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DEWEY'S FOREIGN POLICY

R a man who is.supposed to know nothing about foreign policy—to hear some“of the fourth termers talk—Mr.

: Dewey did pretty well in his Louisville speech last night.

In fact we cannot remember a clearer, franker, or more constructive statement of the kind. Certainly there was much more meat in it than in the evasive generalities-which Mr. Roosevelt gives off so airily on those rare occasions when he breaks his habit of secret diplomacy. Is such a comparison unfair to the President because he, at the moment, is carrying the responsibility of international negotiations and the Republican candidate is not —yet? We don’t think so. Mr. Churchill has no hesitation in telling’ the British people what is British policy and, indeed, allied policy. In this democracy should the people have less information about, or control of, official policy than in Britain? a Ai Since the Dewey address last night there is more hope of smoking the President out ‘of his secrecy to approximate, if not match, his opponent's effective frankness. happens, all Americans will be indebted to Mr. Dewey for a great public service. Because the Rooseveltian habit of fixing things up with Winnie and Joe behind a Teheran screen or over the personal phone—and never reporting to the American public—is one of the gravest dangers today to open covenants openly arrived at. This is not the first time Mr. Dewey and the Republicans have prodded the administration toward a more enlightened foreign policy. The Republican Mackinac declaration, in favor of American participation in an effective international organization for peace and security, forced the Roosevelt hand which for months had blocked congressional action.

» os » 2 2 8 JUST AS that incident, and the G. O. P. platform and

_ Dewey acceptance speech robbed the fourth termers of

their fake “isolation” issue, so Mr. Dewey last night proved that he and his associates, far from being amateurs, have

~a thorough knowledge of foreign affairs.

His foreign policy, as stated last night, is genuinely international—and realistic. He is for those things on which he and his party have helped to educate the American public and commit congress: Continued co-operation among the big powers to enforce a peace of non-aggression on the axis, and an international organization for the long haul. But he is much more specific than the President on

‘what to do with Germany, and about open diplomacy, and . the rights of small nations, and the necessity of any

lasting peace restraining the victors as ‘well as the vanquished in the years to come. The most striking difference between the Dewey policy and what little is known of the Roosevelt policy is the Republican candidate’s emphasis on the fact that building peace is not only a matter of treaties and organizations. It is a continuous, constructive process of creating a healthy world, politically and economically. . ” tJ » n 8 8 HE WANTS an American leadership that neither dictates to others nor keeps them on a Yankee dole. In this his foreign policy is an inseparable part of his domestic policy, so different from that of “the Washington wasters” as he calls them: , “To hear them talk Uncle Sam must play the role of the kindly but senile old gentleman, who seeks to buy the good will of his poor relations by giving away the dwindling remains of his youthful earnings. to win friends or to influence people. bought with gold. manages his own affairs, who is self-reliant and independent, yet who is interested in the rights and needs of others.” What has the fourth term candidate to say to that?

Good will cannot be

A SHOW WINDOW FOR INDIANAPOLIS STORES long ago learned the merchandising value of an attractive display. That is why they devote so much attention to show windows; they know that a tempting display of goods helps to channel into their doors some of the potential business passing by. First impressions are important, and it is unfortunate that the millions of people who pass through most American cities see from the trains only the most unattractive sections of the community—switch-yards, tenements and shanties, dumps, warehouses and the back side of factories. There isn’t much that can be done about that, at least until the day when trains become noiseless and smokeless. The average traveler gets a more favorable picture of “Indianapolis than of many other cities, but obviously you cannot, route the main line of a railroad down Meridian street. However, Indianapolis can do a better job of selling itself to the thousands of potential residents or customers who pass through each day. And that is what the In-

- dianapolis Industrial Exposition is calculated to do.

A display of Indianapolis products in the Union station should help to “sell” the city, both to visitors and those who live here. More than 20,000 persons come and go at

the station each day, and many of them have time on their.

hands while waiting for trains. the city, and in ‘a receptive m suggestion. ¥

». 1 ’ This should be an effective show window for In--dianapolis. SET

They are curious about ood for information and

RARE COMBINATION R a time the relative status of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and Lieut.-Gen. Omar ‘ Bradley threatened to grow into one of those unpleasant situations ‘which, through no fault of the principals, involves international jealousies, snubs and hard feelings. But General Eisenhower has dispelled the threats with an explanation in which modesty tact and self-effacing bestowal of credit were masterfully blended :, ar ih ~The smiling Kansan is not only a great general. He is great diplomat, And that is a rare combination to be

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Let's Face IY Sai

LONDON, Sept. 9—London ; newspapers sound. solemn warn= j. ings that life in Britain will be full of new hardships when peace breaks out in Europe, but according to a man in a bowler hat, named Sidebottom, Englishmen can be expected to do their valiant best to carry on. : Sidebottom fled to a local pu to brace himself for possibly even more serious news after hearing ; the government announcement that the blackout would fade to a dimout on Sept.

voluntary basis next week.” As he emerged to take his place in a bus queue in Piccadilly, he swayed gently like a barrage balloon in an autumn breeze, but his face was grave as he contemplated the complications which might ‘emerge from these developments.

