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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
Aviation Conference Underway
Warhington, D. C.
WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA
Most Americans have been bo
engrossed in the World War that if
you toli them war was brewing
right here in the Western Hemi
sphere, they never would believe it,
Yet buzzing backstage in the
Washington diplomatic corps has
been a growing, worrying reverbera
tion over the ultimate danger of
war between Argentina and Chile
—not this year, perhaps not next
year, but before very long.
Additional attention was focused
on the unhappy situation with Ar
gentina’s bid for a conference of
Pan-American foreign ministers—
on an obvious move to put the
U. S. A. on the spot and force recog
nition of the Fascist Farrell mili
tarist government in Argentina.
The whole tangled diplomatic con
troversy between Argentina, the
United States and other neighbors
is so involved that it takes an ex
pert to understand it. But out of the
mess emerges these basic and
alarming facts:
1 — Argentina is rushing
armament. Hedy Lamarr's for
mer husband, Fritz Mandel, the
Austrian munitions king, about
whom “Idiot’s Delight” was
written, is busy building air
planes for Argentina night and
day.
2 — Argentina could bomb
Santiago, capital of Chile, from
Mendoza, just across the Andes,
in 40 minutes. It would take five
hours for Chile to bomb Buenos
Aires, capital of Argentina.
3 — The people of Chile today
are worried sick over Argen
tina. The Socialist, Communist
and Conservative parties, usual
ly vigorously divergent, are
now united on this. They fear
that the Argentine Fascists,
looking for means of keeping
themselves in power, as Hitler
did with the German people,
will make a Czechoslovakia out
of Chile.
Brazilians Admire Argentina.
Other Latin Americans are di
vided. Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru sym
pathize with Argentina. Officially
Brazil does not. But actually the
Brazilian army, plus many of the
Brazilian people, are rooting sym
pathetically for the one country
south of the Rio Grande which has
successfully thumbed its nose at the
Colossus of the North and got away
with it.
Nothing succeeds like success,
especially in the Latin American
mind. The state department adopted
only halfway measures with Argen
tina; snubbed her diplomatically,
but made her prosperous economi
cally by continuing to buy meat.
The Argentines didn't care much if
they were snubbed as long as they
were prosperous.
Result is that many “good neigh
bors,” though not liking Argentine
Fascism, enjoy seeing U. S. diplo
macy come to grief.
NOTE — Meanwhile, the United
States is less equipped to handle
things in our own hemisphere than
ever before in two decades. Secre
tary Hull is sick. His best Latin
American experts were friends of
Sumner Welles and were given the
gate after Welles resigned.
• • •
CONCERNING THE WAR’S END
A lot of people have tried their
hand at predicting the war’s end,
including this columnist. Some were
high-up officials, some private prog
nosticators. Some were pretty good,
some pretty bad.
Rep. Earl Wilson, Indiana-Repub
lican, in June, 1943, got an aver
age compilation from 140 congress
men that the war would be over in
October, 1944.
Adm. William F. Halsey, who pre*
dieted "complete, absolute defeat
for the Axis in 1943,” was asked
again, on December 13, 1943, and
“wasn’t so sure when the war would
be over.”
Gen. “Hap” Arnold, chief of the
air forces, on February 14, 1943, pre
dicted “the German war will be
over by February 14, 1944.”
Jim Farley, on January 20, 1943,
“The war will be over this year.”
Gen. Levin Campbell, January 15,
1943—“The war will be over in about
two years.”
Herbert Hoover, November 6, 1943
—“Certainly we are now in the last
stages of the war.”
Raymond Moley, November 8,
1943, predicted end of the war “ear
lier than envisioned by the adminis
tration.”
Senator O’Mahoney, Wyoming
Democrat, January 2, 1944: “The
most conservative Swedish observ- ,
ers do not believe that Germany can
endure beyond next June.”
Sun Fo, president of the legis
lative Yuan of China, January 2,
1944: "Germany will be knocked out
between the spring and summer of
this year.”
Henry Ford, March 20, 1944, pre
dicted war would be over in two
months.
Senator McKellar of Tennessee.
July 21, 1944: “The Red army will
be in Berlin in 60 days. The war
will be over on all fronts in six
months.”
Congressman May, Democrat,
{Kentucky, July 28, 1944: “Germany
.will capitulate by December L.”
Adolph Berle, assistant secretary of state, and temporary chairman,
Is shown as he made the opening address of the International Civil Avia
tion conference held in Chicago. Delegates representing 50 countries
met in first conference of its kind, hoping to work out a plan for world
air transportation. The conference has dedicated itself to the world-wide
peace-time aviation development.
Guest of Air Force
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GIs Build Bamboo Water Line
Bamboo water line is supported across a defile by trestle also made
of bamboo. This improvised line, in Yunnan province of China, the
end of the lines for American army supplies, released hundreds of Chi
nese coolies from carrying water in order that they could handle other
essential war supplies for American and Chinese forces.
Hot dogs and raisin pie were
served to this French lad by mem
bers of the U. S. army Ninth air
force service command unit in
France. Mess call always finds a
number of the French children lined
up for chow with the GIs. Thou
sands of French children have to
be fed.
Commands Invasion
tEnrr>-~rj,!
Notes of an
Innocent Bystander:
The Moom Pitchers: Lana Turn
er, whose marriages are always
headlined, now appears in “Mar
riage Is a Private Affair.” Lana
carries on an absorbing cinema ro
mance as though she invented
kisses, while your eyes carry on a
romance with Lana’s Turners. . . .
