Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1951 — Page 16

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Overshooting at Ottawa

IF THE face of Congress’ determination to trim our economic aid to Western Europe, it is hard to see how our

State Department can continue to hold out promises of a broadened program of non-military funds for the North : Atlantic Treaty countries. Yet that is being done at Ottawa. The true purpose of the North Atlantic Council meeting in the Canadian capital is now beginning to unfold. It is to break the ground for a semipermanent “burden-sharing” which is to replace, if not continue the Marshall Plan. The argument — principally advanced by Britain and France—is that the United States had better see to it that European living standards do not fall too low, for that would weaken the will to resist communism. Therefore, we should think beyond the immediate goal of rearmament and be prepared to underwrite European economy indefinitely. » ® s » » # ° BY A considerable stretch of imagination, this is called a “share the burden” formula. Not sharing -equally, of course, but—as the British see it—on the basis of ability to pay. For instance, as the “millionaire” member of the Atlantic community, the United States should contribute a much higher percentage of our national wealth than.any of

. the other countries. To that end, a larger measure of U. S.

economic aid must be put up if the rearmament goal is to be reached. This idea is said to be accepted in principle already by the American delegation at Ottawa, with not much thought as to what Congress might say about it. ; nN wh 88 8 “FURTHER, Secretary of State Acheson is reported to have held a series of private talks with the other foreign ministers there seeking “to dispel fears” that the United States i is more interested in building up military strength of the Atlantic Pact than in aiding its long-range non-military

That is hardly reconcilable with Gen. Eisenhower's view, expressed to a group of Congressmen a month ago. He id them that we had better concentrate on the military of the situation in a hurry, or get out. “The sure to get half the results at twice the cost is to drag this ogr out,” he said. 2: a a a “CM . ie MOST Congressmen concede the importance of sending guns, planes and troops to Europe, but there is growing resistance to grab-bag, give-away programs. The feeling, in this respect, is that if our European friends were really as eager to block Communist aggression as we are, and were less concerned with American aid to guarantee their standards of living, they would tighten their belts and get down to the job. Consequently, both houses have voted cuts of more than $1 billion to the Truman requests for economic aid abroad. . It would be more realistic if the State Department preserved this point of view in the negotiations at Ottawa.

Mr. Truman Said It Good

PRESIDENT TRUMAN called a thug a thug whei he spoke of the Russian government in a speech at the Library of Congress. Mr. Truman delivered his “address at ceremonies marking the deposit of two precious American documents— the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—in .new, permanently sealed glass cases. 3 The occasion offered opportunity for the President to contrast the American way of life with Communist tyranny. In Russia, they have a constitution with some highflying language about human rights. But their constitution is a mere “scrap of paper,” as Mr. Truman said. Because the Russian government is a despotism. “The Soviet citizens live in fear,” said the President. “Their society is a jungle through which the naked power of the government .prowls like a beast of prey, making ul men afraid.” And Mr. Truman did not understate it when he said the power of the Kremlin is “more far-reaching” than any previous tyranny in history. # » . . » s THESE things are well known to most Americans— although not so well realized in their awful purport as they ought to be. So they need to be repeated, on a high-level basis. They need to be remembered when mobilizer Charles E. Wilson says we are making progress with our rearmament, but not fast enough. They need to be remembered when we are tempted to temporize with such people as the Czechoslovakian Communists, who abuse and mistreat our people and humiliate us as a nation. These things need to be remembered when we condone waste in the government, when we encourage inflation, when we knuckle under to Communist bluster and treachery, : After the heroic Czéch engineer, Jaroslav Konvalinka, crashed his train into Western Germany with 31 freedomloving countrymen, his wife explained it this way: “I don't want my children to grow up slaves.” Bo it is with all of us,

| William J. Klem

Iv. FLORIDA, after a long period of failing’ health, baseball’'s most famous non-playing figure has died.

He was William J. Klem, an umpire in the National League for 36 years, the ‘only man who ever officiated in 35 World Sexien. i Klem—he always insisted on the players calling him “Mister” —did more than any other to take rowdyism of the national sport. He made umpiring a respected on Sie slaying Bei, Ye wai soul of ationiy

“SOVIET DESPERATION? . . fis ea a en | Next Three Months Seen As ‘Explosive Period’ In World Crisis.

. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19—President Truman is worried for fear Soviet Russia—angered by its defeat at San Francisco—will do something foolish or desperate, a White House source + said today. . The President was said to believe that a most dangerous period lies immediately ahead for the free world.- With the democracies clearly growing stronger every day, he was said to

fear that Russia might be tempted to start

something. : eSB THIS dangerous period may last for a year,

with the danger diminishing as time goes on

DEAR BCSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Halleck Hits U. S. Lawyers

WASHINGTON. Sept. 19—Dear Boss—There are 242 lawyers in the House of Representatives and 54 in the Senate. But when Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, decried “government lawyers" at an American Bar Association luncheon .in New York City yesterday he didn't mean them. For Mr.

lawyer legislators and serving his ninth consecutive term. He was addressing the legal education and bar examiners section and had high praise for the profession generally. There was no hint that congressional lawyers may fix up the statues to provide some “made-work” for themselves when they are defeated and return to private Rep. Halleck . . .practice. Power in law. It is only when they join the executive department that they fall from grace, according to the Halleck standard. There they even thwart the intent of Congress, he contended. “Too often the manner in which laws are administered tends to defeat the purpose for which they were intended when passed by Congress,” the dean of all Hoosiers in Congress declared.

Around the Law

: “IT IS the government lawyers to whom the administration turns for legal justification of

whatever policy may be desired. It is the gov-

ernment lawyer who is called upon to find a way around the law—Iif necessary—to tailor an interpretation which will fit a preconceived notion by the executive branch of what it thinks the law should be, rather than what the Congress intended it to be. “We are rapidly becoming a nation which operates under a system of procedural regulations based on interpretations of the laws passed by the Congress. ; “We are becoming a nation which operates under rules and regulations laid down by quasiJudicial boards and commissions whose personnel are not responsible to the people, but to the men who appointed them to office.” Can Be Abolished MR. HALLECK neglected to add that every one of the boards and commissions were created by Congress and can be abolished by them. hatever grants of power they exercise come from the people through the Congress also, And those who granted the power can limit it or take it away. To illustrate his thesis that government lawyers are sometimes bad actors, Mr. Halleck used the example of the National Labor Relations Board. “Basic purpose behind the NLRB was to promote the flow of commerce, fostering production of more and more goods,” he said. “It has sometimes appeared, however, because of the manner in which the basic law has been administered, that someone along the line conceived a vastly different purpose for NLRB, + “It has seemed, at times, that those administering the law were comvinced that our industrial plants were built not primarily for production but to provide facilities where people

, could practice the procedure of collective bar-

gaining.” Future of Nation

TAX law enforcement was cited as another field in which government lawyers don’t always

give the private practitioners’ clients a break. As a clincher to his argument, Mr. Halleck used an example from the field of international relations. Lend-lease was terminated by Congress Dec. 1, 1946, but the government lawyers held that millions of dollars worth of lend-lease goods marked for Soviet Russia should be shipped because the USSR really had title to them. Government lawyers writing price control regulations also was dealt with at some length by Mr. Halleck, who concluded: “By virtue of the peculiar position occupied by lawyers in this complex society of today it Js not an exaggeration to say that they, more than any other single group, hold the future of

this nation in their hands,”

What Others Say—

ONE OF the acutely fglt dissatisfactions amongst Asian members of the UN is . inadequate representation . . . irrespective of population, size or geographic importance . . . a carry-over of the Western nations discriminatory attitude toward the Asian nations. —Sirdar Jagjit Singh, president, India League of America.

SIDE GLANCES

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By Avdrewr Tully

an the free world builds up strength. But the

said to feel that the next three mon\hs will be the real explosive ‘time; if we

\war the President feels we'll stand a ce of avoiding one altogether,

The President is realistic rather than gloomy it was emphasized. He doesn't want Americans to be quaking in their boots, but merely to accept the fact that there's still plenty of reason to be on guard. Pe bd AS FOR himself, the President is happy over the victory at San Francisco—happietr than he thought he was going to be.

Mr. Truman didn't Know the democratic nations were going to hand the Russians sush a

~ resounding defeat. He figured we'd win; but not -

so fast, nor in such clear-cut fashion. He thought the Russians would toss a lot more gimmicks into the works than they did and was pleasantly surprised when Gromyko and company confined their efforts to puny demagogery..

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HIS AID said Mr Truman feels San Francisco was just as important to the free world

as the Berlin airlift. For at the treaty ¢on-

ference, the democracies showed Russia their moral strength and put up such a solid front that the Reds weren't able to woo a single non-

The Chip on His Shoulder

ROME NEXT STOP . .

