Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1951 — Page 20

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‘Marshall Plan aid is scheduled to end in 1952. But

under the proposed program, its administrative machinery,

Its sponsors frankly admit they plan to venture into “some daring areas of economic policy,” which they do

indeed.

Designed, of course, to “combat communism,” as well

as to make the ECA payroll a permanent burden on the American taxpayer, the program would offer Europe an ever-expanding economy. This would be undertaken by a global organization superimposed on existing governments which would operate through them as well as directly with

labor and management in each country.

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IN THE breadth of its concept it dwarfs the most grandiose schemes of Henry Wallace and Rexford Tugwell.

Its cost? That isn't even mentioned.

Congress at the moment is looking with a somewhat jaundiced eye at President Truman's request for $8.5 billion for military and economic assistance toi our Allies in the conflict with the Soviet bloc. Most of this money is for guns, tanks, planes and ammunition. : Until this obligation to assist in the general rearmament effort is fulfilled, it certainly would be most inexpedient

to present any new requests for funds.

Of course, the Marshall Plan organizations strategy is to saddle itself upon the rearmament program, and then absorb it into its broader scheme to expand all forms of productivity. In the process the emphasis would be shifted from armament to butter, to employ the terminology used

by the professional planners.

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BUT LONG before that could be brought about, the foreign assistance program probably would have become sd overburdened that it would be abandoned.

This pitfall can be avoided by letting ECA die a natural

death, and by not encumbering the rearmament drive with 4

hitch-hiking projects which cannot stand on their own feet.

By and large the ECA has done a good job. But that job is done. It should be disbanded on schedule.

When Politics Is Out of Season

F HE were going to be personal about it, few men would have more natural impulse to oppose President Truman than Sen. Paul Douglas, the Illinois Democrat. For the President has made no secret of a petulant attitude toward the Senator, who has differed with him on numerous issues and apparently has irritated him by heading a Senate committee on unethical conduct among

government officials.

Yet Sen. Douglas has been one of the President's most persistent backers—and defenders—on such a vital issue

as the control of inflation.

“It is ironical,” says the Senator, “that the same crowd which says we shouldn't have any price controls now are complaining that the President didn’t put them into effect

rine months ago."

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SEN. IRVING IVES of New York is a Republican. When he chooses, he can be one of the President's most

cutting critics. 5 . But in a recent speech, Sen. Ives said

“It is most disturbing that so many Americans appea! to be more interested in disparaging and discrediting Mr. Truman than in licking communism and in dealing appropriately with the dangerous problems which beset us.”

NINE MEMBERS of the Senate

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Foreign

Relations

Committee have just visited Europe to consult Gen. Eisenhower and obtain first-hand information in preparation for action on the military assistance program for Europe. Seven of the nine Senators now are back in Washington. And they seem generally agreed on the urgency of meetingsthe Communist threat head-on in the European

area. “We are all concerned as Theodore F. Green,

never

before,” Rhode Island Democrat,

said “with

Sen. the

imperative demand that we build our collective strength

if peace is to be preserved.”

As a result of this trip, there is good basis for believing this group—composed of four Democrats and

five Republicans—will

spark a new move

to

restore

‘ bi-partisan responsibility for foreign policy. This policy, before the illness and death of.Sen. Vandenberg, produced some of our most telling moves on the international scene. Its revival is a matter of pressing importance.

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NORMALLY, in a year before a presidential election,

extreme and unyielding partisanship may be an exciting

sport.

But in the face of the momentous decisions now facing, us, personal or political advantage stacks up in pitiful

light against the welfare of the nation. As Sen. lves said:

~ said it even more pointedly:

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tions, coming from Senators of

“Our security must come first.”

The outspoken Sen. James H. Duff of Pennsylvania, in a plea for a strong foreign policy based on bipartisanship,

possible excuse can be found for failure to agree ds necessary to preserve our very existence as

- profits of capitalism, | mould this country’s disaspolicy.

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@ ALREADY, Robert Morris, its youthful

Souris) from New York, has developed these ONE-—-Connected with the IPR were such personalities as Alger Hiss, now se five years in prison for perjury; Philip J, Jaffe, key figure in the Amerasia scandal of the stolen, wartime documents, and Frederick Vanderbilt Field, millionaire Communist. Federal marshals yesterday brought Field here from New Yorks to testify, He is serving a three-month sentence for refusing to give information about the bail-jumping Red leaders whose bond he supplied as trustee of the Communist Party’s Civil Rights Congress. TWO-—Although the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Endowment put up half of IPR’s income since 1925, it was Field who made up deficits to the sum of $60,000, He was national

