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‘held power for 14 unbroken years, was turned out of office. The opposing Nationalist Party Appears to have won 8 of the 80 seats in the parliament at Wellingten and has he voters’ mandate to form a new government. . w » «8 » "IN LONDON, Lord Wolveyfon, chairman of the British Cay Party, hails as “a sign of the times” and predicts that Britain's Labor government will meet a sim- * {lar fate in the coming elections there. Winston Churchill, ~ ‘selebrating his 75th birthday, probably chuckled over the a roa 2 land. : ; Sidney George Holland, who is to become New Zea's prime m / promises that his party will lift controls on free er of p, will lower taxes, but will not reduce or lee social benefits. How faithfully these , of course, remains to be seen. , nn» 3 clear that the Yabo Party ‘government, me Minister Peter Fraser, has been suffering several years. And, certainly, it people of New Zealand finally de-
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~~ Seen Trying to Save lself we By. Not oAnding, Monow ~
AW ASHINGTON, Dec. 2—~Thé United Nations 18'sick. In handling the issue of. Russian aggresAlon against China, it 1s palsied by fear. It is not trying to defend the sanctity of treaties. It is not upholding the charter. It Is joteiit on saving its own hide by not offending
Al vs Spt be. Sande Tor AIS evasion fit ‘were not for history. Certainly the United Na» tions is more important than China, or at least than the Chinese Nationalist government. Bo the defeatists argue: » “Since the Reds already have most of ‘China and cannot be ousted, why weaken and perhaps destroy the United Nations In vain heroics—we
‘must be practical”
Boycott of Debate
THRY point to Russia's boycott of the United Nations debate on China's resolution of indicts ment and Vishinsky's advance refusal to recog nize any action taken by the United Nations along such lines, The theory is that Stalin can kill the United Nations, Therefore he must be appeased-—at least until the international organization is far stronger than now. But that theoryads belied by history, The League of Nations was not killed by aggressors. It died of evading the challenge of aggressors. Its malady was internal. By trying to save its own life at the expense of its weaker members, it lost its life, ‘That is why the ghost of the Suge haunts the timorous United Nations
Apron of Stalin
BUT even the League of Nations, however inadequately and belated, did far more to condemn Japanese. aggression in China tham the United Nations contemplates in the case df Soviet aggression there. It is true the United Nations was born out of appeasement of Stalin, ' He would join no inter- - national security organization which could take full and effective action against Soviet violation of the charter, Therefore he was bribed with multiple seats and veto rights over the Security Council which controls the enforcement power, But our part of that General
n was that the Assembly should have moral power,
PACIFIC STRATEGY .
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. By Peter Edson
Hoosier Forum
: *1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | Wil defand to the death your right fu wy AS
‘Misplaced Hero Worship’ By D. M. Knotts, 2138 N, Hawthorne. .
_ Reply to Mrs. Walter: Haggerty—I cannot let you get by with your misplaced hero worship statement on the Democrats recently. Surely you know that Congress during the term of Herbert Hoover was Democratic and said Congress must accept the blamé for your so-called economic des "pression, Is your idea of the American way of life the spending of $191,081,394,191 by Presi« dent Truman from. the fiscal year 1948 to Sept. 30, 1949 in less than five years, while the other 32 Presidents in 156 years only spent : $179,620,113,645? You know the money spent by Truman belongs to both Democrats and Ree publicans alike and much of the money exe pended is going to foreign countries. “ Lenin of Russia laid down this formula shortly before his death: “We shall force the United States to spend itself into. destruction.” It seems to me that Lenin and Truman are brothers under the skin, > Many leading Democrats are lifting thele volces in protest to your Fair Deal program, James F. Byrnes, 4 member of President Frank« lin D. Roosevelt's Cabinet, called your Fair Deal . Program. “Truman’s creeping communism.” Why don’t you start thinking or are you just patting the boys on the back so that you can get on the Fair Deal pay roll? Rep. Earl T, Wagner, Democrat from Ohio, called your Fair Deal government, “Pantywaist protocol pussyfooters.” Why didn't you include “white hat Henry" in your hero worshiping, or are you sore af him because he broke his promises too? - Didn't your hero Judge Minton once say, “The Constitution is just a scrap of paper?” If you prefer the Fair Deal way of life, try moving to England or Russia. Personally, I am fighting to maintain our constitutional governe ment and take my fedora off to Sen. Homer Capehart. * %
Favors World Federation
By Helen Hunt Allen
In this column it frequently has been exe pressed that the proponents of world governs ment are unrealistic or impractical. I should like to give a few reasons why 1 believe this is not true. Since individuals can learn and profit by ex.
