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: The Truman-Attlee Talks

F BRITAIN’S Prime Minister Attlee came to this country

to talk tough to President Truman, as London reporters said he did, he seems to have found the President ready, and with much better reason, to talk firmly to him. Moreover, most of the bargaining power was on Mr. Truman's side of the table—a point too often overlooked in London and Paris and by some of our own spokesmen. According to reports about progress of the conference, the gentleman from Missouri knew his hand too well to be talked out of it. a : All of the decisions reached during the Truman-Attlee talks presumably are not being made public now, and may not be until events reveal them. But indications are that this was one conference in which we have not lost our shirt. Which suggests that the President is a better spokesman for himself than some of the professionals who have represented him at similiar meetings. » ~ » ~ » » AMERICAN-BRITISH understanding should be improved by the frank exchange of views at the White House, as well as by Mr. Attlee’s observations here. In particular, the visitor must have a much better appreciation of the current mood of Congress and the American people than he seems to have had when he left London under am injunction to demand a showdown on Britain's desire for a go-slow policy in dealing with Red China. Mr. Attlee found no panic here, and no disposition toward appeasement. There is grave concern over the deepening crisis, to be sure. But there is also a disposition to do something about it, which is not so apparent on the other side of the water. The profound dissatisfaction in this country with the slow progress of European defense plans in the face of the gathering storm is a serious threat to solidarity of the Atlantic Community. Britain and France must remedy this situation if they expect from the United States the same wholehearted co-operation they have had in the past. lc s = =» THERE also should be such a thing as good sportsmanship, if not a stronger attachment, between friendly, Allied nations. Britain and the other European nations which are members of the North Atlantic Alliance currently are asking the American goyernment to appoint Gen. Eisenhower commander of that organization's defense forces. Only a few months ago the same nations and some others joined in asking that an. American be named commander of the United Nations forces in Korea. We not "only provided the general but also the bulk of the troops. Then when we ran into trouble, some of our European associates undertook to make Gen. MacArthur the goat.

Would another American commander fare better under

similar circumstances in Europe? believe so. These are a few thoughts which Premier Attlee might take back to Mr. Shinwell, the British defense minister, and those members of parliament who have been so quick to criticize the reversals in Korea.

There is little reason to

Universal Service

THE Association of American Universities has adopted unanimously a resolution proposing universal military {raining and service for-all-18-year-old male citizens... This action was taken because the association's members believe, correctly, that the military strength of the United States may be a vital factor in preventing another global war.

Pointing out that Defense Department estimates call

for a standing armed force of 2:5 million to 3.5 million men, the resolution says: “This requirement will demand that the services of all able-bodied men be made available as they become of military age.” : . Six years ago, while World War II was still in progress, President Roosévelt told Congress he was convinced that universal military training would be- essential to main- ~ tenance of future peace. PRESIDENT TRUMAN repeatedly has urged enact- < ment of UMT, and has asked that it be one of the earliest “duties of the new Congress which meets next month. Three and a half years ago a commission of able citizens, appointed by Mr. Truman and headed by President Compton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held . universal training vital to national security. Many educators, however, have opposed UMT and helped to prevent its adoption. And, meanwhile, Communist aggression has placed America and the whole free world in such deadly peril that universal military service, rather than mefe training, seems urgently necessary. A soberly reasoned article by President Conant of Harvard University, in “Look” magazine, asserts that our situation of “extreme peril” requires universal military service of two years for all able-bodied youths before they enter college or take their places in the country’s industrial life. ~ » » ~ ~ » + DR. CONANT points out that a training program would provid¥ only resverves, whereas the present need is for armed force in being. If such a force of more than three million men is to be maintained for a long period, he sees no practical alternative to “the simple, clear-cut proposition of having absolutely no exemptions from the two years of service.” : Mi i So he proposes that every young man, on reaching 18 _ or on graduating from high school, be enrolled in national or deferments for college students or anyone else. The able-bodied would serve in the Armd Forces, the physically unfit in other capacities at

