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Telephone RI ley 5851 Give light and the People Will Pind Thelr Own Way

ret Diplomacy

ta SENATOR KNOWLAND succeeds in forcing the State tment to make public a long-suppressed document, said to have misrepresented Formosa’s strategic importance, it may lead to some interesting revelations about the inside workings of American foreign policy. ~The document was a secret memorandum sent by ‘the department to American diplomats abroad for their guidance in’ U. 8. policy to other governments. It is under. stood to have taken the position, contrary to the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that Formosa had little strategic value to the United States, and to have forecast early. American recognition of Communist China. - : Sen. Knowland wants it put into the public record so BE that Secretary of State Acheson can be questioned about it ' . when in the MacArthur hearing. The Senate i Hat athe for f, but gn far the Stats Department has not complied.

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THE memorandum was dated Dec. 2, 1949—about the time when the State Department and the British Foreign Office are reported to have reached a secret understanding on recognition of the Chinese Reds. The State Department, it was understood, didn't go through with the deal be of publi¢ indignation in this country over the Reds’ impr . ment and mistreatment of Angus Ward, U. 8. Consul General" in Mukden. “ d The memorandum apparently contained to military Ei secrets. Its suppression is a good illustration of how official d power to classify documents as secret can withhold im- - portant information from the public. : The double-dealing which Sen. Knowland and others believe this document would reveal certainly would be no news to our Allies, the Chinese Nationalists. Its publication, to be sure, might embarrass Mr, Acheson and his associates, : : to back out of the compromising position 18 in by flirting with the Chinese Reds. : 1 it is per to the investigation, and the Senate 8 a insist that the i Department produce. it for the record.

Those RFC LoHers

SEN. FULBRIGHT'S committee ‘investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corp. has voted unanimously not to make public any of the 843 letters to that government lending agency from members of Congress. President Truman obtained these letters from RFC files last February after the committee named a number i + of hig in a report charging that “influence and « favoritism” had affected the agency's policies. - Their writers included 67 Senators and 154 Representatives: “Undoubtedly,” the committee says, there have been instances of pressure by members of Congress on behalf of loan applicants + But it concludes that the letters, “taken by themselves,” reveal no improprieties and would prove nothing unless they were considered together with all the other factors’ ‘involved in the negotiation of loans. And it would be “utterly fantastic,” Sen. Fulbright asserts, for the com‘mittee to try to trace all the factors involved in each of 843 letters.

CERTAINLY that would be a long and difficult. task, and the committee's decision not to’ undertake it is understandable. The public, which has been given much reason for confidence in the courage and integrity of the commit's members, probably will not quarrel with that decision. ee ut the public can only hope that the task, if under{aken, would not have revealed other cases like that of ‘Sen. Murray of Montana, who could see nothing wrong in , asking the RFC to grant a:loan which enabled his own lawyer son to earn a large fee: However ‘that may be, the ‘letters-from-Congress” ‘episode will have served a useful purpose if Senators and Representatives accept it as 4 warning not to put improper on the RFC. And W. Stuart Symington, the new administrator of “that agency, is continuing to provide encouraging evidence of alert determination to clean it up and keep it straight.

‘A Mere Illusion . Tue SENATE-HOUSE Conference Committee agreement ~ ™ on universal military training is a temporizing half step ‘which puts us only a slight notch above our present hit-and-miss system of providing trained military manpower ready for any future emergency. It leaves this country still without a plan for a continu“ous flow into a reserve pool of civilian soldiers, the lack of which was so sorely felt at the outbreak of the Korean War. Instead, a timorous Congress, bothered and bewildered by the mass of testimony on the subject, falls back on an ‘old dodge: It calls for a commission. The commission, ‘dominated by civilians, will hash over the whole broad con,troversy again and then, within four months, submit a new tline for a basic military program. The, once more, UMT will start along the rocky road. the Armed Services Committees of House and. 8 before it can come to any conclusive action by Coni at best, and considering all permitted dave

1 training for a stand-by reserve over a far different version has emerged have now only the framework of a

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE? . . ‘MacArthur-For-President Groups

h the reservation that Congress shall

WASHINGTON, June 1—Despite Gen. Dougjas MacArthur's disavowal of political ‘aims,

' MaeArthur-for-President groups are springing up around the country and a headquarters here

is talking big about 1952, - One of the bilghting faétors in the 1948 Macs

Arthur movement was that it was largely in the

hands of amateurs, Today Ervin Hohensee, & tall, good-looking tax consultant who seems short on political background but long on confidence, and who acknowledges he never met Gen. MacArthur, is in charge here. > *