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perience and observation, surely in a broader way we can draw some conclusions from the world’s history of tensions and wars. It is obvious that treaties and armaments fail. It is also equally obvious that enforced laws have restrained and controlled many of the world’s evils, i Granted that Russia has been and probably will be unco-operative. However, the movement for world federation shows that at least 26 countries are sympathetic toward & limited. “yyorld “government.
h a price for the social in- that it ‘could debate, .in te, ty a ots which often . though i could not Poles ia Gactsione®T TT
dn U8. Blockade of China Opposed
Dec, 2—A U. 8. blockade of “ing to condemn this aggression, f§ ASHINGTON, evading Its reason for existence. The Chinese Communist North China ports at this time would
fovernment does not ask the use of United Na: of be & JOEL, 207s. Vice Adm. Ongar C', Badger force, merely judgment against aggres- Badg commander sion and withholding of military and Apo tic A a rad was the aa t He is o aid from the Red puppet regime. merican na forces in na, He is now in Even the resolution fntrodiiced the office of the chief of naval operations, Adm
to 30,000 tons of cargo a month have been moving out of Shanghai since the Communists took it over. This is relatively nothing. After the Nationalists imposed their blockade of North China last summer, Adm, Badger met with. American shipping agents in- Hong Kong and Shanghai. He advised them and they agreed
signals the rightward turn oe a to be running all the Sos be hotly debated That will ie prodeees, ight as 8 well as
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Forrest P. Sherman, as adviser on Chinese af-
‘Munich when they - :
followed that.
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“Manchuria and China have been-lost to the Reds. The of ‘Asia is threatened. We are doing nothing about it.
We gren't o even Sholding the basic Hghts of American
hBaen Atloased foun psc: ist Bo
bon regi of Manchuria. Two Naval fliers, : and William C. Smith of
Our governinent has made no real effort to Shin 319,other American officials are held
American prestige, ‘American
Home. The Atasrican people: shosld insist. hat this duty: Yodo, FL !
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Thomes and May
J PARNELL THOMAS of New oS Joon ‘a. Republican ¥ member of Congress for 13 years, has chosen not to defend himself against charges of padding congressional payrolls and taking salary “kickbacks” from fictitious em-
«In Federal District Court at Washington he withdrew his previous “not guilty” plea and threw himself on the gourt’s mercy, This was after government witnesses had testified that Thomas required his woman secretary to join in a conpiracy through which he pocketed some $0000 illegally
‘collected from the House of Representatives and its Com- -- mittee on Un-American Activities. Thomas was chairman
i of that committee in the 1047-48 Republican Congress. . 0» ” id » . . ks : LIKE former Rep. Andrew J. May, Kentucky Democrat | convicted with the Garson brothers of a wartime muni
Go The maximum vinder the four counts of his indictment : could be 32 2 yoatw' imypriionmint and fines totaling $40,000, May and the Garssons are under prison sentences of eight - months to two years. Ino 5 Wehise, It is true that Thomas and May already ® been severely punished. They have fallen from posi- _ flons of trust and honor. They stand before the merica % Both contend that their health hag been
d : i. And an forces, has given aid and comfort to : ee E
“by the United an and four at Small nations has the
ROt yet Deen Defense,
U. 8. blockade bf Communist Chiha has been demanded by GOP Sey, California, now tourin does not rule out the possibility of blockading North China at some future time. But just now he can see no point in it and he cites three reasons for this view:
In Sanh a Art lace, he says a blockade Isnt. The Chinese Nationalist :
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y. ited Nations is In danger of sufferthe weakness of ita friends than strength of Ha Sovist Shemies,
A Commas reat bright with ght, a boy and girl who linger near ‘In Happy anticipation of the "morrow and what B er A : very fulfilled, with to; = and gifts ol; neaaiadett behind. wo have dvr known the of art eae sting pve Or a Christmas Eve without a tree they could never understand, tow Blocks AWaY OF anther. AOL ares ew away on a home this Christmas Eve, Where little children gather ‘round and talk of toys that are ya make believe! Their little bodies are thinly clad but they are oT Hot thinking of the cold only Santa Claus would come, in sto they'd been told! se Rite They had seen the dollies in a row, “drums, wagons, dishes, all in colors bright - In store windows . .. and they wonder ‘now, will so Benta-come on this Christiias Eve night?
Francet Richmond, Columbus. + :
COLONIAL PROBLEMS... By Broce Biosiat
Road-Block < on Reds
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—Am&ticans find it hard to get steamed up over issues like what is to happen to Italy's prewar colonies in Nothern Africa. But there's a good reason why they
fairs to the Department of State and National
smugglers. There ‘are hundreds of junks operat-
naval blockade is that there is no tonnage of importance to move. A year ago the Nationalist government tried to find 3.310 million worth of “= barter goods for export, but $1.5 million worth, o Best estimate today is that only about 25 ,000
the blockade.
