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" Our Retreat From Asia
- PRESIDENT TRUMAN g refusal to give either military P supplies or advice to the Chinese Nationalists in their t to save Formosa from the Communists may Prove the “most fateful decision of his administration. China held the key to the situation on the Asiatic rn land. When it was lost, Western civilization was left with ndable ally there. 2 2 pushed us back out to sea, behind: a defense line based on the islands of Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines.
Formosa, ip Bed hands, will endanger that at whole line.
IN SEPTEMBER, 1947, Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer recommended that Manchuria be placed under a United Nations trusteeship, and submitted a program to the Presjdent which he believed would save Cum from communism. dum contained this warning: Hn deterioration of the situation may result in the early establishment of a Soviet satellite government “jn Manchuria, and ultimately, in the evolution -of a Com-“munist-dominated China.” Gen. Wedemeyer’s plan. for positive action was sup‘pressed in favor of then Secretary of State Marshall's “donothing” policy, which in burs WAS succeeded by Secretary “wait-and-see” policy. Bn our Ne rrimant sat on its hands, both of Gen. Wedemeyer’ 8 tire predictions have come to pass,
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“The Chinese problem is a part of a global situation which should be considered in its entirety . . for if we
f ‘embark u “general policy to bulwark the frontiers o ‘freedom 4: t the assaults of political despotism, one “ma jor it is no less important than another, and a deci-
sive breach of any will inevitably threaten to engulf all.” 4 of China broke the Asiatic frontier, and loss of Formos will breach our defenses in the Pacific.
. » ” » LJ ” . HOWEVER, though the President's attitude toward the Formosan issue has been clarified, the issue has not been settled, as Sen. Vandenberg has warned. Debate on that: Jade has just begun. Britain and France did not secure “peace in our time" at Munich, and Britain and the United States cannot buy in Asia by compromising with totalitarianism there. Meanwhile, if the Chinese Nationalists, left to their own meager resources, can withstand an armed attack on Forfosa. President Truman and the British foreign office may find to their chagrin that they 1 have been backing the wrong
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Not the Right Way
EVERYBODY will agree with President Truman that, along with the constantly increasing national prosperity for which we all hope, the number of competing and independent - business enterprises also should ETOW. Everybody will agree that businessmen must have “the incentives necessary for investment and for development of new lines of enterprise.” And, certainly, “we must curb monopoly.” proper and essential duty of government. But many will question what Mr. Truman seems to have in mind when he says he will send to this Congress proposals ‘to assist small business and encourage growth of new under‘takings— “aids to independent business so that it may have the credit and capital to compete in a system of free enterprise.”
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That is a
. -” . . » x IT IS not government's proper duty to provide business ‘with credit or capital in times of péace and prosperity. Our government, now more than a quarter-trillion in debt and gong: deeper if Mr. Truman-has his way, has no source of capital except the people. It has no backing for credit except the people's past savings and their present and prospective earnings. And government-provided capital and credit, taken from the people by increasing their taxes or enlarging their ‘public debt, is not the sort of assistance small and independent business needs.
. . ” THE right way-—and the more valuable and effective way-—of making the réquired, capital and credit available would be to encourage the people to invest their own money. That can be done: "ONE: By determined action to balance the federal budget through reduction of government spending, so that the tax burden and the public debt may stop growing and start shrinking. ” TWO: By intelligent revision of the federal tax system which-now, in the words of Director Gunderson of the ‘Reconstruction Finance Corp., makes it “unattractive for ‘a person with money to invest in small business because it 48 ugremunerative to him in proportion to the risk.”
