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an trade and diplomatic relations with Red cannot command their respect by sending diplo-

i sulting replies. But we can dig them where it hurts by barfe ring their products from our markets. “The United States buys from Czechoslovakia many is as much as it sells to that country, and the dollars avorable trade balance gives the Czechs-are vital t economy. .

“A LAW enacted in 1868 apparently would enable Président Truman to suspend trade and diplomatic relations. Jt authorizes the President to take such action as he sees fit, short of war, to obtain the release of American citizens unjustly deprived of liberty by foreign governments, But if there is any question as to his authority, Congress should give him ample power to deal firmly and promptly with the Oatis case. % There is no question as to the injustice of what the Czech Communists have done to Mr. Oatis. He has been in Jail since April and he was convicted on evidence which our government, after careful investigation, declares to have shown that he is guilty of nothing except doing an honest job of reporting. fre Democrats and Republicans in House and Senate have introduced resolutions calling for suspension of trade or diplomatic relations, or both, until Mr. Oatis is freed. ’ . x» nN 8 - THE STATE DEPARTMENT-—as yet—has not openly opposed these resolutions. But, according to the usual “diplomatic sources,” Congress is being urged to confine itself to a “clear-cut call for action,” without including specific terms which the Red Czechoslovakian government” might regard as “humiliating insults.” ; Well, the imprisonment of William Oatis is a “humiliating insult” to the United States of America. And so was Communist Hungary's imprisonment of Robert A. Vogeler, American businessman, for 17 months before the State De«partment paid ransom for his release. And there will be no end to such “humiliating insults” bv Russia's satellite stooges so long as they are met only by polite protests or ransom payments from the State Department. It is long past time to stop pussyfooting and take measures which befit our nation's self-respect. With or without the State Department's approval, Congress should adopt resolutions prescribing a strong and forthright. policy now. .

A Needed Warning

HIRTY leading Americans, representing the citizens committee for the Hoover report, sound an urgently needed warning to President Truman and Congress. The ‘warning ;/Half of the Hoover Commission's carefully prepared program for government reorganizations to increase efficiency and promote economy is in grave danger. Fifty per cent of that program was put into effect by the 81st Congress in 1949-50. But the other 50 per cent is stalled in the present 82d Congress or at the White House. Twenty bills, introduced with bi-partisan sponsorship, rre gathering dust in House and Senate committees. And so far this year Mr. Truman has submitted only one reorganization plan. By the same time last year he had submitted 27 plans and Congress had acted favorably on 20 of them.

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IT IS true that many recommendations in the remaining half of the Hoover Commission's program are controversial. They. need careful consideration, and their opponents are entitled to be heard fully. But the need for reorganization of such agencies as the Agriculture Department, the Post Office and the Vetcrans Administration has been shown clearly by the commission's studies. So has the need for consolidating federal medical services, modernizing government personnel procedures and ending the wasteful competition between rival public-works agencies. The present bumbling, fumbling Congress has a vast . lot of other unfinished business, but that fact cannot justify it in shirking its duty toward the remainder of the Hoover report. For, as the 30 citizens say: “It would be bad enough to see this report defeated openly by the forces of hureaucratic indifference and group selfishness after due hearing and debate. To see it go down through sheer neglect would be nothing short of a national

tragedy.”

Stalin Has Not Forgotten Tito

YUGOSLAVIA has declined to earmark part of its armed " forces for possible call by the United Nations. Tito explained that pressure from the Soviet Union and its satellites was never greater than now. In our attention to other events, we may have for-

d. Shooting incidents between Yugoslav and satelre a daily occurrence, and have been for many

\ tic notes which give them opportunity to sénd back in-

that Tito has one of the most explosive borders in -

No Provision in Charter For Release of Such Prisoners

. WASHINGTON, July 24—The United States can submit the William Oatis case to the United " Nations all it wants, but the United Nations can’t do a thing about it except wring its hands. There is no provision within the charter of the United Nations, or even in the rules of its numerous committees, which covers the case of the Associated Press Correspondent, now languishing in a Czech jail.

"The only item among the United Nation's”

great tonnage of documents which even touches on the case is the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” which was ‘passed and proclaimed” by “the General Assembly Dec. 10, 1048. This is full of lofty sentiment about all men being equal and nobody should keep slaves and everybody should get a free trial, But it's merely a resolution adopted by the assembly in the hope that its members will take it seriously. It's not binding on anybody—as the world can plainly see when It ponders . Russia's slave labor camps.

