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Treason and Politics

"THE case of Owen Lattimore has become one of those

“off -again-on-again-Finnegan” things.

Confusion is compounded because, with Republicans pushing the prosecution and Democrats conducting the defense, the investigation of alleged Communist influences in the State Department has become a political rat race. Yet the issue is whether the United States was betrayed after the last war, and is’ being betrayed in the current cold war, by Soviet agents masq

loyal Americans. :

In the world's present critical situation Republicans ‘and’ Democrats alike should rise above partisan bias and do an honest job for their country. It is not too late for that if members of the Senate investigating committee can forget for a while that this is an election year for

. some of them. ” - » »

SEN. McCARTHY, a Republican, charged that Mr. Lattimore was the top Soviet espionage agent in this grave matter, for Mr. Lattimore has held important positions in the government and has been a frequent copsultant of the State Department. Mr. Lattimore, on the stand and under oath, denied

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all of Sen. McCarthy's charges.

Then Sen. Tydings, Democrat, chairman of the committee, announced that he and other members had read the Justice Department's report on Mr. Lattimore and

that he had been “cleared by the FBI.”

This was discounted somewhat, however, when Sen. "Lodge, Republican, replied that he, too, had read the report

~and remained open-minded on the issue.

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—-—MR..BUDENZ has-been accepted -as -a—credible-gov-ernment witness in a number of important cases. But his testimony, of itself, proves nothing against Mr. Lattimore. His charges, however, certainly are serious enough to be thoroughly explored, in justice to the accused and in the

interest of national security.

This is the time and place for the Tydings Committee to close ranks and unravel the whole story of Communist influences in the State Department, from the alleged “fix” in the Ameérpgia case down to and including all charges and insinuations against important public figures such as Mr: Lattimore and Ambassador Philip C. Jessup. n this business.

There has been too much politics i There should be no more.

The American people want neither a Republican smear nor a Democratic whitewash. They want an honest,: searching investigation to determine whether they have been and are being betrayed by secret. agents of Soviet...

Russia.

Truth Is One ‘Weapon

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors was profoundly impressive. . He called on other démocratic nations to join America in “a great campaign of truth” against Russia's world-wide

challenge to the cause of freedom.

One of imperialistic communism’s strongest weapons, the President said, is propaganda—deliberate, systematic use of deceit, distortion and lies. And, he added: “This propaganda can be overcome by truth—plain, simple, unvarnished truth-—presented by newspapers, radio

and other sources that the people trust.”

Need for U. S.-British Defense Union Stressed WASHINGTON, Apr. 22 — Gen. Omar N.

Bradley's recent statement on the necessity of

unity . among the United States, Canada and Britain expresses a growing conviction in Washington. Security of the United States and of the democratic world largely depends op the ability of those three to work together more closely. So does solution of the acute economic problems. This i§ widely recognized by officials here. But it should not be assumed from the words of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

He used the phrase “politically joined” without defining it, and as though he were describing a present status. It is not at all clear that he meant organic union, The possibility of eventual political amalgamation in the complete sense is occasionally discussed here, but not often gs an immediate or next step. Far more consideration is given to the practicability of economic and defense union as a first step, )

Closer Association

EVEN this is not yet supported by a majority of officials, Most of them are still feeling for a closer economic and military association short of actual union. The motive is a very realistic one. The billions of dollars of canceled war debts, of loans and grants, and of Marshall Aid, have only postponed Britain's problem and our own. She will not be able to stand alone in competition with the United States when Marshall dollars are shut off in 1952. So what should we do? Theoretically there are three alternatives. We can let her go down. We can continue in some new form the ineffective handouts of the past. Or we can try to find some more profitable form of partnership. : The first alternative is out. Neither political leaders nor military chiefs here are willing to let Britain go under. We have too few dependable Allies to sacrifice the best one. .

