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The President and the Crisis PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S decision to report tomorrow to Congress on the foreign crisis comes none too soon. When the President says his confidence in world peace has been somewhat shaken and Secretary of State Marshall describes the situation as very, very serious—as they did last week—Congress and the public have a right to the facts. SEG Many of the major facts are already known to all. The American press has reported fully the Cominform’s avowed purpose to wreck the European Recovery Program, its plots to capture control of France and Italy, Stalin's use of Balkan satellites to wage war in Greece and of Chinese Reds to conquer Manchuria, the Soviet rape of Czechoslovakia and move on Finland, Soviet sabotage of the United Nations and the daily Moscow propaganda attacks on the United States. But it remains for our government to give its full official interpretation of these known facts and any others on Soviet aggression and penetration. More important is what the United States proposes to do about all this. The President has something in mind or he would not go before Congress. It should not be simply a verbal threat. . - » » ~

In Tune With the Times

INITIAL TROUBLE

It's a good thing that the name Taft Much shorter than Roosevelt is, Else headline writers would surely go daft— They couldn't use those initials of his.

And then again it wouldn't be cricket, (It really should be against the law,) In speaking about the third-party ticket, To designate our Henry as HAW.

To piay upon the diminutive Would make Mr. Dewey see red. No added stature to him you give By referring to Tommy as TED. ~—CLAUDE BRADDICK. ® oo o Instead of sticking out an arm to indicate. a turn, most motorists seem satisfled to stick their necks out. ® %

POOR FOOL |...

I know my heart was born to be neglected, No perfect love was made for me I guess; But, even so, a childish mind could fathom The insincerity in your caress.

If I believed a word of what you're saying, Or let your promised vows control my heart, I'd know that I have lost all hope of wisdom, So call me fool and let the romance start. —SUE ALLEN, IU Medical Center, Dietary Dept. * & 9% There ought to be a law against the’ “other fellow” driving an auto. ’ >

PLEASE RETURN

I've so many things to tell you. When can we converse again? Doesn't love for me compel you To return despite old pain?

There's so much you left unfinished, Many problems still unsolved; "Though my love is undiminished

n * THE TIME for big talk is past. The trouble with the President's declaration a year ago of the so-called Truman doctrine of containment of Russian aggression, was that the words were bigger than the force behind them, This time we hope the President not only will proclaim a firm policy in defense of American democracy and its allied democracies abroad’ under the United Nations charter: but that also he will ask Congress to put teeth in that policy. He can ask the House to equal the Senate's speed in passing the European Recovery Program, which otherwise may come too late to counter Stalin's fast time-table. He can ask Congress to register its approval of a West European regional security pact under the United Nations, and of negotiations for United States participation in such

. 8 =» ” » =» : tS . HE CAN ASK Congress to provide an adequate Ai Force and to Bring up to minimum authorized strength our Army and Navy, backed by universal military training. In addition to UMT, if there is no way of getting the required combat forces by voluntary enlistment, Selective Service is the only democratic alternative. Such a course of economic and security action should not frighten the American people. On the contrary it should ailay ‘the’ widespread fear that we ‘are not prepared to meet the test Stalin has forced upon the peace-seeking democracies. = ; The President can afford to speak calmly-and soberly ~leaving the warmongering to the Soviet imperialists—. because of America's potential power. If American peace policy is backed by economic strength and military preparedness there is far better chance that Stalin will stop short of war. The record proves that verbal warnings will not stop Stalin, :

There'll Be Changes

HE interplay of personalities, issues and: intangibles makes politics a fascinating game, an endless ad. venture. » : : i A few weeks ago the public opinion polls showed that | General Eisenhower was the man the voters wanted the Republicans to nominate, and that any other possible nominee would surely run second to President Truman. General “Ike” took himself out of the picture. Then

Still the polls showed Mr, Truman “had it in the bag." It looked as if the Democratic convention would be’ routine. Then things happened which toek the joy out of life for the Democrats, Henry Wallace's crowd captured a Congressional district in New York. And President Tru-

anathema to southerners since the reconstruction days, set a chain reaction that has cracked the once-solid South from Virginia to Texas. Sarg pre Now Democrats are moping around, willing’ to sell

* their chances in November at 10 cents on the dollar, and |

Republicans are so cocky they have forgotten their vorry and humility of a month ago. But this mood, too, will pass. The picture will change many times agaif in the months ahead, as the primaries and conventions in the

My finances are involved.

