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nl a discussion of Britain's refusal to support a naval blockade of Red China. He was asked whether he believed our Allies should give some thought to what they risked by following a course which might lose them the United States as an ally. ‘His answer was yes—that no alliance is good unless it works both ways. * The question should be put to Secretary of State Acheson. Adm. Sherman had no difficulty in answering it, since to him it is “unthinkable” for a country to send its men to fight and at the same time to profit by shipping goods to the enemy. But it seems never to have cocurred to Mr. Acheson to suggest to the British that we are as important to them as they are to us, The one-way street on which our relations are operating doesn’t indicate much respect for our views on the other side of the Atlantic. Britain's sole concession to the United States since the Korean War began has been a reluctant vote for an arms embargo against the Reds. And, since there is no provision for its enforcement, that embargo amounts to little more than a gentleman's agreement. * o X » » ADM. SHERMAN, Chief of U. 8. Naval Operations, told the Senate committee he has been urging a United Nations naval blockade since mid-January. That, he believed, might so reduce the Chinese Communists’ strength that they would withdraw from the war. He said, also, that it was his impression that Secretary Acheson had been pressing the issue on our Allies with “the desired vigor.” But it clearly hasn't beeu pressed vigorously enough to make much of an impresison in London, where it was announced Thursday that the question of a blockade is not even under consideration. - China, as Adm. Sherman observed, is yulnerable to a sea blockade which would force her to depend on vital supplies from Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, known to be already over-taxed. He believes the American Navy could maintain such a blockade without assistance from other nations. Then why should Britain object to a United Nations resolution authorizing the action? And what sort of pussyfooters are representing us, that they let the British get away with it and don't even register a public protest?

The Common Enemy ™ UNITED STATES Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers urge Congress to abolish price and wage controls. They contend that inflation can be held down by indirect measures — maximum production, government economy, “pay-as-we-go” taxes that will still preserve “incentives” to produce, sound federal fiscal policies, credit curbs, ete. CIO Secretary-Treasurer James Carey accuses them of “complete irresponsibility and narrow greed.” “Big business,” he charges, is offering labor a. ‘share of the loot” as a bribe for its help in “scuttling” price-wage controls. Labor, Mr, Carey says, “will have no part in this shameful deal.” ., The CIO is making its own demands on Congress. Among them are “real price controls,” food-price subsidies, an “adequate excess-profits tax” and “fair and flexible wage stabjliastion,”

- THAT “last seems to mean “stabilization” so flexible that it won't prevent wages from rising by whatever _amounts employers can be induced to pay. And the CIO's idea of an “adequate” excess-profits tax would make employers easy to induce. Why not avoid strikes and try to keep workers satisfied by paying higher wages with money of which, otherwise, the CIO would have the government take almost all? Meanwhile, indirect anti-inflation measures are having rough going. : * Almost every attempt by Congress to cut nondefense government spending meets vigorous opposition from

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segments of business, labor or agriculture which want to Boge special benefits from such spending. Businessmen and industrialists warn that incentives to Foduce will suffer if profits and large personal incomes taxed too heavily. Labor contends that wage earners a an't carry a much larger tax burden. : : Credit curbs are ugder hot fire from manufacturers, afitomobile dealers and “other merchants—and from none other than the CIO's Mr, Carey. He complains ‘that they're hirting the sale of goods produced by his own Electrical Workers’ Union and preventing people with small incomes buying on credit. ”

EVERYBODY wants to stop inflation, or at least says 80. But almost everybody seems to want to sop inflation at the expense of someone else.

' If that attitude continues to prevail, inflation won't

people on fixed incomes, the pensioners, the ones who i't belong to powerful organizations which can make on Congress. : ~ But members of business, labor, farm and other organi: will suffer too. Leaders of such organizations, instead of hurling charges at each other, ought to be gett together behind a program for effective use of direct controls, indirect measures and every other available weapon against the common enemy, inflation.

