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TRURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942 By Capt. Er PhPbiIOt DEFEAT-NOT RETREAT Colonel Knox deplores the spreading of stories about imi- ¶pending collapse in Germany. Some of the rumours about quar- rels and crack-ups in Germany are deliberately spread by Nazis for purposes of psycbological war- fare, he tbînks. Sohing could be more foolish *us than to relax our efforts '5èause we tbink our enemy maY be faltering. The sensible thing to do-wben we sec the lbings hap- pening that are happening in Rus- sia and Mfrica-is not to sit back or slow down. It is to speed Up our war effort-j ust as a prize- fighter would speed up and exert himself if be saw bis opponent weakening. But Colonel Knox is wrong. In the first place some of the most pointed evidence about acute trouble in Germany, between Hit- ler and the generals, comes fromn President Benes, of the Czecbo- Slovak governmenl in exile. In the second place what is hap- pening in Russia is not, as Colonel Knox suggests, a Nazi retreat. It is a Nazi defeat, inflicted by the Soviet army, and in the face of great difficullies. We have had eye-witness accounts of some as- pects of this from as reliable ob- servers as Anthony Eden. And eacb day brings new proof that the Russians have already won by far the most decisive allied victory of this war. The German defeat as yet is nothing in the nature of a rout. But it is an event so vast in possi- bilities that it might conceivably prove the real turning point in the wbole war. Exactly two montbs ago there was bardly a military expet- even in our part of the world- wbo vwould privately tell you thal Moscow could hold out. Opinions lîke those of Harry Hopkins and Beaverbrook were minimized as being uninformed or semi-propa- ganda. Today the same experts are arguing about wbcther the Nazis wili be able to stop the Russians at the Kiev-Smolensk line or at the oid Russian border. They mai just be wrong amain. Il may be that tbey will not be able bo stop the Russians at ail. My guess is that bbey will be able 10 stop lhem. But my guesses are often wrong. BULLETS TO HEARTS The British Broadcasting Cor- poration does not agrec wilb bbc line taken by Colonel Knox. Il is doing the most effective job yel donc in Ibis war by talking 10 German listenens about Russian, war losses. The B.B.C. lakes bbc officiai casually lisîs, as given 10 Ger- mans, and analyzes lbem. Ilý shows, for instance, that the lisI of killed would mean that exactly one German was killed every day on every mile of fighting front. It asks its listeners if Ihat figure corresponds with wbat tbey have heard from Iheir own sons, bus- bands, brothers and friends. It shows how, in a town of 10,000 the total aclual known figures are five or len times as bigb as they should be to fit int the lotals given out for the nation as a wbole. This is the sort of propaganda which really gets somewbere. For it enables the listener to find out just bow badly the German peo- pie have been fooled by their gov- ernment. SOVIET IN TO STAY Wbatevcr the future may bold, bhis mucb is certain. The Ger- nans bave failed doubly in their whole war aim in Russia. They have nol knocked ouI bbc Soviet, nior pusbcd the bealen Red armies across the Urals as they certainly xpecled to do. Tbey bave not rotectcd tbemselves against pos- sible attack from the cast whilc tbey are busy eisewhere. In fact the consbantiy increasing allack from the cast is s0 slrong that il makes impossible full attack cisc- where. Russia is in the war 10 tbc f in- ish, and sbould gel sîronger with every passing month. If the Eng- lisb speaking world - including Canada - gels rigbl down to business the end will not be pro- .longed for years. VICHY OUR PACIFIC ENEMY Il is sbrange how-even afler tbc tragic experience of the past ben years-people still clutcb aI the straws of appeasement. We are being pushed ail over East Asia because our pasl policy of aiding and abclbing aggrcssion is now coming back on us. Yel we are still playing around wilb V;cby France as if she wcre a free and honorable power. The brutb is that Vichy France is our most paralyzing present encmy. We are losing the BaIlles of the Pacifiechciefiy because we <'annot burn our naval back 