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‘Made in London’ Policies

involved in the Truman's dismissal

controversy of Gen.

WO basic issues were which led to President MacArthur: NN. ONE: The restrictions which compelled | The general to ‘conduct a war of limited operations against Red China. TWO: The relative importance of Asia } in the conflict with communism. Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway is a thoroughly capable officer. But his Korean command wears the same handcuffs that chafed Gen. MacArthur. The President is gambling on the assumption ‘that peace can be achieved by letting the Chinese Reds off with an easv war The politicians in Washington, London and New Delhi are to have their inning before further consideration is given to the question of pushing the war to a successful military conclusion. Meanwhile, Mr. Truman is risking fearful odds in not reinforcing our troops to meet the enemy's spring offensive, if pending peace proposals fail. A bad guess could lead to a military catastrophe. Adequate insurance should be taken so that our forces are not caught in a trap. A > » = » - THE ISSUE between Gen. MacArtnur and the State Department on our policy in Asia involves the security of the United States in a much larger field. In making the original décision to resist the Red attack in South Korea, President Truman apparently intended to extend the Atlantic Pact doctrine to the Pacific area by. drawing a line against Communist aggression everywhere. The United Nations supported that position when it adopted military sanctions against the invading Communists. The British Foreign Office, however, persuaded the State Department to scrap that policy in favor of one of appeasement the moment Red China entered the war. Britain traditionally has regarded Asia as a field for commercial exploitation, and had relatively little concern for the welfare of the Asiatic peoples. Against that background it is understandable why an impoverished Britain, now governed by a Pacifist-socialist regime, should adopt a one-ocean defense program in the search for a cheap and Bmited security. But how can any American statesman or military leader defend such a strategic concept for a country which has both Pacific and Atlantic coasts? Gen. MacArthur raised this question again and again without getting a satisfactory answer. Three years ago, Secretary of State Acheson dismissed the idea of a Pacific defense pact as “premature.” Since that time the State Department has accepted the Downing Street thesis that Europe should have first priority in all measures adopted to contain communism, despite the fact that it was in Asia where we first became involved in World War II. And despite the fact that we are now engaged in a shooting war in Asia. Britain has lost most of her great Indian empire, so today is willing to trade Formosa to the Reds in the hope of buying immunity for her crown colony at Hong Kong. In Gen. MacArthur's view—and who knows the Pacific area better? Formosa is as important to us as France when American security is considered. The Japanese used Formosa as the springboard for their attack on the Philippines, and Formosa could serve the same purpose for the Reds. American policy should not be made in London on this matter. - - = = ® = » IN THE present discussions of a Japanese peace settlement, the British want to impose restrictions upon Japanese shipping, because the two countries are competitors in that field. Again, however, American interests are in the other direction, for we are underwriting the Japanese economy until it can become self-sustaining. These considerations would suggest that the British attitude toward Gen. MacArthur was not due solely to differences of opinion with respect to the Korean War. And now.who is left to speak up for American Interests?

Safety for Dogs . . . and People MANS best friend is rapidly becoming Public Enemy No. 1 in Indianapolis. And it's not the fault of the dogs. Both citizens and officials growl about the number of dogs roaming the streets and the soaring rate of rabies cases here. But the bite of a rabid dog is much worse than these righteous barks. ’ Look at the facts about: (1) dogs: (2) dog owners; (4) dog lovers, and (5) officials.

victims: (3)

The incidence of positive rabies cases so far this year

Warm weather will

is double the same period last year. bring even more cases. Rabid dogs that roam the streets bite other dogs. It is estimated that that one will infect 15 other dogs. People get bitten along the way.

HUMAN victims don't spread the disease. 1f untreated they simply die. If allergic to the Pasteur treatment, the only effective cure: yet developed, they still die. Even the nonallergic find the treatment unpleasant. Owners are required by the quarantine law to confine

their dogs to their own premises. Legally, they can be punished for noncompliance. But the quarantine must be made to stick. It is the

only way to halt the spread of rabies. This law enforced and carried out through the “courts may be the guaranteé of a ripe old age to you, your family, your neighbors and your pet,

No RFC Loan Needed

(GENERAL MOTORS has announced net profits in 1950 of $834 million. This mighty sum exceeds the combined profits of 125 Class: I railroads, and is also well above the

combined earnings of the entire steel industry. It seems

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. By Earl Richert

Can Matt Ridgway Fill MacArthur’ s Shoes In Far East?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 13-=Lieut. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has proved himself, as his

friends said -he would, an exceptionally able field commander.

