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E14 Tuesday, April 9, 1946 HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSP
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TRUMAN FOREIGN POLICY ° RESIDENT TRUMAN'S Army day speech was excellent. | The“problem is to apply the firm foreign and defense policies he outlined. Words will not solve the serious world situations which confront us. : Perhaps this sounds like an ungraciously qualified reaction to the President's admirable affirmations.’ But the fact is that the professions of his administration from the beginning have far outrun its performances. And this has been particularly true in the fields of foreign affairs and defense. 4 His Chicago speech reaffirmed this nation’s allegiance to the United Nations, and its determination jointly to defend and enforce the international organization's commitments throughout the world. That is all-important and can stand frequent repetition—provided, however, our actions are in line.with our talk. » . » # ” » » HAT WAS NOT the case after the President’s Navy day address of six months ago, in which he said the same things as he did Saturday. His strong words of last October were followed by the astounding retreat from that American policy at the December foreign ministers’ conference in Moscow. And that, in turn, was followed by our initial indecision at the opening United Nations sessions in Janu-
Then there was another reversal in performance. At the current security council meeting in New York, Secretary Byrnes has stood steadfast for the essentials he
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IT'S OUR BUSINESS, ppinted up by Britain's announcement that she will withdraw her military mission in Albania because of “mistreatment” by the
| Albanians, to face the fact that both Britain and the | U. 8. are unpopular in the entire Balkans.
Both Great Britain and Russia seek to extend their spheres of influence in that part of the world, but despite the fact American taxpayers now are putting up 75 cents out ‘of every dollar spent by UNRRA, it has been time-honored policy on our part to stay out of that breeding ground of war. When I was in the intelligence section of AFHQ at Algiers and Caserta, I was responsible for certain planning in areas that included Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria. We planned to use all-British personnel, because of reluctance to become involved in Balkan problems . . . and the British seemed fruitlessly eager to have us send in some of our people, It was decided, however, to keep American representation to a minimum,
No Information from Russia HAD IT NOT BEEN so serious, the complete void in our information regarding Russia's intentions would have been ludicrous in an allied intelligehce set-up. However, neither AFHQ nor.the war office or war department could tell us anything about that factor . , . so much of the planning contained many “ifs. Now little Albania affronts Great Britain, and at the same time seeks membership in the United Nations . , . an application opposed by Britain and the U. 8. Russia has not announced her position on the application, but you can almost certainly rest assured that Albania would not take such action without her instigating it. Only Russia is at the threshold of the Balkans . and many times.the great bear has stepped across it. So, nations at a‘greater distance and less able to exert immediate effective pressure, actually won't have much voice there.
Congress Needs
WASHINGTON, April 9.—One of the recommenda-
tions of the joint committee on reorganization of
congress that has won general support urges additional expert staff help for congressional committees.
Even before the joint committee, headed b - ator LaFollette (R. Wis.) and Rep. oh,
Okla.), began its investigation a year ago, bills were
IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover ~ Russians Hold Real Balkan Balance
Illustrative of the Balkan attitude is a letter from one of my former officers, who was sent into Albania on a special mission before the war ended. Here is an illuminating incident. “My British opposite number and I went in by air to talk to the Partisans abopt our sending in additional supplies, and how to go about it most effectively. We were not met at the airports; although the Albanians knew we were coming, by anyone except -a 14-year-old Partisan guard. After some bigkering, the boy said we ‘could stay on the airport.’
We cooled our heels that day and all the next and;
when I finally served notice I was going in to see the colonel-general commanding, or else, word was sent into town and a reply received that he was too busy to see us just yet, but would do so soon.
Contrast in Receptions “WHILE WE WERE WAITING, a Russian major (junior to the British officer and myself, by the way) came in and was met at the airport by every soldier the Partisans could muster. They lined the road into town and fired every gun they could lay their hands on in celebration of his coming. The British and we were doing our damnedest to get in ammunition to kill a few Germans! The Albanians fired every bit of ammunition they possessed. “A few days later, in a conference with the mine ister of war, I asked him who was giving the Par tisans the most support in their fight against the Germans. Imagine my surprise when he answered,
‘Why the Russians, of course.’ I asked how he figured
that and here was his answer, believe it or not: ‘They give us moral support.’ We were just supplying the guns and ammunition, that’s all.” The Slavic temperament is practically Russian in its outlook, and in the Balkans, only the Russians will have any real lasting influence. After them
come the British, and much later, the United States, |
which is regarded as a susceptible sucker . . . but not as a real factor in their future. is welcome, but we are not.
