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An Appodsement Setting VY/THOUT 18 817 way dispasaging Son. dgway’s capa- ~ bilities as a first-rate fighting man, it is impossible to conceive of Gen. MacArthur letting himself be maneuvered into a siutation where negotiations for a cease-fire agreement in Korea could be turned into a Red propaganda show. Not that Gen. Ridgway is to be considered a free agent in this matter. Kaesong is ‘Secretary of State Acheson's show, and it is following the all-too-familiar Acheson pattern with the United States at the foot of the table, waiting on the other fellow’s pleasure. The meeting is being held in enemy territory, where the Reds wanted it to be—not on a hospital ship, as the United States had proposed. Armed Communists guard the airfield, where the United Nations delegation must land. Only Communist transpordation is available from there to the meeting place. Our delegates are escorted to and from the meetings by Red troops. If we were suing for peace, these things would be expected. But only a few days ago President Truman hailed this projected settlement as a “victory.” The spectacle the Communist reporters and photographers are recording for world consumption will not present this mismanaged affair in the light of a United Nations victory. We may be sure of that. Gen. Ridgway has explained that he is for a full press coverage of the final stages of the negotiations “as the public interest allows.” “We'll see that we get everything we can,” he said. Which seems to mean that the press of free nations will get whatever the Reds choose to permit. That wouldn't be the case if Douglas MacArthur had been left in command. He understands Oriental psychology too well to have let himself be out-bargained even before the bargaining began. He was ousted because he stood in the way of appeasement. Now, in an appeasement setting, we fear that kind of a seitiement.

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Pouce With Germany N ASKING Congress for formal action to terminate the state of war with Germany, President Truman has recognized the futility of waiting longer on Russia for agree“ment on a normal peace tréaty. The procedure being followed. in Germany's case Is ‘different from that in Japan’s because Russia. is not in a position to block a ngrmal settlement with the.Japs. So : tong as Eastern Germany is under Soviet control, 4 comg plete settlement of German problems must be ruled out. The end of the legal state of war with Germany will permit Western Germany to join the community of free nations and rearm for her own protection against the possibility of a Red attack. 4 Britain and France have taken similar action. = The program the Allies have adopted will not end the military occupation. That must wait on German rearmament and the formation of an army for defense of Western Europe, in which Western Germany is expected to be a A full partner. Allied forces now in Germany are there not because of fear of the Germans but to defend them against the Russians.

False Alarm I AST MARCH cotton-state Congressmen climbed all over Mike DiSalle, the government's price controller, because he had put a a ceiling on cotton prices. The ceiling represented 125 per cent of “parity” —onefourth more than a fair price as calculated by the Agriculture Department. But the cotton Congressmen howled that Mr. DiSalle had abused his power outrageously. They said that his ceiling would discourage production —that growers just wouldn't plant enough cotton to reach the goal of a 16 million-bale crop which the Agriculture Department was calling for to make up for a short 1950 crop. ; However, Mr, DiSalle refused to back down. Well, the Agriculture Department has just reported that farmers this year have planted 20,510,000 acres of cotton, 5814 per cent more acres than in 1950. That's enough, if yields are average, to mean a 16,791,000-bale crop. The price ceiling doesn't seem to have discouraged cotton producers. Which strongly suggests that the Congressmen who are now trying to abolish all price controls, claiming that otherwise producers won't produce, also may be sounding false alarms.

Tyrant’s Tactics N PRAGUE,

Czechoslovakia, a familiar drama was recently re-enacted, The Communists “tried” an outsider from the. Western world on grounds of “espionage.” The only difference this time is that the victim is an American newspaper reporter. He was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. Bespectacléed William N. Oatis, Associated Press correspondent in Prague, gave the groveling ¢onfession which is standard operating procedure in these Communist courtroom circused. He said he was a spy and that three other Western reporters who formerly worked in Prague also had engaged in espionage. Somehow, he managed to deny that he took over a “spy - network” when he became A. P. bureau chief in Prague. It is, of course, easy for the Communists in Czechoslo- + wakia or any other Iron Curtain nation to allege espionage. The gathering of any information, however harmless, can be fitted, for example, into the broa Czech definition of spying. Reporters thus would be especially choice prey. ~The fundamental objective does not concern us directly at all. The trials are probesly. meant largely for home con-