Quiet, He Says RIME MINISTER NEHRU of India says world peace would be advanced if [Bewspapers would keep quiet for a few % suontis ; xr Mr. Nehru has, of course, been doing Bis best to quiet i i those which disagree

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be stopped. Those whom it hurts worst, of course, will be

DEFENSE .

WASHINGTON, June 2 — Influential con-

" gressional military leaders are deeply dissatis-

- fied with certain phases of Armed Services uni-

fication and probably will make an early move toward certain drastic changes in the present . .

system. Determination to make t In the House Armed Services Committee, headed by Rep. Carl Vinson (D. Ga.).

Members of this group say that in many ways

the civilian heads of the Army, Navy and Air Departments have been pushed into an obscure position, remote from policy-making, and: that something must be done about it, The “something” most likely to be proposed Is that the Secretaries of Army, Navy and Air be made members of the National Security Council—the nation's top war policy agency— 4s a matter of law. The council is made up of the President,

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parent . dissatisfaction with the

. By Charles Lucey

Have Military. Se te Shoved Civilian Chiefs In Dark Corner’

Vice President, Secretary of ‘State, Defense Sec-

retary and National Security Resources Board

Chairman, Thus Secretary of Army Frank Pace,

Secretary of Navy Francis P. Matthews and must go through Defense Secretary George C.

Marshan to get to the National Security Council. Some members of Congress—who apparently

are ready to do something about it—don’t like

such a system. They say that this deprives the civilian defense secretaries of the voice they should have in policy-making, They say also that there have been instances of some of these officials

just not being well informed on what was hap-

pening in defense matters. The civillan secretaries can be invited to attend National Security Council meetings, but do not attend as a rule. This is only one point at which there is ap- * military top-

Comes Now the Month of Roses

IT WORRIES ME

WASHINGTON, June 2—I guess I'm fust a

boy from the country. me somebody miscounts a few billion dollars, partly mine, I'm shocked. Everybody else in these parts seems to take such small matters in stride. 80 there was the Ea of Sen, Herbert R. O’Conor (D. Md.) trying to decide whether to appointa commission to check on the billions we have spent abroad ~ since the war. Robert J. McCormick," the red-haired research director of the Hoover Commission, thought this was a good idea. Since 1946, he said, a very mild estimate indicates we have distributed $30 billion in far-off lands. Of course, he added, that is got an accurate figure. ‘Other federal officials have other estimates. Some of 'em figure that we've spent $93 billion across the seas. } You'd have thought this would have caused

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the Senators to scream. As it was, they didn’t:

even blink. So I bided my time and when the experts got through palavering about the need for better organization of global spending, I dragged McCormick into a corner. “Do you mean to'say,” said I, “that nobody knows how many billions we have spent around the world?” “Exactly,” replied McCormick. “The estiIt is a very hard figure to pin down. This is because each agency has a different method of keeping books. So what is a loan to one man is an expenditure to another. Then there are appropriations which have not yet been expended, as well as loans that may well turn into grants, and the whole subject is what you might call confused.” It certainly might. Maybe the Senators better hurry up with that is

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By Frederick C. Othman

A Billion Bucks? Chicken Feed

That; said MeCormick, is not all. We've got the lending @nd give-away

businéss and so many more in other operations

in far places that it’s difficult for anybody to .

know what's cooking. : Take the Island of Wake, where President Truman called upon Gen. Douglas MacArthur a while back. Officialdom wondered who was in charge of this speck in the Pacific. The Navy, State, Interior and Commerce Departments all thought they had something to do with running the island. ; “But it was found after much persistency that Wake Island was a: responsibility of the

Civil Aerodautics Board,” McCormick said.

Then there was the case of a South American country that indicated it might . like to borrow a little cash from the U. 8. A. “Four different missions from our government appearéd to talk it over,” McCormick added. In 96 countries around the world, he said, we now have 200,000 government employees, in-

i «cluding 745 in Libya.

A Little Left Over?

