EDITORIAL PAGE DETROIT, OF THE E-S JULY 12. 1941 Bastille Day New Deal Battle of Russia Willkie Tends Mussolini EXT Mondav July Vl. v, II bo an anniversary in Blinds Nation, To Open War, Fake .Among Nri France w! .. t: ' rve with poignant memories and in utt«i sadness but in an atmosphere of national pride in which f ' .n hopes are kindled. Brown Says General Hints Dictators There is in the city it Pans t.tday a public square, called the Plate Do La Bashlle. in the «enter of which Decision on Draft Term Urges U. S. to Insist He's Ridiculous, Rapid!/ rises a marble monument to .height of 151 feet. It marks th* site <f om- of tiie truly dread institutions Can Open Eyes on Iceland Facts Becoming Pathetic of all human hisvon and * xpt li' Ucc, the infamous Bastille By of the old French monarchy. lly <i. ROTH WELL BROWN By HI GH S. JOHNSON BENJAMIN DE CASSERES ¦’ has anything more I HAVE noticed: w; s fht h. : i ... '>’l! prison which the hern steadily TF THERE is This (CONGRESS * on hoodwinked by the New Deal impudent and arrogant than That men who can't French revolutionists t re ti-tvvn stone by stone July 11. eight for more than years. British Prime Minister Church- late their own Itves are always c«-ntun« it had been a symbol of the It ha *1 never learned its lesson 17*9. For dim ill's complaint about United blue-printing a “post-war" pro- over the jMxiple. was rat infested fmm t hese repeated hoodwink- wielded It . despotic power ings. States Senator Wheeler’s com- gram for the world . and unspeakably vile. in t luckless people, political pris- From the day in mid-Summer ment on the occupation of Ice- That men who cannot estab- criminals, spent what years of 1933 thrti Pre>ident Roosevelt land. it is Mr. Wendell W’illkie’s lish a league of peace in their oners along with often first upon his social- embarked smug assurance that what he own families and businesses are remained to them without ever a sight of the outside istic program. Congress has calls "poepul of Ammurrica” passionately in favor of a league world. b**en led step-by-step to a goal the • • • which it never suspected and want President Roosevelt to lead of nations, which, according to not did understand and not follow them to such them, will end all wars . the Bast lie finally fell before the furies of the The alarming announcement ly/HEX stops as the occupation of bases That men who are failures as its In the administration that it W mob. seven miserable inmates were found in surely wants fxmer to send an army in Ireland which would providers in their own families dungeons below the water level of an adjoining moat. One anywhere in the world and to put us at once into shooting war advocate that form of state- of them had been there for .'»•> years. keep the Ixiys with the colors in Europe and his comparison of provision for everybody called - -beyond the year fixed by Con- agree . those who do not with him socialism . On its inner walls was an inscription, cut propheti- gress represents a typical piece (whom he calls “isolationists'*) That men and women who are tally into the stone: of New Deal strategy. When General,..Marshall, chief with the slave traders of 1861. incapable of sticking to-a pro- !** demolished, and the shocking “The Bastille shall one day of stats of the Army, appeared Such things are to all gram for their own lives for six before Die House appropria- want us to prepare our- shall dance on the area where it stood." " who engaged in people : months are busily tions committee on April US. _. .. ‘ - selves at any cost for total de- on that fourteenth writing The people did. most vengetully that the fense and, to that end and that, out life-programs for and testified national ~ ' : ** ago from Monday. of July, exactly 152 years next sent home • % end alone, Britain stand in other people . day guard would be back -- - aid to ¦ ' *!•;-*• They built a bridge across the Seine with its stones, in September, that the trainees j| . - ihe Atlantic but who do not That men who demand for old prison would he discharged beginning want us to impair that purpose themselves the greatest degree and the pedestal erected on the site of the - - .