Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1951 — Page 24
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get Rid of It GEN. JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana Democrat, “inter- ? vened” with the Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a fillion-dollar loan to a big Miami Beach hotel. £ “Clearly,” he wrote, the loan was warranted on more liberal terms than the government lending agency had been to grant, The hotel got its million. And Sen. Murray's lawyer James Jr., got a $21,000 fee for services in obtaining tis and two other large related RFC loans. i The Senator is “indignant” because, he says, a hearing Sen. Fulbright’'s subcommittee ‘was so conducted as to gave the impression that this particular loan was improper ¢ unusual.” His son James, he explains, told him of “problems” that were being encountered. Finding the facts as son James stated, the Senator “volunteered to make exactly the same of representation to the RFC that I have made in many cases for other citizens . . . I can see no reason why, bécause he is my son, I should treat him differently than I wbuld any other lawyer.” % Sen. Murray's action in this case, he adds, “was wholly dnsistent with established congressional practices expected of members of Congress.” If it is established and expected practice for members E Congress to intervene with government agencies and by enable their relatives to collect fat fees, that is
eresting news indeed. Most honest citizens would be unlikely to regard it as
oh roper practice. But many honest citizens, holding their
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over the RFC mess revealed by the Fulbright Subtee, may be ready to believe that it is a prevalent
So we. enthusiastically iioree’ A abn ‘oy’ “Sen. fra all fairness,” he says, “the subcommittee should from the RFC and cause to be published a complete of all phone calls, interviews and letters between rs of Congress and the agency since its inception.” That done, as the Senator says, the public can judge * itself whether his action in the Miami Beach hotel loan was merely “routine.” But, routine or no, it is plain that the huge government ng agency has been, and as long as it exists will be, a for favor seekers, influence users and fee-hungry Whatever excuse there was for maintaining the RFC pression times is gone now, when inflation is the great
ent lending of the people's to interest private capital
gences of bad business judgment. ! Fumigation won't cure what's wrong with the RFC. zation won't. It should be abolished. Fast.
NDIA urgently needs grain. The United States urgently needs strategic materials for defense stockpiling. : India has strategic materials. We have grain. What then is more logical than a simple barter deal
then repays the loan in the materials we need? These include manganese, mica, chrome, monazi‘» ds and jute.
. w » * ~ ~ BUT NO, our State Department do-gooders have 12so simple a plan. They prefer a big, free-wheeling project at the prospective expense of the American yers. This, at a time when the American taxpayers ard asked to balance a staggering $71.68 billion government biiiget and assume heavy commitments to that part of the frée world definitely on our side in the struggle against cofimunism. # After brief hearings—with Secretary of State Acheson, asthe chief witness, smoothing over our differences with the Nehru government-—the House Foreign Affairs Committee has reported out a relief bill. It would give India tw million tons of food grains, with no strings attached.
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¢ India did not ask for this gift. India asked only for logg-term credit 4 buy the grain she needs,
WE AGREE "with the minority views of four Republidan committeemen who have submitted their own report. They are Reps. Vorys of Ohio, Chiperfield of Illinois, Smith of :Wisconsin and Reece of Tennessee. They say: i “We should not make the government of India a gift it: has not asked for. We should make India a loan which caf be repaid in strategic materials.” : The total program—our gift to Nehru's socialist goverfment which has sided with the Chinese Reds who are iifling Americans in Korea—will cost $190 million. A barter deal would cost nothing. Both parties would get value received. The India relief bill should be rejected asa costly, unsolicited, over-generous handout which would defeat its own purpose.
