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Our Position Abroad

ONGRESS has the opportunity to make an important contribution to national security if it will subordinate partisanship and personalities to a searching review of American foreign policy as a logical development of the MacArthur controversy. Altogether too much mystery and double-dealing has attended this business in recent years. A full-dress examination of the American position in Europe and Asia is long overdue. President Truman made frequent references to “our policy in the Far East” is his speech Wednesday night. But nothing he said clarified our over-all position and objectives in that area, and many things he has said in the past suggest that he is as confused as some of thé rest of us.

WE QUESTION, for example, whether the President could trace the steps by which the United States gradually withdrew its support from Nationalist China, and identify the forces and factors which brought this about. In its “white paper” on China policy the State Department devoted 1045 pages to this general subject without explaining why, after 1945, we adopted an attitude of neutrality between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists. The background of the Korean situation also should be explored. When that country was divided into Russian and American occupation zones, separated by the 38th Parallel, two-thirds of the population was on the American side of the line. A clash between the two areas was inevitable when the occupation troops were withdrawn. Yet the minority under Russian control was so much better prepared for this conflict that the Reds overran most of South Korea in a matter of days after the invasien began. We've paid with blood for that neglect. Who was responsible for the original decision not to defend Korea and for ignoring the considerations which subsequently brought an over-night reversal of that position?

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RIGHT now another “limited war” may be in the making in the Migdle East, with Iran as its present focal point. The British are in serious trouble, and there is a threat of Russian intervention. Has our government made any commitments in this situation, and if so, how well prepared are we to support them? Britain also is having difficulties with Egypt over the Suez and the Sudan, as other backwashes from colonial diplomacy, and our aid is understood to have been sought there. Reasons can be seen for legitimate American concern

in these situations. But it would be reassuring to know-

that the American position is being determined in Washington on the basis of American interests, and not in London, with undue regard for Britain's interests, not all of which are ours. Secretary of State Acheson should be questioned on these matters, so that we will know where we stand without having to wait until such subjects are aired in the British House of Commons.

Watch the RFC

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S plan to give the Reconstruction Finance Corp. a single administrator, in place of its

present five-man board of directors, will go into effect on

Apr. 30. The Senate registered 41-to-33 against the plan yesterday, but that action was ineffective since the law requires the votes of at least 49 Senators—a majority of the total membership—to kill a reorganization proposed by the President. Opponents of the plan in the House also failed recently po knock it out. : We hope that Mr. Truman's plan will prove an improvement. It has a good chance to do that if the President names, as administrator of the big government lending agency, a man of outstanding ability and known integrity. Stuart Symington, reported to’be’the President's choice, is such a man. With authority and responsibility centered in him, he can do the urgently needed job of restoring and maintaining honesty in the operation of the RFC.

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BUT Mr, Truman's hostile attitude toward the Fulbright committee's exposures of “influence and favorjtism” has created grave—and justified—doubt as to his desire for a thorough clean-up of that agency. Mr. Symington, or anyone else, will have no easy task restoring confidence in the RFC. Congress should keep the Fullbright committee, or some equally alert watchdog, on duty to make certain that Mr. Truman's cronies, administrative assistants and political supporters really do keep their hands out of the till. There is strong sentiment in Congress for abolishing the RFC, on the grounds that it has outlived its usefulness and is an unnecessary temptation to favor-seekers and influence-peddlers. While this sentiment may not prevail now, it would become overwhelming at the first evidence that the President's plan is merely a change and not a thorough-going reform,

Legal Problem

THE Appellate Division of New Jersey's Superior Court has ruled, in its wisdom, that a husband can’t be required to pay for things Bought by his wife on a charge account if the purchases are not necessities. : ' Now, will ‘the Solomons on ‘that court please explain how to convince a wife that anything she makes up her mind. to buy is not a necessity? :

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may legally “sport only the feathers of certain birds of captivity reared in the United States.” Wild bird plumage is banned.

No more shall the wild bird adorn her chapeau, No chickadee, bluejay or owl. : The egret and robin and sparrow must go, For somebody just called a foul.” :

And yet when Milady brings home a new hat, There's sure to be one in the house One bird really wild—for no law can stop that hard - working, paying spouse!

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= ” = NO MATTER what they do about the wild bird situation, Pop will still feel that the milliner is robbin’ him. Even though they ban the egret, there's no way they can stop the old man’s regret when Mamma comes home with a new chapeau. And when she goes for a really “exclusive” mo del, there's nothing for him to do but try to raise a.further mortgage on the old chateau. Next day, at the local bridge, Mom sees the same thing on Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones. Then she blows the old top! And buys a new one. twice the price! A fool and his money indeed are soon parted. "Twas back on his wedding day that stuff got started. So what if the hat which his wife gets quite nice is? It “just means for hubby a financial crisis! Unless of course she is one

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of those distaff economic wizards who saves all that money by simply putting the new

dicer on the charge account!

