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Act Now!

AMERICA must act quickly. Soviet aggression has engulfed Eastern Europe. Western Europe is next. If that happens America’s defense line is gone. Unless we _ prepare to defend Peace and freedom now, soon there may

be none left. 2

" This is what our President and Commander-in-Chief

told Congress yesterday and reaffirmed in his St. Patricks Day appeal to the nation. This is what Secretary of State

Marshall explained in detail to the Senate Armed Services - ( ‘omm ittee > »

They are not exaggerating. Militant communism is on the march. It is conquering easily and cheaply because its war-decimated victims are weak. Because only the United States is strong enough to stand at the head of a great defensive alliance of democracy, which we have not yet done. . We have tried persuasion. We failed. Our patience has been misunderstood as indifference or fear. We have tried agreement by compromise. We failed. At Tehran, at Cairo, at Yalta, at San Francisco, at Potsdam, at Paris and at London, we paid dearly for compromise agreements to buy off Stalin from aggression. He has broken every one of those agreements. ~The United Nations half survives today only because Soviet stabs in the back have not yet succeeded in killing it. Part of Germany is still outside the iron curtain only because American and British and French troops are there. Greece and Turkey are holding out only with American military aid. Italy and France are yet free only because Stalin's fifth-column plots failed this winter—attempted Red coups which are to be repeated in Patis and Rome in a few weeks. * Every continent is marked. In the Far East the Red Chinese armies have almost completed the conquest of Manchuria, threatening not only the rest of China but undes®\ mining the position of American armies of occupation ‘in Korea and Japan. In the strategic Mid-East the Moscow heat is on Iran and Red agents operate in every land, not least in Palestine. In this hemisphere Stalin stooges bore from within © Qestroy inter-American Se0urity,

” 4 DESPITE THIS record there are still a few wishful thinkers who see no danger of war, no direct threat to the United States. When Russia swallowed Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, they thought that was all. When Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania and Hungary went, they said at least Czechoslovakia and Finland had escaped. Now with Czechoslovakia gone and Finland gojng, they cannot but admit that Norway, Austria, Italy and France face the same fate—unless. Fortunately, however, the vast majority of Atiericans

at last the issue. Many who only a short time ago were | away from it, now know the truth about Stalin.

In Western Europe the awakening is even more complete. Those who recently thought this was a struggle between Russia and the United States which did not concern them, now know their own survival is in the balance. And those who once were afraid to defy Soviet might, now are taking their stand—in the hope that America will lead That is the tremendous significance of the decisions by

the 16 Marshall Plan nations at the Paris Conference this

week, and even more of the five-power economic and defense pact signed in Brussels yesterday by Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. .

” #” » n ¥ » THE DANGER is that Americans will think that the European Recovery Program and the new Western European alliance are enough. They are not. . Without Marshall Plan aid, the democracies cannot combat the chaos and suffering which breeds communism. The mere hope of such American economic help saved France and Italy this winter. Immediate House passage of the ERP measure is imperative, as the President says. But to restore Western Europe only to have it taken over by Stalin does not make sense. Czechoslovakia was relatively prosperous, thanks partly to American aid; so much so that the declining Communist minority dared not permit the scheduled free elections. That merely made Stalin speed up his coup in Prague. Still some Americans, who belatedly recognize that the problem is now military as well as economic, hope the new European military alliance will be sufficient. It cannot be. Standing alone in its present weakness, it will be only an added excuse for Stalin to attack. Without American military support that European security pact is a gallant but pi gesture of our helpless democratic Mires

