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England Fears Rise Of Nationalism Throughout All Of Asia

: SINGAPORE, | Feb. 8--The long-range British Far East policy in Malaya seems to be: Get it while the getting is good and then get out.

. “It” is the commercial return which Britain has from this tin and rubber rich peninsula on the border ‘of Communist expansion in the Orient,

The British promise of ultimate’ dominion

.. status for Malaya proper (except the island of

Singapore and two other crown settlements) conforms with widespread British feeling that communism and nationalism are on the rise in

the Far East and will ultimately prevail in some unpredictable ratio. - Even more than the U, 8. State Department, Britain seems to have geared all thinking to the idea that the whole Orient is in a deep revolutionary ferment of nationalism which international Communists are extraordinarily able to turn to their own uses. The Nehru preachment that untold Asian

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Inviting Catastrophe OME 12,000 railway yardmen—a minute fraction of the country’s total labor force—are taking part in the “sick strike.” . They have already forced idleness on 20 times as many workers in other industries, compelled by the strike to halt or curtail production. i . The strike’s malign effects grow hourly.” Thousands of carloads of freight are stalled. Food and fuel stocks run dangerously low in many cities. Passenger traffic is disrupted. Mail and express are embargoed. A White House statement, approved by the President, says that national security itself is directly injured “at a time when Americans are fighting for their country.” z Defense mobilizer Charles E. Wilson told the strikers last night how gravely they are disrupting the defense program and endangering the country. ] This strike, continued, could produce catastrophe. . We still believe that the strikers are good, though misguided, Americans who feel that they have a great grievance. *

TLL son 8 . BUT IF they were Communist abofeurs, intent on paralyzing the national defense progich and back-stabbing our forces in Korea, they could hardly be following a more . effective course. ; ty , : Public opinion, outraged by this strike and by: the foolish pretense that it is due to simultaneous “sickness” of thousands of yardmen, is in no mood to consider the strikers’ case on its merits. It is in a mood to conclude that the railroad unions, heretofore considered one of organized labor's most stable ‘and responsible segments, have lost all sense of responsibility. : : It is in a mood to support legislative proposals for com: pulsory arbitration, for the drafting of strikers, for other drastic measures obnoxious to labor, It is in a mood to resent bitterly, so long as the strike continues, any government sponsorship of negotiations for settlement on terms more generous than those which the railroad managements have agreed to grant. The best, the most friendly advice anyone can offer the strikers is the advice given them last night by Mr. Wilson to go back to work now—at once—and stay on their jobs.

It Can Be Done JDOUBT it or not, at least one federal agency is trying to

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YOU TOO, SAM . . . By Frederick C. Othman

BRITISH FAR EAST POLICY . . . By Clyde Famsworth EE

masses are in revolt against low’ living stand-

ards and old social patterns seems to have " gained even greater acceptance among Britons

than among Americans, » It is almost heresygto argue that the only revolution in the Orient is the Communist revolution and that it is only a minority manifes-

_ tation of Russian manipulation.

Such a reading of Britain's policy seems to be the only one that reconciles the prosecution of the jungle campaign against the Chinese guer-

_ rillas in Malaya with the recognition of the

Chinese Communist government in China. The observer is left to conclude that Britain would never fight more than a delaying retrégt from Malaya if Indo-China should be knocked out and the weight of Communist military power brought to bear on the rest of Southeast Asia, If you regard Britain's “‘anti-bandit” opera-

tions in Malaya as merely subsidiary to com- -

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edge of the jungles in which Red terrorists : operated. It was disheartening fo Aas peo- * The. growing antl - Communist sentiment ple to be transplanted and left in 8 task among Malaya's fast-growing population of of raising new houses and clearing bala. more than two million Chinese has had little The Chinese population of the pas aia, effect on British policy. Recently the Assocla- ' .,unting Smgapore, is about half of . nal tion of Chinese Chambers of Commerce by 1ps0- giv million of Malaya. About half came $e lution salled on the government to withdraw ja4t four Geondes i» fespanse to the demand recognition of the Pel regime, labor on ru r plan hy Although the Red a gangsters of Ma- They are now the most dynamic Sloment of laya are nearly all Chinese, it is the Chinese. wrajaya’s population and have been one gg principally who have suffered in their killing gleatest bulwarks of republican China. ey and extortion. The best the authorities could

