Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1950 — Page 10

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Secrets in Danger tr GECURITY for the State Department's offical secrets needs tightening abroad as well as at home. : That's clear from the report of two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who have been in Europe to study precautions against Soviet espionage in American diplomatic and consular offices. hw

tions far from what they should be. They recommend a number of steps to make them more effective. For one thing, they say, some 13,000 aliens - employed in United States diplomatic missions overseas should be dismissed and replaced by American citizens.

HALF OF THE employees of the American Embassy

urgently “because of the presence of highly classified material.” hea Many of the alien employees have not been and in som cases probably cannot be adequately investigated. Their low pay makes them “prey to bribery and pressure.” They are “the most likely means of foreign penetration, and the “effort to penetrate our security abroad is constantly Li

Ce. . . . on» THE would be considerable. The two Senators don’t even attempt to estimate what it might total. But the cost of continuing to tolerate the dangerous situation disclosed by the Greenreport could prove ruinous. = “Much of the secret data in the State Department's archives comes from its offices abroad. The most vigilant efforts to keep such data secure after it reaches Washington will prove futile if its original sources remain vulnerable to

spies in foreign capitals.

EN A TREO

‘Author McCarthy NSIN'S Republican Sen. McCarthy has made many headlines lately with his charges about Communist infiltration of the government. Now he’s getting some less palatable publicity. Back in 1948, it appears, the now bankrupt Lustron Housing Corp. paid Sen. McCarthy $10,000 for writing an article entitled, “Wanted: A dollar's worth of housing for every dollar spent.” This came out in Federal Court at Columbus, O., with the filing of a Lustron receivership report which included a photostatic copy of the Senator's check. : 8» me. booklet issued by Lustron. It was based on information he acquired as vice chairman of a congressional committee on housing. But, as a sales argument for Lustron’s prefab-

than overwhelming. ; At least, the country got distressingly few dollars’ - worth of housing for the $37,500,000 loaned to Lustron by . the government's Reconstruction Finance Corp., most of which seems to have gone where the woodbine twineth. Whether Sen. McCarthy's $10,000 came out of the __RFC’s—that is, the taxpayers’--money is a question which may be answered by the grand jury investigation of Lustron which Federal Judge Underwood has demanded. » = - a: . - IN ANY EVENT, the Senator's effectiveness as a fearless foe of communism does not seem likely to be enhanced. Taking the 10,000 bucks may not have been legally wrong, but a lot of people will consider it ethically reprehensible. "The moral, perhaps, is that Senators who throw rocks at the Reds and the State Department shouldn't live in glass houses-—or write, for fancy pay, about steel ones.

Best Kind of Security

been deferred indefinitely by a Federal judge in Philadelphia. A Brooklyn grand jury indictment accuses Gold of serving as a courier between Dr. Klaus Fuchs, convicted atomic scientist, and a Russian spy ring.

said he wanted further time to investigate Gold's character and background. :

our leading atomic scientists. Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, director of research at Northwéstern University's Technological Institute, said that the

outset of the loyalty of those who handle atomic secrets. The millions we spend on the latest type of defense weapons can be wasted if a Klaus Fuchs and his traitorous accomplices can slip by our loyalty and security boards without complete inquiries into their backgrounds.

still Unfinished Story

THE New York grand jury's report on the Amerasia ~~ case was inconclusive. It could hardly have been otherwise. a : The jury had only a few days, before its statutory “expiration date, to try to unravel that complex mystery. The jury made an honest effort--heard—as many witnesses as it had time to summon. » At least two score additional witnesses would have

to find out how the Amerasia afféir became such a mess. So the Tydings committee has not been relieved of its obligation to go ahead and complete its investigation,

committee which will uncover the full story. Or perhaps, as Grand Jury Foreman Brunini suggests, the job should be passed on to a new jury which . will take whatever time is needed to find out the whole

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COST of replacing these aliens with Americans

SEN. McCARTHY'S arficle appeared in a promation

ARRAIGNMENT of Harry Gold on espionage charges has

John D. M. Hamilton, court-appointed defense lawyer, |

best sort of security defense was to assure ourselves at the

had to have been called before the jury could have begun

or turn that chore over to some other congressional -

A TIP FROM ANDERSON . . Crawfordsville To

going to change the Andarson

other states,

places.

in the last few

) young executive Anderson American Guard, has weeks made talks on the Guard

movement in Seymour, Connersville, Crawfordsville, Muncie, Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis, + Mr, Harbaugh also told about the success of the American Guard in the primary election, at a meeting of the Tri-State Bakers’ tion, in

Anderson

Associa Bt. Louis has sent a delegation to to study Ame

Guard operations

rican at first hand. A number of Bt. Louis citizens have enrolled as members of the Anderson

. Thus far the Anderson American Guard has sent out no paid organizers to promote growth of the idea. If any other city with similar political clean-up problems on its hands wants to know how the American Guard tackled its job,

the Anderson founders will be

to tell them.

