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Give lAght ana the People Will Find Their Own Way

All Honorable Men RESIDENT TRUMAN expressed full confidence in the members of his official family. The men around him, Mr. Truman told his news conference at Key West, are honorable men, all of them; he wouldn't have them if they weren't. Asked about published criticisms reflecting on the

moral and ethical standards of some of his White House

employees, the President said, point blank and categorically, that is not true. Such loyalty, even in Presidents, is rare —but not unique. : Warren G. Harding also had confidence in the men around him. Unfortunately, many of Mr. Truman's fellow citizens find it impossible to sharé his faith in the honor of all members of his official. family...

» n » : THEIR confidence has been shaken by matters never satisfactorily explained—most recently by what has been brought to light through the Fulbright subcommittee’s investigation of “influence and favoritism” in the Reconstruction Finance Corp. ;

The name of Donald S. Dawson, one of Mr. Truman's

top administrative assistants, has come up again and again in connection with RFC -loans which seemed of * questionable merit. So has the name of William M. Boyle Jr., who, to be sure, is not a White House employee but who; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, may fairly be described as one of the men around the President. Mr. Dawson, though offered opportunity, has not seen fit to go before the Fulbright subcommittee and answer questions about whether his influence was used improperly.

v ¥ 8 . . +» MR. BOYLE, likewise, has not seen fit to volunteer his testimony. i ; Th Mr. Truman now has a shining opportunity to prove,

by asking them to testify, that his full confidence in these

gentlemen is not misplaced. .

By doing that, he might accomplish much toward restoring public confidence in them, and id the men who serve as directors of the RFC by his appointment, and in himself. : We hope that Mr. Truman will do that. - If he does not, it is not likely that there will ever te much public confidence in any reorganization of the RFC by act of Mr. Truman.

‘Nehru Sets Us Straight

RIME MINISTER NEHRU'S government of India is disturbed by quotations ascribed to Dr. Bharatan Kumarappa, Indian delegate to the United Nations Social Commission, who spoke last month in Dallas. i The Indian government fears his remarks may prejudice Congressmen against passage of the grain-gift-to-India bill. A minority report of the House Foreign Affairs Committee did, indeed, quote Dr. Kumarappa briefly, singling out some harsh words against American and Western “imperialism,” and some praise of the Chinese Communist movement. The Indian embassy in Washington has sent to the Scripps-Howard newspapers the complete text of the delegate’s speech, disavowing his views as unofficial and saying

that the Indian government took no responsibility for them. » » »

» r » A READING of the text discloses that Dr. Kumarappa was almost equally critical of Russia's methods while at the same time acknowledging India's attraction to the “ideal” of communism. On a whole, the speech emphasized his country’s desire for neutrality in a plague-on-both-your-Houses sort of way. For more authentic light on what India thinks of communism, then, maybe we'd better turn to Mr. Nehru's own policy statements made this week in New Delhi. Continuous talk about communism, he said, was a ‘bogey, which confuses thinking. The amount of paucity (sic) of thought in the world is amazing. There seems to be no intelligence left”—except, implicity, in India. “We don't deal with communism as such in this country,” Mr. Nehru continued, “but with terrorists and violence. We allow communism to function in large parts of India.” : : But if communism should desire to function in even larger parts of his country, Mr. Nehru does not say what India can or would do about it.

Liaison Man : JOSEPH E. CASEY, former Democratic Congressman ; from Massachusetts, is serving “without compensation” as liaison man between Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston and Congress. Republican Senators on the subcommittee investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corp. want to know how come.

Well, Mr. Casey, who has been practicing law in Wash-

ington for some 10 years, certainly does seem to have learned his way around the Capital City. He and Attorney Joseph H. Rosenbaum—the man who paid for Mrs. Merl Young's $9540 mink coat—appear to have been remarkably successful in helping clients to get RFC loans. Then, too, high prices are among the Economic Stabilizer's problems, and Mr. Casey clearly is something of an authority on that subject.

. » . ~ ~ » HE AND Mr. Rosenbaum were associated in two gcompanies which bought five ships from the government's Maritime Commission, sold them at a $2.8 million profit, ~ and enabled Mr. Casey to run his own $20,000 investment up to $270,000. The Economic Stabilizer also has to worry about wages, and Mr. Casey isn't getting any for his liaison activities. .This makes it unnecessary to worry about his wages. ~ Whether Mr. Casey can well afford to serve without compensation is, of course, another question. But those Republican Senators surely have heard enough in the RFC hearings to convince them that some people in Washington are just so unselfishly devoted to public service that they “wouldn't think of asking for official pay.

