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‘Top Secret’ Politics NYONE who hag been reading Jim Lucas’ graphic front-

* line dispatches telling of American soldiers dying on Korean battlefields must have a ‘sinking feeling in the. pe

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Washington. There was no venicn why the Senate committee's inquiry into the MacArthur firing and its re-examination of Far East policies could not be conducted with dignity and decorum. Certainly nothing' Gen. MacArthur has said since his return indicated he expected other than that his record and his views would bessubjected to open and searching inquiry. But the color and odor of politics has been spread over the hearings which opened Thursday. Some Republicans got into the act early by trying to make the MacArthur firing a partisan issue—and many of these were Republicans with isolationist vies poles apart from Gen. MacArthur's thesis that the struggle against Communist aggression must be conducted on a world-wide

basis. .

. . - » . . DEMOCRATS have been just as narrow and shortsighted by making it a party issue to keep the hearings behind closed doors. Their argument that military secrets must be safeguarded wears rather thin in light of the administration’s move late Wednesday releasing an alleged transcript of the Tramen-MacArthur Wake Island conference. Up until Wedinetay that Wake Island report had been marked “Top Secret.” But it was readily declassified when it served the political purpose of discrediting Gen. MacArthur just before his appearance on the witness stand. That maneuver was on the same level as the one of the preceding day when the administration—after nearly four years of suppressing it—released the Wedemeyer report on Korea. By remarkable coincidence that was on the same day the Kefauver committee gave out its report on crime. Newspapers scarcely had the space to spare which otherwise might have been devoted to a report which had been singularly prophetic about the war to come in Korea.

Up to the People

"THERE'S a lot ‘of meat for the American people to"

digest in the admirable unanimous report just issued by the U. 8. Senate’s Crime Investigating Committee. One grave immediate question raised concerns the fitness of New York City’s former Mayor, William O'Dwyer, for his present post as Ambassador to Mexico. The committee charges that Mr. O'Dwyer, as mayor from 1946 until President Truman gave him his diplomatic appointment last year, and before that as district attorney for Brooklyn, contributed by action and inaction “to the growth of organized crime, racketeering and gangsterism in New York City.” “Neither he nor his appointees,” the report asserts, “took any effective action against the top echelons of the gambling, narcotics, waterfront, murder or book-making rackets. In fact, his actions impeded promising investigations of such rackets.” + ‘Mr. O'Dwyer, it continues, was on “terms of intimate friendship with friends” of big-shot racketeers Joe Adonis and “king-maker” Frank Costello, and named a number of them to high public positions.

Sen. Kefauver, whose able service as chairman of the ~

committee ended with the issuance of this report, says he would not now vote to confirm Mr. O'Dwyer as Ambassador. Neither, it seems probable, would a majority of the Senate's other members. And we believe that Mr. O’'Dwyer’s resig-

uation or recall would meet general public Spproval. 2

o = = CERTAINLY, as the committee says, the o Dwyer and Costello stories “illustrate one of the major factors that must be overcome before substantial progress can be made in dealing with organized crime. When racketeers and gangsters have great influence in selecting public officials, they can paralyze law enforcement. Unless such influence is eliminated, gangsterism and racketeering will flourish in any community.” The committee makes many recommendations: for federal legislation, and these deserve most careful consideration by Congresa. But, the Kefauver comrhitiee says rightly, the breakdown of law enforcement it nas found in many communities is essentially a problem for tre people o

1 1 for the people of the states, counties, cities and towns.

Where crime flourishes, where racketeers run wild, isn't because mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors and judges don't know what's going on. It is because these officials are failing to do their sworn duty. And it is because the people are tolerating official delinquency. This Senate committee has performed public services of the highest order, and it has many opportunities for continued services. But the full value of its good work will be lost unless the American people are aroused to a lasting determination to insist on vigorous, honest, vigilant

law enforcement at all levels of government, and to put up with nothing less.

How About a Few Days in Jail? UDGE JOSEPH M. HOWARD raises the doubt that fines, even rather heavy fines, in traffic court won't solve the safety problem in Indianapolis streets. We believe he's quite right. Experience has shown that most of the really dangerous drivers won't be slowed down much by the somewhat mild punishment they have been getting when caught and convicted. Even really heavy fines probably would have little effect on them. Speeders don't fear, much, the loss ~f a few dollars. We suggest that short jail sentences would produce a very different result. They need not be long. Two days, three ‘days, five days—ten days for a really serious case, maybe, would be ~ many times mote effective than the heaviest fine that could,.be assessed. 3.

