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ment, He was surprisingly frank. But he was not alto-| | the discovery that they had been living around the

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about it the whole world has been forewarned, and even now . must be looking under the bed for men in false whiskers. .

too vital Tor the future of the world to have them bog down.

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Give Ligh: and the People Well Find Their Own Way

MR. BYRNES EXPLAINS MOSCOW ECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES did the best job pos- - M- gible last night in defense of the Big Three Moscow agree-

gether convineing to us.”

We still think that, inthe necessary compromise with good: for a group picture together with a hurriedly

Russia, he gave away more than he got and that the United |

| tion.

States and world order will suffer. He thinks otherwise.

We hope with all our hearts that we are wrong and he is |

right. \ aT on three points Mr. Byrnes’ report added nothing new to the Moscow communique. One was his assertion that a Korean trusteeship may not be necessary. Another was his statement that Russia did not ask for the atom bomb. He also said the United States would not agree to a final peace treaty in which the big powers arbitrarily had rejected recommendations of the advisory peace conference. None of these three additions changes the communique basically, though the last one would have been important if* Mr. Byrnes had not nullified his new pledge with the escape word “arbitrarily.” So the Moscow communique still stands as the official agreement, as indeed it must. To Mr. Byrnes’ credit he did not try to interpret it away. He admitted he did not like many of its features, and then emphasized its less - danining parts. - , ’ =» 8 Ll o [BE] BUT THE DIFFICULTY is that the bad parts of the | agreement are very clear, while the better parts are am‘biguous. Just as Mr. Byrnes last night cited chapter and verse with complete accuracy to prove his points, so Mr. Molotov with equal accuracy can—and doubtless will when the time comes—cite other clauses which prove the opposite. In saying this we are not inventing trouble, but merely remembering the disastrous Washington-Moscow disagreements over other “agreements” —even over the less ambiguous Yalta pact. As Mr. Byrnes indicated last night. the Yalta agreement for democratic rights in eastern Europe has never been carried out. _ We are particularly concerned, as we have explained, over the double-talk Japanese provisions of ‘this Moscow agreement. Certainly it is not surprising that Gen. MacArthur two months ago strongly objected to the cumbersome control machinery now set up without further consulting him. Even if it does not wreck the MacArthur occupation administration, which Seeretary Byrnes praises so highly, it invites Russian disputes .and decreases efficiency. But, now that the':Byrnes-Bevin-Molotov bargain is made, the United States must make the best of it. In Gen. MacArthur's admirable words: “The issues involved are

With good will on the part of those concerned, it is my fervent hope that there will be no insuperable obstacles.”

HELL-BENT FOR MISCHIEF | VERY congressman should read “Drum and Mask Diplomacy” by Junius B. Wood in the January issue of Nation's Business, which is reviewed briefly on this page today.

We are sending official snoopers abroad to spy on other |

nations. Not only that, but we have made so much noise

~~ But we are a kindly, well-disposed people. To convince the world of that we are also sending a swarm of propa-

gandists abroad. - In truth, they are on the job now, Their | one i! mission is to slant the news, !

oA . 8» *» a a ER JUST howit is to be slanted may not be too clear, but that it is to be slanted the people on the receiving end know, For there has been

most ancient practices known to power politica, i) ; ~

no one seems to know. But more than taxpayers’ dollars

polis Times

and Mexico, 87 cents a | What 1946 will bring.

RILEY sss1 | of which will be significant enough, to make the front | page of every Indianapolis newspaper-in 1046. And,

{ of the man who wrote the letter back in 1921.

raw prime

i} ’ ‘I"and mask diplomacy” in the January issue of Nation's

“| states, the South American republics, and the

h, millions; of course. How niany millions |.

Predictions By Anton Scherrer

NOTHING undermined my emotions quite as much. as the melancholy behavior of our news. broad-

casters over the 2 (like H. V. Kaltenborn, for instance, who I had every reason to believe was pretty siife of himself) ended on ‘a series of sour notes—notes which, strangely enough, were always sung to the same ‘tune, the general refrain of which was that nobody knows

Shucks! - T know of at least a dozen big events, all

indeed, of every paper in the country. I'll go even further and predict ‘that every forecast of mine will be good enough ta. .mérit a front page picture at least three columns wide. . . Among the big events scheduled for 1946, about which the news forecasters seem to know nothing, will be the front page account of two sisters who haven't seen each other for 35 years, followed up by

corner from each other all that time. This will be prepared story which will leave a lot to the imagina-

When it comes time to spring my prediction--like as not sometime around Mother's day—don’t miss seeing the surprised look on the sisters’ faces. As for the sketchy story, note that the reunited sisters are going to spend the rest of their lives looking for a third sister who was last heard of some-~ where down in Kentucky in 1910,

Beggar With $2000 IT'S IN the cards, too, that sometime towards the

end of 1946 when the thermometer will be down around zero, the police of Indianapolis will pick up a

week-end. Even the cockiest ofies 7

wretched ragged beggar with a couple of thousand dollar bills sewed on ‘he inside of her dress. Sure, it's going to be a woman. Just wait and see.

