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The Test in Italy : ECTS of preventing Soviet control of Italy are’ * better. ' One danger now is that the anti-Communists in their optimistic swing from the deep pessimism of last ‘month, may underestimate Red strength in the Apr. 18 election and possible civil war thereafter. “These two final weeks can throw the election either way. Neither the Rome government nor the Western Allies can afford to leave anything undone to get a fair hearing for democracy and to increasé security against a Red coup. Sunday's parade of 20,000 ‘armed troops and police before half a million cheering Romans doubtless had propaganda value. But the capture of a Yugoslav ship running guns to the Reds and the roundup of an armed Red company near Naples are probably of more practical effect. Government sources estimate that Red bands have secreted enough arms for a guerrilla force of 50,000 or more. Many of the 20,000 government forces in Sunday's parade might well be assigned to finding those hidden arms and to arresting implicated Reds. " That could make the difference between Red success and failure if Stalin orders violence after they lose the election—if they lose it. ~_Guesses as to the electoral strength of the Red bloc have fallen recently from 45 per cent to 35. This public shift is attributed in part to firmer government measures and more effective Christian Democratic bloc campaigning, and to Vatican pressure against communism in that preponderantly Catholic country. Most credit, however, is given to the United States and the Western Allies—and, in reverse, to Stalin.

8» sn =» STALIN'S rape of Czechoslovakia and grab for Finland have frightened at least some of the Italians who were flirting with communism. At the same time the Western Powers’ proposal to return Trieste to Italy has received wild acclaim, putting the Italian Reds and Stalin and Tito on the spot. American passage of the Marshall Plan and arrival of the 500th American food ship since last summer appear to have | swung many votes. Floods of letters from Italian-Ameri-cans spelling out the Red danger, and Washington's announcement that no American aid will go to a Communist Italy, have helped to clarify the situation. nl Meanwhile the later revoked action of our House of | Representatives in including Fascist Spain in the Marshall Plan, and the highly advertised visit to Dictator Franco of the U. S. envoy to the Vatican, needlessly have helped the Reds. oi ; ; 2 Aside from avoiding repetition of such blunders, the United States during the next fateful fortnight can encourage anti-Communist Italians in several ways. It can show naval strength in the Mediterranean. It can publicize its fight for Italian membership in the United Nations, and Russia's opposition. It can rush every available relief ship to Ttaly loaded with European Recovery Program supplies y &

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Not Exactly Synonymous "AN article on the Department of Labor's 35th anniversary, in the United Mine Workers Jourfial, discovers a paradox: While the labor movement has grown stronger, it says, “the government department established to be its spokesman wag becoming weaker.” he It then quotes President Taft's description of the labor secretary's “duty of fostering, promoting and developing the welfare of the wage earners of the United States . . .” It seems to us that the article's author leaves room for argument when he assumes that promoting the wage earners’ welfare is the same thing is being spokesman for the labor movement. And when one thinks how well some of the labor movement's leaders have promoted that welfare—like the UMW’s own John L. Lewis at the present time—the assumption borders on the ridiculous.

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No Cause for Panic THERE are many good reasons to support the Defense Department's urgent request that Congress increase our military strength. But we don’t think that the present activity of Russian submarines is one of them, These undersea craft have been seen 800 miles off Hawaii, near the Aleutians (which are close to Russian territory) and—possibly—200 miles off California. There is nothing illegal or, in itself, particularly menacing about this. Freedom of the seas applies even to Russia.

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thrown on more than Your own responsibility. ¢

Once in a moment of cheerfulness

80 great that my heart couldn't hold its warmth

It stretched forth fingers of deep content It touched a saddened, careworn breast

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I guess I looked 30 longingly She said “T'll fetch a dime.

Then when I left, I couldn't look : _ To see her shed those tears, ] ~ It was the last goodbye for us, For I was gone for years,

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—R. R.

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It isn’t the house you live in Nor the surrounding neighborhood, It isn’t the fact that a little paint Should make your house look good.

It doesn’t matter if the windows Rattle just a little, Or if the roof needs fixing And sagging in the middle.

It doesn’t matter if you can’t have A picket fence so white, Or if your house looks poorly Lighted every night.

But rather it's the people With ever glowing pride, Are those who have no money But a lot of love inside. 3 =CLARENCE RICHARD MASSEY, ® ¢

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Who's Against It?

I smiled, and the smile then grew

Nor myself give it honest due.