offers no contradiction of British policy toward Oriental

contributed more than $8 million (U, 8.) to the

save money for the taxpayers—and doing a good job of it. : The General Accounting Office not only saves money and pays its own way but makes substantial contributions to the Treasury each year. ’ ie : Moreover, while many government payrolls have ex-

It's Time to Cut- Down, Uncle

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—I'll be a good deal happier about paying my share of the $4 billion

to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Congressmen have similar expense accounts, but for

do for them was to undertake resettlement in places where the bandits could,not easily prey on them. oi In two years since the resettlement of 500,000 Chinese was projected, only a few have been moved. The general idea was to remove Chinese squatters and leaseholders from their clustered villages at the foot of the mountains or the

"Chinese war of resistance against Japan, oh Both the Kuomintang and Communist guerrillas fought in Malaya against the Japanese, Malaya’s Chinese community looked for commonwealth status in a Malayan union at the end of the war and nearly got it. But the Malayans, fearful of losing their dominant posi. tion, forced Britain to revert to a hollow federation of Malay sultanates.

LONG TERM DEBT . . . By James Daniel

U. S. Still After Red Payment

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—The United States

hs again dunning Russia for payment of her

end-lease debt. ; At the moment, United States negotiators seem as far as ever from obtaining Russia's agreement to repay any significant amount of her obligation. The current negotiations in Washington are a continuation of similar efforts made off and on since World War 1I ended. The United States position is that we don’t expect the Russians to pay for anything that was lost or used up in the war. But the Russians.did promise, and we do expect the Russians to pay for civilian-type goods that were on hand or in the pipeline when the war ended, On their side, the Russian negotiators act as if we are a nation of skinflints to expect any repayment. =

Let our negotiators refer to four oil refiner- =

fes, a. tire plant, several steel rolling mills, a battery of electric generators and a railroad signal system—most of which Russia received after the war was over—and the Russians begin talking about how. they chewed up Hitler's army at Stalingrad, ;

Pravda Smiles ACCORDING to them, Russia did more’ than her share of fighting the war and the incidental assistance which we extended was acknowledged in a couple of articles in Pravda. The negotiations are being held in the State Department building on days agreed to by the Russians. A A meeting this week was postponed because Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin’s staff said he had a cold. A session runs about four hours. When Ambassador Panyushkin is willing, a day's talk goes this way: A Soviet, Elnbassy car pulls up in the State

Department driveway carrying a party of Rus-.

sians in double-breasted blue suits. There's Ambassador Panyushkin, with his black hornrimmed glasses, Admiral Nicolai Piterski, specially sent from Moscow for the talks, Nicolai Grigoriev, embassy trade counselor, and Alexander Kuznetsov, its first secretary. A youngster named Myshkov comes along as translator. The Russians go to a fifth-floor conference room. ‘There they are met by John C. Wiley, former U. 8. Ambassador to Iran. Mr. Wiley, our chief negotiator, is flanked by three or four State Department regulars, including our trapslator, Alexander Logofet. Cold, formal greetings are exchanged. Then Americans and Russians take seats on opposite sides of a long rectangular table.

confirmation of a point. Mr, Wiley gives an impression of being relaxed, but ready. He's a bulldog of a man with iron-grey hair. Ambassador Panyushkin is no dope. He speaks English well. When his interpreter,

translating into English, doesn’t convey the Russian’s precise meaning, Ambassador Panyushkin sharply corrects him. By insisting on speaking Russian, he gets more time to consider his answers. >

