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Munich in Asia

JUST one day after the Chinese Communists ‘had delivered an insulting note to the government of India, attacking the aot oh ons of Its epurts on an issue having Ho relation whatever to China, Premier Nehru's government an‘nounced its recognition of the Red regime at Peiping. " This appeasement policy is the result of Mr. Nehru's

area which forms a land barrier between India and most of Red €hina.

; TIBET 8 nlonomy was established vy the Simla agreement of 1911 among the governments of Britain, China and Tibet. The validity of this agreement was not recognized ‘by the Chinese Republicans, who succeeded the Manchu dynasty. But Tibet, for most practical purposes, has remained an independent state. Now Mr. Nehru indulges in the hope that Tibetan independence will be recognized by r the Chinese Reds. The Munich conference, at which Britain and France traded off part of Czechoslovakia for: “peace in our time,” met on Sept. 20, 1938. On Mar, 15, 1939, less than six months later, Hitler moved in and took over the rest of Czechoslovakia by force of arms. When the Allies ignored this breach of faith, Hitler was encouraged to march on. Poland. -. We hope that history does aot repeat itself in the case of Tibet and India.

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in Asia - his poliey’ of timidity ry eagerness to pose. Not that India is alone in this respect. Britain, too, has forgotten the lessons of Munich and is preparing to recognize the Chinese Reds in the hope that that will deter them from seizing the British Crown colony of Hong Kong.

Probably Important

| too bad Messrs. Keyserling and Clark—the remaining members of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers—didn't hire a rewrite man to translate their latest report into plain language. ~ This document, titled “business and government,” probably merits wider, more careful reading than it's likely to get. Having struggled through it, we conclude that it may be important and hopeful. If, that is, it means what we. think it undertakes to say. ; Among its main points, Ssmuning we get them correct. ly, are these: Business and government are learning to ‘understand gach thes better and to Tealise that they need To Work

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". » y 8» GOVERNMENT has abandoned the theory, to which it held during the great depression, that our economy is ‘mature, if not senile, and that only government action in the form of continuous deficit spending can save it from chronic stagnation. Government now is convinced that our business system and our whole economy can and should continue to grow mightily. It also is convinced that more good will be accomplished by efforts to increase total production of new wealth than by schemes to “redistribute” the wealth now being produced. It recognizes that there is a piace, in our" r-acheme of things, for “well-conducted” big business as well as for small business. 3 And; while government must use taxing and spending policies in efforts to prevent or cure future depressions, it has learned that it can't do the whole job. Its chief - emphasis must be on policies designed to encourage steady business expansion and thus to promote “stability and growth’ within our free-enterprise system itself.” . . . » » wv THIS summary doesn't begin to cover the whole re-port-and, as we say, we don't guarantee the complete accuracy of our attempt to interpret the . phraseology of «Messrs. Keyserling and. Clark. wo - It is much to be desired that business and governraent should work in harmony for the good of the country and of & free people. Whether that happy state of affairs actually is within sight is the question. In answer to it, action on both sides will speak louder than the longest words in the vocabulary of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The Germ War Trial’

1s not news that the Japanese were conducting experiments in bacteriological warfare during the latter years . of the recent war,. The subject was covered by American intelligence reports published in 1045. It seems significant, however, that the Russians should have waited more than four years before presenting such cases to & war crimes tribunal. Russia was the only major power in a position to make an adequate investigation of the charges, since the Japanese army in Manchuria, where the alleged experiments were conducted, surrendered to the ' Soviets.

all promptly pleaded guilty, according tp radio Moscow. ‘Since no foreign correspondents were invited to attend the: : proceedings, it. seems obvious Mascow intends to use the | - trial for Propaganda purposes. . .

