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ath "he serene of William X. Det, 2 Associated Press ‘gorrespondent in Czechoslovakia, to 10 years in prison, is An insult to the dignity of the United States. Robert A. , an American businessman, r ly ‘served 17 ‘Wonthe ins Hungarian prison wider sipilar Sircumstances. He was released only after the payment of heavy ransom. ©. We've put up with these outrages long enough. It is ‘time to take the offensive and throw our own curtain around countries which do not conduct themselves as civilized fations. Our business is much more important to them than theirs is to us. Cutting off trade and diplomatic relations would mean dealing with them in the only way

they understand.

” . . un » o THESE Communist governments are mistreating American citizens for no other reason than that they are American citizens—and as demonstrations to their own oppressed people that they can insult the United States “get. away with it. Our government has been letting them get away with it. But enough 1% enough: Half of Czechoslovakia's favorable trade balance is accounted for by sales to the United States, and we buy twice as much from the Czechs as they sell to us. Once this business is cut off they may begin to understand that relations between nations operate on a two-way street. The Reds laugh off our diplomatic protests. But it may ‘not be so amusing when they lose a market for their goods.

Right of Way for Defense

DEFENSE Mobilization Director Wilson's second quarterly report is challenging reading for Americans. And especially for those members of Congress and the pressure groups now seeking, with dangerously fav orable prospects, to undercut the defense program. It discusses the progress of the program in the last three months, But it is much more urgent reading as an outline of what is yet to be done. rs If we let ourselves be softened up by a Korean truce, or any other “episode” in the free world’s struggle against

Communist engulfment, we do so at our own great peril.

Our defense program is designed to produce “a genuine

no guarantee it will succeed “even if we carry out tHe preg"

ent blueprints at high speed and complete detail—let alope

slacking our pace. It is not enough to say we'll buy so many guns, and train so many men. Our fighting strength—on which depends our ability to discourage and defeat the Communist menace-—rests, as Mr. Wilson’ says on the “whole power of the nation.” And that “whole power” will be available only if our economic strength is stable and productive. » ~ 8 = » ” IN NORMAL times, Mr. Wilson was a militant free enterpriser. But— “Under present conditions,” he says, “a completely free economy would not enable us to get the goods we need for defense fast enough. It would result in an unfair distribution of the burdens of the defense effort among our people. “It would result in an unfair distribution of commodities in short supply. It would cause hardships and inequities many times more serious than those created by controls.” So— : “There is no room for patierrce in dealing with the man or the group whose complaint is simply that he lost his opportunity to gain at the expense of the rest of the country.” So far we merely have “laid the.foundation.” We are only tooling up. We have started, but we have not gone far We need at least two more years of “intensive labor” before the free world is strong enough to meet any attack. The defense program has the right of way. Inflation, which the present mood of Congress would rubber-stamp, can sidetrack it. We can lick Communist aggression only if we stay on the main line.

That Surplus

THE fiscal year that ended with June the g spent about $44,633,000,000 and collect od almost $3,510,000,000 more than that amount in taxes and other revenue. The resulting surplus’is the second largest in the nation's history. It would be pleasant, but inaccurate, to give credit for that surplus to prudent management of the government's affairs. In fact, it was largely the product of two things that weren't good. One was the slow progress of rearmament, on which less money was paid out than wise considerations of national security would have justified. The other was inflation, which boosted the dollar incomes of individuals and corporations and brought in unexpectedly large revenue from the moderate tax increases voted by Congress after the Korean War began. 80 the surplus justifies no complacency. It doesn't mean that Congress cam safely whittle down the new tax increases, now in the works. Nor does it lessen the urgent need to slash every possible dollar of non-essential federal spending in the fiscal year now started. - For the rearmament program—which should not slacken even if the fighting stops in Korea—is now beginning to hit its real stride. As a result, the rate of total government spending has jumped rapidly in the last few months, and will Jump faster in months to come. And, if the government’ out of the black nk, and into the red, deficit spending Yl, foes feed inflation. Another Treasury surplus in the present fiscal year A qughey good for this try. Certainly, there's being too big—not when many

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Then, businessmen and the public set infiation off with a psychlogical buying spree that was not justified by shortages of goods of government deficit. spending, "two of the basic causes of inflation.

