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GRAVE AMERICAN and British officials call the international situation “grave.” They do not exaggerate. Russia is breaking treaties and defying the world. Day by day, almost hour by hour, the tension grows more dangerous. Yesterday Stalin made a belligerent statement calculated to stir the Russians to a war frenzy in the name of “defense.” He not only attacked Winston Churchill as a Hitleresque war monger, but damned all Americans and Britons who object to Russia's treaty violations, He ridiculed the British-Russian treaty ‘and Foreign Secretary Bevin's offer to extend it. i He defended his puppet regimes in eastern Europe as

more representative than the British labor government. \ " » - » » » TALIN’S acts were even louder than his words. His troops in Iran, which repeatedly he had sworn to withdraw before March 2, have been reinforced and are moving in battle columns south and west. They are nearing the Iranian capital in one direction and in the other are approaching Iraq and Turkey. Where they will stop no non-Russian knqws, In Manchuria—also in violation of Stalin's treaties ~ and repeated pledges—huge Red armies dominate most of the area, after stealing most of the war production machinery and industrial equipment, . ‘Meanwhile, the Stalin-controlled Moscow press and radio spew forth an endless stream of lies about the United States and Britain to persuade Russians and neighboring. peoples that Anglo-Americans are readying a “war of intervention,” against which innocent Russia must take defensive measures in eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

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- #H - o » » “HE United States government has tried many methods ~ to stop Russia's aggression, but all have failed so far. ~~ For-months it tried to buy Moscow's friendship with unblushing appeasement. But the more Stalin was given, the more he demanded; the more compromises were paid for, the faster he broke the agreements. During the past month, and particularly during the past 10 days, the state department in a series of sharp notes has challenged Russia's treaty violations. But our diplomatic protests are answered by more Soviet aggressions—as in Iran today. 3 A showdown is inevitable, The United Nations security | council meets in New York a week from Monday. Just as | Russia faced the San Francisco confererice with an accomplished fact in Poland and the recent London conference with an accomplished fact in northern Iran, so Stalin now is racing into central Iran—and perhaps into Iraq and Turkey—before the New York conference meets.

EJ » n » Ld » USSIA today is threatening the United Nations security organization just as Japan in.Manchuria, Italy in Africa and Germany: in eastern. Europe destroyed the world’s treaties and peace machinery before. We hope President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee will urge Generalissimo Stalin to meet with them as mem‘bers of the United Nations security council, and in, the presence of that .world organization make a desperate public effort to save Russia from outlawing herself. The only hope is in convincing Russia that the price | of her aggression is eventually another world war, which she does not want but which she cannot escape if she! defies the world. The time is fearfully late.

THE COST OF A STRIKE : will never be possible to compute the full cost of the - long General Motors strike, now drawing to an end, Corporation and union negotiators agreed yesterday on wage increase of 181% cents an hour. Union officers are, naturally, eager to put the bargain they made in a good light. They say that correction of “inequities,” also agreed upon, will make the actual raise more than 191% cents. That was the settlement figure proposed by President Truman two months ago. If the agreement is ratified tomorrow the strike will have lasted 16 weeks and three days. Each week, the union says, has cost the 175,000 strikers $7,910,000 in unpaid wages. Total wage loss, about $130,500,000—about $745 per striker. , If the wage gain really is 1915 cents an hour, the workers will have to work morg than 95 weeks—five days a week, eight hours a day—to get back what they have lost. That will be almost the.life of the new two-year contract. j

: ® » = yonm 3 DETROIT experts figure that the industry hell lost more” ~~ than $600 million in unfilled orders; that maintenance ‘of idle plants and wages paid to non-strikers who couldn’t » work during the strike have cost. nearly $100,000: that dealers and salesmen have lost nearly $150 million in commissions on sales of cars. Untold damage has been done to business in general, The whole country has suffered because a big corporation and a big union fought a stubborn, bitter battle. And the whole country will continue to suffer unless they put bitterness behind them now, and buckle down to work together. Nobody won that strike. But surely it proved one thing—that machinery for settling wage disputes by bar: gaining, mediation and arbitration, with workers staying

on the job and drawing wages, would mean a saving for ~ everybody.

