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McKinney, the Converter JFRANK McKINNEY, the new Democractic chairman, didn't waste much time before he converted President Truman. Three weeks ago at a press conference the President said he wasn't so sure it would be a good thing to put the scandal-ridden Internal Revenue Bureau under Civil Service. But less than 24 hours after Mr. McKinney took on the job as party pilot, Mr. Truman announced ‘he would ask Congress to put the tax collectors under Civil Service. He did this at the suggestion of Mr, McKinney. : Taking over Democratic headquarters, Mr. McKinney gave off some blunt talk. He said he'd fire anyone who didn’t have clean hands. He cracked down on party spending. He demanded to know what all the employees were doing and why. He said there would be no more influence peddling, or gift-taking. : Unlike the President, who heralded the new chairman with a warning about how the Republicans will try to sgmear” the Democrats, Mr. McKinney seemed to be proceeding on the theory that a genuine cleanup is the best answer to any so-called “smears.” Mr. McKinney acts like the kind of a man who ought

to be made boss of the Internal Revenue Bureau. : w

A Hopeful Contrast FOR A change, at least one hopeful note comes from a part of the world which recently has produced assassinations, anti-Western rioting and grave threats to ace. > A 355-mile railway line has been completed in Saudi Arabia, linking the isolated desert capital of that country with the Persian Gulf port of Dammam. The railroad, which will open a large area to modern development, was made possible by oil royalties paid to ‘the Saudi Arabian government’ by American companies. The project, including deep-water port facilities, was ‘started by the Arabian American Oil Co. The government took over construction of the line in 1948 and extended it “inland fulfilling King Ibn Saud's lifelong dream of linking his native city by rail to the outside world. British interests were particularly unhappy when early this year the Arabian American Oil Co. signed a contract by which the American concern agreed to split oil profits with Saudi Arabia on 2 50-50 basis. This was a far better ‘deal ‘than the British were giving Iran and Iraq. But now private American generosity and the longrange thinking of our free-enterprisers are paying off. ine Ibn Saud is happy with his new railway, and uv instead of communism or the threat of communism—has moved into one Middle East vacuum. "And, incidentally, it may be noted that this was accomplished without free-handed donations of the Amerie

can taxpayers’ dollars.

Now It's Norway JLATEST free country to come under the evil eye of Russia is Norway. j Ye For more than a month now Russia has been trying to force Norway out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by intimidation. Moscow fears that Spitsbergen will be fortified, posing an Allied threat to the approaches to Murmansk. important Soviet naval base. But Russia's increasingly sharp notes to Oslo are, as usual, based on phony charges. Norway is accused of “desecrating” the graves of Russian war dead—mostly war prisoners and slave laborers—killed by the Germans in Norway's liberation struggle. The Norwegians have offered to join in an investigation with the Russians to disprove the charges. Thursday the Russians demanded a quick answer to their latest provocative note. It is useless for Norway to try to rationalize the matter further with the Communist aggressor. Her only course is to sit tight, knowing that ; she has the confidence of the Western Allies, and hoping that Russia will turn down the heat when some other spot looks moré inviting for Moscow mischief.

It Will Hurt Them ARIFF concessions which long have ‘been extended to Czechoslovakia under the American reciprocal trade policy have been suspended on orders of President Truman. & This means that the goods Czechs sell in this country “ will be subject to higher duties, so they will be able sell less. In retaliation, the Czechs are doing the'same thing to U. S. goods destined for Czechoslovakia. This exchange of economic blows will hurt the Czechs fhore than the United States, .ecause the Czechs have been selling at a heayy rate to American importers. Virtually

no American goods are sold in Czechoslovakia. The Czechs need U. S. dollars to help pay for the war machine their Russian masters are building. Few commodities are more important to them. The President's new order will hurt. But it would hurt more if we simply shut off all trade—cold. ~ P. S.—William N. Oatis is still in a Communist prison in Czechoslovakia. .

Will He Ask Him? - PRESIDENT TRUMAN has called Gen. Eisenhower home from Europe. Mr. Truman's secretary said the President wanted a fill-in on the general situation in Europe. But with two days to ask the General questions, it will be an awful letdown if the President doesn’t put the big one to Ike—is he going to run?

NEW NATIONAL CHAIRMAN McKINNEY announced he is going to try to make his home state of Indiana Democratic. First step was the cancellation of an Indianapolis speech to have been delivered by Federal Security ‘Administrator Oscar Ewing. » r » TITO HAS agreed to use our guns to contain, communism in Yugoslavia,

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| DEFENSE . . . By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—There are enough emergencies in European defense planning to justify a Truman-Eisenhower conference here next week. . ; In denying that an emergency exists, the White House apparently meant to reassure the public that no immediate Russian attack is im-

pending. To the best of American and- Allied

knowledge, Stalin is not ready to strike. * > 9» OF COURSE he has his Russian and German forces in ‘East Germany. During recent months they have been strengthened, especially with more equipment and better planes. And there has been a similar steady build-up in his sa‘ellite forces. . Nevertheless, neither Washington nor Gen. Eisenhower's staff at SHAPE expects a major Soviet military move in Europe soon. But their job is to be prepared for an unexpected attack.

