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There Was No. Peace.

A TELETYPE chattered sharply in he wire room . “Japan Surrenders” buzzers sounded . . signal lights flashed . . . downstairs the great presses roared into motion . . .-and weary Times-men, dog-tired from their long wait for this moment, rushed ink-wet extras to the streets. It was one minute past 6 p. m., Aug. 14, 1945 . . . and The Times had been the first newspaper to tell Indianapolis the good news, by that margin so dear to newspapermen :

2 § » “PEACE” screamed the headlines . . . and “Peace” shouted the crowds that surged downtown to mill joyously around the Circle. Peace . . . But there was no peace.

Already the spies of an ally American divisions and American assembly lines had saved from destruction were snooping-for: ‘the secrets of American strength. Already the hidden agents of the same dark forces we had fought, though with a new name now, were boring into the foundations of American freedom. Already their masters were plotting new conquests in the ruins of a war-sick world. n " . . » » . STEP by remorseless step those plots have been carried out . . . in Poland . . . in Germany . . . in Czechoslovakia .. in Hungary . . . in Romania . . , in China . . . all nations ° that once were free. Here and there they have not yet succeeded . . . in Greece . . . in Indo-China . . . in the Philippines .. in Italy . . . in Korea. And here and there they are still only constant threats . .. in Iran... in Turkey... in Tibet ++. in Finland . , . in every nation near this dangerous neighbor.

Bit by bit the pattern of hostile intent has unfolded . . , with a roadblock around Berlin . , . with a communist strike

an unarmed plane shot down on a legitimate peaceful mission , . . with threats and double talk at Lake Success. ....

with, finally, oper ‘battle in Asia. ” o

. THE interlude has been a short one. Slowly and reluctantly America is putting on again the armor that was lai aside too soon... in trust and peace. * We have learned at bitter cost that the peace we hailed five years ago today was only an illusion of peace. : - We have learned, perhaps in time, that in a world

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Not - Enough

HE Senate - Finance Committee has approved the increases in the corporate and individual income taxes which the President has asked. Corporations will pay 25 per cent of the first $25,000 income, and 45 per cent of all in excess of that amount— ‘to yield $1.5 billion additional revenue. The new rates will increase individual income taxes by 10 to 20 per cent over what they were last year—to yield an additional $3 billion. . Presumably the committee also will make the changes the President requests to close tax loopholes—and bring the total additional revenue up to the $5 billion Mr. Truman asked.

But that will not be enough.

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ice in the matter of reducing non-defense spending. In those figures, you see the primary reason for the upward pressures on prices and living costs. And as the government continues to spend more than it takes in, those pressures will grow.

“vember elections to ask Congress for an excess profits ‘tax. _ Admittedly it is complicated and- controversial, but the time "to start work on that tax is now. No one should be permitted to profiteer at home while nther Americans are risking and losing lives on the battlefield. ~AND Congress should not stop there. It should begin immediately to search out other revenue sources. Before

*Congress- will have to make further increases in income taxes, and greatly broaden the excises, which are now applied only to a selective few products. We don't like the prospect any better than you do, but we think higher taxes make a lesser evil than inflation.

“have our pockets picked by rising living costs. And, incidentally, we'll grumble less to the tax collector if, meanwhile, the government cuts down, as it can and should, on the frills and fripperies of non-defense spending.

Hot Weather Thought

HIS is the season of conventions. Even such an unconventional organization as the Eastern Sunbathers’

near Mauch Chunk, Pa.

Highlight of the gathering, it appears from newspaper accounts was the cool-sounding romance that developed be-

young couple have announced their intention of staying over another week in camp and getting married. Some of their 800 colleagues also are staying on for the ceremony. * The happy pair insist it was not love at first sight. Both

describing what the bride or bridegroom will wear at the - wedding for both intend to appear just as they are.

