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‘Misunderstanding?’ E ARE printing on this page today a letter from Carlisle H. Humelsine; Deputy Under Secretary. of State, which may be taken as the State Department's offi. cial explanation for assigning Consul General Angus Ward to the obscure post of Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. Mr. Humelsine says that when the time came to assign Mr. Ward, the veteran foreign service officer “indicated” he would prefer to serve in a post “where there would be a challenge worthy of his past experience.” ; - That is not precisely the way Mr. Ward put it when he

was interviewed by our reporter recently, in the presence of

two superiors. He said bluntly that he “had studied communism for the past 25 years and I would certainly be glad to go back to any Communist country.” “The British Crown Colony of Kenya can hardly be classed as a Communist country.

» » s . . MR. HUMELSINE says the post which was vacant and seemed “most challenging” was Nairobi, because under the Point IV program a lot of money is going to be spent in the area. The fact is that in Nairobi, Mr. Ward, who

previously has headed large staffs, rates a vice consul and

two clerks under him—evidence of the light duties attached to the post: ... Shelling out U. 8. dollars may, Mr. Humelsine says, gffer a “brand-new field” for Mr. Ward, but it is doubtful that this career officer of the old school, unaccustomed to such profligacy, will find the work “most interesting.”

As for the State Department's long-standing practice -

of rotating types of assignments, it may be conceded that in peacetime, and for younger mien, it would be valuable. But we should think in the present emergency it might well be discarded.

. . ” THE obviously pressing need now is for experience, honest and intelligent American observers and representatives all around thé rim of the Communist world. And courageous officers, too, such as Angus Ward who took a jail term rather than make any concessions to his Chinese Red captors, or sign any phony confessions. The rotation practice, Mr. Humelsine says, is carried out to permit officers “to get a better perspective for their immediate specialties.” Mr. Ward's immediate specialty is communism. As for a “better perspective” on any other matter, we can 't imagine what he'd do with it, since this will probably be the Jast post of the 57-year-old officer.

THERE'S just one more point. Mr. Humelsine seems to think we were questioning the attitude of the assigning officer, Mr. Durbrow. Not at all. As an outstanding expert himself on Russia, he may well have preferred to assign a col league like Mr. Ward to a more fitting post. But is that any assurance that Mr. Ward would be welcomed or accepted by superiors whose views of Communist. China, and Russia, are known to be much less harsh tHan Mr. Ward's. In this light—and although we are grateful for the courtesy of Mr. Humelsine’s reply—we don’t think there is any “obvious misunderstanding” on our part—or on the part of the American public which is keeping a close eye on the State Department these days. :

It Can't Be Painless HE illusion that we can fight a war in Korea and get prepared for possible war elsewhere without any sacrifices on the home front is beginning to fade. The government's drastic new restrictions on install ment buying and housing credits have aroused understandable protests from some merchants;” manufacturers and building contractors. Their business will be pinched back sharply. And many workers will become jobless unless and until big-scale armament production starts rolling to provide employment elsewhere. : Yet some such restrictions would appear inescapable if there was to be a slowdown in the inflationary spiral. If our nation is to be adequately rearmed in a hurry—as it must—the government will have to resort to many other unpopular actions, including much stiffer taxation, and price and wage controls. :

= » = » - THOSE whose businesses and jobs are affected have a legitimate complaint against the piecemeal fashion the government has gone about imposing its restrictions. It was less than a month ago that the Federal Reserve Board imposed its first mild curbs on installment buying. " Producers, dealers and consumers were entitled to believe that those rules would not be changed so quickly. "But the original restrictions were unrealistie, in light * of the government's big defense spending program. For the same reason, that last tax increase, which we have just begun to pay, will prove pathetically unrealistic. :

Harry and Mac, Tom and lke . TWRIENDS of Gov. Dewey have been saying for many months, and political reporters have been writing, that come 1952 the Governor would support Gen. Eisenhower for President. So we shouldn't have been surprised when Mr. Dewey offhandedly announced his indorsement of the general Guess what startled us was the timing—nearly two years yet before the nominations. Could be, though, that the inspiration hit the Governor - while he was reading about President Truman flying 7000 miles to chat with Gen. MacArthur. Could be the Governor suddenly thought: Why should I delay when my own - favorite general lives right here in New York?

