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Give [ight and the Pe opis wild Find Their. Own Way
Bang It to 'Em | OW WE'RE beginning to make some hay in the Oatis
case, Acting jointly,
the United States, Great Britain and
'rance have forbidden Czechoslovakian airplanes—which
ire operated by the Communist government of that country—to fly over Western Germany. That is the first concrete thing which has been done in retaliation for the outlandish imprisonment of William N. Oatis, American reporter in Prague. . The Czech Communists have demanded return of their train. which Francek (Casey Jones) Jarda steamed into + Western Germany on a “freedom flight” last Tuesday. os ” » » = - ™ AND THEY are sure to be irritated by the asylum given ‘he 26 refugees aboard the gate-crashing train. ‘They'd like to have them back, too, perhaps for another one of their big * ‘treason-trial” shows. -g © Maybe we should have kept those 87 Czechs on the train who asked to be returned. But probably it wouldn't have ‘been of any help in the Oatis case. For people are expendable, in the Communist way of doing business. But trains, especially locomotives, are valuable. At frst, American authorities said they intended to hold the “refugee train” until the Czechs were willing to talk about the Oatis case. Later dispatches indicated the Americans were expeéted to refurn it. We hope they don’t. The loss of a train is likely to make an impression on the Commu-
nists. ’ 2 nz =» . nn
THE AIR wall the Allies have put up against Cech »lanes is a more telling action. It either will put the Czech “irlines to the West out of business or compel them to fly
_ 1 circuitous and costly route by way of the North Sea.
_' Meanwhile, we might try the 'same sort of stunt on Czech. truek and rail commerce into Western Germany.
The State Department hasn't responded to Congress’
nanimous demand for shutting off U. S. commercial rela-
Lions with Czechoslovakia. That resolution was passed three weeks ago. There are many ways of pressuring the Czech Communists out of their sadistic impassiveness in the Oatis case. They have harassed, annoyed; badgered and bludgeoned us long enough. The only way to handle a bully is with a bull-
dozer.
A Tip for Mr. Morrison
RITISH Foreign Minister Herbert Morrison could make
a major contribution to American-British relations if
he would learn for himself and for the benefit of his fellow citizens how deeply the people of the United States resent Britain's appeasement policy toward Red China. It has been a year and a half now since British recognized the Communist regime at Peiping. Yet the Chinese Reds have not yet seen fit to recognize Britain. ++ Since last November this puppet of Moscow has been waging an undeclared war against the United Nations, and most of the American and British casualties in Korea have been the direct result of Red China's intervention. ow A = ” Ld an ” = ” .»~ RECENTLY, Britain joined with the United States, Canada,” Australia and Ceylon in protesting to Peiping against its treatment of foreign nationals. Forty-seven westerners, including 34 Americans, are under detention in ited China, according to the representations made. Some of them have been subjected to inhuman torture.
In the face of this record, Americans are at a loss to understand why Britain wants to admit this outlaw regime to" the United Nations. If the Reds can shoot their way into this organization, which is dedicated to peace and jrder, how could any self-respecting nation remain in it? Certainly the United States could not. "Britain's attitude that Formosa should be given over {0 the Reds is no less immoral. And it would be almost suicidal, as well. wn = : . : 2 SINCE the capture of the China mainland, thousands upon thousands of Chinese have been murdered because they had supported the legally constituted government of Chiang. Kai-shek, because they had been friendly to Americans or other westerners, or because they were Christians. Te turn over the million and a-half free Chinese on Formesa
to the bloodthirty Peiping crew would be one of the most
wevolting’ crimes in modern history.
“x Americans regard Communist aggression as the ugliest .
threat which has ever confronted mankind. That threat is Just as real in Asia as it is in Europe. It is communism’s avowed purpose to conquer the world. Any‘ concession made to communism anywhere will farther that purpose. The half million or so troops Chiang Rai-shek has in Formosa can be used in the fight against ‘tammunism, or they can be défivered to the Communists to fight on that side. What could be more idiotic than to slrengthen the Red aggressors by giving them this huge Aymy ? " o ” o - » $.
<= IF THAT is done, the British would be foolish to expath American assistance if the Communists should attack them at Hong Kong and in Malaya. +. Ultimately, Britain must make a choice between Red China and the United States. There can be no compromise on that issue, no resort to expediency. 2 Until this fact is fully eomprehended in London the dlliance between the two countries will rest on foundaHons of sand, and Mr. Morrison would do well to take that
gait 2ppralial back with him.
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WASHINGTON, bewilderment in about equal parts marked the reaction of the (Czéchoslovakian embassy to the Big «Three's ban on Czech commercial plane flights over 'Allied- -occupied Germany, ) ‘Ambassador Vladimir Prochazka ‘was unavailable for comment but First Secreta¥y Jan *Vinar admitted the ban posed “complications” for the Czechs, oe & oo
s“COMPLICATIONS"” seemed hardly word to caver the situation. The ban cuts off the Czechs from the Western world and should they attempt to resume these flights-—-to Paris,
PENTAGON ...
