Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1950 — Page 10
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The UN Is Being Sabotaged
~ QOME weeks ago when Herbert Hoover r declared that Russia should be expelled from the United Nations, or that a new organization should be formed which would not inand y
different. The general disposition was to keep turning the other cheek in the wishful expectation that Moscow might souie- __ time have a change of heart and decide to be decent.
~ eolors of the United Nations in Korea, while a Russian sit-
denounces our boys as brutal and ruthless aggressors. And
no one seems to kpow what to do about it » »
” THOSE who “balk at the idea of dnnzndig Russia's expulsion from the United Nations do not deny that Russia __alone is responsible for the Korean War. doubt that the men in the Kremlin plan similar adventures _in other parts of the world. But the contention is that if
not go along with us. Sowhat? Governments which will desert us in the United Nations on this issue wouldn't be of much help to us on the battlefield, if it comes to that. Probably most of them would lie down and play dead. One of these days, we'll have to call the roll, and it might as well be now. Then we'll know where we stand, _and won't go on wasting money where it won't contribute
. ” # » THE United ‘Nations reached the zenith of its brief career during Russia’s absence from the Security Council. The organization has been in a straitjacket since Russia’s return. All of the ground the United Nations gained in world esteem by its forthright action on Korea is being lost by Mr. Malik’s crude filibuster, and the outrageous abuse he has been heaping upon the United States and the other nations which are supporting the peaco cause. - This nonsense should no longer be tolerated. We can't afford to let Russia destroy the organization . which is the world’s best hope for peace. But if we can't muster the votes to save the United Nations from deliberate sabotage, we should take a walk ourselves and set up a new organization—one that can function—on the other side of the street. We owe that much to the men Bghting Red aggression in Korea. -
Much Ado-About gr ER
JEARING quite an uproar the other day about how the ‘Democrats had “grabbed” most of the No. 1 auto license plates by some kind of sinister skullduggery, we got curious enough to look up these special “favorites” of the administration in office. In Marion County they are: ‘The Mayor of Indianapolis (an official car).
ficial car). Two employees of the Indianapolis Star. A trucking corporation, A housewife, a bartender, and a doctor of medicine of no known political connections who say they “just asked for a low number” and got it. The Democratic County chairman. The Republican County chairman. Three active Democratic politicians. That's all. .. Sinister? “Not very:
NEW ORLEANS “businessman ho has just returned from one of the Army's “orientation” tours says some" of the Army's new secret weapons are “amazing.”
as important, from the standpoint of firepower, as a tank used in World War IL” Not having seen these amazing weapons, we wouldn't
Saturday, Aug. 12, 1950
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Progressive
So now, Americans are fighting and dying und ww
; re hing.-as-chairman-of the. United Nations Security. Council
Nor do many
we call for a showdown, lot of ~weak<kaeed nations would
defeat: A-lot-of
The Board of Marion County Commissioners (an of-
They are so amazing, “that two foot soldiers now are,’
But the end of the , Germany b —, submarines
in 1917 and World War II in 19042. device known as the “schnorkel.”
“long-range torpedoes and the famous breathing
These made their appearance too late to
Soria Way 11. aie (he stustion
“The fact at mrs in + that the day ot
the submarine is by no means over. If
influence the outcome of World War JI. But entered a war soon, against a Waustially strong
they introduce an aminous note ime the future.
Henry—Where Did You Come From?
dropping from their Et the menace. The submarines of World War II were far
POLITICS . . , By Charles Lucey
utter and the problem of dealing with them
Party Flops —Sen. Taylor Defeated in Idaho After Henry Wallace Quits and the 1aano
leaders into the dust. The Communist-spawned Korean War helped
: send Henry Wallace and Glenn Taylor into re-
treat from public life and from
his renunciation a couple of days ago and the repentant "Sen. Taylor was beaten in the : -Idaho--Democratic
Idaho result was close but an overturn seemed unlikely. Mr, Taylor knew he was in trouble, and so all over the state he put on his old troubaSen. Taylor 4our's act, giving the listeners a strong dose of that guitar and “Dear Hearts and Gentle People.” He trucked the family along and a cowboy band as well. But none of it was enough, Mr, Clark, according to. . Idaho. reports, didn’t make much of a campaign. Mr. Taylor's old friendliness for the fellow travelers just
caught up with him. The Idaho Statesman,
Boise newspaper, carried on a vigorous campaign to help the voters remember—they printed pictures of Glen with Mr. Wallace, pro-Commu-nist Paul Robeson and others. He was hit much harder with charges of pro-Russian sympathies than was Sen. Claude Pepper in Florida,
Sensitive to Kidding THERE were other factors in Mr. Taylor's Idaho sensitive at kidding about being represented by the leftist cowboy crooner. Republicans in some numbers apparently crossed party lines to vote in the Democratic primary and take a poke at Mr, Taylor, For some time past, now, Sen. Taylor has represented a pretty safe vote on most things the Truman administration wanted in the Senate. He had told Democratic Party chiefs that he had seen the light and would never again wander. Some Idaho patronage passed through Mr. Taylor's hands, Thé party leadership here took no part in the primary as far as the folks out there could tell.