Mr. Wiley picks up when Ambassador Panyushkin finishes. Back and forth the argument runs. When backed into a corner, the Russian falls back on the excuse that the United States didn’t make Britain repay. Mr. Wiley points out that Britain extended us $5 billion of reverse lend-lease, while Russia's aid was limited to servicing ships and a few planes. Britain also repaid some cash after the war. Furthermore, Mr. Wiley points out, the aid to Russia ran heavily to capital goods of longterm usefulness, 2 On. his side, Ambassador Panyushkin follows the strategy of admitting nothing. Will he supply us an inventory of lend-lease goods now in use in Russia? No. Is he reluctant to acknowledge a debt because Russia might have difficulty in rounding up the dollars or gold? This is considered insulting. Well, why doesn’t Russia want to repay? Because, Ambassador Panyushkin replies in substance, it was a joint war. Russia suffered greatly. We acknowledged your aid in Pravda. Up to now, Mr, Wiley has not pointed out that the Pravda articles were published only

extra income taxes President Truman wants if this government goes a little easy on buying sterling silver finger bowls with gadroon bor-

ders for dainty-eating admirals. Fancy dinner service for the big brass is a small matter maybe, but if I'm to make sacrifices, I'll be pleased if the government makes a few small ones, too.

panded at an alarming rate, the GAO has reduced the number of its employees. : ; While nearly every other federal agency will ask for increased funds in 1952, the GAO actually will request less money than it got for 1951. : And, wonder of wonders, it is one of the very few big governmental offices in Washington that has no publicity The seagoing man, i finger bowls Consequently, we've had no mimeographed handout jared about ‘acc singing the praises of the GAO. Its annual report is upcom- when a batch of them ing, but meanwhile, Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren, came up for sale as able head of thé GAC, has written a brief letter to Congress-

wartime surplus. 2 They are just the bemen modestly reciting some of the things achieved by his agency. :

ginning of economies among the federals that I'll be thinking about on Mar. 15. THE LETTER found its way into the appendix of the of &snsaras Ehted fo learn that the Bureau Congressional Record without much fanfare. It should have ih Js beautify Js: front Jews Jan grass been trumpeted, for here is a startling account of what can JERtI0 be 8000 SMotER CUEINg Be Emergency: be done in cutting governmental costs if there is a will to quit financing snake farms if it wants to maindo so. tain my high regard; it also can be a little more The GAO is no minor bureau. Its job is to audit and settle federal accounts and claims, advise and assist Congress and other agencies on expenditures—in general serve - as watchdog of the Treasury. It is an independent, non- - political office. ’ In April, 1946, it had 14,904 employees. On Jan. 1, this year, it had 7063. “This has been accomplished,” said Mr. Warren, “through constant surveys of our work and the elimination of procedures which serve no useful purpose under present conditions.” As for government spending in other quarters, Mr. Warren promises that the GAO will not audit defense spending to see that it is done as efficiently and economically as possible, but “we will continue to keep a watchful eye on civilian spending to ferret out those extravagances and frills which our country should not and cannot now endure.”

box business.

I trust the Federal Trade Commission will spend no more of its valuable time tossing encyclopedias into the air to see whether they bounce, or break, when they hit the floor. The Agriculture Department can quit publishing treatises on how to crack nuts without also cracking your knuckles. This is a good thing to “know, I will admit, but in times like these I believe nutcrackers can be educated by cruel experience.

Uncle Samuel also would make me happier if he cut down a little on the black limousines for bigwigs and the four-engine flying machines for generals. Then there is the matter of the President's $50,000-a-year expense account, which is tax free and for which he need make no accounting

SIDE GLANCES

Wheat and Manganese ANGANESE is one of the most vital minerals in defense production of steel. India is an increasingly important source of manganese

ore, now that we no longer do much business with the Soviet Union,

careful about investing my money in the juke

only $2500 each.