Now, says Herbert: Stein of the committee for economic development, it is possible that “you may get much more relaxation than you can explain by peace in Korea.” In other words, the public may overdo the arrival cf nomiral peace just as it overdid the start of the fighting, with reverse results.

Business papers are full of. semideflationary news, And if businessmen and the public show.}d decide to adopt a “Let’s Wait and Seg” policy on buying as a result of the prospective peace a sharp, but temporary, downturn could dev evelep, most of -theteconomists-feel en

Weak Textile Market

HERE are typical items carried in the last two editions of one business paper: The National Association of Purchasing Agents said that June business activity declined more sharply than for

any month since June, 1949. “Defense orders aren't filling the gap,” said the purchasing agents.

The textile market generally was reported to be the weakest it has been for a long time. And some eastern tanneries, where business is poor, will be shut down for three weeks for vacations, a week longer than usual, Sales have been exceptionally slow at the semiannual Chicago furniture show and carpet manufacturers have been cutting prices to try to move their product. There have been many layoffs in the auto and television industries. Bit, even though there i= a further letdcwn in buying, the economists don't’ see how prices can drop very far because of the firm wage structure underneath.

Drastic Cuts Scheduled?

THE general belief that the long-term economic trend is inflationary 1s based upon the scheduled doubling of military speniing during the fiscal year that started this week and the expectation that total government a next vear may be around $90 billion, even®vithout

SISA vernment spending at’ $90 billion a year ie atria” next to impossible not to have. a huge -deficit:;” said one leading economist. “And when even the prospect of that deficit beit would give inflation a mighty boost.” . (Government deficits are inflationary because it means government horrowing and the creation of new money.) The economic experts look for Congress to do some trimming on military spending. But tney don’t think that Congress, in the world situation now existing, would make such drastic cuts as to change completely the outlook for heavy gevernment spending running until July 1, 1853. Thus, they think that long-term predictions of more inflation are safe.

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someone who , , , pines when we are apart . . . a girl who has but one desire . . . and that's to make me glad , . . instead of living for herself . . . or things she might have had . , . a sweetheart who will be just that , . . each second of each year . ., a darling who throughout my life , . . will call me honey dear ,.. A man needs someone just Hike this , . . to cheer him when he's blue . and give him all the courage that , . . he needs to follow through . , . not especially someone ., who's beautiful of face . but a true and gentle person , .. who's happy in her place , . . her place to share his heartaches . his happiness and strife . his good luck and his bad luck . . . that's my kind of a wife, —By Ben Burroughs,

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. By Frederick Woltman

Reds Map Out POW Rules In Case of a Pinch by the FBI

NEW YORK, July 5—The Communist Party has just published a booklet telling its members throughout the country what to do if arrested. It's a rush job, announced less than two weeks after the United States Supreme Court held the party to be a criminal conspiracy. The chief “Keep mum.’ ® These helpful hints on how the newly pinched

Commie should act ‘will soon be distributed by:

the CP's bail-raising, legal defense. arm, the Civil Rights Congress. Copies cost $1 per hundred. And they're described as published “in small, handy pocket form.” The most important admonition: “Be sure to get the name and/or shield number of the arresting officer,” whether a policeman, state trooper or FBI agent. Others follow: : “You: need give no information® of ‘any kind

hetong or-{n which you are interested.” “Do not talk ahout the case to anybody in jail. . . . Remember, you are talking from a jail and your conversation may be held within hearing of police or stoolpigeons.” “Permit no police officer, or FBI agent, etc, to enter vour home if he has no warrant.” “There is no legal obligation to speak to an FBI agent . . vou should say nothing when questioned by the FBI. . . . Remember, aside from giving your name, you need give no information of any kind.” > 4

WITHIN an hour or two after the FBI arrested the second-string Red team on June 20, the CP's counter-propaganda machinery started . to. roll. Sixty Civil Rights Congress “delegates” were summoned forthwith, including Rose Russell (Teachers Union), Howard Fast (novelist) and John Howard Lawson (Hollywood screen writer). They assembled the next morning. Plans were laid to stage “mass protest meetings’; to campaign for more loans ‘‘for a mass bail fund” and to “bring before the nation” the dissenting opinions of Justices Hugo I. Black and William O. Douglas in the Smith Act decision and use them “to halt state and municipal laws like the Smith Act.” Algo, ‘to mobilize progressive opinion here and abroad.” which means protests will soon start flowing in from millions of “free peoples” behind the Iron Curtain. Three Fight Back rallies, denouncing the storm trooper arrests of working-class leaders,” have already been pulled off in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Harlem. Convicted and indicted Red leaders spoke at all three. At the Harlem affair, before a turnout of 3500 in Rockland Palace, Benjamin J. Davis, former New York councilman who. went to jail, told the cheering crowd: “The Communist Party is indestructible. The sun of liberty is rising all over the world-—in Europe, Asia and Africa it will surely rise here also.” Paul Robeson said: “I stand firm and immovable by the side of these great Communist leaders.”