But what about his capabilities and quali

fications to assume completely the full role of Gen. MacArthur's powers—running Japan, serving as United Nations Commander, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and Com manding General for the U, 8. Army in the Far Fast? ¢ + ¢

“JUST WATCH our boy Matt Ridgway go,” i= the confident answer of the Ridgway supporters. - ~ There has for some time heen a growing Ridgway cult in the Pentagon. To them, there was only one place for Gen, Ridgway to go the top. And he’s close to it now. His friends recall that It was Gen. MacArthur who personally called for Gen, Ridgway to come to Korea during Christmas week to take over the command vacated by the death

army in Korea, something Gen, Walker hadn't had. At that time newspaper stories emphasized (Gen. Ridgway's abilities as a field commander, his great personal daring, his parachute jumping with his troops, etc.

His friends, however, also stressed his capabilities as an administrator the role he'll play now.

What about his experience as an administrator? Before being ordered to Korea, he served as deputy chief of staff for administration of the Army. In that job, he was the actual administrative head of the entire U. S. Army and cables from Korea came directly to him at the Pentagon. S$. b

WHAT KNOWLEDGE does he have of the Orient” Certainly not as much as Gen. MacArthur. Probably no man in America could

match Gen. MacArthur. But Gen. Ridgway has had several assignments in the Far East, prior to the present one.

years later he was named liaison officer to the .

insular. government in the Philippines and served as technical adviser to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt Jr, After the end of World War II in Europe, he was ordered to the Philippines, again at Gen. MacArthur's request, to plan the scheduled airborne invasion of Japan.

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WHAT ABOUT his qualifications to deal with diplomatic problems? In the late 1920's, he was on duty in Nicaragua with the American Electoral Commission. Later he worked for another commission which was seeking to settle a boundary dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay. After end of the war with Japan, Gen. Ridgway was appointed Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for the Mediterranean, a job in which he worked with representatives of other nations. He was’ then assigned to represent Gen. Eisenhower on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations and in October, 1947, was named senior U. 8. Army member of the United Nations Military Staff Committee. So

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and as chairman of the Inter-American Detense Board. It is expected that Gen. Ridgway will keep Gen. MacArthur's administrative setup for Japan as intact as possible for the few months remaining before the hoped-for Japanese peace treaty is signed. Some observers think Gen. Ridgway may be more stern on Japanese matters than Gen: MacArthur was. Gen. Ridgway is a strong family man and has written home daily since going to Korea, His wife, who likely will join him now in Tokyo, has received 109 letters from him, ® %*

GEN. RIDGWAY also goes in for trademarks During his service In Korea, the general has always embellished his uniform with at least one live grenade hooked to a shoulder strap. These live grenades have become as symbolic as the late Gen. George Patton's pearl- handled six-shooters. Here's how his friends describe him: He's aggressive and decisive. He never wavers. He's tops as both an administrator and

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VAN FLEET—

A Miracle In Korea?

By JAMES DANIEL WASHINGTON, Apr. 13-1In picking Lieut. Gen. James A. Van Fleet to head the 8th Army in Korea, President Truman and Defense Secretary (George Marshall obviously are hoping that the. man who worked a near miracle in Greece will be able to repeat. Gen. Van Fleet headed the American “Military Mission to Greece from February, 1948, to August, 1950, in the critical period when the Communist guerrilla invasion from Greece's Red neighbors was met and reversed He arrived in Greece when the guerrillas were 13 miles from Athens, the capital. When he left, 18 months later, the guerrillas had ceased to exist, except in small ineffectual bands in the mountains on (ireece's borders. = ~ = GEN. VAN FLEET often was at the frontier, encouraging the Greek commanders to counterattack. They had been huddling in frightened garrisons, trving to protect each town and village and ending bv not being strong enough to defeat a concentrated Communist attack. The Communists made one effort to blow up a train on which the general was riding. His example of braving danger was so compelling that soon those Greek generals who had preferred the safety of Athens were following him. The Greek campaign was small potatoes compared with the war in Korea. But there is one significant parallel. Just as it's politically impossible in Korea for the defenders ‘to strike back at the source of Red strength in Manchuria, so in Greece the legitimate government had to defeat a Communist invasion without hitting its foreign bases. If this also can be done to the Chinese Reds in Korea, Gen. Van Fleet's supporters say he's the man who can do it.