Soviet Soft Spot JYFORMED London quarters say the United States is seeking permission from Britain to station warplanes for extended periods. at 14 British airfields spotted throughout the Middle Fast. i The plan is said to be part of a general program to blish a chain of bases around the borders of Russig. Plan funds have been used to build up major fields at: three points in Greece, and other sec ondary fields a being improved. : There's been no indication from Britain yet. But the deserves British co-operation. It is a recognition, first, the fact that we need more European and African bases ‘make our new bombers of intermediate range most ful; and, second, that the Middle East—with its rich oil purces—must be protected from Russian designs. i Not to be overlooked, either, is the fact that the porof Russia closest to Mediterranean bases contain the helming bulk of existing Soviet oil reserves. Russia vulnerable to crippling assault in its southern
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SIDE GLANCES
WHAT'S AN AGENDA? .
PARIS, Mar. 8— American fears than Stalin ‘wants the Big Four Conference for propaganda purposes instead of genuine negotiations were
‘strengthened by early sessions of the deputy
foreign ministers’ meetirig here. Nothing has happened sb far to support the French and British belief that Stalin is going to
offer a real compromise which would justify the
foreign ministers getting together. On the third day of the conference yesterday the deputies bogged down on the same question which Tuesday took five hours without the slightest progress, Believe it or not, that question is: What is an agenda?
URUGUAY
of notes that Moscow had
.. By Ludwell Denny i
Looks Like Joe Wants Another Propagando. Sounding
Yesterday's mee! was called to’ see whether the Allies and Russia can agree on an agenda. But it is first necessary to define the agenda. The Allies thought in the February exchange accepted the definition of as a list of subjects for discussion and definitely not as another propaganda statement. In diplomatic language, the deputies were going to talk about procedure instead of substance. That's what America’ s Philip. Jessup reminded Russia’s Andrei Gromyko of Tuesday and that is what the Russian objected to at
Not Exactly Old Blood and Guts
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. By ‘Frederick C. Othman
Inauguration of Presidents Is a Happy, Refreshing Ceremony
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Mar. 8 How was I to know that a new president was being inaugurated in this tidiest of South American gountriea? There wasn't ri shooti ROLLE, First inkling of somethin Pwas arrival on the main drag of . troop of soldiers straight off the stage of a second-rate comic opera, They wore tail hats with blue plumes on top, gold straps around their chins, long-tailed blue coats §@
with golden epaulettes on the shoulders and red felt diamonds basted on the rear, sky blue pants with red stripes two inches wide, highly polished black boots and-T give you my word —white spats.
The gold braid was 2 tarnished, the blue cloth was threadbare, and there was something peculiarly seedy about the entire turnout. I almost laughed, but not quite. I'm glad I didn't because I got to talking to a young Heutenant in one of these stagey costumes, while we waited for the crowds to assemble in front of the presidential palace. He explained that when the Uruguayans finally chased out the British in 1830 and thereby achieved freedom, the army used these same brilliantly colored clothes as dress uniforms. Ever since then these suits have been in moth balls and while they have been patched, refurbished and in some cases replaced over the generations, they are the same the army wore on its biggest day. Since then these costumes have been worn only for the inauguration of presidents and I don't suppose I've ever run across a happier piece of sentimentalism. A brilliant sun was beating down and a warm wind was blowing across the River Plate when ‘the incoming and outgoing presidents arrived for the big moment. They did their stuff on an open platform across the street from the palace: Don Luis Batlle Berres handed the ribbon of high office to Don Andres Martinez Trueba. Then they embraced
By Galbraith
each other, but did not kiss. And the only funny sight on this hot, midsummer afternoon was that of all the foreign ambassadors sweating in their black, full dress suits, with hard-boiled shirts, white ties, and high silk hats. They tried to look dignified, but managed only to appear damp. Into the night the presidential champagne flowed, while the people—many in Mardi Gras costume—trooped the streets and cut capers to the tunes of numerous marching bands. There never was a pleasanter evening anywhere. Nobody sore. No politicians exiled, or even jailed. Everybody obviously was approving the result of an honest election and while this isn’t unique in South America, I think it's fair to call it unusual. Uruguay, in fact, is unusual in many ways. So stable is the government that the wealthy from all over the world now are sending their money here for safe keeping. ‘They know the government won't pass any cockeyed laws confiscating their pesos; they are reasonably sure no atom bombs will be dropped on the banks of Montevideo. As a consequence and despite its lack of even a small hill, Uruguay is becoming known as the Switzerland of South America banker to the rest of a troubled globe,
Just Pajama Money
THE POUNDS, francs and dollars that come here for safe keeping are known to the natives as pajama money. It merely sleeps here for a while and then is invested somewhere else. Some of it stays even so, with the ‘result that the Uruguayan peso is one of the solidest pieces of cash on earth. Like dollars and Swiss francs, it is something more than a pretty plece of paper. The climate’'s excellent; the beaches and the steaks are superb. The result of all this utopfanism is that many a man sent here from far places to run a packing house, a woolen mill, or a chemical factory, decides to spend the rest of his days under the Uruguayan sun. That leads to the national motto: The sun is for everybody. The more you -think that one over, the better it sounds. I mean I doff my hat to Jruguay.
