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Call for Fortitude

THE TAX bill taking shape in the House Ways and Means Committee threatens to be dangerously inadequate as well as belated. © ns ; More than three months have passed since President Truman trged prompt action to provide $10 billion of added government revenue in the fiscal year beginning next July. This week the House committee, where revenue measures must start, announced two tentative decisions: ONE: To increase individual income taxes about $3 billion—only three-fourths as much as Mr. Truman asked. TWO: To increase corporation income taxes about $2 billion—only two-thirds of what he called for. The committee apparently has no intention of approving anything like the $3 billion in additional excise taxes : sought by the President, or of plugging many of the ‘“loopholes” through which he contends much needed revenue is being lost.

. ® » ® . . SHREWD Washington observers predict that the bill's total when it emerges from this committee will be less than $7 billion, that Congress won't complete action on it before September, and that three months of the new fiscal year will be gone before the higher tax rates become effective. If they're correct, the additional revenue collected in that fiscal year will fall far short of balancing the federal budget. Even if Congress pleasantly surprises us by cutting five or six billion from Mr, Truman's $71.8 billion in proposed spending, there would still be a big gap between intake and outgo. This next fiscal year will see a vast growth of spending for national defense. Millions of people will be working and earning in the production of goods and services that civilians cannot buy. The supply of goods and services that civilians can buy must be sharply cut. » » » » - » TAXES are high now, and the thought of higher taxes is’ painful. But if we don't pay the cost of the defense program and of the government's other necessary activities in higher taxes, we will pay it in higher living costs and higher defense costs. Federal deficit spending in months to come would exert more upward force on prices than direct controls could counteract.

enacting a much stronger tax bill than the Ways and Means Committee seems likely to submit. That duty calls for political fortitude—but, after all, no such fortitude as Americans in Korea are displaying dally.

Trading With the Enemy

NDER fire from Winston Churchill, the British Socialists have agreed to ban all exports of rubber to Communist China for the rest of the year. Britain also has announced it will support U. 8. demands for economic sanctions against the Peiping regime— after having shipped the Reds $357 million worth of - . strategic and other goods since the Korean War started last June. These belated concessions would be better appreciated in this country if they reflected any sincere desire on the part of the British Socialists to associate themselves with us in a united front against Asian communism. But, in announcing the ban on rubber exports, Sir Hartley Shawcross, president of the British Board of Trade, left the door open to resume trading with the Reds next year. - - » » - » “WE HAVE now decided that, in view of the abnormally high imports of rubber into China in the first quarter of this year, civilian needs can be regarded as fully satisfied for the current year,” he said, in admitting that Britain's rubber shipments to the Communists certainly had exceeded their normal civilian requirements. : Mr. Churchill has warned the House of Commons that Britain's continued recognition of Communist China has become “illogical” and is making it difficult for the Western Allies to formulate a clear and strong policy in the Orient. To many Americans, Britain's position seems immoral as well as illogical. In many American minds the battlefields of Korea have become a testing ground for the alliances we have formed against Communist aggression everywhere. Allies found wanting there cannot expect to be accepted on faith alone in future crisis.

Playing Us for Suckers EPUTY ministers representing the Big Four powers— Britain, France, Russia and the United States—have been meeting in Paris for 10 weeks, trying to agree on subject to be discussed at a projected session of the Big Fo Foreign Ministers,

Russia, which asked for this meeting, has blocked an agreement on the proposed agenda by the ridiculous demand that the West agree in advance to halt its rearmament program. But Britain, France and the United States placed themselves in an even more ridiculous position by letting the —— Soviets talk them into a meeting which in itself had no other purpose than to slow down the West's rearmament effort. » » » . ~ » WHEN Moscow made the original proposal for a discussion of European problems, the United States had no enthusiasm for such a parley, seeing no reason to believe the Russians were’ acting in good faith. But wishful thinkers in Paris and London thought they saw a chance to buy a cheap peace, and this country agreed to go along with them. i: Having kept the Western Allies off balance for 10 weeks ‘hy prolonging the deputies’ meeting, the Russians probably ‘will accept the Western agenda in the end, so that Western ‘fearmament will be further delayed while the foreign min\isters themselves take up the pointless discussion where their deputies left off. When our appeasement-minded friends let the Soviets

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MacArthur Issue

LONDON, May 12 ~The effect on Britain of the MacArthur crisis has been good, in the net. There are plenty of poisonous results. But these are offset by forcing reluctant public attention on the Far East challenge, by making the Labor Government modify its pro-Peiping policy and reduce exports to the aggressor, and by some correction, at least, of the fantastic British misunderstanding of the American spirit. Thursday's announcement in Parliament that the government will ban all empire rubber ex-