= - w PHYSICALLY, he's 59 but looks younger, of average height and bulky build, with a friendly face. His eyes are blue, hair brown and gray and tousled. Getting out of a B-25 bomber at Washington Airport Wednesday to receive his new assignment, he wore the most rumpled blue business suit seen here since Will Rogers was

about. The call to succeed Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway

came to Gen. Van Fleet around midnight, Tuesday, at the Orange Grove near Lakeland, Fla., which he inherited from a grandfather. He went there last week-end to throw off a cold and to plant more orange trees.. Mrs. Van Fleet heard the news of his appointment at Ft. Meade, Md. Militarily, the general has the reputation of being one of the Army's most resourceful tacticians. In seven months in World War I], starting with his D-day exploit of leading the first regiment ashore at Utah Beach, he rose from a regimental - commander to a corps commander. He served at practically all the hot spots in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. In the constant bidding for his services, Generals Bradley, Hodges, Simpson, Gerow and Patton at various times counted him as a subordinate

Walton B. Walker. Ridgway was given command of

And Gen.

the . entire troops at Tientsin, China,

In 1925, he commanded a company of U. 8 for a year.

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FRUSTRATED SENATE

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By Frederick C. Othman

MacArthur Gives Way to a Lady

Who Slipped on

WASHINGTON, Apr. 13—-A self-frustrated Senator is a pitiable thing. Ninety-six of ’em, with their tongues hanging out in their anxiety to talk pro and con on the case of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, make a horrendous sight.

So there were the gentlemen, all sét to sound off on the firing of - Gen. Mac, only to discover that by their 33 own rules they had to debate the case of the lady who slipped in the Lowell. Mass., postoffice seven years ago because some careless citizen had smashed a bottle of bug killer on the . marble floor. : The calendar was up for consideration the day after President Truman brqke the big news in the White House and there wasn’t a thing the statesmen could talk about, except the lady's misfortune, the size of rockfish to be sold in the District of Columbia, and how much a judge should charge the government when he drives his own automobile on official business.

Mostly the Senators were red-eyed from sitting up allynight.at their telephones dictating statements on Gen.- MacArthur to news agencies that called and kept on calling. And mostly the gentlemen were primed to deliver devastating speeches on the Korean situation. But they had to consider the unhappy accident of Mrs. Rose A. Mongrain, proprietor of the Rose Beauty Shoppe of Lowell. I guess we'd better join ‘em, Mrs. Mongrain dropped into the postoffice on June 15, 1944, to mail a letter, but there was something wet on the floor by the revolving

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Bug Killer in "44 door and she skidded. This dampness turned out to be oily. Investigation by the postoffice inspectors revealed that it came from a smashed bottle of an.insecticide. The lady tried to pick herself up. but couldn't and no wonder. Her doctor reported that she had suffered a lumbrosacal sprain, a thoracolumbar sprain, hematoma of both knees and also nervous exhaustion. She submitted a bill to the government of $2940.05, including profits lost in the perma-nent-waving business, doctor's bill, medicine and two special corsets that cost her $24. Long before Gen. MacArthur got fired, the House of Representatives had considered her case, whittled down the cost of her damages, and voted to award her $2540.05. This bill came to the Senate Judiciary Comwhich wasn't so sure she'd been so seriously damaged. So fit wrote another bill offering her the right to sue the Postoffice Department, provided she went to court within a year. So the Senators were forced on the fateful afternoon when some of them thought the foreign policy of the nation was coming unstuck to consider the idea of Mrs. Mongrain’s lawsuit.

Rockfish and Judges

SEN. HENRY CABOT LODGE Jr. (PR. Mass.) said this was unfair. Seven years Mrs. Mongrain had suffered. he continued, and the least the Senate could do was agree to give her $2540.05. Chairman Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) of the Judiciary Committee disagreed. Offering her a chance to sue was enough, he insisted. Sen. William Langer (R. N. D.) objected and Mrs. Mongrain’s accident was put off for action later. The gentlemen then considered the rockfish, the mileage charges for judges and nearly 50 other items of equal import. By then the hour was late and I had to leave and that is why I can’t tell you what the statesmen had to say about Gen. MacArthur.