Chances are, too, that sometime around St Valen-

tine’s day, somebody will produce a letter just delivered by the postman which bears a postmark of 25 years’, ago. It's going to embarrass Adolph Seidensticker like everything because, this time, the long delayed letter will turn out to be a marriage proposal which, for want of an answer, wrecked the futurg of an Indianapolis girl. It's going to be the most poignant story of the year—good for at least a week, It will achieve its | climax when the papers publish a recent photograph The picture will portray a worn-out old man with six | grownup children grouped around him, t My predictions for 1948 also include the return of | 30 cents (plus compound interest for 43 years) to | some corporation, church or circus (and, maybe, even the U. 8. treasury) by some conscience-stricken ecitizen of Indianapolis. This year I have high hopes that it may turn out to be a local banker who suddenly remembers that something in his past needs fixing up. It's not expecting too much; certainly not after what a conscience-stricken preacher did this year. Because of the inherent modesty of banks, this-story will be handled without pictures.

Picture of Weeping Widow

LIKE AS not, too, there will be a front page account (and picture) of a weeping widow in the Marion county jail. ‘Asked why she used an ax to kill her husband, she will sob: “Because I loved him so.” A fortnight later when she pleads “not guilty,” the alert news photographer will snap another picture, This time her face will be wreathed in smiles. Of lesser significance, perhaps, but good enough to get into the section page of 1046 papers are these predictions, all of which, apparently, escaped our news forecasters:

It's going 40 rain cats and dogs on St. Patrick's 8

day but, despife hell and high water, Mrs. Frederick Polle is going to plant her sweet peas on that day. «+ « The governor of Indiana will issue a proclamation designating October the “milk month.” , ... “Tobacco Road” and “Life ‘With Father” will positively turn up at -English's next year. , . And 51 weeks from today—on Dec. 24, 1046, to be exact—Louis Brandt (“Uncle Louie”) will get back into the groove by announding that he has resumed his pre-war practice of celebrating Christmas eve with a dish of chopped beef springled with salt, pepper and onions.

‘WORLD AFFAIRS—

U.S.Snoopers By Parker La Moore

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The state department's project to the rest of the world with 5 _- Swarms of propagandists. and snoop=’ : ” “ers is regarded with misgivings - by . Of America's most distinguished foreign corre

spondents. :

Junius B. Wood discusses_the subject as “drum

Business. os o Por many years a foreign correspondent for the |

Chicago Daily ‘News, "Mr. Wood has followed the ‘She eventually espeety communism: 1-cousse-of -Américal. diplomacy at home and abroa \d = ‘entua ly ‘expee :

since 1914. As a ‘resident. correspondent in ma lands, he knows the foreign fleld—in the

of_some -form;-in_America, let us

|and well intentioned, may boomerjang against Fou. Why the increas-

Hoosier

| “BROTHER, YOU TREAD

ON DANGEROUS GROUND”

{By An Observer, Indianapolis |

Auto workers unions have the nerve or ignorance to require the' General Motors to surrender their books and records to a so-called board or committee to scrutinize same, relative to production costs | of autos. Brother, you tread on dangerous ground, or get ciose to a man’s heart when you request such! personal and strictly private acts.| What a howl went up not so long| ago when somebody at Washing! ton, D. C, wanted more light on union affairs relative to teamster'

‘union conditions requiring union|

drivers or pilots to bring produce, into eastern markets. ! Officers of General Motors would, be just as reasonable if they sought a board or committee to examine books, checks, bills and records of | union headquarters on the grand and glorious salariés of officers, oranigers, special deputies, legal services paid to so-called labor attornéys, also huge amounts paid for banquets to a certain Washington, D. C,, hatch where the boys and certain: high politicians were) winied and dined after which an alleged immigrant labor official assaulted some U. 8. . navy boys. Somebody 3 slipping these days. Who could it be? RE . . - “DO ANY OF YOU RED wa BAITERS OWN A TRUST? By The ‘Guardsman, Indianapolis. While some of you. are trying to talk and write communism to death

Forum r=:

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, leotters 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 responsi- |

“lI wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

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{On Defense

By Randolph, Churchill

LONDON, Deg. 31.—~While Wash-

| plus Sir Hastings Ismay, who was the minister of de-

your right to say it.”