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that Hudson, Mich., couple who

took out a marriage license in 1935 waited until 1951 to tie the knot. Maybe he who hesitates is lost, but at least this guy saved a lot of hat-checks!

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‘Shocking Action’

MR. EDITOR: The President's action in firing General MacArthur fails to come as a surprise, since 1 predicted last fall that the general would be thrown to the wolves by the Truman-Acheson-Marshall crowd within six months after election. Nevertheless, the action is shocking and it would appear to be the first time in American history that a military leader has been dismissed for trying to win a war. . Gen. MacArthur obviously grew- weary of the destruction of 200 American boys each

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Forum planned for this week on prices will have to be delayed for another week. The flood of mail on the MacArthur issue demands immediate attention. However, next week we will have the opportunity of hearing the viewpoints of the farmer and retail grocer concerning food prices.

day in what has come to seem a hopeless war. Failing to receive any support from Truman, Acheson or Marshall in his attempt to define the goals of our Korean effort, he appealed to the American people and to the Congress. He undoubtedly realized his own career was at stake. 1 hope the MacArthur appeal was not in vain and that Congress and the American people will not let him down in this hour of crisis. —C Cecil M. Harden, M. C., a District, Ind. o 5 4

MR. EDITOR: Well. I see the little man in Washington has finally pulled the trick out of the hat that will destroy his whole party in Washington. Gen. MacArthur was a fine Christian man, a gentleman and a soldier. His dismissal was no surprise to me since the consumption of whisky Is double that of any other comparable size city in the world . . . an indication of degeneration in the government. ... At least, they have finally opened the door for the Republican Party to walk in. There are at least 10 million more Republicans in the United States than there were before . . . Stalin must be happy to see the falling apart of the American Command. Anyway, here is a Democrat that will never be a Democrat any more. —Just a Has-Been Democrat, City.

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MR. EDITOR: .} . .. One of those blows that makes you sick at your stomach. What are we coming to when we elect, then allow such a little man to stay in office? Surely something can be done. . It's time to fire him. This is the first time I've written to a newspaper editor ... but I really am alarmed with the way the United States is being run... .. Mrs. Sharon Hunt, City. Sob .

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MR. EDITOR: . What we need up in the White House, and what would do just as much good as Truman, would be a 14-vear-old boy. Both mental attitudes are about the same. . . As for firing Gen. MacArthur, Truman wants to make a name for himself. Well, he did

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EDITOR'S NOTES . . . By MacArthur Issue Swee

THE spontaneous outburst from Indiana over the firing of Gen. MacArthur had no precedent in Hoosier history. Nor, for that matter, in American history. Old-timers culled their memories and students searched their books this week for a

parallel,

like it. Back to 1807 and the Embargo Act. President Thomas Jefferson sponsored the Embargo Act . .. oddly enough for the same motives President Harry Truman sald prompted him to fire Gen. MacArthur.

” " » PRESIDENT JEFFERSON wanted to keep us from getting into a war, The war was already started, between England and France, British warships, always short of sailors, were stopping American vessels on the high seas and taking off, by force, for Navy service any seamen they said were British citizens. Many of those seized were naturalized U. 8. citizens but the British admiralty did not recognize such naturalization, and took them anyway. Popular indignation in this country was high, and when a British man-of-war shot up a U. S. frigate within sight of the the U. S. coast and killed several crew men, it boiled over. Sentiment strongly favored defending U. S. rights and lives. President Jefferson stepped in with his Embargo. It simply forbade any American ship leaving for any foreign port. If we keep off the seas, he reasoned, plainly we can't get into trouble.

~ » n THE REACTION WAS slower, but about as widespread, for that day, as that which followed President Truman's removal of Gen. MacArthur. Commerce ended, shipyards closed, thousands of workers were out of jobs—

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... lots of them. We need more MacArthurs. A man of his standing should be President . .. and the present President should be out hunting frogs in the swamps of his home state. He could

do that. . . maybe. —A Democrat, Until the Next Presidential Election

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MR. EDITOR: - ... Truman really pulled a boner this time. I guess he was afraid MacArthur would take his place in '52. Well, I say, we'd better not wait for 1952 to get a new President or Truman will give the U. S. to Mr. Russia. . . . He almost has already. ~ I'm going to write letters and give talks until I'm blue in the face to get people on their feet. ... —Mrs. Lucy Reese, 2814 N. Adams St. * how MER. EDITOR: Shame on us for forgetting the men in Korea. Shame on us for letting our government wallow in incompetence and treason. If Gen. MacArthur, a man who has been steeped in discipline for 50 years, feels the situation is so desperate that he must throw his career to the winds in order to wake up those at home, then the situation is very, very bad indeed. ... The least we can do is get rid of Mr. Truman and the ever-present Mr. Acheson, together with their cohorts. —F. Ardner, 2625 N. Meridian St. o So