This stern Juogrem, Dr. Conant acknowledges, would

. But he-sees no the dangers of the times. The

Power Balance Have Also Gained in

Committee Chairmanships WASHINGTON, Dec. 9— Political power of

the Southern Democrats will be greater in the

coming 82d Congress than ever before. They will not only hold the balance of power between conservative Republicans and the combination of New Dealers and progressive Republicans which sometimes vote together, they have also gained in the number of chairmanships on im- - portant congressional committees. .- Senators and Congressmen don’t always vote consistently, nor do they vote in solid blocs. Forecasting the outcome on important bills

would be a lot easier if they did. But there is

always a lot of maverick straying off the political range by individual Congressmen, for reasons perhaps best known to some of their constituents. i A careful analysis of voting records of the old-timers and political speeches of the newcomers does, however, indicate trends. And the

trend for the 82d Congress lines up about like.

this:

Liberal Republicans

TAKE the Senate. Of the 47 Republicans in the next Senate, 36 may be classified as GOP conservatives. Eleven are what you might call middle-of-the-roaders. They are sometimes referred to as liberal Republicans and they do vote with the Democrats on some more progressive measures, or on foreign policy. The list checks off easily: Saltonstall, Lodge, Vandenberg, Thye, Tobey, Ives, Morse, Duff, Flanders, Aiken, Langer. Of the 49 Democrats in the next Senate, only 21 may be classified as voting more or less consistently for the New Deal or Fair Deal program. Eleven Democrats—including five from the South—sometimes vote with the liberal Democrats, sometimes with the conservatives. They are liberals on foreign policy, conservative on civil rights and the more extreme Fair Deal proposals. But the real power in the next Senate lies with the 17 remaining Democrats who may. be counted on to vote more or less consistently against the Truman administration proposals, When these 17 Democrats vote with the 35 Republican conservatives in the next Congress they will have a majority of 52 to 44. These 17 consefvative Democrats more than offset the 11 liberal Republicans who sometimes vote with the Democrats. These 17 Democrats also more than offset the combination of the 11 liberal Republicans plus the five Southern Senators who sometimes vote liberal.

Six Chairmen

CHECKING oft the list of the 17 is also fairly easy: It includes McClellan, George, Russell, Hoey, Long, Ellender, McKellar, Byrd, Robertson, Eastland, Stennis, Chapman, MeCarran, O'Connor, Frear and the two new Southerners, Smathers of Florida and Smith of South Carolina. Frear is from Delaware and McCarran from Nevada, but they have voted with this Southern bloc consistently, In this group you also have six important committee chairmen: Ellender (succeeding Thomas of Oklahoma), Agriculture: Russell (succeeding Tydings of Maryland), Armed Services; McKellar, Appropriations: McClellan, Expenditures; George, Findnce: McCarran, Judiclary, . Add to this list: Maybank, chairman of Banking and Currency; Connolly, Foreign Relations; Johnson of South Carolina, Civil Service; Johnson of Texas, Defense Investigation Kefauver, Crime Investigation; Chavez, Public Works. It shows you how much power the South really has. It leaves Northern Democrats only six committee chairmanships.

Tough to Analyze

THE situation in the House is not so easy to analyze because of the larger membership, the greater independence of action, and 66 new members. But roughly the situation breaks down about like this: Republicans, 199; Democrats, 236, if you include Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., the DemocratLiberal Party Congressman. Of the 236 Democrats, 119—or two more than half—are from the Southern states. This is barely enough to give them control in party caucus, if they should ever vote in sectional lines. On an average of 15 Key votes in the last

~ session of Congress, there were approximately

110 Democrats and 10 Republicans who voted for the Truman program. There was an equal number, 50 Democrats and 70 Republicans, who voted regularly against Truman proposals, About 100 Democrats and 90 Republicans split their votes, : In the last election, the Republicans’ gain of 28 seats may be presumed to be at the expense of Truman Democrats. So the ratio in the new

+House would become approximately 90 pro-

Trumanites to 150 anti-Trumanites, assuming the former ratio of vote splitters remained. On committee chairmanships, Southern Democrats will hold nine out of the 19 top positions, plus, presumably, the Speakership of the House, with Sam Rayburn of Texas. ei ren

SUPPLY ... . By James Daniel Can U.S. Keep Europe Out of Stockpiles?

