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New Formosa Policy?

NNOUNCEMENT that a U. S. military mission is being sent to Formosa to advise the Chinese Nationalists on the defense of that island would appear to forecast another shift in American policy in the Far East. Then again, it may be nothing more than a gesture to public opinion in the hope of taking some of the heat off the State Department. When Gen. Douglas MacArthur visited Formosa for this identical purpose last summer it provoked official consternation in Washington. Moreover, only a few weeks ago our government offered to negotiate with the Chinese Communists on a “Munich” type peace which would include the transfer of Formosa to the Reds. If Peiping had not rejected all overtures by the United Nations, Formosa might be Communist territory by now.

” ” » - o . HOWEVER, if the assignment of a military mission to Chiang Kai-shek's government is to be taken as evidence that President Truman is re-examining the American position in Asia, it is a heartening development. Gen. MacArthur has insisted that it is vital to American security to have Formosa in friendly hands, and this view is shared by most of our top military leaders who served in the Pacific area during the last war. When it is suggested that the Chinese Nationalists be armed and encouraged to renew the fight against the Communists, the question often is asked: “But will they fight?" The same question can be posed in the case of every one of our prospective Allies—in Europe, as well as Asia. It cannot be answered with complete assurance in any one case. On a showdown, each nation’s course probably would be determined by what appeared to be its own self-interest at a given moment. Our own strength is our best security. Beyond that we must gamble with probabilities. And the probabilities are favorable in the case of the Chinese Nationalists. = n ” = = = NOW exiled on Formosa or operating in the hills of the mainland as guerrillas, they would be fighting to return to their homes and families. That should be a powerful - incentive to peoplédéwho revere the family as the Chinese do.

The United Stdtes is investing much money in France

on the assumption that the French will fight. But when

“the Germans overran their country, and Winston Churchill

fight on from there, the French chose to make the best deal they could with Hitler. Under similar conditions—except that China had been at war much longer—Chiang Kai-shek simply moved back into the mountains arid stayed in the fight. His forces held a million and a half of Japan's best troops at bay until the end of the war.

- . 2 - » # MOST of the Nationalist soldiers are veterans of two wars. All of them have rejected communism in a way that leaves no doubt. That is more than can be said of many of the troops and even officials in the armies of some of our Allies in Europe. ’ In any event, if a real stand is to be made against communism in Asia, it is only reasonable that Asian troops must bear the brunt of the fighting. The United States cannot afford any more Koreas in that part of the world, where we are left to stand alone. But we can well afford to gamble with our arms and equipment, just as Russia is doing. If this is to be the decision, it should be made soon, while there are troops left to be armed.

Nonsacred Budgets

- M. MEHL, head of the Agriculture Department's Commodity Exchange Authority, gave a House Appropriations Subcommittee quite a shock the other day. Mr. Mehl announced that his agency intended to turn back to the treasury, at the end of the government's current fiscal year, $30,000 to $40,000 of its $650,000 appropriation. He said:

“I have always felt that budgeting is not such a sacred .

science that you have to come out right on fhe button. After all, one does not have to be very ingenious to spend other people’s money.” Those admirable sentiments should be as welcome to the taxpayers as they were surprising to the Congressmen. Unfortunately, they are sentiments not shared by large numbers of bureaucrats.

» 1” » MANY HEADS of federal agencies devote a vast amount of time and ingenuity, in the closing weeks of each fiscal year, to devising ways and means of obligating, if not actually spending, the full amounts of their annual appropriations. They have two strong incentives for coming out “right on the button.” One, to prove that their current budgets did not call for more money than their agencies really needed. Two, to discourage any idea that they could get along with smaller future appropriations. How much unnecessary spending of other people's money could be prevented if all government departments and bureaus followed Mr. Mehl's good example—that's anybody’s guess. Certainly, however, the amount would be impressive. Mr. Mehl should be named a committee of one to propose suitable public recognition or reward for agency heads who adopt and practice his sound theory that under-spend-ing a budget can be a virtue.