McCORMICK suggested that the Senators consider the ECA office in Paris. When the federals moved in there and untied the purse strings in 1948, they announced the staff would number less than 50. Two years later the Paris office of ECA had 554 Americans and 702 foreigners on the pay roll. One of them earned $25,000 per year; one $17,500; fourteen, $12,000; forty, $10,300, and eighteen, $9150. : Each one of these workers also received a generous tax-free living allowance on account of the high prices in gay Paree. Things like this, said McCormick, ought to be looked into by a commission that would 4+] about its business in a nonpolitical way, like

the Hoover Commission, when it was recom-

mending reorganizations of the government. I'll go along with him on that. I've got to pay an income-tax installment this month and I want to know for sure where those billions went. Maybe some of ‘em we didn't spend at all, possibly, perhaps.

4-POWER CONFERENCE . .

‘side arrangements as they exist now. Adm. Forrest FP. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, made it plain last week thai he thinks there to the way the in-

: dividual PRL Chiefs of Staff

SG Sharman to get

: Frain _ mud @ that there is resentment in the three ts at being remote from the councils - where final decisions are

Ir congressional leaders decide to take action . In this area, the means are at hand in a bill now being considered by Rep. Vinson’s committee which would give the Marine Corps more Satu in the defense organization than it has This measure would set a 333,000-man floor under Marine Corps strength and a 400;000-man ceiling over it. The minimum strength would represent four combat divisions at full strength, four full-strength air wings and supporting units. The bill also would give firmer tus to the Marine Corps commandant’s position. The administration doesn’t like the bill, sponsored by 100 Senate and House members, and Admiral Sherman opposed it before the House Armed Services Committee last week. . *

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Consideration of this bill could Open the he door to changes now being considered in the mili i

structure. Some Congressingg 2 ‘are’ 'm ny.

dark” status of the civilian y an Be than the questions raised by Adm. Sherman in relation to the JCS. Adm. Sherman referred to the Ics struc... ture as an “overly large body for efficient and prompt action.” ' “Partly because the membership of the Joint Chiefs of Staff includes four offices,” Adm, Sherman told the House Souths, “there is = increast tendency to ve them represen by rey and to have their military advice passed through intermediaries. This ten-

“dency has obvious disadvantages to all con-

cerned.” The “intermediaries” are Gen. Omar. Bradley, JCS chairman, and Secretary Marshall. Congressional critics of the way the system works now do not question the fairness of these men— it is only that they feel the heads of the individual services are too “cut off” from the President and the National Security Council. Presumably all the civilian secretaries and the Joint Chiefs would be summoned to Capitol

Hill by the House committee if the proposed re-

forms are pushed.

Hoosier Forom—U. S. Defense’

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

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‘Labor and Reds’

MR. EDITOR: Mr. Truman's recent abdication to the organized labor racketeers, giving them supreme authority over the one man whom he promised would have final authority In our defense production program—Mr. C. EB. Wilson—is a sorry spectacle in our highest office. These men who took upon themselves, without consulting those whom they represent or misrepresent, the job of sabotaging our defense effort and then held a gun in Mr. Truman's back to force him into agreeing to their sinister plot, are a disgrace to this nation.’ ‘They claim to represent labor and have usurped, with Mr., Truman's connivance the right to speak and act for all labor, although they represent less than 25 per cent of the working people of this nation. The big majority have neither representation nor voice. Yet, it is this 75 per cent which will elect the next President. They know what Mr. Truman and the Democratic Party think of them. * 9 THIS Democratic administration prefers to place our whole defense program in the hands of a group of racketeers, whose sole aim and purpose in life' is to stir up trouble between employers and employees. If this were not true, they would not have jobs. Any so-called labor leader, if honest, will tell you that whenever relations between employer and employee are peaceful and happy, there is no need for them, so they must stir up trouble. A politician once said that the Communists were people who love to fish in troubled waters. Since these labor -leaders—or misleaders—Ilove also to fish in troubled waters, is there any “kinship? If they are determined to stir up trouble in our defense program, are they working for this nation or our enemies? It is high time that this administration begins to understand that there are other working people in this country, who also vote, and who are not members of the labor rackets, who are entitled to consideration and representation. If there are 12 members in the labor section of the NPA, three of those could logically come from organized labor, while the other nine should come from the ranks of honest, sincere working people, who refuse to pay an extra tax for the privilege of working. —A. J. Schneider, City