But they aren't soliciting mem , yet. There are evidences, however, that the Anderson. American Guard foundling fathers had

a national organization. . One of the things they may be waiting for is to see if they can repeat their May primary success in the November election. At the present time, Crawfordsville has gone farther than any other Indiana city in follow-

PARADOX... By Ludwell Denny

{n Paris are aliens, At U. 8. headquarters in Berlin, some | lh og li —— oven Have Ho Ameren retaries at all “and need them La orites Sp it cs

On Unification

U. S., France Try to Minimize . Evil Effects of Controversy

WASHINGTON, June 17 — The American and French governments will try to minimize

"the evil effects of the British Labor Party split “over Allied co-operation for a unified Europe.

‘They were shocked by the Labor Party committee’s demands for a socialist Europe as the price of British support for the French coal-

steel pool plan and for development of the. Council of Europe Assembly. But Washington officials are inclined to accept in good faith

operation,

; Making

a a Toaec doa ds HE SABRI I A BR) COTO ander 0 Ss Green of - Rhode Island and™" this idea-.in . be /Thay a Republican Lodge of Massachusetts—found those precau- ' And they have ideas on how they might become

—— Prime Minister Attlee’s pledge of continuing cos

There is still hope here, and reportedly in Paris, that the British Labor government will agree eventually to some form of limited British assoclation with the proposed West European _ coal-steel combine. There never has been much hope that Britain, under any government, would

a oii 0 Ok ¥ L the 2. WAY, by A RR ER

Leaders Cautious

WINSTON CHURCHILL, as leader of the Tory Party, has taken an attitude toward this plan hardly less cautious than that of Prime Minister Attlee. Mr. Churchill has warned that the plan must not be allowed to “lower British wages and standards of life and labor.” So Mr, Churchill and Mr. Attlee are much closer together on this—as on the welfare state—than most Labor Party or Tory Party politicians like

to admit,

The thing that infuriates the Tories is that in the pre-election maneuvering the Labor Party is “watering down” its socialism at home, by relaxing government controls, while demanding "more socialism abroad. Tories consider this a trick to catch the non-socialist vote at home, while pacitying doctrinaires with orthodox Marxist statements’ about socialization abroad, fn which. the British voter is little interested.

Discipline Broken

‘A MORE plausible explanation of this para-

ee plonted Steel HOUSES, It Sees "to Have beer somewhnt Tess foreign "policy and the Nead of the La

ernment stating the opposite—is simply that

the always unruly left-wingers

in the party

- the probe of charges-of communism in the - State Department, one thing is certain. Nobody will be more relieved at the end than Sen. Millard Tydings (D. Md.). As chairman of the Senate subcommittee

dox—of the Labor Party committee stating one SOF gov"

have broken away from cabinet discipline. Hugh Dalton, chairman of the party's subcommittee which issued the policy statement without consulting Prime Minister Attlee or Foreign Minister Bevin, has long disagreed with them. He nearly got Mr. Bevin's job in the first place and hopes to get it yet. He is not a mem-—her-of the extreme left wing but has long flirted with it, with the ambition of succeeding the.

more conservative Attlee-Bevin-Morrison leader-

ship whenever there is a change.

Concern Over Control

THERE is probably more official concern here over this latest &vidence that Labor government leaders may be losing control of their

party than that either Mr. Attlee, Mr. Bevin or

Mr. Morrison will limit Allied co-operation on doctrinaire socialist grounds. But the Truman administration's sympathy for Mr. Attlee, as a leader who has been stabbed in the back by his own henchmen, does not

carry over to Congress. Regardless of the Attlee record for Allied co-operation .and his re-

newed pledge, many members of Congress would like to retaliate against Britain for the Labor

Party's socialization of Europe manifesto. ‘The

administration may have difficulty in preventing

"a further cut

Britain,

in Marshall Plan funds for

'TIS SAID

trying to do these post-war years.

There can be no quarrel with such court procedure, but - : this talk of a belated investigation of Gold's character nev- . : id ~ertheless.serves.to.point.up-the recent..remarks-of-one-of - SIDE. GLANCES a By-Galbraith- " Up: iN-ARMS ss

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You can't budget a 100 per cent income 120 per cent; but that is exactly what we have been

EE © GORE. 1900 BY.NGA BUYS M0 TM REG WA MLO 6°17 "You folks from home are the best thing we've seen in Europe!"

