■uauiUniiiiiiuuiiiir.uiiiiiiiiiitiiiiinnminniiiiinniuiinuiiiiniiiiiHiintiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiuumiimmnuuiumiiiiiiiiiiuiHiiiumiimuiiiiiuuiiimi.iiimiimuimmmimiiiuiuiiu Oregon W Emerald MARJORIE M. GOODWIN ELIZABETH EDMUNDS v EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG GLORIA MALLOY Managing Editor Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors EDITORIAL BOARD Betty Ann Stevens Edith Newton Mary Jo Geiser Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Executive Secretary Betty French Robertson, Chief Night Editor Warren Miller, Army Editor Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens Marguerite Wittwer, Exchange Editor Co-Women’s Editors Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holiday* and final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. Bach the Attach . . . With the appointment of Anne Craven to the war board on the campus, the second year of the board has neared completion Jean F'ridcger has carried on Leu Barde's work in making the Avar board one of the major year-round campus activities', and has incidentally put the University on the national map Avith the super salesmanship job of making over $260,000 in a Avar bond sale. That the Avar board has been a success this year is almost beyond doubt. Scrap drives have resulted in the turning in of much needed tin cans for conversion purposes. JeAvelry has been collected for the men in the South Pacific through the “Go Na tive’’ dinners held one "Wednesday night. It was fun, and though it Avas a little thing to do, it helped. Issues of the Emerald have been paid for by the Avar board and sent out to men and Avonien in the service, bringing a bit of Oregon to army, navy, marine, and coast guard stations. That these papers Avere appreciated is evidenced from the number of letters that hav ccome in and are still coming in to the Emerald office. Books for prisoners of Avar and cigarettes for overseas service men have also been col lected. One of the most important of the Avar board's activities this year has grown, under the chairmanship of Carol Wicke, to the status of a separate Red Cross chapter, complete Avith its own charter. The Avork done bv Red Cross workers on the campus has been of great value in furnishing surgical dressings and bandages for the wounded. Nurses' aides Iuia c contributed time and energy in easing the work of regular nurses, Avhose ranks in civilian hospitals have been cut because of the Avar. In all, the campus war board has proved that the students here realize that there is a war, and more than that, that they are Avilling to do their part to help the war end sooner. Next year the job will be as great and the number of workers is likely to be fewer because of an almost inevitable enrollment decrease. It will take lots of work, lots of planning, and lots of plain stick-to-it iveness to keep the war board up to the standards of previous years. And there is every reason to believe that it can and Avill be done.—M. Y. WAR BOND BONITA . - A rjM ' fYbuCAN if i Borrow II 1 / ANYTHING I \ i / you LlKE-l i \iryouBuyi 1 Five extra & i1 WARSmpM j f TtZ/S WG£K JletteAA. to- the Cdlito^. Editor’s note: The interesting nature of the opinions expressed herein, not necessarily an agree ment with them, led to the print ing of this letter from a soldier in California.”"" A friend of mine has sent me your article (Globally Speak ing) concerning the Irish mix-up. I realize that you no doubt mean well but you suffer from faulty im pressions conjured up by the Brit ish government in order to explain their illegal hold on the northern part of Ireland. Taking your article piece by piece we find the following: you state that Britain and U.S. have finally to get tough with Eire. The fact is that the U.S. is not going to get “tough” and if Great Britain were to do so it would not be un usual but merely a continuation of her age-old policy towards Ire land. You state that members of the I.R.A. are relaying information to the Germans in Dublin. I defy you or any man to state one case in which such has been done. Our own state dept, has been unable to do so and Mr. Hull himself has said it is merely a safeguard for the future. Your remark about “DeValera and his people” living in the 17th century is completely asinine. True, they cherish the thought of those times and respect those an cient leaders but no more than we Americans do the thought of the Revolution and the Civil war. You mention the Black and Tans very lightly. I only hope that your readers check to see how the “Tans” got their name and also check on the record of their activities. If they do so, they’re in for a shock. Your