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‘Utopia on the Rocks’ | "JHE Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard news- : papers today begin publication of a number of articles - | from London which, we think, will merit wide and thought- . ful reading by Americans. F's These articles are being written by E. T. Leech, editor of The Pittsburgh Press. Since early summer, Mr. Leech has been in England. His assignment there was to observe ‘British socialism in action; to study the actual effects of . the revolutionary though : * the last four years, and to determine why, despite billions of dollars in American aid, Britain now faces a new and ps e crisis. gra It is not a happy story Mr. Leech has to tell, He tells it with great sympathy for the British people, having talked to hundreds of them in recent weeks, and with understanding of the reasons they turned after the war to the Labor. Party and its Utopian promises. © ;

» ” » . - » BUT HE finds that, although nobody else on earth has greater guarantees of security, the average British citizen today is one of the most insecure people in the world. This because the government which gives him the guarantees, which taxes away a staggering share of “his income and spends it on what government planners consider best for him, is itself going broke. And, Mr. Leech concludes his article on Page 1 today— “There can be no security for people when the government is insecure.” Social” and economic experiments similar to those undertaken in Britain are now being urged upon the American people. The true test of such experiments is not whether they are Socialistic in theory, but how they work in | practice. As to that; England provides us with priceless lessons of experience, if only we will study them, . © The Times hopes and believes that Mr. Leech’s reports from England will prove a useful and important aid to

h- understanding of those lesso They're Still Germans

OME American observers have expressed dismay at the 3 extreme nationalism and the bitter attacks upon the . © occupational authorities which characterized Western Ger- ° many’s first post-war parliamentary campaign. a “ Radical rightists even revived Nazi songs and “Deutschland Uber Alles,” the imperial anthem, and heiled Hitler with a fervor reminiscent of the Munich period. “Not a single party had a good word for all of the posi- - tive work the Western Allies have accomplished during the past four years," one military government official lamented.

‘bidding for the votes of people who had been steeped in German nationalism for generations. These same people went all out for Adolf Hitler only 10 years ago. They have . accepted our food, to be sure, because without it many of wessrdhomwould-have starved, But to most of them this must

after all, Germans: he : > © “Given guns, in all probability, they would prove to be the sanie Germans the world has known since Frederick

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Now It Shelters Families Fleeing Iron Curtain

LUGANO, Switzerland, Aug. 15—~The Ameri

and hospitabia. pt Cy $ The same tall cypresses lead you to the _statues adorn the terrace which overlooks the lake. Even Tpuza,-

batch of ‘puppies despite her advancing age. 1 can shut my eyes and dream I'm six years younger and that the house is still the secret refuge of many prominent anti-Fascist and

Today it's a new {ribe of refugees. But they speak with the same toneless .voice and repressed passion. And they tell tales of narrow escapes from pursuing police along closely . guarded frontiers, of atrocities in concentration camps, Their's is the same story of toll and suffering under dictatorship. .

A MILD and harmless Hungarian couple who have just reached Switzerland after a strenuous journey from Hungary to Bratisiavia, ' Slovakia to Vienna told me their story. J It was the simple story of a provincial pair who, like many Hungarians of their class, Jéarned nothing from the last 10 years—not even the art of lying. They hated to leave the bit of soll owned by generations Bf their forefathers. But they had to leave or face arrest, jail and deportation after a session in the huge, dank prison at 60 Andrassy St, Budapest, where they focus strong lights on your eyes during questioning. as 1 They still owned a 400-acre estate at the end | of 1945. After the first agrarian law, they had

200 acres left. But from that time the Buda- >" government kept bringing out. Soviet. - inspired laws destined to ruin estate-owners. -. Early in 1948 they had 40 acres left—the sy ‘

poorest of their lands without farm houses or stables. Simultaneously taxes skyrocketed.

