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might have involved us in war with Russia if he had bombed the Red bases in Manchuria. Thus the Truman administration’s strategy was presented as a ‘peace’ policy. But Secretary Marshall's testimony Saturday left the impression that he feels there will be much the same danger of war with Russia if our forces defeat the Chinese in the current Korean ground war. Because they have a mutual-assistance treaty with the Chinese Reds, he said, the Soviet may feel that failure to sipport Communist China in the present fight would put them in a bad light with their own satellites. He added;

“limited war"

o n » “SO IT has seemed to me and my associates and advigers that we are confronted by a Soviet government in a very difficult position itself as to what it does in relation to the failure up to the present time of the Chinese Communists to drive us out of Korea.” This seems to imply plainly that Secretary Marshall believes we are fighting a war we dare not win for fear of getting involved in a larger war. x Since there has been no official suggestion that our forces should withdraw from Korea, what is the goal of our

present policy? Is it the acceptance of inevitable defeat on

the battlefield, so that Russia won't feel it necessary to jump in on the side of the Chinese Reds? Or is it a settlement which our policy makers hope both Red China and Russia will approve? If the Truman-Marshall policy's goal is such a settlement, Gen. MacArthur's removal and our present military strategy will become understandable.

Our Hospitalized Voters

WE RECEIVED a letter yesterday from a hospitalized voter who has spent the last four years in veterans hospitals. During this time he has been denied the right to vote on an absentee ballot. He asked us why he was denied this right when others who are away from the state on business or government service retain the right. The state law providing for the absentee ballot was

passed several years ago. It does not deny hospitalized voters the right to vote. It simply does not provide for it. The effect is the same. The voter is disfranchised. The philosophy behind this move is clear. , There are those who believe hospitalized persons afford the ‘dirty politician” an opportunity for buying votes. Through “negligent” nurses, interns and doctors the politician has the chance to prey on the patient for his vote.

IN THE same line, there are those who believe the majority of hospitalized persons incapable of making a wise political choice, because they are concentrating upon their physical ailments. The contention is, all of this serves to make elections unfair . . . the majority of hospitalized voters would not vote the same way they would vote if they were out of the hospital. We do not believe this is a. good answer to the veteran's question but it is the only one there is and we can't agree with it. We don't believe there are many doctors, nurses and interns who would allow “dirty politicians” to prey on their patients in any way. We can’t agree that the hospitalized voter is any more incapable of making a clear choice of political candidates. Many of them are far better equipped for that than the-average voter. Nor can we agree that this state is rendering any kind of public protection by this obvious disservice.

THE hospitalized voter is not there by choice. - Hit is impossible for him to cast his vote in this state. By this method a portion of the voting population 1s disfranchised without good reason. This kind of law can never combat “dirty politics.” It should be amended at the first opportunity to provide for

the hospitalized voter.

It’s a War

AST Wednesday a Marine Corps veteran from Korea suffering with cancer of the throat, was denied admission to a Veterans Administration Hospital at Tucson, Ariz, because his fighting hadn't been done in an officially recognized war. At his press conference Thursday morning, President . Truman was asked about this incident. He said the hospital's refusal to admit the veteran was in accordance with law, but that the law should be changed. Before sundown, that same day, the House and Senate had passed bills to change the law and had agreed on adjustment of -a minor difference between the two measures. Friday the legislation, giving Korean veterans the same hospitalization and pension benefits, available to veterans of the two world wars, reached President ‘Truman's desk and he promptly signed it into law. Seldom has a law been enacted with such speed, and

~.geldom has quick team-work by Congress and the President.

better served the cause of justice. To some pecple, what's going on in Korea may be only a “police action.” ‘But to the Americans fighting there it's certainly a war.

A Healthy Contrast *

MERIEA heartily welcomes Prime Minister David BenGurion of Israel to its shores. As head of the newest nation on earth, he is a reminder to us that the urge to

gelf-determination still burns brightly in the hearts of

many whose history has been clouded by hardship. What a healthy contrast is this example to the dismal spectacle of other proud peoples in central Europe and aslsewhere falling- prey to Russian communism. As the free world encourages the birth of new countries like Israel and Libya, it must never abandon as totally lost the freedom- - loving folk of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, , Bugera and other victims of the predatory. Reds.

