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of course Stalin waite a new settlement for Germany, as for the Danube, provided he can dictate the terms . —as Vishinsky is now trying to do in Belgrade. But there 1s grave doubt that Stalin is ready for any settlement which makes him live up to his past pledges, or which recognizes the democratic rights of the Western Powers or of the people directly involved. The fact that Stalin sought a confererice has meant in the past another propaganda offensive rather than genuine negotiations. That was the experience of the last Big Four conferences in Moscow and London, as of the opening sessions of the current Belgrade meeting. The Tver issues before the Belgrade conference are » ‘The Danube is the continental lifeline. It in. the trade not only of Germany, Austria and the Balans, but of most of Europe and thus of the world. Russia, violation of prewar and post-war agreements, has made effect a private Red waterway. Unless it can be reto free trafic, under joint control shared by the rest, there is not much use talking about European recov. y or the sanctity of treaties. . a Danubian settlement by itself » ely. That ite is part of the wider East-West which ‘is ase. A solution of the Riparian problems will be relasimple if and when Stalin shifts from a policy of to ene of f international Se-operation- though

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‘warm handclasp, a bit of praise, ‘A friendly word or smile . Can cheer our hearts and make us happy For a little while, But let some fancied slight or snub, Some censure come our way, We harbor it within our breasts Forever and a day. «MILDRED MUSGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville, > ¢ +

BROWN BROWSINGS Guy Patterson bought a quarter's worth of cube steak for his bachelor-meal Saturday night and sez it is the first time In history that he could carry home his meat-victuals in his vest

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filllam Philip Simms WAS! ON, IN, Aug. 3-This week is exto go far toward tipping Moscow's hand, | 45 to her intentions for the rest of

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Hints in Moscow newspapers of 8 possible in Paris about the time of of the’ United Na-

__ Bhould Russia agree to new Big Four discussions, the odds against war this year would be greatly lengthened. The talks could hardly be concluded’ much before Christmas and European wars seldom break out in mid-winter,

Early Fall Is Best War Season BEUROPE'S FAVORITE war season is August-September. By that time, the principal crops have been harvested making it less of a problem to feed armies. From then until the middle’ or end of October a period of good

weather can be expected. After mid-November, *

however, comé the short days, long nights, fogs, drizzle, snow and freezing. True, remind the experts, Russians are bet: ter trained and equipped for winter campaigning than Westerners. But even Russia probably would prefer late summer or early fall to spring a surprise and overrun Central and Western Europe. Then she could utilize the winter to consolidate, Moreover, some believe Russia might use the winter months to transfer hundreds of thousand of Weatern Huropean men, women and children to Moscow, Stalingrad and other centers behind the iron curtain for use as hostages against the atom bomb,

‘Your Guess Is Good as Mine’

IN ANY EVENT, should Moscow agree to further top-level conferences this fall, it would be taken as evidence—though by no means proof—that Russia does not intend to provoke war this year, or It should be emphasized, however, that most of this is sheer surmise, This writer has yet to hear a single responsible diplomat, politico or military man, American or foreign, who pretended to know what is in the minds of the 14 men of the politburo. The closer you get to the center of things, whether in Washington, London, Paris, Berlis or Moscow, the truer this is, Ask any of them, off or on the record, what they think Russia is going to do and the anawer is: is about as good as mine.”

“Immediate Showdown Unlikely

IF RUSSIA ia not now ready to fight—and the prevailing’ view is that she is not—the belief is that she will continue to play at Fi ~ “ame of quibble and delay. She dan be expected to dicker for advantage before the proposed con-

. ference begins, then use it, if and when heid, as

a sounding board for more of her propaganda.

Nor is it regarded as likely that the Big.

Four foreign ministers will reach a showdown before adjournment of the United Nations assembly which meets Sept. 21, might find hiled before the United Nations

relations to improve much before our NovemAmerican Communists are husk. ing Wallace, and Moscow can be expected to ‘whatever it can to help him and hurt io and Dewey. Remembering that FDR in 1944 won by more than three to one dver the combined total votes for the anti-New Deal Texas regulars and the Republicans, the Dixiecrats must be credited with coming ahead swiftly indeed to be less than one month old as a political movement. And the “state's rights—defend your own rights" material the Dixiecrats are using is the same that sent poor southern whites into battle in grey uniforms 87 years ago. -

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GOP Hop es Red

. By Charles T. Lucey

Spy Publicity

will Aid Their Political Drive

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—Recent indictment of U. 8. Communist leaders and startling new charges concerning Soviet sympathizers in the federal government promised today to make Red activities in ‘this country a major election campaign issue. Republicans said they would not try to ats tach personal guilt in any case until charges

| and indictments were proved, but they observed:

“We've been hammering on this thing for years and it may be that the state of international affairs will cause people to think more about it now. Much of the time all we got in return was the charge of ‘Red-baiting’ When Tom Dewey talked of the Communist thing in the 1944 campaign he was criticized because the Soviets then were our ‘democratic ally” But the truth of what we've been saying is beginning to sink In» Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin and other top Republican leaders repeatedly have attacked the Truman administration for failing

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Texas Scrapping

By Jim Carroll HOUSTON, Aug. 3—There's going to be one real scrap before Texas’ 23 ‘electoral votes—

largest of any southern state—are cast in the’ presidential race this fall, it became evident today. Dixiecrats for Thurmond, Trumancrats for you know who, and Deweycrats (suh, they’s still no Republicans to speak of down .here) are bullding up swiftly toward a political melee that may write some national history, Texas has become the bellwether, in a way, of the South, Biggest, most populous and by far the richest, it totes more weight today than any state that was once under the stars and bars of the Confederacy, roughly ‘the group of states that are pushing Thurmond against Truman. A big part of Texas is boili mad at President Truman and his northern aati supporters for their so-called civil rights program, Probably much of ‘this anger is inspired. Opposition to civil rights for Negroes

at labor unions for the big interests of Texas to pass up. »

Anti-Truman Bloc Spreading

~~ BUT THE DIXIECRATS' opposition to Truman is spreading swiftly and widely at the voter level. Reared to think that state's rights are the last guarantee of freedom, Texans, and Southerners generally, hold the civil rights program an .uncalled-for invasion of their private fears. They are becoming more

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to act decisively in seeking to toss the Communist sympathizers out of government bureaus. They contend that while the Democrats cried down accusations of Soviet influence in Washington, the administration had to come around to seeking funds to purge the payroll of leftists.

Plans to Keep Red Issue Alive

THE REPUBLICAN HOPE is that'the cumulative effect of widespread publicity given to

* Communist activities here will react to GOP

benefit in November because the Democrats controlled the government during the period in which U. 8. Communists gained their greatest successes. The theme 1s certain to be stressed in Republican speeches and statements in coming months.

The lfkelihood now is that the issue will be

kept before the public actively in further exhaustive congressional committee hearings and in presentations to the Federal Grand Jury here in the District of Columbia. The House UnAmerican Activities Committee will demand the summoning of a special panel to hear evidence against government workers whose names have been mentioned in charges on Capitol Hill How important the Communist matter is regarded was indicated by the fact that not one but two Republican-controlled committees were running the super-spectacle kind of hearings that gets crowds and big headlines in Washington. On the Senate side, the Special Investigating Committee headed by Sens. Homer Ferguson AR. Mich.) was dipping into phases that it regarded significant, concentrating particularly on the apparent ease of subversive suspects in getting federal jobs even after they have been placed under FBI surveillance, :

GOP Makes Political Hay

IF THE SENSATIONAL spy-ring charges are borne out it will mark one of the few times since the Republicans took over control of Congress two years ago that they have been able to, make political hay through the congressional committee device. When the GOP came to power in 1948 leaders promised that they would “begin every day with a prayer and end it with a probe.” In-

‘vestigations touching the conduct of affairs in

the Roosevelt and Truman administrations werg pushed along numerous lines. Yet the Democrats have pointed out frequestly . that nothing in the way of a. major scandal has been turned up on the whole conduct of the war, despite the fact that unprece~ dented billions of dollars were poured out in arms contracts, Democrats made it plain today that they will make a full defense, if necessary, of the administration’s eampaign against Communists in the goverhment. They particularly cited firing of suspected leftists in the State Department. ~

. HEN-PECKING—

Wife-Type By MRS. W. FERGUSON DO YOU WANT your husband to succeed? Then don’t try to boss him. Hen-pecked men are business failures, says the personnel :director of a big industry. Always at the beck and call of their wives, they soon develop hesitant attitudes .and finally Jose their self-confidence. + ~ He puts these wife types into three groups. There's the one with social ambitions. She believes her husband’s chances for advancement will improve if they go “around with the best people, - » - NEXT WE HAVE the wife who calls the office tyo or three times a day to keep tab on her husband. She demands details of all his activities. If he isn't home on the dot, she’s at the phone to "find out what's keeping him. Worst of all is the jet-pro-

shoot to the top of his concern because she sets off the spark. She harps on his slowness in promotion, or is quick to hint that the neighbor makes more salary. The good helpmate is the one who lets Paps be the head of the house—or ‘lets him think be is.