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he is familiar with the United Nations, He has © served as commander of the Caribbean area

a commander. He is courteous and always thinking of the other fellow.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Rosenberg

Spy Case

Without Precedent

WASHINGTON, Apr. 13—When the death sentence was pronounced on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for A-bomb spying, Prof. Allan Nevins of the history department of Columbia University

pointed out that this was without precedent.

In a New York Times interview he said that civil courts never had imposed such a sentence that was carried out, but

only military courts. In the case of the latter, he said, the

Supreme Court has intervened to over -rule the military death sentence against a civilian and let the man go free. The case * was that of Lambain P. g Milligan, Huntington, Ind., attorney, who was .sena ms on Julius Rosenberg treason because of his outspoken opposition to the Civil War. | Indiana was under martial law at the time, So a military court condemned Mr. Milligan to death. In- ’ stead, he lived

to be 90. E Besides the military sen-JFy

tence, there also was this difference in

Hoosier and the A -bomb E4he| Rosenberg sptes He never worked underground, but ‘was arrested for speaking in favor of the South's right to secede, based on constitutional grounds, in public addresses at Plymouth and Ft. Wayne in 1863-64. He was no sneak, giving away secrets to a foreign government, nor even a ‘‘copperhead” in the sense of working directly with the Confederates, The Encyclopedia of Biography of Indiana, edited by George. Irving Reed and published in 1869. is among the files covering the Milligan case in the Congressional Library here. It recounts the plan of President Lincoln to free Mr. Milligan from the death sentence and the refusal of President Johnson to do so after Mr. Lincoln was assassinated. These pleas all were backed by the great wartime Indiana Governor, Oliver P. Morton. Finally he was freed by the U. 8. Supreme Court, which ruled that military courts had no right to sentence a civilian in Indiana, so long as the civil courts were available. » - -

THIS IS what Editor Reed reported regarding the matter in 1869: “Col. Lambain P. Milligan is one of the oldest members of the Indiana bar. in active practice. He has been a resident of Huntington since 1845, and is yet, at the age of 83 years, one of the active and

prominent members of the legal profession in Hunting County. He is of Irish descent, through the lineage of both his parents. . .. “He had intended to study medicine, but owing to the tncertainty that prevailed in medical treatment, the wran-

gling and ignorance which pre-

dominated in the profession, he chose the profession of iaw, which he read with great earnestness and mastered with facility. “In 1853, having recovered his health, he resumed the practice of law and soon rouse to the foremost rank of the bar. He seemed to lose sight of self in the interest of his clients and was very successful in his practice. . an = “WHILE prominent and Iinfluential in his political party, he was never a politician and was too frank to make a successful one. While opposed to secession he was also opposed to the coercion of the states by military force. His understanding of the Constitution and theory of the government was that the states had the right to secede. “He therefore, in 1861, opposed with great energy every movement looking to a collision between the North and South. He opposed the conduct of the war and the methods of the government.” Detectives reported his Plymouth and Ft. Wayne speeches and the death sentence followed. But when the Supreme Court finally freed him, here is what happened: “He received an ovation on returning home, the city officials and the populace turning out to meet him. A publie meeting was held in which speeches were made and congratulatory resolutions adopted.” That title “Colonel” came to the fiery Milligan “as the result of his appointment to com- ° mand a regiment in the threatened war between Ohio and Michigan over the disputed boundary” the biography. states. Apparently he believed in war between the states, so long - as the federal government stayed out of it.

JOIN HANDS

IT DOES my heart so good when I... see people holding hands . . . because it signifies that they . . . have answered love's commands . , . It shows that they're contented with + +» « each other's fond caress ++. and that they are Hving in + + + 8 state of happiness . . . it shows me too they have a need . .. of one another's smile * « +.: and that without each other's love . . . life wouldn't be worthwhile . . . how wonderful this life would be . . . if nations did the same . . . and made a point of holding hands «+ « « Instead of pointing blame . « « . oh, yes, it would be won- ° derful . . . if this would come fo be ... but I'm afraid that is one thing . . . my tired eyes : won't see.

—By Ben Burreughs.

HOOSIER FORUM—"‘Local Television Program s Not Really So Bad’

‘Don’t Be Too Hard on 'Em’

‘The Farmer and Prices’

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

become old-fashioned for a person to run their

own business . .. ?

