Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1950 — Page 24
Telephone RI ley 5851 and the People Will Ping Their Own Woy
Give Light
' Voice in the Wilderness
bourg urging immediate creation of a unified European army to shield the West against the Soviet Union. : It recalls his warnings against Hitlerism in 1939. But
accepted now by those who need it most. ¢ On that account gs cannot go all the way with Mr. Churchill when he says that the United States and Britain must send large forces to the European continent; and that .
WESTERN Europe cannot be saved "unless it is s willing to fight for its own salvation. France and most of the * other nations in Western Europe have convinced themselves that the war, if it comes, will be between the United States and Russia, If we sent to Europe now a large American army— that is, if we had such an army to send—it would only
vival of the French army would be. much less likely than it is now. Mr. Churchill remarked that “apart from the establishment of an American bomber base in Britain, nothing has been done to protect our (the British) people.” He could have added that even that small American contribution to the cause of peace has been the subject of bitter resentment even in Britain itself.
QUESTIONS have been raised on the floor of Parliament, demanding the reason for quartering American troops in Britain. It has been suggested that they are there be- § cause the United States intends to use Britain as a base : and Europe as a battlefield in a Russian-American war. This atmosphere of suspicion and the growing inclination for European neutrality are winning the war for Stalin before a shot has been fired on the Western front. For
: borders; all-the time If | VymeToN CHURCHILL made a great speech at t Stias:
his words went unheeded then, and his counsel may not be
ov BREA SATENG hen dhat-avish ful conclusions Then the ver... TUNA SAA. he. dosanct, In)
admiring | v and Cacia whieh 14 valuiteered to drive Bum 16
his i. .q have never,” he re ented in English, “been able to ike this.”
ig streets were #ill of oars Wie thal, ad ‘better ones, too, so obviously plenty of people around there could afford them. He went on: “But you do not understand. In vakia I am not a poor man. (And he mentioned a list of his enterprises sound like poverty.) “For a long time my income has not been Jess than $50,000 a year, U. 8. On such an income 1 could not afford a car, not even an electric refrigerator. We have an ice-box. “You see we have to keep an army at our
kéep an army guarding your borders from an attack, perhaps you, also could not afford luxuries.”
Mausers or Mercurys WHAT he was saying, of course, was that if you spend part of your income on guns and buiiets you'll have just that much less to spend on sports convertibles. Czechoslovakia, then a free though threat-
__ DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
France must revive its army. He has stated in reverse
Assails
Intolerance
‘Can't Win Through Hatreds,’ Hoosier Congressman Says
that certainly didn't
you-in America had to every previous defense ~Puring War II, even, the standards of living, in most ~ ways and for JuoAtL people in this country ac- ¢ just jam America produced enough a» Giviass into what houses are already built room.
“Curtain y Congress of _ the United 8t vas beginning Boge 1s ny the same thing.
Re me RITE. aan, io Be Mure, aldnt use the same words. They talked about
and ‘From as {ar away as Indianapolis they {hen thinking dong that line. though sti ne , .» far behind the people around here,
coming ‘ clear, "Ar . between guns and gadgets, might have to lower
‘their own living standards in order ving at all e haven't faced that before, “Miracles of production” got us by with hardly a jolt in -crisis;— “World
ei
ually went up. keep vast armies supplied with everything, and SoG, Z3r 1o Katy everyhudy at heme fiving
‘National income, which is just the yardstick
by which we measure the whole value of everything everybody produces, rose so high that even after you took out what we were spending on the war there still was more left for every“body than there ever had been before, Prices
went up... but wages and salaries and profits.
hd ; biter
and incomes went up even farther.
ve publiehed a fASCInAtiDG series
one, Nt soersts. controls,
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no civilian automake clothing for for the civilians.