And I need you to take over, Settle many things for me. (Mayhap, too, I need a lover, Meaning you, of course, could be.)

~—VIRGINIA LEE. > ¢

® THE CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . ...By Marquis Childs

Back Aid With Military Power

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16—Now that the Senate has approved the European Recovery: Pro-

survey the problem of Italian colonies and the four powers had agreed to wait on the findings

- Then—the tiny little head begins to nod.

Punkin Jacobs hez named his 12th child Matthew Mark Jacobs. Punkin’s finished with the Old Testament an’ is startin’ on the

New. CATFISH PETE. ® © &;

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With a bridal fashioned from curtains, Dressed in Mother's high-heeled shoes, Dear little five-year-old darling . Not one moment do you lose Of fun, of laughter and frolic; Your dreams are so real, so alive. It's a wonderful age, it's the golden age— That ripe old age of five. If God were to grant me just one prayer, Do you know what I'd fervently pray? That He'd keep you as happy, your life through, + As you are today at your play. — <-MEREDITH R. HASKETT, > % 1502 Ruth Drive.

Show-oft children do a fine job of showing up parents. r

AT BEDTIME

Have you ever seen the sweetness In a little boy's wee face When he kneels to say his prayers at night?, His baby hands are folded And his eyes are tigh

tly closed, Such a tender apd endearing sight.

The words are spoken freély . . In a quaint, beguiling way "s And he talks “man to man” with God, And his voice is soft and sleepy As he forces back a yawn, .

—BETTY ABBETT. > % & The “yes ma'am” man around the house isn't always the = Ban around the office.

LET'S JUST PRETEND

Let's just pretend, now you and 1 That we aer free from care, Let's just pretend the whole day through That here and everywhere The world is full of gladness With no such thing as woe, And maybe by pretending . 5 We can make it really so! --

—ANNA E. YOUNG.

gram by an overwhelming majority, quick action “of the Commission. in the House is imperative. If the Republican leadership really wanted speed, the Recovery Bill for Europe could pass the House without difficulty this week. Unfortunately, China,- Greece, Turkey and other explosive matters have been tied up with the vital issue of European aid. Apr. 10 is discussed as a target date for final agreement. That may be too optimistic in view of the fact that the House measure, with the new and irrelevant features added, will have to go back to the Senate for ratification there. : Whether action by Apr. 10 can affect the outcome of the Italian elections on Apr, 18 is highly debatable. That is literally the eleventh hour. James A. Farley, who knows a lot about elections, has said that nothing that happens in the last two or three weeks of a campaign can change any substantial number of votes, It is time to look candidly at the Communist strategy in Italy and to recognize that the approach by outwardly legal means through the ballot box is the most difficult of all to combat. The large and highly organized Communist Party in Italy is a powerful instrument of Russian foreign policy. - The party is immediately responsive to Soviet desires, but the wires are pulled and the aid is furnished in secret behind the cloak of legality. When I was in Italy last fall, the strategy of the ballot box seemed to me clearly marked out. - There were irresponsible predictions, made in the United States, of a Communist revolution to come before Christmas. But all the signs pointed to the opposite. At that time Communist leaders were predict‘ng they would get more than half the votes in the spring elections. They were hoping that American aid through the winter would be less than it has been and that cold and hunger would make converts,

What Will Russians Pay?

WHILE THEY have had some checks, we can be certain. of one thing — ceaseless effort pointing ‘to that election date. How much help has cvomé from Russia, no one can say. One diplomatic’ soutce puts the Communist election fund at two billion lire, a large part of it in gold from Moscow. « Consider ‘Soviet timing. A month ago the Russians ‘ declared in favor of Italian trusteeship - for the ‘colonies in Africa that Italy lost through her defeat. . That declaration happened to violate an agreement that the Soviet Union had entered into with Great Britain, France and ‘the United States. A United Nations Commission was appointed to

dignation at Russia's action.