GS -b LOVE THAT MAN: The Communists are going sweet again on John IL. Lewis. They hailed as “significant” his attack on “a wargeared economy” before the left-wing Ford

WASHINGTON, July 5 — I don't know what President Truman calls this present Congress. Probably isn't printable, anyway. What I mean is that it's accomplished less to date than any Congress in my memory and that goes back to long before Mr, Truman was a Senator, himself, even. In comparison to the ‘present set of statesmen, the 80th, or donothing Congress was a hive of bees and also a warren of industry. This 82d Congress hasn't even spent any money yet. The fiscal year began four days ago’and the billions all should have been appropriated before ther. Not one single new appropriation bill so far has passed bobh houses and all departments of government at the moment are operating on . emergency, stop-gap funds, Sn ® = = . THEN there was the $16 ‘billion in new taxes the Presi-. dent wanted = a hurry last - Jpaty. A few months later his agents ss said intye Settle

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Local in Dearborn, Mich, last Saturday. And they applauded his.jibes at Walter P. Reuther, anti-Red president of the United Automobile Workers. The Mine Workers chief, they Ilamented, is just another victim of Reédbaiting. Under the headline, “Miners’ Paper States the Case,” the Sunday Worker happily reproduced "the cover of the current United Mine Workers—JFournal. —H-—-consists of a cartoon, showing a capitalist type, labeled “War Profiteer,” fleeing a dove of peace and carrying a bag of “Blood Money.” The Mine Journal caption read: “If Peace ‘Breaks Out’ These Boys Are Through.” Once more—on

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‘Human Nature’ MR. EDITOR:

We got a new Chief of Police now and, by thunder, he's going to clean up this town once and for all, I hope he candoit...but... and that's a big one . . . I kinda doubt that he can. The fact that we have gambling, vice, etc, is not the fault of a chief of police. It's the fault of the force and only because of a poor system, Low pay has kept good men from the job and others have heen chased out or tied up with political red tape. The last chief we had was a very good one but he didn't stand a chance to really prove it. How can a guy do anything when a private can hold an ax over his head every minute? You don’t believe it? Go out and ask the next cop you see, and if he's honest hell tell you «+ + » Off the record. Sab «> DESPITE what the Kefauver crime commisgion told the public ahout the duty of a public ‘official, a public official is still just a man and he's got to eat to live. If he wants to eat he's got to keep his ‘job and nine times out of ten he's going to-do just that even if he has to wink or turn his back on certain illegal practices by the boys in blue under him. I'm not trying to excuse anyone for questionable practices. I'm just pointing at human nature. Unfortunately in this town the Police Department is subject to great political pressures.

It wouldn't be if it was out under a civil service

system, When we get civilized enough to realize this, we'll have a good police force and a good chief. Maybe O'Neal can do what he says he's going to do, but I wouldn't take a bet on it . . . would you? —The Watcher, City.

CONGRESS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

What Harry Will Call 82d, We Can’t Print

for $10 billion. The House, after prolonged wrangling, eventually offered him $7 billion. , Now the Senate is going over this bill, listening to all witnesses that howled in pain before the House, and it's not likely to be passed before fall.

And probably with a good many millions more shaved off. .

What kind of price control law Mr. T. will get, if any, still is in doubt. Numerous other important bills are strung up in committees all over the lot. 1 suppose I ought to be deploring all this, Fact is, it suits me fine: It used to be* that Congressmen passed laws in a hurry, got out of Washington before the weather even got warm, and collected their wages via mail at their respective fishing lodges. Se. w.