Buyer of Browns HELEN TRAUBEL, the Wagnerian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, has bought an interest in the “St. Louis Browns baseball chib. It was “a sentimental urge,” Miss Traubel expldined—her daddy had been, in his day, a Browns fan, an incurable optimist. This is Miss Traubel's own affair, of ‘course; but any experienced sports writer could have told her to buy a chunk of some other ball club, not the Browns. They are star cellar performers, rarely capable of climbing into the first division of the American League.

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Connecticut Governor Takes State Spotlight

' HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 17—The issue overshadowing all others in this state's political campaign is one man—Democratic Gov. Chester Bowles, seeking re-election. He is hated with an intensity that recalls the bitterness of those who hated Mr. Roosevelt. L And, although he's not another Roosevelt, he has inspired a feeling of affection and ad.

miration among thousands of people that re-

‘minds one of the regard so many had for the late President. * ‘When the people of Connecticut go to the polls next month, the overwhelming majority

will be voting for or against the 40-year-old

Gov. Bowles. =. . And the chances for re-election of Connecticut’s two big-name Democratic , Brien

main on how the people vote on Mr. Bowles,

Head of Ticket

SENS. McMAHON and Benton don’t particularly care to have things this way. Mr, Bowles is at the head of the ticket, and Sens. McMahon and Benton are well down on the list. Mr. Bowles, who made a fortune in the advertising business and retired at an early age, is a high-pressure governor. He has called five special sessions of the State Legislature since his election two years ago by a scant 2200 votes. He puts out program after program and he has appointed factfinding boards almost by, the gross to study state problems. Most of his proposed. reforms have been blocked by the Republican-controlled House in the State Legislature. One of the blocked measures was a sickness disability bill similar to one Gov, Thomas E. Dewey got the Republicancontrolled New York legislature to enact.

‘Blocking Tactics’

MR. BOWLES is bitter about these things and is directing his campaign at the “blocking tactics” of the Republicans. He charges that such tactics show how little interested the Republicans are in the people's welfare. A Yale man himself, Mr, Bowles says he is opposed by a politifal machine “with a Harvard accent.” Congressman John Davis Lodge, brother of Massachusetts’ Republican Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is Mr. Bowles' Republican oppanent, Rep. Lodge is carrying the fight to Mr, Bowles, and is hurting him most on the issue of high prices. ~AS8 the former OPA administrator, Mr. Bowles campaigned during 1948 on a pledge to bring down prices if the federal government didn't do anything.

‘Didn't Keep Word’ REP. LODGE says Mr. Bowles didn’t keep his word. The Congressman’s campaign slogan is: “Vote for Lodge, a man you can believe.” Gov. Bowles explains he was talking about organizing a consumers’ buying strike to try to bring prices down, if the federal government took no action: The downturn in prices in early 1949 came soon after his election and no action was necessary on his part, he says. Rep. Lodge Is expected to get a big chunk of the large Italian vote in Connecticut because

Mrs. Lodge was born in Italy. Crowds of largely

Italian descent are asked by Lodge supporters: “Wouldn't you like to have an Italian as the first lady of the state?” Mr. Lodge also addresses these crowds in their native tongue. The Bowies answer to Mr. Lodge's fluent Italian is: “Gov. Bowles speaks only one lan-guage-~good oid American.” .

THE CHALLENGE There went a lot of invitations To governors all across the nation The challenge seemed of no avail So Schricker grabbed a milking pail If these other governors had come We really would have seen some fun Must be, they called him a champ, at that Because he wears a big white hat. —By L. Comstock.

What Others Say—

MISS AMERICA has it pretty easy. She can take a year off from whatever she's doing and tour the country. Or maybe the world. Me, I'm neglecting my husband and the kids I take as much as a month off.—Mrs. Bet Eileen MacAllister, chosen as “Mrs. America of

1950.” * » *

THE only way for the Republican Party to become the majority party of our country is to bring in the young people. They are the ever-growing strength of our organization.— Guy Gabrielson, Republican national committee chairman. e ¢ &

THE peoples of the world are looking to the.

United States for leadership and hope. If we are to prove equal to this desperate need, each U. 8. citizen must feel a personal responsibility. —Gen. Lucius Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom. * + UNLIKE the rffédievai monks who all through life kept before them a skull as a

» symbol of death, we must keep before our eyes

the living thing we are working for . .. a better life for people. r-Dean Acheson, Secretary of State.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR .

Misumdlerstonding on Mr. Ward’

TO THE EDITOR: In view of the obvious met imataatiog which has arisen in regard to the assignment . Ward to Nairobi, East Africa, which assignment has been severely criticized on several occasions in your paper, I wish to outline the facts in regard to this matter so that it may be viewed in the proper perspective. I hope that you will see your way clear to publish this letter. Mr. Ward is, as you ‘state, an outstanding Foreign Service Officer with long experience in many of the most important areas of the world. He has always done a fine job, which has been recognized by his continued promotion to his present rank; Class I in the Service. After Mr. Ward had taken a well deserved rest subsequent to the ill treatment he received at the hands of the Chinese Communists, the Chief of the Division of Foreign Service Personnel discussed with him possible assignments for which he would be well qualified. f ‘Rotate Assignments’ IN THIS connection it has long been the practice of the t, based on experience, to make every effort to rotate types of assignments from time to time so that officers, particularly those who have had trying and difficuit assignments might be given other important work outside of their .imnfediate field. This practice has peen carried out not only to permit officers to get a better perspective for thejr immediate specialties, but also to permit them to have experience in other areas in the world. In the case of Mr. Ward, when the time came to assign him to the field, he indicated that he would prefer to serve at a post where there would be a challenge worthy of his past experience. While there were several posts of this nature to which Mr. Ward might have been assigned, the post which was vacant and seemed to be the most challenging was Nairobi. The Chief of Foreign Service Personnel explained this to Mr. Ward. The Point IV program was still under discussion in Congress and the plans called for the expenditure of a considerable amount of money in the East African area in connection with this program.

“Interesting Work’

IT WAS obvious that Nairobi would offer most interesting work in a brand-new field in the Foreign Service for which Mr, Ward seemed to be especially qualified. It was on this basis that the Chief of Foreign Service Personnel discussed this assignment with Mr, Ward and he agreed to accept the post. Since it has been (implied) in the editorials and articles in The Times that Mr. Ward has been assigned to an out-of-the-way post by “be nice to Russia boys” in the Department, I believe in justice to the Foreign Service and to

the Department that I should explain to Jou 3

something about the officer directly responsible for this assignment.

Mr. Elbridge Durbrow, a career officer with

By Galbraith CALIFORNIA POLITICS .

over 20 years’ service, has been Chief of For-

eign Service Personnel since July 10, 1950, and .

she is the officer responsible for Mr, Ward's assignment. Since Mr. Durbrow entered the Foreign Service in 1930, he has been intimately connected with Eastern European affairs for over 13 years. He has served in Poland, Rumania, two ‘tours totaling over six years in the Soviet Union, and was for a considerable time Chief of the Eastern European Division of the Department of State which handies Soviet and general Eastern European affairs. When last in Moscow he served as Deputy to our Ambassador to the Soviet Union, General Walter Bedell Smith, former Chief of Staff to General Dwight Eisenhower. Prior to taking his present assignment, he was for two years the Deputy for Foreign Affairs at the National War College.

‘Outstanding Expert’ = .- OFFICERS the Department who have worked with Mr. Durbrow consider him to be one of the outstanding experts on the Soviet Union and his record shows that he has been consistently aware of Soviet and Communist machinations, tactics and techniques. After the details of Mr. Ward's assignment to Nairobi were worked out, Mr. Durbrow informed me of the plans and I concurred in the decision made —Carlisle H. Humelsine, Deputy Under Secretary of State.

“For the Working People’ By 4. T. Lewis, Indianapolis. So you will vote soon. Well think well before you do. As long back as I can remember and that's some 30 odd years, I know that the Republican Party is for the money interests of the country, and the Democratic Party is for the working people. Look at your big companies and you'll find they are behind the Republican Party. Look at their executives and you'll find no Democrats among them. That should be enough for anyone. Say what you want about the Democratic Party but you'll have {oc admit that working conditions have bettered from the days when people had to work 48, 56 and 60 hours a week at straight time. Many of } have cars and homes today, and better.clothes than you had when the Republicans were in. * »

THE Republicans are fighting hard today to “make a comeback. They don't like the things which have come to pass inn favor of the little ‘man. They'd like to change that, they sure

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Sunday’s eastern zone elections demonstrated

suggestion that they register their protest by, mailing their old ration cards to West Berlin, Not even the Red regime's counter-move of extra goods for the September ration cards has stopped the protest avalanche of sacrificed cards,

Like Cattle

HOSTILITY to the regime is so widespread it cannot even be disguised by a single-ticket election. Any ballot not cast {n public—though the law nominally provides for secret voting— is suspect, The Red hatchetmen pressure the people to appear in herds in the open to be counted like cattle. Logically, it would seem that a regime so bankrupt of public support would at pick such a period of weakness for an offensive policy, But Stalin rarely acts by western logic. As an Oriental and as a Communist his reasoning is different and so is his timing. His strange relations with Nazi Germany and with China showed that. About the only thing clearly predictable about his’ tactics is that—while holding fast to his aggressive purpose—he attempts a new method when the old one fails.

