The White Falcon - 17.02.1945, Blaðsíða 3

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Yalta Conference Draws Highly Favorable Comment
Except From Berlin And Polish “London" Government
Close on the heels of the
Big Three announcement at
Yalta calling for a merger
of Polish democratic leaders
with the provisional govern-
ment now functioning at
Warsaw, the Polish Govern-
ment-in-Exile in London this
week refused to accept the
plan and accused Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin of viol-
ating the “letter and spirit
of the Atlantic Charter and
the right of every nation to
defend its own interest.
A Polish Provisional Gov-
ernment of National Unity
“can only legalize Soviet in-
terference in the Polish int-
ernal area,” the London gov-
ernment stated.
Reaction in the Eritish,
American and Russian press,
however, was favorable to
the principles contained in
the Yalta communique. The
Communist Party organ,
Pravda, said that the “Crim-
ean conference has proven
that alliance of the powers
possesses not only an histor-
ical yesterday and victori-
ous today, hut promised a
great tomorrow.” “The con-
ference,” Pravda continues,
“will go down in history as
an example of real demo-
cratic cooperation.
Radio .Berlin’s first com-
ment was that “Bolshevists
and British-American pluto-
crats aim at the complete
destruction of the German
nation and of Germany’s
industry. The German an-
swer to these songs of hate
cannot he anything hut
fight.”
Following completion of
the conference, Sec. of State
Sicilians flew on to Moscow
for a brief visit. Pres. Roose-
velt was accompanied to
Yalta by his daughter, Mrs.
John Boetlinger, and Ed-
ward J. Flynn, former Dem-
USO To Continue After
Defeat Of Germany, Japan
President of the USO,
Chester L. Barnard, declar-
ed recently in New York
that the organization would
continue to function for two
years after the defeat of
Germany and Japan.
ALLIES CLARIFY
‘UNCONDITIONAL|
SURRENDER”
The Allies have dropped
leaflets over the Western
Front dealing with “capitub
ation” and explaining thd
Allied stand on unconditioni
al surrender, according to a
United Press report based on
a broadcast from Radio
Luxembourg.
“Unconditional surrender
is being insisted upon,”'the
leaflets are said to state, “be-
cause (if it were otherwise)
it could alwajys he said after-
ward that : Germany had
been betrayed by an indivi-
dual clique. ;
“Capitulation does not mel
an that Gerijiians who surrj-
endered will,‘be at the mercy
of the victorious side. They
are under tlje protection of
Hie Geneva Convention and
will he treated with fairness.
“That alsm means in divide
ual Germans who had noth-;
ing to do with the crimes
committed by' war criminals
wil^not he taken to account
for those crimes.
“It is the Wish of the Alli-
es to give the German people
possibility for a normal, pe-
aceful development as mem-
bers of the European family
of nations.”
ocratic National Chairman,
who, the White House re-
vealed, did not participate
in the conference.
Among the points covered
in the communique were
plans for a United Nations
conference at San Francis-
co in April to form a world
peace organization follow-
ing an organizational outline
set up at Dumbarton Oaks.
The outline calls for a Gen-
eral Assembly as the main
body with two small depart-
ments — the International
Court of Justice and the Sec-
urily Council — functioning
separate!}’, hut on equal par.
Fashion Show
Once a year Red Cross girls at Club 14 yield to the
requests of GIs that they appear in something less mind-
ful of the Army than uniforms. Modeling the latest in
female town-country-and-evening wear in last Sunday’s
“Fashion Show” at the Club are (1. to r.): Ruth Hanna,
Helen Fauver, Edith Hawkin, Dee Jungers, Hv Montgo-
mery, Patricia Gilbert and Lorraine Avoy.
-GERMAN LEADERS
(Continued from Page 1)
Nazi officials and scientists.
All these propaganda.sourc-
es echo with the new slogan,
“We are loo few.”
“One hears it over the Ger-
man radio, beginning to talk
about the numerical superi-
ority of the Allies^ German
newspapers place the blame
for impending defeat at the
door of 1,300,000 German wo-
men who remained unmar-
ried and childless after the
last war. If each of these had
hut two children -— half of
whom surely would have
been hoys — then Germany
would have had 1,500,000
more soldiers in this war.