10 Vichy France, which bas the pow- er 10 plunge imb that back Ihe assassin's dagger. In other words. wc cannot divert 10 the Soutbern Pacific area enough naval power because the poiicy of inlernation- Pl blackmail being played by Dar- ian and Co. keeps large forcer nir.ned near France. Vichy bas at Dakar seven largE warsbips. With men like Dariar in power in France-openly ad. vocat'ng fighting collaboratior with Germany against us-we ar( forced to watcb those ships ai most as closely as if bhey were already in Mitler's bands. The hope that one of bbese day: R 1- 10 Tfo this end *Hydro-earnestly solicits the cc- operation of ali fthe people ai Ontario. WARTIME HINTS FOR HOMEMAKERS Vou can save current consumption'by having your electrical dealer or local 'Hydro' put your appliances in firt-cass worklng order. Cook several courses ut one ime in the electric aven, usng boftom element only. Nover leave the kitchen with eIements on 'high. Operate the automatic controis as directed. Canada asks-Buy More War Savings Certificates THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POUER COMMISSION 0F ONTARIO TUE C (A1NAfAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO SHOWDOWN AHEAD t The time is not fan distant wbenÀ France-nol Vichy, but France-d is going 10 be forced to choose berp path. She is going bo be fnrcedn 10 choose bo figbb on one side or c the other. S0 far ber Vichy Irai- ri tors bave forced ber mîiways to i, give way before Axis tbreats - but neyer to give free rigbb-of-v way to the forces wbicb anc fight- t ing 10 restore frcedom every-p where.h Thus Vichy chose 10 kcep bers fleet wberc it wouid be a constantu tbreat 10 us-and bangaining baita for deals with Hitler. Thus Vichy t chose to give Nazi air forces facili- tics in Synia, but resistcd our en- try into Synia so stnenuously that we losI thousands of Iroops-pen- baps cnougb 10 have bcld Maiaya. Thus also Vichy France ordcrcdr bbc banding over of Indo China1 as an advance jumping off place for the atbacks wbicb now menacel even Australia itseif. The plain trubb is Ibat bbc men of Vichy arc so compromised by Nazi entanglements Ibat lhey can neyer retrace thein steps. Thcy eannot lift a fînger 10 nestone the France of democracy because one Lof bbc first acts of a truiy fre French people will be 10 bang from the nearest lampost the traitons and cowards who helped gel them wbcnc tbcy now are. Free France might have for- Sgiven bbc mistaken militany lcad- r rs who thought Ihcy wenc finaliy beaten whcn bbcy were not. Butl Free France will neyer fongivel bbch condemning t0 dcatb by de- crce of real men like Gencral Charles de Gaulle, wbose only cimre vas that tbey fought on beside us, but for France. CANADA ASLEEP Jean le BncI, a reputable jour- nalist on bbc staff of Le Jour, Montreal. avows that be bas found s among bbc secret papcns of the When Winstoi Greeted Canad Parliamentary the Vicbyards will see the error of their ways, and stand up again like honorable men to do what tbey can to, free their country from Hitler's griup-all tbis is sil- ly beyond belief. if the men of Vichy bad ever had any real sense of honor tbey would bave carried out their solemn treaty with Britain neyer to make a separate peace. But even ignoring that on the ground that they who were deaf to bonor were so blind as well that they mistakenly thougbt that in tbree weeks England would have ber neck wrung like a chicken. On both occasions when Britaîn launched attacks in Libya, France could bave thrown in ber lot with all men fighting for freedom. She had three chances-two after ber f xrst decision for dishonour and surrender. She failed to grasp any one of those lhree chances. For montbs we werc lulled by secret wbispers about waiting to sec wbat Weygand was going toi do. The Germans beard lbemn too. What Weygand did was to come tamely back to France-and quit -exaclly as the Nazis demanded. I lia This is the seventh story nam about conditions in Great Bni- und( tain and other European tere! countries, written for the pass weekly newsapers of Canada men by Hugb Templin of the Fer- Ibis gus News-Record. TI bad There seems to 'be no doubl not bat Prime Minister Winstofl to a Churchill is the greatest wartime at o eader Britain bas had througbout Prir her long history. Me