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TITO DEAL EXPOSED
WASHINGTON. When the full
details of the Teheran conference
are told, they will show that after
Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill
finished dividing up the Balkans—
one of the worst things FDP, let
them do—Stalin then sold Churchill
on the trigger-happy little dictator
who recently caused such a crisis
between the United States and
Yugoslavia.
Marshal Stalin, at that stage of
the Teheran conference, was in
expansive mood. He had beaten
down Churchill’s insistence that the
second front against Hitler be
staged through the Balkans and had
put across an agreement instead
that Russia take over Romania and
Bulgaria, with Britain getting
Greece and Yugoslavia.
So at this point, Stalin gave
his friend Churchill some ad
vice. The Adriatic coast of
Yugoslavia and the areas in
which Britain is especially in
terested, he said, are Croatian,
not Serb. Therefore General
Mihailovitch, a Serb, was the
wrong man to run Yugoslavia.
Instead, Stalin offered Church
ill his man Tito, a Croat.
Those are the inside facts on how
Churchill happened to take on Tito,
and how the United States immedi
ately switched tons of valuable
lend-lease equipment to Stalin’s pup
pet-in-disguise.
The finishing touches to this
tragic error were applied when
Churchill sent his bungling son,
Randolph, together, with equally
bungling Brig Fitzroy McLean, to
serve as liaison officers to Tito.
They, in turn, played right into the
hands of Stalin’s shrewd plan to
steal Yugoslavia right out from
under the British.
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TITO SHOWS HIS TEETH
When Dictator Tito fired on U. S.
airplanes recently it was not the
first time he had shown his tqcth.
His first snarling display of force
came toward the end of the war as
relations between himself and the
British began to cool.
One night Tito’s headquarters
were raided by a Nazi airborne
division and he barely escaped. It
so happened that on this particular
night, Randolph Churchill and all
other Britishers left Tito’s head
quarters for the first time in two
months.
Tito was beside himself with rage
and suspicion, figured the British
were out to doublecross him, and
shortly thereafter flew to Bari,
Italy, then headquarters for refugee
Yugoslavs.
As Tito's plane landed, several
hundred Yugoslavs armed with tom
my guns surrounded it. No British
official was allowed anywhere near
their chief. Later Tito was invited
to dine with Gen. Sir Henry Mait
land Wilson, British commander in
the Mediterranean, and arrived at
the dinner with two dozen husky
Yugoslav guards, who lined up
with tommy guns on both sides of
the dining room.
“I say, marshal,” remarked
General Wilson, ‘‘isn’t this a
most unusual procedure?”
"This, general,” replied Tito,
"is a most unusual war.”
Next day he flew to Bucharest,
conferred with Russian officials,
then returned to Yugoslavia. His co
operation with the British was ab
solutely dead. He was now openly
working for Russia. Meanwhile the
United States had poured millions
in lend-lease material into Tito’s
hands.
Shortly after that, when British
commandos landed at Split on the
Yugoslav coast to try to head off the
German army, Tito’s men disarmed
the British and sent them back to
Italy.
• • *
BALKANS BREED CUTTHROATS
Today in Yugoslavia, Tito is any
thing but popular and, if it wasn’t
tor the support of Russia, he would
be out on his ear. The Serbs, who
formerly ran the country, don’t like
him, because he is a Croat and they
have been put on the sidelines. The
Croat people don’t particularly like
him because they are strong Roman
Catholics and he is a Communist.
Only people who really like Tito are
the Montenegrins, and their lead
ers adore him—for a very special
reason.
The Montenegrins are the born
fighters of Yugoslavia. Living in one
of the rockiest countries in the
world, they have nothing to do but
fight—or migrate to America, which
they did in large numbers before
the war. Almost every third Mon
tenegrin you met in the old days
spoke a little broken English and
had worked for a time in the steel
mills of Pittsburgh or Youngstown.
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BALKANIZING AMERICA
Although the mystery is unsolved
as to how the grand mufti of Jeru
salem was permitted to- slip out of
his comfortable villa in France to
Egypt, some highly important addi
tional information has now leaked
out about his activities as a result
of U. S. army cross-examination of
Nazi prisoners. The cross-examina
tion lays bare Hitler’s plot to Bal
kanize the United States; also to
stir up terror against the Jews. For
Hitler the two projects invariably
went hand-in-hand.
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BIG TOUR AT PARIS CONFERENCE . . . During the Paris peace conference, representatives of the Big
Tour hold special sessions to determine policies. French Premier Georges Bidault serves as host to
representatives of the United States, Russia and Great Britain. Sen. Tom Connally, Sec. of State
James F. Byrnes and Sen. Arthur 11. Vandenberg are shown at extreme right.
