Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1951 — Page 14

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CTIC put upon Gen, MacArthur by the ate Department in his purely military conduct of the :an War are brought sharply into focus by the week-end raids of B-29 bombers on Rashin, Korea. ~. Rashin, which is 17 miles inside North Korea from the ae border, is the principal port through which supplies coming down from Russia had to go down the East Coast mmu troops. , It has been the greatest accumulating and distributing center for Soviet war material, routed through Vladivostok 110 miles to the north, since the start of the war, if not before. "Yet, when Gen. MacArthur in August, 1950, asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff for authority to bomb this town inside Korea, he was forbidden to make such raids. “I was very anxious to destroy Rashin,” Gen. MacArthur told the Senate inguiry over his dismissal. “It was vital.” ! Asked if any reason was given why Rashin should nct be bombed, the General replied that it was “self-evident— they wished to avoid friction with the Soviets.”

“THEY,” of course, was the State Department, as Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, subsequently made clear. “The objection to the bombing of Rashin,” he said, “naturally comes primarily from the State Department, because you are bordering on a political issue of crossing the border into Russia.” Gen. Bradley explained this on the ground that a B-29 might overrun its target and get over into Russian territory before it could turn around. ‘ It remained for Maj. Gen. Rosy O'Donnell to quash that idea. As former commander of the air bomber arm operating in Korea, he testified that Rashin could have heen blasted off the map without any risk of getting over into Soviet territory. “Siberia is 17 miles from Rashin, and we don't make that kind of errors,” Gen. O'Donnell testified. ~ Actually one raid was carried out on Rashin on Aug. 12,1950. (They did it anyway, Gen. Bradley explained, apparently in self-defense.) But after that, the State Department laid down the law so vigorously that the Joint Chiefs never dared to authorize such a raid thereafter.

~ o » TO BACK up his stand, Secretary of State Acheson— who is not a military man and who has never been in Korea—told the Senate committee last June 9: “The view that this (Rashin) is an important supply point, I think, is not borne out by the facts." ‘This, in the face of the weighty testimony by Gen. MacArthur and other military men that Rashin was of tremendous value to the Communist camp. : Only a moment before, there was this exchange: Sen. Sparkman—Is the military strategy of our governmegt controlled from the State Department? wsi::Mr, Acheson—No, sir. \ % Sen. Sparkman—Who makes otir military plans? “5 Mr. Acheson—It i§ done in the Department of Defense under the Joint Chiefs of Staff, BO

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P IS the unanimous sense of ‘Congress that the only hope or rescuing William N. Oatis from his Communist prison in Czechoslovakia is to hit the Czech Communists hard and often. Congress has said this by resolution. The resolution went through both Fouses with only une dissenting vote— and the Congressman who cast that vote said he was not against the purpose of the resolution. The resolution requests President Truman and the State Department to “take all possible action” to free Mr. Oatis. It specifically urges that all irade relations with Czechoslovakia be cut off. “Immediately,” it says. The State Department has taken no steps to shut off trade. It has done nothing toward stopping Czech traffic agross U. S.-occupied Germany and Austria, although it has had something to this effect “under study” for some time. It has just received, according to the customary protocol, a new Czech ambassador to this country. There have been no actual reprisals whatever for the unjust, insulting imprisonment of Mr. Oatis, an American newspaperman. Communist newspapermen still ‘freely roam this country, including State Department offices. .. Mr. Oatis has been in jail since April. When do we gtart doing something about it?

Bound to Be Useful DEMOCRATIC National Chairman William M. Boyle has ~~ been accused of using his influence on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. ¢ The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has charged. that after a St. Louis firm, which twice before had been turned down, finally received an RFC loan of more than a half-million dollars, Mr. Boyle was paid a substantial fee. + The RFC head in St. Louis said he had been approached several times by a friend and political associate of Mr. Boyle imbehalf of this loan, ; 4 In its recent report to the Senate, the Fulbright committee investigating the RFC said: “It became accepted Practice, in many instances, for loan applicants to seek introduction to the directors of the RFC, or some of them, through officials of the Democratic National Committee.”

« BUT A Senate subcommittee, headed “by Sen. Clyde R: Hoey (D. N. C.), nevertheless has voted to investigate. ‘made this decision after two of its investigators made “preliminary” report on what they had found. ++ Everybody can't be right in this picture. Smoke isn't Ways a sign of fire—it may be just a smudge-pot. But Mr. Boyle is a highly important personality in Mtional affairs. He is the head of the top political party Bid buddy-buddy with the President. & If he is as innocent as he says he is, some reasonably ised agency ought to clear away all suspicion, decisively. case, the story should be pinpointed in the public

LABOR . . . By Fred W. Perkins

Adoption of ‘Escalator’ Wage Doesn’t Indicate Peace Period

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—Adoption by the Wage Stabilization Board of the new “escalator system” as the basic formula for emergency control of workers’ pay is not causing federal officials to look for a “sweet and lovely” period in industrial relations.