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'QEN. KERR (D Okla.) complains that Gen. MacArthur's ~.. speech ‘did not even mention the United Nations

or a single ally.” i Since our Allies are less conspicuous in.Korea than they are in Washington, where the money is being passed out, the Senator seems to be pin-pricking an excusable

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NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim Lucas

CAP ‘Colonels’ Keep 160 Regular

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—One hundred and sixty regular airmen are serving as personal pilots and crews to 53 civilian “colonels” of the semi-official Civil Air Patrol, Regional and Wing (state and territorial)

heads of CAP are businessmen. Their colonelcies are a CAP rank and have no standing in the regular military establishment, Most of them have been interested in aviation since its inception and have contributed to its advancement. Their prestige —national and local—is' a valuable public relations asset as far as the Air Force is concerned.

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THE CAP was created in World War II as a “civilian auxiliary” to hte Air Force. It is open to anyone interested in aviation. Its members’ ages range from 15 to 80. Members draw no salary and are under no obligation to serve in the Armed Forces. Selective Service does not regard CAP membership as grounds for deferment. The patrol's goal is to train 100,000 cadets. Training, however, does not involve, teaching them to fly. It merely seeks to “orient and “arouse their interest.”

PRESIDENCY . . . By Andrew Tully

Harry Smiles Despite Boos

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—The nation’s great popularity contest finds President Truman trailing Gen. Douglas MacArthur by a considerable

margin. But, if the first test means anything, the public isn't as mad at Mr. Truman as the original outburst over the MacArthur firing seemed to indicate. Never a guy to duck any kind of a

exposed himself to the wrath of the citizenry Friday in his first public appearance since he sacked Gen. MacArthur. He tossed the first ball as the Washington baseball club opened the season at Griffith Stadium against the New York Yankees. And he was booed —but not as loudly nor as long nor as violently as might have been expected in some quarters. As he arrived at the stadium and walked to his box with Mrs. Truman and his official party, there was only a scattering of boos mixed with some fairly lusty cheering. The President was all smiles and seemed not to notice the boos, while Mrs. Truman was prim, but apparently in good spirits. There was more cheering and a few boos as Mr. Truman threw out the first ball—with his ieft hand. And then, for seven full innings, the 31.000 citizens in the stands paid attention to the ball game, 2

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BUT AT the beginning of the eighth inning, Mr. Truman was served notice that some among his public nursed a grievance against him. It

~.came--when the. public. address system. an=-— nouncer asked the fans to remain in their seats -

until the President had left the ball park at the end of the game. This time reporters didn't have to strain their ears. The boos and the yahs and the hooting broke out in one noisy, spontaneous wave, drowning out any cheers that might have been raised. The President, sitting in a front row box seat, faced straight ahead, a half-smile on his face, then leaned sideways and seemed to be making a casual remark to Clark Griffith of the Washington Club. Mrs. Truman seemed to be studying something on her lap. In the next seat, Vice President Alben Barkley half turned, in what looked like a gesture of annoyance. But Mr. Truman, far from being annoyed, seemed in particularly high spirits during the remainder of the game. He chatted amiably with Mr. Griffith and with Mrs. Truman and half rose from his seat when Mickey Mantle, the young Yankee outfielder, slammed a triple against the right field wall in the ninth inning.

He Smiled, Anyway

AS THE Truman party left the box and walked down the ramp and under the stands to the official cars waiting at the grandstand exit, Mr. Truman had a big grin on his face and was talking animatedly with members of the party. A scattering of the fans leaning over the stands to look down on the President booed him as he got into his car, but most of them seemed to be yelling encouraging remarks like “Attaboy, Harry.” . Still, the fact that a President of the United States should be booed even mildly is signifi cant. For, traditionally, people just do not boo the President. Indeed, the last time it happened was some 20 years ago when President Hoover was hooted by fans at a World Series game in Philadelphia.

BASEBALL TIME

OF ALL the things in this old world . . . that make my head go round . . . there's nothing quite so thrilling . . . as that old familiar sound . . . of the crack of a bat . .. on the old horsehide . . . as it’s spinning with a flare . . while the yell of a crowd . . . and the stamping of feet . .. send a chill through the summer air + « + yes, the time has come to go out again . . . where the diamond trim and true... brings us back again to baseball time . . . and fun for me and you. —By Ben Burroughs.