Losing Popularity ~~ = Now comes the sensational testimony under oath of Ti Louis F. Budenz that, while he was managing editor of ‘the Communist Party's Daily. Worker, he was told by a high party official that Mr. Lattimore was a member of a Communist cell centering around the Institute of Pacific Relations. Mr. Budenz also testified he was present at a meeting at which Earl Browder and Frederick Vanderbilt Field commended Mr. Lattimore for “placing Communist

THE second alternative, of grants in some new form, is losing popularity. America, in its over-taxed and deficit-ridden condition, cannot 80 on indefinitely pouring out dollars without better results. i . i Moreover—and this apparently is not generally -understood by the American public— doles in the long run do not cement friendly relations but poison them. Britons properly resent a charity relationship. Hence the effort here to seek new and better ways of pooling the’ resources, the capacities and the fortunes of the American, Canadian and British—peoples-for thefr mutual security and prosperity. ‘The way has not yet been found. But the search is significant. Curiously, more thought seems to be given to it in Washington than in London. There is more fear in London of “Britain being swallowed up by America,” than fear in Washington of “America being chained to the sinking British ship.” . In both cases, however, those fears are less potent than a year ago.

HIGHWAY 135

Many times I've traveled on highway. 135, And each time.I discover something new; Something 1 missed when last 1 passed. - that way, A house, a barn or perhaps a tree or two.

There's the pateh-work house, the name I gave To one built in different colored stone.

The well too, a replica of the Old Oaken Bucket

And some. deserted houses. left to-ret-alone.

Highway 135 has so many winding curves I think each time I'll count them just to see How many, many times we turn a "bend to discover Scenes “that thrill us, and fill our soul with ecstasy.

Going howhere in particular, just passing by! What memories do’ you suppose lie hidden there? " - i: On these few miles of beautiful highwav 135 Strangers pass to and fro, so near and yet : 8) far. x :

FRANCES RICHMOND, Columbus, Ind.

DUTCH SYSTEM . . . By Peter Edson

Labor Peace Plan

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NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Marquis Childs

lke Presidential Moves Seen

~~ WASHINGTON, Apt; ~22==While boom may not be the word to describe ft, the movement

“"{o make Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower President of the United States-is-now-taking form. It has — the backing of some formidable names, all of

whom will be kept out of the news until such time as an open and all-out campaign has been decided upon. In this beginning phase the analogy of. the iceberg holds good. What is to be seen above the surface is negligible in comparison to what exists out of sight and out of sound. If Eisenhower’s principal Republican backers have their way, the general will go on about his duties’ as president of Columbia University. Those duties take him to various parts of the country where he shows himself to friendly

audiences with the natural and winning charm

that is one of his chief characteristics. The general will® certainly not be encouraged to make speeches that could be considered in any ordinary sense political.

Build-up Will Continue BUT the thorough build-up will continue. This will be in the pattern of the Life magazine article by Quentin Reynolds, portraying Gen. Eisenhower as the able executive of a great university. The blowup touched off by Sen. Joseph Mec-

"Carthy of Wisconsin may well have hastened

the quiet preparations for the eventual Eisenhower boom. That blowup threw a new light on the division within the Republican Party over foreign policy. . The statement of Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio that he backed Sen. McCarthy in the hope that if Mr. McCarthy missed one target he might hit another one was a shock to many Republicans who have gone along with the bipartisan foreign polity. :

wen Others~felt-that regardless ofthe suteones

of the McCarthy affair, the Taft statement would alienate independent voters who had belHeved in Sen. Taft's integrity even when they differed with his views. This reaction solidified the conviction in a large and important segment of the party that Sen. Taft must not be the party's nominee in 1952, Obviously, Gen. Eisenhower was the only man-who could prevent Mr. Taft's nomination. And it seemed increasingly evident to many of these Republicans that the general was the only

"man who could defeat President "Fruman run: =

ning for a third term. . -Here, ‘plainly, a titanic struggle is fore-_

shadowed. While the Taft forcesfnow have a 4 .

SIDE GLANCES

-strorig grip on the party machinery, a great

deat wilt depend oii the outcome of the election

this fall. Jo ; .-__In~Ohio recently I. talked with one of the shrewdest and most knowledgeable politicians in that state who ‘is, in general, sympathetic to

' Sen. Taft and his views. Although he declined = to, be quoted by name, this politician expressed the following view:

Smal. Majority “IN the past three months a change has taken place. In my opinion Sen. Taft's majority in November will be smaller than anyone now expects. There is no doubt in my mind, however, but that he will beat Mr. Ferguson.” This was on the assumption that the Democratic nominee would be State Auditor Joseph Ferguson. It was made on the further assumption that Sen. Taft would get some votes .of conservative Democrats. If he gets by with a small majority, Sen. Taft will be in a much less strong position to take up his claim on the presidential nomination two years hence. Among Mr. Eisenhower's closest associates are the influential men on the Board of Trustees of Columbia University. Foremost among these is Thomas J, Watson, head of the International Business Machines Co.’ : Gen. . Eisenhower gets advice and counsel from Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch. Although he has been a lifelong. Democrat, Mr. Baruch could conceivably end up in the Eisenhower camp because. of the break between Mr. Baruch and President Truman which occurred in the. 1948 campaign. Mr. Baruch is close to former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, who has denounced the Truman Fair Deal program and is running for governor of South Carolina. Mr. Byrnes would

be the perfect liaison” agent for the Southerners.