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MR. PAULEY WITHDRAWS EPWIN W. PAULEY earned the commendation of the senate naval affairs committee majority when he asked President Truman to withdraw his nomination as under- | Besretary pot he Savy Vecause 1 do not feel I would have | Wie opportunity to render‘the navy or you the hi : o aci¥ice “both deserve.” y y igh one HEE he carried the fight to the bitter end. he rohably would have been defeated. That would have es good or Mr. Pauley, the country or the Democratic party. he?” In the unlikely event he had won confirmation after -down-drag-out fight, he would have assumed office | reumstances that would have continued to be embar. | to the navy and to the Truman administration, |

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"My Blood Boils at Sub-Letting Space for More Than Total Rent"

By A Veteran : ‘ .

It certainly burns me to the core ‘to read of this so-called “landlord strike.” As if there isn't enough discontent in the world, the landlord— so thankful for what servicemen have done for him—evicts his veteran tenants “because he can't make ends meet.” Yet, if the veteran pays the rent the landlord has been used to receiving from high paid war workers, he simply has no ends that could possibly meet. I can't understand why all of .a sudden it should-take any more to run an establishment than it ever did, when they've had the same rent ever since rent control came into effect. There has bet n little change in the price of utilities and most landlords own their own property, which leaves taxes and upkeep. Why anyone can't afford a few repairs from an income of several thousand Russians, who do not want to redollars a year is beyond me. And|turn to Uncle Joe's bailiwick, would how many landlords ever put any not prove to be loyal comrades to repairs on a house in the last few the degree that the Reds, or even years? Very few. Youre expected the pinks, that work for the cause {to repair your own living quarters'of communism within our govern-

{for the “privilege of renting,” | ment and within the ranks of Amer- | Another thing which brings me i... jabor.

to a boiling point is these people

who take it upon themselves (0 be that Joe wants the dislocated Rus-

generous and sublet the house they | sians to return and raise food for

themselves are renting for half the [¢po military machine that must pro{price they ask the sub-renter 107 [aot Russia’ while Coramism. con. {little or no privileges. Such is mY | inves to grasp and-grab in all di{case, I sub-rent three upstairs un- rections—and it is almost probable {furnished rooms of a six-room per that Joe wants the Reds to stay in side double, We have no private en- our government and unions for the trance and share the bath. We pay p of raising something else 355 . OAH for Hipte Jopme, hae [equally important to his aims but Sur pe cond pays ° much less palatable to.you and me or the whole six rooms and bath. | He also has the advantage of being @ tax-payers and patriots. en the ground floor, a garage, 8 4 4 porches and yard, | “ONLY FEW VETERANS CAN

‘Most people, rather than be AFFORD TO HUNT OR FISH”

property, no matter what -hardship | they have to undergo, because it | couldn't be any worse than high rent with nothing in return. Toy RY “DIG OUT THE COMMUNIST TERMITES IN GOVERNMENT” By Richard A. Calkins, Indianapolis Francisco Franco has at least one idea that Mr, Truman would do well to copy: he is clearing the Communists out of Spain. Before our state department can speak in terms that Stalin will uffderstand—blunt words backed . by the unity’ and power to act—the Communist termites will have to be dug out of the administrative personiiel which Mr. Truman inherited. Stalin's government is not too

Free hunting and fishing ‘licenses for veterans. There are possibly 300,000 ex-servicemen and women in the state of Indiana. Out of this number one half of one per cent actually use this privilege and yet the sportsmen who have and can afford all the guns and ammunition and fishing equipnient are the ones who get the game, not the veterans as some would have the public believe, I am an ex-serviceman. I have a free permanent hunting and {fishing license but what good does it do as I never get out of the city. If more people would spend more time minding their own possessions and let the other fellow alone, I am of the opinion we would get along

Of course, it is entirely possible

“MAY BE FEWER RIDERS BUT I CAN'T GET SEAT”

By Tex Quigley, 19990 Park Ave. I have read The Times for years but this is the first time that I have ever tried to voice a thought in it. The Indianapolis Street Railways act like a child crying for a toy just because another child has one. They compare this town and transit system to others, but there isn't any comparison. Cleveland, Milwaukee and other cities have a weekly pass which costs one dollar to one dollar and a quarter per week and is good from midnite Saturday to midnight the following Saturday. The I. S. R. say that in all fairness they are trying this four. for a quarter rate, They have used it for twenty-five years and brought the company out of the red, bought equipment, and fought their employees every time they wanted more money, and the company has made money. They say there are less riders today. I haven't had a seat for so long. I stand at 21st and Northwestern in the' morning between 6:30 and 7:00 and have one or two trolleys pass me by. Then I walt fifteen or twenty minutes for another one. At night it is a case of standing all of the way to work between 9:00 and:10:00. The Central line is the same, too. Last September they were going to give the eight for fifty-five cents fare a ninety-day trial, but like taxes they forgot to say anything about | it at the end of the ninety days.! Let's have better service and less crying. !