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Currently, CAP has 30/000 cadets—between the ages of 15 and 18—and 44,000 seniors, aged 18 to 80, Some of the oldsters are still pilots. After three years’ training, the cadet gets a proficiency certificate, Training officers at the Lackland (Tex.) Air Force base say ex-cadets holding such certificates usually are “head and shoulders” above the average trainee, More than 4000 privately owned planes are part of the Civil Air Patrol’s program. In addition, the Air Force has donated link trainers and some “strictly surplus” single - engined planes. In peacetime, CAP’'S principal job is

search and rescue. The Air Rescue Service calls’

on CAP pilots in 75 per cent of its searches, CAP headquarters says. In wartime, the CAP’S duties are less clearly defined. That would depend, a CAF spokesman said, on the kind of war and the congestion of the airways. Most CAP colonels have their own planes. Nevertheless, the Air Force has assigned one pilot and two enlisted men—usually master or technical sergeants—to each of 53 wing headquarters. Officially, these men are liaison. Their job is to keep state and regional headquarters operat-

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ing. In practice, one of their main jobs 1s to fly the colonel wherever he wants to go. In Washington, for instance, CAP Col. Donald F, Webster, an insurance man, is setved by regular Air Force Capt. Douglas Tilley and two master sergeants. Air Force Capt. Patrick Rogers is available to fly the head of the Alabama CAP. . Approximately 45 regular Air Force men are on duty in CAP’'S national headquarters at Bolling Field, near Washington. They include a chaplain, a public relations staff, an adjutant. and a records section. Maj. Gen. Lucas V. Beau, a regular Air. Force officer, is head of the Civil Air Patrol. Gen. Carl Spaatz, retired chief of the Air Staff, is chairman of the national executive board.

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AIR FORCE PLANES-—permanently assigned to CAP—were used recently to bring members of the excutive board to Washington. Gen. Spaatz presided. Among those who came were Col. D. Harold Byrd, a nephew of Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.). Col. Byrd, a Dallas oil man, formerly was Texas Wing Commander and now is Southwest Regional Chief. He has

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PITY POOR HUBBY . . . By Frederick C. Othman

If Yo Buy Mink, Ya Want Mink— Not a Hunk of Bleached Rabbit

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—When Rep. Charles A. Wolverton (R. N. J.) gets prosperous enough, he intends to buy his wife a mink coat. “A royal blonde pastel mink coat,” said he, “and when I buy it, I want to be sure it isn't rabbit.” That started it. So ica==we're off again for BF - the third straights: year on whether Con- =: gress should pass a £== law enforcing furri- == ers to pin in ladies’

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of. = The gentlemen of =~ the House Foreign=""4¢ and Domestic Com- == merce Committee = also wondered in; passing . whether there was any chance ? X that the lawyer who paid for the coat of the lady who used to work in the White House might possibly have cheated. Was? it, they asked, a genuine royal blonde pastel mink, or could it maybe have been bleached rabbit? Charles Gold of the Master Furriers’ Guild of New York said unofficially and off the record that this ex-White House mink came from a ‘reputable store, that it undoubtedly was removed from the back of a mink that had achieved blondness without peroxide, and that it probably was worth every cent of the $9000 it cost. He then began passionately to denounce the labeling bill. He said practically all fur merchants were as honest as bankers, some even more so, and that such a law wouldn't have much effect on the few cheaters in the business of providing wrappings de luxe for females.

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson

Capitol Gets Up a Full Head of Hot Air

WASHINGTON, Apr. 23—Political straws in the Washington winds have started a lot of speculative gossip. Among the hot rumors: ONE: President Truman must certainly have decided not to be a candidate for re-election in 1952. Otherwise he ‘would not have run the risk of the storm of criticism stirred up by the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, But having made up his mind not to run, the President could more freely do what he thought ought to be done, regardless of political consequences.

The other side of this story is that nothing makes Harry Truman more determined to fight than opposition from any quarter to any of his moves. Protest over the MacArthur firing may make the President more determined than ever to seek vindication in the coming election.

TWO: The Republican opposition to the Truman foreign policy makes Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower less and less likely as a GOP presidential candidate, more and more acceptable to the Democrats. Reasoning behind this is that Republicans can't criticize the Truman foreign policy in their platform and take Gen. Eisenhower, who is a major part of that policy, as their candidate.

