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Britain's Indian Debts

A MBASSADOR-AT-LARGE PHILIP C. JESSUP has left Washington on a fact-finding mission, with the purported objective of developing a “stop-communism” program for the Far East. ~~ _ As he departed, it was reported in London that Britain was pressing the United States and Canada to launch a “giant new aid program” for the Middle East and southern Asia, with these aims: ONE: To save those strategic, potentially rich regions from the spread of communism. TWO: To relieve Britain of the burden of paying wartime debts owed to countries like India, Pakistan, Egypt This “aid for Asia” idea is not new. This is not the first time it has been coupled with Britain's financial predicament. It may be pure coincidence that it has been dusted off for a new look just as the Jessup mission is getting under way, though we suspect otherwise. The London report, while credited to a responsible but unnamed ‘British source,” follows the pattern of stories on the same subject "which had State Department inspiration.

. ” . » ” [J THE TIMES has seriously questioned Dr. Jessup's qualifications for this Asiatic mission. But, since the ap pointment has been made, we shall hope for the best, mean‘while wishing him every success. - However, in the friendliest spirit we suggest to him, and to our British friends as well, that no good can be served by confusing two very real but unrelated problems—Britain’s financial plight and Asiatic communism. One horse has Snoveh & to sary Without the other bolt loaded on its back. - * ™ i

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“obstacle. BE was thturred recontey, the war, an

end of the war as our lend-lease account ‘was. Britain did not want to seek this way out at that time because of a desire to retain control of her old Empire markets. It may be too late now to ask to pave the whole debt written off. : Foe re ae)

BUT surely it is to the interest of the parties most con- ; cerned that the debt be liquidated on some live-and-let-live ~ basis. They may come to understand that—once they are ~ disabused of the wishful notion that the whole burden can be unloaded on Uncle Sam. ~dn any event, this debt problem has nothing to do with ‘communism in Asia. ~~ India, Britain's ldrgest creditor, is an avowed neutral ad in the cold war, and Premier Nehru regards communism as a “form of democracy.” Pakistan also is in a neutral position, and much more afraid of India than of Soviet Russia or Communist China. Neither Egypt nor Iraq faces a serious Communist “threat, and both are plagued by corrupt, incompetent governments and feudalistic economies—evils American dollars cannot cure. - An anti-Communist front in Asia can’t be built of this sort of material. i + We can establish a friendly, mutually profitable rela- _ tionship with the new governments of southern Asia without resorting to misrepresentation or becoming a cat's-paw for an expiring colonialism.

Angus Ward's Horrible Year

THE almost incredible story of the Chinese Communists’ outrageous treatment of Angus Ward, as it unfolds, reads like a tale out of the Dark Ages. The stark, factual summary issued by the State Department makes it clear that the Communists were motijvated from the outset by hatred of the United States. On Nov. 20, last year, immediately after they occupied Mukden, the Reds descended on our consulate there and instituted a reign of terror probably unequalled, for length “of time and degree of harassment, -in the annals of diplomacy. LB I J . a » MR. WARD and every member of his staff were threat. ened at least once with shootings; 22 persons were confined in an office for 30 hours with no food; an urgent request for a physician for Mrs. Ward was denied from Apr. 27 to June 4; the consulate was without running water or electricity for five weeks in the dead of winter—and so on, Then, after almost a year of this, came the trumped-up charges and trial of Mr. Ward and four aids who were per-* haps lucky to escape with their lives. The fact that the State Department was prevented from receiving Mr, Ward's reports during this ordeal is no excuse for its year-long inaction and neglect of our official representatives in Red-controlled China.

Wring Out the Decibels BN mE

N THIS joyous Yuletide season, which has busted out all over, there's just one note we'd like to. inject. Though we vow we're no Scrooge, we'd like to urge merchants, business associations and community organizations not to confuse Christmas bells with decibles. : Christmas carolers, from the 15th Century down to a few years ago, got their stuff over without using loud-speak-ers, and Bing Crosby's “White Christmas” is a lot. more en- , rable if u if muted a bit. Let's Keep this Christmas sweet

: Senate Tradition

| bd "ACCORDANCE with tradition, one “pound of first-grade Copenhagen snuff has been ordered for the Senate, meeting on Jan. 3 in its newly done-over chamber. Though a stainless steel ceiling has been added, no such new-fangled idea has been applied to the floor—the same old brass cus-

: acs will rv ap bon, they san. .