There has been considerable criticism about these on the theory that if anybody else tried

to get away with such a swindle sheet, probably go to jail.

My own feeling is that the President and the lawgivers ought to be paid enough so that they could remit to the tax collector, like the rest of us, Their defenders insist that their expenses are so heavy, largely for entertaining visiting firemen (which is non-deductible), that they deserve to be treated different from other citizens,

Hard to Prove

THERE can be no defense of federal clerks with little, or nothing to do. This is a hard one to prove, but a friend of mine from a farm college some months ago had to visit the Agriculture Department. He was amazed. He said he never had seen so many feet on so many desks; he suggested that I take a stroll through the endless corridors and see for myself. I did, and wrote a piece about it. This resulted in considerable bitterness—my mail for a while was too hot for asbestos gloves —and the next time I called at the Agriculture Department, the doors to all the offices were closed. The feet no longer were on view. .

You see how it is, bureaucrats. I'll be think-

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ing about you, every one, when I write that

check for the tax collector; you can help to make it hurt a little less,

AN ANGEL PRAYS

A COZY room, a quilt-dressed bed...a little nut-brown curly head... the time was night... and all was still...save raindrops.on the windowsill . . , when suddenly a voice I heard . . v much like a tender cooing bird . . . it was the little child that prayed . .. as there all snug in bed he laid . . . and as he spoke to God above . . . I was enthralled with deepest love . . . for nothing is°so pure and sweet . , , as when dear God and an angel meet , . , in a cozy room, with a quilt-dressed bed . . . and a little nut-brgwn curly head.

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Whichever side was interrupted by the last after United States Ambassador William Standadjournment, starts the conversation. Ambas- ley had kicked up such a fuss in Moscow over sador Panyushkin and Mr. Wiley do most of the Russia's failure to admit any American assisttalking, occasionally relying on their aids for ance that President Roosevelt had to recall him,

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Take Note, Editors MR. EDITOR:

Living in a free world which saw one out of every. three persons reduced to Godless Communist tyranny in 33 short years, we are compelled to agree that we need more courage and character to make capitalism work. Many editors and “the louder radio windbags” talk and write much about their devotion to the free world and a free press. These hypocrites should be shamed by the memory of the late Talcott Powell, former editor of The Indianapolis Times. Mr. Powell lived, radiated what the traitors of real Americanism talk and lie about. Thus we see why that in spite of the blunders, false philosophy, criminal behavior and stupid~ ity of Communists, they remain such a menace.

Lost manhood is the disease of the free world. While Mr. Powell was no angel, he was a real man, I could personally go up to his desk with an essay which he knew virtually flayed him alive and he would express thanks and look up from his work with a little smile that said volumes more about Jeffersonian democracy than most editors learn in a lifetime.

Mr. Powell was not afraid of Communists or their false theories. He would go over to the John Reed Club, deliver an address: investigate their opinions, accept anything good, and then argue down all of them with enough enlightenment to know when they were defeated. This is to invite our many sincere and courageous editors to join in paying tribute to Talcott Powell. This is to shame cowards who think only of their business. —Hiram Lackey, Martinsville,

By Galbraith THE BIG WIND . . . By Ed Wilson

All Those Words and Nothing Gained

IT’S TOUGH being a taxpayer. pay-check figures busts up into fractions after the lawmakers The roll that choked a horse is anemic . The lad who sowed his wild oats on one week's pay can’t even kick around an anemic corn flake today.

That nice round set of

meney shall be published . . Then he turned the page to “in the First Amendment, > “Congress shall law . .. abridging the freedom

| will defend to the death your right to 2 it."

‘Too Much Monkey Business’ MR. EDITOR: . A month has gone by since the legislature has met. And what has been accomplished? Not a thing. Instead the guys up there play around, fool around and before you know if, it's time to go home. Then they will have to stop the clocks again in the last hour in order to finish up.in a hurry and put through laws that wouldn't have had a chance to be passed under normal conditions. Senators and Representatives, for $10 a day (or is it more?) we expect you to do some work and show the taxpayers who are paying you,

what you can do. Stop the monkey business and 80 to work. Do it now.