• - in November, and that the army ¦ v . • -X ¦ \ by engaging in overseas of freedom concoct schemes to bore bronze medallions symbolical of justice, the consti- • V* . would he reduced, he was speak- fr- to preserve the British regiment everybody else . freedom, was w T-. elsewhere the -• tution, strength and which it supposed ing as a soldier, in whom every :S : ! - Empire. It is very doubtful 1 notice that the meaner a people of France would ever thereafter possess and enjoy. one in Congress has the utmost whether such utterances even man is to his employes, his Lafayette, who ordered the demolition, sent a model faith. help to aid Britain. family and his servants, the Obviously that was General among he of the Bastille with “the main key of the fortress of There is no question a louder calls for schemes of Marshalls plan only a little majority of professional observ- “umvrrsal charity." despotism" to General Washington. more than two months ago. that the bulk of our people Finally, I have noticed that ts # # * • * ers do not want President Roosevelt, the best thing each one of us the model, nearly three feet long, and the QENATOR WHEELER has or any other one man. to “lead'’ can do is to try to apply hi* will, to himself, inches in length, are kept charged that American inter- them, against their to any "idealism" his family, TODAY,wrought iron key, seven national policy is not being de- such result as seems to be in Mr. his associates and those wiiii safely at Mount Vernon. termined in Washington, but is Willkie's mind hut didn't seem whom he comes directly in con- Unfortunately, the French institutions of justice and being determined in London by to be there when he asked for tact. a hoard of Rrilish and notice as safely. mini their votes. 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And I also that freedom were not kept American army and navy of- It is also questionable whether writers who are advising us to For now the institutions of despotic authority have ficers. he speaks for any great group of “discipline" ou riel vem and returned to France, and the imposing monument in the If this is true, it means that ihem He once did seem to syx'ak "toughen up" are themselves La Bast a people fTo* of staTf of the army for about 23 millions when he living the life of Riley. historic Place De ill** remains to mock • must alter his at the dic- tune ? ? who forgot that liberty is not a heritage which may be plans was ringing a different i tation of the British government, to which he since has said was just THE three dictatois. only possessed in perpetuity, but something for which the for it may be assumed that if Fourth of July Showers Letters "campaign oratory.” He fooled OF Mussolini is ndicult price of eternal vigilance must be paid. there is such a joint policy ’em once and while jieople may There is now something even new of despotism have arisen in hoard in London the Americans like to he fooled they don't like pathetic about this former blow- That fortresses making policy. After France is sad. but they are the consequence of the neglect are not the Bloom Guests’ Excuses the Editor to be told about it so cynically. hard and grand o|>era baxso- all, this is Great Britain's war Mr. Willkie is by way of being bluffo who has betrayed to Hit- people. and is natural that she or fol- of the French it only By DAMON HIWON TO THK KPI TOR: a man without a party a ler one of the greatest and least permitted agents of to filter should determine how it is to be lowing he could have been They the communism days wo frequently and warlike peoples in the world—- industries, and to under- fought. IT IS said ihat cancellations by the relatives. Of late years, the i the Italians. into their armed forces and their President. • is not as simple all hoar the expression that • • foundations of justice and But it as provpeetive week-end guests labor unions have been taking The liest book 1 vo read on the mine and destroy the very , Roosevelt is sticking his reek • that. It will be remembered ihat GREAT many Americans Duce is “Spuix on th*' " hy at private liomes in the country the stand that house-guesting out 800 l freedom. J in his thud term acceptance again. \ apparent ly a m a j o r i t y—- Thomas D Morgan (Longmans!. They were indifferent to the weakening influences of. | speech to the Chicago conven- and at the seashore reached a cannot be required of an em- Friends. Mr. Roosevelt Is not agree with Senator Wheeler. Mr. Morgan was the representa- sticking neck communistic sabotage upon their establishments of pro- . tion last July, Mr. Roosevelt, new all-time high in New York ploye without his full consent, the Roosevelt out This column doesn't, altogether. tive of the United Press in Italy that he to hut the nocks of all of his loyal duction and defense and even upon their national stressed the |>omt had City a week ago Thursday night, hut if you have a relative who It was warning against the when Mussolini took over <and j accept ihe nomination because your American people.