Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1950 — Page 16

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Mdianapiolis Welcomes Chrysler

JPEERE forsue. sot fo be much doutt Hist Chiyser Corporation will get everything a county and a city

factory going here. : : We didn’t think there would be. a . Mayor Feeney is keenly conscious of the value of new * industry to this community, and has shown in the past . that he will go to every length sound administration ~ permits to help bring and keep new plants here. His ; : ne. will, as.it has in. yo

tape that may arise. County approval of the location, in i tually assured...

c ss » . . . ¥ : THE new plant is in no sense a “war baby.” © it were completed long before the Korean affair flared into = and they were made to meet normal peace-time “needs of the company, not emergency. or a permanent addition to the growing industrial family of Indianapolis. It means, in short, some 4000 or 5000 jobs, and eventually probably some 20,000 or 25,000 more population for Indianapolis. This is the latest in an imposing series of new plants that have come here since the end of World War II, and their presence is both a testimony to the attractions we have to offer and a challenge to provide the essential services such industry requires. “The healthy, rapid growth of the whole Marion County community during the past 10 years is continuing, and apparently at an accelerated rate. There'll be need for more schools, more sewers, more streets, more transportation, more recreation facilities . . . more of everything, in fact, that a bigger city has to have. The prompt action of city and county governments in helping new plants, like this one, get located is the first step - in such a program. We're confident Indianapolis will not * lag on the necessary later steps, either.

* What Is Our Policy?

Ea TT HE Spetuiation” ‘which has “attended the visit of W. : Averell Harriman, special adviser to President Truman, to Gen. MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters highlights the _ need for further elarification of American policy in the Far East. =e TMF, Harriman was sent to Tokyo, the United Press American. political - aims in the Far Fast

ence with Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa. These officials presumably were in the State Department, which has been at odds with Gen. MacArthur for several years. As the story goes, Mr. Harriman was instructed to emphasize to the General that the United States’ political attitude must be carefully separated from the purely military matter of defending Formosa. = . ” . - . THIS version of the Harriman mission was discounted by one of Gen. MacArthur's friends in Tokyo, who said that, if President Truman were dissatisfied with Gen. .. MacArthur, he would tell the General directly and not permit “leaks’’ to the press to smear the United Nations commander at this critical time. This long-distance sniping reveals a disgraceful situation. Before Mr. Truman’ 8 decisions regarding Korea and Formosa, it was well kno f

_ those areas. Ha : A " But- the American people had a right to expect ++ the two departments: to join in upholding “the American ~

continues. A comniander in the field, fighting to hold a beachhead in Korea, also must defend himself against

| Give Light end the People Will Pind Trew ous wey

HN pe an area already Beouming 1 with h flourishing Industry, I vir- :

Plans for

had been “severely damaged” by Gen. MacArthur's recén intone

position, once it had been determined. Yet the feuding

“DEAR BOSS ... By Dan Kidney

Hoosiers Work On Control Bill

Copehiart and Halleck Lead Fight on Measure WASHIN

: Aug. 9-Dear Boss—Two Hoosier Republicans have been battling hard on the er hopu controls legislation and when a bill finally is passed both by the Senate and House each may have made a considerable contribution to the final Srafting of it. tie

el ng | ng Committee meetings early and late and finally agreed (reserving the right to object) to report

the Benate bill which proviacs for the controls

t by President ~pFice controls and consumer Tarn. chius._wae_ and latlar is on a standby basis and the date for its inauguration would be wholly up to the Presi: dent to determine. The senior Benator from Indiana reported

“that he lot in an effort to Shauge the bill fo 8 _ vas dis ear . So it becomes go

rather two, “should terminate ‘6-mon § al the fighting stops in Korea, 2

Hesitated on Controls AT the beginning of the hearings before the Senate Committee, Sen. Capehart hesitated about giving the President all-out controls unless the White House declared an emergency . existed which demanded such powers. After hearing the testimony of Bernard Baruch and others he took more kindly to the all-out control viewpoint, as ‘vas indicated by his questioning of the witnesses. One week ago Sen. Capehart Introduced an amendment which would freeze. prices as of June 30. It provided that such ceilings would remain in effect until Jan, 30, 1951, or until that portion of the act is terminated by presidential order, That amendment was promptly voted down by the committee.’ Sen. Capehart may try offering it from the Senate floor, he said. “When I voted to report out the bill, I re-

A Served the right to vote against it,” he explained,

still think that a price freeze Is better than going back to any old OPA rules.