— # COMMON Cause, bes should have been caarged off at the

RUSSIA. pe .. By Luiwell Deny

S Yeeubie Hinted In Red Purges

Stalin Appears Driven By Fear of Revolts

WASHINGTON, 17 ~~ The spread of es 1» er proof that all is

t purges not well in the Red heaven. While the No. 2 “ Communist in Bulgaria has been on “trial” for

espionage and treason, following the Hungarian pattern, less publicized tensions have developed in the party in other countries. East Germany and Austria have been added fo the list—which includes Poland, France and Italy—for party house-cleanings. In CzechosloYaia the process has been going on- for some me There is nothing new, of course, about the Red purge as such, It has been a favorite pastime in Russia from the beginning. Indeed, it is an inevitable part of all totalitarian parties and of dictatorship,

Heresy Hunts

ANY GROUP which cannot tolerate internal difference of opinion is forever engaged in heresy hunts, Any organization based on conspiracy exists in continuous suspicion of its fellow-con-spirators. And, when the factor of inordinate power is added in a dictatorship, rivalry for “position makes official murder of potential competitors a common-place. “That is how Stalin got power, and keeps it. But these trulsms hardly explain the present epidemic. The normal suspicion and throat. cutting in the past have not covered simultaneously so many countries in so many differ. ent circumstances, What usually has been rather a coldly methodical process now seems to have turned into hysteria. - Stalin and his henchmen apparently are driven by acute fear,

Favorite Alibi

THE IDEA that Stalin fears Western attack .

is the favorite alibi of party-liners in justifying his vast military preparedness and war- mongering. This is absurd on the record, which shows that-Russia and not the West has been the aggressor. He has no reason to fear that the democracies will start an unprovoked war, It is most unlikely that this is the source of the Kremlin's hysteria. But there is no doubt that he does fear so-

. called Titolsm. When puppets set up as masters

in their own right and turn on him, then the very basis on his international power is threatened. An attack by non-Communist states prob-

ably would help him, enabling him to harness

‘Russian patriotism for his own: purpose as he has done before. Titoism reversés that process «the rebel. Red is able to rally a people in patriotic defense of the homeland again Rus-

n Sian bondage. ep = “CousaforHyeria ~~ Cin nes he? tes follow SE Lagious sicrin

‘volt now because, unlike Yugoslavia, they are ge occupied by the Red army or close to ussia.

~ But tn a world war these forced - friends

could be a grave weakness to Btalin—perhaps a fatal one. The pay-off Is that Communist purges among the puppets do not make those cofintries safe for Stalin. They only advertise the failure of communism,

‘MAN'S GALLANT HEART

Man's gallant heart responds to love, - Of home and flag and life, ot mother, father and perhaps Of sister and his wife.

And though the way be long and hard Or set with luring snares, It's hard to keep a fellow down Or capture unawares

A man whose heart i= filled with love And has a tryst to keep, Or one who dreams about -his home When he lies down to sleep.

~0Opal McQuire, 814 Broadway.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES COUNCIL BLUFFS8—A local lady spent 60 hours imprisoned in a tiny bathtub at the home of a midget friend. The going’s tough in Council Bluffs, And now it is alleged, Each husky puff, and many huffs 8till left her tightly wedged.

But free of wrath, the lady hath Improved each shining hour. The aftermath? Each future bath Is sure to be a shower!

NATIONAL RESOURCES ies By Jim G. Lucas

Manpower Shortage

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17——The National ‘Security Resources Board has told the joint chiefs of staff we don’t have the manpower to fight the war they plan if this country ever is attacked. As a result, the joint chiefs are restudying their overall

strategic plans. . By law, balance between “potential

Yugoslavia. Most of them are powerless to re:

the Resources Board is directed to establish a

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POLITICAL STRATEGY

By Marquis Childs

Johnson Seeking Presidency?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report to Reorganize

Government has given its first citation for

economy to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson. This honor will undoubtedly spur the Secretary to even greater zeal in his battle

with the vast and sprawling department—he is

trying: to: bring under control. According to latest count, 116,000 =

MBIT ES DRTC Red £na the sian,

is still going on, Mr. Johnson has said that not merely a billioh “dollars but perhaps as much as two billions can be saved. This is heroic stuff. And it is merely one phase of the-struggle ta shape the defenses of the United States to a manageable size; a balance that will give the country a modern defense ata cost within the scope of the AmeriLan economy.

