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STRIKE NOW.!
Smuts Foreshadows
African Second Front
THE SHADOW of an African second
front was cast in London yesterday
by the carefully weighed words of Field Marshal
Jan C. Smuts, the Dark Continent's great sol-
dier, scholar and statesman, when he said, "The
German Army is bleeding to death in Russia"
and that this is the time for a new and final
phase, the Allied offensive.
Although it was not definitely known that
Smtuts' speech specifically called for an African
second front, it has long been known that lie
has advocated clearing the Axis out of Africa and
fighting the war from the Mediterranean's south-
ern shore.- This fact together with the recent
announcement of troop movements to various
West African ports and the killing of a Vichy
French air scout over Dakar all presage the loig-
awaited battle front.
However, these late developnients do not bring
the African theater of war to the fore for the
first time, because such a front's strategy and
fedsibility have long been advocated by James W.,
Gerard, ambassador to Germany during World
War I.
WRILE European coasts now bristle with Ger-
man gun emplacements as shown by the fatal
Dieppe commando raid in which half the Allied
force was wiped out in nine hours, Gerard argues,
no such problem exists along the long African
shoreline. Here guns, tanks, planes and meih could
be landed easily and could be sent northeast to
place Axis commander Romniel between two fires
of Allied military might.
The prospects of this strategy are inviting.
First, General Harold Alexander's Egyptian army
would be free to aid 'Russia via Palestine, Syria
and neutral. Turkey. Second, Egypt, Suez, and
the oil fields of Mosul, Bahriein, Ro'weit and
Persia would be secure from Axis clutches. Final-
ly, a Weakening Italy would be exposed to attack
from Liberia and perhaps to subsequent detach-
ment from the Axis, while the brave Yugoslavian
guerillas and starving. Greekst could be given
relief.
Gerard is not alone in his advocacy of an
African second front, moreover, for concurrent
with Smuts' arrival in London the British Secre-
tary Hore-Belisha wrote, "Africa may be our
victory route."
UNDOUBTEDLY these facts indicate, and
should prove, that Africa is going to be the
stage of tremendous issues. So far in World War
II the Allies have not been able to mass over-
whelming strength at a single crucial point, but
now their opportunity is at hand.
Instead of allowing Axis armies to continue
their policy of dividing and exhausting our forces,
American and British armies should strike
now in Africa and reverse German strategy by
erasing Rommel and Italy from the enemy line-
up.
-Bud Brimmer
SUIISIIHZATION.?
America Should Provide
Post-War Student Aid
ANADA has long had a provision for
students whose college education is
interrupted by service in the armed forces. It
provides for a complete subsidy plus an allowance
BEGIN PEACE TALK
Post-War Planning Bust
Be Undertaken At Once
INNING THE WAR is our sole job
right now . . . post-war planning is
all right in its proper perspective but unless we
win this war we will have little to say about what
our future economy will e ..."
This statement was made the other day by
Harvey Firestone Jr., the wealthy young tire
magnate.'
In some respects what Mr. Firestone has to say
is undeniably valid. Beyond a doubt winning the
war must be our prime objective these days. Ob-
viously victory must be ours before the peace can
be ours. But the one objectionable word in this
otherwise commendable declaration is "sole."
Now, even more than ever before, that cliche
"winning the peace" holds good.
In doing our utmost towards military victory
we cannot afford to lose sight of that much
greater victory-indeed what we fervently hope
is our ultimate goal in fighting this war-a just
and durable peace.
A peace that is to endure is one that must be
prepared for in advance. Not one that is made
amidst the hatred and discouragement of an
armistice meeting. \
If we once forget that we are fighting for a
great deal more than military victory, our tribu-
lations will have been in vain.
It is not only for this reason that we must plan
a peace based on sound political, economic, and
geographical foundations, but also because we
must have an incentive more intelligently groun-
ded than hatred of our enemies.
As was shown by the last war the people and
unfortunately even our legislators must be awak-
ened to their responsibilities to posterity. This
job cannot be left to a disillusioned, bitter post-
war world. It must be begun now.
-Jim Wienner
Ltterj to the &dito1
To The Editor:
"Punish Hess: Former Nazi Leader Should Be
Tried Now" was the caption on an editorial
which appeared in Thursday's Daily. The writer,
Jim Wienner, asserted that "it hardly seems
justifiable to accord Hess any sort of immunity,
even if only until the armistice, while we punish
saboteurs to the fullest extent of the law." And
then the writer goes on to add that one of Hit-
ler's most poisonous stooges deserves the same
treatment.