And reached out to a lonely heart;

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Reds Testing Our Lines in Berlin

WASHINGTON, Apr. 6—What is happening

And became a shining part

Of the sorrowful way of abandoned hope Of one who had lived In vsin. It planted the seed of trust in one Who had lived for selfish gain.

I saw my smile brighten the twilight glow Of an old man’s lonely years; It softened the pain of an injured one’s wounds And banished a wee one’s tears. '

Bread we give and are satisfied : % That we've done our honest due; down finally to what policy should be followed

But bread would be wine, and richest fare, ; If we gave a happy smile too. -

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in Berlin today was clearly foreshadowed by a“ highly secret report sent scme weeks ago by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, who is the man on the spot in the present grave peril. In fact, it was ‘Gen. Clay's report which precipitated President Truman's call for the draft and the other moves aimed at alerting this country. Part of the report, with its forecast of a showdown that might mean war, was communicated to the Senate Armed Service Committee. It precipitated a long and solemn discussion that got

with respect to the families of American soldiers and civilians stationed in Berlin. ’ The fear of “another Bataan” was frankly exssed as the possible fate of the Americans on the lonely island of Berlin was debated. .Gen.: Clay was urging that nothing be done to dpset the precarious balance inside Germany. $ He knew the effect on the jittery German pop-

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BROTHERS

If, when asked to carry burdens, Be they great or be they small, For our fellow men around us, We would say— When asked to help another, Be he black or be he white, “He ain't no burden, he's my brother.” That's God's way. ~—JEANINE H. PEARSEY. ® © *

and children. The repercussions would throughout Europe.

a mob and destroyed.

The 1948 Donut Queen was picked from How Much to Tell?

190 4 contestants—leaving 99 other girls in the ho ® oo

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“WASHIN GTON-—Distant. Kin of Humans and Apes Lived in Trees of West.”) “Fellow monkeys, through the ages,” Said the leader to his clan, “We've been happy in these cages, © “And kept peace throughout our span.

“But as self-respecting primates, “We must think of our repute. “So this latest human tie, mates, “Make all effort to refute!”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Keyes Beech

tell them too much they go crazy.”

fearful realities of the present moment.

a fateful emphasis.

ulation of an order evacuating American wives spread

This is a real threat to the American position. But a parallel threat is the danger of war hysteria in the United States which would express itself, not in a firm resolve to be strong, but in senseless jitters. An example is the report of a recent incident in the Middle West in which the house of an alleged Communist was attacked by

HOW TO STRIKE a balance between what to tell and what not to tell is one of the problems most troubling to those who are trying to formulate policy. They quote James L. Reston of the New York Times, who said about Congress: “If you tell them too little they go fishing, and if you

The present tendency is to hold back in the belief that any further warnings will produce more jitters rather than more action. For most of us living several thousand miles away from the continent of Europe, it is difficult to realize the

But those who live on the ramparts have few fllusions. A recent report from France gives this The present government rep-

< Oléarly, the possibility of a large:

‘ they could consolidate Western Europe, with its

By An Ex-conscript.

resents a heroic effort to steer a middle course between the extremes of communism and De Gaulleism. Within this embattled government it is clearly realized there could be no resistance to Russian armies of invasion. The most highly trained French troops—perhaps 150,000—are in French Indo-China trying stubbornly to put down a revolt in that tragic colony. Any attempt to resist an invading Soviet would in all probability precipitate a sort of civil war within France,

What Communists Would Do

THAT IS WHY the approach of an invading army, in the event of war between Russia and the United States, would be likely to bring the following sequence of events. The present middle course government would resign, to be followed by an all-Communist -govérnment. The new (Sovesmunent would ruthlessly suppress any att@mpt at opposition. It would welcome in the Soviet troops as defenders of a “free” Europe from the threat of “imperialist” America. organized’ resistance movement such as functioned in France throughout the last war, co-operating with British and American agents, would be remote. That is why French leaders of the middle course are putting a question that comes to visiting Americans like a dash of ice water. Has the time come to form the basis of a government-in-exile which could be removed at the first threat either to London or to Washington? The startled American in turn puts a question. He asks: But what can we do to prevent such a catastrophe? And the response comes: Do you have a million and a half or two million trained troops that you could send immediately to Western Europe? This last hardly takes an answer. The state of our unpreparedness in trained manpower, is advertised daily. The Russians have exact information on the situation inside France. ' They might well believe that by moving now

ing with bullies, never doubt that.

in the Armed Forces, would not the The last two years have proved we

munists, and dreamers. , ; *

‘fall of a Nation’ By Mrs. Alice M. Roush, City.

