Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1945 — Page 20

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"Give Light and the People Will Pind Thetr Own Woy

MR. FIXIT FUMBLED E SECRETARY of State Byrnes was at" his best, and his * worst, in his press conference yesterday. i + He handled deftly the serious charges Maj. Gen. Pat- | pick J. Hurley had made against the state department, reducing the whole situation to an ambiguous letter and a [ glash of personalities involving two or three persons. * He was Jimmy, the politician and compromiser, going

But he was.James F. Byrnes, statesman, making a . gorry showing. Fe The secretary was, and is, dealing with a situation that can’t be buttered up or glossed over. He admitted, rather vaguely, that Gen. Hurley had © told him, oh, maybe a month ago, the government’s policies | fn China had been sabotaged in the state department itself. ut he hadn't got around to looking at any of the corredence until last Tuesday. That was after he had Gen. urley’s resignation statement on his desk. Then he had feud one letter, which didn't make much of an impression him, ©

Then, as though that should settle everything, he said if Pat had gone back to China as ambassador he would have backed him to the limit. 2 Unfortunately, Mr. Byrnes has settled nothing. He has opened to question his own capacity to deal with the serious situation Gen. Hurley called to his attention.

» » ” WE are being sold down the river by Communist sympa-

which can be disposed of by a compromising Jimmy. It demands drastic and immediate action. A charge of that © kind against officials of the government, made with the offer of proof, can't be answered by an acknowledgement that Pat’s a great guy. The integrity of the government Gen. Hurley has charged that our war aims are being defeated by our own career diplomats, behind the hush- ® bush which surrounds and conceals the activities of the te department. More specifically, he has charged that

Chinese Communists in their attempt to overthrow a govpment which is our loyal, trusted ally. The world situation is so explosive that a careful, imexamination of our position in the international pic- ) must be made without delay. The evidence is abunt that we ‘are being pushed around, all over the world.

we found it out, If Mr. Byrnes isn’t intérested, the rest of

HERE'S something peculiarly fitting about Gen. Yama-

They used to call Yamashita “the Tiger of Malaya.” He got that title down around Singapore, early in the war, Japs were going good. British Gen, Percival time to dicker for terms. But Yamashita demanded an immediate “yes or no.” More recently Yamashita was telling the world, from the Philippines, that he was going to handle MacArthur in precisely the same way. He'd give MacArthur a chance to surrender unconditionally, and there'd be no appeal. Not even to the Japanese supreme court. > We're interested in Yamashita’s story—now—that all

“Tiger of Malaya” business and think of him as a devoted ather. He blames the whole thing on his public relations officers.

Seems Yamashita was scared witless, down in Malaya, because he was outnumbered five to one. So, when the British asked for time, he didn't know at to say. Just sat around getting more and more phtened, until suddenly he stumbied-onto-that-demand or “yes or no,” and his press agents went to town. Spread } on the front page of every paper in Japan, they did. It will be significant, we think, if a case styled “Tomoi Yamashita versus Douglas MacArthur” reaches the supreme court of the United States. Yamashita was a % buddy of Adm. Yamamoto, who said he was coming to Washington to write the peace in the White House. Now Yamashita wants the supreme court to save his hide.

GEORGE CARLIN . MILLIONS every day have followed the writings that George Carlin distributed. As head of United Features, © he handled Ernie Pyle, Ray Clapper, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tom Stokes, Marquis Childs and many others who are house- © hold visitors through hundreds of American newspapers, * In his quiet but highly energetic way, Mr. Carlin organized this tremendous syndicate field, worked with the 0 authors, and kept the vast reader channels open. His sud- ~ from the publishing world a good friend, a Wise counselor i and one of the most capable men we have ever known. He © will be greatly missed,

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Jove, in the state department, that isn't something | “”

If some of out own people are doing the shoving, it is time |

880 John >Hay called. it-the -Doctrine-pt the Open 1 : was a big ‘mistake, and that he wasn't such a tough | yore seeking hee: the gest PoweIt of BPE ( 0ooly er we fre today: --- cookie after all. He'd be pleased to have ug forget the

himself was in keeping with the highest traditions

U. 8. naval service.” 1 Hardee had a simple explanation.

Bil Just Liked Kids 1

LIKE kids, sir,” he said. “T guess I didn't

like the idea of their father trying to kill them that way.

I saw what he was going to do, I wanted to

t Did it make any difference to Bill Hardee that the

children were Japanese?

“No, sir,” he said, “I didn’t think of that. TI Just

saw they were kids. I like kids, and I don't like to see them killed.”

Bill Hardee was a father, Six-year-old Helen and

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You've been. with them, and you know that without my telling you. }

“But my men have never seen dead children

They're going to see them this operation. I sometimes wonder how they're going to take it. It won't be easy, gentlemen, not easy at all”

Marines, he added with & proud smile, “are great

fighters, they enjoy killing Japs, but they're suckers’ state department officials have worked in the interest of the |"

kids.” In this he. was correct, of course, but we always figured that “Howling Mad” Smith was the biggest sucker of the lot, v ;

Eu WORLD AFFAIRS—

U.S. Juggling By William Philip Simms

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — In China and the Far East today the United States is juggling diplomatic atomic bombs so terrifying in their international explosiveness that the

American public would lie awake nights if half the Jamifications were known.