: To return to the Senate Mr. Clark now must defeat the Republican nominee, Lawyer
“Herman Walker of Payette. The word from Idaho today
1s that, in an off-presidential election year, this
will be tough. Mr, Clark was on friendly terms with Harry
Truman when the two served together in the .
Senate, So if he wins, he may go along with the Truman administration better than he did with Roosevelt, He followed an isolationist line before World War II
Voting Record A CHECK of the record for 1041, for example, shows Mr. Clark voting to limit use of armed forces to the Western Hemisphere, opposing both lend-lease authorization and appropriation bills, favoring restrictions on trans fer of naval craft and against transfer of Axis ships to Britain. He opposed Neutrality Act revision but voted for the declaration of war against Japan. As to Sen. Taylor, the record shows a marked change of stance in the period in which he was scrambling to get back on the Democratic side. In 1948, he was voting to cut the European recovery program funds and opposing both the revival of the draft law and the Vandenberg
foreign-policy resolution which led to the North.
Atlantic Pact. But in 1949, the beaten third party vice-presi-dential candidate began to change. is the past
the ECA Sorta to > 1951 ‘and. for the Truman Point Four program. He stuck with the administration against cutting European aid, But conversion came too late.
BACK IN THE '80'S How well do I remember, I was just a little boy When The Indianapolis Sun came out
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weapons why doesn’t the Army prove what they can do by trying them out in Korea, under-actual battle conditions? Our GIs couldn't have been “using these amazing - weapons which make two men the equal of a tank when “not so long ago Russian-made tanks were threatening to "drive them into the sea. According to one report we recall, our side was shooting stuff which was bouncing off .enemy tanks like pingpong ‘balls.
-IT WOULD seem a good idea to and these ' orientation tours for businessmen until our forces in Korea have everything they need to drive the Reds back across the 38th Parallel. We've been reading about these amazing new weapons ever since the end of the last war, but when the showdown came we were out-gunned and out-armored by the guns’ and tanks the Russians had supplied the Korean Communists. The people we want to see amazed now are the Korean Reds and the Soviets who are backing them up.
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‘No Bunglers, They ~
RITAIN, somehow, always muddles through. Take this matter of shives and spiles. Shives are bungs for beer barrels. Heretofore Britain has always had to import her wood for shives. You can't use the wrong kind—maple, for instance, might impart a
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a mild dose of turpentine. So, to save money once spent for the importation of shives, Britain has started using lime, birch and a few other
~~ estimated amount of dollars. Ditto for spiles, which are _ plugs for the air vents in barrels. .~ Well, we hate to lose what may have been a flourishing
to know Just what they did with Siives,
But instead of jmpressing ‘businessmen ‘with its w
sugary taste to the beer, and some varieties of fir suggest
woods from soft-currency countries, thereby saving an un- .
shive trade with Britain, but it’s worth something finally .
“And fitted my heart with joy. wo e-onty had -four- pages oo But we read them, every line And the thrilling story column Seemed almost devine. But now it is Thé Times No more the dear old Sun But there is no better paper; Just ask any one. in ~—R. E. Kelso,
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-Time, Joe Stalin gled banners of the 1948 Progressive Party :
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By Galbraith
CRPR. 1950 SV WEA- SERVICE. MNO. T. M REC. U. 6 PAT. OFF,
ONCE AGAIN
a technically enemy, and if that enemy
. By Peter Edson
Control of Manpower Argued
WASHINGTON—Aug. 12—Once again, as in 1942, U. B. manpower problems are becoming acute. And once again, also as in 1942, there's a row over who will have top say on manbower controls—the military or a civilian agency. This time the argument is between Defense
Secretary Louis Johnson and National Security
Resources Board Chairman W. Stuart Syming-
ton. So far, the winner seems to be Department
of Defense, Issue which brought this thing to a head the first time was the Department of Defense
‘announcement on occupational policies for call
ing reserves to active duty. There was tremendous interest in this announcement, There are hundreds of thousands of reservists subject to call for active duty, Members of the Organized Reserve and the National Guard are included. At the same time the Department of Defense gave out its deferment policies, announcement was made that 62,000 of the 185,000 members of the Organized Reserve would be called for 21 months duty, beginning in September and October. All over the country, employers and employees wanted to know what jobs were considered so essential that reservists working at them would be deferred. wt
How Choices Were Made
THE rules were drawn up by Department of Defense Personnel Policy Board. It is headed by J. Thomas Schneider and the under-secre-
taries of Army, Navy.and. Alr Force. Basis for .