Yes, Hess deserves the same treatment as the
saboteurs, but the British have not done so yet
for obvious reasons. The German government
has announced that drastic reprisals will be
taken if Hess is punished, and there is no doubt
in our minds that it would not kill scores of
innocent war prisoners. The Allies, of course,
would be forced to strike back with more repri-
sals, and this give-and-take proposition would
continue indefinitely.
Hess is a prisoner of war and is being kept
under close guard until the day when it will be
feasible to put him on trial. He will join the
other Nazi leaders in court when the more im-
portant aspects of the war are history and the
world is ready for a recounting. There is nothing
I'd Rather
Be Right_
-By SAMUEL GRAFTON -
MNEW YORK-- Let us take another look at the
old quarrel between the amateur and the expert.
It has flared up in connection with the second
front. It has an older history than that.
You could go back through the last few years,
and you will find that we have had continuously
through that period what might be called an
amateur foreign policy, contesting the field with
an expert foreign policy.
The amateur is today a "'typewriter strategist."
A few years ago he was a "typewriter diplomat"
poinitiiig out that it was evil and wrong to sell
oil and steel to Japan.
It is a curious thing that the amateur, oper-
ating on the basis of a simple instinct, was
right, and that the expert, working on the
basis of his complete knowledge and informa-
tion, allowed the country to be stripped of
10,000,000 tons of its choicest scrap' steel, the
irreplacable accumulation of a generation, for
the benefit of an enemy.
The amateur wanted desperately to help China,
almost from the moment when Japan attacked.
The popularity of China in this country is one
of those great, instinctive manifestations of dem-
ocratic comradeship which flare up from time
to time, comparable with the feeling of French
and Polish patriots for us when we fought for
our freedom.
The amateur deeply distrusted the Hitler-
Mussolini adventure in Spain, but the experts
ruled against him; the amateurs wanted to recog-
nize the Free French, but the experts recognized
Vichy; the amateur did not want to sell 400,000
tons of scrap to Mussolini in the spring of 1940;
the experts allowed the sale to be made.
It's Called Democracy
Please do not believe that I am trying to tear
the experts down. I am not. I am trying to build
something up. The question of the amateur versus
the expert goes to the root of democratic theory,
one of the leading principles of which is specifi-
cally that the amateur does have an enormous
contribution to make to public policy; that the
grocer is to be trusted in choosing a Commander-
in-Chief; that there is such a thing as native,
popular wisdom.
I could use the above to attack the State De-
partment, but that would be using 12-inch shells
against 4-inch game. The bigger thought is that
there has been, in America, an instinctive, demo.-
cratic counterpart to those popular forces which
have made the Chinese resist, which have led
peasants to scorch their fields against the enemy.
On the record, as between amateur and expert,
the basic theories of democracy have been hand-
somely validated during the very decade in
which they have been most under attack.
A Fact To Live By
I have been moved to the above by reading Mr.
Hull's attack on Laval and Mr. Hull's new apology
for the State Department. I always read Mr.
Hull's apologies with interest; they are fine,
good apologies. They grow better all the time.
But the better the apologies become, the more
clearly is the fact entered on the record that
apologies are necessary, and that they have been
necessary often. I will not even quarrel about Mr.
Hull's flat statement: "We have given all possible
encouragement to the people of France to keep
alive th e-reat ide.als and ideas of freedom ..."
IERRY- GO*
W W''RY 6
By DREW
P E AR S O N
(The plastic ring, good for one
free ride on the Washington Mery-
Go-Round is awarded today to Steel
Engineer H. A. Brassert, who has
finally jogged the big steel compa-
nies into trying out the new, cheap-
er process of making steel out of
sponge iron.)
WASHINGTON- In the summer
of 1939 an American engineer named
H. A. Brassert fled from Germany
just before Hitler invaded Poland. He
had been constructing the Hermann
Goering Works, a big steel mill using
a new process, quicker and cheaper
than the big blast furnaces; and he
left the job unfinished.
Later he heard that the six iron
furnaces he had put in the new Goer-
ing plant had burned out in the first
six weeks. Reason: Brassert had left
the job without giving the Nazis the
secret of his new process.
More recently, Brassert has been
trying to give these secrets to the
American steel industry and to the
War Production Board. But all he got
until this week was a generous and
consistent run-around.
First run-around came from the
U.S. Treasury, which put him on the
blacklist and froze his funds. Bras-
sert has been many years an Amer-
ican citizen, but was born in England
and is distantly related to the second
wife of Goering's father (Goering's
mother was his father's first wife).
