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any cost, ‘Soon huge ‘defense appropriations were being voted with record speed. A Secretary of Defense, whose economy policies suddenly had become unpopular, was ignominiously fired. responded eagerly -to-the- President's calls for higher taxes and insisted on giving him powers to control prices and wages which he thought-then-—-weuld - not be needed. :

AMERICA was alarmed, and with compelling reason. But that was a year ago. Today—

Foolish hopes are being founded on the mere possibility -

‘that a cease-fire may be followed by peace in Korea and then, perhaps, by &n end to Communist plans for aggression elsewhere in the world. Today many Americans are saying that it soon may be possible to reduce the size and slacken the pace of the rearmament program, and so avoid need for higher taxes, strong economic controls and other sacrifices. Yet there is no real basis for belief that Red Russia's ultimate design to rule the world, and to destroy America in the process, has been altered in the slightest degree.

» THERE i" much basis for stispicion, that the Kremlin has a present two-fold purpose: To liquidate an unsuccessful venture in Korea, thus clearing the way for more menacing adventures eleswhere. And to lull the United States into a complacent sense of security, thus slowing our efforts to build military might and preserve economic health. Our peril almost certainly is greater now than it was a year ago. Our preparedness program still is moving slowly, still i is two years from the goal which those directing ~it think would mean reasonable safety. Yes, the American people had compelling reason for alarm a year ago. But, if anything, their réason for alarm today is more compelling.

Spanish Insurance

THE pending arrangements for American sea and naval bases in Spain, in exchange for U. 8S. assistance in arming Franco's troops, are ingpired by sound military considerations. Bases in Spain are important for the same reason that bases in Britain, Iceland and North Africa are important— because they could not be quickly overrun by a Russian blitz attack. Confronted by a chain of air bases protected by natural sea and land barriers, within bombing range of her vital industries and troop concentrations, Russia could not count on an easy conquest of Europe. The war could be carried into the Soviet heartland by air before the mammoth Russian ground forces could hope to win a decisive land victory.

rr » » A MILITARY agreement between the United States and Spain may spur France to greater effort, for if France will not supply the ground troops Gen. Eisenhower's army needs Franco can, if he wants to, fill the void. We've been putting a lot of costly eggs into the North Atlantic basket without assurance of getting very much in return. But if Greece and Turkey are brought into the North Atlantic Alliance, with the possibility that Germany will join later, and with the projected Spanish agreement, there will be so much competition for armament money that there won't be much left for the laggards. Now the defense program is beginning to form a pattern that makes sense. But while we are getting bases we also need more planes, and the Air Force hasn't been doing a very good job of getting them. That situation demands attention.

Crown Prince

I HIS father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had been a wiser man, Freiderich Wilhelm Hohenzollern might have ruled (Germany and died a respected, if not a highly admired, world figure. But the Kaiser chose a course that brought on World War I. And the son, whose performance as a military leader.in that war was considerably less than brilliant, lived in obscurity after Germany's defeat, his high-sounding titles meaningless, his hopes of glory vanished. Many midddle-aged and elderly Americans, reading of his death, ‘must have been surprised that he had lived so long past the time when, next to his misguided sire, Friederich Wilhelm was their best hated villain. Those were the days when defying the Hohenzollerns was a patriotic duty, when effigies of the “clown prince’ were hissed in parades and burned on bonfires—and when we didn't know that even more ruthless and terrible villains were waiting their turne~to march across the world stage.

Point Made, Anyway

FOR many weeks, the Senate Crime Investigating Committee tried to persuade Gov. Fuller Warren of Florida

to testify. Sen. O'Conor, the committee chairman, said he was convinced the Governor could give useful information. . But the Governor ducked. He had to take a rest. It wasn't convenient. It was an interference with states’ rights, And why didn't the committee investigate crime in Sen. Q’'Conor’s home state of Maryland? Finally, the committee issued a subpena, ordering Mr. Warren to go to Washington. He declined. The committee it would go to Florida. The Governor said he would ha. but not under oath. committee threw in the sponge. The Governor lled to testify. ly is good enough. Gov, Warren's g are Suficient Sestimony, The compoi, .