Gen. Eisenhower's popularity with rank and file of both parties marks him as a man of destiny for 1952—possibly the only man who can unite the country behind a real bipartisan foreign policy. Barring the outbreak of a shooting war in Europe, the draft of Gen. Eisen-

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hower as a presidential candidate becomes more of a possibility every day. ya > ¢ <¢ BIG question in Washington is what a full dress investigation of U, 8. foreign policy will accomplish. Closest parallel in recent years would seem to be the Pearl Harbor investigation at the end of the war. It took nearly seven months, proved little or nothing that wasn't common knowledge before, ended in a divided report on strictly political lines. * © o

HERE'S sample of one of the counter-propa-ganda stories started by U. BE. information officers in Europe, for circulation behind the Iron Curtain: A Czechoslovakian Communist secret policeman called on his old friend Jon. “I come to see you on official orders of the Ministry of Interior,” sald the police agent. “The Comrade Minister demands to know what you think of our Communist Premier Gottwald.” Friend Jon thought this over for a moment, then said, “Why, comrade, I think of him the same things you 'do.” “80!” said the policeman. “I therefore arrest you for treason against the state.” “ ©. ob DEFENSE Secretary George C. Marshall says that when anything goes wrong, the Amer- « ican people always start looking for someone to blame, But on the slowdown in Congress over

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“But when you advertise arctic seal, which as a matter of fact is rabbit skin, don’t you think the customer should be advised?”

Mr. Gold said he doubted if any reputable furriers today advertised bunnies as arctic seals. Rep. Wolverton was not satisfied.

“Imagine the unforunate situation of the husband who finally garners enough money to buy his wife a coat,” he said. “So he comes home with a fine sealskin coat and she discovers later that he bought her a rabbitskin. Wouldn't she think that her husband was trying to foist something off on her? Just imagine the. situation.” Gold and all the other fur experts contemplated this horrendous happenstance in silence until Rep. Wolverton continued: “Certainly, we ought to do something to protect these good husbands from the wrath of their wives.” Rep. Joseph R. O'Hara (R. Minn.), who wrote the labeling bill three sessions ago only to see it die twice somewhere along the legislative vine, said he used to spend long winter evenings reading the advertisements of the furriers. These, said he, were little gems of fantasy— imaginative literature of superlative quality. He enjoyed them, until he got to thinking that some poor girls starved themselves saving money for coats, believed the ads, and were bunkoed. He said he vowed then to do something to save them from shoddy coat bargains. Mr. Gold insisted that the average furrier today .is an honest Injun in his advertising. The gentlemen went on from there and as an experienced husband I have only a word of advice for Rep. Wolverton. When eventually he saves enough for a blonde mink, I urge that he give Mrs. W. the money and let her choose her-own. He'll live longer, happier. I know.

extension of the draft law and passage of universal military training legislation, Gen. Marshall says with a smile that the blame can really be placed on Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U. 8. and United Nations commander in Korea. He keeps on destroying Communist armies, gaining ground, and winning victories. And the more victories he wins, the less the people see the urgency to pass measures considered necessary for the national defense. > 4 & SECRETARY of State Dean Acheson and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio are booked to speak from the same platform at the opening session of U. 8. Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in Washington, Apr. 30. The two speakers will also have the same subject: “America’s Place in World Affairs.” Any similarities beyond that will be purely coincidental. ¢ ¢ REPUBLICAN National Committee has already started printing campaign literature for the 1952 election. First item to be ordered is a four-page reprint from Congressional Record. It is an extension of remarks of Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio, giving a record of all the Democratic election predictions of 1950 that went wrong. He cites the mistaken forecasts of President Truman, Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle, Senate Secretary Les Biffle, statistician Louis Bean and others. GOP idea is to mail out these broadsides to persuade voters they should pay no attention to forecasts on 1952 results.

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James L. Biggs, Barre, Vt.; Walter B. Smith, Indianapolis; George B. Washburn, Charlotte, N. C. and Thomas Knight of Cheyenne, Wyo. ® * o

AFTER several days, the board called on Afr Force Secretary Thomas Finletter with its recommendations. A CAP spokesman said they had been approved unanimously and were ace cepted by Mr. Finletter. The principal recom mendation, he said, was that CAPs 74,000 members adopt a new uniform. \ Change of uniform would cost CAP members at least $4.8 million and would require 260,000 yards of scarce material. Some Air Force men regard the CAP as a luxury which can be dispensed with. One two-star general privately contends that the 200-0odd regular Air Force people assigned to CAP are more urgently needed elsewhere. Another 53 transport pilots, he said, “might make a lot of difference in Korea.”

