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Peace and Security _ : "HE SIGNIFICANCE of President Truman's notable ad4 dress at the San Francisco peace conference can be fully comprehended orily when the war settlement with Japan— which the United States and its principal Allies have presented to the conference—is studied against the background of the treaties which the victors have imposed upon the vanquished at the conclusion of previous wars. : This treaty is historic in that it 1s a treaty of reconciliation, not an instrument of vengeance. It recognizes the principle that Japan should make reparations to the countries which suffered from its aggression. But it does not saddle the Japanese people with a "hopeless burden which would destroy their morale and crush their economy:
. 28 : 8 # @® THIS treaty seeks to re-establish Japan as a sovereign, independent nation as a logical complement to the beneficient occupational policies initiated under Gen. MacArthur's enlightened administration. , Unfortunately, the President's tribute to Gen. MacArthur's outstanding leadership could not excuse the lamentable failure of the United States and Allied powers to make some arrangement under which the General cotild have participated in the conference itself. History, however, will recognize this treaty as the crowning event of that great commander's epochal career in the Pacific. . Unfortunately, too, despite tke contribution this treaty should make to the future stability of the Asian area, the importance of the deliberations at San Francisco are overshadowed by the mounting threat of more Communist aggression. : ; . Wherever the Russian influence has become paramount, adjacent lands face the menace of new, imperialistic adventures. Had the Red invasion of South Korea been successful, Japan today would be under impending attack. ‘And a totally disarmed Japan will offer an open invitation to such an attack unless and until ways and means can be found to contain communism within its “present boundaries. . The United States, to be sure, has concluded mutual defense pacts with Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, and has agreed to make a similar arrangement
‘with Japan. : #8 8 {i BUT measured in the terms of trained manpower and armament in being, these treaties represent little more than new obligations the United States has accepted which will impose heavier demands upon our presently overIf these treaties are to have real meaning they must be regarded as reciprocal, because we cannot supply all the men as well as the tools of war. On that account it is unrealistic to undertake the defense of Japan without at the same time adopting measures which permit the Japanese to assist in defending themselves. A rearmed Japan is a calculated risk which must be accepted because an unarmed Japan cannot live in “the present world. : Finally, there cannot be a sound approach to the security froblem in the Pacific area until the United States and Britain agree upon a China policy which will not play into the hands of the Soviet Union. “free China from the San Francisco conference gives the ‘whole proceeding an aspect of unreality.
Russia’s Two-Day War USSIA'S bid" for a major role at the ‘San Francisco peace conference wasn't helped by the cablegram sent to Stalin by Mao Tse-tung, the leader of Red China, on Sept. 2, the anniversary of V-J Day. 2 Mao thanked Uncle Joe for the “great help” given to the Chinese people during the Japanese War. This unintended irony recalls a chronology of events which brings Russia's part in that war into proper perspective at a moment when this will hot be helpful to the Soviet propagandists. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. Two days later Russia entered the war. The next day the second atomic attack was made. The following day, Aug. 10, Japan sued for peace, and four days later announced its acceptance of Allied terms.
THUS *Russia’s role in the actual war was limited to the period between Aug. 8 and Aug. 10.
Much more noteworthy, but ignored by Mad Tse-tung, was Russia's role in subsequent months, when the Red Army looted helpless Manchuria of billions of dollars worth of industrial equipment—setting back the development in that area at least a generation. Meanwhile, the United States was doing what it could to rehabilitate the war-ravaged economy in China proper and claiming no credit for the defeat of Japan which it had accomplished almost single-handeg. : These facts are well known to most of the delegates assembled today in San Francisco, for most represent nations which were active participants in the war in the dark days. ; ~ It is understandable, of course, why Mao Tse-tung would make the mistake he did. His guerrilla forces played a minor part in the war and were not represented at Tokyo Bay when the surrender agreement was signed Sept. 2, on the deck of an American flagship—the same battleship, incidentally, which has since joined in bombarding Mao's forces in Korea. ’ Md = » 8 8 n
RUSSIA has been invited to sign the pending peace ty with Japan largely as a formality. But, the offer ts been extended on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, and it is ‘a matter of small consequence whether the Soviets sign
'. or do not sign. This conference was not intended to be a
Communist show and the rules which will govern its détiberations will not permit it to be made one. : » ene in Manchuria will not be to so th
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DEAR BOSS... By Da Koy. Jenner Misses 18 Meetings
~ Suggested for Title of Indiana's Senator-at-Large WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—Sen.- William E .
