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Another Middle East Crisis

SINCE 1945 successive Egyptian governments have L attempted to negotiate a new treaty with Britain

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providing for withdrawal: of British forces.

Under the 1936 treaty, Britain is permitted to station 10,000 troops, 400 planes and supporting personnel in Egypt for defense of the strategically important Suez Canal. The Egyptians frequently have charged that the

British forces have exceeded these limits.

But the heart of the controversy in Egypt lies in the fact that the whole Middle East has been seething with unrest, fired by a rampant nationalism directed against all foreign influences. And the English have been slow and reluctant to recognize the rising tide. Treaties

and contracts are of little value in such a situation.

Only last week the British government informed Egypt. that a new formula for settlement of the Suez dispute was being completed. It would bring Egypt into association with Britain and the United States in the Middle East defense system proposed by the Western powers. This plan envisaged a compromise by which a-

garrison from several nations might hold the Suez.

But the situation is complicated by Egypt's desire for full control of the Sudan which is now ruled jointly

by ouster of the British from Iran, are in no mood for

compromise. :

wisely they deal with this problem.

End of the Trail

THE United States has just finished giving a bunch of treasonable conspirators, dedicated to the destruction of this country, every possible technical, legal, moral and

Christian consideration.

The 11 big bugs in the Communist nest who now stand finally and completely convicted have tested the American -

Logic and law are on the side of the British, but they are dealing with hot-headed, irrational nationalism born of long years of real and fancied injuries. The peace and security of the Western world may depend on

machinery of justice as it never before has been tried.

They twisted it, they distorted it and they used every device known to legal trickery to beat it. If ever a defendant had the benefits of democratic justice, these conspirators had it. If ever a case was handled with lean-over-backward

fairness, this was it.

And yet these were the leaders of a movement to overthrow the system on which they relied to escape punishment. They were kingpin plotters in a movement which actually denies the existence of the justice

them so open-mindedly.

They are the representatives of a movemgnt which prates of the people’s rights and repudiates every one of They are the agents of a movement which has taunted and smeared the American aliministration of jus- : tice, but who begged and got every consideration it could i+ offer. :

them.

‘The War Is the Pressure

SPEAKING at an Atlantic City convention, Defense : Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the success of the: : defense program hinges on the attitudes of the “large

pressure groups.”

He identified these groups as industry, agriculture

and labor. :

That's practically everybody—except one major group,

government.

In any situation, self-interest is bound to exert pressure. But it is the government's job to resist that

pressure.

In the case of ‘runaway inflation,” which appears * to be Mr. Wilson's abiding fear, the influence of pressure groups has had a major effect. But the government's lukewarm effort to buck such pressures has been the

main factor in letting inflation run.

The shooting is in Korea. But the inflationary forces released by war-spending strike -at every element in the nation. In that sense, as well as others, the shooting is

here at home, too.

As long as American men are dying in Korea, no group in this country should be sensitive to any pressure pxcept the pressure of war. That should apply, first of

all, to the government.

He Invited the Snub

| THE Illinois judgeship fight, President Truman cut

off his nose to spite his face.

The President gave the appearance of deliberately sponsoring two candidates for judgeship in the federal courts there out of pique toward Sen. Paul H. Douglas. Sen. Douglas made an issue of it and now the Senate has

rejected the. two candidates.

A smart politician would have found two candidates

the Senator couldn't reasonably oppose.

Now the President has been handed a purposeful snub

by the Senate. He asked for it.

But the point lost sight of is that the Illinois. court’ has been in need of judges for many months. Considering the eagerness with which this administration has been filling thousands of ‘other jobs, it would seem logical that two such important and necessary positions could be filled

with a little less political hassle.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN told the pilgrims that he has been trying to form a spiritual front of “the great religious leaders of the world.” Maybe he is getting ready to put & plank in the 1952 Democratic platform asking for the

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INTERNAL REVENUE SCANDALS . . . By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—Several Senators and House members concerned about: internfl

revenue scandals are digcussing.charges of mis-.

conduct by the Judiciary and Justice Department. i ; Two of the Representatives are members. of the House -Judiciary Committee, the first eofficial body called -on--to consider any impeachment resolution which might be offered. > & b REP. PATRICK J. HILLINGS (R. Cal) a member of Judiciary, said he was concerned about reports that an investigation of Internal Revenue scandals in San Francisco had been turned on the investigators, Two of those investigators were Charles O'Gara, assistant U. 8. attorney, and Richard V. Hyer, a San Francisco newspaperman, Mr. O'Gara was the first to present information about the internal revenue office in San: Francisco to a°grand jury. Mr, Hyer has written stories sharply criticizing internal revenue procedures. i .