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WASHINGTON, July 10—The United Stites continues to do business with Soviet Russia and its satellite countries, despite the endless conflict between their ideology .and ours, and in

the face of their ‘mistreatment of innocent

American citizens, For example, Czechoslovakia, which has just sentenced William N. Oatis, an Ameri-

prison on phony ‘espionage

United States, us $7,208,000 worth of goods : in the first quarter ot this ; oa year, Mr. Oatis If this rate continues, 4h. Czechoslavakia will sell us : victim

nearly $29 million worth year—an 11 per cent increase over 1950. Included in our purchases are such things as jewelry ($480,000 in the first three months of this year, compared to $253,000 in the last quarter of 1950), chemicals, band instruments, leather,

THE AX... By Earl Richert Lawmakers Eye

Defense Budget

WASHINGTON, July 10—“Economy” cuts in military appropriations are sure to follow an end to the Korean fighting. Congress has been getting in the mood to whack the military budget anyway. A’ ceasefire would be a clincher. : There's no apparent intention on the part of the congressional “economizers” to try to weaken the preparedness program. Rather, the idea is that there is no way to balance the budget unless cuts can be made in the military program as well as in requests for other government operations. The alternative is even more taxes on top of the $7.2 billion tax bill now under consideration by the Sen-

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Sen. O'Mahoney . where to cut?

ate Finance Committee. Somewhere in the Defense Department's huge $60.6 billion budget, goes the argument, are items which can be trimmed without jeopardizing the nation’s defense. And this $60.6 bil-

lion does not count the proposed new $6.5 billion

authorization program for building more military bases, Both House, and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees are now going over the Defense Department's budget with a magnifying-glass technique. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee, hopes to be able to trim the $60.6 billion budget by at least: $3 billion. He has asked the Defense Department, for help on.where: to ft. For I

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THE- Wyoming Senator says, however that

the job will be a hard one since the Defense ©

Department itself did a good. job in cutting. The three services, he said, submitted budgets for a total of $104 billion. Defense Under Secretary Robert Lovett and his staff cut this to $60.6 billion, a reduction of almost $44 billion. Sen. O'Mahoney said he plans to scrutinize the plans for building bases abroad. He said he thought it much better to rely on U. 8. bases and build long-range bombers and radar. “Already,” he said, “we have had word from North Africa that French contractors ought to have the job of building bases,” he said. “And the political uncertainties in such areas as that make me doubt the wisdom of spending a lot of money on foreign bases.” He said that bases abroad stirred up nationalistic feelings and brought fear of attack to the populace. “No one,” he said, “can object to us building long-range bomber bases at home.” He indicated that huge savings could be made by reducing the foreign base construction program.

‘Cut Out Gingerbread

AS AN example of small savings that could be made, he pointed to the recent amendment which directed the Atomic Energy Commission to “cut out all gingerbread” in their new buildings and have them built along strict utilitarian lines. The same instructions will be given to the military, he said. The Air Force is almost certain to be treated lightly on any cuts since Congress is Air Forceminded. Sen, O'Mahoney, for example, said the

one thing Congress must make sure of {8 that

we have “a really extraordinary Sen. Robert A, Taft (R. 0.) Air Force advocate, Spurring the scrutiny of the military budget is the federal financial picture for the current year, which began July 1. The Treasury Department estimates spending at $68.4 billion, with a deficit of approximately $10 hillion at the present rate. The $7.2 tax increase bill passed by the House would still leave a deficit of about $3 billion, Already, the Treasury has started bqrrowIng money in anticipation of a sizable deficit.