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on + That four-or more are killed every day “the roads and many more injured is a desperate condition, and it can only be stopped by & desperate remedy. When you read that a car that the

or 80 miles per hour it is out of -control for a sudden stop. High speed is the cause of most

Hvery citizen of the state would like to see the roads made safe and would .be in favor of the most severe means being used to make’ them so. Let me suggest: % : Speed limit should be 25 MPH in city limits . ” and 40 MPH on highways, ‘ od All safety rules should be rigidly enforced. Drunken drivers should, on conviction, be fined $200 and a year in prison obligatory. Causing an accident is endangering life, even when no one is injured, should be pune ished by confiscation of car, $100 fine and six months of a ypar in jail; license cancelled and no license allowed for five years. If a death

Son in Switzerland

‘80 THIS couple decided to escape Hungary and try to earn a living elsewhere, perhaps Switzerland where their only son is employed in. a Lugano hotel. : . i They were fortunate for they lived practically on the frontier between Hungary and Austria, They. .nanaged to get an eight-day pass from the village authorities enabling them to visit a “sick relative” in a neighboring Slovakian village. : With only rucksacks on their shoulders they left their home telling everybody they'd soon

LABOR PR By Fred W. Perkins Taft-Hartley Law Runaround?

WASHINGTON, Aug. cerned with enforcing the non-Communist oath of the Taft-Hartley law are beginning to wonder if they're getting a runaround.

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voted three printed pages to Mr.

In a report to Congress in March, 1944, the | House Committee on Un-American Activities de- |

declared, “There is no secrecy about Donald Hen- : " derson’s. membership in the Communist Party. Such a suspicion began-to-develop-when sev He has. been_-a. publicly .avowed card-holding

has resultéd, the driver” should never again | be given a license, ¢ Persons driving without license should be fined not less than $100, Careless drivers would become more careful, | and those who viclatéd the laws would be taken | off the roads, making them safe for all An applicant for driver's license should produce evidence of safe driving, knowledge of all traffic laws or, in case he has had no previous license, should drive under the eve of an ine

Henderson, and

_spector aj least 50 miles to prove.his ability

be back. The trouble started when they tried to leave " for Austria. They had to elude the Czech police

eral ultra-leftist leaders of certain CIO unions, including an avowed Commiinist, recently filed the affidavits that are necessary before these

member for more than 10 years. In that peri he has subserviently followed all the zig-zagging of the party line.” : : This committee report quoted an article by Mr.

With full enforcement of such laws and penalties, it is certain that deaths on the road

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ahd then the Soviet forces in Austria. They . knew that it's easiest for Jews of couritries be“hind the Iron Curtain fo leave if they say they're going to Israel. The Boviets shut their eyes to please the Israelis, and Jewish organizations outside- Europe distribute. money lavfshly to help their brethren out of the Soviet “Paradise,” They have some Jewish blood so they posed as 1 per cent Jews and joined a group of Jewish “escapees.” : The Czech police almost. found them out, Information had reached them that Christians had joined the group. They were held for two days but got by on their nerve though they had “to separate from their Jewish friends to spare | them future danger. After that they traveled on their own, sleeping in barns by day, moving | on by night, until they reached Vienna and

‘Regret Good Old Days

SPEAKING as people who never mix In politics they told me simply all they knew from their own narrow experiences, They said that | d workers of Hu were fast | th Hout old dave. although the new Soviet-in=™ legislation. a ; Z “The peasants got land taken from the land- . ‘owners but each got exactly three acres whether the land was good or bad. .

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_ the Great and his legions began to prey upon their weaker

! °° The peace-loving nations must see to it that the Ger- : pans do not get guns until there has been convincing proof |. of their country's complete regeneration. The fact that we ; are confronted by a more immediate and pressing Russian

problem must not blind us to the fact that Germany; too; |

could again become a threat to peace. Indeed, the greatest menace that could be imagined would be a German-Russian © partnership. Its prevention should be the cornerstone of

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MacArthur Should Be Heard THE Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Armed EL Gervices have voted, 13 to 12, to invite Gen. Douglas MacArthur, U. S. supreme commander in the Far East, to return to the United States for questioning on our China an Far Eastern policy. But the partisan vote by which this invitation was exfoe pot-want-the. general 10. APPEAL... Virginia and Russell of Georgia, neither an administration man. All 12 dissenting votes were cast by Democrats. —FHe-vote was taken aver the heated objections of Com-_ mittee Chairman Tom Connally, who maintained that it was overriding prerogatives of-the executive branch and of the general himself.

