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trying to get such a conference for e the three democracies insisted that he of his broken pledges before discussing another a He has now maneuvered us into the position of saying we will hold another conference with its risk of another betrayal, provided he lifts his six-weeks-old illegal blockade of west Berlin. If there is a conference all signs indicate Stalin will repeat his aggression demands which wrecked the similar" | Moscow and London conferences last year. Those are for Soviet veto powers over the Ruhr, and German and Austrian settlements favorable to Russian domination of those coun tries and ultimately of all Europe, : ~~ Let us hope for a change of heart in the Kremlin. But . meanwhile let us keep our heads clear and our powder dry,

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X WASHINGTO , Aug, T—Russ # da bexmed night! 10 the Middis East has

S y i caused the United States to abandon a major military role in Iran—one of the world's potential trouble spots. ' Since 1042, Brig. Gen. H. Norman Schwarskopf, former head of New Jersey state police, has directed Iran's 20,000-man gendarmerie. Officially, Gen. Schwarzkopf was an adviser chief of the American military mission--but the Iranian government delegated to him executive authority over its internal police force. He reorganized the gendarmerie under the Iranian

interior ministry.

Under his direction, it acquired new equipment, trained its own officers, built airfields, established communication lines, ‘He came to Washington last year and returned with a $20 million defense loan. Recently, we gave that country another $26 million military credit.

Transferred to Germany TWO MONTHS AGO--after six years in Iran-—Geén, Schawarzkopf was transferred to Germany and Col. J. R. Plerce, a deputy in the Pentagon's , Public Informatiofi Division, was ordered to Tehran to replace him. * But Col. Plerce was delayed in Athens for -geveral weeks. During that time, the whole matter was hush-hush here. Gen. Omar Bradley inadvertently referred to it at a press confer‘ence, but. his aides quickly interposed that it was a classified matter. Now, Col. Pieree is in Tehran. The delay is explained as a protocol matter. But he ig strictly an adviser. Under a new agreement worked out with Iran, he no longer has the executive powers delegated to Gen. Schwarzkopf. Some Army men say the change in status is significant. Gen. Schwarzkopf controlled the gendarmerie he created. In the ill-fated Sovietdirected Asgerbaijan revolt of 1945, he was a field commander. When Tehran was threatened, he was able to s&y with authority: : “I have ordered Jendstierie units from the south provinces to Tehran.” Col. Pierce will have no such authority. He can only suggest. The official explanation is that Gen. Schwarzkopf was given executive authority only ur that * says-there is no need no to maintain more than an advisory mission in Tehran,

Still Propaganda Target oa rk I Won ment attacks on Gen. Schwarzkopf-—in which he is pictured as an Iranian Himmler—are responsiBle for his transfer to Germany. They say it is highly probable that the United States and Iran decided to “pull>the teeth

. Army sources Yay they know of no direct Russian pressure to force limitation of Col. Pierce's authofity, They believe it is largely a matter hh Jnhian ternal 2outles, MNnger A o> TA rate, the no as ny ey military Ee in oilsrich Iran, which some Army sources list—along with Palestine and Berlin—as a likely spot for a final showdown with the Russians.

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ment, machine tools and m ments. They are deeply hurt by

under end of the war.

ON THE POLITICAL side, of the rapid strides toward unity Europe ‘and western Germany heavily upon the decisions now Kremlin, publicly, They banked upon the latent age-old hatreds persisting among to prevent a solid alliance and success of the Marshall Plan.

of Russian leaders th the zeal of western

Russian hopes for disunity.

WAIL OF DISTRESS . ... By Hal O'Flcherty Russia Seen Cracking Under Heavy Pressure of Cold War

RUSSIA IS CRACKING under the economic

Marshall Plan, the restrictions on imports from the United States to Russia and the success of the air-lift in Berlin are producing results. This week brought the first long wall of distress from the Soviet trade organizations

the United

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in Moscow, for the export of American machinery\to Russia

ing hardship upon American concerns that Dave : contracted to provide the Soviets with much~ needed machinery. The Ingersoll Milling Co, Rockford, Ill, is named as one so affected

Rochester,

akly boasting that the restrictions will not impede the fuifillmént of the five-year plan, the Russians rage at the failure of American firms to deliver railroad and electrical quip

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Soviet leaders were convinced and said so that the alliance of the western European nations could not be perfected.

