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Korean Truce Talks

‘F THE Korean armistice talks are to be resumed, which seems doubtful, a new, neutral site should be found for the negotiations, as Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has proposed. Kaesong was not a proper place for the truce talks in the first place, and it is questionable whether a wholly satisfactory location could be found anywhere in war-torn Korea. Objections would be raised to any site under the military control of either of the belligerents or which would be subjegt to attack by either of those forces. 3.:tish Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao or a neutral ship —4t>e original American proposal—would appear to meet the requirements, if the Communists really want a ceasefire agreement. But do they want that? | We aren't dealing with the Korean Communists or Red CHina but with Moscow. Since the Kremlin has vetoed all atjempts to settle the German and Austrian questions, and is! opposing ratification of the Japanese war settlement, there is little reason to believe that the Red high command hes any sincere desire for even a partial settlement of the Korean situation. :; In any case, nothing more than an uneasy truce is in prospect and Soviet-inspired invasions of other exposed areas must be anticipated until the free world is so organized and strengthened that such adventures will become unprofitable.

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Gromyke’ s Fiasco

VIET hatchetman Andrei Gromyko won't get any new * medals on the showing he made at the Japanese Peace Canfefence. | He went to San Francisco with three votes in his pocket ~{Poland’ s, Czechoslovakia's and his own. That was all he hyd, despite the noise he made. On the final showdown the count was 49 to three.

"i This result was due in large part to the sound spadework done long i in advance of the conference by John Foster Diilles, who made the initial draft of the treaty and obtained its advance approval by most of the delegations. All credit tot him for a major achievement.

: BUT THERE are a number of nations represented at, San Francisco which are none too friendly to the United ne Most of the Arab bloc can be included in that tegory. There are an even larger number of delegations at the conference which have no enthusiasm for the magnanimous treatment whic. is being accorded defeated Japan. With these elements to work upon, the nucleus existed for the organization of a bloc which might have upset the afiplecart. ‘ But Comrade Gromyko simply didn’t have what it took to get the job done. "On the contrary, the stupid filibaster he tried to put cn probably lost him potential suppert, because it was the ‘same old threadbare act to which the Soviets resort on any and all occasions. - Some of the amendments he proposed to the treaty were equally stupid because they insulted the sensibilities as well as the intelligence of some of the very people he v.as trying to reach. = s = =

~ THE KREMLIN should find someone to write Mr. Gromyko a.new speech because everyone knows what he is going to say before he opens his mouth.

~The Russians also should know by now that delegates who have hotel reservations for one week aren't in the mood to stay in session for a month simply to gratify one maan’s whim. When Mr. Gromyko threatened a 30-day filibuster he lost any chance he had to make trouble. No one was buying any part of that.

P It’s no accident that the Communists nevér win elections where there is a free vote. They've never learned how to make friends and influence people.

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Berlin and Oatis

THE RUSSIANS are interrupting West Berlin food supplies again. ’ This eastern outpost of democracy, in a sea of: Com.munist banditry, has been subjected to almost constant harassment—the notable example being the Russian blockade which led to the miraculous Allied airlift.

"Now the Reds have hit on a new nuisance device. Without notice, they are “taxing” every West Berlin-bound vehicle crossing Russian-occupied territory up to $36 a trip. «+ Typical of Communist double-dealing, the “tax” is imposed in East German (Communist) marks, but it is payable only in West German marks, which are worth five times as much. Now the Allied occupation authorities must work out a way to circumvent the Russian trick. (All meat, vege- ‘ tables, dairy products and other perishables reach Berlin by truck.) : u = # 8 8 THIS MERELY is another incident in the systematic hounding of the Western powers in which the Russians have engaged since Potsdam. © Always, the United States and her Allies are on the defensive, countering Russian challenges. Some countermeasures have been effective—the Berlin airlift of three years ago being a major example. ~ But in too many instances, especially those in which the initiative has been up to the State Department, we simply have rolled over and played dead. Asin the Oatis. case. + - William N. Oatis, an American newsaperman, has been imprisoned on false charges since April. He was jailed by * the Czechoslovakian stooges for Russian iin

The Indianapolis Times

DEAR BOSS . oy by Dan Kidney

Book Reviews Primary Issue

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—Hoosiers who still

"would like to buy something where you can get

100 cents worth for a dollar can do no better than send for the fifth annual edition of “Here

Is Your Indiana Government” just published by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce,

It is subtitled “A book of facts, dedicated to a better understanding among all Hoosiers | of the complex democratic government un“der which we live.”

