Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1950 — Page 10
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Stop This Menace Now THE TIMES disagrees with those who hold that a small war in Korea creates no need for all-out mobilization of America’s potential power. For one thing, the. war in Korea is. uot small : Already we have had to put into it so large a part of . our ready and near-ready military strength that our home- : land. 8 left dangerously exposed. And winning 3t wilt Se % 100g and contly job, Korea as only a beginning of the violent phase of of Communist Russia's program. for destruction of our country.
THE Kremlin may intend to risk world war soén; In
except-—perhaps—atomic bombs, Russia is much better prepared for that than we and our Allies. — Or it may hope to bleed us white, over a long
Korea-like “incidents” and forcing us to so ‘exhaust our energies. and resources that America would go down in economic collapse or Communist revolution. In either case, there is only one wise course for us. We must build up our military strength as far and fast as work and money can make possible and time permit. And, - while doing that, we must preserve the strength of our * American economy and protect. it from inflationary self-
Only thus can we have any hope of halting Communist aggression and saving the world from war. Only so may we have any chance of winning if we are forced to Bg a third world war,
sR 8 x a LE 80, to The Times, it seems childish folly to sontend that partial mobilization, and government controls of part. of the economy, are enough, ling at top speed -
for output of planes and tanks-and other weapons now. American’ workers should be moving to defense production jobs. American youths by millions should be starting active training for the military duty they may have to do. -— And-the-nation's President and its Congress should be_ working in harmony on measures fully adequate to cope with the growing menace of inflation before it gets altogether out of hand. If Mr, Truman really believes the government can allocate materials, without bringing swift need to hold down | _prices, wages and other costs, he is mistaken.
SHOUI0 De LJ
the others. That was abundantly proved by sad experience in World War II, when every step was taken too late to be an _ fully effective. If Congress really believes living costs can be allowed to rise a while, then rolled back to a pre-Korea level, it is mistaken. ~ Even if such a roll-back could be successful, countless inequities among prices, and between prices and wages, would exist before it could be undertaken, and they could Dever be corregted. " . . » . ~ MR. TRUMAN will need—in fact, now needs—authority to order ceilings on the whole economy, including prices,
tion to enforce the order. He should ask frankly for that authority. And he should give assurance that it will be used promptly, firmly - and fairly, with no special exemption. for: any favored group or-interest.
Republicans ‘t can ‘make no useful political capital for themselves by trying to force half-baked, unworkable legislation on the President. Democrats will earn no credit with the American people by passing laws that cannot serve their professed purpose. ~~ If ever an undertaking called for loyal, intelligent, bi- : ~partisan’ effort, the War “against inflation does. End ‘the confusion and bickering. Start working together, Mr. President and members of the-Congress. Unless you do, and soon, it will be too late. “people will distribute impartially-among you a Tot more dis-’ . credit than any of you can relish.
Using the Atomic Bomb
JAPANESE officials from Hiroshima and Nagasaii-etiie ~~ two cities which were the targets of our atomic bomb _ attacks—are now visiting this country. They were asked for their views concerning use of the bomb as a war weapon. Their collective reply was so realistic and sensible that “ it is commended to those fuzzy-minded Americans who" want us to abandon the weapon which might mean the difference between victory and defeat to us in a major war. They said: mn “Every sane person hopes with all his heart that the ~~ bomb will not have to'be used. But we have the utmost confidence in the discretion of President Truman, to whom the free world owes so much, and whose constitutional duty it is to decide this question as far as the United States can decide it. 5: “Those who hope to prevent war by banning this- or that weapon deal at too superficial a level. The only: Way to build peace is to deal with and change the motives in men and nations which make them hate and fear each She oo ” » nn _ FREQUENTLY it is urged that America should pledge itself not to be the first to'use the bomb, That can mean only that we should wait until Russia has used the bomb us. ~ The choice of weapons to be used in any given situation must be left to the President, who, as commander in chief, is charged with responsibility for our defense. We cannot expect him to discharge that responsibility faithfully if" his hands are tied and our forces are restricted to use of woall bombs while the enemy is free to use hig cnes. .
armed manpower, in most weapons, in almost everythifig
period of years, by ordering Red puppets to create other
et “The first step on that road creates necessity to—take—
wages, rents and other costs, and to Create an organize- -
Congress should snap out of its present dreadful state
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- NO PROMISES .