Je A SPECIAL “committee of the Japanese parliament is "Interviewing returned prisoners of war, in : effort to . ascertain the-fate of 376,000 members of Japan's Manchurian army who have not been returned to their homeland. i | Testimony thus far indicates that most of these troops | died iin prison camps as a result of mistreatment and underBoing An army doctor testified that the death rate Shgich iison amp Waa sa high 42 40 per cent between

tot war cries trial was ‘announced after t began its investigation, it would ns hope to counteract the charges of licting certan dapasess oficery

concern over the status of Tibet, that vast and little known . °

"FORECAST... By Bruce Biossat Many Years of

Cold War

Russia Expected to Continue Pressure for World Conquest

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3-The prospect tha

t, .. the. “cold war,” with its huge cost ‘and high ten-

sions, will continue for at least 50 years is not _ one to cheer about, Toynbee, {he eminent British historian, foresees. .* Prof. Toynbee is the author of a work that atrikes deep into the basic nature of human history. He looks at events with the long view. Bo his comments on future trends inevitably carry weight, The bright side of his forecast 1s, of course, that he sees no real likelihood of a shooting war

one of the longest periods without war since the middle of the 19th Century,

Not Joyful ‘Peace’ es BUT however grateful the millions of ordi« nary folk everywhere would be for such an era, they could not contemplate with joy the idea that the coming 50 years are to be & repetition of what the world has known as “peace” since World War II ended. Mr. Toynbee isn’t alone in predicting a painful extension of the cold war, Bernard Baruch, America's elder statesman, thinks the same. And so do some of our other statesmen and military leaders, What they are all saying In effect is that Russia will not use its army to expand its area of control or influence in the world. But the Soviet Union will employ every other device known to man-—and undoubtedly many new ones --t0 achieve its apparent goal of global conquest.

Must Meet Pressure

IF THAT is the course Russia does indeed intend to pursue, then the United States and the rest of the free world have no choice but to meet the relentless Soviet pressure with equal weight and determination on the other side.

Let's translate that into practical terms. It

_ means we'll have to keep a bigger army than

we'd like to have, for a longer time than we ever imagined would be necessary. It means, furthermore, that we'll have to take the lead in strengthening and co-ordinating the mig foroes of other free nations.

x SE iy ! r 3 175d s have to kee EER et strong, doing our best 'to avoid paralyzing depression. And no doubt we'll have to continue helping other countries economically for a considerable time. Otherwise they might not be able to resist the corrosive effects of infiltrating communism. That's the outlook, say Mr. Toynbee and other far-seeing experts. If they're right, there's no use in our living in hope that an easy. relaxing sort of peace is just around the corner. Tension and strain may well prove to be the normal state for free peoples in the next half century.

1 PITY YOU

You are blind, and so I pity you. You cannot see the sun, the birds, and trees, They are so commonplace to you, too humble; Ani yet you pity me. IT am not blind, too plainly 1 can see. You worship lucre, man's power, large edifice, and greed. To you they symbolize attainment quite su-

reme; And so I pity you. God pities you, He's willing to bestow \ A bulging purse to satisfy your lusting. ‘greedy ‘mind

— But in Christ's heart weeps tears that you are: blind; That you are only pitied. I eat of love, God plenteously endows. My heart is full, all nature sings a tune, my bread is sweet. Free perfume of breeze and \ flowers, ecstasy of life is mine, Love, not pity, is freely held. ~—dJosephine Buck, Westfield, Ind.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

ATLANTA —Announcement was made at the druggists’ convention that Americans have 7,500,000,000 headaches a year. That's an average of 50 per person. Just unscrew that aspirin cover; ‘On noggin aches let us expound. It's nice to have someone discover That other folks’ heads sometimes pound.

80, why should you care if it's eyestrain, Or superinduced by a drink? As long as the world's every migraine Is not yvours—as many folks think?

POLITICAL DEBATE . . . By Marquis Childs dom

WASHINGTON, -Jan. 3—In the new year the debate that underlies every political argument is certain to grow louder and angrier. That debate is, of course, ov ersimplified by the opposing

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3-Do you oe) i shag the,

Republican Party has a program that can com >

pete politically with President Truman's “Fair Deal”? Ninety-one per cefit of the 345 U, 8. newspaper editors replying to a 1950 political prophecy poll conducted by this column say ‘“no.” This opinion prevails eight to one in the East and West, It is ten to one in the Midwest and fifty to one in the South. : Only 7 per cent of the editors think the GOP does have a better program than the Democrats. Two per cent expressed na opinion. “Little as we like the Democrats and thee program,” the editors seem to. be saying, * do not believe the Republicans have i fo beat it.” They say this fn-spite of the fact that 63 per cent of them think Harry 8. Truman should not run for another term in the White House. They say this to confirm another opinion held

‘by 69 per cent of them, that there is no chance for the Republicans to wrest control of Congress from the Democrats in the 1850 elections.

