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Churchill Again

E ARE glad Winston Churchill won the British election. Whatever the virtues of the Labor government, it no longer had the confidence of the people—and very little confidence in itself. Britain needs leadership desperately. Whether Churchill can provide enough of it, nobody knows. But at least he will bring to the task tested experience, a strong heart, and unbounded faith in his great nation. The British people can do with a lot of that. wy oy The problems facing-the new government are grave. The adverse trade balance is increasing. The dollar shortage is serious. The inflationary forces are tremendous. After long austerity, the people must pull their belts tighter, work harder, produce more and save more.

THERE is no other way out. That means increasing the efficiency of the lagging nationalized industries, which the Conservative government has inherited. Denationalizing steel, as Churchill has promised, will not be enough. New life and better management must be injected into the state enterprises. Equally important, many private monopolies must be curBed and trade restrictions lifted, to free the economy and provide initiative for bigger production. ~.It is all the more necessary to increase productivity because Churchill has promised not to cut the welfare state subsidies. By thus handcuffing himself he has won an election but made it almost impossible to solve his - toughest problem. Perhaps he can make his biggest contribution in the field of foreign affairs. Labor's charge that he would blunder into war was a phony. The Conservative Party is more completely committed to rearmament than the divided Labor Party. And it is by increasing her strength within the Western alliance that Britain can do most to prevent Russian attack—or to win war if it is forced upon the Allies.

» » . CHURCHILL will base his foreign and defense policy on a closer alliance with the United States. Certainly ®Anglo-American rzlations will not always be harmonious under him, for he is a strong-willed, opinionated leader. But we do not doubt that he and Anthony Eden can contribute more to the partnership than Attlee and Morrison have done with the leftwing anti-American opposition within their own party. One way Churchill can improve relations between our

two countries is to change the Labor government's supine -

and stupid policy toward Communist China. The struggle against Red aggression is global. Britain cannot appease Stalin’s Peiping puppets and expect to meet the Soviet challenge in the Middle East and Europe.

President Backs Away

EN the President on the last day of Congress proposed an American ambassador for the Vatican, we stated our doubts but awaited proof of the necessity of that reversal policy. All that has happened since then convinces us there oe: Se We do not think the issue 1s American separation of church and state. Like it or not, the Vatican is technically a state, is actually a political power in world affairs, and is dealt with as such by most Protestant countries. The sole issue, as we see it, is whether an American envoy at the Vatican is in the national security interest. The evidence is conflicting. On one side-is the fact that “in this democracy the majority is opposed. On the other side is the President's claim that “direct diplomatic relations will assist in co-ordinating the effort to combat Communist influence.”

» - ” - ~ ~ SO THE decisive question is whether the gain for American security would be greater than the loss to national unity, which is essential to that security. Organized Protestant opposition, already alarmingly bitter, shows that loss would be serious. However deplorable, this disunity cannot be ignored with safety. Only compelling security reasons could justify the Truman proposal. i Yet the White House now has decided to shelve the matter until the next session of Congress, because Gen. Mark Clark cannot accept an interim appointment as ambassador without resigning from the Army, which he is unwilling to do. Also chairman Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee objects to Mark Clark. Suddenly the President—after raking up this explosive issue as an emergency—treats it as a casual matter of administrative red tape and leaves the larger question hanging on a Senator's personal opifion of Mark Clark. What goes on here? :

» » » IF THERE is a determining security reason—unknown to the public—for the United States to be represented at the Vatican, the President's duty is to send a personal representative at once. He has the power to do that, and he has the Myron Taylor precedent created by President ‘Roosevelt. His failure fo do that indicates one of two things. Either he is disregarding American security interests in a war-threatened world, or those ‘national interests do not compel United States representation at the Vatican. Our belief is that there is no such overriding necessity. If and when it arises, we hope whoever is in the White House can meet that need without political blunderin so costly to national unity.

