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in more than they're buying. The trend started in June, the month of the Korea outbreak, when bond cashings exceeded new sales by $5 million.
It accelerated during July, redemptions ex-
" 3 u rs closely but say that redemptions haven't yet. "reached
an alarming rate, They say they can’t explain the sharp in. grease Ja redemptions. ‘but point to the jump in depidrizment’ store sales as one poss
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Time for Plain Words
ANYONE who depended on the debate in the United Nations for all of his information on the Korean situation might conclude that America was waging a brutal, unprovoked war on the Korean people, while Russia challenged this program of “deliberate murder” as the champion of
~~ ing "to this debate,
ing the fiction that the North Koreans were the aggressors in this situation, even though it knew beyond possibility of doubt that Russia was the real culprit, the instigator of
aggression. ;
IT. WAS too bound by the niceties of diplomacy {0
for that soft hypoerisy by having Russia's crimes pinned on us before a forum which has the whole world as its
audience. No wonder we are taking a beating on the propaganda front. \ The Communists are just too tough, too ugly and too
mean for the polite, dignified gentlemen who speak offi-
clally for us. Soviet Delegate Malik charges America with “barba-
yous, terroristic” air raids on peaceful cities. : American Delegate Austin replies:
“We doubt if the representative of the Soviet Union
genuinely "desires an examination by the council of the question of whose design and whose command brought ~ about the Wileashing of this new wave of tragedy sid ar he might expose the villain.” How many people in Asia or Europe could unravel that reply und make anything of it?"
THE rited “Nations ‘Security Cotneil is not a high
_eourt of international justice but a public forum attended by the average man. The verdict will be returned by average men, based on their understanding of what they hear from that forum. Russia has been whipping us with this same stick for years now, but all that xperiones has . Aaught us nothing.
F in TT aldeseat at the Security Council, we have been “slapping
back at a howitzer with a feather-duster.” » Continuing the offensive they have maintained since
mand a cease-fire order and immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops | from Korea. Sa THAT, "of course, would leave Korea in chaos and at the mercy of the Red goon squads which are armed and trained by Russia. But, while the demand will not be approved; it will win more support than it deserves because it seems direct and plausible. And because our representatives do not denounce it bluntly as a lying trick. While we have won each vote in the Security Council thus far, only four of the other 10 members — France, China, Cuba and Ecuador—have voted with us every time. Outside the United Nations, Britain, Norway and
“of Conihtunist China. India and Yugoslavia have never
Gi and China
Nov that Gen. MacArthur has taken the initiative in reopening relations with Chiang Kai-shek's govern- _ ment in Formosa, thé State Department is undérstood to be -preparing to-retreat-from-its-position.of no.arms aid to the Chinese Nationalists: * °
This-step-should have been taken-a. full month. ago. .
The arms might have been on the way by now." . When President Truman ordered the 7th Fleet to defend Formosa against invasion by sea, it certainly was not indicated that we planned to defend ‘the island’ with Amerfean ground troops too. Chiang has 500,000 0 trrope | there, lacking only arms-and ammunition; 2h
» " n * = - » IT IS easier to supply these deficiencies than to tryto do the whole job alone, particularly when we have no men “to spare. under attack. It's too bad Gen. MacArthur is not in a position to introduce some realism into our relations with Franco Spain. Manpower is the greatest deficiency in our European defense program. Spain has more trained trbops in uni-
form than the combined forces of France, Italy, Belgium,’
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Norway and Denmark—the members of the North Atlantic defense group
~* in continental Europe.
Congress has voted $1,222,500,000 .for arms for them
-and other Allies, and has. been asked. to-provide .$4-billion -
more, Yet there is no assurance that these countries will draft the men to use the arms.
