality. When the home blesses others it will be blessed. 6. Make Christ the center of thoughts and activities. 7. Avoid the evils that threaten the spiritual and moral welfare of the home. If ever we needed to lead an attack against these it is now. If a home is not happy no doubt one or more of these seven things have been neglected. If the schedule of the family is too crowded for the above, ask God’s guidance as to the length of time and the best hour of the day for each one. If these rules are followed, it will be found that many problems will vanish and oth ers can be worked out. When a family does the above things it will, as Moses promised the Israelites, know “the days of heaven upon the earth” (Deut. 11:21). A happy Christian home does not just happen any more than a Christ ian character. It is painstakingly built on love, honesty, good example, Christian culture and those virtues that make the world a happy place in which to live. Is yours such a home If so, it is because you have tried to make it so. Mr. and Mrs. Whit Brown, and son, of Wilmington, N. C., were vis itors over the weekend in the home of Mrs. Brown’s sister and brother- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Todd, on Park View Court. royal family in Britain. This trip of the Duke and Duchess was paid for by the Nazis—a fact which was there be became a n intimate of Otto known to anti-Nazi Germans and Abetz, the leading Nazi conspirator in France, who afterward became Hitler’s ambassador in defeated Prance. Another of his good friends was Captain Carl Wiedemann, Hitler’s of North Africa, he returned there an presumably a Vichy mission, after which he was appointed expert on economic projects to the German military administration in France and gained authority from Laval to carry through a project he had proposed. That summer Laval pro vided Bedeaux with documents or- plunged them into despair—and it was repaid by highly laudatory statements by the Duke on Nazi achievements in Germany. Who could have arranged this trip? No daubt Mr. Bedeaux, wholdcring the French military and pol- friend from the days of the first i at the time was living in ^iis house | itical authorities in North Africa to WorM War, and for some time, in Berchtesgaden. , collaborate with him. German consul general in San Pran-! It is very interesting that the He was in Algiers when the Brit- cisco, and one of the chiefs of the j Duke praised the social and labor ish and American forces invaded— German spy net in the United States, achievements of the Nazi regime,'occupying the same hotel as the But peculiar interest attaches to j whereas Bedeaux is regarded in la- Bedeaux because of his connections i bor circles everywhere, and espec with the British throne. Charles Bedeaux had been an old and very intimate friend of Mrs. Simipson, whose marriage to Edward VIII cost him his throne. It was through Mrs. Simpson that Bedeaux met Ribbentrop, the German am bassador to London. It was through Bedeaux, Ribbentrop and Mrs. Simp- ially in America, as a labor-hater and baiter and as the inventor of a speedup efficiency system for get ting more out of labor, which laid the foundation of his fortune. In fact, hostility to Bedeaux was so strong in this country that when he arrived here in the fall of 1937, straight from Berchtesgaden, with German military mission. He was arrested. But because he was a n American citizen, the United States department of justice dis patched by plane to Algiers some of our most able and important inves tigators, among them Percy Fox- worth, assistant director of the FBI. who had done much to uncover Nazi espionage in this country. Strange ly enough the plane carrying him never reached its destination. It crashed over the Brazalian jungle. Thai, was at the time of the Casa blanca conference. Since then more than a year passed. Now there is no question that fan tastic facts would have been reveal ed about the structure of interna tional Fascism and its ramifications into very high places, if Bedeaux had ever been put on trial. Except for the incident that he had become naturalized in the United States in 1917, he would have been under the jurisdiction of the Free French, and General {teGaulle would certinly liked to put him on trial. Just why he was still considered an prived of their citizenship if they naturalized citizens are usually de- American citizen is not clear, since remain residents abroad for more than two years, in the country of their birth. Nor do we learn from the newspa per reports from Miami where he has been for the past year—the in vestigations opened only seven weeks ago. It is too bad that so important a prisoner was allowed to have in his possession sufficient luminal with which to kill himself, and so clcse the books on a most extraor dinary case. And it is als estrange that though the United States authorities intend ed to indict Bedeaux for high trea son, our government continues to inteivene to prevent DeGaulle from bringing the same indictment against other men, of precisely Bedeaux’s very bad shocks, activities, whom the Free French 1 have under arrest in North Africa— notably Flandin, Boisson and Pey- routon. With the same logic, if Bedeaux had not been an American citizen, but a French citizen, De Gaulle would not have been able to haul him be fore the courts. Actually, had he lived to testify, his testimony might seriously involved all these people held by DeGaulle and a great many other people as well. Up until now, not a single one of the prominent international figures—- wealthy business men—who, like Be deaux, were involved in Fascist machinations contributing to the fall of France, have been arrested in any country . . . except in North Africa by DGaulle, who has actually been criticized for it. There seems to be a reluctance in all countries to allow the true facts about the prelude to this war to come before the public, especially PAGE FIVE when they involve persons of great wealth and high social connections. But the Bedeaux story makes it clear beyond question of a doubt that the collopse of France was not just a military affair. Nor do l believe that the Bedeaux case is closed with the death of Bedeaux. The investi gations will go on—even without Be deaux. The invading armies will find new evidence, and no one will be able to prevent future govern ments in France and elsewhere from opening the archives. It must not be forgotten that one of the first things the Germans de manded, after conquering France, was that the members of the French cabine of the Third Republic should be arrested and tried for treason against France. Deladier, Leon Bum, Georges Mandel, and General Gamelin were all arrested and tried at Riom. None of them committed suicide. All of them faced the court —and the trial collapsed. But the Vichy government did not let themi free. It kept them—to fall into the hands of he Gennans when they occupied the whole of France. Mandel died shortly thereafter in a German prison. He was a French man who could have told a tale and not a pretty one. "What has become of the others nobody knows. But the motto of the Czech Rep ublic is, "Truth Prevails”. And there fore before this war and this era are over, let us hope that it will prevail. If it does, the world will get some You Can GetQuick Relief From Tired Eyes ! MAKE THIS SIMPLE TEST TODAY Eyes Overworked ? Just put two drops of Murine in each eye. Right away it starts to cleanse and aoothc. You get— Quick Relief! All 7 Murine ingredi-i ents wash away irritation. Your eyes feel refreshed. Murine helps thousands — let it help you, too. IIRIHL, , Voo. EVES CWANMS * RUMSHM This is no time I N nearly all Americans there’s a streak of natural optimism. 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