. Written by Dean Clar“ence Manion of Notre Dame Law School and the foreword by Clarence A.” Jackson, executive vice president of the Indiana State Chamber Mr. Jackson of . Commerce, who has wrote the forward made {it outstanding + » « Wrote the forward ,mong the 48 states. Besides the competent staff work, which made the 325 text changes necessitated by the 1951 session of the Indiana Legislature, there is a dispassionate. discussion of “the direct primary issue.”

Traces History of Primary

1T RECITES the history of the direct primary nominations for President, Vice President, U. 8S. Senator and Governor which were carried on the ballot in Indiana from 1915 to 1928. :

These offices were eliminated from the, primaries by the 1929 Legislature and since that time have been party convention choices.

®* The background of that era and what caused

primary repeal is not gone into. But the party leaders, both Republican and Democrat, got the Legislature to ‘restore responsible party leadership” after the state had been disgraced by officials nominated in the direct primary by the Ku Klux Klan. The Indianapolis Times, which won a Pulitzer

Prize for its fight against the Klan-selected of-

ficials, nevertheless opposed primary repeal on the grounds that it would result in bossed conventions.

Argument Still Goes On

SOME RECOGNITION of that being the fact was taken when the voting machines were installed by law for the state conventions. But arguments for and against complete restoration of

the direct primary for all national and state offices still goes on. To sharpen the point, the anti-democratic procedures of the 1950 state conventions are cited. Long in advance, it was announced by party leaders that Sen. Homer E. Capehart would be renominated by the GOP and that Alex Campbell would be the Democratic nominee opposing him. In a primary election, each likely would have had opposition. Getting back to the State Chamber of Commerce booklet’s statement of the case, it outlines points advanced by those who favor the primaries for direct nomination of the candidates for U+S. Senator and Governor and those favoring the present convention system. There follows this comment under the title The Importance of Nominations: “The importance of nomination of candidates apparently is underrated by a majority of Hoosiers. Only 41.4 per cent of Indiana's registered voters cast ballots in the 1950 primary elections

—but even this comparatively small percentage

wast the greatest in recent years.

Cites Importance of Nominations

“NOMINATIONS are important because general elections sometimes are won or lost through factors that have nothing to do with the quality of the candidates; for example: Elections are swayed by economic conditions and hy so-called political ‘strength.’ A popular candidate at the top of a ticket—since many Americans have the habit of voting straight tickets—often carries with him into office other candidates about whom the voters know little or nothing. It is therefore advisable that all candidates'of both major parties be selected with great care. “The ‘theory behind Indiana nomination procedure as it stands today apparently is that the primary is preferable for nominating local of-

ficials and those of relatively small geographical

districts—while the convention is better for nominating candidates for statewide offices. “The continuing controversy over whether to extend the primary to cover U. S. Senators, the Governor and perhaps other offices resolves itself into this basic question: “Which system will provide the candidates best qualified to serve the people of Indiana?”

What Others Say—

IF people become too cynical about our present political parties and the conduct of election campaigns they might . turn to a man or group of men who believe in totalitarian principles, not those. of - free government—Philip Willkie, son of late GOP presidential candidate. Bn»

THERE is no security without freedom; there is no hope without opportunity; and there is no progress without incentive.—Benjamin F. Fairless, president, U. 8. Steel Corp. oS Bb

COHEN is not as bad as America thinks he is. He has the making of one of the greatest gospel preachers of all time.—Billy Graham, evangelist, on gambler Mickey Cohen.

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By Galbraith

Russia Fires Its Bolt

GREEN CHAMPAGNE . |

ATTEMPT

TO SABOTAGE TREATY

. By Frederick C. Othman

Ever Hear the Story About Manny Who Killed a Bull by Mistake?

EN ROUTE TO“MADRID, Sept. 10—I don't know what's wrong with Portuguese newspaper reporters; not one word did they send to the United States about Manuel Santos, the un-

‘fortunate toreador, who killed a bull by mis-

take. He went to jail for it. Poor bull. Poor

Manny.

Hilda and I heard about this dejected bullfighter while sipping vino verde, which is champagne green like grass, in the wine garden of Senhor Luis Felquerias on a bluff ’ overlooking the blue .—~~p® river Taugus and the pink tile roofs of ancient Lisbon. Since we hadn’t intended to stop there at all, this

good story and green wine simultaneously on the same sunny morning. A strong wind was

responsible.