Small Cargo William F., Knowland of SINCE then, two U.
the Orient. Adm. Badger
which from this,
to stay outside the three-mile limit and respect
Victory ships have dropped anchor at Taku La which is 14 miles off Tientsin in North China. They were able to pick up-less than 1000 tons of cargo apiece, as hardly worth their trouble, , thé only U. 8. merchantman to touch Nerth, China. was the Flying Cloud, which regently ran the ‘blockade: and escaped off Shanghai.
To give the representatives of these countries a chance to work out details of a federation which would benefit each makes sense to me, - Russia then would have a definite choice to. make, with nothing to lose by abandoning her aggressiveness, Is it not a more practical program than the wild armament race which continues now? And does it not er--the hope of -a peaceful —co« operation rather than the carnage that arma~ a ie have led-t0?
Aside
For the United States to bolster the Chinese
Nationalist blockade would merely -be- playing Into the hands of the Communists; Adm. = points out as his third reason for not advocat~ ing this policy. An American naval blockade would enable the Communists to make propa“ganda against the “Yankee imperialists” as enemies of the Chinese people. It would, in ef-
fect, be an act of “var.
One other question that h has been raised is whether the U.S. Navy Has énough strength in
“What Others Say—
“IDO sok believe that men «pees antg -can safely or in good conscience complacent while so many of their brothers Are Juserviie id desperate, When action te relieve them is possible.— Norris E. Jada, 4 direetor general of the United Nations Food aad Agriculture Organization. :
‘the Pacific to operdte as a Chinese coast guard ¢ ¢
auxiliary and blockade the whole coastline from
Korea to Indo-China. .... Pacific Fleet
THE U.S. Tth Fleet, based at Subie Bay in the Philippines and at Guam, consists of one cruiser, four destroyers and auxiliaries. Based at Yokosuka, Japan, is the U.S. Far East Fleet of the same strength. These are the strengths recommended by Adm. Badger and he says they
coast has long been famous for its
are enough.
Farther east, based principally at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Long Beach, Cal., are additionally two Essex-type carriers, two escort carriers, two cruisers, 36 destroyers, 29 i and
itlaries. Adm.
for a blockade later on,
SIDE GLANCES
ought to eare: The world’s colonial areas today are prize breed: -
—ing spots for communism,
The First World War generated a great upsurge in nationalist sentiment among subject peo-
ples in Europe and elsewhere, ~ New nations were carved out. It is pow abundantly clear that World War II unleashed a similar powerful drive toward self « determination: among colonial people, . India’s independence, - the newly conceived United States of Indonesia, the end of the British mandate in Palestine, these are milestones in that drive,
» 5 » THERE is no question the Arab populations of Libya, Eri« trea and Italian Somaliland, Italy's African colonies, have felt the contagion of this movement for independence. The existence of the United Nations has been a compelling , factor in cementing bonds between colonial peoples In wide. ly scattered areas, Countries which have racial or religious ties with colonial groups have a real voice in the world forum for the first time. They have made themselves heard. Moscow correctly gauged the social and political ferment stirred by the war. It has stepped up Communist agitation among colonial peoples, hoping to ‘warp their intense feelings to Russia's purposes of world domination, » ~
‘NOWHERE Tits the, Soviet
Union succeeded. But the scale of Communist activity remains a constant threat, a steady prod to Western nations to deal fairly and intelligently with the populations now presaing for freedom.
solution on the Italian colonies
probably will satisfy most tatr- wl!
minded Americans. © The UN General
. ing independence for Libya by Jan. 1, 1952; independence for Somaliland after 10 years under Italian trusteeship, and
a decision on Eritrea in the
1950 session of the assembly, » ~ .
BOTH in area and population, Libya is by all odds the most important of the three.
Within its borders is the big . city of Tripoli. Hence it appears:
a fortunate decision that independence should have been decreed earliest for that colony, Normally the actions of the General Assembly are not binding but merely have the force of recommendations. This particular decision is final,
however, because the United
‘States, Britain, France and Russia promised in the Italian peace treaty to accept the assembly's determination of the problem. The four powers were unable to agree among themselves, . 0» y RUSSIA was one of ‘nine nations which abstained from voting on the decisive resolu-
tiop. Some UN delegates, fore-,
saw ‘that the Soviet Union would not accept the assembly action. But such an attitude could have no practical effect toward preventing execution of
_/the decisions, for. the colonfes
currently. are béing ‘adminis tered by Britain and France. Russia's counter - proposals
called for immediate indepen-
dence of Libya and freedom for Somaliland and Eritrea within five years. They were
: oi voted on by the assem-
a is likely that the agreed
‘solution will go a
towar a eliminating. -
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Coons tole 07 002 HLL OE 0 TR MEET. os, “Getting married doesn't worry ‘me one ‘bit, Dorothy—sinée
I've been baby-sitting so-much, I'd kind of like to be a career woman and travel a lot!"