The 723 American editors subscribing to this column were asked for suggestions on what the Republican platform should contain to offer voters a winning formula. Twenty-seven per cent of the 345 editors who filled out the questionnaire refused to answer. They said the question was “unanswerable” or “too deep.” Or, as the Selma {(Ala.) Times-Journal and Port Arthur (Tex) News agreed, “Only God knows.” “The Republicans can’t win on a decent platform,” said the Newark (0.) Advocate. Others shared this view. “The GOP will probably have to continue to take lickings until the fallacy of the welfare state dawns on the voters” observed the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune.

‘Out-Promising Truman’

ON THE utter hoplessnes of GOP prospects, the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal remarks: “The only GOP possibility is in outpromising Truman.” But the Montgomery (Ala.) Journal says that “a GOP Santa Claus would be worse than a Democratic one.” And the Cambridge

SIDE GLANCES

the GOP back in the driver's seat.” “No winning program is possible for the Republicans,” said the Macon (Ga.) News. “A majority of the people think they're getting what they want,” said the Manhattan (Kas.) Chronicle and Mercury, “and that's a situation hard to beat.” This point of view was perhaps best ‘summed up by the Athens (Tex.) Review: “To win, call for a bigger fair deal. To be intellectually honest, reaffirm capitalism.” “Any middle-of-the-road party is outmoded,” said the Stuftgart (Ark.) Leader. ‘Both parties are off the beam,” said the McComb (Miss.) - Enterprise. “Conservatives of all parties should unite to thwart socialism.” This idea of a possible merger of northern Republicans with southern Democrats got considerable attention from the editors. “Give it (the merged party) a new name, the ‘American Party,’ maybe,” suggested the Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanche-Journal.

State Rights

ONE contributing factor seems to be a grow _

ing demand for Republican support of states’ rights. “Eliminate federal grants to state and local governments,” urges the Jackson (Mich,) Citizen-Patriot and Saginaw News. “Return to home rule,” says the Birmingham (Ala.) Post, Danbury (Conn.) News-Times, Chico (Cal.) Enterprise-Record and Natchez (Miss.) Guard, Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio seems to'be a big center of dispute among the editors. They are for him and against him. The Boston (Mass.) Herald-Traveler calls for “the Taft program, minus Taft foreign policy.” The Ashta-

bula (0O.) Star-Beacon and the Yuma (Ariz) Sun and Sentinel agree: "Taft's program is the answer.”

On specific issues for the Republicans to adopt, editors’ suggestions ranged all over the horizon. Many generalized, coaching the party to adopt a constructive and positive—not a negative—platform, But at least 50 different issues were raised répeatedly by from 2 to 10 per cent of the editors. Many have a familiar ring. They are the issues the Gop has been hammering at since 1936.

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a ae for ersonal grievances or for exercising the right of the freedoms as set forth in the. U. 8. Constitution. and Bill of Rights, Congress must make every innovation enabling the citizens to utilize every jota of freedom. In The Times I read where President Truman again will ask Conugress to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law and restore the one-sided Wagner Act with a few inadequate improvements, Since so many people who do not like the

. ‘Wagner Act and its non-security in Jrinciple

and. its attempts to squelch free speech, casts the biggest vote in the country, I feel confident the 127 “enemies” of labor—26 Senators and 81 Rejsuentatives «aameg for defeat, will be re«

ote founders of our great democracy in a republic built by freedom and honesty of thought wrote & Constitution and Bill of Rights which has withstood the years-—-yes, stood until the communistic-like Wagner Act Sought to destroy it.

‘Same Pensions for Al By C. D. C., Terre Haute, Ind.