took office at for atime wben the fortunes of Bni- wer tain and the Empire were at a mer ow ebb. Invasion of England tbrE seemed certain and the ability ta, No 'esist successfully was doubtful. wid In bbc intervening months, Chur- ate chill bas given the people new T heart and bas aroused sucb en- In , tbusiasm that England bas stood Faii .ip under bombing and tbreats seni witb unparalleled courage. The tbu danger of successful invasion ap- gali pears to bave p;ýssed. Powerful thal nations wbich fea1red that Britain Pro couid not bold out iii the late sior rnontbs of 1940 are now ber allies sup in 1942. likE Winston Churchill bas been Amn visitîng tbis continent. Me came POi" t0 talk over the unification of Dir plans to win the war. Actually, onc his very presence and bis effective P.Os speeches bave donc much to stir s'i Up tbc United States and Canada, daE, as tbey had Dreviously heartened con tbc people of bis own country. Ma A number of Canadian news- Wa paper men met Winston Cburchill be wbile be was at Ottawa. Hun- Ch: dreds of other Canadians saw him wo during bis brief slay. Perbaps I 1 might add my story of a meeting a( witb the great Prime Minister in hem bis own office in London, after bbn hearing bim give one of bis rare 011 .warbime addresses in the House of lii i Commons at Westminster. kn bai One More Wish Granted GI, The British Council, acting as hosts to the group of CanadianC editors in Britain, made an effort to gratify our every wisb. They rmý bad laid out their own programa rer before wc arrived, but they were i quite willing to alter it to include pa anytbing we particularly desircd. ha Strangely enougb, or so it seemed at to us, the program did not include th, an opportunity to meet or even hi to sec the Prime Minister. I be- no lieve that was because the people ey Sin London do not realize what an Sinfluence Mr. Churcbill exerts in th Canada. They did not know how m lunanimously the residents of this nc 1country lay aside their work as Lwhenever he speaks over the air e vý waves; they did not know that we bi regard hlm not only as the leader eti of tbc British Isies, but of the Em- th pire. When a request was passed on- ito E.* D. O'Brien, of the British Council, he promised some action. It came at once, through the good offices of the Hon. Brendan Brac- ken, Minister of Public Informa- tion. Mr. Bracken is young (some- wbere around 40) and active. Me has not beld bis post long. Before that he was secrctary to Mr. Churchill. Me is, I believe, a bach- elor and a ricb man. Cartoonists deligbt in bis features. Me bas one of the bardest jobs in Eng- land, the handling of publicity in wartime. I met him several times during my visit and thougbt him capable, interesting and quite human. Mr. Bracken came around the next day with a message. We would not only meet Mr. Chur- chill, but we were going to hear him speak in the Mouse of Com- mons first. It would be bis first speech before Parliament in more than tbrec montbs. Arrangements were being made to find us seats in the galleries. Afterwards, Mr. Bracken himself would take us to the Prime Minister's office and we could ask bimn any questions we liked. A few mornings carlier, our littie group bad been greeted at Westminster by the officers of the Parliamentary Union and then had been conducted thorougbiy througb the Houses of Parliament by two titled guides, one a mcm- ber of the House of Lords and the othen from the Mouse of Com- mons. Tbey had been tborough, informative and amusing. We bad even seen sucb places as the roomr where Guy Fawkes bad storcd the gunpowder intended to blow up an carlier Parliament. We had gazed regretfully at tbc few piles of rubble and twisted girdersi whicb were ail Ibal remained of tbc Mouse of Commons room. We bad seen the room in the same building wbcre the Commons now meets. At leasl one of bbc Cana- dians took lime out 10 sit in the red-leather seat wbcrc the Prime Minister sils, just near the corner of the great table. The Mother of Parliaments Tbe place looked vcry different on our second visil. Crowds wcre buirrying tfhrough the halls, with ON TWO It is with deep gratification that lite innurance companies operating in Canada arc able wo report to their policyholders the followîng conspicuous successes