» » » » » » x BUT when the Senate voted to lend Spain $100 million, and suggested including Spain in the arms program, Secretary of State Acheson said no to both propositions. He said this was a matter which would have to be taken up with America’s Allies, but added that he had no plan to do that. War may come any day. Yet we go on ‘shoveling out “money to countries which refuse to provide men and have “none for a willing potential ally waiting to be armed. The showdown in Korea found us fighting almost alone. . J2 this becomes a two-front war we may find ourselves in a similar fix in Europe. That is the predicament the present 8p Deprtsnent policy is Building for us. :
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—-Our government. walked is into.a booby trap by. accept: EE
John R. Walsh, Anderson Democrat, who, as a House Armed Services Committee member,
“erable truth fn such a stiimation.
~ their return to the Security Council, the Russians now des
Egypt refused to go along with us in- opposing recognition.
But-action--should be taken before Formosa is
People Fr be -Casning thed
DEAR BOSS . . . By Den Kidney
Walsh Defends Johnson Record
has a more intimate knowledge of defense details than any other Indiana Congressman, refused to join in on the demand that Defense Secretary Louls Johnson be ousted.
press conference statement saying that he Intends to keep Secretary Johnson on the job, “I don’t belong to that group here on Capitol Hill who are looking for a scapegoat since the Korean War started,” Becretary Johnson may have made mistakes, but show me a Congressman or Senator who hasn't. Under the ouster theory maybe all who voted against Korean ald
should go.” That would include all the - Hoosier:
Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat. The latter is among thse who have publicly declared that Becretary Johnson should go. Republicans have been trying to make political capital out ‘of Secretary Johnson's speech of Feb. 3 at the University of Virginia which contained this line:
Rep. Walsh
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"Joe Stalin will know thing at 4 a. m. the fighting power of the United States will be on the job at 5 a. m.” As the grim Pentagon jokesters have summed up the situation—we were ready to fight Russia but not Korea, Mr. Walsh maintains that there is consid-
greatest confidence in our ever-growing stockpile of A-bombs and the thousands of B-36 airplanes that can deliver them and return. ~
Applauded by Congress “WHEN Secretary Johnson was trimming the military budget, he was universally applaud-
~ ¢d By Congress and the people,” Mr. Walsh said.
“Some of the same Congressmen who were
. government on sale prior to World War II, people are cashing
ible expla-
‘Mr. Walsh declared.
Instead he applauded President Truman's “trad Russia for the criminal she is. ‘We are being repaid
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i ~By ‘Robert V. Evanson, 407 N. Dunn St,
In these times of world mix-up and possible
catastrophe, 1 can think of a million editorials far more beneficial to your readers than Robert
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be able to find more ‘interesting copy than Mr,
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WHO'S TO BLAME? .
. By Roger Stewart
Democrats, GOP Battle on Korea °
cheering his Off “ths TEL statements at the time, are now leading the anvil chorus. * Obviously they want no blame to attach to them, this being an election year. “Actually Secretary Johnson was carrying out most of the major proposals for saving money in his department recommended by ‘the - Hoover Commission, Such proposals were being backed strongly then by such organizations as the Junior Chamber of Commerce. They praised Secretary Johnson highly at the time. Of course things looked entirely different a year and onehalf ago than they do now with the Korean fighting going on. Abandoning plans for building the big U. 8. carrier seemed like a good idea.” Mr. Walsh pointed out that the carrier wouldn't have been ready now anyway and outside of the flying wing called B-51, only the 36 can carry the A-bomb. The latter is the only one which can go and come back, he said. Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson appointed Mr. Walsh a member of the important stockpiling subcommittee,
Huge Stockpile
1 DON'T share ihe dim view § some take now
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5-—-For months to come—at least until after the November elections—two sets of political drums will beat out variations on a Korean War theme. Already the thumping has started. Democratic drumbeaters charge it is the Republicans in Congress who were to blame for U.' 8. failure to provide sufficient military aid to ‘South Korea before the Communist attack of June 25. The GOP says the reverse is true—that it was the Deniocratic administration which fell down on the job after Congress had voted millions of dollars for assistance. As is usually the case in election-year squabbles, the truth lies somewhere between. That only a small amount of defense equipment actually filtered through in time to be used in halting the invasion is true. But whose fault was it? - »
dima Ee a mem nn
“fhe "A-bombs.” “Atomic Committee C Brien McMahon (D: Conn.) has publicly stated that we have “more than 350.” Mr. Walsh doesn’t share the scare view that dropping them on Russia would burn up the whole world. We could be forced to resort to that, he thinks. Mr. Walsh gives Secretary Johnson credit
“for-U: 8: readiness to deliver the-bombs-should
that time cone. “This 1s not the first time MF. Walsh has “gone to bat” for the Defense Secretary. Last October he stalked from a full defense commit-
tee hearing and condemned. Chairman Vinson...