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ports to China and support the proposed United Nations arms and strategic materials embargo, though only a late half-step forward, is one direct effect of the MacArthur explosion. Neither Prime Minister Clement Attlee nor Tory leader Winston Churehill, who prodded him for the past week, had been moved by repeated protests, before public exposure. . The recent shift of British policy toward the Big Four Conference, from semiappeasement to the firmer American position in the Paris depu-

Here's a Way to Get Publicity

WASHINGTON, May 12—I1dea]l way for the anonymous young men of the White House to cease being that way is to live on the cuff in a Miami Beach luxury hotel. Particularly when same is owned by a punchboard king, who has borrowed $1.5 million from the government to build it. Anonymity then “turns into Senat: inquiries, big black headlines, photo flash bulbs, television appearances, and crimsoned ears. As of the moment, 19 guess, the best-¥ known free-loaders in America are the Messrs, David Niles and Donald Dawson of the White House secretariat. They're the gents who stayed, while on Florida vacations, in $30-a-day rooms facing the ocean high up in the ultra-modern Saxony Hotel. This lush hostelry was built by George Sax, the Chicagoan who made his pile selling punchboards. The trouble was he didn’t make quite enough. He had to borrow a million and a half from the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

Though repaid since in full, this loan struck Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.) & Co. of the Banking Subcommittee, as a peculiarly odd place to sink the taxpayers’ money. Odd, too, they thought, was the fact that presidential functionary Dawson stayed there for free last year and the year before. They finally got Dawson in their greenleathered witness chair, and while the flash bulbs popped and the cameras whirred, the* embarrassing proceedings went something like this: Three times Dawson said he took his ease in the Saxony. On his first free visit there he said he was accompanied by his small daugh-

LABOR... By Fred Perkins

John Lewis May International Spotlight

WASHINGTON, May 12—Associates of John L. Lewis are trying to persuade him to be a delegate to the Second World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, opening in Milan, Italy, on

July 4.

If he yields} the president of the United Mine Work-

ter and his wife, who functions as chief file

.. clerk of the RFC. Only he didn’t know it was

free. Not until he went down to pay his bill, “The clerk said there wasn't any bill,” testified Dawson, who tumned out to be a handsome guy in a Bob Hope-like way. “We were told it was complimentary. This is not unusual in hotels of this character.”

You mean hotels With RFC loans?” de-

manded Sen. Fulbright. “No, I mean resort hotels,” replied Dawson. “They give free rooms to folks with publicity value.” Qoops! “Do you have publicity value?’ the Senator inquired. “I don’t consider that I have,” Dawson said. “When you go back to the Saxony, do you expect free lodging again?’ Sen. F. asked. “I don’t expect to go back,” Dawson’ said. Sen. Fulbright then demanded to know how a White House aid could retain his anonymity ‘if he took free lodging for publicity purposes.

# “I thought you were one of the anonymous

ones,” the Senator said. “Did David Niles (a veteran anonymous one of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. stay there, too?” “Yes, he did,” Dawson said. He went on to say that he didn’t know there was a government loan on the hotel, and that he went there because Niles recommended it. Did he kind of whisper in your ear that you'd get a free room?” inquired Sen. J. Allen Frear (D. Del.). “No sir,” snapped Dawson. By now his ears were a magnificent shade of pink, but he still insisted he had done nothing wrong. He said, yes, he stayed in a $30-a-day room, but that was about the cheapest rate in Miami Beach. “And you registered and you didn’t even inquire about the rate?” insisted the incredulous Sen. Wallace F: Bennett (R. Utah). Dawson "said he asked no questions. He was ready to pay whatever the charge. “You are.a brave man to do that in a place like Miami Beach and a hotel like the Saxony,” said the Senator. “Braver than I am.” The ex-anonymous one said nothing.

SIDE GLANCES

ties meeting, is another effect of more realism resulting from . Washington's ‘greater debate.’ ; More imoprtant than such tangible results is the flash of insight the Truman-Marshall and MacArthur statements and the Senate hearings have given the British public, press and politicians. What they have learned about " American democracy is partly disagreeable and

partly reassuring, but certainly it's clarifying.

