Daily Post - 10.11.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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Wednesday, Nov. 10, 1943
“fllstoric”
flesolotíon
WASHINGTON: — Senator
Tom Connally from Texas said
that the post-war resolution
bearing his name which the
Senate passed last Friday 85 to
5 “has in it teeth of bayonets
if necessary to preserve the
peace and prevent war.”
He also cited the great aerial
and naval power available to
enforce the resolution’s aims,
adding however that it would
be used “only if negotiation
fails.”
Senator Davis I. Walsh of
Massachusetts pledged support
of the resolution saying that
Americans watched the Mos-
cow conference “with anxious
eyes and are encouraged by the
announcement that complete
unanimity prevails for the
prosecution of the war to a
speedy final victory and that
appropriate agreement on post-
war collaboration has been
achieved.”
Senate majority leader Alben
W. Barkley from Kentucky
termed the resolution “historic.”
He said it would be instrumen-
tal in damaging the enemy as
well as giving heart to the
American people and their
Allies proving that the United
States is ready to help maintain
world peace.
Senator Scott W. Lucas from
Illinois “through this declara-
tion of good faith, the Senate
advises the world that it is
ready to assume the responsi-
bility of helping chart the
course which will bring lasting
peace to the suffering peoples
of the tortured world.”
The New York Herald-
Tribune in an editorial entitled,
“A Vote to Applaud,” said.
“There were great forces at
work in the Senate and the
United States the last two
weeks. The will of the Ameri-
can people that this country
shall seek, in the company of
ROUND TtíE PRh S
LOVE AND POLITICS
The Badoglio dictatorship was
still mum on Benito Mussolini’s
whereabouts. But now it urged
the controlled Italian press to
talk volubly on Benito Musso-
lini’s love life. Practically every
paper added details to a tale
long familiar to gossips:
Quite by chance, in a Roman
swimming pool, Benito Musso-
lini met voluptuous, curly-
haired Claretta Petacci,
daughter of an obscure but
ambitious Roman family. His
Latin fancy was fired. Swiftly
he put aside his other mis-
tresses,*) enthroned Claretta in
a resplendent villa linked by
private phone to the Palazzo
Venezia. The new favorite flaun
ted her power. She managed
the Duce’s fan mail, dragged
him on shopping tours, hired &
fired officeholders in what
Corriere della Sera called the
manner of a “second-rate Main-
tenon,” responsible for the
“intellectual degradation of her
passionate friend.”
Infatuated Benito Mussolini
often followed Claretta’s coun-
sel on foreign policy. During the
Spanish Civil War General
Francisco Franco petitioned
Rome for two more divisions.
“What shall I do?” the Duce
asked his paramour. ‘Bimbo,”
she replied, “do send the divi-
sions”. General Franco is so
simpatico.” When the time came
to attack Greece, Claretta ap-
proved because the Greek Am-
bassador had snubbed her at
diplomatic receptions.
The Petacci family prospered,
moved to a palace on Monte
Mario. Claretta’s physician
brother became well-to-do.
*) There were many, including
a pink-&-blonde German, of
whom the Paris gossip-sheet. Aux
Ecoutes, reported: ,,The new
favorite discharges her delicate
mission all too well. . . The doc-
tors are said to have limited the
daily . . conversations æith the
Duce to three. The medical
profession is rather lenient to a
man of 56.“
like-minded nations, some solu-
tion for the dread problein of
war, found expression in the
‘overwhelming’ Senate vote on
the revised Connally resolu-
tion (including Article Four of
the Moscow declaration on the
establishment of a general in-
ternational organzation for the
Claretta’s mother became un-
official autocrat of Italians
movies. Claretta’s sister Maria
pleased the Duce, too. She be-
came a radio and film star.
Epilogue. The Italian press
reported that the carabinieri,
pressing the Badoglio dictator-
ship’s drive against blackshirts, J
had now arrested the sisters
Petacci. Commented the Swiss
Neue Zúrcher Zeitung: the
deliberate blackening of Benito
Mussolini’s grey reputation is
a rebuff to the Nazis, who still
pretend that the ex-Duce is a
great man; it is also a shift in
political attitude that “may
point to coming events.”
ONE MAN’S MEAT
A dazzling vista in U.S.-
British relations opened last
week: an American officer
praised the British climate. Re-
porting that the health of troops
in Britain is the best of all the
expeditionary forces in U.S.
history. Brigadier General
James S. Simmons, director of
the Army’s Division of Preven-
tive Medicine, said that one of
the main factors was “í’ne
healthful, temperate climate” of
the British Isles.
EXCUSE IT, PLEASE
From Edmonton, capital of
Canada’s province of Alberta
and gateway to the new 1.480-
mile-longe U.S.-constructed Al-
aska highway, a Canadian news-
man sent a tall tale to the Phila
delphia Inquirer: “The inspect-
or general of the Canadian
Army paid a visit to Ldmonton,
and, desiring to look over the
American installations there,
put in a telepone call to the U.
S. Army hedquarters. Plugging
in .... the telephcne operator
purred in the soft aecent of an
American telephone operator,
‘United States Army of Occu-
pation.’ The Canadian inspector
general .... hit the ceiling. . . .
The telephone girl was quietly
transferred. . . . LNowJ operat-
ors, plugging in calls . . . say:
maintenance of peace and se-
curity.)
“Doubtless much of the ia-
vorable reaction among Sena-
tors was crystallized by the
conrete example of the Moscow
meeting and the joy with which
the results of that conference
were received.”
‘United States Army Ilead--
qarters in Canada.’ ”
WOOFS TO THE KESCUE
Greatest health menace at
the key U.S. military base of
Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians
is a swarming, half-million-odd
rat population that has battened
for years past in the mean, gar-
bage-strewn alleys of Unalaska
village.
Army & Navy authorities
have gone after the rats with.
traps, poison and sanitation con-
trol iii the village. In addition,
hunters have been forbidden to
shoot such valued rat killers as
hawks, eagles, owls ,and foxes.
As a final touch, the Army
called up part of its K-9 Corps,
ordered a dozen specially train-
ed terriers from the States. The-
Alentian, official servicemen’s
publication, announced: “The
WOOFS are coming.” For the
first time in Dutch Harbor’s
history, the rats were definetely
on the run.
Facts.. Oddities..
QaoDtions
RUSSIAN GIRL HONORED
Maria Ivanova, 22-years-old
girl bomber pilot of the Soviet
Air Force, has been made a
member of the Order of Pat-
riotic War, first degree, after
making 115 flights over the
front in 70 days.
* * *
A buoyant “food bomb”
dropped by the U.S. Navy to
sripwrecked personnel has al-
ready saved many lives at sea.
Made of waterproof canvas and
resembling an explosive miss-
ile, it contains a first-aid kit,
concentrated food, water,
whisky, cigarettes and mat-
ches.
* * *
A peacetime manufacturer
of dolls’ eyes and voices in the
United States now is making
instrument lights and radio
detection equipment for the^
armed forces.
* * *
French North Africa pro-
duced and exported almost
500.000 tons of phosphate rock
for fertilizers in 1900 and al-
most 4.500,000 tons in 1937.
Exportation decreased to about
2.000,000 tons in 1940.