MRS. INDIA EDWARDS has been suggested as successor to National Democrat Chairman Boyle. Maybe they need a woman to take charge of the housecleaning.

v - ” » » » HAVING officially announced his Presidential candidacy, Sen. Taft is now touring the country-stumping the Republicans. : B al lle . = ~ » ¥ nc " INTERNAL Revenue Commissioner Dunlap doesn't “inside job” that got them into trouble.

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CAIRO, Oct. 26—The. non-violent phase of

CANAL ZONE oe By Clyde rv i | Egyptian Non-Violent Strategy Again

A press report said he ordered that they be

Egyptian strategy against the British is being® given work by various administrations and

intensified, while tight wraps are kept on antiBritish violence, British reports from the Suez Canal Zone told of a general increase in non-co-operation among the 70,000 Egyptians who have been

drawing their livelihood from services to British

Armed Forces in that part of Egypt. x Db SINCE the crisis developed, there had been a persistent average of 25 per cent absenteeism among Egyptian civilian employees of the British forces and this percentage may now be increased—all without formal public orders by the Egyptian government. The government, however, took a step to ease one of the greatest restraints against walkouts by Britain's Egyptian help. That has been the prospect of going jobless. Abdel Fattah Hassan Pasha, minister of defense and social affairs, was reported to have ordered offices set up at Zagazig to register names of formerly licensed employees of the British Who have quit.

RED TAPE . . . By Peter Edson

® Aid Program Full of ‘Worms’ PARIS, Oct. 26—JAMAG advised MAAG to prepare a program of military aid for country X after gettng a directive from JCSRE. It had been previously approved by MILREP and SHAPE, MAPAG in London having had its PLANAT carefully work out all the details. They were also screened by SUSREP and coordinated with Washington through ISAC, although this organization is soon to be replaced by MSA after it-takes over ECA functions. If the new military assistance program in Europe bogs down, the above paragraph may explain one reason why. For a maze of bu-

reaucracy has now been imposed on the European rearmament program by the no-doubt well-

meaning, but red-tape-bound officials who have -

been assigned the job of making Western Europe safe against Communist aggression. Every visitor who comes to Europe to see what's going on in MDAP—pardon, the Mutual Defense Assistance Program—has to spend most of one morning being “briefed” on organization. Until he learns what all the international alphabetical designations mean, he can’t find his way around. The story is told that Gen. Thomas T. Handy, Commander of U. 8S. forces in Europe— (Oh, all right, call him EUCOM, and get into the spirit of the thing). Anyway, Gen. Handy was being briefed one day by one of his own officers on staff organization. After it was all over Gen. Handy rose. “I compliment you on your presentation,” said the general, ‘“because I didn’t see how you could ever straighten og that barrel of worms.” Barrel of worms is right, and that nickname has stuck.

Bars Abbreviations

GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER — on whom they have tried to hang the abbreviation, SAUCER (Supreme Allied Commander, Europe) will have no more of this business around his headquarters and in his paperwork than is absolutely necessary. He does stick to SHAPE—Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe. Otherwise he has told his staff officers that if some organization isn’t important enough to have its full name written out in reports to him, never mind mentioning it. One of the big charts put on an easel to brief visiting firemen shows the steps through which the papers have to pass in getting some airplanes or tanks or bazookas or whatever it may be that some country over here needs. It lists 17 distinct operations. In this process the papers have to go through each of the main offices two or three times, and they may make two or three round-trips across the ocean. Record for the course is said to be four months. This is just for handling the paperwork, up to the point of letting the contract. This was for an order on which there was extreme urgency. It does not include the time it taxes to manufacture whatever it is that’s being ordered, nor to ship it across the ocean and deliver it to troops in the field. Yet all the civilians and officers who run this new machinery say that all thelr seemingly complex bureaucratic structure is absolutely necessary, They're running a much tighter

.. operation than Lend-Lease.