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nist Daily Worker of New

York, The others are all they

Americans—or, rather, are citizens of the United States. In New York, headquarters for the United Nations and ‘thus Moscow's 1 propaganda outlet in the West, the roster of Soviet-employed newsmen is even larger, Tass has 15, including nine Ameri

? can- citizens; and the Moscow

newspaper, Pravda, something and called the All-Union Radio

Committee each has one, both"

Russians. Second in command to Mike Federov in the Tass bureau here is Larry Todd, a slim, pink-complexioned man. Mr, Todd was head of the™bureau for many years until his bosses in Moscow suddenly sent Mr, Federov over here a few years ago to supplant him, s ” ” THE other two Tass bureau members are Jean Montgomery

. and Euphemia K. Virden,

Completing the Washington roll is the Daily Worker's cor-

respondent, Rob ¥F. Hall, a bulky, amiable, pipe-smoking man,

Mr. Todd is Tass’ Sfate Department reporter, and has a special cubicle in the department's spacious press room, complete with desk, typewriter and telephone service. Miss Montgomery is assigned to Capitol Hill and Miss Virden handles assorted assignments, Mr. Hall covers a little bit of everything for the Daily Work-

er, in ‘addition to writing a‘

daily Washington column. There is no ban on where these people may go in search of “news.” They’ are not even excluded from the Pentagon's daily military briefings on the

* situation ir Korea, although to

date no Tass or Daily Worker

CORRES

a WILLIAM OATIS

Miss Montgomery did attend Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's press conference just before he left on his first tour of Europe. When she asked to be allowed to be present, Defense Department press officials checked to see if it was OK. The military was opposed, but the White House, State Department and Gen. Ike himgelf all insisted she be permitted to attend. v Miss Montgomery also attended the briefing held by Lt. Gen. Elwood P, Quesada on the atomic bomb tests at Eniwetok and the press conference held by Defense Secretary George

. reporters,

Tass, of course, bought the full transcript of the Senate hearings on the discharge of Gen. Douglas MacArthur during which many military ‘secrets came out. : Like the Pentagon, the Atomic Energy. Commission has no ban on Iron Curtain provided they are properly accredited. But officials there say no reporters are

permitted anywhere in the

building except the conference room. They add that, anyway, nothing is said in the press conferences that is confidential. . » = =

THERE'S no doubt, though,

correspondent has appeared at C. Marshall one of them. from Korea.

upon his return

that the presence of these representatives of interna-

Hoosier Forum—‘1-Way Streets’

"1 da not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to 1y death your right to say it."

MR. EDITOR: I understand changes are being made as to the one-way street system. I am very much interested in the north bound Delaware St. and

south bound Pennsylvania St. They are planning to remove the trolleys from Penn. and Talbott, This means there is no transportation south bound for working people or anyone else as far as that is concerned, between Central and Penn. Quite a little walk for some people every day. Also all those busses that go north on Delaware and also the ones that will be taking the place of the Penn. trolley will be coming back to town by way of Penn. Who in the world wants a street filled with busses? There will be

a constant stream of them, with little space left for cars. Of a morning the incoming cars will be

trying to get tg town by way of Penn. which is a narrow street, while on a nice wide street, (Delaware) there will only be north bound busses and a few cars. Why remove the Penn. and Talbott trolley? It is just an extra expense. Those trolleys serve transportation to hundreds of working people each day. It is a short and quick route, that is the reason so many employed people live along this route. There is hardly a house from town o 22d St. on both Talbott and Penn. that isn’t filled with several employed people, Consider that before you remove the trolleys.

Mrs. M. L. W., City.

‘Thanks, Mr. Hicks’

MR. EDITOR: Showboat closed. Wonderful news. Thanks, Mr. Hicks: We can all relax now, our streets are free of drunk drivers. Strange I never knew that liquor only had effect of making people drunk at one special

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith = —— —I!

3 BOM, 1961 BY WEA SERVICE, WC. T. M. AEG. 1. 5. par. orFy

"Oh. can sat avarything ow thet he kids are home on

place and special time. I always believed that liquor makes one drunk regardless of time or place, before or after hours . . but now I know ... only after hours. I believed that it made one drunk regardless of place, but now I know .. : only at the Showboat, Strange, I was at the Showboat the night you were there and every Saturday night before, but I failed to see all the people and the roaring business. I only found about a dozen people there around 2 a. m. Very dull, but that wouldn't make a good story, would it Mr. Hicks? You say you saw 21 bottles. If you care vou can go into any one of a hundred or so taverns in the city and find many, many more. These bottles contain the same liquor and have the same effect. Closing the Showboat isn't going to change habits. —Arthur Hemingway, 939 N. LaSalle St.