have,” as long as war lasts. They don't ‘even
have to build war factories plus houses for civilians who work in them. They
« « two,-three, five families to
:
It Russia could manufagture only batt as might still have more { than ours. i
Russian standards or eapan except the miniGI SSentials’ Of bare existence cam Pe" used
for war, The power of the United States,
used like that, would be invincible. No nation
on earth, and, no combination of nations, could stand against it. Rot,
Sets
that. No on ongress or out, pn that
Ah, Peace, Wouldn't It Be Wonderful?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 Dear Boss—Ques- : )
tinned at a recent press conference
goign Jak uns personal ambassad tiean City. to re-
. place Myron C. Taylor, who retired, . The latter had served in such capacity under -
both Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. The
- latter added that he now is considering estab-
lishment of a diplomatic mission to the Holy See. As did the FDR appoiitment of Ambassador Taylor and his continuance in office by President Truman, the diplomatic mission plan brought a considerable flurry of protest, Most of the letters opposing the Truman plan received by Indiana Senators and Congressmen were worded with restraint. But Rep. John R. Walsh, Anderson Democrat, got one from =a Frankfort public accountant, which said in art:
“Actually, the views of the Pope represent a greater danger to us than communism and one on which there will be more unaminity of opinion among Protestants than on armed opposition to communism - . . “Let's stop this recognition of the Pope before it causes disunity when we need coherence.”
- movement in Europe in the face of. bY : peychology would only aggravate the thing we would be attempting to correct—Europe’s indifference to its own fate.
» UNFORTUNATELY, although he is the most competent statesman of his time, Winston Churchill does not speak for the British government, but only as a citizen of the world without portfolio. Two distinguished Frenchmen, Paul Reynaud and Georges Bidault, who made similar speeches on the same — program with Mr. Churchill have since been repudiated by their own government. And governments must act, as well wa speak, if the Communist march is to be stopped. There is no need for “blood, sweat or tears” as yet— Just guts. i American money cannot remedy that deficiency.
Judge Harris Should Resign © NOWAL K. HARRIS got out of state prison yesterday and headed straight for Sullivan to open the September term of the Sullivan County Circuit Court. ° He's the judge, there. He has been convicted of felonies and imprisoned before. He has been indicted for other felonies . . . just plain stealing . . . since he became Circuit judge. He has openly supported, and worked for Communists and their devious and usually treacherous causes. There is a charge of public drunkenness standing against him in Indianapolis Municipal Court right now. He has scorned the orders of Indiana's higher courts. Hs has; in short, flouted every concept of decent “behavior and public trust. Lg The 53-da term he just
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Sultivan County? Yes, Go On
NO one’s particular surprise, Russia now claims that she has parachutists who leap up, instead of down.
Ing at 2500 feet, one got down all right, but the other two “shot straight up to 4300 feet,” and floated around for an homr or 80. One came down with ice on his chute.
“There is some slight concession to the updraft of air . owrrents, but clearly the implication is that, by a successful filibuster, Russia has repealed the. law of gravity. It is strietly in line with other Moscow claims over the past few
Selective Service = 2 SENATOR WAYNE MORSE of Oregon has suggested that there may be a lot of men seeking active duty in
from their wives. “1 think _we ought to talkie them,” said the Senator, “and maybe put them on the front line. " We think the Senator is a little hasty about this. - © Way we see it, all men who want to get away from their wives fall into two categories: iy and 2) those. who. are afraid to. There’ ss whale of a
. While we agree “with the Senator that both elements * shoud be taken, we think the front-line assignment should go only to the bravest of the brave—the man who'll stand up and say he really wants to get away from the little woman for 8 ‘while,
hy : ) me * w WE - Lo
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; . t The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia tells of Haurant In Tusinna,
se E008 Jumpers who went. up.in a plane near -Minsk:leap«::
the Armed Services as a convenient means of getting away
(1) those who will admit -
“+ MY son and son-in-law are:
Denounced Viewpoint:
“A FRESHMAN member of the House Armed Services Committee who has vowed to forego his Fifth District campaigning for re-election so long as the country is at war, Mr. Walsh denounced his viewpoint as “intolerant” and wrote at some length shout how he himself feels, Stating that he is a Prolostant grandson of a Methodist minister and a former Sunday school teacher and superintendent who had net been in a Catholic church more than five or six times, Mr. Walsh wrote:
“But I do not believe in second class citizens and 1 deplore religious and racial intolerance. ..