WASHINGTON, Dec, 9—The United States appears likely to come out of the current Truman-Attlee conference with no set-

back to its military stockpiling program.

For weeks European countries have been complaining that the U. 8, stockpile purchases were forcing up the price of raw materials, to a point where their own industries were seriously

affected. *

820 CONGRESS .. By Peter Edson

Dixiecrats Hold

"of Southeast Asia.

CONCILIATION . . . By Ludwell Denny

Everybody Flirts With China Reds

LONDON, Dec. 9—Britain’'s hope of saving Southeast Asia from aggression is a big factor. in the Attlee-Churchill policy of conciliating Red China. * An emergency conference of British military and political chiefs of 11 Asiatic countries and territories began in Singapore Wednesday. : France—like Britain in Hong Kong, Malaya and other places —wants to ‘satisfy the Chinese Reds before they extend their present indirect aggression in Indo-China to open attack. Premier Nehru of India, who has been playing such a powerful role in absentia at the White House and United Nations negotiations, is anxious to please the Peking Red regime before it ‘turns farther south. India is only one step ‘Mr. Attlee from Mao Tse-tung’s Tibetan «+. hard facts invasion and from Indo-China. India’s influence on Britain's

" China policy has been powerful from the be-

ginning. This is one cause for London's recognition of the Peking Reds, though that cracked the British-American unity which Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill value so highly. Latest reports from Malaya on Red guerrilla warfare there disturb the British. The many Chinese in Malaya, though not predominantly Communist, are’ pro-Peking. This factor, along with Nehru's pressure, weighs more in Britain's flirtation with Mao than the influence of British commercial interests in Hong Kong, it is said here.

Most Critical Area

INDO-CHINA now is the most, critical area The British agree with France on that. This was a big aspect of the meeting here between Mr. Attlee and French Premier Rene Pleven before Mr. Attlee’'s flight to Washington. The British Prime Minister promised to stress Indo-China to President Truman. ’ CA American policy on Southeast: Asia is the same as the British-French, up to a point and then diverges. There's full agreement on the importance of curbing Red “penetration and preventing open Communist aggression in that direction. There's also agreement that Indo-China now is the key there. Hence, President Truman's recent decision to give Indo-China a higher priority for ° economic and military aid. wey — =

SIDE GLANCES

‘But that doesn’t mean that Mr. Truman can put Indo-China ahead of Korea.

The British - French - Indian policy of con-

ciliating Red China is based on the assumption that if Peking gets what she wants in the north

~ the Reds won't move south. Even if not entirely

satisfied, Peking will save face and have her hands full without more adventures—at least for a while. : Against this grave gamble is the American fear that successful Chinese blackmail in Korea and the United Nations would not discourage but encourage aggression elsewhere. That's the long record of buying off Stalin and Hitler. The British and Indians, however, answer this with the old theory—onceé heid by the U. 8S. State Department and apparently still not as dead there as at the White House—that Mao Is not controlled by Stalin. At least not wholly. It is widely conceded here that Mao is acting

las MacArthur's approach to the Manchurian border greased the way. : Even so there's much less talk among British officials than before about the “essentially peaceful and democratic character” of Mao's regime. But that only makes them more fearful that continued concentration of American strength in Korea—not to mention British commitments there—will prevent adequate defense of Southeast Asia in case of attack.