CONGRESS YESTERDAY applauded loudly when the President pledged American support to the Western European military alliance. But Congress was silent when he called for temporary revival of selective service to make good that pledge. Such apathy will not do. A strong American policy without the power to enforce it is suicide. One thing we must not do—we must not try to bluff. Either we fold our hands and wait for Stalin to knock out our few remaining allies, or we prepare to meet him. We put up or shut up. And fast. Preparedness as proposed by the President is not a war policy but a peace policy. Unpreparedness in all the fallen countries hastened Stalin's conquest of ‘them. There is still a chance—probably a good chance, if we are quick enough—that American preparedness will stop Stalin short of war, Universal military training probably would have been enough a year ago. Now that necessary but slow defense method must be supplemented by a limited draft. There is no other way to get enough men quickly to increase our skeleton Army, Navy and Air Force to authorized strength. It is better to draft men for peace now than to invite a war draft by waiting. It is better to spend fewer billions for planes and guns now than more later, oo Surely. a Republican Congress will riot play politics a, -sopurity in an election year—even if Stalin

With the Times A SING-SONG OF THE SEA

I love the wild life of the ocean, Our ship is now far at sea; My home's in the land of the “Wabash,” Where life is happy and free.

The bray of the fog horn at midnight Awakens us here on the deep, “Hush-a-by-baby in the tree top” — The sea cradle rocks us to sleep.

Fearful the pall of the storm cloud, Changing the ocean to ink; wild are the mountainous billows, What, oh what, if we sink?

Back of the gold of the sunset, Miles, Oh, long miles away, Basks the homeland of the Wabash, Under the gold of midday.

When I have made my last seaport And the sun settles down on life's sea, { Dig my grave in the land of the Wabash, The land of sycamore tree.

~—LEWIS BRADFORD RICHARDSON. > @ 2

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MEMORIES AT EVENTIDE

"Tis eve’ again, my day is done, And once again I'm all alone; But memories bring back tho’ts of you, Of other days, that now are gone.

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STARTING THE DAY

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Write what you think on any s public issue plainly clearly.

1939—1948 By Herbert Menzel, Ex-Czechoslovakian. Your front page showed pictures of front pages of Mar. 14, 1939, and Feb. 24, Br with the respective headlines “Hitler Czech Collapse” and * Tels Seize Czech Rule» These headtines supposedly “tell a gra story of how Czechoslovakia has been swal. Dhie lowed up twice in a decade.” But two headlines can look alike, even when the facts behind them are not alike. Here an some of the differences:

ONE: In 1939 Czechoslovakia was takeg over by a foreign power; this time a point wag scored by a native political party, the Country largest.

TWO: In 1939 the country was occupied by the Germany army. This time the only force op threat of force used (according to The Times reports) was a threat of a general strike. Ang a general strike cannot be approved by most of a country's workers,

THREE: Unlike 1939, this time the govern. ment is organized by the two political parties | which, between them, hold a majority of thy seats in the democratically elected par Furthermore, according to United Press pre diction, one to two representatives of each of the other political parties in existence will by in the cabinet.

FOUR: In 1939, all reputable statesmen ut the government, This time, some remain, : * * 0

Big Strikes Hurt By Charles L. Rlume, 2442 Coyner Ave. \ When will labor and management learn that laws never happen; that laws grow . , grow from abuse of privilege, neglect of duty, to meet changing conditions? The reason for the Wagner Act and other

Is to feel good on your feet, There are other good helps, But this one can’t be beat.

Just to see how Martha looks While stirring the batter, Makes me want to start the day Jumping up and springing at her. -—F, P. M. * 4 OF Sol is one of our greatest ‘doctors, but the only time you can have an appointment is when he is out. ®

TENACIOUS FRIEND

The one who smiles when you are gay, Enjoys the quaint small things you say, Who shares with you , . . your happiness Yet thinks of you . , . not one whit less.

When storm-tossed billows ride so high From out-a world where troubles lie, Who strives to calm the waves of care By giving Faith , , , and breathing prayer. --ANNA E. YOUNG,

called ‘Missouri An April.

about Harry 8.

A problem child likely wouldn't be one if he didn’t know sll the answers. * *

VISIONS

With seed books arriving and spring in the air As I brouse through the pages with their colors

self-restraint.

feat is assured.