. By Frederick C. Othman

Spanish Money Is in Mess; Peseta Listed in 3 Values

EN ROUTE TO ROME, Sept. 19—After 10 days of skittering around Spain in an assortment of conveyances, some rickety, it is a real comfort to be flying down the Mediterranean at 17,000 feet in a slick new Constellation with a

crew of solid American citizens at the controls. Even the coffees good, while Trans World Airline’s two stewardesses have blue eyes. Seems like home, says Hilda, relaxing for the first time in a good many days, mountains, and oceans. Still and all, she liked Spain and especially the gallant Spaniards. Many of them were desperately poor, but invariably they were kind to us and courteous. They were proud, too, and for what it's worth to the

- U. 8. Senate, I can report that none with whom

we talked was happy about the prospect of getting any billions from us. They're the only Europeans who've managed without American aid and they're a little chesty about it. Can't say that I blame them. I never did catch up with Gen. Francisco Franco, who was taking his vacation in the north, but I did have an anise (which turns white when water is added and then takes off the top of your head) with some of his helpers. They said that if we wanted to turn Spain into an unsinkable aircraft carrier, we'd have to pay for it. As simple as that, Strictly business. Franco runs the country with a firm hand and while his foreign exchange operations seem to be hopelessly tangled in red tape, his critics claim his greatest fault is one of omission. He's becoming an old man now and apparently he has made no provision for a successor. Some Spaniards fear chaos upon his death. His money is a mess. Officially, for business purposes, the peseta is worth about a dime. For tourists is another rate, making each peseta worth around three cents, but in the free money markets of the world this coin is worth only two pennies. So with the money varying in

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19— Sen. Karl Mundt's (R. 8. D.) crusade for a political union between conservative Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans has reached the committee stage. But most conservative leaders in both parties are skeptical of results and are remaining carefully aloof from the movement. “Sen. Mundt isn’t going any place with his idea,” said one top Republican conservative. “At least not in 1952. But if Mr, Truman or his choice should .win next year despite all the Republicans and the Harry Byrd Southerners could do, then the realignment might happen.” : : "on . - ONLY one active conservative leader, Sen. Owen Brewster (R. Me.) has joined the coalition movement. 2 Six men-—three ‘Democrats and three

POLITICAL COALITION . .

Southern Democrats-GOP Merger Pushed

SEN. MUNDT said this was not.a third party movement, but simply an effort to transfer the informal alliance which has existed for years between conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats in Congress over into the presidential He said all activity would be within existing party

value, according to who owns it, there's a lot of skulduggery. This has resulted in still more laws and still bigger forms to be filled out in triplicate. Until the general manages to stabilize his money, I fear he’ll continue to have his troubles with the smugglers. These latter have done well by themselves. I heard one tale, which I have every reason to believe true, about a smuggler who had a consignment of telephone equipment in Tangiers. He brought it into Spain, while officialdom turned its head. His customer was the state police department, which had to have the machinery—and couldn't import it legally.

Named After Franco

EVERY main street in every Spanish town through which we passed, from Madrid to Barcelona, was named after Franco. His framed picture was visible in more store windows than not. There's no doubt he's a dictator, but he seems to be a good deal more dignified about it than the Peron fellow in Argentina, Mrs. O. says, and I guess she’s right, that we shouldn’t sneer at our hosts. The Spaniards went all out to make our stay pleasant and, above all, they didn't cheat us once. Fact is, sometimes it seemed as though they cheated themselves. For visitors with cheap pesetas in their pockets, prices are ridiculously low. Nowhere else can a man buy a good pair of shoes for $3. Only complaint Hilda had concerned the peculiar eating schedule of the Spaniards. They usually have lunch around 3 p. m. and dinner at 11, when she’s thinking of going to bed. The upshot was that when she got hungry, the restaurants usually were closed. When they were open she mostly was asleep.

Could Starve to Death

TOO MUCH of this and a girl can starve to death. On the other hand, says she, it keeps her hips from spreading. She’s just put away a large American lunch on the flying machine, however, and she's now reading up on Rome. What she wants to see, and we'll be arriving

“now in about 30 minutes, are the cages in the

Coliseum, where the Romans used to keep the Christians before tossing them to the lions. I never knew before that she was a historian,

. By Earl Richert

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former Democratic governor of New Jersey; Donald R. Richberg chairman of the NRA board during the Roosevelt administration and a Virginia Democrat; Donald J. Cowling, president of Carleton College at Northneld, Minn, and former president of the Association of American Colleges; Horate A. Hildreth, former govérnor of Maine and now president of Bucknell College; Albert W, Hawkes, former Republican Senator from New Jersey and former president of the U, 8. Chamber of Commerce.