Less Waste

7 THERE'S much less waste in it. If isn't as complex as it looks on the chart. Afd’in the end it saves the taxpayers money. Most of the Congressmen who have heard that argument g0 away saying that if that's what it takes to economize on this European aid program, more power to it. - But for anyone interested in working out th puzzle presented in the first paragraph of this dispatch, and others they may encounter later on, here is a key to some of the organizations that are now saving Europe: MAPAG—Military Assistance Program Advisory Group. JAMAG—Joint Allied Group. MAAG—Military Assistance Advisory Group. (One for every country.) SUSREP—Supreme U. 8. Representative in Europe. (Charles Spofford, Deputy Secretary of State, headquarters in London.) PLANAT—Planning Committee for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. MILREP—Chief U. 8. Military Representative. (Gen. Handy.) JCSRE—Joint Committee, Special Representatives, Europe. (Gen. Handy. Air Force Gen. Norstad and Admiral Carney.) ISAC—Interdepartmental Security Advisory Committee (Washington).

SIDE GLANCES

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By Galbraith

services of the defense ministry. . One report from the zone said: “Thére have been some desertions of jobs by Egyptian employees and intimidation of them appears to

be on the increase,” and that 120 workers at one .

Royal Afr Force station had just walked out, Canal Zone laborers who have been serving the British lack any over-all organization through which they might be pulled from their jobs. They seem to be responding largely on the basis of what they are reading in the newspapers or hearing in the cafes and bazaars about the desirability of non-co-operation with the British. “Aa VILLAGES in the zone were being evacuated by whole Egyptian families, They were piling trucks high with their belongings and shoving off for the home villages they left when the British post-war withdrawal from the Niles delta area into the Canal Zone attracted them to other jobs. This movement, however, might be partly

explained.by fear of trouble in the zone, as well as by sympathy with the non-co-operation move-

. ‘ment and the government's demands that the

British quit the Egyptian Canal Zone. The government, meanwhile, showed an an--gry face to the “traitors” in Cairo and Alex-

> andria who made Tuesday's day of national

mourning a holiday for riotous disorders marked by a general strain of anti-foreignism. a oh NJ MINISTER of Interior Serazel Din Pasha delivered the government's second warning of “exceptionally sévere measures against anyonc taking part in such demonstrations.” As in similar manifestations during the war with Israel, business places covered all exposed signs in Latin script, leaving only Arabic inscriptions to be seen. Young hoodlums stopped automobiles and tarred the foreign-style numerals on their license plates, leaving only the Arabic. Though there were no particular troubles in the Canal Zone that day, shop signs of foreign character were obliterated there. In Cairo, most places pasted wrapping paper over the offensive

"Tally-ho!'

TAX COLLECTORS . . . By Frederick C. Othman He Fired '’Em Before Dessert—

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—1 guess I better tell you about the lunch the commissioner of

internal revenue didn’t enjoy; there was nothing wrong with the food, but the poor guy

still could have used a slug of baking soda’

afterwards. Weeks ago Commissioner John B. Dunlap arranged to &*° speak at the National

subject! The average tax collector is an honest Joe. When time came . for him to make his talk, collector Joe Marcelle of Brooklyn. ’" N. Y. whom hed fired the night before, was on the lam. Gmen were looking for him to serve a congressional subpena. That was bad enough. But somebody over at the commissioner's office had announced he'd also suspended Theodore Isaacs and Elias Schulman, tax agents in New York and Brooklyn. At 12:37, when: Commissioner Dunlap was plowing into his roast beef, another mastermind at his headquarters appealed to the press to hold up his announcement. At 1 p. m, when the commissioner should have been finishing his apple pie with cheese on top, he was pondering what to do about Messrs. Isaacs and Schulman. At 1:11 p. m.

the announcement went out quoting him as say-

ing they'd been bounced for sure. made his speech. The big, bald Dunlap, a tax collector all his life except while he was working his way up to brigadier general during the war, said there were only a few rascals in his bureau and he was tossing them out as quickly as possible.

Then he

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26— / The Red decision on a Korean truce will not be made at Panmunjom, where negotiations have been resumed, but in 4

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Moscow. And Moscow will be influenced less by what is said at Panmunjom than by what happens in Paris. Soviet Foreign Commissar Vishinsky recently refused to discuss Korea with American Ambassador Kirk. But, in so doing, he in effect invited Big Four discussion of all major disputes. while the ministers are attending the United Nations General Assembly sessions opening in Paris Nov. 6. ~ This is an admission that Russia, rather than its Chinese and North Korean satellites, will call the tune in Korea. It is also notice that Stalin wants to handle Korea as part of a larger deal.