Lovett Puts Humor in Job
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15—There was glee among the saltier denizens of the Pentagon today. After that long year of austerity under George Catlett Marshall, the nation had acquired a new Secretary of Defense who on a dare likely would show up for work some morning wearing a necktie embossed with bathing beauties, The record shows only one occasion in ‘his official life when Robert Abercrombie Lovett thus adorned his. aristocratically slender figure. But it served to place on public display a sense of humor ‘ which long had been the delight of his friends. Mr. Lovett was Under Secretary of State at the time; he donned the cravat for a press conference at the dare of Gen. Walter Bedell Smith. Certain gentle souls in the State Department have never recovered, To be sure, neither Mr. L.d®ett's appearance nor his background give a hint of this sometimes wry, sometimes elfin, sense of humor, His tall—5 foot 10—body is surmounted by a head that is almost ascetic in its severity. There are intellectual hollows in his face and his cheekbones are high and sharp. His forehead is high and he is completely bald in*front. . In public he habitually assumes a dour expression, but often his heavily lidded eyes seem to be masking some private amusement.
Top Navy Pilot THEN there is his career to date—a top Navy pilot in World War I, a banker and businessman, partner in the banking firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., Assistant Secretary of War for Air during World War II, Under Secretary of State, and Deputy Secretary of Defense. ; Hardly a career calculated to produce or preserve a lively wit. Yet Mr. Lovett, now 56, has always managed to enjoy life—privately— while gaining a reputation as a man who can get a lot of work done. .In the process, he also has managed to keep out of the limelight more than any other man who has handled government jobs of ecomparable importance. When the Marshall Plan is mentioned, most people think first of Gen. Marshall and then of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, but Mr. Lovett had almost as big a part in planning and putting it over. And, without fanfare, he was the dynamo behind the huge bomber procurement program of World War II.
‘Wrecking Nervous System’ DESPITE this record, Mr. Lovett doesn’t take himself too seriously. When he was called back to become Under Secretary of State in 1947, he did not issue the usual pompous statement about a call to duty; he merely remarked wryly that he was returning to Washington “to complete the wrecking job on my nervous, 8ystem.” It’s unlikely, however, that Mr. Lovett's nerves ever will shatter. His insurance against this is one of the most profound capacities for elegant cussing in the Nation's capital. The new Secretary of Defense swears all the time, but so smoothly and so learnedly and so pleasantly that he makes of it almost an art, Meanwhile, he is blowing off steam. '
Movie Fan ; ALTHOUGH his weight rarely climbs above a trim 145 pounds, he avoids exercise; says he just doesn’t like it. For relaxation, he goes to movies—all kinds of movies. He says he probably has seen more “turkeys” than any man outside a projection booth, but he's never walked out on even the worst of them. He
Mr. Lovett... a sense of humor
likes swing music; he used to play the mandolin _
and guitar. He also has a deep affection for automobiles, especially when he's driving them. But his friends would as soon taunt a lion as ride with him; Mr. Lovett retorts haughtily that, while he may drive a trifle fast, he’s very careful on curves,
WONDERFUL MEMORIES
WHEN someone you hold very dear .. . departs and leaves you blue . . . and you're engulfed by floods of tears . . . here’s what you think of the many happy times . God let you call your own . .. and do not think of how it is . . . now that you are alone . for after all is said and done . ;: , what good are endless tears . . . when memories can dry your eyes . .'. with thoughts of happy years... by wearing sorrow’s veil ., 0 so lift your eyes and force a smile . . . and you will never fail ... you must accept .what God decrees . . . and that is why I say . . . let memories of happy times .. . drive all your blues away.
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Czech Envoy Admits Flight. Ban will Cause ‘Complications’ te
has declined to explain the reason for the move.
Brussells and Amsterdam-—via detours over the North Sea and. Denmark, the total, mileage would be doubled and the additional cost would be chose to $50,000 a week. Mr. Vinar said he didn’t know .whether the
Czech airline-——SCA-—-would try to make ar--rangements for these detours, ‘but I should sav there will be complications.” He paused, then
added: "It’'is not a ory Rood thing.”