Since when has it been a prerogative of the executive

branch to withhold pertinent information from Congress?

EE I : ... ; TRUE, THE GENERAL has said he would not return

unless ordered to do so. His reluctance to appear is natural, |

if he feels that his views are in conflict with those of the administration. He is a good soldier. But his views are essential if Congress is to have the benefit of the best available advice on Far Eastern probléms.. And nothing but. the best will serve. President Truman said in his recent Chicago speech that our foreign policy is made by public opinion, on the basis of

all.of the facts. He can prove the good faith of that state- | ment by ordering Gen. MacArthur to-appear. We have had |

too much spoon-fed information and misinformation on Far Eastern policy, as Sen. Knowland of California has said. The time is here to turn the spotlight on all phases of our Far Eastern relations, } ©. We have had the “whitewash paper. Now let's hear Gen. MacArthur. 1

br Sizzling. der ] 0 official temperature in Washington, D. C., hit 7 when at the Senate's investigation of “5 per freezers became an even hotter issue. : “Many people in the Capital were wishing

they had ‘em.

|_month ($30), which was equal to that received |

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centers,”

At first the workers were delighted when their salaries were raised to 1200 florins -a

by the highest state official. But enthusiasm waned when the state decreed that each worker | must do a specified amount of work dally. As a result of this policy. Hungarian escapees to the capitalistic world today come —from every section of the population: -

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tional Labor Relations Board. Donald Henderson, formgr president and now “national administrative director” of the left- . wing CIO Food and Tobacco Workers, has filed

Mr. Henderson swore that he is not a member of the Communist Party or affiliated with it, and that he does not believe in, is hot a member of, and does not support any organization that be- - lieves in or teaches the overthrow of the United States government by force or by any illegal or | unconstitutional method. Max Perlow, secrétary-treasurer of the CIO Furniture Workers, filed his recemtly after anpouncing that he had resigned from the Communist Party but had not changed his political beliefs. Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the N./RB; referred the Periow case to the partment of Justice.

| Speaker Before Peace Congress

MR. HENDERSON was a speaker before the Soviet-promoted “World Peace Conference” in : atches a saying: They. ithe. people in the United States) have mot : that their homes are inviolate because the valfant great Red army withstood the monster ‘sf

Mr. Henderson has been recorded in the “Daily Worker,” an official Communist organ in New York, as signing petitions in behalf of the “12 top Communist Jeaders now on trial in New York under charges of a conspiracy to overthrow the government. He was a signer of another statement in behalf of Gerhard KEisler,. Communist leader who fled the country as a

can use facilities of the Na- in “The Communist,’

would be very few, indeed. *

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villages, and on the firms.”

De- a query from “a Communist se to whether the affidavit action lowed by others.” The Communist official, after tack on CIO right-wingers and law, wrote: .

Fe tten However, experts on Com

“as well as their agerits in the tr ment, adopt various forms of

have qualified with NLRB. »

which he referred to the Communist Party as “our party,” and ‘wrote of the necessity for the Communist Party to “carry through” its idea of “Soviet power . ... in the small cities, towns and

Party Line Groups Cited THE COMMITTEE report cited more than a score of “Communist front” organizations with which Mr, Henderson was identified, and stated - his complete record “is clear proof that he is one of the leaders in whom the Communist Party places extraordinary confidence.” : The “Daily Worker” of June 23 published a long letter by John Williamson, national labor secretary of the Communist Party, in answer to.. trade unionist” as

was to be regarded as “a precedent to be fol-

Ti our OpIRTGI 5H, THE RHEwer A FY Rs SE $< i communication say that the real meaning of the letter was in a following paragraph which read: “Employers and all their forces of reaction,

affidavits or constitutional amendments. The | 5 Communist Party and its members . will never permit these attacks to isolate us from the work.ers or to disorganize our party ranks.” Since publication of this letter several leftwing unions, after resisting nearly two years,

‘More Votes tos for Snare Deal’

