Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1951 — Page 14

> i Sa ae ey cn ‘ ’ A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY is MANZ . President ; Editor Business Manager PAGE 1 1 Tuesisy Nov. 13, 1951 need Ae Pi aivang St ntigonpoi 3 Wfember. of United Press Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service and Audit Bureau of Circulation.

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What's Wrong oro? ?

THE AIR war in Korea has reached a critical stage. sts have been throwing in-more and more lanes. They're equal if not superior the F-86 Sabrejet-—and we haven't

The Com Russian Jet fighter 3 to the best we've got got enough of them. The Reds have a fleet of at least 400. How many is a military but clearly it's

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we have in“Korea secret, not enough. No longer

daylight raids

can we send DB-29 bombers in numbers on The slow-moving Superforts are easy prey for the Russian jets—we've lost 15 B-29s. We haven't enough jets to give them fighter protection. The truth of it is, we could lose our vital air supremacy in Korea.

The urgent need is for jet bombers, but we won't have.

them to send to Korea for several months. Our F-80 Shooting Star jets are already obsolescent, and improved models aren’t available in sufficient numbers. : & x & 4 » THERE'LL be only a trickle of new planes coming in to Korea “for some time,” Air Force Chief Gen. Vandenberg tells American newsmen. What's wrong here? We have spent or appropriated upward of $20 billion on military airplanes since the war. In 1946, 1947 and 1948, we spent an average of $1. billion a year. Thereafter the. figure rose steeply to the present estimated $15'; billion, Out of every’ defense dollar currently marked for military procurement, 48 cents—almost half—is going for military planes and equipment. That estimate was made in a recent speech by Robert E. Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. : But in Korea, where the war has been going on now for 16 months, we still haven't got enough planes. Communist jets have outnumbered American jets by as many as five to one in recent battles, and last week our side lost nearly twice as many planes as the Reds. GEN. VANDENBERG is evidently inclined to blame slowness of American production. He took along with him, on his hurried trip to Korea, Defense Mobilizer Wilson's aircraft deputy. The General said he wanted the production expert to “see for himself ‘how badly we need modern planes out here.” The industry blames the stop-and-go policies of the military; the time lag in producing new models—18 months for a fighter and 24 for a bomber—as well as labor troubles, manpower and tool shortages and, of course, inflation. In any case, we won't begin getting until early next year the completed aircraft which were provided for by funds appropriated in 1950. Wherever the fault lies, it is a tragic one. One that calls for a sweeping inquiry by the Senate preparedness subcommittee, and prompt remedies by the Defense Department and the Office of Defense Mobilization.

When Is It an ‘Offense’?

OME in Congress are alarmed over a proposed international “code of offenses against the peace and security of mankind,” now before the United Nations assembly in Paris, In this code, with its high-flown language, is a prohibition against any nation encouraging; or even tolerating,

“organized activities” looking to “terrorist acts” in another country. Warren Austin, our representative in the United

Nations, says the clear purpose of the proposal is to outlaw the kind of subversive activities and aggression the Communists are carrying on around the world. But the Congressmen, and some legal experts, think the code might be construed to bar help and encouragement to the Communist-enslaved peoples behind the Iron Curtain —even propaganda designed to lend moral support to those

peoples.

AMERICANS believe in the right of oppressed peoples to throw off their oppressors. They believe in freedom for all peoples. We hold individual liberties and democratic processes to be universally fundamental. But the Russians won't see it that way. They describe any and all opposition to their tyranny as “terrorism.” They will not respect the proposed code, but they will try to propagandize it to their own insidious objectives Before we go plunging into such agreements, however lofty in irpese. we ought to be assured that they will stand up, and that they won't be used to pervert the very purposes for which they were advanced,

4 Want to Help a GI? W HAT do vou want out of Korea’ ; We think we know. You want to see the United Nations win the war; you want the boys home safe and

sound: you want to secure peace in the world, All of us want that Those chosen to go overseas and carry the guns went off with a lump in their throats, the per-usual GI gripes and an acid outlook on life in general. Lan you blame them? They're doing a good job . . . an impossible job . . . a job that nobody else’ can do. They are winning the war in Korea But they can't do it alone. They need guns, ammunition, food, clothing . . . and blood. They're out of blood in Korea. No more stockpiled there. We haven't given enough. You want to help a GI? Call the Red Cross Blood Center, LIncoln 1441 or Butler University, HU mboldt 1346. Make an appointment to give some of your blood. It'll help a GI. It'll save his life.

