Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1945 — Page 22

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STOP THE JAVA WAR! AN INTERNATIONAL authority should intervene in the East Indies war. There should be an armistice, objective fact-finding, and peaceful arbitration. - The British are now blasting and burning whole villages in Java. This is in retaliation for the slaying of 22 C survivors of a British air crash. That, in turn, was in retaliation for British bombing and machine-gunning of rebel demonstrators and alleged British use of Jap troops against the Javanese. So the violence mounts in a vicious spiral. : » London’s answer is to send more reinforcements to settle the dispute on the basis of which side has the more | guns. The extreme Nationalists reply that they will use “poison to kill the “invaders.” All of this is madness. It will not convert the natives to the blessings of Dutch rule, It will not strengthen Britain's crumbling position in Asia. And it will not obtain “for the Javanese the prosperous freedom they seek. No side can profit by a continuation of, this colonial war. All will lose, unless the fighting is stopped. Only international intervention can save faces and guarantee a just settlement. The precise method of international adjudication is less important than speed and results. Action by the United - Nations, organization would do more to revive world hope in it, as a potent peace agency, than any number of pious resolutions and pledges for indefinite future. If the UNO will not or cannot act, the allied Pacific command or the Far Eastern advisory commission could do so.

: a 8 » . » ” » IN EITHER the Dutch nor the British are in a position to refuse international arbitration with good grace. The Dutch were not strong eneugh to liberate the East Indies from the Jap aggressors, but had to rely on allied help— chiefly American—to win the Pacific war. So the allies have earned, at great price, the right to intervene for a just settlement in line with professed allied war aims and

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United Nations pledges. Indeed, Britain’s only excuse for waging war in Java today is an international one. She says she is there because | ,,., she was designated as the allied representative to protect refugees and to complete surrender and disarmament of the Japs. Since British intervention authority derives from the allies, and since it has retarded rather than advanced peace, the allies have a perfect case legally and morally now to assume the responsibility directly. : ~The British labor government, of all parties involved in this bloody dispute, should be the most anxious to turn Buck this thankless international task to an international That it is an international responsibility is demonstrated by the repercussions not only in all Asia but ‘throughout the world. Certainly anything that feeds an - Asiatic “holy” war against the western nations, as this is doing, is of deep concern to the United States and should be to the United Nations.

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WORLD AFFAIRS—

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want to know how much the federal government will chip in toward paying for such projects. They should be told promptly. Why they should be * told was illustrated the other day by Paul L. McCord, president of the Indianapolis Development Commission. He told a senate committee that Indianapolis plans to handle its slum-clearance problem without federal aid. And that he believes other cities are able to do the same. He added: “We shall, of course, feel a little foolish if we proceed to do so with our own resources, and then wake up to find the federal government pressing subsidies on other cities which we shall have helped to pay for.” :

. # ¥ » » . : (CONGRESS should tell all cities, we think, that there will be no federal aid for local public works, giving these reasons: + ONE: The federal government, already nearly $300 billion in debt, cannot afford to borrow more money to be spent on projects which state aand local governments are, by comparison, far better able to finance. TWO: None but the most urgent public works should be undertaken in the next two years at least, since all the available construction labor and materials will be needed P te .

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for the building of homes and of industrial and business $m | structures. : WINS 39 es THREE: There is every reason to expect a long period ARN Ll of high employment, if the country gets to work and “Nn starts producing; if private, job-creating construction is given the right of way, and if the federal government f / \ stops deficit financing and returns to a sound fiscal policy. $ AR That is not the answer the mayors want. But, in pres- isi ot asf : ent circumstances, it’s the right answer. And, given that answer, the cities could go ahead with such projecls as they feel they must have and can pay for out of their own fesourees, running no risk of waking up later and feeling oolish, :

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STRIKING EXAMPLES ‘WE may have more and bigger strikes ~~ present, but there is a certain some of the English ones that For example, there were