“SO A LITTLE BOY GRIEVED FOR HIS PET” By Sgt. Hibbert Hatfield, 3035 N. Gale st. This is just another protest

| against speeders and the heartless-

ness of most of them. Their attitudes prove they have no regard for either human or animal life.

, Our young son is just out of the hospital, and was out in the sun-

‘shine on Saturday noon with his

dog, his constant companion. The! little dog waridered a little too far

in the street and it was all over be-!

_| self, two major

fense’s personal representative at the meetiggs of the chiefs of staff. ie In the early days of the war the threé chiefs of staff used to take the chair in turn, but during the last two years the committee always was ded over by chief of the imperial general staf eld Marshal Sir Alan Brooke. A Gen. Ismay managed to function in: war as in He resisted the temptation which besets so many rimental chiefs of seeking to increase his establishment; his department, in fact, at end of the war consisted of hime and 12 other offiters. JIn the course of the discussions now progeeding, 1t seems generally agreed that in the post-war period Britain should continue to have a minister of defense. One weakness of the system is that eath of the three chiefs of staff is briefed by his own service department and must be the spokesman for his own particular service. : Fel

Want Chief of Staff 3

NOW it is suggested in some quarters that the minister of defense should have a chief of staff" who would have his own body of experts drawn from all three services and that he should preside over all meetings of the chiefs of staff which were not attended by the minister of defense, and in event of disagreement on minor maiters be competent to take

bility for the return of manu- | fore we even realized what had Sn overriding decision. Under this proposed scheme

scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

analysis of the situation in America

ishows this line-up: American trusts, | ¢

the imperialist interests who want| to exploit the American working

class to the limit, then force their|

sons to fight in China and any-| where in the world for markets, in-| stead of paying enough wages for a sufficient home market. And ponder on this, socialism cannot destroy your free enterprise: where the great American trusts have already destroyed it. And these trusts were mostly built by]

thé Communists attack the exploitation of the wérking class by the trusts that may be only very ‘patriotic, being for the good of the country, and perfectly constitutional. And maybe we don't all want to go to Russia, anyway. First, let's make America: a better America. By the way, do any of

you are at the same time takingtyoy Red baiters own a trust, or do

only those actions which multiply its forces and produce it. If you are against full employment, increased wages, an ‘abundant-buying power and home market, then you help .to bring communism. If the capitalist system can't work. something else will take its place that will work. That will be collectivism

say, a societly scientific industrial democracy, or an American cooperative commonwealth.

There #4 10 communism in the;

world Russia has only socialism. Fron. evefyong - acéording to ability, to everyone ' according to needs.” °° i. i Your attacks against communism and Communists, however sincere

ing millions of Communists in the world? Is there no reason? Communists of America, born..in

you just -like to.please those who am. “COMMUNISTS NOT TRUE CHRISTIANS" By the. Watchman, Indisnapelis Our Hoosier Forum friend, Michael P, McDermott, asked the Watch man this question: “Doesn't the Watchman know that Communism is practical Christianity——not the Christianity of: the popes: #nd priests—but the Christianity of Jesus Christ?” : x Friend, the test of tianity is brotherly love! The true Christian * preaches. the gospel “of

munist international anti-religious atheistic organizdtion masquerading as the only true “Christians,” Who probably are the disciples of Leon . They pose as the préachers of

Inbor, but are held by youngsters who happened to inherit them. If

: |inents; they cannot get here in time

love. The trie Communist preaches | -i4hve gospel of ‘hate. on But there is 8 hypocritical Com-

Just went all the swifter. |

the children on this street, as it! is a dead end street and no pos-’ sible reason to speed. So a veteran’s little boy grieved for his pet

{at Christmas time and no presents

or .toys could compensate or take the place of his little pal. And the’

| speeder goes placidly on his way, War he was the most | perhaps to kill or maim a human ably had the finest intellect.

life with as little consideration as

“THEY PROTECT YOU; : { YOUR HOME, YOUR PROPERTY” By Edward C. Grande, 911 Grande ave. When will the firemen get here? Have you ever had that feeling, in your night clothes and flames leaping high from a building less than 200 feet from your bedroom? - Another residénce .in between which, {f it catches fire, you know may set your home ablaze also. You say to your family in frantic mo-