For instance, one paper quotes an anonymous doc- | tor warning that for certain types of neurotics, the | lights will come as a “searing shock” from which it}

will take them’ weeks to recover. Sidebottom pointed out that. their convalescence might be further impeded by the increasing shortage of spirits which they would ordinarily use to steady themselves after this and other types of shock.

What's to Become of Them?

is going to become of the sizable army of people who for five years have been employed in drawing black

ing. The government has thus far issued no white paper on how they may be plowed back into peacetime industry. A The government order threatens to put an end to the Londoners’ widespread evening pastime of fracturing skulls ~ against lampposts and breaking legs in bomb craters after leaving their flashlights at home. : < And this is not all. A London Daily Express story advocates that tailors should be among the first to be demobilized from the army and returned to their benches if Englishmen are to avoid appearing in public in shirtsleeves, or perhaps even scantier attire, after the armistice. Another Daily Express story warns that it will take at least six months for hotels to “recover” after the peace. The item does not mention it but a large part of that timeiwill undoubtedly be occupied in retaining staffs to welcome the public with the proper warmth instead of gleefully pitching guests into the street on a rainy night with. a curt statement that there is no room.

Industry Is Doing Its Best

-STILL. ANOTHER paragraph reveals that there may be a shortage of victory flags, but industry is doing its best. New types of automobiles are being planned, but manufacturers complain that the government thus far has refused to release enough material to construct even toy models. Sidebottom reflected that there might be hell to pay if members of the house of lords were obliged to motor to post-war sessions of parliament in jeeps. London's Daily Mail says that no more klaxons will be installed as warnings against flying bombs. Some of these are connected with downtown London, to signal “imminent danger” after the general siren Is sounded. Attendants who had hoped to get in a iot more honks before the cease-firing order, may be expected to write warm letters to The London Times about this. But the most startling development of all is the fact that the newspapers will soon be permitted to resume the publication of weather reports. This blow was eased somewhat by the potential though temporary ban on conditions in the Straits of Dover. Up to now that was the only weather news the Britons had. It will be suppressed because of the Germans, due to circumstances beyond their control, soon won't be able to discover for themselves what the weather is there. Sidebottom sighed as he boarded his bus: “Peace Youd seem to be approaching,” he said, “but let's ace it.”

World Affairs

By William Philip Simms

. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Not all the crowned or uncrowned heads of governments in exile can hope to return to their capitals with prestige unimpaired. But the chances are that King Leopold III, of Belgium, will be among the first to make the grade. , Seldom has a monarch been more widely misunderstood . or more maligned. On May 28, 1940, I was in the Cafe de la Paix, Paris. Over~the radio came an announcement by Premier Paul Reynaud, of France. Said he: “I must announce to the French people a grave piece of news. The event occurred last night. France can no longer count on the Belgian army. King Leopold, without a word to the French and British, laid down his arms. It is without precedent in all history.” There was a stunned silence. At the table next to me sat an old man with a white mustache. Tears were running down his cheeks. Turning to me—a total stranger—he said: “I am a Belgian industrialist. I have already lost my factories, my home, some of my family, even, That I can stand. But to think that my king should do this . , .”

Story Not Quite as Pictured

LITTLE BY LITTLE, however, we have found that the story was not Quite as Premier Reynaud pictured it. Not that he deliberately distorted it. On the contrary, it appears that he was merely relaying the news as he had received it. The American military attache who witnessed the Battle of Belgium reported that “capitulation was the only possible solution for Leopold. Those who say otherwise did not see the battle. I did.” Adm. Sir Roger Keyes, British liaison officer— and the British were among the hardest hit in that battle—immediately exonerated the king. ‘He was with Leopold throughout the night of May 27 when the decision to surrender was reached, yet he stated on his return to England that the young ruler had “proved himself to be a gallant soldier and loyal ally.” U. 8. Ambassador John Cudahy, said the same with documentation, and ex-President Herbert Hoover, after an exhaustive investigation, announced that “history will declare that- he acted loyally and with immense sacrifice.” * ;