Who want to break with Truman and vote for a "nonpolitical” candidate like Gen. Eisenhower,

Many Things Can Happen MOST of this is, of course, still in the speculative stage. A great many ‘unexpected things may happen, For Gen. Eisenhower the role his friends and admirers have cast him in is not easy. He must be patience an a monument, indifferent to the pleadings, proddings and pryings of public and politicians. And at the same time he must go on being headgofa body. ofgstudents and teachers who are not always too happy at having a general and a potential candidate for President at thk hedd of their university.

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: ’ ‘We're Losing Freedom By C. D. C., Terre Haute, Ind. Just to keep the record straight for Sidney Ellis who claims I have given misleading data in regard to more people being unemployed in 1038 than in 1932, I would like to give him some figures. Incidentally, his figures come from the New Deal Bureau of Labor Statistics, He gives the figures of unemployed people in

1032 as 12,830,000, which included people who

hadn't worked for years and many who were not able to work. . There . were actually only 10,385,000 people .who were able and willing to work. He then gives the figures of unemployment in 1938 as 10,390,000. Based on the same figures as used in 1932 which would have included old age pensioners and widows receiving mothers’ aid, the figures would actually have been 12, 800,000 people.

a trieered 1937, as he states, it seems just as probable there. was an engineered depression when Hoover was President. He gives the figures of national income in 1932 as $39.5 million and the 1938 income as $67.5 million. The figures: merely represent a legalized currency inflation and is also due to the fact that we were actually running a deficit budget of $300 million each month in 1938. It is to be admitted, of course, there was less distress, but it was being relieved by going deeper in debt. And speaking of President Roosevelt's last election, I do not think it is anything for even the most rabid New Dealer to be proud of. Mr. Dewey actually got 500,000 more Republican

“votes in. New York state than Mr. Roosevelt

got on the Democrat ticket. ; He had 3 million employees on the public payroll, which along with their relatives and friends, would have been enoughto have swung the election to him even if he hadn't received all the Communist vote. He did, however, get the Communist vote because of his friendship for Stalin in Russia. Naturally, the memory of the last five elections rankle me, Mr. Ellis, not because they were carried by the Democrats, but because they were carried by warmakers who took us into a useless, future war and have taken us to the brink of another war which is liable to break out much sooner than the general public realizes. Incidentally, my two sons served in that war.and two nephews were killed and another

“wounded. TANG Gon tC Tet ARYoHE tery » much of our freedom, because we have, and “you can depend.on it-after the next war we will. have a complete totalitarian state. Then you

boys who have sold us down the river are going to get rankled too, and it will be too late to

* help yourselves.

‘Difficult to Answer’ By Clarence Love, Marshall, Ind. In regardgte Rep. Halleck being credited with turning the tide«in favor of the passage

of the Kerr bill by Congress, it is going to be difficult for some Republicans running for Con-

gress to answer inthe coming campalgn. :

Rep. Halleck voted against the wage and hour bill when it came up in Congress during the darkest days of the depression and was re-elected again the next time he ran. He was referred to in the spring of 1948 as Indiana's favorite son for the presidential nominee. So you see, a man’s past performance has nothing to do with his re-election.

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY A JUNIOR minister was fired from the

British Labor Government for criticizing the’

farmers. You don't catch Republicans and Democrats pulling such boners.

IT WOULD be easier. to understand French Premier Bidault's proposal for an “Atlantie Council -for Peace,” if ‘we knew whether this is a postwar or prewar period in history.

POLITICAL Pundit Jim Farley was quoted 3 ~from- Caracas; Venezuela; as believing President ~~ Truman will run in 1952. We could see that

from here.

IT'S easier to win a war than a peace. Grant

"and Lee met at Appomattox again, but the

Dixiecrats still run the Congress.

SPRING is here and in many states it brings

the voter a chance to read a long primary ballot and scratch names he never liked. :

WITH a well-staffed Special Committee, the

Senate should be-able to find out That gambling goes on. :

DRAW poker players can sympathize with the Belgians, having to discard or keep a. King.