SENATE . . . By Earl Richert

Case History on U. S. Economy

WASHINGTON, July 27—A case history of why Congress does so little about government economy-—despite all the talk—is provided by the Senate voting on the Agriculture Department money bill for next year. The Senate farm bioc, which also favors economy in other places, so far has successfully resisted cuts in the money bill as approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, It has beaten down two moves by the economy advocates to cut the $280 million which the committee approved for payments to farmers for following soil conservation practices next year. This case is stranger than usual, too, because the two major farm organizations, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Grange, have plead®d with Congress to cut funds for the farmers as well as others. The Farm Bureau asked that only $150 million be voted for the soil conservation payments next year. But the House voted $225 million and the Senate Appropriations Committee upped the ante further, to $280 million. The- Senate economy bloc tried first to cut the $280 million to the $180 million recommended by the Farm Bureau. This was defeated, 41 to 36. Then Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) tried to cut the $280 million to $200 m#lion. This also was defeated, 38 to 37. Action taken so far puts Congress in the position of saying to the farmers (at least those represented by the farm bureau): “We're going to give you more than you asked for.” Sen. Richard Russell (D. Ga.), leader of the farm bloc, contended that the Farm Bureat Board of directors did not represent the wishes of its members on the soil conservation payments issue. He said it was necessary to keep the soil conservation program going full tilt to keep the country strong and assure that the soil would be providing food for future generations,

Sen. Ferguson + . . defeated

‘At Farmer's Expense’

“THEY'RE voting $7 billion in tax exemptions for the tank arsenals in Detroit,” he shouted. “And they're voting millions in direct subsidies for the Merchant Marine. But they

come in here and want to economize at the expense of the farmer.” Sen. Ferguson said the economy cuts had to be made as the money bills came before the Senate, and that he also favored cutting other appropriations, including foreign aid

Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill.}, one of the econ-

omy bloc leaders, said that if the funds were cut he would favor an amendment to let all nf the remaining soil conservation money go to the South where it fs most needed, thus cutting out his state Sen, Milton Young (R. Ga.) then read off a list of states which would lose federal money if the soil conservation payments were distributed solely on a need basis, as Sen. Douglas had suggested Now we've hit the really sore spot how

much is my state going to lose?" son shouted I'he refused to

Sen. FerguSenate on two roll calls then

ote cuts

DEAR BOSS . . .' By Dan Kidney

secretary until 1940, a trusted” until 1947, | after his- Communist Party affiliation became

Carter, IPR’s . secretary-general light during most of its 26 years’ existence,

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rations during the Hitler-Stalin mutual

Army

wealthy yourg Communist a White House picket e. He was then secretary of the Communist s “American Peace Mobiliza-

tion,” which tried to wreck America’s defense

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SENATE PAINS . . . By Frederick C. Othman

How to Catch Birds With Taxes—

WASHINGTON, July 27—Dr. Gardiner Bump of the Interior Department at the moment is

stalking through the wilds of Turkey in the hope of bringing back alive some samples of Oriental sand grouse and chukar partridge. This, fortunately from the viewpoint of Dr. Bump, is none of the U. S. Senate’s business. Else he'd be sitting here on his own back porch, observing the sparrows flying by. The Senators were so aroused over Dr. Bump's bird safari— what seemed to pain them most were his giant blackbirds -— that they passed a law holding up money for his poultry explorations in the Middle East. Only there seemed to be a mistake, The doc was spending cash collected by the tax on shotgun shells, over which the Senate had no control. Away he went to the Middle East and if anybody's doing any fingernail biting, it's the Senate. Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) brought up the idea of bumping Dr. Bump. The Senator said he did not believe the taxpayers should be asked to pay for Dr. Bump’s Oriental bird en-

terprises. Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D. Va.) was quick to agree. He said the last batch of birds brought

home by Dr. Bump were big ‘black ones, now languishing on an island in Wisconsin. He said they cost (and this is no typographical error) $1000 each. 0 “I should like to ask the distinguished Senator from Virginia what the object is in having blackbirds shipped to the west,” said Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R. Neb.). “Blackbirds are not needed in the west, are they?"

