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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C.
DIPLOMACY AT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO. — By all odds
the most skillful diplomacy game at
this conference has been played by
dapper, dignified Anthony Eden of
Great Britain. He has managed to
come out as the friend of all sides,
and most important of all, the
mediator between Russia and the
United States.
In other words, Eden has com
pletely reversed the previous role
of President Roosevelt, who up un
til his death had acted as the medi
ator between Churchill and Stalin.
The Churchill - Stalin rivalry was
not merely personal. It was his
toric. It was based not only on the
fact that Churchill just after the
last war, urged the sending of Allied
troops into Russia to help the White
Russian generals overthrow the em-
bpro Bolshevik regime, but that he
flirted with the Cliveden set which
in 1939 advocated war between Rus
sia and Germany while England
sat on the side lines.
This was the basis for the per
sonal snspieion between him
and Stalin. But historically,
Churchill was carrying ont a
century-old British policy of iso
lating Russia. For 100 years, the
country with the greatest land
mass in the world, Russia, had
been kept without a warm-water
seaport by Britain, the country
with the greatest navy in the
world.
That rivalry was the reason for
the Anglo-Japanese alliance, where
by the British, working through
Japan, helped to stop Russia from
getting Manchuria and a warm-
water port on the Pacific.
That rivalry was behind Britain’s
sphere of influence in Persia fnow
Iran) to prevent Russian use of the
gulf of Persia. That rivalry was also
the cause of the Crimean war in
which the British fleet and British
troops actually landed on the same
spot where Churchill, Stalin and
Roosevelt later held their Yalta
conference and waged a bloody bat
tle to prevent the Czar from com
ing down to the Dardanelles and get
ting an outlet through the Mediter
ranean.
Finally this 100-years-old Russo-
British rivalry was behind Britain’s
taking Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
and Finland away from Russia after
the last war to block her outlet to
the Baltic sea.
Roosevelt Sits In Middle.
That rivalry continued during the
Teheran - Yalta conferences, with
Stalin and Churchill both trading
against each other and Franklin
Roosevelt sitting in the middle.
At Teheran !hp argument was
over a second front through the Bal
kans which Churchill favored, or
through France, which Stalin fa
vored. Churchill wanted the Al
lied armies to get into the Balkans—
Russia’s sphere of influence — and
thereby keep the Russians out. He
didn’t want Allied armies ruining
factories and alienating the popula
tion of western Europe—which was
to be Britain’s sphere of influence.
In the end Roosevelt tipped the
scales in favor of Stalin—toward a
second front through France.
Once at Teheran, Churchill trying
to poke a little fun at Stalin, said:
“Marshal, I have noticed that when
ever anyone comes into contact with
you they become slightly pink.” To
which Stalin replied: “And Mr.
Prime Minister, any good doctor will
tell you that pink is the healthiest
of all colors.”
And Roosevelt, wanting to
pour oil on the troubled waters,
said: “Gentlemen, let me re
mind you that there is nothing
more beautiful than all the col
ors of the rainbow.”
But at the end, as Churchill
bade farewell to Stalin, there
was still tension between them.
“Well, goodbye. Marshal,” said
the prime minister, “I’ll see you in
Berlin.”
“Yes,” shot back Stalin, “I in a
tank and you in a pullman car.”
Stettinlus Loses Out.
Roosevelt was shrewd enough to
continue as middle man even
at Yalta, despite the fact that he
'was slipping physically.
, He kept both Russia and Great
[Britain in the position of playing up
'to the United States.
The loss of that strategic bargain
ing power is the most important de
velopment of this conference. Stet-
tinius has lost what Roosevelt had
and Anthony Eden has cleverly
stepped into his place.
The United States has now slipped
into the position of being the chief
rival and potential opponent of Rus
sia, while Eden has maneuvered so
that England sits in the middle, able
to throw its weight to one side or
the other.
• • •
Conference Cross Currents
Greek Foreign Minister Sophi-
anopoulos at first was considered a
British puppet but surprised every
one by voting against the British on
Argentina. He sides with Russia
against Argentina’s admission into
the San Francisco conference. . . .
He also helped to pass the Greek
eight-hour child labor laws, later
was condemned to life imprison
ment by the Metaxas dictatorship
under King George. . . . Real ex
pert on peace machinery is Dutch
Foreign Minister Van Kleffans.
Dew From a San Francisco Fog:
Walter Duranty, former N. Y.
Times correspondent in Moscow and
elsewhere, joined our table the other
noon to talk shop. . . . We were de
pressed, we told Mr. Duranty, over
our sour luck.
Before a Molotov story broke on
all the front pages, we had written
and filed the story exclusive 36 hours
earlier.
“Nobody,” we added, “seems to
know anything about it, although
Ivan Paul of the San Francisco Ex
aminer (who motored us to the
place) was witness to the fact.”