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By Galbraith

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Meanwhile, we're continuing to sell the Czechs such important items as machinery and vehicles, animal products, chemicals, tobacco and cotton goods. In 1950 our total sales amounted to about $10.5 million, approximately one-half the 1949 figure. When Hungary last year imprisoned Robert Vogeler, young American businessman, on trumped-<up charges, Rep. Jacob K. Javits (R. N. Y.) and others asked the State Department to cut off all trade with that country as a means of compelling the Communist dominated government to stop such treatment. Secretary of State Dean Acheson rejected the suggestion, Mr. Voegler remained in prison for 17 months. Meanwhile, trade between the U. 8. and Hungary continued to flourish. In the first three months of this year we bought more than in the same period of 1950. Our purchases also increased in both the third and fourth quarters of 1950. Meanwhile, our exports to Hungary, which had declined in the third quarter of last year to 93,000, shot up to $230,000 in the last three months of 1950.

‘Curfew Shall Not Ring!"

PRICE CONTROLS. - »-. By Frederick C Of

Mrs. O’s

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d In The Face But still Trades With Reds:

* American purchases from Hungary amounted to $1,864,000 last year and included such items as food products and wine, furs, feathers, seeds, drugs and herbs, wood, glass, clay, books and art works, U. 8. sales to Hungary in 1950 amounted to $3,478,000. They included textile products, machinery, vehicles, chemicals, food products, automobile parts and accessories, and medicines, Though American exports to Russia last year were slight (amounting to only $752,000 in contrast to $6,617,000 in 1949), our purchases totaled $38,242,000, almost the same as the previous year. Moreover, we started out in the first three months of 1951 with purchases from Russia totaling $6,316,000, an increase of nearly $1 million over the last quarter of 1950. We've been buying from the Soviet Union such things as sausage casings, sturgeon, crab meat, furs, licorice root, tobacco, cotton linters, wool, horse hair, wood pulp, non-metallic minerals, manganese, chrome, platinum, glycerine and potassium chloride. Our exports to Russia include chemicals, scientific and professional instruments, electrical machinery and apparatus including motors, textiles automobiles and parts, and construction equipment,

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lt Comes to Telling ’Em Off

WASHINGTON, July 10—This is the week that Congressmen vote on price and credit controls. They will be pained to: learn that my bride takes a dim view of their deliberations. The trouble was that the middle drawer of her dresser had been stuck for a long time.

She asked me once again to do something about it. I gave it a powerful vank and it came loose, spilling a wad of chewed up red and blue plastic tokens, which somehow had got stuck in the runner back in 19435. You remember those tokens. They used to be more important than money when you wanted to trade in a grocery. Mrs. O. tossed those souvenirs of the OPA into the wastebasket, as If they. were snakes, and she got to thinking aloud. Since she's a registered voter, the statesmen should be interested. She sald, and I quote, that she's in good position to do her own rationing and also her own price controlling without assistance from the helpful gentlemen on Capitol Hill. This is why, she continued, there has been no beefsteak in our house in the last six months. “When steak is $1.45 a pound,” does not matter to me whether it is plentiful or scarce. (You could tell she was angry, the way she used such careful English.) “It does not matter if there's a black market In meat, or if there isn't. I just don't buy it.” She doesn’t either. As of now I'm practically a vegetarian on account of her price controlling, Fact is, I don't really mind. I'm getting a little

IRAN OIL SLICK .

ABADAN, July 10—There seemed yesterday to be no way to save Iran from a suicidal dose of oil nationalization.

The Abadan refinery, the world's greatest, is the economic heart of this nation. Refinery production Already has been forced to less than half of normal. It faces further cuts to prolong .its life in the struggle against the limited apace for its finished products, which are now denied an outlet to the world. The end is clearly in sight

