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yam | has resorted to such devices s Far Eastern policy. But in the course of rewriting history he still doesn’t say what our present policy is, or what it seeks to accomplish. Ph ‘He has testified that “Formosa is now in the hands of the Chinese Nationalist government, and will remain there.”

+ y the United Nations—and a good many members of that

zation want to give Formosa to the Reds. iin. aoe SEE * ® @

r HE Secretary boasted that he could keep Red China of the United Nations. Then he said he doubted that he : ould muster enough United Nations votes to authorize a naval blockade of Red ports. But since he has not asked the | | United Nations to vote such a blockade, how can he know | until he does? |||. Defending the sell-out at Yalta, Mr. Acheson presented two new versions of that affair which are likely to baffle future historians. He said the Russians had the power not \, bnly to take what was given to them, but much more besides. Then he went on to say that Chiang Kai-shek ~ found the secret Yalta deal so acceptable when it was presented to him later that he was afraid Russia would back but of it. - But obviously Russia couldn’t have obtained any territorial rights in Manchuria without going to war with Na- | tionalist China had it not been for the Roosevelt-Churchill ~ deal. And there is no evidence that Russia would have taken that drastic course. On the China side of the deal, it was so unpopular in that country that T. V. Soong, the foreign I SARE 10 ave SACIACE WSTber of Gs Fowtra ot ~ named in his place so that he wouldn't have to sign the treaty. Even then China went through with the agreement only under pressure from the United States. And only Russia ever benefited from thé transaction. 3 s =» 2 8 = & REGARDING the Nationalist collapse before the Communists, Mr. Acheson said: “It was at the time the considered judgment of responsible United States observers ~ in China that only extension of unlimited American economic and military aid involving the use of our own troops, which might require the extensive control of Chinese government operations, would enable the Nationalist govern- . ment to maintain a foothold in South China.” © This was not the opinion of John Leighton Stuart, U. 8. Ambassador to China at that time. He has been quoted ~ as saying that China could have been saved by relatively little assistance. It ves not the view of Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, who understood the military situation there better than any other American. It was not the view of our top . Navy men in Chinese waters during this crucial period. Chiang Kai-shek was winning the war against the Communists until the Marshall mission brought about a series of truce agreements with the Reds. He began to lose ground when American assistance was cut off. On this point, Mr. Acheson seems to rest his whole case on the views of Maj. Gen. David Barr, who headed the “do-nothing” U. 8. military mission to Nanking.

» » . » » AS A Slincher to his argument, the Secretary read the committee the first three paragraphs of a letter to President Truman from Gen. Li Tsung-jen, acting President of China, dated May 5, 1949. The third paragraph concluded with a statement that because of the failure of the preceding Chinese administration to make judicious use of American aid, it had “not p: duced the desired effect.” But this was merely a preface to an appeal for renewed American assistance which was the real purpose of the letter, Mr. Acheson did not choose to read this, leaving the impression that even Li himself regarded the situation as hopeless. Yet the body of the letter stated quite the comtrary. . When a witness resorts to such expedients he cannot have much faith in his position. And when the confidence of the head of a friendly government is imposed on in this

fashion it is a sorry commentary upon the integrity of our own. officials.

Grist for Angus Ward

A SOLEMN and official report from Kenya Colony in British East Africa has to do with the effort to control the price of brides. Back in 1942 a likely girl of the Gussi Tribe (not necessarily resembling Gorgeous, the tennis doll) could be bought for six cows, one bull, and up to 10 goats. Came inflation and by 1947 the going price for brides was running as high a8 16 cows, one bull and double in goats. : This was clearly getting out of hand, threatening the very foundations of respectable Africa society, so price controls were clamped on. Then the local stabilizer went a step further and called for a rollback to 1942 prices. . : Well, it isn’t working, says the official study. Like 4 certain growers in this country some of the more greedy ers started holding their daughters off the market. word is that black markets have sprung up and aussi gals sound of teeth and wind are selling for of assorted livestock well over the ceiling. enough, and you can read into it whatever you choose, ‘but the not-too-far-fetched

4 man in the State Department. He : “the-way African colony because

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LONDON, June 8—British policy toward Red China and settlement of the Korean War is stiffening. Current moves for another cease-fire overture have different implications than earliér

moves. Before, there was emphasis on peace

at'any price. Now the dominant desire is for a showdown before it's too late, Continued Chinese aggression and British

