Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1950 — Page 14
- ROY W. HOWARD
WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W MANZ Editor Business Manager
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Such impudence is unique ein diplomatic history. unimaginable that any new government would even think of such a brazen snub to the Britain of, old. More in sorrow than in criticism, ‘we can only say that the British have brought it upon themselves for tfying to do business with the Communists. that, if the Angus Ward case hadn't exploded in the State Department's face, the United States would be in the same _ position today— begging the Chinese Communists, to let us recognize them,.
The new “united committee,” be interesting to observe—but don’t lay any bets that it will stay united long.
The Need for Dulles
N HIS statement accepting appointment as a State Department consultant, John Foster Dulles said one thing which could well be the keynote of any effective campaign to restore confidence in the formulation of our foreign policy. “It is time to rally from a frustrating confusion that has its roots in the mistakes of the past rather than the circumstances of the present.” Bipartisanship faltered and came to a dead stop when the State Department set up a China policy that was so plainly based upon ill-concealed errors and misconceptions dating back to the war years. If Republican congressional and party leaders had no hand in its framing, they clearly had no responsibility for supporting it. We are glad to see Mr. Dulles added to the team of top ““advisers because he is a statesman of acknowledged wisdom -and foresight in foreign affaj
It Explains a Lot RITISH prestige probably reached a low point of history when it was disclosed that the Chinese Communist regime was making demands on London before it would" consent to recognition by Britain. Britain, with her vast economic holdings in China to protect and her eagerness to do business with: the-Reds; hopefully announced recognition of the Peking government
three months ago. Peking to establish diplomatic relations with the Commu.
A British envoy was dispatched to
You would think that normally any new roping after conquest of a country would welcome recognition by a world But, you would not be reckoning with the brashness and arrogynce of a Moscow -dominated regime holding
PEKING ny ‘the British offer dangling ard the envoy eooling his heels while it drew up three questions about Britain's “attitude.” whether the Reds actually. would permit Britain to recog-
Landon’s answers would determine
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THE this” questions put to Brita w were these: Wold ; she support Peking’s claim for a United Nations seat ‘in .place of the Nationalist representative? What would Britain’ do about Nationalist refugees and “cliques” in British areas And what would be done with former Nationalist assets in British territory. The last question directly involves American interests, -and seven. threatens to become an issue between this country
An American corporation headed by Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault of Flying Tiger war fame owns 71 transport planes now on an airfield at Hong Kong. They are in the hands of Communists, and the Hong Kong courts have ruled that it would be a violation of the Red regime's ‘‘sovereign immunity” if the planes were turned over to a receiver as requested by Gen. Chennault. :
- - ” . - - THE Chinese Communists, lacking air power, want these planes for their expected assault on Formosa. They could carry 20,000 troops a day to the island stronghold of the Nationalists. the U. S. Senate on the subject of those planes ahd Britain's
Some strong words have been said in
But it's clear now why the British hesitate to take any executive action to give the planes to their rightful owners, the Americans. thinks the planes are important enough to be made one of three demands on Britain as a recognition prize. In other words, Russia is putting a gun to Britain's head—and London seems more fearful of making the Communists mad than she is desirous of co-operating with
The Moscow-advised Peking government
Brave Mr. Murray
OHN L. LEWIS has. indorsed CIO President Philip Murray's 2 propery for a “united committee of all Amer-
The committee's purpose, according to Mr. Murray, will be to “co-ordinate our-efforts in the economic, legislative and political spheres” and to work for ultimate “organic unity” of the labor movement. When he invited the héads of other labor organizations to team up with him in establishing this committee,
Mr. Murray observed: oC “All that is needed, on our part, is the wisdom and
—————eourage to-join together. ————— ~ As to the wisdom of including Mr. Lewis 4 in the ve tation, we wouldn't be so sure. But it certainly required courage, unless Mr. Murray's memory has failed.