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to anticipate, but desire.

which has just appeared:

Russians’ Without War,” by

In the U. S. State Department there was in-

knew perfectly well the value of this announcement two months before Italians would go to the polls. Since the United Nations. agreement did not serve thejr purposes, they did not live

There is no sign of any action from the State Department on the Italian colonies evén though - this country two years ago officially favored the position now taken by Russia. We are apparently waiting on the Wecision of the United Nations

What If Reds Get Majority? WHAT HAPPENS if the Communists, together with their Socialist allies, get a majority of the votes in a more or less honest slettion? Jesthe oungster ht-wi rties represen e Pp n A "45. Its Hg Paes ee enue ‘chia facy, then | it San Francisco back in the spring of 45. I their position before the world is certainly not a And the grounds for any kind of U. 8. intervention would be doubtful. . Italy illustrates very ell ne American Randicap. ~The task in the nearly three years 4 and the V-E Day was to win the Socialists away from grown weary already—an the Communists. The U. 8. Foreign Service was not geared to that task. Here at home Socialists

and the Socialists, who should be our friends, forced into the camp of the SHER, i recent weeks the European - im an has been talked about as though it. were a kind of bribe through which the U. 8. would buy the votes of Europeans. That was not the concept of Secretary of State George C. Marshal It was put forward as a dynamic program for the reconstruction of Europe—a working partnership for rebuilding a

That is the concept which must be kept before us. As a bribe, the program is bound to fail, ‘a failure which some people seem not only

Realistic military power is essential to show that the U. S. means to back up the stand it has taken. But in the long pull military power cannot win the contest with the Soviet Union. This is the theme of a remarkably useful little book “How to Stop the

With great conciseness and clarity, the author shows how the attraction of the United States must be that of a dynamic democracy supporting the forces of progress throughout the world and demonstrating how the Soviet Union actually stands for reaction everywhere. The truth of this needs to be driven home now.

I’ WASHINGTON... By Peter Edson Moral: Don’t Eat Out With the Wrong Man

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16—When Illinois Republican ‘Congressman Fred A. Busbey accused a New York Republican Wall Street lawyer of being unqualified to hold his job as director of the State Department's Office pf Controls, it was a little hard to believe the ears. It is still harder to believe when it is known that Mr. Busbey is a LaSalle Street broker in Chicago, while the ex-Wall Streeter

states cause one candidate's stock to rise, and another's to fall, and then lift again with rumors of a big secret deal in a smoke-filled hotel room. The outlook will change from week to week, according to what happens to prices at home and the threats of war abroad.

At Last— WELL, boys, they're -here. Red shoes. And red hats, too. If anyone had looked hard enough, he might have seen them last year in a few Indianapolis display windows and showcases.. A few timid souls did look, trying to believe their eyes, then shied away like a horse that had seen its first automobile. And it's about time for a change. The men stuck to the black-and-tan routine and blue and gray: and brown suits so long they began to look like 10,000 twins walking down the streets. The women have been wearing red.shoes, blue shoes, greens, alligators and snakeskins since the designers thought them up. But men—the old fogies—stuck to their high-top button patterns 50 years too long. Then when they broke. over to oxfords, they sissied themselves up with spats to keep their ankles warm. ; Now comes the revolution. They can have individual ity. No longer need they let women steal all the eye- ~ appeal. When they slip their tootsies into the red brogues and cover their thinning hair with red hats, they will have

to look like rainbows walking down the streets.

their own, long-delayed emancipation day, even if

Hamilton Robinson, Princeton, Yale and Oxford graduate and married to a Brereton—before the war was associated with that arch conservative firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, * The only thing which Congressman Bushey seemed to have on Mr. Robinson was that he had a second cougin named Robert P. Miller III, “who had been the subject of investigation for alleged Communistic activities.” Nothing more specific than that. In nearly three hours of grilling before a House subcommittee in expenditures, investigating the State Department, red-headed and pugnacious Congressmen Busbev did his darndest to make something subversive out of the Robinson-Miller family histories.