SUEZ FIGHT . . . By Parker La Moore Can Russia Win Egypt?—

LONDON, Nov. 3—The new British government hopes that when Foreign Secretary Ane thony Eden meets with Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Paris next ‘week they will agree on a common policy to discourage Russia from

moving into the inviting situation which has developed in Iran and Egypt. The Egyptian problem is regarded as the more pressing because it has Dbecome an obstacle to agreement on any plan for the defense of the Middle Fast. All of the Arab states have given at least lip service to Egypt in the controversy over the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan. They may be expected to support Egypt's position if the issue comes before the forthcoming meeting

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The reinforcements which Britain rushed

to the Canal Zone are believed to be too well

entrenched to be dislodged by the military force at the command of the Arab states. But a holding operation of that kind is a costly proposition. Also, the contention that military force is essential for protection of the Canal Zone, which has validity in west. ern minds, is pot accepted in the Middle East. In addition to seeking an . understanding with the United States on this and related issues, Mr. Eden also is confronted by the much

bringing other members of the British Commonwealth into harmony with Brit.

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ain’s position. Britain has the support of Canada, Australia, New" Zealand and the Union of Bouth Africa. But India and Pakistan are on the other side of the fence. The two Indian states joined the Commonwealth while the Socialists controlled the British Foreign Office and little effort appears to have been made to convince them of the need for a united front on the major issues of foreign policy. Now it may be too late to repair this neglect.

The “British Foreign Office alienated -Pakis-

tan, a modern state, by assuming a neutral attitude in Pakistan's dispute’ with India over Kashmir. Thus Britain didn't have a friend among the Moslem states to front for her when Egypt threw down the gauntlet. The danger now is that Russia will find some convenient excuse to move into the Middle East while Western defense arrangements for the area are in suspense because of the Egyptian stalemate. Agitators in Egypt and Iran are linking the United States with Britain in their denunciations of “Western imperialism.” These attacks are coupled with praise of the Soviet Union, so the source of this propaganda is obvious. If a situation develops in the United Nations where Russia can throw its support behind the Arab bloc, the Soviets will have one foot inside the area Russia has so long sought to dominate.

DEAREST GOD

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—— European Emergencies Justify Truman-Eis

And Allied preparedness is not going forward as rapidly as -it should. In that sense there is’ definitely an emergency, Or rather a string of emergencies, most of which have been growing over a period of months. : , Of these the two worst concern lagging Allied military production and German participation in Western Serense. .

THERE is nothing much the President or the General can do about the first at this time. The facts and figures are inadequate and conflicting. The recent Ottawa Conference of the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization created a

special committee to make .a report and recommendations by Dec. 1. So action is postponed at least for another month. On the German issue the general's advice is much needed. Since- September, 1950, Wash‘ington has been plugging for limited West Ger-

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AFTER Washington had messed up the new policy, ‘Gen. Eisenhower intervened with a pub-~ lc statement that he would command only willing troops—which sobered the Germans somewhat. Then the general threw his support to the alternative French Pleven plan for a “Burepean army” under Eisenhower command, which would absorb German units but allow ne separate German national army. Allied negotiations with the Bonn government for a two-fold agreement restoring German sovereignty and allowing her-to join in

the proposed European army are not satisfac-

tory. Stalin has complicated matters by renewing his phony German unity propaganda to prevent an Allied West German agreement. Some Americans think the only quick way

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PRESS CONFERENCE . . : By Frederick C. Othman

McKinney Meets

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — Sometimes the press can interview a man and learn a lot; sometimes—as the Democrats’ new boss discovered—it's vice versa. Maybe this is all to the good. : Frank E. McKinney, in any event, had been - chairman of the Democratic National Committee for an hour and a half by the clock when he called his first press conference. Plump, wavy-haired and well: pressed in a blue pin - stripe suit, he strode briskly to his desk and took a seat beneath an almost life-sized photograph of Harry Truman in technicolor. The desk was a whopper. Upon its . glass-covered walnut expanse were two pencils, a pristine scratch pad, and a large or politiciansize ash tray. With a solid gold cigaret lighter McKinney ignited a fat cigdr and looked expectantly at his audience. He didn't have long to wait; there were almost as many newspaper reporters jammed in his office as had ganged up for a look at Princess Elizabeth the night before. This time they were primed with questions. . McKinney apologized for being a little late; he'd been held up a little at a conference with Mr. Truman. hg “He say he was going {6 run again next year?” demanded a reporter. : The chairman almost swallowed his cigar. Then he made a quick recovery and said this wasn't discussed. He said it was his own opinion that if Mr, T. were interested, he'd be a sure

. winner. .