their determination of who should be deferred was the Department of Labor list of critical Sesputions and jhe Department of a £ ART a
seven to 12 months or over a’ year were provided,. solely for the purpose of giving time to train replacements for men fallon to active
duty.
These deferment policies were drawn up in July and were ready for announcement by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson at the end of the month, Just before release, National Resources Board Chairman Symington asked that they be held up.
+ NSRB, though stiti-only anadvisory-agency- x fs in charge of planning
to the President, civilian production for defense. It was NSRB’s opinion that deferments should be granted on a broad industry basis, and not on a more detailed occupational basis. NSRB's concern is
getting manpower for production of essential :
military supplies; Affer a tie-up of several days, the matter
nists and fellow travelers.
violate basic freedoms guaranteed Americans under the Bill of Rights, He also believes that it would not strengthen the country’s defenses against sabotage aimed at vital bases.
5 os » BUT if he were to veto such a bill he would, for obvious political . reasons, face the charge that he was sheltering Communists. This would immediately become part of the Republican. campaign in the fall. The backing and filling now
ly explained by. this dilemma.
as statehood for Hawaii and Alaska that might stir even a minor ‘controversy.
s s on IT ALSO explains why so many days of careful effort went into the preparation of the President's message asking for additional power to curb sabotage and subversion. The preparation inchided a lengthy study by ‘the White
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——22-“E" areas today, Of the-22, only. five are major. .production.areas..
POLITICAL HURDLE .
was put up to the National Security Council. NSC is made up of President Truman, Vice President Barkley, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and NSRB Chairman Symington. This is the
country’s top military policy board. Its decision
in this case went to Secretary Johnson. So the deferment policy statment was issued as orig-
“inally drawn up.
Issue Terse Statement
IN ONE paragraph of the announcement, the statement was made, “No agency outside the
Department of Defense is necessary or desirable
for the administration of this policy.” It was kind of a dirty slap. But it served to warn other agencies to keep their hands off procurement of manpower for the armed services. This is, however, probably just the first of a number of squabbles over manpower. There are many reserve officers, in particular, in key positions of other government agencies. And manpower is again becoming “tight,” as the saying goes. Civilian employment was already at an alltime high of 61.5 million in June, before the Korean crisis broke out. Factory and commercial employment rose in July above 44 million—a gain of 1.5 million over a year ago. Agricultural employment always rises from June through September, though it was 650,000 below June of a year ago. Department--of - Defense is: taking. 800,000 more into the armed services and adding an estimated 235,000 to its civilian ranks. Why it needs one extra civillan for SYS) fi ut
path Br
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Downward Trend
Unemployment, at 3,384,000 in June, was a little over 5 per cent of the labor force, but it seems headed downward. Nine labor market areas were taken off Labor Department’s list of “E"” areas having more than 12 per cent unemployment in June. There are only —as-against 43 in January.
—Johnstown, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., New Bedford, Mass. and Providence, R. LL “~ All" these signs ‘point toward manpower ‘shortages in many industries by the end of the year. And they provide convenient arguments for those advocating job freezes, job training and. even wage controls for the more critical production industries:
. By Marquis Childs
‘enemy road blocks and 3 Sgming areas to bring
should object to being called -an isolationist, especially since the internationalists have got us into the mess we are in today. "As long as we were actually isolationists we
* Wilson, the idealist, who believed he could take us into a war to end all wars and make the
eh, Thenty Bo old re Politicians of py England and France
any patriotic American, either in polities or out, a
world sage Jor ; Jemacracy However, when he
quite realistic about dividing up German. colo-.
nies which was largely responsible for er coming into power an the second d War, » - » WE’ DID have statesmen In the Senate, however, who rejected his League of Nations and if we had better men in Congress in 1945, they would have rejected Roosevelt’s United Nations which Stalin has used so naively to spread com-
time, tied our own hands to prevent us from doing anything about it. I, for one, cannot understand how the minds of the internationalists work. Practically all the nations of the Far East have been under the heel of a dictator for centuries and know nothing about freedom and care less. If suddenly given a chance to govern themselves, utter chaos would soon develop and only a
strong man could bring them out of a mess of
their own making. Bee.
