Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1950 — Page 10

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Formosa Write-Off PRESIDENT, TRUMAN finally laid it on the line about Formosa. Last week-end when the President flew to Wake Island to talk with Gen. MacArthur there was one fundamental difference between them about Far East policy—Formosa. The difference became public in August when Gen. MacArthur, in a message to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said that Formosa was vital to American security in the Pacific. 0 Its possession by an enemy, he said, would move the battle line 5000 miles closer to our West Coast. At present the Chinese Nationalists hold the island, and they are friendly to the United States; the Chinese Conimurists who want the island are not, . 2 #0» =» GEN. MACARTHUR'S stand drew a rebuke from the President. Mr. Truman said Formosa must be neutralized and its future determined by international decision—presumably by the United Nations. Mr. Truman told his press conference this week he had discussed Formosa's future with the General, but there had been no differences to be settled because the administration's policy had already been decided four or five weeks ago. The question as to whether Formosa is important to the United States is a military decision. And Gen. MacArthur's right to an opinion on that subject cannot be challenged. : s ” » ” es 0» STILL, President Truman went to Wake Island with a closed mind. The decision had been made—and it was made in Washington. This, a military decision, was made by civilian politicians—President Truman and Secretary of State 5 Acheson—without any consultation with the great military man closest to the situation. ; The President occupies a dual role. He is President and also he is commander-in-chief. All dual roles are hard to hangle.and this one must be especially so in these trying days. : y But for the President to go to an important conference with his mind made up about the only controversial subject to be discussed seems to be neglect of his duty as commander-in-chief. ’ Gen. MacArthur at least deserved a hearing. He might be right.

Good Medicine

BE ARD M. BARUCH hit hard the other night at “drift-as-usual” government policies in this time of national danger. ; : The scourge of Communist imperialism, he warned, feeds on indecision and weakness among the defenders of

freedom. ; Advocates of “creeping mobilization—those who wan to rearm America slowly, a little this year, a little more

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longer’—are gambling with disaster. .And :hose who want to “wait and see’ whether use of strong economic controls is necessary ignore the bitter lessons of two world wars and have already let inflation gain perilous momentum. Mr. Baruch spoke at Rochester, Minn., to alumni of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

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» THIS is no time, he told his audience of doctors, for giving soothing syrup to a patient in urgent need of drastic treatment. The deadly contagions of war and inflation cannot be prevented from spreading unless the government has, and uses, extraordinary emergency powers. - . BE If the cancer of war is to be arrested, promptly and permanently, “We must give up our normal peaceful ways until the danger is past. Our resources and labors must be dedicated primarily to defense, or we risk losing everything, and forever. Only through the government can we stop the inflation which could wreck us, and this is particularly so where the inflation has been largely caused by the government itself.” .

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MR. BARUCH has more faith in the American people than some of their servants in Washington seem to have. He does not believe that the people need to be cajoled into supporting a continuing rearmament program after victory in Korea. - He does believe that, given brave, determined leader-

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program than the government has yet proposed. He urges all-out mobilization to develop within two years enough ‘military strength to preserve peace by permanently deterring Communist aggression or to assure victory if America is forced to fight.

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HE would have the government go all-out, also, against inflation, with taxes heavy enough to pay the full cost of defense and to eliminate profiteering, and with _firmly imposed ceilings on all prices, wages, rents and other costs. id : Of course, what Mr. Baruch said was not new, so far & '®#s he is concerned. But if for once his advice were followed—if the things he advocates were done in time, . . instead of belatedly, under the compulsion of stark 5 necessity and by steps too short and slow—that would + indeed be something new and hopeful.

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*. Invitation Takes U. S. Off Hook WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—Red China's rejection of the United Nations invitation to participate in_the Wecurity Council discussion next month on Formosa takes the State Department oft the hook. : regime has now formally defied

beyond the ; lines anew the fact that Red China is unfit for membership in the United Nations. . ’ That has been clear from the beginning, of hough some nations have been trying to obscure the fact. United Nations membership by terms of the charter is limited to peaceful nations, which are willing and able to carry out

. United Nations obligation against aggression.

