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This Will Not Fade Away

“HE DAUNTLESS SPIRIT, the selfless patriotism, which made America the hope and inspiration of the world shone again when - Gen. Douglas MacArthur stood before

be forgotten. when he said: “I am responsible . Christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.” Douglas MacArthur's speech was a message of hope and courage, of faith and firm conviction.

HE OFFERED a way to secure the peace and save

American lives. Chiefs of Staff in the past had agreed to the validity of that

Shone with all the more splendor against the shoddy background of present-day political Washington, with its influence peddlers and its favor seekers, its tolerance of mediocrity in moral standards and official conduct. For the moment the Achesons and the Vaughans could Here was a man fit to stand with Lincoln

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And he laid it on the line that the Joint

In reply to the appeasers who now dominate American foreign policy, he said that if the enemy can divide his strength on two fronts it is for us to counter his effort, because the Communist threat is global. . Like blackmail, he said, appeasement lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, mail, violence becomes the only alternative.” . “Why surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?” he asked. prolonged indecision.” * Gen. MacArthur went on to explain that America capnot be secured against the advances of communism by: defending Europe alone, for our strategic frontier embraces the Pacific as well as the Atlantic Oceans. We are well protected at present by the island chain, extending fram the Aleutians to the Mariannas and held by ourselves and our Allies, he pointed out.

Pi E 3 = »~ + BUT the Victorious leader of the island war in the Pagific warned that any major break in that chain, such as:the surrender of Formosa to the Reds, “would render rable to determined attack every other major segment” of ‘our defenses. z This, he asserted, is a military estimate to which he : has yet to find a military leader who will take exception. hi Formosa is the island which Britain wants to hand to the Communists, and our State Department has rted Britain in that position. * Gen. MacArthur mentioned none of his detractors by nae, and he treated his differences with them with ity and restraint. * “While I was not consulted prior to the President's defiision to intervene in support of the republic of Korea,” hel said, “that decision, from a military standpoint, proved a sound one.” But, he continued, when Red China entered the war, that created an entirely new situation which called for new decisions in the diplomatic field to permit reglistic adjustment of military strategy. ° & “Such decisions,”

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% INDEED, “until this very hour none have “been made. Yet, because he sought new instructions from the United - Nations, Gen. MacArthur has been accused of invading the fields of diplomacy and political policy. = “I called for reinforcements, but was informed that refnforcements were not available,” he said. * Without them, “the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory.” * When he pressed this issue, relieved of his command and deprived of opportunity to end the conflict “with the least loss of time and a minimum sacrifice of life.” % The arm-chair strategists won't find it easy to make that appear the policy of a saber-rattling warmonger. * The great soldier who was laying down his sword after 52 years in the service of his country faced the verdict of history unafraid, as he prepared quietly to “fade away.”

3 Ld 2 » ® BUT THE millions of Americans who heard and read Gen. MacArthur's message will expect answers to the questions he raised. . They will be as one with him in “anguish and anxiety” for the gallant men left in Korea who remain in his thoughts Every new tabulation of American casualties will add strength to his demand for prompt decisions which will end this conflict honorably and with a sacrifice of life.”

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© “The old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty” will not stand alone in days alflead. He has inspired a‘fesurgence of American faith, courage and devotion. Tt will not, must not, fail to make his hopes and dreams for honorable peace become reality.

Easy Come, Easy Go E UNITED NATIONS could well be proud of its huge » new building in New York, put up largely at the expdbse of the American taxpayer. % But apparently it isn't suitable for all the interesting meetings and high-flown sessions the United Nations undertakes. At any rate, the economic and social council has just voted itself another splendid seven weeks’ trip, this time to Geneva, Switzerland. This busy little council, which only a couple of months flew 330 people to Santiago, Chile, for a month's meet- , dearly loves to travel. And New York's weather can be trying both in summer and winter. But in our winter tifhe it's warm in Chile and in summer, of course, it's cool ingBwitzerland. 5 When the question of where to hold the next picnic e up, the Philippines delegite proposed that the meetbe in New York—to save money, the man said. How nt. It was rejected, naturally, by a 10-to-4 vote. . Altogether, the United States is due to contribute $120 lion to the United Nations this year—on top of the nearly : Rito we've chipped in since it started in 19046. Have

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Times QUESTION OF ECONOMICS .