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then-Allies, “Tehran was destined to be the post-war bible of communism. That is, until Moscow decided otherwise, ruled out post-war co-operation with the democracies and lopped off Browder’s political head. But, back in 1944, while Browder still was riding high, galley proofs of the book were rushed to Washington before it was published, according to Gus. They were read “by high government officials who suggested changes.” And Browder made the revisions before even the party’s own national committee got a crack at the proofs. Isn't there some congressional committee with the subpena power that wants to question Gus Hall further—in the interests of historic re“search?
CERTAIN literary circles here (e. g., Little, Brown & Co., Boston) still view Howard Fast as the great American
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~ "Before | could start improving him, as you told me to, Mother,
historical novelist. Mr. Fast holds himself in scarcely less estee , it was with joy that Czechoslovak Com-
NEW YORK, Mar. 8—-Gus Hall, the Communist Party's interim national secretary (while Eugene Dennis is in the clink),
even greater length yesterday. Mr. Jessup, in
objective agenda wt; a bunch of propaganda to Gromyko denied and My, The public pe conclude, however, that all this argument about definition is futile hair-splitting. vie ees an ent ro Ens a. wpoin y no o or te da can be permitted. The ,only excuse for the Foreign Ministers Conference is an attempt to remove the causes of conflict and the only honest purpose of an agenda is to allow discussion of those causes.
Just Can't Agree BUT THAT is just the rub. Since Soviet aggression, militarism and treaty violations are the origin of the East-West conflict, even an objective listing of the causes is a condemnation of Russia. Sheer facts are too devastating to
be mentioned so Stalin can’t agree on anything resembling an agenda which is an agenda. Thus his proposals only state conditions which the world deplores, or better, results which the world desires. Specifically: His first point reads: “Fulfillment by the four powers of the Potsdam agreement regarding the demilitarization of Germany and the prohibition of the remilitarization of Germany.” This ignores the cause, namely that he destroyed the Potsdam agreement long ago by spitting Germany, creating the puppet East German state and arming it. Omit the cause
and Stalin appears as a pacifist facing Allled -
warmongers.
The same 8 true of fis second agenda {tem
on speeding a German peace treaty, to permit the withdrawal of occupation forces. Obviously no treaty can be made until Stalin permits a unified, representative German government by
MAIL STILL GOES THROUGH . . Is Big Senate Telegraph Bill Due for a Sharp Tumble Soon?
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8—The Senate Rules Committee directed its staff to recommend ways
of curbing the abuse of the free telegraph .
privileges enjoyed by Senators. The move was prompted by newspaper disclosures that a few Senators have been using the free telegraph privilege as a means of setting up a press and radio news service to publicize their individual opinions, But the problem goes much deeper. ‘Currently, the Sénate is estimated to
be running up a bill in excess of $400,800 a
year in free telegrams. In the most recent Senate tally, one Senator sent out 6232. telegrams in seven months. Others sent fewer than 50. Senators can be free with telegrams because, unlike members of the House, there is no limit on their official messages.