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“Really, though,” Mr, Vinar- insisted, “I don't: seem to have any comment on it, The only thing I know about it is what I read in the newspapers.”
oo oo o~ ALTHOUGH it seemed obvious the ban was ‘imposed by the U. 8, Great Britain and France in retaliation’ for the jailing of, ‘American reporter William N. Oatis, the State Department
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By Frederick C. Othman
16th Century Cookbook Reveals Rare Recipe for Luxury Cake
TOLEDO, Spain, Sept. 15—This is one of Europe's really ancient cities and Hilda and I have been absorbing history on the hoof, This is hard on the feet. The walls and the oriental arches left by the Moors in the Middle Ages were interesting enough. So was the with its golden treasures and the Alcazar, where the locals put up such a magnificent fight against the Communists in the late revolution. But what # really stopped me. was the cookbook in the kitchen of El Greco, the 16th century painter who is regarded by the Spanijards = (and others, too) as the greatest artist who ever lived. Well, sir, El Greco's house remains exactly as he left it centuries ago. He did well by himself. Soft beds, big leather chairs, and on the walls plenty of old masters, painted by himself. He liked to eat. Particularly did he enjoy dessserts, So his cookbook was open at his favorite cake. - “Take four pineapples,” it began in Spanish, “a little flour, White if possible, 18 fresh eggs, enough sugar to. . This struck Mrs. 0.
as being a little in-
definite and also slightly extravagant. She said’
she did not believe she'd copy the recipe, not with eggs back home in this particular century at 80 cents a dozen. The great Cathedral is well stocked with EF ‘Grecos; so is the fabulous palace of the Duchess of Lerma, who lets tourists like us properly introduced by the Spanish Tourist Bureau, look around. so f x
Ancient Furnishings
HER PLACE, room after room, is furnished with 15th and 16th Century antiques and none too comfortable, either, if you ask me.
No wonder the Duchess spends most of Ber . ,
‘SPY BUREAU’ .
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — Sen. Herbert O’'Conor (D. Md.) says the reaction of the public has strengthened his resolve to see that press privileges are denied to Communist foreign agents in this country. Sen. O'Conor introduced one of the first resolutions to obtain the release of American Reporter William N. Oatis from his Czech prison. In it, along with an end to U. 8.Czech trade, the Maryland Senator urged the expulsion of correspondents in the U, 8. for . official government news agencles of Communist countries. . 4 nu oo THIS second angle was not included in the Oatis resolution which Congress passed. - But later Sen. O’Conor introduced a separate resolution to déclare the sense of Congress that: “. + .. Representatives of Tass, who - are really diplomatic employees ‘of the Russian government, should be deprived of their membership in _ thé press galleries of Congress and their credentials and diplomatic passports be with-
respondents from Communist same resi be - subjected to the
drawn, ‘and that all other cor-
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time in Madrid. -Her furnishings, including wall-sized tapestries, brass braziers for building small bonfires in the living room, and a Ibrary full of ancent books wrtten by hand on vellum, are worth a fortune in anybody’s money. The only thing of the Duchess that I really coveted was her 16th Century alarm clock, consisting of a large brass lion by her bed. This beast’s eyes roll to tick off the seconds, when it's time for the Duchess to get up he opens his mouth, sticks out his top Jgue and goes
Since Toledo has been ndled these many, centuries for its superbly tegfpered swords, daggers and butcher knives#’I went shopping at the armory of Don Ly#f Aguado. He tried to sell me a suit of armor (well-padded inside with red felt) at a bargain, but he had to agree that it wouldn't fit info my luggage. Of course, said he, I could wear it if I stayed out of the sun. There’s nothing hotter, he explained, than.a knight in armor walking down the sunny side of the street.
Jeweled Swords 80 I inspected his swords, some with jeweled handles and gold-worked scabbards, and all of which would bend double and then snap back to shape. These were a little large for my suitcase, too, and I had to settle for a large, curved pocket knife, with an automatic ratchet on the blade for getting it open in an emergency. What I like best about this weapon is a poem engraved in silver on its side. This is what it says, according to my own freewheeling and nonpoetic translation: “He who gets bitten by this little.caterpillar will find no remedy in any apothecary.”
Beautiful Ohio City
EVERYBODY I met in Toledo, Spain, wanted
to know about Toledo, Ohio. I told them it was
a beautiful city, too, and noted for its ironJmongery. They seemed pleased at being imitated. ’ I hate to kiss off Spain's Toledo and all its history like this, but we've got a 100-mile drive ahead in a 1946-model Ford sedan. Tonight Hilda and I take up residence in a genuine castle in Spain.
. By James Daniel
States ‘orrespondents behind the Iron, Curtain.”