for not giving Johnson and thén Air Force Secretary Symington a “fair deal.” Later he signed a minority report taking exception to the majority criticism of the administration’s ouster of Adm. Denfeld as cheif of naval operations in the unification row. He may be a minority man in the matter of
—-the-Johnson -ouster-demand. But -he atleast
has some facts from which to draw his .conclusions. )
Home Front
He refused to disclose the actual number hairman
To get at the facts, let's go back a year—to
July, 1949, after all American troops (except. 500 training officers) had been withdrawn from the Korean peninsula, leaving the infant southern republic to protect itself,
the ‘Economic Co-operation Administration (ECA), economic and military aid valued at more than $500 million had been given the
South Koreans. since 1946. Moreover, when the Yankee troops turned over defense of the re- -
public to its American-trained constabulary last summer, equipment valued at more than $100 million was left there. Subsequently Congress passed two measures affecting South Korea-—one of them purely economic and the other military. It is in connee-
“tion” with these ‘two pieces of legisiation—how-
Congress handled them and what the Administration did in carrying them out—that the pres-
THE BIG HOARDERS . Speculators Profit From War Decision
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—A great many harsh words have been directed at the hoarders who rushed into the market place to grab up sugar, nylons and other things that might become scarce. Such greed produces a natural revulsion in most people who sense the danger to the country and the need for steady and reasonable conduct in the face of that danger.
But there {s another kind of hoarder not ‘nearly so evident as the greedy who cache away unnecessary supplies. The commodity speculator has been things that all of us must eat and wear.
~ » % OPERATING almost entirely "on credit, speculators since the start of the Korean war have been buying up “futures” of soybeans, lard, wheat and other commodities. The Commodity Exchange Authority in the Department of Agriculture reports: “A speculator who purchased just before the Korean episode and deposited the minimum margin could have ‘cashed in’ five weeks later, on July 28, with an approximate 450 per
on cotton or wool tops, and &
“between Feb. 15 and June 3
“At that time, through the U. 8 Ry WHICH previously has occupied the area, and through
ent squabble between Democrats and Repub- * licans has arisen. The first was the Mutual Defense Act of 1949, under which the President was authorized
"to furnish military assistance to the Bepubiic
of Korea.”
Measure Wins Wide Support
WIDE support was given the measure. The" House passed it by 223 to 109, while in the Senate there were only two “no” votes. These were cast by Sens. Kenneth 8. Wherry (R. Neb.) and William Langer (R. N, D.). No public disclosure was made as to how much help would go directly to South Korea, for “security reasons.” As a matter of fact, according to Republican Congressmen, no aid whatever reached Korean hands under this program in eight months between its adoption and the invasion. This, critics of thé administration assert, was due to “stalling” on the part of military and executive department officials, who, until the sudden decision to come to the aid of South Korea was made, had written off that area as indefensible,
clssited Democratic GE ~Deating - ‘was Fan eco~
rea $60 million. ‘worth. at sean. laen. 0 of this year.
Amended Bill Passes
THE Democrats charge that Republicans in Congress overwheimingly disapproved of this bill when it first came up last fall. They did. But GOP leaders insist this was because the
measure - contained fo. - provision Jor military _ ~gesigtance; eae
Last February an amended version of the bill passed the Senate and was approved by the House by 240-134. Forty-two Demoerats joined 91 Republicans and the one American Labor Party. member, Rep. Vito Marcantonio, in voting against it. However, 42 Republicans joined with
"198 Democrats in the majority.