. By Clyde Farnsworth

Japan Fears England Will Influence U.S. Treaty Policy

TOKYO, Apr. 20-With Gen. MacArthur out of the way, it looks as if British self-interest might foul up—-or at any rate delay-—negotia-tion of a peace treaty for Japan. Of course that might have happened even with Gen. MacArthur here, But it now seems like more than a coincidence that within a week after President Truman fired Gen. MacArthur the British government should deliver to commonwealth officers here a new draft of the proposed peace treaty. Even before that happened the Japanese were concerned over evident British desires to curb Japanse industry and shipping — not to mention Britain's bald proposal to deal .Gen. MacArthur Red China in as one of the Allied treaty makers. The authoritative disclosure that Britain has sprung a new. draft-—an elaborate departure from the simple and charitable treaty version advanced by John Foster Dulles on behalf of the United States— is changing that concern to fear. A Reuters correspondent, without disclosing details of the British draft, reported that it appeared to be ‘“‘a reversal of earlier understandings" of agreement reached by Britain in Commonwealth talks. The draft “is greatly detailed, according to most reliable authorities here,’ the Reuters correspondent said. “Instead of the comparatively simple form the Dulles draft takes, it covers a wealth of contracts and conditions.”

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DEAR BOSS . .. By Dan Kidney Doug's Speech Stirs Hoosiers

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20—Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rénsselaer, was one of the Republicans appointed by Speaker Rayburn to escort Gen. Douglas MacArthur to the House rostrum when he made hissmagnificent speech. Today, bath as dean of all Hoosiers here and assistant mimority leader, Mr. Halleck demanded that the matter of the joint-chiefs-of-staff and other points raised by the hero whom President Truman dismissed, be thoroughly investigated by the Congress. Sen. Jenner, a long-standing MacArthur friend and Truman foe, declared that it is now impossible to dodge such duty. This view was ghared on the Democratic side by Rep. Denton, Hvansville. He readily agreed that an investigatibn is now necessary. Other Indiana Riyepublican Congressmen had the highest praise for the General's dramatic speech. Some frankly confessed that their eyes filled with tears when he came to the peroration with “old soldiers mever die, they just fade away.”

No Intention of Fading THE FIGHTING trdm of Gen. MacArthur left the impression that\at 71 he has no intention of fading very. fast.yHe will be back here next week to testify before Senate and House committees. “Like the great soldier' he is,” Mr. Halleck said, “Gen. MacArthur has niet his foes head-on. His forthright analysis of plans for bringing the Korean War to a victorious ‘end with the least possible sacrifice of men and resources should put to shame those who have charged the General with war-mongering."” Reviewing the points raised in the MacArthur speech, Mr. Halleck conchuded: “There can be only one answer—a complete investigation must be undertakem by the Congress at the earliest possible moment. “Honor for the memory of those men who have already given their lives in. Korea and simple humanity for those in the arsned services who may vet be called upon to give their lives, demand we get to the bottom of this basic issue of whether or not America is going ‘to fight to win its wars. “Obviously somebody is terribly wrang. Congress must find out to the nation's sat¥sfaction who that somebody is. “Gen. MacArthur's courage in telling us of the true military situation has bought a ‘second chance for Americans to recapture control of their foreign policy.” Sen. Jenner said.

Other Hoosier Comments HERE are quotations from other Haosier Republicans: Rep. Brownson, Indianapolis — “Gen. MacArthur's speech was greater even than Churahil's Blood, Sweat and Tears. Once again the truth has come out of the East. Gen. MacArthur threw down the gauntlet to critics who branded him a war-monger and the Republicans a war party. “He laid an effective hasis for a re-examina-tion of our foreign policy a re-examination which I believe must be undertaken at the earliest possible time.” Rep. William G. Bray, Martinsville—"I was deeply moved by Gen. MacArthur's address, both by the logic of his argument and the drama of this gallant old American, who has served his country with distinguished valor, now being retired at the height of his long and spectacular career.” Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle—“His revelation that his proposals were approved by the joint-chiefs is the nub of the matter. I was most appreciative of the humble attitude with which he addressed members of C ongress and accepted his retirement from the Army.’