Saf vards in Bill

of the safeguards on presidential

powers, which I suggested in the adniinistra.

tion's first bill, were accepted. That part-of the ' measure has my complete approval. I tried to: Bet that bill reported Separaifly last week and then debate consumer level price controls in another bill. Instead both are now together.” Difficulty of writing such complex legislation from the floor was well illustrated by he House of Representatives, with Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer, carrying the ball for theRepublicans as acting minority leader. A whole week was wasted in debate and the bill finally sent back to the House Banking and Currency. _IMustrative of. the.sort of... ¥ tary log-jam that ensued, before they e up, is this verbatim report taken from the Record when Majority Leader John McCormack .(D. Mass.) tried to tell Mr. Halleck what was what. Mr. McCormack-"Further following the in-

quiry of the distinguished gentleman from In-

diana, if the Kunkel substitute, as amended by the Spence substitute, is adopted, then the Kunkel substitute, and the committee substitute as amended by the Kunkel substitute, as amended by the Spence substitute, is adopted, we go back into the House (query).” «+ Bluff like that went on and on.

Curb on Powers MR. HALLECK'S original somewhat like that of Sens. Capehart and Robert A. Taft (R. 0.), which would have curbed the powers sought by President Truman

position was

in the original economic control bill. But when

price controls was injected from both the Democratic and Republican sides, he took up the cud---gela-for- the all-out-substitute offered -by- Rep: John C. Kunkel, Pennsylvania lame-duck Congressman who lost his seat by trying for the Senate in the primary. { When the final draft is made, however, Mr.

Barbs

“WHEN ‘people ‘get full “credit for “what ‘they do, they don't need credit for what they buy. > + - YOU'RE much more likely to get there safe and sound if you limit your speed instead of

== Washington-backstairs- -gossip.

in the Far East, is charged with the defense of Formosa. Nothing could be more essential than that he had an

ground forces there. ss 5 =» ry * = » ; THE General's inspection of arrangements for defense of the island was a must. To pretend that his visit somehow damaged “our political aims” in the Far East is silly. What aims? . Presumably, ~ Formosa is to prevent the island from falling into the hands of the Communists. That was the purpose of Gen. MacArthur's visit. He wanted to look over the ground where he might have to fight. “Our political attitude” and the” “purely” military matter” of defending Formosa should be one and the same, for Formosa's fate is a political question which ~ 7 may be decided by “military force. This hair-splitting * doubletalk suggests that the Amerasia gang may still have . backdoor passes into the State Department.* But, since the issue has been raised, just what are’ the State Department's aims in the Far East, and just how do they conflict with the plans Gen. MacArthur is making to carry out President Truman's orders?

Next, Blueberry Pie

| {OLLYWOOD is mobilizing for another war. The “cheesecake” division of the soft-héarted movie industry is going all out once again to furnish pin-up pictuige for “our boys” fighting in Korea. | Besides the old favorites, there are plenty of new—er, ~ faces—that are going to be added to the World War II list. ¢ And they’re shooting all new poses of the old ones. “No . has-beens for the boys—it, wouldn' t be fair," said a studio ' spokesman. That's the spirit! And it helps put some of the issues po the war into clearer perspcetve.

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Gen. MacArthur, as supreme a, of our Torces

understanding. with Chiang . Kai-shek, .who controls the...

our -most pressing aim in

a iY oo ; A WOMAN educator says today's girl 1s always on hér toes. And they're sticking right out of ‘the front of her shoes. >

had no chins, chin.

SIDE GLANCES

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SCIENTISTS «claim our remote ancestors: ment-that the: State

By Galbraith

FOREIGN- LOANS.

+ By Peter Edson r—

Back -Door Approach to Spain

“WASHINGTON, -Aug. 9 — There is consid erable monkey business behind Nevada Sen. Pat McCarran's surprise victory on the $100

million Spanish loan authorization. As amended

by Wyoming Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, the McCarran proposal would direct Marshall Plan Administrator Paul Hoffman to issue $100 million In notes, Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder would be directed to buy these notes. The money would then be loaned to Spain under terms of the Marshall Plan act. Export-Import Bank would be the collecting agency. Effect of the McCarran-O'Mahoney amendment would be to give Generalissimo Francisco Franco $100 million worth of Marshall Plan loan benefts, without Spain's béing admitted to Marshall Plan membership. Interest rates and repayment terms would be more liberal under a Marshall Plan loan than under a straight Export-Import Bank loan. Also, Spain would not be required to live up to the obligations of other Marshall Plan countries. In other words, this is a back-door approach.