Added Publicity

ABOUT the best the United States can hope for is that bringing the case to the United Nations’ attention will give it added publicity, That's behind the move to bring the case up at next month's meeting in Geneva of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In UNESCO, the United States delegation hopes, the case will be discussed thoroughly. Non-Communist countries will get a chance to make disparaging remarks about the Communist conception of justice for public consumption, The case will become a part of UNESCO's record, Then, when everybody has finished talking, the council can take a vote of censure against Czechoslovakia. But the door tq Bill Oatis” cell will remain locked. 2 Even the much-touted human rights covenant, which has been bouncing around in UNESCO for a couple of years, won't be much help to citizens finding themselves in Bill Oatis’ kind of predicament. The covenant is too far away from actuality, and too vague, to boot. In the first place, it’s still being revised by UNESCO after having been tossed back at the Council by the General Assembly as incomplete. UNESCO will re-submit it to the Assembly in

~~September but United States sources say pri-

vately it hasn't a chance of passing until more of its wrinkles are ironed out.

No Penalty Provided EVEN then, there's no penalty provided for a country which breaks the covenant. Outside the United Nations, a party to the covenant could bring an offending nation before the international court of justice on the ground a treaty had been violated. It might be claimed that newspaper correspondents are covered under the article guaranteeing freedom of expressing and freedom to receive and impart information, but experts here say it would

be tough to establish such a case.

So no false hopes should be aroused by all this high-sounding talk about appealing the Oatis case to the United Nations. Bill Oatis would get just about as much benefit if the State Department appealed to the Folies Bergere,

ALLY ... By James Daniel Connally Fights For Bill Oatis

WASHINGTON, July 24—The campaign to free Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis from his Czech prison had a new and powerful ally today-—Sen. Tom Connally of Texas, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Back at his desk after a check-up at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Sen. Connally pledged his committee would take up the Oatis case “at the first opportunity.” The Texas Senator said he regarded Mr. Oatis’ arrest last April and his subsequent sentence to 10 years’ impris-

onment as an “outrageous suppression of freedom of the press.”

Most of his committee have been in Europe recently but are due back today. Sen, Mike Monroney (D. Okla.), author of one of the pending Oatis resolutions, said he thought open hearings would provide an opportunity “to educate the American people on what is going on in the Communist countries.”

Urge Trade Break SEN. MONRONEY’S resolution urges a trade break with Czechoslovakia, to be followed by evacuation of all American nationals in that country and eventually a diplomatic break between the U., 8. and Czechoslovakia, unless Oatis is released from prison. Sen. Connally’s interest in the Oatis case is expected to speed House action on similar resolutions pending before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, To effectively express the will of Congress, a resolution needs to be passed concurrently by both Houses of Congress, A key factor in whether a resolution is passed and how far it will go in urging retaliation against Czechoslovakia is the attitude of the State Department, So far the department has refused comment.

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RURAL LIFE . . . By Frederick C. Othman When a Peruvian Meets a Skunk,

The Outcome (Choke) Is Expected

. WASHINGTON, July 24—The time has come to forget the yammerings of Congress for a minute and consider some important stuff like skunks, which don't mix with Peruvians; what

to do with soggy apples, and how fine it feels to have a man try to sell you a swimming pool. I mean a city fellow never has a

chance to get bored in the country and this probably is just as well. The rural life is an elegant antidote for statesmen. For instance: We had our own troubles keeping a hired hand on our hilly acres in Fairfax County. One was too tired. One came from the hills and alway® was getting lost because he couldn't read the’ bus signs, while we got rid of a third because he never filled our tractor with gasoline until he'd first filled himself with whiskey. The combination was hard on the bolts and nuts. So my bride brought up from the south, after complicated negotiations with the State Department, Victor Chumpitz, a Peruvian Indian with a perpetual smile, as landscape gardner, farmer and feeder of the animals. He's done fine: Or did until night before last. The trouble was I didn't know the Spanish word, if any, for skunk. So there I was yelling at Victor in English to be careful on account of the skunk. “Si Senor.” said he, smiling as usual, while he made a grab at the pretty kitty. That skunk just sat there on his handkerchief and looked Victor in the eye until he got within firing range. Then he squirted perfume in Victor's hair and eves. Sprayed his shirt and pants and left Him blinded, stunned and smelling like . ... well, you ever smelled a skunk? Vietor soon recovered his eyesight. Eventually, I suppose, we'll be able to let him in the

* house again. Meantime he's busy making auto-

matic apple sauce. For this I take credit. We've got about 100 old apple trees on our place, which produce a horrific number of apples. No matter how I spray, these apples are little and full of specks. No market value, We eat all we can, but mostly they drop on the earth in sodden, musty piles. Getting rid of 'em up to now has been a herculean task. So I plowed my new rotary lawnmower with the gasoline engine into these apples and presto. Across the countryside sprayed fresh apple gauce as from a snow plow, Victor's been chopping up apples ever since, v

Wanna Buy a Pool? MRS, O., meantime, was down by the creek talking over with a neighbor the possibility of digging a large hole in its path and thus producing a place for dunking purposes on hot afternoons. Word of this spread through our village and beyond.