I have to show him that I am worth it. I can't get it on a promise of what I am going to do. ~ = ” “LET'S GO ALL OUT FOR CLEANER ENTERTAINMENT” By Ines J. Terry, Indianapolis May I join with other readers in a protest of the movies that are shown to juveniles. I am afraid to take my children to the shows for fear they will see pictures which, to my way of thinking, are bad for adults as well as children. The children should be permitted to see any movie shown, then in this way, we will know that it meets the requirements of good taste and will

satisfied with the fact that the Americans and the British are not living up to one of the Yalta agreements calling for the forceful repa-

Carnival —By Dick Turner

triation of Russians dislocated in the war with Germany.

Surely these

more nicely. My ancestors were the ones that -fought the Indians out of Pennsylvania and Virginia to to have a place of safety to live where ‘they raised their children in the fear of God and truthfulness.

be good for the adult as well. Let's go all out for cleaner entertainment every way, movies, magazines, newspapers. Many of these need cleaning up. It's disgusting to try to read some of the late books. You read a few pages and the first thing you know you come upon the

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . by

IT'S OUR BUSINESS because so .many of our young men will be on duty with armies of occupation for a number of years to come, to examine the view“points many of them are forming about our former enemies . . . to an increasing number of G. 1's the Germans and the Japanese “don't seem so bad, after ‘you get to know them.” The point-is, they don’t get to know the Germans and the Japs as they were when ‘they were torturing allied prisoners or their civilian enemies, They don’t realize that in the war just ended, and in danger of

rule of decency. : ; “G. L's coming out of Germany almost always say ‘The Germans are nice people; they are nicer than the French.” says a recently returned soldier whose overseas service was all since the shooting stopped.

new men seem Yo enjoy the contrast offered by the Japanese; many friendships are being formed.” Such statements are typical of those from so many who' got there after the war was ended. And into that category, almost all the troops in these countries soon will fall.

Haven't Seen War's Ravages of Men

THESE OCCUPATION TROOPS don't know the feeling of losing one’s best friend in battle, or learning of their rescue as broken men. Few of them have seen emaciated former prisoners of war wolf food and then immediately vomit because they weren't accustomed to eating decent food. Of seven of us who saw a broken, one-time brilllant soldier do just that in ‘Manila after he'd been rescued from the Japs, five are back in the states as civilians. And the ratio is even greater with combat troops, practicaily all of whom now are out of the service. To new men overseas, the Germans and the Japanese seem to be a clean, hard-working people. trying to rebuild their country out of war's destruction . . ,

REFLECTIONS . .-. By Rober Now It's ‘We

NEW YORK, March 14—This is going to be an incoherent piece, because I have been getting too close to psychiatry and its offshoots of late. You can't avoid it. You go to the movies to see Ingrid Bergman and they hit you with schizophrenia. You pick up a detective story and the heroine starts mouthing kraft-ebing at you before the first dagger lights in the banker's bank. Until recently I didn't know paranoic from paregoric, but I'm learning.

Why the entertainment world hag suddenly gone berserk over the addled brain is beyond—me, unless the people figure that with the complications of income tax, electric blankets, television and the singing commercial, everybody will be nuts soon, and Hollywood might as well pioneer the field. Radio's running right along, too. Just the other night “We the People” had an insane man playing the piano, although where the borderline is determined, in the case of musicians, sometimes: puzzles the psychiatrists.

Were They Unhappy Children?

PSYCHIATRY and psychoanalysis are spreading widely in the industrial field, too. A mass psychologist is going around psyching industria] groups, to find out why they strike and why they hate the stinkin’ bosses. I gather they {don't strike so much for dough as for prestige— because they were unhappy children or were in love with their uncle's shoes. This psychologist said, after a trip to Hollywood, that nuts didn’t think they were Napoleon any more, They think they are Darryl Zanuck. There is a radio announcer in town who wears a | beard. He has a private elevator at CBS; obtained

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WASHINGTON, March 14—S8ix Dutch newspaper editors have just completed a six-week tour of the United States as guests of the state department. This {is part of the horribly named “cultural relations pro{gram.” It has been going on since before the war, (and, congress willing, it will be continued.