80 rare : I see myself gardening, hearing my hoe and MEAL Work, bn

November,

Soon I will gaze out my window weakness of our

And admire the long green rows And plan a lot of canning, To be eaten when it snows.

stitution, =~~LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK. ; Le $ There are more than enough grouches to go S1oMnde=making people feel unhappy. >

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“SWANSEA, Wales—Settles Down and Sends for Wife—After 34 Years.”) When his unemployment nettled, He set out from Swansea's shore; Told his wife, “Dear, when I'm settled, I shall send for you once more.”

on his courage standing before

Self-restraint

. For a short while he was nervous, Undecided, never sure; But with 34 years’ service, . Now he deems the job secure.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

a long time.

Basis for Red Charge

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—Who reported to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee on the conversation at Mr. and Mrs. J. Terry Duce's dinner party for Congressmen and atomic scientists, back in 19467 This question may become one of the hottest items of discussion in social and political Washington during the coming weeks when Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards, is called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Charges against Dr. Condon are that he is ‘the weakest link in our atomic security” and that “he associated, wittingly or unwittingly, with foreign agents.” In denying these charges Dr. Condon has asked for public hearings to clear his record. One item of evidence cited against Dr. Condon is connected with the fact that he attended the Duce dinner party. Just what happened at this gathering is not altogether clear. Jt was two years ago. Memories are dim and reports are conflicting.

What Went on at Dinner

SOME OF the 15 or 20 people who attended the party now say that very pro-Russian sentiments were expressed by Dr. Condon’s wife, and that she was called down for them by Sen. Carl A. Hatch, Congressmen Karl Mundt and Edith Nourse Rogers. Another report is that some of the guests allvocated sharing the secret of the atomic bomb with Russia. A majority of the guests now say flatly that nothing like either of these things happened. The holding of dinner parties at which all manner of controversial subjects are violently discussed pro and con is not only Washington's principal indocr sport—it's a major industry. The hotter the argument, the better the party.

May Be Turn in Capital Social Ethics -

THE TERRY DUCE dinner party may mark an important turning point in Washington social history. The issue is whether everything you say is going to be reported to Congressmen J. Parnell Thomas, John Rankin and their snoopers on the UnAmerican Committee, In the winter of 1946 the biggest issue before Congress was how to set up controls over atomic energy. The Acheson-Iillienthal report on. international controls had not yet been released. Domestically the fight centered around whether there would be military or civilian control. The hundreds of young geniuses who had worked on atomic energy and bomb research formed the Federation of Atomic Scientists to express their viewpoint. They wanted to meet Congressmen and other people of influence to explain their views They got a ‘lot of volunteer assistance from prominent Washingtonians. One of the volunteers who worked on publicity was Miss Barbara Ward, a native Washingtonian from a fine family whose record of public service goes back several generations. Miss Ward got the idea of holding a series of dinner parties at which scientists could meet Congressmen and talk this new atomic issue out. Having no money, they looked around for:prominent people who had ‘big houses and could afford to throwiparties. Among

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

No Need for Mud in '48 Campaign

WASHINGTON, Madr. 18—-The first gob of campaign mud is here on my desk. It is a book

On the cover is a convict photograph of the late “Boss” Tom Pendergast of Kansas City with the number assigned to him when he went

into Leavenworth Penitentiary. There is nothing very new that can be told

Pendergast machine which, became so vicious and corrupt. dressed up again for campaign purposes, just as the Moscow radio is dressing up the wicked spectre of bossism linked to corrupt capitalism for the purposes of another kind of campaign. If a time ever called for self-restraint, that * © @ time is now. The Republicans, with a little sober reflection, will surely realize that they can afford

They can afford it because Mr. Truman's de-

assured his defeat—one the defection of the right in the Southern states, and the other the splitting off of the extreme left with Henry Wallace and the Communist manipulators. Many other causes

man might have decided at some point after 1946,

ing in favor of a Republican, which would have been perfectly possible and legal under the Con-

Repeatedly Ignored by Congress

HE APPARENTLY never seriously considered that course, taking even the suggestion as a s

ignored and repudiated him. confidence in. November, 1946, has echoed again and again in Congress, and the world knows it as well as we do here at home.

temptation at this point to dance on the corpse " of the Democratic Party is understandable. kind of interregnum invites the excesses of victory, and the Republican regulars have waited

After 1930, poor Herbert Hoover was caught in the same trap.

