Five-star general gives self up
Von Kleist surrenders – believed drug addict
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Gen. Marshall spikes hope for draft cut
Needs for Europe and Pacific cited
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Leaders of GOP argue policies
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Business-labor peace pact approved by U.S. Chamber
Johnston and other C-of-C officials visit Truman, pledge cooperation
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Editorial: Men go, evils survive
Mussolini is gone, spat upon, kicked in the mud like a scrap of refuse, his worn-out old body treated to obscenities that would not be inflicted upon a dead dog.
Hitler is reported dead, although the report is still unverified and the matter of his going is a subject of wide speculation and rumor.
So go the modern Caesars, just like the old ones, mangled by the mobs they once led, betrayed by the Brutuses they once embraced, and now none so poor to do them reverence.
It was not always so. In the past, many prominent people from Winston Churchill to Rep. Sol Bloom have praised Il Duce.
As the two dictators reversed their policies to suit opportunity, men changed their opinions.
Il Duce, once so noble to so many, and now so evil to us all, was the creature of events, caused by stresses and strains in the Italian economy. Hitler was made in Germany the same way. Both were interpreters and sympathizers of political trends and economic drives. It is significant that both succumbed to power as left-wingers.
There is no word but loathing for the dark chapter through which the world is moving, but it is not enough to damn these men as villains. For as these men die, the hated things for which they stood will not also conveniently die and be interred with their bones. Their evil will live after them because the evil is not theirs alone.
The evil is not only war and tyranny itself; it is in the seeds of these things; in the pride and greed and blindness to suffering; the stupidity; the complacency; the inhumanity that lets part of mankind turn away its face until itself is threatened. Certainly, that evil, in some measure, belongs to all of us.
Economists explain that Italy and Germany were societies forced to function at top capacity with purchasing power created by government debt. The economy planned and controlled by organization of both employers and workers (corporatives). They tell us that as militarism became the only course which could keep in political and economic balance the forces that had elevated the dictators, an enemy was invented, imperialism blossomed, and once more the world was bathed in blood.
Certainly, all that could happen again, but that is not the only way war could happen. The key lies in aggression and the fact that successful aggression wins popular support. It could happen whenever a people is powerful enough, and greedy enough, to gamble with war.
There is only one hope, and it is slim. That is, that the first stones of a structure of world responsibility be well laid at San Francisco. The great hope is that the peoples of the world, particularly the powerful peoples, will see to it that their governments help build on the structure so that there will finally be a world discipline strong enough to inhibit even the greatest nations.
Poll: U.S. reconciled to big-scale shift of troops
Transfer to Pacific expected by 74%
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Millett: Mrs. Roosevelt example for other lonely women
Living a full life and acquiring varied interests help in crisis
By Ruth Millett
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Record taxes in peacetime period seen
High income needed, budget director says
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Increase reported in crude oil output
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