Preparing for 1952 Ra

BOTH Mr. Johnson's friends and. his enemies, and particularly the latter, who are numerous and articulate, suggest from time to time that in his conspicuous role he is readying himself for

. & campaign for the Presidency in 1952. There

are even hints that he is following a calculated plan to build himself for the next and biggest leap of ambition. But this implies that Mr. Johnson knows " far less about politics than he obviously does.

It would be hard to imagine an office less_

likely to advance an ambitious man on the presidential path than that of Secretary of Defense in the present stage of unification or the lack of it. Seldom has anyone in public life alienated 80 many large and vociferous groups so quickly as has Mr. Johnson in less than a year in the Pentagon. Take the Navy and the Marine Corps alone. Here are great traditional and sentimental sources of grief and rage with milHons of adherents above and beyond the men on active duty and their families. Economy of itself is not popular. It is the kind of virtue that must be its own reward. In his assault on waste and duplication, Mr. Johnson has not always been the soul of tact. In fact, that is probably the understatement of the year. He has aroused suspicion and opposition where none existed before. This is said to be

SIDE GLANCES

true even at the White House where the cooling off has been noticeable and especially, according to those who should know, on the part of the President himself. ‘

Some Disillusion 1¥F Secretary Johnson did harbor any hope that his headiine-making job would advance his

“ “ambition, he must now feel a certain: sad dis APRON A RET Rk 5 TAS

dinner depicted him as quite willing to be nominated “a wonderful guy” so long as everybody agreed with the great unifier. Not .long ago-a number of high officials in Washington received telegrams from New York inviting them to sit at the head table at a “gold medal award dinner” to. be tendered Mr. Johnson at the Waldorf-Astoria. The organization conferring the gold medal was Interfaith in Action. The response was depressingly slight as official after official discovered urgent reasons why he could not leave Washington that evening. A little later the gold medal award din-

-. ner was indefinitely postponed.

In his own party Mr. Johnson has intense

competition for '52 from potential candidates

who do not by the onerous nature of their duties have to take such a public bruising. One evidence of the confidence of the Democrats is this yeasty pushing up on candidates so early in the game. You can hardly turn over a rock in the political rock garden without uncovering at least one or more eager aspirant.

Odd Sound of Economy

MR. JOHNSON'S approach has more nearly a Republican than a Democratic appeal. Economy and efficiency are words that evoke Herbert Hoover rather than Roosevelt or Truman.

They have an odd sound in the party of Jef- -

ferson and Jackson. } Perhaps by the kind of skillful manipulation that politicians and their henchmen have employed in the past, Mr. Johnson might succeed in getting the Democratic nomination. But it is hard to visualize him as the popular leader of a party that must rely on mass support at the grass-roots level. You may depiore this as a sad manifestation of the vaywardness of our political life. But there it tis,

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‘Wives Have Money Problems’ Housewife, Indianapolis By House nlte I ritcle. In The Titles recently, tells of men Juying lingerie, and says in part, “~-men are s with the clerks. They're much easier to please than women and they're better spenders. That's the general opinion of ales ie.” the mt ny cozy now? The men I have known who got up the courage to buy lingerie didn’t care a hang about fit, size, or suitability—eyeappeal was what they were after, Of course they're better spenders than women. Why shouldn't they be? Few women have private incomes. . Most women would be happier with even a small amount of money for which they eed not be accouitable ‘to any man, B From the time A was 17, I supported myself,” even worked for years after our and 1 have found. it very degrading to have to ask for every cent I needed for myself or for the house. Thus, I. was accounting for almost every penny given me, whereas my husband did not have to explain any of his expenditures other than the usual and regular household bills. If he wanted to treat a friend to a meal or a drink I was none the wiser, whereas, my budget is decidedly out of joint if I so much as buy lunch uptown when I'm shopping for the family. . 1 could go on ad infinitum. Please tell Mr. Wright that few women really like to be classed as poor spenders and non-tippers, but we can't spend what we don’t have. J realize there are exceptions in all cases—extravagant wives, open-handed husbands, but I am speaking of thousands and thousands of middle-class fam{lies in which the women find themselves in my situation. We surely have to make the little money we get go a long way, don’t we, girls? If my hus band had to pay cash for my services as ¢ook, housekeeper, nurse and baby-sitter, I could buy: far better clothes than I have ever had and he'd get his eyes opened as to all the things I do for my family as a matter of course, and because of the love I bear them. * ¢