‘A King in Trouble JRAROUK I, playboy king of Egypt, who lately has been _ in the public eye because of his alleged desire to wed the 16-year-old fiancee of one of his subjects, has political problems, too. “ The Wafdist Party, which Tea been feuding with the Royal House of Egypt since 1923, has just wan control of ‘the new parliament. “ All Egyptian political parties would be accounted con- _ mervative by western standards, but the Wafdists are the © most liberal of the lot. br "rn i Watdists boycotted the 1945 election and have not
sopresented in parliament since that time, although fini Pasty members accepted appointments in coalition
Farouk has ruled through a hand-picked a: ret mart nd wi
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| COLWAR. By uwel Deny
Stalin Moving On Finns Again
Treaty Pressure ng Involve Norway, Sweden
WASHINGTON, Jan, 7—Stalin is preparing the way for another aggressive move against little Finland. His charge that the Finns have violated their peace treaty with Russia is his customary cover-up whenever he Plans to breach
. A treaty,
Whether and when he will make a military
move presumably depends on developments. But,
he is now in position to act whenever he desires, Meanwhile, his latest threats—even if he does not resort to direct force—are calculated to intimidate the Finns and other Scandinavians and to distract the Western Powers, who have
* their hands full elsewhere. If nothing else is ac
complished it enables Stalin to utp the offensive in the cold war;
War of Nerves
‘OUTSIDE of Finland, the immediate effects will be felt most in Norway and Sweden. Any Russian pressure on their eastern neighbor involves the two larger Scandinavian nations because the distances are so short. Having failed to bluff Norway out of the Western Defensive Alliance, Stalin continues to subject her to a war of nerves. And to keep Sweden | ‘neutral he supplies frequent reminders of her exposed position. His effort to divert the Western Powers from their interests elsewhere should be less successful. Finland is so completely isolated geographically and politically, there is nothing the Western Powers can do for her directly. They are not likely to shift their attention from the even hotter spots of Germany, Yugoslavia and the Far East,
Weakness in Europe
REGARDLESS of what Stalin does in Finland, for some time Yugoslavia“ will remain his Bravest weakness in Europe and his biggest opportunity will continue to be in the Far Fast, He is not apt to forget that any more than are the Western Powers. The most obvious reason for falin's move — and the one taken for granted in Helsinki—is to influence the coming Finnish elections. Finland
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Stalin’ 8 original post t-war plan v was to make her a satellite. He had learned at great cost in his earlier invasion that she was hard to conquer directly and harder to keep conquered. 80 In the 1947 peace tready he took her strategic areas by annexation or “lease.” made her his economical vassal to meét heavy “reparation” payments, and geared his fifth column to take over her government “legally.”
Cut Red Powgpr
BOON, however, the stubborn Finns whittled down the small Communist Party and unseated the Red leader who held the key position of interior minister in control of police. When Stalin tried to regain internal control hy intrigue and threats, the Finns defied him by putting a vigorously anti-Red Social Democratic government in office. 80 in this election Stalin may fail again to intimidate them, “Nevertheless for the moment he can do almost as he will with the Finns, except break their free spirit. They cannot prevent conquest but they can make it very expensive for him, Perhaps make it cost more than it is worth they hope,
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"FOSTER'S FOLLIES
BROOKLYN-—Three men held up the Globe Finance Co., tied and bound three employees and.
escaped with $1915,
Though the three young men were nervous, One could tell at just a glance All they wanted was fast service From these masters of finance.
Why speak ill of such intention In these days when “tempus” flies? They just sought a sort of pension Through secure financial “ties!
‘TIS SAID
Good enough {sn't very good but it will do until the best comes along. Some of the recent radio comedy programs sounded good enough.
~B, C., Indianapolis
Those who can't trust cannot be trusted. That puts some people—and nations An a peculiar position. -B, C., Indianapalis
CLOUD IN ROSY SKY . .. By Marquis Childs
Farm Price Trouble
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7--The theme song of President Tru. bigger dnd better and
man and his victorious party is successas Inevitable as the sun and the rain.
A great deal of supporting evidence can be marshaled to show that Mr. Truman is in the White House and that, therefore, all is right “if not with the world, then with this country. On this
Toy horizon there 18. however,
ROSY FUTURE . Tru uman’s 5
in his Tatest message to Con-
es gress. He says that the first 50 years of this =
20th Century were the hardest—what with two world wars and everything. But the next 50 years—oh boy and oh baby-—are going to be just dandy, as the man outlines it. There isn't anything the Republicans can cook up that will compete with this. They might as well quit trying. The President's message is as full of prophecy, uplift and noble intentions as any collection of New Year's resolutions ever asembled. Maybe Mr. Truman thinks he's going to run for President in 2000 A, D., too. and that this is his first campaign speech for the election.
Dream Stuff
THIS message will probably be criticized by the President's opponents as being utterly fantastic dream stuff, But the man could be right. And at this turning point in the 20th Century when there is so much to be scared and gloomy about, it is nice to know that the chief executive can look at the world through his rose-colored bifocals and find that everything is jake. Mr. Stalin and the Moscow planners never offered the comrades anything nearly as good as Nhat Mr. Truman promises. The pie he puts in the sky. would really be worth waiting for, if it could be had by the year 2000. In international affairs, there will be world peace. The atom will be under international control. The United Nations will be a going concern and will have forces to preserve international law and order. World commerce will be reguted under the new International Trade Organifon. ther nations will share America’s prosperity an expanded - Point Four Program of 1 pssistance to under-developed countries, Communism will be suppressed, not hy force of arms, but by an appeal to the minds and hearts of men.
