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RUSSIAN RESISTANCE AND STRATEGY
Stubborness with which Russia is holding her long
line of defense against the titanic German assaults, and
developments of the last few days bring into sharp re
lief her situation today.
Despite her heavy losses, Russia has cut dow~ fhe
German forces tremendously and has prevented" the
piercing of her central lines and encirclement on the
far-flung flanks. To retreat in order is quite as much a
matter of successful strategy as in offensive operations.
Russia is making her battle-line elastic, and prov
ing she can suffer enormous losses and yet carry on.
She can take it. At the same time she has slowed down
the German momentum in a way the Nazis have not
experienced on any other front.
The evacuation of Kiev—a city of more than half
a million people—and reduction of the place to a mass1
of ruins by the Russians themselves exemplifies to what
lengths the Soviets are prepared to go in sacrificing a
part of their country to save the remainder. And it can
be depended upon that the Russians hope in time to
turn the tide and reoccupy the devastated region.
Bulgaria may throw her weight against Russia,
but Russia still will be far from defeat or discourage
ment. Turkey is yet to be reckoned with as a possible
off-set to Bulgaria. British-Russian occupation of Iran
was a masterful stroke, opening a new zone of entrance
into the main theater of conflict.
Russia is not fighting Germany alone in this battle
of the centuries but the equivalent of half a dozen or
more nations, considering all the conquered peoples
Hitler is forcing to support him.
And yet Russia carries on, and if she keeps up her
magnificent resistance a few weeks longer, she will
have the material support of her powerful allies that
give promise of turning the scales for a definite victory-.
— Fairbanks News-Miner
PRIESTLEY AND MIDGLEY
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(New York Times)
Joseph Priestley, one of the great pioneers of chem
istry, was an Englishman by birth and career, but he
died in Northumberland, Pa., a refugee from the wrath
of eighteenth century England against his sympathy
for the French Revolution. He was that rare combina- i
tion, a philosophical and a practical man. When not
delving into such matters as Chaldean metaphysics, he
liked to visit the brewery next door to his home in
Leeds and study the emergence of bubbles in the fer
menting froth. Tn his laboratory he discovered that
these bubbles were* not ordinary air. His paper, "On
the Different Kinds of Air,” laid the foundation for
the modern science of gases and their reactions — s
science which is utilized every time a spark plug sets
off a new power stroke in the cylinder of automobile
or airplane engine.
It is fitting, therefore, that this year’s recipient of
the Priestley Medal, the highest honor offered by the
American Chemical Society, should be a man who
made it possible for automobile and airplanes to go
many miles farther on a gallon of “gas.” In 1922, when
Thomas Midgley Jr. announced that six years of work
at the General Motors Research Laboratories had cul
minated in the perfection of an anti-knock compound,
he predicted: “Within the next two or three years it
is expected that gas-engine design will have been
changed to get the benefit of the new discovery.”
The prediction has been abundanty fulfilled. The
modern high-compression automobile engine, not to
speak of the much more compact airplane motor, would
sputter painfully with the kind of fuel that was market
ed 20 years ago. To keep the same number of cars on
the road and airplanes on the wing (and they would
never fly as fast as they do), would require many more
tankers, tank-cars and pipelines from the Western
fields. For the present efficiency of the internal com
bustion engine the nation owes much to Mr. Midgley.
And for th very existence of such engines there is an
enduring debt to pioneers like Joseph Priestley, the
Nonconformist minister who learned about gas-chem
istry from the froth of a beer vat.
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Senator Benne't Champ Clark (D-Mc), accused half a dozen men,
who he said controlled the notion picture industry of at; erupting tc
“inflame the American people to clamor for war" in tc.stinr iv be
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THE WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND'
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASSINGTCN — For 29 long
years Henry Fountain A-hurst
represented the State of Arizona
in the Senate, was the Senate’s
most distinguished orator, most
polished gentleman and the J;d:
ciaiy Committee’s mast powerful
member. When he was defeated
, the Senate mourned, felt he nev
er could be replaced.