‘Miners Should Quit Lewis’

By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind. No doubt the coal miners have suffered most from the three-day and no-day week, and it hurts more as the holiday season approaches. The one safe and sure solution to the Lewis evil is for the United Mine Workers to disband and form independent unions in every state, elect their own officers who are in a position to know local conditions better than any highsalaried dictator in Washington. They would not need a salaried president, but might require a secrefary-treasurer. The plan would cut their

dues-75 per cent, put their affairs in their own — “hands. allow them to work six days a week if si | : ney choose, and best of all, abolish te cack cnn SOLA Os RY O=

Wis, aod Bincnomers ok ny that ‘is, ‘do nothing but collect their salary and-do-all-they can 10 keep the miners from work. on If the miners go back to work and refuse - to pay dues to the Lewis outfit, they should publish a simple notice that they have quit the UMW and have organized an independent union, Any local attorney will. draw up an agreement for them with mine owners, write them a good constitution and handle all their legal business at very ‘little cost, and thus, put an end to the greatest curse of the miners and the public. Now is the time,

What Others Say

A NATURAL synthesis exists . . . in American democracy and Judaism. The Bible is marked by an insistence on every man’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness— the core of the American design for living.—D¥.

Nelson - Glueck, head of Jewish Institute of

Religion. : * @ ¢ AS GOVERNOR, one could secure the co-op-eration of other governors in arousing the peeple of the nation to hold the line against further encroachments upon the rights of the states.— James F. Byrnes, former Secretary of State, * + . WE RHOULD lose no time working out a broader area of co-operation in atomic matters with Britain and Canada.—David' E. Lilienthal, former chairman of U. 8, Atomic Energy Commission. . * 4% + I HAVE information that Russia has heen to the antarctic with unnamed ships and power, ful planes. Whether they are after uranium I can't say.—Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd. * &

* ON THE basis of what I think some of us know, this nation couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag if war broke out tomorrow.—Sem. Harry P. Cain (R. Wash.).

1950 CAMPAIGN . . . By Charles Lucey

= New GOP Strategy

WASHINGTON, Dec. command to chisel out a new policy statement disavowing “me tooism” will draw some criticism within the party, but it's regarded by leaders as absolutely essential. } For months such a pronouncement has peen demanded by big GOP fund contributors. They are weary of party failures and

iT—Deciston of the Republican high

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supplies and potential requirements of manpower, resources and productive facilities in time of war.’ Early this year, it asked the joint chiefs how many men we

would need to fight a war, how

rapidly they must be inducted and how long would the emergency last?

~ nu ” THE joint chiefs’ reply was made last spring in a secret document, It was learned, however, that they said the military would need more men ‘than in World War II. Our peak — Army (including Air Corps), Navy and Marines— wag 12.1 million in May, 1945.

In ali. 16.4 milllon men saw service during the last war.

In substance, it was learned,

the board told the joint chiefs that their manpower éstimates

were too big by 20 to 30 per -

cent. Moreover, it said, the raté at which the armed services expected to induct men would jeopardize the national economy. To provide the military force asked by the joint chiefs, the board sald, would not leave enough manpower to supply sufficient arms. Nor would it leave enough to supply the civilian economy, ‘® wo ITS conclusions were supported by non-military agencies —such as Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Batistics, etc. --_ which participated in fits staff studies. - The Resources Board conducted two types of economic feasibility. tests. First, it set a labor force participation rate ~the -number of persons, not ordinarily émployed, Who could

take war jobs and release men. for military service. It arrived.

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at a figure only a few percentage points above England's all-out war effort during the battle for Britaip. It then established a national austerity level, below which it said the nation could not go. The lowest level of civilian

economy -— reached in the spring of 1944—was adopted. . .

