The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE GIDDINGS STAR
W ill a Trial of the ’War Criminals’ Be
Aftermath of 1 nconditional Surrender?
80602.20
They Didn’t ‘Hang Kaiser’
In 1918. but Will Adolf
Be as Lucky?
Your Bedside Tables
From Orange Crates
THESE orange crate bedside
I tables are useful and easy to
make; they are very decorative,
too, when fitted out as illustrated.
These were lined with green oil
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Rele sed by Western Newspaper Union.
‘T TNCONDITIONAL sur-
1 J render" is the watch-
word of the Allies and,
after that has been brought
about, the Axis leaders who
plunged the world into war will
be placed upon trial for the
crimes against humanity which
they and their followers have
committed.
Such is the promise of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Min-
ister Churchill and it is not like-
ly that there will be any objec-
tion to that program from Jo-
seph Stalin and Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek. Certainly if
the people of Poland, France,
Belgium, Holland, Norway,
Denmark, Greece and Czecho-
Slovakia have anything to say I
about it. Hitler, Mussolini, Hiro- ment shall hand over to the Allied
hito and their fellow interna- |
tional gangsters will not escape
punishment as did Kaiser Wil-
helm a quarter of a century
ago.
Back in 1917-18 "hang the kaiser”
was a popular slogan in the Allied
countries even after the German
monarch had abdicated and found
refuge in Holland. That slogan
helped continue Prime Minister
Lloyd George in power in the British
elections of November, 1918. and that
the promise in it might be made
good was indicated by Article 227 of
the Treaty of Versailles, which was
signed a few months later. The
article said:
The Allied and Associated
Powers publicly arraign Wil-
helm II of Hohenzollern, former-
Iy German emperor, for su-
preme offenses against interna-
tional morality and the sanctity
of treaties. The Allied and
Associated Powers will address
a request to the government of
the Netherlands for the surren-
der to them of the ex-emperor
in order that he may be put on
trial.
Accordingly it was proposed that •
tribunal, consisting of five judges,
one each from the United States,
Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan, should be organized to serve
as a court of justice for the arch-
criminal, and in January, 1920, a
formal demand was made upon Hol-
land for his surrender. But imme-
diately the plan struck a snag. For
the Dutch government announced
that it was not a signatory to the
Versailles treaty, therefore not
bound by its terms and, moreover,
its national honor forbade the sur-
render of the royal refugee.
Expressing the fear that the kai-
ser might flee from Holland, the
Allied governments repeated their
demand. But Queen Wilhelmina and
her ministers announced that this
fear was groundless since by royal
decree the kaiser would be restrict-
ed to a certain section of Utrecht
and forbidden to leave it. Warning
the Dutch gevernment that “the re-
sponsibility is now that of the Neth-
erlands," the Allies left the matter
there and so the Prussian war-lord
retired to his wood-chopping at
Doorn where he lived to see an
Austrian house-painter revive his old
dream of world-domination and Ger-
man aggression plunge the world
into another holocaust.
The kaiser, however, was not the
Napoleon at St. Helena
Attempt to Kidnap Kaiser—a ‘Fascinating Footnote to History’
They almost succeeded in their bold
■ An interesting aftermath of the
"hang the kaiser” cry of World War
1 days was the daring attempt of
eight American soldiers—all from
Tennessee—to kidnap the kaiser in
his refuge in Amerongen, Holland,
and take him to Paris, there to turn
him over to the Allied authorities.
Under the pretense of being on a
"journalistic investigation," they
gained admission to the castle of
Count von Bentnick and asked for
an interview with the "All Highest.”
Von Hindenburg and Von Ludendorf—Their names headed the list of
German "war criminals" of 1914-18.
only German leader whom the vic-
torious Allies had marked for pun-
ishment. Another article in the Ver-
sailles treaty stipulated that “the
German government recognizes the
right of the Allied powers to bring
before military tribunals persons ac-
cused of having committed acts in
violation of the laws and customs
of war . . . The German govern-
powers all persons accused of such
offenses."
A list of 900 names, which in-
cluded almost all of the military and
political leaders of Germany during
the war, was prepared in accord-
ance with this article. The publica-
tion of this list, which was headed
by the names of Field Marshal Von
Hindenburg and General Ludendorf,
stirred up a violent protest among
the people of Germany and the new
rulers of that country pleaded with
the Allies not to force them to hand
over these war criminals, declaring
KAISER WILHELM II
that it would mean the overthrow
of the government and the resultant
chaos.
Farcical Trials.
In response to this plea, the Allied
governments cut the list down to 45
persons and permitted the Germans
to conduct the trials. The result
was a foregone conclusion. The
Germans stalled as long as possible
on the matter and it was not until
three years after the war ended that
a court in Leipzig went through the
motions of staging a trial. All of
the war criminals were freed either
because their “innocence was
proved” or because “their misdeeds
were not covered by German law."