Crawfordsville will not use the name “Amer- yoters need educating on pe

TIRED OF POLITICS? . Amerasia Job Irritates Tydings

© Because of the long, drawn-out quality of his present job, Mr. Tydings has lost much of his amiability even in dealing with the press. He sometimes gives the impression he resents reporters’ questions-—he seems to feel he’s being chivvied unnecessarily. He is snappish when the questioning gets tough. At times he even

has given the impression of a man convinced he is chasing rainbows. the investigation has seemed to hore the Sentor. Now it Is beginning to irritate him. He is beginning to be annoyed at the time consumed in the job.

traced to the part so flamboyantly played in the investigation by the charges of Sen. Joseph R. McCarth

Mr. McCarthy and never tries to conceal this dislike. sheer boredom with a long, tedious job—in a year when the Senator's attention is drawn to the real necessity of getting himself re-elected.

Fast Man, Doesn’t Stick

ings as a good man on a quick job—but no stayer. He likes to get things over and done with. Detail and painstaking investigation get him down. He prefers the more dashing approach. One reporter once described the Senator as a cavalier, brandishing his sword ineffectually among a band of roundheads. Even Mr. Tydings had to admit it was a telling jibe.

It Tough to Conc

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“LEGISLATIVE | 7] PROGRAM

paps aii

. By Andrew Tully

From the beginning,

Some of Sen. Tydings' Irritation can be

bothered meeting them. Good Spirits Return

y- (R. Wis.) Mr. Tydings dislikes

But mostly it seems to boil down to

triumphs, Sen. Tydings' seems to return.

being fellow-travelers, Mr. Tydings’

VETERAN reporters here know Sen. Tyd-

into some loftier position of state. Next ‘British Ambassador?

Memo to Congress: Your federal government owes $252.4 billion which is equal to a debt of $1722 for every man, woman and child in the country. ¢ + @

Unnecessary services and waste could be eliminated by better integration of bureaus.

Latin America Protests

WASHINGTON, June 17—Latin America is up in arms over a U.S. Senate subcommittee’s blistering report on the coffee price setup, including the producing countries. Ambassadors from the coffee-producing countries are holding a series of huddles here to decide what to do about the report —issued by a subcommittee headed by Sen. Guy Gillette {D. Iowa). The ambassadors may make a formal protest to Secretary of State. Acheson, asking that he state this government does not "hold the views of the Gillette © committee. oe enh AND the special commission on coffee of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council has been summoned into emergency meeting at the request of “the representatives of Brazil, Colombia, E! Salvador and “Mexico. 2 The Senate report held that U.S. coffee consumers are being gypped by the coffee marketing and distribution setup, both in this country and abroad. The committee made

0 DE ey A {, them sensational, to bring mission undertake immediate § down the price of coffee. _ “full consideration ‘df this re-

1 sn 4 port.” : ; FOR EXAMPLE, the Senate especial commission on committee said that the U.8. = coffee’. is supposed to be pri-— Department of Justice ought to marily concerned with improvhave a man sitting in at all ing coffee statistics, now notafuture meetings of the special commission on coffee—an in- : Plain

inferenpe is that the commis-

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sion is helping to rig prices and that the Department of Justice should have an FBI ‘man on watch. In a telegram .to Edward Cale of the U. 8. State Depart ment and chairman of the coffee commission, the representatives from Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico said: “The (Gillette) committee has made a proposal relating to the internal affairs of the coffee-producing countries and contrary to the economic facts, » = s “IT ALSO proposes a precedent that a U. 8. investigating officer sit as a supervisor of our international committee.

At the same time, the Senator does his best to evade the press whenever possible. Recently, when he went to the White House to confer with President Truman on what reporters be- _ Heved was the setting up of an impartial investigative commission, he sneaked in and out by a back way. He could have told the reporters merely “no comment” and got out of it that way, but it seemed as if he just couldn’t be

AT TIMES, usually in moments of little old-time affability When President Truman agreed to open the FBI files on State Department personnel Sen. McCarthy had accused of manner had in it the jubilation of a small boy. you I'd have something good, didn't I?” he ‘told a hurriedly arranged press conference. Innately, of course, Sen. Tydings is a pretty nice fellow—and courageous, too, as shown by his stubborn and victorious resistance to the late President Roosevelt's atempt to purge him in 1938. But there are increasing signs that the Marylander is growing weary of the rough-and-tumble of politics and its extraordinary demands on his time. He seems anxious to retire

HE MAY do so soon, too; the report in some quarters is that his name already has been submitted to the British Foreign Office as our néxt ambassador to. the Court of St. James. Neither Mr. Tydings nor his wife, the daughter of former Ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davies, would find that hard to take.