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To the Japanese this meant Britain was fnsisting on extensive economic restraints as her price for a formal peace treaty. They drew scant comfort from the suggestion in British quarters that the British government had pitched the thing in for bargaining purposes. Some British: sources doubted that Britain would in the long run’ try to obstruct the American plan to restore full sovereignty to Japan and integrate her into a security system for the Pacific. Nevertheless, Britain appears to be insisting on limitations against the Japanese Merchant Marine, both as to total tonnage and speed of ships, on the excuse of apprehension over a

resurgence of Japanese naval power. And within the treaty, or as a side deal, she may try to curb Japanese industry, especially textile production, Some Japanese insist that Japan, like Britain, is an insular nation wholly dependent on imports and exports and industrial pi of raw materials from abroad. They say that inflation - heightened labor standards, the higher cost of raw materials and the remoteness af certain supplies formerly obtained from Manchuria will prevent any reversion to prewar Japanese “dumping” of cheap

manufactures and anything like the old cut-

throat competition in shipping.

‘There Is No Substitute for Victory’

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EDUCATION AND BEANS

HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS AND FAITH OF THE ENTIRE

By Frederick C. Othman

Who Owns Fortune in Planes Handed Over to Hoosier School?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 — Pinch yourselves, taxpayers, and get ready to duck; now we've got $5 million worth of airplane parts in suspended animation inside a federal vacuum, and when they crash somebody's going to get hurt. The thing is unbelievable, but the fact remains that our government in its wisdom handed over to a Bunker, Hill, Ind, school, that didn’t. even exist, the multimillion - dollar consignment of flying machinery. This ghostly institution transferred the merchandise to the Bunker Hill School of Aeronautics. Only trouble with this second school was that it never had any pupils. It was located in a corner of the 2100acre Naval air station at Bunker Hill, which had been leased after the war bv some locals to plant soybeans. They've been planting beans on it ever since; one year they took in $35,000 profit on the crop. One of the stockholders in the bean operation used to be commander of the air station. After a couple of years there were complaints from the Navy about the school with the millions in flying machines and no ‘students to Jearn how to fly them. So the bean growers ousted the schoolmasters. That leaves Congress with the question of who owns the rows of bombers, fighter ships, amd vast bins of parts therefore? The taxpayers who gave them to the school that wasn’t there? Or ‘the proprietors of the second school that is now defunct? That is not all. Nobody ever counted exactly how many airplanes and pieces of same were shipped to these: shadowy institutiofs. The government's general accounting office tried to find out, but

LABOR .

for an expanded and more powerful Wage Stabilization Board as a sign that Mr. Truman is siding” with the labor forces. There's no “doubt the policy board did. The union leaders are expected now to work through the' policy board for adjustment of other grievances which caused them two months ago to puN out of active participation in the defense mobilization effort; Some of these matters—leas taxes for the little fellow and more for the big, more effective price control, tighter rent control and more emergency housing—will require new leg: islation, which the policy board may recommend. But Congress is not as union-minded as is

the administration, and will" ame. write its own ticket. (GIVE: "a _ ]o conan ANOTHER unsettled grievCANCER ance is participation in de: Apion fense planning at the top level, Defense Mobilizer Charles FE.