$4 Billion Goes Into Grab-Bog
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 5- ~The United States has no idea what it would gét in return for the extra $4 billion President Truman wants" to
spend for foreign military aid,
The President proposed to allocate $3.5 billon to North Atlantic Pact countries, $193 millon to Greece, Turkey and Iran and $303 million to the Philippines and “other , nations in
Southern and Eastern Asia.”
Hé told . Congress that all free nations “must accelerate the efforts they are making to strengthen their common security.” He said everyohe involved must “put forth a Tar larger
“effort ind much shorter: time.”
zation.
Have No Real Program =~
BUT NEITHER the President nor his adYitrs ‘have a real program yet. Government kesmen can't even say why they asked for — “BINIGA Thstéad of §3 Billion oF "$5 Billion. They say only that they need flexibility.” Nor do they know what will be obtained from . countries veasiving the
ald.
This much is “clear:
ONE: Uncle 8am has no commitment from any other nation as to how the money will be used. He does not expect to get one, TWO: He has no commitments that “they will expand their armed forces or how far they will go in making arms. He does not ex-
pect to get any. T
HREE: He has no commitment that we will have bases in any other countries. He ex-
pects no such commitment,
FOUR: He doesn't know how he would split the $3.5 billion among North Atlantic Pact nations. That will depend on what each de-
cides it can do for itself.
be
forces of all
And the
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FIVE: He has no idea how much more will sure that $4 billlon—or more-—will be needed each year through 1952, and probably much longer. . Basically, the idea is to expand the armed-non-Communist nations. Those drafting the program say they'd like that to Rnbpen overnight.
needed. He is, however;
But, no
WISDOM.
It seems there was a wise old bird
That in a tree did dwell, He never spoke , . . We know his story well, He listened close . . much, Yet never aid peat
The things he knew of such and
.- such Just kept his lofty seat.
To 8it and hear and not declaim.
Athing he'd-even see:
If we were owls and did the same the
This world would better be.
~Anna E. Young, 3547 N. DeQuincy St.
SIDE GLANCES
And he said” the foreign ald program was ‘as vital to our national security” as our own military mobill-
“considerable
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accept certain defense assignments. They prob ably won't be revised for a while. Because no _ nation yet has the men the job will require. They won't until they have the arms to train and equip them, One reason given for asking billion ie that we “now have a better knowledge of what an adequate defense will take.” We have no fipal dollar figure, but we say it's
another $4
“an amount so large” we need the productive
capacity of our Allies; Even so, the experts admit they haven't gone all the way, In discussing their plans, they make such hopeful statements as “If they do all we want them too.”
Leave It to U. S. IF THEY don't? In every case, the answer
is “the U. 8. will have to do it.”
away from
military
Government spokesmen, “optimistic. They speak of a “receptive attitude” in London, Paris and elsewhere. They shy
nevertheless, are
commitments, however,
discussing “on the theory that volves IRTTmgement oR national sovereign The same is true of agreements to expand military fowses, They say, for instance, that
ty.
British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell "has mentioned in parliament a possible addi-
tion of 250,000 fighting men, They say that’s encouraging. But, they add, it's a matter for
individual governments. to. decide.
Much North Atlantic Pact defense planning consists of generalities. met in Paris last fall and agreed on roles and missions—a sort of preamble. They met later at The Hague and reduced that to more concrete—but admittedly still general—terms. A
The defense ministers
Council of Deputies now is meeting in London.
It's supposed to settle troop allocations and detailed military annexes to the over-all plan. Many questions here are put off with the state-
ment that such details are up in London. You
man-
get the impression a decision is imminent. But press reports from London don't they've made much headway.
$400 Million for Military
MR. TRUMAN said part of the extra money --tentatively' $400 million-—would be used to stimulate military production overseas.
indicate
The
tion. They are sure, they say, that es will make more than token contributions.” But
right now, they don’t know. They simply want
$4 billion-w-the rest remains to be seen.
even a word,
What Others Say—
“WE-MUST remember tit 1 we fall fre: 1
no Marshall Plan for us, dom will fall. It will be the end of freedom not-*
Should we fail, free-.
only for us but for dll peoples.——James J. Byrnes, former secretary of State,
“TPR NROreY 6 HOST” ‘happy HAT FAges is consideration each partner has for the
other's happiness.—Mrs, Lauritz Melhor, wite
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LET'S FACE FACTS .
times ‘like pure- fantasy. It is a rapid sleight of hand, defies the * There may be a-parallel in
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w.requ on a ‘year ago, there was an item of $155.000000 to ‘help increase European arms production. . ‘cut out in the Senate, for reasons. that were
By B. ¥. Martin, Morristown, Ind. wold tae ar To Ter why Te ho :
"afraid of the trucks that travel our highways. House.” Truck drivers do not deliberately hold back Look Who's talking.