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SAD NEWS . . . By Peter Edson

DiSalle ‘Sorry’ To See Aid Go

But Doesn't Want Anyone

To ‘Stand in Way’

WASHINGTON, May 14—Inside story of the E. - Thompson of Stabilization Director Michael DiSalle has Washington gossipd chuckling, igned {aa huff from his §53job, with a blast at the “Georgian Thompson said he re-

hassel between ex-Gov. -M. Georgia and Price

Gov. Thompson res a-day price consultant's

DiSalle necause he®*had given

nothing to-do. And Gov, fused to be a parasite,

Other side of the story is that the governor had ahout driven the director nuts Every night for weeks, while Mike was workeing at his office; Mr. Thompson would call him up and_complain about the way.

treated es

advised 40 come in and talk it over,

Next morning, Mr. Thompson would come 'to that was fine. Mr. DiSalle would explain that the job he had for him was to organize co-operation and state governments, But other more pressing problems first attention and the local compliance program wasn't ready to go. Gov. Thompson would shake

Mr. DiSalle’'s office and say

between OPS

hands and go away satisfieq.

When Gov. Thompson finally decided to quit, Mr. DiSalle told one of his aids, see him go, but don’t let anyone stand in his He'd have been better off if I'd never met

way. him.”

Prediction Fails—Here's Another

THE PREVIOUSLY predicted May attack of satellite forces on Yugoslavia havBalkan experts now 1 as the next That would comé after harvests

Communist ing failed to materialize, point toward Oct,

fore cold weather. matter of much

How attack discussion by

gists A pincers attacK-—from the north through Hungary, from the south through Greece—is

considered possible, most anxious to fight, vaded.

he was being

: aX Rae hag A rink; rin He Would he asked. The governor would. allow. that’ he hat art in the

“I'm sorry to

are in but bemight come is military strate-

Greeks are ready and alif their soil is again in-

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mommies

everything

needed

likely date,

Should an attack come, Greece and Yugo-

slavia might be expected to move against

bania,

wipe it out and carve it up. They can see

Al-

no use for its existence and the two countries

could be expected fo claim whatever part each could conquer and hold before the other got to it. Department of Defense got caught in a box

when it announced intention

more civilians. This would bring armed services civilian employment up to 1.600.000, or about one civilian for every two and a fraction uni-Economy-minded Sen. Harry F. Byrd immediately jumped on the proposal, and Department of Defense wasn’t ready with ow hastily trying

formed personnel.

its explanation, which it is to put together,

Employment Deployment

REASON FOR big/civilianye

said to. be in operation of gove

built by private industry.

emergencies.

Slim Budget Cuts

FIRST FOUR of next year's appropriation bills reported out by House Appropriations Committee didn't show much hope for economizing. They covered Treasury, Post Office, Labor, Interior, Federal Security Agencies and various individual items

independent offices. A few

were cut sharply.

But President Truman's budget message for these agencies requested funds totaling $13,087,000,000. House Committee cut this figure to $12,256,000,000. This showed saving of $831,000,000. As these agencies represent more gixth of the $71 billion budget

1952,

he a shoemaker statesman.”

In ent arsenals and gun factories. Air Force has Civil Service employees because its planes are Army and Navy, operate a number of factories . shipyards where civilian government employees predominate. Last January, for instance, Army's Bureau of Ordnance had 114,000 employees— about the size of the ground forces. Civil Service employment in arsenals shore stations goes down in peace time, rises in Department of Defense fell down in not having figures readily available on how many civilians it expected to employ where, for immediate presentation to Congress. Only way we, this employment could be cut drastically would be {6 turn all arms, ammunition and ship manufacture and repair over to private industry.

requested for total reductions of only $2.5 billion would be possible, if later cuts are no sharper. Smithsonian Institution in Washington has just placed on exhibition a new letters from John Adams, second U. 8. president. Prominent in the collection is one letter ing. “If 1 were-to-go-over-my-life agaimT-would rather than an American

hire 450,000

This

ployment fis

time, too.

elatively few tening and our Asian

basting. and

KOREAN WAR

But I'd be pleased’ if our orators kindly would skip the Holi-er-than-thou attitude. Up until last October ourselves, peddling the stuff ii from which bullets are made to the Chinese, so they could shoot back at us.

were

long last

About There can be no doubt of that. Lately I've been to our lawgivers lambast the British for selling ~_..the sinews of war. to enemies, They deserve the lam-

lis-

own

Some of our patriots probably still would

be in the business were it not for the efforts of the mild-mannered, pink-cheeked and everpolite Democratic gentleman from Baltimore, Sen. Herbert R. O'Connor. He was the fellow who personally clomped down in the holds of freighters at the docks of his own home town and elsewhere to find. despite our laws, tons of copper,

steel and no telling what all else consigned to

Tsingtao. tually were than oneReds. some facts:

collection of

sav-

lations, too.