——in Hawaii, with submarines prowling" our coasts... with

was ‘unbalanced. Meanwhile, we have had little byt-dip serv-

~The President seems content to wait “until after the No-_

“SIDE GLANCES

“this hot-and-cold running war has ended, in our opinion, |

We'd rather pay the tax collector across the board than

. Ass'n, took off and held a four-day. session in the woods

tween the crowned “king” and “queen” of the nudists. The

ardent believers in enjoying the sun without the burden of clothes, they say they have really known each other for ‘more than a year. Reporters should have no difficulty in

PROPHECY

. By Jim G. ‘Lucas

We Disarmed-—It’ s War Ag ain

(EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, the fifth anniversary of VJ-Day, we reprint a hauntingly __pr e article. It was written on Oet. 22, 1945. It stirred up quite a controversy then, for it ap-

peared ut the height of public clamor te “rug

_the Boys Home.” Remember? (Jim Lucas was one of the boys ‘who had co home. He had been a Marine, on eight D-Day landings in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima. He had the temerity to challenge some of the old notions about who's responsible for wars, Believing that a peaceful Ameriea is a strong America, he raised his voice in this protest, as he saw our strength melting away. In face of growing opposition to the newly proposed Universal Military Training, he warned the “little people”—parents, preachers and educators—that “You're doing it to us again.”

view of the sad course of history since then, and especially what has happened lately in Korea, we thought you might like to read it again.)

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 1945--"Little people” fike to believe they don’t make wars. Dictators make wars. Kings make wars. Even presidents and congresses make wars. But not the “common man.” He merely fights them. And when war comes, he likes to believe he has been “betrayed.” After three years in the Pacific, some of us, reject that as rank escapism, We think you “little people” had a hand in making the war we just finished. We fear you may be making another.

Leaders Favored Plan

GEN. MARSHALL says we must have universal military training. So does Adm. King. So do Gen, Vandegrift, Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. MacArthur. We've served under thdse men in a global war. We think they are competent to speak. We've followed them into battle on two continents and they haven't let us down. Moreover, we've seen, out there in the Pacific, what "happened to our inadequate pre- -Pear! Harbor torces. at Guam, i Wake, Manila, Pearl Harbor,

PRY, I But—and this is important—we've always taken it for granted someone would take our place. It comes as a shock that a segment of the public, mothers, preachers, educators—are campaigning noisily against universal training. We can’t believe they know more about it than our leaders. . We aren't professional soldiers. We are civil-

fans again, and happy to be. But we know we _ can-maintain peace only. by remaining. strong. ~:Rtrip our forées and we lose everything weive

gained. We think we bought Peace at too fear-

ful a price for that.

Many ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, ex-Marines are frankly worried. We say something like this: “You're doing it to us again. You're going to

strip us of our basic weapons, our manpower,

“|. ruined a washing machine, son, when your mother asksd me to fix it years ago—smartest thing | ever did!"

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. heart. She prefers to believe -{This-was-the first-article-Jim wrote for The

_ Times after he returned to civilian clothes. In

_ Cannot Escape Blame

: By Galbraith

0OMR. 1950 BY NEA SERVICE, WC. T. M. REG. U. & PAT. or.

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Then you'll begin taking \g our guns and our ships. In a few years, you'll stick us, our kid — brother or our sons, on an

-a-bean-— shooter and prayer. You haven't learned yet.”

We are surprised to hear it seriously argued ~able-to-train-an army’ AFTER we are attacked and, by golly, we can start flat-footed and whip ‘em again. I'd be careful with that one. I wouldn't, for instance, recommend telling it to the boys who were on Wake or Bataan. We can't seriously believe that an aggressor nation is going to give us a third chance. We've played on luck too long.