THE AMERICAN Farm Bureau Federation warns ‘members to be on-the lookout for federal income tax collectors. From the tone of the warning it appears that farmers may not believe that it is more blessed to give than to receive. ‘

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Suez Canal Zone Can Be An Allied Weakness In World War nn

SUEZ CANAL ZONE, Nov. 13 of World War III the Suez Canal zone base as it looks today, would be a situation of Allied weakness, not strength. For the present as well as in event of a new world war, Egypt alone. cannet garrisons out; ho matter what recourse to irregular warfare, terror and sabotage, Yet Egyptian nationalism. stoked mostly with synthetic fuel of hatred and outright lving, nas already destroyed the British position as a strategic asset without the lifting of an official

hand in anti-British violence x oi v oR PR THE CANAL zone as a ‘base may" be -worse than useless in the long run unless a diplomatic

settlement can be made will toward the British France and Turkey million Egyptians. These are not the visiting correspondent but an interpretive ex tension of remarks made by Lt. Gen. Sir George Erskine, British commander for the canal zone in an interview. “They cannot push long term solution,” he I said that in would seem that

and a measure of good and’ the United States restored among- the 20

easy conclisions of a

me out, but that's no told me. the present circumstances it

the value of the canal zone

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positions in the face of external aggression would be guestiongble. He agreed, saying that while such a judggnent was beyond his official competence, a political settlement was required. Gen. Erskine acknowledged that . antiBritish sentiment and intimidation had stripped his establishments of 85 per cent of thé civilian service personnel. He had “adjusted” his plaids to maintaining his command with no Egyptian labor at all Base functions have already been seriously curtailed by withdrawal of labor. The General mentioned that “fourth line maintenance’ the highest grade of major overhaul for vehicles, including tanKs—has now been lost. British camps and depots are strung north and south to the west of the canal and along two main roads linking Suez City and Ismailia to Cairo and the delta region of the Nile, These ire headquarters and a base for British forces in the Mideast as well as for guardianship of the Canal. a

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THE GREATEST depot outside Britain is Tel 1 Kebir, about 30 miles west of Ismailia. Sur rounded by a 17-mile line of barbed wire and guard posts, Tel El Kebir and two other big‘depots closer to Ismailia reach like a salient to ward Zagazig and the delta.

Yep! That Season Will Be Here Soon

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FINAL DECISION .

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—Regretfully I must announce the loss of an old and valued tomer; he says if I don't dump my free-on-trial television set out the window, he'll never read my pieces in the paper again. Numerous other correspondents sponded to my request for advice on what to do about the big mahogany picture box ‘suggested’ work it over with a hatchet hefore it softens my brain. Their letters sounded bitter. This evidence was

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inconclusive. Almost | .exactly the same number of clients

were amazed that I | = hadn't bought a tele- | vision set years ago. They said send the man a check for this modern wonder with the live happily ever after So my bride and I have been pondering the mall; we've also been pondering television, hour after hour, night after night. About threequarters of the programs are of little interest to us. A few are so bad that we feel insulted being asked to look at ‘em; the producers evidently presume we are half-wits.

I want these gents to know Mrs. O. and I can read: they

screen and

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write out their advertisements in block letters «

and then read ‘em to us, too. The remaining 25 per cent of the evening programs, -we have decided, are well worth the time spent looKing at 'em. I considered it educational the other night watching eight strong men at the Chicago Zoo X-raying the sore jaw of a 15-foot snake.

SIDE GLANCES

TM REC U8 PAT OFF . on COPR. 1981 BY NEA SERVICE, NG.

"Certainly I'm still mad at him! That's why le come in here every

day and ignore him!"

By Galbraith

THAN ABOUT WO BILLION DOLLARS SR!