IN WASHINGTON . .. By Thomas L. Stokes
Investigative Power
for military and peacetime advancement of science, which has been reported favorably to the senate. Now the subcommittee is in the midst of a most important job which is analysis of secret documentg captured in Germany relating to cartels, They are shedding more illumination on that system from its. inside operations.
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“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.
This important task now suddenly is threatened by the action of the senate audit and contro] committee in slashing the requested $57,000 appropria«
introduced for this purpose. This denotes recognition of the need for more information, both gol dividual members and for committees, so they can
American leadership lacking at the London sessions. For
hold-up at Ga this the President and secretary deserve—and generally = a
Hoosier Forum
have received—unstinted praise.
But the net effect of this in-again-out-again has been to invite doubts in other world capitals as to what Amer-
"Against Drafting 18-Year-Olds
jean policy really is today, and whether it will be some- « thing else next month and next year. We hope, therefore, Who Have Just Begun to Live
the President has learned from experience that there must be consistent follow-through to makeé even the best foreign policy effective. : ; " » . s " 5 F THERE had been more administration follow-through 4 in Congress there would be no need for the President talking at this late date about his neglected defense program, including unification of the armed services and universal military training. It would already be in operation as essential backing for foreign policy.
PRICES AND PRODUCTION :
Most PEOPLE probably would agree with the Detroit man who wired to Chester Bowles: “You are like my
poy and I certainly hope he can live his life without these old men|
By a Times Reader, Indianapolis 1 do hope you will publish this letter and I hope to get some answers
from mothers and fathers who have boys 18 years old.
I am the mother of a boy 18. I don't see why we have to suffer and
worry all the time that our sons will be taken from us and sent some place where someone else sees fit. I lost one child and now they are battling to take another. And for what!
These boys with no college education and their lives not even half
lived. Why should they be drafted and be thrown inte everything after we have worked hard to get them up to the young age of 18. I say, “No.” Let us keep our children; we are the ones to decide. It's peacetime. . already lost—we can't go through| “LEGALIZE GAMBLING, much more.
Think of the ones we have
REMOVE TEMPTATION”
By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis Uncle Sam says he could use
I have a good, clean, wonderful
i “ELIMINATE EITHER WAR OR WIPE OUT HUMAN RACE” By E. W. B,, Indianapolis News Item: “Seek to Outlaw ABomb. A special state department advisory group on world atomic problems has recommended an international agreement to prohibit the manufacture of atomic bombs, it was learned today. The study was presented to the senate atomic energy committee in closed session by Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson.” Lo The question: Why outlaw the atomic bomb? The probable answer: News Item: “Twenty-two thousand new millionaires were created by world
war IL.” So after world war II we de-
perform intelligently their legislative functions in the face of growing complexity of government and the expansion of its activities.
Committee Under-Staffed
FEW MAJOR COMMITTEES have anything like adequate staffing to cope with the problems that confront them constantly. Some committees set up, from, time to time, special subcommittees to dig up infokmation. This was done particularly during the war. They gathered expert staffs and the system was found valuable. One such subcommittee was created in October, 1942, by the senate military affairs committee. Known as the subcommittee on war mobilization, it has proved a most helpful adjunct to the military committee and the senate. During the war, its investigation resulted in improvements in overall co-ordination of the war program and in mobilizing scientific research. During ‘the war and since, through an exhaustive investigation of the German cartel system, it has thrown light on the effects of that system on our own war preparations through economic penetration and espionage here and in South America. : Incidentally, its inquiry into war-production and manpower bottlenecks brought recommendations that influenced creation of the office of war mobilization, the high civilian command in the last two years
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tion for the next fiscal year to $18,000. . The senate jas not yet passed on the committee's recommendae on. There are interests in this country which would be very happy to see this investigation ree stricted or stopped, big economic and financial ine terests that had tie-ins with German cartels before the war, They should not be permitted to prevent revelation of the complete story. Full information is needed to stop a threatened resumption of these alliances. :
Past Results Have Been Good EFFORTS TO HAMSTRING congressional investi gations that affect powerful interests are not new or strange. Attempts were made to shut off the famous senate banking committee investigation into stock market and banking abuses, conducted by Ferdinand Pecora—also, among others, the interstate commerce committee's investigation into railroad receiverahips in which President Truman, while senator, took such an important part as chairman of an investigating subcommittee. The power of investigation is one of the most cherished and most effective powers of congress Through congressional investigations have come co
CARE IN IMPOSE
A tubercula source of dang committed to his will. In the first kind, Judge Ll
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C. Hill may bs tuberculosis hi for treatment. Mr. Hill, a there, left the uary without turned to his daughter. City Health Kempf said the health hazard . community. Ac a 1945 legislat combe heard
many more dollars and the public Let! taxed now to the hilt. I don't|sire to outlaw the atomic bomb
know what the public thinks when|Just as we outlawed the use of men in public or political office| Poison gas after world war I
telling him what they want. them go across and see how they like it! They have lived their lives —s0 let them lose a little now.