It is only a question of time and space—the available space divided by the daily ration of oil products, When the space v is gone Abadan must close. © The newly formed Iranian National Oil Co., which is still little more than a name, denies the British-controlled An-glo-Iranian Oil Company's ownership of oil produced under a 1933 contract between Iran and the British company. 2 In return the British company. naturally has refused to dis-

she sald, “it

weary of cheese dishes, which she calls fondues, But IT am on her side. And another thing, she said. Credit controls. Congress can keep them, too. Once in the long, long ago she bought a kitchen stove through the gas company for. $3 down and $3 a month. It was an elegant stove, which turned itself on and off when she got the dials properly set, and it seemed to her that she'd be an old, white-haired lady before she ever got it paid for. That was enough of buying on time for her. Since then she has hoarded her money and done without the things she wanted until she had the cash to pay for them, When she had it, she'd flash her long green under the nose of the startled merchant and frequently get her merchandise at a stiff discount. She even made me do that when we bought our last automobile. My old one long since had been on its final legs, belching smoke and spurting steam, but she wouldn't let me get another until I had the greenbacks in my pocket. Worked out exactly as she'd predicted, too. The dealer knocked a cool $500 off the list price.

A Real Joy

AND. I must report that it has been a real joy driving a new sedan without any monthly payments hanging over my head. My bride said finally she didn't like the way Congressmen were handling the new tax bill If the government needs the money, she'll give it to the -collector, but she wants no more talk about heavier taxes to keep people from wasting their cash. Her instincts are those of a squirrel. She said she was perfectly able to save her own money, if the Treasury Department ever saw fit to leave her any. She needs no assistance from Congress to keep her from squandering it. There you are, gentlemen. Vote on your price control bill but remember Mrs. O. has got her big, blue eyes on you. Later, she'll do some voting of her own.

By Clyde Farnsworth

half. Iran has the oil wells and

The fact that the United States announced cancellation of its trade aa with ustits Romania and Bulgaria not n y any effect on their trade with this try. The agreements merely accord favorable tariffs. Doing away with them will not, of itself, prohibit an expanded export-import business. The only exception is in the case of furs from Russia and Red China. These are to be barred from entry into this country. ‘Sales of American goods to the Chinese Reds were stopped in April of this year. Previously, however, we'd traded with the Chinese more than any other Communist country: Meanwhile, we're still buying from them. In 1850, we bought $145 million worth of Chinese meat products, dried egg yolks, tea, spices, fruits and nuts, hides, furs, bristles, textile fibers, tung oil, cotton waste, handkerchiefs and wool. Our 1850 purchases were nearly $40 million greater than in 1949. Total United States buying from the Soviet

" bloc including Russia, the 10 Eastern European

satellites and China, amounted to more than $226 million last year, an increase of $152 mil. lion over 1949. Our shipments to them in 1950 totaled ‘more than $72 million, approximately one-half the previous year's total.

i : : Hoosier Forum | fl donot agree with a word that you say, i i but | will defend to the death your right 3 i to say it."—VYoltaire. j ‘The UN's Idea’ MR. EDITOR:

In The Times, Saturday, June 30, you pub~ lished an editorial titled “MacArthur's Idea.” Most people will agree that: MacArthur has done a splendid job in Japan and has served

his country well and faithfully, but credit should.

be given where credit is due. You stated that MacArthur. suggested a cease fire last March and it provoked a storm of censure in the United Nations circles at the time. The facts are that on Feb. 1, 1951, at the same time the Political Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations declared Communist China an aggressor, it also approved creation of a Good Offices Committee which was to see what could be done about a peaceful settlement in Korea. oe “hn oe AFTER February, this committee met almost daily working for a cease fire and a peaceful settlement of the Korean War . but the Chinese government ignored any peace offers. ” After this Good Offices Committee was created and was at work, MacArthur's statement that he would confer in the field with the Communist commander in chief on measures to end’ hostilities, was an assurance that he would cooperate with the United Nations in case they were successful in bringing about a cease fire. Why can’t you write an editorial titled, “The United Nations’ Idea,” (not MacArthur's) and

let the people know it was the United Nations

who was on the job, working under any possible circumstances for a cease fire and. a peaceful, honorable 'settlement.

—Mrs. Howland Johnson, ‘4563 Broadway.