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Europeans block the

A realization now is dawning in the minds they have miscalculated rope for a new unity. Also, they misjudged the willingness of the Canadians and the Americans to go along with the western union of Europe on a firm basis of military and political co-operation. Recent conferences in London, involving representatives of Canada and the United States working closely with the western union on measures of defense, snuffed out any lingering

The Russian aims both for Germany and the south of Europe become plainer as conferences follow one another on various fronts. They intended to force the western powers

out of Berlin, The Russians in to seize control of the Danube, They planndd to control the Dardanelles. a Picture of Moral Strength ALL FUTURE MOVES hinge upon the outcome of the Berlin con It the U.8.

the Dardanelles. Fortunately, the western nations have presented a united front in Berlin,

Throughout the terrific tensions developed by Riasia's blockade of highwaya and railroads

ented for world inspection & picture of ‘moral and physical It can be sald now that the moral position has been vindicated with corresponding indictment of the Russian position. Should it be necessary to use force to bring supplies to Berlin, the peoples of the western democracies would approve its use. That fact, now plainly apparent even in Moscow, will weigh heavily in the balance of decisions soon to be taken. Meantime, the forces of freedom are at work all along’ the front set up by the Soviets. From Finland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south, the Communist cause has been challenged. The Soviets already are seeking the way out with face-saving proposals. Their bluff has called. The showdown. is near.

NUTS TO YOU==

Snub Caviar By Keyes Beech

TOKYO, Japan, Aug, 7-—Keep your caviar + + + Salted peanuts are good enough for us. That, in effect, is what American GI's have told the American Army which today released 78,000 jars of black caviar, “product of USSR,” to the Japanese because the stuff just wouldn't go at the PX. Even when the PX reduced the price from $2.80 to 75 cents a jar, GI's preferred their salted goobers. In desperation the PX authorities turned its stocks over to the Jap govern. ment. Today caviar could be bought in Jap shops on the Ginza, Tokyo's Broadway, for 190 yen, or 70 cents at the offigial exchange rate. PX officials say the caviar was ordered in the early months of the occupation by an officer long since departed from Japan. Growled a colonel: J “Anybody who'd buy that much caviar ought to have his head examined.” Copyright, 1048, Chicago Daily News and Indianapolis Times. > 3

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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DEEDS UNDONE—

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DO YOU sometimes awake at night thinking of the kind deeds you've left undone? % It's not a pleasant feeling. What happened to the urge that moved you to write a letter of “Sympathy which was ‘put off, or to visit an ailing friend or to telephone someone you love when she's back from a trip and should be welcomed home?

they never seem important until after midnight. - Tomorrow I will do this, and that--the promises soothe a troubled conscience, but usually they come to nothing.

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cartoo! : Kt things other than blest alma edd oS would interest adults, If not, since these full’: length cartoon pictures are not shown too often, why can’t they have the complete show suitable: for children? -

$30,000 QUESTION— : Red Endowment

By William Philip Simms =

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—Should sn American university or school accept endowments from Communist regimes known to seek the overthrow of the United States government and the American way of life? » ry question was raised by Columbia Uni: » versity's acceptance of a reported $30,000 grant from the Moscow-dominated regime at Warsaw to found & chair of Polish literature, language and philology: Acceptance of -an initial gift was reported on June 1. Immediately aftérwards, Arthuf Prudden Coleman, assistant professor of Polish at Columbia, resigned in protést and Gen. Eisen hower, the new president, accepted his resignation as of Aug. 31. : ’ . The Polish-American Congress, representing several million Americans of Polish descent, is very much disturbed, particularly because, according to its education commission, American teachers in Poland were ordered to cease teaching as of July 2. ey

Prof. Coleman Outlines Stand

THE “POLISH REVIEW’.-whose board of supervisors is headed by Arthur Bliss Lane, former American ambassador to Warsaw—has just published a letter from Prof. Coleman further outlining his stand. : “I am unalterably against the acceptance by Columbia or any other American university,” he writes, “of money from Poland or any other satellite government of Moscow. = “To. continue teaching in a department financed by Cominform regimes would be to fall into the error for which we blame thé German professors who, by remaining in their chairs in obedient silence, gave tacit approval of the Nazi regime. “One has but to read any day's batch of the papers issued in Poland today to know that the regime in power in Warsaw would like nothing better than to do just this: To overthrow not only our government, but our whole way of life. “There are many ways of working toward the overthrow of our government and one is by academic infiltration. This is the method we see being undertaken with the above gift.”

Eisenhower Not Blamed

PROF. COLEMAN fears that the Columbid precedents may be followed increasingly by Shaler and not so rich institutions. “As more and more men are brought in, paid by regimes - having as one of their main principles Therxias thought-control,” he says, “it will hot be long before professors fred to think as they please will be outnumbered by those behind whose backs we can see the shadow of some dictator.” In some departments, he concluded, this time

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Importance not merely to:Columbia but te the entire nation. Boiled down, the issue is this: Can any American institution of ‘afford to accept a subsidy from any Fascist, unist or totalitarian dictatorship? In 1989, it is asked, would any American * school have acted wisely in accepting a subvention from Hitlerite Germany? Wo» any American school today accept teachei. were paid by Franco's Spain?

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