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THE OSTENSIBLE idea behind an investigation of the so-called “China lobby" is to determine whether there have been any illegal attempts to influence government policy or public opinion in this country in favor of Nationalist China. : LE There can be no quarrel with that—though, at the out- * get, it would seem that the shoe is on the other foot. Actually, such a lobby—if one exists—has made little headway. Rather, it is the Communist lobby that long ago obviously converted the State Department, and has exerted the really sinister influence on this country’s China policy.

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Acheson have given their blessings to an inquiry, Mr, Tru. man has asked the Justice Department as well as other executive departments to assemble all the “facts” on the “China lobby,” and presumably they will get the full treat. - ment by some congressional committee, This could be a test of administration sincerity, but already in the preliminary moves it has tiken on such a tinge of partisanship as to cast doubts on the honesty and ~ reliability of its conclusions. a » a 8 » NOTABLY, a leading proponent of the investigation is Sen. Brien McMahon of Connecticut, stalwart New Dealer and faithful defender of the State Department. In his leading questions to Secretary Acheson before the Russell com- ~ mittee, Sen. McMahon has made unmistakably his antiNationalist stand. ‘But in particular, he will be remembered as the right. hand man of ex-Sen. Tydings in the whitewash job on the _ tate Department growing out of the rotorious Amerasia sade. : Amerasia was a magazine which served as an organ ~~ lor a group of Communists, pro-Communists and others 5 . seeking to influence U, 8. policy in the Far East. The case itself involved theft of top secret military documents, and many of the individuals linked to the investigation had a large voice in the State Department's decision to abandon Chin to the Communists, which brought on the Korean ar. Is the new investigation to be one to investigate only those people who have disagreed with the State Department's China policy? If not—if it is a sincere attempt to ‘flush out all those who have improperly and illegally sought to influence policy, then as a starter the Amerasia affair could well be reopened. We don't think it will. * 8 =» . » . HARDLY reassuring is the news that the “active study” now being conducted by the Justice Department is in the hands of its criminal division. This division is headed by Assistant Attorney General James M. Mclnery.,

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asia case as the unenthusiastic prosecutor of the defendants —none went to jail—and as the Justice Department official who visited the New York grand jury last year just before it made its innocuous presentment in the case. Also ~ the man who consistently belittled the importance of the 1700 stolen documents recovered by the FBI during the _ Amerasia arrests—documents which still haven't been released by the Justice Department. : Well, we hope for the best—and by best, we mean a completely fair and deep-digging investigation such as Sen. Russell is conducting now. But it is a fact that those who wield a whitewash brush are apt to be just as willing and - likel to smear on occasion.

New Front in Texas

: EN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR rejoined the great debate, . calling upon an ‘“unconquerable” Americ’ for the leadership to save the free world from the follies of ap- - peasement, indecision and fear.

of the world without committing a single soldier to battle « by engaging in “the greatest bulldozing diplomacy history has ever recorded.” Suviet intrigues have been so successful, in his view, only because of the “moral weakness of the free world.” In challenging the Marshall-Acheson doctrine of limited war, Gen. MacArthur said the ‘policies of appeasement on . which we are now embarked carry “within themselves the

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believe Russia wanted a war. But if we become involved in such a war it will be the fault of those “who at the lowest point of our disarmament plunged us into a war which they now seem afraid to win.” 2 . . ¥ » . = 3 % “THE REAL WARMONGERS" he said, are those who + advocate “wait and see” while American blood— ‘not dust” * ~gettles in “growing pools around the 38th Parallel.” w :

Koera, whom we pledged ourselves to protect, face “comlete obliteration.” 2 r B opening a new front in Texas the self-styled “old the scope of his attack on the Truman sttation by expressing his concern over the mounting ‘government and the “corruption and rumors of "” which have ‘shaken the people's trust in the te concern “over the position publicly taken leaders, for the first time in American by t prepared if necessary to defend ourselves.” to these prophets of doom, the hero of Bataan was “never more able to meet the exact-

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A FEW REMARKS . By Frederick C. Othman Just a Little Speech, Gentlemen, Only About 60,000 Words or So

WASHINGTON, June 16—I don't often get to measure oratory by the pound and the ounce, like beefsteak, but: Someth unusual, obviously, was brewing in the U. 8, Senate. Day long, while the gentlemen debated a muitimillion-dollar appropriation bill, messengers kept tiptoeing in with armioads of books, which they deposited on the k of Ben. Joe McCarthy (R. Wis.), When the piles there looked tipsy, they spread the I erature on adjoining desks, chairs, and finally on the floor, These volumes in their gay slip covers made t section of the chamber look like 4 peculiarly untidy lending library. Sen. nd — Joe was about to make a speech which he had billed beforehand as “uncovering a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of