of the war. Its study of seientific research resulted
rections of many evils in our economic and social in the bill for a national science foundation, both )
system.
: wife—hard to live with, impossible to live without.” “1 Certainly most people believe that government controls
sanitarium ph the commitme The suit wa
guch as Mr. Bowles symbolizes are still needed to prevent dangerous price inflation. Every opinion poll shows that. “Yet, we think the public very generally realizes that government price controls are not a cure for inflation; that ~ they merely suppress its symptoms; and that, as applied, they have discouraged in many cases the only remedy for the sort of inflation that menaces this country. That remedy is bountiful production and distribution of goods. § The effort to maintain rigid price ceilings, while ensouraging labor to force wage rates up, was bound to cause rouble. Producers must have, not a guarantee, but a hope of fair profits. Without that, production languishes. And the OPA often has been slow, often arbitrary, and often wrong in rulings affecting the profit positions of producers and distributors whose costs have risen. Congress now faces the job of continuing price controls and, at the same time, correcting their harmful effects on production. It's a tough job. But we believe the house banking committee has worked out a good and reasonable way of doing it. The committee's bill would— Continue the OPA to July 1, 1947, and end it then. Re-| quire the President to certify each month what commodities | have come into supply-demand balance, and the OPA to | _ lift price controls on such commodities. Abolish the “maxi- | mum average price” program. Limit, and gradually abolish, | payment of government subsidies to hold prices down. Re- | store prewar profit margins to retail distributors of auto-
RUDELY AND THREATENED” By Elbert M. Ashley, 4915 Rockville rd.
when he has an auto accident? 4:45 p. m, I was driving west on Georgia st. between Meridian and Illinois sts., when a car pulled out
der of my car, doing some damage.
was rudely interrupted by a traffic
making the small sum of $45 a week can live in $15,000 houses. Can you? Petty politicians with their rakeoff from petty gamblers, and the poor man can't even play a nickel slot machine. What a pity the laws are not coverage for the poor and On Monday, March 35, 1346, at the wealthy or the politicians. Graft? Well, call it what you like, but it will always be there as long as shoddy little men (I mean in crookedness) have their. way. If Before I could get th® lady's ad- you Jessie gambling 4 wil a “rita dress or drivers license number, I to the big clubs. The big will pay as policeman who was directing trame| Well as the little man, for Uncle at the corner of Illinois and Geor-|Sammy will take his cut first. If gia, He told me I had no right to|YoU Would legalize gambling here stop and bother the lady over a|YOU could do away with a lot of “little old dent in a fender” and| Other tax. What a pity these same that if I did not.get in my car and | Wen talk your leg off to vote for get going, he would lock me up. them but they can’t live off their I did not wish to be arrested so I|5alary once they get the job. There did as he told me. should be a stiff punishment for I have been a resident of Indian-|&ny man holding office and taking apolis for fifty years and have|Braft. driven an automobile through the| John Public, your tax would be city streets for the pasf twenty-five cut, your homes would be safe, you
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“POLICEMAN TREATED ME
What is a person supposed to do
from the curb and hit the rear fen-
Why? For fear that some of the big boys who dream up wars for profit might get hurt along with the G. I. stooges who can be drafted to fight their very profitable wars for them to keep business at a high level. There could be only one reason to outlaw gas and the A-bomb while we continue to use the good fellowship of the flamethrower, machine guns,.tommy guns, bayonets and artillery shells, and that is that the gas and the “atomic bomb might reach the plush carpets and the overstuffed office furniture of the war financiers. The logical point is that if we can successfully negotiate internationally to outlaw gas and the A-bomb, why not outlaw war and all the elements thereof? If the game was totally undesirable we would not only change the rules, but we would stop the game. ” » - “VETERANS NOT GETTING
ANY HOUSING PREFERENCE”
years and have never been so rudely | Would stop officials from .disgracing| By Nolan Wilder, Rushville
treated by a policeman, as I was| your state by serving time in the in this incident.
