Site Ed. Note: The front page reports the declaration of war finally by Italy on Germany, a month after the surrender of Italy to the Allies. It was unclear to what degree Italian troops would be fighting with the Allied soldiers.

Thus far in the battle for Italy, Italian troops had proved more a liability than a benefit. Furthermore, Allied officers and soldiers were on record as disfavoring the notion of fighting alongside their former enemy.

Austin Bealmear of the Associated Press offers a piece in which he compares the declaration to the similar Italian reversal of stance after ten months of World War I. Initially neutral but wedded to Germany and Austria by treaty, the Italians changed course in 1915 and joined the Allies.

Meanwhile in the fighting in Italy, the Fifth Army advanced nine miles north of its previous position at Pontelandolf to take San Croce on the road to Rome. The Eighth Army took Bonefro and Riccia along the Adriatic coast. Riccia is only eight miles northeast of San Croce, placing the two mighty armies within close proximity of one another.

The Russian Army moved to within 1.8 miles of Kiev. As with previous evacuations, the Nazis were wreaking havoc on the city as they took their unceremonious hind leg departure.

A Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee approved a version of the Fulbright Resolution, providing approval for America's membership in a post-war United Nations organization. Despite the resolution having been tabled two weeks earlier by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proper on the premise that open debate on the subject of Russia might despoil relations between the U.S.S.R. and the West during the lead-up to the tripartite meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin, Chairman of the Committee Tom Connally now predicted confidently that the resolution would pass the full committee and eventually the full Senate.

Initial British forces arrived in the Azores a day after the announcement that Portugal had agreed to allow the British to occupy the islands for the duration to serve as an anti-submarine base.

On the editorial page, "Is This New?" reminds that the guerilla struggle ongoing in the Balkans, in Serbia, in Yugoslavia, as reported by Daniel DeLuce of late, should be as familiar to Carolinians as the Battle of King's Mountain or McIntire’s Farm or Cowan's Ford during the Revolution. It was the same struggle for freedom against an outside oppressor seeking to establish and maintain empire.

The suggestion by "Two Hopes" that the United States Supreme Court's denial of petitions for writs of certiorari to convicted bootlegger kingpins Carl and Paul Lippard meant that the high Court implicitly had upheld the convictions as just and fair and proper, is an incorrect interpretation of events. The only supposition properly deduced from any such denial of a hearing is that the Court found that the case did not present important enough issues to enough litigants to merit review before the nation's highest court. It is the importance of the question presented in a petition for a discretionary writ which finally determines its chances for hearing, not just whether the case was properly or poorly decided.

The piece goes on to indicate that the Lippards had but two avenues remaining by which to try to avoid their sentence to hard labor on the roads, gubernatorial commutation or pardon and alteration of the sentence for health reasons to permit its service instead in the county lock-up.

Men in Mecklenburg, says the piece, were betting that the convicted criminals would never serve a day on the roads.

"Stop!" suffers offense from the report that the Navy was developing a new typewriter keyboard. Says the editorial: leave alone the qwertyuiop's. What was good enough for grandpa was still good enough for any typist of a new generation.

And, computer age or no, it remains to this day qwertyuiop’s, as nonsensical as it continues to be to unsteady and usually uncooperative hands such as pyed.

Maybe the Navy, after all, was going to straighten it out and make it make sense to the typing dyslexics.

Whoever first invented the keyboard arrangement was a witch.

Straighten that out for us on October 30 in Washington. Then we might finally achieve our rightful membership in the Bsyoibsk Gpmpt Divuryt denied us in gifh choosl for Z's in yrtpobf.

"New Politics" counsels that the old formula of attempting to achieve balance of power among nations to stave off future wars would be outmoded in the post-war world, that the task at hand for the U.S., Great Britain, and Russia, when soon their representatives would meet to determine the fate of the world post-war, would be to figure out how to maintain the power for themselves, an "unbalance of power", to keep the smaller nations at bay.

But, then the piece hits upon the snare which would plague the major powers for four and a half decades after the war: “how shall we keep peace among ourselves?”

Samuel Grafton indicates that there were Senators among the five returning Senators from the war fronts now bent on losing the peace before the war was even won. Happy Chandler of Kentucky was blaming the British for a too slow war effort in Burma. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts had stated that Russia’s refusal to grant Siberian bases for use against Japan would cost America a million casualties. It was the kind of thing, predicts Mr. Grafton, which would occupy the gutter press and the smoking car conversations for a decade to come.

On the same theme, Drew Pearson reports of the condemnation of Lodge by Senators Russell of Georgia, Mead of New York, and Brewster of Maine, three, along with Lodge and Chandler, of the Senators going on the tour of the fronts. Mr. Pearson also indicates that the State Department had not sought to debrief the Senators after their trip.

Raymond Clapper reports that the Japanese were retrenching within the occupied territory in China, the equivalent of the transfer by the Russians in 1941 of their industrial centers to the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. As the Japanese did so, they also gave some limited authority to the anti-Chiang Chinese within the occupied territories as a means to ingratiate the Japanese to the Chinese masses to try to cultivate resistance from within to the Allies when the day would come that the Allies would begin launching raids from China against Japan.

Dorothy Thompson finds that, as with Mephistopheles, Hitler's evil paganism appeared to produce, however accidentally, salutary results for world society. It had brought together the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic faiths in a way which the world had never seen. It had even led to the restoration of the church in Russia.

That, however, does not mean that more Christine O'Donnells or Meg Whitmans are somehow good for the country because they unite people in good tidings in opposition to their puerile nonsense. They are still simply Mephistopholean bitch-witches and whores, in our estimate, prepared to tell you what you want to hear to get your vote so that they might then put you in jail for the crime of thinking or exercising free speech, occupations neither of these bitch-witch whores would be caught dead doing. If Meg Whitman had a brain, she would sell it on e-bay, probably has. If the other one had one, she would put a spell on it so that it wouldn't do her any harm, obviously didn't do it enough.