THE Gillette report has been given wide publicity in coffeeproducing countries. One Brazilian newspaper “Gillette Proposes Reprisals . Against Brazil,” Another said: “Brazil and Colombian Coffee Producers Accused.” An editorial in Correio, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, called), the report “intimidating, volting, —and offen One Latin diplomat said he couldn't understand why the Senate committee should object to action by the coffeeproducing countries to hold up the price of coffee while it was the official policy of the U.S. to hold up prices of such items as milk, butter and eggs to U. 8. consumers, § = . ANOTHER Gillette tee recommendation which “burns up” ths Sots Stim Hes is that the U.S. should er ’ technical aid to non-produc! . en's beauty parlors but they're bly scant in the producing coffee countries to get them to shopa.

countries. _ grow coffee, : : fi The Latin ne "diplos—-~ The committee also predicted going with a girl is sometimes.

fcan Guard.” Instead; it will be called the "Min- ° November elections.’ ; Man” campaign. The familiar figure of : the Lexington Minute Man monument, that purposes of the Crawfordsville educational camused during the war savings bond drives; paign will be to “Knock out the idea that be the symbol for all advertising, publicity ' security is anything to seek. The sad part of membership pins. The political tirely different from

‘political movement, a program and platform all its own.

Hoosier Forum

will defend to the death your right to say it."

“Trucks Wrecking Roads’ By A Housewife, Indianapolis

For years I've been pointing to the terrific beating our roads have been taking at the hands of the trucks. Now at least the results of ‘the road wreckage can no longer be ignored. The Readers Digest surely tells it straight in the article, “The Rape of Our Roads.” The taxpayers should be aroused plenty and the politicians better quit stalling and playing ostrich, while millions are being wasted trying to do the impossible. No road can stand such punishment. I've quit trying to take a motoring vacation. The roads are no longer usable for the motorist who paid for them. Last year I was behind three to five of these juggernauts at a time, not - being able to see a thing and not daring to go around for almost certain death awaits anyone who tries to pass the freight-car-length vehicles. The thump, thump of the roads shake anyone to pieces and believe me it sure wrecks a new car quickly. The trucks have broken the roads at every seam. re This freight must be put on the railroads

trucks like these giants to operate, let them build their own roads, the railroads do, and give us back the use of the roads so we can take trips again and get some good out of the millions we're paying for roads, and have at least a degree of safety. The sooner we take them off the roads the sooner we'll quit throwing away millions of dollars and lives. .

- “Tribute to Fathers’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City

Sunday, June 18, is another important day, set aside to honor the fathers of our family life. Fathers are the heads or managers of the family no matter who it is said wears the pants. Father, the soldier, marches ahead. Although fathers have little to say, when they do speak up it goes double for the whole tribe. The majority of the fathers have been so busy trying to satisfy other members of their family, they have had little time to think of themselves. Our family life today makes us think of a home we left long ago, with mother and father working hand-in-hand asa team; trying to fear” a good family for future citizens and developing habits of co-operation and tolerance as they went along in life together. ~The lonesome sight to us now is home abandoned. A strange stillness has taken the place of the merry laughter we once knew and the honeysuckle, ivy, and shrubbery is slowly covering the old homestead. The important members and former occupants of this home are Resting in a little country churchyard not far way. : The thought of home on father’s da our throats a little dry. The words I dig poe a little blurred and all run together. A good Bouie life is a heritage worth more than land or

What Others Say—

SENATE investigators have been ‘told that the Black Hand may. be back of nationwide crime syndicates. That shouldn't prevent them from looking into the “greased palm.”

“I told

Po economists all say we have perity now. ey refuse to predic will pay for it. gs 3 Whe'tt we

YOU can pay a dollar down on a 1 ; C awn mower and sweat out the balance.

IT'S getting so it takes a very smart high school graduate to get out of going to en

A DAIRY strike can'turn bo public sour, th milk and the

.* AN old-fashioned business firm is one w! still charges $3 for a $2.98 item. . hich

being sneezed at.

ge By Earl “Richert NR A A SI FS SOE my a s——— — RR RATA ns QA he . S. Coffee Charges as “sheer effrontery” the proposal by the that the U. 8. “aid” Brazil and

Colombia in devaluating their currencies.

-and said that, in view of this, the U.S. government should scrutinize carefully any addional loans to th countrie e producing ‘The coffee-producing countries contend that high coffee prices are caused by the fact that coffee consumption now exceeds production. The Senate committee contends that coffee supplies in the U.S. are and have been ample and that the price rise was caused by speculation and rigging. ib sw 5 ~ LATEST Bureau of Labor * statistics show the average re-

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cents a pound. This is almost 25 cents a pound higher than a year ago. but 1 cent under the March peak of 78.1 cents a pound.

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