Dear Boss . . . By Dan Kidney

Hoosiers Rap Price Controls

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—Leading Indiana packers have made personal pilgrimages here to plead with their Senators and Congressmen to end what they frankly term “the meat price control farce.” The Hoosier Senators and Congressmen told - them that President Truman can end such controls by an executive order, No additional legislation is needed. Knowing how the American Meat Institute has interested its members in” making such trips to Washington, President Truman announced at his press conference that meat price controls are here to stay. He made a similar an-

=i R 4 W. R. Sinclair... II and shortly thereafter reHits meat price moved meat from all control. controls. That was done by him in a dramatic 15-minute radio address in which he devoted the first 14 minutes to proving that controls were necessary and the last one in taking them off. : Whether history will repeat in this instance is causing much speculation here. Some inkling that it may do so was given by OPS Director Michael DiSalle yesterday. He told Congress that price controls on meat may have to be abandoned, unless it repeals the ban on slaughtering quqtas.

‘Isn’t Going to Get It’

DESPITE HIS wholesale raids on chiselers recently, he confesses that the black trarket on meats already has returned and unless he geis the quota-making powers he can't stop it..

He isn’t going to get it.

On the very day the Hoosier packers were here, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind.) put the restoration of quotas to a test vote in the Senate and it lost 45 to 16.

The House has done nothing about the matter and has no plans to act before the upcoming adjournment.

What it all means, according to W. R. Sinclair, board chairman of Kingan & Co., Indianapolis, is that there is_no possible way to make meat price controls work and avoid black marketing.

“That meat price controls cannot be made to work without rationing was clearly pointed out to the administration by the American Meat Institute,” Mr. Sinclair said. “But the Office of Price Stabilization went right ahead with its orders. They have been forthcoming ever since and the situation is rapidly growing worse. We now have figures to show that there is no way to make price controls on meats really work. “We feel that we have convinced our Senators and Congressmen of that fact.”

Accompanied by Son

MR. SINCLAIR was accompanied by his son, Thomas T. Sinclair, a Kingan vice president. They were armed with whole sheafs of figures to show that the beef slaughter business has been slumping and profitless. Sifhilar statistics were provided by George

Stark of Stark and Wetzel, Indianapolis, who

was accompanied by Paul Burch of the same concern; Oscar Emgee, Ft. Branch and Anderson packer, and the Indiana plant managers for Big Four—S8wift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy. Speaking unitedly as the ‘voice of experience” the packers maintain marketing of beef animals and the productiof of beef has been drastically reduced since controls were inaugurated. Farmers are shipping fewer cattle to the terminal markets and the black market slaughterers are back in business in a big way. Consumers are switching to substitute products, such as poultry and eggs. “Meat is a perishable comméddity and the packing business is different from that of ordinary manufacture,” Mr. Sinclair explained. ° “While other products are assembled at the factory from raw materials, we are really engaged in dis-assembling the raw materials to make our finished product. In this business, with the grading of livestock involved and the day-to-day market hazards, there is‘no way to make price controls on meat really work.”

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Lawmakers Suspect Misconduct In

_ Rep. Hillings was dubious about the agsignment, from Washington of Irvin Goldstein to ‘assist in presenting evidence to a grand jury now in session in San Francisco, Mr. Goldstein is now a spectal assistant U. 8."attorney, ' Pre-

- viously, hd had been defense attorney for John

Maragon, convicted perjurer and administration hanger-on. His assignment ‘‘rajses a serious question as to the sincerity of the Attorney General (J. Howard McGrath) in wanting to go ahead with the investigation of Internal Revenue officials,” Rep. Hillings said. Se > @ “THE FACT that this investigation is turning into an investigation of Mr. O'Gara rather than to Internal Revenue officials does raise new questions and incredse interest on our part in the whole situation,” he added. Mr. O'Gara is known to have been called into a lengthy session with Goldstein shortly after the latter had returned from Washington.

Let Us Prey

THAT'S FOR ME . . . By Frederick C. Othman

u. S. Judiciary: Department

Rep. Hillings said he felt that if the Justice Department should file charges against one of its own officials who had attempted to present evidence on Internal Revenue scandals, and against a newspaperman who had reported damaging disclosures about the Bureau, 'it would have an intimidating effect on other employees in other cities.

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ow bb “HONEST employees in Boston, St. Louis and other cities where investigations are being held would be put on notice that if they dared ask questions or testify about things they knew they might get the same treatment,” he said.

