Illinois Valiev News. Thursday. July 12. 1945
Washington Digest?
Kathleen
Norris Says:
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Nazi Influence Remains
To Vex Allied Control
3/tiny II ires
.4 id the Enemy
Bell Syndicate — WNU Features.
Indoctrination of Youth and Lethargy of
Mass of People Obstacle to Efforts to
Reconstitute Beaten Nation.
By BAl'KIIAGE
/Veu’« Anulyst und Commentutor.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
(Thin is the first of too articles by
Mr. Haukhiige revealing how the re
sults of Himmler's “planned terror“
are making it hard for Americans to
“run" Germany.)
The hearings of the Kilgore sub
committee on war mobilization con
cluded in the last weeks of con
gress and are to be resumed next
September. Testimony before the
committee has revealed certain "se
cret documents" showing plans on
the part of various German indus
trialists to subsidize a Nazi under
ground party.
The purpose of the hearings, Sena
tor Kilgore's associates tell me. is
to
prepare
the
United
States
against a future recrudescence of
German militarism.
To meet this and other conditions
existing in the Allied zone of occu
pation, the psychological warfare
division of supreme headquarters
has a special program worked out.
(And don't be frightened at the $64
title of that organization—a lot of
our boys are alive today because of
its assault on the enemy as you wil)
learn some day.)
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B A R B S . . .
fi y R a u k:h a ß e
The German wine crop is 50 per
Don't psychoanalyze the returned 1
G I., says General Eisenhower, pat cent better than average this year.
him on the back And. he might But the lees are bitter.
• • e
have added, keep your hand out of
It's a paradox that for all of an
his pocket while you're doing it
e e e
army's destructiveness. 600.000 men
Surplus war property is estimated now in the armed forces, according
as equal in value to one-third of all to Senator Murray, chairman of the
the man made property in this coun small business committee, have had
try less than 10 years ago. from training or experiei? in construe
tion work.
the smallest pin to Boulder Dam.
Railroad Magnate E. H. Harri
man expected his employes to
work hard. That’s why it almost
gave one of his assistants heart
failure when the multimillionaire,
without warning, walked into his
office and found the man sitting
idle. The culprit had been sprawl-
ing comfortably in his chair, his
feet on the desk and a fat cigar in
his face. At the sight of Harriman
the employe briskly jumped to his
feet, at the same time mentally
shedding plenty of tears over his
lost job.
“That's perfectly all right. Re
main seated,” urged the nabob.
“I'm delighted to see that you
take time out to think.”
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Tattooed Women. Imposing
Burial Vaults in Okinawa
Okinawa, which Americans are
now taking from ¿he Japs, is a
strange place where women tatoo
the ,backs of the r hands, where
the family funeral vault is more
imposing than the family dwell
ing, and where religion involves
■ the worship of the spirits of the
| seasons and fire.
One hand is tatooed before mar
riage to remind the women of the
sorrows of marital life; the other
is tatooed after the wedding to
help her. it is said, “endure the
agonies of married life.”
Now matter how poor, nearly ev
ery family has a stone funeral
vault which has a whitewashed in
terior and gets much care. The
Okinawans revere their ancestors.
They believe that they, them
selves. dwell after death as they
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Aim to Reorient
German Mind
A part of the aim of the Ameri
can program is to help maintain or
der, and its long-range objective is
described as “reorienting the Ger
man mind, after 12 years of Nazi
ism.”
General McClure, head of the psy
chological warfare division, ex-
plains the immediate objectives of
the information bureau of his divi
If such underground organizations sion as “(1) to maintain and deep-
exist and continue to exist it will be en the mood of passive acqui
necessary to hunt them out of escence and acceptance of orders to
their hiding places if we can. This the German people, and so to facili-
is going to be especially difficult tate the completion of the occupa-
since some of those hiding places tion of Germany; (2) to undertake
undoubtedly will be on foreign terri special campaigns required by mili
tory and it may not be easy to reach tary government, and (3) to take the
across the frontiers of nations not first steps toward arousing a sense
too unfriendly to the Nazi • Fascist of collective responsibility for Ger
many's crimes and to provide the
idea.
Meanwhile there is an immedi facts which expose the fatal conse
ate problem to be faced and that is quences of Nazi and militarist lead
the practical task of "running Ger ership and German acquiescence in
many,” something which it is gen them.”