Violates UN Charter

ALTOGETHER apart from what has happened on the China mainland, Peking’'s large: scale aid to the North Korean aggressors— whose acts she still defiantly approves—violates the United Nations charter in general and the United Nations resolutions on Korea in par-

Tr. Now Red China is repeating her warmongering by training and arming Communist troops of Indo-China. Recent spectacular successes of Stalus puppet Viet Minh armies are based on aid. ; In the case of Formosa, the Red claim that the isiand is Chinese territory is not in itself sufficient cause for exclusion from United Nations membership. The Chinese Nationalist government, now exiled on the island, makes the same claim. Any Chinese regime of any color would have to make that claim, for reasons of political expediency if no other.

Peking Claim

BUT it is one thing to make the claim, and quite another to deny the right of the United Nations to settle a disputes which is a clear threat to peace. And that is what Peking does. Peking bases its claim in part on the Cairo

- Declaration of 1943 and the Potsdam Declara-

tion of 1945. No mention is made of the embar. rassing fact that Peking has long since abrogated the International agreements of the Chiang Kai-shek government. In any event the Cairo and Potsdam Declarations concerned Nationalist China — to which Stalin, no less than the western powers, was pledged—and not a Red dictatorship,

Still Jap Territory

MOREOVER, the powers at Cairo and,Potsdam,’ in stating a policy, did not and could net foreclose final decision by the Japanese treaty. Lezally Formosa is still Japanese territory held in trust pending final international disposition, As for American policy, the Roosevelt administration could not tie the hands of future administrations and no president can bind the United States without advice and consent of the Senate to a treaty. It is exceedingly unlikely that the Senate would ratify a treaty which gave to any Red aggressor an offensive Pacific base as important as Formosa

EACH NIGHT

When I come home 1° leave the cares . . . that held me through the day . . . and start upon a different life . , . so joyful and so gay + « + I capture all that's beautiful . that's always new . , . because my dearest wonderful , , . 1 am alone with you ., , I guess it is a miracle . . , for even skies above , . . are always dotted with the stars . , . that shine for those in love . , , and all the world is like a dream , ; , of wondrous tender bliss . . . and I am in a magic spell . , . each time I feel your kiss . . . and when all these things happen «+.0h I know I'll never roam . . . because I find my happincss , , . each night when I

come home. «By Ben Burroughs FOSTER'S FOLLIES

MANILA~—Burglars stole Luis Villacorta’s 4-month-old pig after chloroforming the animal.

It’s a fact we suppose, there will always be those To whom ham and pork are appealing,

But we herewith depose, it is best a thief knows

All the factors with which he is dealing.

Every crook should use care, If he likes the fresh air, v It’s a hazardous pastime, pig stealing.

All the facts will be bare, once the coppers get

there For a pig is oft given to squealing!

ALLIED PROPAGANDA « « » By Peter Edson Berlin Industries Fair -

BERLIN, Oct. 21—Bunting flies again on the main Berlin streets in the American, British and French sectors. The German Republic's black, red and orange flags fly everywhere. The terribly beat up ex-German capital seems to have a bigger lift, E

spiritually, than it got out of even the air lift.

+ +» and love

RED TAPE SLASH . . . By William H. Stoneman

Pact Group Shakeup

. PARIS, Oct. 21 (CDN)—NATO-—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—is due for some shaking revisions within the next few weeks. Loud prayers are being offered up by inno-

the bureaucratic paraphernalia which has clogged its machinery to date. Like all governmental and inter-govern-mental organizations NATO has displayed a tendency to sprout ittees, councils and squads of civilian and military officials without always being sure what they are supposed to do. The result is an organizational chart which looks like a monkey puzzle tree full of snakes. Some of the things which are now due to BapiD to NATO are th€ following: ; NE: A

for the defense of free Europe.

Regional Group End Seen

TWO: It is expected that the three regional Planning groups which are now charged with mapping defense plans for Northern, Western and Southern Europe will he abolished. Their be ‘taken over by the unified

functions should - general staff in London and by the standing

group, representing the United States, Britain and France, which has its headquarters in Washington and is responsible for over-all strategic planning. Smaller countries belonging to the treaty hope that they may be given more voice in the deliberations of the standing group. THREE: Financial and economic planning of the rearmament effort and measures to control inflation may be entrusted to a new group working intimately with the OEEC in Paris. The OEEC, the permanent organization of Marshall Plan countries, is far better equipped to deal with the economic implications of the defense program than any completely new group that could be set up.