After-Dinner Atom Talk

. By Marquis Childs

approached an adequate plan checking the depression.

Waltz,” to be published early

servatives. entire nation. Truman's relationship with the

in the final phase, But it can be

is, if anything, mare grave. It a war that might be avoided resolution and a broad show of

the last holocaust,

Two factors alone would have Republican invasion of private

chaos.

there is little point in discussing It is anarchy.

rake the, Hei ' 0 int It The dark threat across the e are living in a perilous erregnum, enough in itself to ‘induct a And the 141g all marveling at the progress | will endure for more than nine months. Mr, Tru- a

to demonstrate the inherent constitutional system by resign-

duct at this time,

States.

over Kansas City.

wa and integrity. So we see him a Conrgess that has repeatedly you and I made the machine The vote of no

profitable interests.

is, to be sure, a rare virtue. The scape. The Penrose machine

This was no aggregation of angels.

licans can so well afford it, it is so desperate.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

In my opinion he never even

But if he had had the most perfect and far-reaching plan in the world, the Democrats would have thrown it out. one of the rebels was John Nance Garner, who has today become such a hero of the ultra-con-

In 1931, the crisis of depression threatened the Banks and factories were shutting down and food was rotting on the farms while millions were hungry. The crisis this time

that threatens can last for years. infinitely more in precious lives and treasure than

Not First Machine Product RESTRAINT is needed above all to stop the warfare now going on between the executive and legislative branches of the government.

functions of the executive branch is producing This is not government, deliberately pillorying conscientious public servants and demanding access to private documents.

reasonable self-re-But there is another consideration which, while legs important, has a bearing on our con-

From the screams of outraged virture that rise up, one. would think Mr. Truman was the first product of machine politics in. the United You get the strange impression that a machine never existed before Pendergast took

In pursuing Mr. Truman—and the baying of the pack in full cry is not a pleasant sound— we may want to forget that you and you and

indifference to and contempt of politics—or because the machine served our own private and

Machines, Republican and Democratic, have been a too familiar feature of the political land-

The victory snake dance, if it goes on through the next nine months, can do incalculable harm. Self-restraint is not a luxury because the RepubAnd the need for

it

BY

\ HERS, or 8-18 |

“Yes, spring is only a day or two away, and | simply can't stand these, old winter clothes!"

Mrs. J. Terry Duce, wife of an official and Washington representative of Arabian-American Oil Co. Mr. Duce has always been interested in science. Mrs. Duce was persuaded it would be a worthy thing for her to play hostess. Generously, she gave

a dinner. The Duces did not select the guests. They were chosen by Miss Ward. “The only rea®®n I was selected to have anything

to do with it was because I had a cook and a butler” says Mrs. Duce. Mr. and Mrs. Duce would prefer that the affair had no publicity and be forgotten. They will not discuss the evening and will not discuss their guests. They learned something from ‘both, however.

of some who were,present, will be told in tomorrow's columns: in-an effort to get:the case:in the open and straighten out the

record on an ordinary«dinner that has been turned into a spy scare.