He said he'd suggested to the President that he take out of politics collectors of internal revenue—several of whom lately were fired for

i Pearl Tried

| LUXEMBOURG, The Military Air Transport . / Service special plane carrying a load of American correv ¢ spondents on _an inspection of European /defense establishments was fog-bound at Luxembourg, en route from Brussels to Wiesbaden. -80 Pearl Mesta, the U. this tiny picturesque duchy, invited us all to dinner. And, what an evening it turned out to be.

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‘ WHEN Madam Minister Mesta first came over, there was a great rush of the curious and the social climbers to have the first dinner date with her. That era has now passed. Mme. Minister has become an institution in these parts. 8o this is merely a report on the latest, If not the last, supper. As a bulwark of U. 8. defenses in Western Europe, Mme. Mesta is one of the best things that has happened, in the way of American propaganda. 8he is Lady Bountiful. of Luxembourg. When her two Cadillacs, driven by faithful retainers Frank Toomey, chauffeur and bodyguard, and Garner the butler, roll over the

Here's a forecaster who expects a mild wintermit might be silly = winding Lusembouts 8 flys i) to buy that big, heavy mink coat this ar . ing from the er a : ny 1 bios lt

the Boys— fiscal trickery—and put ‘em under civil service. Mr. Truman agreed this was a good idea. “How serious a threat (fu a Democratic victory) do you think this internal revenue situa. tion' is?” inquired one of the chairman's new friends. “I don't think it's serious,” he said. “There's been an Inference that there's dirt under the carpet.” : “Inference!” exclaimed his ifnquisitor. “They've been indicted, haven't they?” McKinney took a deep puff on his cheroot. Then he changed the subject. He said he did not seek his new job. “When I first read about it in the newspapers back home.” he added, “I thought somebody was pulling a big joke on me.” “Maybe they were,” suggested a correspondent. The chairman blinked. Another questioner wondered whether he believed the Democratic leadership over the years had gotten away from the people. That was an easy one; McKinney snapped: “I do not.” “Well, do you think the people have gotten away from the leadership?” ‘asked another inquisitioner. : : : McKinney said if they had, he'd try to do

something about it. He also said that he in--

tended first to reorganize his committee staff and then study some of the hot political problems. Vid]

A Tough Ordeal

“WHAT HOT problems?” he was asked. The chairman said he didn't know yet. The questioners then led him through a discussion of why he'd refused to accept the $35.000 salary of his new office and how he'd divested himself of most of his business interests. “I'm only retaining” my banking, radio, and real estate intérest®,” he said, 7 “That all?” inquired one of the writers. The chairman sighed. And I must report in all honesty that he acquitted himself well at one of the most difficult ordeals-—the press conference—that the top men here must undergo.

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A SMALL SLIP . . . By Peter Edson

snhower Conference

‘to get German agreement and troops is to put

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them directly under Gen. Eisenhower instead of

_in a European army. Could Gen. Eisenhower

sell this to the French? Now that Egyptian defiance at Suez has partially sabotaged the Mideast defense plan, what is Gen. Eisenhower's advice regarding his Mediterranean flank and the role of Turkey. Does he approve the Churchill policy to revive the wartime combined chiefs of staff system and to scrap the Atlantic sea command

under an American? ° ®

HOW MUCH - does he think the United States should pay for support of Communist

Yugoslavia and Fascist Spain? Most important, how fast and how far should Allied defense be shifted to new experimental atomic weapons in Gen. Eisenhower's

judgment?

LeataiananatEnes .

Hoosier Forum

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

‘Rome and America’

MR. EDITOR:

Rome rose and ‘finally fell as an almost direft result of too much extravagant and selfindulgent living. Great national wealth was

grossly misused and dissipated at Rome. Free distribution of corn at Rome was a leading fact of Roman life. Idleness and its accompanying vices were fostered to a degree such as to rank as one of the chief causes of the demoralization of society at Rome. Like our early America, vice was almost unknown in early Rome. The primitive Romans were men and women of frugal habits and even found contentment in poverty. But in direct proportion to its decline and fall, a great change passed over Roman society and a corrupt polit. ical system developed. In Rome dishonest fortunes were made and dissipated. The theater, athletic games, gambling and the combats of the amphitheater were the principal public amusement of the Romans. As these entertain. ments increased in popularity, liberty declined. Public doles were the compensation offered the people for their surrender of the right of participation in public affairs. And the people were content to accept the exchange. Universal military training and conscripted armies at Rome were only subterfuges, sponsored by the demagogues. It seems to me that our presént status and recent trend as a nation is not too much unlike that of the Roman republic. At least, we are morally and politically degenerating, don't you think? Or do you? Are we too far gone to recover? At any rate, America has not contributed a single frill to demagogery which the Romans didn't know and use.