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PERUVIAN POLITICS . . . By Frederick C. Othman Prisoner in the Embassy—

LIMA, Peru, Mar. 17—1I went calling on Victor Raul Haya De La Torre, the man who came to dinner and stayed two years, but the soldado out front in the polished brass hat said nothing doing. For emphasis, he patted his submachine gun. : ! So I got out of there while the getting was good’ without ever seeing the . lonesomest man in the world, Opera bouffe never produced a story as comic as his, with such tragic overtones. And maybe we'd better skip the . comic part; you judge for yourself: " . Two years ago De La Torre started a revolution against the present government. A number of people were shot in the nearby Port hg and but the federals put

down the upris and began hunting for De La Torre on charges of murder. He was too slick. That same night, so the story goes, he became a female impersonator. In long black skirt, black hat and a veil to match, he appeared at the magnificent white stucco embassy of Colombia on Avenida Arequipa and asked for sanctuary as a political refugee. The ambassador let him in. So long as he stayed on this patch of Colombian territory, there was - nothing the Peruvian police could do. So he stayed. He's still staying. The locals figured he might try some dark night to sneak out. So they called in the ditch diggers to repair tHe sewers in the vicinity. These huskies dug trenches four feet deep into all the streets surrounding the mansion and dropped in them a few lengths of iron pipe to make the job look genuine. Then they stopped work. So now we've got a moat around the embassy which De La Torre's followers couldn't cross with anything less than a Sherman tank. That is not all.

Police Force PARKED by the ditches are three police cars, loaded with riot guns and tear gas. A half dozen motorcycle police stand by. At the iron gates to the grounds lounge plainclothes cops with bulges under their blue serge coats. On

the far side of each ditch stand an assortmént of uniformed police with machine guns. This guard functions on three shifts, day and night, and dull work it is, too. . The policia at first had something to do examining the ambassador and his gwests, with particular scrutiny of the ladies to make sure they weren't De La Torre in disguise. The poor old ambassador finally got so tired of leaping moats and running police gauntlets that he gave up and went home. He turned the establishment over to his charge d'affaires. The latter found it expedient-to-do business downtown, without machine gunners for doormen. So now there's nobody in the embassy

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except De La Torre, who long since'ran out of reading matter and who doesn’t even have a television set,” and three servants. mozos bring in food; they're resigned to having their market baskets examined on each trip.

; So the police and pdesersby spend their -

time gazing at. the embassy’s heavily draped windows, but never yet have they had a glimpse of De La Torre. My own friends here think that perhaps he already has escaped. The government of Peru barely is speaking to the government of Colombia. The learned judges of the International Court of Juktice at the Hague -have ruled that De La Torre should be turned over to the Peruvians. Colombia still figures he’s a political refugee and as such deserves safety, no matter how badly he has disrupted the ambassador’s home life. So as I say I went’ to call on Don Raul And as I got out of the car and started to leap the ditch, up came the man in the brown uniform and the brass hat. I told him I wanted to see a friend inside. He said, nada. He was not smiling. He started to lift his gun and I suddenly remembered an engagement on the other side of town.

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THE SHAMROCK green on every - the end of the , must surely have named Irish and gown HO a: the counties, lowns, lakes mountains of lanation. It is the talisman of 4 staunch and ; . heritage from the Emerald Isle. If you catch a leprechaun by his beard and To many, “Irish” means potatoes, peat and stare unblinkingly, he'll lead you to his pigs. Bure, and the Hibernians are as down to the Irish know. . . .but the only Little to earth as the potatoes venture down Tin Pan Alley wound up exhausted they tend, the peat after three season’s of * s Rainbow,” sing-

pogs they trod and the pig they keep in the parlor. Yet what nationality has contributed as much international folklore and song as the sentimental, the moody, the lilting, the lyrical, the witty, the

The sons of the old sod themselves are to blame, however, if everyone is prone to think of them only as the Irish cop on the beat armed with their fa-

ther’s old shillelagh in search of the guy who put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder. They libel themselves with endless repetition,

Smiling Irish Eyes

FOR generations, smiling Irish eyes have winked at us from the bank of the River Shanmon, the Vale of Tralee, the Town in the old

County Down, Dublin's fair city, mepiorable .

County Cork and dear old Donegal. oot But there's more to Erin: topography that is worthy of song. The leprechauns, those odd little white-bearded men who know, the path to

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‘Don’t Blame Trucks’

MR. EDITOR: A truck doesn’t have to be very heavy to make water leap out of the ‘seams in a con-crete-slab road. I followed a furniture truck

from an Indianapolis store one day and noticed -

the same thing. ’ Further, in. Ohio, I recently drove some lightly traveled secondary roads that had completely gone to pieces from water that had seeped Into surface erache 2nd then frozen. . *

1 FEEL, therefore, that the trouble lies not with trucks but with road construction. You can't just lay a succession of concrete slabs in the mud, with seams between, and expect

them to hold up. ...