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Mr. Truman expressed confidence that the free press of the United States and most other free nations “will keep us from being deceived” by Communist propaganda, which becomes laughable rather than dangerous when the

WASHINGTON, Apr. 22—Lawmaking in this country has reached a curious impasse: The Democrats keep their hold on the presidency and gain

a substantial margin of control in both House and Senate. Yet they find themselves unabl

are beginning to study with inc reasing interest an industrial peace plan that has produced some unusual results in The Netherlands. It is an outgrowth of the war, when labor and management found it to their mutual advantage to work together under the Nazi

occupation

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a I : - so-call i os, sume people are given ~the facts: It has reduced the time lost A 2% ay at it would cause So called Fair Deal program-shat presumably helped them get er i atrikes ir roportic 0 . O p least ir .. * i x t J. AY, +“ . hy strike. in Proportion t tie € fea nurs -The:Republicans. "oii ‘the oth- die before a Senate filibuster, ge No. actus me Orkedq; -to-abou

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Extension of rent control is

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A . } . brothe one-sixteenth of the levels in . x hi “epe (* questionable, and excise t and a . . oo LR rece " ’ Foundation of Labor was for- ture the White House, see Con- . ' , Xcise tax re- Indianapolis. have free access to accurate information. They are denied ! = industry tn 1947 md 1948 mally organized i has equal gress slip from their grasp Vision may not take a pattern 3p . means of knowing us as people with hopes and problems ~~ A"{ #% atch fate ips: representation of union mien. ’ after a brief two-year. coms... RI¢ASing to Mr. Truman. Broads +: Mrs. Rosa orlikes their: rman rT TE Er ary LULCh Eure. LBA. i HATE THON “Fey tajor vee mand, and have trouble formu- €r Social security and more bor- Services fo wensrliker their BW es a st k i. pw o he me industry is represented. The lating a salable program. Still rowing power for CCC should Newburger 5: “They do not even know what we mean when we say ! - Strikes during those i Foundation meets weekly they are able, in coalition with ~~ 8et through. will be at 10:3 Wi v . . years 18 In e Communist- . LC . serva tive Democrats, to s o o ” : demotracy.’ : led unions ’ : ‘ In addition to the Founda- oo a f Preside NOT a very impressive score Aaron - Ruber . ‘ . . a Lr ion, at a lower level, there are lock the passage of President , Biirial will be So one of the greatest tasks ¢onfrpnting free nations 5.5.4 ‘Councils” which represent Truman's major domestic pro- ncn Set against the. 1948 brew Cemeter - . rT $ 3 . ro 8 - today is to meet false propaganda with truth all around bran S ofa the butch each industry electrical goods," _posals. re oe mara (LHartles. Je. Mrs. Newb . Co a. i. Trp ‘oundation-of abhor -phan-as tFARSPOrtatic ne —- a 8 a , Sure the globe - meet it-and overcome it With honest froma “LL CL hale heen: notation and wo on. THE clear result is a pity. Ce federal aid to education, Sled Friday in tion about freedom and democracy: oy ry OY (oy are first discussed in these fully small amount of con- leRisintion ta mens ma apolis since 19 "va . ~ . ‘ > ymin : unter, chief of 10 $ anneile Thoma Y iN i EE Chile's great president, Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, voiced Marek i i. on ‘ ii seion Tr Councils. There is “apparently structive legislation enacted. gob 0 pon unemployment ber of the Ter . tarshal n miss l © ty de Yara inno { ’ i sing bi on : a kindred thought in Washington last week when he urged Notherlands Hunter is a aice these cot 5 bargaining in Lag Year & Public housing mo compensation, broad civil na anElo . r NY y " LLCS 1 (0= s-an- 1ni- : . t . “the free world to form a ‘democratic international” president of New York Trust * = a rights legislation.

"Homes . . . The Stabilizing Influence

THE attraction of many thousands- of Hoosiers to the annual Home Show, opening at the Fairgrounds last night, is a testimonial on the basic reasons for the progress made in Indiana’s community life through the years.

defeat communism’s “invisible army."

A world crusade for truth—an international of free

Co . In a report to the U. 8 National Industrial Conference Board, Mr. Hunter has analyzed

RECOMMENDATIONS of the Council. however, are submitted to the Foundation for

mum wage bill made the grade |

in the social welfare field. Housing would not have passed without the aid of liberal and

Normally the majority loses strength in Congress at elections between presidential

A son, Walt vives.