The idea is that these visiting writers wil] have acquired a better understanding of the U.S. and |that as a result their articles in hometown news- | papers will convey to the foreign public a better impression of the American standard of living and point of view. For American readers who will never see their pieces in the Dutch papers, the interesting thing is the variety of impressions the visiting scribes take home, ~ Visitors on these conducted tours usually get a chance to see more of the United States than most Americans ever do. They hit. Harvard and Hollywood. They look down from the top of the Empire: State Building in New York and from the top of the Mark in San Francisco, In between, they see such high spots as the Detroit assembly lines, the Chicago stockyards, the Dutch colonies in Grand Rapids and Holland; Mich., the Arizona desert, the Tennessee Valley, and Washington, D. C. . Doors ‘are swung open as if by magic. They see and interview auto magnates, movie stars, scientists, labor leaders and politicians. It's the best short course in Americana that can be devised. It should make any visitor an expert on the U. 8, A. -

Visitors' Impressions Differ AND YET the six Dutchmen survived their tour with pretty mixed impressions. They were a varied lot to begin with, H. J. Hellema 1s a Calvinist who spent three years in a Nazi concentration camp. H., GI Hermans is a

filth. Why can’t writers of all kinds,

copywriters, fllm directors, radio talent and the like do all in their power to give to the public good, wholesome entertainment. This is badly: needed for the good of the children entrusted to our care, and for the good -of the older ‘children.” » » » “SMOKE NUISANCE HERE . SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARD” By Mrs. P. B. Sargent, 338 Lookburn st

Were not the factories and busi ness the heavy contributors of the smoke at all times, present and past? Why aren't they then the leaders in the fleld for improvement of the so called smoggy condition prevalent in Indianapolis? As soon as possible. We learn from various sources of what the cost is to them when employees are absent due to sickness. Where do people have a more miscrable climate to fight much of the time than here? | Colds, sinuses, etc. We are learning to fight for basic needs first. What is worse than a serious health hazard? 4

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and the American troops; never ones to hold a. grudg give them their sympathy and a credulous ear whe they say they are victims of Nazi or militaristic lead ership. Just as we found that in Sicily and I there were no Fascists except those who were forced to belong to the party if they. were to exist . . . that’ their story . .. so we found in Japan that everyon claimed to be anti-militaristic but forced fo “go along” or be imprisoned. :

Attitude Due to Lack of Knowledge

THIS ATTITUDE .of our troops is due to twe major factors, I believe. First is lack of a sound information and educa tion program which really “sells” our soldiers on the type of people with which they are dealing. The second is the immaturity and inexperience of most of the occupational troops. The situation is worse in Japan than in Germany, because a most sound “I & E” program was scrapped because no one really knew for months what our attitude Was to be. Incoming troops were not briefed on what they would find beyond general lectures on customs, sanitation and specific missions of an ore ganization. The most frequent question in the early days was “Should we return their salutes?” or “can we take the swords away from the policemen?” As the soldier fresh from Germany said: “These raw G. I's will fraternize and let no one fool hime self. And they'll become walking propagandists for Germany.” He's right, and so was the writer from Tokye, Unless a continuing effort is made to keep the facts of the war before the G. I. and, perhaps more ime portant, gravest attention is paid to providing for his amusement and use of spare-time, American publie opinion eventually will forget the bitter lessons of five years of war and come to believe that the Gers mans and the Japanese aren't so bad, after you ged to know them. I don't preach a doctrine of hate . VE but I do advocate making the German and the Japa nese nations pay as nations for their crimes.

C. Ruark

the Crazy People’

After a program, he dashes into the elevator and the girl says: “Stand back! private car!” \ You'd be inclined to believe that he wanted the elevator to himself because he hates garlic on other people, but no. It's because his big brother once refused to share the tricycle. A woman I know got six steaks not long ago from a friend out, West. She took two of them to her butcher, explaining that he shared his steaks with her once upon a time. My verdict is she’s completely crackers, but no. Her parents ignored her when she ‘was little,

Have You Started to Twitch? AT THE MOMENT my hair is curling on the nape of my neck. The man says it's because I want te call attention to myself. That's a lie. I just don't like to go to barber shops. At a buck a haircut I am going to learn to clip it myself. Dorothy Walworth, who has just written a book called “Nicodemus,” says she wrote it while being chased around her home by a cook who was come pletely nuts, and who once threatened to kill her, Whether this contributed to the calm of the book is hard to say. ; Tommy Manville probably marries so often because he doesn’t like women and that isthe surest way of getting even with them. ; One psychiatrist I know often goes to another psychiatrist to have himself psyched. This is nok. the kind of thing to instill faith in the patients, A photographer here fhrows in a free psychoanalysis with every picture—a couple of days in advance—so that his lenses can get at the real you If the real me turns out to be a Mr. Hyde, I would prefer not to have it on record. . So it goes. Stick around the town and you, too, will begin to twitch. bone Seen