* ‘As to passing trucks, it's been my experience " that drivers are very. courteous and accommo-

dating, indicating by flasher signal when the road ahéad is clear. : Truck transportation helps a lot, I feel, in holdi down Eo or consumed. Better roads will be found, therefore, I believe, to be the perma-

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A fraction of what we waste in wars would

build them. —Fred Wellman, City.

MR. EDITOR:

. . . Disgusted ‘Taxpayer . . . to me you are disgusting. What would you do without trucks? . .. Do you have to pay for permits to travel on the roads? Oh, no, but the truckers do and they pay plenty. = . . . Good roads can be built, you know, if they leave politics out of it. hs

—A Truck Owner, City.

PARTY LINE . . . By Frederick Woltman ~ Reds Reprint Stalin Interview.

NEW YORK, Mar. 17—“STALIN SPEAKS FOR PEACE” is how the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship ecstatically labels the Red Premier's Feb. 16 blast at the United Nations. He called it “an instrument of war.” Under that title, the council has just reprinted Stalin's rigged-up Pravda interview in pamphlet form. It's distributing several hundred thousand copies on New York City streetcorners and tens of thousands more across the country. You can buy the reprints in lots of 1000 for $5. This council is one of the stranger, more deceptive of the Commie fronts operating here. For years we've been calling it “the foremost pro-

Soviet propaganda agency in Joe Stalin America.” Never once had a ...old stuff squawk. If anything, the

insiders seem proud of the designation. During the Red-Army-is-our-ally era, the council staged bang-up rallies in Madison Square Garden with such distinguished guests as Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Afterwards, it continued to grind out Russian foreign office stuff behind a sponsorship facade of U. 8. Senators, Protestant bishops, professors, a few industrialists. Late in 1946, a raft of resignations occurred, led by former Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Gerard Swope, retired president of General Electric, however, stood by the couneil-at-the time, “In the last six months, the council has dropped the list of sponsors from its létterhead, possibly due to so many withdrawals.

administration.

days the case of Republican Sen. Joseph Burton of Kansas. Sen. Burton was indicted, convicted, jailed and forced to resign from the Senate because

of a $2500 fee - a paltry amount (even considering inflation) compared to the sums mentioned in testimony before the Fulbright investigating subcommittee. Sen. Burton's case went to the U. 8. Supreme Court and his conviction was upheld, » ” . HE HAD agreed to répresent a private concern for a fee in a case before the Postmaster General. . The firm, the Rialto Grain and Securities Corp. of St.

by the Post Office Department to determine whether the company was engaged in a scheme to obtain money through the 211 mails under false pretenses. The company needed influence in high places and Sen. Burton was hired to represent «it at a monthly fee of $500.

Current directors include Philip J. Jaffe, Corliss Lamont, Rev, William Howard Melish, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Rt. Rev. Arthur W. Moulton, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Utah, and Muriel Draper. WG Db DAILY WORKER, Mar. 5: “Speaking at the funeral of Dorothy Jenkins, Negro woman Communist leader who died of cancer last Thursday, Benjamin J. Davis (ex-Councilman) blamed her untimely death at the age of 33 on the capitalists who profit from wars, jimcrow ghettos and racism. ‘We have to hold the warmakers responsible,’ Davis declared. . . .”

Hot off the government printing press is the

most complete and authoritative list of Communist and Communist front enterprises. The 156-

page booklet lists a grand total of 825, including

the 200-odd so designated by the Justice Department. Prepared by the House Un-American Activities Committee, the list is based on the findings of official government agencies—federal, state, and municipal. Moreover, the sources are cited for each of the 825 Commie outfits, often with handy, thumbnail, quotes that pin down their party tie-ins. No fewer than 76 fronts begin with the word “American.” Price: 35 cents, Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. Title: “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications.”

THE MAGAZINE Soviet Russia Today, for 19- years the Kremlin's sounding board in -the U. 8., has taken on a new name. Henceforth, it will be known as “New World Review,” thus sloughing off the odious connotations in the original title.

INFLUENCE PEDDLERS . . . By Earl Richert

"badly mistaken. : The Remocratic Party in this city does not’

fhe cost of ‘everything that's

ing lyrics by non-Gaelic E. Y, (Yip) Harburg. Vries be an enterprising song writer, from the North Atlantic area, with only an Atlas for inspiration, could knock out a little ditty to rival “Bali-Hal’ For instance: There's Ballyragpett, Ballygar, Ballybay and Ballygaley Ballyconnell, Ballykelly. Ballycarrigy, Ballycarney, Ballysjamesduff and Ballynahinch * Ballynakill—you see it's a cinch.