FOUR: The Council of Deputies which is a .

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perfanent body composed officlals from all 12 member countries may be more authority. . The real decisions have n taken elsewhere and the council has threatened to degenerate into a mere debating society.

New Secretariat

FIVE: The North Atlantic Treaty Organjzation in London may be equipped with an efficient international secretariat, relieving individual treaty members from the expensive business of maintaining large staffs of their own. SIX: Some order may be brought out of the complete chaos which has characterized the rearmament programs of continental free Europe until now. Repeated revelations that NATO planners have fallen down completely on the job of standardizing weapons and methods appear to have had no effect at all on the military officials responsible for the failure.

Unless the United States takes a clear and

final stand on this matter, France and other ry iat, production of dveraiind on e on 0! weapons which would not be effective in a with Russia,

appears to them to be a costly mistake,

Vanity—or Tin Tanks

WHEN France, Belgium and perhaps Western Germany go into production on a large scale they should produce things that American and British fighting men have tested and found to be efficient, in the opinion of these people. “Better still,” one expert commented, “let them make steel and automobiles. If vshity means that France is going to make tin tanks then France had better swallow her vanity.”

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be any worse off an French colon which furned aver {0 the Chinese Reds 1 by far more us, I have pointed these out in the sin. cere hope to how free trade and war are linked together in spite of the fact that we are told by the in group 18% Wars 419 cau bg Pationaliom.

left and enjoy a reasonable amount of peace. ‘Displaced Persons Frauds’

By Edwin E. Grant

Is America getting the truth about the displaced persons? Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada made a statement in the United States Senate. But I have seen only one newspaper publish what he said. In Sen. MeCarran's statement one reads: “My investigation has brought to light innumer--able instances of wholesale fraud, misreptesen-~ tation, fictitious documents, and perjury resorted to by persons seeking displaced persons status in order to qualify within the terms of the law. Let it be remembered that the Attorney General of the United States recently testified that an analysis of 4084 of the more militant members of the Communist Party in the United States

showed that 91.4 per cent of the total were of -

foreign stock or were married to persons of

_ foreign stock.

What Others Say—

CORRUPTION is fast becoming part of our everyday pattern of life. It rolls off the public conscience like water off a duck’s back.—Sen. Estes Kefau (D. Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Crime Committee. :

THIS was 4 happy town, but it died the moment the Communists came.—Paul Schirpam, aged German importer living in Inchon, Oren. . -

By Galbraith SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS « + + By Ludwell Denny Britain's Big Loss

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—The British labor governmen lost its best brain and stermest belt-tightener. : has Sir Stafford Cripps as chancellor of the only the treasury, but the whole cabinet. His departure from high office,

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ship, they would support a speedier, far more adequate »

Reason for all this is the German Industries Fair. It was a

masterpiece of Allled propaganda. It flaunted West German recovery right in the face of the Soviet zone. . SEC - THE contrast is tremendous. In the Soviet sector, the only new construction is half a. dozen Communist Party headquarters buildings and a new Russian embassy. In the western zone, reconstruction is everywhere. The people are working and the stores are full. ; Part of this is admittedly front. Maj. Gen. Maxwell D, Taylor, United States commander in Berlin, admits that

ment, With Marshall money, he has a WPA-type reconstruction program which employs 58,000 people. A year ago, Beriin production

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here are some of the products: Radios and electrical products; chemicals; plastics and rubber; leather, textile and paper products; office equipment and furniture; printing machinery; porcelain and glass; toys and handicrafts; optical goods, precision and surgical instruments; hardware and plumb-

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tools and heavy iron and stee products. - ~ w » THERE was an abundance

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prices on many of these items are lower than average prices for comparable items made the United States. For example, there are table model radios at 98 marks, or the equivalent of $24: vacuum sweepers at $42; electric refrigerators at §150, and baby

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cial policy. : He put a brake on welfare expenditures) He slowed down Socidlist demands for nationalization of industry beyond 20 per cent of the total economy, More than any other man he is to thank for the courageous tax policy, for success of the

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