That means 1000 divisions,
and in that case the war
would have been over long
ago!”
A German leader speaking
recently at Liibeck charged
that a decline in the German
birth rate after 1870 had left
the nation with 19,000,000
people too few. The news-
paper Das Schwarze Korps
added: “If our parents’ gen-
eration had not succumbed
to the madness of restriction
of population,we might have
been able to mobilize a mil-
lion more men. .. . The cent-
er of Europe would today
he inhabited by 120,000,000
Germans, and who would
dare get into lrouble with
such a nation?”
If lack of human resourc-
es is the reason for Ger-
many’s present failure, Til-
liiiger believes the* mistake
will not. he repeated. A slight
recession in the German
birth rate between 1939 and
1942 was halted, and 1943
saw an increase in births of
5.1 percent over 1942. The
rate has continued to rise.
Apparently the turning point
came after the defeat at Stal-
ingrad, where huge losses in
killed and captured led to re-
newed home front propag-
anda Tor more children.
Heinrich Himmler frankly
said that “Germanv must
FIRST SERVICEMAN'S CHILD
BORN
0F
AIR CORPS MAN
REYKJAVIK WOMAN

The first child, born of an Icelandic mother and an
American serviceman, to be delivered at a military hosp-
ital here is pictured above with its mother, Mrs. Donald
Rader—formerly Miss Kristin Johansdottir, of Reykja-
vik, and Capt. E. A. Grabar, Med. Corps. The child, Don-
ald Jr., was born early last Saturday morning—.weight
at birth, eight pounds. In attendance were Capt. Grabar
and Miss Charlotte Doherty, Army nurse. The father is
Sgt, Donald Rader, Air Corps, of R-verton. N. J.
produce enough births to
compensate for war losses,”
and German newspapers cal-
led upon women and girls
“not to allow a soldier’s fur-
lough to go by unprofit-
able.”
Said Das Schwarze Korps:
“Since not all soldiers are
on leave at the same time,
and since the individual sol-
dier is in a position to help
numerous women fulfill
their ‘national duty’ in the
interest of the Fatherland,
a German woman should
never say ‘No’ to a German
soldier, even if he is not her
husband, fiance, or even an
acquaintance.”
Tillinger speaks of one
working girls’ group being
told: “You will he permitted
to serve six months in a lab-
or camp, and will have the
honor of returning as pro-
spective -German mothers.”
Officially sponsored marri-
age bureaus have been esta-
blished in every city, model-
ed somewhat on our service-
men’s canteens except that
the music and dancing serve,
a more calculated purpose.
Divorce regulations have
been loosened so that a man
may abandon -a wife who
has failed lo “produce.”
Himmler summed up Ihe
German viewpoint in a mes-
sage lo German woman-
hood: “For pureblooded
girls, there is a duty be-
yond marriage — to become
mothers. A young girl who
shirks her highest duty is
as much a traitor as a soldi-
er who abandons the flag.”
“World’s Largest Convoy”
Included 167 Merchant
Ships, 10,000 Trucks ;
Further details of the
world’s largest convby,
whose safe arrival was An-
nounced several weeks ajgo,
i>nvp just been released hv
the American Merchant Mar-
ine Institute. The convoy,
hound for Europe, took up
about 26 square miles, and
\Vas composed of 167 mer-
chant ships, including 75 fly-
ing the American flag.
Some 1,151,829 tons of car-
go were in the convoy, among
which were 10,000 trucks and
other vehicles, as well as
foodstuffs, locomotives and
explosives.
Big Three Conference
Draws World Attention
To Little Health
Resort Town In Russia
Yalta, scene of the sec-
ond Big Three Conference,
s n city of approximately
30,000 nestled in a moun-
a :i valley on the Black
Sea coast of the southern
li-'-ica- Because of its
mild climate, the city is
famed as one of the lead-
ing- health resorts in the
USSR. Founded by the
ancient Greeks, the citi-
zens of Yalta are known
for their vineyards and the
wines they make. Taken
by the Germans in 1941,
Yalta was freed by the
Red Army on April 16,
1944.