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inflicted upon our people behind the Iron Curtain.” “Quit being softies for gang-
A department spokesman sald ‘merely the Czechs would be informed. of the reason, “if they asked:” As a result, Mr. Vinar ‘seemed. almost completely at sea. He wouldn't comment -on whether the move came as a surprise to the Czech government. He said he didn't know If the Czechs would ‘ask the Big Three to explain the ban. And he insisted he didn’t know it Ambassador #Prochazka would try to see Secretary of State Dean Acheson about it. “Bb y MR. VINAR apparently had more jolts coming, too. At the State Department, nobody was discussing the Oatis case but a spokesman sald there would be would make the Czech government “increasingly uncomfortable in the days to come,” It's all merely department policy,” he said with a straight face; he solemnly refuse to connect it with the Oatis case. S Sb PRESIDENT TRUMAN was being similarly poker-faced about the whole thing. Asked at his press’ conference what progres was being made in cutting of trade relations with the Czechs, he grinned and said he couldn’t answer that question. He gave the same reply when a reporter asked if any steps had been taken toward cutting off trade. "In the case of Willlam N. Oatis, it was plain that the United States planned a campaign of retaliation without once using the word in public.
Hoosier Forum
“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire.
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‘Human Welfare Secondary’ MR. EDITOR: ; What would happen to our country if tomorrow all wars and all talks of wars should cease? How much of our so-calléd prosperity is supported by war? Goods are scarce and therefore high-priced .because of war. Manufacturing is dependent
- on war production to take up the slack to pre-
vent overproduction. Workers are dependent on war production to keep their jobs. Food, clothing, shelter, amusements, education, all are tied in with war. The prosperity is a false one but T am not afraid it will bankrupt the nation unless the
people should become panicky and lose their -
heads. The real danger in the immediate future is a peace offensive. I think the present administration (and Stalin) is acutely aware of the situation and because it can find no way out of the dilemma it is forced to foster the situation.
The farther we go thé more-we become involved, |
like one addicted to a drug. But some time we are going to be faced with the problems of what to do with a peace-time economy to be operated on war-time machinery. Take heed. When the time comes the people will not tolerate another depression, a time when hogs are slaughtered and buried, wheat dumped in the ocean, fruit burned with kerosene, potatoes left rotting in the ground while the people stand in soup lines and children cry in the streets because they are hungry. Such a calamity is not unavoidable, but like little children we burn down the house by playing with the matches that should instead have started the fire to cook our dinners. The difficulty arises because we exist to serve the machine we have invented called business instead of having the machine serve us. Human welfare is secondary to our profit system. That fact is self-evident; it needs no proof. Workers are tools to be taken up when needed, thrown down when not needed. The fact that the tool is human makes it none the less a tool. Qur salvation lies in realizing our
. machine is a ‘machine and the tools who eat,
drink, go to churches, visit taverns, curse, com-
‘mit adultery, organize a Red Cross, fight dis
eases, beget children, formulate a philosophy, suffer from constipation, fight wars, go to China as diplomats are humans of flesh and blood and must be the first consideration:
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Views on News
By DAN KIDNEY WHAT caused the King of Cambodia’s gift elephant to drop dead en route to President Truman probably was too touchy a subject for Gov. Dewey to take up when he reported to the White House on.his Far Eastern trip. oo oe oe HAVING had his pants beat off in an election should have provided Chester Bowles with good training for the Ambassadorship to India. » Ob IT'S reassuring to know that our new weapons are as ‘fantastic’ as their prices. . oo
<* Lo AT 75, dethroned Frank Hague has come out against Democratic bossism in New Jersey. Shows a man’ is never too olf to yearn. » - < “ 5h . MOSCOW has decreed that all Communist circus clowns must be serious. - Watching them swallow that party line should be funny enough.
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» n A SIMILAR suggestion came about the same- time from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The suggestion ‘is still under study by the correspondents’ standing committee for the press galleries, The committee has asked the Justice and State Departments for a determination of Tass’ status. Meanwhile, the O’Conor resolution is before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
Sen. O'Conor says he hopes that Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) will bring it up for action soon. u ” o SEN. O'CONOR says he has no doubts as to the public's feelings. - From places Deming, N. M.; Little Rock, Ark.; Columbia, 8. C.; Syracuse, N.' Y.; Harrisburg, Pa.; Arroyo Grande, Cal.; Bryan, Tex.; Marshall, Mich., as well nas his own state and eastern centers like. New York and
‘Washington, he is getting such
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sters and bandits.” “Congress should have thrown out those Russian correspondents when Vogeler was put behind bars.” ; Occasionally a writer wonders whether. the dispatches sent back by the few severely restricted American corre-. spondents in Moscow might not compensate for having Tass here. But in the main the letters reflect astonishment that Tass employees should have been tolerated this long.
n o ” “I AND a great many other laymen have been amazed that what you propose has not been done before now,” one writer sald. Another said, “I believe
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y do unto you.” Sen. O'Connor said- he had -
noted some editorial comment that his resolution amounted to revenge for the sake of revenge. “I expected this,” he says. “My own feeling is .that we
. must sometime get on a basis
of self-respecting reciprocity with the Communists. I'm afraid that they merely laugh at the steps we have taken so far. “Unless we do convince them that we shall treat them as they treat us, we should expect that any American citizen caught in a Communist country will be treated as Mr. Oatis has been.” >
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