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FIRE POWER.IN LONDON .

can outsmart Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist leader.

Opposition to the government’s policy doesn’t go to the extent of supporting Gen. MacArthur's proposals or anywhere near. that. Two things still dominate British thinking and probably will

continue to do so:

ONE: Fear of ‘widening the unwanted Ko-

rean War,

TWO: European defense must have priority

over Asia.

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was going to bust a gasket. I've never seen a Senator so mad. Not even him.

Across a grassy green park practically all the other Senators - were playing hooky \! 1 4p from making laws. § S They were in the Senate €aucus Room Ee — listening to Gen. E— Douglas MacArthur. = The Senate Chamber was a sea of red leather chairs. Hardly anybody was there except Sen. Wherry, Sen. Spessard L. Holland (D. Fla.) and maybe me. Sen. Holland was talking about getting the meat out of the coconut, meaning information out of the General, and he talked and he talked. And all along Sen. Wherry was trying in vain to bring to a_vote a resolution opening the MacArthur hearing to public, press, radio and television. So long as Sen. Holland talked, Sen. Wherry could not get in his bill. The hours went by. Sen. Holland repeated three times his phrase about secret hearings being the place to crack coconuts. Sen. Wherry fidgeted in his seat. He made faces. He muttered in a voice loud enough for me to hear in the press gallery: “I wish he'd sit down.” Finally he could stand it no longer. “There's a filibuster going on here,” he cried. “The Senator knows that's completely false,” roared Sen. Holland. That brought Sen. Wherry to his feet, waving his arms and demanding that the gentleman from Florida be forced to sit down for passing

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Nevertheless, there is beginning here a defnite swing away from the pro-Peiping posture toward a middle position similar to the U..S. Defense Department's. : During debate in Parliament in the pdst two days the government has been severely criticized for permitting British shipments to China. Mr. Attlee maintained that no direct military goods were going to China and only small nonstrategic amounts, such as supplies of rubber. This evasion didn’t satisfy Winston Churchill who continued to batter Mr. Attlee until he got

the promise that hereafter government policy.

on this matter “would. be in full accord with the United States.” - ; The government's earlier insistence on Red China's ‘admission to United Nations member-

By Talburt

e+ BY Frederick C. Othman Wherry Nearly Busts a Gasket Over the MacArthur Hearing

WASHINGTON, May 5—For a while there I thought the amiable Republican gentleman 5 from Pawnee City, Neb., Kenneth S. Wherry,

out insults. It is against rule 19 for one of our statesmen to say another has uttered .an untruth. The Veep had to agree the rule had been fractured. He ordered Sen. Holland to take his seat. In strolled Sen. Lister Hill (D. Ala) in time to move that Sen. Holland be allowed to proceed; nobody objected, not even Sen. Wherry. Sen. Holland withdrew the word, false. Sen. Wherry withdrew the word, filibuster. The gentlemen then exchanged elaborate compliments, which would seem elegant here on paper, but which sounded insulting in the flesh. (It's a shame the English language provides no way to print the inflections of a senatorial voice.) The gentleman from Pawnee City, still angry, still impatient; and still craning his neck to see the clock, suggested then a point of no quorum. Ooops! That would have meant the bells had to clang and all the lawgivers listening to Gen. MacArthur had to rush back to the chamber to be counted.

‘Pay Attention’ THE VEEP ruled this was out of order. Sen. Holland droned on. He charged Sen. Wherry wanted to make a. Roman holiday of the hearings. Sen. Wherry said he did not, either. “All we're asking is that the people get the facts; not the skimmed-off facts,” he shouted. “The trouble is not with open hearings. It's with secret hearings. Why, the last two wars were caused by secret hearings.” Sen. Holland said the last two wars were caused by other things, which he listed. “I hope the Senator will pay attention,” he said. “I am listening,” snapped Sen. Wherry in tones that indicated his ears were painful. “The Senator's impatience gets ahead of his manners,” said Sen. Holland. The gentleman went on from there and I headed downtown. I couldn't take it any longer. Too much danger of a busted blood vessel.