“The isolationist bloc in the House must
. shoulder the responsibility for the Communist °
attack on South Korea,” the Democrats have claimed in an official analysis which points out the long delay in getting the bill passed. “The Democratic administration, with its fumbling Far Eastern policy, was to blame,”
‘ the Republicans retort.
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. By Marquis Childs
The second piece of legislation . which nas !
got it, thanks tor your reading time,
‘Questions to Ask’
* By H. B. Wright
If the American people were thoroughly familiar with communism and what the Come.
munists and fellow travelers have done to them and this country they would ask a
trustworthy congressional committee to inquire into the fi For what purpose did this government rece fia the Soviet Union in 1933, in the face of the fact that ita reputation was known sven st that date? * & 9
WHAT mab. or Sroup of men: wire 2espon. sible for the of persons in executive jobs in the government where they were in & position to. foster communism? Just who 1s responsible for communism get-
ting the headway it has in this country, espe-
clally in those departments where they oe ip access to information as to what the Communists were doing in other countries? ® © o
WHO were responsible for the fugeling of the China situation to the advantage of the Communists? Just who was it that managed the finagling which put us in a war which built up the Come ~ munists into a first class nation instead of a fifth class one? % If a congressional committee could get the answers to these it may be the American people would wake up in time to save themselves,
‘Let's Stop Hoarding’
-By -A. M. -J., Indianapolis. How anyons who had a loved ons in the “last war can hoard is beyond me, The that pil
The report was that he sold over 800 pounds at this fancy price. "I know that I am just one person, the saying being “just a drop in the bucket,” but as anyone
.. knows, many drops in a bucket will soon ‘fill it,
What Others Say— THE MINUTE any man successfully estabe \ishes himself In any business nowadays, he
_ mutomatically becomes a Potential jallbird.—
président, U8. Steel,
«THE battle between liberty and despotism Ist never ending. It has no limit either in space or time. It is part of the constant struggle between good and evil—John Foster Dulles. -
With the strides our military research is
making, we don't need to-match Russia man for man, division for division Defense Secre. =Sary lous Johnson.
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they could buy all they wanted must not have . «hada son that would-ever-haveto-go-to- war; §—
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comparatively modest 100- per cent on ihe relatively sluggish wheat futures.”
# » Ed $ hE ~A-SMALEL numberof “those
who trade in commodities are in the market for a legitimate
- ‘reason. They actually handle
the wheat, cotton and lard In
the channels of trade and they _
need, therefore, to protect their holdings in relation to price changes. But up to 85 or 90 per cent of the dealings in soybeans analyzed by the exchange -au-
thority for July 21 was pure’
speculation—betting that the market would go up as a result
.of the enisis.
WHAT is more thanks to the présent tax law, he lists the profit not as income but 25 sapiial gain. If he has held Hie SUIHGHY 32000 than ai he pays the capital
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prices.
gains rate. On a profit of, say, $100,000, he would pay $25,000 instead of $75,000. Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan wants €ongress to raise the margin requirement to 50 per cent. This, he argues, would work to keep out a lot of the gamblers who are driving up commodity
SEER ny IN HEARINGS before the Senate Banking and Currency
A provision for this had been
included in the administration /
bill on emergency powers to handle the Korean crisis.
ings of the need to “stop gamblers from taking advane tage of the situation.” ; - » » “I DO NOT want to sit here and let 95 per cent of the peo ple be hurt because of 5 per cent of the people,” Sen. May. bank said.
“-Five:per-cent 15 high: “The umber of speculators would
be much nearer a fraction of 1 per cent. Yet they have contributed a lot to the fact that since the attack on Korea the price of lard has risen 41
- per cent, cottonseed oll 31 per cent, soybeans 25 per cent, ‘wheat 6 per cent and eggs 5
per cent. 8 = A DECISION was taken by this government ‘on June 27.
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