THE SAME h
few Germans, who are world leaders in many arts and sciences, have any particular desire for a republican form of government such as our own. And let us all remember one thing: We might be able to conquer the world by the
the world and, at the same
and much of the rest of the world. Even very
sword, but we are not going to change men’s
thinking. As a matter of fact, in trying to ‘make the rest of the world free we are most likely to lose our own freedom or the small amount we have left,
‘Liberty Is Gone’
_..By_Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois St. CR Old Ben Franklin said that they who give
up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
+ safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. But
the cry of the masses has always been, “We must have safety even if we have to die for it\” They look to some other human ‘to save them fom Hunger, hand work 2 death at the hand e enemy who ma, far aw: me y y away or wholly » SO THEY heap Boao on a weak-witted ignoramus and grub their fingers to the bone to give him all the things his animal nature desires, thinking that will be the one to see that they get everything they want in return. The ones who do not die at home from everlasting drudgery to keep the will-o-the-wisp dangling in front of their noses are sent to far lands to die for friends of the bosses, with the bugaboo that someone will come and get them if they stay at home. Then the friends
of the bosses sneak in the back and liberty is gone,
‘What Others Soy=
THE real heroes of the war are the litter .
jeep drivers and ‘corpsmen - who drive through
and injury. i Donald L. Duerk, in ‘South Korea.
MANUFACTURE of the H- bomb by Russia
- would necessitate such a tremendous effort in
all fields that it would interfere too seriously with Russia's economic life.—Francis Perrin, co-chief of France's atomic projects.
WE must make sure the Korean yr EN
—becomes _a- graveyard for aggression—not
“slaughterhouse “for democracy by" BEng
for all-out war) ~—Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D.
© Tex.).
IT SEEMS obvious to me that the time is long overdue for the National Government to match--the- “gravity of “the - times with equal
gravity and” vigor or attitude and action.— -
Thomas 'E. Dewey, governor of New York.
going on in the Senate is large- :
It is why the leadership hesi- . tates to call up measures such _
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—President Truman is faced with what may be one of the toughest political hurdles of his career. Republicans, plus some Democrats, want to Daze and put on the President's desk the Mundt-Ferguson Bill to
oi Anti-Red Bill May Put
regulate .Commu-
This bill goes so far in the opinion of the President as to House staff of other periods
of national tension when fear and hysteria threatened to overwhelm the Bill of Rights. White House staffers analyzed the anti-Masonry movement and the movement directed at the, Catholics in the last century, showing the political motivations behind the emotionalism. . . 2 ‘ns » IN HIS message Truman did not mention ‘the Mundt-Fer-guson Bill by name. But plainly he had it in mind when he referred to “some people who wish us to enact laws which ‘would seriously damage the right of free speech and which could be used not only against subversive groups but agajnst _other groups engaged in polit- - jcal or other activities which were not generally popular.” The President asked Congress in his message to broad-
en the authority now exercised’ over deportable aliens and to strengthen the: laws aimed at
sabotage.
Truman on
IN ADDITION, the message spoke of the. “security of national defense installations” in connection with “certain defects” in present laws covering espionage, That is, in effect, the heart of the matter.
Real concern exists in responsible quarters in the government over possible sabotage of strategic air command bases. In the present state of defense, - or lack of it‘ the strategic Air Force with its capacity to deliver the atomic bomb to remote targets is almost the only obstacle in the
way of Russian world conquest,
> It would naturally be against such bases both here and abroad that highly-trained and secret ‘underground agents would direct their major ef« forts. sil. THERE. is nothisg like divivision of authority ‘to dilute responsibility. This seems to have been one of the reasons why intelligefice agencies of
the government failed to pro-
vide the proper alert for: the
- North Korean attack on South
Korea.
A political stalemate might |
block passage of these security provisions, The Democratic
leadership now intends to incorporate all the. steps re-
quested by the President, along
with some others, in one bill. But Republicans may refuse to accept this compromise and they could conceivably prevent its adoption.
THIS WOULD, in my opinion, be a serious matter. It could put the country in physical danger. And it could also start a quarrel over where the blame should lie for failure. There could scarcely be a ‘better illustration of the diffi-
culties of government under our system of fixed political
terms in the midst of a major crisis. The goal should be to g0 far enough but not too far. + And that applies not alone to security but to economic con“trols and everywhere that steps must be taken to meet the emergency. In England's gravest hour in June of 1940, a coalition government came into being to save Great Britain. Under our system a coalition may not be possible. But surely political pressures in this election year .should not work to cancel out’ the kind of action that may be vitally necessary.