Thos. B. Marshall in an article in the Forum states that he would like for me to come out with some constructive criticism and suggest a way to eliminate poverty and old age. Per.sopally, I do not think it is desirable to eliminate old age even if we wanted to. It is my own opinion that every old person in our complex society should be eligible for an old ‘age pension if he wishes it. However, I believe every person should be given exactly the same amount Instead of an amount decided upon by some cake worker, Neither do I think that the present setup of giving only to pauper or union members is fair since the public is actually paying these pensions. As to eliminating poverty, if we are to be-

lieve in the Holy Bible, it can never be done -

because it states quite plainly that “The poor ye shall have with you always even unto the end of the world.” In fact, there is a human

own house in order; and the more Fair Deal assed, the harder it at" house in order. Furthermore, the ub , doles there are given and the more benefits they receive, the less likely they are to do so because it takes away the incentive needed to prod them into help. ing themselves, I would like to add that the British Bociale ists and the Russian Communists have tried to break this law about poverty and they have only succeeded in spreading it among miore people but never eliminating it.

So They Say

MODERN society has progressed a long way since the days when the courts enforced the doctrine that husband and wife were one, and that one the husband.—Chief Justice Arthur

“Vanderbiit of New Jersey Supreme Court. *

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WE shall know how to deal with despotism and force as we have dealt with it in other centuries as well as our own.—Shah of Iran. * & 9

IF YOU find a house for rent today, you“can be sure something Is wrong with it. Any house ‘that is of value can be sold and a builder or a real estate man has nothing to gain by renting. —William Levitt, Prominent builder.

I SEE nothing to make me think that the atomic bomb has altered the way in which we make war. — British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. * 9% 2 NOT until the Russian dictatorship is gone ean we accept Russia as a partner in-world gov ernment.—Dr. Harold C. Urey, on resigning as head of United World Federalists. rod WOMEN don’t dress to please men. They dress to displease other women.—Aectress Hazel Brooks. * o © NO other country has ever prevailed as a capitalistic democracy after more than 35 per cent of income has been taken for maintaining government. —Rep. Jevee Wolcott (R. Mich.) ¢ ©

WE'RE just as free as the alr —Vies President Alben W. Barkley.

TRUMAN POLICY . . , By Jim G. Lucas

‘Demands for Chin WASHINGTON, Jan. 3— President Truman so far has found no answer to mounting congressional criticism of his diplomatia failure in China. Mr. Truman has shown concern. "There is evidence he warts to head off charges he has abandoned non-Communist forces ‘in

Twelve Japanese officers have been placed on trial, and

First in the British elections and then in our own elections “we will hear a Tot

the handout state. Most of this will be self-serving on both sides of the political fence, But while much qf it may be special pleading, the debate in all its phases is of the utmost signifi~Cance. . » ) “A LARGE part of the world has already fallen under a dark and evil kind ¥oft slavery, all the more sinister because it is disguised in the stolen lane guage of western freedom. In that part of the earth where hard-won freedoms exist, there is too little awareness of how precious they are and how endangered by various forms of gigantism and by the easy complacency with which we take them for granted. .One of the healthy signs, it ‘seems to me, is the controversy developing over the growing practice of inflicting canned music and canned advertise.’ ments on those wha ride busses and streetcars or wait In rajlway stations, There are real signs of re- " bellion at being made to listen to sounds one does not ‘want to hear while confined in a spacé that one must. occupy in getting about from place to place... “ ) ! » " » ALONGSIDE the great problems of "war and peace that bedevil us this may -seem a trivial preoccupation and a foolish waste of energy. But in my opinion it is neither fool. ish nor trivial, for it reveals the very heart of the argu« ‘ment otf’ security va, freedom, Control of radio and television can give those who wield the Shure] power over men's