Besides all this, the American debate has spotlighted the British-American conflict so vividly and terrifyingly that many Britons who recently ignored, when they didn’t directly contribute to, that calamity are now trying urgently to restore unity. Of course, this doesn't mean placid relations in the future, or complete agreement. But there is a better basis for hammering out joint policies. ) The two biggest surprises here which have come out of this spectacular public struggle across the Atlantic—too spectacular and too public, to suit the British taste—have been: "oe? U9 goo FIRST, the revelation of the intensity of the American public desire for world peace, and that the “American War” in Korea is an effort to prevent world war. Most British still don't agree with Americans about the importance of stopping aggression in Korea as essential to the security of the Western world. But at least fewer think Americans are on a militaristic Asiatic spree, endangering Europe through sheer stupidity or for love of it. And as for responsible leaders in the Labor Cabinet and the Tory Party and the serious press. fhe once-small minority which thought it was necessary to stop Red aggression in Korea is growing fairly rapidly. . The second surprise—perhaps more apparent at this distance than in Washington—is that President Truman and Gen. MacArthur, for all their violent disagreement as to methods, are so close together on fundamentals. This is twoedged for the Britons. They are agreebly surprised to discover Gen. MacArthur opposing Herbert Hoover and Sen. Taft, whose ‘neo-isolationist” statements alarmed all the Western World. But they are

‘Look, Mr. Truman’ MR. EDITOR: Would it not have been more appropriate for President Truman to address his remarks of

Monday evening to “fellow politicians” or “fellow citizens” nistead of “fellow American”?

As an American, I resent very strongly his statement that “a lot of people are looking at this debate as if it were just a political fight.” Are his fellow Americans included in “a lot of people’’? Would he have his fellow Americans share his belief that “the thing that is at stake may be atomic war”? His fellow Americans share the thoyght expressed by Gen. MacArthur in his address to Congress: “. . . The issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan considerations. . . . I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.” = am - me A ho - Rm shes wn ——

AS AN American, I protest Truman’s use of “scare philosophy.” The “awesome and terrific possibility” of an atomic war in our country was brought home to us by Mr. Truman himself when he ordered the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But that possibility will not lead us to follow ,a policy agreeable to the Russians because we will so fear the atom bombs that we dare not risk offending the Kremlin. Moreover, there is a danger, as pointed out in your editorial, that the Kremlin may bélieve this presidential utterance. If President Truman would concentrate less on his advisers’ opinions and on Kefauver and Fulbright reports and more on Gen, MacArthur’'s statements and newspaper reports of the fighting spirit of the men in Korea, he would realize that his fellow Americans are not decadent. He would acquire faith in their inherent dignity, morality and integrity. —A Reader, City.

‘About Those Letters’ MR. EDITOR:

I am a Times reader. It's a good newspaper. I am and have been for half a century an editor and publisher of newspapers. I am proud of that honored, public-serving .occupation. There is, however, one quite general newspaper practice which is open to criticism. Anonymous letters are held in contempt universally. Why, then should a newspaper lend itself to such a nefarious thing? : : Why permit its columns to be the instrument of promoting such a nasty practice? Letters to the editor columns are always under suspicion of thoughtful readers who find anonymous let-

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shocked to find that President Truman and Gen. Marshall share Gen. MacArthur's belief that Britain has been letting down America in the world crisis. Both Attlee and Churchill, who've been so slow to react in the past, must now know it will take more than a tardy rubber boycott ‘or a Uhited Nations arms embargo to curb Red aggression or to strengthen the Brit-ish-American alliance for that purpose. American public opinion’ controls American policy—even to parading family feuds before a critical world and revealing military secrets to

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the enemy when such risks are necessary to establish democratic policy for a united nation. Responsible Britons and West Europeans now can see that the American public generally, and Congress specifically, will require more action from American Allies in the future, both in Asia and Europe. That's the boomerang which officials over here are beginning to grasp. Gen. MacArthur is out and they are glad. But in going he has committed America more than ever to fighting aggression and to rating her Allies by that test. This sobers them.

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ters there. The usual qualification,” “all letters to the editor must be signed, but may be held in confidence and not published” still does not change the fact that the communication Is anonymous and therefore contemptible.

The editor himself is thus the subject of suspicion. The thought comes to many thousands of readers, “was such a letter really received, or was it concocted in the office of the newspaper to spread some false premise without assuming authority’...

—By Harvey W. Morley, City. EDITOR'S NOTE: Hoosier Forum is a public forum , , . not a forum of Times staff writers.

Views on News

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IT TAKES a very old Washingtonian to remember when it was all quiet along

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U. 8. A. TODAY: It is easier to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth than a steak. + Bb bo NOW WE know why Gen. Marshall thinks 18-19-year-olds make the best soldiers—they don't write to Congressmen.

SREB RARANRRANS

* a ab GEN. MacARTHUR made If clear that he thinks President Truman's Korean peace is the kind that ‘‘surpasseth understanding.” > > & EVEN the White House tabulation showed that Gen. MacArthur beat Truman in the write-in. ® HB MAYBE we should rename it “The: Voices of America.” SS 4 9 SOME of our United Nations Allies have decided to go all-out in Korea by quitting trading with the eneny. a AMERICAN democracy is still holding its own—a field horse won the Kentucky Derby.