By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois . :

patiently every day, down at the water-tank siding, for the Presidential Special to come tears - ing over the grass roots to tell us about more corn cribs and the high-rent housing that will be built in the next 10 years at many billions, that you will be taxed to pay. This will all be for the benefit of big steel, cement and. labor. Hundreds of thousands of new bureaucrats will collect the rent, etc, and make that many more votes for the, “snare deal.” You will be promised ._& Job of some kind arid an apartment for your “grandchildren. Sounds good. * We used to get our education by listening to fireside chats on princes of privilege and how to live on pig-tails. But now the populace is grow. ing more. ignorant as it awaits the 16-car train that will gurgle with brains and other things, as into Hungry oller

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| over.a hundred years under the fumbling of a | bunch of old rascalsswith bear-grease in their hair, and it is now time for it to burst out on a broad horizon of advancement, under a classy” bunch of porch-climibers, whose skullduggery is said by some to be no worse than that of the -founding-fathers; a8 anyhow. A lot of displaced persons who come here to take our jobs and houses will not know = if they are isolationists, free-love Communists, GOPs or Dixicrats unless a bureau of some 50, 000 loafers is set up io tell them.

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REVOLUTION ...By Charles Fernandez

“hangs over-this-politically-restless. Central American republic, Obviously apprehensive, the leftist government of President Juin Jose Arevalo is taking no chances -after i happy revoit-in mid-July. # The government has suspended constitutional guarantees,

ernment employees.

ary of foreign embassies. ; - Loyal troops are in control, and outwardly all is peaceful. much as usual in this quaint, cool mountain capital. But the government isn't taking the calm at face value.

with the United States Army and Office of War Information during the war, is quite frank about it,

“Walk by any army. fort and you'll see only a quiet installa- |

tion.” he says. “But chances are it won't be so quiet inside.” The army holds the key to continued peace; and the army

Apprehension Persits | APPREHENSION persists that

followers of popular Col. try to even the score with Arevalo’s government, which they blame for Arana’'s murder. * } i Arana, who as a revolutionary chieftain had helped put

Arevalo and his “spiritual socialism.” insisted that the president be permitted to serve out his constitutional term. . . " He likewise had become politically estranged from his onetime revolutionary colleague, Col. Jacobo Arbenz, who as defense minister reputedly is being groomed by Arevala as a presidential candidate in next year's election Arana himself was openly In the running for president, and many observers -considered him an odds-on favorite. Besides controlling the army, he rated ace-high with the clergy, the more conservative elements c, That was the political score when the colonel and his aide

by Amatitlan,

forces of the guard of honor, an Arana stronghold, but neutral observers aay it wasn't much of a revolution.

reshuffled army leadership and moved to purge “disloyal” gov- | Military chiefs w*o led the July 18 up- | rising have beén either removed, exiled or chased into the sanctu~ {

i ini i American tourists throng the .streets, and life goes on pretty | inistration does \ ’ | tended made it clear that the Truman adminis |

an abortive, slap- |

Francisco J, Arana, assassinated armed forces chief, may yet |

Arevalo in power in 1045, had developed a profound distate for | But he had steadfastly |

were cut down In gangiand-style on the Su road to near- |

| SIDE GLANCES Uneasy Latin Peace .. = 1

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, Aug. 15—An uneasy calm

Only. two Democrats voted for the invitation—Byrd of | Mi¥io" Monterorte Toledo, president of- Congress. who.served,

Air forces and troops loyal to the government put down the

rebellion. Thé guard of honor fort capitulated while rebel officers talked peace with government emissaries in the embassy of EL Salvador. The rebel chieftains are still there.

With or Without =

{ FOREIGN Minister Enrique Munoz Meany Insists that dissl- | dent army officers had set a revolution for July 18 “with or with- | out Arana.” He says that's « cause it marka Franco's rise in Spain. i He charges that Arana removed Lit. Col. As chief of the nif forces only two days before * because Consenza was loyal to the ghvernment.” ow

He accuse “military plotters” of having removed bombs

{ 1 | Word of the assassination touched off‘a two-day revolt by i

“symbolic date for fascism” be-’

Francisco Consenza

. Col, Arbenz or politically-neutral men.

from the air hase to the guard of honor “fort, of having stashed. arms in homes of Arana's friends, afd of having checked the |

hospitals the day befare “to see it-there was enough blood plasma |

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DOPE. 1040 BY NEA SERVICE NO. 7. WM. ARO. OB. PAY, OFF

“I hope you enjoyed your vacation as much as we-did, Mr. Walker—ours, | mean!”