men tion of the Free States obligation to English landlords is very funny. Tht land was Ireland’s 900 B.C. and I invite you to check the date I of the first Anglo-Saxon invasion for a key to the legality of their claim. You make a very common (Brit ish-sponsored) mistake in men tioning “Protestant Ireland.” That is the basis for the separation and although there is no longer any religious difficulty the British would lead us to believe that the “horrible monsters” from the Free State would cut off their religious freedom. Respectfully, Harry Dunham D Btry 800 AAA AW Camp Haan, Calif. P.S. Ta Tn La A’Teaclit! (Gae lic: The Day is Coming!) .. - - PUT A RING AROUND HER FINGER!! I See Our Lovely Display JEWELRY STORE 620 Willamette Globally Speaking y By BILL SINNOTT The whole world impatiently awaits “D” day. Only a few “brass hats” know when and where the opening of the Secotid front will take place. The Bern correspondent of the “Svenska Dagbladet” informs us that the highest Swiss quarters are cer tain that the invasion will start between May 5 and June 7. The present strength of Germany is the unknown quantity that will determine the success or failure of the invasion. After the debacle ot Kummei s Ainaa Corps in. Tunisia, there was a ten dency in allied circles to underes timate the fighting potentialities of the Reich. Certain observers be lieved Germany had been bombed so thoroughly that her surrender was a matter of days. It would be well for us to look at the present armed strength of “Festung Germania.” Since the “Polish invasion of Germany” on September I, 1939, the Reich has lost from 2,250,000 to 4,250,000 men Trilled, captured, or missing. Hitler is believed to possess an army of 320-340 divisions plus 40 administrative and training divi sions. These divisions would add up to 7,500,000 lo 9,200,000 men. The German satellite countries of ..Bulgaria, ..Romania, ..Croatia, Hungary, Finland, and Slovakia have from 70 to 100 divisions with which to relieve the wehrmacht of policing and occupation duties. Of these satellite troops, only the Finns are first class fighters. Elite Guards on Job Less than two-thirds of the Ger man armed forces are scattered from Greece to Norway, from Fin land to France. This is a small force to defend the farflung fron tiers of the “new order.” The Fuehrer has some 20-30 di visions of Elite Guards, totalling from 1,250,000 to 2,000,000 men with which to preserve order in Germany itself. These Elite troops are the Praetorian guard of the Hitler regime. They are being kept in reserve to be used against the general stall or to put down a pal ace revolution in the Nazi party. In some insiances German weap ons are still superior to anything we possess. The mobile Nebelwer fer, or multi-barreled rocked launeher is far ahead of any like weapon in our armies. The German 88 mm. and 170 mm. guns are bet ter than our corresponding arms. The Italian campaign has shown what very excellent defensive fighters the Nazis are. They make the fullest defensive use of the ter rain. They are adept at using portable pillboxes and land mines to delay our forces. The Germans are operating on interior lines of communication which enable them to have a flexi ble defense against any invasion. The “Fat Boy’s” battered luit waffe stil! possess five air fleets of some 5500 fighter planes. Two' fleets are in th east, one in the I south, and two in the west. Ger many’s air strength, in relation to that of her enemies, is only from one-fifth to one-tenth as much as it was four years ago, however. Navy Negligible The German navy is either sunk or bottled up. The submarine men ace was conquered a year ago. Now more subs are being sunk than the number of ships they tor pedo. Germany’s economic produc tion, through bombing and man power scarcity, is down some 8 tu 15 per cent. The Reich has devel oped synthetics that have freed her from the effects of the block ade. The plants making these pf&4 ucts have been bombed repeatedly —thus necessitating scarce steel, iron, building materials, and man power to bring them into produc tion again. Xvfanpower is Germany’s greatest scarcity, even though she has con scripted slave labor from all over Europe. In the last few months she has lost the manganese and grain of the Ukraine, the iron ore of Sweden, chrome from Turkey, and wolfram from Spain. Germany will fight until the bit ter end. The Nazi leaders know that surrender means death for them. The general staff, however, would surrender if they belie v ecTin the inevitability of defeat. The in vasion will be a grim struggle, with the Reich staking all on our re pulse in the west. 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