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Lattimore, the Architect

HE SENATE Internal Security Subcommittee is doing a job that the Tydings committee failed to do. The Tydings committee last year had the mission, and '. ample opportunity, to learn how deeply the pro-Communists had penetrated the State Department, particularly in building our China policy. But the committee bent its energies and purpose rather toward concealment, heard a minimum of witnesses, and came up with its infamous whitewash—which proved nothing. But now there has been spread on the record some challenging evidence of the way the pro-Communist China clique influenced State Department thinking and activities - at a time when freé¢ China was making its final stand against Communist aggression. The testimony came from Harold E. Stassen, former Minnesota governor, now president of the University of Pennsylvania, and a long-time Republican supporter of ‘the bipartisan foreign policy. ~ ” ” MR. STASSEN told the committee, headed by Sen. McCarran, that he had attended a State Department round table conference on Oct. 6-8, 1949, to discuss Far Eastern RE 5. 3 POET: PHP Co TERRY PHERTRRR, ors sr Mr. Stassen said that Owen Lattimore, as a leader of the “prevailing group” at the conference, presented a 10-point program which “could best be characterized as steps that would hasten the victory of the Communists in China and Asia.” At that time, although-the Communist regime had proclaimed itself a republic at Peiping, the Nationalist goyernment still held a sizable part of South China. The Chinese Reds alteady had revealed themselves as devoted followers of the Moscow party line. Yet the Lattimore program, according to Mr. Stassen, recommended recognition of the Reds; deliverance of Formosa to the Communists; that the U. 8. break the Nationalist blockade of the China coast, give aid to the Communists instead of thé Nationalists, and recognize that Russian communism was “not as aggressive’ as Hitler. Mr. Lattimore has issued a statement in which he challenges the accuracy of Mr. Stassen's testimony on all of these points. Mr. Lattimore also has asked that the State Department make public his remarks at the conference. This request should be granted promptly. Mr. Stassen said he opposed every point’ of the Lattimore proposals and at the conclusion appealed to Mr. Jessup not to follow the recommendations. In reply, Mr. Jessup was quoted as saying he felt “the greater + logic” was on the side of the Lattimore group. A State Department spokesman said Tuesday that ‘Mr. Jessup cannot recall ever having made any such remark. :

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» ® 5 = = = SOME TIME later, in 1949 or in early 1950, Mr. Stassen said, on the authority of the late Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, that Secretary of State Acheson and Mr. Jessup proposed to President Truman that- he halt all , shipments to the Nationalists, “dramatically” to underline that they would get no more U. S. aid. * The State Department finds no record of any such proposal and says Mr. Acheson or Mr. Jessup have no recollection of such a meeting. But the record is with Mr. Stassen when he said that the State [Department had given every indication of adopting the Lattimore program. Actually, the State Department has been trying to scuttle free China since the end of the war, and did succeed in delaying aid to the Nationalists until it was no longer of much use. Further, there can be no doubt that the State Department was at the. point of recognizing Red China in late 1940. : But popular indignation over Angus Ward's captivity forestalled it then. : Then, for the second time, we were at the point of selling out Formosa when the Korean War intervened. ~ As a compromise, President Truman “neutralized” the , island rather than to accept Chiang Kai-shek's offer to help us fight the Communists. : - ® The people who made all of those tragic policy mistakes, including Mr. Acheson and Mr. Jessup are still riding high in the State Department. Public interest would have been better served had such material as the Stassen testimony been put in the record . long ago—on the initiative of the Tydings committee, for instance. The McCarran committee deserves the nation's plaudits for digging into the China policy mess now.

Happy Landings

HE radio man describing the Giants-Dodgers playoff ~ game spoke repeatedly, and, it seemed to us, admiringly of one dyed-in‘the-wool baseball fan—an Air Force officer who had flown a jet plane all the way from Las Vegas, Nev., to New York "just to see this baseball game.” We hope the fan enjoyed the game. We hope you enjoyed it, too. You paid for this trip, you know.