‘Be a Bum’ MR. EDITOR: a, “Sloppiness”—and I quote .from The Times +00. July 4-—‘is often the frst sign of a geteriorat. ing personality. n

‘I picked that, Bub, out of your A tter Forty". ,

series’ by one ‘Janet Baird, whoever she if The answer to that, of course is N, as in horses, U, as in horses, T, as in horses and S as in gooferdust. I am a sloppy dresser. My family is always handing me the razzberries because I go around looking like a bum. But if I do it is to scare away the bums I know who dress like stuffed shirts. A bum doesn't have to feed bums drinks,

see? Or drink their drinks. oo oo oo A BUM doesn't have to play bridge or canasta. A bum doesn't have to go to banquets and titillate his ulcers with a drumstick that was fried day before yesterday. Or carrots and peas, an abominable dish when mixed. Or chew on lettuce that looks like somebody had swiped it from a garbage pail. And a bum doesn’t have to listen to a pack of vapid earbenders cry and crab about the sorry pass the country has come to under Truman and Roosevelt, quoting all the while liberally from speeches that Abraham Lincoln never made. If I am the authority, by the way, I pretend to be on Lincoln, perhaps it's because I dress for comfort instead of to impress or please. Be a bum, I say. And to Janet Baird, whoever she is, one more departing bird: Phooey, —dJoe Blow, City,

CONDUCTOR

THE MAN who drives a bus or car . ’ a must be of iron nerve .., not only for the job

he has , . . but for the folks he'll serve . . . he must be able to keep cool . . . while listening to the talk .

+ . of some disgusting person who +» +. must find it fun to squawk , .. and after tours of this jibe , . . I really do not doubt + « that he is ready for a change ... from those who moan and shout . . . but I have noticed that svhen he . . . meets someone rather nice . . . he always has a pleasant word to sort of break the ice . . , and though we have been peeved when he . . , seems rather bold and crude . . . that's just because we never think . that sometimes we are rude.

—By Ben Burroughs.

How Long Before Abadan Goes Under?

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“Nuts” —

refinery but Britain has the tankers,

It is unlikely that non-Brit-ish tankers will haul! Iranian oil unless Iran adheres to the recent decision by The Hague International Court of Justice, The court recommended that the British company continue its operations, but set aside all profits pending a final settlement of the dispute. Few countries and shipping companies would cafe to risk contempt of the International Court. ” " ~ TRAN also must deal with the problem of paying the nearly 80,000 persons directly dependent on the oil industry for their livelihood. However enthusiastic they may have been at the glowing pictures painted for them by the oil Nation. alizer, they cannot eat aviation

gasoline. The British, now’

gradually pulling out, have promised the employees .a month's pay, But that won't help much. : The British’ idea has been to maintain a skeleton staff

of British administrators and - technicians while steadily par-

functioning of the be expreten 4 soon. It's

is expected to remove even that minimum operation. Even Hussein Makki, a leading Nationalizer and right-

. hand man of Premier Moham-

med Mossadegh, acknowledges need of ‘at least 50 foreign technicians in the refinery, although he says he doesn't need any in the oil fields. British experts from the fields say Makki is wrong when he says the Iranians can drill and bring in wells and maintain the flow of oil to Abadan. Refinery technicians say he's many times wrong in

his estimate of the number of

foreigners needed here. It would seem that the Iranian harassment of the British was intended to drive all of them from the industry here, If it's Makki's idea to route all British except the 50 experts he says he needs, he probably has overshot the mark already. » . ” SO far the harassment has gone no further than the fringes of refinery operation. However, working efficiency throughout has been affected. But deeper maves into the ‘may

“ques-

the refinery takeover, or final

withdrawal of the British ex- .

perts. Either may mark the end of the Abadan even before storage capacity is exhausted, Many of the British seem convinced that they're dealing with politicians bereft of judge ment. They feel the forces ale

ready unleashed against them, such as the attitude of the workers and the local populace of Abadan, make it almost impossible to put the pieces together again. The Iranian Nationalists have broken something diffi. cult or impossible to replace— morale.

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