THIS STRIKE MET WITH FAVOR ... No need for these students to wish that the school house would
burn down. The teachers at Norwalk, Conn., went on strike. No teachers, no school. Vacation days can
begin again. Here Rudy Baxa, custodian Norwalk Center Junior high school, tells the students to go
home. Bone of contention for the teachers is that $90,112 be added to the $813,000 school budget for pay
raises for the 236 teachers. This is one strike where those who are concerned are willing that it be contin
ued for some time.
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PROPOSED ELANS FOR JEWISH ZONE .. . Some 1,800 square *
miles in Palestine would be granted the Jews under a reported Ameri
can compromise which President Truman is believed to favor and
which has been favored by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The new
plan also would demand Jewish and Arab autonomy in their respective
areas. Aboe at left is the Palestinian division originally proposed
by the Anglo-American cabinet committee and backed by Britain. At
right is the approximate division under the plan favored by the Jewish
agency.
TERMINAL LEAVE SIGN-UP . . . Flood of 10,000 veterans at Los
Angeles office to obtain the first terminal leave forms available in
Southern California is shown in above photograph. This rush was typi
cal of that to be found in nearly every city in the United States.
The forms were printed locally through special arrangement with the
war department, and are identical with those issued by the govern
ment. Bonds will be issued for amount of pay due.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
MISS SHANGHAI ... Not to be
outdone by the selection of “Miss
America 1946,” Miss Wong Yung-
Mai, poses in the approved man
ner after she was chosen “Miss
Shanghai of 1946,” at the contest
staged in the Chinese city for re
lief funds.
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ATOM FOR PEACE ... Dr. Wil
liam L. Doyle, University of Chi
cago, measures out a tiny amount
of radioactive carbon. First ship
ment from U. S. atomic labora
tory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., is de
signed for diseases experiments.
Diary of 46 Years Ago
Points Way for Present
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. Mary Condit-
Smith, a young Washington society
girl, visiting dip
pink silk dressin^
gown, sat down Baukhage
and wrote:
“The telegraph was broken last
night. We have no more communi
cation with the outside world; our
world is this dangerous Peking.”
That same day, though it was
really the day before, according to
the strange tricks Old So! plays
as he pushes the clock around while
he marches westward and paradox
ically reaches the Far East—that
same day, Monday, June 11, a boy in
the fifth grade of the High street
school painfully inscribed this entry
in his book:
“It rained this A. M. Two more
weeks and we’ll be free from this
School of Misery.” (The next day
it is of record that he broke the
crank of his “wheel”—bicycle to
you.)
The boy’s name appears at the
head of this column and what he
wrote isn’t important, but just 46
years later he was to read Mary’s
diary. She had gone to her reward
long since but not until her diary
became a book and she had become
Mrs. Hooker, a colonel’s lady.
White Man’s Prestige
Slipped to Low
As I read this fascinating story,
told in simple, boarding-school Eng
lish, those awful days when the for
eign colony in Peking lived in the
daily horror of massacre during
the Boxer rebellion, became very
real.
Today the fires of civil war are
spreading in China. Voices are be
ing raised, demanding that our ma
rines be withdrawn. American pres
tige has fallen almost as low as it
was when Mary Hooker in her diary
told the dramatic story of the Boxer
Rebellion—that moment in China’s
history when Americans, along with
all foreigners reached their nadir.
History repeats.
The Empress Tzuhsi, a reaction
ary, encouraged the activities of the
Boxers and other groups whose
chief purpose was to cleanse China
of the “foreign devils.” It is only
fair to say that China had passed
through a period during which the
occidental powers had exploited her
to the hilt.
Attacks on foreigners, especially
missionaries, began in 1899, but as
Mary Hooker records, “the diplo
mats and people in general put
these things down to the usual
spring riots which yearly seized
Peking.”
By June and July of 1900, however,
(he foreigners found themselves be
sieged in Peking. As late as June
7 Mary’s diary reports:
“Mr. Pethick . . . forty years
a resident of China and an in
timate friend of half the polit
ical leaders, knowing their
weaknesses by heart, urges the
minister to state to Washington
the situation as it is, but all to no
avail.”
Three days later, as I mentioned,
fhe foreign colony “had no commu
nication with the outside world.”
The next day’s entry states;
“Such intense excitement!
This afternoon the Japanese
Chancellor of the Legation went
down to the railway station in
the official legation car to see if
there was any sign of troops. Re
turning by the principal gate, he
was seized by the Imperial (Chi
nese) troops, disemboweled and
cut to pieces.”