MR. HOHENSEE presides over a couple of fourth-floor Connecticut Ave. rooms. One is full of desks, filing cabinets and an awesome elephant tusk lamp. The other is dominated by a huge table in clutt disarray. . Handsome MacArthur pictures, placards and a large fivestarred flag illuminate the evangelical effort being made. : Mr. Hohensee is no Johnny-corge-lately in the MacArthur business. He has maintained this office since the 1948 election, he says, spending

ROTATION . .. By James Daniel

All the Boys Love Anna Now

WASHINGTON, June 1—Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg’s office at the Pentagon looks more like a florist’s shop these days than the headquarters for military manpower

The flowers gifts from veterans in Korea a who have elected Mrs. Rosenberg as the services’ sweetheart. They are paying ardent court. A cable this week said the “enlisted reservists of the 234 Infantry Regiment in Korea have chosen you as our pin-up girl” A | Navy ship's crew a « few days ago sent roses with a message that Mrs. Rosenberg’s picture was replacing those of Hollywood “lovelies. _ This outpouring of affection is due to the rotation plan for bringing home Korean veterans, to work and Mrs. Rosenberg’s part in obtaining the manpower on which rotation depends has become known in Korea. The Army began rotating men home in April, About 8300 were replaced then. The number is to be larger for May and a gradual increase is

+ Anna Rosenberg «+. pin-up girl

The Air Force this month sent home men who were eligible for rotation last July, when all men then in the Far East were frozen on

their fobs, It hopes to be current by next December. : A Great Outcry,

THE NAVY has an automatic-rotation plan

for its men on ships, because ships have to return to base regularly for repairs and supplies. But it has also brought home about 1500 shoreduty men, including a Seabee battalion and an underwater demolition team. *The course of the war can affect the rate of rotation greatly-—increase it vastly if there's an end of fighting, choke it off if there's a sudden reversal in Korea. But barring these extremes, the prospect is for a steadily increasing stream of homeward-bound men. Mrs. Rosenberg sees final passage of the combination draft-UMT bill, probably this week, as an important impetus to rotation. The bill will make it possible, she thinks, to avoid using World War II inactive reservists to bear the brunt of future mobilizations. These inactive reservists, snatched up.and shipped off to Korea, have created the greatest outcry against military manpower policies, and Mrs. Rosenberg is on their side. “God forbid,” she says, ‘that one group of men, one generation, should have to serve a third time.”

‘Not Confused’

AS FOR the 181% -year-olds, who will be giving their period of national service in a few months, Mrs. Rosenberg says they will know where they stand and return to their education or jobs before their 20th birthdays, actually helped by having received military training. One of Mrs. Rosenberg's problems is explaining to people that the Pentagon's fluctuating monthly call on Selective Service doesn’t indicate confusion at the top. The May call was 40,000, June 20,000, July 15,000, August 22 000. Much lighter than expected casualties and greater than anticipatéd enlistments have in-

—fluenced the size of the draft call, she says. July

is particularly low because of the expected enlistment:of June graduates.

WHY IS IT

WHY is it love . .. I 1cel so grand . . . when you are close to me . ., and why is it that when we kiss . . . my paradise I see . , . why is it my heart beats fast . . . when you look in my eyes and I am King of all 1 see . . . the world before me lies , . . you bring the moon and stars to me , . . In one tender caress . . . why is it darling, that you are . .. my every happiness... Tve asked myself so many $imes . . . why is it turtledove . , ..that you have chosen such as I «+ + and given me your love.

—By Beh Burroughs. -.

SIDE GLANCES (#

The plan is beginning’

PRICE CONTROL

By Galbraith

By Charles Lucey

some of his own funds to do it. He is right next door to the Republican National Commit-

. tee, and when asked Whether this is significant, replies:

» % “Ye can draw your own conclusion, nt my any cer would be no.” That's the Republican committee's answer,

too, only more emphatically. © ® > + : Mx. HOHENSEE says he never has met MacArthur,

ie tell you why,” he says. “I don't want to give people the impression he is sponsoring this. I don't want to do anything that would embarrass the General. This is a rank and file people’s movement.” Mr. Hohensee says his headquarters has been flooded with messages supporting the MacArthur drive, and that he is trying to tie together the many groups around the country.

He says he has a hard time keeping up with

them.

Mr. Hohensee says he never was in Dolitics but has “done a lot of palitical thinking, though without’ being active, until the last couple of

All Set for His New Act

“Whatever Gen.

Moshizoom All Over The Country _

years” Without fear of challenge he says: “In organization there is strength.” What i Gen. MacArthur Wahis 50 part of

this movement? &

can make their wishes, their demands known. It's true he said he would not go into politics, but he also has said his greatest purpose is to serve his country. In 1948 he said something about being ‘recreant to the concept of al American’ if he declined the nomination. : think he would feel the same way now.”