By this time the Allies were no
longer allied and public sentiment
among their peoples was largely in-
different to the idea of retribution.
As a climax to the whole farcical
affair, the outstanding “war crim-
inal," Von Hindenburg, was elected
president of the republic of Germany
and the weakness of this hard-bitten
old warrior as the head of a civil
government paved the way for the
rise of Adolf Schickelgruber. So
the "war criminals" section of the
Versailles treaty remained as the
only dead letter in it until this same
Schickelgruber made the others
dead letter also by tearing up the
whole treaty and hurling it in the
faces of Germany's conquerors.
Will the "war criminals” of 1939
“get away with it” the same way
that those of 1914 did? Will Schick-
elgruber emulate the kaiser and find
sanctuary in some "neutral” coun-
try? The list of such possible
havens is small indeed—Sweden,
Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and
Turkey-and it is doubtful if any of
these would welcome the arch-crim-
inal of all history. The present Fas-
plan, but even though they failed,
they "did write a fascinating foot-
note to history." The result was the
launching of an investigation by the
Dutch authorities (in the course of
which the ex-kaiser filed a complaint
that the unauthorized and unwel-
come visit of these Americans to
his castle "made me nervous!") who
soon decided to hush the matter up,
and a threatened court martial
which ended only in a mild repri-
cist-minded government of Argen-
tina might—if he could get across
the Atlantic, either by U-boat or air-
plane. But that is a remote possi
bility, so it looks as though the Aus-
trian house-painter has little chance
of living to a ripe—if dishonored
—old age in exile.
Perhaps, like Napoleon, he would
exclaim “I prefer death." That was
what the French dictator said when
told that the British government was
sending him to the barren rock of
St. Helena. After his defeat at Wa-
terloo, he surrendered to the captain
of the British man-o’-war, Bellero-
phon, and threw himself upon the
mercy of the prince regent, who lat-
er became King George IV. Napo-
leon believed that he would be al-
lowed to settle down in some com-
fortable little place in England and
great was his dismay and indigna-
tion when he learned that his cap-
tors had other plans for him.
A Dictator in Exile.
It was then that he declared his
preference for death and it is said
that Lord Liverpool, the British
prime minister, was quite willing
to accommodate him, just as mil-
lions today would be glad to accom-
modate Adolf Schickelgruber if he
expressed a preference for death to
exile or imprisonment. However,
delegates from Great Britain, Rus-
sia, Austria and Prussia who formed
the “Convention of Paris” in 1813 to
pass upon Napoleon’s war guilt over-
ruled the wish of the British prime
minister and the exile to St. Helena
was the result. On that cheerless
, I milk drinks will help to get in the
little island in the South Atlantic, e pint daily for adults, and the quart
for children. You’ll enjoy this sim-
spent the next six years aa a mili-
tary prisoner with the rank of a Brit-
ish general “out employment.”
Under instructions from the British
government, he was treated as Gen.
Napoleon Bonaparte, not as the em-
peror of France—a fact that was
particularly galling to the ego of a
man who had dreamed of world
conquest.
One of the horrors of civil war is
the bitterness of feeling between
citizens of the same country which
frequently transcends the bitterness
the people of one nation feel toward
"foreigners” with whom they are at
war. During the Revolution many
Patriots had a greater hatred for
their former friends and neighbors,
who were Loyalists, or Tories, than
they had for the British soldiers or
the Hessian mercenaries. Similarly
four years of war which began in
1861 engendered animosities that
were to linger for generations.
If many Southerners hated "that
ape in the White House,” there were
an equal large
number of North-
erners whose fa-I
vorite song was a 4 2
promise to “hang
Jeff Davis to a Mesval
sour apple tree." g
For the. North,
which could ad-porike Ail
mire the military De wan
Dird
genius of a Lee
or a "Stonewall"
Jackson, appar-
ently could not Jefferson Davis
concede that "that
archtraitor,” Jefferson Davis, had a
single admirable, trait. So their
wrath for all “rebels" was concen-
trated on the head of the president
of the Confederacy.
After Lee’s surrender Davis, with
members of his cabinet, fled south
and he was captured in Georgia. He
was imprisoned in Fortress Monroe
and subjected to unnecessary indig-
nities through the influence of cer-
tain revengeful members of the
radical wing of the Republican party
who were determined to bring him
to trial for his “war guilt." Finally,
after two years, Davis was released,
with Horace Greeley and other
Northerners, who had been his bit-
terest enemies during the war, pro-
viding his bail bond. His health
broken by his prison experience and
the public outcry for revenge having
died down, no further effort was
made to prosecute him.
mand for the leader of the party.