..Jenner (R, Ind.) has missed so many ‘Senate
sessions ‘during July and August that he might well be réferred to as ‘Indiana's Senator-at-Large.” : Out of 36 meetings he was absent 18 ‘times, a checkup of the record revealed today, While teat record reports him “absent an official business” or ‘necessarily absent,” he
<q spent most of the time back in Bédford where
he has just moved into a newly rebuilt farm.
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Some of the days were spent making his sizzling partisan speeches in Indianapolis or elsewhere, including over the radio. There was a spell when he was reported ill at home. When the House passed a resolution to recess until Sept. 12, Sen. Jenner hurried back here and tried to include the Senate. He withdrew his motion when Majority Leader MacFarland (D. Ariz.) explained that if the Senate keeps on working it may be able to quit for keeps this session during the first week of October, ,
Speaks from Floor
NEXT DAY Senator Jenner delivered from the Senate floor the first blast against the Jap peace treaty signing. Then he went home again. He issued another critique yesterday. These are prepared by his ghost writer, Miss Edna Lonigan. The one yesterday was mimeographed and distributed from his office. The Senator was still in Indiana. It has been common knowledge that he would like to stay there and be the next governor. He tried once and failed. Now his chances for the nomination are said to be very good. For Sen, Jenner always has been an able organization man. So far he has refused to say whether he will run for the governorship, try for another term as Senator, or just stay home like he has been doing lately. bi ' That the junior Senator from Indiana doesn't approve of time-wasting by government officials was put in writing recently when he * asked an investigation of the federal men attending the Democratic roundup at French Lick. In a letter to two Senate committee chairmen, asking how come and who paid for it, Sen. Jenner inquired-— “Why in this time of national emergency these federal officials could leave their posts of Suty to participate in a purely partisan gatherng . +
Misses ‘Pet Peeve’ Bill
BESIDES MISSING the final Senate action on several of the multi-billion dollar appropriation bills, Sen. Jenner, a great thrift advocate, also missed out on what might be called his “pet peeve” bills. These include all of those dealing with foreign relations. He wasn’t there during the debates on cutting off trade in military supplies to Russia and her satellites by denying U. S. aid to countries engaging in such traffic. 'A watered-down bill on this subject passed the Senate Aug. 28, by a vote of 55 to 16. The 16 opposed all were Republicans, including Sen. Homer E. Capehart of Indiana. This vote was followed by the debates and roll calls on the foreign aid bill. The measure passed the Senate at $7,286,000,000, after a 12hour session last Friday which Sen. Jenner missed. Since the figure was well under the $8.500,000,000 asked for by President Truman for “mutual” military and ecomorhic aid, the floor fight was an effort to both further reduce and also to restore. the administration figure. - The Senate rejected proposals to restore the Truman request or to trim another $500 million from the bill. They did cut $250 million from the amount recommended by the committees.
' But Sen. Jenner wasn't there to help.”
Long opposed to what he calls “foreign handouts,” Sen, Jenner has been missing the most vital thing he can do to stop them, viz., be here to talk and vote.