[- tend privately that such was: not the case.. They say the uprising was ‘a sudden spontaneous attempt to avenge Arana’s

death, : ; They and other neutral observers are of the opliion that with ‘Arana’s passing the Arevalo government lost its staunchest defender. They point out that, although he disagreed with the presidént, he repeatedly rejected pleas for a military coup and in fact had suppressed some 20 uprisings against Arevalo. Today Arana's key officers have giveniway to followers of And the government is busily cleaning house. Congress is trying to figure how_to purge “disloyal” employees without pay-

ii ing the severance pay which it enforces -#trictly on private em- .

ployers, : And it's considering a law to permlize clergymen and military offices who violate a. constitutional prohibition Against their

participation in polities, ‘Government spokesmen say both have |

politicked for the opposition. “With its strongest political opponent dead, the Arevalo government 18 trying to consolidate its ‘position against smoldering resentment. :

AIR FORCE STATUS...By Jim Lucas

Are Fighters Good?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 —How good are our Air Force fighters? ‘ a

The answer may come from the B-36 Investigation. Some Congressmen are more worried about fighters than bombers. If the experts say the B-38 does the job, they don’t feel qualified to argue about it. On the other hand, until they have proof our fighters are comparably as good, they want to hold somebody's feet to the fire. > Gen. George C. Kenney, Air University head, told the House Armed Services Committee this week that we “are not neglecting” fighters. He admitted, however, the Air Force had no postwar

“1 fighter in which it was willing to Invest big money. He sald it sororineeds. 10, put. a. lot. of .emphasis. on. fighter development. «mu.

By.inference, he conceded that production is out of balance.

The general produced a “Dear Stu” letter he wrote Air Secretary W, Stuart Symington on June 18, In it, he said only &n “all- | weather night fighter that can carry a big search radar and | operate at (40,000 feet)” could touch the B-36. He said it “probably will be another five years ove ; - | that time, he sald, we'd have a better long-range homber than | “the B-36. -

Must Be Realistic WHY DON'T we develop a new fighter side by side with the B-36, he was asked. Gen. Kenney said he'd like to—-but that we've | got to be realistic: We have a bomber we know we can safely produce in quantity and we have no such fighter. What about Russian fighters which recently impressed: western observers? He replied that he wasn't worried that the Rus- | sian air force “is so good we can't overtake it.” Gen. Kénney made it plain the Air Force had rejected the | fighter for anything but a defense role. y Air Force and Navy strategists disagree completely on this point. Naval airmen claim no bomber can operate without fight. ers. They say carriers with their fighters must move in near the target to provide coverage. Both Gen. Kenney and Gen. Curtis Lemay, his successor as strategic air commander, say the B-36 needs no fighter protection. They would bomb with it from 40,000 feet at night. Daylight bombing, Gen. Kenney said, would mean losses. But he says daylight bombing-—and fighters—no longer Are necessary. # J :

Argument on Range ; REP. JAMES E. VAN ZANDT (R: Pa.) argued that a 10,000- n | mile bomb run “certainly means some of your flying time would be during daylight hours.” Gen. Kenney replied that raids could be timed so that day flights were over friendly territory where fighter protection wouldn't be needed. Target runs, he said, would come at night, : ‘ te Del | Navy Under Secretary Dan Kimball says the Navy has four . | Aghters=the McDonnell Panther, the Chance Vought Corsair, the | mman Bearcat.'and Panther—which can whip the B-36. Mr, Kimball will be called as a witness. , = ° He at

: Coneeivably; in North Atlantic pact , the Western Powers will rely oni England for fighter defense. That, however, ‘might prove difficult If we intend to tise fghters only 5 protect

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