—A Taxpayer,

‘Let's Feed the Birds’

MR. EDITOR:

Indiana is having one of its most severe winters and there are thousands of little birds

that are without food when ice and stow remain on the ground. Every home has stale bread and rolls, cakes, etc. which are thrown out. If people would only throw them out where our little songsters could get them. . Please won't everyone put out food for our little feathered friends and keep them from starving.

=-Mrs. F. Lane, City

The proposed amendment provides for nothifg that isn’t already in the bill. It merely requires sending

make no or guplicate lists of names,

-India also.produces chrome, another essential in steel production. The United States can use India’s full production of these two ores, since this country has again become the free world’s arsenal. India wants $180 million worth of our wheat. It would seem that American grain might be exchanged for these Indian minerals, for which we have been paying cash.

” » u BUT this idea doesn’t seem to have occurred to the dogooders in our government. They want to give the wheat

to the Indians and go on paying them money for their minerals, .

The United States will never have a balanced . if it continues to do business on such a basis. Much nonsense has been written to the effect that’ we should give this wheat to India as evidence that we harbor no ill will because of Premiér Nehru's appeasement policy toward Red China. This consideration should not enter Into the matter. It is not a question of using relief as a political weapon, -but gimply one of excluding from relief all nations which, like India, have the cash or credit to my their own needs. 4 :

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out taxpayer, It provides the iron-clad framework within which the welfare department operates. These boys who “interpret” the bill are professional spenders. It's their job to spend the dough the guy with the blood-shot bankroll screams‘ about. The more they spend, the better they like it. Senate Bill 86 started out In 1936, depression days, picked up a few amendments throughout the ’40s and is up for another one in this session,

” » - THAT'S where the rub comes in. ‘Senate Bill 86 is patterned after a federal law, enacted by Congress, « This law simply says state welfare boys won't get a red " cent from the federal govern-: ment if they don't restrict names and records of recipients to the administration of that office. . 3 Uncle reached for the razor stppp and Senate Bil 86

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Senate bill 86 did absolutely nothing to help the fagged-

popped up with séecurity clauses sticking out all over it. The bill closes the files to

everyone who is not participating in the administration of state, county or township welfare work, a » » COUNTY council, prosecutor and township trustee can go to welfare headquarters and check up on the record of a

family they are trying to help.

John Q. Public can demand financial reports, names of employees .and an accounting of . administrative methods. But as far as names and addresses of the people who are getting his cagh—nws. soap. The red-eyed taxpayer took 4 look at those clauses in the bill, leafed back ‘through the U. 8. Constitufion to Section 9 and scratched his head.- i ; « Mie. 8 regu statement and account of fhe receipts ° and expenditures of all public

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of speech or the press , . .”

It didn’t add up. He can't find out the names of the people getting his cash and his local paper is prohibited from publishing the names if it can get them,

He suspects digty work and shouts to high heaven that he has a right to look at the records. The welfare hoys say if names were given to the publie, recipients would "be exposed to public shame and un= scrupulous political pressures. Besides, Uricle would close the welfare purse strings to Indiana and a lot of Innocent, needy persons would be hurt. ou ! BICKERING about constitiitional rights and principles of ethics broke out in the legislature like heat rash when Senate Bill 86 came up for its 1951 amendment, But it's-all by the boards +. ¢ doesn't mean a thing

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records, etc, to the persons who already have access to them. In effect it requires the state welfare department to hire. another full-time secretary to make out these lists. Another amendment to the bill was scheduled to be introduced today. This one calls for opening the records to the

public. The— very thing old, Red Eye wanted in the first place, !

It's tough being a taxpayer, but it's tougher if you worry about it, . :

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