‘Very Bad Roads’

MR. EDITOR:

We are residents of an east suburban area near Warren Central High School. All during ‘his past. winter we have been inconvenienced by bad roads in our area. With the coming of spring we looked forward to seeing them properly graded and a good sealer put on them to keep down summer dust. Instead, they received an inadequate dragging, little if any rock or new gravel was put in chuckholes, and the watered down oil that was applied to the roads just two weeks ago has already started to dust off badly. Our roads lying between Washington and 10th Sts. are heavily traveled and should have a good sealing material applied or better still,

_ blacktop. We residents would like to see The

Times run a series on what happens to the gasoline tax money that doesn't appear to find its way into road repair, —Warren Township Resident

‘A Good Race Section’ MR. EDITOR: I was very happy to read’The Times May 29 and find all the facts about the race since I am a race fan. I was very, very happy when I saw Duke Nalon’s picture and story and when I saw all 33 pictures of the race drivers in their cars. You put all the other drivers names in even if they didn'¥*make the race which was grand. And you had the winner's name and speeds from 1911 to 1950. The row by row was interesting to me, too. T was Interested when I saw Wilbur Shaw's pictures in since he lives right acrogs the road from me. Billy, his son, comes over in his toy race car and says, #I'll be like Dad some day.” Everything was very good, thanks a lot. —Suzanne Pattison, Age 11, Carmel.

‘Political Mavericks’ MR. EDITOR:

The newspapers tell us that out in the sage- .

brush and cactus country of Colorado there was a roundup of political mavericks who wear the Democratic brand although it is doubtful if such peace-loving Democrats as Jefferson, Cleveland or Bryan would recognize them as such. News reports say they were all quite optimistic over the stray crop for next year and after all the sucklings are branded in the fall . roundup of 1952 they expect to all be riding the - political range together again, It seems they are all quite anxious to put Harry Truman back in the saddle as Chief Buckaroo and want him to ride herd down east again in the mink coat country, “District of Confusion.” * + oo THE strategy mapped out is for all the range riders to do some political rustling and for all the political pokes to get out the old branding irons and whenever a stray Republican is found running loose, to heat up the iron and brand him with a W. P. (war party) pronto. Looking back, one would think the American people would wake up to the trail we are following. But you can never tell. If they would beHeve a confirmed falsifier who promised the mothers not to send their sons to fight a foreign war, they are likely to believe the Republicans are the war party and the Democrats are the party of peace. : —C. D. C., Terre Haute. '

‘Relief Issue’MR. EDITOR: Let it be said to the everlasting credit of Indiana that it is the first one of the 48 states to throw off the shackles of the federal government and throw open its relief rolls for publie inspection. Now that bureaucrat Oscar Ewing seems to be bent on punishing Indiana for defying his bureaucracy it seems likely, as no federal funds will be available, that most of the ordinary chiselers will be taken off relief. However, I would like to call attention to the fact that all Shiselers are not on relief. <> IT IS the policy, in many places at least, to reward the faithful politicians who have helped elect trustees and others to office to send them the business of these relief clients. For instance, you will find a lot of old party hacks that are being sent all the grocery orders, others who get orders for shoes and clothing. Doctors who get practically all their business from relief clients and that goes for dentists as well, Indiana has made a fine start in cleaning

up this great political monstrosity.

There is no reason why Wwe shouldn't go ahead and finish. the job and have a thorough housecleaning.

—Times Reader.