The San Francisco investigation into grand jury matters has been featured by a series of unusual actions on the part of federal judges and officials in the U. 8. attorney's office. Last May, when Mr. O'Gara presented testimony to a grand jury, Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman halted the investigation, called it “=o

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$10,000 and a Soft Chair, Too—?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1£-1t President Truman has any openings as $10,000-a-year collectors of internal revenue (and I understand he soon will have) I'd like to apply for one of these jobs. I don't know anything about taxes. Nor have I much time to bother with 'em.. My qualifications obviously are ideal. I'd make the best little; old, do-nothing tax collector this country ever had. I wouldn't shake down the customers, either. I'd just sit there and be satisfied with my

$10,000. I mean I've been listening to Jimmy, Finnegan, the hot-

shot politician, who was collector in St. Louis until he saw fit to “quit” sulidenly a" few weeks back. Now Congress is peppering him with embarrassing questions about whether he tried to peddle life insurance to folks who owed back taxes. The red-faced Jimmy says he didn't. he ‘was just lawyer, was all, to the insurance agent who tried to do business with this select group of clients. . What fascinated me was the way Jimmy described his work as collector. He had a great deal of difficulty remembering exactly what he did for his federal salary, but when he was in town he did manage to spend two or three and sometimes four hours a day in his swivel chair at the Federal building. What he knew about tax collection you could put in your left eye; buf _as Jimmy says, he doubts if many of the 64 collectors in the country know much more. Mostly they are political appointees, who leave

_ the work to the hired hands,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11— American security is involved in the grave dispute between Britain and Egypt. The disputed Suez military base is the largest, the best supplied and the most strategically placed in the entire Middle East: It is the key to West ern defense against Russia. As such, it is of direct interest to the United States. Nominally it is a British base. They garrison and finance it. . Actually, however, it is an

Allied base in the sense that the United States puts money and materials into the general British rearmament program, and that Suez would be available for joint use in case of need. Under the mutual military aid system the AmericanBritish ‘preparedness efforts are mingled to the point that any attempt to separate Buez from the global security plan

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“Let's imagine the week-end is over,” began Rep. Cecil King (D. Cal.), chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee. “it's Monday morning. So you walk jn about 10 a. m. and say, hello, Joe, and you hang up your hat. Now go on from there.” Jimmy said he never did get to work at 10 a. m. He always came in a little later. “And there'd be a long string of people waiting to see me, wanting jobs and stuif like that,” he added. “So I'd see em and after about three or four hours of that, you'd feel like you had a tough day.” “Now it's lunchetime,” prompted Rep. King.

“Yes,” said Finnegan, looking at the clock. “So I"d go out to lunch at about 12:30 and I'd come back at 2:30 or 3. Then maybe there'd be a meeting and that would be the end of your day.” : Jimmy said he took the job because he believed it implied what he called “honorary honors.” He figured these would help him get more law business. The boss man in Washington said he could handle his legal enterprises while he worked for the government; that, in fact, he could spemd much or as little time as he pleased collecting taxes.

Likes to Help People—

“SO 4 took the job because 1 could help people,” Jimmy continued. “I could get them jobs here and there. I lize to help people.” While he wasn't interested in collecting taxes as such, he said he figured it was a good idea to keep the boys happy who did. “I was a kind of public relations man,” he said. ; As for the days he didn't go to work at all Jimmy felt that was okay, too. After all, the office still was running and the happy hired men still were collecting the cash. And, as I say, this sounds like exactly my kind of work. All I want is $10,000 and a wellupholstered chair.

; By Galbraith . mppig EAST. . . By Ludwell Denny U. S. Security Involved in Suez Fight

The Cairo parliament is favorably considering cabinet legislation for that purpose. London says a treaty is a

most serious affront to ‘the laws of the United States,” scolded Mr. O'Gara for acting with instructions from his boss, and said ‘a grand jury is not an investigative body but is restricted to matters brought before it by the court or the U. S. attorney's office. ! Another federal judge summarily dismissed another grand jury that indicated interest in these matters. He charged still another grand jury sworn in at the same time that he “could fire the whole body” if it stepped out of line in trying to investigate. “od % THIS interpretation of the powers of a grand jury was questioned by the San Francisco News and the Association of Former Grand Jurors of the city-and county of Sah Francisco. Sen. Richard Nixon (R. Cal.) has introduced a bill designed to clarify beyond. question the powers of grand juries, and to give effect to the wide latitude they have theoretically pose sessed.

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Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend io the death your right to say it."—Voltaire.