I support the President in his statement that
—he is-considering establishing a diplomatic re= lationship-with-the Vatican.
any Protestant could seriously object to such a
move, as the Pope, individually, and the church
as an organization, have been prominent in fighting communism. For you to state that the Pope is a greater danger to America than com-
munism, clearly places you in the category of ;
the uninformed.
‘We Need Information’
“THE establishment of diplomatic relations with the Vatican, merely recognizes that the Vatican has some temporal power, large or small, and that we like so many other nations of the world, need someone there on the job at all times to obtain any information that may be forthcoming from the Vatican. “We do not have to subscribe to the views of the Catholie Church to recognize its power and Hs Influence in this world. The Cathelic Church, without the use of arms and coercion, controls the lives and thinking of a large portion of the
people of this world, both outside and behind
the Iron Curtain. About fhe only contact we
- have in the outside world from behind the Iron
Curtain is through the Catholic Church and itz contact with its priests, who are still operating behind the same. h
i i) 8 or 8 Mindzenty is now Pm prison because Ye chose to fight for his belief.
~*Cause Disunity” “YOU speak of disiinity when you yourself
cause this disunity by your lack of tolerance. I recently read in the newspaper where two
colored officers were refused service in a resThese men are in the Air
1] wri a public-restaurant-because: of color: fie “It is my humble view that this nation, and
the cause we represent cannot hope to be victorious in this war of ideology. unless we have divine power on our side. Through hatred,
bias, and intolerance toward any man, we can-
not hope to win. “As a Protestant I am ‘théroughly ashamed of your attitude; by the same analogy, the —Catholics—and Negroes -of this country should not be fighting this war, as they are second clase citizens, and yet, today, both groups are dying In Korea for you and for me.’
A LETTER TO THE PEOPLE
‘Overhauling of State Department Needed’
(Editor's Note: The following letter was written by Mrs. A. D. Lange, of RR. 1, New Augusta, Ind., wife of the president 107 8S. Capitol Ave; as a spontaheons expression of her views on the world crisis. Mrs. I. ange is not actively connected with any political or civic group).
WHAT. I AM about to write will probably bring nie criticism and unfavorable publicity because, once the armed forces of the nation are committed, the patriot is supposed to forget personal
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views and principles and get behind the administration at whatever oat, » . IN DEFENSE of my patriotism, most of you who receive this know that my hysband and my father fought in World War I. Even now, at Age 30, my father is Arizona Director of Selective Service and Adjutant General! of the National Guard —also, ineidently a life-long Democrat. My son was a fighter pilot and my son-in-law an ensign in World War II. We all stand ready to serve again to the _ best of our ability.
from
ability.
Department.
ment’s
just 25, so theirs will again be active service—which brings me to the reason for this lephae, ™S -H my boys have to give up
ingly
plays. careers and
1-do not see how
dinal
"go to war, I want them to. have the benefit of leadership of unquestioned loyalty and outstanding
To that end and as a beginning I want to see a general overhauling of the State
There is no need to cite examples of the present departmistakes, of these men's judgment— , - whether deliberately traitorous or just plain stupid—are clear for all to see. We came out of the last war the strongest nation on earth. Today our boys are dying in a situation striklike Bataan. We have littie more than a toe hold in
Asin. Russia is calling the
BUSINESS-AS-USUAL
Ho
"it would cost the first year to fight a mag
“Shou be 1 little . . . in the Bey todd
‘Not Until After Election’ _
about what the nation’s defense chiefs believe
war. If we turned over that much more fop our national defense it would lower our living standards approximately 25 per cent below
what they are now. We'd have to do without now... .for
one-fourth of the things we buy
the double reason that we wouldn't have the money to buy them and they wouldn't be for
sale anyway. We'd still have standards of ‘comtortable liv= ing far above any others in the world . . , far above even those our own grandparents ever
had. : Seems like a modest price for survival, at t,
"I do not agree with a word that you will defend to the death your right by say i."