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THE executive committee ” was formed at a three-day series of unpublicized meetings here over the week-end. Sen. Mundt said about 100 persons from 17 states attended. He declined to reveal the names of those attending. States represented, he said, included

He hopes that the Democrats, running as Democrats in the South, could select electors next year who would go to the electoral college wifling to support a presidential ticket also satisfactory to conservative Republican electors, EJ

IF THIS worked next year, by 1956 the coalition might take a new party name such 3 Demoeratic-Rerublicans Pri J mocratic- lican Al- i someones’ eles’ , liance, he said. ; méver could bo ile" alge + The coalition, Sen. Mundt said, would revolve around the concept’ of a limited govern-

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satellite nation away from “the American side of the fence. That, Mr. Truman told his aids, is the way to do, a job on Soviet Russia—show them that little’ nations as well as big ones ‘are brave enoiigh to stand up and be counted in opposition to communism. J * BS

THE THING to do-now, he said, is for all the free nations to stick together and work hard building up their strength so the day will come when Russia won't dare to think of committing . aggression. As for the U. 8. the President be~ lieves that it will have to continue to maintain a huge armed force for years to come, just as the British did for so many years,

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‘Treaty Would Prevent War’ MR. EDITOR: The Japanese peace treaty is being hailed by politicians of both parties and some of the press and radio as a great moral victory against | communism. : However, since we have seen 80 many mise takes made in the past that were glorified as

- great accomplishments toward democracy, we might do well to withhold judgment for a while, .

I haven't noticed any one in authority saying that we could actually have had a better treaty back in September 1941, without fighting a war at all. Few Americans seem to realize . that we were at war then with Japan and the. Jap attack on Pearl Harbor occurred because

we were already in war,

> oo @ THE FULL story of how peace could have

"been. possible instead of war is told in former

Ambassador Grew’s book, “Ten Years in Japan.” Prime "Minister Konge of Japan invited Mr,° Grew to dinner and’ pleaded with him to arrange a conference with President Roosevelt such as Roosevelt and Churchill had when the Atlante

Charter was cooked up. The Jap prime mirfster offered’ to’ withdraw all troops from China except at a few strategic places where they were needed to -stop come munism. He also promised to make every possible concession to get the meeting. < He kept . a warship waiting in hope of getting an invitation from Roosevelt which never came, * * @ EVEN after that peace could have been te sured if Roosevelt had only said the word. The last chance for peace was lost on Nov. 26, 1941 - when the late Secretary of State Hull on orders from Roosevelt sent an ultimatum to Japan which no nation could have accepted. Then came the attack on Pearl Harbor. We can't recall the past of course but we could use it as a guide post for the future. If the same treaty we wrote a few days ago with Japan had been written in 1941 it would have been considered appeasement. We could probably get a better peace treaty with Russia today than after*fighting another useless, futile war, 0. D. C., Terre Haute

‘Grateful for Radio Station’ MR. EDITOR:

I am increasingly grateful and appreciative of Purdue University's radio station, WBAA. Many of the readers of the Hoosier Forum are . thinking people. I am sure they would be glad to, know that .they can listen to good music, class room lectures and many other educational programs from this different radio station at

920 on the dial, -—, a. Snyder, City

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

PRESIDENT TRUMAN asked for nearly half a billion to “meet increased costs” of an Atomic Energy Commission plant on the Savannah River. It will also be a vote of no confidence in administration price controls. * & ; GROMYKO sailed for home looking ! less like the cat who swallowed the canary than a man who got the bird. * * 4 PREMIER MARSHAL TITO told the Yugoslavs that it's a Socialist country and they can believe in anything so long as it’s him, ’ o> ¢

HOME MINISTER C. Rajagopalachari moved to delay action on the proposed press restrictions in India. With names like that, headline writers must : feel restricted enough as it is.

* & & RED BUGLERS in Korea have been blowing their own taps. ® & o PRESIDENT TRUMAN made a nonpolitical speech to U. 8. postmasters urging all government employees to vote for him.

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