REARMAMENT

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there is a chance for present efforts at international control of raw materials to mature. And that however justified some British complaints might be, raw materials co-operation has got to be a two-way street. Britain's Aneurin Bevan touched off a smouldering controversy when he resigned as labor minister and charge that the Birtish civilian eton omy would be wrecked by Allied rearmament. Even Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison, who remained, agreed that there was that danger, though he said ne had too much confidence in the U. S. to believe we would fet it happen. ” ” on SECRETARY of State Dean Acheson, President Truman and Mobilization Director Charles Wilson have been trying to. reassure the British, and other countries, of our good intentions. They ure avoiding saying the obvious--that the United States is stockpiling not merely for our own security but for

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WASHINGTON, May 5— American officials are not heedless of complaints in Britain that U. 8. rearmament, plus our still considerable civilian production, will deprive the British of the raw materials they must have tor their own people and armed

But they say the complaints are coming too soon, before

ship has been temporarily modified by the fact

«that the Chinese Communists are making war

on United Nations forces. In view of the stiffening British public attitude it will- be more difficult for the government to cause trouble in the United Nations on this score.

Similarly, it won't ‘be so easy in the future

for Mr. Attlee to insist on giving Formosa to the Reds. Although uncertain whether it would be better to change now, Britain is not challenging the informal American protectorate or formal United Nations responsibility for the {sland, pending a stable, law-abiding and generally recognized China government.

British military officials are glad the United States is neutralizing Formosa at present, but

. they don’t agree that the island is absolutely

necessary for permanent future defense of the Pacific.

The growing hostile attitude toward Peiping °

and impatience with the labor government's weak policy reflect the following disiilusioning developments:

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Songer can be used ish as a scapegoat.

TWO: Peiping, instead of accepting the United Nations’ proposals to cease fire at the

38th Parallel, as the British expected, has‘

launched its largest offensive.

THREE: British troops, in helping to block that offensive, have suffered their heaviest casualties to date. The more Britons killed, the madder Britons at home get and the less willing they will be to evacuate under fire or a sell-out settlement.

FOUR: Despif8 formal British diplomatic recognition, Peiping has not reciprocated and Britain hasn't profited as hoped.

FIVE: Reports from China of daily mass trials and the execution of political opponents is hard for the British to take.

SIX: The stock of Prime Minister Nehru of

INFLATION .

Conservative Party Snipes At Attlee Policy In Communist China

LONDON, May 5—The Labor government's China policy is under increasing attack by the Conservative Party and the independent press. Prime Minister Clement Attlee i8 on the defepsive. New Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison is not so blithely certain as before that he

India, who . influenced the government's proPeiping policy, is declining. SEVEN: London’s attempt to co-operate with Mao hasn't paid off in Malaya. Pressure from the large Chinese population in Malaya was another major reason for the premature recogni-

tion. The only reward is greater Red activity inv

Malaya and Mao charges that the British are persecuting Chinese there. EIGHT: The Soviet's long sabiolage of the Paris deputies’ conference to agree on an

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agenda for a Big Four meeting irritates the disappointed public here. None of these developments, separately or together, are likely in the near future to force a firm British-American agreement on Far Eastern policy. But there's hope they may at least eliminate some bitterness and bring the two countries somewhat closer together.

. By James Daniel

Big Deal Underway to Hike Price Of Copper Despite Defense Need

WASHINGTON, May 5—While government officials talk about their determination to halt inflation, a big deal is being swung here to raise the price of copper, a key metal in the nation’s economy.

If the deal comes off the cost of rearmament will go up. So will prices of many consumer goods. Under the general price freeze of the Office of Price Stabilization, the ceiling price on copper is now 241; cents a pound. Since last July 1. manufacturers using Chilean copper—now more than a third of the U. 8S. consumption—. have been required to pay a 2-cent a pound tariff. Added to the 2413 cent a pound ceiling price, this has made the actual cost of Chilean copper 267: cents. Both the House and Senate have now passed bills to remove the tariff, Final enactment of a law, however, has been delayed because the House refuses to accept an unrelated amendment attached by Sen. Hugh Butler (R. Neb.). With the tariff on Chilean copper due to come off, the normal thing to happen would be a two-cent saving to manufacturers of goods containing Chilean copper—such saving to be

Sen. Butler . . causes delay

passed on to the public in lower prices.

“Outcry Expected

BUT apparently that's not going to happen. For the past six months, the State Department has been negotiating with Chile to raise the price of Chilean copper to 271; cents a pound. The department has no authority to regulate U. 8. prices, but it obtained the concurrence of the Office of Economic Stabilization,

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

which includes the OPS, and of the defense Production Administration. Chile has been told that Chilean copper will sell here for three cents above the present ceiling on American production. The agreement is still secret. When it is announced OPS officials expect an outcry from American mining inter-

—ests to do as well for U. S. producers.