He was Col. Luke Lea of Nashville,
later a prominent newspaper owner
in the South, and his companion
"footnote-to-history writers’' were
Capt. Thomas P. Henderson of
Franklin, Capt. Leland S. MacPhail
of Nashville, Lieut. Ellsworth Brown
of Chattanooga, Sergt. Dan Reilly of
Franklin, Sergt Owen Johnson of
Franklin, Sergt Egbert Haile of
Nashville and Corp. Marmaduke
Clokey of Knoxville.
Tall, cool glasses of Ginger Cooler
will help get your daily quota of
milk into your summer diets besides
foiling Or Sol on his busiest days.
Cool Salads, Drinks,
Sandwiches Help Keep
Family Comfortable
You will bless the sandwich, salad
and cool drink ideas on those warm
days when it is
too hot to roast
the meat and
cook all your
vegetables. Set
the table in your
coolest colors with
coolest foods, and
don your coolest
frock, and you will be giving your
family the best—on the home front.
It's doubly important that you
keep yourself and your family fit
during these times as there are so
many activities demanding buoyant
health and energy. Even though the
food you serve is on the cool side,
make every bit of it count as far as
its nourishment is concerned.
Cram the salads full of vitamins
and minerals, and plan your menus
to give your family a well-balanced
diet. Foods served during the sum-
mer should be even more appetizing
than foods served during other sea-
sons, for appetites tend to lag.
If the family does not want to eat
a great deal during the meal proper,
make the snacks count. For instance,
ple and delicious beverage:
“Ginger Cooler.
(Makes 1 tall glass)
1 cup milk, chilled
% teaspoon salt
% cup ginger ale
2 to 3 tablespoons vanilla ice cream
Pour into a tall, chilled glass. Add
salt and stir in ginger ale. Top with
ice cream and serve immediately.
There's something about good, old-
fashioned lemonade that still hits the
spot during days that the thermom-
eter speeds to the top rung of the
temperature ladder:
Grandmother’s Lemonade.
(Serves 10 to 12)
2 cups sugar or 2% cups honey
2% cups water
Juice of 6 lemons
Juice of 2 oranges
Grated rind of 1 orange
1 cup mint leaves
Cook sugar and water 10 minutes.
(If using honey, bring water to a
boil, then add
16n0n2o=-
.24_ 30_
AGLA22
honey and cook 5
minutes.) Cool.
Add fruit juices
and rind. Pour
over mint leaves.
Cover and let
stand 1 hour.
Strain into jar
and keep in refrigerator. Use %
cup syrup for each glass; fill with
crushed ice and water.
Sherbet’s a popular dessert, and
plenty cool! The citrus fruit in this
makes it even cooler:
Orange Sherbet.
(Makes 1 quart)
1% cups sugar
I cup water
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
2 cups orange juice
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Boil sugar and water together for
5 minutes. Beat slowly into egg
whites. Add fruit juices. Pour into
freezing tray and set cold control
at fast freezing. Freeze stiff, then
beat or stir thoroughly. Return to
freezing compartment and finish
freezing. Serve in sherbet glasses.
Lynn Says
Point Savers: Don't stretch
those points out of joint when
you're making sandwich fillings.
Try these suggestions:
Diced chicken, green pepper,
pickle, mayonnaise.
Sliced chicken with orange
marmalade, or sliced chicken and
dill pickle, sliced.
Cottage cheese and crisp,
chopped bacon.
Hard-cooked egg, chopped with
minced pimentos, diced green
pepper, and mayonnaise and chill
sauce to moisten.
Chopped hard - cooked egg,
chopped stuffed olives, mayon-
naise.
Chopped hard-cooked eggs and
catsup to moisten.
Peanut butter, raspberry jam
Shredded cabbage, grated pine
apple, mayonnaise.
Lynn Chambers’ Point-Saving
Menu
•Royal Lamb Salad
Sliced Tomatoes Carrot Sticks
Whole Wheat Bread Butter
•Ginger Cooler
Cookies
•Recipe given
garnishing each with sprig of mint
and a half slice of unpeeled orange.
Salads that are full of protein and
that keep the cook cool are these
that fill the main dish order of sum-
mer meals:
"Royal Lamb Salad
(Serves 6)
2 cups diced, cooked lamb
1 cup diced celery
1 cup Bing cherries
4 hard-cooked eggs
% cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup mayonnaise
Salad greens
Combine all ingredients except
mayonnaise and chill thoroughly.
Just before serving, toss in may-
onnaise lightly and serve on a bed
of greens. If desired, garnish with
additional slices of hard-cooked eggs
and cherries.
Veal and Bacon Salad.