MR. EDITOR:

Uncle Carl Stinks’

In Saturday's Times under the heading °

MR. EDITOR Poor old WEBM-TV has been getting so niany knocks lately from your “Disgusted”

readers that I would like to come to its defense, -

in a limited way, Several weeks ago I was in St. Louis for some time, and found that, like Indianapolis, they have only one channel, although St. Louis i= a much bigger city. Also, they have about the same programs we have. They have a few which we don't get, and likewise we have some which do not reach them. The one program I envy them is the “Show of Shows” on Saturday night. Couldn't WFBM-TV get that show, instead of, say, ‘Cavalcade of Bands.” which comes in like an old-time movie in a poorly developed film? We do appreciate our local station's bringing in the Kefauver investigation, which was not shown in every city, by any means. There are some interesting news reels shown, as well as a good many of the bit programs, so I don't see that we have too much to fuss about. The biggest beef I have is about a few short programs which are outright advertisements in their entirety, and make -no attempt to show any sort of entertainment feature. Of course, you can always turn these off, which is just

"what we do, with a vow never to buy any of

those particular products. Mrs. R. P. R, City.

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MR. EDITOR:

Open letter to Robert Ruark: In regard to your recent article, “Washington Fiddles and We Pay for It,” I assume that you are attacking the fact that farm prices have not been

frozen. Since I never liked the word ignorant, let us say that I believe that you are very much uninformed. 1 hesitate to write this letter as it might I.am defending Washington and that would be far from the truth. It also seems ridiculous because you are in a better position to gather thjs information than I, if you should desire to do so. 2 : As additional qualification, let me say that my husband ‘and I own a farm and he also works in a factory. Thus I am in a position to see both sides of the pig. It is my understanding that farm prices are not frozen because they are below parity. I don’t suppose many people have taken the time or effort to look up the word parity. My dictionary describes it as equality; likeness, like state of degree; anoldgy. SP ELIMINATING the $64 words, parity means that a dollar's worth of hogs or corn or wheat will buy a dollar's worth of farm tools, tractors, fuel or baling wire, Now industry has had their fair trade price, labor has a sliding scale based upon cost of living, so what is so much wrong with .parity in a country where it has

Strange that we don't see articles about the high cost of liquor, cosmetics or golf balls. I don’t believe that the high cost of living Is bothering us so much as the cost of high living. There hmve been too many poison-pen articles of late that only serve to antagonize one group toward ‘another , . . the farmer against labor, labor against capital, capital against labor and everyone against the farmer. It

would seem that we had better co-operate and

try to eliminate the bureaus and high taxes that are playing both ends against the middle. It grieves me to know that a writer of your integrity would indulge in such practices. ' At the present rate we will be writing one another letters threatening to bust noses . . . it is an established practice, you know. —Mrs. George H. Whiteside, City.

‘The Fight vs. Reds’ MR. EDITOR: 3 ’ Our hats off to Irving Leibowitz and The Indianapolis Times for the fine articles recently published on communism in Indiana. We, of the Legion. sincerely appreciated your efforts. The public needs to be acquainted with the facts

and we will be looking forward to any further

efforts on your part. . —Andrew K. Houk, Chairman, Indiana Dept., Un-American Activities Committee, American Legion.

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“Brass Speak Softly to Vinson,” by Paul R. -

Leach, ‘the reading sounds beautiful. But to

the person who has the intelligence to read °

between the lines, I see nothing to praise Uncle

(Carl for. In the first place he is trying to legis- ° late an idea which will regiment some young . men into colleges and regiment others to be . He is double-crossing his fore- * fathers who came to this country from Europe . to establish this country and get away from the

cannon fodder.

religious and military regimentation . . .

In all these 36 years Mr. Vinson has been

in Congress he knew of the chain gangs and brutality in the state of Georgia, of the lynch-

ings and other crimes against the citizens of .

Georgia and the United States and I have yet to hear the first word of protest he ever offered. While Mr. Leach may think Uncle Carl 1s a swell guy, to me, Georgia must be hard up for representation to send term after term a man like him to Congress. . . . I think Vinson stinks, myself. ~James J. Cullings, City

‘Please, Don't Tell’ MR. EDITOR:

Please don’t tell anyone, but T made a $15

wager with an insurance company last Saturday that I would not live another three months and they bet me $4000 that I would, But, pleass, promise me you won't téll. —Henry J. French, Cambridge City

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