“Loyalty” Investigator ‘

THE CASE of Hamilton Robinson is that of a bright young lawyer and war veteran, now 40, who decided he wanted to make a career of government service. In 1940 he helped draft the U. 8. Selective Service Law. ‘He worked on Lend-Lease. He worked for the British before the U'S. entered the war. Called to active service as a reserve lieutenant in 1941, he ended the war a chicken colonel. A year after his discharge in 1945, Mr. Robinson re-entered - government service in the State Department under Will Clayton. This is the big headache. For getting people fired on suspicion, without a chance to defend their records or know the charges against them, Mr. Robinson has been accused of running a witch hunt and a Gestapo. For being too lenient, he is accused by people like Congressman Busbey of being unqualified for his job: Interest in the latter charges has been heightened by House Appropriations Commtitee disclosures of the records of 108 State Department employees who have been under investigation. Of the 108, there are 57 still employed. Twenty-six of these have been cleared by the FBI, 22 are still under investigation.

' Suspicions Arise From Cousin

SOME OF the case summaries released by the House Appropriations Committee make it difficult for outsiders to understand why employment of the individuals concerned was continued. The suspicions now heaped on Mr. Robinson's head by Rep. Busbey are typical, being connected with Mr. Robinson's second cousin, Robert P. Miller III. Mr. Miller was graduated from Princeton in 1930, a year after Mr. Robinson. He was best man at Mr. Robinsgn's wedding in 1931. From 1934 to 1939, Mr. Miller was in Russia. He went there

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“Now it's my legs—i think this continual running to doctors’ offices doesn't do them a bit of good!" :

When Mr. Miller returned to America he published a weekly news letter on Latin America. Then he joined Co-ordinator Nelson Rockefeller's office, transferring to State Department in 194i.

He worked in the Office of Research and Publications until December, 1946, when he resigned. “Since 1941," Mr. Robinson testified under oath at his own | request, “I've had lunch with him (Miller) three or four times a | your, We disagreed on many things, He was 'way to the left of ‘me.” Mr. Robinson did not know that his cousin had been under investigation for “alleged Communistic activities” 1 he became head of the Office of Controls, in the the spring. of ¥47, ; For that, Rep. Busbey wants Mr, Robinson fired er

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flocking to join the National Guard units, ang <| “I-doubt if the blame can be wholly laid tp / employers. unwilling to release help for a two .| weeks summer training period. , In substance, this is an attempt to answer the gentleman who pointed to the National Guard units of other days; how the youngsters crowded to get their names on the roster, and finally a reply to your subsequent editorial on the apathy of 1948 young men to associate themselves with the military." ’ In words of few syllables, proponents of Universal Military , National Guard, et al. . . . a majority of aS a ows fill of anything suggestive of More , when most of us, who are still eligible for military training, got out of the blood, sweat and tears of World War II, we were on the wagon for life as far as military matters are concerned. ‘We want no more of it, notwithstanding what the American Legion, VFW and others in cushy jobs immune to ever serving in uniform, say or editorialize on. A vociferous minority is still willing to “let George do it.” Altogether too many are willing to let your kids and their kids undergo military training which is of ‘dubious value, but heaven forbid that MY kids or more especially ME have to undergo it. As one who was “over there’! nearly 38 months, or the entire American participation during fighting—I'm “agin”. it wholeheartedly, More especially am I disillusioned with the whole rotten mess now being Sonjued. Raving

newspaper Stars and Stripes, in Rome, I have a few provable points to pass along. It is my point that whenever the U. 8. Army is made passably democratic then it can be entrusted with training impressionable youngsters. Whenever it forget the old Prussian caste system in its attitudé toward commion, enlisted men . . . whenever it reinstates the old copybook axioms of all men being created equal . . . whenever courts-martials systems are made to apply equally to officers and en listed men . . . whenever the 96th Article of War is repealed . . . whenever all American born men can eat the same food, as provided by the tax payers . . . whenever the military “geniuses” who experiment with human lives on the battle front to satiate their own whims are made to head the columns going into im- . possible situations, i. e. “Winnie K Churchill sweating it out at Anzio and Cassino, then we