DOUGHNUT dunking has been okayed by a social / : customs expert. Now may we please squeeze our gratefruiy/ into a spoon?- f - ’ ” ” ” » o " SYMPATHY is fine for everybody until it g into the habit of wanting it. ~ » ~ - » A PICKLE is healthful, says a pickle oficial. He should try getting into one. . 8 a . 8 8 PRICE STABILIZER MIKE DISALLE told a Senate. . committee he is confident that he will be able to keep controlling prices up. aa ; ® wv » “a 8.8

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Soviets Woo ‘Dear’ Iran ‘Big Brother’ Hopes

‘To Slam Door on West

® TEHRAN, Oct. 4-Like a patient, secondrate suitor who hung round on the off chance of a lover's quarrel, the Soviet Union is giving Iran a shoulder tocry on and whispering how happy they're going to be together. . Russia obviously is trying to catch Iran o the rebound from what many Iranians regard as her shattered love affair with the Western powers, especially the United States. Britain's oil concession and injunction from the World Court, and now. her American - supported appeal to the United Nations Security

to force Iran to play according to interna-

Mossadegh tional rules, lie at thanks to Joe the root of the trouiy - ble,

‘Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov had an hour's meeting Tuesday with Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. : The Premier was said to have thanked Stalin's intermediary for Russia's vote against Security Council consideration of the British complai#t. Ambassador Sadchikov was said to have promised that “Big Brother” would care for all of Iran's import needs and take all her exports if she breaks with the West. In a meeting with Premier Mossadegh last week, the Russian was rumored .to have promised that Russia would take Iranian oil from the Persian Gulf with her own and Romanian tankers. :

Would Like a Split - THERE'S little doubt that Russia and her Iranian, well-wishers. stan

would like nothing more than to see a split with all Western-minded members of the United Nations., They welcomed the break with the British, knowing, it would strain Iranian relations with the United States. . There's one story that Russia has offered to construct a pipeline from the Khuzistan oil fields nearly 700 miles north to the Caspian Sea. This story has persuaded many shortsighted Iranians there will be a market for Iranian oil regardless of possible United Na--tions sanctions. - If Russian engineers have seriously advanced the pipeline plan, they've outdone more conservative experts who consider it impracticable. In return for the pipeline, according to this report, the Iranian government would sign a long-term contract and have little more to do with the Western powers. Another idea credited to the Russians is that Iran should do away with the world's largest refinery tn such an unhandy place as Abadan and let the Russians cart its vital parts northward to the Iranian-Soviet border. There it could take the new pipeline output and supplement Russia's own scant refining capacity.

Obvious Hitches

THINGS that few Iranians seem to remember in savoring the stories of the big things Russia has in store include the problem of how Iran is going to pay for an excess of promised imports over immediately available exports* without mortgaging herself into the Soviet orbit. 4 Iranian-Russian trade hitherto has been balanced off in barter clearances. Other obviots hitches are Russia's probable Inability to support Iran with manufactured goods in the Western manner to which she has been accustomed by royalties on her oil. Or what the United States is likely to do. about present or prospective investments in Iranian friendship if Iran helps to rivet her own iron curtain. Premier Mossadegh recently has been buttering up the Tudeh, or Iranian Communist Party. He has restored 400 former oil workers, largely Tudeh members, to full pay retroactively after five months’ idleness following a strike at Abadan. And he has banned the American film. “Steel Helmet,” ‘which offended Red leaders by glorifying American military action in Korea.

What Others Say—

THE business of the schools is/not to break:

up the habits of young people of reading confessions, glamorized movie magazines, comic books . . . and the like, but rather to open new doors.—Wallace R. Murray, speech educator, San Jose College.

YOU have to study this subject (bill on whether manufacturers should absorb freight charges) hard for six months. before you can understand it, and then it's so complicated, you can’t explain it.—Sen. Russell B. Long (D. La.).