Wilson has offered to take in a union man as one of his

bor Policy Committee has not yet responded with a nomi-

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its best guess is somewhere between $5 million and $7 million worth. In hope of getting some sort of answer to its numerous questions, the House Executive Expenditures Subcommittee called in Russell A. Hedelleston, a pale young man in pale-rimmed eyeglasses, who used to be in charge of the War Assets Administration's almost-free airplanes for educational institutions. Now he's working for the Defense Production Administration and, I fear, he wasn't much help. He said he did not investigate whether there really was a Bunker Hill school; nor did he do much checking when he authorized transfer of the ships to the Bunker Hill School of Aeronautics. The prices, he said, were ridiculously low. B-17 bombers, which cost the government $325,000 each. went to the Bunker Hill pedagogues for $350 a copy. P-51 fighting ships, which cost the taxpayers $85,000 a piece, were knocked down for $100. The entire deal looked like it was on the up-and-up to'him. He said he was not suspicious when some of the checks paying a total of £12,000 for the millions in material were signed by C. C. Duke Harrah, the Niles, Mich., airplane parts dealer.

Lot of Fine Print

BUT WHAT kind of a contract, insisted the Congressmen, did Hedelleston sign? Who had title to the machinery? “I have looked at the printing on the back of these sales documents,” he said. “and, frankly. I do not know what it means. Here is one of these documents. (He held it up.) It's got a lot of fine print. Let me read you a paragraph. (He did read it.) And I confess it is meaningless to me.” He also said he didn’t believé the Bunker Hill airplanes were worth now anywhere near what they cost. The Congressmen went along with him on that. But Rep. Charles B. Brownson (R. Ind.) wanted the investigators to drop out to his home state for a gander at the bean

crop. Maybe we taxpayers still have some assets-

there.

. By Fred W. Perkins

Union Leaders Sure of WSB Victory

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Nevertheless, they point out candidly that

they will be able to compete favorably with Britain because British commerce now must

bear the added burden of a ‘“‘welfare state”.

Free enterprise prevails in Japan. A Tokyo newspaper recently touched upon the fear of Britain's intentions in an editorial saying there was no doubt as to Mr. Dulles’ assurances of an early and just peace, but ‘we ‘wish we could hear from him about thé delicate relations between Britain's foreign policy and U. 8. policy toward 'Japan.”

A Strong Factor?

THESE and other considerations are intri cately wrapped. up in Japanese reaction to Gen, MacArthur's removal. These people, with highest literacy rate in the Orient, are well aware that the British press and certain politicians were loud in their cries for Gen. MacArthur's scalp. Some believe that British pressure was a

. strong factor in President Truman's action and

editorial comment probably would have reflected that belief if Tokyo editors had felt completely free to comment on that side of it. Instead they have praised Gen. MacArthur

to the skies and barely mentioned Mr. Truman, There is no censorship in Japan except a ju-

diclous self-restraint in criticism of an occupy ing power, An influential Japanese editor, however, told me that the Japanese people feel President Truman did “the impossible thing” when he fired Gen. MacArthur and now they feel that anything is possible—even American concurrence in Britain's kind of peace for Japan.

* Hoosier Forum "I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire. Serene cestnensnennsnsened ‘Make People Think’ MR. EDITOR:

In as much as you are always talking safety and doing your best to make Indianapolis a better city to live in (not die in), I would like very much to make a suggestion if I may, If for only one day, please move all ordinary news to Page 2. Go to your morgue and bring out pictures of past and present automobile and automobile train wrecks showing the awful and unnecessary toll of killings. God knows, you have pictures that should make anyone stop and think, and that is what I believe you are trying to do. Make people think. Along with this, run a daily record of auto arrests and a record of how these cases are disposed of. I had a sister that was recently injured by a motorist that was in a big hurry going nowhere. She will carry the effects of this Injury with her as long as she lives. That's one personal reason I say, Mr. Editor, keep up your good work. Let us all pull together and make this the safest city in America,

where all of us die from old age not killed on our streets and highways.

—Arthur M. Bowman, City.

‘Danger at RR Crossings’ MR. EDITOR: dope

ot In the last few weeks We have be¢n a number of accidents which were fatal to a number of people whose automobiles were struck by trains at RR crossings. The Mayor threatened to get a new police chief if the speed of trains were not checked within the city limits. If the trains are breaking the speed limit then they should be forced to abide by the law, yet there are some other law breakers which I have not noticed being mentioned by the paper or law enforcers. They are the scores of people who completely ignore flasher stop signals at RR crossings. Many of them barely escape being struck by approaching trains. This happens every day at almost every crossing. If the police can and do watch and arrest people who ignore the stop signs at street crossings, why can’t they do the same at RR crossings. Accidents at RR crossings are always fatal to someone, but not so often at street intersections. If the police want a schedule when trains are due in and out of town, I'm sure the RR companies will furnish them.