A Reason Why
THERE are reasons why some Senate offices favor Western Union.
One reason is that any airmail or special delivery costs above $106 a year per Senator must be paid for out of the Senators’ own funds. The congressional franking privilege is confined to ordinary three-cent mail. Challenges are infrequent, but after a turndown the Senate staffs generally find a way to use a less expensive method of transmission. For example, when the Lincoln Day dinners were held ‘in Washington State this year, the greetings of Sen. Harry Cain (R.) arrived by airmail. Last year, Mr. Cain's greetings were
sent by telegraph. Earler this year, in the first news story about the Senate's abuse of telegraph privi-
"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
‘Best Looking Judge’ MR. EDITOR: George Ober is the best looking judge by far. I wouldn't trade him for any star. He's kind to widows and thelr kiddies t00. Won't take a bribe (one of the few), 80 I nominate Judge Ober to be The best looking judge from sea to sea.
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‘Big Bag of Wind’ NRT
Yes, I finely found out what a price ceiling is. It ain’t nuthin’ lack I figgered it was. Went in a lot of stores and I saw the prices was jest as high on stuff a settin’ on the floors as they was on the shelves clost to the ceiling. That didn't ‘get me nowheres, So I had to call for help. Yesterday, some people carried me out to the airport. They said
. By Frederick Woltman
Doesn't Somebody Want to Talk to Gus?
THE COMMIES have dug up The government
a new plot:
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free election. "And the withdrawal of 00 forces now would leave Germany easy.
causes—neither the superior . armed forces which he blandly , mor his: illegal and aggressive control of the armed oil 2 ellite: states which he also denies. And yet his proposed agenda, to the average” busy reader in America or in Western Europe, may. appear. not. only plausible .but a positive ;' platform for peace and freedom. If so Stalin—simply by deviousness beyond * comprehension to ordinary peace-loving people ’ —+is beginning to repeat here his propaganda :- victories at all the earlier conferences.
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. By James Daniel
BEC EIZ a0 Vas
leges, The Times alluded briefly to Sen. Cain in the following sentence: Te
“Sen. Cain, an advocate of government economy, was disallowed $1400 in telegrams « sent to GOP party workers last year.” . Last week, on the Senate floor, Sen. Cain ~ denied the story. Hg said he was thinking = about protecting himself against charges mw the next election. Mr. Cain and his adniistrative assistant,
Irving Thomas, now quaify te" genial, as~ : : Fx
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‘You Know the Dodges’ - @ WHEN Mr. Cain’s.1950 Lincoln Day messages + . were? being sent, an “inexperienced” stenographer sent out the first of them charged to Mr, Cain's official (free) account. Another stenog- = rapher took over and sént the bulk of them = charged to Mr. Cain personally. She also asked J Western Union to make the first ones personal, » too. In March Sen. Cain received a bill for: $311. “Wanting to save the boss money,” Mr.= Thomas asked the Capitol manager of Western: Union if the telegrams could be put on the offi-s cial account. The. manager referred him tos Senate. Sergeant-at-Arms Joseph Duke, = Mr. Thomas says he told Mr. Duke, “you've =
+ been around a long time. You know the tricks =
and dodges. Is there any legitimate way the?’ * Senator won't have to pay these?” ™ Mr. Duke said there wasn't. =
Mr. Thomas sald he then wrote the Wash- 5 ington State Republican Committee chairman > and his finance officer asking them to pay the =» bill. They declined. On June 2, 1950—over three. “w months after the charges were incurred—Mr, = ” Thomas paid on behalf of Sen. Cain.