SIDE GLANCES

Brownson Pins Tag 2

On State Department =

WASHINGTON, July 27—*“Caucasian international-

Sen. Robertson said these were not blackbirds, but birds colored black. “Well, we should like to have more birds in Nebraska,” said Sen. Wherry, “but we do not want blackbirds. And we do not want any more crows. We have plenty of crows.” Sen. Robertson said what Nebraska needed was some Virginia bobwhite quail. Sen. William Langer (R. N. D.) said his state’s problem was too many magpies. And so forth, et cetera. Eventually the amendment was passed. Since Dr. Bump sailed for Turkey, anyhow, I checked with Albert N. Day, chief of the Bureau of Fish and Wildlife, who explained the fiscal situation. He said, also, that the states themselves had asked for Dr. Bump’s services as a finder of new kinds of birds. Then they put up the money, from their share of the shotgun shell tax, and for the last four years Dr. Bump has been sneaking up on birds all over the world. Some have done fine in their new home. Others found the going too tough. Consider, for instance, those $1000 blackbirds, which Mr. Day said cost not nearly that much,

Big as a Turkey

THEY'RE a kind of black-feathered grouse as big as a turkey gobbler. Dr. Bump found 100 of them in Norway and sent ’em to Wisconsin, where they now are established on an island in Lake Superior. Some have died, but most still are frisky. It's too early to tell yet whether theyll be a new kind of game bird for Wisconsin sportsmen, but Mr. Day has hopes, ’ Fact is, says he, Dr. Bump's snaring of birds around the world to date has cost $18,000. That's a small sum when you consider that the states have spent in the same interlude on wildlife in general about $16 million. It's also a good gamble, Mr. Day says, and I guess we'd better get together (Senators included) and wish Dr. Bump good hunting in faraway places.

commission : in 1942. That was after the headed

Wrage’ ; .

ign Policy

FOUR~-This attempt reachediinto the White Carter were Owen W. Latti-

for' public affairs, who tipped have tough sledding. Field did. The commission

never came through. FIVE—As chief of the institute, Mr, Carter,

according to his testimony, was consulted by and made tions to the State Department ent appointments.

of Pacific Ault the ’s quarterly, Mr. Lattimore in comhd | for being “pretty cagey” in picking three writers, now known Communists, to make a China study. “They will pring out the absolutely essential radical aspects,” he said, “but can be depended on to do it with the right touch.” On the witness stand, Mr. Carter, an elderly, white-haired man who said he has been mistaken for Cordell Hull, maintained he had not known of Field's Communist Party membership. He stoutly defended Mr. Lattimore whom Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) last year chaszged with pro-Soviet sympathies.

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WHATEVER Communist infiltration did take place, the institute insists was eliminated in 1947. Mr. Carter, like Mr. Lattimore, is still a trustee. ' Advising him at the witness table Wednesday was Edward G. Crossman, of the Wall Street law firm of John W. Davis, counsel to the institute. As evidence of its current respectability, the IPR cites, among its present leading contribu-

‘tors, the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co, National

City Bank, Chase National Bank, Bankers Trust Co., International Business Machines Corp., In~ ternational Telephone and Telegraph Co., Electric Bond and Share Co. and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. . Most of them are represented on its board of trustees, the chairman of which is Gerard Swope, honorary president of General Electric

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‘They Only Got $66'

MR. EDITOR: Just a comment to make on the person who

made the remark to a Times reporter in your edition of June 27th, that $3000 more a year was not sufficient to deal or cope with the criminals of Indianapolis. 1t was rather amusing in a certain sense of the word, how some people can think of themselves and not others. I am a mother of World War II who had a son killed for $66 a month, and I'm not counting myself as te only mother who lost a son. Their job was not an easy one, and nerve wracking it was. They had to go day or night in all kinds of weather, mud or rain. It didn’t make any difference to them. Now which would you prefer . . . the pay you are getting now, not counting the $3000 vou were asking for, or the $66 a month to deal and fight with the whole world, —Just a Hoosier From Tennesses.

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‘A Good Job’

MR. EDITOR: Our city officials are doing a good job in their efforts to raise. our health and moral standards. The results of law enforcement essential to our general welfare is self evident. Traffic safeguards have been stepped up. Trains no longer go speeding through our city, The elimination of vice and crime as much as possible is making good headway and should be encouraged. Wholesome recreation is necessary and is being provided to make our city a better place to live and work in. These efforts certainly deserve the support of all citizen® —J. F. Frantz, 750 Ketcham St.

GREATEST OF ALL

I'VE traveled this world over and ... I've flown up in the sky . .. I've sailed beneath the ocean waves . . . where all deep mysteries lie . . . Ive seen a million wondrous things . that thrilled me through and through . .. and I have made a study of . . . the stars that fleece the blue . . . I've met some special people who . . . became a solid part . .. of hours locked in memory . . . and precious to my heart . . then, too, I've done some special things . .. that most folks never do . .. I've been through war and peace as well . . . and dreams I've had a few . . . but nothing in this life of mine . . . could even half compare . . est wonderful . . . my lover sweet and fair. —By Ben Burroughs.