Proposals Defeated =~

SIMILAR Spanish aid proposals have been made by Sen. McCarran in the past, but they have aiways | been defeated. The last time was il. of this. . ;

A rhage ; to-15-vote NSory for Sen.

crisis. It is also the result of considerable pres-.

..sure.fsom.the Department of Defense, which for...

some months has been eager to have Spain cut in on North Atlantic Pact defense plans, Congress—and the Senate in particular—

now wants to do everything it can to build tp

military strength against Communist threats

the limit on what Congress is willing to appropriate for this end. During the Senate debate on the McCarranO'Mahoney amendments, however, there were a couple of distortions of fact. One was a stateWas opposed to: a Spanish loan. The other was a statement that the Export-Import Bank had been slow

culated rumor, State Department officials knew nothing of the visit until word of it came over -the news tickers in the Department in Washington. That. is not altogether accurate. Secretary of State Dean Acheson and one or two of his assistants knew that Gen. MacArthur or a military mission named. by him would visit Chiang to appraise the situation on the island. » cil i =

“EFFORTS were made to persuade Gen. MacArthur to take a diplomatic officer with him so that the military and the political approach-would be coordinated. Gen. MacArthur was nof persuaded. He went off on his own and the State Department was left to discover as best it could what he had learned and what he had said ‘to_Chiang.

pall The conference between the 89 : Generalissimo and the General, CORR. 1980 BY MEA SERVICE. ive. 7. "hes. ar oer. ———=— was bound to have worldwide"

“| have to fell you a good one on my wife—when you. first mentioned coming, fo visit us, she thought you were

4 3 my cousins instead of hers!” oy V3

repercussions and especially in Asia. It could be the preface to 4 commitment by the United” Stafies to fight against the mil-

marti se pa

on. the possibility of. yn Expo at McCarion- ts-iargely “a result of “the Korean . y

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AMERICAN DIPLOMACY '.

Lack of Team Play Seen in U.S. Policy

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—Two recent episodes show that the diplomats and the military in our government are still reluctant at times to play on the same team. This lack of team play was one of the reasons for the tragedy of Korea. : “The first episode involves Gen. MacArthur's visit to Chiang Kai-shek on the island of Formosa. According to a widely cir-

__on the mainlaxid of China.

“try to prevent a Communist

“im granting credit to Spain. It was for these reasons that the Benate wanted to force the issue by requiring that loans be made through the Marshall Plan. Asa -matter-of record; -on-Apr- 27 Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Connally released a letter from Secretary of State Dean Acheson which said, “. . . the normal channel for credit from the Tarte States nt, namely the Export-Import Bank, is open to Spain on the same basis as any other country. . . . The department believes that this normal channel, of which the Spaniards have not yet availed themselves, should be utilized for projects in Spain requiring financial assistance from the United States government.”

Loan May Be Granted

AT that time, the Spaniards had not applied to the U. 8. government for any loans; but soon after that they did. Formal application was made for a $700,000 loan to modernize and enlarge a fertilizer plant. That application is now before Export-Import Bank and may be granted some time soon, whether or not the MecCarran-O’Mahoney amendment is finally approved. In. May, Andres. Moreno, director of Banco-., Hispano-Americano, came to Washington ‘and

—-talked somewhat grandly about Spain's need’

for credits of $1,250,000,000. Si min more than

As this was $400 k:

Bank loans for:-nearly $70 million.

Financal Data . Sought

THE Spaniards were told to go back and prepare certain financial data on their country's economy. These data have now been submitted and are under study by Export-Import Bank officials, But formal 1 applications for these loans

To these projects, Bowever Sen. McCarran added $12 million for construction and improvement of airports-and $20 million for cotton. The

first would have a vote appeal for military- - ~mainded Senators and the second for Southern"

cotton belt Senators. the $100 million figure.

The total rounds out to

lions of Red Chinese soldiers

” » » IN Washington Mr. Acheson faced a press conference with little knowledge of what Gen. MacArthur's visit signified. All he could say in response to the inevitable questions was that the issue of sending arms to Chiang was being studied within the framework of President Truman's declared intention to

invasion:of Formosa. AOL Gen. MacArthur has, of course, long been a law unto himself. While the second episode has less shattering implications, it is almost more revealing. o » ” LT. GEN. JAMES A. VAN FLEET returned to New York from two and a half years as administrator “of American military aid to Greece. Gen. Van: Fleet. by all reports has done a “good” job and he has received merited praise. But on arriving in New York he gave an interview in which he made extr poittieal

holding power,

Import

: ~BOV=- “markable pleiades of Soviet designers. —ILf, Gen,

~ statements. The New York Times quoted him as follows: “As a matter of fact, civil liberties exist in too great a measure for the good of Greece, Although the Communist Party is outlawed, as it should here, Communist collaborators, masquerading under different labels, are still in the government. The shooting phase is over, but the Communists will continue to bore from within.”