Nation.”

placed by .the huge bombers, atomic germ warfare and other devices now Another is the Fifth Column.

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270,000,000 people and its great resources of industry and science. That is the threat in the grim testing of force taking place on the island of Berlin. And meanwhile we are in the middle of a coal strike that the law may be unable to end, and Congress passes a tax reduction bill.

German agent. tions, power plants and water works.

profit.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Billion Rice Eaters Face 4-Year Crop Shortage |'

TOKYO, Japan, Apr. 6—A tragedy as stark as any in modern times—too many people and too little food—afflicts Asia with little prospect of improvement for some years, a survey today shows. : One billion rice eaters, all but a fraction of them Orientals, face a diminishing supply of their staple food for at least four years and probably longer. From the orderly, terraced rice paddies of Japan across the Yellow Sea to warring China and on to steaming India, it's the same story. - ; World rice production for 1947-48 is estimated by United Nations food experts at 100,700,000 tons. This would be an improvement of about 2,500,000 tons over the previous year. But it will be 2,500,000 tons short of the pre-war-average.

1948 Crop Off 8 Per Cent

RICE-PRODUCING countries of Southeast Asia, which before

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If the disclosure of the submarines’ activities was meant to add persuasion, it is not needed. If meant to 4 alarm, it is to be deplored.

. Impulse or Stratagem? WE wonder whether the “lie-down strike” of Wall Street pickets was just a sudden inspiration, or whether a few had planned it carefully and the rest followed suit, meekly and stupidly. 1t is hard to tell from a photograph whether a police-

composition.

Footnote on Tolerance

vahen she arrived in New York a few days later.

man with a night stick is trying to pull a striker to his feet or to club him to the ground. But one thing we're sure of—if such pictures are circulated in pre-election Italy, the Communists there will be quick to use the prone striker, the officer with his stick, and the magic name of Wal! Street in a scarcely flattering story of their own

JMMIGRATION officials, who kept Irene Joliot-Curie, the French left-wing scientist, at Ellis Island bn her first night here, didn’t detain her sister, the writer Eve Curie,

She might not have fared so well if she had run afoul that congressional committee that’s been trying to get a Republican State Department official fired because his sec-

the war accounted for 95 per cent of world production, expect a 1948 crop 8 per cent below pre-war par. Allowing for maximum increases in production, it is estiated Mere will be a 10 million-ton gap between need and supply y A Only in three Southeast Asia countries—Burma, Indo-China and Siam—is there enough rice for everybody and a surplus for export. Pout Southeast Asia's population is increasing at a rate of 11 million people annually. Inevitably, unless production can keep pace with population growth, which it isn’t, this means less rice for export.

Basic Diet for Billion CHINA, Japan, the Philippines and India, which has a mission in America to buy wheat against its poor rice crop, are

Side Glances—By Galbraith :

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COPA. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE.

onto the bad news that the price of shoes is due for a ris it can’t sell as many pairs as it used to. paid $22 for a pair of hrogans. Sen. plained to Seén. Ellender.

supporters down home, may not like it." considering “a bill to provide a revolving fund for the pur

are sponsoring it with him.

Bill Amounts to a Subsidy -

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fund. The cloth, shoes and whatever else mi consumers,

sumer goods. But what the bill amounts to ig a subsidy for American fafmers and stockmen.

among the deficit countries. Their plight is best summed up in a report of the United Nations food organization at its March meeting in Baguio, Philippines: : “It is estimated that approximately one billion people are greatly concerned with rice because it constitutes ‘the bulk of their daily diet.

“They've, been fighting for a ‘week, so when she dashed out today with a grip | thought sure | had a house for you—but it was only laundry!"

reduce supplies of these commodities in the help keez American prices high. Which is what the apparently ‘want.

«Of this number, about 750 million live in countries in which the natural resources provide sufficient rice to meet needs and enable varying quantities to be exported to deficit areas. “The remaining 250 million people must look to imported rice to supplement their domestic supplies. “Finding the supplies for these people has been one of the most pressing problems of the post-war period. Despite the substitution of wheat, maize and sorghums, a totally inadequate diet has been provided for millions of non-suppliers.”

of surplus rice. exchange.

the dollars.