Eagerly Awaited
Arrival of Troops
From then on the entries become
even more exciting “. , . twenty of
our marines have been sent by an
officer to guard the big Methodist
Mission . . . the Russian secretary
, . . has figures at the ends of his
fingers about the number of troops
Russia can land in Tien-Tsin . . . are
BARBS . , , by Baukhage
“Joy-buzzers” which give you a
shock handshake, the American Ma
chinist says, produced a profit of
$140,000 in one year. Better than a
clammy paw.
• • *
A new non-fogging glass for auto
windshields has been invented, ac
cording to Business Week. Now if
we can assure a non-fogging brain
for the driver we’ll be okay.
they trying to prepare us for a R„. I
sian coup d’etat? nus- H
Each day the arrival of f oreiß . ■
troops was awaited. On J une 17 ? ■
entry reads: 1 th « B
“ J " st « n , e we ek ago today We B
got the telegram that the com- I
bmed forces of England, the I
United States, France, Janan I
etc. ... had left to go to the I
relief of the legations in Peking I
. . . when the time comes that B
the American and Russian le Ra - ■
tions can no longer hold out, the I
British legation will be the stase B
for the terrible last act.” B
The Roman Catholic church was fl
only one of many burned, and the B
converts and their families in the B
vicinity slaughtered. fl
“In some cases,” says the di- B
ary, “the Christians thought it B
better to be roasted in their fl
houses than try to escape.” (She fl
herself had decided that she B
might as well be massacred in B
her pink silk dressing gown with B
a pink bow at her neck as in her B
golf clothes.) B
On the 19th of June, the Chinese B
government offered to give legation I
members their passports and escort B
them and their families to the port, B;
There was a division of opinion as B
to whether to trust the Chinese. In B
the evening the German minister B
started to confer a second time on B
the question when he was murdered B
in the streets. B
The situation grows worse. B
Dead Piled B
Around Ramparts B
A bullet knocks off the headpiece B
of a baby’s crib. B
All the women are sewing sand- B
bags. B
The Dutch and Austrian legations B
burn. B
On July 1: “There are so B
many dead dogs, horses and B
Chinese lying in heaps all B
around the defended lines, but B
too far for us to bury or burn B
them.” B
They used the dead horses closer B
by, however: “The . . . mess has an B
invariable menu. At breakfast, rice, B
tea and jam; at tiffin, rice and B
horse; at dinner, rice, horse and B
jam.” B
With the privations and fear of B
the Boxers grew the suspicion and B
distrust of the members of the for- B
eign missions of each other. Rus- B
sians and English hated each other; B
Americans were the buffers. Racial fl
ructions have no date lines. Mary B
Hooker notes: fl
“The dislike of the Russians I
for the British is so cordial that fl
is is only equaled by the feeling B
the British entertain toward B
them. Our compound joins the fl
Russians, and they love us and I
we love them in as strong a fl
fashion as they hate their Eng- H
lish neighbors on their other I
side.” I
And so pretty Mary Hooker wrote B
history. ... I
But it was more than history. It H
was drama. It was tragedy. Just H
look over her shoulder once again: I
“July 9. . . day before yes- ■
terday, the Austrian Charge I
d’Affaires was shot at the I
French legation. ... At first we I
kept a record of the dead or I
badly wounded .. . but now I
they come in so often we cease I
to note the exact number. ... I
“July 16 ... I was en route I
to the hospital carrying a pot ■
of coffee to the doctors and ■
nurses when some soldiers I
passed me, carrying a rough lit- I
ter, bearing Captain Strouts I
(the British commanding offi- I
cer) mortally wounded.” I
Then July 16: I
“It is discussed quietly by I
men that they will certainly kill I
their wives when that time a
comes (to make a final stand). I
God grant it never may! Apro- I
pos of this, 1 have in my pock- I
et a small pistol loaded with fl
several cartridges, to use if the I
worst happens. A Belgian sec- I
retary stole it from the armoury
for me—‘in case you need it,
mademoiselle.’ ”
Then finally this note on August
15, when the Chinese were closing
in on the improvised fortifica
tions manned by lord and flunky,
soldier and civilian making then
last stand ... “a veritable ring oj
flame on all sides of the defenses.’
And then! “Through that
racket that was around us all
night, we could faintly hear the
unmistakable sound of the for
eign guns of our troops.”
That page of history, let us hope,
will not be repeated.
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There will be more cranberries for
your Thanksgiving turkey this year,
department of agriculture says-
Now all we need is the turkey.
♦ * *
The army and the navy at last
have gotten together on the quest’an
of how long is a mile. The nauti
cal mile was 800 feet longer than the f
infantry mile. But the sailors
care. They didn’t have to walk A