THE young person today sees . . . that the things that separate men from &ne another are less important than the things they have in common.—Thornton Wilder, author.

YOU may be wondering what effect a truce in Korea will have upon our defense mobilization program. The answer is it will have no effect. —Charles E. Wilson, mobilization director.

NEVER tell a newspaperman that information is confidential . . . that brings on nasty editorials.—Simon Stickgold, of Illinois, Public Ald Commission.

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OUR CLUBMEN . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Senators May Be Real Chummy

—But I'd Rather

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—I've always heard that the U. 8S. Senate is the chummiest, most exclusive club for gentlemen in the world. This

_I now am beginning to doubt.

I've been listening to the red-faced brethren

snarl at each other, bang their gavels and pass out insults—and if this is club life de luxe for gents I'm glad I'm not a member. Too tough on the nerves. There was ® this from Wiseonsin, Sen. Joe McCarthy, trying to tell some of his fellow members that A mb a ssador Philip

good as U., 8S. delegate to the United Nations because he'd done too much business with Communist-front organizations. Sen. Joe was clad in a fresh-pressed powderblue suit, a new haircut, a red (oops!) necktie, and a scowl. With him he had a small wagonload of evidence against Jessup, who. sat quietly in the back of the room. The question was whether Jessup had tried to get this country to recognize Red China; that's all the background you need to know. Now let us listen to the clubmen indulge in some

good fellowship: ’ “Well, did we recognize Red China?” de-

manded Sen. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.).

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Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

MAYBE the isolationists will make an issue out of Yankees taking part in a World Series. “> oo B ; JUST to show they do not consider National GOP Chairman Gabrielson a confidence man, Republicans meeting in Washington gave him a vote of confidence, : vs hb * ABOUT the oniy thing this Congress hasn't investigated is the Hoover Com-

mission governmental reorganization plans to save $5 billion. So 4 BH -

SOME progress has been made in getting the government news suppression “security order” revoked. President Truman announced he isn't going to do it. > * & ONE Republican Congressman reported he wasn’t invited to a big GOP meeting in Washington because he hadn't given a pint of blood to the Taft campaign.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 —Government bureaucrats are now going to be authorized to ride around town in taxicabs. On official business, that is. And they will be authorized to tip the dfivers, too. At taxpayers’ expense, This {8 the upshot of the great Congressional economy drive t6 reduce ‘the number of government chauffeurs who had been riding government officials: from conference to conference in government automobiles. The fantastic ball of red tape that has been wound and unwound to solve this latest government crisis is almost unbelievable. But it has now all been reduced to administrative orders.’ This is how it happened: ” - ” FIRST. General Services Administrator Jess Larson — the government's chief housekeeper—asked Controller General Lindsay C. Warren, head of the General Accounting Office, for a ruling on how - ‘he was to ve his employees from one office to another in Washington, since the 18 chauf-

abolished. GAO then told GBA how it could be done. GSA can't tell

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Go Fishing

“Why ask a silly question like that?” snapped brother McCarthy. Chairman John J. Sparkman (D. Ala.), tried to say the question was all right. Sen. Owen W. Brewster (R. Me.) said it was not, either. Brother Sparkman whanged his gavel so hard he nearly broke it. “I will not stand for misstatements, not even by the chairman.” said brother Brewster. “I'm not making any misstatement,” retorted brother Sparkman. Brother Fulbright tried a new tack and brother McCarthy broke in: “If the Senator will forget being a lawyer for a few minutes we'll get along very well.” So pretty soon the brothers got around to the China Aid Council, an outfit of.alleged Pinko leanings, of which Mrs. Jessup was a member of the board. “Are you married?” asked brother Fulbright. “TI am not;” replied brother McCarthy. “Have you ever been married?” persisted the Arkansas clubman. “No,” said his Wisconsin brother.