‘Riding on a Dream-Boat’ By A Reader : It is little wonder that so much confusion:
av bl
says. A still w.
By Ludwell ‘Denny
European Defense is' Mostly Talk
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Proposals to make Winsten Churchill the Defense Minister for Western Europe and an American general commander in chief of Atlantic Pact forces are appealing. But as a short-cut solution they are deceptive, When there i= a United Western Burope.
Mr. Churchill will be an obvious choice for
‘ the defense post or a higher one—if perform-
ance record is the test. But no United States of Western FEiirope exists. And when one -
“emerges, the chances are that Britain’ will mot “be a full member—-because she is part of a
world commonwealth whose interests are in-
American wil Be i in Charge
‘WHEN there is a unified command of At-
{antic Pact “forces, an American willbe in - charge.
That is not only because the United States Is the largest power. It is also because the Allies could not agree on a non-American. The French would not accept a British commander -ehief The British-would-not-favor-a French-.
ree VAR 8 WL 80-10 AR ATDLFICAN: by defantber oc But as of today, there are no unified Ate
lantic defense forces for an American or anyone else to command. * Under these circumstances to name an
“pver-all defense minister and commander-in-
chief would “be simply more window-dressing: There has been too much of that already. Apparently it does not impress Stalin. Cer-
tainly -it-is not satisfactory to the respensible
military chiefs of Ameriea and Britain. The immediate problem is to provide the three Men, , MUNIHORNS and money. This
. By Mrs. A. D. Lange
thur and General Wedemeyer had prevailed, Manchuria would: have been placed under a U. NWN. trusteeship, China would not have been lost and Korea would not now be under attack. Washington was warned more than three years. ago that the Reds were organizing an army to invade South Korea. But the native troops we trained there were not, according to Gen. Wm. L. Roberts, head of our military mission in Korea, allowed any offensive weapons such as tanks —this on order of our State Department. MacArthur has had nothing to do with Korea or its defense program for two years, But when Truman suddenly reversed the Acheson Asiatic policy MacArthur was given only a few hours to meet an attack the Reds had been preparing for hires years, . £ a : NOW Nua Rand boys like my sons are heroically trying to salvage a situa- _ tion for which our diplomats
support
The results
: sn » and politicians are wholly to - IF THE views of MacAr- blame es wi
has been the problem all along. Nothing much has been dome about it. Until recently it was mostly a matter of talk, whether in the West European union meetings or the Atlantic Pact conferences.
Beginning to Wake Up
THANKS to the Korean attack, . Russia's
rapid preparedness in Europe and Churchill's.
dire warning, there is now for the first time a sense of urgency, After a grim meeting in London, members of the Atlantic Pact Council of
Deputies have returned to their respective cap~ . itals to urge the Allied governments to act. :
i 8 ad N : es iticians are afraid to interfere with Dsiness.
as-usual. They are all for preparedness up to the point where it pinches—then they talk
" happily ever after. Just like a fairy tale.
prevails among some people on issues of the iB DOLSON. .
Is it that he can’t understand or doesn'y§
__ want to understand?
I'm inclined to believe he doesn’t want te understand which illustrates graphically the
“closed mind” element of sodety that refuses ta’
consider anything that might alter their one track thinking.
* +
THE old adage: “A closed mind is a danger. ous mind,” certainly applies to people like C.D.C, when enlightened thinking is so necessary in these times of crises. C.D. C,, like an ostrich with its head in the sand, wants to go back to the days of pesace simply by ignoring the facts—believing supposedly that if unpleasant facts are ignored they will disappear or that truth, if covered up long enough, will become a lie. His letter stated: “As long as wé were ace tually isolationists we. lived in peace and -piness and had the respect of the world.”