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PROPAGANDA ... By Frederick Woltman

China Reds Send Fake Peace Appeal From Gls

NEW’ YORK, May 12—Copies of a Communist “peace” appeal purportedly signed by 400 American war prisoners and whitewashing the Communists’ role in Korea, are being received in various parts of this country from Peiping by way of Hong Kong. They're sent to a mailing list here as a circulation

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ing of about 350 trade unionists from 60 countries not under Soviet influence. Mr. Lewis’ last appearance outside the United States was in Mexico City about 10 years ago on the same bullring stage with Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican labor leader now charged with Communist leanThe United Mine Workers is an affiliate of the Confedera-

tion of Trade Unions and, therefore, is entitled to send a delegate to the Milan meeting.

The AFL and CIO each has”

named 12 delegates. In the current American mobilization effort Mr. Lewis is taking no part except in denunciation of the controls on wages and other phases of the national economy. John Owens, the mine workers’ secretarytreasurer, has just refused. to serve on a Manpower Advisory Committee under Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson. His reason, he said, was that

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‘ignored in selection of all other committees.” = ~ » MR. LEWIS was a member of committees working with Mr. Wilson and also with Sta-

bilizer Eric Johnston, but those _

bodies will not be established again, according to the United Labor Policy Committee, The policy committee, representing the AFL, CIO and most of the railway unions, is now going back into the defense agencies after a boycott of more than two months. When the boycott ended, the committee announced that George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerke, had been nominated as an adviser-asgistant to Mobi. lizer Wilson, and David J. Mc-

Donald, secretary-treasur the CIO United Steelworkers, to serve in the office of Stabj<

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lizer Johnston. These nominations were announced on Apr. 30, but despite the demands made in connection with the labor walkout neither Mr. Harrison nor Mr. McDonald has yet taken his post. Affairs of their unions are said to have delayed them. Several other nominations to advisory posts are yet to be made by the labor group. |

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ation of Trade Unions. The World Federation was started in 1945 with participation from the CIO, which withdrew later when it became evident that the Russians were using the organization as a pipeline for Communist . propaganda. The AFL denounced the organization from the beginning.

The AFL- delegation: to. the Milan meeting will be headed -

by Matthew Woll, a vice presi-

THE confederation of trade ° dent. Chairman of the CIO del-or--of-—unlons-was-formed-two years egation will be Jacob 8; Potof®

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sky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.

gimmick to sell Communist China’s English - language anti-U. S. propaganda magazine, People’s China, which is published in the Red capital. The ‘peace’ appeal appears in “Introductory gift copies” of the fortnightly which offers Americans a special subscription rate of $2.50 a year. The regular rate is $3.50.

» » » UNDER a headline “May We Be Heard?” are the names of 50 captured American soldiers, along with their Army

serial ed wigners are alleged to speak for 350 other GIs held captive in Korea, North Korea and Red China. But an editor's note explains that only 50 out of 400 are listed because many of the obviously forced statements were ‘very poorly written.” Because the Communists refuse to exchange prisoner of war data, the Defense Department has been able to report only 110 U. 8. prisoners out of more than 10,000 soldiers known to be missing in action,

» # » RED CHINA, meanwhile, continued this week to exploit the secrecy in which it veils

‘the identity of war prisoners.

The Peiping regime has scheduled a week of broadcasts over the Peiping radio by 17 Ameri-

“can prisoners, who are claimed . to rank from private to major.

The Communist Party's

numbers... The purport-

Daily Worker here announced this phase of Red China's propaganda war in a story datelined Peping, China, under the by-line of the London Daily Worker correspondent, Alan Winnington. According to Winnington, radio Peiping will open with four U. 8. prisoners, army lieutenants from Dekalb, Ill.,, Col« orado Springs, Colo. and Watertown, Mass, and a major from Framingham, Mass. The 32:-page copy of Peo-

. ple’'s China, currently distrib-

uted here, describes itself as

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through which English-speak-ing people in all parts of the world keep themselves in close touch with the life and thoughts of new democratic China.”

» » ¥ ITS lead article is entitled “Imperialist America Wants War, Not Peace.” A separate supplement carries a speech by Red China's Foreign Minister, Chou En-lai, attacking the United Nations as “under the domination and coercion of the United States government.” The alleged prisoner of war appeal demands that all U. 8. troops be pulled immediately out of Korea and that Red China be permitted to occupy her rightful place in the United Nations.” It goes on to say,

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our noses in here . . . we are especially disgusted at the order to cross the 38th Parallel.”

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