Ambassador Pat Hurley's letter of resignation

lifted one corner of the curtain. If congress decides to take a look—as many feel it should-—a good deal more much-needed light will be shed on the amas ing subject. :

+As matters now stand the United States soon

may find itself excluded from all association with the billion people of Asia just as it has been from the quarter of a billion inhabitants of Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. That is the corollary of the thesis of the American minority now clamoring for abandonment of China.

American policy in China fis, and has always been, -the opposite of imperialist. Nearly 50 years

Ao China to develop and maintain for herself an effective and—stable-government. | At the top levels, as Gen. Hurley indicated, that remains American policy. But below, that policy is being shot to pieces. A small but loud minority outside the state department, plus a section of officials on the inside, are sabotaging the whole works.

If they succeed, the United States whether it likes

it or not, will be more completely isplated, than It | has ever been. : :

Hoosier

“AMERICANS ARE SICK AND TIRED OF WAR"

By Rev. Daniel HW. Carrick, 308 W. 31st st.

‘ many ‘conversations with ministers, doctors, lawyers, indus-

"| trialists and many mothers and fathers who had sons and daughters}

in this last war, I have come to the conclusion that Americans are

sick of war, sick of death and blood-

shed and evildoctrines of war War has developed into a mania, » crage or & disease of the am-

bitious and unscrupulous “brass

hats* and must be overcome by

Christian people who abhor it and wish to have peace.

I did intend to support Presi-

dent Truman in his activities, but now I find him too European in his war program, and I must drop him politically and seek a more Amer {ican President. Having a war about every 322 years surely does prove us to be poor diplomats, poor Chris-

tians, poor concerning - American principles,

Is America going mad over world military power? This is a deep question of great concern. The answer is-—our “brass hats” are now power-mad and so power-lov-ing that they are leading us toward national suicide, a state of ruin like that which existed when Columbus discovered America and found not a white man living on this continent, ' Why? The answer is, history shows that evidently wars so de~ structive that life became extinct,

Why did the Indfan remain as the survivor? ‘He ,was a savage and stayed in hiding and was not “civil

his. . military ideas of forced national military training of our youth. He does not deserve the support of the American people in this because his aims would mean preparation for another war before the blood stains of this terrible war are half washed away.

the ‘foundation of our American form ‘of government, for his plans

war-torn future of endless wars for America and final loss of our

Too much “brass hat” control would-wipe us off the earth as it did prior to the discovery of -Amer-

had destroyed the white race here.|

“In this he does not stand upon|

we all constitutional form of government:| states

ica when Columbus found a wild, finished?

“l wholly disagree with what

Forum § you say, but will defend to the

death your right to say it.”

ya inios readers are invited : express r views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let- * tors should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be

and publication in no way __implies- t+ with those inions by The Times. The . assumes no responsi. bility for the return of manu. ‘scripts and cannot enter cor. ep regarding them.)

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the “brass hats?"

God help us, Con 8 “FEED OVERSEAS G. L'S BEFORE THE VANQUISHED” By Pte. Ivin W. McFaciand, Overseas

lish the scrip, “My Day,”

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d mean the loss of feamp. liberty to our nation and a bloodyi So why not tréit the G. 1's

a : ke 3 5 1% uninhabited continent, Shall we let war destroy us, or shall we resist the President and the power of

Write your congressmen and the President, and send articles to the newspapers and let America speak.

I have just finished reading the Sept. 28 issue of The Times. I have been reading the scrip which is titled the Hoosier Forum. It gets very interesting. For you do give the G. I. a break and can express Sus opinion slong the Wiie'as We Ste

But one thing I would like to ask is why does any paper have to pub-

Rosey elt and what she thinks. ¢ stated that people should save at least four ounces on| Ho: food per dey and that it would

“WE DO NOT NEED MILITARY TRAINING”

By E. R. Egan, Indianapolis BS Asn defender of the most radical

_{of the New Deal policies, its aspects

of fascism upon which opponents now and then score, I now organisation” program and at the training measure. banks and the gold what oould more nearly approximate either

aims of either or both and the complete establishment of a one party

system which by any analysis is

essentially communism, fascism or

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to save the constructive policies. It has established the “government re-

same time ‘the universal military]

With government ownership of |, "Russian aspirations in Manchuria and Korea

comparatively long-range, but nonetheless: serious on that account. The more Russians are excluded by American policy from having an effective voice in the future administration of Japan, the will wish to press their claims in China The Russian desire for an outlet in the Persian Gulf antedates’ the Communist regime and is cere tainly genuine, but so, aiso, are the assurances they have given to both Britain and Persia that they will evacuate northern Persia on the same date the British" have promised 10 evacuate southern Persia ~namely, six months after the termination ‘of the Japanese -

As to Tripolitania and the Dodecanese, Russia's demands are completely serious and in no way mere diplomatic counter. But the firm rejection of these demands which both Britain and the U. 8. registered at the recent London conference have certainly convinced the Russians that there is nothing doing 1 there, at least for the present. ; There is no ‘doubt we shall soon hear much more about the Dardanelles. demands. The fact that the British government in the last war, overturning policy of 150 years, agreed that Tsarist Russia should ' take possession of Constantinople at the end of the war, serves to exacerbate Russian opinion in this mat-

Vek, ~~ ; +. Of course, Britain can reply that in the first world war Turkey was our enemy, whereas in the ~'as our ally. There is

second, though neutral, something t the answer which is

“Is the Unitéd Nations

enough since the-atomic bomb, or must we plan to go

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