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of 'em. are feeling sorry for themselves and Mr. Truman is biting his fingernails, but the longer they yammer about how to spend the money the better

ts the chance for them to it properly. At they'll have a good idea what

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DEFENSE... By Ludisl Donny A

Se Peace Talk Lulls Europe

Letdown in Rearmament Beginning to Appear

WASHINGTON, July 5—8igns of the letdown in European rearmament, desired by Moscow and feared by Washington, are beginning to appear even before the anticipated Korean truce. “It looks as though our defense program is not going to be so immediately necessary as it wag a few days ago,” says Richard Stokes, British minister of. raw materials. When a key rearmament official of the major allied nation abroad reacts in this way,-the confused attitude

of the European public is easy to understand

though not to condone, Stalin’s top priority policy is to prevent Allfed defense. Korea, Iran, Germany and other critical points in the cold war and the war-by-proxy are secondary to the over-all Red Strategy of keeping the Allies weak. If Stalin succeeds in this, he ean continue his world conquest almost at will—picking the places and timing the moves virtually at his own convenience,

Two Methods -

FOR THIS purpose he uses two methods. One is to make the free peoples believe that rearmament is not—to use the Stokes phrase—‘‘immediately necessary.” The other is to break the democratic alliance by forcing political issues on which the Allies are in partial disagreement. By initiating the move for a Korean ceasefire, Stalin combined these two methods with unusual skill, * The consequences are difficult for Washington to combat precisely because the world wants peace. And Americans, among all the Allies, want Korean peace most because— next to the South Koreans—they have suffered most. . But it is ironic that Europeans, of all peoples, should let hope of a Korean armistice lull them into unpreparedness. For many months they have feared that Korean front demands on American effort would prevent United States military reinforcement of their countries. The dread of old-type American “isolationism” had given way to fear of an "Afia ars” poliey hate

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No Connection :

NOW THAT there is a bare chance some of the arms hitherto going to Korea may be freed for shipment across the Atlantic, many Europeans jump at this as an excuse for further postponement of their own rearmament effort. Of course there is no connection between a Korean armistice—if one eventuates—and Western Europe's exposure to Soviet subversion and attack. No Russian divisions are engaged in Korea and no large amount of Soviet armament has heen committed. The Korean War is not a cause but a result of the Soviet conspiracy. A Korean truce cannot end that world conspiracy—but advance it if Allied governments are trapped into the Stokes attitude.

Barbs

GARDENERS have that healthy look because the man who works around the yard is

rarely a yard around. > S&S

ASK ANY youngster to name three tastes and he's likely to say sweet, sour and sulfur and molasses. Sb A COMPROMISE is when a man agrees to buyswhat his wife wants if she'll just quit nagging about At. So

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‘Gambling

Fight’ MR. EDITOR: The whole controversy on gambling is a little sickening. Why don’t the reformers start on something worthwhile such as cleaning up the filth in magazines, best seller novels, movies, television, the way women dress and help America to peace. Perhaps if women had decent reading matter and plays to look at they wouldn't have to play bingo. I guess cards in the family is wrong, too, from what my neighbors think. Yet they turn their eyes away from filthy reading matter and let it stay where it is to undermine the morals of the youth of our nation. If our homes are really one and holy, the small things will take care of themselves. Immorality is our nation’s biggest curse, not petty gambling. —A Country Mother, Greens Fork.

‘Get the Facts’ MR. EDITOR:

In response to the letter by A. J. Schneider which appeared in The Times on July 1st, I should like to suggest to Mr. Schneider, and others who are similarly confused upon the Korean situation, a closer scrutiny of the United Nations Charter, It is regretable that many people who attempt to speak with authority upor this subject have never once read the charter, but base thelr opinions only upon irresponsible gossip.

—Joyce Jacobs, City.

‘Sucker as Usual’ MR. EDITOR: Yeah, Claycombe admits his mistake A noble gesture, but the fact remains that the public is the sucker as usual. Your editorial was as logical as his excuse. Times Reader, City.

they doubtléss will be winding up their work. Seems fair enough to me. Maybe, because of all this delay, we taxpayers will be allowed to save a few paltry billions.

-” ” - EVEN now I'm getting considerable satisfaction about the way the Senate is whacking away the limousine money for

bureaucrats. - It's small stuff, maybe, but it pleases me. As for saving the billions the gents have been talking about, that's still anybody's guess. The Senate hasn't even gotten around to talking about most of the big-money bills. * Some of the gents have, however, done a good deal of speechmaking- about how’ they, themselves, are living on peon wages, or §12,000 a year, plus

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