Editor's Note:
|but as long as it is kept behind
with our
| pen if you would legalize gambling,
If the combined closed doors, our fair city will have damage of both automobiles is more a bad name. Yes, our politics are than $25 or if any person is injured | the laughing stock of the nation, we
Who said veterans get preference
| to rental property? I have spoken
for two small houses in this city which I heard were going to be for rent. One said some other people I asked if they
WASHINGTON, April 9.—Alarmed foreign observers see the United States inviting another, but incomparably more devastating, Pearl Harbor as a result of the diminishing of its prestige and power. At the very least, they agree, the United States will suffer an enormous loss of influence at the coming peace conferences, first of which is yet to be held. For at _ international parleys, the nations with the greatest punch are the ones which receive most attention.
Many Examples of Decline CHINA WAS a great civillzation 2000 years before America was discovered. And today she has more than 450 million inhabitants, almost one quarter of the population of the globe. Yet, lacking armed forces in proportion, she must accept whatever the stronger powers choose to give her, India and the Middle East were ancient and cultured lands when Europe was roamed by wild men and beasts. Another 450 million live there. But today, when the great powers meet, they get the crumbs that fall from the table. “That is because militarily they are not strong. But France, perhaps, offers the most glaring recent example, After world war I, when she lifted her voice at the peace table, everybody listened. She was the greatest land power in Europe. Today France is the same land of logic and learning, but has suffered a great defeat. Militarily, she is no
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Wiliam Philip Simms
Voice Not Backed by Arms Is Weak
future.” Since V-J day, however, American power has zoomed dizzily downward until those in authority are filled with alarm. In Chicago, President Truman warned the country that power politics in the Middle East “might suddenly erupt into conflict.” He recalled that generally we are sucked in, no matter where war breaks out. Peace, therefore must be our goal, he said, and to insure peace we must remain strong. Under terrific pressure, the war depart ment has been obligated to trim its establishe ment to the bone. The army faces a serious mane power deficit by the middle of next year. Voluntary enlistments continue to fall. About half the enlistments now are by draftees who, by joining up, can limi, the time they have to serve. Do away with selective service, and by the second half of 1947, instead of 1,070,000 men, the absolute minimum needed, there may be only 900,000 or even less.
Congress Has Evaded Issue THE MINIMUM FIGURES are based on a number -of conditionals, every one of which must come out perfectly: If the occupation of enemy territory is peaceful; if all the allies do their full share; if enemy prisoners of war continue to be used; if surplus prop= erty can be disposed of in the quickest possible time; if the peace treaties are consummated, permitting troop withdrawals; if the United Nations works as it is hoped. If anything goes wrong with this schedule,
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mobiles, refrigerators and other reconversion goods. |in the accident, the incident must| Hoosiers penny ante| had spoken for it. These and other proposed changes would mean some be seported to the state or local minds. NS 1aW IAS ovr made 3 Tan were ex-service people. No, they increases in consumer prices. We think, however, that POice according to state traffic 800d of BEHCT . say, but they spoke for it some time
longer a great power. So her voice has lost its authority. : On V-J day, as Winston Churchill said in Missouri,
more, not less manpower will be needed. And in né VN case does the decision rest entirely with us. A timid vote-conscious congress has sidestepped the issue,
i rules. In cases under the minimum law can at least keep men from wage-rate increases already won, and those made inevitable, must result either in higher prices or in restricted production. And unrestricted production is what this country must have. Achieve that, and prices will come down again. Delay it, and inflation will proceed.
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DON'T PUNISH HONESTY
; WE have nothing against Murray Latimer, former chair- | man of the railroad retirement board, but we hope | President Truman will not name him commissioner of the | labor department's bureau of statistics. That appointment should go to A. Ford Hinrichs, who has been the bureau's acting commissioner during the war. a Powerful spokesmen for the big labor organizations are gunning for Mr. Hinrichs. He offended them by re-| fusing to doctor up the bureau's cost-of-living statistics to | support the unions’ fight against the “little steel” wage formula. For Mr. Truman to ditch him under such circumstances would be unjust ‘to an able, honest public servant. And it would be a foolish thing to do. ~The government spends millions upon millions of dollars 19 Sather statistics which will become worse than useless if the public loses faith in their integrity. Secretary Commerce Wallace already has dealt one serious blow th in government statistics. Last November he issued, vigorously defended, what was said to be statistical
damage, settlement is usually made
by the parties involved. John, crooks or legal gambling?