Now, isn’t that a ridiculous kind of wishful
— thinking? It sounds like a
child wanting to go back and take a ride on a
dream-boat after it was Wisched ¢. &
C.D, C. and many i just like him have lived so long in their dream world of idealism that they can’t stand to face reality any more— they refuse to consider cold, hard facts even when they are hit’ in the face with them.
They simply dodge around reality and rum -
back to their dream-boat where it’s more pleas< ant so long as it will stay afloat.
But theré’s the rub—a dream-boat is. bound
to sink some time as almost anybody knows. And when it does sink under the pressure of reality and cold facts, the of course, can’t swim because, they never learned how. Then, they go wailing into wilderness of
lost souls, beating their breasts in juvenile help--
lessness, yelling for some one » rescue them from the “cold facts.” : ® %¢ 9%
MR. C.D. C., the so-called internationalists you sneer at are merely looking at the facts as they are, not as they would like them to be. In your way of thinking America should ignore Communist aggression—blot it out of our minds and by some magic hocus-pocus the threat ‘will disappear and ail the Reds will go
back home and stay there and we will live
bike. Cull Cond Porage-- oro Sl ooo “follows the iSolatiSnist line; admits he “cannot understand how the minds of the _ internationalists work.”
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Korea -< tional ‘si fense chi to sperd Armed F ‘Before } ‘ tary Joh spending Look to ask ( Aappropr $12 bill months. And lo flush-dec to one ti to be “hi
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The facts, if you look at them, are the of his sta postponement. opposite. Ideologies of peace through isolatioms -Cgrl Vin: Here in Washington the President is con- ~~ 1sm are not going to stop the Communist pro= Services tent with partial industrial mobilization— gram of conquest of the world. erates as though two years of all-out effort will be re- Your dream-boat would sink into a morass retary. I quired for adequate plane and tank production. of totalitarian, police-state dictatorship right: in fort, Mr. vour own backyard in Terre Haute. before you ting Mr. —Not En Woke yy Lo . portant : IN LONDON ‘the labor government “cantiot 2 ERE ‘screw up political courage to shift priorities ; : from welfare state demands to national secur- ‘What thers Say— : dee has ity. requirements. : y ip Paris a weak coalition ‘cabinet is un- re know fat the cost of freedom is high, plain wi ; . : axes. mined to preserve our freedom some fore -able or unwilling to raise enough taxes or . matter what the cost.—President ing supp troops to perform the role ‘assigned to France t the cost.— * Truman. ye in the joint defemse agreements. 4 » : Sted od The main difference is that in America the I THINK the hydrogen bomb can be built, this type ‘public is ahead of the gevernment, while In Tbeliéve it can be delivered==but- 1 hope-it never se pe POPE Western Europe the people have not even will be.—Sen. Brien McMahon (D. Conn.), chair. bomb p caught up with their slow-moving leaders. man of Jotnt Congressional AEC. Du Pon 2 ; to be lo ; - Meanv Welcome man is 3 crease f | eing U- | = construc Weapons There 18 no less pain for a 1 will mother who loses her son, or i complete a wife her husband whether | by then she be Republican or Demo- uranium crat. Should not Republicans . and Democrats all insist that Store +! the Achesons, Lattimores, Jes- THOU sups, Services, et al, be routed vote the | ‘ from their positions of influ- i= makin; ence? To replace them, there impose w are Démocrats and Republi- trols. Wh cans of unimpeachable honor by origin: and ability to choose from. can take When our President asks us without a for the sacrifices necessary to White carry this conflict te a suc- out that cessful - conclusion, he should _ #ales hav show his sincerity of purpose . Korea pe by acknowledging and correct- people ari ing the ic mistakes of his buying. T administra Immediate ac- will dro tion on his part is vital. months, 8» - THERE are others in high stint a places who share the blame for the agony of our outnum- . “Fair Tr bered and poorly equipped men rar D in Korea, but let's take first TRUM things first and start with the backing State Department. been " While our boys are winning Democrat ‘battles on far off battle fields, ; the American Way: of Life. seats — w may be lost in Washington. new Sena Mrs. A. D. Lange i i wey jor