' casualties have converted responsible British

public and press opinion reluctantly to U, 8,

Defense Secretary George C, Marshall's state-

ment that Communist China cannot be permitted to "shoot its way into the United Nations,” and that Formosa cannot be used as the blackmail price for peace in Korea. * + 2 WHILE peace at any price no longer is considered practicable, at the same time there's recognition that the continuing stalemate in the Korean fighting can’t - be -isolated—that sterner United Nations sanctions against Red China are likelier every. month of the Korean conflict. There's a growing belief here that U. 8, Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s recent

RED LINE . . . By Frederick Woltman House Keeps Lid On Bonus March

NEW YORK, June 6—S8ince August 1949, the House Un-American Activities Committee has been sitting on secret testimony that reveals the role of the Communist Party in the famous

1932 veterans’ bonus march on Washington. This was the demonstration put down by an Army unit, ordered out by former President Hoover and commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Although not a shot was fired, both have long been severely criticized . The 21-months-old testimony was set in type more than a year ago by the Government Printing Office, Yet, the committee has failed to make it public.

The Big Hitch

THE HITCH is Rep. Morgan M. Moulder (D. Mo.) who, in the past, has gone to bat for witnesses, such as John Garfield, the movie star, while they were questioned. Rep. Moulder argued that veterans groups might take offense over a bonus march report, Not wishing to press the matter without unanimous consent, Chairman John 8. Wood (D. ) gave in. But the fact is that the testimony was submitted to the American Legion. On Oct. 17, 1949, John Thomas Taylor, director of the Le

. Elon's national legislative commission, reported:

“Our Americanism Commission office in Washington has reviewed this testimony and finds no objection to it.” The Legion failed to smoke out the report. Original object of the closed hearings was to establish the Communist Party's part in the march and supply a future guide to Communist designs on veterans in time of unemployment and economic stress. There was no desire to

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A Secret Commie

ONE WITNESS was ex-Red Jo “ fedder. He told how the party's on atm. mittee, of which he was a member, laid plans for infiltrating the ranks and, if possible, mane the bonus march. Another was John T. Pace, widely-publicized in 1932 as a march leader who was arrested twice, Long since Since out of the party, he tautified Joa been ht secret Communist, assigned to ea 1 party's strategy mn thé march. . One order was to try te force the President to call out the Army, and the party, he said, was overjoyed when Washington police killed a veteran and President Hoover next day directed Gen. MacArthur to step in. Party strategists, Mr. Pace also festified, mapped out a techmique for appropriating railway trains and government buildings So valuable was the experience, it was testified, that the CP subsequently had one of its Lenin School graduates write a book about the bonus mare. Meanwhile, the testimony’s still shelved,

* * TEACHER® groups here are up in arms

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. By Ludwell Denny oi British Are- Starting To Redlize Communist China Means Business

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g in which’ he implied that any effort t6 overthrow the Peiping government would receive American support, accurately reflect a further Truman swing toward so-called MacArthurism. The Britons noted that Secretary of State Dean Acheson denied that Mr. Rusk's statement represented- any change in U, 8. policy, but didn't deny what Mr. Rusk said. LS SO THE British see in both U. 8. policy and the natural drift of the Korean War increasing danger of a larger China conflict and consequent impossibility of any cease-fire in Korea unless the Peiping government offers a truce soon, Hence the British want to give the Reds what may turn out to be their last chance before the Far Eastern situation becomes vastly more complicated for all concerned. The present move toward a cease-fire order also involves less wishful thinking. The attitude here isn’t pollyanaish anymore, but grim.

Who Said War Is Hell?

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The fact now is faced that Britain is expected by the United States soon to contribute more forces to the Korean fighting and tighten the economic embargo against China, and that In the long run she can't escape that obligation.

There’s been a significant change in London’s relation to Washington. Though Britain will continue to slow down American policy, the time probably is past when London will block American policy for long. A different atmosphere regarding a break with America is noticeable. Even in circles where there's disagreement with U. 8. policy and fear that it may go -too fast in the Far East, there’s new insistence on maintaining British-American unity at all costs. This is partly due to growing public acceptance of the necessity for British rearmament and realization of British dependence on Amerfcan aid, including machine tools and raw materials.