Mother's Case Strongest

THE case for mother is stronger than for preacher or teacher. Mother thinks with her

fii “some mysterious fashion—after all, shouldn't be expected to know her boy leaving home. But mother—bless at heart—is something less than a good American when she insists that HER boy come home, even if he doesn’t have enough points, or bullies the government into scuttling the point system. Thats not idle talk. Congressmen say that the bulk of their mail does not attack demobilization as a policy. Ninety per cent of it, one Con-

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gressman estimates, is a plea for special priv :

leges for specific individuals. Teacher should think with his mind. But isn't he thinking in terms of fees and enrollments? The preachers talk doctrine. Their outcry against military training is the more damning. We don't think it can be justified. Mother, teacher, preacher occupy unique positions in our national life. This is particularly true of mother. Other peoples told us that no nation on earth, certainly no bunch of fighting men, is more-closely tied to the apron strings than we are. )

YOU are the vocal voters. You are spokesmen for “the little people” who make wars and innocently disclaim all responsibility for them:

NAIR eh Fa bi . We don’t doubt you can trighten Congress into rejecting the considered opinions of the men who led us to. victory. Congress scares easily. OK, mother, OK, professor. OK parson. But are you willing to take the consequences if you lead us into World War III?

LOVE thy isi i he garden tools that you don't have. ok

WE hope the sunburn season will stop some: people from giving themselves so many slaps on the back.

FEW IRATE .

controls,” Capehart recalled that his mail

ran as many as 2u08 a day. A 8 ”

Rad checked personally with the offices of nearly a score of other Senators and found that they, too, weren't getting much mail on price controls. ized letter-writing campaign tell Congress what to do about price controls. It is the organized campaigns which snow Congress under with mail, The letters coming in now are being written spontaneously. Today's letter writers are inclined to cover. the gamut of U. S. problems. “ n » ~ “I HAVE never seen such

A. Jack Martin, administrative assistant to Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.).-‘They start out with the military situation and

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nT Voices Jenner Ideas

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — DEAR o ’s. leadership and voted rs a aan LAR Boss... fen he took the stunting tactics of F

rested in choice of course

ps. When foreign aid first came up, both Indiana senators supported the. first GreekTurkish loan. Then Sen. Jenner began breaking out all over the place with his anti-biparti-

U. 8. foreign policy in any forum where he was able. The

It was in the latter forum that Sen. Jenner first proposed the alternate plan of declaring a new Monroe Doctrine defining exactly on what area we would defend and then prepare to defend it. Some months later the same idea was adopted, without credit to Sen. Jenner, by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.0.). The young Hoosier senator didn’t complain. Besides welcoming such an outstanding convert, he knew that this is a tough election year for Sen. Taft. Sen. Capeheart is up also. Sen. Jenner's term has two more years to ” -- BothIndiana- senators---voted against the

Marshall Plan and funds for its mts

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He said he would talk against

finance it also—that is if you wanted te make sense. : As late as last April, Sen. Capehart was that he supported the bipartisan

- foreign policy 100 per cent. In February he

admitted in a TV debate that the Marshall Plan and ECA hag stopped the spread of Commun

~ in Europe. Then he called upon President Tru--maniostopthe cold war.

voted for the Atlantic

leer into a

When that war turned rom cold o hot, with the Communist invasion of South Korea, Sen. erwise, officiz Capehart was in Indianapolis. He was attend~ ‘pledge only ing the Republican state convention the very affecting war day ‘the first U.S. ground troops were com- tary operatic mitted to the fighting. Then he said: Alaska hous “The situation in Korea is deadly serious. to ihe Boosted We must forget politics and win to on Mobilizati victory. That is everybody's job today.” sided body ju Yesterday he cited a seven-month old mes- Stuart Symir sage of President Truman saying that foundas “the National tions were laid for peace and then condemned Board. Orga him for the Korean war and his need to. ask sentatives on for funds to fight it. io Nem Green: vd yes, ‘Example of Darkness’ AFL, CIO an “THAT IS AN example of the darkness that Sosstien of has enveloped the American people in our pendan * nti foreign relations,” Sen. Capehart concluded Presentin from these facts former memb m es a . bor B 1 In his week-end radio broadcast, Rep. An- Graham (D. drew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat, had this H. Mead, indy to say about such wrangling: O.—and Mrs “Is it not time to quit bickering. over wha re DOPE =f to blame for the Korean situation? I some- + - York. times weary of listening to Democrats and ’ The manag Republicans trying to load the blame upon the Marion B. Ft ollpe™ emul * dvmis believe that it is the fault man Kodak of either "the Democraric or Republican Party of Lake H: © that the Bolshevik movement eventuated inte Claude Adam: the Stalinist government in Russia. Nor do I N. H Mr. 8 think it is the fault of either one of our great of the U. 8. political parties that the Russian government merce. Mr. has become imperialistic.” National Ass Mr. Jacobs is independent. He doesn’t mind facturers. voting with Republicans on matters foreign or Agricul domestic if he is convinced that they seem to Members fo --be- right. He doesn’t think bipartisanship isa ....} bert F: Goss. menace to good government in important tional Grang matters. Ohio farm le: = ~~ Patton; presid Farmers Co-0 | Secretary J