Labor union leaders are not going to close up shop and wait for normal collective bargaining on w ge_increases to return. They will be under constant pressure from. their memberships to win new benefits that have a chance of getting by the government's anti-inflation guard. J 5 These efforts will be mainly in the field of “fringe benefits.” . For instance, the CIO Electrical Workers’ Union has demanded from the General Electric Co., several benefits in addition to an escalator clause hitching wages to the cost of living. It wants a productivity and profit-sharing bonus at once and with a future system to be worked out; absorption by the employer of 2 per cent ot the pension costs. now paid by employees; severance pay of two weeks for each. year of service of two years or more; and unemployment benefits for employees who are laid off while plants are being re-geared for defense work. :

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under the wage-control system. . Capper and brass workers under the CIO United Auto Workers want, in addition to a general wage increase and an: escalator §rrangement, a 4-cent “annual improvement factor,” a guaranteed annual wage) pensions of $200 a month, three-week vacations after 10 years' service, and four weeks after 15 years; + and bonus pay for employees called into military service. These items do not cover the whole range of “fringes,” which are more numerous now than in-World War II. An official report of how wages and labor disputes were handled in World War II, points out the importance of the fringe issues. The

INDIA . . . By Ludwell Denny

Nehru Can’t Woo U.S. And the Red Line Too

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28--The rift between India and the United States goes beyond the Japanese treaty dispute. It means Washington will cease wooing Prime Minister Nehru and hereafter judge him coldly on

performance. The State Department's bitter reply to Nehru's decision to boycott the San Francisco treaty conference represents pentup frustration. For more than a year the department has been gambling reluctantly on the bare possibility that he would stop allowing his

Japan, as the State Departpolicy to be ment reply points out. Nehru's used by Sta- criticism is refuted by the lin. Japanese people themselves

Nehru's sabotage of United Nations defense of Korea against Red aggression has been hard to take. But it was hoped that, with United Nations success in holding if not defeating the Reds, he would come around. Similarly, it was hoped that his provocative military policy in Kashmir and defiant attitude toward United Nations efforts at a peaceful settlement there might be modified by American economic ald and United Nations patience. It has not. + His policy regarding the Japanese treaty is even more difficult to parse. In the case of Korea his apologists could plead “peace” motives, even if

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Not even weak excuses and half-truths can be advanced to justify his stated reasons for opposing the Allied draft of the Japanese treaty. plaint that the treaty fails to restore that country to a '‘position of honor, equality contentment among the community of free nations” is an obvious phony.

THE TREATY ‘goes to unprecedented lengths” in freeing

and by the Tokyo government," praises this treaty as “American fairness, magnanimity and ideal-

The legitimate question is at the opposite extreme. Most of the Allies fear the treaty is Washington is aware of the risk in trusting soon and so far. But there is no ‘choice because of the far graver immediate Soviet. menace. If Nehru were honest in demanding return to Japan of the ' United States-trusteeship he would apply the same treatment to the other territories — instead of favorIng Russian possession of South Sakhalin and the Kuriles and a Red China grab of

War Labor Board, it says, “in the face of substantial pressure, was able to hold its main line —the little steel formula. But the unavoidable price was greater flexibility on secondary lines, the fringe issues—job evaluation and reclassification, paid vacations, shift differentials, paid holidays, paid lunch periods, severance pay, insurance plans, and many others.”

Official Report STANDARDS were developed by the War Labor Board for vacations with pay, shift premiums and other forms of benefits. The official report notes, “as in“the case of any stabilizing

limit, these fringe standards came to create in - the minds of labor leaders and workers the

notion that they wére entitled to such benefits as ‘a matter of right.” It became increasingly.

. difficult to deny such increases to any group

of employees.”

Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston and the Wage Stabilization Board are expected to have the same sort of difficulty. It involves calculation of how much if any the fringe benefits contribute to inflation, and what effect they might have on another aspect of the anti‘inflation effort—the attempt to prevent more favorable conditions in some industries from drawing manpower away from industries where it may.