(Serves 6)
2% cups cold, cooked veal, diced
32 cup crisp bacon, finely cut
134 cup diced celery
4 cup radish slices
% cup mayonnaise
6 small tomatoes
Mix the veal and the bacon with
the celery, radishes and mayonnaise
and chill. Place
each peeled to-
mato in a lettuce
cup. Cut down
several sections
to open. Place a
mound of the sal-
ad mixture into
each tomato and
top with mayonnaise.
Occasionally a fruit salad is all
that is desired for a simple lunch-
eon. In that case, make it as at-
tractive and nourishing as possible:
Summer Fruit Salad.
(Serves 6)
1 medium cantaloupe, peeled and
cut in cubes
2 cups raspberries or dewberries
2 cups diced fresh pineapple
Chill and mix lightly together.
Serve portions on crisp lettuce or
A cool dessert for a cool meal-
Orange Sherbet. It can be simply
made in the cool, morning hours,
stored in the refrigerator until ready
to serve.
watercress and top with mayonnaise
flavored with honey.
Finger sandwiches go well with
the salads to round out the meal and
are both cool and delicious:
Ground boiled ham with ground
pickles and mayonnaise.
Cottage cheese, chopped stuffed
olives, nuts.
Peanut butter, raspberry jam.
Chopped dates, orange juice,
chopped nuts.
Mashed cooked shrimp and cream
cheese.
Flaked salmon, chopped cucum-
ber and mayonnaise.
Cookies like these will go well
with your fresh fruits:
Molasses Raisin Bars.
% cup shortening
% cup sugar
1 egg
% cup baking molasses
2 cups sifted flour
% teaspoon salt
% teaspoon soda
1% teaspoons baking powder
% cup sweet milk
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup raisins
Cream shortening, add sugar and
beat lightly. Add egg, beat well,
then add molasses. Sift flour with
dry ingredients and add alternately
with milk to first mixture. Add
chopped nuts and raisins. Spread
thinly in greased shallow pan and
bake in a moderate (350 degree)
oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Cut in
bars before cooling.
Are you having difficulties planning
meals with points? Stretching your meats?
Lynn Chambers can give you help if you
erite her, enclosing a stamped, self ad
dressed envelope for your reply, in care
if her at Western Newspaper Union, 210
iouth Desplaines Street, Chicago, Illinois
Released by Western Newspaper Union
.Ath I LINE CRATE WITH
I l A SOIL CLOTH-TACK
SPOT E.s CHECKED SKIRT TO
SIDES WHITE FRILL
Nd EDGES COVER FOR TOP
cloth cut, fitted and pasted, as
shown. The full skirt pieces were
tacked to the top of the sides and
lapped a few inches around the
back. A top cover with a 3-inch
frill was then added. The bed-
spread is trimmed with 5-inch
frills of the muslin and 1-inch
straight bands over seams and for
the monograms.
e e e
NOTE— These bedside tables are from
BOOK 7 which also contain 31 other
thrifty home making ideas. BOOK 2 con-
tains a complete alphabet for making
monogi ama similar to the one illustrated.
Books are 15 centa each. Send your or-
der to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
New York
Bedlord Hills
Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for each book
desired.
Name ..............................
Address .............................
H f AT Soothe, relieve heat rash,
U L I and help prevent it with
J U I Mexsana, formerly Mexi-
UEAT can Heat Powder. Sprinkle
THE " this cooling, astringent
w IE — medicated powder well
IET over heat irritated skin.
Costs little. Big savings
I in larger sizes. All the
II Lill family will like Mexsana.
Origin of 'Two Bits’
The term “two bits" was coined
in San Francisco in days before
mints were in existence and gold
wire was chipped up for currency.
WAR WORKERS
ATTENTION!!
ORO-SOL
SOOTHING
AND
REFRESHING
IRRITATED
EYES
25*
ad
50
FOR SALE
AT ALL DRUG STORES
Pleasant Companion
A pleasant companion causes
you to forget the length of the
journey.
FOR QUICK RELIEF ■
C ARBO
ANTISEPTIC SALVE
Used by thousands with satisfactory re-
suits for 40 years—six valuable ingredi-
ents. Get Carboil at drug stores or write
Spurlock-Neal Co., Nashville, Tenn,
TH
FLIT GU
FoTS COM
5
FLIT hit a wartime job helping
our soldiers fight insect-enemies
on many battlefronts.
You have ■ wartime job helping
to equip our soldiers for victory
and bringing them home quicker!
Your job is to put every cent
you can lay your hands on, into--
MORE AND MORE
WAR BONDS
SIGN UP FOR MORE THAN
10% TODAY!
Published by Stance Incorporated
The Makers of FLIT
in cooperation with the Drug,
Cosmetic and Allied Industries.
Cop. 1945 Stance incorporates
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Preusser, Theodore A. The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1943, newspaper, July 16, 1943; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1633901/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.