Ld » . . FOR Mr. Murray once was associated with Mr. Lewis in another organization which. undertook to co-ordinate labor's political power. said officially in 1947: “Unfortunately for the people, and more particularly labor, Labor's Non-Partisan League fell from the start into fens @ @ PAVE Tar. Though-it-strove-to.plant.its-trees through.» ““@ out the nation, it nevertheless insisted that the seedlings “ must all come from one hot-house in Washington—John L. * Lewis’ hot-house. individual caused the stultifcation of Labor's Non- Partisan
And of ‘that organization the CIO
Circumstance and the ego of a single
with Mr, Lewis in it, will
, as well as an influential
“TRUMAN ON SPOT"
‘Heat’ on Gas Bill
WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—The best information is that PresiIn fact, a mesdrafting stage. The President will say that he is most reluctantly putting his signature to the measure that exempts-independent producers of natural gas from regulation by the Federal Power Commission.
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WORLD AID. os Sy tatvidion Foreign Travel
Jobs Open Soon
Technicians Will Go Abroad on Point 4 Program
_ WASHINGTON,
aries, soon will ‘be opened for Americans by President Truman's Point Four program. : The part of the program that provides for sending trained technicians abroad is well on its way through Congress. 2 The House has authorized a $25 million program of technical assistance to the backward areas of the world. And thé Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved’ the full $45 million requested by the administration. Ten million dollars of whatever is appropriated will be for maintenance of existing programs but the remainder will be spent on the new program. State Department officials are hopeful of getting the $35 million of new- ' program money they've asked for. If they do, they estimate that at least 2000 technicians will be needed to carry American know-how to.backward. areas. -
Trained Specialists
THESE technicians will be pegsons trained in health, agriculture, education, engineering,
. communications, geodetic surveying, and indus-
trial fields. Salaries will be the same as for foreign service personnel in thé State Department with the top ranging from $12,000 to $13,500 a year. A technician with an overseas assignment of more than one year may take his family with him. The government will pay traveling expenses. y State Department officials hope that Congress will have the program authorized and the money appropriated so they can get it started by July 1. . The program will be handled by a new office in the State Department and under a director who must be confirmed by the Senate. With White House approval, he'll decide how the money is to be spent. He may give some to United Nations agencies when he thinks, they can do the job best. And he can give to private organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation. But much of the program will be handled directly, with the government recruiting workers and then sending them abroad to handle
’ specific Jobs.
Formal Request
NO technician will leave this country with- . out a formal request for his services from the government of the country getting help, State Department officials say. . “They cite jobs already done as examples of - what they hope to do under the program. Secretary of State Dean Acheson tells of how three American geologists. helped - Brazilian govern-
Y ment geologists locate the largest deposits of
anganese in the Western Hemisphere. “The 5000 persons in Aimores, Brazil, he said, used, to have from 20 to 30 cases of typhoid a year. “A team of U. 8. sanitation experts showed the town officials how to build a small, economical blic water system. Not a case of typhoid deve] the next year. The fore countries receiving the technical assistance are to be required to share the costs,
Help Yemselves
PURPOSE of the program is to raise living standards in the backward. areas of the world and enable them through ‘their own efforts to
“produce the things they need for a decent life.
The House cut the $45 million requested for this
rogram to $25 million on the und that the ower amount was all that was needed for the
first year of the program. Administration leaders say the Program of technical assistance is to be a permanent part of our foreign policy. But the Senate Committee voted a five-year limit. e second part of the Point Four pro m has “been. approved by committees A gre Houses and now is awaiting” floor debate. It would permit the Export- -Import Sa to guarantee foreign loans made by U. 8. investors.
LOVE
The greatest thing in the world is love, Either from man or from God above, Our Heavenly Father gave His plan, Let's love our neighbor in every land.
It's noble to love, help those in need. Each day to do a kind, loving deed, And in helping others along. the way, We'll bring success to ourselves each day. —Pearl Benbrow Aaron, New Castle, Ind.
dent Truman will sign the Kerr natural gas bill. sage to explain this action is even now in an early
He will lean heavily on the section in the act requiring the FPC to -make a continuing study of gas prices and to re-
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authority.
abrupt rise should occur. - through all
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MR. TRUMAN is not ex-
: Apr. 8—Hundreds of new jobs involving foreign travel, and with good sal-
By. Marquis Childs
support came from Sam Rayburn, Sen, Tom Connally and the other Texans In Congress who wield so much Mr. Rayburn went sorts of maneuvers to insure final passage in
NATION'S FINANCES .