CONTROLS... By Earl Richert Price Boss on Spot But He Can Still Laugh

WASHINGTON,

May

14 — Price Administrator

Michael DiSalle, the capital's favorite humorist, is still

wowing ‘em.

In office five months now and the object of anything but affection by such groups as the cotton and beef interests, the debonair Mr. DiSalle stil! hasn't worn thin.

He has amply demonstrated that his early form wasn't just a flash performance when it comes to charming tough congressional committees. Mr. DiSalle's technique of the quick quip ; seems. to be catching too, Staid and} aged Con-j gressmen, including Re- § publicans whose blood pressure is usually sev-

eral. de grees

above normal, . Mr. DiSalle now try to quick qui outdo Mr. Di- +9 quip Sallg.on repartee avhenever the price boss shows up for questioning. And the hearing on a highly controversial izsue soon becomes an affair of infectious jollity. Such was the case with Mr. DiSalle’'s latest congressional appearance—before the House Banking Committee —to ask renewal of the price control law and the additional powers asked by President Truman.

The hearing ran the gamut—-

sex, power, and the gold standard as well as price controls— with everyone enjoying himself immensely. At one point Mr. DiSalle told ‘how crowded his office space was, with ex-big business men being forced to sit in the “bull

pen” along with stenographers and other lesser employees.

5 z n “DO YOU,” asked the usually serious Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R. Mich.) “find any objections by the executives to heing surrounded by stenographers?” “Most of--our executives are

people who've retired and I think thev've lost interest,” Mr DiSalle retorted. . Rep. Howard Buffett (R.

Neb.), who thinks the economic fate of this country rests on a return to the gold standard, brought up that {ssue. Mr. DijSalle said he had never had much of a chance to go into it and Rep. Gordon MeDon-

het Res Ead)=gonght—to-—ex SORE NT=TO=eX

plain the gold standard to the price boss by using poker chips ag an example. “We better change the character of our interrogation,” broke in Chairman Brent Spence (D. Ky.), “or we might be investigated by the Kefauver Committee. “Are you suggesting that I claim constitutional immunity,” Mr. DiSalle quipped. The audi-

ence and the committee roared. ” n n REP. BUFFETT and Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex.) got into a long and heated argument over the value of the gold standard and Mr. DiSalle broke it up, cracking: “I'd like to request the two distinguished members of Congress to file a memorandum with my office.” Rep. Buffett asked that Mr. DiSalle direct his chief econo-

The Commerce Department up the rules against shipping China any of our own war goods. finery +n Japan, from China, but that was covered by the regu-

A number of the business-as-usual boys acshipping electrolytic copper, purest grade there is, world to sell it at triple prices to the Oriental

the all the way around the

It was a weird deal and for the benefit of our speechmakers I think maybe I'd better jot down

had tightened

There was a large copper reonly an overnight ship ride

SIDE GLANCES

Our Century Plopt Sends Up a Shoot

By Frederick C. Othman

Some Guys Will Do Anything To Keep ‘Business ($$) as Usual’

WASHINGTON, May 14-80 the bottom has fallen out of the international rubber market. Looks as if we'll be getting spare tires on our autos soon again. And plenty of garden hose. : is because the British at have decided to quit selling rubber to the Chi- © nese, Commies.

So the wily operators bought loads of this Jap qopper for export to the United States and While the ship was plowing across the Pacific, the owners of the copper would sell it to somebody else. Sometimes the ship would dock in New York, or where the copper would be transferred to another freighter bound for China. But more often the same ship that left Japan would circle the globe to deliver the metal to

goodness khows we needed it.

Baltimore,

the Chinese. Perfectly legal. That wasn't all.