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there was a ceiling out there. I could tell it way’ sky high just by looking up in the clouds. ™ All at oncet I noticed a big bag of wind, ™* It was ablowin’ straight out like a vakum cleener bag on a clotheslin. The wind wase from the east. (the nation’s capital?) Anyway, it was awful strong. Perty soon a airplane flew.. over. “ Didn't look to me like he hit the ceiling’: anywheres along the line. Now I'druther doubt if they is sech a thing as a very low price ¥ ceiling on anything either. If they is I shore :;
cain’t tell it. —Aunt Fannie II, City. = “ ‘Give It to "em’ p MR. EDITOR: a Re. your editorial ‘“One-Trouser Suits" ™
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(Times, Mar. 3): Give it to em. Another example of big business domination, < In the language of President Truman, thesea grafting, cheating, misleading, lying and abso-¥* lutely., unpatriotic Big Businessmen should be i. forced to make“suits with three pairs of trousers = so one suit could be worth two or three seasons = = if necessary for cloth conservation. a One coat will wear out three pairs of trousers i+ any time. In spring, summer and the fall of J the year, few people wear a coat at any time. Coats are usually as good as new when the trousers are worn out. . —Anti-Fraud in Business, City. : > s=.
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One tribute came from Rdbert Morse Lovett, wartime gov->
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dropped a provocative revelation at a gathering of the faithful here. It concerned Earl Browder and Browder’s wartime opus, “Tehran, Our Path in War and Peace.” Churchill-Stalin Tehran Declaration of common unity among the
Based on the Roosevelt-
munists disclosed his new play, “Thirty Pieces of Silver,” is to be world premiered in Prague soon.
They also made public a letter from Fast claiming, with his usual modesty, that “murderous Fascists” high up in the U. 8. government have imprisoned him “behind the only iron curtain that really exists—behind the terrible and monstrous curtain that separates the United States from the rest of the world.” Broadway refused to produce his play, wrote Fast, because ‘free culture and free literature” cannot exist here. “In the American commercial theater and movies there is no place for anything but dirt, pornography and Insolence.” This, naturally, made welcome Cominform propaganda. Novelist Fast in- November, 1949, delivered himself of the following lulu: “, .. in the Communist Party is enshrined the future and the hope of mankind . . . There is no nobler, no finer product of man’s
this year deliberately played down Washington's Birthday.
“How timidly,” sang the Daily Worker, “did the big money boys commemorate
George Washington's birthday this year! After all, Washington, . despite his landowner status, was a magnificient mili-tary-revolutionary leader . . . There is altogether too much popular revolution going on in the world today to suit the billionaires and the stripedpants empire builders in the State Departmept. i Only Marxism can appreciate and honor our country’s revolutionary heritage today.”
* » » BUT DESPITE the tears, the Daily Worker itself didn’t even get around to mentioning George Washington on Wash-
~ ington’s Birthday. It was too
busy. whooping up the party's gala 70th birthday tribute to “the greatest living American.” To wit, Willlam Z. Foster, whose heart ailment enabled the party's national chairman to wiggle out of the Red conspiracy trial but didn’t prevent him from grinding out a 668page “Outline Political History
' of the Americas.”
ernor of the Virgin Islands, «
now an English prof. at Fisk " University. Profi Lovett la-a» mented Foster's “loss as an¥® active organizer in the trade i movement of the United States, = of which he was a mastermind. ” = It was Dr. Lovett whom Con- * gress, because of his vast Com- .- - munist front connections, tried -: to force out of the federal past ° “ in 1943 by withholding his pay. 3 Later the Supreme Court fn- * validated the discharge, ' I
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The empty chair that stands 7: alone . . . bespeaks the days .. gone by . . . when two hearts beat as one dear . . . with a ie th « + + the, chair where you and XI did dream . . , ‘until the morn-"* ing light . . . now brings me. only memories . . . of love we = shared each night . . . I gize”
CEFPBIVELY
-and if I chance to stare . . .:, . I see your image there . . .-
and starlight shining in the’ room . . . forms halos fori your hair . . . to say I need: you pal of mine . . . would? only part explain . . . thes loneliness that rules my hears” +» + o until we meet again.
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