NEW YORK, July 14-This week in Moscow a relatively obscure hut amazing event took ' place which, if on the level, could change the course of history, : It was the appearance on the newsstands of an Englishlanguage magazine, The News, selling for two rubles in Russia and (10, cents elsewhere, The entire 32-page first issue was devoted to drumming up friendly relations and peace between the Soviet Union and “the Anglo-Saxon countries.” Ordinarily, such an event a would hardly cause a ripple, But this was different, different from anything that has happened in the USSR since World War II. > And it set agog the embassies in Moscow and the foreign

the Soviet sphere. talking, reasonably and in nonMarxist language,

office of every nation outside For this was the Kremlin

Soon there appeared a dignified citizen who identified himself as a swimming-pool engineer. He wanted to build us one. He could give us a big one for $10,000 and a small one for $6000. I never dia feel so bucked up. He todk it for gFanted that I had thousands for building a pool complete with automatic filters and underwater illumination. For pnly a little more, he continued, he could install a

.water-heating system because there's nothing

like an outdoor swim in the winter. He said this would need hardly more fuel than my house, 1 lef him talk. The longer he did, the more I felt like a millionaire. He even called my place an estate, Gad! Good thing he didn't get a whiff of Victor. Tomorrow: Back to normal, meaning Congressmen.

What Others Say—

IT (CONGRESS) does not understand that in this age no military force can win a major war without an informed, organized and trained civillan population in a strong supporting role.— Millard Caldwell, civil defense administrator,

SERA MAEEIIITT IL

‘Raw Dealers’ MR. EDITOR: I see the “Raw Deal” Senator from our neighboring state of Michigan, Blair Moody, doesn't like us Midwest isolationists. He thinks we are narrow,

Just because the ‘raw dealers” cannot cram their policies down our throats, we are to be branded as provincial and not progressive. Now Mr. Schricker, what do you think of that? Henry Schricker was elected to the governorship as a Democrat, and that is what he is and has always been. It must have been galling for him to have to sit there at the Indiana Young Democrats Convention and hear his people run down by a pseudo Democrat from a state that hasn't elected a Democratic Senator in a coon’s age. Making comparison between Moody and the man he succeeded, we owe our friends to the north our deepest sympathy,

MR. MOODY'S theory is that if we don't support the rest of the world, at our expense, It will go Communist, I disagree. Italy will not go Communist because it is Catholic. Ditto Spain. France is already Communist and has been since the early 30s when sit-down were started in France by the Cémmunists. They spread to the Michigan auto plants, along with communism encouraged by John L. Lewis and tolerated by Frank Murphy, not because he condoned communism, but because he didn’t have

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JORDAN . . . By Ludwell Denny

King's Death |

Profits Stalin Western World Bound To Suffer Great Loss

WASHINGTON, July 24-—Stalin will profit from the assassination of King Abdullah of Jordan. . The widespread comment that Britain will lose heavily is an under-statement—all the Western world will suffer. For Abdullah was one of the few Arab rulers fundamentally sympathetic with the West The Near East is a breeding ground of poverty, fanaticism, revolt and war. Abdullah was a stabilizing force. There is no chief of state in the Arab regions with his prestige and experience to take his place as a friend of the West. Apart from the internal Jordan conflict over his successor, probable international ef fects of his murder include:

‘Neutralist’ Policy CONSOLIDATION of the “neutralist” policy of the Arab states. Nominally, this is merely a refusal of those Near East nations to take sides in the struggle between the West and Soviet aggression. Actually, it is the basis of fanatical anti-Westernism which prevents either effective self-defense or collective security. As a result, Turkey is the only nation in the entire region—except little Israel and Jordan—which has been strengthened against Russia. Although in theory nationalism and com munism are enemies, Stalin has been able to transform the extreme of one into the fanaticism of the other. China and North Korea proved that. Now he is repeating in Iran, where the Communist (Tudeh) Party feeds upon anti foreignism. When extreme nationalism iz linked with hopeless poverty, as in most of the Near East, consequent unrest creates a fertile field “few Soviet intrigue. Improved social conditions. to counter communism are retarded by the feudalistic rufing castes, who turn the public resents ment away from themselves and against the Western foreigner,