General McClure realizes that
erally admitted is going to be hard
step number three is a long one and
er than we thought.
a high one. At present the Ameri
There are many baffling factors can occupation officials are in a
of a purely physical aspect which somewhat
paradoxical
position.
enter into the scheme but I do not They are expected to maintain
intend to deal with them here. I strict military discipline and in the
want to talk about the psychological same breath in which they order,
problem which is recognized by “Stand at attention,” they have to
trained observers on the scene but say. “Now think for yourself!” And
perhaps not as fully understood as furthermore the Nazis have done
it might be.
all that is humanly possible — or I
It may be recalled that some should say. inhumanly possible—to
months ago there appeared in these see that there is nothing left of initi
columns an exposition of the organi ative or individual responsibility in
zation and the indoctrination of the Germany. Having created this state
German people and the integration of chaos, they hope to gain an in
of all elements in Germany into a terim in which to strengthen their
single unit, created for the purpose underground.
of waging total war. This dealt with
It is not organized resistance
the positive steps taken in the train which the American occupation is
ing of the youth and conversion or meeting. Out of 10,000,000 or more
compulsion exerted over such of the Germans in the American zone, so
older generation as were sufficiently far less than 4.000 have been jailed
pliable. In this and a succeeding ar for acts inimicaJ to the American
ticle I propose to deal with what military regime, but hundreds and
might be called a program of nega hundreds have been fired from
tion since its purpose was to destroy the civil administration because
the quality of resistance to Naziism they cannot produce a clean anti-
on the part of those too old or too Hitler-record or they have definite
stubbor:. to accept, actively or pas connections with the Nazi party or
sively, the Nazi regime. It is what its activities.
I have alluded to as the program
What many people fail to realize
of “planned terror.”
in this connection is how thorough
the Nazification of Germany has
Nazification Extended
been. I had occasion to point out
To All Classes
in previous columns that the Ger
First, it must be remembered that man people were the Nazis' first
since the Nazis were in full power conquest, that it took longer than
for about 12 years and the real in the military conquest of any of the
doctrination of the Germany youth nations occupied by the German
began at about the age of 12, there armies and that the preparation for
might be presumed to remain a this domestic campaign was long
group of middle-aged Germans who and thorough.
Recently we have had a chance to
escaped the full blight of Nazi in
doctrination. Normally they would learn more about what a concentra-
be the ones most likely to offer col tion camp really was. I refer not
laboration with the American or only to the grisly horrors revealed
other officials and most amenable by the dead and the living-dead
to an acceptance of democratic found in the captured camps. What
is far more deeply revealing is the
methods and beliefs.
Of course, there are some such. testimony of some of the former in-
On the other hand, although this I mates who were released earlier
group who by age or inclina with their brains still intact From
tion were less favorable to Nazifi them we learn the powerful psy
cation, the majority have not chological influences of the treat
escaped the effects of Nazi rule. ment of prisoners by the gestapo.
This psychological effect reached
These men were brought up in a
more or less normal 20th century those outside, too. Further, by re
atmosphere, regimented to some ex peating publicly the camp bru
tent, it is true and with the long talities in a milder form and like
tradition of German militarism be wise by means of the tyrannical re
hind them, but at root a kindly, strictions on the whole people, all
businesslike, churchgoing folk whose I Germany was turned into one great
evils were environmental and not concentration camp. This was delib
necessarily
hereditary
as
they erately planned.
proved when they left home and set
From my own personal experi
tled on our shores.
ences in Nazi Germany I can
They are the ones tn Germany testify that this last statement is
whom we blame for failing to arise not an exaggeration. I have felt the
and overthrow the Hitler regime, for “terror" atmosphere which the ge3-
tapo created even for a foreigner,
accepting it and its inhumanities
We find them now. according to reasonably sure of safe and un
most of the persons who have visit molested departure from the ac
ed Germany, befuddled, submissive, cursed country. Leaving Germany
yet resentful, but honestly reject in wartime, herded into the station
ing all personal, individual responsi under the piercing eyes of the SS
bility for war guilt of Germany and troopers, with the invisible presence
the atrocities of the Nazis For the of the gestapo all about one, had a
most part they have proved about paralyzing effect on a person even
as valuable in assisting in the though he had a passport in his
governing of their country as a pocket and the sovereign power of
the United States behind him.
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To Harriman There Ua.<
To He Time for Thinking
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“Mollie“ she says, “is a perfectly good girl, but she A im her friends at the
I house all the time, uho are laughing and making candy and going to afternoon
. movies."
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
r "'HINGS have just been
| running down at home
l
-L since Ted and Larry
;
| went away to war,” whined
a woman to me in the market
the other day. “You see,” she
went on, “Larry was making
good money and he helped
out a lot, and by this time I
suppose Ted would have been
a wage-earner, too. Now with
just Betty and Dad at home,
we are the most dismal group
you can imagine, and the
money trouble doesn’t help to
console us! I can’t wait to
have the boys get back, when
we can get all straightened
out, pay our debts and start
over.”