Mr. Hohensee doesn’t wish to reveal his plans yet, but says that MacArthur delegate slates will be entered in presidential primaries in every state in 1952. He says he has a “practical plan to be put into operation.” He says many members of Congress support tha General for President, ee

FROM his headquarters hére, Mr. Hohensee is sending out thousands of letters urging that “the man of the hour” be named President and appealing for “immediate generous contributions.” He doesn’t want to say how much

By Talburt

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By Frederick C. Othman

Senate Sniffs at Snuffers—

WASHINGTON, June 1-—Last Christmas

two kinsmen of ours, with but & ‘single thought,

presented us with two genuine, sterling silver candle snuffers. 1 only blow out candied once a year, on my birthday, and I don't need a snuffer for that. The rest of the time I am an electric light man. This indicates that a -gilver candle snuffer is not exactly a ne- § cessity, upon the price of which depends the financial &= stability of this nation. = So I am inclined to = agree with the boss §= department store i man who urged the HN Senate to make Mike DiSalle quit wasting’ his and the taxpay-j} ers’ time controlling the retail prices of snuffers. Odd thing is that practically everybody in any line of business is prepared to prove that “particular - widget ought to be exempt from Mike's oPs rules. That's the trouble. There are so many of these enabatiied citizens lining up before both the Senate and .the House to denounce Mike and all his doings, that there is no chance for Congress to pass a new price control law before the deadline one month hence. . The statesmen are too busy listening to people protest the law to spend any time rewriting it. If their scheduled witnesses ever get through lambasting the price controllers, the lawgivers hope to rush through an extension of the present statute before it expires on June 30. They have heard to date: from used-car dealers, meat packers, dog-food canners, cotton spinners, steelmakers, landlords, auto trailer makers, wool growers, and, among many others, barbers,

ENGLAND .

LONDON, June 1 — British rearmament, already crippled by shortages of raw material and labor, has been further retarded by a wildcat trucking strike. The stoppage affects about one-third of the industry and is spr + The Reds didn’t start the dispute. But they are taking advantage of it, especially by tryIng to pull out dockers who are members of the same Transand General Workers

chester dockers are continui a month-old unofficial strike tieing up 38 ships essential fOr rearmament and ex-

Significance of the truckers’

Controlling the prices of haircuts, said the barber spokesman, is poppycock. Any time 4 man doesn’t like the cost he can buy a pair of clippers and turn the job over to his wife. Most of the speechifying I have sat through, doodling at the press table. My art work has been caused by the faot the arguments all sounded alike. If any businessman should show

. up and announce that he wanted price controls

on his own products I'd write a bulletin about him. Most unusual of the witnesses, I guess, have been those Stiehmated attorneys, Beott Lucas and Francis Myers, both violently opposed to the administration’s hold-the-price line. Their names sound familiar? Lucas used to be the Senator from Illinois and the Democrats’ fioor leader, while Myers was the Senator from Pennsylvania and the Democrats’ whip. If the voters had not chosen to turn them out last November their job would be to force the price control law through Congress. 5

Tough on the Poor

AS IT is, Luchs is working for the second-'

hand auto dealers, while Myers:is speaking for the retail credit people. What they particularly disliked was Regulation W, which has ruined the dollar-dewn dollar-when-I-catch-you business, It has slowed automobile sales, they said,

and put the television and .washing machine

business into & nose dive. Fine for the rich, but tough on the poor, they added. Myers went on to say that the credit controls have backfired. He meant that they caused buyers to sell their Victory Bonds and close their savings accounts in order to get sedans and 20-inch TV sets. My favorite scene at the proceedings, however, was the handing around to the Senators of a wad. of cotton; the man from North Carolina defied them to grade it, as per OPS rules: The statesmen played with the cotton and managed to look pusgied. Was it good cotton, asked Sen. Homer Capehart (R. Ind.), or bad? The man said it. was good, but he couldn't get the government experts to agree on how good, and how can you decide on celling prices with a system like that?

. By Ludwell Denny Commies Bust In on Trucking Strike

The industry management which their. own labor government nationalized is not the only target of the truckers’ attack. They are-assailing even morg bitterly the union officials who agreed to the continuing challenge of road patrols.

This is typical of many unofficial strikes. Unable lame , private employers and the profit motive for their grievances, the dissatisfied workers turn against the state bureaucrats they created and from whom they are not protected by union officials,

The apparently trival or unreasonable excuses for these wildcat strikes actually reflect ‘the deeper causes of frustration 6ver a missed Utopia, plus the world crisis. These include: " - »

"THE boards managing nationdlized industries, while having pro-labor policies under the tend to be

nationalized

influence.

represent a

_dnq into le causes of the strikes showed thes new rate protection had ved work- vided loyalties, ors’ but. with Joss the: become touch essential = for

A tore serious cause of frustration is that the men In the \ industries wildcat strikes for better working conditions or higher wages which the state can not grant in the present emergency. As with the truckers and dockers now, the men sabotage nae at first unintentionally and later under leftist .

tiopal security,

The result is that the state ultimately steps in as the representative of ‘a higher public interest. However, this causes more resentment, because the state Is not disinterested, but as the employer is party to the dispute” ax well as the judge and Bofcsman.