‘What Bit the Mayor?’ MR. EDITOR: How come the economy bug suddenly bit the Mayor? He's been spending money like all the rest of the New and Fair Dealers since he's been in office. We're buying sewers, traffic, underpasses and- one-way street conversions which cost plenty . . . hundreds of. expensive metal signs. What's come over our inherited Mayor? I was about to believe the money pile was endless. Bayt's campaign bait before was “give everybody everything regardless of the cost.” Now we get an economy heave, but one does, at least, like his record of never knqwing one day what he'll do the next. I can remember a couple of weeks ago when Vermont 8t. downtown was one-way, —Ruth Cook, 2813 Rader St,

WASHINGTON, July 21-1 thought this was going to be a funny story about how Sam DN. Mason, with ‘his gold-banded walking stick and his peg leg stuffed full of $100 bills, topped the city slicker who sold the Brooklyn Bridge. It was amusing, too: in a sad sort of way, when Joseph Bennett, the big-shot Boston contractor, told how the suave samuel had bilked him of $22,300. Joe said, in fact, he didn’t realize he'd been taken until the Senate Executive Ex_penditures Committee called him. “I guess I was suspicious,” sald Joe, “but I didn't let myself believe it.”

Nothing Laughable

THEN CAME Bahdam Katamay, nervous and thickly accented young editor of a Ukranian newspaper in Philadelphia. With. him was his plump wife in an orangecolored dress. They thought Sam was a millionaire, who wanted to make them rich. They mortgaged their house and borrowed from their relatives to get $37,000 which Sam - methodically stowed away * . in his wooden tna 5 Now they n the verge

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ficlals at a disadvantage. This was emphasized a couple of years ago when Sen. Brien McMahon (D. Conn.), chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, was having a press conference. Suddenly Mr. McMahon

- broke off the press conference.

He explained, “I‘can’t say anything more with that repre-

sentative ofs the Kremlin present.” He was referring to Jean Montgomery, sitting unobtrusively in a corner. At -the White House, Press Secretary Joseph H. Short Jr. also has to be cautious. When-

“cease-work.”

gram.

keep a military secret. oe

letarian wedding. <»

«without an emergency.

be sold.

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but the worst still was to come.

The KXKatamays introduced Sam to some Greek Catholic priests in New York, who were trying to raise money for a school and a summer camp for the poor children of their par-

- ish. From the innocent padres,

Sam took about $200,000. They weren't certain how much, because they trusted Sam. They just handed the money over, to go in his artificial leg, and never did keep records. Now the story was getting pathetic. And there was Sam, with paunch camouflaged in a beau-

tional communism put t}, 8. of-

Views on the News

By DAN KIDNEY

IT WOULD be nice if generals could arrange a “cease-fire” as easily as Congress arranges to

ood COMMUNISTS always

methods to draw agenda. * @

WARNING—A Korean peace may put General Apathy in charge of the U. 8. defense pro-

i eo %#

WITH all the lodges that they join, you would think the average Congressman would be able to

SOCIAL note from ‘the Workers Paradise— Stalin spent a half million on his daughter's pro-

DEFINITION—Backward Goverpment--Ore THE 82d Congress Son proved one thing—

you don’t Reed a civil rights debate to waste time.

BU YERS can curb inflation by refusing to

NATIONS will go right on fighting if they try to live like some brothers.

MAYBE the Republicans will win the 83d Congress and have to take the blame.

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. By Frederick C. Othman

We Can't Print What We Think of Sam

tifully tailored gray suit, lean-

Vhile atis Rots In Jail |

WASHINGTON, July 21-—Paid “news” ote from Communist countries in Europe may rom Washington, New. York and other U. 8. points at will. : But there are no American Teporters roaming Com«

munist Czechoslovakia.

There is only one American reporter in Czechoslo-

vakia—he's in prison.

The rest either have been kicked out or neat it in time to escape the late of William N. Oatis, the slight, shy Associated Press reporter, who got 10 years after a

-rigged-up “trial” in which-he was charged with spying.

In Czechoslovakia B. C. (before communism) there

TED STATES

ever he wants to let the press know that the President is making a trip, but doesn't want it announced immediately for security reasons, he has to call the White House corps in one by one. If he called a press conference Moscow would get all the dope within an hour. But these are minor incon-

* veniences for these agents of

Communist Russia. True, they resent them because it is their

tion as possible. And privately they. must smart under the snubs they encounter daily from American newsmen. But Bill Oatis, from his Czech cell, would tell them they were pretty lucky.