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others who consented to opening their homes for this cause was |

What happened at the party, as pieced together from accounts

protective labor laws was that people believed management exceeded its rights, abused ify privileges, and needed controls. The blame for the Taft-Hartley Act lies'fn the laps of labor leaders. As long as labor kept its strikes localized they had public sym. pathy. When labor began to adopt the Euro. pean plan‘ and the communistic method of nationwide strikes, paralyzing the economy of the nation, it began to lose the public. As labor leaders persisted, in the minds of the people the idea grew that labor needed control and finally labor was faeing a law of its qwn—the Taft-Hartley Law. Now I warn labor, and I am a union man, to become realistic. This nationwide strike of the ‘meat packers and the coal miners is not helping the cause of labor. It can only estrange the labor movement further with the lie, The people deny the right of either labor or management to jeopardize the economy ot

for curing and

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is the threat of by steady, firm unity. The war

and well-being of ne people. It can cost LB

Open the Books

By Robert M. Traugott, Chairman At the latest public meeting of the Indians apolis Federation of Civic Clubs, J. P. Tretton and Evan Walker, officers of Indianapolis Rajle ways, Inc., said the company books were open to the public—insinuating that all their cards are on the table in the yellow coupon rate case

The and confidential

this business of

. and asked for facts on the yellow coupons. He denied that the’books were open to the publie and angrily demanded that we leave his office Since the yellow coupon case was based on estimates, not facts, and on improper aceount-

world should be

few more letters which will show clearly the tricks behind the $1,300,000 yellow coupons. eS @

Reveals Rogge Findings By C. W. Burton, 911 E. Maryland, City. The investigation of speculation in the fue ture grain markets by private interests and government officials, or their friends, is reminiscent of the evidence collected by O. John Rogge, former special assistant to the Attornew General when he was sent to Europe with a staff of auditors to follow the invasion army into Germany and audit the books of the banks and large munition factories to find out who the Fascists were in this country that were financing the Fascists in Europe before and during the war. If this information Mr. Rogge collected had been publicized and the guilty ones brought to justice we would not have this inflation today and all this talk of World War III

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore

Both Jews and Arabs Hope for Quick Blitz

JERUSALEM, Mar. 18—Palestine is doomed to a bloody, if brief, period of civil war because Jew and Arab alike are cone vinced the other side is bluffing and that organized opposition. can be crushed quickly by a determined blitz attack. An initial test of strength on the battlefield is almost inevitable without reference to any action the United Nations may take, in the opinion of observers here. If events to come demonstrate that both Jew and Arab alike have underestimated one another's stomach for an all-out war, settlement of some sort may become possible within a few months. A Christian Arab who holds this view likened the embattled Jews and Moslems to two kids fighting in the street.

Both Sides Talked Selves Into Fight

“TO MUCH outside attention has been given this situation with the result, that both sides, have talked themselves into & fight,” he said. “But now, if they are left to settle the row bee tween themselves, they soon should find there is no point in committing mass suicide. There is plenty of room in the Middle East for both Jews and Arabs if they will just sit down and talk things over.” This observer admitted the principal obstacle to agreement would be the question of continuing Jewish immigration to Palestine. : “If that problem could be disposed of, the rest would be easy,” e said. He pointed out that a form of partition had been brought about by force of arms even now, with only a few other areas remains, ing to be secured by one side or the other, An armistice would be difficult, to achieve at present because neither the Jewish nor the Arab forces are operating under rece ognized centralized command. Provisional understanding has been reached between the Haganah, the Jewish defense force, and the Irgun, the underground organization, but it remains to be tested —and the Stern gang is continuing to operate on its own.

possible by our

in Pennsylvania

| Jerusalem to Be Battleground

FAWZI BEY'S “Arab liberation army,” of Syrian, Iraqi and Egyptian volunteers, has no direct control over district guess rilia leaders, such as Abdul Khader Bey Hesseini in Jerusalem and Hassan Bey Salameh in Jaffa. Jerusalem is certain to be a major battleground because of its’ . psychological advantage. The British exercise nominal jurisdic Hos over only three small security zones in the center of the city. "Even if the United Nations sends security forces to the city to take over when the British on May 15 begin their final evacuas tion, the transfer of control would be largely nominal. The Arabs at least, would not recognize it. Their bomb attack upén the Jewish Agency Building itself suggests they may want to join battle with the Jews without waiting upon either British or United Nations

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