I
nr
I looked at this woman in amaze
ment. She loves her sons; she will
grieve bitterly if either is taken by
war. And yet she could stand there
and tell me, with a sort of melan
choly pride, that the welcome pro
vided for the boys of the family is
going to be complaints, debts,
anxieties, responsibilities—no heart
ening assurance of the family's
solvency and security, no encourag
ing plans for rest and recuperation
—just the old tedious complaining
and protesting against the general
injustices of fate.
Another woman wrote to her son
that she and his grandmother, who
have been living together, have had
I
so serious a disagreement that they
are going to law about it. She asks
him to answer several questions by
return mail: Does he remember his
grandmother saying that his mother
had been mixed up in an unsavory
love affair before her marriage; will
he testify that his grandmother
often called his mother ugly names,
and so on.
The lonely son, wasting the best
years of his life in the bleak Aleu
tians, must sit down and handle
the quarrels of the two undisciplined
women.
Kuns Down His Wife.
Another woman writes her son
|
disparaging letters about his wife.
Mollie, she says, is a perfectly good
[ girl, but she has friends at the
house all the time who are laughing
and making candy arid going to
afternoon movies, and the mother-
in-law thinks it is a shame to have
Bob's money wasted that way.
And again a homesick man must
open letters that fill his heart with
bitterness and despair.
As for the “dear John” letters—
these have become a recognized aid
to the enemy! The “dear John" let
ter is a missive that opens with the
shattering phrase. "I have been
thinking of us and our married life,
and I believe we would both be
happier if we were to obtain a di
vorce and make a fresh start with
other mates.”
Don't smile at this and dismiss it
as only an occasional thing It is a
very real and desperate menace to
the morale and peace of mind of our
fighting boys. Hundreds and hun
dreds of these cruel notes go forth
daily, and the effect they have on a
man whose nerves are shaken al
ready by danger, by the loss of com
rades, by homesickness, mosquitoes
and strangeness may be imagined
The woman he loves doesn't want
to see him any more The little chil
dren who cried when daddy went
away won't be his children when he
comes back The home and securi-
.VOK HE If RECKERS
It is every woman s duty to
try to preserve the morale of
the men of her family who are
fighting. She should do every
th ing she ran to preserve and,
when possible, to improve the
situation at home. II hen there
are difficulties that she cannot
cope with, she should tell her
soldier little or nothin/; about
them. Perhaps they will clear
up in any case they can wait.
Seldom can the poor fellow in
a distant camp do anythin/;
about them, anyway. He has
enough to contend with, strug
gling against the enemy, and
enduring discomforts of all
sorts. Letters disparaging his
wife, telling of family quar
rels and financial problems, do
serious damage to the spirit of
the front-line fighters.
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Grim.
Vital Days Ahead.
I would like to remind these let
ter-writing women that we are go
ing into grim and vital postwar
days. Every woman in America
will be a help or a burden to the
building of the new world then—
there will be no half-way. Thou
sands of helpless, selfish, discon
tented women will find themselves
left out of the running, their chil
dren rebellious at the change that
gives them a strange home and a
new father, their new mates not in
clined to be particularly consider
ate of IWb women who coldbloodedly
could drop old mates during the
crisis of war.
But thank God there will be other
women, millions of them—women
who have written nothing but en
couraging and loving letters during
this
time;
women
who
have
planned practically for the home-
coming, are saving money, are out
of debt and are full of ideas for
Tom's future; women who know
that more than our pilgrim or pi
oneer mothers needed them, we
need now courage, self-control,
economy and foresight. It is the
woman who is strong, faithful to her
mate, concerned with his welfare
and that of the children and able to
live on her income, no matter how
small, who is going to be the in
spiration. the essentia) creator, of
the new America.
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Curtains hung at windows exposed
to bright light or sunshine will give
out first. Sunlight causes the fabric
to lose its strength. It is a good
plan to make top and bottom hems
of the same width and then reverse
them each time they are washed or
cleaned. Curtains from sunny win
dows ca'n be shifted occasionally to
the shady side of the house. Sheets
usually wear thin first in the upper
center, so reverse them from head
to foot occasionally. Mend al! snags
promptly. Stitch together the out
side edges of sheets worn thin in
the middle, split them down the
center and hem the edges.
More Cloth Coming Soon
The supply of yard goods for
home-sewing in small towns and
rural areas will soon be increased.
Preference ratings will be given to
merchants in these areas for the
distribution of about 150,000 000
yards of cotton fabrics, including
pongee, voile, sheeting 42 inches and
wider, print cloths, outing flannel
and gingham. This decision follows
a similar order, issued during the
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