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By Frederick C. Othman

Chug-a-Lug, a Coupla Jugs And Whadya Got?—Price War

WASHINGTON, June 6—One bottle of Calvert Reserve blended whisky and one of Seagram’s Seven Crown, it develops, brought on this nation’s spreading price war. Just two little jugs of drinking likker caused Macy's to go after Gimbel's in New York with cut price bread toasters (and vice versa) and lined up phalanxes of clerks with black crayons to mark down prices in such widely separated points as San Francisco and Omaha. What the whisky had to do with it probably is an old story to lawyers and embattled owners of department stores, but few others ever caught up with the reason for perhaps the mest unexpected price cutting spree of this generation. The rest of us, I guess, were too busy looking for bargains to pay much attention to their liquid genesis. So: The Schwegmann brothers operate in New Orleans a white-tiled, neon-lighted super market. Last winter they had a whisky sale. They offered Calvert whisky to Southern gentlemen of distinction for $3.35 a fifth. Seagram's Seven Crown they priced at $3.50. Business was excellent. It should have been. The Louisiana Fair-Trade-Law price for both these fluids was $4.24 per bottle. An operative of Seagram's Distillers Corp. strolled Into the brothers’ emporium, and paid

‘his momey for a jug of each. Next thing the

Schwegmanns knew they were in court, eyeing the bottles of evidence on the witness table. Seagram’s Corp., which had filed many a

WASHINGTON, June 6— One of the most flagrant proposals before Congress to spend the money of all the people to confer special benefits .on a small group is the central Arizona reclamation project now before the Senate, Other reclamation proj ects in the past have made gener- | OuUS use

dies and have stretched ' the Sen. MacFarland concept of . economic fea-~ «.. leading fight Diy pretty «ar. The central Arizona proj ect goes beyond any project yet authorized. The House declined to approve the project in the last Congress, when the Senate voted for it. The House is expected to perform the same blocking function this time,

ity leader, and Hayden, a big power on AppropriaHoven: He or te project.

similar suit and won, had caught the Schwegmanns dead to right. There was no doubt they'd violated the Fair-Trade Law, though they insisted they'd signed no agreement to uphold the price of these particular whiskies. The court ruled against them. The brothers appealed to the Supreme Court, whieh, as you know, held the Fair-Trade Laws of the various states unconstitutional Insofar as they concerned interstate trade, meaning stuff like whisky and washing machines shipped across state limes for sale. That did it. At last reports the price of whisky in New Orleans was at a post-war low. Ditto in Denver and numerous other places, while the mobs trying to grab eut-rate merchandise in the basements of the Messrs, Gimbel and Macy have made front-page news.

Cheap Shampoo

IN MANY another city and in less spectacular manner the 50-cent tube of tooth paste was going for 36 cents and the 99-cent bottle of shampoo for 77 cents. The only out for the fair traders seemed to He in the fact that the high court couldn’t touch fair-trade laws as applied to business strictly within the boundaries of each state. So many of the liquor men hurriedly were organizing new corporations to operate warehouses on a state-wide basis. One distiller already had set up two such coneerns in New Jersey and Illinois. The theory was that if a whisky company in Illinois, say, delivered merchandise from an Illinois warehouse to an Illinois retailer, then the fair-trade prices weuld continue to apply. Experts or fair trade, which was set up originally at the behest of independent druggists, urged other manufacturers to establish similar corporations in each fair-trade state. This was expeusive and it also was slow. In the meantime: Bargain sales,

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lifeline which she can’t defend alone. And Ine dia, which was so influential in the original ap. peasement-of-China policy, wort help her de-, ferid it. Washington's insistence that failure of & peaceful settlement of the Iranian oil dispute would involve not only the British but the free world, and that Iranian-British negotiation is essential, has done more than anything so far to save the situation. > & 4

AND Washington's refusal to take advan tage of the situation by furnishing oil techni« cians to replace British workers is the sort of thing which the man in the street here can understand.

It would be dangerous to over-emphasize the shift in British opinion and government polfcy. It is not as stiff as American policy and disagreements will continue. But the attitude toward Chinese aggression definitely is changing and chances of British-American unity on a firmer policy than in the past are good.

Hoosier Forum

“| do not agree with a word that you a but | will defend to the death your ri to say it."—Voltaire.