EVEN by putting everyone to work on a war job and maintaining civilians at the 1944 level the board found the military was asking for several millfon more men than the nation could supply. It was learned that the boarc questioned the joint chiefs’ estimate on the number of ir recoverable (manpower) losses --Kkilled or out of action—in a new war. It felt the figure was too high, and that by cutting ft the military could reduce its

It pointed out that the Veter: ans Administration now is paying a $2.8 billion GI Insurance dividend because World

War II casualty estimates were too high, » ” »

DESPITE the fact that the national population is growing at the rate of one million a year, the board found that we have fewer young men of military age than when we entered World War II. It blames the depression. Still another factor—the increase in marriages since VJ Day--sharply reduced the number of potential war workers, Many “women who,.ordinarily

, could serve as replacements for soldiers,

sailors and airmen now are mothers of small children and cannot be listed as available.’

These are temporary bars,

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“| just told her Hollywood would have to do better than thet or she'd never get another nickel from us!"

from dislocations arising out of World War II,

but in current war planning _

they must be taken into account, By law, the joint chiefs are required to ask for all the men they believe are needed to win a war. Their estimates are submitted to the Resources Board to determine if the manpower

“is available. If it is not—and

in this case it wasn't—they must lower their sights. : In addition to manpower estimates, the joint chiefs also submitted figures on the amount of steel, copper, alumi, num, petroleum, Ships anit machine tools required by the military for another’ war, Balance sheets now are being drawn, g

Barbs

IT'R interesting when an astronomer finds a tail on A. comet. Most of us can't even find the comet. . ~ » A MICHIGAN girl insisted on marrying a man while he still had scarlet fever. Was his face red! . » ~ ” SANTA wilh again leave

'" homes-empty-handed—the chil-

dren with the toys and dad holding the bag.

» ” ” IN the first nine months of

this year 228,205 babies were born In New York state. The same number of homes are bound to have & merry Christ: mas. A

demand to know: What does Republicanism stand for today? ’ But GOP Congressmen, beating the bushes at home in cent weeks, also have learned the plain folks are demanding the same guiaance— and these people must be courted if the party is not to flop ‘again in 1950. » - » ABANDONMENT of “me too” thinking was keynoted at this week's strategy committee meeting in Chicago by GOP National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield of Michigan. It typifies the determination of many. Republican leaders to turn their backs on Willkie; Dewey campaigns of 1940, 1044 and 1948, But some Republicans wonder. GOP Gov. Alfred Driscoll observed following his re-elec-tion in New Jersey last.month: “One, thing that riles me is this talk that the Republican Party mustn't be a ‘me too’ party. It all depends on what you're ‘me tooling.” Gov. Driscoll said he was willing to “me too” the Ten Commandments, the preamble to the Constitution and a strong national defense without wasting money. But he said the Truman ‘socialized medicine” program gave the GOP a real issue to battle and “we've got to let people know we want decentralization of government and make them see why home rule is” vital to this country.” " ¥ »

HE pointed out that New Jersey had achieved some pro-

gressive reforms-—a civil liber. ,

ties prograrh, sickness benefits insurance, guarantee ' of veterans’ loans—unmatched by the Democratic administration. Gov. oll attended the Chicago iicy ‘meeting. No

blows were struck, but differ-

enue. In Views were plain and SG was a need to get a clear deuntition of how far “me tooism’’ goes. The question is raised: Could Sen. Robert A. Taft be labeled “me too” because he has favored public housing and certain phases of the health program advocated by President Truman? The conservative Republican conformists outnumbered the non-conformists, and their views certainly will prevail when the new policy statement finally is produced. Nothing will be done until Republican Senators and Con-

- gressmen return to Washing-

ton. - . . THE people primarily concerned are the GOP members

‘of Congress, because they are

the ones who must go out and

face voters next year. ence: they prob&bly will be an opportunity to pass ' any .

statement drafted. AN The takeoff points tor formulating the - new statement probably will be the 1948 platform adopted at Philadelphia and a shorter, more general statement adopted a couple of years earlier by a mid-term policy group- headed by Rep. Charles A - Halleck, (R. Ind). ‘» FINANCES tro not discussed at Chicago, but they are related importantly to the

policy statement. For example,

it is estimated by party leaders now that about $750,000 will be needed just to run the GOP House Congressional Committee’'s show-—to try to get Republican House members elected. That isn't peanuts for a party out of power, and that's only part of the job for 1950. The leaders hope a new statement will bring in some of those bucks. :

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