. By Frederick C. Othman

TV Enters Mr. O’s

Quiet Home

Hilda and I also tuned in. with misgivings Milton Berle. He was playing a hillbilly with an itchy stomach. Low-brow stuff, I will admit, but we laughed for almost a solid hour, We decided to take television into our lives, with reservations We moved the set upstairs to the hedroom where it's out of sight most of the time and hence not turned on, except when there's some thing special to see. We then remove our shoes climb onto the bed, and view the proceedings in luxury. From this vantage point Hilda discovered a virtue of television which I do not-believe the manufacturers have stressed. If the picture is not especially interesting, she pops off immediately to sleep. She is pleased about this; says she’s never had such a soporific in the house I suggested sleeping pills would be cheaper; replied that TV-was not habit-forming.

Started Snoring

SO THE other bed watching

she

night I was propped up in z President Truman make a speech. I hate to seem disrespectful to the Chief Executivesbut v hen he was about halfway through I scrooged down a little to get more comfort able. Then I shut my eyes without distraction and next thing you know I was snoring. When I woke up the President was long gone and some raucous gent was peddling beer. He was so thirsty that his adam's apple jiggled; I turned him off and went back to sleep 5 Hilda's only objection to our set is its big black eye, that glares at her when the machinery’s turned off. She says this is no object of beauty in a lady's boudoir. She asks why not cover up this piece of smoky glass” So I told the television man we ,wanted to buy a.set with doors in front. He wasn't much help. Said the firm wasn’t putting doors on TV “these days. Government orders. Conservation I guess, like the time a fellow couldn’ t buy pants with cuffs,

1 — PA RIS. Nov Reports |= from Wagshin yo that money = voted by Congress for Euro- . — pean rearmament may be di- \ verted to bail Britain out of

her current economic crisis are causing concern in° American military circles here. There is no disposition to under-estimate the seriousness of Britain's financial predica ment. The Socialists left. the country in a frightful mess and It is recognized that an urgent need exists for substantial outside assistance, Moreover, the - drastic reductions Britain has been compelled to make in her import program will have serious repercussions on the economies of France, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. But basically the problem is economic, not military, and the feeling here is that it should be submitted to Congress as a new phase of a continuing problem which has only an in cidental bearing on the defense

11-13 situation.

” ~ ~ . PRT . THE OMIGINAL estimates which current appropria1iéns were based made no provision for econgmic or military aid to Britain. And Britain's current needs would eat up a

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EUROPE AND ENGLAND .

I Can We Afford to Cut Rearmament Now?

But instead of a thrext to the delta, as Egyptians would have it, the position of these vast depots is actually like an exposure of the British rear area. And it's along the ZigazagIsmailia road that Egyptian civilians have been raising most hell. 8 At British-Egyptian headquarters at IsmailErskine. Handsome and grayhaired, the General was doing his desk work while wearing a Colt 45. My first question was as against irregular attack. “If you mean groups of four or five men who set out to Jill people, they will, of course, have some success. They'll kill a few people but they won't shove us out.”

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BU T WHAT about resort to sabotage sives applied to bridges and other things

to defensibility

explo- ? That

would be a nuisance, the General admitted, bul wouldn't shove the British out, either. If they blow up a bridge, Gen. Erskine, who has sap pers. and plenty of material available, will Liuild another: Terror and sabotage might have no appreciable effect on the British, but with civilian

and civilian contractors serving the British forces isn't it different? Gen. Erskine said about 85 per the civilian employees had quit. + The talk then turned to reports of large r bands of irregulars being ‘trained for guerrilla warfare. The General doubted the present JEgyptian government, in its own interest, would arms to the Moslem Brotherhood for guerrilla or even lesser operations, “But even if they- should issue. arms this region will never be another Malaya. There isn't cover for that kind of operation. Besides we know this country better than they do.” Aerial and other reconnaissance which the General commands “could checkmate any

CHURCHILL STAYS HOME .

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issue

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stantial guerrilla operations. He reminded me. of the coverless sand flats, the jagged barren © hills on the Suez Road. 3 In Malaya's jungles the Communist guer-. rillas dive in and out of the greenery like fleason a shaggy dog. That couldn't, happen in the, “canal zone. #* . “I'm aware, of. course, that there are des-" perate men in the towns and villages of the’ zone and these doubtless have arms. But they cannot shove me out,” the General said.