Then your lights go out. The fire has interrupted the electric service, You search in the dark for somie clothes and: go outside ..in gero weather. But “the Spe ay firémen are here, they the fire from spreading. © / . - _.'Then before you.realize, there i¥ #] Squad of city firemen’ You feel re-

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It might as easily have been one

| ‘which would take over &

‘happened, and the speeder never of course, differences of opinion on matters of major ‘even slowed down to say he was Policy would still have to be referred

to the prime minister and the cabinet. x If it were decided to adopt this plan, the difioulty would arise of finding a chief of staff ‘who was not too prejudited in favor of his own service. A likely and happy choice would be Marshal of the R. A. P. Sir Charles Portal, who is shortly to be sucgeeded as chief of the air staff by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder. Portal, though only 52 years of age, will retire shortly and of all British chiefs of staff during the inter-service minded ahd prob-

There is, however, another school of thought which would like to create a full blown ministry qf defense

part of the n at present. pd by the Er rane Needless to say, whichever i is adopted both

the British cabinet and the British servige unanimously hope that the combined chiefs of staff in Washington will continue to :

POLTICS— ~~ M& Timely Talk | By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.—Tt Is I significant that President Truman § has chosen this particular time speak to the people, he own homes over manner. of the “ . chats i Not only is the nation in the midst both at ‘home and abroad—almost to the turbulence—which need some straight-forward, plain talking of which the President has ° capable. : 3

congress has-dealt hi with ‘him far on foreign-policy matters in which it shares jurdisdice tion with the President. © Bid for Support = . ‘ : much the same purpose in field as hat similar talks by President Roosevelt. This 1s | : into his confidénce about his objectives with

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| vague aid mystertous.” Briefly, however, it seems we will have spies and: press agents working the same streets in-all capitals of the world. ' Going Into Spy Business

| BUT WHILE American taxpayers wha will foot | the bill-:may not know all they should about the |

HThé Kingdom of God," but their works and words brand them as false prophets ard & ‘of all

of religion. You talk. lik one of this

America, their snicestors for generations borfi fi America, many seéing {socialism gs the salvation for | América even long before there ever [was & Soviet Russia. A brief

Mh simply what he has in mind, and try support in what is coming-to bg a major contest: with

are involveds - Assets built up through the years will be. destroyed. - Assets in good will, and assets representing the substantial investniéiit Americans have in the established objectivity and integrity of American news. ——— And why does the United States want to do these

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things? No one has made a satisfactory answer to that question yet, CT -

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ee fe GLIMPSES OF OUR TIMES YOUR. neighbors around the country are having a holiday = week; togr. As a stud t

In one day the RFC offered for sale 144 lighters and 183,000 cases of safety matches. “A forthcom-~

ing washing machine will launder six diapers while mama

E “washes baby. A Yonkers son had his dad jailed so the fam-

ily could have a quiet Yule. Candy makers say their prod« ucts will be short next year because of scarcities of nuts, -certain fruits, cocoa, oils-and sugar. An Illinois boy got so “provoked with his family for stepping on his cat's tail that he ran away with the cat. SL ~~ Now available for civilian consumption are 1,000,000 _blood plasma units from the army, 160,000 from the navy. . The USO is furnishing sewing machines to bil, so-the girls may whip out some civilian. pretties. A blind

London child asked what light was. In Indiana a man re-{:

E ported an old auto that wouldn't run was stolen from his

garage. LOT of high-powered war campaigns seem to have died wil victory, including the drive for blood donors. It

sure.” But civilian

sav spitals ‘are still

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demobilize WACs

that this is one that deserves to be continued. |

new ventures, the rest of the world has been pit on notice that we are going into the spy business in | a big way. uw : : . For, as Mr~Wood remarks, “so. much fanfife has accompanied the launching of this new investigating | service that every foreign government is awake to | whiat is happening.” xh The stale department's intelligence agency now has more than 500 agents, In foreign lands: The “department ingists this is not an espionage orginisa- | tion. “But Mf. Wood fears ther governments will | disagree. In the past, Americans have been most everywhere. ~ But it is suggested t foreigners suspect the stale depar

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free tourist will be suspected and watched.” Turning to the propaganda organization, which 1s to be assigned the job of selling America abroad, Mr. Wood said he had interviewed _who have made a success of -selling’ news rthe world. To some 4t was enough to damn the project that the s department - is - taking over much of the old of war information personnel.

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