\, Barbs
LOTS OF men are convinced that when a woman is at the wheel the only good engine is a dead one. N A CLOCK In Oklahoma has been running steadily since 1892. tician. \, BEES, they tell us, don't see red What is it, then, that upsets them so much that they upset as? AN
SIDE GLANCES
Maybe it thinks it's a poli-
tion of wealth, Business will have greater Incentives to produce. The farmers will have their income supported by the Brannan Plan or some such. Labor will produce more and get a gredter reward. There will be increased freedom from poverty and drudgery presumably through more pay for less work.
Better Living Standards
THE standard of living will rise. Middle-in-come and low-income families will be able to get cheaper housing. Unemployment insurance rates will be higher. Old-age insurance and other social security benefits will be greater. . There will be pensions. There will be more aid for education and medical insurance for all.
-More displaced persons will be admitted -and
civil rights equality will prevail. Meanwhile, business monopolies will be cured. Small business will get a better break and there
will be more business, The Taft-Hartley act will
be replaced. Taxes will be rejiggered so that the inequities will be reduced. The rivers will all be reorganized hy law and will produce more power, even. in New England.
_ There will be a National Science Foundation to
get more power out of the atom and take minerals out of sea witer. But just-as there is always one blemish on every peach, there is one thing that the President does not explain in his forecast for the millennium year of 2000 A. D. That is how the country is going to get rid of its national debt of $255 billion. In fact, the President doesn't even memtion the national debt once in his whole message.
Overpowering Monstrosity
THIS is strange, because this national debt
is the most overpowering monstrosity on the economic landscape. Any realistic appraisal of the State of the Union today should take the national debt into consideration and say something about it. / If it can be assumed that the national debt, like the $255 billion national product, is to be four times greater in the year 2000 than it is
today—why then the national debt will be some- .
thing. over a cool trillion” dollars, That, presumably, is about what it would take to pay for all these luxuries, And if there's anybody arotind who wants to live for another 50 years just for the sake of seeing what a- $1 iriflion national debt looks like, he's welcome to it.
rates. They Just pass it on to the consumer,
‘So They Say i»
and hungry. All were orderly, police. by hospital spokesmen, They were all pi and charged with vagrancy. This was thein Christmas gift from the City of Indianapolis, arrested and forced to stand shivering in the cold while waiting for the police patrol to take
them to jail?” The press on the same date sajd “Woman toid pofice her attacker was about 21 years old, five feet seven inches tall and weighing about
fitted this description in the least. Police sald some were ex-convicts. So are some politicians, Police further said some were drinking or had Mquor on their person. Investigation shows: a majority of those arrested were from 48 to 68
years old. Many were just poor human beings
unable to work because of their age. When they get out of jail where will they eat? Those from other states were discharged by the court and told to leave town. Hoosiers
received fines which they are paying by serving
time in jail, Mayor Feeney surely read the newspaper articles regarding these vagrancy arrests, What has he said or done to stop it? Nothing as usual. Affairs of this kind seem to be the policy of the present administration. In my opinion, Indianapolis has sunk to § new low, Its citizens should bow their heads in shame,
‘Public Pays Extra Expense’
Big steel raised prices far above their actual expense of the pension plan given their em ployees. The fact-finding board advised that with their present high profits they could stand a 10 cents per hour raise without a price raise, They raised the price of steel $4 per ton. Here are the facts and figures: The $4 per ¢on boost in steel increases profits. $120 million per year. They have 250,000 employees raised 10 cents per hour. The cost of the pension
it they worked full time would be $50 million
per year. The steel company can deduet $19
‘million from their taxes, leaving only $31 million
extra expense due to the pension.” This would leave the steel companies $39 million per year increase in profits, To me that puts the steel companies in the same category as John IL. Lewis. Their slogan~ seems tobe “Damn the public—get it while: the
getting’ is good.”
The Tort Hartley Law no doubt ree vamping. It is intended to protect publia against over-zealous labor unions, Jt should be amended to keep industry from passing its extra expense on to the public where their profits are high enough to take care of such expense and leave a fair return on their investment. What is good for pe goon “am” bad fos the gander.
CENSORSHIP under any conditions has obvious drawbacks. Try to ban kids from a certain movie and they'll do anything to sneak in.—~Top U. 8. propagandist George V. Allen, on banning Soviet Informstion Bulletin from schools.
THERE I8 scarcely any low-income problem for which full employment does not provide at least half of the solution.—Dr. Caroline P, Ware, professor of social work at Howard University.