“Oh, well,” said the veteran cor
respondent, “you can’t get them
all, you know.”
“You don’t seem to understand,”
we groaned. “There’s excitement in
getting a scoop now and then. Don’t
you try to get scoops?”
“No,” said Duranty. “I’m in the
erudite part of the profession.”
Things I Never Knew Till Now:
After the First World War, Harry
Truman owned a haberdashery shop
which failed. He refused to dodge
his debts by resorting to bankruptcy.
. . . Truman spent the next 14 years
paying off $20,000 worth of haber
dashery debts.
Nation’s Hats Off to Hard Task Well Done
Potion | Hodges | Gerow | | Simpson | Potch \ { Truescott
The organization of the American forces in Europe which brought about the complete collapse and uncon
ditional surrender of the once-unbeatable German forces which set out to rule the world. To Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, his army group commanders, Bradley, Devers and Clark, we render thanks. To General Pat
ton, General Hodges and General Gerow, under Bradley; General Simpson and General Patch under De
vers and to General Truescott, under Clark in Italy, the credit of directing the world’s finest army is due.
A job well done, by the finest staff ever assembled in the history of any war.
Germany’s Nazi Down—Japan Soon to Follow
There is a lot of talk about what
we ought to do to Germany (and
Japan) for mass-murderjng prison
ers and labor slaves. This pillar
suggests that we let tne “things”
whip themselves with memories of
their bestiality—with us just prod
ding the memory. There are evi
dences of German savagery all
over Europe, so let’s preserve them
as monuments. Let future German
generations see them and find out
what kind of blood they are bom
with. If they can grow up among
reminders of what it costs to be a
monster, maybe they’ll work a little
harder to get back into the human
race.
Hitler’s name must be perpetuated
among the Germans. Every platz
and strasse and highway named for
him should continue to wear the
Adolf Hitler tag. Why shouldn’t his
name offend German noses the way
it has the noses of other people?
After all, they nourished him, so
they can be stuck with him. His
puss must also be kept public—all
over the billboards, the school books
and calendars. He must always be
referred to as Der Fuehrer, and we
can drop around a couple of decades
from now and ask them what they
think of the founder of the master
race.
Left: President Harry S. Truman, officially ending the war in Europe. Gathered around him are mem
bers of his cabinet, family and officials. Right: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied commander,
makes announcement of German unconditional surrender at SHAEF, France. At left is Sir Arthur T dder,
deputy supreme commander. The world’s greatest war was thus brought to a successful conclusion.
And that master race should be a
must, too. They must never refer
to themselves as anything else. If
they fail, the penalty will be a solo
rendition of the Horst Wessel song,
a verse and a chorus. The only ex
cuse for not uttering master race will
be a doctor’s certificate swearing
the holder got the phrase stuck in
his throat. He’ll just have to write
“Heil, Hitler” a hundred times.
Germany’s big day of the future
will be called Der Tag and will be
observed annually, with everybody
compelled by law to participate. The
day will begin with broadcasts of
Hitler’s pop-off speeches (record
ings), featuring those denouncing the
rotten democracies and also those
excusing the German murderers on
the ground that inferior races de
served to die. Then there will be
movies, with attendance compul
sory, showing the beaten and starved
prisoners of war at Lublin, Maide-
nek, Treblinka, Mieste, Belsen.
Every German upon reaching his
or her 21st birthday will be made
to make a pilgrimage to Lidice, and
there hear a reading of the report
of hangman Heydrich, who mur
dered in vengeance every innocent
child and woman in that Czech vil
lage.
To return to the celebration of Der
Tag, the final exercises of the day
would be a • standing vote by the
population on what they think of
the Versailles Treaty of World War
I. And they would be asked if they
had plenty of living room, or had
their patience become exhausted the
way it had so often before 1939.
If any of the Krauts cared to learn
English they would be given lessons
culled from some newspapers in the
U. S. Since these lessons were origi
nally written to comfort the Nazi
ideal, they would probably be easy
to absorb. The Germans would be
particularly interested in the Amer
ican columns that sneered at report
ed German atrocities as s-' much
hogwash.
Plans to probe the Ku Klux Klunks
are wrapped in a shroud. Such
plans usually grab newspaper space
and then die of neglect. . . . The
Klan ostensibly disbanded a year
ago, but the hooded hoodlums have
been popping up again disguised
with new names. . . . Don’t delude
yourself with the idea that the Klan
is as dead as it should be. Remem
ber that when the Klan crawled un
derground, Klan chief James A.
Colescott stated: “I am still the
leader of the Klan. The other of
ficials still retain their titles.