LAUAr?
. By Fred W. Perkins
U.S; Revenue Sources Untapped
WASHINGTON, Apr. 8—8cores of untapped sources of revenue for debt-ridden Uncle Sam are being turned up by the Senate Committee
...on. Expenditures...
These are extraordinary services rendered by federal agencies to special interests, as distinguished from ordinary and generil services for which the government is inherently responsible. Nominal charges now are made for some of the special services, but in most cases they are free although paid for through general taxation. For instance, according to reports just’ received by the Senate committee, the Civil Aeronautics Board issues exclusive franchises for commercial air lines over particular routes. Such actions follow investigations and hearings, for which the public pays. The certificates are not guarantees of exclu-
" sive rights to ary territory, but the committee's
staff reports: “So long as the holder of such a certificate performs properly, his rights are protected, nor will they be permitted to be infringed upon unless obvious need arises for additional facilities” which cannot be provided under the original franchise,
Service Rendered
— “IT IS plain” the staff report says, “that here is a service rendered by the government to a special interest which derives the normal - expectation of financial profit to itself. It is equally true that the public at large will benefit from the service, but the service is nevertheless such as warrants serious consideration in this study.” The committee is now receiving replies from agencies which have been queried for possibilities in this field. Most of the agencies have replied with apparent enthusiasm, according to Walter L. Reynolds and Thomas A. Sappington, members of the staff working under direction of Sen. John L. McClellan (D. Ark.), committee chairman, The Labor Department charges special interests the “actual costs” of extraordinary services performed by its bureau of labor statistics, but does not figure overhead expenses. The committee staff has found this to Be the practice in a number of other agencies. The staff holds that overhead is an important part of cost.
“SIDE Ne
The Labor Department, in prosecuting under the Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act, collects underpayments from employers and passes
these on. to. the employees. concerned, but levies
no fine or other assessment.
“It can be seen,” the committee staff says,
“that a contractor might almost be encouraged to violate the law, being secure in the knowledge that if discovered he will have to pay only that which he should have paid and will not suffer any further damage.”
Service Charge Proposed IT IS suggested also that a small service charge for the filing of complaints by employees might reduce the number of cases with little merit. Other staff findings so far include the following: The State Department's passport service pays its own way, but-its visa service last year took in less than. a third of the $6,240,000 it cost. The State Department makes no charge for reviewing and attesting films, slides and recordings—a service that gives the private producers more favorable customs and tax treatment in
some foreign countries.
The Department of Agriculture does research work for special interests, but under present law “is not permitted to receive full reimbursements.
The Bureau of Standards charges only a porprivate interests,
tion-of the cost of projects for The Civil Aeronautics Administration, which spends about $59 million a year in constructing, maintaining and operating the tremendous federal airways, system, makes no charge except for small landing fees.
Export Licenses THE Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce grants valuable export licenses which “American business interests need for foreign operations. _ The Federal Communications Commission makes no charge for the many thousands of radio broadcasting and operating licenses it has issued and renews periodically, nor for nearly all the many other services it offers—mainly to special interests, The field is so large that the committee staff
"says public hearings are needed for thorough
exploration.
to watch over and care for..."
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Not so very i ago a popular American author created the Connecticut Yankee, put him in King Arthur's court and gave him the follow.
ing lines: “You see my kind of loyalty was
loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or office holders. The country is the real thing This author spoke in a great "American tr tradi tion, but if the Mundt bill now in the Senate is
passed, it is doubtful that even Mark Twain
used to outlaw any people's organizafavoring effective atom bomb control, opposing the cold war, supporting FEPC, compulsory health insurance, Taft-Hartley repeal, social security coverage. With a politi-
thy Kenyon and Owen Lattimore are charged with being subversive, it is highly probable that organizations, which press for measures unpopular with the men in power, would be effectively silenced under the Mundt bill. Many national religious organizations, the
CIO and AFL, and many civic organizations are
on record against this bill. Sen, Langer says: “In. the atmosphere created by this bill the American tradition of freedom could only stifle and die,” Sen. Kilgore says it is “a ERE proposal.” The NAACP says it is “a threat to all organization seeking to obtain full citizenship rights.” The CIO urges it's defeat as a “vicious and re pressive measure.” The AFL: says it leaves too much to “administrative caprice.” The
“strike a severe blow at liberal non-Communist
“organizations organized primarily to promote
social progress or new ideas.” Many other national and local organizations are on record against the bill, Yet few people in Indianapolis have ever heard of it, to say nothing of having had an opportunity to discuss ‘its dangers, We need a Hoosier Yankee.
