Paper strikers defy publishers
Deadline passes; men still out
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Aussies capture hill on Borneo
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Yanks kill 4,879 Japs in Philippines in week
MANILA, Philippines (UP) – U.S. troops mopping up the Jap remnants in the Philippines counted 4,879 enemy dead last week and captured 608 prisoners, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today.
In the same period, American losses were 62 killed, one missing and 195 wounded – a loss ratio of less than 1 to 21.
Nationalist party copies Hitler methods in organizing malcontents, rabblerousers
Ex-Sen. Reynolds, G. L. K. Smith leaders; capitalize on prejudice; violence feared
By Eugene Segal, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Perkins: Nationwide strikes by printers threatened to get even with WLB
ITU head warns he’ll pull more union members out unless demands are granted
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Boy! What they don’t know today about German girls
Doughboys still walking round with dazed looks after easing of fraternization ban
By John McDermott, United Press staff writer
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Chennault raps critics of China
Points to difficulties of Allied nation
By Albert Ravenholt, United Press staff writer
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Churchill mutters at Hitler death scene
BERLIN, Germany (UP) – Prime Minister Churchill bit hard on his inevitable cigar swung his cane and stared unsmilingly today at a shallow, rubble-drawn pit in the courtyard of the Chancellery.
“That,” a British correspondent volunteered, “is where the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun supposedly were burned.”
Mr. Churchill muttered under his breath and turned away. Just what he said was not clear. The handful of persons who heard the mutter decided it carried more of a tone of disgust than disbelief in Hitler’s death.
Sensational rumor: Hitler’s still alive
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UP) – The newspaper Morgen-Tidningen reported today that a “sensational rumor” was circulating in Bern, Switzerland, that Adolf Hitler was hiding in the principality of Liechtenstein under the name of “Dr. Brandl.”
Hitler, according to the rumor, had changed his appearance.
Hitler’s escape, the newspaper said, quoting the Bern rumors, was prepared long ago and included the careful staging of Hitler’s and Eva Braun’s suicide in Berlin chancellery bunker.
Truman likely to rush home from Berlin
Believed to have canceled tour plans
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
WASHINGTON – President Truman is believed to have canceled plans for a Western European tour to return to Washington immediately after the Big Three conference.
There have been published reports that he would visit Denmark, Norway and Great Britain before returning here.
Less definite, but certainly under consideration, were plans for further extensive air travel. There was reason to believe the party might have gone at least into the Eastern Mediterranean.
Dinner coats ordered
It was to have been a strictly plush operation, too. Astonished press association reporters chosen to accompany the presidential party across the Atlantic were directed to take with them not only dinner coats but white ties and tails. There was suspicion at first that it was a gag. Then there was despair because tailcoats were hard to find in Washington.
Other correspondents who desired to fly to Europe after the Big Three conference to join the presidential party were advised that the cost of their journey might reach $5,000.
Enthusiasm dims
The enthusiasm and number of travel-candidates immediately began to diminish. Now the few who are willing to lay out the $5,000 are being told that post-conference travel plans are being reconsidered and probably will be abandoned.
The President reversed himself in mid-ocean, which was approximately his position when word spread that he might curtail his journey.
The most inviting speculation about the President’s new plans concerned the possibility that Japan may be nearer unconditional surrender than has been assumed. Supporting this theory is the U.S. fleet bombardment of Japan which has been going on for several days.
Early victory doubted
Opposing that line of thought is the fact that several senior military officers have said recently that the Pacific war is far from over.
If Mr. Truman decided to hurry home in expectation of the early collapse of Jap resistance, then there evidently has been some authoritative communication from Japan within the last few days. If so, that fact scarcely can be long concealed.
Congressional recess plans presumably would have to be changed if Japan is about to quit. The House will recess Saturday until October 1, according to the present schedule. The Senate will quit when it has disposed of the United Nations Charter, perhaps by the end of next week.
Simms: History’s greatest decisions slated at Big Three meeting
Potsdam session to test workability of United Nations conference rules
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
WASHINGTON (SHS) – Through President Truman at the Big Three meeting at Potsdam, the people of the United States are about to make some of the most important decisions in all their history.
Not even the 1815 Congress of Vienna faced such tremendous issues. The Napoleonic wars of 130 years ago left Europe comparatively intact. Today nearly the entire continent is a shambles, materially, morally and politically. And the world’s future depends on whether President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin can lay the foundations for a new structure.
Must agree on rules
This means, so far as the American people are concerned, that the President must commit the United States to international cooperation far beyond anything ever before contemplated, let alone attempted.
Actually the Big Three meeting at Potsdam is more important than the United Nations Conference at San Francisco. At San Francisco, rules were formulated for safeguarding the future peace. Potsdam will largely determine whether or not the San Francisco rules will, in fact, be workable
What is widely overlooked is that peace terms have yet to be agreed upon. In fact, there is considerable doubt that a full-dress peace conference will be held. Already some of the Allies have made unilateral and bilateral decisions vitally affecting the peace, often without bothering to consult other interested parties. Potsdam will have to review these faits accompli and reconcile them, if possible, with decisions yet to be made.
8 points to consider
The Big Three must also consider:
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What is to be done with Germany and the German people; Europe’s new boundaries; whether vast populations are to be shifted from one area to another and, if so, where and how; how to govern what is left of Germany and whether it will be Sovietized or democratized.
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Allied policy with regard to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Lativa, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and the Middle East, Hungary and Austria.
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The role of France in Europe. Up to the present, France has been absent from these meetings despite the fact that she will play a vital role in the world, especially in Western Europe.
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Problems presented by Italy and Italian colonies.
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Allied policy toward Spain, Switzerland and other neutrals.
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The question of lifting the news blackout now virtually complete in zones occupied or controlled by Soviet Russia.
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European relief – social, financial and economic; and possibly–
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Russo-Japanese neutrality. This would entail a review of the Cairo pronouncement of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek regarding Manchuria, Korea and other Japanese conquests and also of Russia’s China policy in the light of the recent Soong discussions in Moscow.
Small nations voiceless
Setting the fate of small nations without letting them be heard admittedly is an anachronism after a war which presumably was fought partly in defense of the sovereignty of small nations. And much has been said about the autocratic behavior of the Big Fur (Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia) at the Congress of Vienna. But there the little nations were at least permitted to talk, even if they were not always listened to.
At Potsdam, it seems, the little peoples of the world will be more or less voiceless – unless, that is, President Truman speaks up for them as some believe he may. He knows public opinion in America would not long support the use of force to perpetuate an unjust peace.