MR. EDITOR: Please accept my congratulations on your editorial (Times—"What Now Mr. Truman’ — Apr. 11). Your paper is one that gives the truth and the facts and that's why we like it. It is through such papers we can be free for now as never before have we faced such a threat to our freedom. —Mrs. Gladys D. Ehrgoth, 6025 Crestview Ave. City

‘Let's Clean Up Washington’ MR. EDITOR: Open letter to the women . this last insult and blemish upon our country’s management is the outcome of the tangle Harry had with our wonderful Gen. MacArthur some weeks ago. Can't somebody send Truman a box of toys to play with while our rights as Americans dwindle away. Talk about changing political horses in the middle of the stream _. that's baby stuff compared to removing a man of MacArthur's record . . . in the middle of a war. : . We've pulled chestnuts out of the fire for every last one of the United Nations members and only receive insults as soon as their pants cool off. It is the most asinine move made in the past 15 years and that is saying a great deal. ... I think it is high time for the women of this nation to rise up and demand reinstatement of the general and an honest-to-John cleanup in Washington . . . —Zionsville Subscriber,

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They had to go back 144 years to find anything remotely

and resentment of an angry nation over the policy of appeasement was almost universal. The law was repealed, after a couple of years, under popular pressure. It had not prevented a war. Appeasement never has. This one came in 1812, all but destroyed this nation, The outburst against President Truman's action last

‘Wednesday came quicker and

was bigger. ~ » n ACTUALLY at issue is the whole foreign policy of the United States, For more than 100 years the United States had insisted that China be freer as a guarantee of peace in the Pacific. Japan's attempt to conquer China was a major cause of the U. 8. war with Japan. But toward the end of World War II that policy was abandoned. Agreements at Yalta resulted in Russia taking over Manchuria, a part of China. Withdrawal of U. S. support from the government of China, our World War II ally, resulted in Russian-backed, and Russian controlled Communists taking over all the rest of China except the large island of Formosa, just off the coast. Formosa had been held for 30 years by Japan, was reconquered by U, S. armed forces and turned over to the Chinese government, which still holds out there with armies of some 500,000 troops.

= n » FROM the base of the China mainland, however, Communist campaigns were launched toward India, through Tibet, toward Malaya, through IndoChina, toward Japan, through Korea, and by internal rebellion in the Philippines. All these are plainly part of a planned Russian program for conquest of all of Asia, If successful it will give Russia control of some 800 million subject people, of the richest source of natural resources (oil, tin, rubber, rice, etc.) in the world, and complete security in the rear if war should begin in Europe. The socialist government of Great Britain. hopeful of keeping the little island of Hong-Kong which it now holds precariously, and of doing business with the Communists in China, has urged appeasement of the Red Chinese at almost any price. Latest proposal was that Formosa be turned over to the Communists, and Chiang Kai-shek liquidated. There has bean strong support inside. our government for that proposal. There has been even stronger support, in the highest circles, for the theory that if we don't offend the Chinese

By Walter Leckrone ps Indiana

Communists they'll Hsten to reason and we can somehow make a deal with them. Meanwhile the Chinese Communists have gone out of their way to insult and offend the United States, contemptuously rebuffed every offer of peace, and finally threw huge armies of their finest troops, equipped with the latest Russian-made weapons, against our forces in

Korea.

About 250,00 U. 8. soldiers are battling about 500,000 Chinese Communist soldiers now. ; » ” " _ S80 FAR in that encounter some 9000 Americans have been killed and another 50,000 wounded, and perhaps 100,000 Chinese killed. Opponents of the Truman-Acheson policy point out that talk about “keeping peace’ with Red China is meaningless when we're in full-scale war with Red China already. - Communist China, however, is one of the most peculiarly vulnerable countries on earth. The Reds have no navy, so their seaports could be shut up by a blockade overnight. They have no air force, and their teeming flimsy cities nearly all lie upprotected within easy range of U. S.-held bomber bases. They have probably more than a million hostile guerrilla fighters inside their country, .all hardened combat veterans, and an organized army of 500,000 on Formosa, just off their coast, eager to attack them. They have the seeds of counter -revolt seething throughout their whole nation. Under U.S. - British - United Nations policy, however, they have been permitted to mass their armies on the borders of Korea, attack our forces from there, and then withdraw to sanctuary in which our armies are forbidden<to strike them.