It started to blow soon after we lifted up from Gander, Newfoundland, and it sent our plane scudding southeast across the Atlantic in a near-record eight hours flat. The Trans World Airlines people almost seemed embarrassed; we landed four hours ahead of time in Lisbon, and they apologized for it. There was some little hanky-panky about getting out of internment at the airport on ac- . count of no Portuguese visas, but those locals in the gold-braided hats were sympathetic. When I told ’em we never had tasted green champagne in all our lives, they said poor, unhappy Americanos and let us out of the big, ironbound doors.

Wine Is Cheap

SENHOR FELQUERIAS' shamrock-colored wine tasted like dry champagne anywhere else in the world, but it had one tremendous advantage over all others: It gost 55 cents per large bottle. I should say that Portugal is the proper place for a fellow with a beer income and a champagne appetite. So we got to talking about bullfight in Lisbon. The _tender-hearted authorities there frown on killing bulls in public, Still and all, the populace likes. bullfights. So the government comprised. Fight the bull, but don’t kill him. The. bullfighters of Portugal use wooden swords; these serve only to irritate the opposition. So. he usually chases the fighters out of That brings us to the sorry tale of Manuel Santos, the great toreador from Madrid. There he was strutting around the ring in his pink pants

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In his right hand he held hidden in his red cape his wooden sword. He was what you might call poised. Ready to run. There was the bull glaring at him. So Manny started to tease the bull and get him to charge into the crimson cloth, as have so many bullfighters before him: When finally the trumpets tootled for the big moment, Manny unsheathed his sword. The bull was having the best of it (his sharp horns were genuine) and Manny didn’t even notice that his assistant had made a mistake. In his hand was no wooden toy, but a genuine steel blade.

Still Behind Bars

HE POKED the bull with this and ran, is the practice in Portugal. Instead of t chasing him, the bull turned over an

L hurt and Rio him off to the calabeza. (The judge observed that Manny had killed the/first bull in a Portuguese bullfight in 20 years and sentenced him

to 30 days. At this writing he’s still behind bars. So Mrs. O. and I paid for our wine (this

was a pleasure) and climbed back into our Constellation for Madrid. Now the crew was new. A French purser and a lovely from Paris who functioned as hostess gave us a dinner a la Francais. This. meant cocktails, soup, lobster, salad, chicken broiled in wine, champagne, coffee and, something sweet with whipped cream on -top, plus crackers and cheese, Mother never cooked a meal like that. It was so good that we surrounded every bite. We land in Spain 10 minutes hence, but Hilda says she’s not certain she'll get off. She means she doubts if she's able.

MY TWILIGHT

AS THE days of life grow shorter . .. and my skies have lost their hue ... I've something ta relate to all . . . the folks I ever knew ... I'm indebted for each friendship that . .. I've formed along the way ... and I cherish them in memory . .. through each and every day ... I am thankful for the hours . , . spent in lingering awhile . , , and I'm grateful to the folks I knew . .. who caused my heart to smile «+. I am happy for the little things . . . that went unnoticed then . . . but I've thought of

the times away back when . . . so as twilight falls around me . . . and my old life ebbs away . . . I extend a heartfelt gratitude . .. to my friends along the way. : —By Ben Burroughs.

. By James Daniel

Faces When Heat's On

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By Talburt

"Hoosier Forum Hoosier Forum | f "I do not agree with a word that you 3 : but | will defend to the death your rig t § I to say it."—Voltaire, 3 NT ‘Who Done It?’ MR: EDITOR:

Regarding story “Doug Said He'd Rather Dia Than Be Prisoner,” printed in The Times Sept. 5, FIRST:

“Does an Army man use the terms, “Guns or

bullets?” . vd

SECOND: Does the General carry a muzzle loader? ‘THIRD: Why bother to put it in the paper? FOURTH: Sounds like something from a who-done-it, —John Endicott, 109 N. Gibson Ave.

‘A Little Steam’

MR. EDITOR: : Everybody seems to be having his say these days, so I think I'll let off a little steam myself, I served 29 months in the Army, 19 overseas and it-seems that all the time I was in, somebody was yelling it is your right to let off steam just -as long as you don’t carry it too far. Since I'got out in April 1946, I have noticed it becoming more and more so, all the time, that men with influence or a little position dare not say what he thinks. What is this govern. ment coming to? If a person critic {zes the government for spending the people's hard-earned money or things that don't amount to a hill of beans they are called isolationists or worse yet. If they disagree with a political figure of some im. portance, they are called Communists.

Who does McCarthy think he is anyway.

going around calling people Commies? I thin}i that everyone has his or her pet peeves and should be allowed to voice them just as they do in the Army without being punished as long as they didn't hinder government security. America, where is your backbone? Next if will be a choked free press (or is it already?) + Constant Reader, City. EDITOR'S NOTE: Nope.