Even if the Egyptian government took the - desperate step of cutting the sweet water canal, a connection with the Nile which provides the only drinking water in, the canal zone for upwards of half a million people, the General, indicated Ke had adequate remedies at hand.. To understand the Anglo-Egyptian quarrel’ vou must not think of the canal zone as a single vast area under British military author-’ ity, but as a region in which British military | and Egyptian civil authority both function. The main centers of population—Suez City,” Ismailia and the Port Said area including Port. Fuad-—are under Egyptian police and other civil officials. The same rule applies in scattered villages, For their ow n sec urity the British have now encroached upon areas of Egyptian authority.

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THE 6ENERAL said he had just delivered a stern warning to the civil governors that civil ians found by his road checkers and patrols might have to he “treated as terrorists.” If he has to, the General said, he will cordon off and shake down whole areas of Suez, lsmailia and Port Said for illicit weapons. But this would be an enormous job. British battalions have already cordoned and combed whole villages with mine detectors for arms caches,

. By Ludwell Denny

What's the Net Gain to Britain?

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— Postponement until January of ‘Prime a Winston Churchil's White House visit means that his aids will open negotiations on several hot questions which cannot wait for two more months. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden is expected to widen the scope of his conversations with Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Paris, where both are attending the United Nations assembly meeting. Sir Edwin Plowden, British representative on the Harriman committee co-ordinat ing Atlantic Pact aid, will put in Mr. Churchill's bid for more armament. And the Chancellor ol the Exchequer, R. A. Butler, probably will ar rive in Washington before the Prime Minister for Treasury negotiations regarding payment on the old 10gn and new financing

Negotiating Ability MR. CHURCHILL would have preferred to talk with President Truman first. He has great faith in his own superior negotiating ability He thinks details of Anglo-American relations can be handled more effectively and beneficially after a broader foundation of global partnership has been prepared. And he hopes to re-establish with Mr. Truman the close personal basis on which he and President Roosevelt disposed of so many wartime problems with a minimum of friction and maximum of speed. The British press and public in general had approved this approach. During the election campaign much was made of the claim that Mr. Churchill whatever his fauits--had a way with Americans. Ro. if elected. he was expected to make a quick trip to Washington. We

MR. EDITOR: People who talk “political trends.” and vote that way, seem to be forgetting a very important We pay for a skip off-vear election just to be sure we decide local problems on a local basis. Now, if we are not going to do that, why wt put the local elections back with the reg ular ones and save ourselves a heap of money huh?” My personal feeling is that honest, straight forward, job. in public office. then gets Kicked in the face by the voters because of something he cannot help. it is a dirty trick and nothing of which to be proud at all

when a man is

But, the long reach into our pockets is be ginning to hurt. That's what makes the voters iquirm. As mv old dad said If you want te hear a man squeal, reach for his pocketbool They are all dodgin' for their dimes, the whole Kit and caboodle of them oo oe age OF COURSE, when Aunt Fannie got government pension, and there are a good hal dozen ways to get one, Uncle John that nice

government subsidy. Junior his bonus and most of his advanced education via Uncle Sam, when smart Uncle Ben got that fat government con tract on which he piled plenty of incidentals 0 as to make his 10 per cent bigger. we smiled ind said how nice. But some big. bad, old man Nas. just handed us the bill for all this riding and are we unhappy. We cannot go on supporting a fourth of the population ‘in one way or another and not pay high taxes. Uncle Sam happens to be us, the people. When you clip him for a buck vou don't absolutely need, you just clipped yourself, that's

free

_all. Any man who pays a bribe to get a govern

ment contract just adds that to the cost of the finished product, and helps pay the bill later If we would cease to think of the government as something sitting way off in Washington

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Several developments have interfered with those expectations, His small majority in the Commons and the vigorous sniping tactics of the Labor opposition party necessitate the Prime Minister remaining in London until the parliamentary recess in mid-December or later. Inability of the overworked Eden to carry the job of léader of the House" of Commons, as well as Deputy Party Leader and Foreign Secretary, and his enforced absence from London to attend international conferences, make it more difficult for the Prime Minister to leave before January Similarly, the fact that Secretary of State Acheson will be away from Washington at international conferences -aimost until Christmas would restrict any Truman-Churchill conversations before that time. The President does not make foreign decisions without Secretary Acheson,

A Net Gain?