. : NORMAL, stabilising effect of trade union organization, In Which elected union officials loyal, plined membership, Is lost when their leaders no longer are close to the rank and file. Wildeat strikes and revolts against union leaders here sometimes are caused by the Reds but much more often by the fact the 1paders have di-

Major union officials have government or abor party politicians first

and union Teadars asnAnA The

Mr. or chensee’s appeal by letter says: 1 “A Daaeade draft “for MacArthur for

mate A aly cptine

since return of the General to this coun- > Judging by {he unending avalanche of letters and telegrams received at this national headquarters, the voters will not take ‘ne’ for an answer to their demands that he be a candi-

known sufficiently, he will accede to the wishes of the people.” + ei 4 Ww

GEN. MacARTHUR'S qualifications are described and the letter advises that “an enormous ground work must be prepared immediately in connection with the 48-state primary conventions” to insure: election of Mac. Arthur delegates. Then follows the appeal for cash—"“we know we can count on you. Funds are urgently needed right now.”

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Hoosier Forum

"1 do not agree with a word that you “a Yi. but | will defend to the death your rig to say it."—VYelaire.

‘Speedway Deal’ MR. EDITOR: I hope this letter is not just my personal

secesansnessssstsnnes,

opinion but expresses the opinions of possibly thousands of others who were present Sunday,

May 27, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,

Therg were .no qualification runs made nor

attempted, so I took the liberty of calling your sports department (since there was no infor. mation issued from the Speedway Corp.) as to the procedure to follow with rain checks. I was informed by the Speedway Corp. In & nasty tone of voice to either go to the track on Monday, May 28 or my tickets were no good. How they expected others from distant places i 2 the state and from neighboring states to do this is beyond my knowledge. According to the scheduled listing of

quali fication dates, Sunday was to be the last day,

so some sort of an answer to the fans should

have been given to them, The customers make these races what they are and I think They .

deserve some consideration.

These same people that received such a raw deal from the Speedway Corp. and are readers of your paper, which has always upheld justice for those who deserve it, have been taken for several thousands of dollars and something should be done.

People do not expeet very much for their dollar today, but surely they should receive

something. =D. M. Greer, City

‘Unfair Criticism’ MR. EDITOR: I would like an explanation of your article

any feeling at all would have let the man off on the slim evidence there was.

i ot

asked to? How could an other than “not guilty” A this

~—Rosemary Kiley, 8070 Park Ave.

‘Nuts and Jolts' MR. EDITOR:

Indianapolis drivers, notice—Most drivers

know that there are two lanes of traffic on each

side of the street. Yet, there are some stupid ones who drive in both lanes, causing cars following to have to stay there and cuss, or drive out on the wrong side of the street to pass. How can these drivers be so dumb?

Coming down Michigan the other morning, two women drivers, blithely unconscious, driving about 20 to 22 miles an hour, took up both lanes of traffic. Men do this also, and it’s time the Police Department started making arrests for such stupid driving. Did you ever notice these drivers? They sit back like they were Mr. or Mrs. Astor. I'm serving them warning now, they better get out of the way or I'll give them a jolt from the back end they won't forget. You don’t like to blow horns, but you have to with some of these pests. Some bf us have to work and we can’t stay behind these dawdlers.

—Myra Richardson, City.

EDITOR'S NOTE: A Jolt in the rear might end up as a Jolt in court for reader Richardson if this pelicy is carried through.

is inherent in a system of gove ernment by a labor party based on union membership and union campaign - funds, When coaflict of loyalty arises the leaders with a dual func. tion tend to favor the state or party interest above the union's immediate selfish in. terest. Though that's good patriotism it's often taken as a betrayal of the union that justi. fies rank-and-file revolt. So the price of the leaders’ dual func-tion-——especially in times of national crisis when frade unicn responsibility and self-disci-pline are most essential-ix to destroy instead of to preserve stability.

Join

to forego wage Increases de~ spite prioe rises, to work longer hours and temporarily to sacrifice other hard-won union, gains. The of Britain today is the failure to sell the rank and file on the truth that only strength can prevent world ‘war. These irresponsible truck . and dock strikes over minor Jssues reflect that rallure of union leadership onder nationalized Induftry and a labor

ravernment,

self-disci-

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