Hoosier Forum

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

‘Just Doesn't Seem Fair’

MR. EDITOR: Open letter to Sen. Capehart: I am a young girl of 17 and I would just like to ask you a few questions, that is if you think you can spare & few minutes from your work to answer them. Ever since I can remember all I have ever heard is war. It is the ugliest word I know and I am just wondering when these people (I think you know who I refer to when I use the word people) are going to get down from their pedestals and start thinking about their own country and the people instead of themselves and other countries who think only of financial help from the United States. ® © 9

» 1 HAVE a brother, who is only 19, over in Korea fighting for his country and I am beginning to wonder if he is fighting for his country or for some people who in my opinion are very selfish. I have already lost one loved one over there and I just wonder if I will lose another one. There have been many young boys killed in this war and this generation doesn't have anything to look forward to if this keeps up. I think they made one of the biggest mistakes when they fired Gen. MacArthur. If you have ever talked with any of the wounded GI's that came back from Korea, they will tell you that Gen. MacArthur is the best General they had and he knew what he was doing. There was some hope of seeing this war come to an end, but now it looks as though I will live to see another war and watch the young boys and girls give their lives. It just doesn't seem fair to our generation. —Carolyn Cahille, City MR. EDITOR: «+ « It would be wise to wait until the President is proved wrong in removing the General before wildly screaming “impeachment.” It is also wise to stop and think before acting ... and that has been the policy of H.8.T. : Jerry N. Williamson, City MR. EDITOR: 3 : . + + Mr. Truman is an egotistical man who

is trying to sell the United States down the river. . . . He doesn't have the interest of the American people at heart or he would {insist his friends do their part and for God's sake, let's win the war and quit fooling around. «C. E. Thompson, City MR. EDITOR: If our first line of defense is Europe, why are Americans being blown to bits in Korea?... -A. R. 8. City MR. EDITOR: . « 1 would like every one who reads this and has a history book with the Constitution in

it to check and see if Harry had the right to

send troops into Korea. . . . Then write H.S.T. so that he will wise up. How about you historians starting the ball rolling? : -J. A. R.,, RR 12

MR. EDITOR: . + According to their oaths of office . .. are Truman and Acheson serving the best interests of their country? ... -—J. G. T., City MR. EDITOR: « + +» Our task ahead is clear and not an impossible one. The American people must be told the truth . . . that our present policies are to stop aggression, contain the war to Korea, and strengthen the United Nations as an instrument of peace. —Evelyn Walton, City MR. EDITOR: The most befitting comment on the TrumanMacArthur ‘incident we've heard is, “A plague to both their houses.” . —Farmer, Crawfordsville. MR. EDITOR: Open letter to President Truman: I am obliged to advise you that . .. a great number of my constituents have contacted me expressing most violent reactions to some of this country's problems . . . Not one of them has yet written to say that he would vote for you as of today . .. . —Earl Wilson, Representative in Congress, 9th Dist., Indiana. MR. EDITOR: ; . + +. No more hammy display of amateur theatrics was ever put on there (in Congress) or anywhere else’ than the egocentric personal maundering (of MacArthur's) at the end of what was supposed to be an exposition of public questions. —Bombastic, City. MR. EDITOR: . +. +» The American people are for MacArthur because of his military courage. The Democrats as well as the Republicans are using this issue for ‘their campaign. —Jeanne Seymour, City. MR. EDITOR: A «+ +» What about those boys who have been and will be taken prisoner? Are they to live their lives out as prisoners because their leaders are afraid to give them the support and backing they were supposed to have when they went into battle? . . . Truman's plan, and all who back him, are stupid in my estimation. —Lew R. Hedge, Veteran, RR 7, Box 70G. MR. EDITOR: . We want Gen. Douglas MacArthur for President and we want Truman out...

—Mr. Reader, City, MR. EDITOR:

In reply to C. P. Miller of Baturday, Apr. 14,: If Gen. MacArthur, with 52 years experience, is an underling, please tell. us who is competent , . , —Anne Shirley, 813 9th St. MR. EDITOR: What happened to the remainder of Gen. MacArthur's address in last night's issue of The Times? It was quite a disappointment. - e =A Reader, City. EDITOR'S NOTE: Times went to press with that edition béfore MacArthur finished speaking. We decided to go with that much of his address rather than none at all. Edition following by only a few minutes carried full text of speech. Sorry you were disappointed. MR. EDITOR:

. «+ « Hurrah for Gen. MacArthur, the best

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