WE SHOULD provide for using our abune dance by letting it reach the consumer, rather than holding food off the market to force higher prices.—Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan, WE WILL have to decide whether we want unification in our service schools, or whether
we want triplffication instead. ~Rep. Carl Vine
son (D) Georgia, on air academy similar te West Point and Annapolis. =
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By Galbraith FBI Tactics . .. By Andrew Tulley
Wire-Tapping Policy WASHINGTON, Jan, 7 — As Judith Coplon’'s attorn
) continued his attack on the wire- -tapping activities of the FB ” the Beripps-Howard newspapers today learned how that agency, Feaches its decisions .to tap wires. Original instructions and authorization to approve wires tapping. went to the U. 8, Attorney General in a confidential
This last made it possible for him to
one cloud that the official appraisers either have- not detected or have chosen to ignore, That is the drop in the price of many ‘farmy products. This rapid drop has stirred a slowly gathering storm of protest in the Midwest Significantly ‘enough, the protests are coming from the voters in lowa, Mignesota, Wisconsin, Ohio and Illinois who did more than any other single group to give Mr. Truman his "48 victory, ~ ” vy ONE of the few Democrats who has waked up to the meaning of this protest and the threat it’ contains is Sen, Hybert Humphrey of Minnesota. He has given Becretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan some strong words of ad. vice about what must, ‘in Mr, Humphrey's opinion, be done at once. ‘Minnesota has a highly diversified agriculture, with emphasis on dairy and poultry products. The farm bill passed
- by Congress put a ‘high support
price under corn--the raw material that goes into hogs, poultry and cattle, But that same law, in effect, left hogs, poultry and éattle out from under the support umbrella. Thus the poultry farmer
"must pay dearly for his feed,
thanks to support prices on
corn and wheat, while he sells . ‘ Bia produet.in a falling market,
"SEN. HUMPHREY has re-
ceived hundreds of letters and
eggs today at ‘20 cents per dozen.” “Am holding ‘my eggs on farm for higher prices. When does new support program take éffect? Eggs 20 cents here.” “We just can't buy highpriced machinery with only 20cent egg prices. Where is government support? If you are not going to Support eggs junk rest of support program, too.” This last makes two vital points, First is the growing disparity between the prices of what the farmer has to sell and the machinery, fencing, fuel oil and so forth he must buy to keep on producing. In the Midwest farm prices are down on the average for All commodities per cent while farm. supplies’ are up 26 per cent, . . . SECOND is the sense of inJustice increasingly felt by farmers of raising crops not protected by the new law. They see the corn and wheat farmers, including big operators lv ing in the towns who do a
kind of factory-farming with large combines, subsidized by Washington while the family farm where a lot of Iahor goes Into specialty crop & left out in the cold.
farm states. One thing they show is that the f rs do not w law and
"If they ask us to play Canasta, | want you to keep the peace +
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failed to provide money to support these other crops.
« THE man who is caught In
7 GOPR. W000 BY NEA BERVIOL. V0. T. WL REO. V. & PAT. OFF,
we don't know these people well enough to argue with them yet!”
retary of Agriculture.
serious than the fate of a See-
memorandum from President Roosevelt in May, 1940. The policy inherent in those instructions has been retained by the present Atty. Gen. J, Howard McGrath. . The FBI admits it taps wires today, but it insists it does so only to obtain leads in criminal cases. And in each case it follows an undeviating routihe aimed at preventing indiscriminate use of Wwire-tapping procedures.
WHETHER » a ll develops in New York or Cleveland or Denver or Houston, BI agents in the field first draw up an inventory of proposed investigative procedures. If the case £0 suggests, wire-tapping is included in the list. The agent in charge decides which of the conventional procedures shall be followed. But
his recorded
accent ‘and a speech peculis arity. When he called the parents, voice; together with other clues obtained by other means, helped the: agents to identify the suspect. The telephone tap is also vaiuable in picking up names
which might be tabled Jatet as those of
taps, too, the FBI has drawn Important informationt. on the ‘Plans of various suspects, their meeting places and their pere sonal, habits and Bectjitarigies,
preme Court t evidence so obtained + lo missible In a co a Sirective to his man, FBI Chief
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three clerks bc door. Attentic was distracted ployee who sud one departmen “Frightened escape, the ban ing car. They and $600 in a jammed lock. The Hohit s
5 stationed there robbers were | tured. Two p wounded.
Acciden
Indiana's t dropped as di creased, state day
There was o fce-glazed stat Indianapolis pe cal accidents, fender variet) hours.
The accide Christopher T jured in a col 36 and Brow day afternoon. Police said » ly failed to st and his car driven by Ea ville. State police clined hospit: sent in a tax physician for was reported Juries on arri The victim’ riding with h
injuries, police
BARS MINIS A “minister priest of any ever” is barre stitution fron of the Tennes cause “minist are by their | to God and tr
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