Wanted the Business A NU

trade with the Chinese. One of these

years.

Some of our traders used similar schemes to buy Belgian steel and French ~transformers;-which-were-sotd-to-the Chinese before they ever reached our shores.

MBER of the gentlemen in the trade appeared to defend themselves before the Senator from Maryland. Some of them said if the government wanted to stop their trade, it had better pass a law. Some were defiant. Sald they were violating no statute. Others said they took the business on the theory that if they stayed out somebody else would grab the chance to

international dealers, member, almost had tears in his eyes, he didn't want to lose the Chinese customers

with whom he'd been doing business for 20

POLICY

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nothing to it.

By Charles Lucey

. Acheson Faces / Hot Grilling

Senators Getting Ready

To Fire Series of Questions WASHINGTON, May 14—Secretary of State Dean Acheson is in for the grilling of his life "when he takes over where the military men leave off in the current Senate inquiry into the MacArthur-Far East controversy. , End of the first week of pro-administration “testimony left supporters of Gen. Douglas Mae- . Arthur believing that although the Joint Chiefs of Staff were consulted on important policy matthe State Department and Mr. Acheson actually had the. dominaht voice. Repeatedly Defense Secretary George C: FAI TSR (THE ‘State Department for a answer. Gen. Marshafl re." turns to the witness chair today. Some Republican Senators see much of the first nine days

of testimony as a build-up for the appearance of Mr. Acheson, and although he has undergoné : many critical sessions on Capitol Hill the one he faces can be the toughest ever, ’ #

Can't Forget Hiss

THE PLAIN truth is, too, that unless there's a change over night it will be difficult for Mr. Acheson to get support from Senate Democrats because for one reason or another {t's largely non-existent. There are some who believe that, despite all the criticism, he has been an able Secretary of State, but they can not forget his support of Alger Hiss. 8till other Democrats will give him no personal support because they thirk he has been too intellectually upstage in his actions and attitude toward them. Rumors of Mr. Acheson's resignation have been hotter in recent days than at any time since the “get Acheson” President Truman has said repeatedly there's But the politicians are saying it will have to happen because no matter how strong Mr. Truman's loyalties, the liability that would be represented in retaining Mr. Acheson would be just too much to take in the national election next year. : : The Acheson critics are expected to pitch

drive of last winter,

questions with a windup that stretches clear back to center field. The exploration is certain

to go deep into his attitudes on the Chinese Communists and Nationalists long antedating his ascension to the rank of Mr. Truman’ 8 first cabinet minister.

Will Press Question

MR. ACHESON'S precise part moval of Gen. MacArthur as Commander in Korea and Suprame Allied Coms= mander in Japan will be the object of exhaustive questioning. Did Messrs. Truman, Acheson and Marshall actually make the decision, with the Joint Chiefs just riding along? Those ready to press thig question point out that Army Secretary Frank Pace, civilian head of the military department most immediately involved, was out of the country (in Japan and Korea) and knew nothing about the removal * decision until after it was made. whether the air and navy civilian Secretaries .

United Nations

They will ask

knew anything about it. Mr. Acheson is certain to get a rough going

over on the question of his attitude on admitting the Chinese Communists to the United Nations

last June.

But Sen.

both before and after the Korean War began Secretary Marshall last week of his present antipathy to.the Chinese Reds, and to his opposition to letting them get Formosa by whatever means. William F. Knowland (R. Cal,) has raised a question whether some of the administration's professed opposition to

left no doubt

the

British on such points In the United Nations

I reHe =aid

Sen. O'Connor raised so much cain in a polite and dignified way that. this loophole, "too, was

closed and since last fall we've shipped nothing Now the British belatedly are seeing things our way, too. Too bad it took ‘em so Sen. O'Conor’s troubles, I'm inclined to give them a muted cheer. The spare tires and the garden hose are only

to China.

long, but in view o

incidental.

What Others Say—

SO long as Communist aggressors control yreat armies and great land masses, we in this country must be prepared, every hour and every day, to fight for peace.—Sen. Lyndon Johnson

(D. Tex.).