‘Good Reporting’ MR. EDITOR: Donna Mikels’ article, “I Was There When It Happened” in the Monday, May 21, issue of - The Times was an outstanding public service. This article and similar ones do much more in impressing upon children the necessity for caution than do the mine-run reports of trafic accidents and statistics on trafic accidents. I read the article to my two young sons and they were much impressed. Congratulations on a bit

«of very fine reporting.

~William H. Krieg, Otty

TO A TREE

GOD’S awning spread your leafy arms . . . toward the hazy sky . . . and shelter me from stormy clouds ... . that have begun to ory . . . oh great umbrella Nature made . . . you are the answer to . . . the haven that I'm seeking from . . . the tears of falling dew ... great home of animal and bird . . . that live within’ your boughs . . . cover me as you have covered « y » lovers making vows . . . och emerald that I thank you for . . . the services you give. .. you make this world a better place . . . long may

your blossoms live. —By Ben Burroughs.

. By Ludwell Denny

How Will Soviets Twist Allied Note? .

LONDON, June 2—The Allied governments will be surprised if their showdown note to Russia produces a clear-cut reply, much less a successful four - power conference in Washington as they proposed. They anticipate the usual propaganda response from Moscow. A Washington conference is considered possible but improbable.

In any case, genuine agreement at such a meeting on settling the cold war conflict Is believed impossible in view of Stalin's demonstrated un- » +, willingness to cease aggression, fhilitarism and -subveron. :

The purpose of the Allied note in these inauspicious circumstafices is to clarify the issue in the public's mind and to show Soviet responsibility for deadlocking the Deputies’ Conference in Paris. ° The identical notes the United States, Great Britain and France: handed ‘Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko at the deputies’ meeting Thurs-

date of Stalin's strategy for winning the ‘told war by, dipiomatic offensive. Stalin's strategy was and is to: "ONE: Prevent Allied defensive rearmament.

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TWO: Block West German rearmament.

in any form would ‘mply that American and Allied

cation” of the Soviet army and

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THREE: Split the Allies. FOUR: Use the conference as a loud - speaker for his prop a line that the United States and its Allied government stooges are provoking world war against peaceful Russia and the . . people’s democracies. ” ~ THE first point is the reason the deputies have been unable to arrange a Foreign Ministers’ Conference in their 13 weeks of wrangling. Though unable really to agree on the remainder of they've halfway agreed to disagree in the form of a “slit

agenda,” which would pass the

buck to higher-ups. But the Allles refuse to permit the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and U. 8. bases abroad to be on the agenda even as a disagreed item. Of course the Soviet Foreign Minister * could and would propagandize on this and on -anything else he desired at any conference--Russia never respects. an agenda. But that's far different from the Allies agreeing to discuss their indisputable right of a defensive Slisnes .under the United Nations. Listing it on an agenda

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the agenda:

fense is not a sovereign right but subject to Soviet sufferance or veto.

While the Allies won't-dis-cuss for separate Russian approval their own and the United Nations right of collective security measures, including a regional defense alliance, they are anxious to achieve. a joint limitation of armaments which the Soviet bloc alone is preventing in the United Nations and elsewhere. n ” ” STALIN'S desire to curb the NATO is such an obvious effort to leave the Allies helpless against Soviet military aggression that he tried to cover it up in his notes last fall and winter and even during the first month of the Deputies’ Conference at Paris. But it was clear to the Allied diplomals from the beginning. The second point, regarding German rearmament which Stalin originally used to screen his main purpose, is significant only In relation to the issue. Limited ASE in West Germany is impossible

. except as a part of jurger Al-

lied defense. the Allies would not permit it and the West German government

.would not risk such a “provo-

» wr JIKEWISE, point regarding unification of

‘basic’

lite. The Allies want demilitarization of Germany. Unfortunately only Btalin can achievé that by demilitarizing Eastern Germany as the Allies long since have disarmed West Germany. » ~ the agenda Germany. The only reason there's been no free election for an all-German democratis government long ago is Stal-.-in's refiisal. There can be a free election whenever he pers

‘mits—no Foreign Ministers”

Conference is needed for that,

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