Tragedy Began in 1936

THE TRUTH IS that Leopold's tragedy began when Hitler recccupied the Rhineland in_1936 and his neighbors, France and Britain, failed to stop the Nazis. From that moment on, war was inevitable and the two great European democracies failed to take effective measures to stop it. : . The beginning ‘of ithe end came on May 17, 1940, when Germany's panzer divisions annihilated the

behind the allied armies’ then rushing into Belgium.

t was up. Further split into pockets by thrusts of the -panzers, some of the allies capitulated and some, by a miracle, got away to England, without weapons and in tatters. . { Sheil There was vast bitterness dt the time, of course,

tations at staké; naturally sought a scapegoat and Leopold seemed a logical one. .But today, apparently, most Belgians—even those who at first were most out-

17 and that the" Home Guard would be placed on a |.

FURTHERMORE, THERE is the question of what |

out curtains at night and lifting them every morn- |

® ; | The Hoosier Forum -» 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

French<9th army, broke through at Sedan, and got 2

Pocketed, their backs to the sea at Dunkirk, the jig |

especially in France, ~Some military mén, with repu- |

“ISSUE: WORTH THOROUGH AIRING” : By A. J. Schneider, 504 West dr., Woodruff pl

Pvt. del Pizzo and Mary Studebaker have raised an issue which

this time. May I ask either or both what is so awful about “people running their personal cars in wartime”? Just as a coincidence, some of us can't, and not all of us want to be on a government, payroll so that we may use government-owned cars and gasoline. Use—not ownership —is the real issue. And I dare say there are more government-owned cars using government-owned gasoline being driven around, wasting the precious substance, than any waste of civilian gasoline in pri-vately-owned cars. Which, then, is the more awful waste? There is no denying that many privately-owned cars in use for essential purposes are running with but one occupant. I happen to be a lone occupant of my car in much of my essential driving. In the earlier days of the share-the-ride campaign, I {frequently offered riders to persons going in my direction. But for every acceptance of my- offers, I-had at least half a dozen refusals with upstage disdain or swearing and abuse. Of the acceptances, service men who wilfully and knowingly overstayed their time used every persuasive effort to get me to break speed records to turn back the clock for them. Who can say how many lone riders have had similar experiences and have discontinued offering rides? On the question of waste of the so-precious civilian gasoline, challenge del Pizzo or Studebaker or anyone else to list any piece of military equipment that can or does operate on the low-grade less-than-T5-octane civilian gasoline. Since black markets also were mentioned, can del Pizzo or Studebaker.. divulge the source of this supply? - As is well-known, the PAW contrcis all petroleum products at the refineries, allotting the first portions to the military. AI of the remainder is turned over to the OPA for equitable distribution among civilian users. Since that setup disposes of 10% of the production, where does the black market supply come from? Either it is allotted by the PAW or- by the OPA. The simplest method of stamping out black markets is to dry up the source; One of the two agencies

is worth thorough airing just at|-

(Times readers are invited to express their: views in these columns,” religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

established for the purpose can do it. If the OPA does it, there will be a fine opportunity for more liberal allotments to civilians. Only they won't dry up the source because so doing would lovsen up their control over our private lives, which they are loathe to relax.

I mentioned waste of government military gasoline. I ask. if it is not waste to have military cars cruise around business blocks downtown, lap after lap, while some officer or his wife is shopping in the stores? And is there not a waste of barrel upon barrel of military gasoline in parades and demonstrations such as the one used as a hypodermic for the bond drive? Is there not tremendous waste when the “Commander-in-chief” or Eleanor make political visits all over the world and cause cessation of activities long enough to have costly parades and reviews?

8 = “A MERITORIOUS SUGGESTION” By Interested, Indianapolis

This is in support, Mrs. Marie Kenton, of your commendable article to remove the police department from politics. This is indeed a meritorious suggestion, I believe that if The Times takes the initiative, a great victory in eradicating crime would be scored. However, I take exception to your references about the mayor. I fully believe that what efficiency we have in the police department is because of the diligent efforts of the mayor and Chief Beeker. We need not discuss the “hamstringing” methods Sherwood Blue applied against the police force and the laxity in

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Don't you: sailors find shore leays dreadfully boring after riding around all over the world in those $75,0( 000 battiesh F hiding