Methods Failing

AND his method in Germany has failed. Instead of bluffing out the Allies he has stif-

‘fened them. Instead of making the Germans either converts, or cowards who. would not op- .

pose him, the Communist Party in West Ger. many and Berlin is smaller than ever and in East Germany his puppet dictatorship is more hated than ever. He may now try the alternative method. Instead of wooing the Germans, he may make East Germany a ruthless police state, as he did in neighboring Poland and Czechoslovakia, and mobilize it for a “civil war” without avowed That would take time. But maybe not as long as we think.

HALF WAY

* I've read some poems . . . of evens tide and dawn . . , pep how on each moonlit

t...swee Jove on and on ... and this I grant . . . that night and dawn ,, . are really special times . ,. for they begin and end our days . . . no matter what the clime . . .

But I have just a line to write . . , about the time between . . . the promise and fulfillment of the afternoon serene . . . for at this half-way-mark we stop . .. to gather hope anew . . . then look back on the morning gone ... and on to evening’s blue.

By Ben Burroughs,

would, and I know this because I work for them, As long as I work for them and know how they feel, I'll vote the Democratic ticket. It's for me, and my interests, and ‘that's what I care about, We always have graft and bad politicians

‘no matter what party is in, but I am better off

today than I was when the Republicans were in is what interests me in the Democratic Party, I don’t believe the men who discovered America meant for it to be just for the powerful and rich’ among us, those who for all their honeyed talk are trying to keep the poor man crushed. .

Barbs—

IN CROSSING the street when the light is green a pedestrian is absolutely right—and often dead right! > © 0 ] A NEW MEXICO man celebrated his 101st birthday. Imagine! Only one soft year! > @ BURNING candles at both ends never seems to make the outlook brighter,

. By Charles Ww. Lucey

GOP Resents Democratic Big Shot Invasions’

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17—Invasion of a host of Truman i administration speakers from Washington to tub-thump for Democrats Jimmy Roosevelt and Helen Gahagan Douglas has Republicans sputtering mad and ready to raise a mighty cry about “outside interference.” It’s a scrawny day politically for the Democrats when some

chairman of the Democratic National Committees has been whooping it up for the party ticket. Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan will swing through the central valley late this

both nominations, won the GOP blessing easily, but was beaten by Mr. Roosevelt on the Democratic side. » ” »

' THE Roosevelt people fear

+ many voters may be confused

SONS: 958 SY UA SERVICE. Wig, ¥. M. REQ. U. 8. PAT. OFF,

“ n must + hove a litte chat with Junior rose last man-to-

big shot from the President's cabinet or Congress; doesn't pop out from the nearest palm , tree to cheer for Jimmy to be next governor of California or

to other states and _asserted

that “despite what they've done.

to us now they're coming out, to tell us how to run our busi-"

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of | geles and at the State 8. ican Federatic

ot Labor ton- ;

week trying to scare up farm votes for Democrats. ; 8 #8 - INTERIOR Secretary Oscar Chapman will be here to grab the political baton as soon as Mr. Brannan lets go of it. . Sen. Clinton Anderson (D. N. M) 1s ticketed for a speech ; Oct. 27 at

as to who's who, and in Jimmy's own speeches he res peatedly are to “the Re-

affairs back in. Washington while all this is going on. a

; DEMOCRATIC leaders hope, : of course, that this celebrities” merry-go-round will stir: en- + thusiasm among party workers ‘ and the public about turning in a lot of Democratic votes,

on Nov. 7. Warren has Jimmy on the run, But there is another strategy and that Mr. Nixon has a fair connected with it, too. The un- edge on Mrs. Douglas. a er voting system, candidates in the

| Smary file on both tickets, : to obscure patty lines. In 1946, for example, Gov. and hope

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