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a . ein eric: ess can. approval. There are n . ; years. If that happens to the speech—this is a cause to which the American press can what makes the Foundation of J, a re oe iI Ou a ephemera, Democrats this year, they'll rs ois and should give whole-hearted support, ng of oS Foundation has told a Council price support measure that |ardly have a better chance of 1:30 p. m. Mc - Bg ola story

Netherlands, but it is news to nearly all of the United States. ~ ~ = THERE are four main union labor movements in The Netherlands. organized along po-litico-religious lines. The Netherlands Federations of Trade Unions is the largest. It has 400,000 members, largely So-

to modify its recommendations on a wageé increase, for instance--in order to make it fit a general wage policy for the entire country. . If -the Foundation approves recommendations from an industrial Council, it is passed on to a Board of Government Conciliators. The Netherlands

mes peen sore +

or weeks—he had to cut short his southern

vacation because h

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gidn t reach him!

Because of this close relation-

ship, nearly all of the recom-

on the Foundation proposed general wage increases to meet

may prove more of a curse than a blessing to all concerned. What about 1950? Thus far federal oleomargarine taxes have been repealed and another farm bill has been adopted which further complicates the future of agriculture price supports. Though he signed it,

enacting the bulk of their program in 1951 and 1952. .Even if they hold present margins, what reason is there to believe they'll fare better on the next try? ’ -

r 2 = ONLY a big gain in the proportion of Fair Deal Democrats would markedly improve their

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: : ernme i : i ‘hi , tha prospects. And no one. is now Hughes, bot! ’ in the world are ther T government still regulates mendations which -have been increases in the cost of 1'. ag. . ] , Probably. no Where else PR there people iit The. Catholic Labor wages — which the United unanimously adopted by the Management representatives BE lilo rect ne hat. a Gop iva Sranden any more interested in homes and all they mean to advance- Movement Somes 2a wi States government abandoned . Foundation are accepted by the held” out for making the in- Pu y Se ore aes as Hn raDio Lorena Dougl ment of civilization than in Indiana. 285,000 members.” The Chris- after the war. } Government Conciliators with- creases effective dply on an in- . B re “a tian National Labor Union, a This is an important distinc- out question. dustry-wide basis fF those in- MR. TRUMAN and his legis to whatever program the Re-. Boy, 4, Sc anu Protestant group, is third with tion which might make the lative chieftains have now publicans may devise.

THE EXPOSITION provides not only the latest in

is the stabilizing influence for better living and m

community development. No

150,000 members. The Communist group is smallest with an

most tog. Netherlands recovery by trying to work out their problems with management in

Dutch Foundation of Labor

Labor, however, has been given advisory status to the Board of Government Conciliators.

It is only when the Founda-

tion is split, and its labor and

case which may test the soundness of this whole system. Late In 1949, labor representatives

dustries that could afford to pay them.

last Jan. 1. About 80 per cent of the industrié8 have put such wage increases into effect.

mapped out the program for the remainder of this session.

employment practices eqmmission. ; ’ FEPC is probably doomed to

On many critical domestio issues, Congress therefore

position. This performance ia hardly democracy at its most effective.

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housing developments but it gives us some Interesting. ated 50.000 members flan TaN nus gon gaan, ous Sn With split recommendations yi -oapiy for ‘wider social secu- seems stuck on dead , center. - A 4-year-ok material on what the home-life of the future may be. though there are no accurate unions here would: nT th ng the Government [Tom the two sides of the rity coverage, revision of excise Neither party appears able to 37iges Sonat The wide interest shown here in getting the most out figures. : i submit to government wage Conciliators act as arbitrators. Foundation, the Board of Con- taxes downward, continuance . go forward as it wishes; it 1s po night Vn i : : ial . : signifi During the war, the three regulation in peacetime, 2% 3 ciliators had to arbitrate. It of rent control, more borro.w- confined to. making very Wm- into-a tub of of what we have in residential advantages is a significant non-Communist federations de- 20 2 AT the present time, the . decreed that wages could be ing power for the Commodity 'ited progress or merely to Donald Lut! trend toward further realizatiqn that the American home cided they could contribute the THE Dutch Foundation of Board of Conciliators has a raised five per cent, effective Credit Corporation, and a fair thwarting the aims of its op- ha

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