For Beginners : OR FOR the beginners’ brogue, a map-read-er might make the hit parade with: Kilmurry, Kilkelly, Killaloe, Killy Kilmacthomas, Kilhenny, Killeschandra, Kildee. : Downpatrick, Knockmealdown, Donaghadee, Antrim, ° Dromarak, Knocktopher—'tis a Gaelic nursery rhyme. * : Ah yes, it's a great day for the Irish-—and for the typesetters, who wish, b’gosh and b'gorra, we'd go back to writing about plain Glocca Morra. : . Still the Irish pride that wells in me Compels me to mention Newton O'Mountkennedy. : (Now you should open the window and let a little Erin.) « ey

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‘No Reformers’

MR. EDITOR:

. The Democratic Party, nationally and locally, has always been the liberal party. We have never had a Democratic Mayor in this city who was a reformer. Democratic prosecutors, judges, sheriffs have all, without exception, believed in the “live and let live” formula. It is with this in mind, that I am amazed that our present acting Mayor, Phil Bayt, is seeking the nomination on the Democratic ticket, His honor has advocated the passage of the in-

- famous anti-lottery bill, and has gone along

with the Republican prosecutor in all things pertaining to laws. : If Mr. Bayt thinks he can get nominated

and elected without the help of the liberal ele-.

ment in his party, ahd in other parties, he is

want a reformer. Mr. Bayt would do well to save his money and his time. The Democrats

want a liberal, and will have one, even if they

have to vote Republican. . -—John J. O’Brien, City.

How Can We Buy 'em?’ MR. EDITOR: : In The Times (Mar. 11) there was a news release from Washington, which stated the government had prepared a booklet for housewives to guide them in the selection of meats for economy. The item further mentioned that this booklet showed how housewives could seek out ‘the less expensive cuts, and how these less expensive cuts could be prepared to get most food value from them. What a waste of government paper and ink, to say nothing about the time of an unnecessary research staff. Any fool knows the facts which this booklet purports to supply. What the average housewife would like to know is how she can buy the meat. —A. J. Schneider, City.

What Others Say—

THE issue is a global one and failure to comprehend this fact carries the germs of freedom’s ultimate destruction. If the fight is not waged with courage and invincible determination to meet the challenge here (in Korea), it will indeed be fought, and possibly lost, on the battlefields of Europe.—General MacArthur,

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY SO FAR the Kefauver Committee hasn't turned up much evidence that crime doesn't pay. code ds ABOUT the best thing for an harassed father to advise his son these days is to hurry and grow up and be President and then stop worrying. “> WORKING for a living is pretty dull compared with knowing the right people

in Washington. ¥ > & ¢

BETSY ROSS could be in mass production today, making flags for government agencies to wrap their budgets in. * @ NOTHING encourages ‘buyers resistance” more than beithg broke. > > PERON is proving once more that all dictators believe in freedom of the suppress.

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Louis, was under investigation

Old-timers cite as the prime example of the spirit of those

(He represented the company for five months.) After news of the Senator's activities leaked out, he was indicted under a Jaw which says it is a rime for a Senator or Congressman to receive a fee for services rendered in any proceeding in

which the U. 8, is a party, directly or indirectly interested. » » »

~ JIM PRESTON, who was head of the Senate Press Gallery in those days, recalls that after the indictment Sen. Burton's Republican colleagues were so shocked and embar-

rassed they asked him not to come back on the Senate floor. “And many's the time we saw Sen. Burton come and look through an oval glass door into the Senate chamber,” Mr. Preston recalls. “It was a pathetic sight.”

After Sen. Burton's conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court on May 21, 1906, Republican Sen. Eugene Hale of Maine introduced a resolution to have the Senate

The Old-Timers Really Roughed 'Em Up

WASHINGTON, Mar. 17—Years ago “influence peddlers” weren't popular in the nation's capital. They were given rough treatment when caught. This was at the turn of the century in Teddy Roosevelt's

Elections and Privileges Com-.

mittee investigate and‘ see what should be done about Sen. Burton's seat in the Senate. 2-8 = BUT SEN. BURTON took care of this problem by resigning on June 4, 1906. Three Supreme Court Justices had dissented from the majority opinion on the ground that the U. 8. government fitself had no pecuniary interest in the mail-fraud case and that thus Sen. Burton was not violating the law. Sen. Burton went back to Abilene, Kas., and died in Los Angeles in 1923. ; “Yes,” muttered the oldtimer, “you once were running a real risk when you went into the influence peddling business around here.”

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