‘Give Iran a Chance’

MR. EDITOR: I read with great discouragement Mr. Clyde Farnsworth’s “Soviets Woo ‘Dear’ Iran,” in your Oct. 4 issue. To make Iran's position clear, let me paint out that in 1944 she refused to give Russia an oil concession despite the fact that the latter's troops” were still in her territory. Now, what would a fair-minded person expect Iran to do in the present oil situation? Iran has, from the beginning, offered to compensate the former oil company. She has. offered to employ only Western technicians. She has made it clear that the former customers have priority in the purchase of oil. What else could she do? If it is expected that the Iranians are to remain under the yoke of an oil company which has sucked the llfeblood of the nation for 40 years, it is an expectation which will not be realized short of war, /

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IRANIANS are determined in their stand and could not any more endure the exploitation policy of the former oil company which has burdened them with - hunger, , poverty and squalor. - Iran sided with the Allies during World War II. She suffered terribly from the consequences of the war. When Mr. Roosevelt went to Iran

in 1943, he promised her economic aid. What happened after the war? Billions of dollars poured into Allied and beligerent countries

from the United States. Iran stood by and watched, receiving none hersefr; In 1949 the United States wanted to help But Britain did not like thé idea. Help was not given. A few weeks ago a $25 million loan was granted to Iran. but it is not new permitted to be utilized. Why? Britain would not like it.

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THIS IS my conclusion in the light of the above: : "If the former oil company insists on retaining its stronghold in Iran, there are probably two alternative policies for the United States. She could either demonstrate to the free world that she deserves the position of leadership she enjoys, by helping Iran, by urging Britain to act in accordance with the essential elements for building world brotherhood, and thus check communism in the Middle East and prevent World War II; or she could indorse imperialism by helping Britain against Iran and thus, in most probability, bring communism to the Middie East and start World War III. ~—Javad Vafa, Bloomington.

‘Welfare and Politics’ MR. EDITOR:

What ails us Hoosiers? We pay meney into -

the Federal Treasury as a part of our obligations as citizens, then let our state Legislature, or at least a fraction of it, try to do us out of the money we pay in. What's the matter with them, and what's the matter with us to allow this travesty on legislative procedure? It was bad enough to pass such a bungling law in the first place, without compounding its evils in addition. All this stuff about getting out from under federal control is simply a smoke screen to get us back under the pettifogging local politicians. The word “pettifogging” is used here to keep from using an alternative term which will immediately suggest itself to every reader.

—E. M, City.

CALM AND COLLECTED

WHEN I am lost for words or thought . ... and cannot fit a rhyme .". . I set aside my ink and pen... and try some other time... because a different time may bring . . . the idea that I need , . . and I can record all my thoughts . . . with most amazing speed . . . and though this always works for me . . . I cannot guarantee - » : that it will do the same for you ., . you'll have to try and see... but I know this . . . that it won't hurt , . . to get a change of view... when something that you must get done . . . ptovokes or worries you . . . because while pausing you will rest . . . new hope and strength you'll find . .. and you can face your problem with , . , a calm collected mind.

—By Ben Burroughs.

(ompromise was being drafted for joint control of the base. The goal is Egyptian and Turkish participation, with

challenging the 1936 treaty in

which she granted base’ rights to Britain. At one point “she tried unsuccesstflly to get the

United Nations into the dis‘pute. Following several months

of threats unless Brit ment to get out, she now says

tear up the treaty,

she will put the British out.

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treaty. This one contains no provision for one-sided cancellation before 1956. Such action by Egypt would be illegal. Cairo replies that the treaty is not binding for two reasons: It was signed under alleged duress. Britgin allegedly has violated it by stationing at Suez larger forces than authorized.

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THERE is not much doubt that Britain has the stronger legal position. And it is clear that Egypt, in tearing up the treaty, would be sabotaging the system of international law essential to world peace. Nevertheless, a strictly legalistic approach is not sufficient. Unless there is a prac-

‘tical settlement both sides will

suffer, * : ; ~ Just before” Egypt's hasty action Monday, London had notified Cairo that a British

Britain and the United States, under the proposed extension of the North Atlantic Pact and

supplementary Middle East defense setup.

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UNFORTUNATELY the Cairo government is embarrassed by that fair prospeét, because it is the victim of the extreme anti-foreign frenzy it has aroused in the public. Also because it had hoped to trade

Suez concesstons for annexation of the Anglo-Egyptian Stdan. Britain insists on the right of the Sudanese to aeside their own fate after their training in self-government is

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Now that Winston Churchfll has made the dispute

a British campaign fssue, it

may be ‘a8 difficult for any London goverament as for

‘Cairo politicians to compro-

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