Pacific G.Ls Tame and Use Pets
Pity the S-VE-Eper
Dogs, goats or monkeys, regardless of nationality, the American ex
peditionary forces in the Pacific have tamed, adopted as pets and put to
use to hunt out the Japs, locate poison gas, gun emplacements, or furnish
milk to sick buddies. Thousands of rare and unusual pets will -be brought
into the United States when Tokyo falls.
Michael Parrotta, New York sani
tation department sweeper, is one
man who thinks that Victory is not
all it’s cracked up to be. His was
the job of cleaning up the paper
blizzard aftermath that covered 45th
street. New York City.
War-Bom Lessons Dropped From Air
New Diving Record
The accelerated educational schedule developed in the wartime emer
gency, which put the student through a normal four-year college course
in from 28 to 36 months, will be discontinued as soon as possible by most
colleges, but the government will see that substitute courses are furnished
to G.I.s by airmail wherever desired. Returned soldiers may still secure
training desired.
Jack Browne, 28 years old, is shown
through the porthole of the decom
pression chamber as he was slowly
released from the peak pressure to
set record of 550 feet dive-
t-lAPPY CHANDLER, the new
baseball commissioner, was a
first-class Kentucky governor and a
first-class Kentucky U. S. senator.
He has been a good aU-around ath
lete in many sports, including foot
ball, baseball and basketball. He
has been a sportsman at heart—a
clean, honest shooter.
But he may not be as happy as he
Is today, or has been through the
years, when the
present and the
postwar problems
of baseball fall
across his neck.
For these prob
lems will be
many and varied
and tough. They
will require not
only sound judg
ment on Commissioner Chandler’s
part but also the ability to face more
than a few club owners who are go
ing to look largely to their side of
the argument. They have the money
invested, and that’s always a big
point in most human debates. It isn’t
any question of crookedness that
Happy will have to face, but now
and then a matter of craft and
cunning.
Happy Chandler
I can tell Happy that practically
every club owner and ball player
had so much respect for Judge Lan
dis that it amounted almost to fear.
They wanted no part of the fiery,
aggressive judge.
After the war there will be over
4,000 of these ball players shed
ding their fighting uniforms for base
ball clothes. These men had con
tracts before they left, varying in
financial amounts up to Hank
Greenberg’s top of around $50,000.
A majority of these may not be as
good as they were after two or three-
years service in army and navy. But
those who return—and many won’t
—will expect to get what they re
ceived or were guaranteed before
moving into war. They won’t expect
to take any cut, until they have
had at least a year to prove their
places in the game.
It may be that every club owner
will fall into line and pay old sal
aries. It may be that many won’t.
But the new commissioner must sup
port the ball player to the limit-*
not the club owner.
Cardinal Stars
The Cardinals are the leading ex
ample. Sam Breadon’s Redbirds had
more good ball players than any
two clubs you can mention, includ
ing quality and quantity.
It the Jap part o. ‘he war is over
within a year the Cardinals will
have more good ball players on band
than any two teams can handle.
Take the case of the Cooper broth
ers. They were asking $30,000 a
year from the Cardinals, togeth
er, before Walker Cooper was taken
into service. Both know that the
Yankees, Giants or Tigers would be
extremely pleased to give them
$50,000 or $60,000 a year. But St.
Louis isn’t a good baseball town, so
far as attendance goes.
St. Louis is no New York, Detroit,
Brooklyn, Chicago or one of several
other major league cities. The
Cooper brothers at $30,000 a year,
combined, would have been a tre
mendous baseball bargain almost
anywhere else.
Plenty of Headaches
When the war is entirely over.
Happy Chandler will have at least
4,000 headaches which he must face,
regardless of what the baseball
owners think or want.
Here is the way I rate bas rball’s
importance—
1. The players who make the
game — including, of course, the
stars who help draw the crowds.
2. The fans or crowds who make
baseball possible as a major spec
tacle. They pay the salaries and
keep up the ball parks.
3. The owners—who can get in
and but at almost any time—and
who in the main get into baseball
through the motives of profit and
publicity.
The latter comes last. If they quit,
others are more than ready to take
their places. With few exceptions,
they hardly count in the building
of the game. They have contributed
less than any other factor.
It is for this reason that Happy
Chandler must look after the game
first — the players second — the
crowds third — and refuse to let
the owners shove him around. Hap
py Chandler has been the best-na-
tured man I ever met in sport. But
to carry out this job he now faces,
he will need all the iron a single
system can carry. Unless he does,
he has traded happiness for $50,000
a year. It isn’t worth it.
The Black Sox Series
It was 26 years ago that the Black
Sox scandal developed.
Lately we talked that famous
series over with Earl Greasy Neale,
who played with the Reds.
“We had no idea at all this series
was crooked,” Greasy said. “How
could we? There had been nunors
about Chick Gandil, Joe Jackson
and Buck Weaver. But Gandil’s hit
ting beat us in one game. In fact,
the fellows rumored as the crooks
starred all through the series.”
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