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Wednesday, September 5, 1945
DEBT TO CHINA
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault, one
of the most qualified of all American ex
perts on China, has come out with a
strong rebuff for those Americans who
have been making “irresponsible state
ments” about Chiang Kai-Shek’s central
Chinese government. The General ae- |
dares that he has great respect for Chi- j
ang, his courage and his “unwavering
loyalty to the cause we share.”
China ha scome in for much criticism
in the United States, and for a variety of
reasons. One group in this nation, sym
pathetic toward the Communist Chinese
provinces in the north, have accused the
Chungking government of dictatorial de
signs. Others have insisted that the Chi
nese are not anxious or willing to fight.
A few have held that America is giving 1
too much aid to the Central Government;
getting too little in return. There are
those in this country who—failing utter
ly to understand the problems involved
—feel that Chinese nationals are rob
bing American troops of everything
which isn’t heavily guarded. These views
have been expressed often and loudly
from one end of the United States to the
other.
To say that the majority of these criti
cisms are unjust is to put it mildly. In
virtually every instance they are based
either on reports which either are en
tirely false or on half-truths which often
can be more damaging than actual false
hood.
The Central Government has its fault,
certainly. There are points at which any
government is vulnerable to charges of
error. But generally speaking China and
Chiang’s government are assisting us
mightily in the prosecution of the war
against Japan. That is the important—
the all important—fact which should be
considered by every citizen of the United
States.
Without the resistance which China
offered to Japan, Nippon years ago
would have overrun the Orient. Had
Chiang and his followers been beguiled
by Tokyo’s offer of a New East our task
in that part of the world would have'
been so tremendous that it might have
been impossible.
Even today China is making a price
less contribution toward the defeat of the
Japanese. She is carrying on a success
ful war, against great odds, on her main
land. She is holding millions of fierce
Japanese soldiers from the fronts on
which American lads are fighting.
We must agree completely and whole
heartedly with General Chennault’s clos
ing statement:
“I think it’s time for us to remember
that we owe China an immense debt.”
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A irnn cr**r'es time in a bucket
—Sor’n? comes in a prmer bag—
to a leading lady a screen kiss is
just a pain in the neck!
In the make believe land of
sound stages it’s all true.
The man who carried time in a
bucket is the man with “aging”
paint intended to make old sets
out of those constructed of brand
new materials ... A little touch
ing-up does it.
* Spring comes in a paper bags
because all fruit blossoms are ar
tificial, and are carried on the set
in paper bags, to be pinned to the
bare trees.
A pain in the neck is a kiss. . . .
Ask any screen actress and she’ll
tell you kissing isn’t what it’s
cracked up to be on the screen . . .
Most kissing scenes require more
time than any others. . . . The
average screen kiss takes a day
and more than 30 scenes to get it
right.
That’s Hollywood . . . where
kissing isn’t a pleasure! I mean
on the screen, of course.
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Caught On The Run
Ann Sheridan is mighty anxious
to get back in pictures before she
is entirely forgotten . . . Torchy
Pat Kirkwood, the English stage
star who will make love to Van
Johnson in “No Leave, No Love,”
has full blown lips like Joan
Crawford’s and a lot of oomph.
. . . Robert Montgomery plans to
go into radio activities in a big
way. . . . Clark Gable has just
shed the beard he wears during
part of “This Strange Adventure”
in time for the arrival of hot
weather in Sunny (delayed) Cali
fornia. . . . Boys at Camp Roberts
think it’s wonderful Turhan Bey
is training there, Lana Turner
gets up to camp sooooo often.
* * *
Department of Research
Our scientific researchers come
up with an important discovery
this week . . . you can’t record
the sound of a love scene on the
screen!
The public just won’t accept it.
. . .You may not realize that when
you see boy kiss girl up there in
a big closeup you never hear the
“smack.” . . . That would ruin the
whole scene and set the audience
off into hysterics.
So it’s done silent-like, with
nothing but perhaps background
music, romantic, and perhaps a
sunset or something in the dis
tance.
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Ingrid Will Go Comic
Ingrid Bergman will now go
comic! . . . The dramatic actress
will do a comedy about women in
politics titled “Katie for Con
gress,” a radical departure from
anything she has done on the
screen before.
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Fan Mail Helps
As the result of the overwhelm
ing flood of fan mail which Don
DeFore has received since the re
lease of the “Affairs of Susan,”
he gets star billing with Robert
Cummings and Lizabeth Scott in
“You Came Along.”
WASHINGTON
IN WARTIME
* Py JACK STINNETT
Drugs, however, haven’t 1
' e only headache that Treas
Oeoartment enforcement ag
have had in the last year. Se
Service has embarked on an ent
ly new sea in the last year or s
black market dealers. More t!
1,000 persons actually were
j rested and charged. Treasi
I claims the black market in liqi
has virtually been smashed, I
other major activities in this fi
included arrests for the count
feiting of ration stamps, illegal i
version of sugar and attempts
export or import controlled coi
modities.
One-fifth of the thousand a
rests for black market operatio
were for the counterfeiting of r
tion stamps, principally gasolii
and sugar stamps. In some cast
printing plants and thousands <
counterfeit stamps were taken b
the operatives.
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The number three headache c
the department last year was th
forgery of government checks. Ii
this comparatively new field, th<
department made 1,800 arrests.
Often these cases are so loca
in nature that they never makt
headlines. Measured in toto, the}
are almost new fields of crime
that have spread throughout the
country.
There are dozens of minor rac
kets resulting from the war that
treasury has had a hand in break
ing up. These include the preven
tion of a drain of used cars into
Mexico (where there's no ceiling^;
the break-up of a counterfeiting
outfit that was turning out $5 au
tomobile use stamps: and the
smuggling across the border of
jewels and such things as Mexican
silver cigarette lighters.
The most common sources of
weeds in lawns are impure seed
mixtures, weedy top soil and ma
nure incorporated before seeding,
or top-dressed afterwards, and
wind-blown seeds.
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