What Others Say— -
° RUSSIAN communism has little appeal in a Buddhist country, Communism ri little headway where the family is a strong social unit.—Walter Rutnam, director of Ceylon rubber goods company. : ; IT IS our prayer that with high courage and with the support of our peoples (Atlantic Pact nations) and with the grace of God we shall not fail to eliminate the fear of the cell-block and slave camp.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. WE AMERICANS have entered an age of appalling alternatives. We are spending billions in preparation to win a global war which we are spending other billions to prevent.—James S$ Kemper, chairman, Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty Co. :
° CALL TO GOD
IN A cool and ivy-covered . . . little church down in the dell . . . was a statue of our Father . .. and an age-old mission bell . .. and when notes pealed through the valley . . many souls did heed their call . . . came they to the Holy Father . .. who watched over one and all , .-. hallowed by the prayers of decades . . . and the dedicated hearts . . . ghosts of great and heavenly spirits . seemed to haunt the church's parts , .. young and old received salvation . . .gn the church down in the dell . . . wherein was the Holy
Father . . . and an age-old mission bell.
~—By Ben Burroughs
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FOREIGN TRADE . . . By Kermit McFarland
U.S. to Cut Red Fur Business
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—Two days before Christmas, the United States will stop some of the huge fur business Russia does with this
country. But it won't stop nearly two-thirds of it, under present law. And right now the Russians are selling furs to the United States at the rate of nearly $20 million a year. Under ja law passéd last June, President Truman | was directed to stop | the import of spe- § cific Russian furs §# “as soon as possible.” # Mr. Truman carried out the law promptly. He notified US the Russians. June oe 23 that the U. 8. is cdlling off a 1937 commercial treaty . : \ with the Soviet Union. The treaty ‘requires six months’ notice. . That's why, despite the law and a strong effort to halt the flow of American’ dollars to Communist countries, women still may get ‘a Russian fur for Christmas, whether they know it or not. % . While the apparent purpose of Congress in’ passing the hntl-Russan fur law was to stop the use of American dollars in building up the Communist war machine, the law has a commercial aspect. : In the main, it bars the furs in competition with American furs, but exempts the more voluminous Russian fur business which is held not to compete with the American products. The law directs the President to prevent the importation of Russian ermine, fox, kolinsky (an Asiatic mink), marten, mink, muskrat and fitch (a weasel). In the first six months of this, year, according to figures released today, the Russians sold $3,656,191 worth of these kinds of furs here. Not covered by the law are Russian badger, hare, persian lamb, caracul, sheep and lamb, marmot, sable and squirrel. In the first six months of 1951 the Russians sold $5,967,634 worth of furs not covered by the law.
Investigation Demanded
REP. RUSSELL V. MACK (R. Wash:) has introduced an amendment to take in the two biggest items in this exempt list—Persian lamb and squirrel. : Through June, the Russians sold here this year 229,000 Persian. lamb and caracul skins, valued at $1,714,000, and 1,177,000 squirrel skins, valued at $1,328.000. Mr. Mack demanded an investigation of how Persian lamb and "squirrel happened to be omitted from the law and said the “person or persons resoonsible should be fired.” : In June, the last month for which figure are available, no hare fur, or sheep and lamb fur, was bought from Russia. But in that month alone, the Russians sold more than §$2,733,000 worth of other furs in the U. 8. The President has stopped the importation of the furs specified in the law from Communist
STESALY
§ : VE WASHINGTON, Sept. : Approach of autumn finds the government's top economic officlals still maintaining their now months-old warnings of
. 7 a new upsurge of 2 ahead.
Some admit that the situation is a little embar-, rassing. Since they first = started forecasting the-new burst of. inflation last spring, ‘many : e g - IN ments of the ne economy have Mr. Wilson
h a d m o r e "on bi s fiian a tagte’’ 3 Prefwe
of deflation.’ * for six consecutive months. duetion in July and August “to summer ‘vacations. The
is backlog of orders for manu-
‘the case and a Republican judge sentenced nome at Sullivan Harbour. I, too, was much
.them for their crimes and ‘not a single Demo-
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China, to the Kurile Islands, outer Mongolia and other countries under Russian control.
Raw ‘Tobacco ASIDE from the big fur business, the Russians sold the United States more than $3,667, 000 worth of other products in the first six months of the year. Biggest item was raw tobacco—$1,415,000. Other large imports included cotton, sausage casings, fish, glycerin crude, cotton semimanufactures, manganese, raw hides and skins, rose oil, pine needle oil and. unmanufactured asbestos. Practically all exports from the U. 8. to Russdia, as well as other Communist countries, have been shut off under the strict Commerce Department regulations put into" effect last March. After the Korean War broke out, all U, 8.