By Galbraith POLITICS ...By Ludwell Denny

~ Morrison Slaps U. S., Spanish Defense Talks

WASHINGTON, July 27—British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison’s attack in the House of Commons on American-Spanish defense talks increases the strain on

. with you my dear-.

such then

Ists™ is the latest label—or libel—used to castigate the State Department. : It was hurled from the House floor by Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis Re publican, in the speech where he “IT do not believe there is criticized Myrna Loy’s recent any place in the field of interhoneymoon in national organization for boonParis. This § doggling. and I am afraid that

according tof Mr. Brownson, was paid 0! by the United

Natiohs Edu-, cational, Sci entific a n d Cultural Or- > rani “On 0 UESCO -- or ki 1}, bd. axp as Myrna Loy Migs: Lov s . third husband. is Howland hi, Sargeant Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public affairs fie headed the U.-S. delegation at the Paris

UNESCO meeting and his wile was a aational delegate. : In nelping get the House to adopt a $897,000 cut in the $29.300.000 - appropriation recomsmended for the various international organizations, Mr. Rrownson came up with his new phrase-—“Caucasian inter. nationalists “of which he says he is ‘quite proud.”

” n ” » LAUNCHING HIS attack, Mr. Brownson pointed but that as a member pf the subcom-

phittee on tederal relations with -

_ organizations of ittee on ex-

interna the House

: inthe executive deSartdionts he believed in the - es of UNESCO, but:

boondoggling has gone international, and, as ugual, it is the American taxpayer who is footing most of the bill. The

United Nations Educdtional, Scientific and. Cultural Organization, commonly Known as UNESCO, is the ‘fond baby’ of the American clique of Caucasian internationalists who presently dominate State Department thinking. ] 1 call them Caucasian internationalists <£ because their internationalism stops with their interest in the profitable areas of Europe dominated by the white race, , “The State Department's budget request included $2.785400 for this year's dues for UNESCO, plus $209,945 for’ emplovees to handle UNESCO matters in the public affairs division of the State Department, This makes a total cost to ‘he American taxpayers of £2,005.3145. For this sum we are entitled to expect UNESCO to function efficiently and accomplish its worthy objectives. aL “NATURALLY THE United States is paying the largest

~ share of the UNESCO bill. Our

35 per cent--er three times as much as: the

Great

Tan

"| was sure he'd rush to the beach today—he knows I'm here! How does he ever expect to pafch up our quarrel?”

Britain. What are we getting for this money? A good answer was presented in a story, not from the United States but from a French source, quoted in the Washington Star July 15, 1951, by Marcel WallenrN 4 “UNESCO, according to a I editor who was quoted in the Star article, i= a

‘wackpot carnival’ The Star

employees ‘have the softest

jobs in the world, at good pay’

and tax-free.’ At that point Mr. Brownson

inserted the Wallenstein article

in the record. Mr. Erownson commented

"that he still thinks that the

Anglo-American relations. He is causing “political damage” which he charged would result from an Ameri-can-Spanish military alliance. Washington officials, who have been in consultation with London on this subject for several mbnths, do not challenge the British government's authority to create its own policy. But they claim the same right for the United States, Secretary Morrison, by

implication at least, refuses to recognize that. He cannot be denied the

right of opposing Spain's membership in the Nofth Atlantic Pact organization. That treaty gives every member the privflege of blackballing new applicants. ” # ” BUT the London government and others, in exercising that privilege, virtually force the United States to make a separate deal with Spain in which they are allegedly too “pure” to participate. The hypocrisy of a government which deals with Yugoslav and other dic-

““tatorships refusing ‘on prin-

ciple a military. association with Generalissimo Franco is $0 blatant that Morrisoh’s undersecretary, Ernest Davies, tried to explain it away. “The Communist govern-

cut in UNESCO funds was well ment under Tito was our ally mesited and he. hopes to ton- during the ) tribute to e such amputa- ernment of Franco Was not,

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"Nobody war and the gov- _ ter than British

If World War II associdtions are the test, it is rather strange

that the British Labor Government has forgotten -that Nationalist China was Britain’s faithful ally — not the Peiping Red regime which London continues to recognize despite the Korean aggression.

In fact the reason Britain went to the rescue of Stalin against Hitler, and is now helping Tito to defend himself against Stalin, is military necessity. And that is precisely the reason Washington is now discussing mutual defense with Franco.

IT WOULD be nice if a nation could pick and choose its allies, but that rarely happens in times of danger. When the issue is survival, a: nation usually accepts any help it can get which does not destroy its own freedom. Of course Britain, France and others wf the North Atlantic Pact might make Spain’s participation in European def en se unnecessary if they would supply all the required bases and divisions. Actually they are unable to do that—they "are too weak. Jt is their weakness, not -ours, which makes Spanish basés and divisions desirable. understands that bet-

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