On and (Yawn) On

"DON'T you think it's very hard on a man to hold him responsible for what his wife does”” asked brother Fulbright. “My wife joins up in all sorts of organizations. Why, she. . ., .” “Let us’ not discuss -your wife,’ pleaded brother McCarthy. “Why, my wife joined the American Red Cross when the president of it was that wellknown ‘subversive and conspirator you have attacked, Mr. George Catlett Marshall,” said brother Fulbright. Eventually the brethren reached the Institute of Pacific Relations which Brother McCarthy charged was dominated by Communists while Mr. Jessup was a leader of it. He said the celebrated citizens who joined the institute had been duped. ‘Brother Fulbright pointed out that. Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) was a member, Did "Brother: McCarthy feel that Brother Ferguson was a Red” Or merely a dupe? “That question does not do any: credit to the intelligence of the Senator from Arkansas” said Brother McCarthy. This -went on for hours and into” the dusk. You could cal! it a day in the lives of our most prominent clubmen. .Myself, I'd rather go fishing. ”

MINERS

THE MEN who work our deepest pits , . . the iron mines or coal . . . live constantly in hazard for ... each year death takes its toll . and I don't doubt that half their life . . . Is spent beneath the ground . ., amid the smell of gassy air . . . or hammers chipping sound + « mow I have never worked in mines . . . for any length of time . . . but in my thorough visit ++ « I have known the feel of grime , .. and I have learned that men who work . . . in places such as these .. ..really earn their daily bread

. the hard way, if you please . . , and so I state their lot should have... a future well preserved . . . with pensions and the like for they

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—By Ben Burroughs.

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TRRRNRRRER ARIA ‘Give 'em a Break’ MR. EDITOR: According to a local paper of recent dats, the latest plan: of the Indianapolis Street Rail. ways, Inc., is to transfer the Butler and Fair. grounds passengers at Illinois and 34th Sts, ‘while the one-way program is ‘under construc. tion. Just what is the need of transferring at this point? Does the front office of the company think that thé people who live north of Maybe the streetcar company is trying ‘to discourage people from riding the city trans. portation. Well, it has been doing that very thing for years and doing a pretty good job of it. re Just why is it that the transportation cannot run straight through to Butler and the Fairgrounds, even while these one-way changes are in progress? - This transferring idea is going to be nothing else but a first class pain in the neck, especially all winter long, in al) kinds of weather. Why, do you know what le will do? peop “ bo THEY will board the trolleys south of the transfer point as far as three or four squares, ride around the loop and on down town to work, How are you going to stop- that? The Butler and Fairgrounds patrons are in for a rough time, And why, if I may ask? They pay the same fare as everybody else, do they not? Why the discrimination? : - © Give these people a break. This one-way construction job is going to take a long time anyway; and who wants to be transferring twice a day, trying to squeeze out of one car into another for the next vear or two? : —George F. Lee, City,

‘Who's a Reactionary?’ MR. EDITOR: After reading the -bitter attack on your paper as well as C, D. C, by Frank Bouth, I called the head librarian at a public Hbrary and asked if they had any books Herbert Hoover wroie when he was President. They said SEE RG IR TRC ET FRE or magazine articles when President and they also said they had no record he ever made any statement ‘that a dollar a day and a lantern was good enough for a working man.” I then called a retired Army officer and asked him if there wal anvthing to indicate MacArthur had disobeyed the orders of his Commander in Chief, H. 8. T. He said there was not Bnd if he had done 80. he would havé tindoubtedly been court martialed instead: of being fired in view of the fact they were trying to smear Gen. MacArthur, South also says C. D. C. is uninformed as usual. Actually he was telling us things about Roosevelt and this administration five to 10 years ago that many of us are just now find. ing out was the truth. Is that being a reactione ary? —Times Reader, City

‘Change Traffic Lights’ MR. EDITOR:

Since I am one of many persons who is both an auto driver and a pedestrian I am concerned for the interest of all. 1 have observed both from the driver's seat and from the curb. Today 1 noted, while waiting for a bus, that although it had the green light, it could not make a right turn because the line of pedestrians never ceased. Although the bus was first in line when again the green light came up it was able to move only because it had moved

up and then turned after the red light stopped the pedestrians. Let me suggest that only automobiles move on the green light; that the green light be fol. four ways) to clear all traffic,

then a walk (four ways) then red (four ways), then green (north and south:, then red four ways) then walk (four wavs then red (four ways) then green (east and west), red-walke red-green (north-south red-walk-green (east and west) ete. I believe this would relieve cone

Jestion and speed traffic. I hope that it will be tried ‘Also, is it not possible to have all stop-go signals alike and in uniform positions with the rames of the streets om these same posts tos gether with any other driving information so that the driver may gather all information at a glance and also know where to glance, —Mrs. James H. Smiley, 445 N. Gladstone Ave,

‘ : . - ‘A Good Editorial’ MR. EDITOR: : I was glad to see that Saturday editorial of yours .. reminds me of The Times of old.

“ Apropos of President Truman's reflection that all ‘employees should have their incomes

. published, I Would like to see vou make an issue

In your paper, editorially or otherwise, of having

evervbody’s income and tax published at. the local level of course. : : Think of all the chiselers that the neighbors could expose and they worry about welfare chiselers, . —A Reader, City.

feurs’ jobs in GSA had been

how to do it. But the pattern established for GSA will apparently be applied to all the other departments. n "2 on EVERY official wanting to go from A to B on government business must fill out Form No.

1012, This is the official travel .

voucher, It's about the size of a bank check and isn’t too complicated. But on Form 1012, which must be filled out every month, every official must list every trip from point of origin to destination, time, date and amount of fare. If he goes by streetcar or bus, he enters that. If he goes by taxi, he énters that. He may tip 10 cents on every fare up to $1. On all fares over $1—get this—he may tip only 10 per cent “to the nearest ni¢kel.” If he goes to the Pentagon, fare $1.25, he may tip 10 per cent or 12%; cents. But which ts the nearest nickel—10 cents

or 15 cents? ' Anyway, the tip -

is not entered on Form 1012 as a tip, but as part of fare, Amount entered will then be $1.35 or $140, oon ; (a a

almost impossible for government employees to get approval for taxicab fares entered on

their expense accounts. Reasons for taking a cab instead of a streetcar had to be explained in detail in every case, and sometimes it took GAO weeks or months to audit and

approve these expense items. »

The new authorization for taxi-riding is quite‘a econcession, but it is only the beginning of the red tape which the “economy” - legislation has

- made necessary, Since it would

not be fair to ask government employees to finance their own

transportation about town on

official business, a petty cash window is to he opened in every government pffice. * Te» HERE the bureaucrat who is broke may go and get his taxi or bus fare in advance. By filling out the necessary voucher, of course.

80, by cutting out the chauf-

feurs, Congress has in effect created new government jobs for. cashiers in every department, and so increased government employment,

. What's more, it is now esti-

mated that it may cost the government from $3 to $5 to audit and process each

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Congressional ‘Economy’ Drive Backfires

chauffeurs’ jobs were abolished by law, the automobiles which they formerly drove wers not abolished. ‘They're still on hand. In order to get some use out of these cars, new administrative drders are being prepared which. will authorize government officials to drive these cars themselves, on official business,

’ ANY official who holds a drivers’ license may call up his department's garage and reserve a car for a government business trip. The regulations will of course say he must be sober, of good moral character, and a responsible driver. If there's a car free, he may then drive it to wherever he is going ~—says the Pentagon. The car

-, Will then sit there—idle—tfll he

gets through his business. Then he drives it back.

In this manner he doesn’t have to fill out Form 1012 as a travel voucher. But the mileage he burns up is charged to his particular bureau or branch. It

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amount of bookkeeping to get

-all this straight and audited.

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