being dishonest. What do you say,
Carnival —By Dick Turner
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ice that the automobile industry could’ raise wages ent in two years, without increasing prices, and still larger than prewar profits. On March 14— General Motors strike was settled—he : report should not have been regarded now punished because he wouldn't fo suit labor leaders, all government to suspicion.’ :
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ago. The other said a brother-in-law to the one now living there spoke for it. - I asked them the same question. No, they are not service people. I said I understood veterans were to get first choice. They told me that they do anything now. I have even gone so far as to make a deposit on a half double which was kept a month and then sent back to me saying they let someone else have it. I' called the real estate company here and asked about it. Sorry, those people spoke a long time ago. I told them I understood veterans were to get preference. They told me if I had spoken first I could have had it but when someone else speaks first, they get it. I told them it looks like a nice runaround for us, Not that the world owes us everything, I don’t think people remember we had a war.’ : I was across twenty-one months, saw action in Africa, Italy, France, Germany and Austria. I was only married ‘two months before I went to war. I would like a three qr fouyroom house, semi-modern would be good enough. I'm only twenty-four years old. I don't want .sympathy. 1 only want to let it be known how renters feel now that the whr is over, '
DAILY THOUGHT
I will raise them up a Prophet froth among their brethren, ‘like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all’ that I shall command him.—Deuteronomy 18:18.
THE prophet's mantle, ere his flight bgp. LU a tn the world—a sacred gift
the United States stood “at the pinnacle of world power.” It was, he said, “a solemn moment for the American democracy.” For with that power was “also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the
REFLECTIONS . . . By Parker
ATHENS, April 9—Wherever one goes in Europe these days comment is heard from Europeans that the future course of civilization will be determined
by a contest for world prestige between the United States and Russia. Many Americans may not view the world situation in that light but that is the way Europeans see it. Also wherever one goes he finds evidence of America’s stock being sold short by Americans who are abroad at the expense of American taxpayers or American philanthropy.
Smart-Aleck Analysts of Home Trend THIS IS NOT being done by officials in responsible positions. Nor is it presented in such a form that it is either easy to pin down or readily refute. It comes for the most part from half-baked youngsters who have wormed their way into minor positions of various services and who regard it as a mark of sophistication arid of international outlook to wisecrack at their country’s expense. Ciibrthis type of propaganda follows such definite lines that it would be overly charitable to credit it all to thoughtless smart-aleck immaturity. In any event, it is making plenty of grist for the Soviet propaganda mill. Two lines of pat comment are heard repeatedly. One is that discrimination against the Negro is contradictory to our democratic pretensions. The other is that Russia's .government-controlled press serves the interests of the working’ man better than the American press because the policies of our.papers are dictated by advertisers and big business. J One popular version of the racial discrimination angle was first sho by this writer on the Queen
Mary ea route to London. I¢ was told with much
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It has forgotten that little Japan attacked sprawling China because China was weak; that the best way to keep our boys out of war is to remain strong.
LaMoore
Americans Abroad Sell U.S. Short
gusto by a young official of the state department. He said when Secretary Byrnes told Foreign Commissar Molotov at Moscow that the United States would insist on democratic processes in the Balkans, Molotov promptly set Mr. Byrnes back on his heels by the query: “If youre so interested in democracy why won't you apply it in the case of Negroes in South Carolina?” : The same story was heard in Paris and again here in Athens. : In a group of Greek intelligentsia of leftist per suasion a young Greek preserited both the racial and advertising arguments with such little regard for facts he was told he was talking baloney.
We Foot Bill: Russia Takes Credit NO EVIDENCE has been found that any were than a small fraction of UNRRA people are engaged in anti-American or pro-Russian propaganda. But the persistent efforts of a few can have a substantial influence in a.community which has been denied outside. news for nearly four years. According to a British colonel visiting here, when UNRRA delivered tractors and other farm machinery to his area some of it was painted green and some red. The Russians told the Greeks the red machines were of Soviet manufacture, although all had been made in the United States. ’ UNRRA headquarters in Athens is housed on the third floor of a building largely given over to the British army and in consequence is bedecked with British flags. It is guarded in front by British sentries and in the rear by uniformed Greeks. From the outside, there is no evidence that Uncle Sam is present even by proxy. Everybody seema to be making ¥4pital of the situation but the guy who foots the Bn i e Cig a i
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