The man who defeated him has
sat in the Senate for c:ght long
1 months completely mute, A h
urst, always a gentleman, called
i him a fine Senator and a fair
i opponent; but other Senators
s said nothing. Even in the press
gallery few knew who he was.
No one could say definitely
where he stood. He had voted for
defense measures, but lined up
i with the isolationists against the
draft extension bill.
Undoubtedly this was why Sen
ator Wheeler made Ernest W. Me
Farland the fifth member of the
! isolationist-packed committee to
investigate Hollywood. He was
counted on to bo a mere fipsrp
head, non-trouble-some window
dressing.
Little did Wheeler realize he
was to become a Fifth Columist.
Secret strategy of the isolation
ists was to launch a barrage of
scorching attacks on the movies
by Senators Nye and Bennett
Clark, co-authors of the investi
gation, and other hand-picked
sharpshooters. And with no crit
ical questioning anticipated from
j the hand-picked committee, the
isolationists were counting on a
I big publicity jamboree all their
own way.
But the man who took Ash
urst's place in the Senate com
; pletely fooled them.
Out of a clear sky and to the
goggle-eyed astonishment of the
four isolationist probers, rookie
j Sen. McFarland subjected Nye
! and Clark to a grilling that had
them squirming in pained dis
I tress. When they had finished
running the gauntlet of his slow
| spoken questions he had drawn
| from them these embarrassing
j admissions:
That they themselves had seen
hardly any of the films they de
nounced as “war propaganda.”
That they had based their at
tacks on statements made to
them by others, whom they re
fused to identify.
» That they proposed no legisla
tion, and that the probe, in ef
fect, was a “witch bunt” to smear
the movies for producing anti
1 Nazi pictures.
That Senator Nye disapproved
Charlie Chaplin’s “The Dictator’
because it ridiculed a foreign
country and ruler—Adolf Hitler
Senator McFarland, a formei
county judge and expert on irri
gation, was slow, frank and kind
ly. He seemed to enjoy himsell
immensely. So did Wendell Will
kie counsel for the movie indus
try, who was refused the right
: , rrogato Nye, Clark and
• r handpicked witnesses.
Wendell Willkie
This did n ■ . however, keep
the irrepressible Republican
•tend?.rd-b< rer f oni blurting
h's views despite the frowns |
. r the committee.
When Nye accused the movies'
if being a monop -ly. Willkie;
e -Titcd a loud stage whi per.,
uid by everyone: "Monopoly,
h ih! Y: u should have seen the
way they squabbled among them
st ives far thrt e weeks before i _
t! y hired me.”
Again when Chairman D. |
'V ; i Clark of Idaho announc- 4
ed that the committee would en -s
large its investigation, Willkie |
remarked: "That’s n ee. They can |
keep this thing going to sui. 4
th mseIves indefinitely. But I %
glass I've got. no con plaint. I'll |
nave a job until 1944." *
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Midnight Snack i
The other day Senator Roger %
Peace of South Carolina, who |
holds the former scat of Justice 4
Jimmy Byrnes, dropped in to see i
Byrnes at his home in Spartan
burg. It was late in the evening |
and the two men raided the ice- 4
A
box. It was jammed with food. t
“Hew do you happen to have
so much food in the icebox to- t
day?” asked Peace. i |
“Well,” grinned Byrnes, “after j
twenty years it feels so good to t
be Bible to walk down the street j!
and not have anyone stop and J
ask for a job that I just went j
down town this afternoon and1 t
did some shopping.”
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NOTE: Ex-Senator Byrnes was: J
one of the President’s most ef- »
fieient congressional lieutenants »
and commanded great influence *
when it came to patronage.
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P. Nye (left), North Dakota Republican, and Wendell L. Willkie, also a Republican, meet at a Senate
Interstate Commerce subcommittee hearing on Nye’s resolution asking for an inquiry into alleged
*- movie and radio propaganda activity. Willkie is acting as counsel for the movie industry.