A comedy, “Rainbow Island,” stars
a sarong, ably supported by Dotty
Lamour. The lilts are infectious
enough to' have a juke box named
after them. . . . “Abroad With Two
Yanks” exhibits some lusty, hair-on-
the-chest humor, but more often the
wheezes are tripping over their
beards. . . “San Fernando Val
ley” offers a batch of scenic-knacks
—until the script ruins the view.
... A postwar theme is handled
shabbily in “My Buddy,” making
it the first atrocity of peace. . . .
“Murders in the Blue Room”
searches for goosepimples and gets
lost in a deep yawn. . . . Hollywood
entertainers overseas were shoved a
fortnight ago. Recently Olivia De-
Havilland was stricken with pneu
monia while touring the Pacific war
zones.
Tlie Intelligentsia: Paul Kennedy
of the Times cinema staff is en
route to Spain to report the immi
nent blowoff there. His ancestry is
Irish-Spanish. . . . One of the first
fashion editors to go overseas will
be Life’s new staffer, handsome El
mer Lower—destination Paris. . . .
Henry C. Cassidy’s piece on what to
i do with German prisoners is the fea
ture of The Atlantic Monthly. . . .
GenT Robert Johnson’s first book,
“But, General Johnson,” (Princeton
Univ. Prefes) contains a chapter ti
tled: “The News, the Columnists,
and the Commentators.”
Gain by Gain Toward Victory
Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley,
commanding general of the 96th in
fantry division, leads his division in
the invasion of Philippines. The
troops received extensive training
for the present campaign in the Ha
waiian islands.
Quotation Marksmanship: Chas.
Dana Gibson: A lady is a woman
! who always remembers others and
never forgets herself. . . . Dwight
Moody: I never met a man who
has given me as much trouble as
| myself. . . . J. Hamilton: Only a
| wise man knows if he fell in love or
! was trapped into it. . . . Will Rog-
1 ers: I don’t make jokes. I just
1 watch the government and report
the facts. . .* . H. R. Warfel: He
made words march like warriors
against ignorance. . . . Margaret
Halsey: Bleak as the end of a love
affair. . . . M. Dooley: The man
who gets fat under the belt isn’t as
bad as the man who gets fat under
the hat.
Crossing the Alps
Broadway Ballad:
Make mine Manhattan—when the Autumn
brings
Its soft enchantment to the noisy town...
(Then mem’ries brush the heart with silk
en wings.
And all the leaves are turning golden
brown.
Make mine Manhattan—when the moon is
low.
And tiny taverns bid you enter in . . .
And thoughts go drifting bach to long
ago . . .
When constancy was marked the Crown
ing Sin.
And yet how soon a foolish lad can learn.
That it was you who gave the nights
their charm.
That it was you who made the torch-fires
burn
In that brief space before we came to
harm • • •
That it was you who made Manhattan
mine—
When Autumn spilled its cask of golden
wine!
-Don Wahn.
This map shows the steps taken by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as he
kept his vow to return to the Philippines. On the second day of January,
1944, he made his first major leap-frog jump along the coast of New
Guinea from Lae to Saidor. The map shows the succeeding operations,
climaxing in the invasion of the Philippines.
Awarded Nobel Medicine Prizes
AO 1944 Nobel prizes for medicine went to the United States, the
Nobel committee has announced. Dr. Joseph Erlanger, St. Louis, Mo.,
(left); Dr. Edward A. Doisey, St. Louis, Mo., (center); and Dr. Herbert
S. Gasser, of the Rockefeller Institute, New York city, were awarded the
prizes for medical research work.
Typical of the terrain over which
our forces must battle in northern
Italy is this jagged pass at Della
Stelvio. These are the Austrian Alps
on the Italian-German border. The
man-angled white strip is the Bur
ma pass-like road.
Waiting for Flush
Ha-Hallywood: It happened on the
MGM lot. A woman writer from
New York saw a Red Cross mobile
unit parked in front of one of the
studios. She hadn’t been to the
blood bank in quite a spell and she
thought this would be a good time
to donate.
As a nurse checked on her his
tory, it was discovered that the
would-be blood giver was not an
MGM employee.
The nurse consulted with the in
terne, the interne consulted with the
doctor and the doctor pondered with
his hand to chin.
“I guess it won’t hurt,” he finally
decided, "but please keep it under
your hat. We are not supposed to
take anything on this trip but Metro
blood.”
It was at a cocktail party in Wash
ington. A dowager asked a British
Major: “What about the privileged
classes in England?”
“I presume, madam,” was his
dead-pan reply, “you are speaking
of your countrymen, because at the
present time the only privileged
class in England are the Ameri
cans.”
True Story: A Navy officer writes
us that a Naval hospital held a con-
'■ test among the patients to find out
how many could pick Betty Gra-
ble’s legs out of a batch of leg pic
tures.
The only one who could identify
them was a chaplain 1
Dog, Joe Contender, and his hunt
er, working like two halves of a
well-oiled machine, stand by a cov
ert. The dog is in a point and the
hunter is ready for his shot.
Add public service: NBC’s pro
gram, “World’s Great Novels,”
which dramatizes the best litera
ture. . . . The news about another
son of Ring Lardner being killed is
action saddened the craft.
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The Rubicon
“Crossing the Rubicon” means to
commit oneself irrevocably to a
course of action. A small stream
in Italy flowing into the Adriatic,
it separated Sisalpine Gaul from
Italy proper. It was an act of
treason for a Roman to enter Italy
with an army and when Julius
Caesar crossed the river in 49 B. C.,
leading his army, it was the com
mencement of civil war. There has
been controversy as to whether
Caesar actually did cross this river
on his march as indisputable iden
tification is impossible.
WNU—7
46—44
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