THIS statement.by a man in the uniform of the United States Army was, first of all, a direct attack on a friendly foreign government. It cut across the policy-of the State Depart. ment ip Greece and in particu- - lar it’was a rebuke to the for- . mer American Ambassador to © Greece, Henry F. Grady. * In his service in Athens, Mr. Grady's avowed aim was to - -—encourage the ‘development of 4 middle - ground government that would have real popular support which was a lot more than could be said for the cynical rightists who had been

The belief here is that he ““ “Bu ‘succeeded admirably and as a dubious reward he has been. sent as ambassador to Iran where it; is hoped he will be able to reconcile warripg fac-

Ny Su A Tiionisy~

tio cause. of millions of pounds. of food peing besides adding millions of dollars in

wasted faxes and making fortunes for black mar - keteers,

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fast becoming a drug on the marker 0 ‘me question

. any” time since 1946, 50 naturally they belie ih getting food while they can get it even hud are told there is plenty for everyone. : In addition, they know thaf rationing and * controls of all kinds is the kind of political pap that the administration in . power wants to spoon feed the people. If past experiences with the New Deal and the Fair Deal are any criterion to go by, there will be an abundance of food until after the fall elections and then it will suddenly become scarce and have to be rationed.

‘Political Carpetbagger’

By H. E. M., Indianapolis.

he verbal spanking administered to * “Bump-

~ tious Brownson” by his fellow Republican, Rep.

Harden for his foot-in-the-mouth campaign statements merely strengthens the viewpoint of Tate who pin a “political carpetbagger” label on - Having nothing ta lose and everything to gain, he seems ready to stick his neck out to

_.any length in grasping -every hope of petty advantage without apparent regard for any-

thing but his personal political fortunes, if you

. can call such short-sighted actions a mark of

statesmanship. Most people take a different view of such tactics in these times,

Nevertheless, the

_ day morning quarterbacks will have a fv

day in the forthcoming elections, particular!

hey ars not too much concerned with tact

Or conscience,

‘Intellectual Rawer Needed" By H. E. Martz, City “Let's try God,” says Sen. Flanders (Rep.) of Vermont, and no hypocrite.

«After 2000 years of Christian influence, and - * several thousand years more of other religions

and civilizations, we still need this advice. What does this indicate regarding our intelligence? Naturally, our emotions were the stronger element, and we approached all issues at that level, However, the dilemma that has resulted from this indulgence now requires a quick and complete development of sufficient intellectual power and honesty to cope with the conditions produced by past neglect in this duty. A fully functioning intellect purged of emotional bias recognizes biblical teachings as an avowed way of life for practical results as a

transcendent institution growing outward from

the human heart rather than seeking entry from

an outer bastion.

Whet Others Say—

urn to Plernation) HORA a

~without—a--selfish-.motive We -shall- ‘only rest

content to see Japah~ take her place in a world of freedom. —William J. Sebald, chief of Gen. MacArthur’ s diplomatic section.

ALL development of Soviet aviation, all suc. cess in relations to the world's best machines are indissolubly connected with Stalin’s name. The great leader raised and

Vassili Stalin, son of Premier Joseph Stalin.

I'M the last of the red hot mamas and I

intend to stay that way. No one is going to grab my title at this late date. I may not be “able~to-earry the load T-used to, but I'm not even slightly cooled off yet.—Sophie Tucker,

‘stage and night club singer.

. By Marquis’ Childs

~ tions and help in achieving a sound gavermment.

WHEN MEF. Grady learned of Gen, Van Fleet's statement, he sent some scorching cables be from Teheran. He pointed out what he had reported before— way beyond his military authority -to interfere politically in Greece. Averell Barriman, now the . President's reconciler and gen--eral co-ordinator of foreign turned from Tokyo where he conferred with Gen, Mace Arthur. There are those in govern “ment “Who “take ‘a philosophies view of all this.They say that America, in accepting its world responsibilities, will inevitably make mistakes and the failure at times to co-ordinate military and diplomatic moves is part of a Jearning process. They believe that Harriman in his new role will be ahle to put the military and diplomatic pieces together and bring back to the

co-ordinated policy. | t ordinary people, both at home and abroad, may not have the patience to wait out this process of education. It is hard to go to school when the schoolhouse is on te.

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