on both the home Iront and the war front in 1941 : $170,000,000 Invested on the Waz Front Life insurance has heen the largest single suh scriber to each of the threc war loans. One Hundred and Twenty Million Dollars was invested in the 1941 boan and the total, invest ment now is over One l-undred and Seventy Millions. These life insurance dollars - the savings of policyholders- prov ide guns, tanks. planes and other implements of war su essen tial in our fight for Victory. $165,000,000 Distributed on the Home Front In war time as in peace time, the benefits of life insurance continue ro be extended to the widows, the fatherless and the aged. Last year One Hundred and Sixty-five Million Dollars was paid to, policyholdens or their beneficiaries, of wbicb over 70% went to living policy. holders. New Record Total of Lufe Insurance i Force Neyer before have the men, women and chul- dren of Canada had sucb a mighry bulwark of PAGE THREE wore the famous bow tie with the spots and spectacles with heavy Churchill rims. The skin of his face and head was a bright rosy pink as 1 looked down at close range. The only conspicunus adornment was ans In Ris a heavy gold watch chain ars There is no need to quote from Hficethat speech now. Partly it review- agreater extent, it was an attack es in a huge volume which on his critics in the House, the )ubtedly contains many in- press and the countryside. It con- ýting signatures, and received tained plenty of punch, as ah bhis es to prove that we were speeches do. He used few ges- mbers. Mine was No. 34 for tures. Sometîmes he grasped the ;new session. edge of the table in front of bim; 'erc were some surprises. I at times, he hcld the lapels of his always heard that there were coat or clasped his bands bebind sufficient seats in the House his back or over bis stomach. It accommodate ahl the members was the words that counted, ra- nce, yet on this day, with the ther than the manner of their ne Minister reviewing the war delivery. the first time in montbs, there ln the Prime Minister's Office re seats to spare. Among the nbers were seven women, Just as soon as Mr. Churchill ce with bats and four without. had completed bis speech, 1 hur- two sat together. Tbey were ried out of the gallery and met Jely scattered, eacb in a separ- the other Canadians. Mr. Bracken row of seats. was waiting for us and took us Phe Press Gallery wasn't filled. down winding stairways and along the row ahead, I saw Harold corridors, past tbree or four more ithe Canadian Press repre- policemen. Outside the Prime dative, whose home is in Ar- Minister's office, we waited for ir Ontario. In ail the other him to arrive. leries, there would not be more He came in a few minutes. Al- in one bundred spectators. ready, be bad lighted one of bis hbably it is bard to gain admis- famous cigars. He invited us into n in these days. One would bis room and as we were intro- ýpose tbousands more would duced by the Minister of Informa- eto hear Churchill speak. tion, be shook hands with each nong that hundred, the guide one, asking the name of the pa-, ited out some notable persons.- per as well as of the man. He is rectly behind Mr. Churchill sat an old newspaper man bimself. eof bis daugbters. Directly op- The room is large and L-sbaped. ite was Mr. Maiskey, the Rus- A huge, ornate fireplace is con- i ambassador. That was in the spicuous on one wall and on cither ys wben Russia's part in the side of it were etcbings of famous nflict was uncertain, but Mr. prime ministers of the past. In iskey bad just told the Inner front of the fireplace is Mr. Chur- r Cabinet tbat Petrograd would chill's desk, but be did not sit Sstill in Russian bands by down. Instead, he walked up and iistmas; that the 'Germans down ail tbe time be was talking )uld neyer take Moscow. to us. He was bublbing over with )uring the question period, I energy and apparentiy pleased kd time to look around. Over- witb tbe speech he had just de- id was an ornate ceiling like livered. at in the Senate Chamber at Me began witb a joke. tawa. Around the walls were "You bave had plenty of time l-size statutes of the ancient;t e h iyo odn o ights. Immediately bebind.my hae vithedCitheLodamagarea ik stood a former Dukem of iitdtedmae ra luetrwith spear and sbîeld. and