._ "be more needed for defense production. - THE CIO United Packipghouse Workersg 3 Pg wage guarantee. of $3000-a Venr for Workers in the lowest labor grades... The. minimum wage eT Ug

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YOUR BIRTHDAY - .

NO MORTAL wish could jff#ly state... the things I hope. for you ... for I wish you all happiness . . . and may your dreams come true . , . I'll try to make each birthday dear . .. more loving than before . . ..s0 with the years your joys increase . . . and mellow more and more . . . for when you're happy I am, too . . . because I love You so ... and that is why I'll always cheer you - 88 years come and go ... and dearest mine no star could shine... no moon could grace the blue . . . without spelling your name for me. . . my darling I love you. —By Ben Burroughs.

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protection of an American security pact and American bases, which the Japanese desire. :

Why does Nehru follow tHe Stalin line so closely on Japan and in Korea? He is not a Communist, as his stern re- © pressive measures against Indian Reds prove. His motive seems to be mixed-—an Asia-

the price was Korean slavery Formosa. 5 . for-the Asiatics, plus appeaseand United Nations suicide. - . ment of the Stalin threat to In-the case of Kashmir it has IF NEHRU were ho TO 0 :

been argued, with some truth, about Soviet " he Whatever Nehru's motive, that he is the prisoner of In. would not want to leave a'de- = his policy is helping

"She's beating all the men and | don't like it! expect to win a husband if she keeps that up?"

: , Aug. 28—The chances of reopening the British-Iranian oil talks so long ag Premier Mohammed Mossadegh is in. jpower are . ‘about as bad as those of a snowball in hell. But U. 8. Ambassador Henry F. Grady whose, nickname happens to be “snowball” (because of his fringe of bigs i white hair), is going ‘to have a crack at it within the next few r days. 3 He wants to wait a decent interval aft- * er the departure of Presidential Envoy 'W. Averell Harriman but not too long because his own days are closely numbered. £ With his new approach to Premier Mossadegh, Mr. Gra- | dy will try to find out just what the Iranian government has in mind for its immediate future in the oil 3 business and then try to carry on from there, The situation isn’t very promising, but Mr. Grady hasn't much to lose. Mr. Grady’s imminent approach to Premier Mossadegh may be facilitated by a minor storm of protest developing in the lower House of Iran’s Parliament. Sunday, Jamal Imami, one of the architects of oil nationalization, attacked the Premier for breaking off negotiations with the British. He said it would be better for Iran to yield something of her sovereignty than lose her whole existence as a nation. Imami was a member of the oil commission which collaborated with Premier Mossadegh last spring in drafting the original nationalization - laws, He charged Sunday that Premier Mossadegh messed them up by writing in the requirement of British dispossession. :

Little Done

HAVING nationalized its greatest industry —the foundation of the Iranian economy-—the Iranian government has more or less set back and seen things come to a creaking halt. It has succeeded at one political objective which it seems to have held fast to from the beginning: To throw Britain out of the Iranian oil business. After more than five months in which to get cracking on Premier Mossadegh’s dream of a land of flowing milk, honey, oil and money,

Mr. Grady... last chance

TETIORIT UII I TTD SEER ESET IEEE SLY TE LB AIST ET TASTES PO Paes

MR. EDITOR: Where do our taxes go? The city sidewalk by our property is sunken and looks ready to fall in. When it rains the whole corner stands in water from one to three days. Then when the water leaves we wade mud. This is one of the main walks for our school children. Across the alley from us are six to eight lots. They are grown up in weeds. A bunch of men go back there and drink almost every night. Then they lay back there to sober up. How would you like to live like that and try to raise your children near something like that? This is what I have done to get the sidewalk

fixed and the results.

Wy ERED io Ne - ; Wa : I cali City H umber 10. call. I called it and they gave me

another: This: number calling went-on. and. on.s

letter. Here is the answer heqgent me: “I am in receipt of your letter which has been forwarded to the proper departments for prompt investigation. ~

“With kindest regard, I am cordially yours,

Phillip L. Bayt.” : So to date .there has not been anything done. Why can’t the mudhole be fixed and the weeds cut so we can get rid of the drunks. —Disgusted, City.

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GIVE me American men. Continental men are very charming, but nothing like the men here. That's men—plural—get that.—Margaret Truman.