traffic when it is safe ta.pass. It does take time to get a loaded truck rolling and a hill does Truman because of Capehart and others of his
‘Net by Cheap Politi’ i, \“ By H. E. Marts, City. a : : Headline: “Capehart Demands U. 8. Clean
We got Roosivelt becsise: of Hoover, aid
suppERY customs . Status o
“ee By Ludwell Denny S. Policy on Franco
a Aug. 5—The Senate vote to racy if we go back on our principles.” The other
glue. Span PAT
“af-that-there isa’
Tix-up “the right or the United States to fix its own Spanish policy and the equal right of other nations to do
likewise,
Facts in Case Outlined
AS USUAL there are powerful lobbies on partisan views and challenging the good faith of the other. The facts of the case are fairly clear: Franco is a dictator who runs a totalitarian ~~ Fascist police state. He has a record as an unism, and also as a collaborator with his friends Hitler and Mussolini. Durin Latin
each side, presenting
enemy of comm
ing the war he
America against democracy and the United States, but in Europe he played each side against the other to keep Spain out of the war—and succeeded, Spain was excluded from the United Nations on grounds of enemy collaboration and inability to meet charter qualifications. She was excluded from the Marshall Plan and the At-
lantic Pact,
Spain is In dire economic condition under Franco—our financial help is needed. We, in turn, need Spanish military bases and help in
- event of major war.
On the basis of these more or less generally accepted facts, the. two sides reach opposite .conclusions. One side says—in the words of an opposition S8enator—“We cannot preach democ-
80 0_fullien Marshall Plan loa B bitter dispute over a a doe toward Generalissimo Franco. The dispute is not so mich over faits as feelings, so there is more heat than There is also confusion of military, political and ideological aspects of the casé. And on top
... to lose them,
says — to quote
Ir Amirion is to base its foreign policy on national interest, instead of likes and dislikes, - there is no legitimate reason why it should not make a favorable deal with Franco if if possible.
War Shifts Marshall Plan’s Role
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—An entirely new role for the Marshall Plan Economic Co-oper-ation Administration is emerging as a result of the Korean War. For its first two and a half years, ECA's main job has been to build up the civilian economy of Western Europe. It has concentrated on building up ~European-productive =o capacity and foreign trade position.
a bigger. role
fund.
But now that international communism has
shown its real hand and fs intent to settle things’ by shooting, instead of by propaganda, Europe will have to step up its arms production. ECA’s goal up to now has been to bring Europe's exports and imports into balance by June, 1952, This would make Europe more or less self-sustaining and reduce its need for dollars. That done, the Marshall Plan could be
liquidated.
Dollar Gap May Widen
IF Europe is forced -to go in for greater arms picture will be rtail its production _of consumer goods for export. That will cut down its dollar-earning capacity. And the dol-
“Tar gap, instead of closing, will open wide again. As a matter of fact, ECA has been shifting some of its effort from civilian to military pro-. duction, during ihe past few months,
production, however, changed. It will have to ¢
never quite- clear,
Anyway, defense planners hit on another’ a means of achieving the same end, through ECA. A fund of $100,000,000 was set up: for what became known as AMP-—Additional Military Pro. ~-gduetion: It was" under the general administra - . tion of Edward J, Dickinson, who was recently made executive officer for, the Joint - Secretaries ir Force organization. fund was handled was that if .s=$ay, a Swedish antiaircraft gun manufacturer. “needed additional machine tools to éarry out a contract, the ECA-AMP group would see that the. necessary priorities were given to insure
of -Army-Navy-The way thi:
delivery.
its local cy, and this money goes into the counterpart
One other Sevelopient which is giving | BCA the European rearmamen
More Funds for Ami ECA HAS a control over how these funds are spent. In the main, they have been channeled into increasing the productive capacity for needed civilian supplies, From here on out, a greater proportion of these counterpart funds
will be employed to increase European arms
. production,
Still another shift in ECA policy has been to increase its missions in southeast Asia, so as to help prepare that area against Communist aggression. Money for this effort has come from $150,000,000 originally allocated for the China mainland, but unspent there because of the Red -. conquest of Nationalist Chinas Congress has . authorized spending of these funds in the general area of China. - * Thus while there has been some inclination to write off the Marshall Plan and b t
In the
change
This was - been doing.
e character of the job that "ECA. has
3.