‘shipments of strategic or scarce materials were
banned to satellite nations. The total U. S. export business with Russia in the first six months of the ygar was $42,600. This included synthetic flavors and perfume materials, one auto and boric acid and Borates.
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MR. EDITOR:
Ebert Dearman wants the smelling salts because Senators Bricker and Capehart have said, “Morality in government has declined to the lowest ebb in the nation’s history.” He then cites us to the Harding regime. Whether the Harding scandals were any better or any worse than the present is a matter of opinion. The basic difference is this. Calvin Coolidge was a President who was honest and conscientious whether you agreed with him or not. When the Harding scandals broke he
started to prosecute the guilty ones without fear or favor. A Republican prosecutor tried
crat claimed there was whitewash.
Contrast this with the Pearl Harbor whitewash and the stolen documents at would have placed the blame for the disaster where it belonged. Contfast it with the whitewash of the Amerasia case, deep freezes, mink coats, the New York politician whose administration was linked with crime, red herrings, ete. The difference is, of course, this administration had not only condoned these things but it has tried in every possible way to cover them up and that is why it is still worse than the Harding scandals. : ! -O. D. C., Terre Haute.
‘Gambling in Churches’
MR. EDITOR:
Recently, there appeared in the newspapers of our .town, news items stating that bingo in
price reductions have not cleared out huge dealer and
“joint control over the Sudan. Aro by rising nationalist hysteria over the _
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HOOSIER FORUM—"Politics’
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.”
? billion a year for defense? When 20 per cent of our na-
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: SLOWS. . By Lull Donny 3 ; ," Egypt Is Still Danger Point .
Situation Filled With Explosives Directed at UN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—The Egyptian site ° uation is bad but coud be worse. ol . Stalin has fumbled it, Arab league nations are not retaliating against the United States and others who voted for the United Nations Security Council order to’ Egypt to end its Sues blockade against Israel. : But the dispute is filled with explosives be-’ cause Egypt ‘and the Arab states openly defy the Security Council order of last Saturday. : The danger extends far beyond this particu lar dispute. Cairo officials for many months
been threatening to abrogate the Britisha oy treaty of 1936, under which Britain
base in the Buez zone and maintains a military Suh J BN
Security Council order against the blockade of Israel.
Stalin In on Play - ed THE UNITED STATES is involved in cases. Our government joined with Britain and France, the other major maritime nations, in sponsoring the Security Council order to stop Egyptian interference with legal international shipping through the Suez anal. In the other
' fende of the Middle East would be tage, Allied defence ol LIS it. the British Sues:
virtually impossible L zone A, which is by far the largest and best in that entire area. | ; pa Stalin is in on the play both directly and indirectly. As usual his agents and dupes fed the extreme anti-foreign movement, posing as patriots and inflaming the publig,against alleged Western imperialism to weaken the Middle East and Egypt for the Soviet kill. When the Security Council resolution- was ready for a vote last week, the Soviet delegate forced postponement with hint of a veto. This Stalin bid for Arab favor was joyously received by extremists in Cairo and throughout the Middle East. But when the issue came to the test
on Saturday, Stalin reversed his tactics and his ‘spokesman remained silerit, allowing” the reso-
lution to carry by a vote of 8 to 0. . Russia, for having aroused false hopes, is now denounced in the Middle East along with. those who actually voted for the Sectrity Couns cil slap at Egypt. Why Stalin outsmarted himself in this way is still a mystery. He may have put too high a blackmail price on his support to suit the Arabs—possibly in connection with the San Francisco Japanese treaty conference, or the United Nations assembly meeting, or Iran.