# » ~ TO STALIN and to the Allies the overriding issues are "the global military balance of power,- and the fate of Germany and Japan. Korea and China are important as they relate to the bigger stakes. For if Stalin ever controls Japan and its industrial power, not only Korea and China will be his sphere but all Asia. And if he coptrols West Germany with

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“You've. Got To Quit Kicking My Dog Around,” “He may have a few .

Of his 52,000 employees, he said, the big black headlines lately have concerned only 22. Oops! Looked like he'd lost count. The score now was 23, including the one the night before and the two given the old heave-ho during his pie and coffee. Still and all, the commissioner made a good talk, even though some of his references sounded funny to those of the members who'd been covering the tax scandals for the papers. “I feel like the boy in the old, plaintive song,

the commissioner said. fleas on him, but we're getting rid of those.” Furthermore, said he, if Congressmen keep making news about crooks in the Internal Revenue Bureau, the people will lose their respect

for this agency, and then where will we be” In .

the soup. that's what. Anu also bankrupt. “If the people quit paving their just taxes on a voluntary basis, we can’t hire enough men to collect the money,” he said,

A Dope Addict?

THE TROUBLE seems to be that most of the high-bindery so far uncovered in his bureau has involved politicians appointed by the President in such far-flung places as New York, Boston, St. Louis, and San Francisco. One collector, newly suspended, seems to have been a dope addict, Dunlap wouldn't agree that tax collectors should be taken out of politics; most of the politicos in these jobs have done fine work. “Well, then,” demanded one of my irreverent cohorts, “how many of these suspended collectors were appointed by President Truman?” That gave Dunlap his first chance to smile. “Not one,” he roared. “Not a single one.” Fair enough. And if the G-men ever catch up with the fast-traveling collector from Brooklyn, I'll let you know what he has to say for himself.

RUSSIA AND THE UN . . . By Ludwell Denny

I Is Korea Only Part of

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Larger Red Deal?

Stalin would accept the Ridg-

foreign lettering to save their neon tubing and te glass. ; . pate g precaution was in addition to the steel roller curtains with which most Cairo stores are d. Q . suirve circumstances produced a new variation for the familiar way in which guides attach themselves to obvious foreigners in Cairo, ~ This correspondent was looking for a place to buy shaving cream and uridershirts and had paused on-a busy sidewalk to consult a little map when an English-speaking young man in a fez closed in. - ! . “Where do you want to go?” he asked, “Pardon my asking but it's my business—security police, you know.” > & » I TRAILED him to-a department store with the feeling that Cairo cops really were on their toes. After the undershirts and shaving cream were wrapped, however, he wanted me to go to a. “wonderful perfume factory.” He also was available to show me the pyramids and the sphinx. At a fee, of course. I finally had to get rid of him.

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Hoosier Forum

“| do not agree with a word that you joy,

-—but-bwill-dofend-o-the.death your rig to say it. —Voltaire. T erreerer Esra ESEREERENSEREININIRITRERNESRRERNIIRIRITIL es riiee ‘The Church and State’ MR. EDITOR: : President Truman's nomination of Gen,

Mark Clark as the first ambassador of the United States to the Vatican is to be deplored. Such action violates the historic American prine« ciple of separation of church and state, It cre« ates an official tie, such as exists only between the governments of sovereign nations, between the United States and the head of a church, Let no one be deceived by the plea that the Vatican is also a political state. As a nation it has no more importance-than the most obscure American county. It is not a member of the United Nations. As a church it has no more right to an ambassador and the trappings of diplomatic recogrition than any Orthodox or Protestant denomination or the Ethical Culture Society. Of course, these other organizations do not want an ambassador. But whether they want one or not is beside the point. The Constitution

‘of the United States clearly forbids the official

implication of our government in ecclesiastical affairs. In like manner it seeks to prohibit the establishment of any church or churhes in

such a positich as to direct the affairs of state i

through churchly control of governmental channels. oS

I EARNESTLY hope that the issues in the case will not be confused, either by anti-Cath-olic prejudice or by cries of “bigotry” against those who oppose this action. Every church has a right to exist in America and to make {ts position known through a free pulpit and a free press. Its members have the right of all citizens to vote. This is not a question of discrimination against the Roman Catholic Church nor a denial to it of any right under our system. It ig a. question of keeping clear the line of separation between church and state.