NOW THAT the meeting here of the two chiefs of state has been delayed until sometime in Jan the best is being made of th's® necessity. Indeed, some officials think there is a net gain. It is assumed that Congress, which reconvenes in January, will invite him to address a joint session. The Churchillian persuasive, powers are needed even more on the hill than at the White House Also some consider it more dignified for him to wdit a while before rushing to Washington,’ Finally, he may be able to achieve more here by’ concentrating on the difficult unfinished business which will remain after the preliminary negotia-’ tions of Eden, Plowden and Butler, .

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HOOSIER FORUM—*‘Just 1 Fact’

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

WEAN TERRINIRNNS

rather abstract something, and think as the folks around our own fireside, it might help to straighten out a lot of these capers’

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that some folks think are so clever, -—F. M., City, ‘Filth and Rot’ MR. EDITOR ‘ More power tao “Indianapolis Mother’ and Irate Reader’ regarding their stand on socalled beautify pictures I am a father of two beautiful children and I hate to see them begin to realize: the filth and rot that goes on in the world It used to be a gir won beauty awards on her beautiful face and poise Now hey win the amount of their bodies which 1s showy size of their bust and the girl who shows 0st get: the honors, Good exampies of t are Dagma Fave Emerson and Jane 1s8e}l Anvone who says they have beautiful faces certainly doesn’t know how judge a it what Kind? —H. M. 1., Greenwood.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

PARIS A com; in the 350-mil

ta-Stragbourg marathon was classified

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for lim-

ited service by the French Army. His card read exampt from marching Let's neither be callous nor cornv:

At least he can shoulder a gun And though he can't march every morn, he Should still keep the foe on the run.

Besides, any marathon runner Could prove quite a hoon to the fleet He should be the type of‘a gunner

Who'd never acknowledge de-fest

. By Parker LaMoore

lion's share of the fund se such numbers that it's no long aside ax economic aid to all er possible. However, they do countries participating with us not readily accept this expla in ‘the general defense pro nation and some of them sus gram, pect they are being given the Lor” cold shoulder treatment because of Congressional econTHE SUGGESTION that omies, particularly in St#te

there could be Increased use of the ordinary American military budget to, buy war materials and weapons from British sources also is discounted he cause it would have to be shown that there would be a military advantage in such a

poley Apparently the opposite

is the fact, because American mass production methods are producing weapons faster and much cheaper than Europe can produce them, Probably more members of Congress can be seen strolling along Paris boulevards these

“days than could be found on

in Wash Ington and there is a growing

Pennsylvania Ave

Department appropriations, When a Senator rushed into the Paris Embassy the other day demanding the immediate services of a stenographer he wag told there was none avail able. Members of Congress desiring the use of automobiles usually have to rent them. Many of the Congressmen on authorized committees visiting here brought their wives and Saturday morning there was a small ~explosion in the lobby of the Crillon Hotel when a group found that free air travel provided Congressmen did not apply to members’ families. i

SOME accept these restric. tendency to regard our various . | ventures in Europe with a tions with good grace, but jaundiced eve. Thev are over many more violently resent

here getting their information at first-hand and are reaching independent conclusions. It wsed to. he that Cone greasmen received special attention when they went abroid but they're coming over in

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them and may give expression to that when, considering future foreign spending programs In. Europe,.any diversion ot fund& which would favor Rritthe disndyantps

resentment

would always shine

other members af the Nort h Atlantic Alliance would be cer tain to create political compl! cations. Even now most gov ernments concerned ard hoping to get much more economic assistance than will he possible under the limitations of the present appropriation. European rearmament fs not making much progress In anv” case and any apparent discrimination among member nations likely would jeopardize: the whole collective effort,

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