n = tJ IT WAS that situation which finally led to the MacArthur dismissal. Because he did disagree with the “be nice to the Chinese Communists” program, Gen, MacArthur last week was removed from command by President Truman. But the essential disagreement went much deeper than that. Gen. MacArthur, with most other competent Army and Navy officers, realized quite well that Formosa might be handed over to the Communists, and that once that was done neither Japan nor the Philippines any longer »ould be defended against them, That would mean our complete withdrawal from the Pacific. It would, in effect, make our frontier the coast of California, with one little outpost at Hawaii. President Truman defends his policy, as did President Jefferson, as one that will “keep us out of war.” His opponents argue it is one that makes war inevitable. That situation appeared, this week to be rather well understood in Indiana, too.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Homer

WASHINGTON,

Has Big Week

14—This has been Sen. Homer E,

Capehart’s big week. In addition to handling the anti-adminis-tration RFC reorganization plan, which he introduced in the Senate, the Hoosier Republican was a principal participant in the debates which grew out of President Truman's dismissal of Gen.

Douglas MacArthur. It was he who stuck his neck out when big, booming Sen. “Bob” Kerr (D. Okla.), came out swinging against the whole record of MacArthur on" the basis that in defending the Truman firing a good offense was the best defense. Whenever the senior Senator from Indiana (who at one point was called “junior,” whereupon the real junior, Sen. William E. Jenner (R., Ind.), promptly had the record corrected) arose to question the Oklahoman he was slapped down with sarcasm. But still he persisted. = =" a OBTAINING the floor on his own time, Sen. Capehart said he. was sorry that Sen. Kerr had left the Senate Chamber rather than hear the GOP side of the MacArthur case. Nearly all the Democrats had deserted. The Republicans considered that as running away from the debate, rather than standing up to it. At one point in the Kerr-

Capehart colloquy, Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. O.) asked the former governor of Oklahoma

if he would yield. To this, Sen. Kerr replied: “Keep the ‘end man’ quiet for about a minute, and I shall be glad to do so.” Later in ylelding to Sen. Capehart, Sen. Kerr said: “I yield to the Senator from Indiana. I would miss him if he quit asking questions.” » s s THE Capehart question was: “Is it not a fact that Korea is a part of Asia?” At another point when. Sen. Capehart sought to question him, Sen. Kerr said “Now keep quiet for a moment.” Sen. Capehart replied: “Very well.” The Kerr contention was that to follow MacArthur's advice would result in the United States taking on all Red China, with no help but the Chinese Nationalist troops now on Formosa.

HUH? . . . By Frederick C. Othman Fish—In Elevators?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 14—The trouble with a fish is that nobody yet has been smart enough to persuade him to take an

elevator ride.

This is serious, as I hope to prove on how to train a salmon to swim into an

means get in touch with Albert M. Day,

you have any ideas elevator cab, by all director of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service. He has about given up. Mr. Day, who customarily wears a cravat with a picture of a stubborn, non-elevator-riding fish embroidered on it, is perhaps the only federal official who always receives a cordial reception from the House Ways and Means Committee. This is because the holders of the national purse strings are certain that any money spent on fish and/or moose will not be wasted by Albert, © So it is that his annual sessions with Congress on the subject of money always turns into discussions of our furred and finny friends. And that brings us to Rep. Ben F. Jensen (Ru Towa), who wondered how Day was managing to hoist fish over the big dams on our Western rivers, :

n n ” ON A little dam, said Day, he builds a watery stepladder up which the usual salmon will climb. But when you come to a dam like Grand Coulee, which is 500 feet high, that's enough to stop the most athletic fish. “Do you have any fish elevators in operation at any of

almost instantly, and if

these dams?” inquired Rep.

Jensen. Not now, said Mr. Day. He used to. He had elevators at Shasta and Bonneville Dams into which the fish were supposed to swim for the ride to the top. His men worked hard trying to persuade the fish to enter the cabs, but they simply wouldn't do it. » ” » AND ANOTHER thing, when Mr. Day does coerce a salmon into crossing a dam and swimming upstream to lay its eggs, what happens? These eggs turn into small fish, or fingerlings, which start swimming down the river. They get to the dam, swim into the turbines and come out chowder. And still another thing, said the gentleman from Iowa. Why was it that Mr, Day spent only $150 per year to combat predatory animals in his home state, while he used $4000 annually

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in Missouri?

“You are very fortunate,

sir, in that you have so few pests in Iowa; replied Mr. Day, In poor old Missouri, on the other hand, are packs of wild wolves, ’

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