HYPOCRITES IN TITOLAND . Autos Symbolize

BELGRADE, Aug. 14—Only two kinds of automobiles are seen on the streets of Belgrade. There is the modest, medium-priced job driven by Americans ‘and assorted other foreigners, and there is the big Buick with heavy silk curtains affected by top-drawer Yugoslav bureaucrats. These Buicks are giaring symbols for all to see of the contrast in the

living standards between the Yugoslav man in®

the street and his Communist bosses.

“While “the average man in this “people's republic” ‘walks or rides overcrowded trams on an empty stomach to his one or two-room

apartment shared with three or four other per-.

sons, the bureaucrat roars about town in his

Buick, eats hearty meals and lives at the state's ;

expense in premium housing. Income Limit ateted

, & montk this law is ‘winked at, to put it mildly, for the bureaucrats live on a scale much more lavish than would be possible on 10,000 dinars a month in a town where an omlet for two costs $16. Even {if they stay within the law, however, the bureaucrats can do okay. They get free housing, and no state functionary is going to

try to palm off a slum tenement on an official

..day..occupy..a. high, dangerous. “Their servants are furnished by the state. They have expense allowances, the details of which are never disclosed, and then there are the Buicks. In a way, these Buicks are amusing. They represent a throw-back to the old European tradition of royalty being too bright for the

.. By -Earl Richert :

a a suspicion that

. By Andrew Telly Living Contrasts

eyes of the masses. Thus, in this “people's republic,” those heavy silk curtains. They are even on convertibles. They expose the phonyness of a state in which men are supposed to be comrades existing on a common level for the good of all.

Tito Lives High

MARSHAL TITO himself, of course, is the prime example of this hypocrisy. He lives in splendor that would bankrupt any but the topdrawer kings. In Belgrade, he has two homes— the White Palace in-town which formerly housed Prince Regent Paul and a villa up in the hills overlooking the city. He summers in Paul's old palace at Bled, has a castle on the island of Brioni in the Adriatic and Dubrovnic on the lower Adriatic. Tito is about as close to the people as old ] ral, was the | ‘He

no ns sp is can hea any closer than a couple of city blocks. In Brioni, none but officials and ‘servants are permitted on :the island while Tito is there, and he is always accompanied by silent, sinister Aleksander Rankovic, vice. premier and minister of interior, or head of the UDBA secret police.

But Nobody Wears a Tie

~IN FACT there-are only two simitarities be= Ee oy tween. the: people and: their bureaucratic bosses; =

another villa at

‘Here, some bureaucrats have steel teeth, like ;

the man in the street, instead of gold ones.

And because neckties are considered a hour

geois emblem, the bureaucrats take pride in going about with open collars. The average man, 6f course, leaves off his necktie because he hasn't the money to buy. one:

Anti-High Price Drive Not Yet Organized

“* WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Rising prices have set off no such

during the-dying-days-of- OPA. e

SEN. CAPEHART. said he .

There seems to be no organ-