It is to be hoped that all who understand this historic American principle . . . Protestants, Catholics, Jews and humanists . . . will strongly

oppose the President's action in this case,

—Ronald E. Oshorn, School of Religion, Butler University.

‘Write Me a Letter?’

MR. EDITOR: | I am writing to you like this, in sincere hope that you may be able to help me. You see, Sir, I am a soldier who is very lonesome for some news from home. I am stationed on Okinawa and have been for the past year. I hear from my mother, but other than her, it seems as though everyone has forgotten me. Sir, I would like to ask you to do a favor for me by printing my address in your paper, ask= I'd sure enjoy hearing from someone in Indianapolis. I went to public schools No. 28 and No. 44 until my folks moved to Jonesboro, Ind.

After leaving school I worked for my father in his market at Jonesboro for about one year,

then joined the Army. ., Since I've been in the Aimy I've been to Japan where I stayed for 27 months and then returned to the States for one year. Then after the Korean War started I was returned to Okl« nawa and have been here for the past year. It sure gets lonesome here and I would be more than glad to hear from someone who would like to correspond with a lonely Hoosier boy on Okinawa. —Pfc. Charles Lemons, RA 15 253 588, 80th Trans. Base Depot Co., APO 719, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal.

TO YOU, MY ALL

I CANNOT find words great enough . . . te tell how much you mean . . . I cannot paint a portrait of . . . the way you look my queen . . . for In my eyes there's none so fair... and none so high above . .. as you my dearest wondérful . . . for you're the girl I love . . . I hurt inside to think that I... can't give you all I should . . . because a girl like you should have . a wealth of gold and good . . . but I will

try the best I can ... and hope that God will bless . . . all the humble things I give . . . se they bring you happiness. —By Ben Burroughs

Nations majority may renew

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potential, he will get Europe. Three things stand in his way: American and Allied rearmament, The Japanese Peace Treaty, backed by the Ameri-

Vishinsky . . . Paris Is the Tipoff

can-Japanese defense agreement. The Allied plan for restoring West Germany's sovereignity and taking her into the the defense system against Red

aggression. There is not much doubt that

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way truce terms—for a demarcation along the existing battleline, with adequate supervision of armistice enforcement—if he could separate Japan and Germany, or either, from the Allies. » » - THE ALLIES will not wittingly make such a deal. But there is always a chance that they may be trapped into weakening their position in those two key spots by what seems to be relatively unimportant compromises there in order to “win” in Korea. If the Allies avoid traps of that kind, as is probable, then a Korean peace will turn almost solely on the familiar Caina issue. The Red terms include withdrawal of American protection from Formosa and a seat for Communist China on the United Nations Security Council. . The United State government, as a result of public pressure, is pleged to reject those terms. Therefore Stalin's hope is to split the Allies on China policy. That is a possibility. Neither the other Allied powers nor the United Nations are committed to keepnig Formosa out of Red hands.

Britain and a probably United

their advocacy of a Security Council seat for Red China if and when she “ceases” aggression. » » ~ BUT STALIN'S chance of splitting the Allies, and isolating the United States in this way, is not as good as it was before the Mid-East crisis. Apart from European dependence on America for security, Britain now must look to an American alliance to survive the Iranian and Egyptian threats to her commonwealth lifeline. In these dire circumstances it is unlikely Britain will split with the United States over China, regardless of whether

Labor or Conservatives win .

the British election.

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‘shows a lot of brass at the of-

fice may just be playing the second fiddle at home.

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