Understood Situation SO NEITHER private Western capital, nor economic relief, nor military aid, has much chance to help correct the Near East conditions favorable to Stalin. Abdullah was important because he understood this situation and was striving to co-operate with the West for mutual benefit and joint defense. In addition to being a link with the West, he was the best hope of Arab peace with Israel, That, apparently, is why he was murdered. Whether he ever would have achieved his dream of Arab political unity is doubtful. But as a living force he at least was able to modify some of the more destructive aspects of the nationalistic chauvinism so common in the Near East. Murder of King Abdullah in the same week as the assassination of Foreign Minister Riad Es-solh of Lebanon. and following the earlier murder of the pro-Western Premier Razmara of Iran will make more difficult the grave Brite ish negotiations with Iran and Egypt.

HAVE COURAGE

A MAN can lose his job or health . . «A man can lose a friend . . . but when he loses courage he . . . is headed for the end . . . a man may lose his tenderness . .. and he may lose a love + +. and it may seem to him as though... there are no stars above , . . he may lose sums of money ... and he may lose at a game .. but with the will to see it through . .. he'll know a greater fame . . . for life is funny in its ways + «+ We're up and then we're down . . . and so it is we cannot quit .. . when luck begins to frown . . , instead we must have courage and + « « fight back at any cost... for if we lose our courage we , . . are most certainly lost. —By Ben Burroughs

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the courage to tell Lewis and his Commies to get out of the plants or he would proclaim martial law, England doesn’t count any more. They are 80 busy with their noble experiment of sociale ism that they haven't time for anytHing else. The Reds can throw us out of Germany any day they see fit, We gave them that oppor-= tunity at Potsdam when we failed to secure an inviolate corridor into Berlin. Also when our great Gen. Bradley forced Patton to withdraw his troops so the Commies could get there first,

As to price and wage control, Mr. Moody is, of course, taking his cue from Walter Reuther, It has been known all along that he is a Reuther man. With that in mind, IT am sure the people of Indiana will have no trouble evaluating his speech,

~Clell T. Rice, City.

‘Hard to Understand’ MR EDITOR:

It is hard to understand why the Welfare

Department will .pay-$140 per month to a family

with $60 a month income from renting rooms, an 18-year-old person ble to work and sup abnormal person with & only part time is as

e welfare cases brought to light and they call that justice. We pay rg

too, to help some that don’t need hel ] b as m as this 18-year-old person.—E. A, Lop oy.

who would normally be a port himself. It seems an an elderly father workin

to the debut of the new government publication.

” ” » » TAKEN at face value, The News could represent an abrupt reversal of policy toward the democracies by the motherland of communism. It could serve as the tip-off for a whole new non - revolutionary line of approach by {the Communist parties of the world. It could mean a return to Browderisam --collaboration with capitalism—on a worldwide scale. On the other hand, it could be a tremendbus hoax on the free nations, intended to give Russia a breather from a fighting war she cannot take now; and feels she doesn't need anyway to win world domination

‘in the long run,

Moscow clearly wants it taken seriously. Whatever the motive behind it, The News stands unique among the traditional mouthpieces of communism,

“s s » MISSING are the fulminations against the “Wall St. imperialists” and “warmongers” that wearily clutter up Izvestia,

Pravda and the Cominform

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Moscow line,- eol national Security,” gives as the wlth capitalism ao answer: “collaboration between treason tn Marx and ao

the Soviet Union and the People’s Democracies on the one hand and the Anglo-Saxon countries on the other.” My mind can conceive no rational excuse,” writes Eugene Tarle, Russian party line historian, “for the highly strained relations which have arisen between the two great AngloSaxon powers and the Soviet Union.” » » » ALEXANDER M. TROYANOVSRY, first Soviet ambassador to the United States, was taken out of the mothballs to write “Why I Believe in SovietAmerican Friendship.” He praises ‘‘American efficiency, creative energy and democratic spirit.” ' Running through the magazine is the revived doctrine of the “peaceful co-existence” of capitalism and communism.

The Amiricas party, blind fol‘ers of Browder, a der, was caught Browder kept the article a secret for several weeks until after it was published, for the first time in America, by the New York World-Telegram. os ~ » THERE followed the biggest shake-up In the

of world communism, itself,

changed from peaceful co operation to revolutionary class struggle. That's when tha

bubble of post-war peace exploded. . The Duclos article became a basic part’ of the evidence which later convicted the 11 Red chiefs for conspiring to teach the revolutionary over. throw of the United States. . The party, as usual, will execute any flip-flop ordered by Moscow. It has already begun 3a play wp the new Soviet mags e. *

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