Weak Claim
SECURITY COUNCIL action was taken only after long delay to permit an Egyptian compromise, which was nét forthcoming. ‘This leaves the United Nations in a strong position. The further fact that Turkey voted for the resolution strengthens it. g Egypt's claim that she and Israel are active belligerents, giving her the right of blockade, is weak—the armistice was signed two years ago. Moreover, the blockade is injuring the innocent maritime powers and European nations by stopping the flow of oil to Israel's Haifa refinery, which is particularly needed because the Abadan refinery is closed by the Brite ish-Iranian dispute, Efforts will now be made to settle the old Arab-Israeli dispute through the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, and to .save an Allied base in the Suez 2one by inclusion of Egypt in a Middle East defense pact.
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churches and fraternal organizations could henceforth be banned. Why? . . . especially in the case of churches? If there are any evils inherent in this situation, would someone please inform me of my blindness. : —Leroy J. Fargo, City.
‘Nostalgic Memories’
MR. EDITOR:
Mr. Harold Hartley's account, in the Aug. 31 issue, of his visit in Maine, brought nostalgic memories of my own vacation there this sammer ‘when I visited “West Winds,” a friend's
impressed with its rugged beauty and charmed with many quaint customs which I observed. : —Fern A. Goulding, 2208 Admiral Drive. oi IRIEL
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
LONDON-=Thames River boatmen refused to sail their launches because of embarrassment resulting from women passengers having to step from the boats to.very high’ piers. “Let other lads work in an office or quarry, “Or search the Transvaal for rare gems. “But I, mother dear, know I'll never be sorry “Just guiding & boat on the Thames.” : “A sailor I'll be, but I'll not sail the ocean, “No round-the-world cruises‘ for me. “For fjords and for bayous I've nary a notion, ' “There's far more appeal to the ‘see’!”
By Galbraith INFLATION OR DEFLATION . . . By Earl Richert i. Price Bosses Still Predict Big Inflation
have never softened. Nor have prices of copper, lead, zine,
inflation
Farm prices have declined _ The decline in industrial prowas larger than expected and more than could -be attributed -
distributor.stocks of television sets. Textile mills are shouting for military orders so the mills can continue to operate, Hence, the economic officials know their warnings sound like cries of “Wolf, wolf” to a lot of people. But they're dead sure they're right—so sure- they think it worthwhile to use the strong--est possible language.
In testimony before Con-
"gress last” week, Defehse Mo-
bilizer Charles Wilson talked of the “real possibility” that runaway inflation lies ahead. And Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston talked of the ‘‘terrific pressures” that are going to smash into the economy.
8 ” s = BHEIR certainty is due to one fact: Greatly increased
spending for defense and the Plant expansion that goes with
* “Can anyone doubt that this vast armament ‘program is’
generatifig. heavy inflationary x ‘this very moment? ed Mr. J
- tional production will be de-
voted to defense?” Mr. Johnston said he did not have a crystal ball to tell the day and month when these “terrific pressures” would hit, but that he needed no crystal ball to know they were there. One thing noticeable about the official warnings now is that no time is being men-
tioned. ” a =
PRICE Boss Michael DiSalle
was put on the spot on this
_ score by querying Senators.
After he issued the general: price freeze last January, he predicted a further rise by summer of 5°to 6 per cent in the cost of living before the OPS would be able to level off
prices. :
~~ Since then, however, the cost of living has gone up only 1
percent...
tis hd Tis «MP. le re that it was Decause of the _ extra hard work done by his
aluminum, molybdenum nickel, sulphur, newsprint and paper of all kinds. » o ” PRICES of raw materials which have dropped, such as rubber, wool and tin, are still above pre-Korea levels and subject to erratic change at any time, he said. Mr. “Johnston sald most items in groceries are at ceiling prices and that he had
not heard housewives cheering over “soft” prices: Mr. DiSalle pointed out that he had no power over a wide area of the cost of living. He cannot control farm prices
which are below parity, He had .
no jurisdiction over rents,
: ‘charges of most public utilities
and common carriers, profesgional services (including bare bers and beauticlans), insurance premiums, A motion picPer priced.” i.
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