Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1942, Page 35

B-12 Germans, Wooing Vichy, Reported Minimizing Italians’ Possible Post-War Claims This is the seventh of a series of articles written by ah Ameri- can correspondent just returned Jrom Europe. By DAVID M. NICHOL, Correspondent of The Star and Chieago 2 Daily News, One of the strangest business deals of the century is contributing mightily to the resentment and hatred of the Italians for their Nazi neighbors and allies. ‘When Mussolini’s dreams of em- pire in Africa were smashed by the Australians and the other British forces, Italian interests were con- fiscated wherever they were found. The take included some 80,000,000 lire n Italian currency, and pre- sented the English with the neat | problem of how they could best dispose of it. By design or otherwise, the whole ot found its way into the Swiss market where the Germans, never | a people to pass up a good thing, bought it at bargain - basemen! prices. The spree of purchasing which followed has rankled the Italians ever since. The “touring” Naazis, | with money that cost them almost nothing, bought food and clothing until there was hardly any left. They bought art objects wherever they could find them, not from any intrinsic appreciation but because inflation is an ever-present threat They bought jewelry until the Ital fan government was compelled to impose the most rigid restrictions on the export of any precious metals to any one, including their German | allies. Bought New Share of Hatred. More than all these, however, the Nazis bought & new share of hatred, & new measure of undependability, and added a new bruise to one of the most painful of the multiple | gore spots which plague the new order. | Italy as an ally is almost useless, except for the geographical base | it provides for the occupying Ger- man forces. “When in Rome do as the Germans do,” runs the 20th century version of an ancient line. Whenever it has served the Nazis’ purpose they have placed the in- terests of the Italians secondary or even farther down the list. So eager are the Germans to make an arrangement with the French that they have assured Vichy the Ttalian claims on France will not be considered, except possibly for face-saving and otherwise unimpor- tant concessions in Africa. In November when reports were current that Petain and Mussolini would meet one French official &coffed at the rumor. What, he asked with elaborate gestures, would be the use. “Mussolini would sav, ‘We want this and this and this’ The mar- shal would say, ‘No—c'est fini’” The contempt with which the Germans treat their “allies” is colossal. Once when the Italians beat the Germans by a couple of hours to the announcement of a Hitler-Mussolini seance at the Brenner Pass, the Foreign Office spokesman was badgered about it at the daily press conference in the dingy, paneled Wilhelmstrasse room where Bismarck formerly met his cabinet. | Reply Coolly Polite. ‘The reply was coolly polite. There | had been a “misunderstanding.” | But when the formal conference was ended, the Italians were herded into & smaller room and told what they would and would not do in the | future in tones and terms that | penetrated most of the building. German invective 1is peculiarly blunt. How securely based are the ties between the Nazis and their Jap- anese allies is likewise dubious. When the then Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka visited Berlin last April, he spoke in the glowing &nd most general terms and pro- mised nothing. He was a headache to his Axis hosts from the moment he began his journey until his re- turn to Tokio. Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribben- trop, who had insisted he would not utter another word in that lan- Dr. Leonard Named Dean 0f Women at C. U. Dr. Eugenie Andruss Leonard, as- sistant professor in the department of education at Catholic University, has been appointed to the newly created post of dean of women at the school, the Most Rev. Joseph M. Corri- gan, rector, an- nounced yester- day. At the same time, Bishop Corrigan made known that Dr. Leonard wil plan a consider- able expansion of the teaching and advisory ™ i guid- Dr. Leonard. | ance, a field in which she specializes. ‘The enlarged program will include additional academic courses in guid. ance, the setting up of a model psychometric laboratory and crea- tion of a demonstration guidance library. The advisory service will function | principally in counseling other Catholic schools on their guidance | programs, particularly in regard to tests, personnel records and new technique developed in the subject. A graduate of the University of California and Columbia University, | Dr, Leonard was dean of women at | Syracuse University from 1930 to| 1935, initiated a city-wide program | of guidance in the high schools of | Portland, Oreg., in 1938, and a year later was a special research co- | ordinator for the guidance and in- | formation service of the United States Office of Education. | Enlist your dollars for national defense every payday. Buy United States Defense savings bonds and TONIGHT ... 10:00 0'CLOCK STATION WMAL guage until the war was ended. It provoked the explanation from the Foreign Office, which didn’t see the humor of it at all, that the Nazis “would use the medium of the enemy whenever it served their needs.” When Matsuoka signed & non-aggression pact with Russia on his way home, it surprised and en- raged the Germans, whose plans for their Soviet venture already were far along. In Rome Matsuoka ostentatiously telephoned an American diplomat while the Germans and Italians fumed and tried desperately to keep their tempers. There is at least | ground for suspicion now that the literal-minded Japanese, urged by | THE EVENING STAR, the Nazis to get into the war, got into it on a scale and with a vigor that far exceeded the German pro- gram, for in one brief afternoon their attack jarred America into unity and action as nothing else could have done—a circumstance the Nazis were most eager to avoid. (Copyright, 1942, Chicago Daily News) | BLACKHEAD Tirs made easy to remove— simple rashes of extern; By world-known, mildry medu CUTICURA 32252 | NEW SPRING ARRIVALS Young Young Men’s Finger-Tip orduroy COATS ’6.9 —The reversible coats that are definitely “class” with § modern young men! Cotton corduroy on one side . . . water-repellent cotton gabar- dine on the other. Tan, brown and teal in sizes 10 to 22. Nl 7~ tent.) Sizes 12 to 22. 'N... 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