~Edward F. New, 502 Inland Bldg.

‘Vote for Bayt’

MR. EDITOR: If Mayor Bayt should be defeated. would any future mayor ever again have the heart to do a good job? That is the vital question Nov. 8. Mayor Bayt has done more in one year to solve municipal problems than any former mayor. But his opponent argues some of these plans existed before Mayor Bayt took office. But what good were they until Mayor Bayt showed the energy and courage to execute them? Mayor Bayt is a doer, not an empty talker. Plans are always plentiful, and always opposed by some. Mayor Bayt had the courage to act despite opposition . . , and act for all the people. Phil Bayt was reared in this city. No breath of scandal has ever tarnished his reputation. The gamblers, etc, know who are their friends. To a man they are against Bayt. He supported the anti-lottery bill, which was also supported by the Ministers Association, Judge Clark was then as silent as a tomb. His judicial treatment of gamblers indicated no toughness toward them. Has he ever made a professional gambler go to jail? Judge Clark should talk some of his own record. If Mayor Bayt i¥ not elected, don't expect a mayor to ever again do the job he has. Because all men will know that pettiness, smear and demagoguery, not sincers service, are the stepping stones to an otherwise honored office. —Andrew Jacobs, 1100 Hume Mansur Bldg.

‘Oversimplification’

MR. EDITOR: Your headline of Oct. 26th read: "British Kick Out Labor Party; Call on Churchill in Crisis.” If such be the case, and mature reflection would label it at best an oversimplification, the Americans have been playing soccer with the Republican Party since 1932. «Charles T.:Gibbons, 150 W. Maple Rd.

What Others: Say-—

TELEVISION must become an art if it is going to compete with other entertainment mediums. Quality must be more important than quantity.—Lawrence Langer, Theater Guild director.

IF I ran my business (apple farming) like the federal government, I would have been bankrupt long ago.—Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.).

WE MUST not extend brotherhood only to those with the point of view we like but to all We must understand even hardened criminals. Martin Niemoller, famous German Protestant pastor,

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and old, line the roads to wave and cheer. Mme. Minister waves and smiles back at them all, and everything is very gemeutlich,

” » . SHE'S almost as popular as the Grand Duchess herself, She has done wonders for Luxembourg war orphans and other deserving local charities. She is asked to speak, and she accepts nearly all invitations to speak at local gatherings She is invited to be pres..t and lay wreaths on the graves of Luxembourg war heroes, on the anniversaries of their deaths. Every letter that comes into the embassy gets an answer, signed by the Minister herself, from faithful Secretary Pat Ventura, daughter of the New York World-Tele-gram & B8un's Bociety Editor,

» Ld ” IN SHORT, Pearl Mesta has spread more good will for the United States in the Benelux countries than anything tha ever happened, ’ Once a month she holds open house, American Gls from milles around flock in, and sign her guest book. Their folks at Home then get a let. ter saying that the boy was in and was looking fine. That helps, took Formerly she held

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residence, the former German embassy palace on the edge of town. But these parties have become so-big she has now had to hire a hall’ Her guest book carries the name of every American bigwig who has been in these parts. Secretary of Treasury John Snyder, Jim Farley and wife, Gen. Vandenberg, Gen. Norstad, Gen, Eisenhower and

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HER PARTIES are famous,

Fifty is just 3 small gathering. The bowl is always flowing and the cup always cheers. The buffet is always big and beautiful. For, the correspondents who just dropped in on her it roast veal, roast ham, chicken, macaroni, rice, potatoes, vegetable salad, potato - salad Eisenhower, ice

cream with chocolate sauce, coffee, champagne, liqueurs and whisky.

Asix-plece orchestra plays continuously, And every thing is dome with the spirit of graciousness which shows that the only thing the hostivi wants is for people to have un. About thig potato salad Eisenhower, Ike, it seems, fis

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of one of these sessions came potato salad Eisenhower, The secret, it seems, is to make it up the day before, to let all the flavoring and seasoning soak in. The potatoes are almost mashed. Lots of celery, garlic powder, eggs. mayonnaise, As she knows Ike so well, it was only natural that Mrs. Mesta be asked about his_presidential intentions. ‘" » =» “WHAT do you think?” she counters, looking you straight in the eye. Is he a Republican or a Democrat? — “What do*you think?” Well, how can he possibly run as a Republican, if the GOP stands for an isolationist foreign policy? a “What do you think?” Maybe Mrs, Mesta ought to try converting him into a Democrat. : “Maybe you think I haven't tried!” she exclaimed. iv Then, clapping her hand to her mouth and turning away:

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