‘Police Didn't Come’. - BT Oy a Recently police were called on an emergency case in which a child was injured badly on his
face by a rock thrown by another child. The mother waited for police one hour and no one
~came..She.called again-and-the-dispatcher-told-
her that they didn’t make runs like that and she had to take the child out to General Hospital. : The doctors at the hospital criticized her for waiting so long to bring her child in. The child lost a lot of blood and it really could have been serious in several ways. Just what does a person have to do when we can't get any co-operation from our own police department?
VIEWS ON THE NEWS
By DAN KIDNEY
MOST members of the Senate seem to think that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R. Wis.) is an authority on “boring from within.”
SPRING {is the season when the amateur gardener starts paying a high price for cheap vegetables,
MAYBE Stalin is sending those tractors to China so that Mao Tse-tung can prove that his Communists are just “simple agrarians” as our State Department had supposed.
New * York Bar Association declares the bill would"
a
_WE should revise that old adage to read —
It takes all kinds of people to un-make the
world.
LIVE and learn—Americans for Democratie Action voted to be Liberals and not just Truman Democrats.
IT WOULD take more than an Act of Cone gress to bring about slum clearance in a wome an’s purse.
IF THOSE flying saucers really are Navy instruments, it is no wonder the Air Force knows nothing about them.
OUR U. 8. Air Co-ordinating Committee has no jurisdiction over Senate filibusters.
PROGRESS note—Republicans have produced a whole postcard full of ideas.
SINCE President ‘Truman signed their bill, plenty of Southern statesmen are proud to be called “peanut politicians.”
7 Galbraith WHAT NEXT? ...By Clyde Famsworth
If the one will
government.
Questions in Asia
TAIPEH, Formosa, Apr. 8—The burning questions today in this outpost of opposition to Communist imperialism are how far Russia will go in Asiatic aggression and how far the United Na« tions will go to stop her.. . There's a widely held belief that Russia will go farther in the one direction than the United Nations will 80 in the other United Nations takes ’ -any effective counterstep no be more surprised than the Chinese Nationalist
Chinese leaders in Formosa itself, a likely target of forceful Communist expansion, have reason to believe that the
possible, or, if taken, break the United Nations,
CONFUSION and Cross pure poses “among mnon-Communist nations may already have convinced Russia that she can openly assist or direct attempts at final conquest of China or
may
the House. cted to decide finally until he returns to Washington from Signing the bill, the PrestFlorida. During this-interval dent is certain to come in for trade unions, consumer groups 2 Political backlash. The and just plain citizens will con. theme running through the tinue to bombard him with rea- ~ Whole debate was that this is sons why he should not sign special interest” legislation.
the bill. 5 _ First and foremost is the con: viction that it will mean great-
householders and industrialists, Allied with this is the argument that it is a bonanza for ‘a- few very large oil com panies with extensive gas reserves. That was the line taken by Fair Dealers in their vigorous opposition to the Kerr bill on the Senate floor. ¥ - » » - IT IS possible, therefore, that the President will be persuaded In this interval to reject the measure. Opponents have by no means given up and they are pouring telegrams into the White House, The forces behind this move to take natural gas out from under the regulatory umbrella are powerful within the Democratic Party. They have contributed too much oil in the way of campaign funds to keep Democratic machinery turning. Most conspicuous is Oklahoma’s Sen. Bob Kerr, himself. He has a booming voice, a smile like a neon sign and a command of the Bible rivaling that of a fundamentalist preacher, all effective weapons In congressional warfare. In the Oklahoma legislature he was an effective representative of oil and gas Interests in his region. . And he deserves full marks Jor this initial triumph
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ly —inereased..-rates both fof...