By Galbraith

Zr”

se COPR. 1981 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. "| still say there are other qualities that men find attractive!"

mist to make a thorough study of the gold standard. The price boss said he'd do that. Then Rep. Buffett said he thought Mr, -DiSalle also should give the matter study so he'd know what it was all about. With only a trace of a smile, Mr. DiSalle replied: “I'll do

that in my spare time.” That one brought down the house. Chairman Spence told ‘Mr. DiSalle that one of the things he, should strive ‘hardest for wis simple language in. the price control regulations,

a.» n

THE price chief~said he was

_ working hard on that and that

the regulations had been simplified a great deal.

“In fact I even understand some of them myself now,” he said. “And there's another side too. I overheard someone say the other day that the manufacturer's regulation was so simple it must have been written by someone who knew nothing whatsoever about business.” All this is not to say that Mr. DiSalle does not get his serious points across. He does that too, very well. “You know,” one cotton area

Congressman sald grudgingly

after the House hearing, “that peckerwood (DiSalle) is doing all right.”

content .

spacious .

bring . ..

garden . . .

Eden . ..

come to be . ..

don't know what to do . . and make all the old soil new . .. and I will guarantee my friend . . . will be your gain . , .

were merely for appearance. This is by no means all the list. son is an able lawyer, gifted in argument, and the signs are he will need all his gifts this time,

MY. EDEN

I HAVE a little garden . . . . » with planting pretty flowers . . . as on the hoe I'm bent . . . just big enough for me . . . to spend my time in dreaming . . . it’s kind of ‘like an Eden . .. when summer gets in swing . . . marvel at the sight . . so if you have some idle time . .

Mr. Ache-

where I can feel . my garden isn't of what may I know you'd . of what the earth can . and

. just start a little

happiness by starting your own

a garden in the rain.

By Ben Burronghs,

PARTY LINE... By Frederick Woltman Editor Slams House For Soft Investigation

‘NEW YORK, May 14—Because of its gentle handling of Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee has come in for some firm, although unpublicized, criticism by its anti-Come-

munist friends.

Despite past associations with Commie

fronts, the two film toughies were permitted to stand on

the assertions that they knew from nuffin’ so far as Red penetration of Holly-

wood is concerned.

Now Counterattack, weekly newsletter on communism published by ex-FBI agents at 55 W. 42d St., says the House group. is laying itself open to charges of soft-pedaling. The newsletter urges its subscribers—business firms, unions and others — to write Chairman John 8. Wood, (D. Ga.), demanding a tough, thorough examination of all witnesses. Counterattack's “Red Channels” had documented 20 fronts

‘Which claimed Actor Garfield’ 8S

‘between 1938 and 1945. One, in the late 30's, was a defense of Stalin's purge of the Trotskyites, a stand requiring the signer to be mightly hep to Commie politics. Another was a CP-:inspired blast at Finnish war retief ‘after Russia attacked the tiny “aggressor.” Yet Mr. Garfield testified he didn't know a single Commie in movieland, could recall assisting no Red fronts, always hated communism, At this late date, he waxed indignant over the use of his name. With the exception of Rep. Donald L. Jackson (R. Cal), the House committee was ‘largely complimentary.” There's a split In the film industry, according to Counterattack. Some producers want to clear out all Commie influence. Others, to protect

recent movie investments, pre-

YI & ving dunn; sud tha

public relations men are worke ing overtime to that end. Always a cushy source of income, Hollywood, the newse letter estimates, has given the Communist Party as much as $1.3 million annually. EJ ” o

THE COMMIES have opened, to quote the Daily Worker, a “new drive on war-inciting bubble gum.” (We said bubbie gum!) The Topps Chewing Gum Co.,

of New York City, has been marketing a “Freedom's War Gum,” featuring a series of en-

closed picture cards showin "American génerals, flags and

insignia and action scenes from Korea, Bowman Gum, Inc. of Philadelphia, uses another marketing gimmick: “trading cards” which play up a “Chil= dren's Crusade Against communism.”

Something that calls itself “New York Veterans for Peace” started to put on the heat.

As a result, boasts the Daily Worker, Topps promised to withdraw “the war-inciting pictures.” Topps’ president, Joseph Shorin, gave us a somewhat different version, Acknowledging the pressure, Mr. Shorin said the firm was simply “accelerating the) introduction of other items.” Namely, a baseball sequence and a Frank Buck "Bring | "Em Back Alive” parka

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