Export countries,

Most of the deficit countries are short of foreign in post-war pursuit of the Yankee dollar, want to be paid in American money, which the deficit countries don't have. In some cases countries have had to forego their claim on world rice allocations because they didn't have

But basically the problem throughout Asia remains: many people and too little food.

story may be something elses: That's what brough skins in the bill, ! Three Million Hides Short

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Too the leather industry used up 23.8 mijlion hides.

Non-Asiatic countries have helped some by expanding rice prodyction in recent years. Among them are Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt and the United States. Last year these countries and others contributed 650,000 tons to Asia's rice pool. Loss of arable land, destruction of work animals, scarcity of fertilizer and disrupted communications—all products of the war or continuing civil war—are factors contributing to the rice shortage.

A cousin is suspected of being a Communist.

In addition, money is also a problem in the distribution

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

We cannot afford to rest our national security in the United Nations.—Gen. Joseph T. MeXalhey, U. 8, Army. : >

Jefferson and Jackson democracy is mot in retreat, but in full rout.—Gov. Fielding Wright of Mississippi. .

50 million pairs of shoes.

shoes a year. Last year they bought 450 million year they figure they'll buy only about 420 million pairs per person. ou med 2 Before the war the average pair-of sale, $3.10 retail. Today the prices are $391 $7.25 retail. ¢

agricultural commodities and raw materials to be proces occupied areas and sold abroad,” so it said. The bill was intro duced by Sen. George Aiken of Vermont. Thirty-eight Senators

There isn’t much doubt about these people needing such

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is strong. When the World War I was over, the United

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after the other war and at least try to correct

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this war, but if the United Nations could set

fight a needless war or to use diplomacy and

a new

I am in favor of UMT. I think our country is courting disaster every day that it fails to start a program to conscript an Armed Force. That will cause any nation to think twice before they attack. Anyone knows a bully will not fight someone his equal. And we are deal

I was especially aroused by an article appearing in Hoosier Forum Mar, 11 by E. F. Maddox. I cannot follow his reasoning. Why should there be more Communists in a conscript Army than in a volunteer one? - Would it ‘not be as wasy to screen one as the other, If there are such great opportunities for sabotage Communists be even more earger to enlist? . .-. »

cannot

have an Armed Force large enougli through volunteer service alone. Big words and dollars cannot stand up.against trained. armies, Mr. Maddox states that Communists against UMT in this country, just like he is. In my honest opinion those opposing come under the following classifications—people with a dear son or a dear'bfother, Com-

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I have tried to get people interested in a book called “The Fall of a Nation.” The author also wrote “The Birth of a Nation.” Now, in . view of the grave crisis at hand, I think a movie should be made of “The Fall of a

Naturally, the outmoded methods used for the invasion in the book would have to be re-

bombs, in use.

In the last war as Germany was ready to march jnto Paris many hitherto insignificant, appearing employees suddenly held strategic positions until their armiy could take over. An elevator operator in ‘d newspaper office who had held this job for six or eight years abruptly became an alert, well trained This occurred at radio sta-

I am hoping you will read and get others

to read, “The Fall of a Nation” presents & picture of tolerance by which many might

Increasing Shoe Prices Irk Senate Committee

WASHINGTON, Apr. 6—Putting its best foot forward, Kane sas Sen. Arthur Capper’s Committee on Agriculture has stumbled

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They're already so high that even the shoe trade is protesting During a committee hearing, Sen. Allen J. Ellender of Houma, La., let out the secret that Sen. James O. Eastland of Doddsville, Miss, had recently

Eastland, being a big cotton planter, of course, can afford to pay $22 for shoes any time he wants to. But having to pay that much has burned him plenty.- :Amorg others, he com: That's where he made his mistake. Sen. Eastland thinks Sen. Ellendér shouldn't have told it. His

The subject of shoe prices came up while the Senators were chase of sed in

THE IDEA is to give Army Secrctary Kenneth Royall a fund of $150 million. With it he ‘should buy cotton, wool, flax, m: hides and other farm products. He gould ship them to Germany, Austria, Japan, Korea. There they would be sold to textile and shoe factories. The money would come back to the revolving ht be manufactured

from the raw materials would then be sold abroad to native cone million

As such it would U.'s. That would Senators

The thing might work, for cotton and other fibers which are

in surplus supply. When it comes to hides, skins and leather, Ahe urp pply Jndier, os

people. to Congress to protest against the inclusion of hides and

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Council of America, told the Senators that the U. 8. was going

to be over three million cattle hides short this year: . Last year This year the

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