And Harry Truman in that whistle-stop campaign became the self-appointed foe of the Sspecial interests.” Campaign. ‘oratory may come bouncing back at him. What points this up is the final vote on the Kerr bill Twenty-two Republicans voted against it as contrasted to only 16 Democrats. If the pairs are counted of Senators not present but recorded on one side or the other, the total Democrats against is 21. Twenty-eight Defhocrats were recorded as voting for it on the floor and three others were paired for it, making more: than a majority of the B54 Democrats,
AMONG “the Republicans voting against it were the two ultraconservatives, Sens. Kem and Donnell, from Truman's own state of Missouri. Sen. Donnell is up for re-election this year and he can be expected to make much of presidential approval of this handout for the “big boys.”
As is almost always true in
these matters, thé issue was not quite the simple contest
between the public and the “in- -
terests” that it was represented to be. At least two of the largest pipe - line companies were working almost as hard in opposition to the bill as» were the Fart Dealers,
THEY were “aghting. it be-.
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cause the measure, in contrast
«to the Moore-Riley bill ad-
vanced by Republicans in the 80th Congress, exempted only the “independent. producers” and not producers that also owned pipe lines. At a critical moment the pipe-liné companies are repagted to have amassed a phalanx of 40 lobbyists in the Mayflower Hotel to try a last. minute blitz on doubtful Senators, It was one of those happy occasions when the cynical could protest their moral virtue while at the same
. time privately responding to
the plea of a lobby.
. - ” be gaat Presiden ill pte.
reat deal from television—he
that contrast with the Republican measure as a further justification for his action, But this will sound a little thin and particularly when the campaign oratory gets going next fall. : :
Barbs
A DRIVER who crashed through a store front when he fell asleep at the wheel said it
. was all ike a bad dream. The
bill for damages will wake
him up. . PROOF that marriage is a
50-50 proposition comes when a couple celeb: their golden anniversary, .
United Nations in general and the United States in particular have by default practically given Russia a free hand in China and the rest of Asia without fear of forceful reaction. ~ = »
IF THIS were not true, it is
doubtful: thatthe pattern of -«
Russian intervention in Asia would now be so clearly drawn. The most that the Chinese
“can reasonably hope for is that
the United Nations can be per-
‘suaded to look into evidence
of aggressive collaboration, most recently set forth by appearance of Russian airplanes and technical services in Red China. The Nationalist foreign offite is renewing its request for United Nations naval and air observers. » »
. - go IF RUSSIA plays an open
"hand in the communization of
Southeast Asia or invasion assaults on Hainan and Formosa,
the Chinese Nationalists at ~
lease want it placed upon the record by neutral observers. It’s hard to see from here how the United Nations can continue to sidestep this request and fulfill its charter obligations and principal reason for existence. - - . THE issue of Russian aggression in China has been obscured by the argument as to whether Red China is a reeognizable government. Russia, her satellites and other opportunist governments have played on this until any sort of United Nations action on the
sion Question may prove im-
a.
subversion of Southeast Asia without risking a third world war—either that or she is prepared for that eventuality. Little- has been said or done to discourage her in either case,
WINDOW dressing of Chinese Communists as a home-
‘grown, “self-contained ‘political
military force is. being boldly - laid aside. Russian partnership with the Chinese Communists has passed beyond the advisory level to active partnership—intervention even more forthright than the 1946 turnover of Japanese arms in Manchuria. That's the only reading you can give reports of Russian planes, Russian fliers, Russian ground crews, Russian radar and communications techni.’ clans and Russian antiaircraft gun crews. And if Russian submarines don't help cover the ‘prospective assault on Formosa, the invasion flotillas will include ‘boats of Russan design.
WELL - vf TieaArED intelligence from 8 told recently of many invasion craft being constructed from Russian blueprints, Appearance of Russian planes in combat in the Shanghai area probably presages air warfare against Formosa even in advance of an invasion attempt unless the Russians are sure that it might take the edge off its surprise value. " People here seem to have taken the Russian aerial debut as a matter of course. There is no panic but rather an air of SSpuctaned,
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