But the Soviets

These contingenciés sound pretty hopeless do they not? Especially if on¢ has actually undergone or ‘seen these examples . . . but it’ may help to understand why there is some reluctance on the part of eligible young men to rush back into whatever smacks of military. If the What ever became of that yi birth was attended by many freedom loving nations. I. recall that most of us set great store by the youngster’s possibilities of bring-

peace. . IE it scems that its step-father (U. 8.)

opposite direction? Are we ashamed of the poor, scrawny, little cuss that has never had a chance in life? Wonder if God isn't a little bit ashamed of us—we whom He helped to win great battles of human struggle. Maybe the next time He will let us win the hard way, if at all, since we show so little judgment in what it takes to build a peace-loving world now that we have a chance. > & House to Rent By Mrs. Lennie Mae Taylor . ; © “If the truth were admitted, the following would be a typical advertisement describing rental property for Negro occupancy in one of our larger cities:

TEN ROOM HOUSE; at least sixty years old, badly in need of repair and redecoration. House is cold in: winter and hot in summer. Conveniently located mear smoky factories, noisy railroad yards, and receives frequent fragrance from nearby stockyards. The neighborhood is highly deteriorated and is well supplied with all the factors that encourage crime and delinquency. Heavy truck trafic in area, no mearby playgrounds, and firetrap school-house within distance. Best thing avaliable for nice Negro family at exorbitant rent.”

OUTPOST . . . By Fred Sparks

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‘The ‘Fun’ of a Garrison

On the Greek Border

SIATISTA, Northern Greece, Mar. 16—In these days of global garrisons, Americans wind up in strange places. Perhaps none is stranger than this mountain town, a good low whistle from the Albanian border. I came to see how three Americans, anti-guerrilla live away from home. At Athens, I climbed into an American plane. I was ordered Jo tighten my seat belt. In a few minutes, I knew ‘why. We flew north over a broken mountain chain. Winds slapped the plane about like a volleyball. At Kazani, I rearranged my stomach and borrowed a car. I took my place in a convoy for a more violent journey along a

highway full of holes. I had to sit around for an Hour while spotters dug out mines neatly salted by guerrillas.

Cuarded Like Alcatraz : ; WHAT WAS left of me finally reached Siatista’s main cobblestone street. I wanted to find three American majors—Glen Welde of Sioux Falls, Iowa; Roland Belin, New York City, and Harlos Hatter, McAllister, Okla. : Their two-story residence was surrounded by a stone wall, An American flag stuck out of a window. It was guarded like Alcatraz. Upstairs, I was met by Maj. Welde, six-feet-one. “We've got more servants here than there are girls in a harem,” he said. “They are provided by the Greeks. Two cooks, three batmen who'll shine your shoes every five minutes. Three interpreters foul up half of our conversations. A few charwomen, and a major domo who bosses.”

No Plushy, Push-Button Inn “DON’T forget tlie barber,” said Maj. Belin. shaved myself since we arrived. Want 3 shampoo?” Despite these lackies, I realized this was no: push-button, plushy inn. Majs. Belin, Welde and Hatter lived in one room on army cots, a miniature of the Chicago “El” waiting room. ; “Despite the cooks,” said Maj. Welde, “I'd rather eat at the seediest American one-armed joint. They dunk in olive oil.” Regarded as celebrities, they have to eat out as guests on strange Greek dishes—fish heads, goat heads, etc. There is no running water. The toilet is Turkish without a seat. Each morning the servants form a bucket brigade, heating: water on the stove. The water is spiked with Halzetone tablets to kill the germs. 4 : ; “Maj. Hatter,” said Maj. Welde, “was overjoyed to be stationed in Greece. He thought of diplomatic cocktail parties. He brought his tuxedo.” 4 4 Ea : The most formal citizen:I could see in Siatista sported a. | shepherd’s parka. And the last necktie disappeared with the

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