However, the U.S. Treasury later
removed him from the blacklist, apol-
ogized,-infroze his funds. Meanwhile,
Brassert had been warning the steel
industry as early as two years ago
that there would be a scrap iron
shortage, that it would be absolutely
necessary to find a quick source of
iron, independent of scrap.
Also he has urged that the present
steel shortage could be remedied by
working small iron deposits all over
the United States. For instance, the
Dover, N. J., Iron Works, which pro-
duced cannon for the Revolutionary
War and the War Between the States,
could be reopened under the new
sponge iron process. Also old iroi de-
posits in New York and Pennsylvania,
which thrived in the Eighties, could
be opened,to say nothing of impor-
tant deposits in Missouri, Texas and
Oklahoma, which are near natural
gas. Iron ore is also found in South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia,
Kentucky and Washington, while the
sponge iron process would permit
Wisconsin and Minnesota to produce
their own iron on the spot,t andn save
delay due to tying up ore boats during
heavy freezes on the Great Lakes.
Congressional Probe
His process, known as the Brassert-
Cape process, is a refinement of the
sponge iron system, and prduces
iron at low temperatures instead of
smelting by the blast furnace method.
Brassert had designed the Corby
plant in England, also has signed a
contract to erect a steel mill for the
Government of Peru. But the War
Production Board opposed similar
operation in the U.S.
The WPB was willing to erect blast
furnaces costing $13,000,000, includ-
ing coke plant and Bessemer conver-
ter. It was not willing, however, to
use a new process which would cost
only $4,000,000. Friends of the stee
industry on the WPB were bluntly
opposed to change, didn't want to
upset longtime practices in the indus-
try.
WPB's objection was not based on
the fact that Brassert once had been
blacklisted. For such unsuspect gen-
tleman as Secretary Ickes, Senator
O'Mahoney of Wyoming, and Con-
gressman Boykin of Alabama hack
been hammering at the WPB foi
months. Opposition was based on the
fact that WPB advisers just don't
like change.
"Hell Of A Mess"
Regardless of this, Congressman
Boykin has been stirring up the WP
steel experts with a Congressiona
investigation, trying to show that the
country could get enough steel if the
WPB wanted to go after it. One wit-
ness summoned was S. O. Hobart, of
WPB's Blast Furnace Unit, who, be--
fore the hearings opened, telephoned
to Brassert in New York.
"You've stirred up a hell of a mess,
Hobart said.
"I've stirred up nothing," replied
Brassert, "I've simply been asked to
testify. Are you going to testify?"
"I guess I'll have to," said Hobart
"But it's a mess, I tell you-all hell's
broken loose."
Hobart is president of the Troy
(N. Y.) Furnace Corporation, makers
of blast furnaces and coke ovens
which Brassert's process would cur-
tail.
Testifying before a Congressional
hearing, Hobart said of Brassert's
method: "Of all the processes I have
ever seen, this is the best."
Inside the WPB, however, he has
opposed adoption of the same process
by the industry, as have several other
WPBoys.
Donald Nelson Yields
SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 1942
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are cordially invited. There will be
a' brief talk on "Suetonis" by Mr.
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' Lectures
University Lecture: "Personalities
in Washington and London", by Es-
ther, Van Wagoner Tufty, disting-
uished Washington Correspondent
who has just returned from London,
where, on invitation of the British
Minister of Informatio, she has been
: engaged in interpretg American life
to the English public. This lecture
r open to the public without charge
r will be given in the Rackham lecture
room at 7:45 tonight.
A cadem ic Notices
Biological Chemistry Seminar wil
meet on Tuesday, October 27, at 7:30
1 p.m., in Room 319 West Medica
Building. "Vitamin A-Chemistry
Deposition and Fate" will be dis-
cussed. All interested are invited.
Hours for School of Music Library
IBeginning Monday, October 26, the
- School of Music Library, 306 B.M.T.
will be open during the following
hours:
Monday through Friday, 1:00
5:30, 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Saturday, 9:00-12:00 a.m.
Students, College of Literature
Science, and the Arts: No course may
be elected for credit after today.
E4 H. Walter
l .
e ake-Up Final Exam inations in
ePhysics 26 and 72 will be given on
Wednesday, October 2, beginning a
2:00 pm. in the West Lecture Room
West Physics Building.