At the minimum American producers may demand a one-cent increase for themselves. Final details on how to handle the copper cost increases—whether to make manufacturers absorb some of them, pass the whole amount along to consumers, or ash Congress to vote a subsidy—have not been worked out by OPS. Meanwhile, the Defense Production Administration and the State Department are willing to risk further inflation on the ground that it will result in a larger importation of foreign copper and pacify a friendly ally.

Landlords Dominate Congress ____ CHILE has privately agreed with the two American copper companies (Anaconda and

Kennecott) which mine 90 per cent of her cop-

per to let: up on discriminatory currency exchange rates and tax requirements. These have the effect of ‘confiscating two-thirds of the Chilean miner's wage and of discouraging new investment. Altogether, Chile has been taking about 70 per cent of the copper profits and will get still more money from the higher copper prices to be permitted here. Copper is so profitable to the Chilean government that the rich landlords who dominate the Chilean Congress can afford to keep the taxes on themselves low. In Chile’s defense, some American officials say our price controls have been more severe on copper than .on practically anyw other raw material, and Chile shouldn't suffer because of our ineffective attempts to hold down prices.

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‘Mac’s a Good Man’ MR. EDITOR: Gen. MacArthur said in his speech in Chicago and elsewhere he wanted us to know he tried to do his best. President Truman has admitted that he makes mistakes, blunders and

that he has his faults. Of course we.are perfect.’

We couldn't possibly have any faults. There is too much conjecture without fact. All we know is what we hear over the radio, what we read . .. but where are the facts? Before you talk just be sure there are facts behind what you say. Gen. MacArthur practically grew up in the Army and that is his line of duty, but he isn't the man for the presidency . . . Let's respect and believe in our President and trust in God. —Mrs. Faye Hardesty, Mechanicsburg. MR.“EDITOR: There's no question that President Truman had the power to fire Gen. MacArthur since he is Commander in Chief . . . but why did he fire him MacArthur doesn’t know why. I feel the time is coming soon that the President will realize he made a big mistake. MacArthur said in his speech to Congress that he has been

theirs as well. And publicly at least they're taking little notice of the shameless way some of our Allies are hijacking us for raw materials they sell. Since last fall the United States and 26 other nations have been trying to work out a mutually satisfactory equivalent of the raw materials allocation’ plan which we and the British by our joint control of shipping imposed on the nonAxis world in the last war. It has been a ticklish business, because many of the countries don't share our view

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in military service for 52 years. He probably knows more about war than any man living. The way things look now, those words will be proved for the war in Korea isn’t getting any better. So many of our boys are being blown to bits for no cause at all. I'm 100% for MacArthur... —Mrs. George Baker, City.

‘Watch for a Trap’ MR. EDITOR:

Harry Truman's a sly old fox as a politician. Watch out or he'll cop the political thunder of the Republican Party. . What if he adopts the MacArthur point of view? What then in 1952? If the Republican stand is the answer in Korea and Harry adopts it, as everyone is shouting for him to do, he gets the credit for being intelligent enough to mend his mistakes. If it is not the answer and the country gets into a third world war he can sit back and say “I told you so.” That will leave the Republican Party with only MacArthurism and who will believe Truman is a pinko when he is fighting a total war against the Reds. Watch out. Little Harry did it before and he might do it again.

Charles C. Rohger, Manchester.

British Are Not Hurt by U. S. Stockpiling

consumption, and on the foreign side, by some relief to us on prices.

o ” » THE Americans. who are participating in the international control plan are not denying there are grounds for one big foreign complaint. It is that a percentage cutback on civilian consumption, imposed while the U. 8. is enjoy~ ing a peak of civilian' goods, would be unfair to our Allies, "who have so much less to cut back from. But the Americans are also defending their thesis that it would be unwise ever again to force such a cutback of civilian production as occurred in

and cobalt. There is no rubber committee, a crucial omission from the

son for their insistence on U. 8. government stockpiling— so that if general war comes

World War II. This is the rea-’

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of the degree of the present emergency. And some, like India, don't even admit that the

Soviet Union, whose warlike: moves touched, off the present

scramble for raw materials, is a poténtial enemy. - o o ” AT WORK at the moment are seven international. com- — on cotton; wool; sulphur; pulp and paper; tungsten and molybdenum; copper, lead fod zinc, and man

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