the House of Commons?... iuccsterNow, I suppose you bave come ,hurehili Speaks To Parliament here so that you could say you When Prime Minister Churchill had seen ail the ruins?" se to speak, be was almost di- But there was notbing that look- ct1y bclow me. Over the rail- cd like a ruin about bim. It was g, I could look down on bis amazing that a man could carry rtly-bald head, with wisps of the cares of an Empire at war and ir brushed across it. He stood show the effccts so littie. We told the corner of the table on whicb him how glad wc were to be there imace lay. Before him were and how higbly he was regarded inotes in a broad book. He did in Canada. We said that wben ot read the speech but kept bis bis voice comes over the air, peo- e frcquently on bis notes. ple stop work to listen. Wc said Mr. Churchill was drcssed in wc were sorry he had not been ci same clothes one secs in s0 able to come to Canada aftcr the iny of bis photographs. That is meeting witb President Roosevelt ot surprising since bis suits are on the Atlantic. sstrictly rationed as those of He seemed to like that and re- cery Britisher. He had on a ciprocated by praising wbat Can- ack coat, with a white handker- ada and Canadians had done. He hici showing conspicuously over would like to visit Canada again he cdge of the breast pocket. He but it was bard to spare the time His answers to, questions about the war were "off the record," but that did flot matter. He told us littie that he bad flot already said in the House. He joked over his use of American slang and asked us if it had been correctly done. (He had said: "The Foreign Office iii deserves the trcatmcnt it bas received from natural and pro- fessional crabs.") Before he shook bands again1 in bidding us farewell, he promised to give us each a written message to bring back to Canada. Two days later, copies arrived at the hotel for each of us. They read: "From visits such as yours we in Britain gain fresh and heartening assurance of the unremitting effort and un- conquerable spirit of the Do- minions overseas. Now you are going back to tell the people of Canada what you have seen and beard. Tell them also that neyer before have we at home feit more sure of ourselves and of our cause. WINSTON CHURCHILL" &W hat Others Say 1 THE BIG FALLACY (St. Catharines Standard) James S. Duncan, noted indus- trialist of Toronto, called atten- ttion, in a striking way Saturday, to the fallacy of voluntary enlist- ment of manpower when every other important phase of the gov- eernment war effort was on a astrictly compulsory basis. e How far could the government of taxation, income and ail other taxes, on the basis of bbc volun- tary swcct will of bbc multitude? Unlcss there were law, and becth in thc law, bow could the Foreign Exchange Board operate witb any efficiency? Mow could travel be restricted 10 bbc South, if il were lefl 10 Ibe pabriotism and voluntary decision of bbc many wbo can affard such travel? The governmenl bas ordained that Ibere be no wastage of dol- lars as far as il is possible 10 pre- vent sucb wastage, but continues by hcdging, compromise and lack of direction and decision, 10 per- mit wasbagc of manpower in the tens of tbousands, in non-essential occupations and in occupations wbich can be senved by women as efficiently as by men. The British in Malaya are out- numbencd five 10 one, and yet Canada toys wilb the manpower issue and bbc bighest authonilies of bbc Anmy keep crying aloud that men and more men are nccd- cd, just for bbc wean and lear of bbc Canadian Army overseas. In thc issue of manpower, there also arises bbc supreme pninciple of cquality of service and equalily of sacrifice. The present system condemns itself because lb is so unjust, s0 unfair, the selfisb capi- talizing and exploibing bbc pal- riotism of tbe volunteen. And bbc condition is that the selfisb out- number the volunteers by scores of tbousands. There basn't been bbc sign of any governmenl effort 10 allocate men in Ibeir rigbt war places; chaos is bbc real condition aggravated by constant appeals for enlistments witb results cx- tremely disappointing. L If bbc war is 10 be won, if Mit- lcr 15 10 be smasbed, can Ibat con- Sdition continue indcfinitely? 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