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gles are possibilities for great good ‘or great evil. That wise and American, the late Louis D. Brandeis,

farseeing Justice wrote in

jons about a right too often ignored. He condemned an'in-

alone the most comprehensive of rights and the most Valued by civilized man, "or = . IT IS the right to be let alone which the dictator states of Eastern Europe violate every hour of the day and night. The citizen is never free from the all-pervading shadow of, the all-powerful state. Even if he had the physical privacy of a room of his own, he still would not be out of reach of the listening device,

voice of the propaganda radio. In his terrifying novel, George Orwell has th aown imaginatively - the lengths to which this can be carried. The miserable citizen of 1984 is never out of range of the television, which both spies upon him and illustrates for him’ the attitude of wor y

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find a formula on which he could build a bipartisan Asiatic policy. Such meetings as the widely publicized hush-hush conference of the National Security Council at the White House have produced more smoke than fire. No decisions: have been reached, for the simple ‘reason that .the -administration's councils are divided. The State Department is unpsepared for quick action. { . = ” CONGRESSIONAL: critics of the China policy will not be mollified by such gestures as the sending of.a carrier and two additional destroyers to join the Far East fleet. Sen. William F. Knowland (R. Cal.), a supporter of the bipartisan European policy and leader of the revolt on Asiatic

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likely be . the minimum demands, in a ringing speech before the Overseas Writers Club here. He asked: That prompt military and economic alk be given to help Natjonalist China hold the islands of Formosa and Hainan, and portions of the main-land--that to be accomplished by ‘sending a military mission to Formosa, utilizing the $75

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policy, summed up what will’ “MacArthur,

~Asta-as Congress reconvenes; There are signs he would like to

and it is belleved that even Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R.

- Mich.) will go along with Mr,

Knowland on China policy. Sen. Knowland urged that we send a mission to Formosa headed by a man of the caliber of Lt, Gen, A. C. Wedemeyer, Even at .this date, Sen, Knowland said, there is still hope. And the greatest hope for peace, he said, lies in taking the calculated risk on the danger of losing. - ¥ ! LESS than a month ago, a

full report on the situation in

Asia was turned in by Army Under B8ecretary Tracy Vorhees and Lt Gen. A. M,

Gruerither, deputy chief of staff for plans and operation. It has not been made public, based on the views of Gen, however, and re. portedly was the reason” for Mr. Truman's concern. N Our military. men say 300 American. officers—enough to staff the Chinese army down to the division level-—is sufficient, Americans serving as’ spesialists with the. Nationalist Navy and Air Force, it is said,

could either prevent a landing

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shipful obedience that must be 4" in ‘current his. history. . v i J ” ».- . . . TO MANY it may seem far- HITLER had a captive audi-

fetched to talk In these terms

and a few canned commercials -on a bus, “You don’t have to listen if you don't:want to. But in my opinion it is not so far-fetched. precedent, an unhappy example bound to spread unless checked by the force of public epinjon, Advertising experts are sald to refer to the bus-riding audi. ence as. a io oie audience.”

~ about a dittle canned -music

It 18 a bad

ence. Stalin has a captive audience that >was compelled to listen to endless eulogies on

the deified hero's birthday. To ‘Irefuse ‘to listen ‘would be to

risk death. An audience “captured” for A toothpaste commercial is softened up for capture by an ambitious ‘politician with a political nostrum to sell, captive who vely takes the

likely to show the way to a future in,

ish philosopher and scientist, in his “book, “Authority and the Individual,” has put the whole issue in sharp focus. It is a stimulative and provocative study of the question that jooms large at this midway mark ‘of the 20th Century.

To ignore it will certainly not solve it. ‘Nor is there a

funds.

million Congress voted military aid, and unfreezing the $90 million of Chinese ECA

That our State Department declare unequivocally that we will never recognize the Chis nese : Communist government, and serve notice: on Britain that It ‘shie extends recognition

or destroy it on the bedches. - for i

tagon that foreign military experts have programs “the $75 million which ‘Congress forced into.the §1 billion European military’ aid program. as a - contri ‘to China, Military men say they know exactly how it will be spent and where

pat and parrotiike afswer. - ghe “will have to ace the. the munitions can be found, Only soul-searching of the kind soniequences” in rn ced ‘They need only a go-ahead ‘we seem reluctant to do Is American aid in Europe.

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