Barbs—
No wonder the centedarian crop is so short. A woman of 102 says nobody lives that long
A cook sued a farm hand for divorce because he sank his - teeth in her arm while angry. SH# didn’t want to go on feeding the hand that bit her. ’ ST I : Only a few more weeks until How ‘do husbands = always parents will be dern glad know that the night they offer Christmas is over. to take the wife to the movies Te
A snoring contest was staged at a AY fair in Michigan n you imagine a wife ho urging her hubby on to victory? . LY ‘We are thankful for all s Bumper crops —- except those ~~ caused by reckless \ § Rs >
- will be the one she wants to . stay home?
A West Coast woman who lost hér voice two
ably: sald, “Now, whe
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Badger says ; “Be cated for to nk the” Western Pacific fleets, if that became Bectgsary
By Ea
® ‘WE are eager to have it known that here tn Tibet, a land that is specially dedicated to re~ ligion, all of our peoples, both lay and monk, are earnestly praying that God will grant happiness and everlasting peace to all humanity. —15-year- - old Dalai Llama, ruler of Joh * ¢
I'M for roll-call votes on an civil rights billy in the second session of the 81st Congress. Then we can weed out the faithful from the unfaithe ful and the voters can decide what to do about it in the 1950 elections.—Sen. Hubert H. Hum- - phries, D., Minnesota.
» © THE result .of ne Hew Yogk) enataial election is a setback, not a gain, for the policies of the natiohil FR ron since Ben. Dulles ran well ahead of the local tickets all over the =f Gov. Thomas Dewey, a
forces
LABOR IN POLITICS ... . By Fred W. Perkins
AFL Following CIO?
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—The CIO is leading the more econ servative AFL into a modified brand of socialism, according te former Sen. Joseph H. Ball (R. Minn.). The AFL, he says, tags along with policies and political cane didates-picked hy its more aggressive rival. Mr. Ball makes these observations in the current issue of &
“labor letter” he is writing here for sale primarily to business concerns. ; A year ago Mr. Ball felt the force of united union opposition which was based mainly
on the part he had in passing
the Taft-Hartley Law, The successful candidate was Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey, a Democrat indorsed by the/AFL but who drew general support from all Minnesota unions. . - » TO prove his point that “the AFL 1s following CIO political leadership,” Mr. Ball points out policies followed by the AFL recently. These include support of compulsory health insur ance, regional TVA set-ups and other such proposals of the Truman administration as housing, aid to education “and FEPC (even though several AFL international unions bar Negro members).” Traditionally, Mr. Ball says, “AFL internationals have supported high tariffs, Now AFL follows CIO in the foreign pollcy field, demanding full ECA appropriations and enactment of Truman's Point Four program of foreign aid.” ._ 8» OTHER observers have noted that the AFL, which for many
years was dublous shout getting its feet wet In politics, has =
been steadily expanding its political activities since ‘the 1948 election. Until recently the AFL fol lowed a policy originated by its first president, Samuel Gompers, of “supporting our. friends and opposing our enemies.” . Mostly, however; this wis ap-
plied to candidates for Con gress and not to
iy still their policy, but thelr - activities. in fields remote from labor matters haveraised quess =~ ¥§ tions as to whether that will ~~ hold true the next time—1952, » » - THE CIO was active polite ically from its beginning, The success, of its efforts has been indicated to CIO leaders by the Democratic Party's efforts to retain their support and the efforts of some Republican leadérs to restrain them. The AFL resisted the CIO example for nearly a dozen years, but now is steadily- bee coming more militant. AFL of ficial policy i8 to refrain from working with the CIO in na tional contests—because of dis+ inclination to. recognize the CIO on an equal basis—but AFL and CIO local and state ‘bodies have made their own rules. They are pooling their political efforts. Their greatest concern just now is to find a Democratic candidate who can beat Sen, Robert A. Taft (R.,0,) Bext year, » NATIONAL alr of AFL . and CIO are meeting this week in London with délegates from other countries to found a non Communist world labor organts
Trade Unions.” Among titans there are David Dubinsky of the Inter. national Ladies Garment Workers Union Walter
ATE Taders say