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. < YES Rea After Feller's Scalp = AH By Chas. M. Skufea the pT aes the seit slatsient ‘Bob I can’t help but join up with the thousands who are clamoring for his scalp. _ ThA To quote, “ater all it's only a game” in reply to a question by one of the certainly turned me against Bob. What is the definition of a game? all I ever got out of a game, be or baseball, were & lot of aches and pains and, he -

terms a “game.” : be Has he ever considered that if : for baseball he would no doubt be an obscure farmer or farm hand in Iowa and not the exalted position he holds today? : Doesn't he realize the little fans who spend hard-earned dollars to see him are what makes baseball today? He heard cheers wherever he want for yeass and if he is any kind of a sport I had surmised he was, at the he is receiving a ntia booing should not disturb him. After all the fans who come to boo him in the majority, hard workers who spend earned money to see baseball and expect high-salaried players to do the same for money as they do. > Easy money has changed many a head, I am surprised to hear Feller thinks so little fans who made him what he is today.

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matter of the preservation of our Merchant Marine. Every man who served with this during the war is now faced with being drafted

- into the Army,

Have the legislators no sense of decency? Have they no feeling for the men who served. their country in its time of need, only to find themselves having to break up their homes for the second time? It is the duty of all fair-minded merchadt seaman, will that need be met after treatment like this? Public Law 87 of the 78th deferred these men, Now they are slapped the face. It is the duty of all fair minded to write to their Congressmien and the he dent. Sof

DIPLOMATIC HOTFOOT— ne Canal Trouble :

By Jim G. Lucas i

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-—Becretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall indirectly has given Panama a diplomatic hot foot. In effect, Mr. Royall told Panama to stop’ making it tough for us along the Panam Canal or we'll’ dig another somewhere els There was no statement from Mr. Royall off the subject. It was said for him in Bogota, Colombia, where Foreign Minister Ed Zuleta Angel announced the United States had “suggested” a canal through his country. Senor Zuleta said we are interested in a canal using the Atrato and Truando Rivers - Details of our offer, he said, would be disclosed: by the Colombian Congress. fie The Atrato-Truandoiproposal is one of Mr. Royall’s pet projects, Members of the Housé Merchant Marine Committee—which has juris: diction over the Panama Canal—say he his pushed it for a year or more. They believe Panamanian authorities aren't likely to miss the in Senor Zuleta's announcement that we are ready to open negotiations,

Calls Canal Talk ‘Fantastic’

WHETHER THEY will be impressed is spea--ulative. The threat to take our Canal elsewhere is one we have made periodically singe 1914. Panamanians are accustomed to sueh talk. And even if Panama were willing to grant us concessions, the country is more comn« cerned now with threats of a civil. war. Ants. Yankee feeling 1s high, and no political faction wants to be branded pro-United States. ¢ Rep. Willis Bradley (R. Cal), a retired Navy, captain who has become unofficial al spokesman on: Canal matters, brands the suggestion of a Colombian canal “fantastic. He says there is no chance for it in Congress, Most likely, he said, Secretaty Royall is “undér the misapprehension” Congress will approve President Truman's request for a $2.4 billion sea-level Panama Canal and hopes to calm political situation in advance.

The Panama Canal now uses a set of re’ 3

locks to raise ships across the hump of the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific. President Truman recently asked for a feacloval canal to replace it on the advice of Maj. Gen. J. C. Mehaffey, former Canal Zone governor, that the lock canal is too vulnerable to atomie attack.

‘It's OK Where It Is’

‘REP. BRADLEY says Gen. Mehaffey em ceeded his authority. Also, he says no canal can be defended against the atomic bomb, so one is as good as another. He contends the lock canal can be expanded sufficiently, and says a majority of the Congress, naval officers and private ship owners agree. Agitation for a new canal, he says, comes from and professional engineers. Furthermore, Rep. Bradley says the AtratoTruando canal will cost $8 to $15 billion and will require a 95-mile man-made ditch. The present Panama Canal is approximately 50; miles long and represents a net capital investment of $514 million, according to the House Merchant Marine Committee, Other plans have been suggested. One is for use of a new railroad across Mexico through Tehuantepec. Another is for a Nica« raguan Canal, approximately 170 miles long, and others include alternate routes across Panama. Rep, Bradley says none is feasible. “There's just one place for an inter-oceanie canal, and that's in Panama-—right where it is,” he declared. ~

Military Security Troubles

THE ARMY and Air Force are increasingly worried about military security in Panama.

Panama's refusal to renew leases on our World. -

War II bases and frequent mob attacks on! American servicemen nave raised new fears. | Since Panama forced us to get out of the Rio Hata air base, Army and Air Force mien say our ability to defend the Canal has suffered. Communist-inspired civil war in Costa Rica and Colombia have not helped the situa« on.

If we put a canal through Colombia it would provide an ironic twist to history. The revolu+< tion of 1903—which cut the isthmus away from Colombia and set up the republic of Panama— was largely inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt because Colombia refused to let us complete the French-started canal. But as a diplomatic maneuver, Re Bradley says our “farcical” offer to build the Atratos Truando canal will fail. He believes Panaman+ fans are confident — with good reason — that they have our Canal, and we are stuck with it. {

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