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That comes later and if Sam gets out of this one, he's a better persuader than the Senators believe. He lived in style here at the Statler Hotel, where he tossed $10 bills to the waiters, hired his taxicabs by the day, and bought presents de luxe for his ‘mes, They still are incredulous that he spent their own money on their gifts. Sam's spiel was so simple it's hard to believe that anyone” would ne for it. All over the country, he said, the government had fine buildings which it no longer needed. It was glad to lease these for 99 years to private citizens for $1 per year. Only they had to get Sam, who said he was the top-notch lobbyist in Washington, to pass around what he called the sewer money,

No Such Leases

WHAT PAINED the Senators was the fact that all of Sam's clients had been reading about food freezers, mink coats, federal hot shots in Miami, Fla., hotels. They testified that

' they believed honestly the only

way to do business in Wash-

and free lodging for

. cause i ns fall.

normally were 25 to 30 Western newspapermen—Amer-

ican, French or English.

Four American reporters

were ordered out of Prague last year. Two others escaped just in time, one after Mr, Oatis was arrested last April, And still another, who quit Prague on a routine transfer two years ago, since has been accused of spying by Communist propagandists. American and other “out side” newspapermen had been unwelcome in Czechoslovakia since the Communists took over in 1948. Their situation became more and more unpleasant as the Reds tightened their grip on the once democratic republic. But it was not until last year that the Communists really cracked down on the ‘‘intruders.” . po ” » »

IN JANUARY, 1950, they or-

_ dered two American newsmen

out of the country. They were Richard Kasichke of the Associated Press, now in Germany, and Bob Roy Buckingham of the United Press. : Three months later they ousted two more—Nathan Polowetzky of the AP, now in Korea, and John Higgins of the UP. Mr. Polowetzky’s name was used freely in the Oatis trial. The prosecution referred to him as “the spy, Polowetzky.” Dana Adams Schmidt of the New York Times left Prague in May, last year, just before Mr. Oatis went there, He had been tipped off he was about to be arrested and his name had been hooked up to socalled espionage activities in “trials” inflicted on some unfortunate Czechs. After Mr, Oatis’ arrest last April, the United Press ordered

_.. its Prague - job to obtain as much informa- 8 gue correspondent, Rus

sell Jones, to Frankfort, Ger=

many. Mr. Jones thought he .

was coming out for a day's conference, but his employers told him to stay out.

® » " A. I. GOLDBERG, chief of the Associated Press bureau in Prague when the Communists

. took over, left there two years

ago on a routine transfer. But in the Oatis trial, he was pictured as head of an espionage ring. The Communists didn't stop at ejecting newsmen They forced the American Embassy in Prague to cut its staff, first by two-thirds, later to 12 persons. And they closed U. 8. free libraries in Prague and Bratislava, arresting and “convicting” four of the Czech employees for “espionage.” Joseph C. Kolarek, the ine formation officer at the American embassy, was given three days to get out of (Czechoslovakia. He got, Mr. Kolarek, now in a State Department office here, was accused of a “slanderous came paign” against Czechoslovaekia. He said all he did was follow his routine duties in supplying information and news about America, Actually, all the ‘“réleases” distributed by Mr. Kolarek had been censored by Czech officials.

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THE NEWSMEN who were lucky enough mereiy to be expelled were accused of “uncbe jective reporting.” The facts are the Czech Communists imposed such severe restrictions on “imperialist” newsmen that’ it was practically impossible to learn anything—or use it if they did. They seldom were permitted at official press conferences and ultimately their only sources of information were the official news agency and the Communist” radio.

ernment official. “Just a confie dence man,” sighed Sen. Clyde Hoey (D. N. C.). 8am seems to have had a long criminal record, a string of aliases, and a honeyed tongue. We'll find out more about him tomorrow. And that brings us to the poor kids in New York, No new school for them. No summer camp. The younger of the two priests who testified sald he guessed those

things would have to be post-

poned. On account of Sam's well-stuffed hollow leg.

WISHING

WE SEEM to wish our life away . . . because of what we say . . . about the time before us . . . and the coming day + + « before it's even started «+ » We wish that it were done «+ + « Not realizing that it means + « + another dawning sun .. . . and that perhaps the day might bring . . .. us happiness antold . . . or let ns hit the « +. and have the flow- «+ +» We may arise to find our woes . , . are all but fone away . . . or suddenly without a wink . we've: got a raise in pay ... . so why not make the best of things . . we have to after all =. beJife leaves us with »

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