Students ivho plan to eiter one of
the flowing professional schools
Law, Business Administration, or For
estry and Conservation, at the begin
ning of the spring term on the Com
bined Curriculum must file an ap
. plication for this Curriculum in th(
Office df the Dean of the College o
Literature, Science, and the Arts
1210 Angell Hall, on or before No
vember 2, 1942. After this date appli
cations will be accepted only upon the
presentation of a satisfactory excuse
for the delay and the payment ofa
fee of $5.00.
School of Education Students: N(
course may be elected for credit
after today. Students must re-
port all changes of elections at th
Registrar's Office, Room 4, Universit$
Hall. Membership in a class does not
cease nor begin until all changes have
in the Amphitheatre of the Rackharn
Building on Monday, October 26, ad
Tuesday, October 27, at 7:00 p.m.
Credit will be withheld from students.
failing to take all parts of the exam-
ination unless an excuse has been
issued by the Dean's office. Be on
time. No student can be admitted aft-
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the examination.
Concerts
School of Music faculty concert
will be given at 8:30 p. m. Sunday,
October 25, in Lydia Mendelssohn
Theater, when Lynne Palmer will
appear in a program of compositions
for the harp.
The public is cordially invited.
Choral Union Tickets: A limited
number of tickets for the Gladys
Swarthout concert, or for the season,
are still available at the offices of
the University Musical Society in
Burton Memorial Tower.
Charles 'A. Sink, President
Events Toddy
The American Association of. Uni
versity Women will meet this. after-
noon at 3 o'clock in the Michigan
League. Professor Arthur Smithies
of the-Dfepartment of Ebonomics will
speak on "Australia and Post-War
Reconstruction."
Michigan Outing Club will leave
from Hill Auditorium today at 1:30
p.m.
Avukah will have a communal
luncheon today at 12:30 p.m. at the
Hillel Foundation. General plans for
the semester will be discussed. For
reservations call 3779.
Coming Events
The- Graduate Outing Clb will
meeteat the northwest corner of the
Rac kham. Building Sunday, Otbr
25 at 2:30 p.m. for a hike. All faculty
and graduate students are .welcome-
League Dance Class Committee
will meet2at 4:30 p.m. on Monday,
October 26, in the Undrgraduate
Office of the League. If you cannot
attend, call Audrey Johnson at
2-4561.
Avukah, the American Student Zi-
onist Federation on campus, an-
nounced as its guest lecturer at Hil-
lel Foundation Sunday, evening at
8:30, Professor Fullerof the Saciology
Department, who will speak on "Fas-
cism and Anti-Semitism."
Churches
Zion Lutheran Church services will
be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.Re.
Stellhorn will speak on "Christian
Patience."
Trinity Lutheran Church will hold
services at 10:30 a.m. Sunday' with
Rev. H. o. Yoder speaking on "Things
Which Cannot Be Shaken."
The Lutheran Student Association
will hold its fellowship meeting at
5:30' p.m.
First Methodist Church and Wesley
l Foundation: Student Class at 9:30
a.m. with Mildred Sweet, leader.
Morning Worship service at 140
am' Dr.Charles W. Brashares wil
preach on "New Light on ld Rea-
ities-Worship." Wesleyan Guild will
meet at 6:00 p.m. Subject: "How I
Am Growing." Fellowship hour and
supper following the meeting.
First Congregationa Church;
Service of worship--10:45 a.m.
Dr. L. A. Parr will preach on the
subject: "For Whom The Bell Tolls"
At 7:15 p.m. the Congregational
Student Fellowship will meet.
Lutheran Students: Sunday: Serv-
ice in Michigan League chapel at
11 a. m. Sermon by the Rev. AI-
fred Scheips.
Meeting of Gamma Delta, Luther-
an Student Club, at 5:30 p.m. at St.
Paul's Lutheran Church.
First Church of Christ, Scientist:
"f Sunday morning service at 10:30.
, Subject: "Probation After Death."
- Sunday School at 11:45 a.m.
- Free public Reading Room at 106
- E. Washington St., open every day
- except Sundays and holidays from
e 11:3 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., atutdays
f until 9:00 p.m.
- First Presbyterian Chuih:
- Morning Worship--10:45. "Mean-
e while"-subject of the sermon by Dr.
e W. P. Lemon.
Presbyterian Student Guild: Sup-
per and fellowship hour at 6 o'clock.
o Unitarian Church: Sunday, 11:00
t a.m., Mr. V. K. Bose of Chicago Will
- speak on "Harvests Without Season."
e 8:00 p.m.-Student meeting-Dis-
y cussion of the elections and the war.
t
e St. Andrew's Episcopal Church:
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