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handling cases in court by his assistant prosecutor. Our newspapers have come out on many occasions against his methods, also suggested that we wait for the next episode in one or two more popular cases; whereas our mayor from his early youth has been a firm believer of efficient civilian defense. I have every reason to believe that, if a movement was started to make the police department free of politics, the mayor would back the issue, but, in so doing, we would still have an obligation to support the police department with a good prosecutor. 2 = “TROJAN HORSE GALLOPS AGAIN” ’ By 0. C. 1, Indianapolis The Trojan horse gallops again, ridden by the master, the Communist party (gone underground), right into the camp of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. This committee is a “front populaire,” probably inspired by — certainly patterned after — those in France and Spain of a few years ago, and whose members originated the sit-down strike. Thirty some odd years ago, Lenin, the incomparable leader of world communism, made the remarkable

world spread of this un-Godly theology would be brought about by financing from non - communistic funds and promoted’ by noncommunistic individuals and groups. If one would painstakingly look

find a more perfect example of Lenin's theory than in this radical, politically prejudiced committee, It claims to be non-partisan, and yet says that the gains of labor and promotion of American ideals so beloved by all of us can be retained only by the re-election of "Roosevelt and a progressive congress,” quoting from one of its ads. The main plank in the Trojan horse policy is to “join ’em if you can't lick 'em and rule ’em — and if you can't rule 'em, wreck 'em.” Members of this committee will, to their sorrow, find this out. “Nationally known names that are “fronts” for this committee are from numerous groups, ranging all the way from college professors (some on the national payroll) to movie and radio stars. Of all people, this latter group should remember that all Americans made their careers possible, and that they should ever remain cognizant of this fact. In the years of the New Deal, we have seen corporations excoriated for their practices; of maintaining interlocking directorates. Corporations are as babes in the woods compared to the red, parlor pink and fellow-traveler groups whose name lists all add up to the same answer. Many of these names are on the sponsoring list of this committee, To check on this, merely compare names upon the letterheads, tracts and booklets put out by these sources in the last several years: American League Against War and

and Democracy, American Peace Mobilization, The Yanks Are Not Coming, and, after the invasion of Russia by Germany, we had the American People’s Mobilization, This war made a difference in polies. Many American workers may be “gooned” into contributing to this committee or its progenitor, the Political Action Committee of the C.I1.O, but we have faith in the intelligence and patriotism of these

_|same workers to vote their real con|victions in the God-given secrecy

of the ballot booth against the intimidations they have so submitted to-elsewhere, Ee ——————————

DAILY THOUGHTS

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we be- . held his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full

of grace and truth.<-John 1:14.

|. IN darkness there is no choice. ;

It is light that enables us % differences between tI 1 5k the Is Christ that gives us

“| project in the Tennessee valley, this great reservoir

everywhere, he could not possibly i

Fascism, American League for Peace

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D Ali; C. ay i & ca —m— } wo "URD: By Thomas L Stokes ron WASHINGTON, Sept, i the midst of gobi nd WITH THE Sonfusion 1 - helpful to DUN, Sep 1! ang eo rN 1G returning war . Norris of Neb bor, : the outstanding democrat op Sf cu @ few si

~ time, with a small “4” ang in best’ sense of that word, % He came from the plain p % © He never lost touch with Phot He represents the Am R h ideal of citizenship and : : service for which we are fights today. George Norris proved what so many | in politics never seem to understand: If a man character, integrity and courage he can vote convictions and get elected and re-elected wi the trimming and evasion to which most resort until it gets to be a habit. He proved also.that progressivism and li

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are not things belonging only to youth, things that | of the men wh a man necessarily shuffles off as he comes to thy | wet hills and middle and later years, but that if it is real it gu. | what region th | vives, as it did with him until his death at the agg | Once more the of 83 last week. § 1 | there was worl He still bristled with it the last time I saw hip 1t took a lo in the spring. “He was keenly alert to all that wag hours were le: going on in the world, which seemed so far away | corner into the from his home in the middle of the rolling Nebrasky —all that rem

Verdun-—-one o the city on No with characte startling in the streets, nor in save for the {i

plains. We talked through a May afternoon, sitting | in the cheerful sun parlor which he had added g few years before to the simple stucoc house, |

TVA His Memorial and His Legacy

his side. He was condemning Senator McKellar (D, Tenn.) who at the time was trying to get through | J 0ir'ce of some amendments which Mr. Norris and other friends of TVA believed would seriously cripple the operations. - LooRING : as engrav r of that great project. TVA was engraved on George | Der AVES

| Norris’ heart. He talked about it a good deal thag -afterncon. It is at the same time his memorial and hig legacy, for it is as certain as the sun which streameq into the window that day that, in time, this great

that Verdun 1} _ gave for an oC by our strategi ‘remiiants of th the intention t been NO reasor

f energy for lightening the burdens of the people, 9) Snares E foe the traditional

protecting them from floods, will be duplicated in

other great waterslieds, just as George Norris had We went o dreamed. . ? : undented desp It helped to an understanding of ‘George Norris tg | Undented too see him against his own background. McCook, Neb, workings and |

is a town typical of so much of America, with Main street leading off from the railroad station, where the streamliner rushes through on its way from Chicago to Denver, and up the hill where the stores are,