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‘Wages and Prices’ MR. EDITOR: 1 noticed last week where the National Chamber of Commerce wired Congress, urging the abolition of all ‘wage and price controls. Monday, the Indiana Farm Bureau announced their directors were planning to descend en masse on the Hoosier: Congressmen this next week to demand the same, How supposedly intelligent men, with eyes to read history and see that one nation after anothér has been wrecked on the rocks of imflation, can just keep on urging a policy that has ruined the economy of one nation after another, as recently as Nationalist China, is be« yond my understanding. 5 ®$ o> & THEY ARE using the old wheeze, “more production.” In-the first place, there is a hu« man limit to what people will do and ean do. Second, you expand your production to abe normal demands, and then, when the emergency is over, you have created a vacuum into which the whole country is sucked, with the result, a depression that will be the grandpa of all depressions. Every farmer and businessman knows that, or should. What do they care? They figure they will have made theirs—let the deluge come. Controls have not been nearly tight enough. At best, of course, it is doubtful if you can ever control the greed of men. It could be done, if thé majority of people made up their minds that we would all get in the boat and pull our weight, we would share the burden according to our capacity to share, we would not tolerate any man making himself rich at the expense of American blood, or any other human blood. Public opinion could wreck any grafter {f it wished, but so long as every one is grabbing everything he can grab, with no conscience whatsoever nothing is going to work but disaster for all. > % ® I HAVE seen people stand and sing “God Bless America” with tears running down and dripping on their bosoms, their faces twisting in pain when they talk about our poor boys over there, and then they will run a knife into that boy's back with high rents or outright swindles the first chance they get, and they never bat an eyelash, Phonies, phonies, phionies. The pity of it is, these phonies simply infest our churches. What does the hymn say, “decay is all around, I see?” F. M, City.

Barbs

HAVE a talk with the man at the top and you'll find he's at the bottom of a lot of worthwhile things. > &» & AN ANIMAL trainer says the first thing a Hon tamer must learn is to keep on the right side of the beasts. Meaning the outside, we se oo

SUMMERTIME is when all of us are willing to let the people who love to work thoroughly enjoy themselves.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

BROCKTON, Mass.— A woman phoned a “bet on Little Rich, but a police lieutenant told

. her the booking establishment had just been

raided. Little Rich won. She tried to bet on Little Rich Right straight across the board, AR, yes, But then there came a hitch Which she could ill afford. .

The horse came in to win the race And still her goose was cooked. The coppers did their job apace— Her bookie had been booked.

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The two Arizona Senators Mrnest W. McFarland, major-

Opponents point out that its dollar cost is greater than that of the TVA system. TVA was built in depression times, so this {isn't so surprising. What is surprising is the apparent abandonment of any idea that irrigation water users should make an appreciable effort to repay the costs of benefiting them.

THE plan is to construct a series of reservoirs, silt catch basins and power dams on the Colorado River to bring

three Arizona have so expanded their acreage in cultivation that they now are obtaining 70 per cent of their water supply from underground water. At the present rate of overconsumption, the water tables soon will be beyond the reach of economic pumping. Arizona farmers could curtail their acreage and live within their present ground and surface water supplies.’ "But they don't want to do that. On their behalf the U. 8. Reclamation Bureau proposes to spend $788 million, of which $306 million would be for power and $450 million for irrigation features. One third of the power gen-

erated would be used in pumping the irrigation water, - = * IN 75 YEARS, buyers of the remaining two-thirds of the power would be expected to repay the capital cost cof the power. features and all but a million or so of the irrigation costs. The irrigation users would merely pey operation and upkeep, with a slight contribution to capital costs if things go well. If economic conditions arem’t good, the irrigation users would not even

cover -the annual maintenance

Meanwhile, for the entire 75 years the federal government would receive no interest on the $788 million it would have invested. Over that period, the interest subsidy — which the government would be paying on its bonds—would exceed $2 billion, ”. Ls ~

THE President's Water Resources Commission has estimated that Arizona already has enough water for 467,000 of her 640,000 acres of crop land. Thus the project is really for the benefit of the remaining 173,000 acres,

$2200 an acre. Some opponents of the projeét calculate that 420 farms account for more than half of the acreage directly benefited and that the interest subsidy, on these 420 would be $500,000 per farm. Strongest opposition to the central Arizona project comes from California, which wants the Colorado River for its own use,

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