‘Let's Have a Zoo’

MR. EDITOR: I think it would be a swell idea for Indian. apolis to start a zoo. We already have a star} with the conservation display at the State Fair, Why not build it up to a full-fledged zoo, 3 place where all Indianapolis cjtizens could taks ir children to enjoy the animals. ? Indianapolis misses this good chanme

then all I can say is, it's not a very progressive

city. So far, nothing has been done to show there are very many progressive thinkers lef in the community. If Indianapolis misses this chance because of action taken against it by the State Fai) Board then I say the board is operating in Model T days. It can realize a year 'round rent from the building. I'm in favor of a zoo, are you? If you are sound off to the city councilmen and newspapers and let's see what can be done about a Zoo for Indianapolis. —Believer in Zoos, City.

‘Two-Week Fair’ MR. EDITOR: Hope next year we can have the fair oper for two weeks instead of one. Sure would be fun for the kids and adults alike. I'm not a farmer, but I get a big bang out of a fair and I know my kids do too. Where else can you buy cotton candy, seq all the farm animals, sce the horses race, watch the judging and do a million and one things all in one day. We've gone to the fair every day that I have time off during the day time and sure would

appreciate another wegk of it so we could g¢ -

a few more times. “A year is a long time between fairs and you can't really get your fill of it in one or two days, Let's have it for two weeks, huh? -—Fair Minded, City.

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY ; GROMYKO and his Russians are feeling more at home in San Francisco, now that they are surrounded. by police. oD ob HERBERT HOOVER and Gen. MacArthur both have diagnosed our present ills as a compound fracture of the econ- » omy and the Ten Commandments. <> oe oe WHY DON'T we use those ‘new fantastic weapons” in that old fantastic Korean War? Oo DB BEARDSLEY RUML wants us all to “save now. He should have thought of that before he invented that built-in- -tax bite. . So oH YOUTH OPPORTUNITY—A fine new field is opening up for young men whowant to maRe a-life work of putting down gambling.

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The question whether Tass i= a news agency or an arm of the Russian government was decided. by that government itself —it’s a “department of the Soviet government.” This admission was made by the Russians in Britain in 1948. The question comes into discussion now because the stand-

ents, which governs the congressional press ‘galleries, is considering whether to rescind privileges of Tass employees. Here's how Russia came to spill ‘the beans on Tass: In the fall of 1947 in Czechoslovakia, when the .Russians and their puppets were plan-

ment, three prominent antiCommunist members of the Czech government received time bombs in the mail. . ” ” o : . THE packages were delivered bLefcre the mechanisms were set ta go off. One of the three who esca

saryk, Later, Masaryk com-

mitted suicide or was mur-

ning to take over the govern-'

death ‘was the Foreign Minister, Jan Ma-

ing committee of correspond fe

"Socialis

Party, member of parliament, tried to find out who sent the packages. It was reported that he accumulated

sufficient evidence to show that - ~ the Russians were responsible.

When the Communists finally gained power, Dr. Krajina

escaped and made his way .to | * Britain.

There he quickly became the leader of Czech refu-

gees, who set out to inform the British public ahout the

veal facts regarding Czechoslovakia's Russian-engineere a

his homeland, the Communists

announced they would try him

in absentia for. treason. In Britain, Tass attacked Krajina’'s reputation. Soviet Monitor, a Tass publication printed in Britain, carried a story that Krajina had some connection with delivering a group of downed British aviators to the Gestapo during World War IL In the opinion of Hon-Com: munists, it was a classic example of the totalitarian use of the big lie technique. Dr. Krajina promptly sued for libel. Papers were served on Tass officials in Britain. Then suddenly Tass asked the

" British courts to set the suit

aside on the ground that it possessed the sovereign -immunity of the Russian government itself,

AS EVIDENCE, ais pre-

- mented a declaration from the Russian' ambassador in Lon-

don that it was a “department of the Soviet government.”

‘Successive British courts

“preposterous and unprecedented” extension of immunity to Tass agents at a time when the Reds were putting the

“screws on legitimate Western

newsmen throughout their empire. Another British member of Parliament pointed out that any foreign press agency claiming such immunity could print any lies it chose about any British subject with im. punity. The government talked for a time of amending the libel laws to prevent a recurrence of the Tass episode. Dr. Krajina later moved to Canada

" s o IN THE roster of anti-Com: munists he 1s the one man whe

forced the Russian government to admit the truth about Tass.

‘which up to then had claimed

to be the Associated Press of Russia, no différent from a

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