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CHARLEY Block's, is an aviation bug. at Hoosier air First thing ¥

Plain People Are the Same Everywhere

FROM THIS COUNTRY, which looks so bare and ‘bleak to the easterner, open to the winds and the storms and the scorching sun, from this land and from the people who make their lives here, George Norris drew the strength for his constant fight in Washington through the years for the plain people, The plain people are the same everywhere, and George Norris worked for them all over the nation, Theirs was the inspiration for the long fight which gave Tennessee its TVA. George Norris had tenacity of purpose. It tcok him a dozen years, beginning after the last war with his proposal for government operation of the giant Muscle Shoal dams built during that war, before he got TVA through congress with President Roosevelt's help. The President not only adopted the Norris idea. He expanded upon it To Washington, George Norris brought the enmity of the plain people for those who would exploit them, the giants of monopoly, the time-serving politician,

the big-city political boss. Only a short time befcre called him “C he left the senate he stood for four hours speaking whispering. a against President Roosevelt's appointment of a federal getically to “C judge hand-picked by Boss Prank Hague of Jersey er attended City. His doctors warned him against it. He was | .ommittee Fr then 80 years old. ; Carthy asked But not too old to keep the faith. the meeting “No: I don't replied. . © , | . been home or In Washington yo: , 3 ajreraft.. He wie squadron at ( By Peter Edson ’ ‘Solomon SS Ss WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. MARTIN : ¢ Friends of Julius A. Krug, new acts | phone compas | ing chairman of the war produc | § modern K . tion board, say that he is one of § 4rum in the the luckiest guys in the world— § some of the o he can fall uphill three steps at a he beats the time, he gets promoted over the 8 doesn't beat

~ heads of other people three jobs at Martin. “I 1 a time, and when he plays poker hit the drum he stays in to see the last card, nearly always to come out a wine ner at the end of the evening. LL b Krug's friends qualify this by a saying that “Cap” doesn't believe in his luck, or rely on it, or bluff his way through anything. Always he WASHIN( knows what he's doing and has the stuff to back up holdouts agai his decisions. But luck plays into his hands. board is boo ._ Take the matter of his selection to head WPB expect will b after the Nelson-Wilson feud. He had just come This is a

back “from France, where he had made a survey of electric power resources for the power division of WPB. He was having lunch at Washington's Metropolitan: club, telling some of his associates about what he had seen in France. When a page called him to the phone, he left the table to hear a voice he didn't recognize bid a hearty welcome, how was he, and would he come right over? Who was calling, Krug, wanted to know. When he was told it was the President, you could have knocked over his six-foot 200-pound hulk with an electric charge of extremely low voltage. Next thing he knew, he had been offered the top job at the very battle-damaged war production board.

Trained as Damage Control Officer

Steel with c¢

July, 1937, Ww FIVE MONTHS before, Krug had resigned from § Piaint under the combined jobs of director of war utilities, vice | But the chairman of program planning and chairman of the 1§ most as mar requirements committee in WPB, He was 36, he was & In 1034 the a little fed up with the way things were going in WPB, now) was in and he thought he ought to join the army. He told §§ son. then WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson not to ask for his J administrall deferment as an essential man in WPB. But before or so later i Krug. could get into the army, the navy grabbed him the judges

facturing Ww Weirton

and made him a lieutenant commander. He took training at Norfolk as a damage control officer and was al] ready for active duty when WPB asked for his loan to make the power survey in France,

to see how much damage the Germans were doing CE to French utilities. So he went overseas and got to W ( cress en see that show. He came back prepared to report for all the arg

sea duty, but the phone call from changed his plans. Krug's tremendous physique enables him to take a lot of punishment. Nelson and Wilson are both big snen physically, but Krug is even bigger. He eats and drinks proportionately, though the people who know him best insist that he is neither trencherman nor sot.

Background Is‘in Public Utilities:

KRUG CAME to Washington as power consult ant in the old office of production t WPB’s predecessor, and he moved up in the organ= ization in the usual Krug three-steps-at-a-time

Der public-vs.-private

the White House

Krug has been all through the power controversy, and he has been damned by both

sides as a champion of government-owned power and | | 8s a tool of the utilities. When IVA was 3 a : “griddle before a joint congressional invest! ting committee, Krug testified for a week, SO mittee never crossed him up O0e. . power, and that experience taugh 8 himself in a y :