—RR Employee, City.

‘Reds and Bookies' MR. EDITOR:

I am an Indianapolis housewife and have been for 45 years. My husband and I have paid taxes in ‘this city for years and both he and I naturally are interested in this city and our respective community. I have no connections with, or interests in any gambling establishments in this or any other city. I am not in sympathy with their operations and fully believe they should be curbed if possible. But I can see no point in Mayor Bayt removing their telephones and at the same time allowing one other phone to remain connected, which in my opinion is far more detrimental to the welfare of our city. I mean the phone listed in our telephone book as the Communist Party, 29 8S. Delaware St., FR. 0242. I do not believe in the Communist Party any more than I believe in gambling, but in my estimation that certain phone could cause a great deal more harm to our city than some of these so-called bookie joints.

—Indianapolis Housewife.

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WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 — Organized labor leaders seem pretty sure today they are winning their two months’ holdout against defense mobilization policies. Groans in high management circles indicate they are right. Beth groups take President Truman's acceptance of a reeommendation from his advisory board on mobilization policy

nation. This body, representing nearly all organized labor, complains that ‘from top to bottom, the defense program has been staffed by men drawn from executive positions in big business.” Mr, Wilson's position is becoming a subject for speculation. Vested by Mr. Truman with greater powers than any civilian subordinate ever had, Mr. Wilson is chairman of the policy board, but in discussions of the expanded wage board he said nothing and did not vote. It is understood that he did not favor the board's recommendation, which was adopted 12 to 4—the public, labor and agriculture members against the business management members. Mr. Truman interpreted this as a 3-to-1 majority advising him to go ahead. He told a news conferance he was happy at the way the policy board is working out--doing the job he wanted done, » » ~

RESULTS so far show that the union leaders’ strategy is paying off. They have concen-

trated their fire on Mr. Wilson, diverting it from Mr. Truman who is Mr, Wilson's boss. Their hope was that Mr. Truman eventually would swing to their support. The President has repeatedly expressed full confidence in Mr. Wilson, despite the unionists’ bitter attacks on him. If the present trend continues, however, Mr. Wilson may find himself out on a limb. . The new wage board of 18 members, divided equally among the public, labor and management, will have - authority in the President's discretion over a -wide range of labor-management disputes. That was the big controversy between the United Labor Policy Committee and management. Organized business wanted to limit the wage board's jurisdiction to disputes growing out of wage stabilization, and asserted that more

authority would invite the un-

fons to by-pass or break down the Taft-Hartley Act. Mr. Truman has been on the unions’ side in opposition. to that law, - ~ » »

THE White House is now lining up personnel for the new wage board. Cyrus 8. Ching, chairman of the present board, has said he wants

to serve only. during its or- .

ganization period, and would

like to return to his director ship of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. William H. Davis, New York patent lawyer who headed the War Labor Board of World War II, is a possibility for appointment as the wage boaN chairman. W. Willard Wirtz, Northwestern University law professor and formerly an associate of Mr. Davis in national labor matters, is another possibility.

» » ” THE National Association or Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce recently nominated several industrialists for the board. Among them were such industry leaders as John A. Stephens, a vice president of U. 8, Steel Corp.; Al Roth, employer official on the San Francisco waterfront, and Ray Smethurst, lawyer formerly with the NAM. It was said that some or all of the six may not be willing to serve under the changed conditions. On the labor side, George Meany, secretary-treasurer of the AFL, is assured of a seat if he wants it. From the CIO, the probabilities are Emil Rieve, president of the Textile Workers; Joseph Beirne, president of the Communications (Telephone) Workers, and John W. Livingston, vice president of the United Automobile Workers.

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