The galleries were jampacked to hear the man who has spent so much time denouncing alleged Communists in the Btate Department, This time he was giving the business to Gen. George C. Marshall. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was only incidental. 80 when the gentlemen had appropriated their millions for the federal security agencies, the partially bald, youngish-looking bachelor from Appleton, Wis., asked for and recived the floor. Still nobody knew exactly what was cooking. p

A Modest Man SEN. KENNETH 8. WHERRY (Neb, the Republican floor leader, in an effort to be helpful, wanted a quorum call, so Sen. Joe would have a Mull audience of Senators. - Sen. MeCarthy was a modest man, He was the first Senator I ever heard refuse such a call, He said he didn’t really expect his fellow lawgivers to sit through his remarks. After all, he had 60,000 words (oops!) to say. This would take him seven or eight hours, if nobody interrupted, and he'd just as soon the other lawgivers read his speech later. Even that turned out to be quite a chore. Sixty thousand words is longer than the average novel. Bo Sen. Joe called for water, He received two glasses, Then ne adjusted his tie with the harps printed on it and began to read from a sheaf of paper thicker than the New York telephone book. By now page boys with bended backs were lugging copies of his remarks up to the press gallery, Each one consisted of 169 legal-sized pages of typescript. This weighed two pounds and three ounces and’ it left my more serious cohorts goggle-eyed. They, poor devils, had to read through this mighty book with the greatest possible speed and get to the wire their dispatches about why the Senator thought the General was a bum.

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These you doubtless have read on other ges of this paper, We can skip the charges ere. More reporters kept hurrying to the galleries, demanding more copies of the speech. I filched one for myself on the theory that if attacked, I could use it as a blunt weapon, The oldest man in the place said not in his memory had any Senator produced a printed copy of a speech that ran so long, weighed so much, or consumed so much paper.

So I listened to Sen. Joe awhile, Most of the other Senators had accepted his invitation not to listen and had strolled out into the sunshine. About a dozen remained on the fioor. They were fascinated by 8en. MeCarthy's manuseript, which seemed to have grown no thinner at the end of the first hour,

The speaker said the job he'd done preparing his speech was monumental. Delivering it made him hoarse and what it did to the General's ears I hate to think, Rebuttals, I guess, will come later,

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

POLITICAL Prediction — Whenever President Truman takes a strong stand, he is running, : ® & ¢

A “SWEEPING VICTORY” is Democratic National Chairman Boyle's idea of “cleaning house.” > ¢ o PRICE Administrator Mike DiSalle has loosened the leash on hot dogs, but cattlemen are still burned at the steak. * oo 9 NOTHING prevents “panic buying” as successfully as “panic prices,” * * 9» NO MATTER how forehanded you are, it now costs twice as much to prepare for a rainy day-if you buy an umbrella,

* 4 + IN “IRAN, Uncle Bam seems to be pouring ‘water on the troubled oil. * & 9 IN KEEPING with modern warfare, West Point and Annapolis should be teaching the future Generals and Admir‘als how to defend themselves before ‘committees. * © » OUR preparedness programs always

seem to point up the critical shortage of smart people,

U. 5. ECONOMY

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WASHINGTON, June 16— This could be the year when all the talk about economy in government really gets someNae pattern for years has been that after appropriation

often involving painful sur. gery for government depart. ments, the heat would be turned on the Senate to pile on a few more millions, Sometimes it included a write-or-wire-your-Senator campaign from back home. Times with. out number fund increases . » » BUT THE Senate, where for Ben. Harry F. Byrd (D. ya) has Faled & rare voice or savings government, is showing economy-mindedness, The first major fund-cutting coup has been won Ben, OE fon uon \D gpen) a ng him, Sen. Paul Douglas hd 1.) and one or two others may get a + results, “The Tommyhawkers” that's what the economy sponsors were labeled Thursday in a Ditter floor speech y * Sen, Matthew Neely (D, W. Va.)—

PARIS June 18-The French people are going to t lls tomorrow to guess whether Gen, Charles de Gaulle is a potential dictator, If he is, they don’t want him, If he's not a destroyer of democracy but the possible savior of alck | : Will his cure kill? The trouble is they can't be sure, He was a myste man when he left office in 1046 and when he started French re. sistance against the German conquerors, And he's even more 80 now, : In temperament and physique this tall, puritannical and aloof professional soldier isn't the we. cal Frenchman his countrymen under. . Gen. De Gaulle stand easily, His vague and mystical program defies French logic. And his intolerance of the opinions of others is alien to the French philos-

. ophy of live and let live by compromise.