Effective Argument THUS the British and French at one moment argue that a deal with Mao on Korea will tend to prevent direct attack on Indo-China and the rest of Southeast Asia, while the nett minute they insist that such a deal is urgently necessary to free American and Allied strength for the security of Southeast Asia. Though not logical in theory this dual argument is effective, provided its premise is accepted. — The premise=that Southeast Asia (is more important than Northeast—ignores three fundamentals: } - ONE: Korea's relation to Japan, all the more critical now that the Chinese Reds have China. TWO: The disasfrous effect on the future security of the world if the United Nations commits suicide like the League of Nations. THREE: The effect on American public opinion—what chance there is of maintaining its-faith in and support of collective security if this trial fails. If President Truman succeeds in modifying Mr. Attlee’s attitude regarding the size of the bribe to be offered Mao and Stalin, it probably

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ations effective should be ridiculed. on the side of right, and it is right rid should organize to keep peace. , and it has failed if it cannot stand Chinese Reds, but only temporarily. e idea will rise again, and when it does, per haps the rest of the world will put more into it than empty words. : - In the meantime, we are afraid of numbers. We hear on every side, “Russia wants to bleed us white by having us fight all over while she remains intact.” Furnishing arms and bribes to get the stooges to fight is not exactly bleeding Russia “red.” I do not think Russia can fight a two-front war. Reason tells me she cannot arm all those millions with her industrial capacity less than ours in a sustaining attack. Wish to heavens the people of the world would

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work and do somthing- to help. We have advtanges—talk about them. Use them.

Greatest Dupes? By C. D. C,, Terre Haute "A HEADLINE in The Times says: “Acheson Calls Chinese Reds Soviet Dupes.” If you ask me, the American people have been made the greatest dupes in the world and by their own leaders. They were duped by Franklin D. Roosevelt - when he promised the mothers of America not to send their boys to fight a foreign war in order to be elected President for a third term. They were duped when he took them in a war to fight a cruel, inhuman aggressor and help another one who was just as cruel and inhuman, They were duped when he sold them down the river at Yalta and again, when his successor confirmed the damage at Potsdam, * = : THEY were duped when the Russians were given plates and permission to print our money to be used in occupation zones, and they were duped when Communists were allowed to infiltrate in the various branches of the government and steal not only State secrets, but atomie secrets also. : ; Yes, we were duped by Soviet Russia and the Chinese Communists and we have been duped in the United Nations or we wouldn't be fighting practically alone in Korea today. As a nation we are gluttons for punishment * and only the good Lord knows how much more we will have to take before the people decide to get rid of the ones responsible for the mess we are in.

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MY DREAM

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INVASION . . . By Charles Lucey Lawmakers Move To Beat Off Snails

; WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-—You might think Washington has its hands full trying to figure out ways to stop the Chinese Reds, pull together a Western European army, control inflation and other such affairs. : * But there's a snail invasion to be stood off, too. It may sound funny, but it seems tobe no laughing matter, And it even takes a law to man the ram- a

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London dispatches this week forecast widespread unemployment in Britain within six weeks unless Prime Minister Clement Attlee could persuade President Truman to make . available some of the materials which the U. 8S. has put away for military purposes.

on : OFFSETTING foreign criti

cism of the stockpile program, President Truman's economic Assistance Advisers have told

him that in their opinion the.

U. 8. stockpile program cannot be blamed for world shortages. The stockpile is taking too small a percentage of total supply, they say. ? A bigger cause, they add, is stockpiling by many industries here and abroad, particularly those which want to continue producing civilian long 4 as possible.

terials purchasing; also, that raw materials are distributed ‘where they will contribute most to the common defense,

Fra - . - BUT Father than cutting down on the volume of raw

piled, the emphasis of any agreement is expected to be on joint efforts to expand raw materials production and to seek new sources of supply. As armament production cuts more deeply into civilian sup-

ply, the two countries will

pledge themselves to seek equality of sacrifice. Fully enforced, this would mean that one country would not continue to produce civilian gods which the people of the other had to do without in order to make arms. THERE also will be an effort to prevent critical materials

applies especially to the British trade with Red China. All

with the equality-of-sacrifice principal, by putting the rubber industries of both countries on basis.

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