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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
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This is no time
I N nearly all Americans there’s a
streak of natural optimism.
We know the war won’t be over tomor
row. We know there may be a long hard
fight ahead.
But we can’t help looking forward to
the beautiful and wonderfu'.-ceeming days
of Peace.
This is all right unless . . .
Unless it makes you relax your efforts
to win the war . . .
Unless it makes you lose your memory
of what happened after the last war was
won.
Don’t lose that memory now. Don’t for
get the depression ... the poverty that hit
the farmers ... the breadlines in the cities
. . . the soldiers looking, looking, looking
for jobs, and not finding them.
Remember that Peace brought difficult
economic problems, economic stresses.
And this time, we must be ready to meet
them.
This time we must make sure of having
a real financial cushion ... to ease the
transfer to normal peacetime business,
peacetime employment, peacetime living.
That’s one big reason why you should
buy War Bonds... and hold on to them.
Every War Bond you buy, every one
you hold to maturity will keep bringing
you $4 for every $3 you invest today.
And that steady flow of buying power
will make jobs. It will create markets for
peacetime goods. It will do a lot to insure
an America that’s prosperous and sound
... the kind of America we all want when
this war is won.
So let’s not forget the lesson of World
War I. Keep buying Bonds. Keep hanging
on to them. They’re your security... your
Country’s security . . . for the days of
Peace!
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