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IRAN ... . By Clyde Famsworth. a Sk hances of Reopening Oi ; Bad as a ‘Snowball in Hell’ TEHRAN, A

the biggest thing that has been done is the close ing of the oil fields and the world's greatset refinery at Abadan and the crossing up of two great Western powers of friendly inclination: toward Iran. Tehran stubbed her toe on trying to get the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. to hand over intact its technical corps to the new National Iranian Oil Co. These experts are like sparkplugs to a motor, ‘io “With reference to the technical staff re quired . . . the Iranian government admits that a well-equipped team can not be gathered toe gether in a short period of time and has cone sequently refused numerous applications forwarded to it by foreign experts for employe raent,” said Premier Mossadegh in a final lete ter to Mr. Harriman. “The Iranian government wished to keep in its service the same technical staff now occupied in the oil fields,” the Premier added. “And it is ready to give them enough authority and freedom of action so that they may carry on their duties in an efficient way; but meanwhile it does not desire to enter into any agreement with a foreign government or organization in this respect.”

Skeleton Force

THE actual situation is so far gone that in a few days only a skeleton force of British oilmen will be left in Abadan.

Mr. Harriman seems to have sold and been sold a bill of goods when he got the recent British Cabinet mission out here in the belief that the Iranian government was ready to negotiate on the basis of the original nation alization law of last March. It soon became apparent, however, that what Premier Mossa« degh still meant was British dispossession under the stringent law of May 1 and sale of oil to Britain as a consumer {f the British company would transfer the services of the British oil experts. Mr. Grady's efforts probably will displease the British again—they would rather let Iran sweat awhile—but the Ambassador hasn't much time for maneuvering. He expects the State Department to pick the date for ending his tenure here about Sept. 15. . Secretary of State Dean Acheson forced the Ambassador's undated retirement several weeks ago. Now that Mr. Harriman has failed and gone, Mr. Grady is eager to make one quick try to pick up the pieces and then be gone himself—in blazing success or final failure.

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‘Help for the Reds’

MR. EDITOR:

Your: editorial commenting on the peace treaty with Japan and giving credit for this work to Gen. MacArthur is read with skepticism, ‘The State Department, through the hard work of John F. Dulles, deserves full credit for this treaty to be signed in San Francisco. The appointment of-John F. Dulles came from the President, Harry S. Truman. It is time your paper gave proper credit where it is due. . The Russians are out to destroy this treaty, if possible. And our Republican Senator, Jenner, is against this treaty. Now, what do you Republicans think of Jenner? It is time the American people know the dangerous tactics being. used by the Republicans. This party is helping the Communists attain their work in this country. The Capeharts, the Jenners, etc, in Congress make many bold accusations against great men but first of all they should look close about them before advancing any more ideas for the Communists.

—Evelyn Walton, 2049 Meridian St.

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diana are being denied benefits contracted for by -dn agt of Congress, and for which the tax has been illegally and unconstitutionally highe jacked from our pay checks and other incomes, There was no conditions of the contract with Congress, that we taxpayers could not have an accounting of our tax money spent. Only the edict of a single individual . . . an unelected commissar . ., . is denying us these benefits for" aid to the aged, the blind, and dependent chile dren. But it is a breach of contract nevertheless. In view of this breach of contract, should not the Indiana Representatives in Congress pre= pare a bill for damages resulting, and by an act of Congress cause a refund of social security taxes paid by taxpayers in Indiana for such period as this tax money is withheld from us?

—A. J. Schneider, 1618 E. Market St.

SENATE ...By Andrew Tully

State Department

‘Marble Halls’

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—In the past five years the State Department has spent $160 million for office quarters and residences abroad, and it plans to spend ax additional $86 million soon. Curiously enough, even the which generally State Department penditures with a suspicious eye, is going along with this program. Penny-pinching Sen. Paul Douglas (D. Ill.) tried to get his colleagues to cut $2 this million fund but he couldn't muster enough votes. Douglas was particularly disturbed by the high cost * of the houses we buy or build for our hired hands overseas. Although labor is supposed to be cheaper abroad, he reported that the cost of a house below $20,000 and usuis around $25,000.

crying out for economy. Hg reported that U. 8. officialq in Japan are “going hog-wild.* trying to buy new buildings in anticipation of the time when Japan again becomes an inde pendent country. $7 n n ” “THEY DO not want anye thing modest or average,” .#aid Mr. Magnuson, “They want tag find the best and most par latial houses they can find in Tokyo.” “Yes, yes,” put in Sen. Douglas. “There are 10 houses on is the list in Japan at $36,000 apiece. I think that when the members of the diplomatie service draw up their budget a line from the old popular o ballad comes into their minds —'T Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls’—they want marble halls in which to dwell.” = u = SEN. HARLEY KILGORE (D. W. Va.) thought perhaps the Senate should place certain limits on how the money should be spent. He said he’d never forget the time the State De=

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