The General said in his opening campaign Speech: { “The responsibility which history imposed upon me yesterday to save the nation from the abyss, today commands me to intervene directly to show the way and lead the nation” Consequently, he is demanding more unchecked power than democracy ever has concentrated in one man, Gen, De Gaulle's effort to set his one-man “rally” above other parties is summed by National Assembly President Edouard Herriot like this: ’ “The theory of & single party led Germany to dictatorship. It's the same one-party system which founded the Stalin regime, The idea of RPF (De Gaulle’s “rally”) is that of a single party.” i /

A Great Patriot? BUT THIS isn't the whole story. Most of his leading political opponents are sanvinesd he isn't consciously seeking dictator. ship. They point to the fact that when he had power he never acted as a political dictator despite his dictatorial temperament.

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e, they would like to take him. ,

' They add that he's a great patriot of superb character which is obviously true, - . But what his fairer opponents fear Is that his political mysticism will create a personal military dictatorship however pure his motives, Their fear is all the stronger because the Communists are waiting for Gaullists to start an authoritarian state—and a clash beiween Gaullists and democrats which the Reds can turn into civil war,

‘Certainly his plan for a new constitution isn't the Untted States model to which he relates it. The American Constitution gives more wer than the French to the President. But n. De Gaulle would have none of the real checks and balances which prevent the Amer. foan executive branch from becoming a dicta. torship. : He would combine parts of the Anferican Presidential and the British Parliamentary sys. tems with the democratic safeguards of neither, and for good measure the corporative state fea. tures made infamous by Mussolini, No part of his plan can be pinned dowd, He's very vague, sometimes saying one thing and

_sometimes another—and his disciples often offer

the opposite.

A Bad Record

BUT THERE'S nothing unclear about his nationalistic resentment that Gen, Dwight D, Eisenhower commands Frenchmen or his charge that the United States is the master of France,

He had the worst record of any national leader during the war for nonco-operation with his allies and benefactors, He could not get along with Churchill or Roosevelt or any major political or military associates. There's no reason to suppose that he could get along well with the United Nations or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Despite all that he did help save France before, and now he wants to raise 40 French divisions—which is more than his opponents propose. His chief claim to personal power is that he would turn back communism. Here again his intention is more certain than his ability, He muffed a chance before, But even if Gen. De Gaulle is only a well. meaning quack--as many Frenchmen believe— unless .the old political doctors can speed up their slow cure soon, it's only a question of time until he’s given a chance to operate.

‘Just an Old Man’ MR. EDITOR: I was listening to parts of Gen. MacArthur's speech to the Texas Legislature, when

the thought occurred to me, “Is it not wonderful how mueh a man can learn about his country and her people from a palace in Tokyo, Japan, and a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria in

New York City?” For my part, this whole MacArthur affair

has become a political bore of the first magnitude. It is consuming valuable time—time we can never recall, It has brought the legislative machinery in this country to a dead stop when we need legislation badly. It has informed Russia fully of all the facts she may want to know about us. It is providing a perfect sounding board for second rate politicians who have ambitions or are out to get someone, I just figure MacArthur is an arrogant old man who was relieved of his command—and what is worse, his successors are doing all right —and he just can’t take it. He is burned to a crisp, his ego is outraged, and we are all going to pay for it, * & 2% THIS government let him go his dramatic and lone way entirely too long without drawing in the rope. It would be far better indeed if he would “just fade away” for he is too old to run for President, even if he Wishes, and if he does not wish it, he is making a perfect setup for some tinhorn politician to ride his coat tails, One cannot help but think of Gen. Eisenhower who is over in Furope, doing his level best to build up a defense of Europe against Russia, with the dog-fight and brawling over here so loud you can hear it around the world and from pole to pole. Aren't we doing a lot to prove to the world that a democratic form of government is the best for them? To quote Gen. Eisenhower, “pulling together, this country is the greatest fighting machine the world has ever geen.” Pulling first east and then west, it is not going to be miuch of anything but a perfect target. -F. M., City.