ECA Has Good Reputation
“BCA HAS Duilt up confidence in Europe and it has a good reputation in Washington, among . other government agencies. There - have been : : ~congressional- proposals that ECA “be given the job of ‘administering the Military Assistance Program, or that it be converted into a kind. of :- economic warfare agency. Administrator Hoffman has stuck to his + Original. idea. that. ECA. should be. liquidated on time, at the end of its four-year span of life, Any premature Killing off of the agency, hows ever or slashing of its funtis because of the Ko»
rean War, might have a disastrous effect.
. By Marquis Childs Russ Lies in UN Reveal Designs on Asia
LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 5—What is happening here seems at
kind of unreality that, like very eye and the ear. the traditional theater of China.
You put up a stick on the stage and announce that this is a grove of trees; this is the shoreline and this other stick is. a ship. So
here what is labeled truth, what is labeled lie and What is called debate have the same
relation” to- reality, =
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BUT behind the controversy
over rule 30, paragraph 19,
which moves like an old-fash-
joned quadrille, is .one frightening’ and inescapable reality.
_. It is the plain intention of communism __to move on 10 new aggression in Asia,
Everything that has happened in ‘the .past 20 years--should have taught us to recognize this intention in the words
Jacob: Malik, the Russian dele-
gate. It is the strategy of the dictator to accuse the enemy of those acts of aggression h r intends to commit - or_inspire. - / 5 5 =
WHEREVER Malik in his
“long harangue used the name “of the United States as intend-
ing to “pocket” Formosa, to flood arms into Indo-China, to
‘seize ‘the Philippines, one can
subs the word commun=n
ism. Then the pattern of the future becomes ominously clear. After what has been said here no one cian have any doubt about why Russia returned to the United Nations. It is in the first instance to use the United Nations as a sounding board for Russia's peace propaganda. Part of this
Statés as the aggressor. Then when communism strikes again, the Russians will be prepared to fight against any concerted United Nations action such as took place with respect to Korea. » » » ’ THE next blow may beaimed at Formosa. Malik devoted at least - one-tenth- of his coldblooded *harangue to America’s designs on Formosa. If the 7th Fleet succeeds in stopping "the invasion of Formosa, then the propaganda against the American imperi-
alists can be stepped up-to an
strength.
effort is to build up the United
even shriller pitch. If the invaders get through and American forces are committed to the aid of the Nationalist Chihese on Formosa, then Russia can sit back -and watch the United States become more and more deeply involved with the millions of Red Chinese soldiers. That will be a carefully calculated trap to draw in more of America’s tragical: ly small reserve of military 2 » - » IN VIEW of all this it may be the moment to consider tak-
ing the final step of reshaping
the United Nations without the Soviet Union, Most thoughtful Americans have shied away from such a step. They have
clung to the belief that as long:
as Russia stayed in the United Nations, the hope of a peaceful solution still remained. - But that hope may now have passed apd the time may have come to say so frankly. Ma-
-Hk’s every word seems to show :
that this is the case.
Without Soviet obstruction
ism a reorganized United Nations might become a vital force for watching over and
reaping the peace of the
meditated”
‘in Asia without dangering the defense of this
the mainland of China?
world. Perhaps, if there is still time enough, the boldness and the resolution can be mustered even with the USSR present. 4 = ed WHAT makes Malik's har angue seem pure fantasy is his charge that .the United: States had directed a “preattack against North Korea. This is at the very moment when United
States troops seem about to be
pushed off the Korean penine sula into the sea.
The individual who retreats — — ——}
into * unreality may destroy himself. Who can doubt that the same thing applies to na-
‘tions? This is the moment for
‘the most unflinching and ruth= less realism. Before it is too late, we must ask ourselves certain questions: Can this country commit. any more of its limited reserve en-
continent? Do ‘we under any cifouni-
-stances dare to commit Ameri-
can land forces to a- struggle
and experienced troops now- on
% “at home but an aggressor abrosd. whether he is a threat to others and to international peace. Stalin is a Meat and Franco isnot. =
Franco Called Slippery
IT IS true that Franco is a slippery customer who might not carry out his agreement with us. That Js also true of many others with whom we dedl—democracies as well as diectatorships. With Spain—as with other non- ' aggressor nations -—our government should - make. the best agreement possible and do its utmost to get observance. But in the case of international pacts, we have no more right to insist on other members accepting Franco on our terms than they have a right to force us to boycott him on their terms. Our object should be to add allies, not
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