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een Through Dutch Eyes

leader in the Dutch underground, and the editor of the underground newspaper, “Free Nederland.” Dr. A J. P. Tammes is a liberal, L. J. Kleijn a Socialist, A. J, Koejemans a Communist. They saw the same things, but through different eyes. When the group first landed each writer was asked to make out a list of the things he was most intere ested in seeing. The Communist, strangely enough wanted to hear the Metropolitan. Opera and to see Toscanini conduct a rehearsal. He got his wish, and he sald that that in itself was worth the trip. The prevalent European notion that America was a great barbarian place without culture of any kind was dig pelled for them all. When the group got to the TVA, which every fore eigner seems‘to want to see, the Socialist was enthusie astic. That showed, he said, what “the state” could do for the people when it took over. Most of the others -did not agree, =~

Dislike American Architecture

THEY DIDN'T like American architecture, In gene eral, because under unlimited free enterprise it had run wild and produced so many monstrosities along with the few good things. They thought the United States would be more beautiful if there were more town planning and more restrictions. on building de= sign, as in The Netherlands. : They were impressed most by U. 8. scientists, pare ticularly the youngsters who worked on the atomis bomb project at Oak Ridge, Tenn, All the visitors were, of course, ga-ga at the size

- of the country and all its contrasts from snow-covered

New England and the Rockies to the Southwestern deserts. What bothers them most of all, however, is “spirits ual America.” They never did get the feel of that, Anyone able to define the soul and spirit of America will please step forward and give the visiting Dutche men an answer,- :

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World's Foremost Good Samaritan

WASHINGTON, March 14.—With millions of people again facing starvation,. Herbert Hoover will take off across the Atlantic Sunday to “visit every country in Europe that is asking for food.”

As honorary chairman of the President's famine’ emergency committee, Mr. Hoover will make a personal survey of Europe. With him will go Hugh Gibson, former ambassador to Belgium, and others who worked with. him on similar missions after World War I. They want to make certain that the millions of tons of American Tood, saved through conservation and voluntary self-sacrifice in this country, will go to hungry men, women and children without regard to race, religion or politics. No man Is better equipped for the task, both by outlook’ and experience. He has been at it throughout most of his career. In London at the outbreak of the war in 1914, he became the friend-in-need to more than 150,000 stranded Americans. Overnight, these tourists found their checks and letters of credit uncashable, Mr. Hoover rallied about him a group of his friends. They personally financed hotel bills and return tickets to people they had never seen or heard of before, viata

Belgian-French Blockade Broken NEXT HE was at the head of a far greater relief

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job, “Ten million Belgians and French cut off in the

‘| war zone, were left virtually destitute. The Hoover

organization broke the blockade by diplomatie pressure, fought for and obtained the necessary shipping,

apart.—~Cowper. and distributed five million tons of food and elothing,

valued at one billion dollars, to these war victims. After the armistice Mr. Hoover realized his job was just beginning. Millions of others, especially in east« ern Europe, were threatened with famine, So he headed the American relief administration. In eighs months another five million tons of food and clothing, costing a billion dollars, were distributed in 23 dife ferent countries. Boon after Mr. Hoover became secretary of come merce in 1921, came the great Russian famine. A severe drought on top of bad economic conditions, brought more than 10 million Soviet citizens face to face with starvation. Once more appealing to private initiative in this country, he raised some $65 million and sent nearly a million’ tons of food and medical supplies to the stricken area.

Communists Launch Attack ARE only a few of the highlights of Mr, Hoover's career as the world's foremost Good Samaritan, Yet, astounding as it may seem, Communists are attacking his present unsalaried appointment, They allege that he used food as a weapon for re

“actionary political ends—this after his voluntary relief

of sick and starving Russians on tHe Volga.. This writer witnessed the operation of some of the Hoover relief missions—in France, Belgium and: Russia~and can testify that the charge is wholly unfounded. - However, authoritative reports’ indicate .that the Communists have not always been above ideological considerations In certain areas of eastern Europe and the Balkans. If the Hoover mission uncovers any such abuses in Its present swing-round, something will likely be said and done about it, .

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