‘l Want My Son Back’ MR. EDITOR: I have been reading these paragraphs, pro and con, regarding the MacArthur travesty, and the only thing that I can make out of it is that MacArthur was to be made a political dupe and through him, President Truman and the administration were to be discredited with what the Republicans actually demanded. But MacArthur did not play politics in the way they wanted it, s60 they dropped him like a hot potato, but they intend to use him in their own manner to further their own ends. I hope it proves their end. You see, Mr. Editor, 1, too, have a son in this war, and If the Republicans intend for us to blab, and give

. . By Charles Lucey

vital military statistics to the Russians, which will be comfort to the enemy, so that our sons will suffer and maybe be killed on account of it, then I say, to hell with politics. I want my son to come back, and every parent must feel the same as I do. -C, Ak, City.

‘Juvenile Problems’ . MR. EDITOR:

I've read the articles on juvenile problems and also the comments of other readers and I would like to add my viewpoint. If everyone would read 2d Timothy 3:16, quote: “All seripture is given by inspiration of God and is

profitable for reproof, for correction, for instruc-

tion in righteousness.”

You should train children in the way they should go and they won't depart from it. This juvenile problem is parental neglect in spiritual food. Material needs are not enough. Love of your children’s future welfare and life should make every parent go to the only book on earth that can teach and help you rear your children right.

Second Timethy 3:1-5 tells of such juvenile problems in the last days. J Perhaps some people will read this that will turn to the only course left for anyone with children to rear in such critical times. ~Mrs. Russell Yoder, 3747 Pleasant Run Pky.

BEWARE OF THIS

THE TOPIC of my pen today . . . is very, very old . . . it dates back to the very dawn ,.. of creation I'm told . . . I'm going to write of jealousy . .. and I am here to state . . . that no - other emotion can , , . do more to spell our fate . . . it is an ugly weed that grows .. , and it is quick to spread . , . until it all but swallows us , .. and leaves hate in its stead _. . It breeds distrust and discontent , , . for those who let it grow . . . and many are the hearts that ache . . . when touched by its cruel woe , . . so if perchance you feel as though . . . its root has taken hold , . . remember that it does not pay . . . or so at least I'm told,

~~By Ben Burroughs.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

TALLAHASSEE--Designed to discourage illegal bookmaking, a new law permits an une 'ucky bettor to sue to recover his losses. The bookie would also have to pay the state an equal amount,

Beneath Florida's sun you can have lots of fun, And if you should lose any 'not, You can sue him whe won, and the son-of-a-gun Will have to pay double fo boot.

The bookmakers there, if they've talked the thing out, Perhaps in their discoursing found Their route for the future leaves no room for doubt— They'll have to stop horsing around.

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there are some signs that even military funds. may not be sacred. There will be no cuts in direct funds for fighting the Korean War or buying guns or ammunition, but has been hearing a lot of reabout wasts in the defense establishment and may do something about it. There probably will bé no immunity for the $8.5 billion bill for overseas military and economic aid. Sen. Walter F, George (D. Ga.), chairman of the Senate Finance: Committee which will help write a

new, bigger tax bill, predicts

there will be & “potential deficit” unless ' expenditures are cut at least $8 billion, “The acid test of whether we mean to bring about any economy in government,” he told the Senate, “will come upon such .big appropriations (as the foreign aid bill) as the result of which large amounts of money are being spent.”

. ” ” » SEN. FERGUSON, sponsor of the successful Senate amendment to cut 10 per cent off pr funds for personnel in

~ Federal Security Agency, said through

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bills reach the Senate door. “1 believe we can save about $1.5 billion on personnel alone,” he said.

The 10 per cent payroll cut

_ in the Labor Department-Fed-eral Security Agency - fund ‘saves about $12 million In a bill appropriating about $2.5 billion, The Senate also acted to bar using funds to hire chauffeurs to drive government officials around Waghington. There's been resent. ment in Congress for a long time against too-free use of overnment autos by minor ofclals. ; J » » THE ECONOMY votes will pose difficult decisions for many Congressmen and mean cuts in worthy projects along with those that are not so worthy. : Thursday, Sen, Neely raised an argument about Con-

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ferers from cancer and heart disease as he pleaded to exempt the public health services from the 10 per cent payroll cut, as SOME Senators are protest. ns against “meat a methy charge are involved in flat percentage cuts, and in-

sist savings shouldy be made item by item. But® :

of flat reductions say there never will be any real cutting if it is done item by item —that Congressmen don't like to go on record against specific projects and, besides, there isn't en legislative time. It's too edrly to predict, yet, but the signs are some of the personnel savings being made will be wiped out By pay increases for federal workers. A Senate Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee has rec ommended an 8.4 per cent pay raise. It may pass because although there's a belief there are too many federal jobholders, it is also felt they should

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